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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
ANTIPAThIES.

A Gallant Ohcer Who Never Dared Face
Antipathies are as various as they arc
unaccountable, and often in appearance
ridiculous. Yet who can control them
or reason himself unto conviction that
they are absurd?
Ambrose Pare mentions patient Of
his who could never look at an eel with
out falling into a fit. Joseph Scaliger
and Peter Aboni could neither of them
drink milk. Garden was particularly
disquieted at the sight of eggs. Lads
Iaus, King of Poland, fell sick if he saw
an apple; and if that fruit was exhibit
I'd to Chesne, Secretary to Francis l.,
prodigious quantity of blood would
issue from his nose. Henry iii. of
France, could not endure to sit in room
with a cat, and the Duke of SchOmberg
ran out of any chamber into which one
entered. NJ. de rAnere. in his Tab
lcau de l'Inconstanced de TOutes Choses,"
gives an account of an officer of dis
tinguished bravery who never dared
face mouse, it would so terify him,
unless he had sword in his hand. NJ.
de rAnere saws he knew the individual
perfectly well. NJ. Langheim, a celebrated
huntsman in Hanover, would faint out
right, or run away if he could. at sight
of a roast pig. Lord Bacon tainted at
every eclipse of the moon, Tyco Brahe
shuddcred at the sight of fox; Arios-
to, at the sight of bat; and Caesar
trembled at the growing of a cock
Christian at Work.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

The woman who cares for her poul-
try has plenty Of good reading matter.
A few hens will pay for all she wants
for her own and family use.-M. 3.
Farmer.
"A mans farm is a volume. every
acre of which is page bearing
the marks of his character, indicating
the degree of mental and moral culture
to which he has Toledo Blade.
-Custard Cake: Two small cups of
Hour. one cup Of sugar, three eggs. two
spoonfuls of water, and butter the
size of an egg. Beat the whites
and yolks separately and bake the
cake in layers.-The Caterer.
TO Bake Ham: When the ham is
thoroughly boiled, remove the skin.
and brush the top over thickly with
bread crumbs sel Aned with pepper
and salt and mOistened with the essence
Basic with wine and sugar.-Erchange.
"A failing appetite is generally the
first indication Of domestic animals be-
ing out of condition, and the stockman
should give prompt attention to the first
indication of this and seek by every
means in his power to remedy it
Christian at Work.
-Anent gray horses the Lire Stock
Journal, London. says gray is color
which is promising to become fashion,
able among draft-horse breeders; that
the gray horse is the favOrite horse of
art, also of the general public; and the
journal would like to see it better es-
teemed in the show ring.
An English exchange says: No
animal can fight and eat at the same
time. True the world over. All crowd
ing at feed time should be avoided. The
desire to steal food is about the only
thing that will make ordinary cows
fight. Keep them out of temptation by
giving plenty of yard room and plenty
of Manager room.
All the parings and fruit wastes
from the kitchen should be fed out. If
for nothing else, to destroy the insect
life they may contain. Almost any cow
will eat five or six quarts of good APP
pies twice a day, if she can get them,
and if store pigs are given one meal a
day in place of grain, they will do all
the better for the exchange. Fruit is
good for human food, and it is equally
valuable as food for most domestic an
imals.-Prdirie Farmer.
An excellent recipe for squash pie:
Pare winter squash: boil it soft and dry
it down in the kettle. For common
round pie-tin use an Ordinary-sized cot
fee-cupful of squash. three tablespoon
full of Porto Rico molasses, the yelk of
one egg. one heaping teaspoonful of
cornstarch. little salt and ginger to
taste, little allspice or some cinnamon
if preferred: add to these one and
half coffee-cups of milk; beat all alto
gether till smooth. Line tin with
plain good pie-crust and bake wei and
not too fast.-BOstOn Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
IMPROPER SHOEING.
How Thousands of Horses are RUNE
Every Year.


How Thousands of Horses are Ruined
Every Year.
The practice of applying hot shoes to
horses feet to fit them to the feet and
save labor of rasping is a most injurious
one. We took horse to the black
smith shop to have the shoes removed,
where q number of horses were being
shod, and in fitting the shoes they were
applied hot and dense columns of smoke
rose from every foot in the operation.
The shop reeked with the smoke of
burnt horn and living horn at that.
This burning the horn in this way
deadens it, renders it brittle, and leads
to contraction and all the ills that the
horses foot is subject to. 1t is a prac-
abandoned. 1t would be better never
to apply a shoe to horse foot than TO
apply it as it is commonly done.
At this same shop, as we stood await
ing our turn, we noticed the prepara-
ton of the foot for the shoe. The
shOers used a sharp knife slashing away
at the wall and sole, now on one side
and then on another, and then in every
instance that we witnessed opened the
heels, thus weakening the hoof and pro-
ducing certain contraction. The frogs
were trimmed also and it seemed as if
the smiths were trying to do rs much
work (injury) as possible and to show
that the Industrious workman is known
by his chips.
After the shoe was burnt ON and
nailed on. then the rasp was diligently
applied to the outside or wall of the
hOOf tearing off the beautified enamel
that nature had put on, as though an
uncultured workman could improve ON
natures work. II any one doubts the
truth of the statement we make he has
only to go to almost any large black
smith shop in any of our cities after a
sleety. icy morning when the shoes
have to be sharpened and he will see
the practices we have related verified.
The truth is. the knife ought never to
90 into blacksmith's shop. The rasp
Is all that is needed to level and properly
balance the foot. 1t requires skill and
brains to perform this operation cor
rectly so as to have one side of the foot
no higher than the other, to have the
tOc pTOpcIlS SuOItcucu anu inc onSIC
from heel to toe of the proper inclina-
ton. The walls of the heels should be
dressed down SO as to be little higher
than the level of the frog, as the wall of
the foot was undoubtedly intended to be
the main supporter of the weight When
one foot is properly prepared, the other
foot should be made to correspond, be-
ing precisely of the same height. or the
horse will go uneven-a matter that but
very little attention is paid to in the
blacksmith's shop.
Much of the success of many of our
trainers of horses has been achieved by
giving more careful attention to shoe
ing, to properly balancing the feet of
the horses. by preventing the injurious
methods of shoeing of the horses under
their charge, that are so much in vogue.
Those who have good horses should
not allow them to be ruined by bad
system of shOeing. mo foot, no horse.
is an old and truthful saying. and the
foot should be preserved in all its integ-
rity if one would have useful animal
C1lmdn's Rural World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
JUPITER'S SATELLITES.
Four Moons that Revolve Around the Most
Interesting Planet.

Four Moons that Revolve Around the Most
Interesting Planet.
Jupiter rejoices in retinue of four
moons that revolve around him, as our
moon revolves around the earth, only
much more rapidly. The nearest moon
completes a revolution in forty-twO
hours, and the most distant one is but
sixteen days and sixteen hours in max
ing a circuit. Ever since Calico dis
covered them in 1910, they have been
objects of great interest to observers.
A few persons possessing exceptional
visual powers, have seen one or two of
them with the naked eye. Most OBJ
servers, however. require an opera-glsss
to bring them out as tiny points Of light.
A small telescope will improve the
view. But it requires the most power
full telescope to show them under the
best conditions. for then the glowing
points are transformed to discs or tiny
globes of intense brightness, shining
with surprising splendor rs they
course around their great primary.
The four moons are all visible
at times, but oftener only three or two
or one can be seen. On rare Occa-
sions, the whole four disappear, and the
huge planet moves moonless on the
celestial path. There are three causes
for the disappearance of the moons.
They may be eclipsed, passing into the
shadow which Jupiter casts behind him
for fifty million miles; they may pass
behind the planet and be occulted; or
they may pass in front of the planet and
make transits over his disc.
An astronomer at the Dun Echt OBJ
servatory records an interesting OBJ
servation of the transit of the fourth
satellite. As he watched the tiny bright
spot in its passage over the planets
disc, he saw it overtake and occult its
own shadow. Therefore, the sun, the
earth, the satellite and the part of the
disc occulted must have been in q
straight line. The earth. to an observer
on Jupiter, was. at the time, making
transit over the sun, and must have
to q black sphere, no larger
than pins head. 1t is safe to say,
there were on the planet no observers,
endowed like human beings, to behold
a transit of the earth; perhaps this was
not the case with the satellites. Youths
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
LOVE IN INDIA.


Extracts from the Sweet Epistle Of an
Indian Maiden to Her Lover.
Did you ever see love letter. the out
pouring of an innocent maiden heart?
The maiden was Tilted once. lam told.
[saw one yesterday. 1t is long, and it is
in Marathi. Shall Translate q littlee
The letter was handed me by a native
Christian who has long wanted to marry,
but who thus far had been unfortunate
in winning the love of any fair (?)
damsel. A few months ago he was
visiting in the station of another mis-
sion, and there he saw but to conquer.
l translate as follows:
"Most dear, honorable dear Joseph,
to you all. many very, very loving
salaams of your. The reason of
writing is that up to-day I and my
father are, by the favor of God. happy,
and we cherish the hope that you then
are, by the favor of God. also happy.
Dear, if your love on me is perfect.
then you will not listen to any one; and
in our religion what is that if a husband
great King or some great Sahib should
come to break off the marriage. yet it
would surely take place.
Dear, since you went away besides you
l have no pleasure, and frequently re-
Numbering you, l cry much, and it
seems to me as if must set out to 20 to
you. And if when you came you had
married me at once and taken me away
with you, should have been most CRATE
full to you. Now, dear, whether I love
you or not the dear Lord knows. and
day and night you are never out of nv
mind, and am always thinking this:
when will the dear one come, and
when will he appear to my sight?' Aud
if next month you will quickly come,
thanking God much, with great JOY,
will take many kisses. and for the we'd
ding garments taking thirty-five rupees
(S1G, come and make the preparation
next month as quickly as possible. This
is my petition to you with united hands.
Kindly if you will send me
one rupee (forty cents) this month, it
will be your great favor on me.
Like bird will look for your letter.
y To you. dear flower of roses,
Joseph. many loving salaams of kisses.
My life has gone out very much
toward you. May this be known" etc.,
ETC., etc.
As he only earns, on an average.
from one dollar and sixty cents to two
dollars per month, it will be some time,
l fear, before he can, taking the four
teen dollars" go and unite himself with
the dear and oppressive yet thoroughly
practical one. l have left out some of
the poetical parts of the letter. but the
above is enough to show that love in
India is similar to that in America. with
no important ditferences.-Aitiradi
(India) Cor Chicago Interior.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

Grape sugar is the glucose of COM
merce, and constitutes the cubic crystals
which form in honey, in raisins, or any
old dried fruit, and SO not half as sweet
as cane and fruit sugar. When the
process of melting grain is being per-
formed, a portion of the starch is con-
verted into glucose. In its composition
it contains less carbon and more oxygen
than cane sugar, the hydrogen RENAME
ing about the same.
Fruit sugar is identical with grape
sugar in its composition. is found in
honey. and, in combination with other
sugars, in mOlasses and most aciduous
fruit. it does not crystalline, and is
sweeter than grape sugar.
Milk sugar is found in the milk Of
animals. 1t is composed of the same
elements as carbOnic acid and alcohol,
less than one atom of water.
There are other kinds of sugar found
in plants. but in SO small quantities as
to be of little consequence. Prof. John
son mentions several in GLOW Crops
Grow" 1t is believed that the reason
why sorghum is converted with difficult
ty into sugar is because its form is so
easily changed by being heated. Chem
lists have calculated the saccharine mat
ter in its various forms in the bread
grains. and the following table is the re-
suit:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
ALBANIAN MARRIAGES.
A Very Curious Piece Of Semi Barbarian
Etiquette.

Etiquette.
When a damsel arrives at marriage
able age, the parents publish the fact
among their friends and acquaintance.
Should no sutton come forward, it rests
with her brothers to find one. A brother
thus circumstanced will sometimes come
up to male friend on the street and
make the complimentary proposal
then and there. '.You are Just the man
l wish to see"-thus goes the formula on
these occasions; my sister is now four
teen years old; you must marry her."
As etiquette fOrbids plump refusal.
the gentleman thus honored gives half
acquiescence, and then hurries off to in
struct some old lady to act as a go-be-
tween. Should he be satisfied with
the report made, after due inquiry
by this adviser, the wedding is
arranged; but not until the very
last moment is the expectant BRIDE
groom allowed to see his future spouse,
and then it would be contrary to the
prescriptions of society to draw back.
however unprepOsessing she might
prove to be. After the performance of
the ceremony a very curious piece of
etiquette comes into play. Among the
Asiatics and uncivilized people gener-
ally it is the rule of the bride-elcct to
feign coyness; but among the Arnauts
the bridegroom has to make this pre-
tense. After the marriage feast is over
and the newly-made wife has withdrawn.
her husband fingers behind and is sub
jected to a variety of rough usage by
her relatives. Here, however, the sub
lection of the husband ends and his
reign commences. The wife is now
subject to his caprices, and is expected
to be subservient to his commands and
Chicago Interior.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
Keep the Nests Clean.

1t should be the aim to keep the nests
clean, or the hens will lay in other
places The hay, or other material
used therein, should be changed at least
once a week. Above all other periods.
the time during which the hens are sit
ling, requires the pOultryman to be care
:ul of allowing lice the slightest OppOr-
tunity of getting into the poultry house.
Nests that are usually clean will often
become lousy when the hens are sitting,
and hence, before the hen begins, she
should not only have good, clean
nest, but a handful of tobacco refuse
should be sprinkled over it. As soon
as the hen has Matched out her brood.
and comes of. clean out the nest care
fully and burn all the material Then
whitewash the boxes with lime and car
bolic acid. and place fresh material in
thcm.-.Farm. Fiel2 and St0ckm0n.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
llcOhOl is 4 result of fermentation

AicOHOl IS u result OI AUTHORIZATION OF
the sugar in water at temperature of
from 60 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Changes in the proximate principles
of plants are constantly going on during
their growth. and the carbohydrates
are remarkable for the very great ease
with which they pass from one to
another form, or are changed into each
other.
In the animal economy the same
thing is going on while digestion is in
progress. And while these changes can
be produced in only one direction BY
physical or chemical agencies, in nature
they take place with facility in either di-
rectiOn.
The acid found in plants is malic, as
it exists in fruit; tartaric, in the grape,
and which, purified. comprises the cream
of tartar of commerce; citric, as found
in the juice of lemons, lines and other
fruits Of that family; oxalic, that which
comes from the sorrel; fannie, that
which exists in the bark of the oak, su-
mac and some other plants; acetic, the
result of fermentation of the juice of
fruits, especially the apple, by the use
of a yeast or ferment; vinegar, which is
a rapid fermentation of fruits; and prus-
sic acid, which comes from the leaves of
the cherry and peach and the kernels of
most stone fruits.
Vegetable oils come from many plants
which are familiar to every one, such as
the seeds of flax, cotton. hemp, sun
flower, butternut, peanut, castor bean,
with proportion of oil varying from
10 to 20 per cent. There are fatty oils
and volatile oils, which are distinguish
ed by being dropped upon paper; the
former will leave a grease spot, while
the latter will wholly evaporate; leav-
ing no trace of grease discernible.
Wolf and KNAPP have formed table
of the fat of vegetable products, which
shows the percentage as follows:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
THE MUSkET.
A Social Force That Has Played . Great
Part In History.

A Social Force That Has Played . Great
Part in History.
All life is battling-all society is .
conflict of forces. Little worth having
is ever got without being wrung from
the teeth of opposition. Particularly is
this true of the ordinary possession of
manhood. Every privilege and immu-
nifty which we enjoy to-day. without
more thought than we enjoy the sun
shine and the summer air, has been ex-
torted-most frequently through blood
shed-from those who would fain with
hold it. The student of history reading
the Bill of Rights sees in every clause
the result of some successful war fought
to wiring a concession of that particular
principle from the dominant class. The
musket has steadily led the way and
supported every extension of the bound
aries of freedom. Without SO irresisti-
BILE a weapon within reach of every
mans hand, the world would still be
PROSTATE under the hOOfs of an equest-
rian aristocracy, whose despotism
would only be tempered by the tyranny
Oh klnScrat.
Artillery is monarchic. cavalry aristo-
cratic and infantry democratic, Ar
NOR and the horse brought abost the
rule of the few over the many; cannon
helped make one man ruler over all;
while the musket is the agent Of the
popular will and the pioneer of univer-
sal suffrage "All free government"
says an eminent philosopher, depends
upon the power of the majority to whip
the minority" The fundamental princi-
pie of democracy is that the wishes of
one thousand men shall prevail over
those of nine hundred men, and the
musket gives the thousand men the
physical power to enforce their will
upon the nine hundred men.-John Me-
Elroy, in Popular Science Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
COMPOSITION OF PLANTS.
An Interesting Study for tho Progressfv
A4riculturlst.

An Interesting Study for tho Progressive
AGriculturist.
The gums constitute an important
part of many plants of the vegetable
kingdom. Vegetable mucilage is found
in many plants, such as flax. slippery
elm. etc. The gums are converted into
grape sugar by long boiling in water.
They are generally supposed to be in-
digestible, and SO possessed of no nutri-
tive value; but this is believed to be .
mistake, as children much emaciated
because of summer complaint have
been fed exclusively upon gum-arabic
as food as well as medicine, and have
improved in flesh and strength.
Below is given a table from Won BIZ
bra. in which the percentage of gum in
various substances that were air-dried
Ia piyau.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

Away down deep in every human
heart is something that makes one
long at times to trample the cares
of earth under foot and pillow the head
on the clouds, but an opportunity to
make dollar with apparent ease will
bring the average man back to earth
with suddenness that nothing else in
life can Western Rurdl.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

-Second-class carriages will probably
soon disappear from the service of the
Great Northern railway in England.
The Midland led off in this change. and
several other companies have followed
suit. As Pullman cars are run by these
companies and third-class carriages are
not yet discarded, it appears that there
are still three classes of vehicles in
service on these roads.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

The German Chancellor is suffering
one of the penalties of greatness;
popular preparation for teething chill
dren is called '.Bismarck's baby pow
DER"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

sugar IS another important clement
of plants, and occurs in several forms.
such as cane sugar, fruit sugar. grape
sugar and milk sugar. Cane sugar or
saccharOse occurs chiefly in sugar cane,
sorghum, the sugar beet and from the
sap of the sugar maple; it also occurs
in cornstalks and in small quantities in
grasses. A large proportion of the
sugar of commerce comes from the SUI
gar cane. Pure cane sugar consists of:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

New York's capitol will cost mora
than the HOosac tunnel. it is said.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

From the above table it appears that
but little fat is to be found in the pump
kin, turnip or beet.-Boston Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

A Gallant Omcer Who Never Dared Face
Mouse.
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ing left except what they give to cigars
and wine suppers, and they die before their
time, and they viii expect us ministers to
preach about them as though they were the
victims Of early piety; and after . high.
class funerA with silver handles at the
side Of their coffin of extraordinary bright.
ness, it will be found ont that the under.
taker is cheated out Of his legitimate ex.
penses! Do not send to me to preach the
funeral sermon of q man who dies like that.
/ will hlurt out the whole truth, and tell
that he was strangled to death by his wife's
ribbons. The country Is dressed to death.
ting up of one public building in New York
cost millions Of dollars more than it ought
to have cost, when you find that the man
who gave out the contracts paid more than
5000 for his daughters wedding dress.
Cashmeres of a thousand dollars each are
not rare on Broadway. It is estim ated
that there are 5000 women in these two
cities who have expended ON their personal
array $4,000 year.
What are the men to do in order to keep
up such honA wardrobes. Steal-that is the
cuiy EeSPeCtooAe tuluS tuOv can 40. DuX.
ing the last fifteen years there have been
innumerable fine business men shipwrecked
On the wardrobe. The temptation comes
in this way: A man thinks more of his
family than all the world outside, and
if they spend the evening in describ-
ing to him the superior ward.
robe Of the family across the street
that they can not bear the sight of, the
man is thrown on his gallantry and his
pride of family, and without translating
his feelings into plain language he goes
into extortion and issuing of false stock
and skillful penmanship in writing some
body else's name at the foot Of q promis-
sorry note; and they will go down together
the husband to the prison. the wife to
the sewing machine, the children to b