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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-02-20
WANTED

4 good BOY to attend store, Apply at
"Capital" Office. 2-I4
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-02-20
SHoRT-HAND.

limited number of PUPILS viii be given
lessons in Shorthand by j. DUFFY For
terms apply at I06 King George street
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-02-20
TO STOCK RAISERS.

Joseph Beardmorc of Eastport, offers the
service of his two thoroughbred JERSEY
BULLS at $l.00 and $500 respectively.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-02-20
FOR s ALE

The stock and fixures of a first-class GRO
Gerry and PROVISION STORE. doing a cash
business. Best location in the city. Low rent.
viii sell cheap for cash If sold at once Apply
at the Capital office. I.3ltf,
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-02-20
MEXICAN NEWSPAPERS.
EXTRAORDINARY IDEAS or JOURNAL
ISM IN THE AZTEC CAPITAL.

Reading the Sunday Paper at Your
Leisure on Saturday EveninG-No Com
ception of News-An Example of the
Enterprise Displayed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09
Mr.. Beecher's Estate.

Henry Ward Beecher left a compare
lively small fortune. He had an es-
tate in the Peekskill which cost him
about $4,000 He had insurance pol
icies which footed up something like
$50, 900 or So, 200. and in hot haste his
heirs sold his pictures and books and all
personal belongings endeared to his
friends, at all events by many, many
years of close association with the dear
old man, and now how does it stand?
The $l50,000 place at Peekskill has
literally gone to seed. Those magnifi-
cent fiower-beds. on which the old man
eloquent spent years Of thought, for
tunes of experience and thousands of
dollars earned by the sweat of his i'm
perial brow. are choked with weeds
and overrun with grasses. Already
the market price of the place has fallen
to $85, 600. and understandable fact, l
have seen it stated in print-that an Of
fer of So, 900, which was refused. will.
in all probability never be made again.
And on the heels OF this. with what was
curiously called an autobiography"
written by one OF his sons and his son.
in-law, lying as dead as Mark Twain's
own books upon the shelves Of the
stores, come rumOr that his simple
will Is also to be contested.-M Y.
Letter.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09
SLAVES AND RAILROADS.
The Effect of Modern Modes of Trans
portatiOn on Slave-Trafiic.

As a whole nation we are not greatly
concerned to inquire into the prospects
of African commerce. We are not
bound to consider closely whether good
or bad trade will be the outcome of the
recent agreement between France. Ger
many and Great Britain on the affairs
of Zanzibar, or what will be the trade
results of our own recent great acuui-
sition of exclusive influence in the
southern part of the country. 1t must
yet be borne in mind that trade ques-
tons are themselves intimately bound
up with the rescue of the African from
his tyrants; seeing that commerce, as it
is at present conducted in many parts
of Eastern Central Africa, even that
larger kind of commerce with which
the white man eventually deals at
the sea coast empOria. necessarily in
wolves the employment of slaves as car
riers. In roadless regions inhabited by
people who are too primitive to breed
cattle. and where belts of country in
tested by the tsetse fly have to be
crossed, none but human beasts of bur-
den can bear the products of industry.
An elephant may be killed a thousand
miles from the coast, and each tusk is
the burden of a negro slave to the
nearest seaport, while it will have
taken three or four negroes to carry the
calico required to pay the elephant hun
ter in the interior. Slavery and slave
carriage is therefore at present a nee
essary incident of trade in many parts
of Africa. 1t is evident that if civilized
modes of carriage are once established
in the German and English spheres of
influence" slave-bOrne traffic will give
way to cheaper and more speedy con-
veyance by road, by rail or by naviga-
BILE river. Century.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09
THE LAND OF LAKES.
An English Travellers Impression of the
Province OF Finland.

An English Travellers Impression OF the
Province OF Finland.
Finland is, in the language Of the
country, Suomesimaa, 1.-THE land OF
lakes" and this is really the truth, as
no less than one-third is under water.
Much of this is, however. marsh land,
though the lakes Sauna, LodOga, En-
are, etc., cover some thousands OF square
miles. The surface of the country is
fiat, with chain of low hills about the
center, the highest of these being the
mountain ''Aavasaksa." The coasts
are deeply indented and picturesque,
with bold granite cliffs standing clear
out against the deep blue sky, and
many islands belonging to the Archi-
pelago of Aland dot the surface of its
western waters. Inland there are dense
forests of pine, fir and birch, which have
strange and enthralling influence up
on the Imagination. Notwithstanding
their usually sOmber aspect, there are
innume17,Dle pleasant glades in the re-
cesses of these woods, where the tall
white-stemmed birch and great bould-
ers covered with lichen crop up rom
the grass and form a pleasant picture;
besides this the lakes have beauty
solemn and rOmantic-which can scarce
iy be found elsewhere. The landscape,
too, dotted with numerous windmills,
and the church towers, built apart from
the places of worship, present strange
pictures. From these towers the night
watchmen sound their horns or play up
on triangles as an alarm of fire.
Often in the dead OF night a
great blaze on the horizon will tell of
some forest fire. These are mainly
owing to the carelessness OF the peas
antry, and, combined with the greatex-
portation of timber and its lavish use
for firewood and for building purposes,
have caused a great rise in its value
within the last few years, Travelling in
the country, though cheap, is not al
wars pleasant. Many of the roads are
what would be described as corduroy"
that is, having rough logs laid across.
over which ones vehicle bumps and
jumps - manner calculated to make
the bone sore for considerable time
after journey. The velocity with
which the natives send the carriage
down hills is also likely to try the
nerves of any not to the manner born.
Most persons posting through Finland
have their own vehicles wheeled ones
for the summer and sledges for the
winter-and they change horses ct each
stage of about fifteen versts Gen Eng
fish miles). Should you have to trust
to the post-house for a conveyance you
are more likely than not condemned to
travel in q cart without springs and a
hard seat with no back to it or an ordi-
nary work sledge The charge for post
ing is little enough. being ten Finnish
pennies I'D English) per verst. and the
driver is required by law to take you at
the rate of one Swedish or seven Eng
fish miles per hour.-COrnhW Mag
dzine
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09
SUFFRAGE SELECTIONS.

LAST year, in Norton, Kan, there were
fifty-eight women who voted. This
year there were $50. They did the
weeks washing and put their homes in
order before going to the polls, and are
said almost without exception to have
cast their ballots for the best man
WOMEN need the ballot to protect
themselves in many ways. to protect
their children by at least providing
adequate punishment for those who
commit crimes against them. and to
place barriers between their children
and the evil influences which meet them
at the most susceptible period Of their
lives.-Nrs. C. 4. Dunhana.
WOMEN as a class recognize that they
have distinct class interest in temper
ance reform. The fact that they have
this distinct interest is the strongest
possible argument for granting them
the ballot. The principle of universal
suffrage is that every interest must
be represented in order that the COM
IlOu uutcFcSto ildy 10 AOuuo> SHs sSseu"
Union.
THOUGH American women may not
cast ballot, they must not underesti-
mate their strength The result of
every great political struggle depends
much on the influence Of women.
Whether women ought to vote or not
is a separate and distinct question. A
few of them crave the ballot. most OF
them are Indifferent Suffrage and pro-
hibition are questions being evolved
questions of the future.-Minncapolis
Tribune.
A KANSAS CITY justice discharged a
woman arrested for wearing mems
clothes, with the following remarks: "a
intend to dismiss this case. Nothing
has been said here to impeach this
young woman's character, and her garb
is no more the indicator of a lady's
character than of a mans. Besides,
she has a right to wear what she
pleases. This is q free country, and
this court does not intend 10 place any
restriction on peoples rights
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09
How to Lay a Carpet.

Carpets are often badly laid down,
either from ignorance or careiessness.
The carpet should be laid down as 1t Is
folded the way the widths are to run; it
must be unfolded by degrees, not
dragged open any way When the car
pet is opened out. let the center width
be laid out perfectly straight from one
cad to the other, and tscks put at each
end to keep it in place, and all the 9TH
er widths laid straight according to the
first. When one Of the widths is
straight and thoroughly stretched, let
it be tackled down at regular intervals.
When the first end has been firmly
fastened down, let one side. at right
angles to the first nailed, be tackled.
taking care to keep it ''taut." as the
sailors say. When the side and end at
right angles have been fastened down.
the corresponding side and end are cas-
ily disposed OF, and the thing Is aoue.-
Household.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09
At SCHOOL,.

We are all at school in this world Of ours,
And our lessons lie plain before us:
But we viii not learn. and the flying hours
And the days and the years pass DER Us.
And then we grumble and mourn and say
That our school is so tiresome and weary,
And We ask for a long bright holiday
That will Danish our lessons dreary.
But what is II God il trying TO teach!
Is Il patience, or faith, or kindness:
Is the lesson really beyond our reach.
Or made hard through our wiilful blindness
II we were in earnest and tried 20 learn,
II our listless study we mended.
Who knows but our holiday we would earn,
And our school days be gladly ended!
Who knows but We make our lessons long.
And hinder their meaning from reaching
The hearts that would be full of joyous song
II we knew what our God was teaching!
Then let us study His will while we may;
There's a warning for us in the rule
That the scholar who will not learn all day
Is the one that is kept after school
Bessie Chandler. ia Adrdnce
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


For a scald or burn apply immed;-
ately pulverized charcoal and oil.
Lamp oil will do, but linseed is bet
ter.
"A cloth saturated in kerosene and
dipped into whiting, for cleaning tin
ware, is much better than any thing
else used.
Boil one ounce of flax-seed in a pint
of water; strain it and put in an ounce
OF rock candy, some honey and the
juice of three lemons; boil again. Re
sult-a nice old-fashioned cough med
icine. Drink it hot as you can bear it.
"A patent nutmeg CRATER and an
ounce of nutmeg will keep restless
child busy and happy half day turning
the tiny crank. while the grated spice,
carefully preserved from the air in a
tin box. is a real help when one is hur-
ried with cooking.
Oyster Macaroni. macaroni
in a cloth to keep it straight; put alay-
er in a baking dish; season with salt.
pepper and butter; then put in layer
Of oysters, and so on until the dish is
full. Mix grated bread with beaten
egg. Spread over the top and bake.
-Barberries make an exceedingly
pretty garnish. and may be very easily
preserved for this use. as they need only
to be placed in jar with brine to keep
indefinitely. Green grapes, picked
while the skins and pulp are still ten
der, may be picked in the same way.
and have piquant flavor that suggests
olives.
"A good breakfast dish may be made
with the remains of any cold fish. Free
them from bones and flake into quite
small pieces. add pepper. salt. little
bread crumb or a cold potato and two
or three well-beaten eggs; form into
balls or small oval cakes. and fry
light brown in boiling butter; drain
them by laying on paper. Cold tongue
grated and laid pretty thickly on hot
buttered toast is also a very good
breakfast dish.
Ladies, when they purchase kid
gloves, should examine separately the
fingers of each glove and take none that
have broken stitches. Stretch the
seams carefully between the thumb and
forefinger; if the kid comes away from
the thread, leaving white seam, that
is not the pair for you. Elastic kid
generally wears WELL Stiff and I'M
yielding skins are worthless. They
neither fit nor wear well. Narrow gloves
never fit or wear we'll, and dishgure the
hand instead of identifying it. Short
fingered gloves deform the hand.
Orange Sirup.-Squeeze the juice
of the orange through sieve and to
every pint add pound and half OF
powdered sugar with a little of the
grated orange peel and the juice of one
lemon. Boil the strip for fifteen min
utes and skim as long as scum rises. II
it does not look clear when taken OIL,
strain it. Next bottle and seal up tight,
and it will keep for long time. Two
tablespoOnfuls of the sirup mixed with
quarter of pound of creamed butter
makes nice sauce for a pudding. or u
pleasant flavor for custards and ices.
Mixed with cold water and ice it makes
a delicious drink and can be safely
given to invalidS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09
NEAT KITCHEN. GOWNS.
How and of What Materials They Shout
BE Made.

Seersucker and gingham are no doubt
the most serviceable materials for
kitchen gowns. They are more expen-
sive than calico, but wear much better.
Fine checks in blue and white and brown
and white bingham, and the seersuck-
ers in hair lines of different colors,
which are so thoroughly ''color-proof'
that they may be boiled, are to be COM
mended for this purpose. These dresses
should be made in a simple style, with
full '.housemaid' skirts, finished with
a simple hem or hem and cluster of
tucks and no drapery, or simple sash
drapery at the back and a round belted
waist with or without IA yoke, according
to the figure of the wearer. Wrappers
are an exceedingly untidy garment, fit
only for the invalid, and should be dis
carded for other wear The house
dress should be short enough fully to
clear the floor and display a neatly tied
low shoe instead of a slipper or boot.
A large white apron which may be
made of cambria or a sheerer material.
as the wearer fancies, should always be
worn in the kitchen. Such an
apron is much cleanlier than bingham,
the sole recommendation of which that
it can not show dirt viii not for mo-
ment commend it to q neat woman.
The advantages of white apron are
many. Fruit stains can be readily re-
moved by processes which would spot
and disfigure any eolored cotton. They
NAV be boiled. bleached and subjected
to the most thorough cleansing pro-
eesses, and they are dainty and taste
full. A kitchen apron should measure
from yard and a half to two yards in
width and should reach nearly to the
bottom of thee dress. Bibs are not worn
with these aprons. The tasteful house.
wife of to-day prefers to complete her
kitchen outfit with folded kerchief of
muslin, which will entirely protect the
front of her dress, and, like the apron,
may be boiled and bleached. The Eng
lish habit Of wearing a close covered
cap which covers the hair is generally
adopted in cooking schools and pre-
vents the hair becoming impregnated
with the OdOr of cooking and is GER
tainly neat and becoming addition to
the kitchen tOilet.-M y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09

interspersed by the reader with coarse
tests and frequent oaths. It seemed an
age to her before the awkward clerk
succeeded in making change; then TAX
ing her package she hastily quilted the
| store. followed by the laughter, loud
I and long. of the listening crowd around
the stove.
Almost forgetting her pain in this
| bitter shock, she hurried on her way.
This, then, was the end OF all her hopes
and bright dreams! To this low level
had she desceuded-to become the jest
and by-word of party of village loaf
ers! Then she remembered the readers
coarse allusion to the 'ole woman and
the young uns at home," the tears came
thick and fast, and in sudden contrast
rose before her the face of a man so in
ately pure and noble that to him all wo-
mankind was sacred-he, the trusted
knight-errant of the poor and defense
less.
But there was little time for thought.
Already she had reached her cousins
residence, and, depressing her feelings,
she was obliged to respond to the
hearty welcome of the family-to ask
and answer questions, until her brain
was in whirl: but when the long eve
ming was over, and she was alone in her
room, she threw herself upon the bed
in passion of tears and self-reproach.
"If live." she said at last between
her sobs. II will try and make myself
worthy of Rodney Leare, the truest, the
best and the noblest man the world ever
saw" and with this resolve in her heart
she fell asleep.
The visit to Glen Haven marked the
toms life. A few cautiously-worded
questions revealed more and more the
baseness of her correspondent and SO
deep was her sense of shame and self
reproach that she was glad when her
visit came tc an end and she was able
to bid her kind relatives goodbye and
return home.
She had not been at home three days
but that every one felt that a change
had come over her. Instead of consid-
ering the younger children care and
trouble, she set herself to work to win
their confidence and affection, and to
improve their minds. Her tired. over
worked aunt felt 4 sudden sense of rest
and support as quietly and unobtru-
sively she took upon herself, one after
another. various household duties. 1t
was long before the sting of her bitter
experience had passed away; but life
filled with earnest, helpful labor finds
little time for vain, regretful locking
back to what might 1--we been; and
when. after few busy, happy years,
she became the wife of Rodney Leare,
she learned to look upon the one dark
spot in her life As much-needed les
son. from which she had learned con-
tentment and peace.-St. Louis -Kagd-
zine.
o
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
EPIC RAMS.
HAIR SPLITrTNG.

TITS nice to sit ut . desk, but only the desk Of
ateacher;
No lady could sit at mother: she'd lose all her
maidenly bloom
But how is that bloom made less II standing
at desk Us q preacher.
Or how is she more Of . lady with fifty bad
boys in q roomg
WHATS IN NAME!
"A modest woman vote! And stand with
men
About a window. Dear you know me bet
ter"
81 saw you do the same thing often
when
"Why in the office, when you mailed a let
ter"
-Ma,ydret q. Hdrrey, in Womaa's Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09

~ INSTRUMENTATION for this paper should
De accompanied by the name Of the author;
not necessarily for publication, but as an evil
dence OF good faith on the part Of the writer.
Wnte only on one side OF the paper. Be
particularly careful In giving names and Gates
distinct.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09

The champion absentninded man Of
East Union, Me-, is he who bedded his
horse with shorts instead OF sawdust
the other night. He found out his mis-
take when his horse had eaten up his
bedding and it became necessary for his
owner to rise in the middle OF the night
and walk him up and down the road for
exercise
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09

THE proportion Of good women to
bad ones is 80 overwhelming. the pro-
portion OF native to foreign-bOrn wo-
men is so much larger than that of ma
tive to foreign-born men, that Ameri-
can laws and customs can be best main
tanned, as earnestly believe. by max
ing womanhood direct factor in the
problem Of government in this land.
where the side always wins that has
most yotes.-Frances E. Willard.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09

For several days the church clock
at Harpenden, England, refused to
work. On an inspection being made it
was found that a swarm of bees had
taken up their abode in the machinery.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09

OVER one hundred women appeared
in court in Bellefonte. Pa. recently, to
contest granting Of license.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-09

To the mind Of youth. the near, the
attainable, is always the undesirable.
Happiness ever sits enthroned on the
lofty heights of the beyond! Only after
years of wearying pain and fruitless
pursuit of the heeting vision. do we
learn to look among the commonplace
and unromantic scenes of everyday life
for true content and peace.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-28
THE FOLLY OF PROJECTION.

Z
Tbs Fort Wayne Ga=stte says, in apparent
seriousness, that Mexican farmers are
better of than American farmers because
they are protected by higher tariff"
This Is delicious.
Now the fact is, that both American and
Mexican farmers are impoverished by pro-
tective tariffs. The census reports show
that the former have been losing ground
ever since the spolistion system was estab-
Hshed. Half the farms in the Mississippi
pi valley are mortgaged for all they
are worth. The farmer is taxed an
average OF about forty.seven per cent. on
his shelter, food, clothing, medicine and
tools, while his staple products-his wheat,
corn, etc.-are selling in the open markets
of the world OF lower prices than for
twenty-five years past.
Although the Mexican farmer is also i'm.
poverished by protection, he can afford to
pay more than the American farmer for
wagons, simply because his necessity for
them is greater. Mexico is virtually coun-
try without wagons. It's laws practically pro-
hibit their importation, and yet, with this
absolute protection against foreign compe-
dti0n, the manufacture Of wagons has not
been established in that country. They
are sogely needed in the agricultural, the
mining and the numbering industries
of Mexico and il they could be obtained
the development of that country would be
greatly promoted.
Buy their government. says to the Mexi-
can people that they shall not buy wagons
abroad, and they are unable to make them at
home. What is the result? The country
which could absorb the product of half
dozen Of the greatest wagon manufactures
of the United States tor years to come, is
without wagons; the American manufac-
turers are deprived OF a good market; both
Americans and Mexicans are injured;
nobody is benefited.
There could not be o more striking illus.
tration of the injustice, the short-sighted-
ness, the supreme folly of the protective
system,