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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-07-06
DRIFT OF OPINION.

~An Ohio voter who supports the
free-wool tariff ought to be ashamed to
look an honest sheep in the face.-C2i-
eago Journal.
~The name and the fame Of the
Republican party are closely associated
with the lister prosperity Of the Re-
public. It Is the party Of enlightened
progress-the peoples party.-Chicogo
Mail.
D%Melville W. Fuller. Cleveland's
appointee for the Office Of Chief JUS
tice, writes to Senator Edmunds that
he considers it beneath his dignity to
answer the charges made against his
fitness for the place. He won't even
say they are not true. Immense dig
nifty, but mighty small sense?-Las-
sing (Aiea. Republican.
~Boss Scott, of Pennsylvania, pays
his miners 81 a day, and makes them
take payment in orders on the corp0-
ration stores. He pays his cook $10,-
900 q year, cash, and gives him carts
blanche in the provision market. Boss
Scott Is the authorized expression Of
Cleveland Jehersonian free-trade Dem
ocratic simplicity. Springfield (4asa)
UniON.
MI thought Missouri was Dem
ocratic State" said one Of the dele
gates to the recent st. Louis CONVEX
ton. $50 it is" was the response
8. Then where is the whisky?" said the
delegate. In his mind Democracy and
whisky were twin companions; and
he was not mistaken as to the charsc-
ter Of Northern Democracy.-N l. Ass
deDendenk
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NOTES FROM THE FIELD.

Our of $50 voters at a recent election
in Cimarron, Kan, ninety-eight were
women.
WOMEN are the state librarians of
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
P. T. BARNUM has decided to turn
his handsome residence at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, into seminary for young
ladies.
An Equal Suffrage Association has
been formed at Kinsley. KAN, with
Mrs. Tillie Hine as president. and
Miss Lucy Noble as corresponding sec
rotary.
Our of eighty-seven candidates at the
last examination for admission to the
Royal Academy, only twelve succeeded
in securing admission as practitioners,
and ten of these were women.
DIR. ANNIE POMBERGER, of Philadel-
phia, bears the enviable distinction of
being the first woman in America who
was granted the degree of ID. ID. S. by
dental college. She looks hardly older
than IS, is thoroughly womanly in her
ways, and earns an annual income of
5000 by the practice Of her profession.
The Woman's Medical College of
Pennsylvania had in its last graduating
class, 1883, one student from India, one
from Australia, and two of African de-
scent. The last mentioned were the
fourth and fifth colored graduates of
that institution. By its 4S9 alumne
there has now been formed circle of
nativity around the world, including
Japan, India, Syria, Russia, Germany,
Switzerland. Great Britain, and the
United States from Maine to Oregon
and California. Friends Reriew.
The women of New York who or
gained the Health Protective So
ciety," not only personally inspect the
cleanliness of streets and business
quarters. but they now propose to send
the street-cleaning commissioner to
Europe for three months, paying all
his expenses, SO that he may examine
into the systems that make other city
streets. especially those of London, so
clean. This is good; but the women
would have done better to send one of
their own number Romans Journal.
By Withholding suffrage from women,
we make them, it seems to me, poll
ticians of the worst sort. We justify
all the feminine pleas for acting on
mere fancy in selection of candidates;
we encourage the abuses to which
those pleas lead. On the other hand.
if the Legislature frankly admitted
women to. the exercise of suffrage. it
would, ! believe, gradually raise the
tone of the WHOLE land. BY raising the
tone of those who, often to their injury.
govern its g0vernment.-Rer. Frederick
Denison Maurice.
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her vow four-fold, 81 can wait; already
the gate IL ajar, and mayhap, in the fti-
ture, angels may roll the stone from
the gate away "-Amanda WISE, IN
W0Man's Chronicle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-07-06
TO- MORROW IT DIES


Give Up Its Ghost.
The Democratic party learns moth
ing. It is rock-ribbed ever in its con-
viction that when it has met in conven-
ton and howled over candidate that
candidate is going to be elected In
Illinois it expects to make Palmer Gov
ernOr. Nationally, it expects to make
Cleveland President again. Its faith Is
Brobdingnaggian and its reasoning is
that Of Zulu. It is as Bourbonish rs
in the days after war. when it went in
to a campaign with the same blind con-
fdence that it did four years ago. when
the law of political change gave it at
last q temporary ascendancy. Give it
any sort Of fetch and it win have faith.
In Illinois the Democratic party has
about as much chance of victory rs
the mass of its members have for sal
walton. This Is . Republican State.
There are as yet too few thousands Of
voters in city slums here, too many
school-hOuses, too many men who can
think, for it to be otherwise. 1t will
give next fall its usual Republican ma
jority. Were there some great side is
sue involved the situation might be
changed, locally, but such issue does
not exist. It Is square party fight
which will be on, and if there has been
a change since the last State election
the Republicans are the gamers. There
are great many disguised Democrats
in Illinois.
As regards the Presidential election.
concerning which the Democrats are
now 30 confident, they simply do not
reason, Cleveland was elected by the
narrowest plurality in q single State
He was elected because certain class
of captious Republicans chose to vote
for him as against Mr.. Blaine who had
incurred their luminosity. They did
desert their party permanently. and
still march beneath its banners. though
always in the rear. They will Support
a Republican candidate. They have
not found what they foolishly Hoped for
in the Cleveland Administration. They
have seen partisans thrust in the places
Of public servants against whom no
complaint was made; they have seen
the promised Civil-Service reform mado
but mockery; they have seen ill-ad-
vised appointments-and Chicago can
afford several examples Of this class
result in the Generalization Of the pub
lie service; they have in short seen the
spoils system carried out in every State.
II there are hungry Democrats any
where now it Is because there are moro
Democrats than offices.
The Republicans who opposed Blaine
recognize their blunder in anticipating
even . degree of reform from the Dem
ocratic party. They realize that If
abuses have grown up the party Of in
telligence and Of progress Is the only
one to correct them, and they are ready
to act. There are far more than enough
of them to carry New York and give the
Republicans the victory in November.
Democracy may eat, drink and b
merry, for tomorrow it Chicago
Mail.
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barn. so there were no chance of rescue
from him. The young man let Hetty
rattle the door and call her father sew
eral times before he spoke.
Where are you, Miss DARRELL he
said. ais anything wanting?"
He was still out of sight, but Hetty
recognized his voice as coming from the
outside walk, and few to the window as
before.
Il am fastened in the cellar again, :"
she called.
Where did you say:" said Compton,
from distance.
Hetty pressed close to the window
bars, and cried as loudly as possible:
''In the cellar"
Compton laughed aloud. and. coming
to the window" he stopped down as he
had done on the previous night. This
time, however, he came very close,
close enough to kiss the red lips be-
tween the bars.
Don't be angry, dearest" he plead
ed, as Hetty drew back hurt and aston
ished. Il couldn't help it, I love you
so. Hetty, will you 60 with me to
Aliddletown?"
$50 you can always get your coats
mended?" asked Hetty, saucily, but
with shy color stealing over her face.
mo. because you will have such a
useful domestic husband. who can do
the kitchen work. Say yes Hetty.
sha'n't let you out until you do"
81 suppose shall have to, then,
said Hetty; '.any place would be prefer
able to this cellar, even Middletown.
But shall have that spring catch taken
OF the cellar door,"
81 would If I were you," replied her
lover. The two faces came very near
to the bars again for a moment, and
then he went around and opened the
docr.-Ellen p. Talbot, in Housewife.
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men with broad shoulders and we'll
shod feet laughed aloud. the while they
disapproved. They said. go home
and attend to your children" and she
said. 81 have none" And the breeze
of their disapproval waited the ideas
far and wide. what will you?" said
they. Il would be gatekeeper," said
she. And they laughed her to scorn.
IF 1 must pay toll, why shall not be
a keeper of the gate?" "You unsex
yourself" said they. And the women
whose burdens were husbands stood
very erect and joined her at the gate.
The ideas spread far and wide. Men
with souls and large hearts and large
brains said, LET her tend the gate, il
she wishes to do So" But the ideas
met with much disfavor; and the fine
ladies with the cushions and the can
opies, and the strong right arm of their
husbands, would have none of it. They
averted their eyes; nor would they hear.
They said, 1--WE are cosy; what care
we for you?" And they babe their hus-
bands put the mannish creatures from
the face of the earth.
But the woman with ideas said, 1--WE
can wait;the oppressors are our strongest
allies; the ministers who refuse us seats
in conference help US on; intemperance
helps us ON; our strongest foes are wO-
men who recline in satin and lace and
for pure self love close their eyes and
ears to suffering humanity" And so
she waits at the gate. And when c
poor half-starved woman passes in, when
a corrupt politician swaggers through.
when fallen woman brushes BY, when
. drunkard staggers past, she register
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said Hetty, as he took his hat.
The minister flushed to the roots of
his hair. 1T is quite warm, he said,
Il don't need it."
"Yes, you do. it's real damp" said
Hetty. fatty.
He shook his head with an odd laugh.
81 don't really care for it." he said.
He fingered moment. "Will you be
glad to see me if 1 come back soon?''
he murmured, taking her hand again.
Il don't know" whispered Hetty,
drawing away her hand in some confu-
sion, for the hall door was partly open,
and the recreant George was now
ascending the steps.
A look not pleasant to see passed be-
tween the two young men, as one went
out and one came In.
'1Oh! here you are at last" observed
Miss Darrell.
The newcomer was angry, but she
was equal to him. Il had given you
up" said Hetty.
..And so entertained yourself in an
other way" said Mr.. George Swift, in
an unpleasant manner. '.Who was he
who went out?''
"a friend of fathers who is staying
here"
George jerked Of his overcoat, but,
behold! his accustomed nail was Occu-
pied.
''Is that his coat?" said George.
Fathers friend must, 1 judge, be
something of the tramp order" He
held up the garment between thumb
and finger.
"He is minister" said Hetty, indig.
nantly.
Then he ought to be ashamed to dis.
grace his calling by such coat" re.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-30
BLACKmA7L IN BOSTON.

Experience ofa Gentleman yyho .sCame
 Down. and Got Out.
 Providence Journal Boston Letter.
 There have been recently-indeed, when is there nota-some cases of attempted black mail here and apropos the following stery was recently told: A gentleman who was staying at hotel in Saratoga was one morn- ing passing down 8 corridor which led from his room when lady who stood in the door of her room accosted him:
 s'I beg your pardon" she said, 'sbut can you tell me the timer
 He looked at her and judged her to be 8 respectable and inoffensive person.
 ''It is 10:30," he replied, consulting his watch.
 The woman turned back into her chamber,
 but instantly wheeled about again.
 t'I am very sorry to trouble you," she said, "but my clock is stopped, and do not know how to set it. have an important en- gagement in about an hour. and I shall be extremely obliged if you will set it for me-"
 The gentleman kindly and rashly acceded to her request and stepped into the chan- Der. On the mantel stood an ordinary trav- cling clock. He went up to 1t, took out his watch again, and laid it on the shelf while followed him and picked up the times piece.
 stWhat beautiful watch" she said. "Yes," he answered, turning away from the clock. ffIt is an heirloom" 'I think" the woman observed, "that will keep this watch" And as she spoke she showed him in the other hand the key of the door, which she had noiselessly closed and locked. He locked at her moment in silence. "Very well," he said, holding out his hand for the key.
 She tucked the watch into the bosom of her gown and gave him the key, smiling se- renely. He opened the door and then turned back.
 ''Upon second thought" he said, with un- ruf1ed coolness, 'fI think I will redeem the I watch. It is an heirloom, and ana fond of it. ;.,,---
 "Yesi' sha r5sFS1ded. "I will give you $50 for 1t, iit y hs said taking out his poeketbook. "Very well, ," replied the adventures, pro- | ducing the watch. He gave her the money, took the watch, I and departed poorer but possibly wiser I man.
 1 When this tale was rscited at the club tho gentleman who told it related it as an advsn- | ture which had befallen 8 friend of his. When he ended ssms one asked: HBut why in the name of common sense didn't he ring the bell or kick up rowf" "Hs know bettsr," responded the narrator, with smile. "He was locked alone into g
 chamber with daring and: abandoned woman, who would have fought to the last gasp. It l was worth more than $50 to him to escape the scandal"
 "That is all very well,'' observed another clubman; "but if he had looked the bag gage in the face and calmly ejaculsted, 'Oh, ratsl' she would have como down quickly enough"
 Which may be true am not an expert l in such matters, but it does on the whole | seem probable that most men who get blackmailed are either victims of foolish cowardice or are conscious that there is that in their past records which makes it wise for them to avoid investigation.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-30
The Song of the shirk.

With fingers that never knew toll, With nose-tip swollen and red. A delegate sat in his easy chair,
 Eating the laborers bread. stStrike-strike-strikel
 Nor dare return to your workf' And f ga his tPs Psslens air. "Strike- -strike-strike!
 Till the children are crying for bread; Strike-strike-strike!
 Til the roof is torn from your headr' It is Oh, to have king.
 And dwell away oyer the sea, Where agitatorS are still unknown,
 If this is Liberty. Shirk-shirk-shirk-
 The duty we owe to man; Shirk-shirk-shirk-
 As only delegate cani Fine, and assessment and due,
 Due and assessment and fine, Such is the stuff on which delegates live,
 And swagger and drink and dine. 'tStrike-s -strike-strikel'
 The delegate passed this way "Strike-s -striker'
 He orders-you must obey! And ask not the reason why, Nor 1ss ToEa gans 5 tse1 sss In this country of the freel ohi men with children dear,
 Ohl men with daughters and wives, It is not the rich ye are starving out,
 But your hungry children's ivesj Strike-strike-strikei
 To please your masters still, Ye are slaves to a band of plundering knaves. Who bleed you as long as ye will! Shirk-shirk-shirk!
 The duty you owe to man, Shirk-shirk-shirkl
 As only delegate can. It is strange that laborers choose,
 As champions of their cause, Men who were never known to use
 Anything save their jaws.
 Melbourne (Aus.) Punch
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-30
LIGHT

It is said that the strawberry crop this
 year will be very light. A light red perhaps. Philadelphia Call. Ada-sI had ten offers of marriage last week" Ella-'fHow monotonous and per sistsnt of Jack!"-Tid-Bits.
 The Chicago bakers profess to be satisfied
 with their pay, although they knead more than most people.-Bosten Transcript. Alberto-"Do you love me, darlingl' Claribel-ssHave I not had all the chairs talk en from the room except this?'-Detroit Free Press.
 It is rumored that when M de Lesssps finishes the Panama canal, the first vessel to
 cross the Isthmus will be propelled by the Kesly motor.-Life. We have no doubt that the "Dead March, in s'Saul" is very beautiful; but our entire thanksgiving is reserved just now for the dead March in 1SS8.-Puck. "Are you fond of the thsatera" he said, as they were passing the Bijou. Yes, yeryy fond" "Shall we go into the Bijous,
 'Let it Bijou please" was the reply.-Nsw York Sun.
 Lady patron Cat church festivaD-'tAh,
 Mr. Blifstick, how do you find the oystersT MT. Blifstick (with his spoon in the plate)- ! ''Um-sr-er, haven't been able to find them l at all yet, madam. ."-Washington Critic. Customer-sI would like pair of trous
 ers." Floorwalker-"Trouser Yes, sir About what price, sira" Customer-"Oh $3 or $4." Floorwalker-sJohn, show this gentleman to the pants counter. ."-Philadel- phia Call.
 An exchange says that "ten young womer
 in Harlem chswed gum for 8 gold watch. This was certainly very kind in the young
 women, but few persons until this announce naent were probably aware that gold watches were addicted to the gum chewing habit Boston Transcript. A sneak thief took pocketbook containing money and checks valued at 5000 from g collector for the Methodist Book concern. Il is not often that money collected for the heathen reaches it's destination so speedily and at 50 small expense for commission Boston Transcript. An sInepectre"-(Scene, Suffolk village school. Government Inspector examining 8 class on the subject of the Witch of Endo1 and Samuel's Ghost. .)-Governmsnt Inspec- tor: 'tWells boys, what did the Witch of Endor think She sawl' (Pause. (-First boy -"Plaze, sir, that wur an apparitiona" G: I.-"Quits right, but what is an apparitionF F Iong pause. eSecond Boy-''Plazs, sur. that again, so far; but what's s spectrep (Pro- longed pause. .)-Bright Boy Gin wild fal- settol-sPlaze, sur, that be a gentleman as goo about examinin' scules!"-Fun. He was apparently making bee line for police headquarters. His clothes were torn and soiled, his whiskers full of cotton bat ting, his hands cut and bleeding, and the officer who met him promptly ex- claimed:
 "Right down to the first corner and then turn to the left The sergeant will hear your case"
 "What easel"
 "Don't you want the gang arrested,'
 'fFor whata No one has done anything to me-"
 "They haven'ti Why, I thought from your looks that-'
 "oh, come off I'm simply moving into another house. "-Detroit Free Press. The rose is blooming in the glade, Wherein the lily mods, And Patrick with shining spade, Is whacking dewn the sods. Puck
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-30
ARADTCAL URITIC,s VIEW.
Explaining Many Seeming Anema1ie In the ola Testament.
 [Fron Renan'S Latest Book.

Explaining Many Seeming Anomalies
 In the ola Testament.
 TFroH Renan'S Latest Book.1
 National inaividualism demands 6 special God. From the moment of leaving Egypt ty of Iseael, bound to declare that they were right even when they were wrong. The wars of Israel were the wars of YahYeh, whe, in 2 word, was exactly to Israel what Cames was to Moab. He was 8 national god, iden- tifed with the nation; victorious with it, vanquished with it. It is easy to see how completely opposed such an idea is to the earlier standpoint of Israel, according to which the Elohim was kneaded into one Elo- him, one sole master of the warld; who in due time became the one God of the Chris- tians, creator and judge'of the universe. So long as the old spirit of Elohism lasted the dangerous name of Yahveh was of no eense- quencs; bnt everything was changed when YahYeh became a local, patriotic, national god. From that time he was ferocious; nc longer the antique source of life and strength to the whole world, but political execution era god who showed favor to little tribe. * But this national tendency, with it's special god, was but f1eeting error of Israr el Those terrible radicals the prophets, who truly preserved the instinct of the race, were destined to destroy in detail this cruel partial and rsncorous Yahveh; recalling theiI people by 8 series of efforts increasing in vigor, to the primitive EIohism, the patri- archal god, Fl of the tabernacle-the true god. The history of Israel was continued effort through long ages to shake of the false god Yahveh and return to the primitive Elohim.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-30
O. A. BALDWIN, Dislrict DAVID E. HAMILTON, ConnhaitIe
LEARNED PROLRTAR1AT.


 An ignorant proletariat is a conspicuous have one. Perhaps learned proletariat is equally dangerous, but there are not many countries in danger of being disturbed by one. In Germany, however, the fear is felt that the learned proletariat will yet make trouble. Prof. Conrad of Halle,a statistician of authority, has investigated the university problem in it's minutest details, and declares that one of the greatest dangers threatening social order is the rapidly increasing number of men constituting the s'1earned proleta- riat." Twenty years ago the number of uni versity students in Germany was 13 400; ten years ago it was 17,s00; now it is more than 28, ,000. The number of students dur ing the past five years has increased 26 per cent, while the total population has grown only per cent.
 The trouble is that after the Germans be- come thoroughly educated there is no field in which they can work. All the places where learning can be used to advantage are overcrowded. Harper's Weekly we'll sets forth the situation. as follows: The number. of men is constantly on the increase who have spent their best years, and possibly their fortunes, in preparing themselves for the learned professions, and when they have finally passed the rigorous examinations pre- scribed by the State, they find that they are not needed and not wanted, and that if their services cannot be used it will be necessary to wait, it may be, many years before an opening can be found. It does not require much psychology and knowledge of human nature to see what this state of affairs must necessarily lead to. A '1earned prolet.riat" is serious threat to society and order. The general reader is often surprised to see in the ranks of German socialism SO many men whose talents and accomplishments entitle them to the rank of scholars and thinkers; he deplores the abuse made of natural gifts and fine education. In nearly all instances these recruits of scientific socialism are gained from the multitude of those who con demn society for encouraging higher educa- ton and then rejecting the fruits of this sd- ucation when offered.
 Prof. Conrad claims that the prejudice against manual labor is growing evil in Germany, and that the extraordinary esteem put upon all learned professions draws to these thousands of youths who should follow some other walk in life. He also regards it as desidsratum of great importance that the scholars of the gymnasiums should re- ceive less abstract and a more practical training, and that wiser use should be made of the vast sums which are given to support needy undergraduates in the univer- aitiaa