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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-30

well, you were, for q fact" returned
proeaic Jack but you're all . now. 30
don't worry any more about-about things.
you know" the boy added. rather vaguely.
g Lii wanted should open the doors-it
would be sort of company to look in and
see the plants and things, presently con-
tiuued Jack, who dearly loved . patient
auditor
''She is very kind, " said Ethring, quickly.
'.Ah. that's Lii all over" said Jack, proud
N
There isn't another such girl in Mapleton
a. our kll-every one says 90. Why, look
here" and Jacks voice became suddenly
confid sntiaI-'my mother and father were
lost in the Hibernias years ago There was
only q little life insurance and the old
house here left Margaret, our nurse, hung
on and brought us up LII took to music
from the first-mother was that way And
since LII was old enough. she's kept us three
together She plays the organ and gives
music lessons and paints Christmas cards
and lots of things. Directly I get ont of
school, I'm going to work and earn money,
too. You see. don't mind telling yow that
we're poor. Mr. Ethring. because now
you've lost your money-and I'm dwfmt
sorry-you know how it is yourself, you
see"
"Jack-where are your"
A sharp, high-pitched voice resounding
through the entry brought Jacks some
what indiscreet disclosures to an end
Winking gleefully at his listener, Jack
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-30

is also an unfortunate tendency in mis-
tresses to make compulsory on the
pupil number of subjects which the
examiners, with the intention of Civ
ing everybody fair chance.
have made optional Nothing. we
are afraid. can alter this but the
abolition of optional subjects We
note that Mrs. Pfeiffer has proved
that higher education has done little
harm and much good to women. not
only mentally but physically. 1t is all
very well for gentlemen Mt the top of .
well-paid profession to make hasty
generalizations as to the tendency of
the intellectual culture Of women to
deteriorate the race. But in doing SO
they are laying weight upon women's
lives which they themselves would not
touch with one of their fingers. Surely
they have not considered Ito what
poverty, poor feeding. mean employ
ment numerically prolonged. and.
worse than all, to what temptation
they would consign them in hopeless
thousands Why is it these men tell
us nothing of the cases which abound
in our great cities of women suffering,
not from generalization, but from over
work and under-pay, caused in very
many cases by their being
allowed no education at all. or in
others. by their being artificially ex-
cluded from more lucrative en-
ployment? We are also heartily
glad that Mrs. Pfeiffcr makes another
protest against the Philistine idea. sup
ported lately by at least one person
who ought to know better, that higher
education is wasted unless it can be
made to pay. and that for the role of
wife and mother it is useless. Such
persons seemed to have grasped the
highest purposes of education as little
as they have g-asped the notion that.
for woman as we'll as a man. there is
an individual life and character which
are precious possessions. to be culti-
waited for themselves apart from any
gain or any role. To make money is
not. after all. the be-al and the end-all
of human existence. and there is a
duty in self-culture. where it is posi-
BILE. which is not taken away by be-
coming somebody's wife or some
body's mother. any more than it is by
becoming somebody husband or some
body's father.-London Spectator Re-
riew of Mrs. Peiter's Recent Book.
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A Tribute to Woman.

"Place her among the flowers, foster
her as tender plant. and she is thing
of fancy. waywartlncss and folly. an
noyed by dewdrop. fretted by the
touch of a butterily's wing. ready to
faint at the sound of beetle or the
rattling of a window-sash at night. and
is Overpowered by the perfume of a
rosebud. But let real calamity come.
rouse her affections. enkindle the fires
of her being, and mark her then how
strong is her heart! Place her in the
heat of battle. give her child, bird
or any thing to protect. and see her in
a relative instance, lifting her white
arms rs a shield. as her own blood
crimsons her upturned forehead. pray
ing for her life to protect the helpless.
Transplant her in the dark places of
the earth. call forth her energies to &C
ton. and her breath becomes a healing.
her presence blessing. She disputes
inch by inch tho strides of stalking
pestilence. when man. the strong and
brave. pale and affrighted. shrinks
away. Misfortune hurts her not; she
wears away life in silent endurance.
goes forth with less timidity than to
the bridal altar. In prosperity. she is
a bud full of odors. waiting but for the
winds of adversely to scatter them
abroad-gOld, valuable. but untrled in
the furnace. In short, woman is a
miracle. a mystery. the center from
which radiates the charm of existence.
-National LABOR tribune.
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AN ABLE CHAMPION.

Tho Following Extract Il Eulogistic Of
Mary F. Eastman. Who Lectured Recent.
~ Before the Syracuse Union.
Miss Eastman embodies not only
womanly charm, but that fearless en-
crgy which she advocates in doing
what is right for the individual. even
if it involves new step. She claims
all honor for the pioneers who have
struggled so bravely to open the
way for women in medicine,
law and ministry. and the
professors chair; and equal honor to
the women who. in the face of almost
insurmountable obstacles, first man.
aged a ranch or street railway, car
ried on a laundry, an insurance busi-
ness. or grocery. The overcoming
of these obstacles was just SO much lost
force, tax to which men are not sub
jected; therefore she would ask. in the
words of Ezra Cornell. simply for ian
equal chance for anybody to learn to
do any thing"
One of the better ways Miss Eastman
of boys and girls in education. from
the beginning to the end. as He who
set them in families intended; and we
find this course preventive of senti-
mentality on the one hand and coarse
ness on the other. But in penal insti-
tutions let women be ministered to by
women. not by rough and brutal men,
under whose administration they do
not ameliorate; while in the two pris-
ons for women in this country man.
aged by women. the results of their
loving tact and gentle treatment in
softening desperate characters were
marvellous.
The two-fold value of organization
was dwelt upon; women already real
ize the power for good to others that
comes with co-operation-the increased
availability of units when working in
unison towards a common end. in a
word, "ten times one are ten." The
other use of organization is the benefit
to the individual, who. il inclined to
be despot at home where submission
to the stronger will is practiced in the
interest of peace. can not. rs menu
Der of an association trench on the
rights or trample on the feelings and
opinions of his equals with impunity;
for. meeting on common ground. they
will resist, and the would-be autocrat
learns Difference to the will of the ma
jority. He learns. too, wholesome
distrust of his own convictions and
methods, which reduces cgotism. makes
him less arbitrary. and. rs Mrs. Liver
more would say. ''morc comfortable to
live with" Miss Eastman does not
hold up for our model and imitation
the exceptionally gifted women who
have accomplished marvels by the di-
vine power of genius. but the woman
of average ability. who. by just meas
urc of her gifts. her possibilities, and
the worlds need. has taken her cour-
age in both hands. and carved a way to
recognition and success.-Ina B. Mer-
reV in EirnlesS
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WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
A MODERN MAIDEN.

I'm q bud in philosophy's school,
heed not the th0rns In LIES roses;
The life that Is guided by rule
In wisdom serenely reposes.
Not man with his smile or his frown
Makes my heart beat one atom the faster;
Thro' the world. from the king to the clown,
acknowledge no man - my master.
There are plenty to smile when I smile,
Or sadly to look when I'm grieving;
All! little they think, all the while,
know they are only deceivtng.
A man makes very good slave.
Like fire-though q cause Of disaster
When once all deception you save
By calling his lordship your master.
IT'S better mid fiatterers to rove,
II Establishments do not deceive you
Than to bask In the light Of . love
Whose tenderness wins but to grieve you;
Better live an unfettered old maid,
And die like an autumn-dri aster,
Than always to sigh in the shade
OF masculine who is your master.
-Laurd Bell, in Yankee BlodA
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DRIFT OF OPINION.

1@rThe Republican party is party
of intelligence. 1t does not regard
any man necessary to its existence
NJ T. Press.
D@"The Confederate soldiers would
not accept pensions. God be blessed!'
says Senator Vest. But they have
never had an opportunity. God be
blessed.-Kansas City Journal.
D@Mr. Bayard thinks that the
American fishermen have gained much
by the new fishery treaty. They have.
to be sure. They have gained a great
contempt for Mr. Bayard. Fran
cisco Post.
D6-Brer Morrison went in for hori-
zontal reduction of the tariff and failed
Statesman Mills goes in for zig-zag
reform. The tariff is not as full of in
constituencies as the free traders.-At-
lanta Constitution (Dem.).
BAt meeting to organize uni
formed Democratic club in Southern
Illinois the other evening a motion
was made BY an enthusiastic admirer
of Pension Commissioner Back that
the name of the organization should
be the Black Guards. but the PROPOSE
ton was voted down by an Overwhelm-
ing majority. Chicago Inter Ocean.
D@The trouble with the Democrats
who think they detect a discrepancy in
speeches delivered by Senator Sher-
man at different times is their failure
to understand that a man whose views
are worth having can not tell all he
knows in a single evening. Mr.. Sher-
man is not Democratic statesman.-
Indianapolis Journal
~The Republican party is pecul-
iarly rich in good Presidential timber.
and there can be no reason why the
friends OF this man or that should not
work like beavers to nominate the
candidate of their choice. Indeed. it
is the peculiar virtue of the Republican
party tina: it is not one-man party.
and that no man has an exclusive
claim to the nomination. In the DEM
ocratic party it is treason" and Soon
spiracy" to speak of any body but MIR.
Cleveland. -MiiwanEee Sentinel.
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Long Live the Veterans.

As long as the Grand Army of the
Republic remains to voice the convie.
lions of the old soldiers of the war OF
the rebellion, there will be no doctrine
of revolution or disunion, or of exalta-
ton of treason. or of submission to the
notification of the fruits of that war.
against which it will not protest and.
if needs be, its protest will be backed
by the whole force of organized re-
sistance. The Union and the well
fare and prosperity of the entire coun-
try is the inspiration of the Grand
Army of the Republic. Divorced from
politics, it is yet power in the higher
and purer politics whose influence is
felt rather than perceived in the po-
litical arena Long may the Grand
Army continue potent factor in pro-
noting the patriotic impulses Of the
country.-Syracnse (M ~ Journal.
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THE INEVITABLE RESULT.
Why Tariff. Tjnkering ID Hound to lDjure
tho Working Glasses.


tho Working Glasses.
With the tariff on steel rails at the
present figure foreign manufacturers
are able to enter the American market
and lay down their products. after
adding ocean transportation and GUS
toms charges. at a price which leaves
only q narrow margin Of profit to the
home manufacturer who meets it In
other words, the rail-maksrs Of Amer
lea, with all the advantages of inn
proved processes and plants. an mex
haustible supply Of iron ores almost
at their mill doors. and a market close
at hand. find it no easy matter. even
with the aid of duty OF seventeen
dollars per ton. to compete with mills
whose product must be freighted a
distance of three thousand miles, and
then pay an import tax. Take away
any part of this import tax, and you
leave the American manufacturer but
one alternative-either to close down
his works and leave his costly plant to
rust in idleness and his wOrkmen and
their families to starve, or else reduce
the cost of production by reducing
wages. That is what it comes to at
last. The American working-man must
stand the brunt of the Democratic
policy of wholesale cutting-down of
customs taxation. Chicago Mail.
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THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
Evils In the Existing Method Of Training
Girls.

Evils In the Existing Method Of Training
Girls.
We are concerned at the folly which
is still apparent in the mode Of train
ing girls. The old accomplishment
schools are fast dying natural death;
but the new system has inherited many
traditions of the old one. and is carried
on in a way which. if persisted in. will
completely falsify the hopes of the best
women of our generation. We are rs
far as possible from pressing women to
follow too closely the scheme of mems
education. Nothing could be more dis
astrous and absurd. We regret. in
deed. that in many respects it has been
followed SO closely. In starting girls
education afrcsh. there was an Oppor-
tunity of improving on old traditions
derived from mems education which,
We fear. can never occur again. But
though we do not advocate any i'm
itation by women of mems edu-
cation, we must protest that no
boy or. man was ever supposed
to be capable of what is now forced up
OH some girls. The system of examin-
atoms run mad has been adopted
wholesale from boys education by the
educators Of girls. But no boy. how
ever crammed. was ever deprived of
exercise as girls are. No boy was ever
allowed to sit up to work till twelve
or one at night as some girls are. to
the present writer's own knowledge.
Fortunately. boys would not stand it.
and the educators Of girls should open
their eyes to the fact that they are taking
what boy would call "a mean advan-
tage" of the docility and eagerness of
their pupils. and of the traditions of an
unhealthy scheme of life. to further the
end Of gaining prizes and distinctions.
to the ruin of their pupils health and
the ultimate ruin OF the cause
they themselves have at heart.
This is not the case in the best
schools and colleges, doubtless;
but generation which is reorganiz-
ing the education of women has a re-
sponsibility cast upon it which makes
protest needful. We believe that the
sedentary life led by girls of the last
generation was always very unhealthy.
Its traditions still surviving are re-
sponsible for ten times more cases of
hysteria and breakdown than higher
education. But in the old days such a
system was at any rate, possible.
Combined with real intellectual work.
It is simply ridiculous If women are
to use their brains. even in less degree.
as men do theirs they must nourish
them in some degree as men DO. There
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

THE Partisan women have at last re-
volted. A League for Public Morals
has been formed to suppress impure
literature.
An association of Lady Dressmakers
has been started in London in order
to provide work for large number of
high school girls.
Mrs. SLOAN. nee Vanderbilt is one
of the most charitable women in New
York. continually doing good quietly
and unobtrusively.
The WOrkingwoman's Society of
New York has a membership offull 200.
and one of its most active aiders and
promoters is Mrs. Mayor Hewitt
"PUBL1C SPIRIT" genuine interest
in all questions of National Or social
Importance. is as essential part of
true womanhood as of true manhood;
and women ought not to be exempt
from the duty of voting.-Mrs. Charles.
The only living woman who has
ever held a public Office in England,
save Queen Victoria, is Miss Frances
Lord, who was for years superintendent
of tho kindergarten system. She is
now in Chicago conducting the Wo-
mans World.
The South Brooklyn Ferry Company
has substituted women for men as col
lectors on both sides of the river. They
work ten hours a day and receive n
salary of $50 per month. They have
not only proved themselves as efficient
as mon. but more honest
Miss MARY l. Booth has translated
more than fifty works from the French.
She earns $1,000 year by her transla-
tons. in addition to her salary of 90. 600
rs editor of Harper's Bazaar. 1t is re-
lated that once when Scribner was in
n great hurry for Angenor de Gaspar-
ms Uprising Of Great People. Miss
Booth translated the whole book in five
days.
IT is not true that. in the ordinary
and honorable sense of the words,
women are represented Laws are
made for them by another class. and
upon the theories which that class,
without the fear of political opposition.
may choose to entertain. and in direct
violation of the principles upon which.
in their own case, they tenaciously in
ist.-Gcorge William Curtis.
WHAT peculiar right is there in Art
to enfranchise woman, and make that
delicate and proper which custom for
bids to religion or public affairs? Is it
right to sing. and wrong to speak in
public? Is it delicate for Jenny Lind
to confront five thousand faces stand
ing alone upon platform. and indeli-
cate upon her husbands ann to go forth
to the duty of sufrage?-Henry Ward
Beecher.
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Il MUST HAVE BEEN CRAZY n SAID THAT. "
ures at ths window. Her look of pleased
surprise gave place to q bright smile of
recognition. And then LII disappeared in
the direction of High Street Chapel Here
Lii played the organ for the munifcent
salary Of q hundred and twenty dollars per
annum- In addition she gave music lessons
among the elite of Mapleron.
boys step was heard in the adjoining
room. Then the high, old-fashioned fold
tng-doors were swung open with flourish.
How do you find yourself this morning,
Mr.. Ethring. Glad you're out of bed Ny,
haven't you been sick, though Raving and
hollering about"
But Jack, suddenly conscious that his To-
quacity was outrunnIng propriety or good
Judgment stopped short and looked rather
foolish.
About what, Jack:" queried Ethring,
with the rare smile which won him friends
wherever he nothing wrong,
hope"
Bless you. no." was the brisk reply
sOniy you was forever talking and worry
ing about-losing that money, you know
all you had in the world And then you
thought Lii was some one you called Rose
when she would put the ice to your head
II mUs have been crazy il I did thst."
murtesed Etnring. bitterly
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JACK, EXCITED, DASHED INTO THE ROOM
then, boiling over with wrath, Jack went
home and up to his chamber. Then he con-
cocted the following epistle, still preserved
in the family archives:
MAPLETON, MAY 81, 1888.
Mr.. EoBr. ErHEING: Sir. il you Are o gen.
tleman you will Civ Me sstisfacshun SO from
one gentleman to Another for the elite you
showed nv LII by going on and Marrying the
Rose girl when you As good As promist Lii
you lovd her, for i Herd you myself by axi.
dent II Lii dies you will Be to Blame And she
looks L Ike Deth sometimes now. let Me here
from yor 1t once. JOHN STANFoRrH.
In res y this was more scape valve for
Jacks. ser than soberly meant as q chal-
lenge. = n. II served the purpose
flower athe breezss, and comets brought
forth : the morning. had arrived. Lii.
ready dressed for church, sat down at the
piano to run over the new anthem the
choir were to render.
Suddenly Jack, strangely excited, dashed
into the room
"Iill-oh, Lill," he bresthlessly exclaimed
-"it wasn't our Mr. Ethring tfIat was mar
ried after sn"-and dashed out closing the
door behind q tall. handsome young man,
at the sight of whom Lii uttered little cry
and pressed her hand against her heart
Ltllla0-my love, Illl8u-tuAHk OOu-
oh, thank God!" And in another moment
she vas clasped to her lovers heart
Service vas over 1t was remarked that
Miss Stanforth had never rendered the
music concentrating the glad resurrec-
ton with such beauty and power Her face
was, 80 to speak. transfigured and shone
with new 6eauty-the beauty of perfect
love, for Lii if sanity in spirit, was very
human withal
Robert Ethring. the broker, is one man:
Robert T. Ethring, banker, quite another.
the young man explained. @And am by
no means a millionaire, he said, with a
smile; sthough l have enough to live
on and support . wife. 1t seemed that
mis- losses had been greatly exaggerated
from the first Then the absconding book
keeper was arrested and q goodly part of
the stolen funds recovered Fortune
smiled upon Ethring in every thing except
ing his love.
1And when you sent back my letter with
inclosed Photograph
sYour photograph. and I thought it was
your wedding cards. cried Lii sCan you
ever forgive me:"
Il think ] can" was the quiet reply.
And he placed the lovers seal Of forgiveness
on the sweet lips half upturned to meet his
own And this - why Robert Ethring
often speaks OF his wife as his Easter
Lilly Frank CoNvERsk
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-30
AN EASTER LILLY.
How Robert Ethring Finally Won
It-An Easter Romance.
Written for This Paper.l

was clothed
but ,cas he in his
right mind on C e
more after wee ks
which had seemed
eternities, Of fever
ish delirium and I'M
renting pain.
The very question
of clothing admitted
of the dou BIT. A
faded dressing-gown
reaching to his heels,
O black broadcloth
vest of country cut
h hanging loos ely
about his shrunken
frame, trousers of
ho--- - tho