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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10
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Why the Colored People Of Jackson, Miss,
Withdrew Their Ticket.
The true inwardness of the trouble
between the Democrats and the colored
voters Of jackson, Miss, which has
caused so much excitement throughout
the country. has just come to light.
When the regular Democratic. ticket
was nominated in jackson a commit
tee of one hundred was appointed
to see that it was elected. and this
committee adopted the following reso-
lutions:
WHEREAS, This convention having received
the assurance that hereafter no negro alder
men or negro policemen will be part Of the
city government and that In the election to ba
held Monday next none but white men viii
vote, the negroes having voluntarily agreed to
stay away from the polls; therefore, be it
Res0tred, That the Democracy of the city Of
Jackson pledges itself that 50 far rs it can
govern the election it shall be fairly and peace
obly conducted
That was to say that if black Repub-
licans kept away from the polls they
would not be killed.
A circular was printed in blood-red
ink and scattered December "a, bear
ing this device:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10
Church Dedicated by a Woman.

The Protestant Methodist Church Of
Canton. Kan. lately erected a hand
some new church building. and in
vited Rev. Annie H. Shaw to dedi-
cate it They asked her whether she
could not also help them to raise the
five-hundred dollar debt on the
church. Miss Shaw said she had no
experience in raising money. but she
would do what she could. According
ly, when she came to speak, she told
the people that she should not think of
offering any friend a gift with a mort
gage on it. and she thought the debt
of five hundred dollars ought to be
paid off before they offered that
church to God. The money was raised
then and there. the debt paid of. and
Miss Shaw dedicated church with No
mortgage on it. This is believed to bs
the first orthodox church ever dedi
Gated by woman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10
A UNIFORM STANDARD
Why Congregational Elections Can
Brought Within National Control.

Why Congregational Elections Can Bs
Brought Within National Control.
Senator Chandler holds unassailable
ground when he assumes that Con-
gressiOnal elections are National
elections, in a sense broad enough to
bring them within National control
The only obvious objection to his bill
is that it is limited in the applica-
ton of its provisions. There should
be a uniform standard of justification
for voters at National elections. South
Carolina or Rhode Island. Pennsyl-
vania or Tennessee. Massachusetts or
Florida may each have a right to pre-
scribe or direct property qualification.
rs Rhode Island does. or a tax-paying
qualification, as Pennsylvania docs.
for voters ut State elections but the
qualification to vote upon National is
sues involved in the election Of Presi-
dents and Congressman should be one
and the same in all States.
1t is well to decree that the s'certifi-
cate Of Registrations in South Carolina
shall not have attschel amy voting
conditions relative to property CT 9th
er qualifications" but if such decree be
made and enforced Is to South Caro-
lima it should be made and enforced as
to every otter State. The one thing
that Repu blieanisM can not do and
live is IS frame either sectional or
class Lee ,islation. What is demanded
by every instinct Of justice is that Ma
tiour. elections shall be as free and
fat in Southern as in the Northern tisr
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10
PUNNING AND PUNSTERS.
The Subject Viewed in tho Light OF n Psy-
Geological Study.

The Subject Viewed in tho Light OF u Psy-
Geological Study.
Punning, l think. does not receive
enough attention. In spite of Dr. john
sons well known dictum. we should
not despisc punning. Sydney Smith
says that it is the foundation of all wit.
Surprising three degrees of evolution.
l submit that punning is the least
evolved system of joking. that wit is
evolved out of punning and that humor
is evolved out of wit. Every body has
heard Of Sydney Smiths remark-that
it requires surgical operation to get
joke into the head of Scotchman.
But he spoke without Distinguishing.
The Scotch have 81 great appreciation
of those highly evolved jocosities dis
playing the humorous. although. no
doubt, scorn of simple, lowly evolved
jocosities. such rs plays on words. 1t
is difficult to form conception of a
Scotch punstcr. Yet l have heard an
Aberdonian. a physician of worldwide
reputation, make pun.
Punning is well worthy the psyche
logist's attention. l seriously mean
that the analysis of puns is n simple
way of beginning the methodical analy-
sis of the process of normal and alb
normal mentation. This, think. l
can easily show. Vision is stereoscop-
ic; in a sense it is slightly diplopic. for
there are two dissimilar images. al
though there seems to be but ono ex-
ternal object, rs we call it To borrow
the Ophthalmological term. we can say
that mentation is '.stcreoscopic;" al
ways subject object. although we often
speak of it rs single estates of con-
seriousness" ctc.) Just as there is Wis
nal diplopia. SO there is mental diplo-
pia," or, rs it IS commonly called.
double consciousness. Now
1 come back to punning.
We all have mental diplopia"
when hearing the answer to :. riddle
which depends on a pun: when is a
little girl not little girl?" Answer:
when she is a little horse (hoarse).
The feeble amusement we have in the
slightly morbid mental state thus in
duced is from the incongruous ele-
ments of a mental diplopia." The
word ''hoarse" rouscs in us the idea of
little girl who has taken cold and the
same sounding word '.horsc" rouses in
us the idea of we'll known quadrupcd
at the same time. We have the sensa-
ton of complete resemblance with the
sense of vast difference. Here is, sub
nit, caricature of the normal process
of all mentation.-f0puidr Science
Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10
MEXICAN SILVER MONEY.

1
But Little Skill Required to Counterfeit the
Artless Coinage.
The Mexican Treasury. Department
has recently determined tina: the reales
(twelve and half cent pieces) and the
medios (six cents). so long in circula-
ton. shall be taken up and coined
anew. 1t has also ordered that Govern
ment offices shall not receive money
which has holes therein or is short in
its legal weight Soon after what was
know as the ..nickel riot" the Govern
ment sold the 81. 600. 600 worth of nickel
coin stored in the palace. at nominal
value, to the London bank. acting as
agent The amount paid was $500. DOC.
and the nickel went directly to Eng
land. When paper money WIS first
issued in Mexico popular prejudice
against it was SO strong and general
that more formidable opposition to its
introduction was anticipated. Business
men and those accustomed to handle
large sums of money had nothing to
learn in regard to the superior conven-
fence of paper; but it required some
time for the small traders and the pop
ulace. whose prcjudices in favor Of
metal were deeply rooted, to discover
that the new currency was safer, as
well rs more convenient Already the
circulation of the country has been
swelled by SIS. 600. 600 of paper money,
which is now received everywhere with
confidence. and the metallic coinage
that had reigned supreme in Mexican
commerce since the days of the con-
quest has been rclegated to the Sec
ondary position it has SO long occupied
in the United States.
Counterfciting silver currency has
always been an easy and prosperous
business in Mexico. It required little
skill and less machinery to initiate the
artless coinage of former days. That
now in circulation lacks the high finish
of the United States mintage. and is
extensively counterfeited. Every silver
piece that crosses the counter of mer-
chant or the palm of an Indian buck
ster is carefully rung and inspected;
yet with the utmost care it is difficult
for any one handling much silver mon
ey here to avoid taking certain pro-
portion of bogus pieces. In all the
minis are museums of quaint and in
genius machines, dies and crucibles
captured by Government police from
the dens of this class of public robbers.
The imitation of imperfectly finished
silver and copper coins is at best but a
barbaric art; but to falsify the compile
Gated devices and exquisitely artistic
of the American bank
note company demands degree of
criminal skill and culture which does
not yet exist in Mexico. Hence the
evident advantage of the bank note in
point of safety has hastcned its popu-
lar acceptance. and the prejudices
which were so bitterly arrayed against
its introduction have disappeared en-
t;rely from the cities and lines of COM
merce and retired to the Indian viii
lagos among the mountains.
B. Hard, in Troy IN ~ Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10
AN APPEAL TO LEGISLATORS.
A Plea for u Careful Confederation of the
Political Rights OF Women.

A Plea for Careful confederation of the
Political Rights OF Women.
The question of political rights fol
women in some form will come before
several Legislatures this winter. Lei
me appeal to them to consider the case
once more before they vote on it. Re.
member the disadvantage of the posi-.
ton of women. They have no Sena-
tors or Representatives elected by them.
selves to look after their interests.
They are never members of the Legs
lature, and hence have no vote or pow
er to help make the law under which
they may suffer. or to elect those who
will execute it. Every interest and
every right of woman. whether as wife.
widow, mother, property-owner or
simple citizen. is manipulated and set
tied by men. without so much as "by
your leave" The heaviest penalty of
the law. as well as its lightest sentence.
is imposed upon women. They may
be fined. imprisoned. taxed and hung
without any jury trial by their peers,
or any voice in the matter.
Legislators should consider how
dreadful it is to be in such condition.
How any fair-minded man can wish 10
have his mother. sister or daughter so
situated is one of the strange things
that can be accounted for only by the
love of power and the sclfishness which
the possession of power creates
H." says the man vino votes against
the equal rights of women, "will have
the right TO vote to help elect the men
who are to make the laws shall be
required to obey. But the women
shall have no such right. They shall
not have the .ight to help elect the men
who are to make the laws they will be
required to obey" IL" says the man
who votes against the equal rights of
women. Twill have vote to help elect
the assessors who will levy OIL my
property for taxes. will have vote
for the men who will have the spend
ing of the money l pay in taxes. But
women shall have no such right. They
shall not help elect the assessors who
will levy on their property. nor vote
for the men who will have the spending
of the money they pay in taxes"
How unnatural and monstrous such
a position will look in coming time!
How unworthy and cruel it is now!
But this is the condition that legis-
lators, year after year. impose upon
women. Is it not time that all this
should be changed? Is it not time
that this undemocratic. unrepublic-
an. non-representative government
should return to first principles?
The Bill of Rights afiirms that 1.-THE
people have the sole and exclusive
right Of governing themselves" Hal!
the people" are women. For the
sake of justice and fair play. and for
their own historic credit this appeal
Is made to legislators to secure mu-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10
DRIFT OF OPINION.

16 Speaker" Carlisle and "Jus-
tice" Lamar occupy their respective
places as the result Of practices equally
corrupt. fraudulent and scandalous.-
Chicago Journal
D6 We started out in opposition to
the doctrine of the Presidents message.
and the more we have reviewed that
document the more we are convinced
it is unnecessary, radical and un-
Observation-Disclosures (AIa) Age
(Dem.).
% Now the Democratic Admins
tration proposes to log-roll a bin
through Congress authorizing the de-
struction of many tons of the records
of the war for the destruction Of the
Union. The Solid South holds up
both hands in favor Of the enterprise.
ST. Paul Pioneer-Prsss.
D8Speaker Carlisle has been given
q certificate of political character by
his Democratic colleagues. and he can
breathe easier now. No longer will he
mutter in his sleep such meaningless
gibberish as 'Thoebe or not Thoebe."
Or, il he does. he should b. smOtheretl
Chicago Msil
D%Aa Eastern Democratic paper
says that business has been steadily
prospering since the Inauguration Of .
Democratic National Administration"
The author Of this stateAeat has evil
IDENTIFY not resd the Presidents late
message. which dechres in effect that
all kinds of business are suffering from
prostrassion and the danger Of = panic.
owing to the alleged --sNplus."-Chi-
eago JsurnI
&Tweve yesrs ago in St Louis
General Grant ventWed this Observa-
ton: ..Wheneves the democratic party
comes near to q complete control VI
the Government il will break its back
across the Allegheny mountains on the
tariff question" These words we're
lightly regarded then. but to-day they
seem to have been almost an utteranee
Of prophecy.-RaIadelphio Press
D0There are tw0 brands of De-
mOcracy-One represented by Judge
Thurman. Of Ohio. who has been re-
tanned to prosecute the Democratic
tally-sheet forgers at Columbus. and
the other by Senator Voorhees,. Of In
diana. who will defend the Democratic
tally sheet forgers at Indianapolis. 1t
must be owned. however. that the
Thurman Democracy is hopelessly in
the minority. Press
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10
A mule that weighs

"A mule that weighs 1880 pounds
and lacks only two and half inches
of being six feet tall. is owned by =
st. Louis firm. From incoming until
night Jumbo tramps away the time
in treadmiil grinding iced for hum
dreds Of horses and mr.ies. and grows
fat with the exercise.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10

A man in Western town hanged
himself to bed-post by his suspend
ers. The coroner's jury. which was
composed of mothers. decided that the
deceased came to his death by coming
home drunk and installing himself for
his pants"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10

Sebastian Muller. Swiss, recently
arrived in New Haven. is astonishing
the Yankees by his feats of strength.
He is twenty-fiv years old. five feet
eight inches tall. weighs pound and
a half less than two hundred. is mag
nificently developed as to m.lscle, and
can break a six-inch cobble-stOne with
one blow Of his fist.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10


ULTIMATUM"
The circular charged the colored
people with MURDERS young white
man having been killed in an affray
by black man a few days before
and contained the following:
Driven by no sudden passion or blind i'm
pulse, but actuated- by . firm and deliberate
sense OF the duty We owe to ourselves and to
our race, we hereby warn the negroes that II
any one Of the race attempts to run for ONCE
in the approaching municipal election he does
so at his supremest peril: and We further warn
any and all negroes OF this city against 1T
tempting. at their utmost hazard, by vote or
influence, to foist on us again this black and
damnable machine miscalled q government o.
our citS.
This was in red ink and meant
murder.
There was a good deal of this litera.
ture. and the colored people submitted
in resolutions as follows:
WHEREAS, The colored people have been re-
liably informed that the Democratic Club or
Committee Of Jackson have invited Democrats
from various other places and adjoining coun-
ties to be here election day for purpose Of
preventing the colored voters from voting or
participating in the CITY election next Monday,
January Z 1888; therefore be It
Resolved, That in the interest Of peace and
harmony and the protection Of life and prop
erty, the colored people refrain from voting or
in any way participating in said election
Res0l0>d Juv&heT. That the colored candidates
for Aldermen are hereby withdrawn
"ELIJAH ROBINSON, Chairman.
III T, FISHER. Secretary"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10

hottest confines Of our continent, and
is rapidly making its transformations
way and simple faith into the lives of
strivcrs in other lands. Edgar L.
Wdkensan, in n. T. Mail and EIpress.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10

nicipal suffrage for women as the first
step toward the practical application
of the Bill Of Rights Lucy Stone, in
WOmQn's Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-10
CANE RIDGE CHURCH.
Visit to the Birthplace Of the
Camp5ellite Religion.

The Rare and Radiant Kentucky Region
Where Alexander Campbell Began His
Great Life -work-The Society OF Dis
c3ples of Christ.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-04-06
Newspaper Trials.

Rev! T. DEWITT Talmagc says: One
of the great trials Of the newspaper pro-
fession IL that It's members are compelled
to see more Of the sham Of the world
than other professions. Through every
newspaper office, day after day. 90 all
the weaknesses of tho world---all the
vunities that want to be pulled, all tho
reveDges chat want to be reapcd, aud all
mistakes that want TO be corrected, all
the dull speakers that want to be thought
eloquent, all the meanness that wants to
get its wares noticed gratis III the edito-
rial column in order to save the tax Of
the advertising column; all tho men
who want to be set right who were never
right; all tho crack Drained philosophers
with stories as long as their hair and ~
gloomy as their finger nails in mourn
ing because bereft Of soap--all the bores
who come to stay five minutes, but talk
five hours all the church fairs, oyster
suppers, festivals and Sunday school cele-
brations are asked to be advertised free,
because the members are subscribers.
Through the editorial and reportorial
room all the follies and shams Of the
world are seen, day after after, aud the
temptation is to believe neither in God,
man nor woman. 1t is no surprise TO
me that in this profession there are some
skeptical men; | only wonder that news
paper men believe anything.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-04-06
THE LADY
The Tramp!
W'hu She BLaIshed When She
CAGE her Testimony iaa Court.

Silence Hats Murphy His Honor took his seat
upon the and prep,ral To llle Jistch
..Juhn Rags" shoutelt the bald headed little judge
IIeresir said the of the dock
MRS. Gullp step t stand
MRS. did this steal anything from your
What wa tT
'.Ol Judge, l can't tell you
But you must tell. madam
Must out loud
Certainly. Wha he stole from your
20! judge I'd tell But, Judge I'll whisper to you
..Madam Won must I cannp this tnhing'
make tell That woman over there with a
red bonnet she'll tell everybody tell
rJudpe. tell % shouted the Tramp
90! don't let that hornd man speak
.Silence Of you! Now, madam, must speak out
.Wo women with the red bonno out frst?"
No, do that
"Wel. Judge ho false teeth
"Wba ~ gaped joined the laughter that fairly
shooktb the 49,
Of lower madam
Judge, that isn't fair to make me tell that.
But | Isayyou tell"
"O horrid man.! He stole both sets
hatwildo madam, down
the borrowing her false teeth, but
Judge hungry and asked her for something
bestek At the bite
be two teeth seeing laying the kitchen table picked them
upan nd chew it with them.
that's likely exclaimed the Judge HOW could you hte the
touob bbeefw her teeth =
enough Judge bully spring and all had do hold
in feed the them Judge
Judge,
borrowed them I'll them back Here they
Judge" m IN - a; >. vo.o. II .a,o,. r.. d .
call
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-04-06
Singular Form Of Neuralgia.

A very singular form of neuralgia is
that affecting tho nerves of amputatsd
limbs. 1t not rarely happens that after
an amputated stump. being compressed
in the scar, becomes exceedingly pain
ful. Curiously the pain is not felt in
the stump. but in the extremity of the
limb which has been amputated. In
one coming under the notice OF the writer
a man whose arm had been amputated
above the elbow referred the exquisite
pain he felt to the little finger Of the
amputated hand years after the operation.
An old one legged soldier, applying for
an increase OF pension, said, "He had
more pain in tho foot which amt than
in the foot which are T" This was a terse
way of saying that he continued to have
a pain ia the foot which he had
lost on the battle- field many years before.
Tho explanation Of this consists in tho
fact that tho terminal filaments of
nerve are its most sensitive parts; they
are thee" "feelers, " the points from which
the sensations start on their course TO
the brain, where they give notice that
something is wrong with the outlying
districts. When the nerve is injured in
its continuity the sensation is often re-
ferred to tho terminal ends. Every one
who has struck his ''crazy bone'--thc
point above the elbow where the ulnar
nerve is very superficial and easily in-
jured-must have noticed how much tho
sensation was affected in the little flu
ger, the pain being greater there than
ut the point where the blow was struck.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-04-06
Hints on Rheumatism.


30 This is the worst time of the year for
rheumatism. A Wisconsin physician
has made q specially of the disease and,
talking Of it. he said Zone half Of the
diseases now prevalent are due to the
bedstead that you sleep on Funny
eh ? Yet ID is true. How many years
ago was it when the high comfortable,
old-fashioned stead was the fashion I
distinctly remember that when man
was afflicted with rheumatism ho was Of
about no use to the world When our
gray-headed men were boys It was old
men that had rheumatism. Now it il
young men aud l have treated 7-ycar-
old boy. .'a' a.ta 'tiisI tt
"The higher you get to ceiling the
warmer II is, and the nearer the floor
the more draughts there are slept ia
a bed in Albany last night that was not
foot from the floor. but | 90 prepared.
| wear wooden nightcap and night
dress that buttons tightly and high up
on my neck. .lf a5 sanY uaE
"Now, if you want to avoid rheuma.
tism, | would advise you to observe the
following rules:
Frst--Don't wear flannel undergar-
ments Wool is made to wear outside.
Wear Canton flannel.
Is Second--Wear thick shoes in the win
ter, and in wet weather wear cotton
socks next to the skin, and if not warm
enough wear merino ones over them.
Third--Wear n breast and back pad
made of silk with cotton batting lining.
Put it on in September and take it off
in April.
Fourth Wear tho same thickness Of
undergaruents the year round. Rugu-
late the weight Of your clothes from the
outside
Fifth-Wear u nightcap Keep the
neck warm both asleep and awake and
you will be a healthy man.
f." People have laughed at my vagares,
as they call them. and then came to me
later with all seriousness and given me
a $40 bill to pay for their sound rest
aud good health because they followed
my advice" a
Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-04-06
Every Day a Little.

Every day little knowledge-onc
fact in a day How small is one fact
only one. Ten years pass by. Three
thousand, six hundred and fifty facts are
not small thing. Every day little
self-denial. The thing that is difficult to
do to-day will be M easy thing to do
three hundred aud sixty days hence. if
each day it shall have been repeated.
What power of selfmastery shall VIC en-
Joy who seek every day to practice what
be prays for. Every day little happi-
ness. We live for the good of others,
if our living be in any sense true living.
1t is not in great deeds of kindness only
that the blessing is found. 10 ''little
deeds Of kindness" repeated every day,
VIC find true happiness. At home. at
school, on the street, at the neighbours
house, in the playground. We shall find
opportunity every day for usefulness.