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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06
NON.vOTlNG CITIZENS.
A Growing Tendency Indicating . Decs
dence OF Old Time Patriotism.

A Growing Tendency Indicating . Deca-
dence Of Old Time Patriotism.
We scarcely know which is greater.
our Indignation or contempt. for Il
numerous class of American citizens
who make it their boast that they sell
dom or never vote. If politics were
simply partisanship. and voting were
of no purpose but to support some par
ty or other, such boast might be toll
cradle. Those who make it. be it un-
derstood. are chiefly of the class who
claim to be excessively respectable. In
fact, their boast rests on their assumed
dignity of character and position. We
detest mere partisan politics as much
rs any one can, but we hold that there
are politics-such as actuate those who
do whatever they can to secure good
government, and preserve the liberty
achieved, and the institutions founded
by our forefather-which no American
citizen can overlook without disloyalty
to patriotism.
1t is just because these super-respect-
able persons neglect the public affairs
of the country that they fall into evil
hands-makinS politics dirty" and
government a continuous misrule and
plumber of the nation. Are these close
shelled non-voters more respectable
than the heroes that fought out the
battle of the revolution. that their
children and children's children might
have the inestimable privilege of the
elective franchise-of self-government
of freedom? We put it to these
gentry. if in their best gowns and silk
stockings they are better than the
glorious men who pledged their lives.
liberty and sacred honor to win the
very privilege which these modern re-
spectables SO boastfully disdainp
If we have observed one sign more
than another, Indicating decadence
of the old-time patriotism and augur-
ing evil to the Republic. it is this grow
ing tendency to ignore politics and
neglect the ballot-box. 1t was the pare
ticular pride of those who won our lib
erty that to the day of their deaths they
never missed the opportunity of max
ing their voices felt through the ballot
box. 1t was not too dirty" privi-
lege and duty for Washington and
Franklin. for Adams and Carroll, for
Hancock and Jefferson. These wore
silk stockings, and could afford to. and
deserved to; but above all personal
considerations they loved and labored
for their country. and first of all at the
very foundation. the ballot-box. If
Washington were living, with what in
cxpressible scorn he would regard this
non-voting herd of respectables.-M Y
Led0er.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06
MILLIONS IN TANKS.
The Capacity Required to Handle TIL
C0untry's OIL Production.

The Capacity Required to Handle the
Country's OIL Production.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
petroleum industry may be obtained
from a study of the system of iron
tankage required to store and handle
the oil produced in Pennsylvania and
New York. In an interview recently
with Major J. B. Maitland. superin-
tendent of the tankage department of
the National Transit Company, some
interesting facts were obtained. The
largest stock of oil that the transit
company ever held was on the last day
of August 1884. when these iron
tanks. erected all over the region. con-
tanned 40.272,0o0 barrels. On that
date this oil was worth f36. PA, 800.
The bonanza fields of Bradford were
then pouring out their oily fountains.
and to meet the heavy demand made
upon them for storage room the Stand
ard Oil Company. Of which the Nation
al Transit is a part continued 20 erect
tanks for the vast production until it
had $4,000. 900 barrels of tankage, at
an outlay of s14.0OO.OOo In addition
to the storage owned by the National
Transit Individual producers owned g.
100000 barrels. The rapid decline in
the great Bradford fields and the white
sand pools in Vensngo. Clarion and
Butler counties left the National Trans
it with large amount of useless tank
age on its hands.
The amount of empty tankage which
the Standard had on hand January l.
1885. was 5,400 900 barrels; January.
1886. $3.50. 900 barrels; January. 1887.
1000. 600 barrels; January. 1883, TO-
$50. 900 barrels
As to the weight of iron in this vast
amount of storage, Major Maitland
says that each barrel represents five
pounds of iron, so that the largest
amount of storage in the custody of the
company contained 215, DOC, 900 pounds
of iron, or ever 100000 tons. Tha
pipe lines of the National Transit
reach out to every well in the region.
no matter how remote and represent
many thousand miles Of pipe from two
and half to eight inches in diameter.
This system of storage and Transports
ton furnished the producers . ready
means of marketing their OIL and made
the development Of tho oil districts
possible. The pioneer method Of tran 8.
porting oil was to haul it over the hills
and through the valleys on wagons
-Gmcimmasi Commercial Gazette
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06

Flora flew two steps at time up the
three long flights Of stairs that led to
Otto's modest apartments. She walked
in without ceremony. Otto. rs usual.
was bringing strains from the Amati
that made the very sparrows on the
window sill outside cock their little
heads on one side in rapt attention. He
smiled delightedly upon her and went
on with his playing.
stop your miserable fiddling. Otto. :"
cried his visitor. imperatively. ''and
listen to me. Otto. 1 am going to be
married."
There was . rapid succession Of
pyrotcchnics upon the tiny instrument
and then Otto ceased playing and came
towards her. 1t must have been the
sunlight that made his handsome face
look SO yellow and CHASTITY. But Flora
did not notice that She was looking
at the carpet and tapping it restlessly
with an angelic little foot
$50" rejoined Otto. after clearing
his throat (of tobacco smoke, prob
ably). land to whom. little rascal?'
lit is that very handsome one"
demurely rejoined the little wo-
man. ''that one to whom Mr.. Sprint,
the manager, introduced me. He
is very rich and he loves me
or he says he does; and Otto. Tn going
to do it. like him. because he's SO
big and brave and gentle. and l believe
/ could love him if l tried. And O.
Otto. l do SO long at times for just a
little rest-yes, l do, although none Of
you think so-and Albert says that
when we are married 1 shall do moth
ing all day but sit in splendid parlor
and wear magnificent clothes and jew
els and receive company. o, Otto,
won't it be splendid? Nlew
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06

Otto gazed stupidity at the wreck for
a single moment and then fell senseless
beside his shattered instrument, the
blood still issuing slowly from the
CHASTITY wound in his head.
1t all seemed to have happened in an
instant The men and women who
rushed from the door. startled by .
succession of sharp. agonized shrieks,
sawa carriage driving rapidly away
and man lying Frustrated on the
muddy sidewalk, his head in the lap of
the little dancing-glrl. who strove at
once to stanch the blood with her
handkerchief and to call Otto back to
life by every tender and endearing
words that she knew.
It was five days before he could re-
cognize any one. and the first face that
he knew was Flora'a She had rarely
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06

lamp that kindles all other lights; it is the
home of all majesties and splendOrs; it is
the marriage-riu that unites the celestial
and the terrestrial, while all the clustering
white robed denizens Of the sky lowering
around rejoice at the nuptials. This
bOOk-it is the wreath into which are
twisted all garlands; it is the song into
which are struck all harmonies; it is the
river into which are poured all the great
tides of hallelujah; It is the armament
in which suns, and moons, and stars, and
consultations, and galaxies, and immense
ties, and universes, and externities,
wheel, and blaze, and triumph. Where is
the young mans soul, with any music in
it, that's not stirred with Jacobs lament,
or Nahum's dirge, or Habakkuk's dithy-
rambic, or Paul's march OF the resur-
rection, or Johns anthem: where the
elders, with doxology on their faces, re-
spOnd to the trumpet blast OF the arch
angel, as he stands with one foot on the
sea and the other foot on the land, swear
ing by him that liveth forever and ever that
time shall be no longer. / will under
take to say that every great book
that has been published since the first
printing press was lifted, has directly or
indirectly derived much of its power from
the sacred pracles. Goethe, the admired
of all sceptlcs, had the wall of his house
at Weimar covered with religious maps
and pictures. Milton's paradise Lost" is
a part Of the Bible in blank verse. TassO's
"Jerusalem Delivered" is borrowed from
the Bible. Spencer's writings are imita-
lions of the parallels. John Bunyan saw
in dream only what st. John had before
seen in apOcalyptic vision. Macaulay
rounds his most gigantic sentences with
Scripture quotations. Through Addison's
Spectator" there glances in and out the
stream that broke from beneath tho
throne Of God, clear as crystal. Walter
SCOTS best characters are Bible men and
women under different names.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06
CALL Me EARLY. WHEY DEAR,

Snow, wake me up at six o'clock"
Said he on going to bed;
Tomorrow is my busy day,
IN get right up," he said.
His patient wife, who previously
Experiments had tried.
Said nothing-only looked at him.
And softly, sadly sighed.
The night passed on; the morning came;
At six o'clock she said: my own,
It's six o'clock. You know you said"
He grunted: "Lemme lionel"
At seven she gently tried again,
But once again without
The slightest semb.ance OF success
He only snapped: Get outf'
At eight her courage almost failed
And turned TO wholesome dread.
For as she spoke, she had to dodge
A boot flung at her head.
She thought he swore at nine o'clock
And gave up trying. then;
And he whose busy day 1t was
Got up at half-past ten.
Then came the tide of bitterness
That overlooked her cup;
For he remarked: "What! haif-past tent
Why didn't you wake me ups"
Journal Of Education.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06

TnI word knowledge. strictly employed.
implies three things, VIZ: truth psoox
and convic&ion.-WA1fde
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06
A BROKEN VIOLIN.
The Part It Played in q Romance
Of the Stage.
Written for this paper.1

happy-go-lucky lit
tie sprite who slept
all the morning.
idled away the af-
ternoon anddanced
at night for the de-
light of a crowded
theater; always the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-06

"Iney just UebCIlD0 my lccAiuBS. nc LICE
to good works. Paul starts him out Of that
by the announcement: "a man Is not
justified by works." He falls back in his
discouragement. The Bible starts him up
with the sentence; remember Lots wife.
Grieve not the Spirit. Flee the wrath to
come" Then the man in despair begins to
cry out: "What shall do? Where shall
go.'' and o voice reaches him, saying:
sCome unto me, all ye who are weary and
heavy laden, and will give you rest"
Take this Bible, and place It in the
hands Of men in trouble: Is there any
body here in trouble: All! might better
ask, are there any here who have never
been in trouble: Put this Bible in the
hands Of the troubled. You find that as
some Of the best berries grow on the
sharpest thOrns, SO some OF the sweetest
consultations Of the Gospel grow ON tha
most singing Affections. You thought
that death had grasped your child. Oh,
no: It was only the heavenly shepherd
taking the lamb out OF the cold. Christ
bent over you as you held the child In
your lap and putting his arms gently
around the little one said: 'Of such is
the kingdom of Heaven" Put the Bible
in the school. Palsied be the hand that
would take the Bible from the college
and the school. Educate only q mans
head and you make him an infidel.
Educate only a mans heart and you Axe
him a fanatic. Educate them both to-
gether and you have the nOblest work OF
God. An educated mind without moral
principle is ship without helm, rush.
ing rail train without brakes or reversing
rod to control the speed. Put the Bible in
the family. There it lies on the table an
unlimited power. Polygamy and unscripe-
ural divorce are prohibited. Parents ars
kind and faithful, children polite end
obedient. Domestic sorrows lessened BY
being divided, joys increased by being
multiplied. o father! o mother! take
down that long-negiected Bible and Rad
it yourselves and let you children read II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16
THE MYSTERIES OF LEGISLATION.

From The Washington Post
d" ! would Ike 70 500 Representative ---." said q
newspaper cOrrrs po1d,nt 10 committee clerk at tho
Capitol few days ago.
He went into the House about an hour ago. said
the clerk.
Not there now" laconicay suggested the re-
porter.
Want to see him very particularly queried tho
attache.
"Ye5p
We'll. you go up 10 the room Of tho Committee
on - and givc seven deliberate raps at the door
then pause for few seconds and give three more
thumps; that'll bring him.
The Instructions wcre followed ont 10 the letter
and tbe door was opened. showing tho missing Con
essnlan In company with three Others, all hard at
work cndeavoring 10 adj the pile Of chips which
stood al each mans Iiehi Land. 10" scribe waited
untI the game va, concluded SaG then Interviewed
the statesman while III, three other members shgied
the cards and adjusted their accounts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16
4 DANCE SONG.

Bird-eye lady Soon I'm de mOrnln'f
All dem gals in our town. Oh,
Useter wear de- ole silk gown. OH
Evy time she turn arOuD'. oh,
De hollow nv her foot cut hole in de croun, oh.
Brd-eye lady Soon In de mornin'
Tima fer sausage IN fer meat. sab.
Time fer lard good pig feet. sab.
Bacon fresh on bacon sweet. sab,
De holler cr dc shOai make music neat, sab
Birdeye lady soon in dc mornin'
Come up hcah en- tahc vo' choice. oh,
~als don't bite like cole on frOs'. oh,
Days ~ breakiu' sharp mois. oh.
De hcllcr cr s1uinch-Owfs like her voice. oh.
Birl-eye lady Soon in dc mornin'
Ev'v time she turn arOun. sOh
De hOller nv her foot cut hole in de SrUun, SON.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16
TRUNDLEBED THEOLOGY.

~ iona tIIber BrOWn
As neither saw her calmly stand
Up in a garden corner,
a small. green apple In her hand
She fastened out 10 warn her
My china. twill bring yOu untold WOO,
Green apples cant be catcn so,
Wen have IL bakcd-tncn it VIII do
The next week AZ her Sunday school
She learned the ancient story,
How Eve and Adam broke the rule
And sacrificed their glory.
She tOld her playmaie> Waruingly
They ale the apples from The tree
They'd ought 10 had EN- baked. YOU sec.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16

o pale cigarette. with those fragrant,
Those lazy. Hight curls from the East
Never puffcd by the ragged and vaerant
Never pulled by the public house beast;
o twirlcd In red lQs and 1.-The fingers
OF FeliSc. YOlande. or Julictn
What glamour about thee sill llngcrS,
o pale cigarette.
There Is poison. they say. I'm thy kisses.
There i death for the lungs that inA9lc.
And the cheeks Of yGung masters and ml~scs
Have turned. q, they pufcd al thee. pale.
But. though locks may be Whitening and thinning,
One Joy man will never forget.
Thy first whliI, hi, dss.,trOu, beginning,
q pale cigarette.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16
eAss1M GLANCE.

A passing (nce-na more-and yet
My pulse W all a-tkrobbing set,
NV heart lean up wFh sudden thrill
That asivcrs vlroughAmy being still.
slur eyfs ono Instant tay met:
All, whSN shouHNFatc Itf,cut and lett
Now l fsut tn N withSRain regret
One canent ccvNommaNf at Will
I'm " AApasslng glance.
strange. Aittlc lAer tAaueh cares beset,
Though weasls dIyAact ana worries fret.
ThGi Oh busy tho,Kkts outypoor heads NIL.
And fsin would gdvNlc Fanny Kill
sometimes enc carNtt quitSs forget
81 " 4 pAssing glance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16

From The NOHin's COmp8niOn.
Two iiltle girls were day heard discu sing tho
merits Of a certain school icacncr.
she aint lady, cause She taught . coorcd school
onct y was the remark of Illtle Helene
" She IS too. a lady insisted Marie.
No. she aint. cause her pug DOG wears ies' same
ribbon all day -
She Is, too, lady, know It. cause she top her
sister an her sister toll mes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16

They have finally TO let this fault pass. She IS
absolutely honest, and this covers open mouth
this Of course. after the rape of the crush nat has
been discovered She is satisfied with small wages
rrd cheeks and rich brogue being drugs in the
market-and she Is so tidy In fact, She is possessed
by demon Of neatncss. Nothing is safe from her
Decorating hand. She inc:tes poor, artless Tootoo
perform rrodlScs of housekeeping. Together they
penetrate in the most reckless manner into the bosom
secrets of Georges wardrobe They put pepper aud
camphor his clothes, yea, Jumps in the pockets
of MS dress suit. that when he puts IL on for an
informal sumner dinner at Aunt lsabeaS, it smells
heaven and makes Aunt Isabclla's mother, who is
a hundred at least and delicate piece Of mended
clina faIn. away.
IL that strange penetrating smell OF camphor'
say, she, when She to, waggng her limp head
which quito bangles about on her old neck
Ycs, I've notccd II all through dinner says Aunt
Isabella turning her head about aud smiling Ike the
warhorse in Job.
20 have /. IT'S remarkably strong says George,
in a pale weak voice lifting the edge Of the cloth and
pccrinc under the table, II he looking for some
thing perhaps IFS tho rug. They put camphor on
them when they c.ean them, don't they! -
After that George impores Tootoo TO curb Katys
soaring splrt and to train her from pepperns his
clothes and baking his pipes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16

horsford's Acid Phosphate
lMPARTS NEW ENERGY TO THE RUAIN
power.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-16

The final rupture from Mara'S dlocy. as George
called IT. thief Is bad enough LIt an idotc thief
f. more than even newly married human nature can
bear
Maria, through her stupidity nearly caused the
death Of my dearest frcnd,7 TOOtoD was wont eX-
plain draw ing the long bow - The limit sanctioned by
good society. The friend had TO stay over the
sabbath and couch her form Toooos chcri, he'd spare
bed. suspected by Alr Koundcr bcns the cache Of
the lunsiic. The weather had a suggestion of COM
Ing cold, and Maria was Instructed 70 light the oil
stove IN Miss Browns early In the morning.
Maria's defence was that she didn't want to make
the room bn'' By turning up the three wicks. so
she turned them down. An hour later a sieahy tread
reused her In the Tranquil occupation of cutting up
potatoes. Miss Brown appeared at the Kitchen door
in night gowned loose haired, bare footed dshabllo,
peering in apprchensvely with grimy face.
"Oh Maria in conciliatory tone OF felgned sur
prise g wish you'd como and what's the matter
with the stove in my room. It's making such funny
no',r."
In the centre OF tie spare bcdroom-thc aimos-
phcre thick enough to cut-the stove whccled tri-
umphant. vomiting volumes of black smoke In a state
OF rampant ocatacy.
And have scr been asleep with This think smohin'
loke this ~ qucricd Maria, with cyulcant and
guilt IN her sou.
Well, yes looking greatly ashamed, " you see Pm
not used To them. | looked at II for long Time and
supposed that II the way It worked, until 1t grew
so very smoky"
And now Tootoo awakcs sees the smoke rolling
against the ceiling and starts up shreSlng:
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-22

sturdy Dilferer did actually clasp his
arm. about the hive and raising t oil
the rest started to walk slowly oil
with it.
ITS som, Indian. I Guess. Lv the
look, OF him. - muttcrei Roswell. -
don't lust like 70 fire at him: he don't
seem to have anv qln. But let, 90
for him and rivc hjr, . GOOD thra.hIn-..
Frank aorceIno, at once to his propo-
.itior snatchoa nm TWO stah. & which
they had cut for the tent. and h..4djue
one of these to his brother. who lajI
down tn, rih,, both Young men Ian
quickly. bat steuithily, after the
heaviy-Ioaded thief. " vas ,hamb-
n2o aw6varlIv on ae o~s til, open
ground, beyond the rest.
The grass was thick and soft, and they
were not lony c.o,lng in with the
maraudcr.
"Yau scoundrelr ve.lcd Frank.
Liar "a our honey. Will you.' and
drawing of with his stake. gave the
thief such tremendous whack across
the back and shoulders as to knock hIm
half-forwar,l over the hive.
Take that,o
Drawing off again. he was about 10
repeat the dose, and Roswell on his part
was lust getting in blow, when the
supposed ,.Indiaa' suddenly came
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-22

4 Lady who was Passing along Lane
came upon a Pig rolling in the Mud and
called out in disgust:
"Wretched Creature. but what Mis-
cradle Life YOU must lead"
Con the Contrary, no one takes
more Comfort" rejoined the Porker.
but you roll in the Mud
Just like Pig. Had Nature in
tended me to boss a greenhouse, I should
not be here
Moral: T&e above happened a hund-
red years ago, All the pigs of today
want to be Canary Birds Detroit Free
Press
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-22

DR. Brown Sequarl, who has been
preaching that bad ventilation of Sleep
ing rooms and poor and monotonous
food are the great causes Of phthisIs,
treated of that disease at the last meet
ing Of the Academy of Sciences in Paris,
taking many of his examples from Eng
land, Wherever population is dense,
and sleeping rooms iI-aised or over
crowded, consumption prevails. DR..
Bailey reported that in the Mi,lbank
Prison there were, out of one hundred
deaths, forty five from this disease.
According TO the illu9triou5 French
doctor room in which Il consumptive
person sleeps is reeking with contagious
germs, if the air he cHhajcs is not
carried off
But how to get rid of it in iIl-ouiIt
houses or very cold weather, when it is
as dangerous to open windows as to
keep them shut: To meet this difficulty
DR.. Brown Sequard showed the Acad-
emy an apparatus of his invention. \
| reversed funnel, the shape Of a lamp
shade, is placed at the end Of a tube, so
arranged in its curves and angles that
when it is placed beside a bed the re.
versed funnel will be above the sleeper
and draw up the air he breathes. The
other end runs into the chimney of the
room. If there is none it Is tax en-
through a heating apparatus to an air
hole. The heat IS great enough to burn
/ the disease germs.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-22
4 Wonderful GrapeYine.

Nr. A F. Tiff has upon his place in
Key West, Fla, wonderful grapevine
covering a great treIlis. This vine bears
four crops every year. The grapes
grow in exceedingly compact clusters,
many of them weighing as much as
eight pounds and the vine is literally
loaded with punches. 1t Is native
of the West India islands, probably
of Jamaica. As an Illustration Of the
dense nature 0: the lunches, the
grapes grow SO thick upon them that
the center grapes frequently cannot
reach the sunlight to mature. The out
side grapes can lie picked of as
needed, and the mass OF grapes beneath
the outside layer left to ripen. go Chica-
60 Times.