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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
USES OF INSECTS.
New Theories Advanced by a Prominen
New Jersey Ensomologist.

New Theories Advanced by Prominent
New Jersey Ensomologist.
George ID. Hulst, entomologist OF the
New Jersey Experiment Station, holds
to the opinion that injurious insects
after all are not an unmitigated evil.
They make production a little more
laborious, he says, and add to the
chances of financial success for the
careful man. We have yet much to
learn about insects, and how to deal
with them; but we are advancing. A
knowledge of the life history OF every
insect is needed in order to show US at
what stage of its existence-egg, worm
or caterpillar, chrysalis and perfect
insect-we can take it at its great
est disadvantage. Of poisonous
remedies the arsenical prepare
tions answer the purpose for leaf-eaters
in almost every instance. Kerosene and
pyrethrum kill by contact. A mixture
of the two kinds, however, Paris green
or London purple with kerosene emul-
sion or pyrethrum, secure two chances
to kill, and will be found most effective
in many cases.
Mr.. Hulst also states that we need
stricter laws, or stricter enforcement
of existing laws, against the destruction
of birds. The demands for material
for decorating female head-gear have
done more to strip the country OF our
song birds than the quarrelsome nature
of the English sparrow. Among useful
insect-eaters Mr.. Hulst names toads,
snakes, moles. the latter the only enc
| my that preys upon the rose-beetle
when in the larval state. People should
begin to fight insects at their first ap-
pearance, and not wait until they have
grown numerous and destructive
Chicago Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

do you not know that your friend
ship is all I have in life?" Still no re-
ply.
81 have loved your sweet face ever
since first saw it. II have failed to
secure a conventional acquaintance it
was only from fear of causing you en-
barrassment and because dreaded to
break the delicate charm Of our Pc
culiar intercourse
Still silence.
"Are YOU listening to meP"
'Yes," family.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

If it had not been for Salina there
would have been no difficulty about go
ing. But Salina was my sister, twenty
years older than myself, who kept the
old house back of the larches, where
we lived together and alone; and ! was
Salinas only protector and provider,
being the day telegraph operator at the
station. just how restless and discon-
tented grew with my quiet round, l
am glad Salina never knew; for one
day-one of the days when l was the
hottest with selfish impatience-I came
home and found my sister placidly
waiting for me, as she had so often
waited on the seat by the door, and
when l touched her / saw that her kind
heart had fickered out there in the
watching, and that l should never fret
under her admonitions again. She had
spray of lilac in her hand which she
had no doubt intended for me, and in
the cool little dining-room, my supper
and hers were laid out in the quaint
way from which she never varied.
insisted on having her laid
right there under the larches
where she had lived from baby-hood,
and boarded up the old windows With
something of the same feeling that l
had when they screwed the coffin lid
over Salina- When l had pad-locked
the gates, took a train for Chicago
with q feeling of Inconsistencies and des-
olation horribly in contrast with the
anticipation l had expected to feel on
my home-leaving.
Two days and a night brought me
into Chicago on dark morning when
the air seemed to be made of murk and
moisture. and the sky above the city
looked like webbing ceiling black
with filth. l got room on a quiet
street, and, though it was very high
up and choked me with sense of inn
prisonment whenever looked out on
the solid front of buildings that faced
it. yet it was clean and secluded, and
suited my lonely and exclusive mood.
To my surprise had but little trouble
in finding work, though was obliged
TO content myself with a night job.
This added to the strangeness of my
new life. 1t gave me an uncanny feel
ing to walk down to my work through
the red sun set, Just as other men were
coming home, and to creep into bed
when the morning glare and the morn
~ If
My fancied bravery had quite van
ished and felt myself very lonesome
and not little timid in the midst of
the tremendous whirl about me, and,
after a time, as made no acquaint-
ences, even began to grow a little NOR
bid. and to wonder if all humanity was
forever going to slip by me in those
twilight walks of mine, and if all the
people crowding the busy streets were
eternally TO pass me with their foot
steps bent in the other direction.
Matters would have got quite desper-
ate but for the pleasant hours l spent
between three and five in the afternoon,
when my sleep was finished and my
work not yet begun. Occasionally /
spent those hours walking, but had
not the joy in city streets which most
countrymen have, and found myself
continually irritated by that feeling OF
imprisonment.
'.Now." would say to myself, ''sure-
ly when ] get TO the next corner shall
come to the open country and be able
TO look out little"
But the mex. corner would be choked
like the rest with business blocks OF
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

THE opponents Of woman suffrage
are sure that women would not exercise
purifying influence in politics if al
lowed the ballot. However it might
turn out, it is highly probable that they
.would try to withdraw from political
parades the indecent caricatures of
their sex which detract from the dig
nifty Of the grandest procession. Women
feel humbled that such burlesques are
tolerated New England Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

"A New Haven pastor has been
pifted by nature with many abilities.
which have been highly developed, but
they do not include melodious voice.
Realizing this defect, he placed him
self under the instruction OF leading
professor in elocution. and labored
hard to improve his delivery. At the
end of a course of lectures for which
he had contracted the professor said
to him: There is no use in keeping
this up any longer. and l don't feel
justified in taking you. money. what
you need is a new larynx."-New
Haven Palladium.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

~AnoormInicatIons FOR this paper snou1o
pot necessarily for publication, but as an eyi
renee OF good faith on the part of the writer.
write only on one side OF the paper. Be
pertcnlariy careful in giving names and dates
distinct
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

'HElittle town where
l had grown I'm be-
came too small for
me-or at least ii
became too dull.
The people were
like books which I
had read too often
for interest, and the
quiet little streets,
with their familiar
houses and shops,
grew so irksome
that / planned day
and night for some
way of escape.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
SeIf.Respect and Self.Esteem.

Self-respect ought to be counted pre-
cious by every person. No man ought
to forfeit his self-respect out of regard
to any human being. But let man
beware lest he confound self-respect
with self-esteem. A man may refuse to
do right at the request of another
simply because by changing his course
he would practically admit that his
opinions had been wrong on the subject
up to this time. Many man makes a
mistake at this point 1t is better to
mortify ones self-esteem than to main
tain it at the cost of continuing in a
wrong course. True self-respect would
prompt us to avoid being controlled by
our self-esteem; and it is often the case
that another mans judgment as to the
dictates of our self-respect is better
than our owns. S. Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

-'If you don't want to buy, come
in anyway and pet our cat' Is a
friendly invitation which sign IN
front of Sedalia, Mo-, store holds out
to passers by.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

An aged woman in New Hampshire,
the widow of one of the men who in
1910 voted for William Henry Harrison,
recently wrote letter to General Har-
rison, using paper made in 1S4O for
campaign purposes, and stamped with
the log-cabin device. She was made
very happy by an exceedingly cordial
letter from the grandson OF his grand
father.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
A WORTHLESS WOOING.
The Romantic Story of an Oper-
ator's Courtship.

Written for this paper.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25
Harrison and the Ranks.


One of the most disgraceful attacks on Presi-
dent Cleveland made by the republican press
was based on the fact that the government
under his administration kept a large sum
Sj0,O00000-On deposit in the national banks.
Here is a specimen from the pen of Mr.. Elijah
Halford then editor OF the indianapolis Journal,
and now private secretary OF President Harri-
son. printed in his paper on the 18th of October,
1888 in the midst of the canvass: Gen.
Harrison also, in his letter of acceptance, had
his fling at the administration by saying that
''the surplus should be invested in buying
bonds so that the people and not the banks in
which it is now invested should have the adj
vantage of its use." President Harrison has
now been in Office six months, and the balance in
the banks has been reduced by 100000. The
interest on these deposits is now worth to the
banks S230000 month. Out OF this they could
well afford TO give Tanner or Halford, or Dud-
ley, or Russell Harrison, or any OF "the boys"
an occasional check for $4,000. Have they
been doing it? We do not believe they have.
But if they had given it TO Mr.. Halford, for in
stance, what an INSCRIPTIONS and rufhanly
journalist would have profted by il. The COM
fort is, that the more INSCRIPTIONS and rufiianly
these men were, the more reason has Mr.. Cleve-
land to be grateful to them. They are now
rapidly making his administration, with all its
stains and faults, seem almost illustrious by
comparison.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25
REPUBLICANS ANO THE NEGRO.
The CoIored Man Must COnhne His Am
bition For Office to the south.
n Y Evening Post

\. 4. LYenlng Post.
The INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL shows the
hypocrisy OF the republican cant about the
negro by pointing out that although at least
two thousand eight hundred votes for Harrison
were cast by colored men in indianapolis not
one of the 175 clerical positions at the disposal
of the republican federal officials whose head
quarters are la Indianapolis filled by cOlored
man, the only member of the race employed
in any capacity being some colored men who
are engaged about the several public buildings
in scrubbing floors, cleaning spittoons and
performing other like mental services. which
white politicians do not banker after. Ii
further points out that no colored man has
ever been nominated by the republicans for a
state office in Indiana, that there are col
ored mayors, sheriffs, auditors, treasurers city
or county clerks or judges in Indiana, and
never have been any, although about half OF
the counties are republican-many of them
only through the colored vote; and that, al
though Mr.. Harrison has appointed a host of
federal officials in Indiana, not even so much
as one little fourth-class postcfhce has been
given to q negro.
1t is interesting to recall the experience Of
the republicans in the one northern state
where they have ever tried the ex-
state ticket This happened in Kan
sas - bleeding 1882 when +.
p. McCabe a colored man, was nominated for
state auditor. While his associates on the
ticket received from 9S,SO6 to S92S2 votes,
McCabe had only $3.50. running about 1900
behind the white men, simply and solely be-
cause he was black. The republican majority
in Kansas is large enough so that a man can
run 1900 votes behind his ticket and be
elected, but such an experience would be fatal
to an aspirant in Indiana, where the head of
the republican state ticket last fall had only
300 plurality. No wonder the Indiana re-
publicans want the negroes TO confiue their
ambition for Office to the South-or Kansas.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

QUEEN VICTORIA now weighs 1913 pounds.
THE only stimulant now INDUCED in by
Prince Bismarck is tea.
MAURICE SAND, son of George Sand, has
died at Nohant aged sixty-six. He was the son
OF George Sands regular husband, Dudevant,
and INDUCED slightly in fiction.
THE car has a new train of cars to travel in.
The cars are connected with each other by
vestibules, so that he can pass from one 10 all
other without being seen from the outside, and
they are covered with iron and cork.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD shares, with most of his
countrymen, great admiration for Walt Whit
man. Sir Edwin made il point to- visit the
good gray poet" next after paying his respects
to the president of the United States, and he
was not disappointed in his hero's appearance
81 think he is the handsomest man ever saw"
he says. with the head of Jupiter and strength
in every feature. / am now more than ever
convinced that Walt Whitman is one of the
greatest of your poets" This is praise from
Sir Hubert
THE Hon. "JoE" SCRANTON, memberelect
of congress from the Scranton district, is in
Washington, mainly for the purpose of arrang-
ing for housekeeping for the coming season.
He has rented one of the largest and finest
houses in the city, LIST, close to the Mexican
legation, and it is said he will entertain hand
s0mely. Mr.. Scranton says he is not committed
to any candidate for speaker. but will vote for
the best man. When asked if the best man is
Reed OF Maine, he smiles what seems to be an
Affirmative smile.
DR. BRowN-SEoUARD expresses himself as
astonished and disguised with the manner in
which his theory regarding the elixir Of youth
has been received in this country and England.
He claims that he should not be held RESPONSE
bic for the Interpretations of his reasoning
made by sensationalists. The bungling Of
charlatans he especially regrets. "Epicurus
was not TN Epicurean, Plato was not Pla-
tonist, Aristotle was not On Aristotelian, DR..
Quard who homes he is not n Brown-Seouardist
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25
The "JournaI- and the NEGRO

The Charleston Nears and Courier, indignant
ss il is, however, over the bodily injuries of
negroes in Georgia, it has nothing to say about
the Carolina method of depriving the black
men of their civil rights by swindlng 1t is
more expert in plucking the mote out of the
Georgia eye than the beam out of its own
Journal.
Why doesn't the Journal try its hand at
plucking the beam out of The Indiana eye
But for the colored voters, the republican
party would be in an insignificant minor
ity in Indiana. Why doesn't the Journal
demand that they be given the official
recognition they are entitled to? Why
doesn't it condemn Postmaster WALLACE
and all the republican federal, state and
city officials for discriminating against the
negro? Why doesn't it call upon the repub-
bcan towns and counties in the state to
give the negro fair share Of the offices :?
Why does il not condemn President
HARRISON for negIecting to give even so
much az fourth class postoffice to a
negro, out of the hundreds OF appoint
ments he has made for lndiana2 Why
does it not comment upon the fact that
there is not colored mayor, judge, post
master, county clerk, auditor, treasurer,
sheriff or recorder in the state? Why
does it not condemn the social ostracism
10 which the colored race is subjected in
Indiana, the closing Of the doors of mills
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25
DIDN'T ALL DRINK.
Judge Jordan Sheds Some Light on Early
Indiana History.

Judge Jordan Sheds some Light on Early
Indiana History.
To THE EDITOR-Sir: In last Sundays
SENTINEL you copied from the st. Louis Globe
Democrat an interview with the Hon. James q.
Clark relating to pioneer life in Indiana. Mr..
Clark's age is given as ninety-two years, and
his old age may account for his imperfect MEM
DRY of events which occurred in his boyhood.
The election for delegates to the first consti-
tutional convention was not held in the fall OF
1915, as he states, but in May 1916. He describes
a contest between two candidates for delegate
named Brown and Brownlee, and the inference
is that Franklin county was entitled TO only
one delegate to the convention, when in fact
that county had five delegates, viz: William II.
Eads James Brownlee, Enoch McCsrty, Robert
Hanna and James Noble.
In this connection 1t may be interesting to
state that there were only thirteen counties in
Indiana when the first constitution was formed,
viz: Wayne, Franklin, Dearborn, Switzerland,
Jefferson, Clark Harrison, Washington, Knox,
Gibson, Perry, Warrick and Posey. object -
the statement of Mr.. Clark, that at all cleo
tons the candidates were ex pected 70 provide
plenty OF free whisky" This may have been
the custom in the neighborhood where he
lived and in other places, but a large majority
of the members of the first constitutional con-
yention were not elected by the influence
of "free whisky" as might be inferred from Mr..
Clark's interview. Many of them were men Of
great ability and high character II was their
talents and eminent qualifications that secured
their selection as delegates. They met at the
territorial capital-COrydOn-O the 10th %
June, 1916. and in twenty days completed their
work, having made a constitution which even
now challenges admiration Tor It's many wise
provisions. II served the people well until
1851. when the present constitution was
adopted
1t will be found upon investigation that in
the early history Of the state the abest men in
the several counties were selected as law-mak.
ers, and that talent and qualifications deter
mined the choice and not free whisky" Many
of the men who formed the first constitution
rose TO distinction afterward and filed with
credit the highest offices in the state.
OF late years much attention has been given
to the early history of Indiana and all histor-
zeal statements should be accurate. Mr.. Clark's
interview gives a character 10 our early history
which is not deserved or true. Indiana has
been slaudered and ridiculed for years, but
those who INDUCED in defaming her people
were ignorant OF her history. The present
prosperity reaches back TO the foundations
laid by the pioneer fathers. The present gen.
Grafton is enjoying the fruit of pioneer labor.
morality, education and religion. The rem
nant OF good people in the early days was
very large and they determined and controlled
the development of society, and not the vicious
and immoral. LEWIS JORDAN.
Indianapolis, Sept. 20.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25
rhe Rirht Dnctrine.

To THE EDIToR-Sir: am anxious to pro-
mote the success of the democratic party in
any honorable way, and believing THE INDIANA
STATE SENTINEL advocates the true principles
of the democratic party. shall do all l can to
increase it's circulation. / want to see it placed
in the hands Of as many voters as possible, for
it is only a matter of education before the peo-
pie, when the party of high-protection, trusts
and monopoly will be a party OF the past. II
every democrat is found doing his duty till
after the next election, we will wipe from ex-
istence one of the most corrupt and dangerous
parties that ever existed in any republican
form of government. Let the watchword be
with every true democrat: Forward On to
victory" and that high wall of protection and
fraud will crumble TO the ground.
J.P. STYYEsPRING.
Marsh6eId Ind SAINT 81
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25

THE American protective tariff league
announces that it proposes to carry the
war into Africa" To this end it asks the
Detroit Free Press TO insert, free of charge,
a card offering certain documents sat
price that hardly covers the cost of Print
ing" The Free Press makes this neat re-
sponse:
We applaud the leagues avowed intention to
carry the war into Africa" The dark con-
tinent," ii STANLEY can be trusted, is excellent
missionary ground for high protection doctrines
Most OF the dusky mOnarchs in that torrid
country are already committed TO protection on
substantially the same plan as the protection
the league upholds-the restriction of trade for
the benefit OF the few. The league will have
a comparatively easy victory for its doctrines
in Africa We of this that we
are moved TO decline the invitation to keep
"the inclosed card" standing in our paper The
Free Press does not circulate to any great ex-
tent in Africa its enormous circulation being
taken up mainly by the civilized countries OF
the globe. Our publication, therefore of the
leagues list of documents, would not aid its
campaign in Africa, even If such aid we're
needed. We suggest, however, that il these
pamphlets are to be circulated in Africa, a
change be made in the first of them. Even in
Senegambia and Abyssinia the people would
rather hear from Col. DUDLEY in regard TO
"Blocks of Five" than on '"The Farmer and the
TariH," to which the league has assigned him.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25

SEcY. TRACY appears to be the decent
est man in the cabinet After the success.
full test of the new cruiser, the Baltimore,
the other day, Secy. TRACY telegraphed
his congratulations to his predecessor.
Secy. WHITNEY, of whose efficient and
honest administration OF the navy depart
ment the Baltimore is one of the fruits.
1t was a manly thing for Secy. TRACY to
DO, and shows him to be very much
broader than the average Harrisonian
statesman
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-09-25

the brave whustle could hear, long after
/ could ma see him longer, that there'd be
a wee home soonI" And SO there waz.
Not stones throw from the pretty rivei
bridge at Dundee there stands to this day
little brown cabin that was builded
then, and long after the cooper of Dundee
had unaided driven the counterfeiters
from Illinois, the fame of which literally
forced his subsequent career upon him
long after palatial home and fame had
come, have l heard Allan Pinkerton's
sweet Scotch wife say, with mists of loving
memory in her kindly eyes: AN in the
little shop at Dundee, WI the blue river
purlin' doom the valley, the auld Scotch
farmers trundlin' doom the road wi their
grists to the mill, or their loads to market,
an Allan wi his 'ra-ta-ta-tatn on the bar
rels, a whustlin', keepin' time wi both to
my ain singn', were the bonniest days
theIgude Fayther e'er gaze in a my life :"
EDGAR l.. WAKENAN.