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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22

the children chilblains, and great cracks
in the walls gave them colds There
was need of a new school-house. But
many men did not want to pay the tax
necessary to build it, and the vote for a
new school-house could only be carried
by adding the vote Of the mothers (who
all wanted a new school -house) to that
OF the men who wanted it. To the wo-
men their children were more than
money. They voted. with the men who
wanted it, for the new school-house.
and to-day the children are snug aud
warm in the new building. Would the
remonstrants have prayed those women
not to let the burden be "thrust upon
them" of voting for the school-house?
Certain towns have no adequate
water supply, and are in constant peril
of fires. If the women who see the
danger and the need could vote with
the men who see it. the town could be
made safe by the introduction of abun-
dant water supply. Would the remon-
strants urge women to let the town
take the risk of burning rather than
have the burden of voting for plenty Of
water thrust upon them"
Many school houses are ill-ventilated
and wholly in an unsanitary condition.
The children die of diphtheria and
scarlet fever. If the mothers, who
can not help caring for their child
rem, could add their votes to those of
the fathers who care, the school houses
would be made wholesome. Will the re-
monstrants urge women not to let this
burden" of care for the school houses
be thrust upon them"
In one of the towns in Worcester
County last summer an open sewer was
laid through the grounds of a woman
and left open. The duty has never
been "thrust upon her" of voting at the
town meeting on town matters, and as
a consequence she has an open sewer in
her grounds. Will the remonstrants
urge her to escape the "burden?"
The above are few of the matters
that are part of practical politics"
and Of municipal government. If we
could free ourselves from the force of
custom and prejudice it would be easily
seen that they all belong as fully and as
naturally to women as to men. When
the time comes that women do vote as
men do on all questions of common and
public interest, the only wonder will be
that the right to do so was ever denied.
Lucy Stone, in Boston Globe
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22
Unmistakable Evidence.

The Canada Citizen says: Sensible
men who have doubts about the effect
that woman suffrage would be likely to
have on the community, would do wisely
to consider the fact that this reform is
strongly and bitterly opposed by the
liquor-traffic and the other interests
that flourish in and on vice and crime.
We do not say that bad men are always
wrong in their opinions. and never ad.
vocate what would benefit the commu-
nifty. We know also that many very
good men are opposed to woman suf-
frage; but we do say that when nearly
all the vicious, ignorant criminal, law
less classes are on one side of ques-
ton, there is strong probability that
their side is the wrong one"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
ONWARD AND UPWARD.

Keep striving! The winners are those who
have strivcn
And fought for the prize that no fdler mas won
To the hands Of the steadfast alone 1t Is given,
And before it is gained there Is work to be
done.
Keep climbing. The earnest and steadfast
have scaled
The height where the pathway was rough to
the feet,
But the faint-hearted faltcred, and, faltering,
failed.
And sank down by the wayside in helpless de-
feat.
Keep hoping! The clouds hide the sun for a
time,
But sooner or later they scatter and fee,
And the path glows like gold, to the toilcrs who
climb
To the heights where men look over land
scape and sea.
Keep onward, right on, till the prize is at
tanned,
Front the future with courage, and obstacles
fall.
BY those and those only, the victory's gained
Who keep faith in themselves, and in God
over all.
e +. Rexford
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22
About Doctors Bills.


Many struggling family has all it can
do to keep the wolf from the door, without
being called upon to pay frequent and ex-
orbitant bills Tor medical advice and attend
ance.
True. the doctor is often q necessary,
though expensive visitant of the family cir
Gle; nevertheless pure and well tested
remedies-like Warmers Safe Cure-kept
on hand for use when required will be found
paying investment for every household in
the land.
Sickness is one of the legacies of life, and
yet every i'll that flesh is heir to has an anti
dote in the laboratory of nature Hon. II.
d. Warner, Of Rochester, N. Y, President
OF the Chamber Of Commerce of that city,
was few years ago stricken with kidney
disease, which the physicians declared in
durable. In this extremity, friend recon-
mended to him q vegetable preparation now
known throughout the civilized world as
Warmers Safe Cure He tried it, and was
quickly restored to perfect health The in
cident led him to begin the manufacture of
the wonderful preparation, and to make its
merits known in all tongues and among all
peoples.
He has now laboratories and warehouses
in the United States not only, but in Can
ada, England, Germany, Austria, Australia
and Burmah. His preparations meet the
requirements and effect the cure of a varie-
ty Of diseases, and are all compounded from
medicinal plants Of the highestvirtue.
MIR. Warner is a man of affairs, of wealth,
culture and the highest standing in his own
city and throughout the State. His charac-
ter is the best guarantee of the purity and
excellence Of his removed Remedies, which
may be found in every firstclass drug store
of Europe and America.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22
WOMAN'S RIGHTS NOTES.

THERE are nearly three hundred wo-
men studying at the Cooper Union Free
Woman's Art School in New York.
TENNESSEE progresses, and she
shows it by making Miss Nellie ODon-
nell superintendent of public schools in
Shelby County. She is only twenty
two years old.
F all that has been said by orators
and poets since the creation of the
world in praise of women were applied
to the women of America, it would not
do them justice for their conduct dur
ing the war.-President Lincoln.
WOMEN began work in printing
offices as early as 1920. An engraving
made in that year by Jodocus Badins.
in Paris, shows the interior of print
ing-office, where three people are at
work, one man pulling the press, an
other man knocking the ink-balls, and
one woman sticking type"
AN attempt was lately made in the
London County Council to elect Sir
Charles Dixie an alderman of London.
There was strong objection on account
of his notorious morals. When the
caucus met. it was confronted with a
protest signed by 1.500 ladies, and the
name of Sir Charles was dropped.
AN interesting fact noted by an OBJ
servant New York woman, Eliza Put
nam Heaton, is that the woman SUI
frage cause is progressing rapidly just
now among working-women. ut is
not the political aspects for which they
care but their motto is equal pay for
equal work, and this, it seems to be
borne in upon them daily. would be
best promoted by equality before the
law"
IN spite of opposition, the woman
club seems to be gaining ground every
where. None of the large cities is
without a score Of them, and the minor
towns and villages are now furnishing
their quota to the list The objects of
these embrace nearly every subject
known to man, and good many which
are not Literature, art, dress, wOman's
work. economy and politics are the t.
vorite themes Of the club women
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Lemonade Is q safe drink in sick
ness and health. 1t corrects bilious
ness.
Sugar Snaps.-One cup OF butter.
two cups of sugar. four cups OF -four.
one egg, teaspoonful and half of
baking powder mixed with the -four.
Roll very thin.
Finger marks may be removed
from vanished furniture by the use of
a little sweet oil upon rag. Patient
rubbing with chloroform will remove
paint from black silk or other mate
rial.
To have nice hair it should be fire.
quently brushed with a medium stiff
brush; every night before retiring is
not too frequent. Clip the ends occa-
sionalIy, and never use pomades of any
kind.
-Beeswax and salt will make rusty
fiatirons as clean and smooth as glass.
Tie lump of wax in a rag and keep it
for that purpose. When the irons are
then scour with paper or cloth sprink-
led with salt.
1t saves some work in busting to
have two or three pieces of calico of
convenient size to spread over small
tables, brackets and their contents
while sweeping. After the dust has
settled, these can be carefully removed
and shaken out of doors.
ALI pulverized sugar is not pow
dered marble in masquerade; but they
do say that much OF the latter fetches
the price of the former over grocers'
counters. all .'unbekAownst" 1t may
be detected by dissolving some of the
sugar in water and inspecting the sedi-
ment-if there 10 any.-Good House
keeping.
Honey as Cure for Diphtheria
Make quart of red pepper tea, and
after straining, add tablespoonful of
common salt. Then sweeten with honey
to suit the palate. (using extracted
honey and gargle as often as possible,
always keeping the tea before the fire
so as to have it lukewarm. The pepper
and salt are the knives that do the
cutting and the honey heals the
wounds. In extreme cases a dose OF
oil will help much at first.
Peach Dumplings.-Soak some
dried peaches over night. stew. sweet
en- and flavor with very little ex-
tract of bitter almond. Make good
paste. cut out rounds as large as a saul
Ger, cut hole in the one designed for
the cover. and put them together with
two or three tablespoonfuls Of the peach
between. This must be simmered until
the strip is thick and rich. Wet the
edges of the crust and pinch them firm
ly together. Bake and eat warm with
cream.-Country Gentleman.
One can not answer all the questions
a child asks; but an intelligent interest
in what he wants to know will teach
observation; it makes all the difference
between eyes and no eyes. When a
child comes in exclaiming over the dear
little pussy-willow, it is no trouble to
admire it with him. and to tell him that
the pussy is the blossom. 1t is the
same with every thing else; the child
whose mother encourages powers of OBJ
servation in this way is always better
informed than one whose treasure is
greeted with Don't bring that mess in
here"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22
CHILDREN'S DRESSES.
Pretty Summer Gowns for Infants, Girls
and Young Misses.

Pretty Summer Gowns for Infants, Girls
and Young Misses.
For children in arms and those just
beginning to walk, the simple yoke
dresses of white nainsook, lawn or
cambria. trimmed with Hamburg or
guipure embroideries, are preferred.
Color, except in outer garments and
ribbons, is not much liked for little
ones under two years of age. Besides,
when child begins to crawl or tOddle
around of its own accord, it soils its
dresses so soon that white is really the
most satisfactory, because it can be so
much easier "done up than colored
fabrics.
Most of the infants short dresses
have sashes of the material fastened in
the side seams and tied back or front,
as preferred. Many of the little dresses
prepared for children who can walk
are about halfway between the yoke
slip and the short-waisted Gretchen
dresses, and have tucked yokes which
are almost waists, only they are fuller.
extending to about the length of the
ordinary short waist. and finished with
narrow band to which the skirt may
be gathered separately; or it may be
that the material is tucked or run in
fine box-plaits before the yoke is cut
out. and the fullness thus supplied ex-
tends to the skirt
Older children. girls and misses.
wear guimpe dresses of Bingham. per-
Gale or cambria, with white yoke and
sleeves Stimulating guimpe. or made
separate, without sleeves other than
puffs or straps over the shoulders, to
wear over a guimpe. Very simple
slips to wear with white guimpe. may
be made of straight breadths of material
gathered into narrow band about
twenty inches long. or long enough to
go around the figure under the arms,
and having, at the proper intervals,
hemmed strips of material sewed on for
strings to tie over the shoulders.
The new ginghams and percales are
in exquisite patterns and many elaborate
designs; but, as rule, those selected
for children's wear are in solid, plain
colors, or very wide stripes in ginghams
and Chamberys, and in dainty. dimin-
utive figures-rose-buds, tiny flower
sprays and small, set patterns in imita-
ton of the Empire designs in silks and
woolens.
Full, pulled sleeves, and sleeves gath
cred top and bottom with wide wrist
bands, are seen in both guimpes and
dresses, the latter style having slight
advantage in popularity. Otherwise the
palmer styles are more liked than any
elaborate design. Most Of the skirts
are simply tucked. with deep hens,
unless made of embroidered flouncing.
in which case they are usually con-
sidered sufficiently ornamented The
very dressiest of white dresses have
often little Spanish jacket Of embroid-
cry added to the waist, and even ON
boys suits of white pique. such an or
namentation is frequently seen.
The full gathered skirt and ''baby"
waist in Empire style is the manner OF
making some of the fine lawns and
printed muslins which will be worn BY
older girls during the summer.-Dem-
orest's Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22
In a Fair Condition.

Irate old customer Ito grocer's
boy)-Say. boy, is them grapes nice
and ripe?
BOy-We-well, s-sir, s-s-sOme on EN-
are half ripe, some on EN- are r-ripe.
and s-some on 'em are b-b-bad.
guess, minister, they'll average bout
ripe.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22

Magistrate Ito prisoner)-"Have
you ever been arrested before. Uncle
'Rastus?" Uncle 'Rastus-''NO, yO'
honah. not to speak Of" Magistrate
'What do you mean by not to speak
OFF" Uncle 'Rastus-.I mean what I
got rested TO didn't mount to much.
l never got mon thirty days. 1 has
err high respec' TO de law, yo' honah. "
Epoch.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-03-22

neutrality-suspicious." is the new
word for reversing in the waltz Seems
rs if it would be easier to keep right
on.-BurlingtOn Free Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-08

in order that the government itself
should be established by the consent of
all, and the party differences should in
volve only policies of administration
and not the existence of government
itself. With wisest foresight and com
prehension, he made Jefferson secre-
tary of state. With the same just in
stinct, when the immediate and crucial
question, which had dissolved the
confederation, and, by the threat of
anarchy, had compelled the adoption of
the Constitution, was the question of
finance, he made one of the greatest
financiers his secretary of the treas
ury. To-day let us read the words of
Webster in speaking of Hamilton He
smote the rock of the national re-
sources, and abundant streams of reve-
nue. gushed forth. He touched the
dead corpse of public credit, and it
sprung upon its feet" The functions
of the supreme court seemed to many
shrewd minds to import its absolute
dominance in the new constitutional
system, and with consumate wisdom
Washington placed at its head a man
whose character, like his own, allayed
apprehension. "When the spotless
ermine of the judicial robe fell on John
Jay it touched nothing not as spotless
as ITSELF" These are but illustrations
of the lofty ability with which Wash
ington addressed himself to his task,
and which in the retrospect makes his
administration apparently indispen-
sable to the successful organization of
the government under the Constitution.
Such great names and events, however,
irresistibly suggest question which
can never be more timely than to-day.
These were the public men, and these
men measure the public life of hun
dred years ago, when New York was a
city of thirty-two or thirty-three thou
sand people and the experimental
Union was composed of eleven of the
thirteen states of the revolution
Hdrper's Weekly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-08
The Beef Monopoly.

The prices which farmers and ranch
men receive for their cattle and hogs,
as well as the retail prices paid by
consumers of meats, are largely con-
trolled by few men who operate in
harmony. Chicago is the headquarters
of this combination. But to what ex-
tent the depression in the present value
of beef-cattle is actually due to this beef
monopoly has not yet been clearly
stated. A select committee of the
United States senate and the recent st.
Louis convention of Legislative delegates
have, as yet, failed to satisfactorily solve
the problem. The late organization by
eastern capital of powerful syndicate
to compete with Armour for supremacy
in the beef and provision business is
perhaps the most hopeful event in this
connection. Competition is just what
the beef market wants, for both the pro-
ducers' and the consumers sake.
Strong efforts are being made in GER
tain states to secure laws for inspection
on the hoof of all cattle intended for
consumption within the state This is
done ostensibly on the ground that
Chicago dressed beef is unhealthy, but
practically for the reason that such
law would exclude the monOpoly-con-
trolled product from the markets of the
state. But it is not clear how such
statutes in few states are to compel
the monopoly to pay better prices to
producers. This policy is Objectionable
also because of its influence on foreign
governments, which, not understand.
ing the domestic reasons for such legis-
| 1ntt hn 1nI To
fdcie evidence of the diseased condition
of American meats, and therefore be
led to declare an embargo against
American provisions. That the clos
ing against US of any considerable pro-
portion of the worlds markets for meat
would be disastrous in the extreme is
at once apparent. Nearly all of our
fresh beef, and more than seventy per
cent of the canned or cured article, goes
to Great Britain-a country which, per-
haps, would be most likely to avail Itself
of any excuse for excluding American
meats, so as to enormously stimulate
the frozen-meat trade with its own
colonies and the live and dressed beef
commerce with Canada. Obviously,
therefore, no state legislation should
be encouraged which of itself would
tend to stop our meat exports. If,
however, the state laws proposed could
be modified so as to cooperate with,
and render more effective, the pro-
posed federal statute for the in
spection of cattle intended for inter-
state or export trade, the objection to
the principle proposed would be over
come in a measure. In this case the
states would supplement the depart
ment of agriculture in guaranteeing the
purity of American provisions both at
home and abroad Thus the object
aimed at by the state laws suggested
would be better accomplished, and at
the same time every incentive would be
given our foreign trade.-American Ag-
riculturist
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-08

AN international congress of consid-
cradle importance was held recently at
Montevedio, South America. The gath
ering included representatives from
five leading South American countries,
assembled to discuss and take action
upon several pressing questions. The
session was prolonged for several
months, and eight treaties were agreed
upon, to be submitted to the respective
governments for ratification. These
treaties relate to a code of international
law-civil, criminal and commercial
to laws regulating the right of literary
and artistic property, to trademarks
and to the exercise of the learned pro-
fessions. The aims of the congress
were admirably set forth in the closing
address of DR.. Lagos, from which the fol.
lowing brief extract is taken: We have
endeavored to profit by the labors of the
most eminent jurists and thinkers of the
modern world. The congress
has been able to establish fixed rules
for the solution of difficulties caused by
differing laws as they bear upon indi-
vidual and social life; it has succeeded
in reconciling the demands of public
justice with the rights of individual lib
erty; it has recognized the right of lit
erary, artistic and industrial property
within the limits marked out by social
interests; it has agreed upon common
regulations under which the learned
professions are to be exercised, and
has determined the proper jurisdiction
over all actions respecting person OF
prOnertY y
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-08

Company was before the Vermont legis-
lature, and later before the United States
congress. The basis of this action by
the American Atlantic & Pacific Ship
Canal Company is q concession which
was obtained from Nicaragua forty
years ago, under which that corpora
ton was given the exclusive right to
construct and maintain a ship canal
across Nicaragua. BY the terms of the
concession the canal was to be finished
in twelve years-allowanc to be made
for Interruptions by wars, epidemics
and earthquakes. In 1856 the govern
ment of Nicaragua confscated the
property of the company and annulled
the contract. Four years later the
property was redeemed by the payment
of large sum, but in 1862 the contract
was again declared invalid. Again
the property was redeemed by the pay
ment of 100000, and the work was
continued until 1868, when a final
seizure was made. The claim now
made is that these arbitrary proceed
ings on the part of the government of
Nicaragua did not legally deprive the
company of its rights, inasmuch as it
had complied with the conditions of its
contract, so far as these Interruptions
permitted. However just these claims
may be, it is hardly probable that the
grievances of this semi.defunct cor
poration will be permitted to interfere
with the operations of the Nicaragua
Company. A spirit of hostility to the
new company is also evident in recent
editorial utterances of the New York
S,n and Boston Herald. The former
asserts that one of the most dis
tinguished of American engineers, a
man of vast knowledge and experience,
who has not failed of anything he has
attempted, says that the Panama canal
can be taken as it stands and finished
for less money than it would cost to
make the necessary preparations, col
lect the machinery and get the com
mencement of the work on the Nicara-
qua canal fairly inaugurated. These
attempts to discourage the new COM
pany, now that it has been duly in
corporated and the plans for the canal
completed, seem ill-timed and hasty,
to say the least. The congress of the
United States has sanctioned the enter
prise by granting the company char
ter, and the character of the leaders
in the undertaking is such as to insure
wise management. The Panama Com
pany has hopelessly collapsed, and if a
body of American business men has
sufficient push and determination to
undertake the building of canal along
route which they regard as more
feasible, there seems to be no rea-
son for frowning upon the project.