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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
A CHANGE NEEDED.
An Example OF How the Political SUI
psriors Of Women Conduct Municipal

An Example OF How the Political Su-
periOrs of Women Conduct Municipal
Affairs.
Our political superiors have just
given another striking illustration of
their superiority, says the Woman's
Journal. 1t happened not in the Cam
nibal Islands, but in the city which
calls itself the Athens OF America, and
In the Meionaon, the very hall where
so many peaceable woman suffrage
conventions and decorous caucuses of
women voters have been held. The
meeting of the Democratic ward and
city committee of Boston waxed so up
roarious. owing to the strife between
two factions. that the janitor turned off
the gas, and the hall was cleared by the
police.
just suppose that one of the woman
suffrage conventions or caucuses of wo-
men voters had filled the Meionaon
with "a bowling mob" had made the
air "blue with tobacco smoke" had
smashed glass and wood work, and had
finally been dispersed by the police!
Would not the papers from the Atlantic
to the Pacific have quoted it as glar-
ing proof that women were too excit-
able to be trusted with the right of
self-government? But when such an
incident occurs in one of the political
meetings of 1.-THE less excitable SEX" it
is too common to excite even a nine
days wonder
Doubtless it was not men OF the best
type who INDUCED in this astonishing
fracas over the question who should be
chairman. But even these men behave
with comparative propriety when they
go to church. to the theater. to a lee
ture or party, or to any other place
where they take their wives and daugh-
tiers with them. 1t is evident that some
civilizing influence is badly needed in
our politics Can those who are I'M
willing that women should supply this
civilizing influence suggest any other
cure?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
What Might Have Been.

In the village OF Bedford. only twelve
miles distant from Cleveland, there
lived, some thirty years ago, two
charming and attractive girls. To
one of these President Hayes had been
an ardent sutton. but the parents of the
young lady had vigorously opposed
their courtship on the ground that
Hayes was poor, and gave evidence Of
hardly sufficient ability to warrant risk
ing their daughters future. The match
was broken off. and the lady is to-day
married and well known to Cleveland
people. The other young lady had re-
ceived some attentions from young
Garfield. and was we'll disposed to re-
ciprocate them. Her parents, however.
objected to the intimacy, giving as the
reason of their opposition the poverty
of Garfield, and the any thing but
bright prospects for his future. The
most remarkable condolences Of the
courtship were that both young ladies
lived in a village OF not more than five
hundred inhabitants. and both refused
two future Presidents of the United
States because of his poverty. N. Y.
Mail and Express.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

wholesome effects on the elections Of
this Territory. Never have we heard
ribald oath or profane remark made
when woman was at the polling
place. Quiet and orderly elections are
the result. A lot of hoodlum and ruff.
fans do not crowd round a polling
window where ladies are constantly
coming and going. The women are
not driven to the polls by political
boss. nor bribed nor bulldozed like the
lords of creation. They unerringly and
unAinchingly vote for the best man
morally, nor do they follow the pOliti-
cal path of their husbands. unless they
can present sound argument for their
course.
''ln voting. women pursues and fol-
lows that keen sense and judgment of
right that characterizes all her actions
in life. Is man of decency to say
that his mother, who has modelled his
early life, who has watched over and
cared for him in sickness and health,
has not the intelligence to cast ballot
and assist in shaping the destiny of the
nation? All law is now tending to-
wards placing her upon an equal foot
ing with men in the care. ownership
and disposition of property. The man
with the Don Quixote notions who
wishes to see her placed in a glass case
and kept from contact with the world,
and holds up his hands in horror when
the question of having the ballot is
preached. usually is a poor provider for
the family. and attends the theater and
circus alone. allowing his wife to take
care Of the children and do the work.
while he enjoys himself to the full Of his
bent Wyoming has led in this matter.
found it good, and when her star is
added to the flag, among its glittering
rays will ever come a beam Of promise
for the full protection and right Of
women"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
PHYSICAL FORCE.
The Powers of Mind and Heart Gaining
the Ascendancy Over Mere Muscle.

The Powers of Mind and Heart Gaining
the Ascendancy Over Mere Muscle.
AT recent woman suffrage meeting
y England, Mrs. Stanton Batch made
a witty and eloquent speech dealing
with the physical force argument She
said:
AS we look back over the course we
have come. we feel how weak is such
power. Those who belittle the influ-
ence of heart and brain are, in fact,
deceiving themselves. for they fail to
see how the reign of muscle is doomed.
Psychical development has left physical
power behind it, and the crowned kings
of to-day are mind and heart. Mr.
Labouchere has recently declared that
he would rather live under the Cars
OF Russia than under petticoat Gov
eminent in England. He fails to see,
however, that the trend of character is
given in the nursery under petticoat
rule. Probably in his childhood the
old rule of Spare the rod and spoil the
child prevailed. and his memories of a
quite other than moral suasion have
perhaps embittered him against us.
But if physical force is to be test. 1
would rather rely on the strength OF a
pit-brow woman than on that of a men,
Der of Parliament. Prince Bismarck is
the high priest OF the ugly old religion
of might. and he said not a year ago
that the next war would bleach Europe
white as veal On whom would that
prophecy fall but on the manhood Of
Europe9 What force did more in the
Crimean war than that of Florence
Nightingale. or in the American than
that of Clara Barton? When asking
for the suffrage from the men she had
helped to save. Clara Barton's words
were: When you were weak and was
strong. l helped you; now that 1 am
weak and you are strong. l ask you to
help me- Some woman might say the
same to every man now"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
Ingenious California Girls.

For some time past it has been the
custom of a number of young ladies
employed in a dress-making shop to
repair to the Capitol 81 rounds at the
noon hour to partake of their lunch
con. They invariably sat beneath a
large cedar tree, the wide branches OF
which afforded generous shade.
Several young men about town OBJ
served this fact and almost daily they
could be found shortly before twelve m.
lounging under tree not far distant
from that beneath shich the Ladder
sought shelter. TIL S was. OF course
annoying to the yong ladies and eacL
of them has provided herself with a
large parasol, all of which are openet
when the grounds are reached ant
placed around in a circle. This form
a perfect corral three or four feet i.
height, within which the young ladie.
can partake OF their lunch and recline
at ease free from the prying eyes Of
the curious young men.-Sacraments
(Cal.) Bee
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
CHICKEN SCRATCHINGS.
How to make the Poultry Yard q Peren-
NAL Source OF Income.

How to make the Poultry Yard q Peren-
NAL Source OF Income.
Save all the bones from the table. put
them in an old sheet-irOn pan kept for
the purpose. and brown them slightly.
Then pound them on rock with a
hand-axe, or if you can afford it, buy a
bone-crusher.
Bone dust should not be mixed with
the chicken-feed. 1t is too stimulating
and is liable to cause enlargement of
the liver in hens that are not laying.
Put it where the can hens get it, and
those that want it, and need it, can then
eat just what they care for and no more.
Have scratching place, and do not
throw the chicken grain down on the
cleanest. hardest piece of ground you
can find, but among leaves, or in straw.
and make the hens scratch. Prepare
the scratching ground in a place that is
sheltered from the wind, and let it be a
permanent affair.
There is no profit in keeping mon
grels in your poultry yard when pure
bloods can be had at comparatively so
small an expense. Uniform chickens
are not only prettier and thus more
satisfactory to care for. but they may
be fed to a better advantage than can a
flock which is made up of large and
small.
Don't cheat yourself with the belief
that once a month is often enough to
clean out a chicken-house. 1t should
be cleaned every day. or. at the farthest,
every three days. You might about as
we'll leave the droppings under the
roosts as to throw them just outside the
door. Take them to the field. or under
shed. and mix with an equal quantity
OF dry soil.
Don't feed corn to a laying hen in
summer; you might about as well give
her poison. She will not only get too
fat to lay, but too greasy to eat. At
this time of the year, hen that can
get an occasional bug will lay well
without a single bite of solid grain,
provided she be well supplied with
bran and shorts mixed up with milk,
twice a day. and all the bones she cares
to eat-American Agriculturist-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
GOOD WORDS FOR WOMEN,

A wOMANLY woman always attracts,
and if she has truth to teach she will
find that when she has made favor
able social impression the battle is half
won; her cause in pleasant guise has
gained foot-hold, and converts are
made before they are aw are.
REPRESENTATIVE GRINDLE voted
against woman suffrage in the Maine
Legislature in 1875, but the other day
he declared his conversion. II be-
lieve." said he, ''there are few men in
this House who, in matters of morals
and conscience. do not rely more upon
the judgment OF their wives than upon
their own" They are off the track if
they don't
ISPEAK for the enfranchisement of
woman, reminding the sceptic that the
Father is so good an architect that He
creates nothing He wants wasted. A
first-class soul or mind with only a
second-class chance is piece of Gre
alton wasted. Therefore God must
mean that the right to the largest
chance for the largest usefulness shall
be open to ALL. Clement Ambrose.
EVERY wise woman buildeth her
house. As no boy ought to be brought
up without learning some business at
which he could learn a livelihood. so
no girl ought to be brought up without
learning the science of self-support
His advice to all girls and all
unmarried women, whether in affluent
homes or in homes where most strin-
gent economies are grinding, is to learn
to do some kind of work that the world
must have while the world standa
Talmage.
THE evil that has caused the down.
fall of every nation in the past, the
evil that is gnawing at the foundation
of all nations to-day. is the result of
keeping the mothers of the human race
in ignorance and subsection. A stream
can not rise higher than its source. but
the reservoir lifted on the hill shows
that men have it in their power to ele-
vate the source. For their own inn
provement and welfare, men should en-
courage and stimulate women.-Mrs.
Ellen 3. Dietrich.
COOP municipal government can be
had only by putting control into the
hands of the intelligent and enlighten-
ed portion of society. The most intel
ligent and enlightened class of our
citizens are. as rule. the men and wo-
men of American birth Who have been
educated in our common schools. The
problem is how to give to this better
element its fullest legitimate control
without doing injustice to our natural
lied citizens. This can be done by ex-
tending municipal suffrage to women
who can read and write. Henry h
Blackwell.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
AN IMPERIAL FEAST.
Strange vIands and Strange Customs at
Chinese Banquet.

Chinese Banquet.
The following was the menu of the
banquet given by the ministers of the
tsung-li-yamen to the foreign repre-
sentatives in Pekin, by order of the
Empress Dowager, to celebrate the
marriage of the young Emperor and
his accession to the throne: Birds
nest soup. foreign bread; roast duck;
green peas. in vinegar; stewed apples;
chicken soup. with sharks fins;
beignets souffles; roast mutton; fresh
cucumbers; stewed pears; small yellow
cakes, Hua Tiyu en- gelee: ham,
stewed in honey; crosses in vinegar;
crabapple jelly; bamboo shoots; sweet
potatoes; roast sucking pig; green
| beans, in vinegar: custard, with
almonds. Wines-Wine from Shaoh-
ing-Fu. Chaung-yaun-h'ung, Yin
chen-lou (white wine distilled with
artemisia), Mei-kuei-lou (rose dew.
white with strong flavor of roses).
Wu-chia-p's (brown wine. distilled
FIVE times. with orange peel; very
much like curacoa). After the BAN
quet the principal dishes were by order
of the Empress taken round to the ladies
of the various embassies. who, of course,
were not present on the occasion. in,
order that they also might, to some
extent celebrate the occasion ana
participate in the imperial
bounty. A curious difficulty has
arisen in connection with the trifling
ceremonial presents made on the occa-
sion to the Ministers. These consisted
of scepters made of hardwood inlaid
with jade. certain silks and tobacco
pouches. These are fixed by prece-
dent. and are not presented for their
value, which is small. The United
States Minister, however. finds him
self precluded by the strict rules OF
his service from accepting these
things. A diplomatic officer of the
United States can not accept for him.
self or other persons any presents.
emolument, pecuniary favor, office or
title of any kind from any foreign gov
eminent; and accordingly the United
States Minister in Pekin conceived
himself bound to send back the wooden
scepter. the piece of silk and the to-
bacco pouch to the tsung-li-yameh for
retransmission to the Empress Dow
ager. All the other members of the
corps diplomatique, however. found
themselves conscientiously able to re-
tain theirs. 1t should be mentioned
that this giving of small presents at
banquets as marks of cordially and
good will is universal in the East, and
is not intended to enrich the receiver,
but solely to manifest the good inten.
lions and wishes of the donor.
Paul Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
Growing Sheep for Mutton.

The farmers near to market, in many
cases are selling lambs now at about
ten cents a pound, gross weight When
the right selection has been made in
breeding for the fleece, good number
are getting four dollars head from
the eve. The lamb and fleece together
make gross return for the flock of
nearly ten dollars per eve. aud she is
retained all right for several successive
seasons. 1t will not be advisable for
every one to expsct such fall returns
from a flock the first season. bat while
experts are doing well. others may at
least do something. Orange Judd
Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
WOMEN AT THE POLLS.
Their Presence Promotes Peace and Good
Order.

Their Presence Promotes Peace and Good
Order.
The Big Horn Sentinel, published at
Buffalo, Wyoming, has the following
good words for woman suffrage:
I'VE have witnessed the practical
and everyday workings of this ques-
ton for the past eleven years in a 'front.'
Ter town. remote from railroads, where
for a number of years the country was
full of a desperate class OF men who
neither respected nor feared the law;
We have seen it in later years, when
the country was settled and occupied
by the most law-abiding people who
can be found in the country; we have
seen it in this same frontier town
through its years of progression and
development, until now better order is
preserved, and life and property. are
safer than in most New England vii
lagos; and under all these various con-
ditions, naught have we witnessed but
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
TREATMENT OF PIGS,
Tho First Requisite Is Comfort, the Second
Who'll ,some Food.

wholesome Food.
The first requisite OF the pig is COM
tort. as without this he will not thrive.
Cold and filth are destructive to sue.
cess. Food should be OF variety.
One kind only, without change, will
break down any pigs stomach and pro-
duce feverish state in an older one.
It is unnatural to restrict animals to
one thing when they are constituted
with desire and relish for an unlimited
diet. Concentrated. rich food needs a
combination with coarser kinds to rem
der it less compact and allow a more
ready penetration of the gastric juices.
1t would be hard to maintain healthy
action if the intestines of the animal
contained only a compact mass OF fer
menting. putrefying stuff.
Most farmers have plenty of milk.
fruits. clover and grasses. which. to-
gether with some grain, are excellent
foods for pigs. SKINNED milk is good
for growing pigs, as it is rich in sub
stances which form both bone and mus
cles.
Wholesome and profitable food is
found in small quantities of linseed-oil
meal, say a tablespoonful to a fifteen
pound pig. increasing as the pig
grows; this fed with oats and corn
ground together, or wheat bran,
and made into slop. will push the
growth of the pig very rapidly.
and without premature fattening.
Keeping pigs confined in a pen. espe-
cially in summer. is irksome to the pig.
and Objectionable, also, on account OF
the filth and odor. This can be avoided
or neutralized, besides rendered a
source of considerable profit. especially
to those who cultivate SO much as a
garden. Where it is not convenient or
desirable to remove the excrements
daily. it may be covered effectually with
some good absorbents, as loan. forest
mould or grass sods. Charcoal is an
excellent deodorizer. and adds greatly
to the fertility of the compost, as it alb
serbs so much of the escaping elements
from the excrement and ready only to
give it out to living plants. 1t is true.
this makes the pigs look dirty and
dingy; yet. it is wholesome for them,
and they will eat more or less of it,
where put aside from their filth.
1t will be found that this daily at
tention to the cleansing of the pen will.
by the time the pig is ready for the
pork-tub, amount to a considerable
profit, and where the owner does not
need it for his own use. it is readily
converted into cash.-Farm and Fire
side
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

on your soul, and you. taking hold of
its potent wing, might live and live for
ever
want TO persuade you to lay hold of
this strong swimmer. '.No." you say, ait
is always disastrous for drowning man
70 lay hold of swimmer There is not
a river or lake but has a calamity result.
ant from the fact that when a strong
swimmer went out to save a sinking man
the drowning man clutched him, threw
his arms around him, pinioned his arms
and they both went down together. When
you are saving a man in the water you do
not want to come up by his face, you want
10 CONF up by his back. You do not want
him 10 take hold of you while you take
hold of him. But. blessed be God. Jesus
Christ is so strong a swimmer. He comes
not to our back, but to our face, ana He
asks Us to throw around Him the arms of
cur love and then promises to take us to
the beach, and He will do it Do not trust
that plank of good works Do not trust
that sbivered spar of your own righteous
ness. Christ only can give you transporta-
ton. Turn your face upon Him as the dy-
ing martyr did in olden days when he cried
out: None but Christ! None but Christw
Jesus has taken millions 10 the land, and
he is willing to take you there. o, what
hardness to shove Him back when He has
been swimming all the way from the
throne of God TO where you are now. and
is ready TO swim all the way back again,
taking your redeemed spirit.
/ have sometimes thought what a spec
tacle the ocean bed will present when in
the last day the water is all drawn off. 1t
will be line Of wrecks from beach TO
beach. There is where the harpooners
went down. Thers is where the line of
battle ships went down. There Is where
the merchantmen went down. There is
where the steamers went down-a long
line OF wrecks from besch to beach What
q spectacle in the last day when the water
is drawn OIL But O, how much more sol.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-21
BODILY ELECTRICITY.
New Hampshire Woman Who Gave Out
Sparks and Snaps.

Sparks and Snaps.
Dr. R. D. Mussey, professor of sur
gerry in Dartmouth College, in the
American Journal of Medical Sciences
for January, 1888, gives an account of a
Mrs B, married lady about thirty
years Of age. residing in Grafton Coun-
ty, n. H., who gave out sparks and
snaps continuously for some thirteen
weeks, when this power was entirely
lost and did not return again. The dis
covery of this faculty was great sur
prise to the lady, and subsequently
caused her some annoyance. Though
Mrs. B wore a silk dress at the time
of the commencement of the phenom-
enon, this was exchanged for cotton and
flannel successfully without affecting
the result; and the manifestations were
found to be due to the lady's own per-
son. and not to the clothing or other
conditions. DR.. Mussey's account is
supported by DR.. w. Hosford, the lady's
family physician.
Phenomena of this sort, when mani
tested, do not seem to be confined to
any one portion of the human body
though occasionally localized. A Ca
puchin friar is mentioned by DR..
Schneider, whose scalp was veritable
reservoir of electricity. Whenever he
removed his cowl number of shining,
cracking spark would pass from his
bald pate: and this phenomenon, which
was definite and strong while the monk
was in good health, continued percepti-
BILE after three weeks illness.-Hyland
C. Kirk, in Popular Science Monthly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-21

Shipping Rendezvous OF the Pactfict
ast Anticipated.

The increased congressional and sena-
torial power that follows the advent OF
the several new states means tower o
strength to the whole Northwest. The
concentration of this strength with a
view to the restoration of Americas
shipping interests means the establish
ment OF marine commerce that Will BEN
eft the commercial centers OF the United
States. The inference should not be
drawn from the above that only the
Northwest is interested in this all impor-
tant subject. The Atlantic coast will
share alike with the Pacific in this work,
hence this feeling, that where one vessel
now floats on the ocean there should be
dozen ouch flying the American flag.
Each year brings additional acreage I'M
der agricultural subsection, and the pro-
ducts of these acres to marked extent
must find outlet via the ocean. The an
nually increasing business with CHINA
and Japan, together with that of this
country, centralizes at the most conven-
lent point. On the Sound and this
part of the Pacific coast it is unlvers-
ally acknowledged that Port Town
send is this point. The report OF
the custom house at Port Townsend
for the past fiscal year show doubling
in tonnage and receipts, and through
this avenue the future of this city seems
destined to be eventually interviewer
with the commercial interests OF the
country. 1t is believed that the legisa-
ton of the present congress will name
Port Townsend as the rendezvous of the
Asiatic and Alaska trade to the extent of
naming this city as the initial shipping
point and as receiving the incoming
foreign cargoes. Anyway, belief pre-
walls that this is the inevitable outcome
of the present agitation OF subsidies,
which carries with it the thought that
Port Townsend will become an important
distributing point in the United States
mail service of the near future.