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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
THE COLORED BROTHER.
He Is Working Out a Future of HIS Own
in Blood and Toll.

III bfOOu anu 1OlI.
The colored brother seems to be Civ
ing his white relative good deal of
trouble these days. The Democrats
in the South stand around the polls
with Winchester rifles in their hands
and say that the colored citizen shall
not vote; the Z oiscopal clergymen in
South Ca DINA and Virginia resolve
that the colorea clergyman is not good
enough to sit in convocation with
them; and n case recently decided in
Omaha makes it legal for saloon
keepers in that city to kick a colored
man out of a saloon if he dares to &C
in and ask for a drink.
Judging from these circumstances
it would be natural for the colored
man to conclude that the colored
preacher graspcd the situation exactly
when in picturing the perils to which
his flock was subject in this world, he
said: dis way leads to perdition,
and dat way to damnation." But the
colored brother is not likely to argue
in any such way. He is more certain
to look back twenty-six years to the
time when he had no rights at all, and
when Southerner would have consid-
cred it absurd to suppose that the DAY
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
FARMS AND MORTGAGES,
Financial Inequalities Which VIII TAX,
Care of Themselves.

Financial inequalities Which VIII Take
Care of Themselves.
We clip this reflection from the
Louisville Courier-Journal:
The Northwestern farmer is Joined to his
mortgage. Let m alone.
Well, just let him alone: that's all
he wants. He is joined to his mort
gage. but by bonds which he is sever
ing very rapidly. He bought some
land and borrowed money to pay for
it and improve it. He could sell it to-
day for more than he gave for it. His
mortgage will be liquidated when it
becomes due. If he could not have
Joined himself to a mortgage, he could
not have joined himself to farm. He
will cleave to the farm and will strike
off the mortage.
And why is it "the Northwestern
farmer to whom you address all your
preachments about mortgages? Why
not talk to the farmers of the Eastern
and Middle States? Just because. as
a body, these States are not troubled
by mortgages. And why not? Partly
because they did not begin business
on credit, partly because the numer-
Gus centerS of protected industries af-
ford them near and profitable markets
for their products. The Northwest
ern farmer will be near to towns and
cities before long. His mortgages will
be redeemed, his surplus capital
will be invested in beet-sugar re-
fineries or town lots. He is getting
along very well. Let him alone.
Some day immigration may roll
southwark; then there will be a mar
ket for Southern land; then there will
be mortgages to secure balances Of
unpaid purchase money. There are
mortgages on Western lands just be-
cause Western lands are in demand;
they are in demand because they are
profitable tmerts.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

would ever come when . black man
would venture to approach the polls or
81: in church convention or ask for
a glass of liquor like white man, and
contrast it with the present, when he
aspires to all these privileges.
The change that has taken place in
the condition of the emancipated race
is one of the marvels of the nineteenth
century. When the war of the re-
bellion closed he found himself with
his freedom, but without money, edu-
cation or experience. The outlook
before him was more uninviting than
when he was a slave, for in that state
his physical wants were at least cared
for. His progress from that condition
has been steadily upward and onward.
The advance has not been made with
out toll and hardship, but amid it all
he has shown that spirit of patience
and that willingness to endure suffer-
ing and to make sacrifices which must
always accompany growth and prog
ress. He is slowly but surely advanc-
ing upon his white brother and per-
haps some Of the jealousy of the latter
may be explained by the fear that he
may be overtaken and surpassed.
The Southern white man may drive
his colored brother from the polls or
miscount his vote or refuse to sit in
church convention with him or deny
him a glass of whisky. but notwith-
standing all this the black man knows
that there is future of his own before
him, that he is working it out in blood
and toll and suffering. and that some
day he will stand clothed in his OWE
mind and panoplied in his own vic.
tory, and will value the achievement
all the more because it was wrought
out through his own effort-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
The Votes of Women.

The theoretical dilemma of the wo-
mems votes turning the scale in favor
of law which they could not enforce
with bayonets, says Alice Stone Black
well. in Woman's Journal. is purely
theoretical In dozens of Kansas cities,
the votes of women, added to those of the
better class of men, have defeated city
governments that have winked at
violation of the liquor law, and put in
city governments that have enforced the
law. There never has been any at
tempt to dispute the matter 10y vio-
lence, not even in Elk Falls, where the
election was decided in favor of the law
and order party by one vote, that of
lady eighty-five years old. Mrs. Pru-
dence Crandall Philleo In like manner,
in several Southern States, practical
prohibition has prevailed for years be-
cause no liquor saloon can be licensed
within some miles of a church or school
house unless a ma ority of the men
and Comen in the district petition for
it. There has been much grumbling
by the liquor men. but no armed upris-
ing. Experience thus far has borne
out Colonel Higginson's prediction.
that when any community is civilized
up to the point of enfranchising wo-
men. it will be civilized up to the point
of sustaining their votes. as it now sus-
tains their property-rights, by the
whole material force of the commune
ty." II this has been found true in
communities not particularly law-abid-
ing, and in the case of the liquor ques-
ton, which is perhaps of all others the
most irritating to the lawless classes.
we need not have much fear of what
will happen elsewhere
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
An Unfortunate Parent.

II will ask you to state" said the
lawyer. whether you have any other
children than this young man now on
trial for stealingp"
''YOur Honor" exclaimed the wit
ness, appealing to the Judge. do l
have to answer that question:"
81 see no reason why you should
not" answered the Judge. you may
answer it."
II have one other child. but / had
hoped it would not be necessary to
speak Of her. She turned out badly"
faltered the witness. "She married an
English nobleman. Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
CLEVER WOMAN.

The Superiority of Women Over Men in
Matters Requiring Tact and J Judgment.
The character OF man may, like the
character of people, be judged by his
estimation of woman. The lower he is
in the scale of humanity, the less he
amounts to as an individual, the poorer
is apt to be his opinion of her. An in
ferior man is likely to speak OF women
patronizingly. if not slightingly, as men,
bers of the softer or weaker sex. He
admits that their hearts and intentions
are good, intimating that their minds
and acts will not bear scrutinizing. But
a man of intellect and insight. capable
of understanding and sympathizing with
women, will seldom accept such judg-
ment He is qualified to appreciate
them mentally. 10 see that they are
often cleverer than himself; that their
instincts are more correct, their per-
ceptiOns clearer. their intelligence
quicker
This seems to lie true, surely, of
American women, VINO have many adj
vanlages that women OF other nation
a!ities do not have They are treated
with far more consideration and chival-
~, held in much higher regard than
their transatlantic sisters. Europeans
think they are spoiled by their broth
ers. husbands. fathers; but they show
their spelling in very creditable ways
in individuality. in independence, in
Of A fnrair,,
criticism is that they are superior to
their countrymen. particularly in
agreeableness. in the faculty of being
interesting, in whatever pertains to
manners and social culture The rea-
son may be that they have opportun-
tiles for development and Improvement
denied to our men, who are immersed
in business to the exclusion of every
thing else. The money that these
make they lavish on wives and
daughters. who are thus enabled to
travel, to increase their knowledge and
experience, to perfect their graces, to
add to their personal charms
How constantly we meet women
whose husbands and fathers prospered
in their affairs, though they all had
humble antecedents and small begin
nings! The women appear elegant
well-bred, distinguished, as if they had
been born to their luxurious surround
ings. But the men are awkward, evil
IDENTITY strange to their altered circum-
stances. emphasizing the fact by their
constrained behavior. They can not
learn so speedily; they can not adapt
themselves to the new and untried;
they can not be recreated, like women,
with whom ambition is merely eouiva-
lent to performance, who absorbs
through her pores; whose idea and
ideal may be made conductive. She
may not possess the breadth and depth
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

Admiral Porter lately held state
dinner in Washington, and All Sin. a
Chinese servant. was assigned to duty
in attendance at the door. In his
country visitors rank is indicated
by the size of the card. and huge
yellow one means the presence of a
prince. The long yellow slip cap
tured All Sin, and with profound sa-
laams he bowed the astonished gas
man into the presence of the amazed
family and irate head of the navy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
"A Bundle Of Nerves.

This term is often applied topeople whose
nerves are abnormally sensitive. They
should strengthen them with Eostetter's
Bitters. After q. course of that
benign tonic, they will cease to be conscious
that they have nervous systems, except
through agreeable sensations. 1t will en-
able them to eat. sleep and digest well, the
three media for increasing tone and vigor in
the nerves in common with the rest of the
system. The mental worry begotten by
nervous dyspepsia will also disappear.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
WHY They Lead.

DIR. Pierce's medicines outsell all others,
because of their possessing such superior
curative properties as to warrant their
manufacturers in supplying them to the
people (as they are doing through all drug
gists) on such conditions as no other medi-
cines are sold under, viz: that they shall
either benefit or cure the patient, or all
money paid for them will be refunded. The
"Golden Medical Discovery is specific for
catarrh in the head and all bronchial throat
and lung diseases, if taken in time and given
a fair trial Money will be refunded if it
does not benefit or cure.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

IN 1860. Henry Goethe. Of Beaufort, s. c.,
wrote DIR. Shallenberger:
II regard your Antidote specific for
chills and fever. 1t was used on the
Charleston & Savannah r. Road last sum-
mer and autumn in the most slckly region,
and under the most trying circumstances.
Out of one gang of negro operatives, fifty
were stricken down with chills and fever,
and every one recovered by the timely use
of Shallenberger's Antidote. You possess
the GREATEST MEDICINE IN THE WORLD"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

THERE are people using Dobbins' Electric
Soap to-day who commenced its use in 1865
Would this be the case were it not the purest
and most economical soapmade. Ask your gro
GER for it. Look out for limitations. Dobbi,ss'
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

MUST not be confounded with common
cathartic or purgative pills. Carter's Little
Liver Pills are entirely unlike them in every
respect One trial will prove their superiority.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

SOLID gold thimbles, elegantly carved
and frequently set with diamonds, are
found none too good for many fashionable
home decorators.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
Engraving and Electrotyping.

If you want engravings of Buildings,
Machinery, Portraits, Maps, Plats, or any
thing in this line, write to us for samples
and prices. Best work guaranteed at fair
prices. Address
A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER Co.
Kansas CITY, Mo.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

SCIENTIST lin restaurant)-"Bring me Q
detection of burned peas, sweetened with
glucose and lightened with chalk and
water. Waiter (vociferously) Coffee
for one"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

MANY speak the truth when they say that
they despise riches and preferment; but
they mean the riches and preferment pos
sessed by other men.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

RHEUMATIC Pains are greatly relieved b,
Glenn's Sulphur Soap
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, SO cents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

DON'T wait until you are sick before trying
Carter's Little Liver Pills, but &c ia vial at
once You can't take them without benefit
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

PLUMDER- honesty is printed on my
face" Victim-..I don't dispute it, but it
has got very wide margin.''
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

TIE first regiment in New York to offer
its services to the Government is said by
Colonel Adams, of the Sixty-Seventh, TO be
the regiment he commanded.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

THE wife Of a prominent Brooklyn clergy
man has a thimble that was carved from a
peculiar stone she found on the shore of the
Dead Sea.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr.. Isaac
Eye Water. Druggists sell it, 25c
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

IT Is the experience of all conductors tha
strange things come to pass on railroads.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

SIR JULIAN PAuNCEForE has made a good
impression in Washington. He is always
good natured and is Inclined to admire
America and Americans,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

THIMBLEs made to order with the mono
gram or initials Of the person for whom
they are intended set in precious stones
are by no means unknown objets dart.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

THE Fifth Vermont was the first New En-.
gland regiment to enlist for three years.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

DIR. Pierce's Pellets-gently laxative or
actively cathartic according to dose. q
cents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28
Oregon. the Paradise of Farmers,

Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Bestfruit. grain. grass, stock country
in the world. Fuliinformation free. Address
Oregon Immigration Board. Portland, Oregon
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

A POCKET CIGAR CASE and five of ''Tansilps
Punch I'll for 2jc
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

A TEN-HoUR husband ought not to have
!. sixteen-hour wife. Reform, brother, at
once.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

"A man calls his dog Coal. because
the first day he had him he bitumen.
Worcester Gazette.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

GAN the same" a long gun docs count, and
"the tallest pole gets the persimmons." If
you are not satisfied with your equipment for
the race for financial success or position in
the battle Of life, take our advice and write
to b. F. johnson & Co. Richmond, Va and
our word for it they will show you how to
get a fresh start, with the best possible
chances Of winning some of the big prizes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

1.-THE race Is not to him who doth the swiftest run.
Nor the battle to the man who shoots with the
longest gun"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

WHEN WHITING To ADVERTISERS PLEASE
paper.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-06-28

4 AOIScg Fine, Stylish French DONGOLA
II ROu6S Button Caters, Heel or Wedge Heel,
n sl-jO mail. SITS. INGALLS, Co., Louisville, Ky
srxAAE IHIs PAPkR every WITT
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
SIEGE OF VICKSBURG.

Historical Notes Concerning the Fall of
the Confederate's Stronghold.
Vicksburg, from its position COM
manding the Mississippi. was fortified
by the State authorities Immediately
after Mississippi had passed the ordi-
nance of secession. After the capture
of New Orleans, in April. 1862. had
opened the river from below TO the
Federal forces, Farragut bombarded
Vicksburg, but succeeded in inflicting
very little damage. In the latter part
of the year attempts were made to send
an army by way of the Yazoo river to
attack VicGsburg in the rear, but these
were not successful. owing to the i'm
possibility of taking large force
through the swamps. Then the plan of
cutting canal across the isthmus on
which Vicksburg is situated was tried,
but this too, failed. Then General
Grant decided to take his army by land
on the western side of the river to a
point below Vicksburg; then, crossing,
to march inland and turn upon the city
from the rear. After some fighting on
the approach Grants army invested
Jicksburg, May Is. 1853, The city was
then held by about % 600 Confederates
under the command of General Pember-
ton. Believing that his unexpected adj
vance upon them had demoralized the
Confederate troops, General Grant
made an assault on the works May 10,
and again May 22 but was repulsed
each time with terrible Slaughter. He
then began regular siege. The Confed-
crate troops were stationed on ridges
running back from the rivers bank, and
were surrounded by line of strong
Notifications Outside o. this line
Grants engineers and soldiers made
some twelve miles of trenches, and
nearly one hundred batteries. With
re-enforcements. Grants troops were
soon increased to 10000 men. On the
other side of the city fleet of gum
boats aided the land force. and shot and
shell were literally poured into the in
vested city. The Confederate troops
had neither ammunition nor food to
OUl ANpC
was that the army under General
Johnston, at jackson, would come to
their aid. Had this attempt been
made early in the siege it might have
accomplished something, but it was
postponed until the Federal troops
were so strongly intrenched that John
ston did not dare to make an attack. as
his force was not large. In June mines
were laid under the rebel works, and
one of their forts was blown up, but
the attempt which followed to carry
the lines by assault was not successful
By the end of June, however, Pember-
tons men were SO reduced by lack of
food that surrender was unavoidable
On July 4. therefore, General Pember-
ton. after some correspondence with
General Grant, surrendered his forces
and the city. The total loss of the
Confedsrates in the Vicksburg cam
paign had been over 10000. The
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
Lard Tank Explosion.

HUTCHINSON, Kan, June 7-Shortly
after ten O'Clock yesterday morning while
General Manager Woods. of the n. K.
Fairbank & Co. lard refinery, and George
ID. Lewis. superintendent of the same
company's refinery at St Louis, We're
testing the heat of lard tank an explo-
sion occurred which seriously injured the
two men and steamfitter named
John Gavin. They were standing directly
over the vat when it exploded, and were
thrown to the ceiling atove and covered
with the boilinghot lard Lewis, in ad-
dition to being badly scalded, had his
ankle bone fractured and received two
dangerous woundS about the head. Ply
sicians, however, think there are chances
of his recovery. The injuries of the
others, while serious and exceedingly
painful, are not considered fatal. The ac-
cident is supposed to have been due to an
over pressure of steam.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
REBUKlNG AN OFFICER.
The Clever Method Employed by q Self
Possessed Veteran.

Possessed Veteran.
One night when the Ninety-ninth
Pennsylvania regiment was encamped
in the neighborhood of Spotsylvania a
number of privates of that regiment
went into the town for little amuse-
ment Their entrance into saloon
where several officers were drinking
and lighting their battles Ger again.
was hailed by one of the gentlemen
with shoulder-straps with the remark:
What business have lot of privates
among oficers?"
.'Out spoke war-worn, active MEM
Der of the ranks, in plain, unmistakable
Saxon: You fellows that carry knife
by your side think that none but you
can use one; if there is a gentleman
here who will lend me mis- sword. l will
try to show that man there (pointing
his finger at the object of his annoy
ance) that /, at least, can do little in
that line"
Stung to the quick by a challenge
from such a quarter and in the pres
ence of his friends, the officer drew mis-
sword and the next moment blade was
cleaning in the hands of his despised
adversary, who with tantalizing cool
ness stood on guard in true swordman-
like attitude, filing, first one side and
then the other of his opponents wea-
pom. A few rash and evidently sinister
lunges were made by the officer, which
were parted cleverly, and then by a
lightning-like movement of the soldier
his sword was wrenched from his hand
and sent spinning to the ceiling, but
ere it fell the soldiers sword was
pointing to within an inch or two of the
officers heart
This ended the feat of arms. but not
the revelry, for the rough, outspoken
vet was the lion of the hour.-W. G.
Wells, in Philadelphia Press.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-13
A Change of Weapon.

Last winter / climbed Lookout Noun
tain in company with veteran of the
late war. 1t was his first visit since
the day of the memorable assault, and
as We climbed he fought the battle over
again for my benefit As the conflict
waxed hotter he grew excited, and on
our arrival at the hotel near the sum-
nit was at fever-heat. We then passed
on through the narrow defile which
leads to the pinnacle. where we were
confronted by diminutive specimen of
the genus cracker" with these words:
If you gentlemen wish to go to the
top. you must pay twenty-five cents. :"
This was too much for the pent-up feel
ings of my warlike companion, who,
tragically waving his strong right arm.
shouted: 81 won't pay it Twenty-Five
years ago 1 came up here with sword
in my hand" But the modern Leoni-
das, moving not otherwise than to dis
play adeputy-sheriff's badge. quietly re-
marked: ''Well. sab, you must come up
with quarter to-day" The money
was paid. &C. C. Teale, in Harper's
Magazine.