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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

| know the truth from er yaller dog ef yot
met it squar in the middle err the road. Why
| hits knowed frum Dan ter Becrsheby thai
| Majer Grady keeps his gun loaded, thinkin
| you're erbout ter slope with his family, ole
Madam an all, fer Salt Lake City. Eff you
had the spunk of er hoss-fly or er turkey
buzzard you'd go and let him know which
one hit is you're arter."
"Bulger! can you keep err secretn' ses
jackson, sorter low.
"Fust rate" ses Bulger. "Fire away ole
| man.
"Well," ses jackson, 81 love the Gradys
all well enough ter marry any on 'em; the
trouble is I'm afeari they keer er blamed
| sight more erbout whut goes erlong o. me
the farm and stock and ail-than they dc
| erbout plain Jackson. If you can help me
find out erbout that you shall have the bes,
| colt in the paster."
ashore you don't love nary one best!"
81 love 'em all best when I'm with 'em. y
"You'n marry the one that loves You
bestl'
81 will. if l can find OUT
"That's easy as falln' off er log"
"How!"
"Why! let's go ta'arin' up thar now like
1njuns WIZ arter US, and you fall of yo
horse and kick and howl and cavort, and
I'll run in, and tell 'em you've got er fit,
and 1 believe hydrophoby, cause you're
always foolin' with dogs. Then the one
that comes ter We will keer erbout We shore
'nough.'
.'rll try it," ses Jackson out loud, then
low ter hisself, so, lordy! s'pose Maria
shouldn't come"
Bout five minutes afterwards the Grady
gals seen them two come Ia 'arin up ter thar
front fence, and long before thar bangs
wuz outen papers, Bulger wuz lammin' on
the front do, and yeIlin' like er Camanchy
Injun, ''Miss Grady! Miss Gradyl! o,
Miss Grady!.! ole Jackson's got err fit; l
blieve he's runnin' mad; come out yere all
on ye and help me tote him in the house."
That raised a rumpus shores you're a
foot high. Ole Elvy, the deaf niger cook,
thought Jackson had religion, and she set
in ter shoutin', GLORY" ole Madam went
ter yowlin', Go way with yo mad-dog, go
way, go way" Major Grady ketched his
bad hound Romerlus by the tail and sot in
ter bellerin', Hold i'm fer 70 life Bulger,
till git this dog in the smoke-house;
wouldn't have him bit fer the best yearlin'
in the country
Romerlus wuz howlin' fer er dozen
Anne wuz boo-hooin', and Ellen screechln'.
NV by don't somebody vaccinate himf'
Nobody heard Maria, or even saw her
move, but in less'n a mint jackson felt her
little hands on his, and seen her pink
cheeks white as she knelt down by him,
sayin': Don't give up jackson, darling,
while there's life there's hope"
Now you're talkin'," ses Bulger, comm.
out with er glass in his hand. Drink this
ole man and maybe you'll live till the
doctor gets here"
With that he made Jackson swaller the
awfullest dose-caster lie, yipercac, num-
Der six and sperets turpentine-that he'd
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

gone and fixed up out er ole Madamis med-
cine closet. Jackson had ter face the
music; 'twould a-gin the whole thing err
way ter say he wouldn't take it, and by the
time the doctor got thar he wuz sick
enough ter need him, and ter swa'ar he'd
thrash Bulger fust thing when he got well.
He wanted ter do it the worst sort when
ole Madam put the weddin' of whole
year. so as ter see whether er no he wuz
gwine ter run mad; but when at last he did
git Maria, and found her a treasure and re-
membered that she faced what she thought
was certain death fer him, he got mighty
fergivin', and had Bulger to come over the
same as ever. Ter this day Maria thinks
thar amt nobody like the boy, but eff you
don't want ter see three mad women don't
ye say "Buiger" ter the rest er the Gradys
M. c. Williams, in Brakes Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
THE TRUST PRINCIPLE.
Why Capitalistic Combines Advocate Al
solute Free Trade.

Why Capitalistic Combines Advocate Alb.
solute Free Trade.
We Just throw it out as a hint 10 the
gentlemen who are advocating the re-
peal Of the sugar duties. in order that
the American sugar trust may be
squelched thereby. that the Anglo
American salt trust desires repeal
of the tariff on salt Now, an Anglo
American sugar trust il just as much
OF possibility as an Anglo-American
salt trust And if an Arglo-American
sugar trust were formed it would be
just as anxious for the repeal of the
tariff on sugar as the other is for repeal
of the tariff on salt
A monopoly will seek to produce as
the lowest and sell at the highest price
possible. 1t is formed for that end and
for no other, and as tariff would pre-
vent Its importation OF the cheap Ia
Dor products of Europe it would also
prevent its reduction of the wages OF
its American operatives to the Euro
pean level. Consequently any trust
existing between American and for
eign dealers or producers must favor
free trade. And thus we see that tariff
is at war with trusts. and that the
declaration of the Chicago platform
against trusts and combines" wa.
not only made in good faith but was
made as an inevitable sequence of its
declaration in favor of protection to
American industries. Between the
American principle of protection and
the un-American system of trusts there
is irreconcilable war.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30


money ahead, and more cattle, dumb crit
tiers and sheep than We could shake stick
at. And he wus jest crazy fer Jackson, the
onliest chile he had, ter up and marry. Why
he KEEP err silk dress and er bran-new side
saddle, ready and waitin', fer his daughter
that-wuzter-be. jackson himself wuz
nigh erbout as bad; he jest natcherly dotted
on the fa'ar sect, but he couldn't make
CHI ice betwixt the Grady gals. There wuz
three on 'em, Ellen, Anne and Maria, half
sisters all. Ole Major Grady had luck at
bein' err widderwer; he married four times
in six years, and each of the three foremost
that he lost left HIM gal baby. When he
up and married Louizy Stringfellow, tibet
had been struck by lightenin', and didn't
mind it. we all knowed he had got ter the
end of his row, and that his orphun family
would be fetched up in proper style. Hit
wuZ troo there warnt no smarter ner bet
ter lookin' gals in three counties, and
they'd all a-been married before you could
say Jack Robinson, only the old madam
wouldn't have it 80. No Stree er she hadn't
no notion of havin' her house turned topsy
turvey with courtin' and marryin' three
times. when once would do as we'll So she
KEEP Ellen and Anne in short dresses tell
Maria wuz big enough ter wear long ones,
sot 'em all out ter onct at the Flat Rock
quarterly meetin'. Wuth lookin' at they
wuz, let me tell ye. Ellen had the whitest
sort o. skin, and lips like cherries. Anne
wuz round and pink, and soft as a peach,
and Maria wuz jest growed up baby, with
yaller curis, and the littlest feet that ever
trotted merrily.
Ole Madam had her eye on jackson from
the word go, and she managed it so that
pretty soon he wuz over thar so constant
that the rest err the boys narrated it round
that him and the Majors big hound fought
% nights as ter which should sleep on the
door mat Ye Sc he'd fell in love with all
three, and as Mormon docterins warn't
popular thereabout, the trouble wuz ter
love one well enough to do without the
others. Like as not he'd a-got gray-headed
studyin' over it eff it hadn't been fer Bull
ger, his cousin, jest fifteen, the tor-r-r-
mentinest boy, but sharp as whole patch
err brars, and not mean, Jest sorter mis-
chievious like. He went ter Major Gradys
too, not courtiu', but jest becase it suited
him.
One mornin', in the fall, as him and Jack
son wuz rid,n' over thar, he ups an ses,
ses 'e; "Ole pard we orter have weddin'
ter Christmas, but you're sech er ole poke
easy. I'll haveto fetch hit round myself"
'Howa" ses jackson.
"Ask 70 gal fer you," ses Bulger.
"FinGin' is before askin'. Show her ter
me and I'll ask her quick enongh," ses
jackson.
Bulger rid erhead whistlin' ''On Jordan's
Stormy Banks" That wuz Madam's favor
lite hymn. When he seen jackson wuz a.
laughin' he turned round, solemn as err
preacher, ter say, Il reckon you wouldn't
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
Their Need.
Inventor-Eureka, Eure-

Inventor Eureka. Eure-
Kansas Rustler-What airyou Eureker;n'
about!
1nventor-I have just completed my dI-
pick indicator, a little instrument that will
inform its possessor of the approach of a
cyclone before
Rustler-Wal, you've wasted yer time.
Nobody III buy. What we want yere is in
dicator that'Il inform it's possessor of the
approach of Eastern capitalist soon IS he
gifts across the county line an give the
Teller with the indicator time to grab up his
corner lot deeds and git to the capitalist
fore anybody else knows he 8 COMM
P1ply
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
WORK WELL DONE.
Thirteen Thousand Democrats Already Re,
tired to Private Life.

| Thirteen Thousand Democrats Already Re.
tired to Private Life.
The rapid substitution of Republic
ans for Democrats in the fourth class
post-offices Of the country leads even
the independent-minded and phleg-
neutrality-suspicious. New York World
to cry out in agony.
THE axe-wielder of the Post-Offi
Department under President Harri-
son." says the World. shas removed
the heads of $4,000 fourth-class post
masters. This exceeds by 5000 the
removals made in the same time by
the late Democratic administration.
coming into power after its party had
been prescribed from the Federal offices
for twenty-four years"
Ii the intent of such statement as
this be to produce the impression that
the Republican administration is
violating any law of the Nation or
any pledge of the party. none but the
ignorant will be deceived. The fourth.
class postmasters are not appointed
tor any specified time of service, but
lat the will and pleasure of the
Postmaster-GeneraL" Their compen-
sation is chiefly a commission on
stamps cancelled on outgoing mails,
on sales of money orders and on box.
rents. There are 80, 900 of them To-
Gated chiefly at crossroads or in small
villages. There are very few of these
D0st N stors ubo h,y. M o<bo. H.;
ness; the vast majority Of them are
store-keepers who are anxious to Sc
cure the post-offices rather for the pat
ronage that is brought to their stores
than for the emoluments of the Office.
the average earnings Of the fourth
class postmasters are below $500 q
year, while in thousands of cases they
do not amount to $1O0 No special
knowledge or learning Is necessary
for a fourth class postmastership.
Any fairly intelligent. reliable man
can attend to its dutiea
There are several reasons why the
changes in :ourth-class post-offices
have been rapid. Many Of the Demo-
cratic pOstmasters have resigned.
After Republican control for nearly
quarter of a century Democratic sue
cess involved the removal of many of
the offices from the central locations
where they had become almost fixtures
in the little villages. Public conven-
fence has called for their removal
back to old quarters as rule.
The bulk OF the changes has been
made, however, because the fourth
class postmasters were Democrats and
the people had voted change to Re-
publicanism. The National Govern
ment in every little village of the land
is embodied in the post-office. The
mugwump is an unknown growth in
those steady and sensible communi-
ties; and the Republicans wanted.
while Democrats expected, change
in the post-office. That is the local
assurance that the people were not
joking when they elected Harrison;
that the post-office will no longer be a
distributing point tor free-trade
pamphlets, and whatever trade it
brings will go to Republicans.
Mr.. Clarkson has done well in re-
firing $4,000 Democrats. May he
have the entire $4,000 removed by
January 1!-Albany On. W Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
ISABEL;
From Shop to Mansion.
The Romantic Story OF q Dress
Makers Rise in Life
ar MIS-. =. M. Howard.
lCo2gr.qhted, Isso.l

CHAPTER II.-CoNTINUED.
''For Miss Grant" said Ellice Ryan, COM
ing in from the shop at the moment with a
small package
"That certainly looks like tangible proof"
said Jennie, as Isabel undid the package and
disclosed plush box which, when opened,
revealed an elegant diamond ring. Mr.. Fal-
oner must have studied the slender white
fingers to advantage during his stay, for the
ring fitted her engagement finger to a
nicely. A new, sweet feeling stole into her
heart with the gift; she had not been used
20 being considered and cared for, and new
world was opening up before her; one of
responsibility also, for she held this mans
happiness as well as her own in her hands,
and the question whether or not she would
fail in the trust committed to her was
serious one.
''Dear mel you wouldn't catch me looking
so like an owl If had some one to send me
diamond rings" cried Jennie, as Isabel
turned the brilliant slowly around on her
finger
"Dear Isabel, am so glad for you," said
gentle Lottie Ford, rising and limping over
TO her side, where she stood caressing the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
HIS LONE TEST.
The Story Of Jackson's Expert.
ment to Get q Wife.

is name was rightly
Andrer j &C K 8 o n
Moore, but he out
growed the Andrer
bout the time he did
petticoats, and was
jest plain jackson all
up and down the Bush
Cree k settlement.
Good lookin' chap, too,
tall and slim, with big
blue eyes and curly,
yaller hair, and skin
like a gals, whenever
il warn't sunburnt.
His pappy, ole Squire
Moore, wus richer'n
H. hol an h,r farm,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
ENCOURAGING Conyalescence.

Young Mr.. Shandygaff (handing his card
70 flunky at the doorl-May ahsk how Mr..
Earl Marquand de Wylls Wylls is this
nawning!
Flunky Importantly sir. Young
Mr.. Wylls Wylls condition his slightly bet
ter. The tone hof lis system 'as improved,
ham we hall think, sir, that e his progress
in bloominkly. e 'as recovered strength
henough, sir. to light hay cigarette, ham
seemed to relish hay couple o. snipes leads
for the fust time in hay week, sir.-Har-
ner'S Razar
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
An Unpoetical Lover

They were sitting on the sofa wrapped in
each others arms, when Augustus began
10 claw frantically at his collar.
''Oh, Augustusr' she exclaimed, "why do
you try to tear yourself away from your
earnings fond embraced"
"Confound itr' CALCULATED Augustus,
you dropped your wad Of chewing-gum
down the back Of my kr-Arcols
Record
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
THE FREEMAsONRY OF SPORT.

Head of the Firm ito applicant for the po-
sition of Office boy)-You've never worked
in a business office before, and can't read
or write? Then what the deuce do you
mean by coming here? Where have you
been all your life, you young scamp!
Applicant-I wuz workin' in Belmont's
stables last an L
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

You must march, arm
in arm. and shoulder &c
shoulder. against these
'bastiles'' Of labor. You
must not march in the
streets. to be mowed
down, but you must get
within the walls, anC
victory, sweet victory,
is yours.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
CHAPTER III.

Il have brought you present. Oracle"
he said, as he embraced the child, then
placed her on the walk, and turned to
Isabel, "a mamma, and hope you will be a
very good little daughter to her"
"a namma," repeated the little girl,
looking up at Isabel with shy eyes; she had
never known mothers care, and could not
realize what it implied.
MY dear" said Isabel, her heart warm
ing at once to the little one. an orphan like
herself, ami taking the little hand IN hers,
she pressed kiss on the sweet red lips, Il
am sure we shall love each other very dear
ly."
Mrs. Falconer, this is Mrs. Mor.tford,
my housekeeper," said Mr.. Falconer, as
they were met in the spacious hail by an
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

I say there will be 9
revolution. / say you
men are brave enough
TO rise and put down
the tyrants. There will
be slaves in the bastile
of labor no longer: yor
will do away with ty
rants and put out the
bosses.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30
JOINED THE ANARCHISTS,
How Senator Voorhees, Speech Looks In
the Deadly Parallel Column.

i
the Deadly Parallel Column.
Senator Voorhees, speech at Bloom
field and that of Mrs. Lucy Parsons at
Chicago show that the craftsmanship
and Oratory of this country ire not at
all confined to one sex. 1t is interesting.
also, to observe the similarity in the
utterances of the two orators. Thus
we have:
Hrs. Parsons at Chicago. SENATOR Voo-hses at
We have o free gov Btoomf,td.
eminent: they have a government which
tree government in takes from one portion
France: yet we arelo It's citizens in order
slaves. There must be to enrich another class
another revolution - a don't deserve to exist
revolution against the the face OF the earth
"BastileS'' of labor. and will not long exist,
unless the people con-
The peo. ~ must rise. sent to become slaves
They will rise, and they
will storm and capture II had my way with
those bastiles, and they men like the Carnegies
will bear out the heads that prcyed upon the
of those devils-thoseIland and sucked peo-
captalIsts-on the topples blood like leeches,
OF pikestafs. would hang them.
They are public enc
I say there will be a mics worse than the
revolution. / say you Tories were during the
men are brave enough Revolution.
the tyrants. There will Why think the time
be slaves in the bastile will come when you
OF labor no longer: you would rather-a COCA
will do away with ty-ldeaI rather - take .
rants and put out theIpitchfork and pitch Re-
bosses. publ can polt clans out
of your way th.u to
You must march, arm pitch hay in your
in arm, and shoulder to meadow.
shoulder. against these
''bastiles of labor. You The Declaration of
must not march in the American Independ-
streets. to be moved ence was q mere dec
down, but you must get llaration against a the
within the walls and DRY and a principle of
victory, sweet victory wrong. rather than
is yours. against an actual grew
ance. You have an
actual grievance to in
flame your luminosity
and hostility TO the
present state Of affairs.
1t would be hard to say which of the
speeches was the more mischievous and
y.-IndianapOlis journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

The peo. - must rise
They will rise, and they
will storm and capture
those bastiles, and they
will bear out the heads
of those devils-thost
capitalIsts-on the tor
of pikestatfs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

It would be hard to say which of the
speeches was the more mischievous and
Observation-Disclosures Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

-HTF. z UTSDFfN us CWfJtFTO.
We have o free gov.
eminent: they have a
tree government in
France: yet we are
slaves. There must be
another revolution - q
revolution against the
"BastileS" of labor.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

II I had my way with
men like the Carnegies
that prcyed upon the
land and sucked peo-
pies blood like leeches,
] would hang them.
They are public ene-
mics, worse than the
Tories were during the
Revolution.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

Why / think the time
will come when you
would rather-a gooss
deal rather - take .
|pitchfork and pitch Re-
publ can polit clans out
OF your way th@u to
pitch hay in your
meadow.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

The Declaration OF
American Independ-
ence was q mere dec
laration against a the
DRY and a principle of
wrong. rather than
against an actual grew
.ance. You have an
actual grievance to in
flame your luminosity
and hostility TO the
present state of Affairs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-30

Senator Too-hSes az
| Bto0mfs(d.
| A government which
takes from one portion
of It's citizens in order
to enrich another class
don't deserve to exist
on the face of the earth
and will not long exist,
unless the people con-
sent to become slaves.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-13
TIE PEARL AND THE POISON.
An UnIucIy Gin to a Tenor Which Might
Have Been Followed by His Death.

The New York Herald of this morning
SAYS: THE tenor, Frank Baxter, Is. like
most singers, superstitious. He Is more 50
now than ever. An anonymous admirer OF
the opposite sex sent him a neat single
pearl scarf-pin last Friday. The box said
Tiffany and the letter was apparently pur-
posely misspelled. To Mr. Bakers mind
the pearl. though he was naturally fiat
tered, meant misfortune and Friday made
il certain. And sure enough trouble came,
for the singer poisoned himself accidental
ly yesterday afternoon. and though safe
and sound at the Windsor Theatre last
night, was unable to appear in The Bohe--
mian Girl. This evening. however, he VIII
appear unless somebody sends him anothe.
pearl. The cause Of his misfortune hc has
given to his manager.
" II seems that Mr.. Baxter. who is OK full
habit. enjoying robust health, Is fond OF
the simple. refreshing, and by some
thought hesh-reducing lcinOn-iuice and
seltzer. Yesterday TINS beverage did not
arree with him. so he thought he would
take some aromatic spirits of ammonia.
Instead he poured down from M adjacent
bottle a teaspoOnful Of FowleT's solution
of arsenic quick dose OF salt and warm
water left the tenor suffering from little
more than the effects Of "A severe scare,
He went 10 his doctor, who told him the
dose of arsenic was so large that 1t would
have left him probably IN any case, but
that was not much consolation, and did
not absolve the pearl in the singers eyes.
He once nearly poisoned somebody else by
mistake and hereafter he has resolved TO
look all over every bottle for the death =
head and cross-bOnes aud To refuse all
pcarlsn
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-13
The Debt.

The Alexandria Gdzette is still advocating
the policy of offering 10 the States credi-
tors better terms than those offered in the
RIDDLKDERGER bill. If the people of Nir-
GINA have made mp their minds on any one
question in tho world it is that they will
not pay any more of the State debt than
the RIDDLEBER0rR bill provides for
paying. We suppose that neither the
people themselves nor their representa-
tives would reject proposed settlement
because il involved the payment of few
thousand dollars more. But substantially
the RIpDLEBERGER bill is Virginia's last
offer. Take that or take nothing, is the al
tentative.
The fact is that the Legislature Of Viz
ginia could not offer to 60 beyond the
terms of the RmDLEBERGEB bill without
exposing the State TO the danger Of an in
creased demand upon the part of the bond
holders. What would our Alexandria con-
temporary have? Does it desire the Demo-
cratic State Convention TO put q plank into
its platform promising to Guido NAHoSE IN
the effort to please the States creditorsI
The bondholders may send money to
Virginia to aid in the election of Mahone-
ties to the next Legislature. We say they
may" But we do not expect them to
be so unwise, And nobody need expect
the Democrats TO DO so unwise as to adopt
a debt policy that would enable MALONE
to cut under them. The reputation sem
timent is now strong. We warn the bond
holders not to trihe with it.