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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-25
Supply of Nickel for Armor Plates.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Additional re-
suits of the recent tests of armor plate at
Annapolis are still coming to light. The
demonstration Of the superiority of nickel
steel alloy and the immediate appropria-
ton by Congress of 81 100000 for the pur
chase of quantity of nickel with which
to alloy naval steel, has had the effect of
stimulating the nickel market to an IN
usual degree. The navy department had
hardly begun to inquire into the amount of
nickel on the market before it was found
that the results o. the t t had been seized
upon abroad with remarkable celebrity and
that there was to be keen competition in
the market, already noted for a vigorous
and steady demand. In addition there was
rumor Of a corner that was discomfort
ing to the officials who expected to get an
adequate supply of the metal at fair prices.
All of the nickel used here has been pro-
duced abroad, Canada being the nearest
source of supply From information COM
ing in an unofficial way to the department.
1T appears, however, there is a probability
that the metal exists in this country in
considerable quantities. 1t is asserted that
mines of great value exist in Virginia, al
though for obvious reasons the persons
making these assertions refuse TO definitely
give their locality. One company is organ
iZing to develop these mines, so navy de-
partment officers are hopeful that any con-
siderable enhancement of the market price
of nickel will be met and counteracted by
an increased supply from domestic sources.
A Denver Real Estate Nan Missing.
DENVER, Col, Oct. 24.-George L. Har-
ris, prominent real estate and mine
broker, has been missing since October IA.
His friends are suspicious of foul play as
the cause Of mis- disappearance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-25
Price of Fine Silver in Amsterdam.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 24.-The price of fine
silver has declined from 81 to Sc guilders
per kilO.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-25
Fx.Goxeruor Noble,s Oondition Critica1

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-It is reported that
the condition of ex- Governor Noble of
Wisconsin, is very critical.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
SMART WOMEN EDUCATORS.

Mrs. RACHAEL LLOYD, Phi. D., is pro-
fessor of chemistry in the Nebraska
University. She holds her degree from
Zurich.
Miss JANE BANCROFT, Phi. D., has
been elected to the chair of history in
Wesleyan University, at Delaware, o.,
with salary equal to that of the male
professors.
AT the school election in North Bend,
Neb, Mrs. Helen Norris, wife of the
city mayor, was elected on the school
board. Mrs Norris is the first lady that
town has elected to any Office.
Miss EVA CoscARpEN. who has charge
OF the department of elocution in East
Greenwich Academy, VT, has been hon
Ored recently by the decree of Doctor of
Oratory, by the Mt Vernon Institute of
Philadelphia.
Mrs. MARY EMERY, for twelve years
County superintendent of schools of
Peoria County, Ills, has been chosen
principal of the normal department Of
! the Nevada State University, at a salary
of 81. 800. She is talented lady and
worthy of the high position accorded
her.
SUPERINTENDENT MRS CATION last
year conducted the Normal School at
Winfield, Kan, paid for it out Of the
receipts, had few cents left, and did
not draw from the county, although en-
titled to 500 for normal purposes This
speaks for itself regarding woman's
| financial abilities
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26

The admission of Wyoming into State
hood recalls the pioneer days of woman
office-holding in that unique cjviliza-
ton. Hester Morris was the first wom-
an appointed justice Of the peace in
the United States. In those rough
pioneer times the bowie knife and pis-
toll oftener settled disputes than did a
court of justice. Mrs. Morris was a tall,
Elizabethian type Of woman, with as rug
sed features and of brusque method of
expression as has been ascribed to the
English Queen. Her first case in a
Wyoming court, says the Spokane
Spokesman, concerned aquarrel between
two young men, who were brought be-
fore her armed with bowie knives and
pistols. She had known them since
their boyhood, and. in spite of the fact
that scene had been expected on her
first appearance, a few words of mother
ly advice to those who had known her
kindness and a native little mother wit
carried the day. After that there was no
more trouble. She was a particular ter
ror' to evil-doers. Men who had been ar
rested for beating their wives or for gen.
eral drunken disturbances of the peace
invariably pleaded not to be brought up
befort "Old Judge Morris" They want
ed to 0e tried by men.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
A DEMOCRATIC KICK,
Why the Bourbons of Wisconsin Shoul
Suffer an Oyerw helming Defeat.

Why the Bourbons of wisconsin Should
Suffer an overwhelming Defeat.
Editor Nagle, editor OF the Demo-
cratic organ, the Manitowoc (Wis.)
Pilot, doesn't think highly of the polit-
ical shrewdness or patriotism of Villas
and the other Democratic war horses
who denounced the Bennett law at the
Milwaukee convention In his last is
sue Mr.. Maggie has the boldness to say
to his party:
Colonel Villas Is the author Of this infamous
document which should bring the blush Of
shame to every Democrat It Is needless TO
add that Colonel Villas is q candidate for the
United States Senate. He is willing to barter
honor, principle and the rights Of children to
attain his ambition. To what depths will not
a man sink who seeks political prefermentf
When the platform opposes any division Of
the school fund for sectarian uses IL touches
upon something upon which there is no divis-
ion Of opinion. And 1t openly defes truth when
il says the Bennett law denies the right Of trial
by jury to those who violate its provisions
For adopting that anti-public school
platform the Democratic party in Wis
consin ought to suffer an overwhelming
defeat and all patriotic and self-respect-
ing people in Wisconsin are likely 20
turn in and make that defeat as COM
plete as possible--Minneapolis jour
nal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26

Frances Ellen Burr, the secretary OF
the Equal Rights Club of Hartford, Ct,
lately accompanied the payment of her
tax with the following spirited protest:
To ''the town and city of Hartford
and school districts" greeting:
have before me your tax-bill, which
/ am invited to pay to-day, slight re-
duction being held out as an Involvement
to pay promptly, and penalty of nine
per cent. being imposed il not paid this
month. AS this is my first tax-bill land
trust it will be the last, would like
to enter my protest with the payment
thereof. This Is the only resort for
people who are set outside of govern
ment and are allowed no part in it ex-
cept to suffer its penalties and pay it's
Debts. Here is the one spot where
women are not ignored. trust the day
will come when Connecticut will see the
injustice of robbing the disfranchised
and the unrepresented, for in such cases
it is simply robbery. The argument
that babies pay taxes is of little account,
for the minority Of children under
guardianship is very different thing
from that of responsible adults with I'M
impaired reasoning faculties In the
one case, the minority and the guardian
ship are necessities; in the other, they
are gross injustice. The State forces
half or two-thirds of its responsible
adults into a position of subsection
which, in Republic. or so-called Re-
public, is a measure of despotism that
should have been abolished long since.
Yours for future enlightenment,
FRANCES ELLEN BGHE.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
DRIFT OF OPINION.

u The party that exhausted every
resource in its endeavors to keep labor
enslaved in the Southeast can never be
the real friend of labor in the North
and West-N. Y. Mail and Express.
VThe party in any Northern State
Of this Union which raises its hand
against the public schools goes to the
wall. This is one of the reasons why
the Democracy of Wisconsin will get a
severer thrashing this year than it did
in the average election year Of the past.
Cleveland Leader.
B-In Major Mckinley the Repnb-
lican party has leader of rare ability,
courage. strength of conviction and
breadth of craftsmanship. His vindi-
cation of the course of Republicans in
Congress will be read with interest by
millions of his fellow citizens, who will
most keenly regret it il the fraudulens
apportionmens by Democrats Of Ohio
shall result in his defeat.-N. 7. Trib-
uDe.
SThe regular Bourbons in South
Carolina have surrendered to the Till
NANTES. This shows that both factions
will unite to prevent the Republicans
from winning in any of the districts.
The shake-up which the Democracy has
received will prove beneficial, however,
and the time is not distant when the
party vote will be divided. Toledo (Ot)
Blade.
B The Bennett law question was not
plainly treated by the Democrats OF
Wisconsin, though they make half q
promise to prevent compulsory educa-
ton in the English language in the inn
probable event of their return to power.
Neither the tone of the convention nor
the matter of its platform is prophetic
Of Democratic suecess.-Chicag0 Inter
Ocean.
S-In our neighbor State of Indiana
Democratic rule has bankrupted the
State, leaving its treasury with 10
money, no credit, and little revenue.
Under the Republicans the State
debt was reduced from So 600 900
to 81, 600. 900, and when they turned
the management over to the Democrats
they left provisions for revenue suf-
ficient to meet all necessary expenses
from year tn year and to soon wipe out
the remainder of the debt. In less than
eight years the Democrats have in
creased the debt to its old dimensions
and have 80 reduced the revenues that
they are insufficient for ordinary ex-
penses. Chicago Tribune. y !
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
The M..i..IpoI Con,,iracy

One will look in vain in the alleged
independent papers for word in con-
domination Of the conspiracy which is
now going on IN Mississippi, in the
name Of constitutional convention, to
destroy republican form of govern
ment in Mississippi. They utter no
protest against these schemes to annul
a provision of the Federal constitution
They are silent in the face Of an at
tempt to take from 100, 900 men, who
are now voters, the right Of suffrage
TO practically rob them OF citizenship
and all the rights that it coofers This
would not have been the case = few
years ago. The New York Times and
the New York Evening Post and other
independent papers years ago were
severe in their denunciation of crimes
against suffrage in the South, which
even the leaders in that section dis
claimed. Why, then, are they now
silent when q regular State convention
IS in session with the avowed purpose
of annulling part Of the Federal con-
stitution, and robhing majority OF the
voters of the State Of the right Of suf-
frage? Is the success OF the Golden
system of free trade Of so great inn
portance that crimes against the consti.
tuition and popular Government muss
be ignored because the conspirators are
its Observation-Disclosures Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
REeARpINo VERMONT.
The State II as True to the Republics
Party as Ever It Was.

Party rs Ever It Was
It Is amazing how little it takes to
make the average Democratic editor
happy. just now there is joy over the
fact that Vermont. with population of
only about one-third of that of Cool.
County, did not have a Republican ma
jority this time of much over 90 00o
One would suppose that the Green
mountains had suddenly experienced a
political earthquake. 1t is now thirty
eight years since the Democrats carried
the State, and the last time before that
was when, IL tradition is correct the
grandfather of our late esteemed fellow
citizen, John Mattocks, was elected
Governor. Two years ago the majority
for Harrison was %, 405. Four years
ago the Republicans elected their can
didate for Governor by plurality of
90, 522; the total vote of the State in
1886 was 5000. The population has
not changed any hardly in ten years.
The vot, of Tuesday was little light
er than 1t was in 1856 That tells the
story. ~
The Democrats have made no gains
The result is not susceptible of any in
terpretation showing growth in Demo-
cratic sentiment, and it is really mat
ter of surprise that so many Republicans
turn out off years in such a State as
that as did turn out this year. The
stimulus of apprehension is wholly
wanting and no effort has been made to
arouse the enthusiasm of the people.
Neither of the Senators has any talent
for stump speaking, and If either of the
Congressman has he has taken good
care to conceal the fact. The orators of
the party are not disposed to carry Goals
to Newcastle by going there to address
the people. That State sustains about
the same relation to the country that
the rural part Of Cook County does to
this county as whole. 1t would seem
like a waste of powder to the Repub-
licans to make any special effort to
elect the five county commissioners of
that part of the county. Should any
thing occur to really jeopardize Yer
mont there would be at least 80 per
cent. Of the vote polled. The farmers
would stop their work long enough to
vote, no matter how anxious they were
to get through.
1t Is simply arrant nonsense to pre-
tend that the Vermont Republicans are
unfrienily to the Mckinley bill That
has always been q strong high tariff
State. If they are disguised at any
thing it is at the Senate for not passing
the election bill They were a part of
Che people who two years ago demanded
precisely such legislation as that bill
provides, and when they see one of
their own Senators caring more for a
century-old RUS of the Senate that for
the supreme principle Of honest cleo
tions they may have felt too Disguised,
many of them, to vote. Senator Ed
muLds is reported to have said: THE
Republicans [of Vermont simply staid
away from the polls, and i suppose
their object was to rebuke somebody or
something, 1 don't know what" Per-
haps if he should exercise the Yankees
high prerogative he might guess right
the first time.-ChicagO Inter Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
VICTORY IN MAINE.
Have You Heard from the state of Biain
and Reed?

Have You Heard from the state of Blaine
and Reed?
The Democrats made Maine the first
battlefield of the fall campaign, and
they boosted that the vote would show
decentralization in Republican ranks.
The battle has been fought, and the Re-
publica rs increased their plurality.
The plurality of Burleigh. Republican
candidate for Governor, was 1886 in
1855 "a Presidential year,. His plurali-
ty at the election of few days ago is
about 90, 900.
A particularly virulent fight was made
on Speaker Reed. He was held up as
tyrant because of rulings as Speaker, and
was singled out as the representative
Republican to be punished forthe record
made by the Republicans of the House
on the tariff bill and the election bill
The Democratic and Mugwump free
trade papers, illustrated and otherwise,
entered early upon a campaign Of N I'D
throwing, and Democratic stump-speak-
ers, in Congress and out, made violent
attacks on Mr.. Reed, with intent to
humiliate him at the polls. They
made the issue and they have their an
swer. Mr.. Reed was reelected by the
largest majority he ever received in the
district. -
Maine. the State of Blaine and Reed,
gives larger Republican majority for
Governor than it did in the Presidential
year of 1883, and re-elects her four
Republican Congressman, some of them
by increased majorities. The victory is
4 most important one, and its effect on
the Republicans Of the States will be
stimulating and encouraging.-Chicago
Inter Ocean
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
WITHIN TEN YEARS.
What Farmers Paid for Necessarfes 4
1850 and What They Pay Now.

What Farmers Paid for Neeessaries In
1880 and What They Pay Now.
Senator Justin S. Morrill,. of Yer
mont in his speech on the Mckinley
bill in the Senate, presented table
showing how the prices of many COM
mon household articles used by farmers
have decreased in the last ten years.
He said: ut is true that some agricult-
ural products now bring less price
than was current for some years after
the war of the rebellion, but this de-
preston of prices is not peculiar to the
United States. 1t pervades the whole
world, and is more serious in Great
Britain, where free trade prevails, than
anywhere else. Here, however, farm
ers have the satisfaction to find that
the chief articles of consumption which
they have to buy have been reduced in
price even more than any reduction
upon farm products. 4 bushel of corn
in England will buy more cotton cloth,
or more crockery and glassware, more
salt and more calico, bingham and other
dress goods for women than ever before.
| will append list of articles in COM
mon use, which might be greatly en-
larged, to show the decline in general
prices ever since 1880"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
Reduced . per cent.
BREckINRIDGs BOUNCED.
The Arkapsaw Usurper Unseased BY HIS
More Honorable Colleagues

More Honorable Colleagues
No one has charged, or supposes, that
Mr.. Clifton r. Breckinridge, late Rep
resentative in Congress from the Sec
ond Arkansas district, had any thing to
do with the assassination of Colonel
John NJ Clayton, the Republican can
didate for that position, and who. the
House has now declared, received ma
tority Of the votes in the district in 1858.
But Mr.. Breckenridge is not entitled to
the benefit of the theory that he was
that removed his opponent, for he has
done his utmost to profit by it He has
held on to the bleod-stained seat and
the s., 600 salary attached toit, by every
means in his power. He knew that his
election" had been accomplished by
stealing and destroying ballot-boxes
and by gruss frauds in the count at a
number of voting places He had been
served with notice of contest and knew
that Clayton had collected evidence
showing the latter to have been elected.
Under these circumstances the assassi-
nation of Clayton would have prompted
anybody except bulldozing Bourbon
to resign and stand anew for election.
The murder of Clayton made it impossi-
BILE that the man honestly elected
should take the seat, and Breckenridge
was not so shocked at the crime that he
did not take the utmost advantage OF
II. He made tao hardest fight ever con-
Quoted by member likely to be I'M
seated TO hold his place His sense OF
honor was not high enough TO lead him
TO do the only thing self-respecting
man could DO under the circumstances
resign. he not only begged and
plesdsd 10 stay-he even threatened
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
stronger than the condor's wing, are the
~

stronger than the condor's wing, are the
wings of the Almighty.
Ihave only one more thought to pre-
sent The wings under which Ruth had
come to trust were gentle wings. There
is nothing softer than feather You
have noticed when bird returns from
fight how gently it stoops over the
nest. The young birds are not afraid
of having their lives trampled out by
the mother bird; the old whip-poor-will
drops into its nest of leaves, the oriole
into its casket of bark, the humming
bird into its hammock of moss-gentle
as the light And so, says the Psalmist
He shall cover thee with his wing. o.
the gentleness of Godi But even that
figure does not fully set it forth, for I
have sometimes looked into the birds
nest and seen dead bird-its life hav-
ing been trampled out by the mother
bird. But no one that ever came under
the feathers Of the Almighty was trod-
den on.
Blessed nestl Warm nestl Why will
men stay out in the cold to be shot of
temptation and to be. chilled by the
blast when there is divine shelter?
More beautiful than any flower / ever
saw are the hues of a birds plumage.
Did you ever examine it? The black
bird. floating like flake of darkness
through the sunlight; the meadow lark,
with head of fawn and throat of velvet
and breast of gold; the red famingo fly
ing over the Southern swamps, like
sparks from the forge of the setting sun;
the pelican, white and black-morning
and night tangled in its wings-give
but very faint idea of the beauty
that comes down over the soul when on
it drop the feathers of the Almighty.
Here fold your wings. This is the
only safe nest Every other nest will
be destroyed The prophet says so:
Though thou exalt thyself like the
eagle, and set thy nest among the stars,
yet will / bring thee down, saith the
Lord of Hosts" Under the swift wings,
under the broad wings, under the strong
wings, under the gentle wings of the
Almighty find shelter until these
calamities be overpast. Then when
you want to change nests it will only
be from the valley of earth to the
heights of Heaven, and instead of "the
wings of dove" for which David
longed, not knowing that in the first
mile of their flight they would give out
you will be conducted upward by the
Lord God of Israel, under whose wings
Ruth, the beautiful Moabitess. came to
trust
IA L t., 4 IL 49, g a.
nal veal or woe we should be more
stupid than the fowls OF Heaven 'for
the stork knoweth her appointed time,
and the turtle and the crane and the
swallow observe the time of their going,
but my people know not the judgements
of the Lord
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
He Won't BE Funny Again.

Il say. landlord. I" remarked stranger
as he entered the hotel in small town
in Ohio, whats the price of one of the
best rooms you've cote"
well, stranger" remarked the land
lord, 81 can give you my best room to-
night for fifty cents, and she's daisyr'
Then he added. rather facetiously:
'.But if you sleep with them muddy
boots on. why, it'll cost you twenty-five
cents extra"
The following morning, the Landlord
being absent the stranger paid his bill
to the landlady and continued his jour-
ney.
John" said the landlady. when her
husband came in, there's seventy-fve
cents man left for his room"
Great heavens" shouted the land
lord, 'seventy-fve cents?"
That's exactly what 1 said-seyenty'
five cents?"
Three steps took him to the room on
the landing above.
Observation-Disclosures for trying
to be funny. It'll cost me about FIVE
dollar bill"-Harper's Bazaar.