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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-03
FAT AND LEAN.
Some Practical Hints About Fattening
Hogs.

Some Practical Hints About Fattening
Hogs.
We hear more and more about making
streak of fat and streak of lean in
our pork. The sensible idea is becom-
ing more prevalent that the great Jumps
of fat which we make and market are
not just what the people want. Indeed
thousands who would use pork if it had
streak of lean and streak of fat can
not use fat pork, and there can be no
doubt that all who do use it would be
better off if it was less fat. Yet we do
not sympathize at all with the notion
that fat pork is necessarily injurious in a
marked degree.
We believe that it can be shown that
pork-eaters are as healthy and long
lived as beef-eaters. Still, leaner pork
would be more palatatle and more
healthful. How is it to be produced?
Some of the experiment stations have
been doing something in that line, but
they claim that their experiments have
been to a degree unsatisfactory; Well.
it can not be expected that our present
hog can be made over in a minute or a
day or year. 1t is the nature of the
hog to take on fat. Give it fat-forming
food and it will convert it into fat. But
there is no special secret in creating
leaner pork. We may never get the
streak of fat and streak of lean laid out
with mathematical precision. and there
never may be any ''streaks" at all in
some hogs.
But the prevailing system of feeding
can not create lean in streaks or other
wise. Lean is simply muscle. Make
muscle and you make lean meat. Now
we all know how to make muscle. 1t is
made by maintaining the health of the
hog and by feeding muscle-forming
foods. If we feed in that line and breed
from hogs thus fed we shall in time have
leaner pork. If double the quantity of
muscle is created that the average hog
now has there will be double the guam
tity of lean meat. But we must give
the muscle time to develop. We can not
expect that two years growth of muscle
can be made in nine months.-Westerp
Rural.
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CARE OF BEES.
How They Should BE Fed and Treated
During the Winter Months.

There is but little opportunity during
the winter to give bees attention, and
the proper time to put them in shape is
during the summer months. The
American AgrlculturiSt says the feeding
should all be done before cold weather
sets in. and they should be settled in
their winter quarters before real winter
is at hand. 1t often occurs that winter
overtakes us with colonies that lack
food. In such cases we can not possibly
use strip for food, as the weather is too
cold for the bees to seal it over, and un
sealed stores will not serve properly for
winter. The moisture which always
arises from the bees in cold weather en-
tiers the unsealed honey and dilutes it,
making it very unwholesome. Our only
resort, therefore, for feeding in cold
weather is to make candy and use it.
This is very good and healthful food
if properly made and administered.
1t is made from graduated sugar by
melting it, adding little water-no
more than will thoroughly melt the
sugar-when it is boiled few minutes
and poured out into cakes or states of
three or four pounds each. When cool
this becomes very hard, almost like rock
candy. In feeding this it is placed on
frames just over the cluster of bees
where they can have access to it at all
times. When in this position it receives
the heat arising from the bees and they
remain on it all the time. 1t is so hard
that it will last them long while. This
candy may be given bees at intervals
during winter, and colonies may be
brought through in good shape that
would have otherwise persisted. This,
or any other work that is necessary to
do with bees in winter, should be done
on warm days. 1t will not do to modest
them on a cold day, but it should always
be done on days when the bees are
fyinp
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THE YELLOW LOCUST.
Its Value as . Wood to He Cultivated By
FarmerR.

FofmefDs
While much attention is being paid
to the Importance of systematic forestry.
systematic tree-planting is sadly neg
lected in many parts of our country
where it could be made profitable. In
the Middle and New England States
there are thousands of acres, once Guilt
waited, that are now apparent waste ex-
cepting for pastures, which returns but
a small revenue. There are many whole
farms no longer valuable for agricultural
purposes that could be made profitable
if planted with the common yellow
locust, valuable timber tree of easy,
rapid growth.
Some fifty years ago an intelligent
farmer having large acreage in Long
Island on rocky land where profitable
tillage was impossible, planted about
thirty acres to the yellow locust, which
made rapid growth on the steep hills
among the rocks, the soil being moist,
lively loan. All underground was an
nually cut, which allowed fair growth
of grass that furnished good pasturage
the entire season.
After a period of twenty years the
larger growths were eight or ten inches
in diameter, and from that time there
has been annually sold more in value
from this rocky waste than from the
most productive field of the farm. and
without expense other than the cutting
and getting to market.
The timber takes the first rank,
whether for strength or durability,
among our forest trees. 1t is invaluable
in ship-building, as we'll as for posts or
rails, and for railroad ties it has no
equal: for the latter purpose alone it
would be a remunerative industry on
lands now overgrown with comparative
ly useless timber. There are few trees
that make more rapid growth, or are
half so valuable. A peculiar feature of
the locust is that grass grows freely in
its shade, which it will not do under
most forest trees. When the planting is
once made no further attention is re-
quired, other than to thin out annually
all superf1uous growths. 1t increases
so rapidly by suckers that this atten-
ton becomes necessary in order to make
available the entire product of the soil.
The same rule. we believe, is applied to
all timber grOwths.-American Garden.
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POOR OLD BIxBY.
He Tries to Oblige His Wife and MAJ
ages to Put His Foot in 1t.

He Tries to Oblige His Wife and Man
ages to Put His Foot in 1t.
1.-THE girl is gone and I've had to get
dinner myself to-day" said Mrs. BiXby,
when Mr.. Bixby came home the other
night. Il expected another girl this
afternoon, but she hasn't come, so I'll
have to ask you to look after the chill
dren, Elijah, while wash the dishes"
''No," replied Mr.. Bixby, firmly but
kindly. ''No, Mandy, taking care of
babies isn't my forte. Only women can
do that to perfection. But I'll tell you
what I'll do, Mandy, I'll do up the
dishes and tidy up the kitchen slick as
a whistle while you attend to the chi;-
dren. Washing dishes and sweeping is
something l can do. I've done it for
my mother a thousand times, and ia
just like to show you how proficient
am in that sort of thing. Now, you and
the children clear out and let me have
free swing at things and see if don't
surprise you"
Mrs. Bixby cleared out" but had OK :
casion to go into the kitchen half al
hour later to scald out the baby's bottle,
and that she was surprised her words
indicated. why, Elijah Birby," she
cried aghast, and she is very even
tempered woman, too. What do YOU
mean by washing the dishes in the
skillet? You didn't see any thing else?
Why, the dish-pan's under the sink.
And what are you washing them with?
An old sock that the girl uses for an
iron-holder? And you've been wiping
them on the floor scrub cloth! And
there's those fine glasses and the solid
silver spoons in water with an inch of
grease on top of it, and-well, if this is
the way you washed your mothers
dishes"
"Wash your own darned dishes, ther,
madam" shrieked Bixby, as he fed to
his own room.-Time.
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DAYS OF THE WEEK.
Their Names Derived from Those of Poi
ular Heather Gods.

Their Names Derived from Those of Pop
ular Heather Gods.
In ancient times the people wor
SHIPPED images of gods, valiant soldiers
and saints; from some of the most inn
portant of these come the names applied
| to the different days of the week.
From an idol of the sun comes Sunday,
or, in other words, upon the day we
now hold sacred as the Sabbath the
ancients worshiped the sun. 1t is not
the ancient Sabbath of the Jewish peo-
pie, and it is very doubtful even if it is
the Lords Day." spoken of by Paul.
On the second day of the week the old
Saxons worshiped the moon and called
it MONDAY. We have dropped one ''o''
and call it Monday.
Tuisco, from which we derived the
word Tuesday, was one of the most an
cient and popular gods of the Germans,
and the third day of the week was dedi-
Gated to his worship.
Wooden, for whom we have named
Wednesday, was prince of high stand
ing among the Saxons. His image was
prayed to for victory. On the fourth
day after each succeeding sun worship
the old Saxons spent hours invoking
the blessing of old Wooden.
Thor, from which comes Thursday,
was god of the chase, and was repre-
sented as being seated on couch of skins
with twelve stars over his head and hold
ing scepter in his hand.
Friga, the god of Friday, was some
thing of hunter himself. and was rep
resented with drawn sword in one hand
and bow in the other.
Scatter, the god of Saturday, according
to picture of him, must have been per-
fectly wretched. He is thin-visaged,
long-haired, with flowing beard and q
far-away look in his eye: his finger nails
are long and hooked like bird claws.
In his right hand he carries bucket
partially filed with water, strewn over
the surface with fruits and flowers. His
picture is almost counterpart of that
of old Father Time."-St. Louis Re-
nI,h1ic
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-03
CHAPTER II.

The shades of night had fallen with
unusual deliberation. They had fallen
to the extent of about a. m. Rev.
Wobbles awoke with a start. There was
someone in the house-someone who
was stirring stealthily. Rev. Wobbles
was not coward. He arose and pro-
ceeded to investigate. He heard sounds
in the back parlor and went there. The
burglar was there and his dark lantern
made him visible to the naked eye.
! "Ahem." remarked Mr.. Wobbles, by
way Of introducing himself
Throw up your hands, Kissed the
burglar, leve4ing at the same time a
seven-shooter at MIR. Wobbles. To the
distorted vision of the parson the
weapon seemed to be about ninety-six
caliber.
Yet he was not sore afraid. "My
friend" he said, with an attempt at
that Righteousness for which he is noted,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-03

dunn sight easier time. Their perfesh
is full of trials and authorizations,
Specially trials"
Then the good parson talked feelingly
on the subject of covetousness and the
badness of pretty much every thing.
His words certainly had some effect on
the burglars mind, for that worthy
actually smiled and winked approvingly
at his soft mark.
''Now, Mr.. Burglar, just help yourself
and welcome. If there isn't very much
to take remember, pray, that donation
party was here last week"
For a moment the criminals heart was
touched, but only for a moment, and
then he proceeded to fill large bag
which he had brought expressly for this
occasion, with the parsons light and
portable valuables.
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HORTICULTURAL NOTES.
DID you ever try dry bran for packing

DrD you ever try dry bran for packing
apples?
TAKE walk around the orchard and
garden. Have your note book along.
HAVE you protected the young trees
of the orchard against the attacks of
mice?
ABOUT ten million pounds more dried
and evaporated apples were exported
this year than last.
If you have some long manure that
you wish to put to good use, spread it
among the raspberries.
If the ground is not yet frozen it will
yet do to lay down the raspberry and
blackberry bushes and the grapevines.
IT is claimed that the daily consump-
ton of good sound fruit is better than
all the cathartics in the universe. 1t is
pleasanter ito take"
AssoHr your seeds and make list of
what you need for next years planting
do it now-when the opportunity
comes for buying you will know just what
YOU want
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-03
Tho Hotel Detective,

Did you ever notice when you went
into the corridors Of a big hotel a quiet
addressed, unpretentious man moving
around among the people? He looks 3t
every one who comes in and every one
who goes out, not boldly, but indiffer-
emily, apparently. At some he looks
longer than others, but he rarely at
tracts attention. If your eye meets his,
however, you are startled. There is
something keen about his glance u
which you are not prepared. 1t strikes
you then that he is watching you in
particular, and you feel an uncomfort-
able sensation, almost one of guilt. IL
you look his way again to assure your
self that you are not mistaken, he is not
noticing you. His eyes are wandering
aimlessly it seems around the corridor.
OF course he did not glance at you; but
watch him carefully when you go out
again. There is just the slightest move
ment of his head toward you. His eyes
are following you. He would know you
if he saw you again anywhere. That Is
his business. Ia is the hotel detective.
N. Y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-03
FARM AND GARDEN.
A TROUBLESOME WEED,
A Parasitic Plant for Which Farms
Should He on the Lookout.

n PARASITIC flant 1Of winch Farmers
Should He on the Lookout.
Mr.. A. r. Birdsill, Colorado. sends us,
says Farm and Fireside, sprig of alfalfa
covered with delicate vine bearing a
profusion of white flowers, accompanied
with note as follows: 'Please tell me
what the inclosed vine is. We found
one little bunch Of it growing in our
alfalfa of last years sowing. Is it bad
to spread? Will it hurt stock to eat it?"
The plant referred to is a species of
dodder (cuscuta), and belongs to the
natural order convolvulace@. 1t is a
parasitic plant and is only nourished by
its terrestrial roots until it becomes es-
tablished upon the host plant, after
which its connection with the earth is
broken, and it feeds upon the juices of
the host plant.
That the readers of Farm and Fireside
may get an intelligent idea of the plant
and its flowers, we have made drawing
Of h.
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Fig. 1.-Dodder vine and sule, anu o"'n
flowers upon alfalfa. caps u e bears
Fig "A. Head OF flow Co.. .r,,> 70 four
ers-natural size. b. An hohi WV w NV
individual flower c. Two perfect seeds. IL
celled capsule. ID. Seed. ;c av;dant there
e. Section of vine. show a,
ing scale-like appendages. fore, that IN the
branch represented there would have
been produced from 2,4OO to 4,sOO vital
seeds. AS these are hardy and ger
inmate readily, it is hardly necessary to
answer more explicitly the question:
is it bad to spread?' If one little
spray will produce so many seeds, what
number would plant or patch of
plants produce? The seeds (D) are of
good size, and often escape the fan and
sieve in preparing clover seeds for mar
ket, and it is possible the plant in ques-
ton was sown with the alfalfa. Destroy
it. Do not let it ripen its seeds. The
plant will not injure cattle, but would
be of little benefit as feed.
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Fowls in confined runs need extra at.
tention or they get out of condition and
cease to lay, the ground becomes tainted,
and they feed on food defiled by their
own excrement, which naturally pro-
duces loss of health and condition.
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Too Realistic to Please.

Customer am re Cont de Neces
sity. and l come to America to wed &c
Ma'mselle de Soper, re Boston heiress.
have re desire to make ma'mselle one
present suitable to re occasion of her be-
coming re Comtcsse de Necessity.
Jeweler-IIow would you like a pair
of scales with bag OF gold in one scoop
and your name in the other?-Jewelers'
Weakly
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Didn't Let Him Finish.

Greenbagge-Never touch a case, my
boy, that your conscience will not per.
NIT you to advocate and
Briefess (interrupting)-Why, look
here, l heard you defending Hungry
Mike, the burglar, only the other day!
Greenbagge-And, as was about to
say, you might as well abandon your pro-
fession-Life
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-03

easily worked. Any number from to
1899 can be pressed into label with q
single impression. The number ready
for impression is also indicated by
same number appearing on top between
two of the dies, and the operator is thus
enabled to avoid all mistakes. To
avoid the necessity Of setting the whole
machinery for single figures from to
81 these figures appear q second time,
and independently, on the handles, as
appearing in illustration, and impress
sions of them can be taken rapidly
without changing the wkeeL-Popular
Gardening.
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BRAZENING IT OUT.

Principal-Well, Tommy, what can
do for you?
Tommy-My teacher she sent me up
to say that you've been very bad, and
am to give you a severe whipping.
Take off your iacket!-Puck.
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consequence ] am . reformed man. I
wish to return your stuff and give my
self up to Justice"
The burglar insisted on it; he was
turned over to the police. He was tried,
convicted, and under the habitual GRIM
inal act was sentenced to Joliet for life.
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CHAPTER V.

The next day Rev. Mr.. Mobiles was
industriously rewriting his next Sun
days sermon. He had written it before,
but the burglar had inadvertently taken
it with the other plumber. = A
knock at the door in response to the
parsons cordial ''Come," a stranger en-
tered. He was meek hammered, Sc
rtous visaged man. "You do not seem
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-03
He Saved Himself I'm Time,

Ella know am ugly, but I love
you, Erastus. have $40, 600 a year.
Will you marry me?
Erastus-Yes. my darling. I'd marry
you if you were twice as ugly-as you
think you are, my beautiful birdie.--
Epoch.
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81 have not eaten my hands, And
standing with arms akimbo he calmly
faced the now astonished burglar.
swell, l be slugged," calculated the
midnight lawbreaker.
He wasn't accustomed to this.
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EOrceps for Numbering Labels.

The little device for numbering zinc
or lead labels is sent out by German
firm as the best and simplest of its kind,
and costing only about $3.50. 1t is
small enough to be carried in ones
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-03
BE DEPARTED.

He assisted him to the front door, and
even looked up and down the dark street
to make sure that no police officer, ac-
cidentally lingering near, should. ''col-
lar" his burglar.
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OF the sprig re-
ceived Zig. ~
and also a de-
tailed sketch of
the flower and
\its parts Gig. q.
The vine is very
slender, almost
threadlike, and
the minute flow
ers Gig. 9, 81
are produced in
heads of a dozen
or more along the
vine, as repre-
sented at A, Fig.
2. Fig. 1 repre-
sents over one
hundred heads of
flowers. a bout
half of which are
indie a ted. t h e
others being in
the rear and not
shown. If each
of these heads
contained twelve
flowers, which is
a modest esti-
mate, the spray
W would number
1000 flowers. At
c, Fig. 2, is shown
a capsule with
two styles. Each
flower has a cap
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CHAPTER Ill.

Rev. Mr.. Wobbles explained his
friend Pentecost's system, and the burg
lar kindly offered to help put it in prac-
cal operation.
''It's good scheme, acquiescently re-
marked the burglar, land if only moro
coves 'ud adopt it US blokes 'ud have a
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-03

THE science Of mating for best results,
not only in fine points but vigor and
fertility. requires careful study and
practical observation. Study your stock.
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CHAPTER vi.

This chapter, containing. as it did. the
moral to this tale, was too long for this
column and is regretfully omitted
Charles Lederer, in Chicago Herald.
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At the Race Track.

Bowlby-I see Smithers has named
that colt Letters. Rather odd, Ell?
Jockey-Well. / suppose it's because
he is often left at the Post.-N. Y. Sun.
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to help. If he then desired to take my
goods l would make no protest, nor
would l cause his arrest. / would follow
him to the door and invite him to come
again"
As he read this Mr.. Wobbles' face
beamed with sympathizing assent.
'That's what l call good common sense"
he remarked, half aloud. eff Providence
ever sends burglar to my house that is
just the way l trust shall have the
grace to treat him.
All! how little the reverend gentle
man knew of the present. let alone of
the future.
Even then the burglar was on his way
to him.
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IT is often when our hands are fullest
that we do the best work. Many people
at least only rouse up to real effort when
hard pressed; they neee the spur and
lash.-United Presbyterian.
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LAY the climbing roses, when it is
practicable. on the ground and cover
slightly.
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LIBERTY is not q power to ask as We
choose, but to live in fullest accord with
Him ''in whom we live, and move and
have our being."-E P. Powell
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why the Boss Was Ont.

Customer lin barber-shop)-Is the boss
in?
Apprentice-No, sir. He is at home
sick.
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HE RETURNED 1T.

10 know me-. he said, ''but I'm the
burglar who called on you last night I
stole your sermon. But read it and in
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CHAPTER ".

At last the burglar departed. Mr.
Wobbles had helped him pack the bag
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MOBILES BURGLAR.
How a Bold, Bad Thief Was Thor
oughly Reformed.
The Midnigh. Visitor Assisted in Cleaning
Out Residence by the Owner, Who
Invites Him to Call Again
The Outlaw Repents.
CHAPTER /.

hLOEN 1 paragraph IN
the Sunday Herald great
ly interested Rev. Mr..
Wobbles. 1t stated that
Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost
had said that if he
should find a burglar in
his house he would go to
him unarmed and talk
to him as l would to a
friend whom / desired
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Customer-Any thing serious?

Apprentice-Well, l shaved him yes
terday and the doctor says he is very
weak from loss of blood.-N. Y. Ledger.