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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

amazement to find they were pickanin.
MES! The stage manager thought they
would do as well as white youngsters.
The first Murderer in Macbeth" is not
q super; but the actor who once played
the part with Macready should have
been one. Atrehearsal he was so stupid
that Macready had nail driven into the
floor to show him where to stand. That
night he entered at his cue and stood
anxiously scanning the boards.
"What are you doing?" whispered
Macready.
Looking for that blanked nail.' was
the loud and disguised reply; and ii
brought down the house.
Supers on the French stage have been
known frequently to protest against ap-
pearing as 'the enemy" in patriotic
plays. They think it degrades them.
In melodrama called 1.-THE Battle Of
Waterloo" which was once produced in
London, an English regiment was repre-
scented as retreatiDg before French one.
The house would not stand this, and tho
taunts so affected the retire sting supers
that they turned on the supposed French
and threw them into the pit. t.
Every one knows how dull an affair is
the Bosworth fight in "Richard ILL.,"
but on one occasion in London it was
lively enough. 1t seems that super
had been hurt in the mimic fight the
night before. and the stage manager
had given him a half sovereign as
balm. He told his fellows of his luck
and the next presentation of the fight
was a massacre. What were broken
heads to them when the salve took the
form of half sovereigns?
Speaking of half sovereigns, the pay
of super in Chicago is twenty-five
cents night. The super captain. who
takes the trouble of drilling, deducts
one nights pay from the amount COM
ing to each man. These sums of twenty
five cents are perquisites, for he has
stipend from the theater. ..
Some of these captains are accom-
plished boodlers. Here is one of the
tricks of trade: When super has
worked four or five nights the captain
him on some pretext or other
and takes a new man. But the captain
hands in his bill for the usual quota and
pockets what is due the discharged man.
Then again, there are always young
men who wish to get near to their foot
light idols. and they pay the super cap
tain for the chance to Ego on" This is
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
How to Cure Social Ills.

Rev. S. J. Barrows, editor Of the
Christian Register, said in . recent adj
dress:
We have several kinds of cures for
political and social ills We have a
salt cure. Salt keeps things from spoil
ing; it is the type of the respectable
conservative. Lots wife was of this
type. Salt is a good thing. but when
you have about ninety-eight per cent.
of it in your composition, you are apt to
become little fixed. believe in u GER
tain amount of salt; but the trouble with
a good deal of the salt in our politics
is that it has lost it's SAVIOR, and is fit only
to be trodden under foot of men, An
other cure is the smoke cure. A good
deal of our legislation begins with
smoke and ends in smoke. 1t begins in
tobacco smoke and ends in legislative
smoke. If you put in proposition for
woman suffrage, it is very apt to end in
smoke have noticed that if you take a
ham and smoke it through and through.
it loses it's power of locomotion. and
that is the trouble with our Legislatures;
it has been smoked through and through.
Another cure is the spirit cure. Go TO
the Agassiz Museum, and there you will
find great many bottles filed with al
eohol, and in them are all sorts of crea-
lures, disagreeable-looking specimens
with long names. 1t reminds me of my
experiences in New York when I used
to attend the ward caucus You would
find there great array of bottles, for it
was nearly always held in saloon5 and
you would also find a great many disa-
specimens; but the diff
ference between the museum and the
caucus was that in the museum most of
the alcohol was outside of the speei-
mems, and in the ward caucus most Of
the specimens were outside OF the alco-
hoI- Now, l believe in the sugar cure.
Woman suffrage is simply the formation
of sugar trust only it is a trust with
out any monopoly. We want the sweet
ness of woman-her moral sweetness
and pErity-to sweeten not only the
home, but society and government Is
vel,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
Cheap Jams and .Jerlies.

The retail prices of many jams and
jellies on the market must suggest the
fact to purchasers that they are made
of spurious ingredients What they
are composed of no one but their manu-
facturers know, and they are not at all
likely to enlighten the public. The
Medical Analyst says that eider-makers
furnish all the fruit that the large ma
jority of jam makers use in the manu-
facture of all the raspberry, currant,
ounce, peach, plum and pineapple
jam or fruit butter they make. The
pomace, or that part Of the apple which
is left after having been through the
cider press, and which, of course, is in
a state Of decay, is bought up by these
fruit butter men, boiled, sweetened,
colored frequently with arsenical, an
aline co!ors and favored with poisonous
fiavoring chemicals to suit whatever
labelling is to be put on the package. 1t
is such trash as this that may be found
at all cheap grocers, and which, because
it seems cheap has an enormous sale
among the poor, to largely add to the
infantile diseases and death list
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
Progress in France.

The woman question has been brought
before the French Chamber of Deputies
by NJ. de Caste. Deputy for Finisterre.
Nj. de Caste is a hale old Rriton of
eighty-twO years, who has been an ad
vocate of equal rights for more than
forty years, and has taken up many I'M
popular causes. Most of them have
succeeded, and he believes that the
woman question will be victorious in
France, though not SO soon as in the
United States and Great Britain. NJ. de
Caste proposes areyision Of the constitu-
tion rs follows
That the Senate be reduced from 800 to 200,
and the Chamber to 400; that the seats in both
be equally given 10 men and women over forty;
that, as In the United States no member OF the
Senate can MI any salaried public once; tina,
the President OF the Repablie be elected for
i've years by delegates o. all electors, and be
replaced II he die, retire or go mad within his
term Of once, by q Vice President; and hat
finally women be eligible for the Presidency
or Vice Presidency.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
2 THE STAGE sUPE.
Some Of the Tricks and Manners
Of Animated Scenery.
The Basso Who Couldn't A6ord to Shave
for a saIary-serfs of the Footlights-
A Super who Had Something to
say-Super Captains.

''I am thoroughly tired OUT said a
certain manager one day last week; for
have spent six hours rehearsing sup
ers' for The Dead Heart have ex-
Rmined scores of them, tried the voices
Of some and drilled others. i am hoarse
from yelling and ready to drop"
"But the work wasn't without its re-
deeming features" put in Mr.. w. T.
q Blande, of the 0'Neill company, who
had been helping to bring order out of
chaos. "We saw some queer types of
humanity. There was one big son of the
Emerald Isle with deep bass voice.
We accepted him for the chorus, at the
same time telling him that he would
have to shave his ferocious mustache.
Shave me mustache, is it-niverT
And why nct?' ! asked.
'Shure, I'm afraid If Ibid look like
monkey
"And from his profile as 1 remember
it think his fears were well grounded. :"
Talking of supers," said newspaper
man who was present. 81 have been
haunted by one for seven years. She is
tall, lank Scandinavian girl with
good stage face, but with an expression
as blank as if nothing on earth interest
ed her. l first saw her when there was
an attempt made to lure her and some
companions to the West by scoundrel
who pretended to be theatrical man
ager. Fortunately the plan was baked.
"But what was going to say is that i
have seen her on some stage or other at
least once a month for seven years. I
have seen her in all Nine. Mod ieska's
plays and in all sorts of costumes. She
has trailed the robes of princesses
across the boards of the Chicago Opera
House. have seen her in burlesque
attire at the Peoples posing in her eion.
gated Inconsistencies. She has bent
over the death scenes of Clara Morris,
and in statuesque vacuity and green
gauze has adorned the spectacles of
Kiralfy. In all the scenes of merriment
through which she has moved she has
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
Tas AGE OF SURPRISES.
Advanccmept Made by the
Women In the Last Forty Yenrs.

Encouraging Advancement Made by the
Women In the Last Forty Years.
The age that creates Wyomings and
dethrones Bismarcks may be said to ex-
haust the resources of surprise; and yet
who is wise enough to forecast the re-
suit of it's changes, or calculate with
any precision what will come next? A
few years ago there appeared an able
paper in the Atlantic Monthly dismiss
ing the woman suffrage movement as
something not merely unreasonable but
powerless; it made absolutely no pro-
gress, and indeed no one took it seri-
ously. Yet the author of that paper
voted in Congress the other day to ex-
tend suffrage to women, without restric-
ton, over commonwealth twice as
large as England or as the State of New
York; about equal, that is, to the two
taken together. The new State OF
Wyoming is larger than all the New
England States together, with New Jer-
sey, Delaware and Maryland combined;
it is as large as Virginia and North Car
DINA united; it is larger than all Italy,
and three times as large as IrelandSa
Over its area of nearly hundred thou
sand square miles women will hence
forth vote, as they have already voted,
on an equality with men; and in view of
result so tremendous, one can hardly
wonder if those who have been agitat-
ing for this reform during forty years
should be disposed to shut up their tele-
scopes, like Wellington at Waterloo.
with the calm remark: 1.-THE field is
II ~ 10 -.
Yet, after all, can any one calculate
just what results are to follow when the
whole line shall advance? A quarter of
century ago it seemed as il the one
source of evil to be removed from this
country was human slavery; as if, that
abolished, we should step at one bound
into such career of prosperity and ex-
allied virtue as the world never saw.
Twenty-Five years have passed; it is only
the middle-aged negroes in the former
slave States who can recall the actual
experience of working in the fields I'M
der a taskmaster; but the world and the
flesh and their concomitant5 are still
with US, and, if we may trust the news
papers, the millennium is notyet within
easy reach. Nobody doubts that some
thing is secured, but how much? A
great deal has been gained, no doubt, by
teaching women to read, in spite of the
warnings of Sylvan Marechal against
that dangerous experiment.; but
when we consider that some of
the most unpleasant, not to say
immoral. books recently published
in America have been the work of wom-
en-, it is evident that the world of wom-
ankind has not yet been wholly trans
formed by the possession of the alpha
bet. And so the forces which democrat
ize our public life are not those of
masculine nature only, but of human
nature; and we plainly shall not outwit
those forces by putting in Lucrezia BOr-
gia as Chief Justice and Becky Sharp as
Minister of Finance.-T- W. Higginson,
in Harper's' Bazaar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

. great practice with the Harvard boys
in Boston. Old Jim Taylor has been
super captain for thirty years at the Bos-
ton Theater. His ''tips from the boys"
have provided him with a handsome
competence in his cid age.
InNew York nowadays there are regular
agencies for supplying the theaters with
trained supernumeraries of all kinds.
There are 400 men and 500 women regis
tered as professional supers. The thing
is not yet so Systematically managed in
Chicago, although there are agents who
make the supplying of supers part of
their business. But the super captain
of each theater generally has a constitu-
ency from which he can draw on all or.
binary occasions.-E. j. McPhelin, in
Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
In WOMAN'S BEHALF.
WOMEN OF TO-DAY.
ITO the Remons,rants asa,ns! Woman suf.
rage.

rage.l
You women OF to-day, who fear so much
The woman Of the future. showing how
The dangers Of her course are such and such
What are you nowi
Mothers and wives and housekeepers. forsooth!
Great names. you cry; full scope to rule and
please,
Room for wise age and energetic youth
But are you thesef
Housekceper, Do you then. like those Of
yore,
Keep house with power and pride. with grace
ard easel
No. You keep servants only;-what is NOR
You don't keep these.
Wives say you' wivesl Blessed indeed arc
they
Who hold from Love the everlasting keys,
Keeping their husbands heartsi-alas the day
You don't keep these!
And mothers! Plying Heaven Mark the CRY
From cradle death beds-mothers on their
kneesi
Why, half the children born, as children diel
You don't keep these!
And still the wniling babies come and go,
And homes are waste, and husbands hearts
fly far.
There is no hope, until you dare to know
The thing you are.
Mrs. Charlotte P. Stetson, in Woman's
Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
She logged His Memory.

A little girl who was with her mother
on shopping campaign was promised
some picture cards by the clerk. After
awhile she whispered to her mother:
Mamma, what will we do If he for
gets?"
''Oh, we'll jog his memory" was the
reply.
When the purchasing was completed
both the clerk and mother had forgot
ten, and as the later turned to go she
was surprised to sea the little girl strike
the clerk on the head with her little,
red parasol
"Why, Minnie, what did you do that
for?" she exclaimed.
81 was only ioggin' his remember"
was the replY.-West Shore.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29

The Prohibition State Conventions OF
both Wisconsin and Vermont have pass
ed resolutions declaring THAI the right
of suffrage should not be denied any
person on account Of sex.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
She w.s Peculiar.

McFingle-Miss Backnumber must be
forty odd by this time, Ell?
McFangle-Well, won't vouch for
the forty, but am sure of the odd
Light
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29
A TIMELY REPORT.

Inky Johnsing-Huhl What swelll
Dem close OBJ yours are bout loud mum
ter make de face OBJ clock blush.
Chrome Yallerby Tin thick-skinned
cheerfulness)-Ob clock. Mose9 OATS
all right-dey's second-handi-Texas
Siftings.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-29


Bereavement, sorrow, persecution,
are the Lords harrows to sink the Cos
pei truth into your heart There were
truths that you heard thirty years ago,
but have not affected you until recently.
Some great trouble came over you and
the truth was narrowed in and it has
come up What did God mean in this
country in 1857? For century there
was the Gospel preached, but great
deal of it produced no result. Then
God harnessed wild panic to harrow
of commercial disaster, and that har-
row went down Wall street and up Wall
street, down Third street and up Third
street, and down State street and up
State street until the whole land was
torn to pieces as it had never been be
fore. What followed the harrow? A
great awakening in which there were
500, 900 souls brought into the Kingdom
of our Lord. No harrow, no crop
Again, / remark, in grace, as in the
farm, there must be a reaping. Many
Christians speak of religion as though
it were matter of economics or insur-
ance. They expect to reap in the next
world. o. no! Now is the time to reap
Gather up the joy of the Christian re-
ligion this morning, this afternoon, this
night If you have not as much grace
as you would like to have thank God
for what you have and pray for more
You are no worse enslaved than Joseph,
no worse troubled than was David, no
worse scourged than was Paul. Yet
amid the rafting Of letters and amid
the gloom of dungeons and amid the
horror of shipwreck they triumphed in
the grace Of God The weakest man
here has 500 acres Of spiritual Joy all
ripe. Why do you not go and reap It?
You have been grooming over your in.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-15
ERIcssoN's REMAINS.
Captain schley Delivers the Body to the
Authorities at Stockholm.

STOCKHOLM, September 14th.-The body
of Captain John Ericssen was landed from
the United States war snip Baltimore this
afternoon The transfer was made with
much ceremony. The Reception Commit
tee, which included three officers of the
navy and four nephews of the deceased,
met on board the Baltimore at 1:30 P. NJ.
Speeches were made by Captain Sehley of
the Baltimore in delivering the body to the
American Minister, by the latter in con-
signing it to Admiral Peyron, and by the
Admiral in accepting the charge of the
body.
The remains were then transferred to a
steam barge draped in black and silver,
which was Commanded by Captain of the
Swedish navy. When the funeral barge
arrived at the landing stage the Governor
of Stockholm formally received the body,
which was then borne by American sailors
to large pavilion, Handsomely decorated
in black and gold, > eieh had been created
near the waterside, il the park. While
the body was being carried to the pavilion
the bells were tolled.
An immense crowd assembled, and when
the coffin was placed upon the bier dozens
of wreaths and other floral emblems were
heaped up around it.
The services were very simple. consist
IHS VI Tue Singing Oi ONeuIsn ny AAS anu
the recital of poem.
When the services were concluded the
body was deposited in hearse and pro-
cession formed, in which were representa-
tiges of the King, the Crown Prince and
Governor, the American Ministers 10 Swe-
den and Denmark, the officers Of the war
ship Baltimore and municipal officers. 1t
is estimated that over 10000 persons
viewed the procession.
On arriving at the station, where a spe-
cial train was waiting to convey the body
to Wormlend, the birthplace of Ericsson,
the remains were placed in q handsome
funeral carriage, draped in black. Shortly
after P. N. the train moved slowly out of
the station.
The municipal authorities will give
banquet to the officers of the Baltimore to-
morrow and Tuesday gala performance
will be given in the Opera House in their
honor. Wednesday they will dine with
the King ag Drettneigholm.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-15
Representative Mckinley Expresses His
Views ON the Subject.

Views ON the Subject.
WASHINGTON, September 14th.-Mr. Nc.
Kinley said to-day in the Philadelphia
Press that his views on the subject of re-
eiprocity were the same now as when he
delivered his first tariff speech in this Con-
gress. Then, in referring to speech made
by Mr.. Charlton, member of the Canadian
Parliament, in which that gentleman
showed how Canada had benefited under
reciprocity with the United States, Mr.. Nc
Kinley said:
THE same condition has been true as to
every agreement of reciprocity we have
ever had with any nation of the world. We
have been beaten in every instance from
1854 TO 1866. In twelve years of reciprocity
with Canada we bought of them twice as
much as they bought of US. Ninety.tve
per cent. of the products came into the
United States free of duty. while only 40
per cent. of ours went into Canada. What
these other countries want is q free and
open market in the United States. What
we want, if we ever have reciprocity, must
be reciprocity with equality; reciprocity
that shall be fair; reciprocity that shall be
just; reciprocity that shall give US our share
in the trade or the arrangement that we
make with other nations of the world"
Whenever we have tried reciprocity or
low duty, we have always been the loser.
But leave reciprocity to theillustrious man
who presides over the State Department
under this administration, and to my dis
tinguished friend, the Chairman Of the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs-Mr. Hit. This
is domestic bill. 1t is not a foreign bill" !"
Recurring TO this speech to night Mr.. Nc
Kinley said: 81 have not changed my views
on this subject. Go not think the tariff bill
is the place to embody reciprocity, or that
we shall have any huctusting or uncertain
laws on matter that concerns our foreign
commerce. But I'm willing to try an ex-
pertinent that promises to give Us reciproc-
ity with equality. That is what | want"
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-15
KENNEDY's SPEECH.
| After Revision 1t Appears in the "Con-
gressional Record"

After Revision 1t Appears in the "Con.
gressional Record"
WASHINGTON, September 14th. = The
speech of Representative Kennedy of Ohio
attacking the Senate and Senator QUAY
which crested sensation ten days ago, ap.
peased in the Congressional Record to-day
after having been revised by Mr.. Kennedy
In the attack on the Senate, after declaring
that Ohio was twice within q decade dis.
graced by Senators chosen simply because
they were able to outbid other contestants
there is this sentence: "A sly cloak ot
Senatorial courtesy has been used to hide
infamy and corruption which was discov-
cred, and disgraced body once the proud.
est in the land"
This is the only reference to cloak oi
Senatorial courtesy, all that part declaring
that Senatorial honor has become stencil
in the nostrils of the people, and cloak to
cover up infamies, being omitted.
The changes made so far as Quay is con-
cerDed consist in the excision of the word
criminal when it occurs in two places
and the omission of all mention of Quay
by name.
Where ii was suggested in the original
speech that Judas, when he hanged him
self, had left IAN example for the Mat
Quays well worthy of their imitation y
there is substituted therefor the following:
AN example well worthy of imitation y
The sentence, The Republican party can
not afford to follow the lead of branded
criminals, is struck out altogether, and
later on, where he said "he stands a con-
victed criminal before the bar of public
opinion" change is made to read: He
stands convicted before the bar of public
opinion
Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-15
The WiIliam Tell Episode.

BERNE, September 14th.-The authorities
of the Canton of Schlitz deny that they
ordered the William Tell episode to be ex-
plunged from the school books.
The Bundesriath has sent dispatch to
Colonel Keunzli, Commander in the Can.
ton of Ticino, iDstructing him to imme-
distely dissolve the provincial govern
ment set up by the revolutionists, and
ascertain when the overthrown govern
ment will be ready to resume.
Villages Bombarded.
LONDON September 14th.-French wal
ships have bonn barded several villages in
the Society Islands. The marines landed
and laid waste the country, keeping up the
work of devastation until the natives SUBJ
mitted.
A General Lockout at Southampton.
SOUTHAMPTON, September 14th.-All the
dock companies have decided on general
lockout until further notice. This has
caused much irritation.
Packing House Burned.
HAyRE, September 14th.-The United
Stevedores' sheds, with the freezing cham.
bers, machinery and $4,000 carcasses Of
mutton, was burned to-day.