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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
The Practical Side of Hypnotism.

Let one think and say what one will
about the crudity and intellectual bar
barism of much of the philosophizing Of
our contemporary nerve-doctors; let one
dislike as much as one may please the
thoroughly materialistic attitude of
mind which many of them show; still
their work, as whole, is sanctitied by
its positive, practical fertility. Theo-
rems about the unity of the thinking
principle will always be, as they always
have been, barren; but observations OF
fact lead 70 new issues in infnitum.
And when one reflects that nothing less
than the cure of insanity-that direst OF
human affiictions-lics possibly at the
end of such inquiries as those which NJ.
Janet and his confreres are beginning,
one feels as IL the disdain which some
spiritualistic psychologists exhibit for
such researches were very poorly placed.
The way to redeem people from barbar-
ism is not to stand aloof and sheer at
their awkward attempts but to show
them how to do the same things better.
Ordinary hypnotic suggestion is prov
ing itself immensely fertile in the
therapeutic field, and the subtler knowl-
edge of sub-conscious states which we
are now gaining will cerpinly increase
our powers in this directfSh many fold.
Prof. William James, in Scribner.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
A Pleasure for q Child.

Blessed be the hand that prepares pleas
ure for q child, for there is no saying when
and where il may again bloom forth. Does
not almost every body remember some kind
hearted man who showed him a kindness in
the quiet days of his childhood. Tie writer
Of this reccllects himself at this moment as
barefooted lad standing at the wooden
fence Of poor little garden in his own
native village. With longing eyes he
gszed on the flowers that were blooming
there quietly in the brightness of Sum
day morning. The possessor came forth
from his little cottage; he was a wood
cutter by trade, and spent the whole week
at his work in the woods. He was come
into his garden to gather flowers to stick in
bis coat when he went to church He saw
the boy, and, breaking Of the most beauti-
full of his caruations-itwas streaked with
red and white-gave it to him. Neither the
giver nor the receiver spoke word; and
with bounding steps the boy ran home.
And now, here at vast distance from that
home, after so many events of 50 many
years, the feeling of gratitude which agi-
tated the breast Of that boy expresses il
self on paper. The csrnation has long since
withered, but now It blooms sfresh---N. z.
Ledger.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
IN WOMAN'S WORLD.

OF the seven hundred physicians prac-
ticing in San Francisco fifty-six are
women.
Miss AMELIA B. EDWARDS has lee
tured at Wellesley and Smith Colleges,
to the great pleasure and profit of the
students.
The nurses of Rockville, ILL.,, have
formed an association and publish the
Journal of Practical Nursing. They are
interested in forming similar organiza-
tions in other places.
A LAW school for the purpose of giving
to the ladies' of New York and others
the opportunity to study law and to
qualify themselves for the management
Of their own affairs, has been started.
EIGHT HUNDRED salesgirls in Berlin
belong to a union which has had re-
markable success. For ten cents a
month they receive medical care. medi-
cine and help in getting work. The Or
ganization was started by a woman's
club in that city.
THE two college girls who ran news
paper in Jersey have tired of their
work. They succeeded better than
many men could have done. When
they decided little while ago to aban-
don their business there was great re-
greet on the part of their subscribers.
Miss RICHARDS, formerly of the Bos-
ton training school, is superintendent Of
the first Christian training school for
nurses in Japan in connection
with the Doshisha Hospital. This
training school and hospital will be the
basis Of a contemplated medical school
in connection with Doshisha College.
THE facilities for according an adj
multiplying. A new college for women
was recently opened in Baltimore, under
the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. Another important stepin this
direction, is the decision Of the trustees
Of Columbia College, that the proposed
annex may be established to give women
the full benefit of the college corps of
instructors, etc. Records of the colleges
in Europe and this country show that
women equal and often surpass men in
scholarship.
BALTIMORE has very successful home
for working girls, started four years ago
by Rev. Edmund Didier, pastor Of st.
Vincents Church. The building is
owned by the association and will &C
commodate sixty boarders, who pay
81. so per week. There is a regular hour
for the good breakfast that is served,
and the girls, who mostly work in shops,
are provided with lunch of bread and
butter, meat and pie, and upon their re-
turn from work find hot dinner wait
ing for them. The home is non-sec-
tartan, and the only requirement is
reference attesting that the applicant is
of respectable character.
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CAPABLE INSTRUCTORS,

Daniel Webster on the Mothers Of the
Coming Voters.
Hon. Geo. S. Hale said in a recent I'd.
dress:
Daniel Webster, when he spoke to the
women Of Richmond (for he condescend-
ed to think women were entitled to lis
ten to the speeches OF great politicians
and statesmen upon some subiecss)
said:
"Bonaparte once asked Madame De
Stael in what manner he could best pro-
mote the happiness of France. Her re-
ply is full Of political wisdom. She
said: Instruct the mothers Of the
French people," In what shall they
instruct their children? They will inn
press" said Webster, upon their chill
dren the truth that the exercise of
the elective franchise is social duty of
as solemn nature as man can be called
to perform; that man may not inno-
Gently trife with his vote; that every
free elector is a trustee as we'll for
others as himself, and that every man
and every measure he supports has an
important bearing on the interests Of
others, as we'll as his own. 1t is in the
inculcation of high and pure morals such
as these, that, in free republic. woman
performs her sacred duty and fulils her
destiny
And are women competent to inculcate
pure and high morals such as these. and
incompetent to practice them and to set
the example Of performing the duty
they inculcate?
And are these women competent to in
culcate such morals, to instruct their
sons how to exercise the elective fran
chise, so that Webster. could say that
nothing could be done for great coun-
try so effective for the promotion of its
honor and virtue and prosperity as to in
struct them, and shall We say that they
are incapable and unfit to do the thing
which they can instruct their sons to do?
There can be no greaterabsurdity than to
deny this privilege to those whom you
believe to be capable Of instructing
others in the exercise Of that very
privilege.
am sure that no argument could be
needed upon such proposition as this.
We believe that the mother is capable
Of instructing her son from the time she
takes him in her arms until she carries
him through the school and watches
him in the college and brings him to
that age at which by our laws he is en-
titled to exercise the elective franchise,
but that then she is incapable to act
with him. Then this young son which
she has brought to that time, and has
fitted for the great Office to which he is
admitted. is to exercise it as her master
and dictator. without any opening for a
share on her part in the exercise Of pow
er given to him and in whose exercise
you invite her to instruct him.
can not conceive of a more absurd
condition of things than that the woman
who is capable of doing all this is not
capable to do the lesser thing.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

[. You can't make a farmer, who
that the tariff is tax on the clothes
for the benefit of the manufacturer.
The farmer Is no fool.-Springfeld
Mass Union.
BIn the last illinois Legislature
the Republicans had . majority OF
twenty-four on joint ballot. Illinois is
usually reliable Republican State,
but in body as large as the Legisla-
ture this is a small margin. The Re-
publicans Of the Commonwealth, how
ever, undoubtedly grasp the situation.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
tEIf Senator Allison declares in IA
vor of revision OF the tariff he will be
formulating only sound Republican doc
trine. No sensible man denies that the
tariff should be revised. The only
claim made by Republicans is that the
work should be done by men friendly to
American institutions and American
pros perity.-Minneapolis Journal
Democratic newspapers are con-
stantly talking of the whitening in
fuence of the protective tariff. There
was one increase of 5000, 900 in the
total deposits Of the Maine Savings
Bank last year, and gain of 1880 in
the number Of depositors. If that's
the whitening influence the people Of
Maine will undoubtedly say: ''Let her
wither"-Toledo Blade.
BRichard Green Wood, otherwise
known as "Ballot-Box Wood" is said
to have made q confession in which he
accuses Ex-Governor Foraker Of direct
ing his movements in the Ohio ballot
box forgeries. Mr.. Wood, Of Ohio, re-
sembles Mr.. Woodruff, Of Chicago, in
that he is so mountainous liar that
nobody knows which Of his confessions.
if any, to believe.-Chicago Journal
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whole week OF, At busy time Of year.
| and at time, too. whom there Is no
special reason, such Is Is presented by
the imminencs of National campaign.
for any great interest in politics; and
that they should do this simply to show
their enthusiasm for party principles
and to assist in organizing for party
work in the future-this in itself is .
noteworthy sign of the vitality and
vigor that pervades the Republican
hosts. The number Of young men was
remarkable. The majority of the dele
gates were men under Is or perhaps un-
der 40, years of age.
In the third place, the convention was
. success in the presentation to South
ern people Of Republican doctrine.
While there were very few remarkably
good speakers present, still, as a whole.
the speeches were excellent The local
papers, while exceedingly bitter in their
editorials, gave pretty full and entire
ly fair report in their news columns; so
that their readers had such a dose Of
Republican doctrine for two or three
days as perhaps they have never had be-
fore.
1t is too soon yet to judge Of any ef-
feet the convention may have had on
Democratic sentiment in Tennessee.
That remains to be seen. The Demo-
Gratis of Nashville, with one or two
notable exceptions, kept pretty well
aloof from the delegates. and there
was not much interchange of opinions,
therefore, between Democrats and Re-
publicans. Still, the Democrats at
least saw several hundred good-looking
and we'll dressed Republicans and must
have had realizing sense Of the fact
that there are a good many more white
Republicans than black ones. They
ought to have seen, too, that white men
and black men can associate on q foot
ing of perfect political equality without
contamination or loss of self-respect-
There is one other effect Of the con-
vention that Is by no means the least
on the delegates from Northern States
Of a somewhat closer acquaintance with
the people and the country Of Tennes-
see. That effect might have been much
greater IL the Tennesseeans theueelves
had cared to make it so. The conven-
ton offered to the business men Of
Nashville an opportunity to advertise
their city and State such as they are not
likely to have again in years 1t is
their own fault that they took so little
advantage Of it.
After all. the greatest good that re-
suits from such gathering Is that
which comes from the meeting. in fra
ternal intercourse, of Republicans from
all parts of the Union. They compare
notes. They learn more in a few min
utes' conversation than they would in
year otherwise. They can see which
are the best localities for missionary
work. They learn to know each other
and to depend upon each other. They
acquire feeling of brotherhood, re-
alization of the common purpose that
actuates them and comprehension Of
the real greatness Of the country and Of
the party that must rule its future des-
TIMES, that they could get in no other
way so we'll or so fully. In this respect
every one who attended it will testify
that the Nashville convention was in
deed . success.-N. Y. Mail and Ex.
preSS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
A Fact to BE Remembered.

Several Bourbon papers are exciting
themselves over the fact that the surg
ency deficiency" bill, contains an item
of s21, 500, 900 on account of pensions.
This does not mean that the pension
expenditures have exceeded the esti-
mates for the fiscal year by this
amount, the fact being that the total
for the year will be about s97, 900. 600. or
$4,000, 600 more than last year. The ap-
preparation for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1889, was so small that de-
fciency appropriation of IS, 900, 600 was
exhausted, and in addition nearly 81
00O, 600 was drawn from the approprt-
alton of the current fiscal year The
present deficiency is therefore the re-
suit of the enmity of the Democratic
majority in the last Congress to the
Just claim OF disabled veterans, for the
appropriations for the presen. fiscal
year-which ends on June 80 next
were made by the last Congress, not By
the present one--Toledo (O.) Blade.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
Worse Than the Heather.

Rev. John L Scudder. of Jersey City.
in recent sermon. trained his batteries
upon the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Democratic
election frauds in Now Jersey, sayin2
among other things: Il was born and
bred in heather lands and have wit
messed all manner of human deprayity,
but l must confess that l never saw
such rank heathenism as has been re-
vealed in Hudson County during ths
last few years Savag-s are saints in
comparison with these political rsscals
who invest our city and are systematic
ally destroying its good name The
audacious tampering with the ballot
box during the last election is enough
to make every Sc Prospecting citizen
blush all over and hide his head for
shame. We must acknowledge with RS
luctance that we are no longer freeren,
but only the dupes and slaves Of
usurpinS minority Of political bum
merS."
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SHIRiN.s


Ny love lies lightly on her couch.
So fair, SO pure. The silence that she keeps
Is Death, .sey tell me, as crouch
Beside her; but know she only sleeps.
gaze upon her calm, still face,
And can not fnd there susht to make ms
weee. 3D.
The subtle smile, the tender grace,
OF waking hours st;li haunt her placid sleep.
Within her closed eyes know
The love-light fingers yet this res;fui day;
And can almost catch the slow,
a. Sweet solemn word her fragrant lips would
The slender hand that wore chain
OF loving deeds around her winsome way
Would answer still the CRY of pain.
: As sunlight answers to the call of day.
The gentle heart know still CLOVIS
fsultless crystal ehalice, pure and white
And holds sacred sorrow for our woes
Asdew-drops hold the tender tears night
whste'er her strange, sweet silence be.
It is not Death. For though her lips ere
dumb,
Her soul stni surely speaks TO me;
And blessed answers to my questions come.
And thus learn q secret sweet:
She whispers low: I'VE have not loved in
vain;
For though no more on earth we meet
Beyond the vail our hearts are one again.
"For Love Is measured nor BY time.
Nor place, nor state, nor any known degree,
But lofty, infinite, sublime,
Includes all space and all Eterrityr'
And thus know tits but to wait
With perfect patience some few yearuing
years
Till mag pass the ivory gate
Ny love has passed, unstsined by idle tears.
And Sc sacred. calm delight
Within my hopeful heart Its music makes;
And SO bid my love Goodnight"
And wait to have her claim me when she
wakes
Thomas Addison, in Harpers Weekly.
o Dprxsan wora y,oa,,ry ,screa.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
THE LEAGUE CONVENTION.
1t Was . Gratifying Success in More Than
One Respect.

Now that the delegates to the recent
convention Of Republican League clubs
have returned to their homes and the
city Of Nashville ID once more absorbed
in local and State affairs, it is possible
20 make review of the work of the
convention and in some degree to esti-
mate its effects.
We think it will be generally ad-
mitted, by Democrats as we'll as Repub-
Gcans, that tn, convention was a sue
cess in several respects.
In the first place, it was a success in
numbers More than four hundred DEL
egates were in attendance-more than
were at the meeting in Baltimore year
ago, when the Inauguration of Repub-
lican President might have been ex-
pected to insure an especially large at
tendance.
In the second place. it vas success
In enthusiasm. That four hundred men
mainly business msn-should take .
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
Unjust Taxation.

1t was taxation without representa-
ton" that directly brought on the Revo-
lutionary War. Our fathers would not
pay taxes unless they were represented,
and declared that to pay taxes, when
they were denied representation, would
be slavery" robbery" and tyranny"
But, says the Woman's Journal, women
are taxed all over the Republic without
being allowed representation. The
women of Massachusetts, alone pay an
nual taxes to the amount of 81, 600, 900.
How vast the aggregate Of the taxes
paid by all the unrepresented women of
the United States! Why, the Stamp Act,
over which our fathers famed in right
eous Indignation and refused to pay, so
that the British Government yielded
and withdrew it, was not expected to
put into the treasury more than $780,
Oo0! Is it not plain that women need
the ballot for their own protection?
Only by complete enfranchisement,
which viii place women on an equal legal
footing with the men of the nation, can
these centuries of dishonor be brought
to an honorable close. Nor will this &C.
complish any quick-coming millennium.
1t will only bring in the beginning of the
end, when manly men, and womanly
woman, equal in rights, but different in
function. shall work together for the ac-
complishment Of righteousness and JUS
tice in national as in family life.
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, STOOD still, plunged
| in thought. Then,
by hazard, as it were.
1 took up the wreath
of roses and looked
thereon. How long
l stood so Iknew not.
but when next l
lifted my eyes they
fell upon the form of
larmion, whom, indeed,
had altogether forgot
4. And though at the
oment I thought but
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
CHAPTER XIII

OF TIE WORDS AND JEALOUSY OF cHARM1oS;
OF TIE. LAUGHTER or sARMsCHIs; OF The
MAKING READY FOR TIE DEED OF BLOOD:
T. AND OF TIE MESSAGE OF TRE OLD WIFE,
: Aqua
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04

A WoKxISGwoMES's Union has hoen
started in Los Angeles. 1t aims to es-
tablisb a lunch and dining room and
gymnasium as soon as possible. and
will. doubtless. do great amouss Of
good.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
Coile-ia Training.

A mistake lies in assuming that the
education most desirable for women who
will marry is totally different from the
education most desirable for women
who will not marry. A collegiate train
ing, says writer on Woman Suffrage,
accompanied, as college training is COM
ing more and more to be, with exercise
and gymnastics, tends to give woman
sound health, and also to cultivate,
strengthen and broaden her understand
ing. Good health and a trained mind
will stand her in good stead in any posi-
ton in life-will make her efficient and
marry, or efficient and successful in
some other profession, if marriage
should not come to her. A certain gen.
eral foundation of liberal culture is
thought desirable for a young man, no
matter whether he is to be doctor, law
yer or minister. Nobody objects to it on
the ground that it is giving like train
ing for totally unlike professions. 1t is
the foundation of all professions. To be
sure agreat deal of all scholastic rubbish,
of little use either to men or to women,
is still taught in most colleges This
could be eliminated with advantage to
both sexes. But the advocates of equal
rights believe that the same basis of
general culture which is good for q man,
no matter whether he is to enter the
law or the ministry, is also good for a
woman, no matter whether she is to
marry or do something else. 1t is also
to be remembered that marriage does
not necessarily absorb a woman's whole
time and energies. She may be sue
cessful mother, and also success as
literary woman or lecturer on cookery
Examples are not lacking.
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CLEOPATRA.
Being an Account Of the Fall and
Vengeance Of Harmaehis, the
Royal Egyptian,
AS SET FORTH BY Els OWN HAND.

By H. RIDER HAGGARp,
Author or King SoIon1on's Mines"
She" Allan Quaternlain,"
Etc, Etc, Etc
Illustrated by NIcEOLL. after CATION WOOD.
VILE and GRERFEyHA6EN
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"What right have If' she asked, looking
up, her dark eyes all afood with tears that
ran down her sweet face like the dew of
morning down hly's heart. 'Whst right
have Il Q Harnachisl art thou blinds
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in blood-even in the blood Of Cleopatra,
who trusted mel Why could not hate her
as should There had been a time when
had looked on this act Of vengeance with
somewhat of \ righteous glow OF zeal And
row-and now, why, would frankly give
my royal birthright to be free from its ne
cess:ty, But, alas! knew that there was
no escape must drain the cup or be for
ever cast away. / felt the eyes of Egypt
watching he, and the eyes Of Esypt's Gods.
/ prayed TO my Mother Isis to give me
strength to do this deed, and prayed as 1
had never prayed before; and, 0 wonder,
no answer came. Nay, how was thisl
" hat then had loosed the link between US
that, for the first time, the Goddess deigned
no reply TO her chosen servant. Could it be
that l had sinned in heart against her!
What had Charulou said-that loved Gle
opatra. Was this sickness love! Nay, a
thousand times nayi-'twas but the revolt
of Nature against deed Of treachery and
blood. The Goddess did but try my
strength. or perchauce she also turned her
holy countenance from blood.
1rose filed with despair, and went about
my work like man without q soul l
conned the fatal Lists and noted all the plans
-sy, in ny brain l gathered up the very
words Of that proclamation Of my Royalty
which on the morrow should issue to the
startled world.
Citizens of Alexandria and dwellers in
the land Of Egypt" it began, Cleopatra,
the Macedonian, hath, by the command of
the Gods, suffered justice for her crimes"
All these and other things Ibid, but did
them as a man without q soul-as man
moved by a force from without and not
from within And so the minutes wore
away. In the thsrd hour of the afternoon
house where lodged my uncle Seps-that |
same house to which some three months
gone 1 had been brought when, for the |
first time, 1 entered Alexandria And here
found assembled IL secret conclaye the |
leaders Ct the revolt in the city, to the num-