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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-01-29
MORNING APPEAL.
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2s
FORCE OF ELECTRICITY.

A visit to the electric light works
will demonstrate to the visitor thu
enormous power OF electricity. The
monster enterprises that have
reached the pinnacle of success,
through this agency, are brought
into public life daily.
Electricity will, within the next
fifty years, be the only motive
power employed by man to take
the place of the engines of the
present day.
In London the most able electri-
clans are now engaged in complet-
ing the largest electric light plant
in the world. It has been found
necessary to erect a special factory
IN which to make the machinery,
and the plant Will furnish light for
the entire city.
All the wire will be underground
and enough will be used to GO
around the world several times.
Since Ben Franklin proved that
electricity was force and identical
with lightning, it has been the sub
ject of much study with scientists.
With Thomas Edison SO deeply
set on controlling it to meet his; de-
naHds, and the best electricians On
the face of the earth bent on ac-
complishing more with this strange
power than any other, it is bound
to be the coming power of the
world.
Already steam engines are be-
coming obsolete and electricity is
fast taking their place.
Our lights, fuel and medicine, in
q great measure, even now spring
directly from the work Of the cleo
tricians who will soon control the
earth, and gas, water and all the
other forces, will be but small fac
tors in comparison to the force
which they make study.
Thomas Edison is now working
on a noncombustible carbon which
will never have to be supP,anted
with fresh material as the carboRs
of today.
The man who 10 fortunate enough
to discover a material that will
stand the current without loss will
be a millionaire the day he makes
TIE discovery.
The inventor Of the carbens now
used secures royalty of enc cent
On each carbon, which allows him
to live in opulence.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-01-29

Our Democratic free-trade con-
tsnporariss do not seem to regard
Mr.. Gladstone as q desirable ally |;
ct least they are not very pro
nsunced in their admiration Of the
ex-Premier's idea that Americs
should devote herself to growing
cheap cereals aud cheap cotton fer
England.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-01-29

The following from Bacsn's
Gloves Labor Lest" act 5 scene / /,
ID understood to contain the longest
word in the English language /:
1.-THE hair of Your head is not as
leug rs Observation-Disclosures /"
Can anyone explain it, mesning7
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-01-29
A NEW EXCUSE.

Now that the jury list has been
increased from 5000 to 5000 the
demand for valid excuses will nee.
sssarily be greater. The inventor
Of q new excuse for avoiding service
upon a jury is the man whom the
merchants and storekeepers of San
Francisco are anxious to do honor
to. We present the gentleman to
their admiration and respect. His
name il Joseph B. Gross OF 80
Lexington avenue, N. Y, and the
ether day, when he was asked
what his excuse was he said he was
engaged in the policy business.
The Judge said he had q right to
excuse a person who was net of
good moral character, and asked
Mr.. Gross:
"Do you not consider yourself q
person Of gesd enough moral char
acter to serve as juror"
.'Ne, sir"
"Are you willing to swear to
that?" the Judge asked.
81 am" Gross answered.
He was sworn and repeated his
statement, and the Court excused
him.
Now all our Jurors have to do is
to swear that they are not OF good
moral character and in some cases
they will net perjure themselves
8. F. Report.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
The Bureau Of Animal Industry.

The notorious Bureau of Animal In
dustry which uses about a hundred
thousand dollars to stamp out "pleuro-
pneumonia" at some point-slaughter-
ing three thousand dollars worth OF
animals and using the balance of the
money for salaries = is charged with
even a much more serious offense. 1t
has been openly charged in Congress
that its agents are systematically en-
gagged in spreading pleuro-pneumonia
in the East. The alleged modus oper-
andi is to find an affected animal-one
that has been exposed, but as yet shows
no symptoms of the disease-and sell it
to an owner of fine beef herd. Then
in due time an agent of the bureau
comes around, finds the disease well
marked in the animal, condemns the
whole herd, which is bought by a
butcher, who is in the conspiracy, at a
low price, and he and the agent divide
the profits. The people will look for
the developments in the case with q
good deal of interest, and If the charge
shall be Observation-Disclosures the Con.
gresham who brought it before Con-
gress declares that he has the evidence
to do--there will be pretty universal
demand to lynch the whole concern.
The bureau has been bad enough in all
conscience, without fastening upon it .
crime like this
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
Potato Test,

Quite an interesting and original test
OF the quality of potatoes was con-
Quoted last season at the Michigan Ag-
ricultural College. Thirty-seven vari-
cites of potatoes were. grown and
accurate records kept to show the COM
parative yields 1t was then proposed
to test the potatoes for quality when
both baked and boiled. There are eight
families living on the college grounds.
Each of these families received during
the winter samples of the different
varieties of potatoes. These were
cooked as nearly alike as possible and
each family marked, on a scale of ten,
the different varieties for color, grain,
flavor and mealinesS In no case was
the name of the potato made known to
the tester. The result is very interest
ing. 1t shows that while the quality of
a potato is very largely determined by
the soil and the manure, there are some
heavy-yielding varieties that can not be
made to produce frst-class tubers. In
this test the heaviest yielders seemed
the poorest in quality, though Monroe
Seeding and Empire State ranked
highest for quality, with Garfield and
Rural New-Yorker next To the T. N
Us surprise Rural Blush is marked far
down on the list, which we assume is
due to the fact that the soil did not suit
this variety. What is the value of such
an experiment? The time is coming
when potatoes can be sold for their
quality and appearance. Is coming?
Is here now. 1t is as possible for potato
growers near large markets to secure an
extra price for extra-quality potatoes as
1t is for dairyman to secure fancy
price for fancy butter. Suit your soil
to potato. The leading grocers of
Newark and other large cities have al
ready begun to try potatoes by what
they call the cooking test" and there
is every evidence that before long a
large part of our potatoes will be sold
for ouRlity.-Rural New Yorker
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18

eyed" infant slept quietly in her arm.
and the train few along over the iron
rails at a very creditable speed.
The moment the cars slackened she
sprang out and rushed into the depot
like a wild creature, spite of her hus
bands OBTAINING hand and voice.
''Lilia, my love! you'll certainly be
killed"
She br2ke from him and was gone.
1t was close, uncarpeted little room,
lighted by one or two Pickering gas
burners, and furnished with wooden
benches extending all around the wall.
A fire burned like red, sullen eye in a
small cylinder stove, and sleepy ticket
agent nodded behind the aperture OF
his inclosed station, no very inviting
prospect to the bewildered travellers.
Be sure enough, there sat the mother
of the seven noisy children, in crumpled
bonnet and travel-stained garb, com.
posedly feeding her small flock, with
relays of biscuit sandwiches and heavy
gingerbread. She looked up, but she
neither sprang to her feet nor extended
her arms for the stray bantling return.
ing to her after such an odd fashion.
"Oh! I thought most likely you'd
bring her back" was the most calmly
spoken greeting of this Spartan matron.
Il supposed there was some mistake.
You'll find your child among those
shawls on the bench yonder."
Mrs. Hawkes. laid the strange baby in
it's mothers lap, and few like an arrow
to little Lily, the petted child, who
never before knew single instant's
neglect, and who now lay with tear.
stained cheeks, airing piteously up at
the flaming gaslights over head.
''My sweetest" she sobbed, straining
it wildly to her breast, "my precious
recovered treasure"
And then-why, of course, Mrs. Lila
Hawkes. went into Mysteries.
The mother opened her eyes.
"Deary me! don't see the sense Of
making such fuss over baby. Just
sprinkle her forehead with water
she'll come to fast enough, I'll be
bound. There, she's all right now.
Tommy" addressing her second hope,
''if you don't stop teasing Marcus
Aurelius, I'll skin ye alive; see #
DON'T"
An hour or two afterward, when Mrs.
Hawkes. sat once more by her own
bright fireside, with Lily nesting,
flushed and rosy, in her lap, John
leaned good-humoredly over her Shout
der TO whisper, in halfmocking tone:
81 saw, Lila, You'll leave off pettinu
strange babies in the cars, now, won't
you?"
sob, joint" answered Lila, "what
difference there is in mothers. How
pity that poor little wretch, with its six
brothers and sisters and that hard, in
different mother!''
but wasn't it a joke, though" re.
sumed Mr.. Hawkes., ''to think we got
hold of the wrong baby?"-Boston Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
what Do You Keep Poultry Fors

Some farmers ignore profits in keep.
ing hens. They wanfsimply enough to
supply their table with eggs and broil-
ers. Others aim for profit as well. Mar
ket poultry is the foundation of the
poultry business, as pork is the founda-
ton of fancy breeds of hogs. Like any
other business it requires knowledge
and experience. Ono who is without
experience should try small number,
learn to care for them and study the
wants and characteristics of each fowl.
He will then be able to increase his
flock Pleasure is a secondary aim If
the aim is to make business of poultry
keeping. Every farmer should keep a
few fowls, they can be cared for with
little attention; when large flock
always means work to the owner
American Agriculturist.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
ALFALFA HAY.
Its Value as Food and How to Cure-A
Farmers Experience With It. u

Hts Value as Food and How to Cure-A
Farmers Experience with IL. II
/ am well satisfied that the real value
of alfalfa is not generally known, even
among very many who have raised it
for years, writes Ira Adams, in an ex-
change. Continuing, he says; Its nu-
tritive qualities are much greater than
1t gets credit for. A stable-keeper in
town told me not long since l was
keeping my 1,400-pound horse too fat.
/ asked him what / should do. He
replied: Feed him less grain" He
was greatly surprised when ! assured
him that / fed him nothing but dry al
falfa. little salt and all the fresh
water he wanted-not an ounce of grain
and that 1 could do as good blowing
with him as Most people do with two
horses. From one COW, common stock,
fed only with alfalfa and beets, and
kept in small yard all the time, sold
S119.75 worth of butter in one year,
besides furnishing my family Of FIVE
with all they needed, as well as milk
and cream. 30 wonder then i value
alfalfa so highly, and know no forage
plant would exchange it for.
The manner of curing depends entire
~ on the time of cutting. My method
is as follows: In hot weather, if cut
early in the morning, rake it into
light windrows in the afternoon, as soon
as it gets thoroughly wilted. This will
generally be in a few hours, unless the
crop is very heavy. The next day, as
soon as the dew is off put it into small
cocks, not over one hundred pounds
each, and shake it up we'll while cock
ing, making the cock as light and as
high as possible. In this way the hot
air circulates through it, and it very
gradually settles as we'll as cures in the
best manner, being almost as green
when dry as before being cut. If cut
very early in the spring or late in the
fall, much more time is required in
curing, but never cock when it feels
heavy, even in hot weather, as some of
the bottom of the cocks will be sure to
be moldy. Haul it to your barn three
or four days after being cooked, especial-
ly in hot weather. Salt freely, and you
will have alfalfa hay of first quality,
and your stock will think Christmas has
come.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
Tree Labels.

what is the best and cheapest label
to put on my trees in the orchard so as
to keep the names long time?" asks a
correspondent of the Country Gentle
man. That paper, in reply, says: We
published several years ago the figure
and description of cheap, simple and
durable label for bearing fruit trees,
the substance of which we repeat. 1t is
made of strips of sheet zinc five or six
inches long and half an inch wide; or
better, about three-fourths of an inch
wide at one end and half that width at
the other. The length and breadth are
not important The name is written on
the wide end with common lead pen
Gil, and the narrow end is coiled around
a small side branch, as represented in
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
TREE LABEL.

the annexed cut 1t has many advan-
tages. 1. One is, its cheapness; the
strips of zinc may be cut by tin-worker
from scrap zinc, and need not cost over
ten cents for hundred. 2. The coil never
cuts the bark of the tree, as with the
common wires, but expands slowly as
the limb grows larger. 8. The name is
written with a common lead pencil as
easily as it is written on card. 4. The
name is durable; we have seen them
when thirty years old, as clear and black
as ever. 1t is proper to add that the
name writes much better on slightly
rusted surface. The writing is never
effaced by weather and rains, and will
last half a century.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18

you don't indeedr'
Every probably DON'T" said Mr.
Hawkes., shouldering a stack of carpet
bags, baskets and shawls. There's the
whistle-come along, and tell thai
sleepy nurse girl of yours to look sharp
IL she expects to get seatr'
OF course it was matter of some con
siderable time to stow Mrs. Lila Hawkes.
safely away, with her baby, her shawls
her novels and her nurse, and by the
time John had established himself Lila
interrupted him with little ecstatic
scream.
"Oh! John, what lovely baby! DOM
she look like our little angel? Dear
dear! how piteously she cries, to be
sure"
"Sure enough" said Mr.. Hawkes., il
an distracted sort of manner.
But Lilia's overlooking maternal sym
pathies were reused.
81 could quiet her, Susan-bring the
little love here!"
The care-worn. mother of seven up
roarious little travellers, looked up in
some surprise as Susan O'Reily clumsily
took the screaming infant from its nest
of cushions by her side, but Lila softly
uttered:
Excuse me, ma'am, but you have SC
many to attend to, and l should SO like
to hold her for few minutes!"
81 do actually believe she'd be glad tc
get rid of it" thought indignant Lila.
"Halloa! Two babies, as liver
calculated John Hawkes., looking up in
some surprise. "Where on earth did
the other one come from?"
"Hush-sh-shIn whispered Lila,
holding up her pretty finger with a
warning gesture.
And, absorbed in these puzzling and
not altogether agreeable meditations,
Mr.. John Hawkes. dropped into fever.
ish slumber, and dreamed that his one
baby had suddenly transformed itself
into a whole orphan asylum full.
When he walked up, with q nervous
start, it was quite dark, save for the
swinging, shifting glare of the lamp
overhead, and Lila was softly murmur-
ing some cradle song, while Susan, with
Tue OIutT llJJl6 OHe SOuuu dSleep Ill ueE
arms, was nodding tremendously to the
jolting of the train.
"Melton!" roared the iron-lunged con-
ductor, putting his head into the car
window and drawing it back again, as if
he had seen a wild beast, after the man.
ner of conductors.
"Here we are Susan" said Lila,
eagerly, take the poor little pet back
to its mother; stay-give me the baby
first. Dear me, John, she has gone"
"Never mind-never mind, said John,
hurriedly; take the little basket and the
striped shawl quick, if you don't want
to be carried on to Allenville."
"But, John -" ...r .....
sob, fiddlesticks!" calculated the per-
turbed husband; there comes Susan
now with your baby! It's all right, 1
tell you. Here we are, and here is Miss
Rourke wal ting for US with the car
rage"
''Oh, isn't it nice to get home!" ex-
claimed Mrs. Hawkes., joyously, as she
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18

"Suit yourself. my DEAR he said,
"and get your things on, quick. I hope
this will cure you of dandling other peo.
Plies babies, Lila
So Mr.. and Mrs. Hawkes., with the Tn.
conscious burden in their arms, took
their hurried way once more toward the
depot.
fortunately we are on time" said
Mr.. Hawkes., with deep sigh of relief.
''The train for Allenville is just going
out"
The three miles between Allenville
and Melton seemed perfectly intermina.
BILE to poor Lila, racked with alternate
hopes and fears, although the ''yellow.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18

came dancing into the bright little par
lor. cit is worth journey any time,
John, to learn to appreciate your own
home properly"
"Why, yes, it is rather snug" said Mr..
Hawkes., rubbing his hands, and looking
complacently around the room.
."And baby has been SO good all the
time-bless mammals own little dark
eyed angel! Give her to mamma, Susan.
And, oh, John-JohnT'
"What the deuce is the matter?"
CALCULATED Mr.. Hawkes., stopping short
in his labor of unlocking portmanteau.
"Why, it's the yellowed-eyed baby, as
sure as I'm living sinner! And where
is little Lily? Stop screaming, Lila,
and answer me. 1t isn't possible-it
can't be" he added with sort of gasp
-''that Susan brought out the wrong
babyy"
Susan burst into a doleful howl at
this stage of affairs, terminating in dis
NAL wall.
"Sure, sir, an wasn't it as dark as a
VOLTS mouth, so it was, and the child.
her all bawlin' and it is meself couldn't
tell the one from t'other. Sure, sir, an it
amt my fault"
"Oh, my baby, my baby screamed
poor Mrs. Hawkes., wildly wringing her
hands together-''my precious birding!
Oh, John, what shall we do?"
Telegraph" answered Mr.. Hawkes.,
succinctly.
tBut will that bring her back?" asked
Lila, with a vague idea of her infant
being inclosed in an envelope and for
wsrded per special messenger, twenty.
i've cents to collect"
Il mean to telegraph on to Allenville,
for of course those other people will
stop there when they discover the ex-
change. 1 will 60 right on by the very
next train"
''And ], too
Lila chung convulsively to her hus-
bands arm.
whats the use Of your going, my
dear?''
81 could not stay at home, John-I
should be distracted. Please-please let
me go?"
Her piteous voice Of appeal melted
Mr.. Hawkes. heSrt.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
PreparinH for Him.

Cornelius" said Mrs. Maddergrass to
her husband, 81 wish you would give
me some instruction in pistol shoot
ing"
'You are not afraid of burglars, are
ysu?' asked Maddergrass.
''No; but understand that a census
taker will be along soon to ask women
how old they are. The Jury.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18

SN'T she pretty,
John, dear? Doesn't
she look exactly
like a little rose
bud?"
IS b e's w ell
enough" answered
the young husband.
with provoking in
difference.
"Well enough!"
mimicked Lila in
a laughing vexa-
t j on j o b n
Hawkes., you really
don't deserve to
own a live baby
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
The census reveals the fact that the

The census reveals the fact that the
little town of Paris, Oswego County.
N. Y, contains thirteen families that
have an aggregate OF 1s5 children.
Jonathan Adams has IA; Jacob Killum,
IS; John Killum, Is; David eaton, IA;
Eben Brown, IS; James Adams Is;
Josiah Cole, Is; John Phillips, IL; Oliver
Phillips, Is; James Brown, 10; William
Tyler, Is; Amos Tyler, II, and Thomas
Todd 90. With the exception of Thomas
Todd, who has twenty-nine olive
branches to his credit none Of these
men have had more than one wife
Todd has had two.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18

The Massachusetts, Ploughman says:
''Grass is about the last of all crops
suitable for a fruit orchard. The count
less millions Of grass roots leave little
moisture for the trees in a dry season,
and usually they need all they can get
But the idea that grass is suitable for
an orchard is hard to kill-hardef, i'm
deed, than the trees are"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
A Comnleta Disguise.

Hojack-Fve been invited to mas
querade ball, and don't know what
disguise to assume.
Passiter-Suppose you wash your face
and go disguised as a gentleman?-
Chicago Inter Ocean
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18

Hooks about the stable, upon which
to hang the lantern, are an excellent
thing. The lantern set down is fire.
quently knocked over, and the straw or
hay set on ire.-American Agricult-
urist
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18

The treasurer's report of the Ameri-
can Tract Society shows that the total
receipts for the year were sS2a a6s, and
that the balance on hand was %, s94-
The society has issued 2, ass distinct
publications. 1t has six periodicals
with an aggregate CIRCULATION of 2.41a1
600.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
SRffInp Eence Posts.

A friend sends a description of his
way of setting fence posts so that they
can not be heaved out by the frosts.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18

SToP churn when butter graduates if
you want to wash out all of the butter
milk.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
A CHOICE OF TEXTS.

Parson Jackson-Ephrim, IL says in
de good book: ''Thou shalt not steal"
Ephraim Johnson-I know dat, sab;
but I've been so lucky thought I'd glib
you one.
Parson jacksonville Lawd lubs .
cheerful giver!-Munsey's Weekly.