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The Iola register., 1890-11-07
LET HER STAND ALONE.

Girls Should BE Trained to Independ-
ence and Self-Support.
Once give full scope to the expression
OF woman's powers, and in any and
every form of activity that may cores
pond to those powers, relieve alike from
fear of poverty and dependence, and
from the tyranny of enforced inactivity,
and womanhood will blossom into a
beauty and strength and loveliness of
character hitherto undreamed Of. Es-
pecially in the home relations of women
will this be apparent. As an earnest
thinker upon the subject has said, sit
is inevitable that the removal of any
external pressure Of necessity to marry
for the sake of home and support will
have tendency to elevate the standard
of marriage, first among women, and
then among men" One of the greatest
foes to happy marriages is the existence
of the mercenary spirit on the part of
parents and daughters. Nothing will SO
effectually remove 1t as the possession
by young girls and women of salts
factory, honorable, remunerative occu-
pations, and the countenance and ap-
probation of society in the pursuit Of
them. Margaret Fuller said: No
woman can give her hand with dignity
until she can learn to stand alone" The
day is near at hand when the thorough
ly educated woman will be the one ad-
mirably described by Goethe as ''able,
if necessary, to be both father and
mother to her children" Here will be
found the true conditions for forming
love-inspired marriages, and, as a conse-
quence, the ceasing to be of any other
kind. And while we open to them the
door of freedom to find that highest
heaven of earthly happiness-the home
builded upon love and happy marriage,
we at the same time furnish them with
a key of escape from that bastile, that
hell-a marriage from which love and
respect have departed. Helen E.
Starrett, in Forum.
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eNeuIsHwoMEN IN POLITICS.

Their Interest in Public Affairs Has Not
Lessened Their womanly Instincts or
Attractions.
Helen P. Jenkins, president of the
Michigan E. S. A, writes as. follows
concerning the part and interest the
women of England take in politics.
Women in America have something to
learn from our sisters in England. We
fancy because we have Republican
government that progressive ideas in
regard to women are greatly in advance
in our country. This is a mistake.
Women in England, especially the edu-
Gated women, are as familiar with the
workings of government as are English
men. Not cnly have women had muni-
cipal suffrage in England for twenty or
more years, but they fill many public
offices at whsch Mrs. Grundy in Ameri-
ca holds up her hands in holy horror.
These Engl3shwomen have universally
won the confidence and support of the
people. As members of the school board
and guardians of the poor they have
been eminently successful All educat-
ed women in England are familiar with
politics. The Conservative ladies have
their Primrose Leagues, and discuss
political measures, without. it seems, the
least loss of their loveliness. The Lib
eraI ladies have their Liberal Leagues
all over England, and every measure of
the various political parties is analysed
as thoroughly as In mems leagues !
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FREE TRADE AND THE FARMER.

A Comparison Between the Condition of
the EngiIsh Farmer and the American
Agriculturist.
Forty years ago, when it was sought
to change the policy of Great Britain
from protection. which had been in
force for more than 400 years, the farm
ers of that Kingdom were told that
great advantages would inure TO them:
1. In cheaper clothing, implements, ETC.;
q They were told that, with the world
for market, manufactures would pros
per. and those people depending upon
them for livelihood would become
liberal buyers of farm products at en-
HANGED prices
Inasmuch as the same arguments are
urged upon the farmers of this country
as an inducement for following the
British policy, it will be interesting.
and may prove profitable, to note the
effects of that policy upon English agri-
culture. Facts of history are much
safer guides than fne-spun theories OF
economic writer's, or specious arguments
of free trade politicians
England adopted her free trade policy
in 1876, when, according to official re-
ports, her farmers were growing IA, 10o.-
900 acres of wheat oats and barley,
valued at $3.50, 600, 600. Forty-one years
later. in 1887, acreage in the same crops
was 9,s76, 270, with value of $500, ,000,-
600. This in face of the fact that the
population of the Kingdom had increased
from 2s 600, 900 to 81, 600, 900.
rpf iol Ar-
ures, prominent London journal re-
marks: ''Thus we have. with 80 per
cent increase of population, reduced
tillage of land for wheat, barley and
oats of 4. 223, go acres; and besides that,
the serious and lamentable loss of the
purchasing power of the agricultural
products to the extent of ESQ, 000, ,OO0."
That is to say, English farmers, had
$3.50, 000,0 900 less income in 1887 than in
1916, as the result of forty-one years
trial of free trade. The values of agri-
cultural lands have meantime fallen 40
to rs per cent, and the tendency is still
downward. u.st aFa Is
In view of these facts. there is little
room for wonder at existing agitation
for return to the policy of protection.
More than 500 tariff clubs have been
organized in England, not alone by
those engaged in farming, who were
the first sufferers under the policy which
it is urged that this country should
adopt, but by workmen in the mechani-
cal industries as we'll One hundred and
forty public meetings favoring tariff
reform" in the direction Of protection,
were held in England during the first
three months of the present year.
1t will thus be seen that the promises
of prosperity for farmers under free
trade have not been fulfilled in En-
gland. With cheaper clothing and
cheaper food has come diminished abil-
ity to buy. o.
Farmers in this country will do well
to be content with the experience of
their cousins across the water, and con-
tinue their refusal to lend themselves
to a change OF that economic policy
which has brought to the United States
prosperity unparalleled in the worlds
history. H.rr ta
When we buy abroad the sellers profit
remains abroad. When we sell abroad
the buyers profit remains abroad I'm
der protection both these profits remain
at home .# .I "-H |trr
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rhe superlorltr Of woman.

Woman's spiritual superiority over
man isnopoet's fancy. 1t is an absolute
fact. She possesses skeenerdiscrimina
between rightand wrong. Her Judgment
is the moral criterion to which he sub
mits his deeds. If she approve, his con-
science is quiet; If she disapproye, he is
i'll at ease. That is why woman who
blunts her moral perceptions and allows
herself to be dragged down from her
spiritual throne is SO powerful an instru-
ment of evil Therein lies the truth of
the old saying that there is no great
good or great evil in the world which
does not have woman at the bottom Of
it. And underneath all history of na-
tions and men lies the unwritten history
of the home 'The progress of truth"
says Emerson, "will make every house a
shrine" and truth is never so effective
as when it is embodied in woman
Farm and Fireside.
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IN THE EDUCATIONAL FIELD.

OF the 1918 public school teachers in
Minnesota, Gill are women.
In the recent Wyoming election a
woman was elected superintendent Of
schools in every county in the State.
THE Board of Educa tion in Columbus,
o., has decided that hereafter there
shall be no difference in the salaries
paid to men and women who are teach
ing in the public schools. a
Miss LILLE B. MAHAN is the faithful
and efficient County superintendent of
schools in Lee County, KY. She takes
great interest in the duties of her Office,
and there is hardly day when she may
not be seen on her horse en- route to
visit some school in a distant part of the
county. .,,,
Miss SARAH L. ARNOLD is unquestion-
ably one of the most successful women
in educational work who honors the pro-
fession. She combines the ele-
ments of the genius, the en-
thusiast, the scholar. the leader
and the advisor to remarkable degree.
She is still young woman, with the
best of success in her native State
Massachusetts-in the Saratoga Train
ing School, and in her present position
as supervisor of primary schools in Min
neapolis.
Miss REBECcA SToNERoAD, of Mead
vile, Pa, is superintendent of physical
culture over all the schools, numbering
622, in the District of Columbia, and has
three division superintendents under her
direction Miss Stoneroad has the hon.
or of being the first to introduce physi-
cal culture into the public schools in the
United State. She has been employed
in the schools of Washington five years,
until now she stands next to the head Of
the faculty. Her salary in her new and
important position. will be $1,000 per
school year Of nine monthA,
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The Pin Money Question.

Mrs. Whiton-Stone, a wellknown so
ciety woman of Boston, in discussing
the vexed question of wife's pin mon
ey admits that man, as rule, is chival-
rous and generous, but thinks in the do
mestic shuttle the wife hardly gets fair
deal. Most men have business train
ing" she says, land know better than
woman how to apply their knowledge,
but there should be some statement
made by every man to the woman he
marries of his financial condition, as
also to her parents or guardian. She
will then know the whole situation and
be able to govern herself by it. There
should be perfect understanding be-
tween them and there can then be no
difficulty. Let there be no supremacy
of will, only distinct individuality"
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AN AFRICAN ROMANCE.
oHAPrER Ix-CoNr1suED.

CHAPTER IX-CoNTTSuED.
''Because you love her." she Missed in
answer; .,and do not love her also,
who saved me from the babyans! l am
woman as she is, and you are man,
and they say in the kraals that men
love women better than women love
women. But it is lie, though this is
true, that II; woman loves man she
forgets all other love. Have not seen
it? I gather her fowers-beautiful
flowers; climb the rocks where you
would never dare to go to find them;
You pluck piece of orange bloom in the
garden and give it to her. What does
she do?-she takes the orange bloom,
she puts 1t in her breast and lets my
flowers die. call to her-she does not
hear me-she is thinking. You whis-
per to some one far away, and she
hears and smiles. She used to kiss me
sometimes; now she kisses that white
brat you brought, because you brought
it. Oh, see it all-all; have seen it
from the first; you are stealing her
from us. stealing her to yourself, and
those who loved her before you came
are forgotten. Be careful, Macuma-
zahn, be careful, lest / am revenged
upon you. You, you hate me; you
think me half a monkey; that servant
of yours calls me baboon-woman. Well,
] have lived with balloons, and they are
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IN WONAN'S BEHALF.
WOMAN.

A queen IN her beautiful garments,
She stands on the ramparts today
To herald the dawn. and the cerements
OF her past are folded away.
She stands with the prophets and sages;
She speaks. and her tongue is fame
Leaping forth from fires which for ages
Have smoldered in silence and shame.
Her feet have come up from the valleys.
They are climbing the mountains of light.
At her call the world rouses and rallies,
Bearing arms in the battle Of right.
She treads on the serpent that struggles
And grinds out its life meath her heel;
She grapples with sorrows that wrong her,
Converting her woe into veal;
Made strong through her slaughtered affec.
lions,
She comes, with her sons by her side.
An angel of power and protection,
Their beacon light. leader and guide.
No longer timorous being,
To cringe and TO cry meath the rod,
But quick to divine, and far-seeing,
She hastens the purpose of God.
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, in Ladies' Home
Journal
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have not heard that these Liberal La
dies are any less capable mothers or any
less lovely in their husbands eyes. In
deed, ! think their value has increased,
since, as 1 have understood, they are
frequently consulted with upon polit-
ical measures. Mrs. Gladstone is
prominent leader among the Liberal
ladies'
Surely American women need not
fear that an interest in politics (which
means only public measures) will de-
preciate their value to their male
friends, Unless American men are good
deal narrower in their ideas than En-
glishmen. The broader the interests,
the nobler the life, and the nobler those
who recognize this fact.
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A REMARKABLE FREE LIST.

More Than Half the Total Importation VIII
Hereafter Come In Free-Practically All
Direct Taxation, Except on Whisky and
Tobacco, Is Abolished.
The Republican party has enacted the
Mckinley bill after ten months of pro-
found investigation and elaborate de-
bate. It undertakes to say than wiser,
braver, fairer revenue bill has never
been provided in all the history of the
Republic! 1t undertakes to say that
under the operation of this new tariff
the American people will pay smaller
proportion of the expenses Of the Gov
ernment than ever before. This con-
clusion will be forced upon any fair
minded man who takes the trouble to
examine its provisions
In the first place, large part of the
internal revenue taxation on tobacco
has been remitted, and all those annoy
ing special licenses for the sale Of to-
bacco have been abolished. The Amer
lean farmer and rstailer are as free to-
day to sell their tobacco as their wheat
In the next place, practically all di-
rect taxation, except the internal rev.
enue taxes on whisky and tobacco. have
been RENTED to the people. This has
been done by means Of remarkable
enlargement Of the free list It Is prac-
tically true to say that every thing, the
like OF which is not or can not be large
ly produced in this country, has been
placed on the free list A duty on this
class Of articles is a revenue duty and
is paid by the consumer. In this re-
spect it differs entirely from q protect
i've duty, which is often wholly. and
always largely paid by the importer.
By its additions to the free list then,
the Republican party has left in the
peoples pockets sum which last year
amounted to more than s65. 600. 000,
and has opened our ports to mer-
chandise-upon which the American
consumer has heretofore been paying
tax-which was last year imported to
the value of 1886, 406, 00o. This Is nearly
so per cent of the total importation
provided in the Mills bill. When it is
considered that among the foreign prod
ucts transferred by the Republican
party from the dutiable list to the free
list are such universally used articles
as sugar. molasses, needles, dried cur
rants, round or split straw mating, sisal
grass and MANILA for the use in the
manufacture of binding twine, braids,
seeds, hemp, turpentine and jute, the
importance of this legislation may be
appreciated.
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A Professional school for Girls.

A new professional school for girls has
been opened in England at Ben Rhyd-
ding, near Leeds. The school will en-
deavor to prepare girls for those
branches of work which are not as yet
overcrowded by women such as account
ancy, designing, piano-forte tuning,
cooking. etc. Pupils will be taken from
the age of twelve to go through COM
bined course of intellectual, physical
and industrial education, so that at the
end of this course they may not only be
educated women in the usual meaning
of the term, but may be able to earn a
livelihood. Between twelve and fifteen,
physical training is all important, and
the locality has been chosen especially
with this in view.
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river and will be one water there. They
will go up into the clouds again in the
mists of morning,,and there will again
be as they have been. We are the drops
of rain, Macumazahn. When we fall
that is our life. When we sink into the
ground that is death, and when We are
drawn up again to the sky, what is that,
Macumazahn? No! no! when we find we
lose, and when we seem to lose then We
shall really find. / am not Christian.
Macumazahn, but am old and have
watched and seen things that perhaps
Christians do not see. There, / have
spoken. Be happy with your star, and
If it sets, wait, Macumazahn, wait till it
rises again. 1t will not be long; one
day you will go to sleep, then your eyes
will open on another sky, and there your
star will be shining, Macumazahn."
I made no answer at the time. Icould
not bear to talk of such thing. But
often and often in the after years have
thought,o of Indaba-zimbi and his beau
tiful sinile and gathered comfort from
it. He was strange man, this old rain
making savage, and there was more wis
dom in him than in many learned athe-
ists-those spiritual destroyers who. in
the name of progress and humanity,
would divorce hope from life, and leave
us wandering in lonesome, self-conse-
Grated hell
'1ndaba-zimbi," I said, changing the
subject, 81 have something to say"
and / told him of the threats of Hen
drika.
He listened with an unmoved face,
nodding his white lock at intervals as the
narrative went on. But saw that he
was disturbed by 1t.
'.Ascumazahn.r he said ct length, 81
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
CHAPTER x.

On the following morning I had a
conversation with Indaba-zimbi. First
of all, 1 told him that was going to
marry Stella. ...
''Ch!'' he said, 81 thought so, Macuma-
zahn. Did not tell you that you would
find happiness on this journeyP Most
men must be content to watch the Star
from long way of-to you it is given
to wear her on your heart. But remem-
Der, Macumazahn, remember that stars
SET"
''Can you not stop your croaking even
for day?" answered, angrily, for his
words sent thrill of fear through me.
"a true prophet must tell the ill
as well as the good, Macumazahn. /
only speak what is on my mind. But
what of it? What is life but loss, loss
upon loss, till life itself be lost? But in
death we may find all the things that
we have lost. So your father taught,
Macumazahn, and there was wisdom in
his gentleneSs. Oh, do not believe in
death; it is change, that is all, Macuma-
zahn. Look now, the rain falls-the
drops of rain that were once water in
the clouds fall side by side. They sink
into the ground; presently the sun will
come out, the earth will be dry, the
drops will be gone. A fool looks and
says the drops are dead, they will never
be one again, they will never again fall
side by side. But I am a rain-maker,
and / know the ways of rain. 1t is not
true. The drops will drain into the
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that should never get better, that the
hand of death was upon me-
sAh, no, father, not thatl' Stella said,
with cry.
"Yes, love, that, and 1t Is true. Now
you will be able to forget our separation
in the happiness of new meeting" and
he glanced at me and smiled. "Well,
when this knowledge came home to me
1 determined to abandon this place and
trek for the coast, though we'll knew
that the journey would kill me. should
never live to reach it But Stella would,
and it would be better than leaving her
here alone with savages in the wilder
ness. On the very day that had made
up my mind to take this step Stella
found you dying in the Bad Lands,
Allan Quatermain, and brought you
here. She brought you, of all men in
the world; you, whose father had been
my dearest friend, and who once with
your baby hands had saved her life from
fire, that she might live to save yours
from thirst. At the time said little,
but saw the hand of Providence in this.
and / determined to wait and see what
came about between you. At the worst,
if nothing came about, soon learned
that could trust you to see her safely
to the coast after was gone. But many
days ago l knew how it stood between
you, and now things have come about as
l prayed they might. God bless you
both, my children; may you be happy in
your love; may it endure till death and
beyond it. God bless you BOTH" and he
stretched out his hand towards me.
1 took it, and Stella kissed him.
Presently he spoke again:
''It is my intention" no said, 'if you
two consent, to marry you next Sunday.
wish to do so soon, for do not know
how much longer will be allowed to me.
believe that such ceremony, solemn
ly celebrated and entered into before
witnesses, will, under the circumstances,
be perfectly legal; but of course you
will repeat it with every formality the
first moment it lies in your power so to
do. And now there is one more thing.
When 1 left England my fortunes were
in shattered condition; in the course
of years they have recovered themselves;
the accumulated rents, as 1 heard but
recently when the wagons last returned
from Port Natal, have sufflced to pay off
all charges, and there is considerable
balance over. Consequently you will not
marry on nothing, for of course you, Stel-
Ia, are my heiress, and wish to make
stipulation. 1t is this: That so soon as
my death occurs You shall leave this
place and take the first opportunity of
returning to England. 1 do not ask you
to live there always; it might prove too
much for people reared in the wilds,
as both Of you have been. But 1 do ask
you to make it your permanent home.
Do you consent and promise this9"
ST do" answered.
"And so do /" said Stella.
every well," he answered, 'and now
I am tired out. Again God bless you
both and goodnight"
The Iola register., 1890-11-07

One fact is enough for me. The gates
of Castle Garden swing inward. They
do not swing outward to any American
laborer seeking better country than
this. These men who have tofled at
wages in other lands that barely sus-
tanned life. and opened no avenue Of
promise to them or their children. know
the good land Of hope as well as the
swallow knows the land Of summer -
benjamin. Harrison.
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fro BE coNTISUED.I

THE last return of English naval
courts-martial shows that an ordinary
seaman was sentenced to eight years
penal servitude for striking an officer,
and two others were condemned to five
years. penal ssryitads for g similar Of
tense.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07

The savings banks of New York
State, in their reports for the six
raonths ended June 80. 1890, show total
resources Of s657, 1s5, 479. against S632, :
f51, 40 for the corresponding period in
1889. The amount due depositors is
s565. se1. 57s, an increase Of SEQ, 4oS, COS
oyey year ago
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THE STRANGE STORY
Allan Quatermain's Wife
RY M. RInER HAGGARp.

AUTHOR OF "SHE,' "KING SoLoMoS's
g MINEs,' JESS "CLEo-
- yATRA, Enc.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-07-26
New Court house

Local contractors arefnding fault with
Long & KEGS, the architectssof the new
Court House and city hall, because Of
the arbitrary character OF their specifica.
tons; and the taxpayers, too. are some
what uneasy on learning that the com
pletion of the structure will cost in the
neighborhood of $5,00O,O00 instead OF
$1,50O,OO0, rs originally contemplated.
The Tribune of Wednesday sounded an
alarm to the effect that there is wood
chuck somewhere. The favorite contrac
tors seem to be Haglin and Morse, OF
this city. Their bid is on Ortonville
granite, magnificent stone worked by
James Baxter & Son. The diff rence in
bids between the Ortonville granite and
the Lake Superior sand stone is up
wards of 1857 600, but the commissioners
and citizens generally favor the granite.
s. @. Gale says he favors the granite be-
cause it is more durable, richer and more
pleasing 10 the eye, and while the granite
would be washed with every storm the
sand stone would hold the smut and
CRIME in the air. Besides, if granite is
used Minnesota would practically reap
the whole benefit.