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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30
Barns, Feed and Water,

Horses may be kept in box stalls deep
ly bedded in straw, and the stalls re-
manned uncleaned for days and weeks
and not become offensive; but the ma
nure cellar for the COW stables
is quite another thing. The farm
er who has concluded to feed a
cheaper food than hay TO his stock, and
put it in condensed form, has very little
need of a three-story barn; and the
basement stable, stone walled, is an ex-
pensive way to obtain, as a rule,
stable inferior to q wooden walled build
ing for cattle. The wooden wall, built
double, with six-inch air space, if built
as it may be, results in a warmer, drier,
lighter and better ventilated stable
than can be obtained with stone walls.
The latter are apt to have q chilly air
in them, II the thermometer does run
high" dampness that is not desirable,
and the light is often defective or all
comes in from one side.-Country Gen.
tleman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30
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FIG. 2.-TwO-wIRED PENCE,


trimmed regularly twice a year, the first
time in June and the second any time
between November and March.
The hedge around pasture had given
the same farmer some trouble. He cut
it off evenly to a height of two feet,
leaving strong stumps four feet high, six
to ten feet apart To these he stapled
two barbed wires, eighteen inches apart,
as shown in Fig. 2. Within year
thereafter the fence was bull-proof, and
it is likely to remain so for an indefi-
mite period.
There is nothing that surpasses Usage
and barbed wire for making perfectly
safe and permanent fence-one that is
absolutely stock-proof, and will con-
tinue so as long as it is properly attend
ed to. Where the Usage orange does
not succeed, barberry, willow or Sibe-
rian crab will serve the purpose. The
wires may be. fastened to small posts, if
necessary, which will hold them until
the trees or bushes lock them firmly in.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30
NEW NOTES FOR WOMEN.

THE Harvard Annex. thrives. Mrs
Louis Agassiz in her report says that
they began ten years ago with twenty
five students. Now they have $50.
ONE of the most successful homeo-
Pathie women physicians of the VESTS
Miss Maria Dean, Of Helena, Mont,
whose income last year was between
81, 900 and s12, 1000 She received he's
medical education in Boston and Ber-
lin.
ACCORDING to the statistics of the last
educational year, there were 80, 900 wom-
en- and Al, 900 men in 'onr. regular coli
leges; the charge can not be made tn 10
women are Indifferent to opportunities
for higher education, and the prospect Is
that in a few years collegiate women
will outnumber college-bred men
The women students have finally con-
quered Basic. which, alone among Swiss
universities, has hitherto refused TO adj
nit them. A formal decree now allows
them to matriculste regularly, but only
by way of experiment; and it is stipu-
lated that if the experiment does not
work well, the doors of the university
shall again be closed to women.
The Attorney General Of Minnesota
gives his opinion as follows in regard to
the right of women to school suffrage in
that State: "A woman is entitled to
vote upon school matters when she is of
the necessary age, twenty-one years,
has resided in the United States one
year, in the district four months, and is
either a citizen of the United States or
has declared her intention to become
a citizen. s
SOME wise real estate agents in Chica-
go have engaged women as assistants.
whose duty it is to show houses. A busy
man, who wants To purchase a home,
has his wife to suit first of an 1t is
generally she who selects the house and
goes around to look at those that are for
sale. The assistant is sent with her
She knows what women hkein the way
of closets, store-rooms, laundrieS pan
tries. ETC., and she shows these Oh with
feminine skill.
Mis-. CHARLOTTE EMERSON Brown.
the newly elected president of the Cen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs, is a
woman of many accomplishments and
of great executive ability. Her home
was in Rockville, Ill, and she had ac-
quired high reputation in theWest as
= teacher before she married Rev. Dr.
VIM. B. Brown, gwell-knownos orthodox
divine of New Jersey, and BROTHER OF
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell Mrs
Brown takes great interest ii womsn's
clubs, and is, one cfFthe smost sctiye
members Of the WoEssnys Club Of
Orange. of which she has very lately
resigned the presidency. Her husband
is in full sympathy with her in her
work.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30
Some POPULAR superstIttons.

One will not be required to go abroad
to find superstitious preventives of dis
ease and remedies for it The writer
has simply called to his aid the women
who happened to be in his home as he
writes this paper for instances of such
antidotes with which they are familiar.
One AYERS that if an onion be stolen
from a grocery store, rubbed on wart
and then buried where no one can find
it, the wart will go away. Another, an
elderly lady of intelligence, declares
that she was once induced to kill a
striped snake and then bite through it's
skin in the hope that thus her teeth
would be preserved from decay. The
same lady says she knew man who
lived on Cape Cod, that was persuaded
by colored physician to bind live
toad on his eyes, and so long as the toad
lived wear it to cure blindness. The
girl in the kitchen solemnly affirms
that she knew a girl near her home,
away down East who caught tree
toads and allowed them to hop from a
tumbler down her throat to cure con-
SUMPTION; when the cold weather came
on and the girl could not find the toads,
she died."-Dr. j. w. Hamilton, in
Chautauuuan.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30

applied. But supposing them to merit
the Judgment bestowed on them, when
the nature of the education to which
woman has been confined in the past is
fully realized, what opportunity has
been hers, aside from exceptional in
stances, for developing any such facul-
ty. except in the direction of just these
trivial things?
The time for any just judgment OF
woman's instincts and capabilities in
the world Of material art is not yet
When she is permitted to stand II, so
ciety on equal terms with man, not as
his rival, but as the complement of his
real being, when she is accorded the
freedom to develop her latent powers in
all the ways that concern her best and
truests life, then may she rightly be
judged, and not till then, by the same
rules as man, and her work be fitly COM
pared with his.
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FIG. 1. THREE-wIRED FENCE.

been obliged to take his hogs out, and
asked me to give him hint or sugges-
ton toward remedying the matter. 1
advised him to cut the entire hedge off
close to the ground, leaving stumps
thirty inches high, about six or eight
feet apart, then fasten to these stumps
three galvanized barbed wires, the low
est six inches from the ground, the sec
ond eight inches above that, and the
third twelve inches above the second,
as shown in Fig. /. This was to be done
in February or March and the hogs kept
out until autumn. This was done, and
the hedge-roots sent upa perfect thicket
of shoots on both sides of the wires,
completely locking them in. In June
these shoots, then four to six feet high,
were cut off to three and half feet in
height and the sides trimmed up until
the hedge was eighteen inches wide.
The latter part of August the hogs were
turned in, and the yard has been occu-
pied by them ever since. In places the
hedge is rubbed smooth off to the wires,
but no farther.
In all of those eight years not pig,
large or small, has escaped from that
lot, and the fence will apparently re-
main ''pig-tight' for a lifetime. 1t is
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
ONLY A WOMAN.


Only a woman, no power hath she
To grasp the laws's deep mystery.
Only woman. she can not feel
The public pulse of woe or veal.
Only n woman, devoid Of mind,
Weak feeble, senseless hating blind
Mothers and teachers, pride OF our schools,
Rank them aliens, criminals fools:
Send them back to the harem's vail
The lands too free when votes prevail.
Only woman, she holds no land.
She pays no tax. she takes no stand
For schools and bonds; she can not wake
TO mighty matters now at stake.
Hers 1t is TO sweetly trust
That only man is wise and Just;
Her own God given right to think
Is but q snare on ruins brink r
Casting ballots is dangerous sport;
The shipof State might fail OF port
II wives and mothers had say
On schools and bonds election day.
Those working womenf who should heed
The tiresome call Of squalid need?
Let them work or let them wed.
Let them look TO men for bread.
Wages. A pretty pass when women try
To join the laborer hue and cry
Why, let them stay at home and wait
Till men can settle this debate. Err
Schooiss Our schools are wen enough;
Those women boards are bosh and stun.
What right have they to have say
About a teacher and his pay?
Saloons? Why. they bring trade 10 town
And women folks would vote II down.
They're awful narrow in their views
And bound the ballot to abuse.
Only a woman. tired and faint
BE she beggar or be she saint
Let her 60 home and scrub and sew,
And ask her Lord what she would know.
Make way for men, good, bad. black, white,
But keep the women out OF sight!
Eva Emery Dye, in Union Signal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30

Hugh Heriot, of that day, was his lead
ers right hand all through that long
hiding and skirmishing that so har-
assed the British from swamp to morass.
Many tale has my grandfather told me
by the big fireplace at Heriot of those
old days, till my heart and head were
full of patriotism. / was fed on love for
my country from my first remembrance;
do you think it will fail me now?"
Marion Lancaster's dark eyes flashed
back the look of her lovers. mo! but
then Will it seem patriotism to them,
Hugh-to your people at homer"
Il don't know. have horrid doubt
sometimes. But it is my country. l
have no other-my own grand, magnifi-
cent country-East, West, North or
South. | fight for its unity. against its
separation, for no latitude or longitude.
If my own people have lived so long in
Georgia that their good Scotch blood
runs thin with the languor of luxury, l
have been here in these hills long
enough to get back the iron into mine
that lay only in allegiance. I must go,
Marion; and l must go on the side of
right You could not keep me, dear, and
know you would not" a.r
A spasm of anguish quiyered over her
beautiful proud face, but her voice was
true and clear. 81 dare not keep you,
Hugh. Women have a sense of honor,
too-a love of country" ... .-
Some of them" said Hugh, bitterly.
He was thinking of his classmate and
chum, whose weak, lovely little tidncee
was doing her utmost to keep him out
of the army day after day. Hugh looked
at Marion with love and pride in his
eyes. you are the right sort" he said,
as he drew her more closely against his
shoulder. 81 wish l knew how things
were with Sandy, he went on. Mother
has no one else on the plantation but
Cornelia. My cousins, l know, have
joined the army of the South. Georgi-
ans born and bred, though Aunt Carr
was Connecticut woman like mother,
they are typical Southerners; they have
neither my Scotch blood nor my North
ern education. l know well which way
is theirs. can't blame them, though L
heartily disagree with them"
Marion looked up at her lover with
something higher than emotion in her
eyes; his justice and candor amazed her
In the seething passions of the time she
had never before heard one just word
uttered for those whose honest ccnvic-
lions arrayed them on the other side.
ut is well now for your mother that
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30

friends in Savannah-and no means tc
make the plantation remunerative, he
sold it for a small sum, and dividing
the proceeds with Cornelia, devoted
himself to tracing Hugh. At last, by
one of those accidents we ought to call
'providents," he discovered his broth.
er's knapsack in the hut of poor man
not far from the battlefield, and by
dint of rewards offered learned that the
man from whom that knapsack was
taken had crept away mortally wound
ed to the shelter of few bushes during
the fight, and had been found there by
the cracker who took possession OF
his arms and his accoutrements.
''But he made a grave for our poor
Hugh, Marion" Alexander said, with a
trembling voice-''a grave where deco
rations never fail. The fellow showed
me where he buried him, between two
pine trees. On one of them climbs a
Cherokee rose that drops it's thick white
petals on the sod. and wild blossoms
have trailed all over the mound, till 1t
is fair as your mothers grave to-day. l
could but think when / saw it that the
God of the brave and the loyal had not
forgotten Hugh's lonely pillow in the
wilderness"
After leaving his brothers place Of
rest, Alexander had opened his knap
sack and found in it Marion's letters
and her picture. AS Hugh had said, the
twin brothers were alike in every fiber,
and Alexander's heart opened at once to
enshriue the lovely woman Hugh had
adored and left for his country.
But what had he to offer her? Before
he dared endeavor to fill his brothers
place he must have home to which he
could ask Marion: he could not honora-
bly, ask her to share his poverty, for it
was utter.
Before long, however, he found a
place in some of the new enterprises of
the South; worked there as manfully as
he had fought, and just as soon as his
position was assured, and he could ask
an absence from the work, he came to
the North, and arriving at Alton on
Memorial Day, was directed where to
find Marion at her mothers grave.
Her whole heart went out to him as
soon as he spoke; for to her he was
Hugh, and no other-the aspect, the
voice, the manner, even the very
thoughts he shared with her. were all
Hugh's, and the mans nobility forbade
him to feel one jealous pang when, with
out even knowing it, over and over she
gave him his brothers name.
Nor did she delay her marriage, as hs
feared might be her wish.
1--WE have been engaged so long" she
answered him, when he asked her, "that
do not feel it is haste. Dear Sandy,
Hugh told me 1 should love you, If I
knew you, better than 1 loved him.
Perhaps shall; yet always shall think
that Decoration Day was also Resurrec-
ton Day to me. Rose Terry Cooke, in
Harpers Bazaar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30
VOTING A DUTY.
The Privilege of the Ballot Not Only a
Question of Right. ..

The Privilege of the Ballot Not Only a
Question of Right.
1t is sometimes asked if women have q
right to vote. The question should rather
be, have they a right not to vote? Take
the matter of schools. Let us suppose,
writes Mrs. A. NJ. Diaz, in the House
keeper, there are half dozen families
living together in a retired location.
They desire a school for their children.
A site is to be chosen, building put
up, a teacher selected. and the course of
studies made out Other matters are to
be considered size and de-
sign of the building, seats, desks,
length of sessions, and whether two or
one. Would the six mothers naturally
say: ''This is matter to be left entire
ly to the fathers of our children. 1t is
sufficiently well informed; neither could
it make any difference, as we should
think exactly as our husbands think; or
if we differed, we should quarrel Home
is our only sphere" Or would the six
fathers say, in regard to the school, that
the whole matter should be settled with
out any suggestions from the mothers?
Every one knows there would be mutual
consultation and expression of opinion.
This would not be asked as right or
granted as n right. 1t would be consid-
cred a matter of course. And not only
so. but a mother who should hold back
and say she had neither time nor inclin-
alton to attend to such things would be
thought strangely indifferent to her
children welfare and neglectful of her
duty. st Ef#f SEA
Now what is true OF six mothers is
true of sixty, of six hundred, of six
thousand, of sixty thousand, of six hun
bred thousand. Numbers can not lessen
the individual motherly responsibility.
The very fact that home is a woman's
sphere makes 1t her duty to see that the
children of that home are trained under
the best possible influences. When the
neighborhood becomes city. and the
school management can not receive in
dividual attention, this management is
left TO representatives, and one queer
thing about the matter is that these rep
resentativeS are in almost all cases men.
They are chosen to do exactly what the
united fathers and mothers of the neigh
btrhood did: yet they are chiefly men,
in most cases wholly so, and are chosen
by mon in nearly ever instance. In the
neighborhoOd. the school affairs con-
cerned every individual. In the CITY,
they arc called public, but they are
private inst the same, and concern every
individual Public affairs are only pri-
vate affairs bundled together because
they can not be handled separately.
At present, mothers rear their chill
dren with care, watch anxiously over
them until they reach the school age
five or six years-then turn them en-
tirely over to tie management of men
selected and chosen by men, and often
the whole matter is settled by personal,
or worse, by political considerations. 1t
is not right that women should shirk
their duty in this way. The duty should
be thrust upon them" They should
take time and seek opportunities for
forming an opinion, and should express
it by ballot. Voting is only another
name for expressing opinion. .s
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30
THE TIME NOT YET.
The Invention Faculty In Woman Not
Fully Developed.

The Invention Faculty In Woman Not
Fully Developed.
An editorial in the Providence Jour
nal recently, on an alleged inferiority
of the inventive faculty in women,
seemed to one reader very inconclusive,
because it failed TO take account of the
most serious facts in the case. A very
little more reflection, says writer in
WOman's Journal would convince the
writer Of the injustice, of pronouncing
thus definitely upon the inventive
power of one-hah the race when, from
the creation down to a period of con-
siderable less than generation, there
was little to call forth this faculty in
woman or to stimulate to its exercise.
In the case of man it has been far other
wise. From the creator he was forced
under God to become a creator. The
necessities of existence demanded this.
He had no choice but to use all the
power he had, outward and inward
alike, for the support of his life. From
the first moment of his conscious life on
earth, his work was to cope with nature
and draw to the utmost from her hidden
resources.
Very different on the other hand was
the case of woman. Instead of the ne
cessity OF finding out any power in her
self, her part without question was as
sumed to be to the will of man, and in
all outward things to have no will of her
own. And so it has been with little
change through all the centuries down
to the exceptional time in which we
now are living. Is it strange that, taking
into our thought all this experience of
limitation and repression. there should
be an inferiority at present manifested?
Would it not rather be one of the great
est maryels if it were otherwise?
One word of nearer application to the
character Of the inventions patented by
women. BY the majority Of men these
would indeed be regarded as trivial
compared with those of the other sex,
and many Of them certainly must be al
lowed to be so, though there are those
among thom Of which women only can
rightly Judge, they alone understanding
the value Of the uses to which these are
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-30
FORMATION OF MILK.
Some of the Latest Theories on this Sui
.... s.E .|.r ject.

Some of the Latest Theories on this Sub
.... t.E #E..r Ject.
The popular idea is that milk is a
product of some internal organ of the
COW, and is run" into the udder through
the big milk veins on the abdomen,
attaching great impor lance to the size
of the veins and the diameter of the
well holes" through which they pass
into the body. At an institute, lately,
says Hoard's Dairyman, q speaker in
some remarks on milk production gave
utterance to the later theory that milk
is not secreted as a perfect milk during
the intervals Of milking, but that the I'D
der simply secretes a quantity of serum
and blood elements, which are elabor-
ated into milk during the process of milk.
ing, and that person blindfolded, could
not by the taste, distinguish between
fresh drawn blood and milk.
His deductions were that the feeding
of mich cows, profitably, must be done
with protein food-bran, oats, peas,
ETC., and less corn meal. The reason is
that these being distinct blood foods
tend direct to the developing of mora
duu UOIbCL OiOO1As OouSihS Sho uuoCE u
secrete larger quantities Of this fluid,
and hence better results. BY expert.
ment it has been found that the udder
before milking contained but small
quantity of milk, scarcely more than a
quart, and the second" flow Of milk is
made from the stored quantity of serum.
and elaborated into milk by nervous
power as the process Of milking goes on.
The proofs at his disposal were, that
dairymen present were forcing up the
butter and milk yields of their dairies,
just as they increased the bran supplies
of the food ration. This was a new
theme for the farmers present. Some
took sidewalk" objection, as all
bosh; but others could see a practical
point for them to put to profitable use.
That of supplying far less fat-formers te
their cows, needed heat by warmer sta
bles, and tepid water to drink, and more
bloodforming foods.
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Except that Il was older, darker, more
worn, as it well might be after the stress
Of war: the smile was sadder and sweeter
than ever Hugh's had been. but it was
Hugh's voice in tone and accent.
There was a long story to tell when
Marion could listen; but through 1t all
she felt strange and CHASTITY sense
that she was listening to tale from
another world, was following a sound In
the dark. az f
Alexander Heriot was indeed the true
image of his brothers; he had been tall
and pale and delicate in his youth; but
when the war broke out, and he openly
avowed his opposition to the course OF
the South, he was obliged for his
mothers and his life's sake to take
refuge in the mountains till he could
find way to join the army Of the
North, as he knew Hugh had done. The
outdoor life and enforced exercise re-
stored him to perfect health, and in six
months he had found the Union army,
but not Hugh; and volunteering into
the ranks, had fought well and bravely
till peace came; then he went back to
his native place only to find his mother
dead, and his sister, the bride Of day.
widowed and alone, but bitter against
him with that intense bitterness that
only exists between those who are kin.
dred, and have been dear to each other.
There too he found the report of Hugh
as ''missing;" and having no home-for
his sister had gone to her husbands