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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-28
PRAIRIE ROADS.
Suggestions for Making and for Keeping
Them Up.

Suggestions for Making and for Keeping
Them Up.
j. M. Hollingsworth, Ridge Farm,
Ill, writes Orange Judd Farmer: Keep
all stock off the roads We farmers do
nate portion of our farms-on which
we pay taxes, toto the public for
highways-not for COW pastures and
hog lots, but for travel 1t is the height
of absurdity to turn domestic animals
out upon the highway. One great rea-
son why this practice has become so
prevalent is because only about half Of
the strip of land set apart for the high
way purposes is used for roads Let us
be more careful in this direction. En-
force the law on eight foot hedges, and
allow no hedge-brush to remain at the
sides of the road. Keep the weeds also
moved down clean.
It is time we abandoned the practice
of throwing up a high, narrow grade
with a yawning chasm on each side to
collect water, and as the years go by
and better road is determined upon,
putting foot Of gravel in narrow
strip right in the middle of that. In
winter you can hardly keep on top of il,
and in summer you sincerely wish you
could get somewhere else without up
setting.
The gravel and the horses feet are
continually wearing each other out and
much of the time to no purpose. Farm
ers always will object to gravel roads in
summer, and justly, too. A good, dry
dirt track is by far the best for man and
beast, saving much expense for shoeing
and blacksmithing, saving the horses,
and immensely saving the gravel during
a greater part of the year.
Suppose we have fifty-foot roadway.
Allowing six feet on each side between
fence and gutter three feet would do
with wire or picket fencing), and four
feet for gutter and slope, we have left
thirty feet of clear roadway. Make
with an improved grading machine
slightly rounding grade, the middle
about one foot above the cutters. Give
full width. Tile each gutter three or
four feet below the surface; sewer pipe
is good for culverts If put down Deep
Now lay out two fifteen-foot tracks side
by side on the grade, and as fast as the
township can stand it, gravel one of the
tracks. Put all the gravel to one side
Of the middle of the grade. You now
have highway with room for four wag.
ons abreast, and upon which travelling
at any time of year will be pleasure.
With the right kind Of men in charge
the cost of such roads Will not exceed
in the next twenty-five years the entire
cost Of the miserable excuses on which
we now travel.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-28
FIG. g HORSE BARN.

horse barn is ninety by forty-five feet
with twenty-foot posts, and for large
barn it is model of its kind. The
ground floor has single stalls for four
teen horses and six box.stalls besides.
The carriage room is large and oonven-
lent, as are also the harness rooms. The
framework below is Of oak and the en-
tire ground floor is sided and ceiled
with hard pine, finished in hard oil.
Even the heavy timbers and huge beams
that support the loft above are plsned
and oiled to correspond with the pine
ceiling. The loft, though small in COM
parison with the ,ther barns, affords
enough room to store away one hundred
tons of hay. From the cupolas to the
floor a series Of hollow boxes that can
be lowered and raised as the hay is put
in serve as two perfect air-shafts, in
surfing the Thorough keeping Of the hay.
Fig. shows 1.-THE Hill Barn" as it is
called, from the fact that 1t is located
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POLITICAL NOTES,


II Democrats are, we are told,
painting" villages "red" throughout
the country. But their rejoicing won't
half equal that of the great bosses
across the water,-Chicago Inter Ocean.
HThe Republican majority in Ida
no is swelled to a still greater figure by
the later returns. The ''back counties
there are the homes of intelligent and
enlightened people.-Toledo (0) Blade
H The West has no hard feelings
toward the South, Notwithstanding it ID
solidly Democratic; but the West simply
feels that 1t can attend to its own inter
ests as safely as the South can.-Siouj
City Qa) Journal
1.-THE hard simes of America arr
better than the good times of Europe,s
says Senator Hoar. 1t would be difficuls
to state the advantage Of protection in
a more terse and significant torm.-St
Louis Globe-Democrat
Wisconsin has elected Governor
for fun. The people of that State will
discover that it is rather serious joke
when Bishop Katzer calls upon the Leg
islature to do his bidding and repeal the
Bennett law.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
1 According to official reports the
wages Of carpenters average $500 year
in the United States and 1888 in En-
gland. The cost of living in the two
countries is about the same. That Is
what protection does--Chicago Journal
HThe Republicans who remained
away from the polls Tuesday lost the
election to their party. To some extent
the tariff bill may have been an infiu-
ence. The country will be better pre-
paIed to vote on the tariff issue when
the Mckinley bill has been tested prac-
tically.-Kansas City Journal.
Infamous gerrymander and all,
the Democrats have had one Of the
hardest jobs in their history to defeat
Major Mckinley. The tariff champion
comes out of the gallant fight with fly
ing colors, defeated. but not disgraced.
for his opponents have gained an igno-
BILE victory.-Philadelphia Press.
HThe next House will be Demo
cratic, but the Senate and the Adminis-
tration will prevent its doing much
mischief during the next two years By
that time the Mckinley law will have
had fair preliminary trial and will no
longer be considered Democratic bug
aboo 70 brighten timid, unthinking
voters-South Bend Qnd.) Tribune.
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on a hill about half mile from the
other buildings. As will readily be seen,
this differs somewhat from the other
grain and hay barn, and, to my mind,
is really the most practical barn on the
place. Its dimensions are as follows:
Length one hundred and twenty-six
feet, width fifty feet with twenty-four-
foot posts, and only one drive hoor.
The structure stands on a fine
wall ten and one-half feet high.
The barn-yard, while not exactly on the
'Cornsll' plan, 1 think, equally
good. In the center of the yard and d.
rectly back of the doors, big locust posts
set five feet in the ground and rising
above it nearly to the top of the wall,
support an open framework on which
the straw is stacked as it comes from
the thresher. This straw-shed,l covered
baru-yard, or whatever one chooses to
call it. is sided with matched pine, and
will last for years. On stormy days
stock is turned into it to exercise, or If
the basement should be crowded it
would provide warm, comfortable quar-
ters for at least two hundred sheep. ALI
of the barns ana easements have an
abundant and ever-constant supply Of
water provided by cisterns, and a
very complete system of water-works,
connecting with an immense storage
reservoir, holding enough water for a
weeks supply, which is filled by a
twelve-foot windmill from never-failing
springs. The total cost of these three
barns is somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 or $4,000 consider
able sum to put in barns, you may say.
Yes, and this season when was there
Mr.. Brown was building another Of the
same size as THE Hill Barn"
To the common farmer" these barns
would be, of course, extravagant and
unnecessary. But they are just what
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really intended simply to serve aress
Britain's desire to get hold Of the per-
sons Of certain Irish patriots, a treaty
of genuine value has been secured, rati-
fed, and exchanged Under this con-
vention ten different crimes, all of them
ordinary offenses against the common
law of both countries, are included in
the list of extraditable offenses.
Mr.. Blaine's great and helpful plan
to draw the South American Republics
into closer trade relations has reached.
through the Pan-American Congress re-
Gently assembled in Washington, q
stage from which practical negotiation
Is possible. It Is not too much to say
that future generations win regard this
remarkable assembly as one of the most
civilized and benefcent of all inter
national conventions. It met not TO
tear States asunder, but to draw them
together; not to parcel out the booty OF
war, but to adjust the concerns of peace;
not to create animosities, but to bring
about fraternal conditions Every one
of the Republics south of US entertains
for the United States far more cordial
feeling than ever before. Every one Of
them stands ready to throw open its doors
to our production, and already the
treaties are being drawn up which will
mean for this country vastly greater
volume of foreign trade than 1t enjoyed
heretofore, and for them q share of the
marvellous prosperity we have worked
out in this free country.
This is Mr.. Blaine's record during tht
twenty months of his occupation Of the
State Department. It has silenced the
tongues of SANDER and has increased
the remarkable devotion which his
countrymen feel for his great personals
ty.-St. Joseph Mol News.
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AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
BROWNS BIG BARNS.
A Trip Through the Genesee Valley wi

A Trip Through the Genesee valley with
q Camera.
Thomas Brown, of Scottsville, N. Y,
has one of the finest and most product
i've farms in Monroe County. Half OF it
is on the Genesee Flats, at this point
two miles in width, and the other half
is upland. Every thing that wealth
and the architect could do to make
large practical barns with an immense
storage power has been done, and as q
result Mr.. Brown has the finest barns
of their class in the Genesee valley.
The farm is principally devoted to rails
ing hay and wheat and the buildings
are designed chiefly for the storage of
those crops. Fig. / shows the largest
barn and perhaps the most interesting
one owing to its peculiar construction.
1t is 100 feet long, 80 wide. with % foot
posts, and. as the cut shows, a drive
floor running the entire length with
bays on either side. The roof. which
by the way used up $4,000 shingles, is
supported by an ingenious system of
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-28

cleared, and in it was . picture. saw
cave with fire burning in it. Against
the wall of the cave rested Stella. Her
dress was torn almost off her, she looked
dreadfully pale and weary, and her eye
lids were red as though with weep
ing. But she slept, and could almost
think that 1 saw her lips shape my name
in her sleep. Close to her, her head
upon Stella's breast, was little Tota;
she had skin thrown over her to keep
out the night cold. The child was
awake, and appeared to be moaning
with fear. By the fire, and in such a
position that the light fell full upon her
face, and engaged in cooking something
in rough pot shaped from wood, sat
the Baboon-woman, Hendrika. She
was clothed in baboon skins, and her
face had been rubbed with some dark
stain, which was, however, wearing off
it. In the intervals of her cooking she
would turn on Stella her wild eyes, in
which glared visible madness, with an
expression of tenderness that amounted
to worship. Then she would stare at
the poor child and gnash her teeth as
though with hate. Clearly she was
jealous of it. Round the entrance arch
of the cave peeped and peered the heads
Of many balloons. Presently Hendrika
made a sign to one of them; apparently
she did not speak, or rather grunt, in
order not to wake Stella. The brute
hoped forward, and she gave it sec
ond rude wooden pot which was lying
by her. 1t took it and went. The last
thing that saw, as the vision slowly
vanished from the pool, was the dim
shadow of the baboon returning with the
pot full of water.
Presently every thing had gone. 1
ceased to feel strange. There beneath
me was the pool, and at my side stood
Indaba-zimbi, smiling.
"You have seen things" he said.
81 have" 1 answered, and made no
further remark on the matter. What
was there to sayp "Do you know the
path to the caveP' added.
He nodded his head. 81 did not fol-
low it all just now, because it Winds"
he said. "But l know it. We shall
want the ropes"
''Then let US be starting; the men
have eaten"
He nodded his head again, and going
to the men told them to make ready,
adding that Indaba-zimbi knew the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-28
a GAME OF CHESS,

According to Spanish Tradition 1t Led to
| the Discovery of America.
According to an old Spanish tradition,
the discovery Of America was due main
ly to hard-fought game of chess.
For many weary years Columbus had
been seeking the favor and patronage of
the Spanish court for aid to prosecute
his long-cherished plan of voyage of
discovery toward the West. Ferdinand
could not be induced to listen to his
schemes, although Queen Isabella was
not averse to giving him aid. But after
waiting these many years without any
definite aid being rendered, Columbus
had at last resolved to take leave Of the
Spanish country and to appeal to Charles
Will. of France, but before setting forth
from Cordova on this new quest in
search of aid he called to take leave of
their majesties. 1t was about nightfall
when he arrived at the palace, and in
an interview with the Queen he made
known his design. She determined to
make one more effort in behalf of the
discouraged man, and sought Ferdinand
at once.
The King was at that moment alb
sorbed in game of chess with one of
his mobiles, and was inpatient at the in
terruption which so took his mind from
the game that he lost his principal
piece, and he swore roundly at the whole
matter, and at Columbus in particular.
The game went from bad to worse, and
defeat for King Ferdinand seemed i'm
minent.
With the prospect of being van
quished, the King finally told Isabella
that Columbus should be aided or no as
the game resulted, whereupon she bent
all her energies upon the board, and
watched the long contest with intense
interest
The courtiers clustered around, watch
ing the game with amusement, particu-
larry noting the excitement of the King
and the evident satisfaction of his an
tagonist. For hours the play continued,
and Isabella watched and waited.
Finally she leaned toward her husband
and whispered: ''You can checkmate
him in four moves"
Ferdinand on examination found the
Queen correct in her assertion, and soon
the game ended in his favor, and Ferdi-
nand kept good his word, and said that
Columbus should depart on his voyage
of discovery with the title of Admiral
Christian at Work.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-28
WHAT usETEH Be.

Say, amt II strange the store we set
BY some things other folks forgetf
Now, no one seems to care but me
About the time that usetek be,
About the sunny days whose charm
Once useteh finger roun' the farm
About the Sunday afternoons,
The moonlit nights, the cricket tunes,
The peepin' flowers an hutterin' leaves;
An no one nowadays believes
That them old times were better far
Than these dull ones we're hsvin' are
We'velot Of things we hadn't then,
Our sons are 1nebbe smarter men.
But honest folks In them old days
Had truer hearts an kinder ways;
An when think Of things we did
That in the past hev long bin hid,
or all we felt and loved so well,
The simple tales can not tell
A food OF somethin' kinder, higher,
Comes back an sets my heart aare;
1 can't stan still, can't sit down,
LEST must up an hobble roun',
An none but me knows all set
BY some things other folks forget.
p. Macarthur, in Jury.
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THE PRICE OF LUMBER.
Op> of the First Results of the Passage o
the Mckinley BILL

On, of the First Results of the Passage of
the Mckinley BILL
Those who are engaged in an indis-
criminate denunciation of the new
tariff law will be surprised and morti-
fed to learn that one of it's first results
is to be decided reduction in the
prices of lumb Der, product that is in Q
sense one of our necessaries. The Law
provides for lower duties on the differ
ent classes of lumber, to take effect
when the country from which it comes
shall cease to levy an exportduty there.
on. This condition was inserted with
special reference to Canada, and the
Democrats have been proclaiming that
the result would be a refusal on the
part of that country to take the desired
action and so the duties would not be
lowered. 1t could not be expected,
they have loudly urged, that any coun-
try would be influenced by threat Of
retaliation in such = matter. But now
1t appears that Canada is perfectly
willing to make the concession, and
proclamation has been issued by her
Government abolishing the unfriendly
export tax. Therefore, the duties on
lumber will at once go down one-hslf.
This will be so much money saved to
the consumers of lum Der, and the con-
sumers of lumber include all classes Of
people. The Democrats will be sadly
disappointed; but the fact can not be
changed to suit the interests of their
party.
1t is particularly gratifying to note
that this first official response to the
new law and by foreign government
Is amicable and in the direction of en-
larged commercial intercourse. Other
foreign countries may not 80 readily
and graciously adopt such policy, but
there Is reason to believe that in the
course Of time they will all see that ii
is better to deal with the question in q
pleasant spirit than to attempt any
process of antagonism. They must
recognize our right to protect our own
interests. and to require from other ma
lions as many advantages as they OBJ
tain from US. In other words, they can
not blame US for so adjusting our tariff
duties as to discriminate in our own
favor, and to get a fair return for all
the concessions we may make, or pro-
pose to make. That is what reciprocity
signifies. We can not be expected to
provide market for foreign products
on terms fixed by our competitors. No
nation can afford thus to trife with the
rights and the prosperity of the people
who are subject to its laws and charged
with its support and defense. We can
secure increased trade with other coun-
tries only by convincing them that they
will lose something If they deny 1t to
US. 1t Is all q matter Of so using our
power Of taxation as to promote our
welfare; and when foreign Govern
ments learn that we are resolved not to
favor them except as they favor US, they
will consent to treat US much more lib
orally in all respects.-St. Louis Globe
NJ
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Mr.. Brown needs. 1 presume that some
of the readers have been wondering
how on earth he is going to fill them.
II so. they will wonder no longer when
I say that his hay crop will foot up at
least eight hundred tons, and he has,
besides, two hundred acres of wheat
that will yield thirty bushels per acre;
sixty acres of beans and twenty-four
acres of corn. The rest of The farm is
devoted to pasture. f. Dibble.
in Rural New Yorker.
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see the things that lie at your feet.
You hardly believe me now, do you,
Macumazahn? Well, will show you.
Have you any thing on you that the
Star has touched or worm"
I thought for moment, and said that
I had lock of her hair in my pocket.
book. He told me to give it to him. ]
did SO. Going to the fire, he lit the lock
of hair in the fame, and let it burn to
ashes, which he-caught in his left hand.
These ashes he mixed up in q paste
with the juice of one Of the leaves of
the plant / have spoken of.
Now, Macumazahn, shut your eyes, y
he said
Ibid SO, and he rubbed his paste on to
my eyelids- At first it burnt me, then
my head swan strangely. Presently
this effect passed OF, and my brain was
perfectly clear again, but 1 could not
feel the ground with my feet. Indaba-
zimbi led me to the side of the stream.
Beneath US was pool of beautifully
clear water.
Look into the pool, Macumazahn, p
said Indaba-zimbi, and his voice sounded
hollow and far away in my ears.
I looked. The water grew dark; it
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ural products which is involved in the
habit which some hens have of eating
their own eggs. A false bottom is
fastened in the nest-box. consisting Of
two boards, sloping to the center, with
space between just wide enough to
admit an egg. When the hen turns to
cackle over the new-iaid egg and then
to devour it, she Is naturally astonished
to dnd an apparently empty nest 1t Is
not expected that this will work upon
her feelings so much that she will re-
sumo her place and lay another egg,
but it will at least place the one already
laid beyond the reach OF hee beak.--
American Agriculturist
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DIPLOMATIC TRIUMPHS.
Vivid Contrast Between Bayard and tn
Present Secretary of state.

Vivid Contrast Between Bayard and the
Present Secretary of state.
No contrast between the administra-
ton of Mr.. Cleveland and the Repub-
lican Administration that has succeed
ed it is more interesting or suggestive
than that invited by Mr.. Bayard's con-
troll Of the State Department and by
Mr.. Blaine's- The chief feature of Mr..
Bayard's character, as shown in his
service as an executive officer, were
timidity and irresolution. He never
seemed to know what he wanted. Sc
rious scandal surrounded many of his
diplomatic appointees. Some succumbed
to the Establishments of 'pulque,"
some gave great offense by the sulphuric
character Of their language at court,
some were appointed before they had
taken the trouble to ask Congress for
the removal Of their political disabili-
ties, and some, rejected by one court
and then another, were sent trotting
around the universe in search of King
who thought little enough of himself to
receive them!
No incidents Of this kind have marred
the confidence and respect which Mr..
Blaine's administration of the State De-
partment enjoys. His has been q work
of practical accomplishment He found
the country on the verge Of q war with
Germany, and within six months every
difference had been smoothed out and
every principle for which this country
had been contending was enforced in a
treaty. The war in Samoa has ceased
and local administration has been set
mp there, equitable and satisfactory. In
place of the absurd treaty of extradition
between this country and Great Britain,
which Mr.. Basard had negotiated, and
which contained only two or three crimes
In the list of those for which extradi-
ton could be sought, and which was
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Pitting Potatoes.

We are asked by a correspondent to
give directions for pitting pstatoes. In
the first place we advise carefulness
not to put too many together. Build
them up in ridge, sharp ridge, so as
to have say about q hundred bushels in
twenty feet Of length. The base of the
ridge will be about four feet, and the
sides will slope so that the pile will
reach three or four feet in height
Usually a coat of straw Is placed next to
the potatoes, but some of our most ex-
perienced agriculturists prefer to put
six or eight inches Of mellow dirt on
instead of straw, and then the straw on
the dirt The reason given for this is that
the straw becomes damp and If the
frosts reach it they will penetrate it,
while II layer Of mellow dirt is put
next to the potatoes there will be little
danger Of this. If pitting is resorted to
1t should be done with the full expec-
tation of having severe winter. Never
count on mild winter. If you do. you
will be very likely, in vulgar parlance,
to get left Cover thick enough to pre-
vent the frost from reaching them.
This need not be done at first. On the
contrary the straw and dirt as above
mentioned may be applied at first and
then, when freezing weather comes,
apply good coat of coarse manure or
straw.-WeStern Rural.
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Venango County,
Pa, is a sec
tional view of a
device W hic b,
though not new,
is quite effective
/ n preventing
the unproftably
prompt consump-
A.. "a