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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23

"eating iron," but wished to WOO the
maiden in the American style.
The parents, who had travelled and
seen the new world, agreed to his re-
quest, and allowed him to meet their
daughter in the parlor, unchaperoned.
Tourists who get their information
out of old books will tell you that the
Spanish lover courts his girl by planting
himself under her window and serenad-
ing her with voice and guitar or man
dolin. This was true a century ago;
but even in Washington Irying's day it
was rare sight, as he tells us, and to-
day you would have to go to regions
very remote from railways to see it.
And it seems as If even the Oriental
ish custom of "eating the iron," with its
insulting insinuations against mascu-
line honor and feminine discretion,
were fast becoming obsolete, for al
though l spent many hours in the even
ing walking about the streets in search
of such scenes, came across only one,
writes Henry T. Finck in Scribner's 1t
was at Cordova, and the young lady was
sitting on chair in her iron cage, en-.
gagged in languorous conversation with
her adorer outside.
The opinion prevails that Spanish
girls are restricted in their opportuni-
ties for meeting young men, and as
little considered in the choice Of hus-
band as French girls, but this belief is
utterly erroneous. in Spain, it is true,
young girls of the 'best" families are
not allowed to go across the street with
out chaperon, nor do they walk with
the men in the alameda, but in other
respects they have almost as many OPP
portunities to meet men as German and
English girls.
Instead of being deliberately secluded
from the masculine eyes, as in France,
they are placed on daily exhibition, as
it were, in the alameda. In the even
ing young man, IL relative. or II he
has been once invited by family, may
meet all its members at the tertulia, or
reception in the patio, and while the
elders discourse politics or play cards
the young folks talk and flirt and sing
and dance ad libitum. Should he be a
total stranger he may even thus seek to
win her favor by "eating the iron."
He has perhaps repeatedly seen her on
the alameda, and her eyes may have
told him that she certainly does not alb
hor him. So he follows at a respectful
distance, notes where she lives, and in
the evening seeks a stolen interview at
the barred window. .....
If he finds her agreeable he calls
again, and after he has been there half
dozen times he becomes known as a
novio, which is something halfway be-
tween an admirer and an accepted lover.
A girl may have as many novios as she
chooses to encourage, and If one of them
tires Of her he simply stays away and no
harm is done nor breach-of-promise suit
instituted. There is no formal and pub
lie engagement, as in some European
countries, but after the young man has
come to an understanding with the pa
rents he is permitted to see her inside
Of the iron bars.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
a sosEa,Nc MACHINE.
Bucks County. Pa, Has . Scheme for r.
forming the jolly Good Eello.v.

- a q
Bucks County. Pa, Has . Scheme for Re-
forming the Jolly Good Fellows.
The Philadelphia Record says: The
winter crop of tramps in Bucks and
Montgomery counties is so abundant
this year that ordinary measures for
driving them out have proved futile, and
the county authorities are studying how
best they may dispose of the trouble
some Migrants. On account of the ex-
tremely mild winter the tramps who
usually seek warmer cline in the cold
months are lowering about the comfort
able barns and haystacks in Bucks and
Montgomery counties, and are lodging
also in the railroad stations and conven-
iently open freight-cars. The sober
Migrants are troublesome enough, but
the hundreds of intoxicated tramps are
even worse to deal with, and they not
only defy the orders to "move on" but
also threaten violence to country folks
whose farms they invade.
An old-time Bucks County farmer has
suggested that revival of the SOLDERING
machine that did effective work in
Doylestown thirty or forty years ago
might have q wholesome influence on
the hordes of tramps and make them
shun Bucks County as they would flee
In terror from soap and water. Not
many of the present generation in
Doylestown are familiar with the sober
ing machine, but men who lived there
In the sos and early eos readily remem-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
Honor Among Women.

We are told that "woman's notions of
property are apt to be hazy," and that
the ideas of honor which prevail among
men are not always binding upon wom-
en- Let US consider, writes Emily E.
Cole, in Woman's Journal, if our expert
ence upholds this theory. A lady ply
stefan once told me, 81 find. in my prac-
tice, women generally more anxious
that their bills should be paid than men
are"
How often a woman marries man,
herself free from debt, supposing the
man to be the same! A few months
after marriage she learns from various
bills and notes presented that he is deep
ly in debt, and somehow, the debts are
never cleared away; perhaps they accu-
mulate, although her husband has con-
slant employment at good salary. The
thought of debt is repugnant to her; she
will deny herself necessaries in order to
avoid it. In one case a wife paid from
her own earnings dentists bill con-
tracted by her husband before their
marriage. These are not fancy sketches,
and might be multiplied indefinitely
from our own experiences. Are we to
infer from them that mans sense of
honesty is inferior to woman's? Is it
not as just an inference, and as we'll
sustained by actual experience, as our
opponents deductiono
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
WOMAN SUFFRAGE NOTES.

Miss FLORA WOODWARD TIBBTrs, OF
Ann Arbor, is the first woman in Mich
igan to apply for admission to the bar Of
the Supreme Court
THE Grouse Memorial College for
women, a new institution at Syracuse,
n. Y, gives promise of great success
1t has very fine buildings,
A NUMBER of Chicago lady medicals"
are said to have organized committee
for the purpose of securing an inter
national congress of women physicians
in 1892
The women of Greece have submitted
to the Government petition asking
that as good educational opportunities
be given to the girls of the nation as to
the boys.
THE movement for appointing women
Poor Law Guardians gains ground
yearly in England Candidates have
been nominated recently in London,
Bath. Bromley, kensington Marylebons
and Plymouth.
A WOMAN suffrage club, with forty
charter members, was lately organized
by Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar, at Warren,
Ill Officers are: Mrs. Alice Ely, presi.
dent; Mrs. S. f. Kersler, vice-presi-
dent; Miss Ella Walton, secretary, and
Miss Florence Spofford, treasurer.
The New York Association of Work
ing Girls is composed of eighteen clubs,
with a total membership of 2,635. The
association has rented Is whole houses
and Is rooms. 1t has 1872 classes in
dressmaking, sewing, cooking, etc, %
Libraries, music clubs, IL provident
and benefit schemes, and 13 resolve
clubs.
THE New York Legislature has passed
a law requiring saloon-keepers to secure
an affirmative vote by petition in writ
ing, ''of majority of the residents of
said block, all women over twenty-one
being entitled to vote the same as men,
in any city or village, in favor of the
permission of such liquor traffic in their
neighborhood. '0r'
Mrs. MARY F. SEYMOUR, of New York,
editor of the Business Woman's Journal,
says: "In the city jails, station-houseI
and insane asylums, men only are at
present employed. have always ar.
gued that women prisoners should be at.
tended by their own sex. If women wers
allowed to vote and have voice in poll.
tics, you would see a much-needed re-
form in such matters, and in all ques-
lions that concern. women. You viii
find their suggestions and help invalu-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23

BUCKS COUNTY SOLDERING MACHINE.
Der the unique apparatus, and probably
there is more than one man in DOyles-
town to-day who would hesitate to tell
how well he recalls the old SOLDERING
machine.
The famous mechanism was nothing
more nor less than the shafts and front
wheels of light wagon gear, with big
wooden box fastened firmly upon the
axle, making rough kind ola cart. The
machine was kept in convenient dark
alley, and whenever one of Doylestown's
good citizens came home so filled
with ardent spirits that he could not
handle himself the machine was run out
from its hiding-place, the tipsy man
was seized and dumped upon his back in
the box, and with three or four sturdy
burghers at the shafts he was given a
ride over the rough streets that was
enough to shake every drop of liquor
cut of him and make him soberer and
wiser man.
This heroic treatment was oftenest
applied to intoxicated strangers, but the
moral influence of the machine was all
powerful in preserving the sobriety OF
the townspeople. The circumstances
now are such that many Bucks and
Montgomery County men believe ii
would be we'll to revive this old-time
moral institution.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
THE oAGuERRE MEMORIAL.


American Photographers to Honor the
Memory of the Discoverer of Their
Art. ...
We give herewith an illustration of
the monument which is to be erected by
the photographers of this country to
Daguerre, the discoverer of the art of
permanently fixing an image on a given
surface = which is the art of photog-
raphy. The memorial will be placed in
front of the Smithsonian Institution at
Washington-the nearest body we have
akin to the French Academy - and
Mr.. j. Scott Hartley, selected as the
sculptor, is now carrying out in granite
and bronze the design shown in our
picture. r. .......r... .....# . ......
This design, in word, represents
Fame, reverential figure, framing the
head Of Daguerre with laurel - an en-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
CUNNING POSTAL CARDS.
An Interesting Decision Rendered by ,
United States Court. ~r 30

| An Interesting Declsion Rendered by .
United States Court. b-H.
1t is, by the law of the United States,
a criminal offense, punishable by fms
not exceeding five thousand dollars, or
Imprisonment for not moro than five
years, or by both fine and imprisonment,
for any person to mail postal card con-
tanning written or printed matter of .
'.libelous, scurrilous, defamatory or
| threatening character, or calculated and
obviously intended to reflect injurious
" upon the character or conduct of an
other" A business man in ST. Louis
was, under this law, indicted for sending
the two following postal cards to Gus
toner: 80 tHr
Please cal and settle account, which is long
past due, and for which our collector has called
several times" .rrrI
The customer not paying any atten-
ton to this card, the following postal
was sent to him:
You owe us sIsO. We have called several
times for same. II not paid at once, we shall
place same with our law agency for coilec-
ton"
Judge Thsyer, OF the United States
District Court, held, in this case, that
the sending of the first postal card was
not violation of the law, and that the
| sending of the second postal was such a
violation. The second postal contained
threat to sue, and was calculated and
intended to humiliate and injure the
person addressed in public estimation"
which was not true of the first postal
As to the first postal Judge Thayer
said:
THE language employed is not Of threaten.
ing character. and, in my opinion, no Jury
would be warranted In finding, in view or its
contents that i: was obviously intended by the
writer to reflect injuriously on the character OF
the prison addressed, or to injure or degrade
him in the eyes of the public. tits true that 10
contains a demand for payment Of debt and
says 1t is long past due, and that collector has
called several times, but IL Is couched in re-
spectful terms, and no intent is apparent to
put il in such form as TO attract public notice,
or to make it offensive to the person ad-
dressed"
Judge Thayer's ruling in regard to the
first postal is clearly right. The only
question is whether he does not unduly
press the law in his construction of the
second postal. Business men, il they
send dunning postal cards, would do well
to remind themselves of the exact lam
guage of the law in regard to postal
cards, and carefully avoid whatever will
make the act crime. The design of
Congress is to guard the public againsta
defamatory or corrupting abuse of the
postal card by individual malignity or
corruption. The safe way for business
men is to send dunning letters in sealed
envelops. IN. Y. Independents
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
SOCIAL SAFETY.
Tho World Needs the Votes of Educated

Tho World Needs the Votes of Educated
Women.
In recent address on Education as
Factor in Civilization" Miss Carolfne
Il. LIE Row, of Brooklyn, said: saNf
'1n an age when man lived In castles
with walls three feet thick, iudieious1ys
and tastefully surrounded BY moat and
ditch, drawbridge and portcullis, spend-
ing most of his not particularly valuable
time in shooting arrows and pouring hot
oil from the tops of his towers upon the
heads of his enemies-no one will DENY
that during these little neighborhocd
excitements, so far as woman was con-
cerned, home was the best place for her.
Later, when with axe and gun he clear
ed the forest, and protected his cabin
from wild beasts while seeking food and
fuel for its inmates, it was quite accord
ing to the fitness of things that the
feminine portion of the family should
stay indoors to keep the fire and to cook
the food. But social safety and comfort
are no longer secured by arrow, axe and
gun, but by money made in bust
ness. and votes cast intosa ballot-box.
Womens environment is no longer that
of bears and barbarians. Homemakers
the world is sustained by them, and
their offieeis one of the neblest on earth;
but the appliances which have hghtened
the labor of the outside world are repre-
scented in the household also. Home
will always be good place for woman,
as for man; but it is not always the best \
place, nor by any means the only place.
Perhaps it has been necessary for wom-s
ans education to wait until the worlds
material interests were in a large meas
ure provided for. But physical force has
successfully done its work. while the
world has gradually been growing into
realization of the fact that for its
mental and moral upbuilding the power
of only one-haf of the human race Is
only half sufficient"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
THE MEMORIAL.
blematic trophy extending around

blematic trophy extending around the
earth-and IMPLYING the universally
of his discovery to the human race.
The monument will stand sixteen
feet high, and will rest on pedestal of
rough granite. The proposition for the
erection of this memorial originated in
the Photographers Association of Amer
lea, and it has received the hearty sup
port of all persons connected with this
branch of art. Mr.. ]. Wells Champney
is in charge of the New York COM
mittee in charge of the work, and Mr..
II. McMichael, of Buffalo, n. Y, is
president of the Photographers Associa-
ton of America.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
A Scriptural Tramp.

Tramp Ito the conductor, about to put
him off the train for non-payment OF
fare)-Are You Christian?
CONDUCTOR hope am.
Tramp-And do you follow the pre-.
cepts Of the New Testament?
Conductor-l try to; but what has that
got to do with my putting you off?
Tramp-It has great deal to do with
it. The Bible says: put not of until
tomorrow"
Conductor-That's all right so far as
it goes, but reach little farther and
do that which should be done to-day"
And he bounced him out.-Texas Sift-
ipna
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
A AIlsapprehension.

Young Widow-Mr. Preachley, will
you marry me?
Mr.. Preachley-Well. really, Mrs
Buckner, this is so sudden, and
Young Widow-Oh, we'll, take your
time to think it over. Mr.. Harkins and
l thought we'd like to have you pre-
form the ceremony for us.-Harper's
Razar
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
To Bee Or Not To Bee.

Breslow-Say, Cummings, don't you
want to buy hive of bees?
Cummings-Not 1. Tried 'em year.
and was stung just six hundred and
forty-seven times.
Breslow-They must have been cross.
You didn't get on the right side of 'em.
Cummings-Great Scott! did, too. /
was extra careful about that. but I al
ways seemed to strike the wrong end
The Jury
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
LOVE BARRED OUT.
A Spanish Maiden Wooed in an
Iron Gage.
bow Her Ardent Adorers Are Compelled
to "Eat Iron mo Formal or
Public Engagements
Announced.

One American merchant who had
lived in Malaga more than twenty years
was married to Spanish girl. Spanish
methods of courtship, however, did not
meet his approval. and SO he made up
his mind to do his love-making in his
own fashion. Accordingly he intimated
to the parents, whom he knew to be
favorably disposed toward him, that he
had no desire to spend his evenings
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
Tears That Are Rims and Rents.

Woman-Why don't you try and mend
up your clothes and look semi-respect-
able? What did you ever do, any way.
to get your trousers and coat in such a
condition?
Tramp-Well, mum, it's painful
subject for me to tackle, but I'll be
honest with you My pard died two
years ago and l was so much affected
that burst into tears all over.-The
jury.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23

Mrs. LIDE MERRIwETHEB, of Tennes-
see, says that Southern men are not so
apt to favor woman suffrage as the men
of the North and West, but that when
they do favor it, they surpass all other
men in the chivalrous ardor with which
they take up the idea.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
More Than He Asked For.

Husband-When popped the ques-
ton to you, my dear, asked you for
your hand.
WIfe-Well, didn't you get IL?
Husband-Yes, suppose you gave 1t
to me then; but now you give me moth
ing but tongue.-Arcola Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
Stranded.

eyes; the yacht was completely
wrecked; but the captain saved himself
by clinging to the blight of a rope"
Him! His bark appears to have been
worse than his bight"-Puck.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
They Were Well Known.

Mrs. Gazzam-Mr. Jaysmith is man
of great penetration. even II he is in
clined to be miserly.
Characterization? Oh, yes; every
body knows of his penny traits.-Mun-
sey's Weekly,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23
No Sale Made.

Jack-How will these trousers wear?
Clerk (who has had row with boss)
.-Out!Texas SiftiLgs
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23


ediction, open downward to pronounce q
benediction. A lady was passing along
a street and suddenly ran against
ragged boy, and she said: 81
beg your pardon, my boy, 1 did
not mean to run against you;
1 am very sorry" And The boy
took off the piece of a cap he had
upon his head and said: ''You have my
parding, lady, and you may run agin me
and knock me clear down; won care. :"
And turning to comrade he said:
THAT nearly took me off my feet No
body ever asked my parding before. +"
Kindness, Kindness! Fill the world
with it There has always been too
much disregard for others. Illustrated
in 1850, in England. when $4,000 acres
of marshes were drained for health and
for crop raising and the sportsmen de-
stroyed the drainage works because
they wanted to keep the marshes for
hunting ground, where they could shoot
wild ducks. The same selfishness in
all ages. o, for kindness that would
make our life symphony suggestive of
one Of. the ancient banquets where every
thing was set to music; the plates
brought in and removed to the sound of
music, the motions of the carvers keep
ing time with the music, the converse
ton lifting and dropping with the rising
and falling of the music. But, instead
of the music of an earthly orchestra, it
would be the music of a heavenly
charm. our words the music of kind
thoughts. our steps the music Of helpful
deeds, our smile the music of encourag-
ing looks, our youth and old age the
first and last bars of music conducted
by the pierced hand that was opened in
love and spread downward in benedic-
ton IN OlIvetic heights on Ascension
day.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-02-20
Juventus Takes q Hand.

I've just read the little poem
Describin' our town as still CROWN:
The writer snbsciibes hisself Senex,
From the description his minds convex
Anyhow, l'de Ike 10 see tho color of
his eye,
For he has certainly been drinkin' Of
.'wry."
His POEMS all very aice,
But too like moonshine and rlce-
at don't laat nlways.}
Rut look here, @r Poet.
You're no scrutinizer and you ought or
know it.
For man can stan on The streets
Aad see hundred dead beata.
Your descriptior's too high frrlootir'
II you can't hit thers'sno uea a ssootin' ;
know orr towns very good,
But it can't be scsndalized by drawer
of waters newer OF wepd,
Now don't give US any Of your verses
| know il don't swell! up our purses
Nov you'd better go to werk,
Don't try your daty 10 sburk.
Now they 3 no use in cr talk,n',
Ii you cans pay your way you have ter
tyy walkin'.
DONE be or trampin' down the street,
En- blcwia' every man you hsppan to
meet.
Now "Senex,H by this / mean no harm,
But to make you fill 40 your own barn ;
So don't feel any pain,
But bris,le up and come aga;n.
Juv8kTUs.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-02-20
a Great Opportunity.

No household should be without theii
county paper and great weekly. We
offer our readers the best county paper
in the State, and with it, the mamrc 9th
Il page Weekly Age-uerald, the best fam
lily newspaper in Che South, both for So
and IN addition, give each yearly sub
scriher ticket in the Age-Herald Grand
GiftDistFihution Of SIS, 1853 IN gold & valu
able presents, to be made on the 18th Of
March. Here is an offer everybody
should take advantage Of. Old subscrlb-
ers, by renewing their subscriptions for
Que year, and sending rs two dollars in
time ~ reach Birmingham, prior to
March ID, can have their time advanced
ard get The Age-Iieraid for one wear with
q ticket Ia the GIFT Distribution. Pres,
ent Subscribers to the AGE Herald, BY
accepting olr ofaer, can have tilair time
extended one year from NOV. 1st, 1883,
and participate in the Gift Distribution
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-02-20
Meeting of the County Wheel.

Ths county Wheel of Tishomingo
county, will meet with lliberty
Wheel, s miles southwest of Iuka, a,
10 O'Clock 3. NJ, Prntay, March 7th.
Each subordinate Wheel will DO al.
lowed one delegate and all Wheels
over twenty members will be 81.
lowed one delegate tor zach addi,
uonal twenty members or mnjori-
" traction thereof. Delegates will
please be prompt, as there will be
some important business to attend
TO. Secretaries will please report al
this meeting, With such report oil
their Wheel rs the law requires a,
an annual neoting, also State and
county dues, il any yet anpaid. AS
the Wheel and Alliance are now viz.
tualiy united and working under the
same secret works, we hereby cor.
daily invite the Alliance TO unite
rith US and aid in tho consumms.
ton OF the work of this meeting. "a
that our counsels NAV DO blended in
the support Of our common interest
and the promotion of tho noble
cause OF tho Farmers Alliance and
lndustrisl Union.
NJ. .. ADAMS, President.
u. w. MILFORD, Sec.