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The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Benefits From Harrison's Tour.

Globe Democrat: No doubt now is
felt on any side that the presidents tour
through the south will help the party
and the president. 1t will benefit the
party by destroying some of the preju,
dice which has been felt agal nst II in
the ex-slave states, and, reciprocally, il
will benefit the president by leading
him to see the folly of any resort to
drastic legislation in dealing with that
section. The presidents addresses
have left an excellent impression on
the minds Of those who heard or read
them. Republican presidents have not
visited the south as often as they should
have done, perhaps, and some of their
appointees in that region, al
though from no fault OF
the appointing power, have not
been as creditable as could have been
desired. However, this latter failing is
a thing of the past, and there has been
but little cause for fault-fnding in the
south in this respect during the present
administration. The south sees in Gen.
eral Harrison not only the president of
the United States but the leader of a
party whose policy has dotted the plains
and valleys Of every state below the old
line OF Mason and Dixon with factories,
has added immensely to the number
and variety of the industries of the re-
giOn, and has made the business pros
perity and enterprise National, which
was hitherto local and sectional
The absence of political excitement
puts the Southern people in the frame
OF mind to be especially appreciative of
the presidents visit and his words.
There is spirit of tolerance in his
remarks which will be estimated at
their rightful value by the locality to
which they have been addressed. By
the interchange of courtesies hostili-
ties will be buried, old aspirities and
contentious will be forgotten. and ma
tionality OF feeling and asperation will
be created. The beneficial effect OF this
condition will be heightened by the
knowledge that the sectional legislation
looked for by the south year ago will
not be attempted again. A few republi-
cans are endeavoring to bring
up the Federal election project
for service in the national cam
palgn next year, but they will fail in
this task. The leaders of the party,
General Harrison among the rest, are
opposed to this scheme, and it can not
obtain the party endorsement. The
canvass in 1892 will be waged on nation
al issues and national spirit is ex-
pected in the south as well as in the
north: No republican, we presume, Is
counting on the conversion OF any o.
the southern states next year to repub-
licanism by the presidents missionary
work among them, but every intelli-
gent person, democrat as well as repub
lican, believes that republican chances
in the country at large have been vastly
improved thereby.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Roses.

why are these roses so much high
er than those?" | asked of a florist
the other day. The cheaper ones
were Bon Silene buds at 60 cents a
dozen--lovely little things in form
color, and odor. The others were
larger and more delicate in color and
more than twice the price. The
florists explanation was prompt and
simple. 'The more expensive roses,
said he, ''are produced by nipping of
many of the young buds and letting
the strength of the rose tree 60 to
those that remain. In this way large
roses are produced. but, of course,
they are few in number. The Bon
Silene is permitted to flower to its full.
and the result is cheap and abundant
buds"
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Gresham and the Alliance.

Just what harm Judge Walter Q.
Gresham ever did to the farmers alli-
ance is not known. He must have done
something terrible, or that party Of
hope would not have seized upon him
as q leader. He has been put up for the
presidential nomination by prominent
alliance politician, who predicts the
Judge will be the next occupant OF the
white house. The prediction may be
verified, and, II it is, the Judge will
make a good president. Not many men
in the country are better qualified. But
even the Judges great qualifications
will not enable him to win, If handi-
capped by an alliance nomination.
1t is not at all likely that the Judge
has been consulted in this matter. He
is republican, and has not yet shown
any disposition to change his political
faith. II nominated by the party Of
whom he is an honored member he
would undoubtedly sccept the honor,
and would just as undoubtedly be elect
ed. But he, or any other man, will be
defeated il nominated by the alliance in
opposition to the two great parties.
The third party movement started by
the agricultural politicians has as yet
gained but little momentum, and there
have been doubts expressed in several
quarters that such a party will be
formed. AS the alliance stands to-day
there is not sufficient coalition of its
branches to gain for it the appellation
party" Until a coalition ensues
any talk OF nomination is, to say the
least, foolish. If such party is formed
it will be, as shown before, party
VIII ich by its nature will reintroduce
sectional controversy. 1t will arraigr
the south and west against the north
and east, and it does not seem that such
struggle will be profitable to any one.
Under these circumstances it is not
probable that Judge Gresham will ac.
cept the alliance nomination If entered.
The farmers may have the pleasure OF
voting for the Judge is they stick to
the republican party, which has been
ever since its formation the party OF
the people and for the people, but
hardly other wise.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
rhe Alllanc. L.ri.l.tur...

Another state legislature from which
great reforms were expected In the in
terest of the farmers, has adjourned
without accomplishing anything. Min.
nesota has followed Immediately In the
footsteps OF Kansas and Nebraska. In
all three OF these states, the alliance
men or Independents held control and
could dictate legislation. They cut out
q big programme for themselves. They
were going TO reform government and
change everything, to crush out the
railroads and other monopolies, to
make everybody rich, prosperous and
happy.
We have already noticed the COM
plete and indeed confessed failure Of the
reformers in Kansas. With fifty rail
road bills to choose from, they passed
none, and they failed altogether with
the legislation by which they hoped 10
drive capital from the state, as though
it was a public enemy.
It was much the same in Nebraska.
There also the doctrine was proclaimed
that the railroads were the natural
enemies OF tine farmers, and law WIS
proposed which established maximum
rate sufficient to have bankrupted the
companies. 1t passed one branch Of the
legislature, and 1t looked for while as
though Nebraska would at least dc
something; but the bill was afterward
beaten, and the Nebraska Legislature
has since adjourned without accomplish.
ing anything.
The Minnesota legislature has follow
ed with complete failure OF all the
many measures which were brought
forward in the supposed interest of the
farmers alliance. This is not surpris.
ing, or indeed unexpected. The alli-
ance tried to do too much, and urged
too many and too wild schemes. Had
it contented itself with suggesting the
correction OF some abuses; had it pro-
posed moderate measures which would
have commanded public support, in
stead of extreme and class legislation,
we would not have been treated to the
extraordinary spectacle OF the adjourn
ment of these three great granger legis-
latures without accomplishing any
thing they undertook.-New Orleans
III,
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
Heavy Storm Mt Atchison.

KANSAS CITY, May A special
from Atchison, KS, says:
A terrific rain and hail storm occurred
here to-day. The rain fell in torrents
and the hail fell thickly. Much damage
was done to fruit trees. The tracks OF
the Burlington & Missouri River rail
road, between Atchison and Fall City,
were washed away and the Lincoln
train was obliged to go by the way of
st. Joseph. The Hannibal and Santa
Fe tracks at Rushville were also
washed away, and traffic was stopped for
some hours. The break was soon
closed and traffic has been resumed.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
SpreadiDY.

LONDON. May 4.-Inluenza is spread
ing rapidly in London. Many barris.
ters and officials of the law courts have
been attacked by the disease. Many
members of the house of lords and house
OF commons are suffering seriously from
the effects of the epidemic. At Woolwich
arsenal many of the workmen are suf-
fering from influenza that the work
there is greatly interfered with.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

General Butler is preparing to take
to the United States Supreme Court,
the case of Mrs. johnson, over which he
has had SO much trouble with Judge
Carpenter.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
TALMAGE'S SERMON.

DIR. TALMAGE URGES MORE SPICE IN
THE CHURCH. THE CHURCHES ARE
TOO HUMDRUM AND UNATTRAC-
TIVE. THE QUEEN OF sHEBA's
GIFTS TO KING SOLOMON TYPICAL
LIZ SIGNIFICANT.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

Forty-five thousand immigrants ar.
rived from Sweden and Norway to the
United States last year.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

People borrow trouble because it is
easy to get, and need not be paid back.
New Orleans Picayune
The Iola register., 1891-05-08

A little more than a hundred years
ago burning public issue was whether
the Federal Constitution should be sub
stituted for the articles of confederation.
Every man Of ordinary intelligence was
as well informed in that day in regard
to the character of the proposed govern
ment as men OF the same class in our
day are informed in regard to pending
political issues. But comparatively
few men nowadays can tell anything at
all about how the Union was perpetuated
by the substitution of the Federal Con-
stitution for the articles of confederation.
Is not this a dangerous sign of the
times, and is not the historical instruo-
tion which is given in the public schools
largely to blame for it? How can a
man who is utterly ignorant of how the
government of this country was formed,
have proper understanding of what
that government Is or should be to-day?
Denver Republican.
The Iola register., 1891-05-08
1t Must Be Mortifying.

Concerning the thoroughly vicious
Tamnany free rum bill, against whose
enactment the republican state senate
is the only barrier, the Evening Post re-
marks that, though the bill might pass
the assembly, there ought to be no
doubt of its fate in the senate, and we
presume there is none" The Post is
correct ia its surmise. There is mo
doubt OF the fate which this contemp.
tible sham will meet in the senate.
But after the constant, malignant at
tacks of the Post and its fellow un-
American, mugwump organs on the re-
publican party, it must be rather morti-
flying for them to admit that the only
defense OF the state from the domino
tion of the saloons and lawlessness is in
republicanism.-N,Y Y. Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
FARM NOTES.

Much inju Y is done to horses by a bad
arrangement of lighting stables.
4 feed OF mixed grains is better fol-
horses than hay and corn meal alone.
One of the greatest troubles with farm.
ers is, they do not depend sufficiently upon
their own farms for subsistence, They have
an idea that they can buy many things
cheaper than they can raise them. This
is we'll if they raise something a great
deal more profitable and make the ex'
change.
Nothing is lost that is added to the soil
if a farm is properly managed. The
coarsest manure will lecome plant food
after lapse Of certain period of time,
but it is best to have all manure in the
finest possible condition.
The reason probably that your hens OF
pulets are not laying is because your house
or food is not suitable for them In the
morning mix up warm mess of corn
meal or leavings from the table. having it
piping hot, while at noon give wheat and
oats, with something green, and at mig It
give whole and cracked corn mixed. The
above plan has no equal in making hens
law
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
The Management of Children.
Harper's Bazaar.

If you would see woman or a child
graceful, beautiful and charming you
must find one that is loved. The child
tkat breads to be corrected or criticized for
every word Or movement never has MAN.
ner OF elegance or an expression of
charm. Fill your child's soul with an
idea of good manners, of benevoence and
beauty; teach it abstractedly to dislike
vulgarltv. selhshness, rudeness, and to feel
that you love and ad nire it, and expect
charming manners, and the work is &C
complished.
1t is impossible for slave to have any
style. If you would have your child dig
nlfied you must treat it with dignity!
1t Is wrong to correct a child In public
Any proud child feels degraded by it. It
should be case of dire necessity when
you find fault with child before stran
gers, and to destroy a chiId's pride is to dc
him an irreparable injury. Take advan.
tage OF some intimate hour when parent
and child are alone together, and then
let the parent tenderly explain how the
child has behaved i'll the day before or that
morning, and why the child's conduct was
wrong. and how it should have behaved.
and show the child that the parent re-.
spects it and loves it and believes in its
capacity 10 do all good things. This will
have ten times the effect of punishment
when the child is In a state of excitemen
and the parent unusually angry Geti
the habit of explaining the reason of thing,
to your child. Let there be as little con.
fusion in its mind as POSSIBLE. Above all
keep the fact of your Lore uppermost in
the child's mind and let it understand that
you have no wish to domineer over it, on
ly that being older and wiser and loving
the child so much, you would save it from
its experience, that this is your duty, that
you are teaching it to be its own master
Ifyour child is cross do not punish him
but distract his mind from the subject
that annoys him. If he continues to be
cross suspect his stomach and assure your
self that this is in perfect ord.r, troubled
digestion is the root of bad manners.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
A LESSON FOR LAGGAR DIS.
JOSEPHINE POLLARD.

You think of taking journey some day:
You have talked 1t over for years and years:
Yet somehow or other you make delay.
Until further aud further away appears
The beautiful goal; and | tell you now
To bind yourself by solemn VOW
To cross the Rubicon. Pluck up heart!
For you never get there unless you startl
There looms before You from day TO day
A task that You dread TO undertaken
so II hangs like cloud upon your way
Through which the sunshine can never break.
And tell you now that the better plan
Is to do the work as quick as you can;
Over your fears victory win.
:. For you'll never get through if you don't begin
With the bravest and busiest keep abreast,
Nor through leave of Incidence lose your place
For in each endeavor 10 do your best
You raise the hopes of the human race.
Be not content 10 groyel be Ow,
But rise to your duties with faith aglow!
Let your aims be high, and strive to excel:
For he who does better must first do welll
The heart that gives way TO its doubts and fears,
That idly dreams when there's work to do
Will find itself, before many years,
Beggared and bankrupt through and through.
There are journeys to take and tasks 10 be done
From early morning till set OF sun,
And trlumphs TO win, as none can deny,
AND you'll never succeed unless YOU try!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
Sheep VS.. Cows.

Practical farmers say that eight sheep
will eat the same amount of hay during
the winter that cow will, and eight sheep
will summer in pasture, well, where a
mich COW We ld grow poor and thin.
From these eight sheep, for illustration,
IS pounds of wool would I've shorn, a low
fgn:e, and eight early lambs obtained
For the lambs, say, we receive S32, and
wool at 20 cents pound, 50, making Sal.
The time and labor of making d sheep
tight fence around the poor pasture, is
more than offset by the work of driving a
COW to and from the lot everyday and do
ing the milking besides. To keep the
cow in milk she must be messed and grain
ed if in sheep pasture. " and the guam
tity Of meal used would far exceed the
amount required to fit early lambs for
market. As to the sale of butter: II the
average COW produces flow of milk that
secures to the owner 40 pound boxes of
butter during the year, he may consider
that he has pretty good COW; and if he
sells his butter for 20 cents per pound the
result in money would be about what the
eight sheep would return him, though
with far more labor to the farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19

the Changing of the keys when struck by
| the wooden gloves. the clatter of the wires
made it impossible to hear the music. Yet
there foated out over the sea and over thc
city the most exquisite music. Many men
paused in their work and listened to the
Ginning, and were glad.
1t may be in your watch tower, where
you are YEARLY pouring the music out of
your life into the empty lives of the low
ly, that the rafting of the keys and the
heavy hammers, the twanging of the
wires, the very nearness Of the work, may
all conspire to prevent your catching even
one strain of that music you are creating;
but far out over the populous city, full of
weary souls, and far out in the eternal sea.
the rare melody of your work blends with
the songs of angels, and is ringing
through the corridors of the skies 1t may
gladden. some burdened souls here, and
karmonize with the rapturous music of
heaven.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
IN THE NIGHT.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Sometimes in the night when / sit and write,
l hear the strangest things,
And my brain grows hot with burning though
That struggles for form and wings.
| can hear the beat of my swift hoods feet,
As it spreads with rush and whirr,
From heart TO brain and back again,
Like race-horSe under the spur.
With my souls ear listen and hear
The tender silence speak,
As it leans on the breast of night to rest
And presses his dusty cheek:
And the darkness turns in its sleep and yearns
For something that is kin
And hear the hiss of a scorching kiss, ~
As it folds and fondles in. -
In its hurrying race thro' leagues of space
[ can hear the earth catch breath,
As it heaves and means and shudders anl
groans,
And longs for the rest of death
And high and far from distant star,
Who name is unknown me,
heard voice that says "Rejoicel
For keep ward 0 er thee
o, sweet and strange are the sounds that range
Thro' the chambers of the night:
And the watcher who waits by the dim, dark gates
Nav hear. if he lists Alright.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
NapuIeOn's Attitude Toward Kings.
The Century,

Inc century.
Napoleon Was on his way to the Erfurt
Conference and directed all the details of
a splendid occasion. Talleyrand quotes
Remusar
1T strikes Inc, he said, eve have very
grand names; must have some; the truth
is that they alone can make a good figure
at court. m justice to the French nobil-
ity, we must allow that it is admirable for
that
Sire. you have NJ de Montesquieu.
"GOod!'
prince Sapieha.''
Not bad !"
Il think two will be sufficient. The
journey being short one, your majesty
can always have them in attendance.
Quite so. And now, Remusat, | must
have one performance every day. Send for
Dazincourt; he is the manager; is he
not?"
He is. Sire"
Il want to astonish Germany with my
magnifcence.
1t is, no doubt, your majesty s inten-
ton to invite few great personages to
Erfurt; and time presses.
''One of Eugene's aides de-camp starts
this very day, replied the emperor. 1--WE
might let him know the proper thing to
hint to his father in-law Ghe king of Ba-
varia); and it one of the kings come, they
will all want to come. Then again" he
added, mo, we mnst not make use OF
Eugene for that; Eugene is not clever
enough, for what want but he is not good
at limiting. Taleyrand is better; the
more so and here he laughed-''as he
will posa as nv critic and declare that |
shall feel eratifed by the kings coming.
1t will be my business, afterwards, to
show that was absolutely Indifferent in
the matter, and then they were really more
in my way than otherwise"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
TRUE GALLANTRY.
As Displayed by II BashfuI Cowboy

At party given in st. Louis recently
was bashful cowboy, who had not been
in civilized society for several years. He
was good looking fellow, and one of the
young ladies present kindly took an inter
est in him and tried to make him feel at
ease. He fell desperately in love at once.
and the hostess. noticing this, encouraged
him all she could.
In leaving the house the young lady
who h d taken friendly interest in the
cowboy forgot her overshoes, and the
hostess told the young Lochinvar from the
plains that he might return them to the
girl if he wished. The herder leaped at
the chance, and presented himself in due
time at the young lady's house.
She was surprised to see him, but greet
ed him cordially.
You forgot your overshoes last night. -
| said he awkwardly, handing her the pack
age.
| She thanked him, and opened it. why
there's only one overshoe here!" she ex-
| claimed.
Yes, Miss said the blushing va
qnero, earnestly, I'll bring round the
other one tomorlo w, and only wish. miss
that You were q centipede '-Argonaut
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-19
Care of Fertilizers

Not one farmer in a hundred gives
necessary attention to manure in the whit
er. The manure IS fr-Zen and cannot be
handled. But u cellar is provided for
other purposes to save perhaps. $40 worth
OF vegetables, while no provision of the
kind is made for the manure, worth ten
times rs much. Every ton of manure made
available In the winter is worth IS. and
every ton of compost added to it, of the
right kind, is worth an equal sum. And
every ton of manure may be made the
basis OF two tons of good compost, worked
upin the field where it is to be used in the
spring and made ready on the ground for
the crops for which il is provided. The
heat engendered by the fermentation OF
the manure and the compost will prevent
freezing and keep the mass in active con-
dition. This is seasonable work for the
winter to be done when rything invites
it and with half the labor that will be
necessary If it is postponed until the spring
opens.
Breeds Producing Meat.
At this time the early lambs should re.
ceive the greatest attention, as they are
now being dropped. and if kept in flu!
growth pay large profits. In some markets
sales are made as early as February and
March, lambs of forty pounds each are
being bougt by proprietors of costly hotels
and restaurants; but they are scarce at such
times, and ii does not pay to sell them il
they are of choice breeds, as they will be
worth more later on. The early lamb is the
one that makes the most rapid progress in
growth, and not the one that is of GER
tain age. Lambs of the Shropshire or Ok.
ford breeds will weigh about twelve
pounds at birth, and when three months
old can be made to weigh seventy-fve
pounds with but little difficulty. In an
experiment made IN Illinois with twin
lambs the male reached 10l pounds wher
100 days olG, and female 81 pounds, which
proves that it is at least possible though not
often attained.