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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29
WOMEN AT WORK.
girl is learning dentistry

a JAPANESE girl is learning dentistry
in Chicago.
NEW HAMPSHIRE has three women
treasurers of savings banks.
Miss GRANT, twenty-one years of age,
has opened printing office in Boston.
She is practical printer.
Mr.. RUSSELL, superintendent of the
Shawnee county poor-farm, Kansas,
having died, his widow was appointed
to the post.
THE first appointment of the kind in
France has been given to DIR. Caroline
Bertillon. The position is that of visit
ing physician to the most important
college for girls in Paris-the Lycee
Racine.
WASHINGTON, d. c., has a woman
real estate dealer, Miss Grace Thomas,
who is said TO be very successful in that
business. She also rents houses and
collects rents. Before branching out
for herself, Miss Thomas was secretary
in a real estate Office, and the transition
from that to an Office of her own was 3
comparatively easy one.
REPRESENTATIVE REILLY, of Pennsyl-
vania, has introduced in congress Joint
resolution authorizing the secretary of
the interior to prepare for exhibition in
the woman's building at the Worlds
fair any articles, models or drawings
now in his possession or deposited in
the patent office, prepared or invented
by women.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29
CHAPTER ".
KATE Has AN ADVENTURE.

So Miss Balderstone's romance was
crushed in the bud ere it had attained
maturity, and she set out for Brighton
to enjoy her well-earned holiday, but
not before she had seen to the departure
of mademoiselle and her young charge
for the farmhouse near Chertsey on the
Thames.
England boasts no fairer scene than
the banks of this beautiful river, wind
ing among grassy meadows and verdant
woodlands, and Willoughby farmhouse
was just the large, rambling, old-fash-
toned, picturesque building in which to
get the most enjoyment out of the love
IL landscape. Moreover, John Barlow,
its yeoman owner, and Dame Deborah,
his wife, seemed to have been especially
fitted by Providence to dispense its hos
pitalitieS-tos say nothing of their brown
armed, blue-eyed daughter Nellie,
whose rustic beauty might have made
her the heroine of pastoral poem.
To Kate Grahame the quiet retire
ment Of this lovely spot was as heal
ing balm, bringing color to her checks
and peace to her mind, though must
confess that Mile. Campignon, who re-
garded n cow as a wild animal with
chronic designs on her personal safety,
and dreaded even covering the tips
of her toes with the morning dew,
pinned for The gay streets and brilliant
boulevards of her adored Paris
The days few by with winged speed.
Old Cesar, the house-dog, lineal de-
scendant of the famous mastiffs of the
Belvoir valley, had taken the young
girl under his especial patronage, and
woe-betide the tramp who should dare
TO modest her in their daily scampers
down grassy lanes or lonely country
roads
1t was Cesar, however, who brought
her into the vortex of her first adven-
ture in this scene of Arcadian simplic-
ity, where one would think that
a young lady would be as free from
startling incidents as though she were
immured in the walls of a well-regula-
ted schOOlroom, audit happened in this
way.
Mademoiselle had a headache -
which meant that she was anxious to
retire to hammock under the apple
trees in the orchard and feast her soul
on the thrilling incidents of a French
novel, of which she always pictured
herself as the heroine - and Kate and
her four-footed friend started on ram
BILE down the river bank. 1t was
lovely morning for walk, for, though
the July sun shone with unwonted "a
dance, fresh western breeze famed
the air and made tiny white-caps on the
ruffled stream.
Kate stood on little knoll enjoying
the pretty landscape, her hand resting
on the great dogs head. when-whiff!
a gust of wind swept the dainty straw
hat from her head. whirled it like
kite in the air, and dropped it ignOmin-
iously into the middle of the current,
where the small eddies played around
it and bore it triumphantly to the weir,
a hundred yards below, lodging it at
last in a little island of willows Just
above the miniature Niagara.
The girl, with little moue of comical
distress, appealed TO the mastiff for
but the honest fellow re-
sponded with a mute reproach in his
brown eyes, as much as to say that he
was not that kind of dog at all.
Fetch il, Caesar. Fetch il, sir.' she
cried, impatiently stamping her foot.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29

collection. The next painting proving
to be 4 marked success was Hardly
Earned" a tired daily governess, who,
after her days labor, has found her
way to her poor lodging, and has from
exhaustion fallen asleep by the fireless
CRATE. Very attractive also in design
and admirably painted was "a Peasant
Scene in North Italy," the interior of a
farmyard seen from a gateway, at
which is assembled group of peasants.
In the center a gypsy woman selling
ribbons and other articles from bas-
ket, and near at hand is poor-looking
youth seated on stone, eating his
humble meal from a basin.
Although gifted with an intense love
of nature, but little opportunity offered
itself for the practice of landscape
painting, so that Miss Starr commenced
with figure designs because, to use her
own words, They seemed to come
most naturally to her" But as time
passed, her rather distinct talent for
portraiture led to many commissions in
that branch, and; as we have shown,
see has certainly distinguished herself
both as a Inner and painter of ideal
istic subjects"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29

Superintendent of the Census Porter
in answer to an inquiry relative to farm
and home ownership indebtedness in
Kansas and Ohio gives figures Of ten
average counties in each state. These
show that 81 per cent of Kansas farm
ers own the farms they occupy, while
in Ohio only 6S per cent own the farms
they occupy. Taking the total town
and county population, SO per cent of
the Kansas families own the homes they
occupy, and only so per cent. of the
Ohio families own their homes The
debts against encountered Kansas homes
average $3.50, while the Ohio average is
1854. The number of farmers owing
purchase money or other indebtedness
against their farms is naturally greater
in new state, the percentage in Kan
sss being "a and in Ohio 2a.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29
TROUBLE FOR THE ALLIANCE
1t Comes In the Form of the Attitude Of
the Alliance Members of Congress on the
Free yooI RilI-

1t Comes In the Form of the Attitude of
the Alliance Members of Congress on the
Free Wool Bill.
The eight alliance members of con-
gress are already beginning to realize
that it is going to be pretty hard mat
ter to explain their vote for free wool to
the farmers of Kansas and other states
which they are supposed to represent in
congress. The explanation will be all
the more difficult to make for the reason
that one allianceman, John Otis, of the
Fourth Kansas district, came out square
" against the bill, and when the vote
was taken took a stand on the repub-
lican side. 1t is no secret in Washing
ton that Mr.. Otis action in breaking
away from his party and refusing to
support a measure which is so clearly
and Enthusiastically blow at the farmers
and wool-growers of the country is wor-
rying the alliance party more than any
thing that has happened thus far this
session. They are forced to admit that
Mr.. Otis was in the right and that his
denunciation of the bill as a measure
which gave protection to the manufact-
urer and wiped away all protection for
the farmer was the only consistent po-
sitiOn which true representative of the
farmers could take. and already Davis
and one or two others are beginning to
wish they had voted with Otis. As Mr..
Otis said in his speech, 1.-The bill prac-
tically insults the woOl-growers of the
country and proposes to rob their pocket
books" Continuing, he said: AS a
representative of an agricultural dis
trict and an agricultural people can
never consent to place wool on the free
list and at the same time continue thu
tariff upon wooden fab rics manufactured
in this country. 1t is an imposition up
on the agriculturalists of this land t.
urge that kind of a proposition. can.
not understand the intention of this
democratic committee in this bill unless
they expect it is some sort of a bait
which they have thrown out to the
manufacturers and at the same time
mIslead the farmers, while it absolutely
destroys or greatly reduces his income.
| think the bill is in the interest of the
manufacturers and the manufacturers
alone. Where the benefit to the farmer
comes in | cannot see. / am informed
that not single solitary member of the
ways and means committee is farmer
and | should think so without that in
formation, from the report they have
submitted on the bill l merely wanted
to say this in justice tony constituency
and myself, because l could not consist
emily support that bill and defend my
self before my constituents" Yet in
spite of all this from Mr.. Otis, all his
alliance colleagues from Kansas-Simp-
son, Baker. Glover and Davis-voted for
the iniquitous measure.-Washingto
Cor Topeka CAPITAL.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29
CHAPTER III.
rxALAwYER's OFFICE.


Miss Balderstone did not go to Brigh-
ton that day. Next morning she ar
rayed herself in silk attire and made a
descent on Furnivars inn, where the
great law firm of Colburn & Carslake
spun their webs to catch the litigious.
''Ah, my dear madam, l am indeed
delighted TO see you," Mr.. Colburn ex-
claimed, with so much effusion that his
manner brought blush to his visitors
cheek, though She knew that the rotund
little attorney was verging on sixty and
had 4 wife and seven grown daughters
at his Richmond villa.
Il called on you, sir" she said, with
difficulty rescuing her hand from his
ardent grasp. Ito confer with you con-
corning an incident in connection with
the alleged death of Sir Harry Ora
hame."
'Sir Harry's alleged death, What
can you mean, Miss Balderstone?" The
lawyers face expressed not only sur
prise but dismay-nay, there was
even 4 tremor in his voice as he asked
the question.
Il mean that his adopted daughter,
Kate Grahame. has received this letter
from him. which you perceive is dated
after the published period of his de-
cease
The attorney gave a sigh of relief as
he glanced at the document.
Gracious. how you startled me- he
said. nervously. You ladies are posi-
lively so inpressionable-so ready to
jump to conclusions without sufficient
data, that
Then You think that there is moth
ing in it," Miss Balderstone inter
rupted.
Think, I am sure of It. \ mere
blunder Of poor Sir Harry's. Why,
have here the attestations of half
dozen witnesses, chiefly natives it is
true, but men in official positions, and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29
HOW is THIS FOR CALAMITY ?
The Record For the Past Month Shows
That Farmers Are Rapidly Paying Their
Debts.

| The Record For the Past Month shows
That Farmers Are Rapidly Paying Their
| Debts.
The monthly mortgage statement
published by the Topeka Capital, as
| gathered from the registers of deeds in
Kansas. showed a decrease of farm
mortgage Indebtedness during March.
in forty-two counties reporting out of
| 100 counties in the state, of $3.50, 900.
which is gain of 100000 over Febru-
airy for the same number of counties
The aggregate releases of farm mort
cages in March were S1.S51, 122, which
is about $500, 900 greater than February.
Eleven counties reported farm sales ag-
gregating s75O,OO0, and eight counties
reported mortgages recorded during the
month for purchase of land, 100000.
The large sales of land and mortgages
recorded for purchases are a feature of
the report. If mortgages recorded dur
ing the month for purchase money are
deducted, it is safe to estimate that the
net reduction of old farm mortgage in
debtedness in forty-two counties ex-
ceeded 100000 The net reduction for
the whole state during March will not
fall short of S1,O00,00O. An average of
siXty-one counties for an average period
of nine months shows total releases of
farm mortgages of s17,27O. s34. and not
withstanding large purchases of land
and new mortgages recorded for pur-
chase and renewal and for all other
purposes, the net reduction of debt in
these counties for the period mentioned
is S4,OO3, ia.
The Capital also publishes reports
from 300 banks of the state showing the
amount of bank stock and deposits be-
longing to farmers. Blanks Were sent
out to 500 banks, 800 responding from 81
of the log counties of the state. The
amount of stock in these banks belong
ing to farmers is u per cent, amount
ing to S1.679, 321, out of a total of SILL
2S6, 435. The aggregate deposits are
SIS. 409, SEQ, of which farmers own S.
0O2.731. In ~ counties of eastern Kan
sas farmers own 81, is, 9s9 of bank stock
and have s5,5Ts,97S on deposit. In %
counties of central Kansas farmers own
S39O,52S of bank stock and have 81, 09O.-
$40 on deposit. In % counties of west
ern Kansas farmers own S102, S04 of
bank stock and have S433, 4OS on depOs-
it. Assuming that the 500 banks not
reporting would make proportionate
increase the aggregate of bank stock
belonging 10 farmers in the entire state
would be S4,5OO,OOO, and the aggregate
of bank deposits belonging to farmers
would be 81. 800, 900. OF the 300 banks
responding, 263 reported an increase in
farmers deposits during the last two
years, and especially in the last year.
Three banks reported farmers deposits
quadrupled since 1890, while twenty-one
reported farmers deposits doubled;
thirty-nine reported increase of so per
cent. and twenty-six an increase of p per
cent. Ten banks reported a decrease, but
some explain that this is owing to new
banks established in their vicinity.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29

Il AN INDEED DELIGHTED TO SEE YOU!''
one of his body servants, Aaron Gore, a
man born on his estate, who knew him
from childhood, and was his valet for
the last seven years"
at is very remarkable. Mr.. Colburn. -
Not bit of it-a mere slip of the
pen; why, l have been guilty of the
same error a hundred times. You see
he was up in the hills, sick
He does not say So"
''Ah, my dear lady, you never knew
Harry Grahame. He was the last man
in the world TO worry others with his
affection, especially one to whom he
was so much attached as he was to this
young lady"
There may be something in that, -
Miss BalderstOne confessed.
''And now that we are upon this sub
ject, Mr.. Colburn continued, in a suave
yet determined tone, may l put you
right on one other matter. You spoke
just now OF this young person as Sir
Harry Grahame's ADOPTED daughter.
What do you mean by that? The legal
definition Of the phrase would mean
that he had by proper process of law
acquired parental rights ever her. No
such ceremony ever occurred, therefore
in the eyes of the law your friend is no
more to him than the veriest stranger"
THAT may be so, but for nearly
eighteen years he treated her as his
daughter"
"And if for eighteen years he had
treated her as his wife, would that
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29
"FROM THE GROUND UP"
How Miss Grace Wells, of Connecticut, Ha,
Secured an Education.

The question in independence and
self-support for women is daily being
solved by hundreds of women, and a
new solution has been found by Miss
Grace Wells, who lives in the western
part of New Haven county, Conn.
Miss Wells is not yet twenty-five years
old, but for the past five years she has
managed, by applying her wits to prac-
| teal purposes, to earn enough money to
carry her through a course of study in a
well-known female seminary.
When an infant Miss Wells was left
| to the care of an uncle, a well-to-dO
| farmer, who gave his niece the benefit
of the public schools in the village near
where he lived.
When fifteen years old Grace deter
mined to study medicine; her uncle dis
couraged her-or would have discour-
aged her had she been a girl of weaker
stuff-by telling her that he did not feel
financially able to give her an education
necessary to fit her for such an exacting
profession.
a week later Grace told her uncle that
she thought she could manage to get
the education she needed if he would
give her the use of n cow, n dozen hens
and six turkeys for one year.
He agreed, and at the end of a year
the girl had made enough money from
the cow and the fowls to purchase
printing outfit; she then set about learn
ing how to print cards, letterheads, en-
velopes and small job work.
Her printing Office was a small room,
partitioned off at one end of the wood
shed. In a few months she had &C
quired limited knowledge of the art
of job printing, and she then began to
solicit work among her acquaintance.
As soon as the girls object was known
her friends began to work in her inter-
est, and she had all the work that she
could find time to do. Her first act was
to pay her uncle one years rental for
the COW and the fowls, claiming that
she wanted to build herself from the
ground up"
Besides carrying on the business of
her printing establishment Miss Wells
found time to pursue her studies, recit-
ing twice week to pastor of one of
the village churches.
In this manner she fitted herself to
take up with the seminary course, which
she began when she was IS years old.
She attended the school during the fall
and winter. In the spring and summer
she worked in her printing establish
ment.
She has paid every cent of the cost of
her schooling from her printing, and
has in the bank round sum which will
help her to take the course in medical
college which she intends to take in
two years.
In the meantime she will pursue the
study of medicine under the direction of
a physician in New Haven.
Miss Wells is a young woman of very
pleasing manners, with a face full of
character and determination.
She believes that there are as many
honorable places in the world for ener-
getic women as there are for men, and
that it is only necessary for them to
elbow their way forward. She does not
argue that men should stand aside and
let them pass
Miss Wells performs all the labor of
setting the type, running the press and
delivering the work herself.-Boston
Globe.
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He bounded round her and barkcd,
but made no effort to recover her lost
headgear; but in his gamboIs he APP
preached the verge of the high bank.
and Kate, vexed at his stupidity, gave
him push which sent him with great
splash into the stream. Caesar was
strong and a superb swimmer, but, like
his Saxon ancestors, was nightly
afraid of a cold bath, and instead of
striking boldly out into the river, made
Intellectual attempts to scale the preci-
pice, only succeeding, however, in pull
ing down the red clay into the water
and exhausting himself in his frantic
efforts. In vain Kate ran TO a shall
lower spot and called him; her cries
only urged him to wilder struggles.
Then she got frightened, and tears of
distress began to roll down her cheeks,
while the dog gave piteous howl and
sank back into the river with hardly
strength enough left to make way
against the stream.
1t was just at this critical moment
that a young man leaped lightly over a
stile and ran swiftly up to her. Her
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29
M Fu<ion for Him.

Col. a. A. Harris, of Fort Scott, one
of the most clear headed democrats of
the state, when recently interviewed
upon the policy of fusion with the ALI
ance or peoples party, said: Il am
against fusion. The alliance is run by
a lot of disgruntled republicans 1t is
a matter of bread and butter with them.
There will be an abortive attempt all
along the line this fall to fuse, but it
will not succeed. The alliance wants
us to surrender everything. 1 for one
am not in favor of giving up to them.
/ believe in a straight, conservative
democratic campaign 1 don't expect
we will win, but believe in fighting
for principles
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29

CHAPTER u-CoNTNUED.
But in the very midst of reading,
Miss Balderstone made a dead pause,
looked for moment with puzzled ex-
preston at the page before her, and
burst out with little cry of surprise.
''Why, Kate, child, the date! Quick,
give me Honoria Grahame's first letter to
you. All, thought so. This is indeed
the strangest thing ever saw"
''Oh, what is it?" Kate cried, with
feverish anxiety, as the schoolmistress
paused in her hurried CALCULATIONS and
sat gazing with a blank look at the
two letters before her.
cam l out of my senses, Kate
Grahame. or does that woman really
write that Sir Harry died at Kistmun
on the 9Th of January?"
''She certainly does say So" the girl
replied. with round, wondering eyes.
"And this letter ST his is dated the
tenth of the same month. Give me the
envelope that may see the postmark.
Thank you. nv love; but l am afraid
this is not of much help TO us, for the
earliest stamp upon it is that of the
post Office at Hyderabad, dated January
81, and we must make allowance for its
coming down the mountains probably
by native carrier"
Perhaps he misdated his letter -
Kate said, white with suppressed ex-
element ''or. Miss Grahame may have
made mistake"
HE may: but the letter could not
have been writtcp long before his death,
and you see that he says nothing about
his illness. Do YOU know If jungle
fever Is q protracted or quickly con-
suming disease. Kate?"
''Oh, yes: it prostrates men very sud
denly and they often die in few days.
but if they manage 20 get to the pure
air of the mountains they generally re-
cover"
(Which Sir Harry did; that is q con-
fesseG fact. As for Honorla Grahame
making a mistake, we can soon set that
at rest. for the Illustrated London News
has a long obituary notice and there
would be no blunGcr there"
And the ladies found in the columns
of that popular journal full corrobora-
ton of Miss Ordinances statement that
this distinguished officer breathed his
last at Kistmun on the 9th of January"
My dear" said Miss Balderstone, Il
do not think shall go to Brighton to-
day"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-29

When the bill establishing new navy
yards at Algiers, La, was under con-
sideration in the house of representa-
tives the other day Jerry Simpson got
the floor and made a speech against re-
tanning a navy. He said that the
present navy was about as useless as a
fifth wheel to a wagon; that no other
nation would ever attack this govern
ment, and that any further expenditures
for navy was money thrown away.
He said that the recent trouble with
Chilli was brought about because our
navy was fooling around in waters
where it ought not to be, and that if
our vessels had kept away from Gillian
waters there would never haven been
any trouble. He was entering into a
general discussion of the CHILEAN affair,
when BurrC~Fs, of Michigan, raised the
point of order that the Itata affair had
nothing TO do with the bill under con-
sideration, and simpson was called
down.