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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
BAD MANNERS.
Passing the Hat for Votes and an In
decent Pursuit of Voters.

Passing the Hat for Votes and an In
decent Pursuit of Voters.
Every citizen of Kansas should take
due notice of the present policy of the
officers of our state government. In
stead of attending to the business
which the people hired them to do,
they are devoting every hour of every
day to the industrious attempt to do
something which will make them votes
in the fall. The moment a strike is
anywhere declared they rush in with
ostentatious expressions of sympathy
for the strikers, without having first
examined into the merits of the con-
troversy. If there is any where con-
vention of workingmen, they squeeze
on to the platform and improve the
first opportunity when some one
else is not talking to proclaim loudly
their love and affection for the order
assembled. Any man with a moderate
appreciation of good manners would
stay away from such places until in
vited to come. These people would
come even if they were invited to stay
away. When the boilermakers' con-
vention met at Topeka the state officers
pursued it until they clearly overdid the
matter and disguised at least large
number of those they were trying to
reach. One boilermaker said he did
not know what right the officials had
fooling around the sessions of the order
any more than the boilermaker would
have to fool around the sessions of the
executive council - 1t is fact patent
to every observer that the present serv-
ants of the state do not know their
,,la
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
LOWER PRICES.
The Votes for Cleveland and Weaver
Helped Kick Prices Down Hill.

The Votes for Cleveland and Weaver
Helped Kick Prices Down Hill.
A large number of papers make a
great cutlery because, as they assert,
the price of wheat, corn, iron and other
products has gone down in accordance
with the price of silver. The claim is
made that they have gone down in
price because silver has gone down in
price. This is plausible and specious
but absurd argument Just as many
articles have failed to come down in
price as the contrary. Everything
that has come down in price has so
come down because of excessive pro-
duction. Iron, for example, has been
mined all over the United States, the
entire area of the New South" So
called, being dotted with iron mines.
Every big system of roads in the south
has been built with reference to the
production of iron, and all over the
southern states iron furnaces have APP
peared. The output has been simply
excessive while the use of it has been
curtailed by great falling off in railway
construction and other similar causes.
Diamonds have fallen in value because
of the largely increased production in
the African mines. Wheat has fallen
in value generally because of peace
everywhere in the world and because
of great crops in almost every direc-
ton. 1t has fallen especially low in
the west because of the immense &C
emulation of it in Chicago, which
made it impossible for Chicago buyers
to take any more. The fear all over
the east that the democrats would carry
out their threats and reduce the tariff
has shut down mills and works of va
rious kinds, SO that home consumption
of wheat has been materially reduced.
Every time mill stops in Massachu-
sets the demand for Kansas cereals is
somewhat reduced. Every vote for
Weaver was in effect vote to shut
down mills and factories in the United
States
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
Cheerfnlness and Moroseness.

If we are cheerful and contented, all
nature smiles with US; the air seems
more balmy, the sky more clear, the
ground has brighter green, the trees
have a richer foliage, the flowers a
more fragrant smell, the birds sing
more sweetly, and the sun, moon, and
stars all appear more beautiful. We
take our food with relish, and what
ever it may be, it pleases us. We feel
better for it-stronger and livelier, and
fit for exertion. Now, what happens
to us if we are ill-tempered and discon-
tented? Why, there is not anything
which can please US. We quarrel with
our food, with our dress, with our
amusements, with our companions,
and with ourselves Nothing comes
right for us; the weather is either too
hot or too cold, too dry, or too damp.
Neither sun, nor moon, nor stars have
any beauty; the fields are barren. the
flowers lusterless, and the birds silent
We move about like some evil spirit,
neither loving nor beloved by any.
thing.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
A REAL DANGER.
Society Is Never without n Dangerous
Class Which Only Wants u Chance to
Make Trouble.

Society Is Never without a Dangerous
Class which Only Wants u Chance to
Make Trouble.
The writer of this is an exceedingly
charitable man. He believes in giving
charity show at all times and under
all circumstances He believes that in
the case af the peoples party major
ity of its members are conscientious
men who think they are voting for the
welfare of the state-at least they think
that is what they desire. But no one
should forget that charity, under some
circumstances, may be as stupid as
hate, and that there is danger of
charity for the peoples party being
carried too far. Any man who has
ever made society subject of careful
study knows that in. every society ever
known on the face of the earth there is
always a very well defined element of
danger. In every society there are
large number of people who are law
abiding only because they do not dare
to be otherwise. In every society there
are men rankly bad who refrain from
violence and all forms of lawlessness
only when they think they cannot sue
coed in any other course. 1t is I'M
questionably true that a large num-
Der of the members of the peoples
party are the reverse of honest-would
be willing to repudiate every dollar of
just debts, would sub-divide the prop
critics of the country by force, except
for fear of punishment, and. in short,
only want encouragement to do that
which would render every mans right
to life and liberty in the pursuit of
happiness in danger. Those who are
inclined to be charitable should draw
the line on this element, whether it is
walking the streets at night with n
stuffed club or whether it holds state
offices and writes violent articles in its
newspapers. If this element ever gets
wholly on top and starts the blood
shedding business it will learn some
thing which such men as Waite, Level
ling and State Printer Snow never had
an experience of in all their selfish
careers. The men who actually know
what war is and have learned its horri-
BILE mechanism are the men now found
on the side of law and order, and who
propose to preserve that law and order
if they have to wiring the necks. of
every turbulent rioter who shows his
head
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
TWO OF a KIND.
Similar Wounds, Names and Other Gil
cumstanres Mark Two Pensioners.

Similar Wounds, Names and Other Cir
cumstances Mark Two Pensioners.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 17.-United
States Pension Examiner r. j. Austin
has returned from thorough investi-
CATION of one of the most remarkable
cases the pension department has had
to do with William r. Wilson, who
lived at Horton, Kan, applied about a
year ago for pension for wound in
the left knee received at the battle of
ThompsOn's station while he was a
mem Der of an Illinois regiment. The
department found on investigation
that another William r. Wilson was
drawing pension for similar injury.
and for services in the same company
and regiment. Mr.. Austin followed
Wilson to Rulo, Neb., where he is now
living, and found that his description
was exactly similar to that of the Illi-
nois pensioner. Without making known
his business, he questioned Wilson,
who proved beyond doubt that he
had a cousin in the same company
bearing the same name, of the same
age and description, and wounded in
the same part of the body.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
Riotiug Miners.

LONDON, Aug. 1s.-In Wales the coal
strike is assuming a grave aspect
The strikers, armed with cudgels, and
thousands strong, marched to several
collieries in the Rhonda valley yester-
day and forcibly prevented the
miners from working. AT Ebb-
vale the situation is SO threatening
that 200 soldiers have been summoned,
while the police force has been enorm-
ously increased. Work in several
collieries in the Aberdare district has
also been stopped by the strikers,
whose leaders are chiefly young men.
the older miners being disposed to re-
turn to work
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
THAT AWARD.

The Measure of Damages to BE Paid by
Uncle Sam to John Bull In the Beh-
ring Sea Matter May Go to a special
Commission for Adjudication.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-The interest
officially in the Behring sea decisions
now centers in the damages this coun-
try will have to pay England for the
use of seal hunting subjects who were
kept off Behring sea through the oper-
alton of the modus vivendi or seized as
poachers prior, to an agreement. In
accordance with article of the modus
vivendi. the arbitration tribunal must
decide how much compensation is due
Great Britain from thu United States
to be used for British subjects for abb
staining from the exercise of the right
to take seals in Behring sea during the
tendency of the arbitration.
1t is understood that the commission
ers of arbitration have already passed
on the subject, their report not being
made public. So much is definitely
settled with regard to the damages this
government will be obliged to pay, and
they must be paid promptly by agree
ment in the treaty renewing the modus
vivendi. But the main question of
damages for seizures made is not in so
definable and settled condition.
Nothing in the arbitration treaty or
the convention for the renewal of the
modus vivendi makes provision for al
lowing damages to persons who have
been injured through the unlawful seiz-
ure of sealing vessels, and it is stated
at the department of state that the
matter must take the course usually
followed in diplomacy. Claims against
the United States, either individually
or otherwise, will be filed by the own
ers of the vessels seized. Then the
United States will enter into cor
respondence with Great Britain in
reference to their settlement If
it is seen that a settlement as to
the justice of the claims made and the
compensation to be made can be
reached, the matter will proceed
through the ordinary diplomatic chan
nels. In case of failure to come to
some basis for a settlement without re-
sort to arbitration, and it is predicted
that failure will occur. the two govern
ments will agree to leave the question
to the judgment of an unprecedented
tribunal and to this end claims COM
mission will be appointed.
1t is therefore to be seen that some
time must elapse before definite ar
rangement will be reached respecting
the course of procedure with reference
to the assessment of seizure damages
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25

CHICAGO, Aug. 17.-President W. T.
Singleton, of the Total Abstinence Life
association, to-day announced to an ex-
cited meeting of stockholders and
policy holders who filed his Office that
the association was insolvent- Then
there was an angry scene. Mr.. Single
ton stated tina t the mortuary liabilities
of the association were about $50, 900 and
assets about $4,000. The depressed
condition of the money market was
given by him as the cause of the insol-
vency. 1t was proposed to transfer the
policies held in the association to the
Commercial Alliance association. OF
New York, but this action the stock
holders protested against Mr.. Single
ton said the s95, 900 assets was mostly
in bonds of the East Tennessee Land
Co. The death claims unpaid amount
m SR0 00O
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
Awaiting the President.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1I.-Everything
is now in readiness for the opening of
the Cherokee strip to settlement The
allotments of the seventy Cherokee In
dams which have delayed the presi-
dents proclamation, were received
yesterday morning, and in the after
noon work was begun on the procla-
nation in the interior department
Secretary Smith expected these allot-
ments several days ago by mail, but
when he heard of delays ordered them
sent him direct by wire. As the presi-
dent is out of town the proclamation
will not be forthcoming until the first
of next week.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
A SENATE SILVER BILL.
One to Be Reported with q ProvisO for
Bimetallism.

One 20 be reported with frcStsO iof
Bimetalllsm.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-The meeting
of the senate finance committee was
attended by every member, and con-
illusions were reached which may en-
able the committee to report repeal
bill There has been from the day the
committee first met a difference be-
tween the silver and anti-silver men
that apparently could not be recon-
ciled, and although there has been
free discussion of the matter, their
differences are no nearer settlements
than when the conference began. The
attitude of the chairman, Mr.. Voorhees,,
gave the silver men on the committee
little hope, for he said he would
vote to report favorably the repeal bill,
providing there was a declaration
coupled with it declaring for BIZ
metallism. The bill when reported
will contain such a declaration, and
the vote by which it will be reported is
estimated by members of the commit
tee at to 5, the minority consisting OF
Senators Harris, Vest, Vance, Jones
ARK. }, and Jones (Nev.).
The indications are that when Mr..
Voorhees, reports the bill and asks that
day be set for the vote, he will start
a fight that will be kept up for long
time
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
PRESENTED WITH AN ELEPHANT
The Behring Sea Arbitrators Give Uncle
Sam an Expensive Job.

The Behring Sea Arbitrators Give Uncle
Sam an Expensive Job.
WASHINGTON, Aug. IL. - Secretary
Gresham is dissatisfied with the Ben
ring sea tribunal in regard to the regu-
lations established, and it is under
stood his views are shared by other
cabinet officers. The regulations are
Interpreted to mean that the United
States will have entailed on it the pa
trolling the Behring sea without
benefit to it while Russia, Japan and
perhaps, other nations reap a
harvest, the regulations being
binding only on Great Britain and this
country. 1t is not likely that any
definite policy respecting the guardian
ship of the sea will be outlined until
the opening of the first season next
year, because bad weather will put an
end to the operations of the sealers in
about two weeks
The restrictions placed on sealers
with reference to firearms will have
the effect of causing Canadian sealers
to resort to desperate means to sec ure
good catches and much poaching is
feared. In the close season-June and
July-both Great Britain and the Uni
ted States will keep fleet of vessels
to keep poachers from the sealing
waters, and it is believed at the navy
department this will result in the
establishment of permanent Behring
sea squadron for duty during these
months. The United States will also
be obliged to maintain watch on the
waters within the sixty-mile line dur
ing the entire mild season from April 1
to September 1, and it is probable this
duty will fall to vessels of the rever3ue
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
THE STRIP.
The Opening Will Probably Be About
September 10.

September 10.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Is. - Secretary
Hoke Smith, of the interior depart
ment, has telegraphed j. w. Duncan,
special agent for the department at
Carlemore, /. T., as follows:
All persons who have made selections for al
lotments in the Cherokee outlet will be allowed
to file at the interior department proof and ar
gument In support thereof until September
Under the severalty allotment agree
ment more than 100 citizens of the
Cherokee nation have claimed allot-
ments while seventy only are entitled
to land gratis. The claims of each con-
testant have been now forwarded to
the interior department and will be
passed upon by Secretary Smith. These
difficulties, however, will not be al
lowed to interfere further with the
opening. The proclamation was COM
pleted yesterday, but will not be given
out until Tuesday next, because it
must be forwarded to the president
From the interior department indica-
tions noon of September 16 will be
the date for the opening. The procla-
nation opening the strip contains 15,-
900 words 1t was necessary to make
the proclamation cumbersome because
the law prescribes that it shall contain
the law and other official utterances
governing the opening.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
A BOY FIEND.
Arranges n Blasting Powder Mine and
Kills Three Other Boys.

Arranges n Blasting Powder Mine and
Kills Three Other Boys.
BEAVER FALLS, Pa, Aug IA
fiendish act was perpetrated yesterday
near Homewood which resulted in the
death of three boys to-day. Frank
Graham, of Homewood, II years old,
knew that three other boys were hunt
ing ground hogs about a mile below
the village. He got can of blasting
powder, attached fuse, placed it in a
little pit of rocks and waited until the
young hunters neared the spot. Then
he lit the fuse and crept off. Burgess
Reed, 16 years old, and James Reed,
aged IA, brothers, with James Carney,
aged II, approached the spot wholly
unconscious of danger. The can ex-
ploded, all being MANNED and burned
terribly. Carney was knocked insensi-
BILE and his clothing burned off. One
of the Reed boys was also disabled
The other Reed boy was able to crawl
away and give an alarm. Doctors did
everything possible for the young suf-
ferers, but they died this morning.
Graham made his escape and is still
at large.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
A WOMAN OF The WORLD.
She Is a Great Blessing to Every One She
Meets

Meets
She had been talking pleasantly tc
two or three women; she had made her
good-byes all cheerful and bright, and,
after she had disappeared, one woman
turned to another ;snd said in tone
that was soothing: ''She is a thorough
woman of the world" Now in this
case the woman who had said none but
pleasant words, who had stopped by a
! bright story the discussion of a petty
scandal, was a woman who was as
brave-hearted as any that ever lived
and who bore, mott only her own, but
the burdens of a good many other
people, yet she saw no reason why she
should infiict her troubles on her
friends. nor why, while she was in the
world. she should not be in its best
sense a woman of the world.
A woman of the world is one who
feels that the story told to hurt your
feelings is essentially bad form.
Awoman of the world is the one who
is courteous to old people, who laughs
with the young and who makes herself
agree to all women in all conditions
of life.
A woman of the world is one who
makes her good-morning a pleasant
greeting. her visit bright spot in the
day and her good-by hope that she
may come again.
A woman of the world is one who
does not gauge people by their clothes,
or their riches, but who condemns bad
manners.
A woman of the world is one who
does not let her right hand know what
her left hand does. She does not dis
cuss her charities at an afternoon tea,
nor the faults of her family at a pray
er-meeting.
A veritable woman of the world is
the best type of Christian, for her
very consideration makes other women
long to initiate her. Remember that
Christ came into the world to save sim
ners and be in the world and among
it and the people who made it, and to
do your work as woman of the world
means more than speaking from plat
form or assumed elevation.
A woman of the world is one who is
courteous under all circumstances and
in every condition in which she may be
placed She is the woman who can re-
ceive the unwelcome guest with smile
so bright and a handshake so cordial
that in trying to make the welcome
seem real it becomes so. A woman Of
the world is one whose love for human
ity is second only in her life's devotion,
and whose watchword is unselfishness
in thought and action. BY making self
last it finally becomes natural to have
it so.-Florence Wilson, in Ladies'
Home Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
Driving the Chinese Out.

TULARE, Cal, Aug. 17.-Last night a
mob of white men went to Chinatown.
broke into houses and marched about
thirty Chinese to the depot Shots
were fired to intimidate the Chinese,
but none of them were injured All the
men captured were sent north A
dispatch from Fresno says Chinese
laborers there are being replaced by
white men. A number of tramps are
causing trouble by pretending to be
looking for work and attacking the
Chinese. When the Chinese are driven
away they refuse to fill the places left
vacant
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
The Princess Nav.

Lady Henry Somerset, writing about
Princess May in the Woman's Herald
says: "She listens with interest to the
great realities of life, the stories of
want and sorrow: and her straightfor-
ward grasp of the needs of the people,
her appreciation of the necessity for
different lines of work and different
methods, and her conventionality are
striking. Her mother said of her: If
l ever forget an engagement / have
made for some good work, May always
reminds me. She will give up any
amusement to go anywhere to help
others"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
ALL TRAVEL STOPPED.
Troops Clean Up the Cherokee Strip Conn
pleteiy.

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan, Aug. 17.-An
travel through the Cherokee strip has
been stopped. The troops are exercis-
ing the greatest vigilance and many
are the disappointed ones who have at
tempted to cross to Oklahoma side with
in the past twenty-four hours, only to be
turned back by the soldiers. There is
not a COW or horse grazing on the en-
tire eastern half of the domain. The
haymakers have also been driven out
Some protested and were slow to obey
orders, but were given to understand
that unless they acted promptly fire
would be set to both hay and machin-
cry and all burned. q
The clearing of the strip of everyone
and the close watch kept by the sold
iers is taken by the people here to
mean an early opening. and the procla-
nation is hourly expected
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
a Rural Incident.

"Why don't you go to work." asked
the farmer.
"'Cause no one won't give me none
in my line" said the tramp I've APP
piled to several railroads, but they
won't have me-"
whats your line? Brakeman
mo. l make tracks," said the tramp;
and then he made a few with the
farmer a close second.-Truth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
AT the centennial exhibition tws

AT the centennial exhibition two
country girls stood before copy of the
Flemish artist Paul Potter's great
masterpiece, and one of them read
from her catalogue, The Young Bull,
after Potter" ''Yes, said the other;
there's the bull, but where's Potter?"
Don't you see him." asked her COM
panion, pointing TO the figure of the
herdsman, behind the tree?" Two
others were admiring a statute of
Andromeda, which was labeled, Exc
cuted in terra-cotta." "Where is Terra
Cotta?" asked one of them, with proba-
bly, some idea of Terra del Fuego I'm
sure 1 do not know" was the replyI
but l pity the girl, wherever it is-"--
Exchange.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
Great Wagon Works In Trouble.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 1S.-This morning
the Standard Wagon company, the
largest of the kind in the United States,
filed deed of assignment. Its assets
are placed at $1,000, 900 and liabilities
at 100000. The assignment is made
to Grant H. Burrows, who is president
of the company, but who resigned to
become assignee. The officers of the
company hope to secure an extension
of time from the creditors and adjust
the difficulty