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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
A Profitable Dairy Cow.

A profitable dairy COW is one that
yields not less than 600 gallons of milk
year. the milk containing not lesa
than per cent of butter fat A cow
yielding 600 gallons year ought to
give during the IS earlier weeks of her
milk-how about 40 gallons, which, at
the rate of 1 pound of cheese to each
gallon of milk, would amount, after
allowing for shrinkage. to cwt
of cheese. And if the milk Is
for the butter dairy, the produce of
600 gallons containing per cent of fat
ought to be 2i0 pounds of butter. The
best means of developing and improv-
ing the milking capacity of cows are
selection and breeding. The lives of
good mixers should be preserved as
long as possible. Statistics show that
of all the animals subjected during the
last eight or nine years to public test
at milking trials those which were
over six years old gave from 90 to 25
per cent. more milk and from 20 to %
per cent richer milk than those under
that age.-Farm and Home.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
Why He Was an Exception.

1T makes me tired to see the man
ner in which these newspapers are
rum" said the man in the smoking car
as he took off his glasses and let his
paper drop across his knees.
The man who sat next to him had
one lock of harlan oasis in a desert OF
scalp-which he spent most of his time
in smoothing reaectively.
81 s'pose," he said slowly. that you
could give 'em all points," he said, de-
liberately.
I'm sure of it. Couldn't you?"
mo, don't think / could"
do you mean to say that you
couldn't tell the editor how to run his
paper?" exclaimed the kicker in tone
that had absolute dismay in it.
Il do indeed" replied the man with
the oasis, earnestly.
"Well-I must say, there are not
many like you"
II know it / used to be like you
are. But now I'm trying to run a
newspaper myself, and 1 tell you. my
friend, I'm not saying a word Not a
word. "-Washington Star.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
KEEP THE COWS CLEAN.
Do 1t by Building Uneven Managers and
Even Drops.

Even Drops.
There is no reason why a herd of
dairy cows should suffer in appearance
because covered with filth from fall to
spring. The immediate cause for this
trouble is floors without drops, or that
are too long to match the individual
animals. To vary the distance between
a manger and drop by having the gut
tiers in uneven positions, would make
an untidy appearance in the stable, be-
sides increasing the labor of clearing
it, but it is not impossible to make
each manger, or pair of managers, NOV
able, SO that each cow, or two cows Of
the same length, may be accommodate
adapted to their requirements To
bring this about, let each manger bot
tom be firmly nailed to two strips Of
scantling eighteen inches long, which
1T into corresponding slots in the stable
hoor-slots long enough to permit the
movement forward and backward OF
the hangers A simple hook or bolt
made of wood or iron and attached to
the manger in front will firmly hold it
in the desired position. II the
managers are not sufficiently heavy
to tie to, or if stanchions are used, an
upright, two by three inches, may con-
meet the manger with the ceiling above
by means of a simple fastening, so that
the tie will be solid.
be somewhat uneven and out of line,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19

would make a charming gift for Q
musical friend of either sex.
To make one, select two clothes pins
that are perfectly smooth, and spread
widely at the open end, and gild them
all over or enamel them in any delicate
tin. Glue to the top solid pad made
of narrow strips of muslin or cambria
wound into a round ball nearly an inch
in diameter, pat it down around the
top of the clothes-pin, wind bit Of
muslin smoothly over the joining, COW
er the whole with a layer of sheet
wadding. and over that fit a covering
of soft white or flesh tinted silk,
making it as smooth as posi-
Bile, and tying it on around the
neck of the pin, with a tightly drawn
thread. For the arms, make little rolls
of cambria, cover them with silk or
lace baby-sleeves, and attach them,
one at each side of the neck, with
needle and thread and a drop of glue
on the shoulder of the pin. Paint the
faces as represented, using oil or water
colors; or simply sketch the features
and lightly outline the hair with sepia.
Put a rufile of embroidered silk or
pretty lace around the neck, finishing
1t at the top with shirred heading or
a ribbon tied in a bow at one side.
Mount the pins On slender gilded or
enameled hardwood stick, passed
through them as seen in the sketch
and glued to position; then, with tiny
tacks and glue, fasten the back side of
the falling sleeve-ruffles to the ends
and middle of the stick.
Open a music-book, slip the pins over
the top, one on each side, and see how
useful the happy, smiling little twins
can be. As sketched, one is trying
with all its little might to assist in the
singing, while the other is delightedly
listening. Another holder might rep
resent a pair of lovers ecstatically sing
ing together, and another a pair of
quarreling choir-singers; by the artis-
tic, the little figures may be made to
represent any chosen characters. But
those who can draw but little may
produce very pleasing effects by first
sketching the faces, then dressing the
figures according to resulting express
sions.
Single pins make pretty openers for
any book. One shows single pin rep
resenting fat urchin, in a cape and
scarlet cap, trying to look like
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19

ing one end of a small MANILA rope to
the edge of the shelf and winding the
rope around the outside of rods as
close as possible until the height of
edge is two inches, then fasten the
end of the rope to a rod with tack;
also tack the rope here and there to
the rods sufficiently to make it Sc
cure. The scrap basket is made in the
same way, but eight inches in depth.
Varnish the rope, and when nearly
dry give it two coats of bronze painos
Tie a bow of deep red ribbon on one
corner of the scrap basket. The cost
Of this furniture is trihing, but it is suf-
ficiently handsome to grace the most
richly furnished library.-American
Agriculturist.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
Thriving Strawberry Runners.

A writer in the Ohio Farmer says
that bed set out in early May has ha /
ample time before the close of June to
produce strongly-rooted plants of good
size, and that these plants often send
out as strong runners at first as they
ever do. His plan is to make use of
these first runners, one or two to each
plant, but to pinch off others that may
follow until these are rooted. Then he
lets few more grow and take root;
and so lets the thinning be kept up
during the whole season. A few strong
plants are better supported than null
titude of crowded ones, and give better
growth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19

enough to admit the passage of the
bamboo rods. Slip the larger board
just over the rods and fasten for the
top of the stand; pass one of the other
boards over the rods and bring four
inches above the middle of rods and
fasten; slip the last board over rods,
and fasten four inches from the bot
tom. To fasten the shelves to the rods,
holes are bored through the rods into
the shelves, and wooden pins or nails
are inserted in the holes; also thick
glue Is poured around rods where they
pass through shelves. Paint rods and
shelves with black enamel paint.
The top shelf is for the dictionary,
the middle one for reference books,
and The lower one for the scrap basket.
In order to hold the books more Sc
curely, the second shelf is finished
with two-inch edge, made by fasten-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
Where Bad Roads Lead To.

Bad roads lead to profanity; they
make men swear. Bad roads lead to
intemperance; men think it necessary
to fortify the inner man with a few
drinks to enable them to stand long
journey through the mud Bad roads
lead to cruelty; the kindest-hearted
driver often has to stimulate willing
team with the lash. Bad roads lead to
poverty; the wear and tear on wagons,
harness and animals knock off a large
Der cent of profit-Homer Times
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
ORCHARDS IN WINTER.
Protect the Trees from Rabbits, Mice ant
Other Depredators.

Protect the Trees from Rabbits, Mice and
Other Depredators.
Now is the time of danger to young
orchards while the snow is on and the
green grass is out of reach of the rab-
bits which must eat to live, and in lieu
of that which they may relish better
Will take the bark from the apple or
other fruit trees Wrapping the trees
in the orchard with thick paper will be
as easily and quickly done as any
other method. Semi>pruning and let
ting the limbs lie around affords pro-
lection as the rabbits prefer the scions
to the main stalk of the tree The
mice, too, often do great damage under
the snow if much rubbish is left about
the roots of the tree under which they
can harbor. Small trees are often en-
tirely barked around close to the
ground. 1t is safest to clear away the
trash and bank up little with dirt in
the fall. A remedy in the spring, If
discovered early enough, is to bank
fresh soil around where the bark has
been removed, before the wood has dried
too much, and new bark will take the
place of the old. This may be done where
the rabbits have gnawed, unless too
high up on the trunk, which it is liza BILE
to be where the snow has drifted about
the trees and which enables the rab-
bits sometimes to get among the
branches. The winter has started in
with great severity and it will be well
to afford as much protection to the
small fruits. especially the vineyards
which can be laid down and covered
To many things in the vegetable king
dom the snow. and plenty of it, is of
supreme importance if it only keeps
the ground amply covered until the
April showers come to remove it Dur
ing these leisure hours the farmers
should study the various needs of the
different branches of their pursuit by
the perusal of the papers and books
which come within their reach. This
gives them an opportunity of coming
in contact with the experiences of
others who have given the subjects
much thought and scientific investiga-
tion.-Western Rural
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19

frowning, specialized student. 1t was
designed for a fun-loving maiden
whose f1ance was of serious, literary
turn. The other is quaint little
"old-fashioned girl" in frilled cap
and lace cape.
These single pins are so easily
trimmed that dozens, all differing,
might be prepared in a short time and
utilized as party favors or prizes
Frances FL. Perry, in Demorest's Maya
zina
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
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like the illustration, if the object Of
keeping the cows clean is accom-
plished? There is never any loss in
making live stock, particularly cows,
as comfortable as possible The salts
faction of having clean milk and high
favored butter will pay for all the
trouble it makes. The making of .
choice class of butter, that will bring
the best winter prices, is out of the
question on many farms because of the
failure to keep the cows clean.-Coun-
try Gentleman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
NEAT LIBRARY STAND.

Combined Dictionary Holder, Reference
Book Shelf and Scrap Basket.
The combined dictionary holder,
reference book shelf and scrap basket,
shown in the accompanying illustra-
ton, is not only artistic and useful, but
so simple of construction that it can
be easily made by almost any person.
1t requires four bamboo sticks two feet
and eight inches long; two boards ten
inches by twelve inches, and one board
twelve inches by twenty. Each board
las holes bored in each corner large
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
WOMAN AND HOME.
FUNNY PAGE HOLDER.

An Appropriate Present for \ Musical
Friend-A Device Which, Despite Its
Comical Appearance. Il OF Practical
value-Directions for Making the Pretty
Things.
An ingenious device, not only pretty
and comical. but of practical value to
the unsteady inclined, book
opener or page-holder designed to hold
open the leaves of large music-books
used with pianos and organs.
One of these holders-"musical at
tendants," they are sometimes called
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
Hopeless Case,
The WAY of n Mean Man.

Mrs. Suttle Observation-Disclosures,
Mrs Swiftly's husband has just bought
her lovely sealskin cloak.
Mr.. Suttle-l always said Swiftly
had a wheel in his head.-Chicsgo REQ
ord.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
Country and City Life.

We now live in the city and go to the
country; but we should live in the coun-
try and go to the city. This is ''con-
summation devoutly to be wished" but
it can never be brought about until
good roads connect the cities and vii
lagos with the green fields and beauti-
full scenery of the country.-Road and
Roadside
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
DESIGN FOR CUSHIONS, DoILIEs, ETC.

cut some pretty shape and the name
and date in gold paint.
A dear little notebook, five by ten,
was covered with white kid and Note
book" printed in gold. and a pencil tied
to the cover with white cord.-Bessie
Eta Colby. in Farm and Fireside.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19

WAS it regular old-fashioned
donation party?" Pooh. no; there
was enough left over to make a good
full meal after every one had left the
table Inter Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19

ONE of the advantages Of ducks over
chickens is that they will grow almost
twice as fast, are free from vermin, and
less liable to disease.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19
As Good a. q Dog.

In South America, a boy who wants
to own pet animal gets a monkey in
stead of a dog. Sometimes he can buy
a monkey already trained, and if he
can do so he is very happy boy, be-
cause wild monkeys are ugly little fell
lows and it takes a long time to teach
them how to live with civilized people.
A South American boy has to pet a
monkey because there are not enough
dogs in South America. But with the
South American boy a nice tame mon
key with soft fur hair and swapping
black eyes is very highly priced, and
he becomes attached to it, just as an
American boy becomes attached to his
collie or his Newfoundland; so he does
not feel the need of good dog.
Hopeless Case.
They met by chance in the waiting
room of a railway station.
My friend" began the man with
the valise full of tracts, persuasively,
have you ever reflected on the short
ness of life. the uncertainty of all
things here below and the fact that
death is inevitable?"
Have ~" replied the man in the
shaggy overcoat, cheerfully. "Well,
should reckon! I'm a life insurance
agentr'
"Ah-um-looks as if we were going
to have more snow, doesn't it?" said
the other, locking his valise again with
a snap.-Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19

She Knew m-Claire-"Weren',
you frightened when Charlie fell into
the river?" Marie-"Oh, no; he's light
enough to f1oat"-Detroit Free Press
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19

Havana has 21s,0O0 people and
LAOS police, who last year made 1904
arrests.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-19

turn his back on an enemy. Go, and
remember, too, that while the door of
my cottage is open to all brave men, it
is always shut against towards"
Agrippina, the mother of Nero, a muir
deress, you are not surprised that her
SON was murderer. Give that child an
overdose of catechism and make him
recite verses of the Bible as punish
ishment and make Sunday bore, and
he will become stout antagonist of
Christianity. Impress him with the
kindness and the geniality and the
loneliness of religion and he will be its
advocate and exemplar for all time and
eternity.
The trouble with Sisera's mother
was that while sitting at the window
of my text watching for news of her
son from the battlefield, she had the
two bad qualities of being dissolute
and being fond of personal adornment.
What she thinks most of is the bright
colors of the wardrobes to be captured,
and the needlework. TO Sisera
prey of divers colors. prey of divers
colors of needlework, of divers colors
of needlework on both sides
Now neither Sisera's mother nor any
one else can say too much in eulogy of
the needle. 1t has made more useful
conquests than the sword Pointed at
one end and with an eye at the other,
whether of bone or ivory, as in earliest
time, or of bronze. as in Pliny's time,
or of steel. as in modern time; whether
laboriously fashioned, as formerly, by
one hand, or as now, when hundred
workmen in a factory are employed to
make the different parts of one needle,
it is an instrument divinely ordered for
the comfort, for the life, for the health,
for the adornment of the human race
But there was nothing except vanity
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-04-28

monds and gowns of which any
woman would be enraptured. Mrs
Green's landlady's daughter spoke OF
diamonds one evening in the kitchen.
Mrs Green SAID she had some and
would bring them over from the Chem
zeal bank, where She kept them She
brought 10 the boarding house kitchen
the next night an immense bundle IN
her arms and when she unwrappei It
there was displayed before the won
derinp vaze of the laudlady aud her
daughter aud the cook and other SER
wants a collection of diamonds and
rrecious stones such as they had never
seen. There were diamond brooches
and necklaces. and string of pearls
which Mrs. Green admitted was worth
n great many thousand dollars and, in
addition, there was very hand
some black satin gown, with black
1arc founccs on tia foot wide The
women persuaded Mrs, Green to dress
IN IN the fine clothes, and declared
she looked like u queen,
There are middle-agcd people IN New
YorS who remember Hetty Green MS q
comedy. graceful girl, social belle IN
the long ago, who gave no indication
that her maturcr years would be
marked by such extraordinary money
making power coupled with eNtraor'
binary desire To economics.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-04-28
AN ABANDONED CITY
1t Has Handsome Residences, but Not a
Single Inhabitant

A party of psychologists tell thrill
ing story of the abandoned city of
West Lynne in North Dakota The
city is desolate and going to decay; no
traffic goes ON in its streets or business
in its stores; no homes are in the
dwellings. The streets are graded,
have sidewalks, and trees and shrub
berry flourish in the yards surrounding
the residences, but all is silence and
loneliness. The town is opposite EN-
erson, just across the Manitoba line
from St Vincent. There. on two sides
of the Red river and within an area of
four square miles, are four towns
Emerson, West Lynne, Winston and
Pembina. West Lynne is on the west
bank of the river The history of the
place is one of the romances of town
building in the boom period when
Winnipeg was the metropolis of the
north. Some schemers with more fer
tility than scruples, plated and ex-
plotted a city on the river at point
where they claimed the Great North
ern was to cross. Eastern capitalists
were becoming interested and money
was plenty. There was no sham about
the actual construction of that town,
| but a substantial reality.
/ A man named Murray of Chicago
was the agent He sold lots at auc-
ton for IS, 600 each While he wouh
be selling telegram would come mott
flying him OF the sale Of certain plat,
! and IL would be withdrawn.
Then he sold adjoining lots at adj
yanced prices. That was the broker
7 feature. Meantime building was pro.
crossing.
No board shanties. wood walls nol
canvas shells, but handsome structures
of brick or lumber, thoroughly fin
ished in approved style, were erected
and to-day the town is handsome but
useless monument to the credulity Of
some and the hardihood Of Others,
II has buildings which cost from
s., 900 TO $40, 600 and a bridge which
cost 5000. 600, and is capable of hold
ing population Of 2o.Oo0 and vet MOI
human being lives in it.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-04-28
4 chemical smoke destroyer.

That almost anything is possible
with science" is proved by the fact that
while experimenters the world over
have been trying to get rid of the
smoke nuisance by appliances attached
to the smollestacll or the boiler furnace
a German scientist comes forward with
a chemical that actually prevents
smoke at the time of fuel combustion.
Ii only costs about ls'l cents per ton
to use this chemical now when its pro-
duction is limited, 1t is believed that
it can be proftably produced in guam
titles SO that it will only cost cents
per ton for coal so treated. Tests of
coal which has been given a bath of
this solution prove that its heating
qualities are in no way curtailed and
that the fire is clean, bright and well
maintained.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-04-28

are liable TO incline one to the belief
that he is in the midst of colony of
lunaties.
Signs have been made necessary to
convey information between employees
by the long trains of the present day
making speedy communication in any
other way an impossibility. There is
now a sort of international code in
use, which is practically the same on
every road IN the country Al night
the same signals are conveyed with a
lantern.
The rear brakeman is the man who
does most of the signaling, for the
reason that IL is he who is nearest the
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-04-28

in this silent language, but suf-
flee it TO say that there is no con-
versation connected with the operat-
ing of trains that these hardy fellows
can not carry on with head, body and
arms and be understood perfectly.
The violence or gentleness with
which these signals are given also
indicate something, just as the
light and heavy lines in short
hand writing indicate different
letters or words. They even
carry this so far as TO firt with the
dairymaids along the line, who quickly
become familiar with the language OF
the railroader.
The whistle signals are principally
used to indicate "down brakes, one
whistle; .'yes, or II am going ahead, =
two whistles; backing three wills
ties; calling in the fagman, four long
whistles; crossing a street at grade,
two short and two long whistles. Five
short whistles indicate Look out for
yourselves, for there's trouble ahead. I
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-04-28

tiful sea siren with languorous eyes
and flowing hair, who woos foolish
mariners to destruction. and the folk
lore of every nation has different
idea OF the appearance of the mermaid.
The crafty Chinese and Japanese have
even manufactured a mdeous sem
blance to a woman fish, and great
painters have deigned to commit to
canvas their conception of the siren.
The uuattractive, motherly dugong
was the cause of ii all.
The dugong forms the connecting
link between the real whale and the
seals and walruses. Like the whale,
the animal has no hind feet, but a
powerful horizontal tail Its anterior
extremities are more fieXibly lointed
than those of the whale, and this
is distinguishing characteristic
between the two animals The
dugong is sand TO have attained a
length of 20 feet, but the usual length
is from to II feet. The specimen at
the academy is nearly : feet long. and
has been very wen preserved. In APP
pearance the animal resembles the
manatee or sea cow Its upper lip IS
large. thick and fieshy, and its snout
Is like the trunk of an elephant cut
short across.
When the dugong is nursing its
Young its breasts are enlarged so rs to
be almost human in their aspect The