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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23

| the great dynamo stood out gaunt and
awry like the bones of corpse from
which the flesh had beer Suddenly
torn away. Not q sound was heard.
Here and there bodies lay exposed
upon the floor of the arena with the
clothes torn from them.
Word was Immediately sent above
| for men and lights, and a strong recon-
noitering force was with difficulty
lowered into the cave.
Then the full extent of the appalling
disaster was investigated. Stocking
forced his way with some difficulty into
the rooms where he had spent SO many
hours, and there with the lanterns of
the men held high and throwing a dis
NAL effulgence on the scene he saw in
extricably mingled with the debris of
the place the members of the group to
whom Calicot had communicated the
last words. All wore the same hor-
rible mask of blue mold. Hendricks
himself was sitting in chair, but his
neck was dislocated and his head hung
down upon the side of his body. Cali
cots body was in the corridor. 1t
alone had escaped the blast of disfgur-
ing color; his face wore grim smile
and in his hand was a pad covered
with writing.
Stocking wrenched it from the dead
fingers and held it to the lantern. In
a distorted hand was written: "All
particulars on my person. have saved
you and the country. 1t was my duty.
am happy"
Shocked beyond all power of speech,
Stocking silently secured the papers,
and went with the party through the
coal passage to the mouth of the ro-
tunda and there the most stupendous
feature of this unprecedented tragedy
was revealed.
The whole of that great space was COW
cred with blue corpses. in every conceiv-
able attitude of sudden death, blue
stratum of smoke lying above them
and still depositing its sulphur and
carbon upon their forms.
Death reigned. 1t had come like
lightning stroke. 1t had spared moth
ing. The end of the dismantled cleo
trio engine, hurled from the trestle,
with its tender hanging to the iron
benches. Against the eastern wall
hundreds of men had been hurled in
mass. and there commingled in sick
ening pulp, from which stared the blue
and hidcous faces and pOked the I'M
wrought limbs.
AS Stocking slowly realized what his
friend had done a sense of his heroism
overcame everything else. He opened
the papers and read the hastily written
memorandum, from which this account
has been complied.
Il got," it said, 1.-The dynamite
cartridge from Laport's worlroom,
and also the fuse. l let it down the
ventilating tube to the floor of the
magazine. 1t burned twenty minutes.
l have made notes of all the disclosed
plans. Let the government act quick.
The brains and the organization are
destroyed.
THE great Laran rebellion is at. an
end"
THE END.
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not only be barrier against all as
saults on the tariff, whether inspired
by the white house or by the senate,
but the popular temper which that
house reveals will influence legisla-
ton long before the new congress can
go into existence. There will be no
further raids on the country indus
tries by the present congress This
great republican rising will be man
date from the people to the democracy
to take its hand off the tariff immedi-
ately. The popgun bills which passed
the house few months ago will never
go through the senate, and the others
which the democrats of the house
threatened to pass will never see the
light of day. The war against the ma
TONS productive interests and activi-
tiesis ended Trade will have a chance
to adjust itself to the new conditions,
the financial clouds will be dispersed,
and the shackles with which the de-
mocracy bound commerce will be
broken. The election is a glorious
victory for the country. 1t means i'm
proved business. renewed progress and
abundant prospe rity.-St Louis Globe
Dem0crat
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TWO OF a KIND.
Times Were Hard, But They Continued ts
Meet Misfortune PhiIosophicalIy.

Times Were Hard, But They Continued tn
Meet Misfortune PhiIosophicalIy.
''You-you don't want any coal car
ried up to-day?" he queried. as he put
his head into lawyers Office on Girls
void street the other day.
Haven't money enough to buy a
bucketful," was the doleful reply.
Il see Don't want any copying
done in fine Italian hand. SUPPOSE
Nothing to copy but bills from cred
itors."
Just so. 1 have been there myself.
Could do any work at your house
such as shoveling off snow, for in
stance?"
No. Couldn't pay You if you did
Exactly. We are all hard up this
winter. Any bills to collect?'
Not one"
Neither have I, and that's where
dows for quarter"
Couldn't think of it."
Let 'em go till next summer. he; or
do it yourself and save the coin? i
understand the situation. Got any
pressing creditors?'
about fifty
II might call upon the most persist
emf and obdurate of them and make
excuses for you"
No; it's no use"
mo chance to hawk on to a few
thousands and skip"
Not chance
Don't want a fire at your house to
get the insurance.
My insurance has run out
Say. old man, this is tough. cold
world, amt she?" laughed the tramp.
You bet.''
but we've got sand and will come
out on top in the spring. If either OF
us earns quarter to-day we'll whack
up with the other, Ell? Good-by-see
you later. Detroit Free Press.
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CURRENT COMMENT.

SThe comments of the English
press on the result of the election will
be of unusual interest this time
Minneapolis Journal
8-If Prof. Wilson had only made
another speech in London the people
would probably have made the next
house of representatives unanimously
republican.-TroyT Times.
sXThe American people propose to
change the policy of this administra-
tion and arrange to continue to raise
wool in the United States instead of
in Australia and South America.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
ut will be amusing now to hear
the democrats ascribe the revival OF
business which is certain to result
from the republican victories entirely
to the effects of the democratic tariff
law-Cleveland Leader.
FThe restoration of confidence as
a result of the recent elections is al
ready apparent in the stock MARKET
Every man who has monev to invest
will feel more like investing it now
than he did month or six weeks ago.
Cleveland Leader.
SThe only institution that seems
to be just now as badly demoralized as
the democratic party is the Chinese
empire. 1t is not too much TO say that
the Chinese are on the run, except
where they are struck with paralysis
Philadelphia Times
NWhere now are the prophets that
two years ago pronounced the repub-
lican party dead and buried by demo-
crats?" The saviors of the repu Bile
and the union are not the kind of peo-
pie to STAY dead, as the facts show
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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MORE BONDS TO BE IssuEu
The People tn BE Further Burdened BY
Democratic Extravaganza.

Democratic Extravaganza.
The announcement is made from
Washington that .he secretary of the
treasury-having freed himself OF the
inglorious Howard case--is about To-
ask for bids for $50, 100000 United
States bonds. 1t is learned in advance
that these bonds can be disposed of in
New York city for their market value
in gold. This is necessary to repair
the inroads in the gold reserve and to
rehabilitate the treasury, which, I'M
der Mr.. Carlisle's management, has
never been able to make both ends
meet.
The effect of this bond issue on the
business of the country should be
good, though as matter of fact the
currency locked up in the banks to-
day is, if it were released, more than
and if this addition helps in any way
the help will be sentimental. We are
told that these will be 5 per cent.
bonds on 5 per cent. basis, which is
form of financial juggling TO begin
with to which the United States can
not well afford to be party. If 3per
cent is to be the basis, then it would
seem to be plain common sense that
the bonds should be 5 per cent, for
the government cannot afford to be a
party to a speculation. The ives
issued last February when the gold
reserve-which. under the law, should
be kept at $1,000 ,OOO-had sunk tc
S6s, 900, 900, sold for us. If the price
should be as high now the present sals
will bring in s59.OOO.OOO. Three per
cent bonds should sell at par, and we
| could dispose of SIS. 900, 900 in bonds at
that rate, at but fraction NEE cost
to the nation than $50, 900. 900 at ).
While Wall street is certain that
the new loan will be made and specu-
lation is taking form FROM the belief,
Mr.. Carlisle half denies it But then
he did the very same thing on the eve
of the loan made last February. AT
the present time the gold reserve is
only SOL, OUO, 900. but of late the ten
dency has been to rise rather than d.
minish. For the rest of the fiscal
year-it ends in June, 'S5-the rev.
enues should exceed the expenditures
that is if we keep within the appropri
atoms. but tiis has not been done I'M
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23
WHAT THE VICTORY MEANS.
Improved Business and Abundant Pros
perity.


The republican victory in the con-
gressional elections was brilliant and
conspicuous. There was an adverse
democratic plurality of ninety-two to
overcome, lead which has seldom
been exceeded by any party in any con-
gress, but it was easily blotted out and
a republican majority of ample pro-
portions put in its place. 1t is vic
tory over which the republicans can
well afford to exult. They had heavy
odds TO contend against at the outset
because of the tremendous niajorities
rolled up by the democracy in 1890 and
1892, and on account of the prestige
thus gained by that party, but they
surmounted all the obstacles enthus-
iastically and grandly, and secured n
majority sufficient TO give this canvass
prominent place among the half a
dozen great revolutions which have
occurred in the elections of congresses.
The election has given the coup de
grace to the idea that the south must
be solid for the democracy at all times
and under all circumstances. The re-
publican gains in that quarter indicate
that some of the states will be fairly
debatable hereafter like those of the
north, and that no one party has a
perpetual lien upon the suffrage of
that section. In the present house the
democrats have one hundred and TWEEN
ty.one of the one hundred and twenty
seven members chosen in the sixteen
ex-slave states, but in the house elected
their number was largely reduced In
the south as well as in the rest of the
country the republicans gained
ground. This ground they undoubt-
edly will retain. The solid south is a
thing of the past. 1t is obsolete,
knocked out, abolished. 1t has gone
to join the relic of barbarism which
was responsible for it. Henceforth
there will be two parties in the south
instead of one. and the ability and fit
ness of the candidates and the char
acter of the policy for which they
stand will determine which party shall
be dominant, as is the case in the
north.
A halt has been called on the tariff
tinllering. This will be the first and
most important result of the congress
sional election. The house chosen will
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23
uUnpreeedented Defeat.

Never in the history of the American
republic has there been such a polite
al revolution as that shown by the
election of the 9th of November.
1894. The party in power was thor
oughly intrenched; it controlled all
the branches of the federal govern
ment; its salaried myrmidons were
working for its success all over the
land except in New York state, where
Cleveland's hatred of Hill made them
hold off their hands The democratic
party, being in power in many states.
had SO ''gerrymandered' those states
that it was deemed impossible for the
republicans to secure majority there
for at least generation. Yet in two
years this party in power had so shame
fully maladministered the government
which the people had blindly intrusted
to them, that that people rose in their
wrath and drove the incompetents
from power.-San Francisco Argonau6
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23
SONG.

There's beauty in the dswning light:
And twilight fair, or starlit night,
Has each its charm and grace;
But iovelier still on earth to me
The fairest thing my eve can see
The beauty Of thy face
There's calmness on the oceans breast
AS deep and blue 1t seems to rest
Meath bluer heavens above:
Put deeper. calmer. still TO me
Than ever sea or sky can be.
= Thine azure eyes. my lovei
There's music in the running stream.
And music when the woodlands seem
Awake with songs OF birds:
But sweeter, dearer still to me
Than natures voice can ever be,
The music Of thy words.
&C. Roxby. In Chambers Journal
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Bargain.

She had been servant ere she be-
came rich and was able to assume a
very high quality of hauteur.
She bestowed a whitening glance
upon the artist.
do l understand you to say you
charge me one thousand dollars for
painting the portrait of my grand
father" she demanded, incredulously.
The painter bowed low.
''You understand me Alright, he re-
piled, simply
She sneered.
Very we'll"
She shrugged her. shoulders, coldly.
then, but shall insist"
Her lip curled.
that you pay the model"
Leaning gracefully over the escri-
toire she wrote a check.-Detroit
Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23
CHAPTER XIV.

Lieut.. Stocking. the moment he was
in the Wash bayou and felt the elation
of freedom, met with a new blow.
Il cannot go to Memphis with my
father" she said. There are reasons
that cannot tell You now. We must
get boat, cross the Mississippi and
disappear"
1t was in vain that Stocking pleaded
and argued. You do not know ali"
she said, land l must save my fathers
life. There is skiff in the woods two
miles above the bayou. Take us to
that, get us across and leave Us to find
our way in Texas to the coast. You
must go back to your friend. and will
write you when we are all safe. if you
give me an address"
Vainly Lieut.. Stocking pleaded with
her. On this point she was firm. The
guard took them two or three miles up
the Mississippi and there the party
crossed the river, the lieutenant ac-
companying them two or three miles
| into the interior, until he believed
they were safe from pursuit, when he
| babe them farewell and returned.
| The Journey had consumed day. and
when he reached the eastern shore of
| the Mississippi he encountered the
pickets of a government force, was
promptly arrested and taken to the
camp about mile from the Laran
portal, where he found two regiments
of troops. 1t was not difficult for him
to establish his identity. as he found
several acquaintance among the Off
GERS, and to them he told the whole
story of his capture and incarceration.
1t was an incredible and startling rev.
citation, and led the commanding Off
Ger at once to move his camp to new
elevation at some distance from the
Laran and to take every precaution
against an attack in the rear. On the
morning of the third day Stocking set
out with a picked guard and several of
the officers to inspect the entrance of
the cave.
1t was not difficult 30 find the por-
tai. for 20 their establishment the
whole of the iron lift was discovered
living on the ruins of the sanitarium
adjacent to the uncovered shaft, from
which issued a wayering thin blue
smoke.
Suspecting some kind of treachery
Stocking proposed to go down alone.
and after some delay in getting ropes
he was lowered into the hole. Finding
everything enveloped in darkness and
silence at the bottom of the shaft. he
had to come back for assistance and
lanterns, and thus provided and ac-
companied by an officer he rede-
scended with the growing conviction
that Hendricks had withdrawn all his
forces from the cave and abandoned it.
The moment he arrived at the
mouth of the arena passage and held
up the lantern he perceived that some
thing extraordinary had taken place.
On either side of the entrance to the
shaft were the bodies of men-two of
them had apparently been hurled
against the wall of the arena with ter
rifle force, for their bodies were dislo-
Gated and their skulls fractured, and
they were covered with a blue mould
that made their faces indistinguish-
able. A few seconds later the condi-
ton of the arena disclosed the destruc-
ton that had taken place. The resi-
denoes on the western wall were shat
! tered and in ruins. The machinery OF
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This tells in a word the story of an
angry peoples terrific rebuke. The
voters of the country have tried the
democratic party once, and have de-
cided that once is enough. There will
be no more Wilson bill experiments. at
least not in the remaining years Of
this century.
The next senate will stand: Repub-
licans, 43; democrats, Al; populists, 4.
In the house the republicans viii, have
at least 223 to 1873 of opposition, in
Guiding both democrats and populists.
This assures the control of "a states,
a clear majority in case the election Of
the next president should be thrown
into the house. 1t also puts an ex-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23

the entire state ticket with the excep-
ton of governor) and both houses of
the legislature, thus securing the
United States senator, and four, pos
sibly five, of the six members of con-
gress.
Nevada was carried by the free sill
yer 16 to populists.
Arizona, about which there was some
doubt for few days. is, according to
the latest returns, republican.
Kentucky might properly be said
to be republican, as the repub-
licans elected majority of members
OF congress. And for this reason it is
placed in the republican column.
The republican majorities in the list
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23
Evident.

A student at a medical college was
under examination. The instructor
asked him:
"Of what cause, specifically, did the
people die who lost their lives at the
destruction of Herculaneum and Pom
peii?'
Il think they died of an eruption.
SIR, answered the student.-Youth's
Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23

der democratic administration since
the war. OF course it will not do to
deplete the treasury, but with ordina-
ry business management there should
be no need to burden the people at
this time with the interest on an adj
ditional debt of $50, 900, OOO.-N. Y. Adj
verfiSer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23

The repeal of the reciprocity
clauses of the Mckinley law in the
case of Brazil and Cuba, and in the
putting of duty on raw sugar by the
new tariff law, in the case of Germany,
have wiped out a market for nearly
sixty million dollars worth of Amer
lean products per annum. These prod
ucts are those Of the farm and the fac
tory, and the men who have been en-
gagged in producing this merchandise
are thus to lose a portion of their
means of livelihood Blade.
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A supreme TEST of Nerve.

"Why do you think that Hepby has
such.great moral courage?"
Because last night when he asked
a cabman what fare he should pay and
the cabman said: What you think is
right, sfr,' Hepby paid only the regular
Chicago Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23
Fought ShY of 1t.

Minister-So you don't think I prac-
tice what teach, deacon?
Deacon-Well, considering that you
have been preaching on the subject of
resignation for the past thirty-seven
years, I don't quite think you do
Tr,,fh
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23

Of states following are not in all cases
strictly accurate, but as nearly so as
it is possible to give them up to date.
Enough is known to warrant the state
ment that in none is the majority like
" to be smaller:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23
GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES.

Division of the Country.
North Carolina was carried by a
fusion of republicans and populists.
Nebraska. was carried by the repub-
licans with the exception of governor.
who is a democrat. The democrats
and populists fused on that Office. and
Majors, republican. was defeated by
1000 votes. The republicans elected
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
An Extinguisher Upon Free-Raw-Materis
HeresIes.

The next congress will be q repub-
lican congress. and there will be no
more .free-trade legislation to keep
manufacturers in suspense and labor
idle. Chairman Faulkner, of the dem
ocratic congressional committee, him
self comedies to the republicans ma
jority of forty in the next congress
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23

The new tariff law has been in
force since August, and its effects are
apparent in the official statements of
monthly receipts and expenditures.
For September the deficit was S1,22s,-
81, and for October it was S13.6S0,S54
"a total of $50. sos. 231 for the two
months, or nearly s35O.O0O day. That
is the way in which democratic legis-
lation provides revenue Cor the neces-
sites of the governmenL-St- Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-23

Bond selling is necessary, but
the necessity was created by the dem
ocrats, and this will Oe one of the
things that will hit them in 1s96.-St.
Louis Globe-DemOcrat
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There will not be dozen demo-
Gratis in the next house frop all the
north put together outside of New
York Five unknown democrats have
pulled through there, and these five
will be equal to one-half the strength
of the rest of the democratic represen-
tatives this side of Mason and Dixon's
line. What a fall was there, my
countrymenr'-Phi Press.
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70 Free traders may continue to
shout that Americans are not in favor
of protection, but time will cure their
idiocy. Protection has made the
United States great and prosperous
second to no nation upon the globe
Chicago Inter Ocean
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~To Chairman Wilson: I'VE will
now stop breaking down these ds-
fenses.' "-Detroit Journal
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Chairman Wilson has crawled
out from under the avalanche, but he
is still little uncertain as to what
struck him.-Chicago Tribune.
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The Income Tax Must Go.

Among the things just settled by the
people at the polls the income tax
issue must be counted. 1t has been re-
pudiated not only in the northern
states, but in the states of the west
and the south that were supposed to
be the citadels OF its champions. The
democratic and populist leaders who
advocst ted it in the present congress
will be conspicuous by their absence"
in the next. 1t is clear that the re-
vival of this essentially un-American
form of taxation, never before levied
except under the stress of war neces-
sites. has been condemned by the pop
,ular vote When the present congress
meets one of the first things it should
do is to pass a bill repeating the in
come tax sections of the German tariff
act and send it to Mr.. Cleveland for his
signature. Surely he would sign it,
for he professed always to be opposed
to a tax on individual incomes, though
he thought corporation profits should
be taxed. 1t is, perhaps, too much to
hope from the outgoing congress. But
the Fifty-fourth congress will certain
Nv abolish the income tax in short
order. The people have repudiated
this odious form of class taxation and
it must go.-N. Y. Recorder.