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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-14
Tho EfInuette of tho Fan.

There is an endless etiquette in the
use of fans, and with the japanese the
fan is an emblem of life. The rivet
end is regarded as the starting point
and as the rays Of the fan expand SO
the road of life widens out toward a
prosperous future. 1t is also said that
the japanese ogi originally took its
shape from their wonderful mountain,
Fuji-san, which represents to them all
that is beautiful, high and holy. When
one begins to understand all this there
comes salutary feeling of ignorance,
ard we perceive that the japanese may
claim to be among the great symbolists
in the world. A continuance of such
study might turn the most hardened
European into n Japonophile.
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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

S-The sugar trust and the whisky
ring are shaking hands over the new
tariff law.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
sB-A democrat engaged in search
ing for his principles smiles when he
see mugwump occupied in the same
way.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
SUnder the new democratic free
trade scheme the Canadians will saw
their own logs into lumber and the
American workman must hustle else
where for his board.-Chicago JournaL
B-We have said good evening to
the Mckinley law and its unbounded
prosperity, and good morning to tariff
reform" and ''perfdy and dishonor."
If ''per6dy" should do as well by the
people as ''robber," the 'dishonor"
will be borne. The people are accus-
toned to make the best Of the situa-
tion.-Chicago Inter Ocean
s8At a recent democratic county
convention in Wisconsin much trouble
was found in the framing of suitable
platform. One of the faithful suggest
ed that in order to obyiate the great
difficulty the Chicago platform of 1894
good as new, never having been used
since the election
e The Wilson-Gorman bill now
having gone into effect, and the prom
ises of the democratic party being ful-
filed, the farmers may now get ready
to sell their wheat at one dollar a
bushel, as promised in 1892. No fail
ure this time, gentlemen. Bring on
your wheat. The money is ready just
as soon as Mr.. Carlisle can negotiate
another S:.y million dollars!
A cargo of wool worth fifty thou
sand dollars in the hull of an English
vessel lying outside of New York har-
Dor on the morning of August 20. was
worth -? The duty under the Me-
Kinley law necessary to be paid into
the custom house of the port of New
York on the arrival of the vessel at
the wharf, would amount to thirty
thousand dollars; but the president
failed to sign the Wilson-Gorman bill,
which became law at midnight on the
27th, and this English vessel reached
her wharf at 10 o'clock on the morn
ing of the 2Sth. thirty thousand dollars
better off. She unloads her wool i'm
New York without paying cent, and.
places it upon the market in compets-
ton with American wool. The differ
ence in profit for the Englishman IL
thirty thousand dollarA
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HAT PIN CUSHIONS.
fwo Pretty Designs Which Can Dc Made
ut Small Cost.


ut Small Cost.
In these days when hat pins are as
much of fad and of a necessity with
al, as stick pins, it is desirable that ap-
propriate receptacles be provided for
them in order that they shall not mar
the dainty toilet cushion with their
huge perforations. Where n suspended
cushion seems most convenient the al
ways attractive little japanese doll
may be utilized. Choose one with a
head measuring six inches in circum-
ference. To dress one, as shown in
Fig in the illustration, fold a half
yard of three-inch ribbon together and
crease it to designate the bottom OF
the cushion. Sew thirteen snail gilt
spangles along the bottom, with a gilt
bead in the middle of each to fasten it
on. Overland the sides of the ribbon
to within an inch and half of the op-
posite end; stuff with hair or wool and
fasten it around the dolls neck. A
half yard of the same ribbon is cut in
two and folded lengthwise for the
sleeves; overland, turn in the ends at
the bottom, and attach to the dress at
the shoulder. Now take yard and a
quarter of half-inch ribbon, fasten it
over the shoulder and tie about the
waist with bow and ends in front, al
though the really Japanese lady al.
ways wears her sash ends behind,
neatly tucked up into sort of roll or
cushion. A loop of this same ribbon Is
fastened to the belt in the back to suS-
pend the cushion by. Decorate tho
sleeves and shoulder straps with
spangles and beads, and finish with q
fringe of the beads. Letter on the
skirt HAT Pins" in gilt, forming the
letters to look as much like japanese
characters as possible.
The standard cushion shown in Fig.
1 requires bit of thin cardboard, five
by nine inches, for the sides of the
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, which Hendricks had directed his

to which Hendricks had directed his
whole energy was the provisioning of
the retreat and the securing of a safe
sanitarium. In carrying out the first of
these precautions, he had managed,
with consummate care, during period
of eight months, to load into the south
western entrance vast store of ma
terial. purchased at Cincinnati, Louis
vile, st. Louis and Memphis, and de-
livered by boat at the Wash bayou,
where there was storehouse and
whence the goods were hauled for the
apparent use of the two surface hotels.
Other and smaller streams of supplies
were reaching the sanitarium overland
continuously. 1t is calculated that dur
ing the eight months over eleven hun
dred thousand dollars were spent for
supplies. In the lists of purchases APP
peared two items of unusual import
lone thousand magazine rifles
eighteen thousand dollars" They
were contracted for in the east by
western dealer ostensibly to be sold on
the plains and were bought in three
lots. But they reached the Wash
bayou without attracting attention,
for they were shipped in pieces at in
tervals and put together in the Laran
works. The other item was-''five
hundred polished nickel steel plates
made to order by the Corinth Steel
company and consigned to bradshaw
& Fenning, Memphis, Tenn" These
plates figured in the mysterious Laport
gun which afterwards caused such
CONSERVATION.
Hendricks, during these eight
months, had evidently calculated to
offset the increased probabilities of
exposure in making such vast pur-
chases by the increased security af-
forded when he got his material into
his fortress-and this alone would
show that he had other and vaster
schemes in allegiance, and that, after
all, the fitting out of the Laran cave
was only a provisional step to some
thing else.
Our imaginary visit, therefore, at
this time discloses at Laran an entirely
different condition of affairs. The
sanitarium looks like rural hotel.
There are several persons on the broad
balcony, but they exhibit only the in
dolence of country boarders. The
warm sun lies peacefully on the lawns,
but there is a simmer in the air above
the big chimney which tells of great
volume of heat pouring into the blue
sky. There are servants about the
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Mats for the Table.

1t is too bad to have ones polished
tables and stands covered with little
rings where vase has stood and the
water has overfowed. There Is no
need of this, either. Everybody should
have on hand an abundant supply Of
these mats. These need not be obtru-
sive in design. In fact, no one wants
any more the elaborate CONNECTION that
were once won't to call attention to
their crocheted splendors in our draw
ing rooms. Make the latter-day vase
mats of small rounds of olive-green
felt, preferably not ornamented at all
except for ''Iinked" border. No one
will notice them, but they will keep
your rosewood and mahogany from
harm
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ExoReITANT APPROPRIATIONS.
The Record Broken by the Second Sessions
of the Fifty Third Congress.

The Record Broken by the Second Sessions
of the Fifty Third Congress.
The session just closed is record
breaker in the matter of appropria-
tions, which are $500, 200, 900, more by
s27. ZOO, COO than was appropriated by
the Fifty-first congress in it's first ses-
sion, which has been advertised to all
the world as the ''billion-dollar con-
gress," or the ''Reed congress-" Not
withstanding the democrats took from
the deserving soldiers of this country
S29, 600, 900 in order to make this show
ing, they now stand charged with
making the most exorbitant appro-
priations for sectional purposes ever
known in the history of the govern
ment. The river and harbor bill is in
creased more than S11, 100000, to be-
expended largely in the south. The
diplomatic and consular bill, for the
support of exconfederates abroad, is
increased more than $4,000. The FORTH
| fication bill. in order to find fat places
for democratic employees in coast de-
Tense construction, is increased $780,
| 900. The Indian bill. by which more
democratic employees are fed and
clothed and housed, in violation of
civil service rules and civil service
methods than under all other bills
combined, is increased s1,475, 000-
Anyone who goes to the agencies in
| the northwest will find the agent with
all his family nicely housed and shell
tered under civil service, his bonds
men and the friends thereof carried
and taken care of, while all the old
familiar and tried employees of the In
| dian school and Indian reform service
have been sent adrift- The post Office
bill is increased SO, 232, 900, most of
which comes from northern people, as
the south has failed to pay its proper
| tionate share of the expense of rum
ming the postal department since the
establishment of the government, to
| the amount of from S3,000,000 to S.
| O00, 900 per annum. The naval bill is
increased So, 223, 200, because the navy
yards have been used as places of ref.
uge for democratic strikers, who 9TH
erwise must have had to march with
| Coxey's army"
OF the reductions it is needless to say
much. They are found to be of such a
character as to take away employment
from worthy people who during these
! stringent times are unable to find en-
| ployment elsewhere. Two thousand
have been turned loose in the city of
| Washington by reason of democratic
economy" and intriguing. BY the
time the campaign is closed, and the
people have assembled at the polls, the
investigation of appropriations in the
been SO thoroughly made, and the
democratic claims so punctured and
understood that it will be hard for
their orators to endorse them before
| the people.
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foundation, and a circular piece two
and half inches in diameter for the
bottom. Cover these with any pretty
scrap of silk or plush, fitting the out
side snugly about the cardboard, which
you have sewn in a cylinder; sew in q
piece three and q half inches in diam
eter for the top, leaving an aperture
through which you may stuff the cush-
ion, rounding up the top. If all your
toilet appointments are white, cover
this with ruff1e of lace of fine dotted
Swiss, and tie at the top with bows
and loops of narrow ribbon.-American
Agriculturist.
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CHAPTER XII

The reader must go to Laran at the
beginning of the last half of the
second year of preparation and en-
deavor, not only to get clear view of
what had been done, but prepared to
view with establishment the still more
audacious projects of this man.
Laran was now a hidden hive OF
energy. The great sanltarium which
lifted it's rude but imposing proper
tions out of the wilderness and poured
an almost continuous stream of black
smoke from its chimney stack, held a
varying population, some of whom
were woman, and all of whom were
Hendricks agents. Sixteen miles
away was another large house, reached
on the surface by an almost lmpasSa-
BILE and tortuous road of rocks, but
accessible to all the inmates of the
sanitarium in less than half an hour
by underground means and connected
by telephone and telegraph of the lat
est and incest adjustment along the
same subterranean passages.
The shaft from the Sanitarium to the
labvrinth beneath had been perfected
bv the most consummate mechanical
skill of Laport, and it was hidden from
casual observation by the most cum
ming adjustment of materials. That
end of the house which covered the de-
scent had cost Hendricks and Laport
more thought and ingenuity than all
else. The shaft had been enlarged
and fitted with an iron lift down to the
narrow passage that led from it to the
arena. The circular steel cage which
fitted into the shaft could be turned
round from below, so that its iron
door that furnished an exit into the
passage would be on the opposite side
against a solid wall of rock and the
passengers, if enemies, would have to
cut their way through a half inch Of
steel to get into the passage and, when
there, would have to walk through in
single file at the mercy of anybody at
the lower exit, who could pick them
of in detail without any danger to
himself. The exit above was covered
with the hard floor of room whose
mobility was undetectable by anybody
who was not already aware of the de-
vice. In addition to this, a steel door
had been fitted to the end of the pas
sage below where it opened into the
vast worll-room, because Hendricks
thought at times he heard in the room
above the sound of the engine and
dynamo.
A sense of absolute security was
thus obtained when the inmates of the
sanitarium went below. 1t was
physically impossible for force of any
calculable kind to reach them in that
direction.
The next and obvious consideration
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-14
AN INDELIBlE STAIN.
Record of the Democrats In the Recent
Tariff Legislation.

Tariff Legislation.
President Cleveland in his national
apology for winking at the great
fraud which was eliminated on the
evening of August 81, the record OF
which shall stand rs the dark spot in
the tariff history of the United States,
while feeling the sting of the infamy
of which he had become a copartner,
utters the following sentence: :
Il do not claim to be better than the masses
of my party. nor do 1 wish to avoid any re-
sponsibility which, on account Of the passage
of this law, 1 ought to bear as member of the
democratic organization. Neither will II per-
NIT myself to be separated from my party to
such an extent as might he implied by my
veto of tariff legislation, which. though dis
appointing, is still chargeable to democratic
effort"
This confession of Grover Cleveland
is one of the most marked among the
sayings of men who have been ex-
allied into high places by the suffrage
of the people. 1t is to be construed as
meaning that because Grover Cleve-
land has not the moral courage to-
sign an infamous, disappointing tariff
bill, full of inaccuracies and crudities,
he therefore declares that he is no
better than the masses of his party,
or, in other words, he declares that the
democratic party has no man in ID
who is capable of rising above the in
famous trickery of the trusts and COM
bines who barter with democratic sem
ators in tariff revision.
Oh, Shades Of the Hermitage! Could
a voice from the unseen realms be-
heard this day, it would bring to mind
that there was once a time when the
democratic party had in it one man
who dared to speak for the right in
the face of a confessed wrong.
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HARDWOOD FLOORS.
They Should Always BE Swept with q
Covered Broom.

They Should Always BE Swept with q
Covered Broom.
The hardwood floor is comparatively a
new feature of the house, and it is not
altogether strange that houselkeepers
do not always know just how 70 take
care of them. Many of them treat them
as they do a carpet, sweeping them
with n broom-corn broom, which is in
tended well enough to take the dust out
OF the meshes of carpet, but not to
polish a hardwood surface.
The same woman who treats her
hardwood floor in this way would re-
fuse to sweep off her piano with a
broom-corn broom, for fear of scratch
ing it. She would probably take a soft
cotton-hannel buster and wipe off the
dust, and this is exactly what she should
do with her floor The most convenient
way of doing it Is to make a soft cot
ton-hannel bag for the broom. The
dust is easily removed from polished
floor in this way.
Such a covered broom is also useful
sweeping down the walls, though a
feather buster accomplishes this work
more successfully. There ought to be
a number of these broom-covers ready,
SO that when they become soiled they
may be washed. Painted piazas may
also be much more successfully swept
with covered broom of this sort than
in any other way. Even when it needs
scrubbing-brush. If it is well swept
with a covered broom, 1t will look al
most Us well as if it had been scrubbed
with brush, and certainly better than
if it had been cleaned with a mop.-N.
" Tribupa
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from its rim by two of the workmen,
and ten minutes later the captain was
seen alone.
Endicott was never seen again on
earth. Whether he was pushed over or
staggered over, Hendricks declared he
never knew. But 4 marked change
came over the captain after this. He
drank more than ever, pnd slept most
of his time away in an alcoholic stu
por. never coming into the daylight,
which he said blinded him.
A week after the catastrophe, about
seven o'clock in the evening, as Mr..
and Mrs. Hendricks, with two or three
other persons, were sitting on the
western balcony of the sanitariun, the
figure of woman suddenly appeared
against the dark masses of shrubbery
about forty feet from the house. She
seemed to have taken form at that
spot Nobody saw her previous ap-
proach, and her slender and graceful
figure was clad in some kind of light
material which caught all there was of
the departing light and made her look
exceedingly phantom-like. All the
persons in the balcony saw her at the
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drinking rum. That parsonage greeted
him with a sailors cordially and
swore that it did his blasted mole's
ewes good to see a salt water man I'M
derground.
The captain evidently knew him, for
he called him Jack Endicott, as tough
and sight a forecastle man as ever ran
a blockade or drank pint of rum be-
tween watches.
Whatever else Endicott may have
been he was not proof against the
temptation of good liquor and an ire
.sponsible life and he never before en-
.countered liquor quite so good as the
captains, whose well-stocl1ed buffet in
his cabin made a seaman's eyes gloat
Whether it was part of Hendricks
scheme to d;sarm Endicott in this way,
is not positively known. But he had
told Fenning before that gentleman
left Laran that he could safely leave
the man with him.
81 want" he said, ''to know how he
read that telegram"
Four days passed and Endicott had
only seen Hendricks among the men at
work upon the furnace and electrical
works, but the captain told him every
thing was all right-he could have all
the money he wanted. but he wished
him to stay longer. Damn it-you're
the only man with the smell of salt on
YOU that I've seen since I've been in
this subcellar." Then they repaired to
the cabin. filled themselves with rum
and went to sleep spinning yarns.
At the end of a week Endicott in a
sober and sullen mood had an inter
view with Hendricks and demanded 4
settlement. Hendricks treated him
with the utmost politeness and said
that while he was perfectly willing to
pay him to secure his silence, it was
necessary to think of some way in
which the specie could be transferred
without exciting suspicion.
You see, my dear sir" he said, ''I'm
only consulting our mutual safety,
wish you'd talk to the captain about
it. I'll do whatever he advises. o, by
the way, got dispatch from Fenning
this morning in which he says the
police are looking for you. If that is
the case, wouldn't be in a hurry to
leave this retreat"
Endicott did not dispute the cor
-rectness of this statement, as Hen
bricks expected. Nor did any SUBJ
sequent experiment of this kind fur
nish any clew to his former knowledge
of the telegram.
He went back to the captain-they
filled up on rum and both of them set
out to see the lake which was to be lii
for the first time and upon which the
captain boosted that he was going to
have good clinker-built boat SO that
hecould keep his shoulder-blades lin,
Der.
1t is not known whether they quar-.
relied on the way or not. But when in
the rotunda the captain wanted to
point out to him the chasm-one OF
those bottomless pits which appear to
be feature of all great caverns, and
which the captain called the Devils
'Gullet'-they were seen together in
tipsy discussion about twenty feet
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Fruits of Democracy.

The first democratic congress with a
democratic executive in thirty years
assumed the management of public
affairs March 4, 1898. The circum.
stances attending the meeting of that
congress have been the subject of
much comment and criticism, the
democrats claiming that they inherited
a bankrupt treasury and all sorts of
evil from the republicans. How an
administration can inherit things
which its predecessor did not have is
unknown. While it is true that the
republicans thirty years before in
herited such treasury and such a
government from the democrats, it is
not true that they transmitted to their
opponents in 1898 bankrupt treasury
or a topping government. Grover
Cleveland convened congress August
:, 1898. The opening words of his
message clearly and distinctly testify
that the government had beer. pros
porous and that everything was favor
able to continued prosperity up to
within a short time of the date when
his message was written. He said:
With plenteous crops with abundant prom
ise of remunerative production and manufac-
ture with unusual invitation to safe invest
ment and with satisfactory assurance to BUSH
ness enterprise. suddenly financial distrust and
fear have sprung up on every side"
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True Southern Wit.

On one occasion the late Justice
Lamar was taken to task by lady at
Bar Harbor who thought he did not
recognize her. ''Ah, judge" she said,
81 am afraid You don't remember me.
1 met you here two years ago" Re
member you, madam was the quick
reply, with one of his courtly bows,
why, I've been trying ever since to
forget you" And she laughingly ex-
claimed. "Oh, go away. you dear, de-
lightful old southern humbug. Harp
er's Weekly.
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CoPYRISHT, 1891 !
CHATTER Y.

The visit of Fenning and bis mys-
7terious companion to Laran resulted
in way that neither he nor the visi-
tor could have predicted. Hendricks
met him in the most gentlemanly man.
ner, told him to make himself at home
IN the hotel for that was what the
sanitarium was frequently called);
gave him to understand that he would
have talk with him and fix the mat
ter up satisfactorily when he found a
good opportunity. lie even sent him
down into the workshops, and treated
him so Hospitality that the man was
-outwitted at the start.
He had not been in the cave half an
hour when he encountered the captain,
who very seldom left it, but occupied
all his time in playing cribbage and
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Punctuality Is q Virtue.

The habit of being always little
late is so general that it might seem
unavoidable, were it not that punctu-
atty is secured from the very persons
at fault when the occasions are as
guarded as in the wedding to which
the foolish virgins failed to gain adj
mission because the doors were shut. "
1t is better to train up children to
order, punctuality, honesty in keeping
engagements, IS part of keeping ones
word, and so teach them not only self
reliance, but make them men and
Dlaccd