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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-20

EVERETT AND sNoHoMIsH RoUTH
cur RATE TO EtERETT.
STEAMER MABEL
Leaves Central wharf. Tuesdays, Thurs.
Aays and Saturdays At .. m. for ~
rnoras. MukIifcs. Everett Marysvtlie.
Esst Everett Lowell and snohomtsh.
FARE TO EVERETT. 3oe. ROUND t6cs
TO sSOHoMisH. Soc.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09

knees to make a search. He was still
paving around when Mrs. Gallup
leaned up against the hog-pen and
sobbed seven or eight times. and then
got the better of her emotions and
finished:
Because, if they hev, I'd rather
make bed quilts than to play on a
harp. 1 never tried to play on any
thin but an accordion, and I'm afraid
the other angels will smoker at me-
However. I'll try my best, of course.
Let's see? To-day is Thursday If /
expire tonight you kin hev the funeral
on Sunday afternoon. and in that way
you won't lose any time from bizness.
The roads are purity dusty, but l can't
help that. When the Lord sends fur
anyone he's got to go, no matter what
the weather is. l was talkin' with
Mrs. White Yesterday, and she said
you'd probably paint the front door
steps fur your second wife. Hev you
decided on the color, Samuel?"
Mr.. Gallup gave over his hunt for the
nail and fished up another from his
hind pocket and drove it into the
board. He was very slow and DELHI
crate about it. but Mrs. Gallup pulled
her nose and wiped her eyes and pa
tiently waited for him to finish. Then
she said:
I'D paint EN- sky blue, if / was You.
That's a rejoicin' color, and of course
you'll be rejoicin' that l hev scared
away and that you've got a young
wife. Before go want to tell you
that Mrs. Dawson owes me a cup of
white sugar and nutmeg. and that
the spout came off the tea kettle this
mornin' and had to tie it on with a
string. You orter put new hinge on
that henhOuse door, and you needn't
wait till arter the funeral if you don't
want to. The hens ought to be looked
out fur, whether I'm Twin or dead.
Are you listenin' to me, Samuel?"
Mr.. Gallup was busy with the fourth
nail, and pounding on the board had
also loosened knot and left hole,
and it probably didn't occur to him
that Mrs. Gallup was within forty
miles of the spot.
We'll, she said, as she rose up and
looked over into the pen at the spotted
pig lying down after his feed. III go
into the house and be all ready. If
you come in before my mortal speerit
flies away I'll tell you who has Dor
rowed my fiatirons and who owes me
three drawin's of tea. If you don't it
will be jest the same, and you kin go
ahead with the funeral and git sec
ond wife. Good-by, Samuel-rm goin'
to soar!'
When she had gone Mr.. Gallupnailed
a three-foot board over the one-foot
hole, pulled up lot of pig-weeds and
threw into the pen for relish, and as
he sauntered towards the house in the
deepening twilight he heard Mrs. Gal
lup singing Golden Gates" and knew
that she still lived.-Detroit Free
Press
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09

that must spread my wings and lily to
that land where cowcumbers and
'tater-bugs are not. Don't you want
to come into the house and kinder pet
me afore go? Mebbe Ill be asked up
in Heaven what you was doin' when l
expired, and I'd kinder hate to say you
was fixin' the hog-pen."
Mr.. Gallup decided to try the six
foot board over the seven-foot hole,
and trust to luck for shortage. He
gave a glance at Mrs. Gallup. noticed
that she was using the leaf of bur-
dock to wipe her red nose on, and then
began driving the first nail.
"Come to think it over, you needn't
pet me-" she said, as the hammer
ceased to fall I've lived fur thirty
seven years without pettin', and / kin
go to my grave the same way. You'E
git married agin, of course. and you'll
go around chuckin' your second wife
under the chin and pinchin' her ear
and calm her your daisy, but shan't
be mad about it. I'll be up in Heaven.
bangin' on a golden harp and singin'
as hard as l kin, and shan't know
whether you act like a Ounce or a
jestice of the peace. Samuel, dye
,spose they hev quilt-frames in
Heaven?"
Mr.. Gallup was about to drive
another nail, but the question startled
him so that he dropped it among the
weeds and grass, and got down on hi.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
Two Pounds of Honey a Year.

4 French naturalist with a mathe-
NAUTICAL turn of mind has been calcu-
lating the work done by a hive of bees.
When the weather is favorable. a
worker" according to his estimate,
makes usually to 10 trips, visiting 40
to 80 flowers and collecting about l
grain of nectar. Even when, under
extraordinarily good conditions, he
visits 200 or 400 flowers, the amount
would not exceed 5 or 6 grains, and the
collection of a pound would occupy
several years A hive contains 10000 to
10000 bees, of which only half are oc-
cupied in preparing honey, the rest
caring for their young and their quar-
tiers. In good day 10000 to 10000
bees can, in to 10 trips, visit 800, 900
to 1000, 900 flowers For this it would
be necessary that the locality should
be favora bic for honey making and
that the nectar secreting plants should
grow near the hive. A hive of 10000
bees can then, under good conditions,
make about : pounds Of honey year.
Chicago Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
DEBT OF THE NATION.
1t Has Steadily Increased Under Demo-
cratic Management.

cratic Management.
The Blade has often adverted to the
chronic incapacity of the democratic
party to legislate in a business way
on national finances. Following the
theories of doctrinaires rather than
availing itself of our own experience
in the past, or that of other nations, it
has never been placed in power that
it did not make a muddle of the ma
tons finances.
The republican party, on the other
hand, has always struck out clear,
business-like lines of policy. First, it
adopted the proper legislation to
bring in enough revenue for the needs
of the government, and something be-
sides to meet the bonded debt; then it
used this surplus in paying the debt.
After the close of the war, with its
enormous expenses, the history of
republican administrations, or of ad-
ministrations which were compelled
to conduct the affairs of the govern
ment under legislation enacted by re-
publican congresses, is a record of
full treasury, of steady reduction
OF the public debt, and of refunding it
at lower rates so as to tighten the
annual interest burden by many mil
lions.
The record of the two years OF a
democratic administration under DEM
ocratic revenue legislation shows that
the democratic revenue law fails to
raise enough money for the actual
needs of the government; that 1t was
necessary to borrow money. thus in
c-easing the national debt and adding
to the yearly interest burden.
The republican record stands thus:
During the twenty-seven years of re-
publican administration, which az
forded protection to American labor
and industries, from 1866 to 1892, the
interest bearing debt of the United
States was decreased by Sl,747p S0l, SIS,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09

sweet of voice, can as easily as not
build for them an aviary at small out
lay.
A person who proved how easily and
inexpensively this might be done de-
voted to this purpose the space of one
very small balcony, jutting outside one
Of her long drawing-room windows. 1t
extended to the south side of the house,
and for a few dollars carpenter in
closed it in wooden skeleton frame
and he fastened into this roof and
three walls, made of common window
glass, set in cheap sash frames and
bought from house about to be pulled
down.
Its building was the work of two
days. and when the woodwork was
painted a nice sober green the neigh
bors concluded that the unoffending
addition was to be filled with plants.
Instead the proprietor of the glass
house had the floor of the one-time bal
cony covered with zinc and strewn
with sand and pebbles. Then she
moved in two wooden tubs, containing
flourishing little dwarf fir trees, here
and there tackled fir boughs against
the house wall, swung a couple of big
doorless cages from the ceiling, and in
one corner hung a wire sponge rack,
filled with mixture of threads, cotton,
paper and dried grass. Into this glass
inclosed space she turned her three
Gagged canarics, that for two days cow
cred in fear of the strange freedom al
lowed them.
Within n week mother nature reas-
serted herself, and they deserted their
cages, first to spend the nights, and
then to begin nesting in one OF the fir
trees. After bit was added a couple
more of these birds to the aviary; then
introduced to the canarieS were a pair
of bullfinches and pretty chaffinch,
pair of tiny Java parakeets and, lastly,
a mockirg bird. But this sweetest
singer of them ali brought discord into
the otherwise happy community, and
had to be removed. There in the fir
trees and boughS nests are regularly
built from the bundle of materials in
the sponge rack. the gravel is scratched
and picked over for tasty seeds, of
which handful is strewed every morn
ing, liberal bathing is enjoyed in an old
china jardiniere standing in one corner,
juicy worms are uprooted from a long
box filed with fresh sods every week,
and from the dozen birds turned into
this twelve dollar aviary two years
ago, there are now some twenty-five
vigorous warblers.-N. Y. Advertiser.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
Dainty Table Appointments.

However simple the bill of fare, the
table appointment should always be
clean and inviting. With little care
directed toward removing a spot when
it appears, tablecloth may be used to
serve for several occasions, and remain
spotlessly clean; while rumpled nap
kin or a coffee stain upon the table
cloth is accountable for many an I'M
eaten breakfast and many a sick head
ache. The center of the table should
always be occupied with some refresh
ing plant or flower. 1t may be fern
or slender rose in its swaying vase,
but whatever it is it will act as an APP
petizer and tonic. A crisp bowl of let
tuce or a dish of fresh radishes helps
out the effect of the floral decoration.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09

labor being cheaper in some places than
others. In lieu of the claw feet balls
can be used, and, indeed, many persons
prefer not to have them raised at all.
Modernized cupboards are also in de-
mand, one of the handsomest being IL
Illustrated here. The upper door was
removed and shelf cut out, leaving an
open space between the lower and
upper sections, and two doors with
large plate-glass panels inclosing the
remaining shelves. The lower doors
were left intact, and brass hinges of
elaborate pattern serve as ornaments.
The open space is lined with plate
mirrors, which reflect its silver and
glass contents. The interior is painted
n rich cream tint, against which deli
cate china shows to advantage.
One carver has sent out ten new cup
boards in the last two years, princi-
pally to inland cities. They have all
been different in detail and splendidly
handsome specimens. But the old cup
boards can be made equally beautiful
at less expense, and for some reason
their very age makes them more de-
sirable than the strictly modern affairs.
Kennel Wood. in Chicago Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09

thin when all at once a black cat spit
at me aud jumped outer the window.
Yes, heard her spit and saw her as
plain as ! see you, and l tell YOU, Sam
uel, that was no cat belongin' to this
nayburhood! Indeed, it was no livin'
cat at all, but the speerit of one sent
TO bear the summons
Mr.. Gallup stood and looked down
on her for a moment, while his Jaws
slowly worked at his quid of tobacco,
but he hadn't a word to say about the
cat. Mrs. Gallup's tears came. and the
sleeves of her dress had to answer for
a handkerchief.
As l saw the cat the summons must
be for me, she said, as she tried hard
TO choke back her emotions THAT
was the way Mrs. Hopkins and Mrs
Bebee was both warned. you know.
Both went down cellar and saw strange
black cats, and within a few hours
they were dead. Samuel, youdon't
think it could possibly be a black cat
from Tarrytown, do you-one which
got strayed over here?"
Mr. Gallup wanted piece of board
seven feet long tc fit a particular spot.
The piece he had at hand was only six
feet long, and he was wondering how
he could add the other foot, and he
didn't appear to have heard her ques-
ton She got her eyes clear of tears
and moved out of his way and went on:
''Yes, samuel I've got to go hence.
I did want to live to see how the cow
cumbers and squashes would turn out
this year, and to try that new remedy
for 'tater-bugs, but when the Lord
sends a black cat after me it means
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
TWO DREAMS.

Fwo dreams came down 10 earth one niSns
From the realm OF mist and dew;
One was a dream OF the old. old days,
And one was dream OF the new.
One was a dream of the shady lane
That led to the plckerel pond
Where the willows and rushes bowed them
selves
To the brown old hills beyond.
And the people that peopled the Old-time
dream
We're pleasant and fair to see,
And the dreamer he walked with them again
As often Of old walked he.
Oh cool was the wind in the shady lane
That tangled his curly hair.
Oh, sweet was the music the robins made
To the springtime everywhere
Was il the dew the dream had brought
From yonder midnight skies,
Dr. was IL tears from the dear dead years
That lay in the dreamer's eyesg
The other dream ran fast and free,
As the moon benignly shed
Der golden grace on the smiling faco
In the little trundle bed
For twas a dream Of time to come,
OF the glorious noon OF day.
Of the summer thatfollows the careless spring.
When the child is done with play.
And twas a dream Of the busy world,
Where valorous deeds are done;
d battles fought in the cause Of right,
And Of victories nObly won.
It breathed no breath Of the dear old home
And the quiet joys Of youth:
It gave no glimpse OF the good old friends,
Or the old-time faith and truth.
But twas a dream OF youthful hopes,
And fast and free it ran.
And it told to little sleeping child
Of a boy become man.
These were the dreams that came one night
To earth from yonder sky;
These were the dreams two dreamers dreamed,
Ny little boy and L
And in our hearts my boy and
Were glad chat il was SO;
he loved to dream Of days to come.
And OF long ago
So from our dreams my boy and
Unwillingly awoke,
But neither Of his precious dream
Unto the other spoke
Yet Of the love we bore, those dreams
Gave each his tender sign;
For there was triumph in his eyes
And there were tears in nine
Eugene Field, in Chicago Record
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
CORNER cuPeoARps.
The Style of Forty Years Ago Is the Most
Popular just Now.

fOpulaE just Now
Corner cupboards are such extrava-
gantly popular pieces of furniture just
now that bric-a-brac dealers not only
buy them readily, but send out and
canvass the country in hopes of securing
good specimens.
The style of forty years ago is excel
lent, with small panes of glass fitting
the shelf space, solid brass knob for the
upper door, and brass keyholes in the
lower section But they do not always
appear to advantage, because frequent
" the owner has tried to do the cup
board over herself, and daubed its sur
face over with villainous red paint.
The quality of the wood can be deter
mined by scraping off little paint. If
1t shows reddish pink it is cherry; if
light color it is imitation. The idss is
now to preserve the original design as
nearly as possible, and to this end little
renovation is made other than polish
ing. The windows are left intact, an
extra band of molding added on the
top and supports placed underneath to
raise it about four inches from the floor.
Claw feet, with carved apron, sur
mounted by narrow holding, are a
wonderful improvement without in the
least detracting from the coveted air of
antiquity.
Doing over an old cupboard is very
inexpensive. The article itself costs at
the least from SIS to So. To polish it
alone amounts to 81 more, and, adding
claw feet and holdings, brings it up to
a total of s2s. These prices, of course,
depend to some extent on the locality,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
AN AMERICAN LEGEND.
Don't Make a Row Unless You Know You
Are Right.

Are Right.
Once upon time an eminent citizen
entered the office of gas company and
threw down the months bill he had re-
ceived that day and shouted:
Now, by the beard of my father,
but am wroth and want goret'
Anything wrong?" kindly and SYM
pathetically queried the young man at
the window.
Wrong? Wrong? Can you not read9
Can't you get that sum total through
your young and innocent head"
''Of surety l can, sir. see by this
bill that you are charged with fifty
thousand feet of gas at one dollar and
a half per thousand, for the month of
August-total, seventy-fve dollars
Prithee, sir, but why this fervidness of
speech?"
81 never burned that gas"'
But the meter, sir-the meter makes
no mistakes, However, / will summon
here the secretary, who is a man of
more fluency Of speech than myself"
why this kick, my dear sir?' kindly
asked the secretary as he appeared.
Because of the size of that bill"
But you must remember that last
month was long one"
But was away on a visit and my
house was deserted. did not even
burn one foot of your Internal old
gas"
'"Tis passing strange" quoth the
secretary. Il will summon hence our
president, who hath the knack of IN
raveling strange things"
''Man, hath thy better senses left
thee?" severely asked the president as
he looked out upon the kicker. Hath
news of war or the excitement of poll
tics turned thy head?'
Not by a jugfuli How could I
burn your gas in my house was shut
up?'
'Prithee, sir, no one says you burned
the gas, and no one denies that your
house was shut up. This bill is simply
for the leakage which always takes
place in house when the family is alb
sent. 'Tis but a trife, and if thou art
inclined to raise great row and"
''Oh. no! no. mol 1 simply did not
understand. 1t looked like highway
robbery. Your explanation is not only
satisfactory, but here is the cash and
beg your pardon for my unseemly con-
duct
And he counted down seventy-fve
big dollars, shook hands all around
and wished them peace and prosperity.
and his shadow had scarcely turned
the corner when a woman came in and
said they might take the shoes of her
feet before she'd pay the outrageous
bill of one dollar and seventy-fve cents
they had sent by the same mail,-De-
troit Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

e 1t may be pointed out that all
money is hard Ito get under these Cleve-
land times.-Philadelph North Amer
lean.
The thing the democratic party
will remember most against VIC. Whit
ney is that he, more than any other
man, is responsible for Grover Cleve-
lands second election.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
= Every time President Cleveland
puts new set of government employees
under the civil service rules, he says in
effect that he has no hope for demo-
cratic success next year.-Iowa State
Register.
e Carlisle says he does not want to
be president; but he has made SO many
crooked statements about the revenue
that the country will be slow to believe
him in this matter.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
sB Every raise in wages and every
sign Of returning prosperity starts
democratic organs off into tantrums of
applause. They say: See what tariff
reform is doing" They are slow to see
that it is because tariff reformers have
been smashed and sent to the rear
never to smile again" that the public
is cheerful and hopeful of the future.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
e The democrat who stands a much
better chance of getting the nomina-
ton for president next year than does
Mr.. Cleveland, and who is probably
Mr.. Clevelands choice, is John G. Car
Isle. The fact that he acts upon the
assumption that Ito the victors belong
the spoils," no matter what the laws
declare, will overcome whatever lin
gerlng free silverism there may be
when the national convention shall
meet indianapolis Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
Salad Dressing without Oil.

A coffee cup of cream, either sweeto or
sour; put on the stove in hot water
pan; then beat one egg with a tea
spoonful of corn starch, adding to it,
beating till it thicl1ens- While it is
boiling little put in a cup teaspoon
ful of mustard, one of sugar, n small
one of salt, adding vinegar enough to
dissolve them, and put into the mix
ture. This is 4 useful recipe, as it util-
izcs the leftovers of cream, which Will
collect in hot weather. Milk, of course,
may be used; then a piece Of butter
must be added to enrich it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09

doleful ballad of Barbara Allen as she
washed the supper dishes Seven or
eight minutes had passed. and Mr.. Gal
lup had just decided that he must
drive three nails in the end of one
board and two in another, when Mrs.
Gallup came running down the path
with her face as pale as death and her
eyes hanging out as if they would
drop on her toes. The squire hap
pened to be looking toward the house
and saw her advancing, but he spat
on his hand and picked up the ham.
mer and prepared to go ahead as if
nothing had happened.
Samuel" she gasped as she reached
him and sank down on the grass, lone
or t'other of us won't live TO hear the
clock strike nine this eaveninr 1t may
be you or it may be me. but the sum
mons is sure to come! Let the pig-pen
go while talk to yer
Mr.. Gallup Strengthened up, drew a
board toward him and gave an old nail
three raps on the head with his ham
mer, and didn't exhibit the slightest
interest in Mrs. Gallup's talk.
jest as you went out she contin-
ued, blowing her nose on the skirt of
her dress as q warning that tears and
sobs would follow-''jest as you went
out went down cellar to see if them
peach pickles was softenin' up any.
You know I made them after Mrs.
Martins receipt and never felt quite
sure about EN-. 1 was goin' towards
the crock and never thinfin' of any
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
sweet Potato Riscnits.

Boil six sweet potatoes very soft, peel
and mash through colander, add one
pint of milk lukewaEm, two table
spoonfuls Of white sugar, two yeast
cakes, dissolved in milk, and -four
enough to make soft batter; mix well
and allow it to rise, then add four
tablespoonfuls of melted butter, little
salt. one egg and enough flour to make
soft dough. Let this rise again, roll
it into sheet an inch thick, and cut
into cakes. Set to rise again and bake
In quick oven.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09
Something That Paws.

Hackett-I owe my landlady for three
months board, and she says that have
got to pay up.
Sackett Gndifferently)-I owe my
landlady a years board bill.
Hackett-How on earth do you get
along without paying her?
Sael1ett-By paying attentions to her
daughter.-N. Y. World.