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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
VALUE OF AMMONIA
As a Cleansing Agent Around the Hous'
IL Has No Equal

IL Has No Equal
Ammonia is one of the finest cleans
ing agents we have. And it is great
assistant in the way of clearing and
Frightening up. The colors of faded
oilcloth NAV be somewhat brought
back to their original color by using
sponge saturated with ammonia. Never
use soap, as it fades it terribly. few
drops of ammonia in the water while
cleaning the paint will be found a great
help: it cuts the dirt and grease imme-
diately. A tablespoonful of ammonia
thrown into the water while rinsing
glass will greatly brighten and polish
it. Lace curtains and tides may be
beautifully cleaned by using hot water
with large percentage of ammonia in
it. Allow them to soak, using but lit
tie soap, and that the best. Squeeze
out the water carefully and hang in
place where they will dry quickly. But
before hanging them up they should all
be pulled out, for in just the way they
are hung, just SO they will dry. 1t is
also very good to sprinkle some in your
bath. The kind you buy from drug
gists will clean underwear, silxen and
wooden finely, also chamois, and will
save endless rubbing. 1t is found ex-
cellent in cleaning brass ornaments;
it should first be applied with small
brush that comes expressly for the pur-
pose. and then polished off with
wooden rag. 1t will whiten piano keys
so that they will look like new. Boil
ing water. made very strong with am
lnonia ard applied with a small brush
or whisl1 broom. will clean willow or
canc-scat chairs. Baskets may be
cleaned in similar fashion. The prints
the raindrops have made, and dirt and
dust may be cleaned like magic from
the windows by applying ammonia.
A friend of mine makes an excellent
wash by using the following: Melt sew
eral bars of soap according to the wash,
in this you must use your own judg-
ment), add one cup or cups of boraX,
one cupful of saltpetre, then add six
ounces of concentrated ammonia. 1t is
well to make n large quantity to set
away in bottles for future use. This
will be found excellent, especially for
washing that which is very dirty, as
mems overalls, grocer's or butchers
aprons or underclothing.-Hom
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
This Owl Went Fishing.

Col. John Gay, of the Philadelphia
fish commission, relates a curious little
owl story as coming from the eastern
station of the commission near Allen
town. On Sunday morning Superin-
teodent Crueling, of the hatchery, saw
an owl ny away from one of the trout
ponds and settle in tree short dis
lance away. He secured gun and a
good shot brought his owlship to the
ground. An examination showed that
the owl had trout seven inches long in
his mouth, making the first case on rec
ord to show that owls are given to
catching fish
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
PRESS OPINIONS.

cBWill any democratic newspaper
be brave enough to print review of
the work of the Fifty-third congress?
Toledo Blade.
Mr.. Wilson says: "a campaign
of education has begun" and it is to be
hoped he means that the democrats
are going to try to learn some sense
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
e Having no congress on his hands
and no more bonds worth 10 to sell at
104J6, Mr.. Cleveland can now give an
other demonstration of his genius as g
duck-hunter.-N. Y. World Dem-).
EBy the resignation of Postmaster
General Bissell the Cleveland cabinet
loses it's greatest member; greatest,
that is, in the Cleveland fashion, on
the hay scales and by the tape line
Cleveland Leader.
Mr.. Wilson has been faithful to
the president, and he has his reward.
His appointment will delight his
friends, and even the other eminent
democrats who fell outside the breast
works last November and have yet Sc
cured nothing will scarcely envy him
his good fortune.-N. Y. Tribune.
aThe difference between republic
an and democratic administrations is
seen in the loss of confidence on the part
Of moneyed men. Under Harrison's ad-
ministration, we were able to extend
Sos, OO0, 900 of the Al bonds at per
cent. interest, while now we have TO
pay 81 per cent. for what we are Dor
rowing. Blade
wThe republicans of Ohio favor
Mckinley for president, and in the
next national convention there will be
solid delegation from this state. 1t
will not be a half-hearted delegation,
either. Its members will not worry or
waste their strength about second
! choice, nor will it be Influenced by ifs
or buts.-Cincinnati Commercial Ga
Eette.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
CABINET, COUCH AND DRAWERS.

extended clear across the end of the
room, the extension being taken for a
set of drawers, while the whole top
was upholstered for use as a bed when
needed. A bed and bureau was thus
provided by taking space that even if
clear would have accommodated only a
bed. Such a cabinet arrangement
could be used in many a small room,
the space under the couch and at the
side of the drawers being utilized as a
closet with two little doors opening
into it.LOrange Judd Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
FOR a SMALL ROOM.

A Cabinet Arrangement Which Saves
Lots of Space.
The treatment employed in a small
bedroom in house recently built may
afford a suggestion for some small
rooms elsewhere, too small for
the usual chamber furniture. One end
of the room in question had to be cut
into to provide ''head-room" for the
stairway below it. This cut in the end
of the room was utilized as shown in
the illustration. The "head-room" was
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
THE GIRLS ROOM.

one corner of our sitting room we have
a most beautiful divan with two steps
ascending to the high, triangular
couch, like this"-sketching rapidly an
artistic-looking lounge. The pile of
cushions that you see to the right
conceals little door, and in the space
under the divan we keep our kitchen
table (which has legs that fold up, our
gas stove, our sheet of asbestos for the
table, another one of oil cloth for the
floor and our cooking utensils. 1t does
no: take minute to pull these out and
arrange our kitchen which, when in
working order, occupies the space of a
mcdium-sized rug. Our crockery. which
is of blue and white Delft. we keep in a
corner cupboard, and consider it quite
an aesthetic addition to our room.
Washing our dishes and getting rid of
superfiuous food were our chief difficult
ties at first; but soon we had arranged
it beautifully. We scraped all the de-
bris into blue and white umbrella
stand, which is much prettier than
pail. and which the maid who does our
rooms takes away and washes. In this
WY our meals cost us exactly 81 per
day, our table d'hote dinner at very
nice restaurant being 80 cents each.
Ny rooms and meals therefore cost me
Just S11 per week. Last summer l
spent four months at a summer art
school at the Shinnecocll shore, where
my board amounted to only IS per
week; this added to my winter ex-
pepses brought my board and lodging
TO exactly 1913. l allow for my dress
1910, and have 1857 left for extras-not
much, 1 admit, but hope to supple
ment it now by earning n little some
thing for myself. In the meanwhile 1
am very happy, and do not envy the
richer girls who live unemployed lives
at home without any responsibility"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
At the Grand CsntraI Drnot.

He-I shall be lonely, dearest, when
you are gone.
She-Charlie, dear, have provided
against all that. Mamma will come
and stay with you until return; and
as she is very tinid, you will remain at
home of an evening and keep each other
company.-Texs.s Siftings.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
An AccomplI,hed iowa Lad,

Alice French, Octave Thanet," the
story-writer, said recently that she took
gDeat comfort In the fact that she
could, if necessary, earn her living
either as typewriter and steuog-
rapher or as photographer or. best
Of all, as a cook.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
Hateful Thing.

Miss Singlewun- What a hateful
thing Lyddy White is.
Miss Thingummy-Why, what has she
been saying now?
Miss Singlewun-I just happened to
say she'd never see forty-five again and
she said: Not when l look at YOU
Roston Transcript.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
DOMINIC The VEIL.
An Accomplishment Possessed by Hut
Few American Women.

An Accomplishment Possessed by hut
Few American Women.
1t is an accomplishment worth ac-
curing in these days when American
women are almost as universally yelled
as the beauties of the orient, to put
ones veil on successfully-that is, so
that the hair is held securely in posi-
ton, the veil itself does not droop be-
low the hat brim at any point and
neither hangs loose nor draws across
the face, rendering wink inconvenient
and the nose a martyr to the tickling
sensation which every wearer of
a veil knows. Half the beauty
of the veil, or, more strictly,
the enhancement of beauty which
the veil gives, is due to the way
it is put on. Worse than no veil at all
is the veil put on before the bonnet is
assumed, as one fashion writer recon-
mends. The fling meshes, pressed
closely against the face and hair, leave
nc room for the charming, illusory eff
feet which is the wells chief excuse
fo= being" The first requirement in a
veil is that it shall be of unstinted size,
double width, unless it is to be worn
with very small bonnet, yard long,
so that it may be gathered up in gener-
Gus folds over the hat brim and pinned
u veil should never be tied-well up
at the back of the hat. A better fit
and prettier effect is given by little
cluster of gathers directly in the middle
of the front. 1t is to be hoped that
women will some time learn that
wells figured with sprigs, or, in
deed, anything but unobtrusive dots
arr never becoming, and make them
Look, as man was heard to remark the
other day, las if their faces were COW
cred with flies. philadelphia Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
Wanted a Subject.

az don't believe you can read minds,
doncher know" said chappie to a pro-
fessional mind reader.
''Oh, yes, can" replied the latter,
pleasantly. Bring around somebody
with mind and I'll soon prove that !
can. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
A Cogent Reason.

Miss Madison Square-Can you ex-
plain how it is that where one hundred
men abscond not more than one woman
can be found who is in the least dis
honest?
Miss Fremont - Certainly. The
women have no extravagant wives
Puck
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
His View of It

Mrs. Thinkhard-Of late years the
spread of intelligence among all classes
has been simply wonderful.
Old Bachelor-Yes, notice there has
been q great falling off in the number
of msrriages.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
Got Him In a Corner.

''My dear. don't think those fowls
you've served lately are spring chick
ems by any MEANS" said Mr.. Bigstuff,
after supper the other evening.
mo, dear" replied his better half,
"nor do think this is a spring bonnet
by any means"
She got her spring bonnet next day,
and he got spring chicken thereafter
Judge.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
No Hopa for Her.

First Citizeness Ia few years henceE
Are you going to vote for Mrs. Strong
mind?
Second Citizeness-Indeed, I'm not
never saw sch 4 dowdy.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22

One of the most highly esteemed Of
the Bavarian orders is the Order of St
Anthony, founded in 1882.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22

E-The secretary of the treasury
sent to congress q Inst Of twenty-five
important errors in the new tariff law
but he omitted the principal one. to-
wit: the enacting clause.-St LeRis
Globe Democrat
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22

Among the old French orders is
that of the Bee, a female society
founded in 1903.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
WANTED-A MOSES.
The DiscredIted Democracy in search of q
Leader.

The Discredlted Democracy In Search OF
Leader.
The memory of the oldest inhabitsnt
runneth not back to the time when,
within a year of the time for selecting
delegates to a national convention, the
democratic party was talking Of No
candidate Do you realize the fact
that there are no bids as yet for the
democratic presidential nomination
next year? Strange it is, but there Is
not solitary aspirant who commands
any following whatever.
Cleveland Is retired in disgrace, even
did not the third term objection run
against him.
Prof Wilson Is discredited, defeated
in his own district, rejected by the peO-
pie, and not a voice is raised to speak
of him even as possibility.
Ex-Gov. Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
went down into oblivion when he at
tempted to run for mayor of Philadek
phia, and met such signal and stun
ming defeat. A man who is turned
down by his state and then by his city
is discredited politically.
German is out of the question
Hill has the ambition, but half his
party is ready to knife him, and he
could no more get the nomination than
he could fly to the moon.
Gray is dead, Voorhees, out of the
line, Vest and Bland defeated and re-
tired to private life, with none so low
as to do them reverence.
Stevenson, the only Adlai, really
bankers after the nomination, but his
aspirations only make people smile.
He is too light a weight, even for tbs
democratic donkey.
Whitney-well, does anyone suppose
Wall street magnate and Standard
Oil chief as well, could be nominated,
or elected if nominated?
Russell-William T., of Massachu,
setts-has dropped out of sight. Id
was at best but a meteor flashing
athwart the political sky.
Verify the democratic party-what
there is left of it's like the Israelites
in the wilderness, only without Moses.
And no available Moses is In sight to
lead them over the desert they must
cross in 1s96.-Toledo Blade.
% In its last hours the t1fty-th1ro
congress more than sustained ito
evil reputation. A few extrsvagant
jobs escaped, but they were not many.
There was Every little restraint from
any quarter upon the profigats disre'
gard for the condition of the country,
The only voice which was needed was
that of the lobby urging greater in
roads on the treasury. = Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
WThe secretary of the treasury
sent to congress Inst Of Twenty-Five
important errors in the new tariff law
but he omitted the principal one. to-
wit: the enacting clause.-St. LeRis
Globe Democrat
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22

with whole fleet of shipping IN ltS
arms, give me 4 zephyr off fields of
sunshine and gardens of peace"
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
women from the fatal mistake of mar
rying men to reform them. If young
man by % years of age or 80 years of
age have the habit of strong drink fixed
on him he is as certainly bound for a
drunkard's grave as that train start
ing out from Grand Central depot at s
o'clock tomorrow morning is bound
for Albany, for it may oe thrown from
the track. The young man may not
reach a drunkard's grave, for some
thing may throw him off the iron track
of evil habit; but the probability is
that the train that starts tomorrow
morning at o'clock for Albany will
get there, and the probability is that
the young man who has the habit of
strong drink fixed on him before 25 or
so years of age will arrive at drunk
ards grave She knows he drinks, al
though he tries to hide it by chewing
cloves Everybody knows he drinks
Parents warn, neighbors and friends
warn. She will marry him, she will
reform him.
II she is unsuccessful in the expert
ment, why then the divorce law will
emancipate her. because habitual
drunkenness is a cause for divorce in
Indiana, Kentucky, Florida. Connecti-
cut, and nearly all the states. So the
poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifice.
If you will show me the poverty
stricken streets in any city, l will show
you the homes of women who married
men to reform them. In one case out of
ten thousand it may be successful ex-
pertinent. / never saw the successful
experiment. But have a rigorous di-
vorce law, and that woman win say:
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-03-09
APoLoolzED FOR INTRuolNe.
The BashfuI Student Thought the venua
of Medici Was . Living Bathor.

h Bashfnl Student Thought the Venus
of hedici Was = Living Dathor.
A funny story Of q modest man is
told by Aubrey do We're in The Century
Magazine. After SO years. seclusion
within the walls of his college a certain
venerable fellow Of Cambridge untver-
sity thought 1t was time for him to SEQ
o little Of the world, and he accepted an
invitation from al early pupil who was
entertaining q large party In o great
country house. At dinner he sat- next
to the young lady Of the house. . Their
conversation fell upon, baths, and she
happened to mention that shesstook q
shower bath every morning to invigorate
her system, adding, when he inquired
what a shower bath was, that 1t resem-
bled a very small round room; that the
bather took his or her stand in the cen-
ter Of it, and upon pulling a string was
drenohed by a sudden flood of water from
above.
Next morning the recluse rose at his
usual hour-6 o'olook-and being Of an
inQuisitiye temper thought it well to
explore carefully what he had never
seen before-a large country house. On
pulling open q door he found himself at
the entrance Of q very small cifcu1ar
apartment, one Of those in which house,
maids store away old brushes and house
holds articles past their work. An the
center Of 1t stood q plaster cast Of the
Venus Of Medici. The venerable man
reooiled, closed the door and walked In
the park till summoned by the breakfast
bell: He took his seat. and the host ask
ed whether he would have tea or coffee.
But he had reflected ON what good man.
ners imperatively required, and his an
swer q
my lord, I can neither partake Of
tea nor coffee, nor any other rejection
until have first rendered my humblest
apologies to the interesting young lady
whom ! now see dispensing the choco-
late and on whose sanitary ablutions
this morning as she stood in her shower
bath | was so unfortunate as unwitting-
ly to intrude." a.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-03-09
C.A.SNOW
Beatty's Pianos and Organs,


gan and Piano man of Washington, N. J.,
is buster than ever. In 1870 MI. Beatty
left home a penniless pillow boy, and by
his indomitable will he has worked his
way up so as to sell so far, nearly 100, 900
of Bestty's Pianos and Organs since 1870.
Nothing seems to dishearten him obsta-
cles lay in his way that would have
wrecked an ordinary mar forever be
turns to an advertisement and comes out
Of it brighter than ever. His instru-
ments are in use everywhere. We are
informed that during the next ten years
he intends to sell 200, 900 more Of his
make. That meant a business of $20,-
900 900, if we average them at 800 each.
it is already the largest business of the
Kind in existence. Read his advertise
ments
90 fa
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-03-09
BEFORE MATCHES CANE.
The Flint and Steel and flashlights and
TalloW Dips of Our Ancestors.

The Flint and Steel and flashlights and
TalloW Dips of Our Ancestors.
To the present generation it may seem
next door to the incredible that in the
first years Of the reign of William Nv
there were no lucifer matches. In lieu
thereof there were only long matches or
splints of wood tipped at each end with
melted sulphur, and before the compli-
Gated system of dipping the snlphuret-
ed match i'll concentrated sulphurio
acid came into use these matches were
kindled first by striking a light with
flint and steel and then causing tho
spark to ignite a small Quantity OF tin
der, an infammable substance usually
composed of partially burned linen.
This simple adjunct to the process of
obtaining a light had been in use oil
over the world from time immemorial.
The French finder was called anna
dou," a word the etymoloay of which
has been fiercoly contested, sono phi
lologers deriving it from the old Wrench
adjective ''amadou, !" equivalent TO am
orous, and conveying the moral idea of
the sweetly agreeable sensation of the
hand coming in contact with a very soft
substance, while others trace 1t to the
Latin lad manum ,dulce." The French
finder was often made Of the spongy
portions of mushrooms and Other fungi,
and prior to tho Introduction of lucifer
matches the manufacture of amadou
was one of considerable Importance.
The cryptogamic substance was beaten
ON o block somewhat after the manner
Of felt until it became homogeneous,
and it was then impregnated with q
solution of salts Of inter or simply pull.
verified gnnpowder. The Germans still
fabricate a delicate kind of amadou
which is used in surgery for stanching
hemorrhage. As for flint and steel, they
have as completely faded out from our
domestic economy as they have from
firearms, and the tinGer box is SO rare
ly seen that it might we'll be included
in an exhibition of old social curios.
With finder and finder boxes hassalso
vanished the rushlight which, when
William Cobbett was q boy, English
o~ottaxers used to mako for themselves
by gathering rushss and dipping them
successfully in melted tallow until suffi-
cient thick atlipose matter was obtained.
In houses whore refinement was sup
posed to prevail the rushlight was
invariably placed i'll a japanned tin
shade perforated with circular o~rifices,
and the ~insomnolent Invalid had tho
pleasure of contemplating a large
number Of round spots of light on the
ceiling, reflected from the rushlight
screen. Dips. T" another form of tallow
candle, much given to sputtering. which
smelled abominably, have also died the
death, and ''mold Candles" which
strove to emulate wax ones in their
form, but hardly succeeded in doing SO,
have been superseded by cheaper can
dies. almost as shapely and as light
giving as the old and costly spermaciti.
Seventy years ago gas was little used.
There were 10 railroads, few steamboats,
and nc lucifer matches; yet, as Mr.,
Walter Besant might put it, the world
went very we'll then. London Tele-
graph.