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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
ABOUT OLEoMARGARlNE.
Science Shows That the Stuff Is Almost
Indigestible.

Science shows That the Stuff Is Almost
Indigestibie.
1t is favorite saying with the ad-
vocates of oleomargarine that il is just
as digestible and wholesome as butter.
This is not true, and in the nature of
things cannot be true. First as to its
digestibility. Butter melts in the
human stomach at S9.6 to "a. 40 degrees
and passes readily into pancreatic
emulsion and digestion. As viii be
seen this is at a point below the nat
ural heat of the human body. There
is no gastric or nervous strain neces-
sary to expel it from the stomach, for
it is substance designed by nature
for food in its own unchanged state
Oleomargarine Melts at los to IOs -
degrees. The heat of the human body
is not sufficient to emulsify it and it
remains a dead. inert substance. and
causes severe nervous tension and a
forced gastric action to expel it from
the stomach. This fact alone will
show that it is not as digestible
as butter. Besides it is not as whole
some. Invariably butter advertises it's
own condition. No man or woman
need be deceived thereby. Any adj
mixture of deleterious elements is told
at once in loss of flavor. 1t is COM
posed of what are known as the basic
fats. stearine, oleine, palmatine and
number OF other delicate fayoring oils,
all highly conducive to digestion. Cleo
margarine is composed of stearine
and pallnatine mainly and in a condi-
ton unfit for digestion. 1t is rendered
at low temperature, not above f20
degrees Fahrenheit, and any man
ought to know that this is not enough
to destroy any germs of disease or in
lection which quite naturally might
come to it, from it's slaughter-house
surroundings. We admonish people
to cook their ham and pork most
thoroughly to avoid the danger of
trichina and other diseases. Such
cooking subjects the meat from 212 to
$50 degrees of heat; yet we are told
that oleomargarine is wholesome com
ing from the same derivation and rem
dered at temperature that little
more than warns it.-Hoard's Dairy
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
Convict Labor on Roads.

1t would pay everywhere to con-
struet the best macadamized roads.
and the work should be undertaken
by the state where long thoroughfares
are required. We have often sug-
gested that it need cost very little if
the convicts and criminals who cannot
be given their liberty because of their
unrestrained depravity were employed
at the task This would effect a
double object 1t would build splen-
did roads at small cost throughout
the length and breadth o. the land,
and it would tend to restrain crime
II is little hardship to the burglar or
the highwayman to keep him in pris-
on, and better cared for, on the whole.
than the average of honest laborers
who support themselves. If he were
set to breaking stone and road-build-
ing N chain gang and made to eat
his bread in the sweat of his face, IN
der burning July sun, or in the chill
of winter, he would not think that
conviction of crime was such light
matter.-Colman's Rural World
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04

speeches. all of them beautifully
dressed, but none of his words or
works are as beautiful as his whiskers.
Col. William II. Hatch, of Missouri,
the chairman of the committee on ag-
riculture, the author of the oleomarg-
arine bill and generally known as the
farmers friend" is a very handsome
man whose good looks are largely en-
HANGED by beard which is almost a
fac-simile of that which is worn by
Mr.. Burrows. of Michigan, except that
it is great deal longer. 1t was once
dark brown and almost black, but now
the touch of time has silvered it to q
marked degree.
There are many other pretty, peculiar
and picturesque whisl1ers worn by
statesmen in the house, but the most
remarkable mustache in congress Is
that of Senator Isham G. Harris, of
Tennessee. 1t is long, stiff, curling,
iron-gray mustache and looks ut differ
ent times like a rapier, a claynore and
battleax. 1t is an aggressive, fight
ing mustache, and is worn by sena-
IOT III W nOSt lucEC ID a nOA0CA-
full admixture of learning, oratory,
Impotence, dogmatism, generosity
and intolerance. There has not
been hair upon the head of
Senator Harris for score of years
or more, except a little fringe
about the base of the skull between
the ears. But his mustache has been
there for probably more than one gen.
Grafton, and without it Senator Harris
would be as unknown and lost to his
friends as are the lost arts of which
Wendell Phillips used to speak SO elo-
qusutly.
Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania, who is much talked of as the
next candidate of his party for the
presidency, once wore a red mustache,
but now it is almost as white as the
mustache of Senator Harris. The
| Pennsylvania senator is tall, slender
man, possibly little taller than SEN
ator Harris, and his mustache Is al
most a match for that of the distin'
| guished Tennesseean in its indications
of masterful, dominating spirit CT
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04

particular change had been made in
my personal appearance until my re-
turn home. ] realized the fact quite
forcibly, however, when l called upon
the young lady to whom l had been en-
gagged to be married. She received me
with look of surprise, incrcdulity and
aversion. She could not realize that L
was really the same young man, and
she never felt satisfied nor acted nat
urally and at ease with me until that
mustache had grown again. l have
never dispensed with my mustache
since that time. Men do not generally
realize what difference can be made
in their appearance by shaving or by
wearing mustaches and whislSers."
While the latter statement of Col.
Mussey is undoubtedly true, there are
great many men who may readily
| dispense with their mustaches or their
whiskers, and yet not be very much
changed in their personal appearance.
There is Tom Reed, of Maine, for ex-
ample. He has little bit of blonde
mustache which would scarcely be
creditable to an ambitious sophomore
at college or high school cadet. If it
we're taken off It would never be
missed. He would be the same baby
faced, moon-faced, jolly-looking czar,
of whom so much has been said and so
much written and printed.
once saw Speaker Crisp without his
mustache and it was with difficulty
that l recognized him as the able MEM
/ Der from Georgia. That was before he
was elected to the speakership and
about the time when, upon the floor of
the house. IN opposition to the arbitrary
| rulings of Speaker Reed, he quoted a
speech which Mr.. Reed had made
twelve years before, and then said: 81
appeal from Philip drunk to Philip
sober" Since his elevation to the po-
sition of presiding officer and legisla-
| tive director of the house of represen-
/ tatives. Speaker Crisp has kept his
mustache, which is a stiff, bristling.
iron-gray hirsute labial covering and
ndornment, and it is always closely
cropped.
/ If Julius Cesar Burrows, of Michigan,
who sometimes divides the honors of
leadership on the republican side of
the house with Tom Reed, would dis
pose of the darE-brown beard, now
rapidly turning gray, which covers his
entire handsome face, he would look
more like man of thirty or thirty-fve
wears of age, than a mature statesman
of fifty-seven.
Mr.. Outhwaite, of Ohio, wears an
iron-gray mustache and goatee of the
Imperial" brand, and looks more like
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04

Highways. so-called, like this depopulate our
rural districts in the east as well as in the
west
them. 1t means a ready exchange
within the country districts, of coun-
try produce.
1t means the ability to ut any mo-
ment deliver produce or seek market
for it by team.
1t means the lordly independence of
the farmer because it promotes barter
1t means making the country at
tractive to visitors, who will seek re-
tired nooks for quiet, assured of de-
lightful drives in getting there.
1t means in the country parts freer,
more delightful interchange of social
life.
1t means happiness and joy where
now reigns the dreary monotony that
kills.
Then the old-fashioned taverns may
come back without the Old-fashioned
drinking, for they may be places of
social interchange, where country
statesmen, still in the green state.
may put up their teams and enjoy the
contest of talk and brighten their
wits for higher triumphs.
Dirt roads will solve the monopoly
of the railroads. The farmers will
cluster about busy centers, content
with smaller farms. Busy centers,
therefore, will increase. A back coun-
try that is handsomely accessible is
the very life of the busy center, and
its support
Then, railroad managers, in order to
maintain their expensive equipment of
men and material. will so conduct their
roads, with a view to local traffic, as to
tickle the farmer with a victory never
be fore achieved.
Railroads are desirable, but they are
most desirable and at their best when
they serve the people best at a fair
profit to the corporation, and this can
soonest and best be compelled when
the country is gridironed with the best
dirt roads known to modern means
and to modern experience.-Horatio
Crane, in Good Roads.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04

the part of it's possessor. Senator
Harris is often heard in debate, how
ever; but Senator Cameron speaks 50
seldom that his voice is scarcely known
in the senate chamber. Whenever he
does address the body, however, his
remarks are those of a man of as doH1i-
mating and aggressive a nature as the
potential senator from Tennessee. They
are very much alike, and yet remark
able political opposites.
Senator Gibson, of Maryland, looks
very much like Mr.. Cultivate, of
Ohio, but is a larger man and much
more athletic in appearance. He wears
a mustache and imperial goatee, and Is
regarded by many, particularly by the
ladies, as the handsomest man in the
senate; a distinction once held by ex-
Senator Hiscock, of New York.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, wears a
full beard, but no mustache; and it is
universally conceded that in appear
ance and manner he bears remark
able resemblance to Abraham Lincoln,
Senator's Jones and Stewart, of Ne
vada, the former short, rotund and
stout, the latter tall, broad-shouldered
and aggressive, are both advanced in
years, are both interested in silver, are
both known as silver kings, and both
wear long silvery boards. They are
populists now, too, and all of their
waking and sleeping thoughts seem to
be concerning the white metal which
so abounds in the everlasting hills Of
their mountainous state.
The student of physiognomy, as well
as the casual observer in the galleries
of congress, would have much food for
thought, not only in viewing the pecul-
iarities of the facial appearances of the
different statesmen, but in studying
the characteristics of the men who are
thus distinguished by their external
appearances. Every one of them is the
possessor of more than ordinary abil-
ity, because no man of mediocre talents
can secure such popular favor as to at
tain the honor of position in either
house of congress.
SMITH d. Fry.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
The Pleasing Gala.

In color. the Gala is very dark.
though Il reddish-brown tinge shows
through his blackness. His hair ne al
lows 10 grow long. but. instead of
hanging on either side of his head in
long cords. as is the case with the
Somalis. il stands out all round like Il
halo, it's jetty-woolly blackness all the
more apparent from the polish which,
in the form of grease, the owner APP
plies The hair seems TO rise straight
up from the forehead in wall of some
three or four inches. and from there
spreads out in 4 solid, almost dense,
mass over the head, the surface being
thick and woolly. A few carved hair
pins and an ostrich feather often add
TO the natives appearance a touch of
dandyism. Fine. pleasaEt-loOlIing fell
lows they are. with many of the innate
good manners of the Oriental. and all
the best traits of the savage. My eX-
perience of them was only OF few
weeks duration, it is true, but in that
space one learned to appreciate their
good points, and to discern that, as a
race they were far more satisfactory
people than the Somalis. S
Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
hANpLlNe FEED STUFF.
Csnvenient Arrangement Seen In an Oh
Dairyman's Barn.

(0nEeDlGuE Arr1nEcmtnt 49,
Dairyman's Barn.
Many devices for the economical and
convenient handling of feed stnffs
about the stables have been frequent
" described and illustrated, but the
accompanying sketch may be OF value
to many farmers, especially dairymen
who have silos. The principle upon
which these bins are constructed Is
such that their capacity can be en-
larged or diminished as desired.
The illustration was recently
slSetched at the dairy barn of Mr.. E
Il. Jones. 1t strikes the writer as .
most excellent idea to have the feed
bins on either side of the openings ouS
of the silo, with a box 2 feet deep,
feet inches wide, and 8 feet by 10
inches long, into which the ensilage is
thrown from the silo and the meal
taken out of the bin standing at either
side and mixed with the silage. These
bins measure feet inches in hori-
zontai depth from front to silo, but can
be made any length desired. The
throat from the lower edge of the in
ward slanting board should be about
on level with the hinges of the door
and an S-inch space allowed for heavy
meals and 10 inches for bran.
One of the chief advantages of these
bins is that they are "a feet deep and
the feed is raised to the top of the
barn by rope and emptied into them.
thus saving a large amount OF area on
lower floor. The studding is made or
Sx4-inch material and sided up with
surfaced hemlock, which is cheap, rat
and mouse proof, and having the
edges beveled so as to incline toward
the inside of the bin, is just as good as
matched mat erial.
Such bins can be onomically con-
structed on the inside of tyo-story
barns, extended from the square to the
ground on lower story, with doors
opening at intervals on the side, so
that they can be easily filed with
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04

grain at threshing time, and later,
after grain is out, used for feed stuffs.
Without doubt such bins can be
more cheaply built and more econom-
ically rooted than those which spread
over so much territory, with an ex-
travagant waste at the top, besides
waste of room for passageway, as
the doors at base close up the open
ings securely, so that no extra expense
seems necessary to make them COM
plete and successful means of handling
grain or feeds in barns and stables
where horizontal room is a matter Of
economy.-George E. Scott, in Ohio
Farmer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFORM MUST COME.
Good Roads Considered in the Light of
a CiyiIiKers

Good Roads Considered in the Light Of
q CiziIiEers
Modern taste will not go back to old
systems of country living.
The backwoods will do for adventure.
or in which to fell the timber for
farms, or till the virgin plains, but the
country as whole wants more of
country air in the cities, and of city
comforts in the country, and the good
road is the civilizer that will soonest
make this interchange of blessings
possible.
When the country was new and the
cities small. culture pioneered,
charmed with the glory awaiting
success. Cities like magic grew, and the
farmer became the banker and remained
the farmer still He was legislator
and farmer still; but the country dis
trict has not kept pace with the city
development, chiefly from the want of
good roads, and the country can easily
account for loss in population and in
caliber as to culture, while the cities
acquire the best the country affords
A good road means a fine breed of
horses and money in the breeding of
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
MAY USE LIGHTNING.
Curious Calculations of Power That Now
Is Wasted
SMITH ID. FRy.

Curious Calculations of Power That Now
Is Wasted
1t is just possible that one of these
days, instead OF making electricity for
ourselves, we shall learn to tap the
immense store of the electric fluid that
pervades the higher atmosphere; that,
in fact. we shall be able to harness
the lightning" Prof Trowbridge shows
that discharge keeps in the same
path for the three hundred thou
sandth part of a second, and he be-
lieves that ''step-down" transformer
"A device by which the voltage of the
discharge would be reduced-might
render it fit for the use of man. An
average thundercloud is estimated 20
contain about 300 horsepower of cleo
trical energy.
A flash of lightning a quarter of a
mile long practically means an electro
motive force of millions of volts. Reck-
oning on the basis that a flash occurs
when the electrical strain on the air
is 1.37 pounds per square foot, the total
electric energy in the cubic mile of the
strained air just on the point of flash
ing is about 10000, 900 foot-tons, or, in
other words, the energy required to
raise ton 100000 feet high. Elec-
tricians are now trying to think out
how this enormous power can be
brought down to earth and utilized.
and they talk of employing some modi-
fication of Franklin's kite, at all events,
for experimental work. If they should
succeed, the corralling of lightning
flashes may come to be a profitable
occupation.-Brookly Eagle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04

a well-cared-for society swell than the
solid statesman that he is. His hair,
mustache and goatee are rapidly be-
coming whitcned and glistening under
The artistic, inimitable and skillful
touch Of the brush of time.
Col. Dave Henderson, of Iowa, the
leading member of the committee on
appropriations, one year ago wore a
very dark brown mustache which
curled down beautifully over his shape
" and eloquent mouth, but to-day 1t is
almost as white as the driven snow.
During the civil war Col. Henderson
lost leg in battle, and within the past
year il has been necessary for surgeons
to make five operations upon the old
wound in order to preserve his life.
His suiferisgs have been so intense that
his hair as well as his mustache has
been whitened and silvered with re-
markable rapidity.
Mr.. Catchings. of Mississippi, has the
most beautiful beard to be seen in the
house of representatives 1T is not ex-
actly the co.Or that Titan loved to
paint. but is of such very light brown
shade that it approximates the fiery.
1t Is long. extending nearly to the
waistband, and is as fine as the finest
silk ever made by the finest silkworm
even when engaged in spinning for the
looms of the Olympian myths.
Elijah A. Morse, of Massachusetts, al
though his dome of thought is scantily
covered, is blest with the most luxu-
RANT, flowing. black side whiskers in
the house His mustache is like unto
it. and no man can tell where the di-
viding line between the mustache and
the chop whiskers can be found. Mr..
Morse comes from the hand of the bar
Der in the cloak room every day, with
his whiskers carefully combed and
beautifully CLOSED He makes many
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
Poor Roads Keep Farmers Poor.

Under present arrangements grain
can be taken to the market only dur
ing small part of the year, the usual
consequence of which is a crowding
down of prices b. the plethora of sup
ply, so that the farmer realizes the
lowest figures of the twelve months
for most of what he has to sell, in
stead of having the choice of times for
disposing of his Chicago
Trihune
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
HIRsUTE ADORNMENT.
4 Number of Our Statesmen Are
Proud of Their Whiskers.
5x-Speaker Reed Has n Mustache Which
Never Would DO Mlssed-Senator
Harris Fierce Mustachios-
Populism and Boards
lspecial Washington Letter.

"When was a comparatively young
nan and engaged to be married" said
Col. Fred d. Mussey, Il went on a bust
hess and pleasure trip to Mexico and
vas absent about two months. During
NY absence 1 had my upper lip shaved
and deprived myself of long blonde
nustache. The change in my appear
lnce was so remarkable that upon my
,eturn to Cincinnati a number of my
friends passed me upon the streets and
N the hotel corridors without recog-
aizing me. / did no realize that any
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
Her Standing Oner.

Tipple-Did you have many oferH
this summer?
Sibyl-Lots of them. Besides which
have one standing offer from Steve
you know.
Tipple-Indeed? l suppose he wa
afraid of bagging his trousers at the
knees.-Brooklyn Life.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
A Word About Road Fou ndations.

The action of sand is quite anal
agous to the action of water both
must be confined to make a satisfac-
tory foundation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
From a Commerc,al View Point.

We recognize this good road move
ment as one having in view results of
the utmost commercial significance,
and our effort has been to do all that
was possible in the way of practical
assistance.-E Reyes, Manager Stocks
Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04

AS the result of an inquiry instituted
by the Prussian minister of education,
the old fashion of slanting handwriting
will henceforth be discouraged in the
state schools. it having been demon
strated that the sloping writing favors
a crooked position of the writer, while
the upright, with the elbow separated
from the side. encourages him to main
tain an erect and straight back.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04

DRAIN the soil of the orchard SO that
the roots will go down deep and thus
ward off the effects of drought
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-04
Couldn't Deceive Il

"You needn't try to deceive me- said
the curtain to the window. Il can SEQ
through you."-Rogerville CTenn.) Re-
view.
The record-union., 1895-05-13
PETITION FOR LAND PATENTS.

Section 15-Lot of southeast Il OF section
10; 21. 80 acres.
SECTION 5-Lot of southeast ID of section
10: 1I.9s acres.
Section All of section-17S $40 acres.
Section i9-Al of fractional section 10;
637.74 acres.
Section 21-An of section 21; GAO acres.
section 23-AIl OF section % $40 acres.
Sectlon 2o-All of section 25: $40 acres
section 21-All OF section 81. 640 acres.
Section 29-All OF section 29; 640 acres.
Section 31-All of fractional section 81;
632.1O acres.
Section 33-All of section 3S. 6321O acres,
Section 35-All OF section 80: $40 acres.
All in township S north, range IA east.
T. 15 NORTH, RANGE 15 e.
Section 3-All of fractional section 3;
692 90 acres.
Section SAN of fractional section .;
690.0S acres.
Section 7-AlI of fractional section :;
62S. o acres.
Section 9-An of section 3; $40 acres.
Section 11-Ali Of fractional section IL:
450.23 acres.
Section 15-All of section 10; $40 acres
Section 17-All Of section Il; $40 acres.
Section 19-All OF fractional section 10;
631.6S acres.
Section 21-All of section 21; 64O acres.
Section 23-All of fractional section %;
463.45 acres.
Section 27-All of section 27; $40 acres.
Section 29-Au of section %; 64O acres.
Section 31-All of fractional section 81:
63 7 90 acres.
Section 33-An of section 33; $40 ACRES.
Section 35-All of fractional section 30;
453.44 acres.
Total for district, 200, ,33s.63 acres.