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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
METROPOLITAN CHURCH.
The Best-Known Sanctuary in the
City of Washington.
Famous Men and Women Who Have wor-
shipped There-Mrs. Logan's Recol-
Iections of the Congregation
and Its Work.
Especial washington Letter.l

The Metropolitan Methodist Epis-
copal church of this city was for many
years the greatest church of that de-
nomination in the United States, and it
continues to be one of the leading
churches in the national capital. In
the very early days there was a camp
meeting held on the site which this
house of God occupies, and the very
venerable Bishop Asbury conducted the
services. That was long before the
city of Washington was dreamed of,
and when Wesleyanism was in its in
fancy on this continent. Time rolled
on, new city was projected, and
schoolhouse was erected here, in which
itinerant Methodist preachers held serv-
ices at long intervals. The capital
grew, and the principal residence part
of the city surrounded the site. The
schoolhouse was obliterated, and in its
place there was series of boarding
houses. Senator Thomas II. Benton,
of Missouri, resided on the corner.
Henry Clay, of Kentucky, lived next
door; and across the street John C. Cal
houn had apartments in the Cushing
house-a fashionable hotel which still
stands, but bereft of its prestige. The old
hotel is now n boarding house, and very
few of its inmates realize that Calhoun,
Webster, Foot, Fessenden, Buchanan
and Douglas once graced it's premises
and held conferences of national sig
nificance beneath it's gabled roof.
When the Metropolitan was estab-
lished, more than century ago, that
part of Washington was yet a promi-
nent portion of the city; but it has since
sunken into less than secondary mu-
nicipal rank because of the growth of
the city in other directions. Only
twenty-five years ago, Bishop Simpson,
Bishop Ames and Rev. DIR. Newman
united in efforts to establish and build
this beautiful church in the heart of
the city. Their work was made popular
and effective by reason of the fact that
the idol of the people, the success
full general of the army, U. 8.
Grant encouraged them by his assist
ance and with his unlimited influence.
The Methodist churches of the entire
country, and many of the annual con-
ferences, contributed to the funds
which were raised for the erection of
this Methodist shrine at the seat of the
national government. Rev. DIR. De-
Haas, of New York, made laborious
and earnest efforts from one end of the
land to the other, visiting the confer
ences and eloquently presenting the
cause. His splendid work was re-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22

and pack the aisles. No other man
would be acceptable. So DR.. Newman
declined to preach anywhere, and it
was said that he contemplated becom-
ing a Congregationalist, and taking his
church with him into that denomina-
ton. But that was found to be untrue.
He declined to be assigned for the next
year, the pulpit was declared vacant,
and DIR. Newman filed it as a supply
preacher" Later on, at subsequent
conference, he was assigned to the
Metropolitan pulpit for another period
of three years. Since then there have
been other pastors, all of them good
men and able men; but none of them
has drawn such wonderful audiences.
The only church in Washington
which has chime bells is the Metropoli-
tan. Everyone who has visited this
city and remained over Sunday has
heard them. Thanksgiving day, No
vember 80, 1871, the spire, with chime
of bells, was dedicated. The spire was
named after Mr.. Thomas Kelso, of Bal
timore, who gave 5000 for its erec-
tion-he had previously given 81, 900 for
the erection of the church. The
chimes were the gift of several indi-
viduals. For fifteen years the chimes
were in charge of Prof. Frederick
Widows, who rang out each New
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22

Year and celebrated all public holidays
by their ringing. In common with
very many others who were prominent
in the Metropolitan church in its most
prosperous and popular days, he has
been gathered unto his fathers.
At the last anniversary celebration
of the founding of the church many
people of prominence narrated their
experiences and recollections of the
church and it's work. Mrs. John A.
Logan delivered an impressive address.
She named many men of note who had
worshiped there, and, in reference to
Gen. Grant, she said: "a few of US
recall another, who, when chief magis-
trate of all the nation, would come
regularly with his family and sit in the
pew that is still dedicated to the presi-
dent of the United States. The sphinx.
like face he wore to the world bore an
other expression when he worshiped at
the throne of Him who had guided his
footsteps through all the labyrinths of
wars mysterious ways. When the
benediction: Praise God from Whom
All Blessings Flow commenced, he
would quietly rise, and slipping out of
the small door at the side of the pull
pit, would go down and out to avoid
the stare of curious eyes, of those who
seemed not to remember that there
was a time and place for everything"
Concerning her distinguished hus-
band, the great volunteer soldier, the
eloquent statesman, she said: How
shall speak of another who came and
went an humble and sincere worshiper
at this shrine? Communion Sunday,
December 5, 1886, we hnelt together
here at the railing and partook of the
last sacrament. On the 10th he was
taken i'll, on the Goth, with the sound
of Dr. Newman's voice petitioning the
Heavenly Father for the repOse of his
soul ringing in his ears, his righteous
spirit took flight, and L know that he
is now a partaker of the joys of heaven
ly life in the eternal home above. The
tablet on your walls will testify to the
presence of Gen. John A. Logan in this
church, long after the last of US has
passed away"
The presence of Mary Logan was
tacit testimony to the fact that not
only great men have worshiped here,
but that great and noble women have
also bowed their heads and lifted up
their souls to God in this sacred place:
for the wife of the great soldier is one
OF the noblest and best of the good
women of our country.
SMITH D. Fry
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22

knees in front of the old matron, laid
the shawl-wrapped child on her lap,
and reiterated the plaintive appeal:
pray over my baby; for Gods sake
pray over my baby"
Scotch Ike's mother looked puzzled.
The men came forward and explained;
10 Marvin referred brokenly to his
wife's disturbed mental condition. AS
they talked the older woman cried
softly and stroked the mothers hair.
"Pnir lass. Puir dear lassie!' she
quavered. ''All We haze! Yer firstborn!'
She kissed and caressed the half
crazed creature, Dabbling on in her
soothing way. After awhile she spoke
gently TO the men: but couldna do
that, We ken. 1t wadna be RIGHT. I'm
a Covenanter. and the dominies said:
Let the women keep silence"
Mrs. Marvin looked up at the
wrinkled, tear-stained face with sane,
anxious yearning. Il don't care what
the ministers said" she asserted
"You are a woman. You've had chill
dren. Perhaps you have buried some,
Would you want them put under
ground like dogs, without anybody
praying over them? 1 never prayed.
Nobody taught me. My mother'-she
sobbed, and her voice broke-''my
mother died when was little. You
pray. Won'tyou; for Gods sake, won't
you pray over my baby, as somebody
prayed over yours?"
Memories of three bonnie yellow
heads sleeping in the far-away kirk
yard stirred the old mother. Her lips
quivered and shook; the tears came in
q swift shower before her broken an
swer: Il am an ignorant auld woman,
puir simple body. If it be
wrong, God forgive me. But
wadna, wadna hae wanted them to
be buried without bit o. prayer and
Scripture. I'll gae wi ye."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
New Remedy for Hen Lice.

The latest remedy for hen lice is
bisulphide of carbon. The discoyerer is
a Frenchman, who drove the lice from
his henIouse by leaving few small
bottles uncorked, having previously
fastened them to the perches- Success
was immediate. He recommends that
it be put in small medicine walls hung
about the pigeon-house or poultry
roost. When it is about three parts
evaporated the remainder will have
acquired yellowish tinge, and no lon
ger acts so completely as before, but
if it be shaken up afresh it will suffice
to keep the enemy at distance.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22

A NOVEL AND GOOD TRAP FOR ANIMALS.
from the poisoning of one carcass. This
was in Montana where the wolves are
very plentiful.
1t takes two bottles of strychnine to
poison one dead cow or horse and from
one-fourth to one-third of bottle for a
sheep; smaller animals or birds require
a less porportionate amount.
All the carnivorous animals may BE-
destroyed by strychnine. The larger
ones may be poisoned by putting few
crystals in small balls of butter or lard.
When the animal is frozen so you can
not poison it scatter the balls round
about.
Small animals can be poisoned by
poisoning scraps of meat, or small
birds, mice or fish. The red fox can be
easily poisoned where he could not be
trapped.
Strychnine must be handled with
great care. 1t should be used moder-
ately in small bats and placed where
dogs and cats are not likely to find it
Poisoned animals may be kept for
months If necessary, and II promptly
removed when thawed the skins will
be good.
A hole bored in a log or block Of
wood and filled with lard mixed with
strychnine is very effectual when
weather is not freezing. They lick ID
out so slowly that they die before they
get away.
-. - L.
or rail pin securely pinned or nailed
together. 1t is twice as wide at the
bottom as it is at the top, and the sizs
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22

warded with such material encourage
ment that the present church edifice
was constructed. He secured contrib
utions, large and small, in all sections
of the union.
The historian of the church states
that many valuable presents were made
at that time, and among them were the
memorial windows, the handsome organ
from Mr.. Carlos Pierce, of Massachu-
sets; the beautiful communion service
from Mrs. James Foster, of New York,
and the stone from Jerusalem, with
the inscription, Jehovah Jireh," the
keystone in the arch above the pulpit,
from DIR. DeHaas. The pulpit itself
was designed by Bishop Simpson, and
was made partly from olive wood
brought from the Holy City, while in
the vestibule there is a portion of the
tesselated marble pavement from the
debris of Solomon's temple. Upon the
windows of the church are many
memorial inscriptions of departed men,
bers, the names and dates alone consti-
tuting almost a centenary memo
rial and photography of the his
tory of early American Methodism.
When the church was dedicated on
February %, 1869, in the presence Of
vast concourse of people from all parts
of the land, the dedicatory exercises
were conducted by Bishop Simpson,
who preached in the morning, and was
followed in the afternoon by Rev. W.
Morley Punshon, the distinguished
Wesleyan divine. DR.. Punshon was at
that time the greatest Methodist pulpit
orator in Canada, and Bishop Simpson
was unrivaled by any pulpit orator nj
America, excepting alone the match.
less Beecher, of Brooklyn. And yet,
the young men and women of this age
of Methodism know but little of either
man, and many of them never heard
the name of Matthew Simpson. Thus
rapidly do the fame and glory of the
achievements of this life fade away
into "reminiscences.
Rev. John P. Newman, who is to-day
regarded by many as the most eloquent
bishop of Methodism, was made pastor
Of the new church and preached his
first sermon on Easter Sunday, March
%, 1869, in the presence of an immense
audience of distinguished people, among
them being the president of the United
States, the vice president, the chief
justice of the supreme court, many SEN
ators, representatives, members of the
cabinet and diplomats from foreign
lands President Grant occupied his
pew for eight years, Vice President Col
fax his pew for four years and Chief
Justice Chase his pew for four years.
Pews were also set aside and marked
for several of the states and larger
cities. The original board of trustees
consisted of Gen. q. s. Grant, Chief
Justice Salmon P. Chase, Hon. NJ. G.
Emery, then mayor of Washington,
Postmaster Tullock and others of rank
and distinction.
The first pastor, Rev. DIR. Newman,
filed the pulpit for three years. Then,
on account of the recognized discipline
of the church, it became necessary for
the eloquent divine to be sent to some
other pulpit; for the Methodist preach
ers, you know, are itinerants who are
not allowed permanent locations for
their ministry. But the congregation
would have no other pastor. No other
man could 1s:anand such audiences
No other NAH could fill all of the pews,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
Sounds Too Fine to Hear.

Sir John Lubbock believes from this
study of ants that they cannot hear
many of the noises which are audible
to men, and it is theoretically believed
that there are some sounds too fine and
others too loud for the ears Of men.
The London Spectator thinks that II
light is vibration there is no reason 1t
should not be audible to finer ears
than ours. By the same rule music
ought to shine to eyes which are capa-
BILE of approaching the same vibrations
which impress themselves in the drum
of the ear. That, however. is poetry.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22

will depend upon the size of animal
you intend to catch.
AS the sides are sloping, he walks up
readily, and, smelling the appetizing
bait that is placed in the center on the
ground, he jumps down in and is un-
able to jump out. A correspondent
says he finds this very effectual
One of the cheapest and best traps
can be made from an old stove-pipe
pounded so that it is square, as you see
in the illustration. Now make a wire
door for each end and drive hole to
run a rod through. The bait is placed
in the center, the animal pushes tho
door up and it falls down and he Is a
prisoner. Several may be caught In
this at the same time, especially If twd
lengths are used at the same time.
Nearly everyone knows how to use
the figure four for setting traps and
deadfalls and also how to make snares
for small game, so we do not describe
them. If you do not know, ask some
one to show you.-W. ]. Burnett, in
Minneapolis (Minn.) Wool, Mutton and
Pork
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
Hnr.e,hnn MAZDA of Paner.

1t is stated that the German army has
recently been testing horseshoes made
of paper. 1t has been found that their
lightness and elasticity makes it posi-
BILE for horse so shod to travel faster
and further without fatigue than one
shod with iron, and they are entirely
impervious to water or other liquids.
The shoes are made by very much the
same process as the paper car wheels,
and consist of thin sheets of paper
pressed in solid mass by hydraulic
machinery. They can be fastened to
the hoof of horse either by nails OF
by kind of glue made Of coal tar and
rubber
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
FARM AND GARDEN.
KEEPING ACCOUNTS.
Good System of Recording Farm Sales
and Expenditures.

Good System of Recording Farm Sales
and Expenditures.
A Country Gentleman correspondent
writes: The system that 1 have
adopted for the purpose of keeping an
account of the sales and expenditures
of the farm is not only simple and
easily kept, but the different accounts
may be readily balanced up at the
close of each month, or as often as de-
sired. use an ordinary daybook, and
divide it in the six following accounts:
Sales, general expenses, live stock,
feed, labor and mechanics. In the
sales account is entered the produce
sold-fruit, potatoes, grain, hay and
rye straw, always stating the quantity
and the price per barrel, bushel or ton,
as the case may be. In general ex-
penses come all family and private ex-
penses-taxes, money expended in the
repairing of buildings, for new machin-
cry, wagons, horses, in fact any
thing in the way of equipping the
place. The groceries of course
come in this list, but as the sugar
and oil are bought by the bar
rel, tea by the chest, soap by the box,
aud everything, as far as is convenient,
in large quantities. the open account
with the grocer is avoided, and the en-
tries in this direction are also con-
densed very much in number. In the
livestock account are entered what
ever cattle, sheep, hogs or poultry are
bought or sold. Everything in the
way of feed bought is charged to this
account. In the labor account is en-
tered, at the expiration of the laborers'
term, the time employed and the
wages received. Their time and the
cash that they draw are kept in a
memorandum book for that purpose.
In the mechanics account are kept the
horseshoeing, blacksmithing and har-
ness repairing expenses.
At the end of the year you have SIM
ply to foot up your accounts and make
out your trial balance, and you have a
pretty correct showing of your princi-
pal sources of income and expense.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
FIREPRooF sMoKEHoUsE.

it nearly every year, that part can also
be made safe from fire by the little
arch built at the point shown in the
illustration. The whole is laid up in
mortar, and to add strength to the
structure an iron rod or bar may be
placed across the center of the bin and
firmly imbedded in the mortar, two or
three rows of brick from the top. Of
course the rear of the arch is also
bricked up. In most cases less than
two hundred and fifty brick will be all
that is required.-American Agrlcul-
turist
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
ARemedx for Haanes.

1t is generally understood that q
horse having heaves cannot endure dry
feed, especially dry hay, and that
greatest relief is found in the use of
green, fresh grass, at a season of the
year when grass can be had, but that
it can only be had part of the year.
1t is found by a thorough experiment
that horse that could endure no IA
tigue, and could scarcely breathe when
fed ON dry hay, can apparently be re-
juvenated, and put in sound, comfort
able condition by a regular feed Of
ensilage and perform regular farm
work without show of heaves.-Coun-
try Gentleman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
Contaglon on the Farm.

When any kind Of contagious disease
appears on farm no one should go
into the yards or pens and then into the
adjoining farm, as the smallest particle
of dirt or manure may serve to carry
the disease to the neighbours flock or
herd. Even the walking across a
field upon which diseased cattle or
sheep have access may be the means of
spreading it to other fiocks or herds.
ALI diseased animals should be separ-
ated from those that are healthy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
The Best Food for Horses.

Horses should not be fed with boiled
food for the reason that they bolt it
indigestion follows, collie and other ills.
Wheat is the best ail-round food for
horses, given with discretion. Sixty.
two pounds of wheat sell at the Same
price as forty-two pounds of oats. Ae-
cording to analysis, it is the more valu-
able food pound for pound, but it is too
stimulating unless given very cautious
ly. The farmer might begin with four
pounds of wheat per day coarsely
ground, increasing it TO six pounds,
and in this way help to raise the price
of the article as well as decrease the
cost of feeding the horses--Prairie
Farmer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
THE SUNNY SIDE.

Said Neighbor Brown to his fair dame,
As arm in arm from church they came
One chilly autumn-tide:
my dear. the day is somewhat gray,
Let's take the sunny side"
All. NeighbOr Brown. tbs long ago.
Ere time had tinged your locks with snow,
Or blessed you with your bride,
That you in kind made up your mind
To take the sunny side.
And so there's unshine in your eyes,
And in your heart serenest skies,
Nc secret sin to hide;
As in the past. so to the last
You'll take the sunny side
All. would that all might see as clear.
Might learn to good plain sense revere,
And try the rule you tried,
Chase gloom away, give hope Its day,
And choose the sunny side.
Two paths lie always just ahead,
Awaiting all who onward tread,
This warning be their guide.
Darkness and light to left or right,
Oh. take the sunny side.
Beatrice Clayton, in n. Y Advertiser.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
CORN AND SQUASHES.
Two Crops That, as a Usual Thing. Prove
Fairly Remunerative.

Two Crops That, as Usual THING, RroVe
Fairly Remunerative.
These two crops grow well together
if given heavy fertilization, and under
good conditions prove fairly remu-
nerative. The writer has found excel
lent demand for his sweet corn in a
neighboring city market. 1t is en-
deavored to peddle the ears to the con-
sumers, taking care to pick them while
sweet and tender and to deliver them
while still fresh. This makes a great
difference. Sweet corn, allowed to
stand in store a day or two, rapidly
depreciates, and people are not salts
fed with these tough, tasteless kerr
nels. An acre of sweet corn, selling at
ten to twelve cents per dozen ears,
should give receipts of seventy-five to
one hundred dollars, and large guam
tity of stalks besides. The stalks are a
big item of themselves. For horses,
cattle and sheep they are as good as an
equal weight of timothy hay, if some
care is used to cure them quickly and
store after the manner followed with
the hay crop.
The squashes bring a good price,
especially if facilities exist so they may
be kept until we'll into the winter or
until early spring. We have found a
good, snug cellar, where there is fur
mace fire, to afford good squash
house" The squash will bear higher
temperature than vegetables; it is very
susceptible to the cold. Corn and
squashes both are great feeders and
delight particularly in liberal quanti-
ties of barn and stable manures. In
planting, either make every third row
all squash, or sow a squash hill at in
tervals of eight feet in every third row
of corn.-M. Sumner Perkins, in Farm
and Fireside.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
How to Raise Potatoes.

At one of the experimental agricul-
tural colleges in Germany the remark
able yield of forty-two tons of potatoes
per acre has been obtained by treating
the seed tubers with sulphate of am
monia. The potatoes were stepped for
twenty-four hours in solution of six
pounds of saltpetre, six pounds of sui
phate of ammonia and twenty-five gal
ions of water, and afterwards allowed
to stand and drain for a day, in order
that their buds might swell before
planting them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-03-22
About the Purchs.e of Needles.

1t is a habit of almost all seam
stresses to buy needles by the assorted
package, from to 10" being the ac-
cepted order. The consequence is that
most work baskets are half full of
opened and partially used cases where
in. the los" which are finer than
needed for ordinary sewing, are left
alone. A more sensible plan would
seem to be to buy generally rs, IS and
perhaps 9s, as they are wanted. The
coarsest and the finest needles are very
rarely required.