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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-09-27

were unchanged. 40. spring wheat.
60 l-Sc. No. red, 81 1898 S-Sc. No. 2
corn, Il iAG4 lac. No. 2 oats, i6 l-2g
II LAC. Mess pork. s6.05Q&.l0. Lard,
sS.75aS.T IL. Short-rib sides, S.25uS3.55:
clear sides. ss.59asS.62 IL. Whiskey, sl.ls.
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[CoNTINUED ON PAGE FOUR
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and we have got to be above suspicion,
or we are going to bolt" Why, that's
simply ridiculous. If that's the way
YOU are going, you had as we'll stay
at home. Why not propose to turn
the whole matter over to South Caro-
lima and let her run it.
The convention ought to instruct its
delegates to abide by the nomination.
The free silver men need not be afraid.
They will control the convention by
at least hundred majority. And yet
you say we must 60 there and run the
thing or bolt.
Here is a possible candidate for the
Presidential nomination within the
hearing of nay voice. have no ohjec-
ton. If they nominate him in Chi
cago will do as much for him as I
have done for him in South Carolina
in the past, and I think every one will
agree that have done as much as any
one else. He is willing to 60 into that
convention and take pot luck with the
others, and yet here is tn, convention
lodging the issue. Why, you dele
gates here don't represent 5000 votes
in South Carolina, you didn't made a
test of the thing in any county in the
State. There is no use in talking
about it. There are 100000 white
Democrats in South Carolina, and you
may 60 from county to county, and l
will guarantee that we don't represent
10, 900 men any way. And yet you
are going to break the record of the
Democratic party with a possible Pres
idential candidate in our midst, by
lodging this issue. Let us for decency
sake abide by the result, whatever it
may be-for Democracy's sake and for
poor old South Carolina's sake. Here
you are endorsing man for the Pres
idency on platform, saying, IF you
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ished by all liberty-loving Americans.
The veto power has been used to
thwart the will of The people as ex-
pressed by their representatives IN
congress. The appointive power has
been used to subsidize the press, to de.
bauch congress and to overawe and
control citizens in the free exercise OF
their constitutional rights as voters.
A plutocratic despotism is thus sought
to be established on the ruins of the
republic.
3. We believe the power and usur-
pations of the Federal courts as now
organized to be dangerous to the repub.
lie. The American people have lost
confidence in Lille tenure of officers in
any department of government and
we repeat here the warning of Jeffer-
son against the tendency and effect of
the constitution of thu Federal judici-
ary, which he styles an irresponsible
body working like gravity by mig ght
and day, gaining little today and a
little tomorrow and advancing its
noiseless steps like a thief over the
field of jurisdiction until all shall be
usurped from the State and the gov.
ernment of all be consolidated into
one." The sudden reversal of the de-
cision in the income tax cases has new
er been satisfactorily explained to the
American people and the court has
lost the respect and confidence of the
people as natural result. To restore
confidence in the judiciary and make
the courts the bulwarks of liberty
rather than the apparent tools of the
'sordid despotism of wealth." To
protect the people against the brood
of vampires in the shape of monopo-
lies, trusts and combines which have
grown up under vicious laws badly ad'
ministered. To provide for the elec-
ton of senator's and of all high gov
ernment officials by the people so as
to reduce the dangers of Federal pat
ronage in the hands of an unscrupu'
lous President. To restore govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people we demand the calling
of constitutional convention to form
an organic law suitable to the changed
conditions and to the growth of the
country.
4. We demand a more economical
administration of our national affairs
and that taxes shall be levied so as to
bear equally on all sections and all
classes. Labor should be lightly bur-
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kind. Mr.. Barnwell was applauded.
Mr.. Reynolds then took the floor :.
He said that he felt that he was beaten
at the start, and there was enough to
show that it was useless to offer argu-
ment. But there was one proposition
in the minority report which was
worthy of the closest consideration. 1t
was the provision that called for &C
quiescence in the action of the nation
al convention, and the support of that
body's work. For 90 years past there
has never been any such talk of aban-
doning the national party. He point
ed out the danger of abandoning the
friends of the south of 80 years stand
ing. He was in favor of the free coin
age of silver at 16 to 1. (Applause( }
He had advocated it for years. He had
criticised Cleveland in 1886. But should
they sacrifice all else that the national
Democracy could do for them to get
this one thing9 Vital as it was they
should not 20 so far. Has anybody
indicated the place to which we will 60
when we desert the national Democ-
racy2 Do you mean into the Repub
lican party9 Let the Edgefeld sena-
tor remember his speech made in this
hall picturing negro rule In South
Corolina.
Larry CAN'T asked him if he did not
know that the majority report said
nothing about boiling:
Mr.. Reynolds asked him if he did
not know that it was the open purpose
of the leaders to bolt the convention.
He pressed CAN'T for an answer.
CAN'T said there was some talk OF
it, but there would be no boiling when
they got to Chicago.
He said something about the inten-
ton of the gold bugs to bolt if the free
silverites won. Mr.. Reynold said it was
merely question of the integrity OF
the Democrats here.
Mr.. Gadsden spoke earnestly in fa-
vor of passing the resolution requiring
all to abide the result of the national
convention. This money question
was a financial and not a party matter.
He, like Mr.. Barnwell, recounted the
acts of friendship that the national
party had shown to the people of this
State.
IRBY ATTACKS TILLMAN.
The galleries and all the available
space in the hall were by this time
crowded to their utmost capacity. 1t
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
FLOOR PLAN.

Jlankets and a jug of hot water, and
here during narrowing time chilled
pigs are kept, after giving them q bath
in hot water, until they are strong,
when they are returned to their dams.
The building is erected north and
south, so the sun may pour in the east
and west windows. The chimney is,
at the north, hence prevailing winter
winds drive the heat from the kitchen.
through instead of out of the struc-
ture. Delicate families are put In pens
1 and 7, as these are on the south end
and get more sunshine. The overhead
floor is but six feet from the ground
floor, which is made of cement, prefer
ably, to keep out rats and draughts OF
air. This low ceiling is built for 4.
double purpose: l. Greater warmth
2. That more room may be secured
above for cheap storage of bedding.
The building Is sheathed with rough.
lumber horizontally, papered with tar
felt and covered with plsned boards
put on vertically and battened. This
makes . house at once warm and cheap.
For q foundation 4x6-lnch stills rest on
walls laid below the frost line and one,
foot above the surface surrounding.
The cement floor comes to within g.
inches of the stills and slopes slightly
to the outside of the building, where g
shallow gutter runs all liquids into
the adjoining yards. The pens are
cleaned in early summer by removing
the windows and backing a cart up to
each. At this time the glass is also
cleaned and the interior woodwork
thoroughly sprayed with lime wash,
leaving everything sweet and ready
for the early fall htters.-American
Farm Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24

machine will not be in the way, shock
the third armful, pick the others up as
they were laid down, and they don't
have to be carried at all.
The other machine (see cut like
the best. 1t has but one knife, and
cuts one row. 1t has two wheels on
one side and q runner on the other to
make it run straight and steady.
Otherwise, it is the same as the two
row machine. To use it, give the knife
a good slant, tip the edge up slightly,
and keep sharp. Don't put one hand
on each side Of the corn row and try TO
grab every stock, or they will get in
the eyes so one can't see, and then pile
up, pull up, drop off, etc. But SIT well
ahead of the knife, put both hands
outside the row, first one ahead and
then the other, bend the corn before it
is cut off, and let it fall on the knee.
Keep the butts off the knife, and It
will be easier work than with a corn
knife, and you can cut three times as
much. l tie the saddles by taking the
third armful behind the machine,
spreading the butts in circle about
three feet across and twisting the top
tight; then twist it down against the
side, and throw one of the stalks over
to hold there. 1t will hold shock up
better than one made of standing corn,
and is not in the way when hauling
Rural New Yorker.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
CHAPTER Y.
HOW NOIAS DIED.

For some few minutes we rested to
recover our breath, then we started
forward again. In front went the girl,
Maya. our guide, whom the senior led
by the hand, while behind followed
Zibalbay. supported by Molas and my
self. At first these two had run as
quickly as the rest of US, but now all
the fatigues and terrors that they had
undergone took hold of them, so that
from time to time they were forced to
stop and rest, which is little to be
wondered at, seeing that for five days
they had eaten no solid food, for il was
Don Pedro's purpose to starve their Sc
cret out of them.
Slowly and with much toll we forced
a path through the tropical forests.
This forest that seemed so destitute
Of life was peopled by millions of in
sectS. all of them venomous. Garrapat-
as, tiny gray flies, wood wasps, and
ants black and red, tormented US with
their bites ard stings. till we groaned
aloud in our misery. then remembering
our danger pushed on again.
Thus two hours and more passed till
reaching a little stream that ran
through a ravine in the forest, we
paused TO drink and cool our fevered
feet and hands- ZibalbaE sank ex-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
GRANDPA'S CRAZY QUILT.

That's what call grandpa's farm.
Here's red patch-that's the barn;
Here's white oue-thats the house;
Here's one. gray-just like a mouse;
That's the granary, big and old;
Yonder is patch OF gold
Grandpa's wheatfield, bright and yellow,
Ripping in the sunshine mellow.
Way up there patch Of green
On the hillside steep is seen,
Stitched all round with barbed-wire fence
That's where grandpa's woods commence.
Dark green patches-that's the pines;
Strips Of light between, sometimes;
Squares Of dark, rich, golden brown
That's where grandpa's plowed the ground.
Mammals crazy quilt is pretty,
But somehow it seems pity
Hours and hours to sit and sew
On that sort Of thing, you know.
When it's done 1t s far too nice
To use, they say, at any price.
So think that grsndpa's quilt
Is better than one made of silk
And satin pieces, cause, you see,
His is useful as can be-
Harriet f. Crocker, in Union Signal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
Experiments with Timothy.

Prof. Hopkins, of the'Nest Virginiaex-
pertinent station, has been making test
with timothy, and finds that there are
marked varieties of this grass, some of
them early, some of them late, and
others showing great differences in size
and prOductiveness of seed. In paper
read before the society for the promo
ton of agricultural science at its late
meeting at Springfield. Mass, he shovel
that if pure seed of the early variety
could be secured it would be of special
value TO grow with red clover, since it
would be at the proper stage for cut
ting when the clover would have the
highest value for hay. There is evil
IDENTIFY very much of practical value to
be learned from the study of grasses
and grass seed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
The Weak Point in Farming.

The life of farmer has often. been
called life of drudgery. There is no
occupation that has a larger ratio of
inspiriting labor to one whose tastes
are in harmony with rural life. The
weak point in American farming has
been the lack of appreciation of the
equipments necessary to a successful
career. Too many men have been will
ing to be thieves of the soils resources
that they might swell their bank &C
counts. To the young man or woman
fairly well educated, there is no more
promising field of enterprise. - Col
mans Rural World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
The Preservation of Carrots.

The carrot does not keep well, except
in cool weather, and even in winter
more care is requisite than with either
the rutabaga or beet. 1t is, therefore,
well to so adjust the consumption of
the crop that it be used up in season.
The narrow trench method of storing
beets for winter use is emphatically
the one for this root, above all others;
do not trust them in a cellar, even
though it be cool, nor in mounds piled
two or three feet high, as was, and IS
still, practieed. The methodical farm
er Will not be alarmed at the injunction
of caution; he knows it is better not to
attempt anything which cannot ne done
well, and, having once commenced
job. the only economic course is to see
it effectually finished. - Farmers
Voice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
SHUTS IN GRAINS.
How the Different Varieties Can Be Treat
ed Very EnectuaIly.

How the Different Varieties Can Be Treat
ed Very ETectuaIly.
The Montana Experiment station
sends out the following conclusions on
smut in grains: Sinking smut attacks
wheat only. Loose smuts attack all OF
the small grains, but that of the oat is
most damaging. Clean seed, or that
effectually treated for smut, will pro
duce crop free from smut. but an adj
joining smutty field may contaminate
this grain for next years crop. The
only safeguard is careful treatment be-
fore planting. The disease in wheat
may be entirely prevented by thorough
ly wetting the seed in solution of cop
per sulphate, using eight ounces to
gallon of water, but this will lessen in
some degree the vitality of the seed
1t may also be effectually prevented,
without any damage, by immersion for
Is minutes in water raised to a tempera-
ture of 131 to 135 degrees Fahrenheit.
Dat smut may be completely prevented
by treating the seed IS minutes in water
raised to temperature of 1922 to 135
degrees Fahrenheit. This treatment
not only removes the smut but pro-
notes the growth and increases the
yield. 1t may also be prevented with
out injury to the vitality by immersing
the feed "a hours in a solution of potas-
SUM sulphide, made by dissolving
pound of the sulphide in "a gallons of
water. The copper sulphate treatment,
used for wheat, will effectually kill the
smut in oats, but will in some degree
damage the terminating power of the
grain.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
MODEL HOG HOUSE.

Kitchen. A hog is moved from one pen
to another by turning him into the
alley, closing his door and opening the
door of the pen where it is desired to
put him. The doors open across the
alley, so it is impossible for hog to
pass, as shown at pen 2. Hogs that
are ailing or sows about to farrow are
placed in pens 5 and and II, as it is
warmer next the kitchen and they
may be looked after more frequently.
The kitchen contains 1, the chimney,
2, feed cooker, 3, broad bench to
sit upon when working over young
pigs in the lap, and 4, feed mixing
trough. Under the big bench is
bunk to be kept warm with old
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
MODERN HOG HOUSE.

1t Contains Eleven Pens and a Kitchen,
and Is Considered Perfect.
TO lessen the work and make success
with hogs surer, building modelled
after this pattern will do much. 1t IS
2Ox3O feet and IL stories, with a
single roof. 1t contains IL pens and
a kitchen. Each pen should be labeled
permanently, so that an attandant
may be told definitely how to treat a
certain family. The filters may be
kept under book account more easily.
ID in the cut indicates door and w a
window. The pens are separted by a
4-foot alley, which is entered from the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
Fighting Weed, in the Field.

We are frequently asked how to rid
field of such weeds as live forever,
sorrel, Canada thistle, etc. When
these pests are thick in the field, the
only way is to pillow it up, put in a
hoed crop for year or two, use fer
tilizer to avoid weed seed in manure,
keep clear of weeds by thorough cul-
ture, and when putting down to grass
be careful to use the best seed, free
of weed seed. Pull up by the
roots any weeds that appear in the
new grass, and should they become
numerous cut the grass before it is
quite headed out, so as to prevent the
weeds from reseeding. No halfway
measure is so effective, while quick
and easy methods of permanently
getting rid of pestiferous weeds are
unknown to us.-American Agricul-
turiSt
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
TIMELY SHEEP NOTES.

THE English market does not want
old sheep.
FLoCKs are often injured in winter
by lack of exercise.
. A FAIR quantity of grass, neither too
long or too short, should be main
tanned in the sheep pasture.
DRY feeding when the flock is turned
upon the pasture in the spring and also
in,the fall, should be maintained.
The advice never to change sudden
ly from dry to green feeding, or from
green to dry, is often given, but it will
bear repeating.
TRY changing the flock from one
pasture to another every week or ten
days and see if it is not better for the
sheep and better for the pasture
Farmers Voice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
HOW TO DRAIN LAND.
Requirements of q Really Permanen;
System of Drainage.


System of Drainage
Underdrainage works can, and, If
rightly done, will be, strictly speaking,
permanent improvements. The con-
struction of farm buildings, roads, walls
and fences, though usually classed as
such are of transitory and ephemeral
character compared with a well-planned
and thoroughly executed system of tile
drainage.
That drain may be permanent in its
life and action it must be so planned
and constructed as to let the water in
and keep the silt or earthly matter out.
An open ditch may do the first admir-
ably for time but soon fills I'd with
the undermining and caving-in of its
banks, and by the in-washing of loan
and organic matter by the flow of sur
face waters into it. \ stone or "blind"
drain may admit waters freely for time
and conduct it fairly well where con-
siderable inclination or fall to a suit
able outlet is practicable, butwhen laid
las such drains usually must be- in
earth made up of fine particles. it is liza
hle to become clogged by the infiltration
of silt.
Such drains can be made silt-proof
and consequently permanent by inclos-
ing or surrounding them with silt-eX-
Guiding materials, such as boards (for
afoundation) green brush, turf, old hay
or straw, coarse gravel. etc, according
to availability and other circumstances
which will readily suggest to the user
the best of such means at his disposal
Drainage Journal.
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KANSAS CORN CUTTER.
It's Inventor Thinks 1t Beats Anything O
Its Kind,

Its Inventor Thinks 1t Beats Anything of
Its Kind.
have had quite little experience
with sled cutters for corn; l ran three
last fall One caught the fodder, but
it was just as hard work to keep it
raked off the knife as to catch it; and
it was unhandy to start the shock row,
as the fodder was cut on one side and
taken off at the other. Another cut
two rows and pulled rather heavy.
The frame is made by 2x4 stuff, and
the floor of inch boards. The back
part slopes mp, carries four armfuls,
and six rows make shock row. Each
person throws down two armfuls,
takes a third behind the machine,
stands it up, spreads the butts and
ties the tops with binding Irvine. As
they come back, they stop so that the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
Remedy for Lice on Swine.

This is what swine breeder saws
about a remedy for lice on swine:
Crude carbolic acid and lard, equal
parts; apply on the neck, around the
ears, back of the forelegs, on the back
part of the hams, in the TANKS and
along the back. Coal oil and lard or
coal oil and linseed oil, equal parts,
applied to the same parts of the ami
NAL just mentioned In addition to
the application TO the animal, the
sleeping quarters should be thorough
ly sprinkled several times with coal
oil or the crude carbolic acid and wa
ter"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
Raising sheep for Mutton.

The mutton breeds of sheep grow so
rapidly compared with scrubs as to al
most surprise those who have not used
them. Such breeds as the Oxford
Downs, Shropshires and Hampshire
Downs will gain from 12 ounces to a
pound day the first year, if forced by
high feeding. 1t has been demon
strated by actual tests that lambs can
be made to attain 100 pounds live
weight when 100 days old, and indi-
vidual rams, fed for the purpose of
gaining as much as possible, have
reached $40 pounds when 1 year old.
A ram was exhibited at the Centennial
exposition that weighed 425 pounds.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24

further side OF the pyramid, and In the
forest you may hide from these men,"
at is too late to talk of fight, said
Molas, 'for look; they are coming up
the stair, the eight of them, with Don
Pedro and the Americana at their head"
1 looked; it was true. Already they
had climbed half the steps of the first
fight.
''Oh, for some rifes!" groaned the
senior.
ut is useless to cry for what we have
not, answered.
God can help us if He wishes. and If
ne does not we must bow to His Will
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
Confident.

Bobby-Father viii be down in
moment. Have a cigar.
Won Blumer-Are you sure these are
the kind he gives TO his friends?
Bobby-Yes, sir. They are some
that mother gave Hmm. Y. Herald
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24

WRONG AND RIGHT WAY OF LAYING TILE
as it would be were the grade changed
as shown in the upper diagram. Here
there is a slackening of the current,
and any silt in suspension in the water
will in part, at least, be dropped at the
point where the water in the drain be-
gins to run more slowly.-American
Agriculturist.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
ABOUT LAYING TILE.

This Article Tells How TO Do the Work In
the Right Way.
In using the drains it is sometimes
absolutely necessary to change the
pitch of the drain, but in locating the
drain in the beginning such selection
should be made as will permit the
change of pitch from slower to a
faster current as shown in the lower
diagram of our sketch. In this case
sediment will not be deposited at the
point where change of grade is made,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24
HEART OF THE WORLD.
BY H. RIDER HAoGARD.

4 Strange Story, Taken From a Manuscript Be
queathed by an Old Mexican Indian to His
Friend and COmrade, an English
man Named Jones.