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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
A Neighb0r S View.
From the Humboldt Herald.

FROM the huuubOlub heIdlu.
The lola REGISTER is opposing the
city ownership of gas for lola. We
don't know but what We would do the
same thing If we were publishing a
paper i'm lola. In the first place lola
Is heavily taxed and is in no cOndi-
ton to issue bonds to buy a gas plant.
The people of the town have been put
ting up money for couple of years
for various enterprises and are not dis
posed to accept any new expense. In
the second place the price of gas in
lola is as cheap as any company or
city on earth could furnish it. And
the company is bound by its agree
ment for all time to come to charge
the same prices. Here is an extract
from the decree of the court which
settled the famous gas controversy in
lola:
1t is further ordered, adjudged and
decreed that the maximum prices to
be charged by the said lola Gas Com
pany, its successors and assigns, for
gas furnished by it to consumers in
the city of lola, shall be as follows, to-
wit: One dollar (Sl.00) per stove per
month for all stoves used in private
dwellings for domestic purposes, but
second stove in private dwellings,
when cook stove is used, shall be six
dollars $4,000 per year. For Wells
bach lights, size GA" in private
dwellings the maximum price shall
be ten cents per month for each of the
first two lights used IN such dwell
ings, and five cent for each additional
light. The amount charged the city
of lola for street lamps shall not ex-
coed twenty-five cents per month
for each ordinary fish jet burner.
The charges for light used by said
City in its city buildings shall be the
same as charged private consumers.
And charges for stoves used by said
City of lola for city purposes shall
not be greater than charged private
consumers for domestic purposes in
private dwellings. For all other pur-
poses the maximum prices shall be
the same as were fixed by ordinance
of the city of lola number 328.
And that I'D the event that the pric-
es above fixed shall at any time be
found to be unremunerative the Dis
trict Court of A lien county, Kansas,
shall upon application and showing
made by the owner of said gas plant
have the right and power to increase
any of said prices as in the judgment
of said court will fairly and reasona
bly, remunerate the owner of said gas
plant under all the conditions existing
at the time such application is made.
1t will be seen by the above that the
prices of gas in lola cannot be raised
except by a decree Ofthe court. Again,
lola has several gas wells which are
the property of the citizens and they
are in position to give away as much
gas as they wish. For these reasons
we don't know but what lola is doing
well enough without owning her gas
plant.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
CHINA'S TROUBLE.
Senator Morgan, OF AlabaIna, Believes the
United States Must Iotervene.

Senator Morgan, OF Alabarna Believes the
United States Must IuIeryene.
New YORK. Dec. 2S.-According to 4
Washington correspondent of the Her
aid, Senator Morgan, of Alabama, of
the committee on foreign relations, said
last night that it would be impossible
Tor the United States to remain COM
placent, should European nations I'M
dertake the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF China.
he went on:
If partition involves the abrogation Of treaties
This country would be left to make terms again
with each European nation separately in the
territory to which its SOyerei ;nty extended.
Therefore unless the powers now ambitious
for territorial extension take into account
the Importance of American commercial
relations with China. it will be
necessary for the government to intervene in
Self-defenSe. If the ceSSion is absolute then
American interests must be taken care of
through the treaties between America and
the countries to which the absolute cessiOns
are made respectively. II the territory is
given up merely for a time there will be
a mixed responsibility and it is a good time
for intervention and the exercise OF Amer
lean diplomacy. The German occupation
of a part of China and the prospective
occupation of other parts by various
European nations is an effort to COM
plete Gordon of offense to American commerce
from VladivoStock to MarSeilleS or to Liver
pool. That Gordon is being stretched to con-
tract the trade of 500, 10000 people who have
direct trade and intercourse with the Pacific
ocean. There is great deal in the Chinese
problem that vitality interests Americans and
which seems to demand immediate conSidera-
ton from the state department and congress
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
A HOUSE WARNING.

Mr.. John Tuggles and Mr.. Frank
HOrville, two of IOls's esteemed young
bachelors, entertained their gentle
men friends last Friday evening in a
most delightful manner. Verbal in
vitatiOns were issued to about forty
and every invitation was answered in
person. The occasion was the NOV
ing of the young men into their new
quarters over q. b. Spencer's store.
A fine large room has been fixed up
at the west end of the building and in
this the two boys will hereafter make
their home.
The guests did not begin to arrive
until after 10 O'Clock as a great many
were in attendance at the various
church exercises. About 1890 the
room was crowded and every man
was busily engaged IN the fascinating
game of progressive whist. Boxes
of cigars were passed and a great
deal of jOshing and cutting up by
some of the younger boys kept things
lively. Some of the boys had their
guitars and mandOlins and rendered
enliyening music. Cbas. ROudiez, the
singer, sang a number of songs and
the crowd joined Justify in the
choruses, making up with generous
quantity for the questionable quality
of their harmony. Dainty refresh
ments and a sOcial good time kept
everyone awake until about O'Clock
when each sought his dOwDy couch.
UnquestiOnably it was one of the
most sociable, pleasant gatherings
that lola ever witnessed and the
hosts had the sincere good will Of the
guests at parting.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31

be active and keen. If you feed the brain
cells on impure blood, you are sure to have
weak, sluggish brain cells. If you pump
bad blood into the lungs, you will have
weak lungs. Pump bad blood into the
liver, and the result is tOrpidity of the
liver. Feed the heart on impure blood,
and the consequence is a weak heart
NOurish the skin with impure blood, and
the result is all manner of unsightly skin
diseases.
The best of all known blood purifiers is
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. II
makes the appetite hearty, the digestion
perfect, the liver active and fills the arteries
with the rich, red blood of health II is
the great blood-naker and flesh builder
1t cures all forms of eruptive SKIN diseases.
1t cures oS per cent. of all cases of con-
sumption. It cures bronchitis, weak lungs,
splitting of blood, obstinate coughs and
kindred ailments. 1t gives vigor and
health to the muscles and activity to the
brain. Thousands have testified to the
benefits derived from the use of this
wonderful medicine. All medicine
stores sell it.
Mrs. Ella Howell, of Derby, Perry Co, Ind.
stomach trouble nervous dyspepsia. There
was a GOODNESS in my stomach and weight
which seemed like a rock. Everything that I
ate gave me great pain; had a bearing down
ridge around my right side and in a short time
was bloated. Twas treated by three of our best
physicians but got relief was weak
could not walk across the room without assis-
lance. took DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery and one bottle of the Pleasant Pellets
l began to improve very fast after the use of a
few bottles. It cured me and thank God my
cure IS permanent"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
TESLA'S LATEST FEAT.
The Great Inventor Declares He Can Make
the Sun Work at His Command.

New YORK, Dec. 2s.-Nicola Tesla
has at last achieved his greatest ambi-
ton and has succeeded in Harvesting
the energy of the sun. 1t is declared
that he can make it work at his COM
mand. 1t was only few months ago
that Tesla announced that he had per-
fected an invention by which cleo
tricity could be transmitted over the
whole earth and be made to work
at the will of man. 1t was said
that the great magician could not Sc
cure the power which would make
this possible except at an incalculable
expense. Now it is asserted that Tesla
has discovered the power necessary.
He says that the sun can be made to
drive every wheel that revolves, make
the night as brilliant as day and give
warmth as well.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
In 35th Animal session.

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 2S.-The 35th
annual convention of the Kansas State
Teachers association will convene in
Representative hall at eight o'clock
tonight. A. w. Dana, of Topeka, will
deliver the address of welcome and l..
d. Ellis, of Burlington, will respond.
State President j. E. PEARS, of Law
renee, will then read his annual ad-
drpSS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
-st. Louis Companies ConsoIIdate.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2S.-The Missouri
Electric Light & Power company, and
the Edison Electrical company, two OF
the largest concerns of their kind in
the city, have consolidated. The new
concern will. it is stated, issue $1,000.
600 of cold bearing bonds.
Bryan to Speak in Chicago.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2S-William J. Bryan
and Senator j. K. Jones are the free
silver leaders who are expected to
make the second annual banquet OF
the Bryan league the biggest kind OF
a demonstration. The banquet will
be held January at the fremont house.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
The
DIppeP
or the
DPOppeP?

There are cough medicines that
are taken as freely as a drink of
water from a dipper. They are
cheap medicines. Quantity does not
make up for quality. It's the quail
ity that cures. There's one medi-
cine that's dropped, not dipped
Ayers Cherry Pectoral. There's
more power in drops of this remedy
than in dippersful of cheap cough
syrups and elixirs. 1t cures Bron-
chitis, Asthma, Group, WhoOping
Cough, and all Colds, Coughs, and
affections of the Throat and Lungs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
Woman Csrs a Itorsewn;n.

HAMILTON. Mo, Dee. 2S-Mrs. John
Cox publicly horsewhipped Buck
Dunkle on Main street here yesterday
evening. Mrs. Cox alleges that Dunkle
has been too intimate with her daugh-
ter Ola
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
a Cbicapo NoIber's Crime

CHICAGO, Dec. 2S.-Mrs. Mary Ander-
son and her two daughters, Edith and
Myrtle, aged eight and five years,
were fatally asphyxiated by illuminat-
ing gas in their home at 81 johnson
avenue. 1t is supposed Mrs. Anderson
committed the act while temporarily
insane
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
Ayers
Cherry PeeiOPaI
is now HALF PRICE for the half-size
bOttles-50 cents.
LOST

LOST.
Many have lost confidence and hope
as well as health, because they have
been told their Kidney disease was
ncurable. FOley's Kidney cure is
a G uaanteed remedy for the dis-s
cOursged and discOnsOlate. Evan
Bros.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
MCCOY ISSUES A CHALLENGE
The ConQuerOr of CreedOn Anxious to Meet
Fitz-AmpIe Financial Backing.

New YORK. Dec. 2S.-''Kid" Mccoy,
the conqueror of Creedon, issued a
challenge to FitzsimmOns to-day for a
finish fight for the middleweight
championship of the world. The
young middleweight announced that
he has backing for S10,0 900 and
will post a forfeit as soon as
called upon to do so. He desires to
meet the present champion for purse
and a side stake of at least s.. 900. Nc
Coy at once communicated with Dan
Stuart, the promoter of the Carson
fight last spring, and offered to take
Corbett's place in case the Californian
fails to sign articles with Fitz.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
A NEW PENSION RULE.

Claims for an Increase Will Not Be COnsid-
cred Within a Year from Last Action.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-A new order,
the enforcement of which it is believed
will expedite the disposition of pension
claims now pending, has been issued
by Commissioner Evans of the pension
office. 1t is as follows: Hereafter
claims for increase of pension will not
be considered within 12 months from
the last action-allowanee or rejec-
ton"
THE necessity for the new order"
said an official of the pension bureau
today, grows largely out of the calls
made on the Office for a statement of
the status of pending cases by mem
bers of congress. These calls have to
be answered TO the exclusion of other
claims pending which should be taken
up in their order. 1t is only fair to
those cases which have not had any
consideration that they should be TAX
en- up as promptly as possible"
MCCOY ISSUES A CHALLENGE.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
FATAL LAMP EXPLOSION.

CHICAGO, Dec. 2S.-Mrs. Lizzie Kiel,
aged IS, was burned to death in her
home in this city last night. She was
sitting by a table reading when the
coal oil lamp exploded, covering her
with burning oil. Her daughter was
badly burned about the face and hands
in trying to put out the flames.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
This Is the picture of

is Is the picture of
a N an who is
b e a1thy, clear
headed, success
full and impartial
Lord Herschell,
the Ex-Lo
Chan c el1or of
England. You
may be very sure
his blood is pure.
!, The man who
suffers from i'm
ipure blood isn't
I likely to achieve
eminence in any
walk of life. You
cannot pump inn
pure blood into
the brain, and ex-
poet the brain to
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
EXPLOSION IN A COAL NINE.

SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. 2S.-Six men
were seriously injured by an explosion
of gas yesterday in the Bellevue shaft
of the Delaware & Lackawanna COM
pany. John Alexander, laborer, and
John O'Brien, were so badly hurt that
they may die. Alexander was fright
fully burned and both O'Brien's hips
were broken.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-13
WHAT TO DO.

There is comfort In the knowledge so often
expressed, that DIR. Kilmer's swamp Root,
the great kidney remedy fulhils every wish
In relieving pain In the back kidneys, liver
bladder and every part OF the urinary pas
sages. IL corrects inability to hold urine
and scalding pain In passing IL, or bad effect
following use Of liquor, wine or beer and
overcomes that unpleasant necessity OF be-
ing compelled to get up many times during
the night to urinate. The mild and extra
ordinary effect OF swamp Root Is soon real
lied. II stands the highest for It's wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases. IL you
need medicine you should have the best.
Sold by druggists price fifty cents and one
dollar. For sample bottle and pamphlet
both sent free by mail. mention THE EVEN.
ING TRIBUNE and send your full postoflice
address To DIR Kilmer Il Co.. Binghamton, N.
Y. The proprietors OF this paper guarantee
the genuineness of this offer.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-13
A Letter Of Nansen's.

Here is a letter of DIR. Nansen to Captain
Brown of the steam yacht Windward, who
brought him home from Franz Josef Land
after his perilous journey of over 800 days
on the ice, in the course of which no made
his 'farthest north"
MY DEAR CAPTAIN BRowN-I hope you do
not think me quite brute filled with nothing
but ingratitude, since have not yet written
to you. Certainly need not tell you / can
hardly get time to eat at present for oil have
had and have to do. However. now must
write few lines to thank you heartily for
your very kind letter and the article you sent
me, which interested me very much to see.
but above all i must thank you for all your
kindness. your hospitality and your friend
ship / need hardly tell you how highly ap.
preciate that, and how the memory of those
days We spent together on board the Windward
will last forever. To give you a small sign of
my gratitude / send you AN old Norwegian
drinking horn, which might perhaps find some
corner in your house and will keep you from
quite forgetting poor, wandering Norseman
who, longing for home and wife, found shelter
and friendship on board your ship. IL Ia q
drinking cup OF the same kind was used by
the old Morse Vikings, Of which you always
reminded me. Certainly you must be true
descendant from some one Of them who settled
down in your country. And now farewell. l
look forward to meet you again. Ever yours
sincerely, FRIDTJoF NANsEE.
The meeting between Nansen and
Brown, described in Nansen's book, has
hardly been matched for dramatic interest
since Stanley met DIR. Livingstone In mid
Africa. .-Harper's Weekly.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-13
IS "GENT" A WORDi



. Book Agent.
Professor John w. Cook, president OF
the Illinois State Normal university, Is "a
good hater," and, above all, he hates the
modern tendency to abbreviate every word
from which a syllable may be Topped of
handily
Particularly does he dislike the word
"gent," which the title gents furnish
ing goods has rendered so common.
"Gentl Cent What is gent?" once
exclaimed Professor Cook in the hearing OF
a reporter, with plethora of sarcasm.
"It's an animl that comes as near to be-
ing gentleman as gent comes to being
a word. The expression Is disgustingly
vulgar. In the oldcn times to have been
called gent would have been provoca.
ton for duel. 1 hope il will never obtain
permanent hold on our conversation.
''The practice of abbreviating words Il
a relic of harbarism. 1t is a survival of
the days of the hieroglyphic, when men re-
corded their thoughts on stones and nee.
essarily economized space and labor. 1t is
a practice entirely unworthy of these
times of steel pens, typewriters and pho
nographs 1t is practice as demOralizine
to the individual as it is to the literature
of the day, and should be decried by every
intelligent person. Gent"
And President Cook waved his hana
deprecatingly and in silence
In this connection one is reminded OF
the breezy book agent who darted into u
down town Office recently for the mani
fest purpose Of enlightening his fellow mer
by means of a choice stock Of the classics.
Seeing nobody but demure young
woman seated in front OF q typewriter, he
inquired In dulcct tones:
"Are there any gents ins"
She eyed him sharply.
Eyes" she warbled. II think there IL
one''
And yet one of the leading hotels Of st.
Louis has she inscription on room ON tho
second floor, Gents Parlor. "-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-13
Rheumatism Proxy.

"Wcll," exclaimed Mr.. Quecrcase, "you
can talk as you like about physical afflic-
tion, but the largest measurement that
ever struck mo was when had the rheu-
matism In my BROTHER
"Rheumatinn In your brothcrY" shout.
cd his auditors in concert. "What are you
giving usf''
"Tm just giving you case Of stall
wart sffliction that ought to bring your
sympathy out by the roots, +" was tho reply.
"The kind Of rheumatism he had was the
kind that hangs over the edges and treads
OH the adjacent martyrs. Why, the way
he'd yoll and keep mo awake ut nights,
and have me tying ON bandages, and rub
bing joints, and smelling all sorts Of loath
some lotions, and the way he would kick
me out Of bed when his other leg hurt too
much, wns Just onergizing Primary
rheumatism is bad enough, but TO have to
hang about and take it I'm n secondary
iorm is awful. ."--Pearson' Weekly.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-13
THE BUSHM EN-.
An Interesting Race Of South Africa
Which Is Now Almost Extinct.


Which Is Now Almost Extinct.
One of the most interesting races la che
world, from an ethnologist's point o.
view, Is Oh the point Of extinction. Tor
many years past the bushmen OF South
Africa have been dwindling in mum ers
till the survivors may almost be coun,,d
on ones fingers. The bushman is lFst
cousin to the diminutiye race of pygmies
found by the great explorer Du Chaillu in
the coast lands Of western Africa near the
equator and closely resembles the dwaris
found by Stanley in the great Aruwhimi
forest. In oil probability they are the rem
nants of the aboriginal race of Africa
which has been driven into the corners of
the African earth by successive invasions
Of Hottentot, Bantu and negro tribes.
Their existence In Africa Is mentioned as
far back as 1880 by Andrew Battell, one of
the earliest of Africa's English explorers.
He describes them as mo bigger than
boys IL years old but very thick, and they
live only upon flesh, which they kill In the
woods with their bows and their darts"
The bushman Is one of the lowest types
of humanity, not many degrees removed
from the animal. He Is of small stature,
but not dwarfed, and, with high cheek
bones, his deep set eyes have an exceedingly
cunning look. Bushmen are troglodytes,
and, remaining In their caves by day, sally
forth at night from their mountain fast
nesses and harass the nearest farmers by
Staying their stock with arrows composed
of reeds, tipped with bone or iron, saturat-
ed In the fatal juice OF the euphorbia tree,
mixed with tho poison of snakes a." "Did-
ers. So troublesome did they be In
Natal during the early history of tho col
ony that q special fort was built-now
known as Fort Nottingham-whence ex-
petitions were organized against these
diminutive marauders. Still later war
of determination was waged against them
by a band Of farmers, under the Drakens-
berg, who raided their haunts I'm the wild
mountains and succeeded i'm freeing them
selves from this troublesome pest. Every
bushman fought for himself, and they rec
ognized no chief, much less any primitive
system of government, such as prevails
among the Bantu race.
It Is q singular thing that, though so
low In the social SCALE the bushman pos
sesses the power of illustration totally un-
known to his more civilized SUCCESSORS,
and very creditable representations OF
Glands, dingoes, snakes and even scenes Of
hunting and battle are to be found In the
caves Of Drakensberg, above the sources of
the Bushman river. Several Of the draw
ings have been removed to the library at
Pietermaritzburg where they form a valu-
able collection for the colonial antiquary.
The bushman's language Is mainly com
posed of clicks, Of which there are six dis
tinct kinds. But it is impossible on hear
ing one of this pygmy race talk to do 9th
erwise than set him down as an ANIMAL :
Chicago Chronicle.
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-13
In Doubt.

Sir Mountstuart f. Grant Duff told an
amusing story at a meeting Of the Royal
Historical society the other day. At some
dissolving views q photograph Of Lord
Bcaconsfieid and Lord Salisbury was
thrown on the screen, and underneath the
picture the famous words were written,
Peace with honor" Having read them
and having carefully studied the two
faces, one Of the audience, an old woman
whose head was full Of the doings of no.
torious criminal, innocently inquired,
"And which il Pcace!''
The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-13
WEAK, TIRED
PEOPLE

should take P. r. p, Lippman's Great
Remedy, without delay. While. not
actually sick, You feel weak and tired,
ready to get sick, and what you need is
strength to drive out Of your system
that which is tho cause Of Spring Fever.
+. y. L. is needed at once.
Mrs. Hattie Mylius, OF 20 East seth
street. New York, says that she was In
poor health, and that her case devcl-
oped into nervous prostration. She
suffered from nervous headaches, and
ut times was unable TO do any work
at all. She could not sleep, and was
SO nervous that she would have TO get
up at all hours Of the night and walk
the floor, and the opening of n door
would startlc her. But her weakness
and nervousness is all gone. L. l.. l..
was what saved her. Her appetite
improved, her nervousness In thing
of tho past, and she thanks L. l.. p,
Lippman's Great Remedy, for her COM
pletc restoration to health.
Sold By sIi druggists.
LirpMAN BROS. Apotheesries. Sol. prop'rs.
LIppmsn's B'sck. Savannah, oa.