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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-19
Through Cars to Cincinnati.

Pullman Palace aud Tourist sleep.
ers and free Chair cars to Cincinnati
without change, via Santa Fe Route
on September s, 1898. Round trip
ticket costs only Sl6 25. Date os sale
Sept. 2, 3, and 4
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-19
FOu1-Snel1ing
Catarrh.

Catarrh is one of the most obstinate
diseases, and hence the most difficult
10 get rid of.
There ia but one way to cure it.
The disease is in the blood, and all the
sprays, washes and inhaling mixtures
in the world can have no permanent
effect whatever upon 1t. Swift's Sper
,ific cures Catarrh permanently, for it is
the only remedy which can reach the
disease and force it from the blood.
Mr.. b. P. McAllister, OF Harrodsburg,
KY, had Catarrh for years. He writes
II could see no Improvement whatever,
though was constantly treated with Sprays
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-19

s. S. s.. and after few bottles were used, mo-
diced d perceptible Improvement. Continuing
the remedy, the disease was forced out OF my
system, and a complete cure was the result.
Iadvise all who have this dreadful disease to
abandon their local reatment, which has never
done them any good, and take s.. S. g., a REM
sdy thai can reach the disease and cure IT,"
To continue the wrong treatment for
Catarrh 10 TO continue to suffer. Swift's
Specific is real blood remedy, and
cures obstinate, deep-seated diseases,
which other remedies have no effect
whatever upon. 1t promptly reaches
Oatarrh, and never fails to cure even the
~, nuf aguraUafad f.aCaa
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-19


and washes, and differ
ent inhaling remedies
In fact, l could feel that
each winter l was worse
than the year previous.
finally It wa 8
brought TO my motto Q
that Catarrh was a blood
disease, and after think
ing over the matter, I
saw 1t was unreasonable
to expect 70 be cured by
remedies viii IN only
reached the surface. I
ehan AanfAaI 40
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07

right ahead until he is about ready to
drop the men around him clapping
and stamping in time with his steps
and making cheerful uproar not un-
like the dancing bees still to be seen
at some of the Southern cotton ports.
The ships buffoon is as we'll marked
aboard man-of-war as if he wore tho
uniform of cap and bells, and he is
generally q clever and well-liked man,
if not very seriously regarded. His
antics in the progress of the amuse-
ments after "knock-off" keep his fol-
lowers going. and not infrequently
amuse the officers aft as much as they
do the men forward One of the ships
buffoon's most entertaining schemes
is to suddenly mount the bottom of a
bucket or the top of chest at one of
the main gangways and to begin a
stump speech with no apparent sense in
it for any man who is not member of
the ships company, but full of sharp
but good-humored, "knocks" for mem
bers of the crew forward who indulge
in peculiarities OF temperament or
manner All of the speakers listen
ers understand these illusions strung
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
Getting Rid of Wild Oats.

This plant after it once becomes
we'll established is somewhat difficult
to get rid of. 1t is, however, an an
nual and if prevented from seeding
for few years and measures adopted
to induce the termination of seeds
that are already in the ground, it will
soon disappear. Possibly the best
method is of seeding the land to field
oats in spring, then as soon as the
crop of grain has been removed, plow
to depth of three or four inches.
Just as soon as the wild oats have
well started go over the ground with
some shallow going instrument, such
as small toothed cultivator. This
will kill the plants already growing
and bring to the surface seeds that
have not already sprouted. These
will germinate and before the plants
are old enough to mature seed they
will be killed by frost. In autumn
seed the land to winter grain if this
can be grown, and after harvest the
following season pillow the ground and
give the same treatment as recon-
mended for the oat fields. Two years
treatment of this kind if carefully per-
formed will kill almost any annual
New England Homestead.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07

deck forward in instructing an enthu-
siastic class of apprentice boys in the
art OF handling themselves tistically.
Lovers of Music.
United States men-of-war's men are
music lovers. In large ships COM
pany there are generally a score or
more men forward who can perform
creditably, and in some cases even
brilliantly, on musical instruments of
one sort or another. 1t is to be re-
membered that men of unusually fine
education and accomplishments very
often drift into the United States
navy, and it is this class of men who
furnish the better order of instrument
tai music aboard war vessels that are
not blessed with bands-and only
fiagships have bands. In a large
ships company there are always banjo
plunkers and guitar and mandolin
thrummers inumerable up forward,
but in the line of higher music there
are few good-sized ships in the Ameri-
can navy that cannot produce one or
more excellent violin or either play
ers.
A young Pole of noble family
shipped as landsman on on Ameri-
can warship at Gibraltar q few years
ago, and before he had been aboard
twenty-four hours he had all the Off
GERS aft as we'll as the men forward in
trance over his violin playing. He
did not have violin of his own-It
was in pawn somewhere in Italy-but
he played on a violin belonging to an
Irish marine, whose musical ability
consisted only in his rendition of
"The Rakes O. Mallow" and "The
Devils Dream" This young Pole
was simply master of the violin.
When the ship on which he served re-
turned to the United States he was
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
TAPPING THE RUBBER TREE.
How the Valuable Gum 10 Extracted in
South American Forests.

How the Valuable Gum IL Extracted in
South American Forests.
In South America natives are hired
by rubber contractors to penetrate the
forests and secure the gum of the rub
Der tree. This is generally done by
making several vertical incisions up
the trunk of the tree, with others run
ming obliquely into the main or up
right channels. Small clay cups are
fastened to the bark and the rubber
sap or milk allowed to flow into them.
It is at first about the color and con-
sistency of cream, losing in the pro-
cesses of coagulation fifty-six per cent.
Several methods of congealing the
rubber milk are used, but the one
most commonly practiced is known as
the "biscuit" process. The sap is
smeared on q stock resembling but
ter ladle OF paddle and held over the
smoke obtained by burning forest
nuts. The milk soon thickens on the
paddle, which is repeatedly dipped
into the sap and put through the smok-
ing process, until a piece of crude
rubber weighing often fifty pounds is
formed; this when removed has hole
through the centre left by the paddle,
and is termed ''biscuit" of rubber.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07

Rubber trees when carefully tapped
yield abundantly for forty or fifty
years, but if the incisions go too deep
the process of decay starts ut once,
and their period of productiveness is
over forever The native gatherers
being paid for the seasons work in
proportion to the number of pounds
of rubber collected, not only bleed the
trees to death, but when the flow of
milk ceases the larger trees are cut
down and the sap extracted from the
wood. They also mix mandioca meal,
gravel, nails, leaves and almost any
thing that comes to hand with the
milk, in order to increase the weight
of the "biscuits." In Africa the gath
erers go SO far in the determination
of the forests that even the roots of
the rubber tree are dug up and the
sap crushed out of them. With such
methods the rubber pirates of South
America and Africa are but fastening
the time of the rubber famine, and
adding to the present enormous profits
derived from cultivated rubber plan
tatiOns.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
A Cow for Every Acre.

Where little or nothing is bought
there can be little hope of making
every acre eep COW, as has so long
been the dr. ,am of many dairymen.
1t might be done if corn alone were
used as feed. But corn is not COM
plete ration, and though more than
enough corn with fodder might be
grown to keep COW through the
year, it would be always more profit
able to give other feed, such. as clover
hay, wheat bran or middlings, and
either linseed or cotton-seed meal.
We have known some milkmen nelr
the city who kept fully as many cows
as they cultivated acres of land. But
they relied very largely upon pur-
chased food, generally growing only
corn fodder, which they fed green so
long as they could, and then'either cured
the remainder or put it into the silo
for winter and spring use. 1t is a
great help if some crimson clover has
been sown on the corn ground. 1t
will make enough growth before the
land needs to be plowed for corn in
spring to we'll repay the expense of
seeding and cutting the crop. But
for the fact that it takes two years to
grow a good crop of clover, it would
pay to seed piece of land ev cry year
with clover to be cut for hay. Three
crops year. aggregating five 20 six
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
UNITED STATES CRUISER BALTIMORE.

permitted to leave the service, and
now he is Trevinck, the well-known
violin instructor of Chicago--but he
was not Trevinck in the navy.
The Evening Concert.
The musicians do not ordinarily
break out their instruments until after
supper. But by the time darkness
falls the forward portion of any Ameri-
can man-of-war in any port in the
world might be taken for floating
conservatory of practicers. The clever
players upon whose ears discord falls
like vitriol take to the quieter portions
of the ship below decks for their WOO
ing of the harmonies, and they are
generally followed by cliques of the
non players who yet understand and
appreciate good music. The plunkers
and strummers and members of the
vast mouth-organ brigade take up their
practicing stations in close but oblivi-
under the to'gallant fo'c's'le, and play
away, each man mauling different
tune, to their hearts content, regard
ing not the Babylon of unmelodic
musical emissions all around them,
which is simply stunning until you get
used to it.
The instrumentalists do not furnish
all the music. There are always some
fine voices among a man-of-war ships
company, and some of the night sing
ing of the numerous male auartets up
forward is very beautiful, if conducive
to inconsistencies on the part of the
young fellows not long away from
home. Also, there is the usual num-
Der of men in an American man-of-
war ships company-just as similar
complement is always filled ashore
who imagine that they can sing, and
therefore inflict unassuageable woe
upon those who are compelled to listen
to them. The man who can't sing. but
who only fancies he can, is invariably
suppressed in time, however, by his
shipmates-by implement on the
sharp points of their humor at his ex-
pense. The essentially American
characteristic of parodying all things
breaks out in the vocal music furnished
by the really good singers among a
man -of-war ships company, just as it
does ashore.
Always I'm Demand.
The bluejacket who is good jig or
buck or wing dancer is always popu-
lar man on ship of war, but he is not
given much rest by the shipmates
when the smoking lamp is alight. No
matter what he may be writing
letters, sewing or patching up his
wearing gear, or engaging in any other
occupation that he wants to get
through with-when one of the mouth
organ men aft at the main gangway
suddenly starts up a jig all hands
around him begin the patter of hands
and the yell penetrates forward for the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07

GUS experience, both of them always
demand Justify to be "the man
for the sailor finds it is difficult as his
brother in civil life to assume the posi-
tion of the woman in round dancing.
Then there are the tellers of tales,
the yarn spinners, improvisers as gift
ed in their way as the minnesingers
and improvisitoires of the dim ages.
There are always five or ten such on a
good-sized American man -of-war. The
man-of-war yarn spinner gathers his
select circle about him and narrates to
them, always in the firstperson, thrill
ing tales of adventures by food and
field, in situations ranging from the
Bowery to Borneo, by the hour. His
listeners are perfectly we'll awar hat
the yarn spinner is a liar of the. -.eep-
est dye, and he knows that they are
aware of it-but his tales, all "made
up as he goes along" are always pic
turesque and interesting, and his hear
ers are content.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
Meadows and Pastures.

The United States department of
Farmers Bulletin series a pamphlet
entitled "Meadows and Pastures For
nation and Cultivation in the Middle
Eastern States" prepared by Jared
G. Smith, assistant astrologist.
In thi bulletin it is stated that two
thirds OF the annual fodder and forage
crops of the states of Pennsylva vania,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia and North
Carolina, amounting to 10000, 900
tons and valued at $3.50, 000,0 is
supplied ~iuf the grasses, clovers,
cowpeas ,c'oIrn stover and ensilage
produ| ~cRon the form; therefore the
subj improved methods of culti
vatiolsn.Au the sele tion of the va
rieties best adapted to the soils of
this region is matter of prime inter
est to farmers. The principal topics
discussed are the following: General
prevalence and commercial value of
grasses, grasses as soil builders, fer
tilizers for grass lands, methods of
preparing the soil, sowing the seed,
varieties of grasses and clovers to
plant, hay grasses, pasture grasses,
clovers for meadows and pastures and
some grass mixtures.
This bulletin can be secured, free
of charge, from the secretary of agri-
culture, Washington, d. c., or mem
Der of Congress.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07

Discussing q bill to tax telephone
lines, Mr.. Dougherty said recently in
the Illinois Legislatures: ''Over here
in Hancock County there is wealthy
doctor who has been building tele-
phone lines. He's gradually extended
them until he now has quite system.
oh, yes, it's great convenience, but
nobody on his lines dare to get sick un-
less he or she employs this particular
doctor. He won't allow any other doc
tor in the county to be called up
through his telephone system.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
Food and Butter

From what part of her food does
the COW make milk fat? This ques-
tion is one of great scientific interest
to psychologists and of practical inter-
est to stockholders and dairymen. 1t
is problem which has been found
quite difficult of solution; but the New
York agricultural experiment station
(Geneva) has just published bule-
tin No. 1922 upon this subject, giving
the details of most interesting and
successful experiment which seems to
prove conclusively that at least part
of the milk fat is produced from the
carbohydrates of the food, the sugar,
starch, etc.
Finely chopped timothy hay, corn
meal and ground oats were treated in
large quantities with chemical sol
vent and were nearly freed from fat.
From these materials and wheat gluten
vigorous, young, grade Jersey COW
was fed for ninety-tive days a ration
whose fat content was less than two
ounces daily. Upon this fat poor food
the COW fed freely and without injury
to her health; and not only produced
good rich milk, not different from her
normal product, but also seemed to
grow fat.
The food and water she consumed
were carefully weighed and analyzed,
as were the milk produced and the
urine and faces excreted; and upon
these data the conclusions of the bull
letin are based. During the ninety
tive days she received only s.. pounds
of digestible fat and produced 629
pounds of milk fat; so that 81. 2 pounds
of fat could not have come from the
fat in the animals food. Neither
could it have come from her body fat;
by the percentages of fat in the body
of cattle, as previously determined,
her whole amount of fat at the begin
ming of the experiment was less than
sixty-one pounds, and no animal
could use up all the body fat without
appearing greatly emaciated, and she
seemed fatter than at first.
She gained At pounds in BODY
weight, and this could not have been
gain in muscular tissue; for but little
of the consumed nitrogen failed to re-
appear in milk or excreta, and nitro
gen is necessary in flesh information.
The fat could not have been formed
from the proteine, or heterogeneous mat
ters, in the food. During fifty-nine
days for which the record for nitro
gen and fat income and outgo was
kept the COW produced 3S. s pounds of
fat. TO form this amount of fat, al
lowing the highest figures given by
any investigator for fat formation
from proteine, would involve the met.
abolism (change by physiological pro-
cesses) of more than 70 pounds OF
proteine. But the nitrogen excreted
in urine only accounted for the decom-
position of less than half this amount
of proteine. So at least 81 pounds of
fat must have come from some other
source than the proteine consumed.
If all the fat was not produced from
fat in food, fat in the animals body or
from porteine in food, part of it must
have been produced from the carbo-
hydrates of the food. The details of
the experiment may be obtained from
the bulletin, which will be sent FREQ
on application TO the station
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
SCOT as a sti,nulant.

There are those who would think it
both foolishness and sin to whip a
jaded animal, yet who fail to reason
that the principle is the same in try
ing to stimulate plant lacking abun-
dant roots. In both cases, strength
for the required work is lacking
With thriving, well-rooted plants,
there are few helps so good as SCOT.
The finest collection of plants we have
ever seen in the hands of an amateur
was pushed almost entirely with SCOT.
Cyclamens, primulas, begonias, callas,
roses, all seemed to revel in its murky
strength. Floral World.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
SKYLARKING.

army are innumerable men just as
humorously devilish, ingeniously mis-
chievious and opportunely disobe-
dient as the members of Kipling's
characteristic trio of Tommy Atkinses,
Mulvaney, Learoyd and Ortheris.
The main idea of most persons who
arc unfamiliar with the life of the
man forward on man -of-war is that
the tedium of such an existence can
hardly be little short of unbearable.
They can understand how the officers
might find it possible to put in their
sea service comfortably and enjoyably,
but as a rule they can see nothing for
it but a general twiddling of thumbs
on the part of the whole ships COM
pany forward of man-of- war when
the men are not actually engaged in
earning their monthly money by the
sweat of their brows. There are fire.
quent intervals during the progress of
the routine of the naval day when the
smoking lamp at the break of the
fo'c'sle is alight, and when there is a
glow in the smoking lamp that means
that there Is nothing for any man
forward to do but to loaf and invite
his soul or to seek amusement in any
way he elects to seek it, so long as he
does not bump into regulations. The
bo'sunfs mates "knock- off, pipe is
shrilled at about the hour in the af
ternoon when the Government clerks
in the Washington departments are
closing their desks, and from that
hour until pipe-down at $50 o'clock
at night the time of the blue jacket
or the marine is practically his own.
The men forward have as many ways
of putting in this sizable period of
recreation as have comfortably situa-
ted men ashore.
For example, American men -of-war's
men are fond of mock scrapping. The
man forward who knows how to use
his hands effectively is generally re-
garded with good deal more respect
by the ships company than the en-
listed man who has an overplus of
brains or information 20 fit his ships
rating-the latter, indeed, being always
in danger of acquiring the name of
imam -o-war chaw." Most American
men-of-war's men know how to box
well, and those that do not imagine
that they do
Boxing Bouts.
When "knock- off" goes in the after
noon, there is general breaking out
of boxing gloves on the main deck and
the blue Jackets and marines go at each
other for points. Nor is it to be i'm
agined that the men only dish out
love-taps to each other The work is
perfectly good-natured and harmless,
but none for less they bang each other
about for fair, sluggingly or scientif-
cally, in accordance with the measure
of their skill. No attempt is made by
the officers to put q stop to the boxing
of the men, and even when man is
put out no notice is taken of the thing.
The knocked-out man is brought
around by the apothecary, and the
following evening he will very likely
have another try at the man who sent
him to the deck. The officers give the
men to understand that when they box
it is advisable for them to keep we'll
clear of running gear, bulkheads. tur-
rets, or other deck furnishings liable
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
0YNY8Y1D9DgD0DN @ gsY YGy0y6 y6Dag0g8s

The enlisted man of the navy of
the United States, says the Washing
ton Star, is even more interesting as
an individual and as servitor of the
flag than the enlisted man of the
army, and man of no less exper-
ience and brains than Rudyard Kip
ling maintains that ''the man that
packs the gun has more character in
the crook of either of his arms than all
his officers have in their whole con-
struction." In the United States
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
A Sixth Sense in Pigeo Is.

Captain Remand, the French spec
ialist in charge of the military pigeon
service, is a firm believer in sixth
sense in pigeons and other birds and
animals possessed of homing instinct,
which he calls the sense of ''orienta-
ton" Z ) has defended his theory at
length in paper recently read before
the French Academic des Sciences,
claiming to have amply proved it by
special trials of various kinds.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07

Wherever brewers grains can be
handily procured they will be found an
excellent food for pigs, and especially
for breeding sows. They are succu-
lent and at the same time highly nu-
tritious and very greatly increase the
milk flow, especially if procured di-
rect from the brewery and fed while
warm. They produce an excellent
quality of milk, too, for much the
greater part of the nutriment in bar
ley remains in the malt after the beer
and ale have been extracted from it
Boston Cultivator.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-04-07
Potato Like n Human Foot.

This potato poses as human foot.
It came, recently, from the store of
potatoes in the cellar of Elihu Gresh-
am, who owns large store near Hav-
erstraw, N. Y.
r Mr.. Gresham does not recall dig
ging the odd-shaped tuber, but its re-
markable resemblance to the human
foot was noticed as soon as it was
brought up from the cellar the other