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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-06
CARROLL D. WRIGHT.
Great American stntisticIan HOnOred
by France and Russin.

Carroll d. Wright, United States COM
missioner of labor, who has just been
honored with membership in the Insti-
tute of France and honorary member
ship in the Imperial Academy OF Sci
ences, is one of the foremost statisti-
clans of the world.
Commissioner Wright's services to
the science of economics and TO kindred
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-06
PopnIlst National CommIttee,

OMAHA, Neb., May "A meeting of
the national committee of the populist
party has been called for Omaha for
June IS, The meeting is to try to har-
monize the differences that resulted in
the schism at Memphis last year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-06
Gen. woodford sails for Home

PARIS, May 9.-Gen. Woodford, ex-
United States minister to Spain, sailed
on the Touraine Saturday. He said
that Italy and Austria are the only
two countries now holding commuui-
cation regarding the future of Spain,
and there is not at present any move
ment for peace.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-06
santa Fe Railroad IucreAsea Wages.

TOPEKA, Kan, April 80. The Santa
Fe railway officials have given notice
that commencing Monday the work.
ing time of all shop men on the system
will be Increased IS hours per week.
This will increase the pay roll 81 per
cent
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-06

Gen. Charles C. Walcutt, of Column
bus, o., who was the youngest OF the
major generals during the war, died in
hospital at Omaha, Neb., from gan
creme in the leg, the outcome of q
wound received in the war.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-06
Western POSTMASTER. Named.

WASHINGTON, May 3. -President Nc
Kinley sent the following nominations
of postmasters to the senate: Kansas
james II. Titus, Medicine Lodge; w.
II. Mackey, Jr., Junction City; William
Smith, Galena; Joseph Craft Chetopa.
Missouri-Eugene S. Low, Hamilton.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-06
How II Looked.

Count Spogetti-T have come to ask
for your daughters hand in marriage
love her.
Mr.. Commonstock--Bu what makes
you think I don't PUCK.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-06
me PoPE PRosTRATEp.

ROME, May 3.-The pope is Frustrated
by the news from Manila. He ex-
pressed horror at the terrible loss of
life and said he wished he had died be-
fore seeing such war. Both the pope
and Cardinal Rampolla, papal secre-
tary of state, have refused to consider
any interference, declaring that the
attitude of the Vatican is one of strict
neutrality.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26
An Easy Trick When You Know It

An Easy Trick When You Know It.
 Writing on How 1 Do My Tricks" in the Ladies Home Journal, magician Harry Kellar explains how to accom- pl1sh the difficult feat of blowing a piece of cork into a bottle-a trick that will defy every one who does not know the only way by which 1t may be done. Ask some one," Mr. Kellar directs, 'if he thinks he can blow a small bit of cork, which you have placed in the mouth of bottle, so that 1t will go into the bottle. Lay the bottle on the table upon its side, and place the bit of cork about an inch or less inside the open end. He will blow until be gets red in the face, and the cork will invariably come out of the bottle instead of going into it. Simple reason for 1t, too: the direction of the air, forced by the one blowing, brings 1t against the bottom of the bottle. The air congresses with in the bottles walls and must find out let, therefore is turned and forced out at the only vent the bottle has, neces- sarily blowing the cork out with 1t. But take a common lemonade straw, place the end of it near the cork in the bottle neck, blow very gently, and the cork rolls in."
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26

The most casual observer and reader of current publications has noticed the amount of space devoted to sport of various kinds. In fact, time as well as space is devoted to it. For everywhere that oue goes it engrosses many an odd hour of talk or exercise. This Is true not of this country alone but of for. eign n1tiOns, and especially Great Brit ain. A correspondent of the Fortnight ly Review says 1t has become not only the ruling passion of the people, but well-nigh the chief topic of converse. ton. Books relating to 1t are consid. cred the least risky of literary ventures. to cricEet, football, racing, cycling and golf tan to any other subject except politics. They give POO or 300 times as much attention to 1t as they did forty years ago. One is no longer obliged to fall back on the weather, not even get into heated political discussion, in de fault of something to talk about. It is to perhaps almost equal extent the same 'n this country, and some depre- cate 1t and think that other subjects are being forced into the background. But a little refie ,tiOn will show that never before lave people been as much interested in politics, literature, and so- cial questions There never was, it is true, such interest in athletics as there is In the educational institutions of to- day. But never was the standard of scholarship higher or their intellec- tual achievements greater. But popu- lation increases, wealth increases and the variety of tastes to be gratified and that can be grGtified also increases. While the sporting mania is not an un- mixed blessing, it has its place in the education of the race. A reaction will probably set in, when it will not oc- cupy quite so prominent a seat at the great world fest, but its influence in i'm proving the physique of coming genera tions viu be we'll worth the importance given it.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26

There is law against carrying con- cealed weapons. Theoretically it is a wise and proper ordinance. But as a matter of practical fact the only per sons who honor this law are the vic tims of the murderer, the footpad, and the rowdy. The law disarms the only class who could with safety be trusted to carry weapons of self-defense, and puts them at the mercy of every crim- inal they meet. What real service does this regulation perform in the social scheme, we should like to know. 1t sacrifices good citizens and it imposes absolutely no restraint whatever upon the others. It is our deliberate opinion that any respectable person who has been threatened by crank should be authorized to arm himself and should be held guiltless if, at the slightest menace from that quarter, he uses his weapon with promptness and ef1cien- cy. The life of one useful, law-abiding citizen is worth hundred of these pes tiferous vermiIl, and no law should inn pose upon him the risk of defenSeleSS- ness in case of murderous attack. We do not advocate law-breaking. What we propose is such an amendment of the law as will fit the situation. Every ruffian, crank and criminal carries his pistol or his knife. Why should decent people be put and kept at their mercy? Why should we have laws which sacri- flee their friends and strengthen and uphold their enemies?
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26
pIISsfAN TRAGEDY.
Iove1ess Marriage Ends in the Death
 of the Husband.
A correspondent writing from Ot

A correspondent writing from Odessa
 have arrived here eighty-five female
 convicts from the central forwarding
 prisons at Moscow and Kharkoff, for
 embarkment to the penal island of
 Sakhalien. Nearly the whole of these
 wretched women have been condemned
 to deportation and hard labor on capital
 charges or other equally heinous
 crimes. About one-third of them are
 guilty of child-murder About a score
 of these female convicts have been con-
 victed of numbering their husbands,
 some of them no doubt driven to the capital crime by the brutal ill-usage
 which the Russian law permits to the husbands discretionary correction" while others are the heroines-or the victims-of more or less romantic trag- edieS.
 Among those of the latter category whom 1 saw yesterday there is a beau tiful woman of about ? years of age, lovely brunette, with dark liquid eyes and with a supple and perfect figure which even the unsightly and baggy prison garb failed entirely to conceal. On this convict's handsome face there was not a trace of compunction or re- morse; her features wore the serene compOsure and immobility of absolute indifference and fixed resignation. She was forced into loveless marriage with a landed proprietor who, failing to win her wifeiy affection, made her life a burden by his studied brutality and by occasionally locking her up in her apartments until she was we'll nigh famiShed.
 In neighboring proprietor the ill., used wife found a sympathetic friend and this friendship ultimately ripened into a strong mutual affection. An was clandestinely planned between the lovers and secretly be- trayed by a maid servant to the hus- band. The latter determined to sur prise his wife in the act of leaving his house and, at midnight rendezvous, she had just entered the carriage pro- vided by her protector when he ap- peared upon the scene and attempted, with many vile epithets, to forcibly draw his wife home again. Before her lover had time to intervene the desper- ate woman drew her revolver and shot her husband through the heart, killing him on the spot.-Chicago Chronicle.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26
The Game of NIancala.

The game of mancala may be said to
 be the national game of Africa. It is
 most closely associated with that conti- nent. It is found among all the tribes and is an evidence of the essential unity that underlies all the African races. Among the Abyssinians it is played by all classes, from the king to the peasant. It is the favorite amusement of the negroes at Benin, on the west coast. It is we'll known among the natives of Bombay, in Java, in Ceylon, in the Maldive islands and in the Malay pen insula. In Syria and Palestine cup marked stones used ill this game are not infrequently found in old ruins. It is played by the Druses with holes made in plank of wood, and this is the con- mon form of the instrument in Jerusa- lem and throughout Syria, where it may be seen continually played in the cafes by the visitors. The children in Egypt, Nubia and Syria play it ill holes exca- vated in the ground, and when two travellers meet on the way they ire quently rest and extemporize a board of holes dug ill the hard path and proceed to play with the pebbles they gather on the spot.
 In Palestine and Egypt the shells used in the game are brought from the shores of the Red sea, while in Damas- GUS pebbles are employed which pill grims collect in certain valley on the way home from Mecca Games of haz- ard are prohibited by the Mohammedan religion, but maLaala is considered game of fate or skill and is therefore | ard in nlI likelihood it is ! diffused by the pilgrimages from Mecca throughout the Mohammedan world to | the utmost limits of Arab culture. - Good Words.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26

dow casing at the top. Let each piece of curtaining extend all the way across these rods and be caught pertlS back about half way between the middle of the sash and the silk.
 Trim your fish net draperies with nothing but ball fringe. That is quite enough to give finish without being ei- ther expensive or overelaborate
 Dotted muslin cannot be drawn across the window in the double style which is suitable to fish net hocauSa itS 6-r,as-- .o,,, ----'-o- ;+ t00 thick for doubling. It is most daintily finished by plain hem and drawn back by broad band of muslin buttonholed so as to fasten over a hook.
 Still another dainty and inexpensive style of curtaining is plain, fine wash net That should be finished by a soft frill down the sides, and the top should be allowed to fall over in a valance about foot deep. This is pretty when edged with a ruffle like those down the
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26

tied down for a rest before commenc- Ing the business which had brought me to the place.
 AS I was going to dinner that night was face to face, in the hall, with Paul. I started and so did he. Then with, I beg your pardon, madam he stood aside to allow me to pass. was too much disturbed to be able to eat much, and I felt his eyes were watch Ing me all the time, so I soon left the table.
 Tn the evening Mrs. Porter, the wo- man at whose house 1 was staying, knocked at my door and asked me to come into the parlor. I hesitated, but went and was introduced to Paul Fischer-the man of my dreams-the man of the portrait. recognized the face, the voice, the way in which the hair was arranged, in fact, every detail corresponded with my preconceived Ideas of how he would look. But my head was in whirl. My Paul Fischer was supposed to be a spirit, but this Paul Fischer was decidedly material
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26
Soap.

The first distinct mention of soap now extant is by Pliny, who speaks of it as an invention of the Gauls, but be that as it may the use of soap for wash ing purposes is of great antiquity. In the ruins of Pompeii a complete soap manufactory was found, and the uten- sils and some soap were in tolerable state of preservation. The Gallic soap of IS centuries ago was prepared from fat and wood ashes, particularly the ashes from beech wood, which wood was very common ill France as we'll as in England. Soap is spoken of by writers in the second century, but the Sara cens were the first people to bring it into general use as an external cleansing medium. The uso of soap is thus de- scribed: "When examined chemically, the skin is found to be composed of a substance analogous to dried white of egg-in word, albumen. Now, albu- men is soluble in the alkalies, and when soap is used for washing the skin the excess of alkali combines with the oily fluid with which the skin is natu- rally bedewed, removes it in the form of an emulsion, and with it a portion of the dirt. Another portion of the al- kali softens and dissolves the superficial stratum of the skin, and when this is rubbed off the rest of the dirt disap- pears. So that every washing of the skin with soap removes the old face of the skin and leaves a new one, and were the process repeated to excess the latter would become attenuated. "- New York Ledger.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26
A Thrifty Prince

The Duke of Edinburgh, like his
 mother, Queen Victoria, writes Wm. E.
 Curtis in Chicago Record article, has
 been a very economical and thrifty
 citizen, while the Prince of Wales has
 been a spendthrift. From childhood
 until 1873, when he was married, the
 Duke of Edinburgh had an allowance
 of f15,0O0, most of which was saved and invested in very profitable securi-
 ties. When he was married to the
 daughter of Emperor Alexander of Russia parliament increased his allow ance to f25,000 year; his wife brought him a marriage portion of 6300,0O0 cash, an income of E90,0O0 year and life annuity of f11 ,250. At her death this money will pass to her children, and the Duke legally has no control of it. With great prudence he has avoid ed using any of his wife's income and has secured for it very profitable in- vestment, until now the wealth of the couple is estimated anywhere from $25,00O,OOO to $5OOOO,OOO.
 Some years ago the Duke of Edin- burgh succeeded to the throne of the German duchy of Saxe-Coburg, from which he receives revenues amounting to nearly $1,000,000 a year. At that time he surrendered G15,000 of his al- lOwance from the British treasury, but still retains Claremont house and an allowance of $50,0OO a year This Is the cause of considerable scandal. The British people say that his revenues as a sovereign prince of Germany are am- pie for all possible requirements with out considering his private fortune, from which he never draws cent, and that he ought, in common decency, to make no claim upon the British tax payers because he does not live in Eng land and because he performs no ser vice for the British government, but devotes his entire time to his duties as ruler of SaXe-COburg. If he wishes | to be German prince they have no but he should not continue | to be pensioner of the British people. | If he wishes to remain such pensioner no one would object, but he should sur render his rank and revenues as a German prince.
 The Duke also receives salaries and amounting to many thou sands of dollars a year as admiral of the British fleet and a field marshal of the British army, and 1t is asserted that he even draws forage for horses and ratiOns as a naval officer regularly ev- cry month.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26

TAind me, carrying my larp along, and
 when returned ] would have a picture
 In my mind of q little brown-eyed, | brown-haired girl who listened to my
 music and reproduced everything which I played on m instrument diff ferent from any ] had ever seen. I
 know now It wa q piano, but then l
 had no knowledge cOncerning it. Some
 times I would have long fainting spells
 and whiie l was unconscious would
 babble away about the little maid who
 could no understand what I said, be-
 cause sbe talked a different language
 from my own Finally it began to
 be whisperod aaput nat I was DOS
 sessed O. 9 devil and my father was
 forced t. send he aw,ay in order to
 protect ne.
 q came 10 America when was IS
 years old, and going to the far West I
 amassed quite a fortune. I did not see
 the old friend Of my c1ildhood SO ire
 Quently as { grew older, because in- creasing wealth brought increasing cares, and had no time to make the customary visits stIl, once in a while. the old faintinE spells would come over me and when l returned to con- sciousness I would bring with me the memory of a smiling face and gentle. brown eyes face that seemed to grow older with my increasing years.
 "One night 1 sat in my room late. As suppose , fell asleep, but when I awakened ! found before me the nor trait of a young women who was sit ting beside a table ching. and the portrait she had finished was of my. self. put tue picture carefully away. taking 1t out at long intervals in order to familiarize myself with the features for felt that some time, somewhere should meet her.
 "One nighl about six months ago T was late in leaving the office and mon | reaching my hone l hurried down tn 1 the diniug room. Iu the hall I came ! face 10 face with Margaret, the friend of my childhood. the sWaetheart of my dreams. ..uld not eat-I was too ex- begged Mrs. Porter to call the Dewcomer into the parlor to intro duce us. The'louger I talked with her the more convinced ] became that she was the one woman in all the world whom l could love. l vas curious to lind out whether she had any concep- ton or th2 peculiar circumstances which dle" me to her and questioned ner adro tly "a regard 10 the matter.
 Then she, wAo had puzzled her dear lttIe head n vain over the matter, told me all her experience, and when we compared notes we decided that. as heaven had meant us for each other rom the beginning, there was no req son why We should wait for our hap )iness. So We were married and lived happily ever after, as +hey say in the airy stor,cs
 Now, myself do moi Dretend to give ln explanation 0. this. put Margaret, yho has studied these matters closely, avs that my astral bo1y must have detached itself from the material form md sped across the sea to join her, lrawn by some inexplcable, invisible attraction. That may be the case. If iargaret says SD ! am willing to ac- ept It as truth But thls I do know: 'he is a dear, sweet little woman, the weetheart of my waking and sleeping ours, my alter ego, the center of my niyerse. Utica Globe.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26
AZ ASTRAL PONANCE.
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Tt was jus Ce week before the problem was soled. I did not intend to solve f for yol-Paul will do that. To make matters art. however, will say that tsu2s he vas my Paul Fischer. II was ydst one month from the time l met hin unal we were mar ried. On our wedding day Paul brought out a porgfoIo and asked me to look through it and tell him what 1 thought of his draw ngs. The first sheet l picked up showed a portrait of myself. was represeuad sitting by a table sketching a mans head, and the date was the same on wlIch I had done my first and only drawing six years before. But Paul must tell you the rest"
 "When l was a little boy in the old country q was born in Alsace-Lor- raine), people regarded me as being very pecuiar I would wander off by myself for hours where no one could
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26

The tendency of young men born and reared on farms to leave the country for towns and cities is certainly an un- healthy movement iz'a large sense and unpro1table to many of those who em- bark in it. Properly and steadily fol- lowed, there Is 10 safer business than farming, nor any more certain to yield satisfactory results. In very many in stances they who abandon it for city life live to regret the change. The farmers institutes and farmers them selves ought to be able to develop a higher interest in the occupation and more of a certain sort of esprit de corps among those who follow it.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26

ties than in any other way. The ten- dency of rich men in this direction is not to be discouraged. The building of these palaces involves the expenditure of large sums of money, which would not get into circulation any other way. Their maintenance involves further outlay, and all the money expended re- mains In this country. It is creditable to the rich men who are indulging a taste for castle building that they pre- fer to spend their money in the United States rather than buy Scottish deer forests, Belgravian mansions and Eng fish estates in a feeble effort to ape British aristocracy.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-03-26
WAS THE SUCCESSFUL sUIToR.
His Kindness to Children Won the
 Widows Heart.

His Kindness to Children Won the
 Widows Heart.
 ''I don't say as how ye've went back on yer word," he said, as he sat down on the stump in front of the log house "but the fack stan's thet ye've gone an married another man."
 The woman took off her sun bonnet and handed 1t to one of the barefoot children who were hanging about.
 ''Take that into the house." she said; ''an' the rest of you all run an play" Then turning to her visitor she ex- claimed defiantly: Thar ain't nobody, man or woman, as kin say that oncet 1 gin my word I ever went back onto 1t. told you long ago, when fust they was any prospeck of my gittin' ter be widder, thet thar want no use of yer hintin' around about what 1 might do in case anythin' happened"
 "Ye said, though, thet stood as good a show as anybody else"
 An so ye did-then."
 ''Whut ye was skeered about was thet you'd git somebody as wouldn't be good to the children"
 That was Jist the pint"
 "Ain't I allus been ez p'lite an agree. able to 'em ez anybody couldP'
 Sure"
 "Ain't I bought lem candy an gin- gerbread hosses an tin wagonsY
 Most liberal"
 An on the Fourth of July didn't I buy lem shootin' crackers an sky rock cts an roaming candles an a lot of other things%
 You done all that. But you didn't stay ter see 'em touched off,"
 Cause l natter go ter town right back ter town, that same afternoon"
 Tt was that day made up my mind ter marry Jake Spicer."
 And him man weth a wooden legr' the other murmured indignantly. .,
 Yes, an you'll be surprised ter know how much them fireworks an that wooden limb had ter do weth it. | knew how much store Jake sot by 1t. He took jist as much pride in that wooden leg ez 1 do in my marble-top bureau. I give you credit fur bein' good natured most of the time, but children is pesterin' an there ain't no tellin' how long a mans temper Is goin' ter hold out weth them ez ain't his own. When I seen the patient an accommodatin' way Jake Spicer rolled up his pant leg an helt out that wood en limb for the boys ter tack pin- wheels onto. said to myself: There's 3 man ez kin take sass an disobejince an not git riled; eff any body'n make 3 second father ter them young 'uns, It's him. Washington Star.