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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14

The lola boys who joined the Twen.
ty-third Kansas last July and went
to Cuba were mustered out at Leaven.
worth Monday and came home
tbatnight They were Corporal Len
Martin, David Washington, Thos
White, Ollie Finlay and Sam Haw.
Ben Hickey left lola with the boys
but he was unavoidably detained i'm
Havana where he is serving two
year sentence for fighting over a
crap game in Havana, and breaking
out of the guard house when arrested
The boys returned in good health and
spirits and were welcomed at the
train by crowd of colored people of
both sexes who are anxious to wor-
ship the soldier boys. They had the
greatest experience of their lives, saw
more new country, and learned more
than in any other ten years, and all
without firing a shot. There are a
dozen young colored men who are sor.
ry now that they didn't go, but it's
too late.
Len Martin says they enjoyed the
trip taken all in all. They had a
row in Topeka and another in New
York city. AT the latter place the
men were put on transport hungry
and they marched down town TO
forage. A gang would enter saloon
or restaurant, seize some young
passerby and make him order up
drinks. When they had what they
wanted. and the youth started to
search for money, they would hustle
him out of the building. The gang
was pursued to the boat by police.
At Santiago and San Luis they
did police duty. Len thinks the
country may be all right but III needs
fixin'. About all there was left were
a few sugar plantations and the
soldiers had to guard them to prevent
the Cubans from burning them. He
thinks the Cubans are worse than
the Spainards.
Five of the regiment married
Cuban girls but none of the lola boys
showed such weakness. Two of the
lola boys, Duff Harrington and Thos.
White. went TO FIT. Scott on their
way home.
lola is proud of her colored soldiers.
proud OF their willingness to go
against the enemy in a climate, I9esti
lential at best, for an unknown period
of service. While they did not get to
fight the fault was not theirs and they
deserve honor And on their return
home they did not disgrace them
selves by rioting AS did some of the
colored regiments. They went where
their country called and their return
is a happy event.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14
A Warming to Stock Men.

(Ihe following letter To the Inter-
ocean is printed in the REGISTER by
request)
Marshall, Mich.-T the Editor
Replying to request for information
the New York Weekly Tribune of
Feb. % says: "The device known as
a 'shrinker', cold in the West for the
purpose of making scales cheat the
seller, was referred to these columns
recently in order to put the hog raiser
on his guard, but it was not deemed
good policy to furnish description
The Weekly Tribune is essentially a
rural paperIbut to warn them against
robbers, and at the same time refuse
to tell them how they operate, is not
the kind of agricultural journalism
farmers are looking for.
Their idea in Withholding details
while no doubt honestly intending to-
benefit the farmers by keeping a
knowledge of the device from unscrup-
ulous buyers, who would use it to
their Advantages wholly mistak-
Ell one, as the country has been thor
oughly worked by the gentry who are
making and selling the Little Joker"
and stock and grain buyers know all
ABOUT 1t, and the sooner does every
man. who has any thing to sell the bet
ter. Market manipulation enabled
one set of pirates to secure the past
years livestock output at less than
cost; ON top of which the producers
were in more instances than they
know of, robbed by another set of
thieves of from 10 to 20 per sent in
weight.
For the former there seems to be no
help, but in the latter case, by keep
ing his eyes open, the seller can pre-
vent 1t, and an exact description of
the methods employed will certainly
do farmers no harm, and the other fell
lowssare abundantly able to look out
for themselves.
The "shrinkern is a small disk of
magnetized steel, which, after balanc-
ing the scales in the presence of the
seller, the buyer by movement APP
parently to steady the swinging
weights, claps under them,
where it sticks by magnetic attraction
with result most obvious. Nor is
that all
Buyers of farm products, as a class,
are not fools, and where one of them
has been sucker enough to pay from
$25 to $50 fer little thing that any
man can see did not cost 10 cents, the
efforts of the salesman have shown a
hundred others how to make their
own at no cost whatever.
Any small steel object will answer
the purpose; nut, washer, key or a
bit of broken file, after a few seconds
contact with a.dynamo is a first. class
"shrinker.n
Some idea of the magnitude to
which this crime has attained may be
formed from the action of the railroads
who hold public plundering in such
abhorrence-in refusing to receive
livestock shipments on any but their
own weights. The farmers best rem
edy is to own scales, and when the
scale men can figure out some way TO
worry along on less than three or four
hundred per cent profit, they all will. ]
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14
Our Clever Soldiers

Considering that they are written
in haste, intended only for the "home
folks" and by boys who would be the
last to lay claim to literary art, it is
surprising what breezy, racy, graphic
and well worded letters these are THAT
are coming from the Kansas soldiers
at Manila. The Girard Press prints
three or four from Girard boys that
are fine. Note this delicious humor
from Elmer Baker:
Aguualdo made a declaration OF war
against Utah, Tennessee, Nebraska, Idaho
ana the United States He left Kansas out
of the deal He means that he wants to
night the regiments from the above named
states and the United States regulars.
have not been scared, rs I supposed
would be, when heard bullets whlstling
by my head, although ] was not over.con.
fdent when heard the first one sing over
my head. hy shoulder has been pretty
sore where my gun Kicked me during the
fights. did not notice 10 until after the
fighting was over. ] have fired about 500
shots altogether. Fired most of them at
the scenery during the night. when we
could only tell where they were by the pop
oftheir gnns
Walter Grantham tells why it hap
pened this way:
The Americans tried to gain the Filipinos
friendship by treating them nice etc and
the Filipinos mistooE this for cowardicc.
They thought the reason we were treating
them nice was because we were afraid to
treat them otherwise; and there was surely
surprise party when the ball opened Feb.
ruary eth
Geo. c. Nichols stops talking about
carnage and gore long enough to OBJ
serve as follows:
The mosquitoes cOugregatc around at
night by the thousands. My hands and
face are literally covered with Jumps
always imagined that New jersey was the
headquarters for the little pests, but Manila
has deprived that neck Of the woods Of all
such hOnors. And ants-gee whizi they
are here by the millions, red ants with jaws
like crocOdiles black ants with a singer
sharper than any bee that every manufact-
ured honey, brown ants, grey ants. ants
with wings, and ants with nothing but a
determination to make life miserable for
soldier. They build nests in your hair.
pull your ears, fill your nose, crawl over
your shirt and under your shirt and, in
fact they get into your shoes torture you
in day time, sleep with you at night, and
eat with you Mt dinner time Why asI
write a couple are crawling over this very
page, rs If to show contempt Tor ny
opinion Of ants. 80 you see soldering in
the Philippines is no snap.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14
Concelning the IIigh SchooI.


The board of education met Friday
with the architects who are figuring
on the new high school building, and
the plans submitted by Mr.. G. W.
Squires were adopted. The other
architects were Mr.. w. w. Rose, of
Kansas City, and MIR. Washburn, of
Ottawa, who Is building the Yates
Center court house. Mr.. Squires Is
the man who drew plans for the last
building erected. The plans call for
mighty handsome, large, roomy
building. Provision is made for three
rooms 23x32, four recitation rooms lsx
%, principals room l4x2l, school
boards room l4X26, basement labor.
atory 23x32, library 1lxl4, teachers
room llxl4, attic laboratory 23x25
and large high school study room
3lx07 feet. The last room will accom-
modate 300 students at desks or 600
with opera chairs. Mr.. King, Of
Kansas City, representing the Lewis
~ Kitchen heating and ventilating
and dry closet system, is here figur-
ing with the board. This system il
being used successfully in the north
building. When finished the new
building will be one of the prettiest
things in southeastern Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14
BRONSONS QUEER ELECTION.
1t Was Conducted as a Joke, But
Results Are Legal and Will
Stand.

FORT SCOTT, KAs., April cit was
held today by County Attorney
Sheppard that ex-Representative
b. H. Goodno, who received five votes
for mayor of Bronson, Kansas. last
Monday at a sort OF mock election.
was regularly and legally elected, as
were also the entire set of officers re-
ceiving the largest number of votes
at that election. For some reason the
Bronson people failed to nominate a
single city ticket, and on election day
the election commissioners were adj.
vised that no legal election could be
held. They proceeded to "have a
little election, anyway" and inter
ested some town men i'm the fun.
Twenty-four votes were cast on blank
ballots, ofwhich Goodno received five,
more than any other one man. To.
day the election was investigated
and found to have been legal under
the Australian ballot law. Thirty
nine different men received votes for
councilmen. The officers thus elect
ed will take their seats without con-
test
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14
EXPOSITIONS GALORE.
Eight Booked During the Next Four
Years and Others Con-
templated.
Chicago Tribune.

According to the latest returns
eight exposition projects are under
way I'm American cities, and two
more contemplated. The eight are as
follows:
1Sgq-Omnha 1qoi-San Froncisco
ls9g- Philadelphia. 1gO2-Toiedo
l9Dl-Detroit. 1qO3-St Iouis
1gOl-Buffalo ig03-Ne,v orieans
Omaha will hold Colonial" ex.
position. Philadelphia an "indus-
trial' exposition. Detroit cele.
brates ITS second centennial of dis.
covery Buffalo calls its show the
"Pan-American,u san Francisco has
decided or Pacific Ocean and Inter.
national Exposition" Toledo's show
marks the centennial of the admis.
sion of Ohio, st. Louis and New Or
leans commemorate the Louisiana
purchase. A eXpositions in the in.
ternational aspect they have each
other and the Paris and Glasgow
worlds fairs to compete with or imi-
tate. The Paris exposition i'm 1900
does not conflict with any dates so
FAR chosen. The Glasgow exposition il
set for 1901. Besides those enumer
ated, twentieth century exposition
for New York in 1901 is being dis
cussed, without much probability Of
realization, and Northwestern Inter-
national exposition in 1892 for st
Paul and Minneapolis has been pro-
posed
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14
Agents Wanted.

To take orders for Steve's stove
Sinner. Agents make from 50 to 81
per day; send 20 cents for canVasers
outfit and commence work at once
Address, Steve's Stove Sinner, 1859
Arapahoe st. Denver Col.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14

Given under my hand this 20 day OF March
1899 M. l., DECKER
Treasurer of Allen County, Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14
LOGAN TOwNsHIP % %

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W end lot 2, e - II OF
W end lot 3 ..........
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14

& L Lothian to J II Osborn, lots f. > d
bk 49, Humboldt ode .......... . On
Mary + Chamberlain to Mrs Mary T
summers, lots and Blk III. Hum
boldt' wd ..... -. ......-.'........ -. 100 o.
seuueS to Wmi seunes 4 W. lotSBl
Cs2i Ad to Humboldt wd -. OF
ElnOra - Claiborne to Minnie V Eyler
lot Blk ll5, lola, wd ............... $50 OF
Frank Cruise X to Henry Faggart lot
TO- Bk :, Cruse's AID to LhHarpe wd so NJ
F Cook q h to L Il wishard, lots and
9 Blk !, lola rel. ..........,,..-..- Is oC
Mt Hope Cemetery Co to Abram Snyder.
loti7 sec A, wd ....,..,',.. '....,'' 20 o.
Horton ct Al to Lanyon Zinc Co neq
&-N-l9, wd-..... 1000 o.
NJ Goodhuc Il W to W Creighton.
lot Bk l. lola wd .......... ............2 $50 "
M Thornton to Mullen, lot Bk1,
lola, wd...... .................... 80. 200 OF
Brewster to A II Phillips, lots $, o.. 10
Bk3 Bunnels Sub Div W =, NV a.
86'2i'IS, wd ...................... Is OF
II Phillips Etux to Geo Grayem lots 5,
=. same az above wd ...... ..... 800 10 M
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-04-14
Notice Of Appointment Administrator.
First published March 2i,l

First published March "a
State of Kansas, Allen County IS.
In the matter of the estate of Rueben Butler,
late of Allen County, Kansas,
Notice is hereby given, that on the Goth day
of March, A. D., 1899, the undersigned was by
the Probate Court of Allen County, Kansas,
duly appointed and qualified as Administrators
of the estate OF Rueben Butler, late OF Allen
County, deceased. All parties interested In
said estate will take notice and govern them
selves accordingly. EDWIN PERSONS, Adm
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-02-07
THE MOUNT VERNON
HOTEL De fAm'LIA
IL TETUAN IL.

Lujosamente amueblado, habitaoiones
para una y dos personals con preciosas
vistas In bahia y sus alredederes.
Salon comedor claro, espaciosoy ven-
tilado, con mesa redonda y la carta.
Cocina americana francesa.
Luz el6ctrica y otras comodida AIDES
nlodernas. SA "A y
Sc habla oil ingl6s.
San Juan P. r., 10 Nvbre. 1898.
Propiesario,
3 Nvbre. FRANCISCO J. VxaA.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1899-02-07
THE MOUNT VERNON
IL TETUAN ST. IL

Nicely furnished single and double
rooms with beautiful views on the Bay
and tho surrounding country.
Cheerful, lightsome and espacious di-
ming hall with large and small tables.
French and american cooking. English
speaking waters.
Electric light and other modern con-
veniences.
San Juan, 2. K. November l st 1898.
Proprietor and Manager,
F8AHCIsCO J. VxaA.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-22
A NOVEL sLUM SYSTEM.
How Children Are Trained to Keep
Streets Clean.

New York, Jan. 21.-Miss Grace Gala
CHER, Vassar graduate of 1897, is the
head of the street cleaning classes for
girls in the public and free schools of New
York city. Miss Gallagher is a slender
graceful young woman, with a remarkably
sweet. gentle voice. and the manners OF a
shy girl.
She is an enthusiastic advocate of the
benefits to be derived from the work, and
speaks entertainingly of her classes and
pupils.
I'VE aim," she says, Especially 10 teach
the children, those whose parents speak
little or no English and look upon the
city government and its officials as their
deadliest enemies. They cannot under
stand why they are not allowed to throw
any amount of filth into the streets, clog
the sewers and waterworks Of their tene-
ments, or use the fire escapes for any
purpose. They look upon inspectors and
officers of the board OF health as tyrants
to be feared and despised much more than
policemen, because they understand being
carried to jail when they commit VIC
lence, but why they should be punished
for keeping a filthy house or sent TO the
hospital with contagious disease, passes
their powers of comprehension.
One will readily see, | am sure. how
impossible II is TO reach the grown-up
members of such families. so our only hope
is in the children. Through them We, in
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-22

beauty horse has been run out OF the
traces for the sake of horse that can get
over the ground in the shortest possible
space.
The rich woman's carriage cab no longer
minces by. but goes with a stately whirl
that leaves the foot passenger breathless.
Mrs. Mills horses cost twenty-five hun
dred apiece Mrs. John Jacob Astor's cost
more, and Mrs. Elisha Dyer, who raises
her own carriage animals and breaks them
with her own hands has the finest gray
pair and next to the swiftest in the city.
Nearly every private carriage has stop
watch in it these days, and a dainty crea-
ture will come in smiling for call and an
nOunce the minutes and fractions of sec
onds in which her pair brought her up the
avenue. The fastest horses and the smart
est, newest establishment kept up by any
New York woman, however, is the Russian
cob and three bays. harnessed abreast,
driven by pretty Mrs. Stokes. who. like
Mrs. Dyer, is one of the social personages
who takes horses not only seriously and
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-22
A style of Her own.

Style is not even dependent on beauty.
plain-looking woman may be 4 stylish
woman. and a beautiful one may be de-
void of that distinction. Only she who
recognizes that she is an individual can
ever possess it.
But starting with that conviction and
keeping IL well in mind. il needs only good
taste and n perception of the fitness of
things to attain the desired result. II
this conviction and these qualities were
unusual among the fair sex-which, alas.
they are not-therc would be nothing to
say on the subject of style. Every woman
would possess that style OF her own
which would make her a picture instead
of a fashion plata personality instead
of one of a crowd AS no two women are
made alike, SO no two women would dress
alike Dress would be means and not
an end even in the mind of its most ardent
devOtee.
Good taste. says the philadelphia In
quirer." is the indispensable quality which
will forbid eccentricity, while it insists on
individuality. Fashions, like the brook,
seem likely to go ON forever" They can
not be ignored but they can be modified
and adapted to any extent by the woman
who puts style first Such women refuse to
he ruled by fashions. They Iead-they do
not follow: and the dignity they gain from
so doing is no small part OF their charm
Besides being the only true setting TO
any natural beauty, the cultivation of style
would save us all money, time, and worry.
1t would not be necessary to reject clothes
which were not of the latest cut il the
wearer persisted in keeping TO that par
ticular shape which suited best the lines
Of her figure.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-22

ruler did not despair, and he ordered the
ak. She bowed her head and with her
own hands threw her beautiful hair over
her head that it might not interfere with
the knife. At that instant God received
her soul and her beautiful body was not
mutilated.
The beautiful stained glass windows in
st. Agnes Church was among its most
attractive features. The chief of these
were the chancel and the choir windows
in the south and north gables. They We're
majestic in size and marvels in proper
ton and beauty. the former being thirty
five feet by eighteen feet. and the latter
forty-tve by twenty-five. Below the arch
line the chancel windows were divided into
five compartments, each representing Il
canopied niche. while the arched or upper
part was filed with a circular window
with triangular spaces in center. The
middle compartment contained a beauti-
full painting of ST. Agnes in her prison cell.
The saint was represented standing at full
length, her chained hands clasped before
her breast, her mailed jailor stands on the
left, holding the chains that bind her, and
beside him, in a kneeling position prepar-
Ing the burning faggots below the stake
Is the eXecutioner. On the right of the
saint sat the Roman project with his hand
raised and pointing toward the saint. There
her martyrdom. Crouched at the feet of
the project were several figures forming
the audience of the forum anxiously await
ing the spectacle of the saints death. The
figures in the central inches OF the win
dows form Il living epitome OF the life OF
the saint. She stands in the malignant
glare of her enemies with Christian meek
ness and sweetness. On either side OF her
were beautiful figures OF ST. Lawrence and
St. Janarius in full pontihcal dress.
The triangular space at the top of the
window represented three angels, the high
est bearing a crown for the martyr Agnes,
and the others palm of victory and a lit
tie lamb. When the fire Quilted the inside
of the church it circled over the head and
to the right and left of 81. Agnes, destroy
ing the figures of the angels and of the
saints and eNecutiOneTs on either side OF
her. But the full-length figure OF St.
Agnes, for whom God had wrought a mir
acle in her lifetime to save her from the
agonies of death by fire, passed through
the fire unframed. The titular saint OF
the church was about the only thing that
| the fire left unframed. The supports and
base of 4 white marble statue were burned
away, but the statue today bears no marks
| except those of the sooty hands of the
| fremen who carried it out OF the church
| after the fire was eXtinguished.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-22
Owing Greatly to Golf and the Long
Train.

Owing Greatly to COLI anu the Long
Train.
There is no longer any blinking the fact
that out of the rosebud mouths OF debu-
tantes and fair matrons in these days
comes a species of slang that used to be
confined TO the sanctity of the smoking
room and served as familiar and useful
quotation only TO dray drivers and sailor
men The old fashioned belle never failed
TO blush and hang her sensitive head at
bare reference to his majesty the Devil.
she hurriedly left the room at mention OF
his lordships residence, and she gracefully
tainted when some rude and thoughtles5
male used the word damnation in forceful
and earnest GUESSING repartee.
Whether golf or long trains have COM
bined TO change feminine opinions as to
the use and beauty of certain adjectives it
is hard to say, but certain 1t is that in
drawing rooms or on the links 1t is hardly
unusual nowadays to hear lovely woman,
when the occasion warrants. burst Into an
impassioned stream of remarks that would
send her respected and well brought up
grandmother into u trance. Two weeks
ago a committee of charming and serious
n 'nded girls in certain city banded to-
aehter to consider the present deplorable
condition of the modern woman's vocab-
ulary. and to stamp out, il possible, by
their united efforts, the growth OF swearing