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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-09
ABOUT OILED ROADS
Said to BE the Highways Of
the Future.
The Commissioner of Agriculture is
Sending Out Hints as to the
Possibilities.

The following from the Bowling
Green Sentinel will have a tendency
to open the eyes of the people and set
them thinking about the roads OF the
future. What is said Of Wood
county is also true of Hancock
county:
County Commissioners f. J. Brand is
in receipt of letter from she depart
ment of agriculture with reference to
experiments made by a branch Of that
department relative to the use of oil
on highways.
This matter has been discussed con-
sIderably by the people about the
county and If the idea is at all feas-
ible, there would be no better place
in the world than Wood county for
the use of oil on the roads, as the pro-
duct is here in great abundance.
The letter from the department
states that the government is not yet
ready to give any information on the
subject as the experiment under the
supervision Of the department has not
yet gone far enough to prove whether
the plan is good or not.
The department referred the com
missioner to q company which claims
! to have patent on the idea. This
company claims that the work can be
done for about eighty dollars mile.
Among other clippings which Mr.,
Brand secured while hunting infor-
nation on the subject Is the following
from the Kent News, of Chestertown,
Md, dated Berkeley, Cal, where the
experiment has been tested more than
in any other state:
County and road supervisors in
Southern California are unanimous in
the belief that the problem of excel
lently macadamized roads at a small
cost has been solved. and that so
luton of it has been attained through
the application to them of crude oil.
There are now nearly hundred miles
of road in the several counties of the
southern part of the state which have
been treated in this manner, and 90
pronounced in every instance and
particular has been the success of the
trial that there is no doubt that nearly
a thousand miles will be put under
contract for the treatment during the
coming year. 1t has been found that
to place roads in condition through
the use of oil IS cheaper than main
tanning them in half condition dur
ing a single season by sprinkling
them with water. And when road
has been once put into condition with
oil It requires slight additional ex'
penditure to keep 1t so.
On all of the main highways In
Los Angeles county oil-coating is now
applied. Many of them have but
patches OF it half a mile or mile in
extent the oil being used upon it to
test the effect it will nave upon eartht
OF different character and upon roads
of varying qualities. 1t has been
found that where the road has an
even, hard foundation, smooth and
clear of ruts and about two inches Of
dust on the surface, upon this road
the oil is complete success and gives
a surface as polished, clean and cleal
as an asphalt street. When the sol
ls clayey though the surface is rutty
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-09

Mr.. Holtz, of Neosho Falls, who
bought the handsome home of f. Z.
Esse on south Walnut street last sum-
mer, is moving into his house today
Mr.. and Mrs. Esse are moving to
their new home in the north.e east part
OF town.
j. t. Treadway, who owns that
flock of Angora goats, declared sol
EMMY IN the presence of a circle of
friends Yesterday, that he had put up
q teeter board at his farm and the
young goats played on this board the
old game of see-saw, just like kids.
did you notice it?)
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-09

oil will not saturate evenly the dust
area, bat will lie in spotches, run to-
gether, and go make very imperfect
success, either as a job of sprinkling
or as AN oiled surface.
IN order to meet the requirements
a machine has been devised which,
while it does not by any means limit
the field for inventions of this sort,
nevertheless supplies a want in this
direction. A big tank mounted on
four wheels drags sort Of tender-b box
supported by two wheels, into which
Is run from tank supplies of oil. This
box has furnace beneath 1t which
heats the oil, and attached to it is q
drag looking something like hay
rake, A number of curved rods or
fingere go out from the bottom, and
these are drawn through the dust and
along the road. They mark little
burrows in the dust and into these
burrows, through series of pipes, is
discharged the oil. A second finger
or sort OF thumb arrangement-fixed
farther back turns the dust over the
oiled furrow, and the surface is then
left to absorb, q process which re.
quires about an hour to effect. A
roller 10 then drawn over the oiled
width and the first treatment is COM
pleted.
Contracts for three treatments are
taken at from sos to 1910 per mile,
according to the price of oil and the
cha acter OF the surface to be worked.
But even at this rate the cost is not
over six cents per running foot of the
eighteen-feet width, and of this sum.
under the general regulations, the
county pays one-third, and the
property owners on the road on each
side pay each one-third. Under this
! arrangement il would cost 50 to put
in condition the road in front of 100
feet of land, aud this is about what it
now costs him TO have the road
sprinkled with water throughout the
dry season.
One saturation will keep the road
in repair during years succeeding the
first three treatments, and this appli-
cation requires but twenty barrels to
the mile. Its cost to the adjacent
owners of land is forty cents per one
hundred feet of road, and there is
maintained a most excellent drive
way.
One immediate result of the dis
covery has been to raise the price OF
oil. Happily, vast oil district is
Immediately in the middle of the re-
gion in which the oiled roads are be-
ing spread, and oil therein is most
accessible commodity. Nevertheless
the haste of the many counties to
make contracts for the future delivery
of oil has driven up the price of the
material ten and even twenty cents
per Darrell. This has increased the
cost of the work laid out by the town
of Redlauds from $204 70 per mile to
1867 per mile, and this notwithstand-
ing the town has. purchased its own
sprinkling plant and is doing the
work itself.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-09
TUESDAYS REPORT


London, March Mafelling is to be
relieved as soon as the British force
already on the way to Kimberley can
ralse the siege. This force is des-
scribed vaguely as "sVrong.' The
Kimberley light horse is mentioned
as component. In view of the fact
that the Kimberley light horse is un-
der the control of the De Beers com
pany. Lord Roberts visit to Kimber-
ley probably had to do with an ar
rangement with Cecil Rhodes TO use
this company of troops,
Fresh intelligence as to what Lord
Roberts is doing has ceased again
This silence is taken to mean that
something has happened or is about
to happen.
Boer raiders are uncommonly active
in the northwestern section of Cape
Colony, where they are stirring up
the Dutch. Martial law has conse-
quently been declared.
Mr.. Chamberlain request for $500
additional Australian bushmen is un-
derstood to be explained by the fact
that the war Office requires this force
for the pursuit of irreconcilable
Beers, who, according to the intelli-
gence department, have been quietly
collecting great quantities of ammuni-
ton and stores in the mountain fast
nesses of the Zoutpansberg district
in the north of the Transvaal, where
they are preparing to carry on guer
rilla warfare.
Gen. Butler Commended.
London, March 6.-Winston Church
I'll, describing the relief of Ladysmith
in a dispatch published by the Morn
ing Post, says: at has been effected
at a cost of upward of 5000 officers
and men in an army only $4,000
strong" He goes on to pay high trib-
ute TO Sir Redyers Butler, emphasiz-
ing the confidence his men had in
him, without which the enterprise
could hardly have succeeded" OF
Gen. Buffers attack on February %
Mr.. Churchill says: considered in
itself, it was a masterpiece, soundly
conceived, boldly launched and skill
fully executed" He adds that "much
also was due to the greatly improved
intelligence department"
Reported Peace Negotiations.
London, March ga special to the
Times from Lourenzo MARQUES. dated
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-09
WAR IN
SOUTH
AFRICA.
MoNDAYls REPORT

London, March 5.-rhe war Office
has received the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts, dated Osfontein,
March 4: "Gen. Cronje, on behalf of
his party and commandant Wolmar-
ans, on behalf of 1000 other prison
ers asked the British officers to thank
me for the consideration and kindness
with which they have been treated.
Gen. Clements reports that he adj
vanced troops, holds Achtertang, and
that railway communication would be
opened to Joubert's siding tonight
The enemy is still in force at Norvals
Pont bridge Gen. Gatacre says the
number of Beers at Stormburg is daily
diminishing. Col. Baden-Powell re-
ports that all are well at Mayors
fontein and that the enemy's activity
was being met with equal activity on
the part of the defenders. The posi-
ton is unchanged at Osfontein, eX-
cept that frequent heavy showers
have materially improved grazing, to
the benefit of the horses and trans
port animals"
Beers Retire Before the British
Dordrecht, Cape Colony, March g.
Gen. Brabants colonial division, after
a nights march, is now attacking the
Beers in strong position at La
Buschagnes Mex, on the road from
Dordrecht to jamestown. The en-
gagement is proceeding with great
vigor and the Beers are gradually re-
firing before the British shell fire,
from three positions. A heavy rifle
fire is being exchanged where the
British are engaging the Beers on the
right flank. SO far the Beers have
had no big guns in action
A later dispatch says that Gen.
Brabant's advance was most satisfac-
tory. After marching and bivouack-
ing over night, the force reached the
strong entrenched positions which
they occupied and now hold, the
Beers being on the opposite hill. The
British will remain in the captured
positions, although the Beers brought
two guns into action and made de-
termined efforts to retalle them. The
British losses are six killed and IS
wounded.
Kruger Issues an Address.
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State,
March 2, via Lorenzo Marques, March
3.-The federals have resolved to
abandon territory around Rensburg
and the retreat has been effected I'M
der the protection of mounted bur-
ghers. The president (Kruger) is is
suing a stirring address to the bur-
ghers in Natal, who are falling back
on Biggarsburg.
Beers Deny Themselves for the Wounded.
Colesburg, Cape Colony, March 81
A reconnaissance with two troops of
Australians and two guns found the
wagon bridge over the Orange river
intact. Fifty Beers on the other side
were taken by surprise and the British
galloped to their lager, some miles
on the Free State side. Prices com
mand has moved seven miles north of
Colesburg. The Beers during their oc-
cupation denied themselves rather
than see the British wounded suffer.
Boer Prisoners Attempt "a Escape
Cape Town, March 5.--It is report
ed that the Boer prisoners while on
the way from Paardeberg, msuccess-
fully attempted to escape from the
train. Eleven hundred of Cronie's
men have been placed temporarily ON
board the British steamers Mongolian
and Manila in Table bay.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-09
YEsTERDAY's REPORT

London, March s.-Lord Roberts
wired yesterday morning from osfon-
TEN and in the evening from Poplar
Grove, IA miles eastward. BY an ap-
plication of the elementary principle
of strategy the Boer positions, Is
miles long across his path, have been
emptied and their holders have been
obliged to retire in confusion upon
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-09
Free state Raad Favors Peace.
Wnkinson's Review.

London, March 7.-Spenser Willlin-
son, in the Morning Post to-day, con-
fines his review of the military situa-
tion to mere record of events and
concludes as follows: ut almost
seems as though Lord Roberts wished
to let the Beers assemble as much of
their army as they can before begin
ming to try conclusions with them"
Dutch Population In Rebellion.
Cape Town, March NEARLY the
whole of the Dutch population of the
Prieska and Kenhardt districts are
in rebellion. Many of the Dutch from
neighboring districts are reported to
have joined them, notably Pet Mool-
man, who will lead the rebels.
Yesterdays REPORT
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10
WILLIE BAREFOOT.

There's mud upon the carpet and there's
mud upon the stairs,
And there's mud inside the porch and
kitchen, too:
There are streaks of muddy footprints
everywhere that Willie goes,
For he tracks mud in the house the
whole day through.
He keeps his mother busy cleaning muo
from every room,
And the hired girl kicks up an awful
row.
Warm woather's here and boyhood's days
are brimmng DER with fun.
For little Willie's going barefoot now.
1t does no good to scold him.
Though fifty times you've told him
To stop and clean his feet, but yet,
somehow.
He flies in through the door,
Leaving footprints on the floor,
For little Willies going barefoot now.
There are slivers every evening that his
mother has to find,
And stone-bruises that she has to doc
tor. too:
There are toes that have collded with
a rock which she must bind
And with arnica and liniment make
new;
There are scratches by the dozen where
the thorns and briars took hold,
When he scooted through the pasture
for the COW,
And there's music in the cleaning when
his mother pulls them out.
For little Willie's going barefoot now.
His mother says she'll whip him;
The hired Girl won't skip him.
There's bound to be an everlasting row.
The mischief is TO pay;
There'll be trouble so they say,
Cause little Willies going barefoot now
He muses. up the clean white sheets
upon his little bed,
With his dusty, grimy, undiscovered
feet,
And everywhere he chases, from the cell
lar to the roof
His little muddy footprints you will
meet.
He never stops to wipe his feet-the
saucy little mink
He says his daddy never learned him
how,
And there's having in the kitchen when
the mon is brought in play,
For little Willie's going barefoot now.
His father says he'll bless him:
The hired girl will dress him."
His mother says she never Will allow
Such footprints on the floor
Oh, there's trouble sure in store,
For Willie, since he's going barefoot
now
e. a. Brininstool. in Rochester Herald.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10
0..I-.O

When a preparation has an advertised rep
utation that is worldwide, it means that
preparation is meritorious. II you go into
a store to buy an article that has achieved
universal popularity like Casearets Candy
Cathartic for example, you feel it has the
endorsement of the world The Judgment
of the people is infallble because it il i'm
personal. The retailer who wants to sell you
'something else" in place of the article you
ask for, has an ak to grind. Don't it stand to
reason? He's trying to sell something that
is not what he represents it to be. Why?
Because he expects to derive an extra profit
our of your credulity Don't you see
through his little game? The man who will
try to sell you substitute for Cascarets
is fraud. Beware of him! He is trying to
steal the honestly earned benefits of repu.
tation which another business man has paid
for, and if his conscience will allow him to
go so far, he will go farther. If he cheats
his customer in one way, he will in another
and it is not safe to do business with him:
Beware Of the Cascaret suhstitutor!
Remember Cascarets are never sold in
bulk but in metal boxes with the long tailed
co. on every box and each tablet stamped
C. C. c.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10
Mike, stupefied with the stress Of

Mike, stupefed with the stress OF
events and emotions, could but obey
Nora's clear glance, and fumbling in
his pocket, laid bright ring in Ita's
thin hand.
1T is me that will go for the ia
Their then; 1, Mr.. Killibrew," persist
ed Nora.
"Nora," whispered Molly, as the
girl passed her; "it is the good heart
that is in you then, Nora"
ut was to be-" whispered Nora;
"she saw the O'Donoghue riding on
the lake this morning-and me, l saw
nothing at all, at all, but the same
little lake"
You don't say then, Nora!-Same
as the old folks say he used ride on
Killarney lakes?-the Prince of Good
Fortune. She saw the spirit?'
''Eh, she saw him." said Nora hur-
rying off.
"Oh, it's the good heart that's in
her." murmured Mrs. Maloney; land
this poor child she saw the old Ghost
O. Killarney!-and Nora awake and
just seeing common things-I wisht
I'd a-had my eyes open; I'd not
a-missed seeing him-worst luck to
me to be noddin'. And want l
just a-sayin' last evenin' that that
lake looked like Killarney, and yonder
hill like Glenaa, and yonder slope like
Toomies!"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10
Value of Elk Teeth.

Four hundred elk teeth were sold in
Spokane, Wash, the other day for
$1,000. The demands of the members
of the Order of Elks and the growing
scarcity have increased the value of
the teeth. Fourteen years ago Mon
tana man paid only $50 for an Indian
headdress that contained 500 elk teeth.
Last year a similar headdress contain
ing only ESQ teeth sold for $500.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10
FARRAGUT'S START IN LIFE.
His First Position Was Obtained by
Mere Accident Down in
Tennessee.

Admiral Dewey's recent visit to the
early home of Admiral David G. Farra-
gut. near Nashville, has revived a story
of the early years of the famous fighter
in the war of the rebellion, says the
Chicago Chronicle. About the time
that Farragut was born, in the year
1901, Joseph Anderson, one of the early
senators from Tennessee, was living on
a bend of the Nolachucky river. known
as Chucky Bend. Judge Anderson. as
he was familiarly known. had fought
through the revolution, and in honor
thereof named his home Soldiers Rest.
That Soldiers Rest is undeniably assoc
ciated with the most notable event in
Farragut's early years in Tennessee
will appear. 1t was. in fact, the place
of his first promotion. Judge Ander-
son, being necessarily absent from
Chucky Bend in attendance upon his
duties, employed nan by the name of
Carter Tally to take charge of the farm.
TO this man, Carter Tally. a little boy.
| the future admiral. was brought by
his mother. She wanted Carter Tally
to give him employment. which he did.
And here the coming hero's first re-
corded adventure took place. He bare
ly escaped death through drowning.
While swimming in the river he lost
his depth and would have lost his lie.
| but son of Senator Anderson. Alexrh-
der. a boy older than FarragGt,
plunged into the stream and pulled b II
| out. That the boy even here possessed
uncommon personality is evident. fc~.
| Notwithstanding his tender years and
commonplace surroundings. he at
tracted the notice of Judge Anderson.
Whether the boy felt already STRINGS
OF his naval power and asked for admis-
sion into the navy, or whether the gem
tleman saw in the boy possibilities
wider than a Tennessee backwoods
farm could offer and helped him to the
first thing at hand. can never be ascer-
tanned. Commodore Porter was lust
the man to place the boy advantageous
~ and he was just the man for the SEN
ator to turn to. for he was nephew-in-
law to the senator. Anderson present
ed the boy to Porter and Porter as
signed him to a position as midship-
man. Here again the innate promise Of
the boy must have won its way, for he
was unquestionably very young for the
navy. All he needed was his foot on the
lowest round of the ladder. His promo
ton thereafter was so rapid that his
fame found its way back through the
east Tennessee mountains. a friend. n Z
Senator Anderson remarking: How
little Farragut climbs. The Judge did
the right thing in placing him in the
navy" These promotions, though rap
id for his youth and ascent from low
rank, were not sufficient to bring him
into national notice. this being re-
served as a ripper honor for riper wears.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10

THERE are no more beautiful violets
the world over than the violets of
Lakeview beyond the Highlands of
Birmingham, most BUSTING city of
Alabama. Pale they are, and family
blue; there are none like them under
the sun, unless they be the pale bog
violets viola ralustris) OF Ireland.
Up the mountain sides that roll back
from lake and dummy line they
bloom.
Mistress Maloney descended from
the step of the car and in lusty
brogue directed her son Pat about her
sundry packages. These they carried
to the peak-roofed shop on the edge
of the line. 1t looked under the
shadow of the mountain for all the
world like a TOY Noah's ark.
''Hey, Nora, we're back called
Mistress Maloney to the girl who
stood inside the store door. You KEEP
store good for me. Well, Birming-
ham is warming up. Them pavements
was warm! But this is good. just a
dhrop. Nora" Molly Maloney was say
ing apologetically; Just to keep the
heat OUT
ut was just to keep the cold out
last time
Hey? Was it then? Well very
like
The GOODNESS from hill and lake, the
bined to make Mistress Maloney feel
very well with the world.
Mora. now. this is like the old coun-
try! Close yonr eyes never so little
and yonder's Killarney-that there
Lakeland if ever there was a noun
tain like old Glenaa it's that one.
just take an inch for a mile, you
know-ah, but the old country, it was
good"
This is better" declared Nora, as
she helped Pat with the packages.
where your sweetheart is that's
the best eountry-hey, Aora.-
"Well, we'll"
HAS there ever body been here.
Nora?" asked Molly, her eyes out on
the waters that she chose to-day to
call like Killarney of the old land be-
tween it's mighty hills, Glenaa and
Toomies.
Eyes. And is here yet"
''You don't say!"
"a slip of girl; says she is from
Killarney side"
you don't say then!"
SSH Sh-' Shl She's here"
Above them, on the narrow stair
that led TO Nora's little room in the
roof, the stranger stood; her eyes of
pale IRISH blue were wide and anxious,
her hair was like smooth jet.
''Come down, my girl" cried Mrs.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10
wearing of MEMS Attire by wome,

In France women are allowed to
wear mems attire, but they must pay
for the privilege. The amount of the
tax which a woman pays for wearing
masculine garb is ten dollars year;
but her willingness to pay the tax does
not insure her the right to wear these
garments. As a matter of fact the
right is conferred by the government
as tribute of great merit.-N. Y. Sun.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10
aGorIlIa Tintncks. ~

Some fresh malapropisms are quoted
in England. For instance: Mrs. Slip
shod knows that the Beers are mis-
chievous as monkeys, with their barbed
wire and things, but she is very sorry
to see they are ''resOrting to gorilla
tintacks."
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10
Lydia
e. IA
EIg1khaEs1,S

Vegetable Compound
cures fine fills peculiar to
women. II tones up their
general health, eases
DO WIN overweight
nerves, cures those
awful backaclies and reg
uEafes s,,ensfrNafi0n-
II does this because II
acts directly on the fe-
male organism aSsR makes
ii healthy, relieving and
curing all inflammation
and dIspIaoenenf;ss
Nothing else ia Just as
good and many things that
may be suggested are
dangerous. Tits great
medicine has a constant
record of cure Thou
sands of w0sssey, testify to
IL. Read their letters con-
sfanfly appearing in this
paper.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10

Just about seven-eighths of the people
should cut out that part about forgiving
ones enemies before they repeat the Lords
prayer-Atchison Globe.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-10
The Seat of War.

"My husband is SO nice about explaining
these war terms to me. know | aggravate
him awfully, too, sometimes. Why, only
think, l had to ask him this morning what
the seat of war was for?"
"Yes?"
wasn't it foolish? But he's so patient
The idea that didn't have sense enough to
see that it is for the standing army to use
when it gets tired!'-Chicago Inter Ocean