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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
FIRST PRAYER IN CONGRESS-
Impressive SuppIicRtIoD offered By
an EpIscopRIIRn Clergy
man In 1T77.

We are most of us familiar with the
~ell-known engraving entitled THE
First Prayer in Congress" but few
persons have ever heard that prayer
In Thatcher's Military journal, under
the date OF December, l177, is found
note containing the identical first pray.
er in congress, made 10y Rev. David
Buche, d. d., an Episcopal clergyman,
at the time rector of Christ church,
Philadelphia. The subjoiued is a copy
of it:
"Oh, Lord, our Heavenly Father, high
and mighty King of Kings and Lord Of
Lords, who dost from Thy Throne be-
hold AZ the dwelers of the earth, and
reignest with power supreme and un-
controlla BILE over the Kingdoms, empires
and governments, look down in mercy
we beseech Thee, on these American
states, who have fed 10 Thee from the
rod of the oppressor and thrown them
selves on Thy gracious protection; de-
string o be henceforth dependent only
on Thee; TO Thee have they appealed
for Righteousness of their cause, to
Thee do they now look for countenance
and support which Thou alone canst
give. Take them, therefore, Heavenly
Father, under Thy nurturing care; give
them wisdom and valor in the field. De
feat the malicious designs of our adver.
saries; convince them of the unrigh-
teousness of their cause; and, if they
still persist in their sanguinary pur-
pose, oh, let the voice of Thy unerring
justice, sounding in their hearts, con.
strain them to drop the weapons of bat
tie. BE Thou present, o God of Wis
dom, and direct the councils Of this hon
orable asemblage; enable them to set
tie things on the best and surest foun-
dalton, that the scene of blood may be
speedily closed; that order, harmony
and peace may be restored, and truth
and justice, religion and piety prevail
and flourish among the people. Pre-
serve the health of their bodies and the
vigor of their minds; shower down on
them and the millions they here repre-
sent such temporal blessings as Thou
seest eNpedient for them in this world,
and crown them with everlasting glory
In the world to come. All this we ask
in the name and through the merits Of
Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Saviour,
| Amen"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
HIS SECOND HEARING.
A Clever Invention which Had DAS
Eject on Capital story
Teller.

Tom Meek is one of the best men il
ST. Louis-or America, For many
years, however, Mr.. Meek has been 4 o.
tally deaf in one ear, and hears only
about five per cent. with the other,
writes VIII Nisscher, in Woman's Home
Companion.
Lately Tom made a visit to Chicago.
where he has host Of ardent friends.
They yelled at him for scyera, days. and
the one of them made him present OF
sort of fan, that "a person who is hard
of hearing may place an edge of be-
tween his teeth and hear as well as
anybody. Then Mr.. Meek went about
listening to all sorts of things that he
had not heard for decades. lie would
stand on the curbstone and listen to
the buzz and rattle of the trolley and
cable cars, that have come in vogue
since he lost his hearing. and which
he had always thought were noiseless.
He also heard here and there some
worlds fair stories, and others of an
cient renown, and the next time he
went to the Press club, when story
telling was in progress, he told some
of these stories when il came his turn
TO be reminded" Sadness would thep
become prevalent all around, and also
apparent to Mr.. Meek, for he is a wit,
and therefore had been in the habit
of telling good stories OF his own make,
that had never failed TO create hilari-
Gus merriment. These treasu-" which
the fan had enabled him to accumulate
seemed all right to him. They were
certainly stories of the approved sort,
ingenious, humorous and snappy, with
climaXes calculated to convulse an audi
ence, as they had convulsed him when
they first came to his ears. But he
knew nothing of their antiquity, and
therefore was puzzled by the way they
were received.
The man who had introduced Mr.
Meek to the fan was froWned upon
hnd Mr.. Meek himself took to look.
.ng at the instrument suspiciously
Finally he confded to his best friend
Between you and me there is one OF
two conditions existing: Either you
fellows don't know good thing when
you hear it, or this fan doesn't
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
WALL OF THE CANAL MAN.
A Captain of Fifteen Years Expe-
rience Has Sustained n steady
Loss Each Year.


Commonly speaking" said an Erie
canal boat captain, according to the
New York Sun, THE old-time canal
business is on its last legs. I've been
ut 1t as owner and captain for Is years
and am poorer to-day than when | be-
gan. owned three boats of three-mule
power each, and | carried grain from
Buffalo to New York city over the Erie.
| paid $4,000 for one boat 10 years ago
and sold her last year for $500. The
one ! am captain of now cost me $1,000
over ~ years ago, new, and am offer
ing her now for $500. and no takers.
There's loss in those two items alone
of $4,000 in 10 years. or shade over
1925 year The capacity of my pres
INT boat is 5000 bushels of wheat, and
| carried the load from Buffalo to New
York, say, 500 miles, at an average of
Two cents and half bushel. That
would make $500 for the load. and 1t
took me ten days on the canal aud two
down the river from Troy. paid four
dollars for towage from Troy TO Albany
and S25 from Albany to New York, be-
sides five per cent. commission at Buff
talo and eight or ten dollars extra
charges when | got to New York, so
that you see, with the regular ex-
penses, my own labor and time, and
the money had invested, there wasn't
much of a margin. It took eight days
| to get back to Buffalo. and it WASH t
| often that | got enough merchandise
as freight to pay barely more than ex-
| penses.
There was shortage sometimes, too,
| In the wheat. and ! had TO make that
good at the regular price the cargo
sold at. My last load got me for S2G
on this account. However," and the
captain smiled. "it wasn't slways
against me. and one time | was ahead
over 800 bushels, and | got a check
plump down for more than $3.50. 1t was
little funny about that. | found Out
afterward that when my boat was
'oaded lump of coal had some way got
fastened in the apron that ought tc
have closed the chute from the elevator
but didn't, and the wheat slipped
through the crack to the extent of owe
800 bushels. 1t was only n case of luck
for the next boat thar came after min,
was 20 bushels short.
For the last three years have beer
Tightening around New York harbo
from the elevators to ships or whereve
the grain was to be delivered. and tina
doesn't pay much better than cana
wcrk. All | get for myself and boa
is two dollars day, "a hours long i
necessary. and, except in summer, whei
business is brisk, only get such job
as | can pick up. For the month o
March, for instance only received SO
that is IA days work. ! am getting
pretty tired of the boat business, ant
il you know of anybody that wants t,
buy py boat and good will send hin
sround with $500 TO give up, and III b
glad to retire from a life on the oceai
wave, so to speak"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
First published August Bird, 1000
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE
CONSTITUTION.
HOusn Joint Resolution No. 4 ReIat
ing to Justices of the Supreme
Court.

BE it resolved by the Legislature OF the state
OF Kansas. twO-thirdS Of the members
therein:
SECTION l. The following proposition IN
amend he constitution of the state is hereby
submitted To the qualited electors of the stnte
for their approval or re lection viz. Section
Of article of the constitution of this state.
Is hereby amended so as to read sec D mo
supreme court shHn consist Of seven Justices
who shall be chosen by the electors of the
state. They may sit ,seperate in two divis-
ions. with fun power in each division To deter
mine the cases asugned to be heard by such
division, Three Justices shall constitute a
quorum IN each division and the concurrence
OF three shall be the necessary to q decision.
such cases only as may be ordered to be heard
by the whole court snail be concurrence of
four Justices shall be necessnrv 10
a decision in cases so heard The Justice who
Is senior in continuous term of service shall
be chief justice. and in case two or more have
continuously served during the same period
lhe senior IN years or these shall be chief
Justice. ana the presiding Justice of each diyi.
sion shaii be selected from the judges assigned
10 that division M like manner. The term of
once of the justices shall be six years except
| as hereinafter provided. The Justices in once
at the time this amendment takes effect shall
| hold their oihceS for the terms for which they
| were severaly elected and until their sue
ceSSors are elected ana qualified. As soon as
| practicable after the second Monday in ian
| udry, 1901, the governor shall appoint four
| justices, to hold their OficeS until the second
Monday IN January 1908. At the general cleo
| ton in 1902 there shall he elected five Justices
one OF whom shall hold his ohce for two
years, one for four years, and three for six
| years At the general election in 1904 and
| every six years thereafter two Justices shall
be elected At the general election in 1906
ana every six years thereafter two Justices
/ 1905 and every six years thereafter three jus.
/ tees shall be elected.
/ SEC. ,. This proposition shall be submitted
! 70 the electors of this state at the general
| election of representatives i'm the wear 1900
/ for their approval or rejection. The amend
mcnt hereby proposed shah be designated on
! the Official ballot by the following title: "The
judicial amendment to the constitution " and
shall he voted for or against as now provided
by law under such title
SEC, 3. This resolution shall take effect and
be In force from and after It's publication in
the Statute-bOOk.
! Approved March t. 1899
thereby certify that the foregoing is % true
and correct copy of the original enrolled reSo-
luton now on file in my ONCE, and that the
same took erect by publication in the statute
book May Is. 800. GEO A. CLARK
J lSEALI Secretary of State
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
BIGHoRNs ARE IN DEMAND.
Rocky Mountain sheep becoming
Very Schrce-Hunters Have Run
Them TO Death.


The following dispatch from Superin-
tendent Frank Baker. Of the National
Geological park. Washington, ID. c., was
received by Charles Il. King, of Colo
RADIO Springs. on April Is: Wanted,
names and addresses of reliable par
ties who would sell or capture living
mountain sheep for park. Game war
den will allow"
TO capture or kill the famous big
horn Rocky mountain sheep (ovis mon
tana) is serious infraction of Colorado
game laws, says the Chicago Chronicle.
None of the sheep. therefore. is in cap
tivity. There was no alternative except
to capture them i'm their habitat. Next
to obtaining the consent of the game
warden of the state, this was the prob
lem. Two months passed and only one
lamb was taken. The capture was eff
fected by no less a character than Buff
falo" Jones. whose theories regarding
the domestication of the buffalo have
made him famous. Two or more pairs
are wanted. The lambs are brought
forth in May and June; hence the sea-
son is favorable for success.
Three droves of bighorns are known
to exist in Colorado. The largest OF
these-24 in numbers on Pixies peak
So well protected are they that tour.
lists riding TO the summit of the peak
have frequently seen them from the
car windows. They have ventured
down the slopes of the mountain con.
sideraby below timber line. This UNI
usual tameness has made il possible
to obtain reliable photograph which
shows them restful and quiet. How
ever the flock is still watched while
grazing by a sentinel high up on mac
cessible rocks, and the note of alarm
is sounded in case of too close APP
proach. The drove consists commonl,
of from five TO thirty sheep. 1t is no
known how large are the other droves
which are TO be found In Estes county
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21

hereby certify that the foregoing is true
and correct copy of the original enrolled reSo-
luton now on file in my ONCE, and that the
same took erect by publication in the statute
BOOK May 10, leN. GEO, a. CLARK
lSEALI Secretary of State,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
Endured DEATHS Aponies.

Only roaring fire enabled j. M.
Garrettson, of San Antonio, Tex, to
lie down when attacked by Asthma,
from which he suffered for years, He
writes his misery was often so great
that is seemed he endured the agonies
of death; but DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry for consumption wholly cured him.
This marvellous medicine is the only
cure for asthma, as we'll as consump-
ton, coughs and colds, and all throat,
chest and lung troubles. Price Doc
and 81. Guaranteed. Evans Bros.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
Editors Awful Plight.

f. NJ. Higgins, Editor Seneca His,
News was afflicted for years with Piles
that no doctor or remedy helped until
he tried Bvcklin's Arnca Salve, the
best in the world. He writes, two
boxes wholly cured him. Infallible
for Piles. Cure guaranteed. Only 25
cents. Sold by Evans Bros.
Frank e. Smith has s65, 900 to loan
on farms at the lowest rate.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-21
Notice of Final Settlement.

STATE OF KANSAS.
Allen County
In the probate court In and for said county.
In the matter of tho estate OF Gilpin Buck
ingham. deceased.
Creditors and an other persons Interested in
the aforesaid estate are hereby notified that
shall apply to the probate court in and for said
county, sitting at the court house in lola
county of Allen, state Of Kansas, on the 18th
day of October, a. D.. 1850
GEORGE w LYLE, Administrator
OF the estate OF Gipin Buckingham, deceased
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-26
STARTLING CHANGES.

Eleven months ago the great need Of
this country was independent bimetal-
lism. The governor of this state said
so. The local Republican organ de-
clared that nothing else is needed to
make this prosperity permanent"
Within the past twelve months the
Tribune explained the ebb and flow of
prosperity, with times better some
years than in others, with intervals of
prosperity, but 'the rich getting richer
and the poor more dependent" all the
while.
Six months ago it explained that all
the prosperity now enjoyed by the peo-
pie Of this republic was "the result of
accidental causes and that ''the re-
public had never faced such peril as it
is facing today"
Three months ago it repeated its
warnings and said:
1t seems to us that the republic was
never so much in need of one great-SOuled,
great-brained statesman with q gift of
the sixth sense as at present. When a
nation is poor and encompassed with
difficulties it can work its way out, for
the love and best thoughts of all the
people are enlisted in its behalf and sac
rif1CeS are sweet at such a time. But
| when 1t is unrestrained in power and
| wealth; when its people undertake en-
terprises never before dreamed of; when
II feels invincible against any force that
any combination of enemies can bring
against it: when the people more and
more live either in palaces or novels, then
there are dangers; and TO such a situation
have we come. Who can. out of the
tangled meshes, restore the old simple
I love of liberty and of justice that form
erly ruled? Where is the brain to direct
the people into the right path and lead
! them on and up to the place which our
country ought to attain to, among the
nations of the earth?
Now the Republican organ claims
that conditions have changed" Since
when? Have they changed since the
first Of the year? Have they changed
so as to make "the old simple love of
liberty and of justice that formerly
ruled unnecessary and undesirable?
/ Have conditions changed the prin-
ciples upon which our government was
4 founded? Have conditions arisen to
/ obviate the need of a great-souled,
money Of the constitution" lost its
rights within three months? When did
these conditions change?
And Governor Wells said a year ago:
The people have not forgotten to look
| forward to that universal and permanent
J prosperity TO be ushered I'M when our
/ nation discovers that it is strong enough
! 10 have a money system Of its own with
/ out getting any other nations consent,
I and when silver shall be restored to the
| countr-.
Has our nation discovered within the
past twelve months that it is not strong
enough to ave a money system Of it's
own without getting the consent of
some other nation?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-26
BRYAN's OPPOSITION.

There are a great many people in
this country who opposed Bryan's
election in 1896, who still differ from
him on many issues and retain a
strong prejudice against him person.
ally, perhaps, but will support him this
fall
The same oId aggregation of gold
bugs and corruptionists will oppose
him but their influence has weakened
as their purposes and methods have
been exposed.
The strength Of the Republican party
four years ago is its strength today.
The influences behind Mckinley in his
campaign are behind his. administra-
ton. Opposed to Bryan four years ago
was the money power-in all it's forms
and with ali its agents He made his
fight, as the local Republican organ
has admitted. against the following
forces and evil influences:
Every great trust in the United
States.
Every bond holder.
Nearly every national bank.
Every railroad corporation.
Every skin game corporation.
Every toady preacher.
Every rent gatherer.
Every government contractor.
Every purchasable newspaper.
Every bunco stock-waterer.
Every manufacturer or iron miner
who ever imported pauper laborers.
Every vote-seller or purchaser"
These same evil influences are
against him yet. They are behind
McKinley's administration and will
back him again in the coming cam
paign.
Which of these forces has our MORN
ing contemporary joined?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-26
SLAVES AND SUBJECTS.

In a Kansas City speech, Mr. Bryan
is reported to have said: Il am not
willing to admit the F'ilipinos as citi-
zens and I do not believe a republic
can have subjects"
This prompts an administration organ
of Utah to inquire:
If not subjects, in the sense Mr.. Bryan
implies. will he explain under what cate
CORY are the native Indians of this coun-
try? Also, what were the negro slaves,
IL not subjects?
The Indian comparison is natural, for
it is made through ignorance. Senator
Beveridge, upon whose intimate ac-
quaintance with Philippine conditions
the administration relies, says that
every town in Luzon has its educated
men and it's homes of refinement" Ex-
Minister John Barrett, now lecturing
for Mckinley in the principal cities
of The east, contributed an article to a
leading American magazine not long
since in which he said that there are
real statesmen and diplomats among
the Tagais an that "their native gov
ernment would compare favorabIy in
point of decorum and intelligence with
many of the courts of civilized govern
ments." President Schurman of the
insular commission said upon his re-
turn from the Philippines: Il quite
agree with Admiral Dewey that the
intelligence exhibited by the FiIipinos
is surprising. The great mass of the
people are Cneducated, of course. but
you cannot go into any city or town
in Luzep without finding a fair sprink-
ling of able, intelligent and we'll edu-
Gated men, many Of whom have been
educated in European universities. T
can recall at the moment doctors, law
yers and business men among the Fill
pinos as highly educated as any have
met anywhere il the world. I share
Admiral Dewey's sympathy for the
Filipinos, nut consider it a great pity
that they do not recognize that the best
thing for them would be to acknowl-
edge American sovereignty"
This is the testimony of leading cham
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-26

pions of conquest, who admit that the
Filipinos are superior to the Cubans in
capacity Tor self government, but in
sist that we should conquer and retain
the islands for the profit there is in
the ownership. If imperialists could
show that Indians in the United States
were living in cities and towns Of per-
maqent houses, cultivating land. prac-
tscing the professions and sending the
youth OF every village to European uni
versities to be educated, the plea of
justification they make by citing the
case of the savage and nomadic red
man would be entitled to some consid-
Grafton.
But who ever thought to see the abo-
litiOn party, as it used to style itself,
hold up negro slavery as a model, as a
justification, as an excuse for attempt
ing to rule by force an unwilling peo-
pie whom a Republican administration
refuses to admit to citizenship because
of their color!
Shade Of the departed Lincoln, be-
hold to what depths your party has de-
soended! 1t claims the right to rule
people by virtue of racial superiority!
1t claims. as the Shareholder claimed
| that the black people of the south seas
are better off when we own and hold
them! 1t cites the extinct institution
of slavery as a precedent for proceed
ure in the Philippines 1t asks. through
its organs, why can we not have SUBJ
jects-what else were the slaves?
From Lincoln the emancipation to
Mckinley the inperator what fall
was there, my countrymen!"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-26
TAYLOR WAS PREMATURE.

Republican methods in Kentucky are
just a trifle more up-to-date than are
those of the national Republican par
ty
Taylor evidently believes in militar-
ism. He surrounded himself with a
militia equipped and maintained at
the expense of the state to prevent
civil authorities from arresting such
criminals as he needed in his business.
He organized a mob of murderous
mountaineers from the moonshine
Businesses of Laurel county.
This was his machinery. His plan,
as revealed at the investigation of the
Goebel assassination, was to kill off
Democratic members of the state leg
islature, one by one, until Republicans
constituted a majority of the survivors.
Naturally they began on Goebel, his
chief adversary. The evidence shows
that the crime was the res of a
horrible conspiracy with whir s i'm
possible to disassociate tn ander
Taylor.
1t is to be hoped that whole
dastardly plot viii be revee at this
investigation and that every one of the
assassin band will be brought to JUS
tice.
The people of this republic are not
yet quite prepared for a government
by brute force. 1t will have to be ap-
piled to our subjects on the islands
for while till we get accustomed to
it. Mr.. Taylor of Kentucky, was a lit
tie premature in his application of the
ministration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-26

According to the Chicago Tribune,
there are now living but five women
who are daughters of men who fought
for the colonies in the war of the revo-
luton. Only one Of them lives west Of
Pennsylvania. She is Mrs. Mary Gano
Bryan Cobb of Kokomo. Ind. She is a
daughter Of Captain Daniel Gano, one
of the five brothers who followed their
father, Rev. John Gano, the famous
Fighting Chaplain Of the revolution
airy times, into the field. Mrs. Cobb
was born in the blue grass region Of
Kentucky in 1903. In 1922 she married
Louis Bryan. a veteran of the war Of
1872, and the great-grandfather of the
free silver leader. She is the only
woman now alive who is at once the
daughter of revolutionary soldier and
the widow of a soldier of the war Of
1912. There are still Zoo widows of SOL
diers of the latter war alive.