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The Iola register., 1901-12-27
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Kansas City, Dec. PA Missouri
Pacific passenger crashed into an
electric car on the Helms line yester-
day evening injuring three persons,
Constantinople, Dec. 23.-Advices
received here state that Miss Stone
and Nine. Tsilka are both well but
there is no probability OF their being
released for ten days.
Washington, Dec. 23.-Booker T..
Washington spent considerable time
at the White House today in confer
ence with the President.
Guthrie, Okla. Dec. 23.-The Katy
has filed a charter to build a road
from here to Stevens, l. T. Stevens
is the terminal of the Coffeyville and
Kansas City branch of the Katy.
Kansas City, Dec, 23.-W. T. Ire
leaven for several years chief clerk in
the Santa Fe freight Offices here has
been made Division freight agent at
Chanute to fill the vacancy made by
the promotion of Wesley Merritt to
the position of Industrial agent.
New York, Dec. 4.-The Roosevelt
hospital says that Mrs. frank Leslie
is remarkably improved today.
Detroit, Dec. .24.-General Algers' s
physicians say he passed a goodnight
and is doing well today.
Dunlow, w. Va, Dec. PA fire
originating in the post office destroyed
the entire business portion of town
during the night. The lossis seventy
| five thousand dollars.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
Toistoi ON Modern Americans.

"But the American army is much
larger than it was. 1t seems to me it
grew very quickly. Only a short time
ago l read it was less than $4,000, now
it is 100000 or more" told him 100,-
900 was the maximum; that the mini.
mum was much less. "But you build
great ttleships-the best in any ma.
ton" l agreed to this. 1T is pity to
think you need any battleships, After
the Pleiad of writer's America produced
in the civil war you can now only show
as your most brilliant brain, Carnegie,
the millionaire. (He pronounced the
word Carneji) You had Thoreau, Bal.
lou, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier
and Walt Whitman. 1t was your Ho,
meric age. Then rose the Achilles
among statesmen, Abraham Lincoln
All these were a giant constellation
Your war fever is over, but gold has
you now Your great men are your
millionaires." Frank Leslie's Popular
Monthly.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
ARE FOR RECIPROCITY
A Meeting Called by Governor Stanley
Held at Topeka.

Topeka, dec. 23.-About fifty repre-
sentatives of the agricultural, live
stock and commercial interests of the
West are in session here today at the
call of Governor Stanley to organize
an association to promote reciprocity
with Mexico and other Latin .Ameri-
can countries with special reference
to the productslof the West. a per-
manent organization will be formed
and a convention held later, in which
all the business interests of the West
and the governors of the Western
states will be invited to participate.
The matter of urging Congress to in
clude in the ship subsidy bill provis-
ions to increase shipping upon the
Gulf of Mexico between ports where
no regular line of traffic now exists
will be discussed.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
THE INCENDIARY NAIL.
little Tool That In n Source of Much
Trouble to Insurance
Men.

speaking of insurance matters"
said listener, 81 suppose the plain,
oid-fashioned nail has caused more
6res in the big establishments where
machinery is used than any other lit
tie thing in existence. The cigarette
stub has played its part. Ditto the
cigar stump. Occasionally sparks have
fallen from the ditcher's pipe into
wad of material easily ignited, and
fire has been the result Sparks have
oozed out from smokestacks and en-
gines of various kinds with the same
result. And there is the match, the
deadly and dreaded match, the awful
enemy of the men who are engaged
in the business of betting, if l may
say it, against fires. The match, of
course, has caused its quota of fires in
the worlds history. Sometimes, when
the sulphuric end is particularly dry,
it is the easiest thing in the world to
start a blaze at the end of match.
The slightest rub may do it. But If the
match is not in good condition, If 1t
happens to be stubborn and unfit, the
situation is different. But the nail is
always fit. The only thing needed is
for it to come in contact with some
other hard material with sufficient
force to cause a spark and heat gen.
Grafton. Nails have really produced
heavy per cent. Of the cotton fires
Of the country. During recent years
on account of steps taken by the own
ers and conductors of the larger cot
| hNs- n1a n
stance of insurance men, the nail has
not been such a prolific producer o.
fires. way has been found, for in
stance. in cotton gins, cotton mills
and in plants where cotton seed ar'
put through manufacturing processes
of extracting nails and other weight!
, and finty substances that may fint
2 lodgment in these infammable prod
, ucts. Gravity is the natural fore
used. says the New Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat. Nails and rocks, and material
Of this kind are heavier than cottol
and its byproducts. and they hav
tendency to force their way to tn
i bottom Of the heap. BY allowing thes
4 | products to pass over a rolling bel
L arrangement these heavier material
! filter toward the bottom, and are fina'
ly extracted; so that when the col
ton or the cotton seed pass throug
the grind in the various manufactui
ing processes there is but little dar
t ger from fire so far as these thing
e are concerned. But the nail still play
S its part in isolated sections, and til
insurance man still looks upon the ma
as one of his enemies. and the ma
I plays its part in the hazard compute
4 tions."
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Proof Positive hut Awkward.

A convict at French penal settle
ment, who was undergoing life sem
tence, desired to marry female con-
Set, such marriages being of common
occurrence. The governor of the coll
ony offered no objection, but the priest
proceeded to cross-eXamine the pris-
oner.
did you marry in France?" he
asked.
"Yes."
Sand your wife is dead?"
"She is"
"Have you any document to show
that she is dead?"
mo"
"Then I must decline to marry you.
You must produce some proof to show
that your wife is dead"
There was a pause and the bride
prospective looked at the would-be
groom.
Finally he said: 81 can prove that
my former wife is dead"
"How will you do SOP"
"I was sent here for killing her"
The bride accepted him notwith-
standing Scotsman.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
Too Much for the F1ies.

A young man in Philadelphia, who
has plenty of time to devote TO scien-
tifc questions, has discovered that
music has great terror for flies, He
learned the fact from observing at a
park concert that while the audience
was greatly annoyed by the insects, the
musicians in the shell were free from
all inconvenience.
His conclusion is that the sound
waves from the she'll kept back the
flies, and that although hundreds Of
them struggled to reach the shell, they
might as well have attempted to fly in
The face of a tornado; and thus, he de-
slares, Enclosed by a magic curtain
made of their own music, the musicians
played Wagner unannoyed by the
tticky and pestering flies"
Imperial Wagner, dead and turned to clay,
Composed tune to keep the files away.
youths Companion.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
ABOUT LETTER WRITING.
IL Is An Art which Has Not Moved
Forward with the
Time.

Our postal facilities are greater than
ever, and there is no question that the
pens which are manufactured to-day
are as much superior to the quills our
forefathers used than that modern
writing fluids are superior to the juice
of pukeberries. Yet there is a general
agreement that the art of letter writ
ing has gone backwards during recent
years. One reason for this is that
most persons are writing books. An
other reason noted by modern stu
dent is the fact that we do not have
to write letters, as our fathers did, &c
convey political or public information,
says the Syracuse Post-Standard
Yet everyone knows that there are
more things to write about now than
there ever have been before, and even
the rush and turmoil of modern life,
which. we are always telling ourselves,
excuse us from trying to do the good
and pleasant things which our fathers
did, cannot be the whole rea on for the
neglect of letter writing. The young
man who contemplates housekeeping
10 plNbhbAN bN9l a lAipA tui as NaiA Nv
found, yet goodness knows what would
become OF the revenues of the post Of
fee department were it not for the in
dustry of this young man in writing
letters.
The trouble is, so at least one stu
dent of the question believes, that peo-
pie will not take the trouble. "The or
dinary letter." he says, sis merely a
jotting down without art or order, of
whatever comes into the mind during
the brief interval given to compost
tion. When persons complain
that they cannot write letters they
are generally, with entire unconscious.
ness, explaining that they shrink
away from the labor of doing it," Yet
effective letter writing, this critic goes
on to say, always counts, and this is
especially true to-day, when so few per.
sons will concern themselves to doit.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
STILL CAPTURING THEN
Gen. Kitchener Makes His Weekly
Statement From Africa.

By scripps- McRae PTess Association.
London, Dec 24.-KitcheRer's week.
u report shows A. Beers killed, $50
wounded or captured. Large quanti-
ties of munitions of war have been
been taken. Kitchener adds that My
burg's command is now reduced to
two hundred men. tKritzingers follow
ing has been driven from the Camd o.
boo mountains. Commandant, Had
brook and his brother, field cornet,
were killed. Colonels Steel and
Brander captured respectively thirty
aud sixty Beers.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
A Woman's Awful Peril.

"There is only one chance to save
your life and that is through an opera
tion" were the startling words heard
by Mrs. l. B. Hunt Of Line Ridge,
Wis, from her doctor after he had
vainly tried to cure her of frightful
case of stomach trouble and yellow
jaundice. Gall stones had formed
and she constantly grew worse. Then
she began to use Electric Bitters
which wholly cured her. It's a won
derful Stomach, Liver and Kidney
Remedy. Cures Dyspepsia, Loss of
Appetite. Try it. Only 80 cts. Guar
anteed. For sale by Evans Bros.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27

and cheerfulness sooi.
disappear when the kid
neys are out Of order
or diseased.
Kidney trouble has
become so prevalent
that II Is not uncommon
for a child to be born
afflicted with weak kid
neys. Ifthe child urin-
aies too often. if the
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
Law-Abiding Commonwealth.

Massachusetts, is one of only five
1tates in the union in which no lynch
ings have occurred during the last 10
years. The other four are Delaware,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and
u;ah.
The Iola register., 1901-12-27
On the Nav OF Arrival,

Smith, don't see anything very
rocky about this coast.
Brown-Wait until you sample the
beds.--Judge.
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Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis
courages and lessons ambition; beauty, vioo-
The Iola register., 1901-12-27

urine scalds the flesh or II, when the child
reaches an age when It should be able 10
control the passage, II is yet afflicted with
bed-wetting. depend upon II. the cause OF
the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment oi
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble is due to diseased condition OF the
kidneys and bladder and not to habit as
most people suppose.
Women as we'll as men are made mis-
cradle with kidney and bladder trouble,
and both need the same great remedy.
The mild and the immediate effect oi
Swamp-Root is soon realized. 1t is sold
by druggists. in fifty Eyfr
cent and one dollar f9lIFSf5 as :; Z: 4s::S s:I
sizes. You may have l!i, ~,
sample bottle by mail %Sslals llses3 hs:s5sa3 "
free. also pamphlet tell Homo Of swawp Root.
ing all about 1t, including many Of The
thousands OF testimonial letters received
from suffer srs cured. In writing DR.. Kilme
& Co.. Binghamton. N. Y, be sure ant
mention this paper
The Iola register., 1901-12-27

by druggists, in fifty
cent and one dollar
sizes. You may have a
sample bottle by mail
fraa alec DaroDblnt ,oii
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-31

other branches of industry with which
Corean custom demanded that they
should be familiar, and the former
teaching reading and writing in both
Corean and Chinese.
This was a great innovation, and the
result of it was watched with great in
terest. The little girls proved them
selves quite unhandicapped by the
suppression which their sex had I'M
dergone for centuries, and learned
with greater facility than the small
boys. They developed many Iovable
traits of character, the most distinct
i've of which was their thought fitness
of each other.
In Corea there is a special dress for
every particular occasion, and the lit
tie girls who correspond to our brides
maids are clothed in way fearful and
wonderful to behold; but their every-
day dre-s is simple and hygienic
enough to meet with the approval of
the most ardent dress reformer. In
appearance the girls and women of
Corea are orten attractive. Their
black hair grows very thick, their
eyes are bright and intelligent, and
their ratk swarthy cheeks are tinged
with a c or which may be artificial.
but is oftol the sin of obust health.
N. Y. t Dune.
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RABBIT HUTCH.

of rabbit-hutch which strikes me as
excellent and tempts me to build one
exactly like it. The construction is
shown in accompanying Illustrations.
My CORES pondent describes it as fol-
lows: ''The building should have the
floor at least two inches off the
ground, and banked up as much as
possible all around, for warmth. Nest
boxes for breeding does should have
partition in for nest. Partitions be-
tween pens should be of wood, as some
hares will fight through wire and they
will not do well. Nest-boxes should
have the lid hung with hinges, SO that
the dirt can be removed and the boxes
opened"
In regard to the management Mr.
Edwards says: 81 feed once a day
corn-chop, and alfalfa green when
can get it. and when I cannot, alfalfa
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YOUNG GIRLS OF coREA.
Their Education Consists of the Or
binary Domestic Accomplish
ments and Nothing Else.

Marriage does not bring happiness
to girls in Corea any more than to
those in other parts of the far east.
When young a girl is allowed free
dom which is denied her later, and it is
not till she attains the dignity of be-
ing a mother-in-law that she begins to
. enjoy life again.
The daughter of Corean house is
of little consequence, while a son is
OF great Importance, and his advent
into the family circle is always well
coined with joy. When very young
the boys and girls play together, but
when they reach the age of eight or
ten a great distinction is made. In
the families of wealth, where none of
the women Of the family are obliged
to do any of the homework or toll in
the fields, the daughters are secluded
in the part of the house reserved for
the women, into which no men are al
lowed to enter. Their brothers dwell
in the mems apartments, where they
are free to do what they please.
Education in Corea is provided to a
certain extent for the boys and young
men, but it is almost an unheard-of
thing for girl to be allowed to learn
anything outside of the purely domes-
tic accomplishments. The girl is q
mere chattel; she is not even consid-
cred a unit of society. AS an illhstra-
ton of how far this idea is carried it
is interesting I o note that the girl has
literally no name. When she is a
mere child a surname is given to her
for convenience, but when she mar
ries she gives it up and merges her
identity in that of her husband. Her
parents call her by the ward or dis
trict in which she contracted her mar
riage; her parents-in-law call her by
the name of the village from which
she has come. Later on, when she
has children, she is named the Moth
er of So and So"
1t is safe to say that the small Cor
can girl does not appreciate the bless
ings of her childhood until she grows
up. That many of them are capable
of much broader existence has been
proved by some women missionaries
in southern Corea who have made eX-
periments in their education. They
built bungalow in the midst of the
old city of Fusan, and lived right
among the people, learning to know
them in their homes. It was not long
before their attention was attracted
to the pitiful case of little orphan
girl, and they decided to take her in
and care for her. Soon they heard of
others, and the little band increased
until it numbered seven or eight. They
hired native teachers, both men and
women, the latter giving the children
lessons in sewing, cooking, and all the
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Do Not Pen the Turkeys.

81 do not wonder that there are so
many failures made in preparing tur-
keys in the market when we take into
consideration the course so many
breeders take in fattening their
Birds" says George Wolf. in Farm
Poultry. 81 have frequently seen
foclls of turkeys penned up in a
building for the purpose of fattening
for market, and it was failure every
time. This is no more than should
be expected, for turkeys are of a
wild nature, and as soon as they are
cooPed they begin quarreling, chasing
one another about and constantly
worrying for freedom. They soon
tire of their food, grow thin, and
will, when killing time comes, weigh
less than when first cooped with the
expectation Of fattening them"
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PORTABLE PASTURE FENCE.

portable fence, but L invented one
myself some 20 years ago, which gives
moderate satisfaction.
The cut gives an idea of it. This
fence is self-supporting, without
posts, by driving stake at about
every third panel. The fence is made
in the shop in panels, the boards be-
ing nailed to two by four or two by
two pieces of hard wood, which are
beveled at the top so as to give the
proper slope to the panels, which are
made to slope alternately toward
each other. The fence is supported
by three short boards nailed across
the uprights at the notch, and, of
course, when it is moved these must
be knocked off; but, even if they
should be spoiled so that they can
not be used again, it takes but lit
tie lumber to replace them. I have
a line of this fence which has stood
20 years without repairs, but it has
not been moved in that time. I
think that two men could take down
and move a short distance and set
up 40 rods or more of this fence in a
day.-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
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BELGIAN HARE HUTCH.
Colorado Fancier Describes one That
Ia Warmly Recommended by
other Breeders.

The Belgian hare fad is slowly abat-
ing, no doubt, and yet find that peo-
pie take a good deal of interest in
these animals. One of our inquirers
seems to have the same trouble that
had met; namely, that the young
die off from some unrecognized cause.
The boomers in this business usually
claim that Belgian hares are exempt
from disease. L have lost good many,
and have been unable to say from what
cause or disease. Others who have had
the same experience tell me that they
have had better luck since adopting
the practice of putting a drop of by
drachloric tacid into one quart or so
of the water given to the hares to
drink. Another reader, Thomas Ed
wards, of Colorado, gives me plan
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-07-31
CORRECT DISPLAY OF CHINA

ornaments of a dining-room. Tint the
walls to match the general tone of the
room, or else cover them with a very
thin, hardwood veneer, accurately fit
ted and tackled in place with the small
est-sized brads. Varnish the veneer,
and keep clean by weekly wiping with
a soft cloth wrung very dry out of
tepid water.
Leave the shelf surfaces plain and
cover them with linen, cut to fit, and
ornament with line of drawn work
Heavy butchers linen is best, though
the soft-toned art linens may be eff
fectively used. Set one shelf apart
for glasses, preferably the upper one.
Cut the linen for it twice the shelf
width, hem it all around, then double
it. Thus there is a light pad all over
the shelf. 1t can be kept as fresh as
the single covers, and will safeguard
glass.
With a crowded glass shelf, put down
small pieces first, inverting them, then
turn bigger pieces over them, taking
care that they do not touch. But be-
fore risking big bowl thus upon it's
own margin, it is well to test it, and
see if it presses equally all around.
The slightest inequality may mean de-
struction.
Pressed glass and colored glass may
be piled together with comparative
impunity. But if when the pile is
Jared any piece in it gives out a
harsh rattle, it is wise to recast it..
The rattle portends breakage, since
81 h
evenly. Slender-stemmed wine glasses
look pretty tied in clusters of three,
the stems crossing and suspended by
bright ribbons from screw hooks in
the top. They need not hang low
enough to menace other things. CIaret
jugs can be likewise hung, and other
fiat things may go in racks across the
back. In that case the back needs a
padded linen, like the shelf proper.
Test hanging things by setting them
swinging, so as to make certain they
will not strike anything else.
Keep plates carefully sorted, and
piled size and pattern together. Give
big platters room upon the lowermost
shelf. If it is not properly grooved,
tack strips of lath along it, and cut
the linen for it wide enough to go in
and out. Stand the platters on edge,
the biggest next the wall, graduating
them toward the front. With a very
high shelf space they look prettier on
end, the highest in the middle, and get
ting lower toward the ends. Hand
some covered dishes are best set in q
row in front of the fat ones Use
judgment and an eye for color in all
placings. A small, clear yellow bit
against background of dull blue
illumines everything around it.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat,
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hay leaves. L do not change the food
at any time, and I have as fine hares
as anyone around here. 1 give plenty
of fresh water and keep them supplied
with salt. Climate has a great deal
to do with the successful raising of
Belgian hares. They require a very
dry and fairly warm place, well pro-
tected from cold winds and shaded
from the hot sunshine. The reason I
feed my hates the way 1 do is that
corn is fattening, and L find they grow
better on it than on oats or wheat.
Rabbits naturally are all muscle. They
require some green food the year
round, but not to excess, as it will
cause bowel complaint; neither can
they live on all dry food, as they can
not digest it. They require fresh wa
ter, and, above all, they must be kept
absolutely dry; the least dampness
will kill them off quickly. Keep each
breeding doe separate and handle as
little as possible. Do not breed a doe
again until you can take the young
from her. You will get better young
ones and keep the doe in better condi-
ton. If hutches are kept clean you
will find the hares will also be clean
and more healthy. - 7. Greiner, in
Farm and Fireside