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The Iola register., 1902-01-24
ACID WORKS 70 DOUBLE
RumOred Consolidation with Kansas
City Chemical Company. Spend
Half Million to Enlarge.

There is a rumor in the air, hanging
low above lola, that the Standard
Acid Works, of this city, and the
Kansas City Missouri Chemical Co.
have been combined under the name OF
the United States Chemical Company.
And tte story goes on to say that
half q million dollars has been set
aside as about the proper sum to eX-
pend in enlarging the lola plant. Mr..
William Lanyon is to be retained as
manager of the lola works and Mr.. K.
Ziesing will continue in his present
plan to complete and operate a large
zinc smelter in connection with the
acid works.
And there is a whisper that several
high moguls from the other part OF
the firm have been here looking over
the lola plant and have declared it to
be one of the most complete and best
equipped in the country. That is the
result of Mr.. Lanyon's year in Europe
where he made study of these things,
In his original plans his idea OF
doubling the present plant was kept in
view and the present buildings so con-
structed and arranged as to permit
new buildings alongside
Just who the Kansas City Chemical
Co. is, atfiant did not state. The
American Smelling and Refining Co.
built a big acid works in connection
with the Argentine smelter, Possibly
that is it. Perhaps the talk of the big
company's coming to the gas belt IS
not wind. Perhaps the double acid
capacity may mean that this company
expects to build factory where these
acids NAV be used. Who uses acids?
The Iola register., 1902-01-24
KANSAS WEALTH AND TAXATION,

Topeka Capital; While the full CEN
sus returns have not yet appeared, it
is not far out of the way to estimate
the total wealth of Kansas at about
two thousand million dollars, of which
about One.half is personal property
and the remainder real estate. The
personal property of the State will
probably considerably exceed one
thousand million dollars.
How far the taxation system falls
short Of its object is manifest when IL
appears that the total volume of all
personal property found in the State
by the assessors in 1900 was $50, ,62S,
244. This is about five per cent of the
true value of personal property.
While personal and real property
are nearly equal, the real property
found by the assessors in the same
year was 1924, 1873, 7O4, just four times
the personal, or probably something
over 20 per cent of actual value of
real estate.
In that year real estate PAID
per cent, personal property l6t per
cent and the railroads paid ia per
cent of the total State taxes.
The discrepancy between real and
personal property, however, is not SO
serious in a state like Kansas, in
which all property is generally
diffused among the people, as the wide
divergence OF the valuations in the
various counties; corporations, for
example, being assessed in one county
for one-half of one per cent of their
capital and in another for 80 per cent
Of their capital. This injustice is the
greatest present evil in Kansas and
one that must be remedied by the Leg
islature if anything like a fair distri'
button is to be made of the burdens oi
government
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

There is a disease prevailing in this
country most dangerous because so decep-
live. Many sudden deaths are caused by
lt-heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure
or apopexy are often the result Of kidney
disease. II kidney trouble is allowed 10 ad-
vance the kidney poisoned blood will attack
The vital organs, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Then the richness Of the blood-the albumen
leaks olt and the sufferer has Bright's
Disease, the worst form Of kidney trouble.
Or. Kilmer's Swamp-ROOt the new dis
sovery is the true specific for kidney, bladder
and urinary troubles. 1t has cured thousands
Of apparently hopeless cases, after all other
efforts have failed. At druggists in fifty-cent
md dollar sizes. A sample bottle sent free
by mail, also book telling about Swamp
Root and its wonderful cures. Address
Dr.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamt,n, N Y. and
mention this paper.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24
MCKINLEY DAY.

New York Mail and Express
The birthday of William Mckinley,
January %, promises to become
known and observed throughout the
notion as "McKinleyday." Themove-
ment for its celebration this year had
it's origin with the Mckinley National |
Memorial association, which was or
ganized for the purpose of receiving |
contributions to fund for the cree.
tion of an appropriate memorial at
Canton, the home of President McKin-
ley and his last resting place. The
desire to honor the name of the ''most
beloved of presidents" found early
expression inmany movements to erect
local memorials and in the PROPOSE
tion to provide for an arch at Wash
ington. These other plans have been
so arranged that none of them con-
let with the purpose of affording OPP
portunity for the concentration in the
Canton memorial, of the voluntary
offering of citizens in every part ofthe
country.
Incident to this plan was the sugges-
tion that the birthday of Mckinley be
made the occasion forpublic meetings,
addresses and contributions. The
response has been wide and instant.
The governors of many states have
issued procamations, and others have
expressed their purpose of joining in
, a movement that has attracted popu.
lar approval everywhere. 1t is note
9 worthy that this impulse to honor the
( anniversary of McKinley's birtt
! knows no sectional lines. The Cover.
nors of Georgia and Arkansas we're
, among the first to issue proclamations
g and "a similarly prompt response has
n come from Colorado and California
d The New y York Legislature will observ,
\ the anniversary. 1t is to be hopet
that within few days, every state il
n the Union will have added its name t,
d the roster. All the nations mQurne
d when Mckinley died Let all the ma
tion now join in proving that the re
i public is grateful for the splendi
q record of his noble life.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

THE various chapters of the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy of Kentucky
are making ii war on thei production
of "Uncle Tom sGCabin." They say
the war is over, that The purpose of
the play has been accomplished, that
the scenes depicted are over.drawn
and serve to create prejudice against
former shareholders. A1dithe mod
ern "Tom Show" must be admitted to
be rather Objectionable. Yet lot of
editors who have poked fun at them
for years will now demand that the
show be permitted "a exhibit in Ken
lucky. 1t is prejudiced old world at
best.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24
Gold Found at Humboldt.

Mr.. Beal, Colorado man, while
sinking we'll on his farm, mile and
a half east of Humboldt, the other day,
found what he thought to be gold
quartz. He took quantity to town,
mad it assayed, and believes there may
be gold in paying quantities there.
What Allen county soil won't pro-
duce isn't worth having.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24
WHITE AND KING EDWARD.

The Mail and Breeze believes
that will Whites visit to London to
attend the coronation will be a glori-
Gus opportunity to "stand up for
Kansas" The Independent says;
cit is reported that McClure's Mag
azine offers Kansasman VIII White
the chance 60 report the coronation of
his nibs, Edward VII, which event
will be pulled off some time next spring
or summer. We are pleased to know
that Kansas man has been selected |
to do this job and one that can do it
up in good shape.
"Kansas does not want her repre-
sentative az the coronation to seem
proud and naughty but it might be
well to let Ed know what state he is
from before the festivities are over. If
he should be invited to dine with the
king, as he probably will be, when the
English monarch passes him the roast
beef, Will might incidentally chip in
something to this effect:
Ed, old boy, this is rattliug good
beef you have here. I suppose you
know where it came from?'
edward would probably answer
that owing to the fact that he had been
so busy getting ready for the corona
tion and cleaning up his crown. he
haG neglected to ask where the beef
came from, and then William can
answer:
"'The fiber of this beef plainly
| tells me where it was grown. Trace
the steer from which this was taken
to his place of birth and you will find
that his happy youth was spent in
Lyon county, Kansas
"Whenthe eggs are passed Will can
playfully chuck the King of Englan d
and Emperor of India in the ribs and
say:
- Me fat and bald-headed royal
highness, methinks | recognize the
aavor of this hen fruit. II takes re
back in fancy to the sweet prairies and
I listen to the lay Of the Kansas hen.
Yes sir, these eggs were shipped from
Kansas.
| "When it comes to desert and tn
apple pie is being served. viii cal
= remark as he casts his neither lip unde
portion of a quarter section:
" Edward, the Seven Come EleveI
Times, | feel at home here. You ca
' H,.u nf
apples: they we're gathered in one O
the orchards of Fred Wellhouse, tn
Kansas apple king. see that yo
start You had not supposed that W
had any kings over there, but there i
where you are off. We have king
there, good kings, though kings al
E not always good, as many a Kansa
man has found TO his sorrow. In Kar
d. sas we apply the title as a mark G
u distinction, not as an indication o
special authority. We have oattl
= kings and wheat kings and corn king
e and one apple king, from whose orct
Il ard the interior decoration of this pi
. was taken if mistake not. BY tt
way, Ed, will you be so kind as
g pass the salt. All, is as l expected
. the fueness Of the grain and the sun
l. prising purity of this chloride of sod
-" um, beways its origin; that salt cam
, from Hutchinson, Kan
" "By following along this line Wi
liam can get in some rafting goo
advertising for his state and at IL
% same time show that a Kansas man
at ease, self possessed and loyal
V his own whether he is sitting wit
% kings or with an abbreviated flush.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24
A GOOD WORD FOR CONGRESSMAN
BOWERSOCk.

Baltimore American There is a
congressman from Kansas named
owersock-Justin d. Bowersock-
who is not afraid to express his opin-
ions regarding men whose views and
teachings he believes to be antagonis-
tic to the best interests of his country.
Since the Postotiice Department be-
gan its war on illicit publications that
have been enjoying the privileges OF
second-class mail matter all congress
men have found in their mails circu-
lars of protest from those who have
been making use of privileges to which
they we're not entitled. Pressure has
been brought to bear on congressmep
to check the work of the Postoilice
Department, but so far no success has
attended the efforts in this direction.
Among the protests was one from n
free-thinking association of Pennsyl-
wanna, and was called "Au Appeal
From the People" In the most vici-
Gus language it criticised the Post
master General for ruling that its
publications, with which it was flood
ing the country, could no longer go
through the mails us second-class
matter.
To this appeal the Kansas congress
man has sent an answer that shows he
has very level head. He writes:
"Wild and woolly statements like
those contained in your petition, sent
through the mails promiscunously,
lead weak men 20 imagine that they
are oppressed and 'dCwntroddcn,
and that we will soon be nation al
'serfs and slaves, and hence the gov
erument ought to be struck down.
This is one of the first steps to TRACE
dies like those at Ford's Theater anC
at the Baltimore and Potomac Depot,
J in Washington, and the Pan-Ameri
can Exposition at Buffalo. There
we're three bipeds whose names ough
to be at the head of all petitions tina
contain untrue statements that leat
men TO despair of our government
= and to conclude that they are God-ap
pointed to shed innocent blood ol
designated by some society of unres
and selhshness to hurl mouthy anC
deceptive protests against those law
upon which the safety of the masses
and any civilization we may hav'
rests-Wilkes Booth, Charles Gui
teau, Leon Czolgosz."
/, These words from the Kansas con
gresham are not too strong. Circu
lars and villainous publications o
that character, which are scattered al
over the country, do vast amount O
harm, especially among those who's
minds are not very evenly balanced
and who think they have grievanc
against the government for not max
ing rich men of them. The mails hav
been for years loaded with publica
g tions of this character, and it is hig
g time the department refused to carr
them at any price. Congressma
= Bowersock has characterized them a
they deserve, and has proven tha
It those who, under the name of liberty
0 abuse their privileges, spend thei
: lives in bitter attacks on the govern
The Iola register., 1902-01-24
1t Girdles the Globe,

The fame of Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
as the best in the world, extendsround
the earth. It's the one perfect healer
of cuts, corns, burns, bruises, sores,
scalds, boils, ulcers, felons, aches
pains and all skin eruptions. Only
infallible pile cure. 25c box at
EvansBros.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

PEELED to read the Bible. A good
many people will watch the career of
a boy thus reared with considerable
Interest. Most boys are bad enough
when compelled to absorb every good
impulse possible.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

THE Kansas City Star is making a
valiant fight to eradicate the "snitch y
from that city. At first one inclines
to the belief that a "snitchn is some
manner of highwayman's tool and
this is is not very far wrong. a
"snitch" is described as an alleged
lawyer who works up lawsuits and
promotes litigation, later selling out
to the other side. This is the manner
of varmint Ebert Hubbard must have
had in mind when he said: Lawyers
are people we hire to protect us from
other lawyers. If the "snitch" is Il
bad thing for Kansas City, and it
surely is, it must be bad elsewhere
and ought to be handled like other
thieves.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

IT is nowsaid that the ST. Louis ex-
position will more thun likely not be
held until 1904. Ex- Governor Francis,
one of the directors says: "In 1903
we can make it as big as any eXposi-
tion ever given, but in 1904 we can
make it lot bigger"
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

Lawrence Journal; A Kansas City
man last summer organized "l9O4
Roosevelt Club. " Yesterday the
Kansas City man was agreed upon for
postmaster at Kansas City. Which is
an additional proof of the old ad age
about the worm getting in the way of
the bird that gets to him first.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

THE Quenemo Tribune, Populist,
after a valiant struggle, gave up last
week and was absorbed by the Quene-
mo Republican,.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

THE Kansas State Historical Society
will hold its twenty annual meet.
ing in the hall of representatives in
Topeka, January 2l. Mr.. John Fran
els, OF Allen county, Is President.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

THERE is no end to the fun-poking
at cultured Boston. One OF the late
gags is that in reply to the question
4What did Santa Claus bring you?"
u little Boston girl repli-
ed 81 have been forced to aban-
don my youthful conception of Santa
Claus as an actual entity. Myparents
however presented mewith Kant's Cri
tique."
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

ment under which they live and seek
to stir up trouble and sedition among
the people need expect neither aid nor
countenance from him.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

Lawrence Journal: TIE lola REG
lister claims that its town is not wick
ed. But even the HHGIsTER must ad-
init that its righteousness, If it has
any, is only comparative. Time was
when it compared itself to Baldwin,
Lecompton and towns of their size and
virtue. Now it aspires to be classed
with New York and Chicago
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

Lawrence journal; This much may
be said of the political conditions in
Kansas: If there is not a rupture in
the Republican party,andia break in
the lines this year it will be because
the rank and filelhas too much sense
to follow the lead of self-appointed
'leaders." There be men among those
who should be making harmony who
would today split the party and turn
Kansas back to Democracy in or
der to crafty their own desires for
revenge. 1t will be a sad day fol
Kansas Republicans when the rank
and file turns listening ear to these
disturbers and selfish politicians.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

OWING to the short crop of cucum-
bers, pickle famine is predicted
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

The baudmaster of Osborne has re-
Gently begun breaking in twelve raw
players. II plus the leader makes l3.
Unlucky Osborne.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

ToPEKA's s school board ordered the
Bib.e read daily by every pupil in the
city schools, like any other study.
j. b. Billiard, fatheriof one pupil or
dured his son to refuse TO comply.
The son was expelled. Now test
case VIII be brought 10 the courts to
com bine whether pupil can be com
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

ANOTHER man who went to the
Philippines rabid anti-eXpansionist
has returned converted. DR.. A. l..
Hazlett, appointed by Mckinley on a
committee to investigate the moral
conditions in the islands, has just re-
turned to his home in Colorado
Springs. He says: II went! there an
anti-expansionist and comeback firm
ly believing that we should hold on to
the islands and do what we can for
them" He says the morals of the
people are improving and that Uncle
Sam is suppressing vice.
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

IT is reported that the Santa Fe will
haul bunch of Canadian editors to
California, including trip to the
Grand Canyon, free. Last year the
Kansas editors had arranged trip
through Canada, but at the last min
ute the Canadian roads backed .out
and demanded full fare. s.the Wich-
tia Eagle expresses it, ''if we owned a
railroad and Canuck wanted to go
10 the Pacific coast, he would walk"
The Iola register., 1902-01-24

HUTCHINSON News: The Kingman
journal announces that "since the ad-
vance inlthe price of wheat, rubber
tired buggies have beeni seen on our
streets" 1t was the Journal that
backed Colonel Bryan's statementthat
if Republican president was elected
wheat would sell for p cents and corn
10 cents bushel But perhaps it is
The rubber tired buggies that havehad
the price knocked ont fromunder them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-10-17
Let Folk Beware.

City Attorney Folk, of st. Louis,
may now expect to hear himself de-
nounced as populist, an anarchist or
any other old sort Of ''enemy to pros
perity," and such like special prerogaa..
tives OF corporate wealth. II hope,
saws he, "when l shall have finished
this crusade that the directors OF
wealthy corporations who devote large
sums of money to buy legislation will
realize that they have committed a
penal offense. | have several OF this
class under indictment now. and a
few of them in stripes VIII be a most
beneficial example to the many re.
spectacle gentlemen who sit on boards
Of directors and deliberately vote to
furnish money to debauch public
officials for corporate gain at the
peoples expense. louisville Ky
Times,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-10-17
A Lecture and a Laugh.

With a gravity that does not entirely
conceal the amused relish of the sltua-
ton which prompts its comment,
the Baltimore Sun in a recent issue
rebukes northern people for a preJu-
dice against the negro which amounts
to proscriptive drawing OF the color
line.
The Baltimore newspaper Is I'M
PEELED to this action by several recent
instances of northern unwlllingness to
associate with those who have even
the slightest faint of African blood.
In Boston, it says, the doors OF a
trades union have just been closed
TO all black faced workmen. At the
Northwestern University in Chicago
Young colored woman who had
entered the school was turned out in
the street. When it was definitely
ascertained that she had negro blood
she was expelled. At Evansville.
Ind. all the children OF certain
public school left the room when
dark, complexioned girl came In as
a pupil. They returned, content,
when it was satisfactorily proved
that she was of French descent ana
free of any faint of negro blood.
'It is really painful > says the Sun,
"to note the existence OF such pre-
iudice in the minds of our northern
brethren. 1t will be well for brunette
girls when they enter the public
schools in the north, to use some kind
of complexion powder. = And 80 In
this vein. the Maryland newspaper
proceeds to get its fun out OF the incl,
dents mentioned. 1t must be confessed
that the provocation for joking is
somewhat exceptional. The south has
been compelled to listen to so much
lecturing of the same sort from the
north that turning of the tables is
refreshing indeed. st. Louis Republic.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-10-17
Autumn-rhe Sabbath Of the Year.

The summer is ended: its storms
and it's strife, its torrid heat and
tempests of rain, its long, long days
of toll for man and beast, its anxious
planning and wearisome doing-all
are with the past. The crimson and
yellow blazonry of field and forest
bring with them sense OF peace-a
feeling of rest. as over finished work.
These are golden days-tranquil days,
when the noise of busy silence is
hushed, ana the skies are so cleanly,
clearly blue; no dull, sluggish haze
only tint of color throughout space; ;
no more dry, piercing, glittering
sunshine that strikes like needles; the
light is soft and cool. and fills the at
mosphere In an abandonment of joy.
The winds are asleep; the world has
ceased to strive; the grass and leadet
are ripened.
This is the Sabbath of the year lin
which thou shalt do no work. and
nature is hushing her children to sleep.
Distance draws softly near, and
watches and waits; even the winds are
hushed everything is still.
The prizes have been given out the
recompense gathered. the rewards
assured. the first fires lighted upon
the home hearths, the family gather
ings begun. The year is dying; its
conflicts ended. it victories won. Its
opaline mornings. its softened mid
aays, it's golden evenings are but
touches of tender hands preparing 1t
for burial. The late lingerers OF the
flower world the sturdy autumn
flowers that laugh at the frost touch
are part Of the pagantry. and only
when November strips the world OF It's
magnificence will they bow their heads
and fade into the whitish- brown rags
that strew the beds where nature S
children have sunken to sleep. Elk.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-10-17
WHY cHEl MARRIED.
Evansville JOurnai-News.)

An editor sent out circular letters
to large number of married men sub
scribers the other day. and asked them
why they married. Here are some OF
the answers:
| didn't intend to do it.
Because did not have the experience
/ have now.
/ married to get even with my
mother. but never have.
That's what I've been trying for
eleven years to find out
yearned for company. Now we
have 1t all the time.
l thought it would be cheaper than
breach of promise suit. Because
Sarah told me five other men mad pro-
posed to her.
That's the same fool question my
friends ask me.
l wanted a panion Of the opposite
sex. N. B.-She is still opposite.
The old man was going to give me
his foot. 80 took his daughter hand.
Because 1 asked her to have me and
she said she would think she's got
me.
Because / thought she was one
among u thousand; now think she If
a thousand among one.
was lonely and melancholy, and
wanted some one to make me lively.
She makes me very lively.
have exhausted all the figures In
the arithmethetic to find an answer te
your question; between multiplication
and division in the family, and dis
traction in addition, the answer IL
hard to arrive at.