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awe knows the public is down on us, !"
remarked the old milkman, as he dipped
out the desired quart from one of the big
cans, "but the public is mistaken. In the
fust place we put in leetle water-only a
blt--to make up for shrinkage. 1t goes to
the big dealers, and they amt a bit keerful
when they gifts to pouring in water. They
sells it to the groceIs, and they put in chalk
with one hand and water with the other,
and they are thinking of politics and get in
too much. The servant gal goes after milk
for the family, drinks third of it, and she
puts in water to make up the measure; and,
you see, when the family gifts it the taste
amt there, the look amt there, and they
goes for us poor old men who hasn't dis
honest hair in our heads. That's the way,
mister-gee up, there, Homer p'
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The Last Pipe IN the Poor House,
FROM copE's ToBAcBo-pLANT 5
But little they know and less they care,
These crowds that pass in the glitter and glow,
So proud of their high position.
What it is TO be held in the parish fold,
And fed on hunger and clothed with cold, II.
With the last crust gone and thelast rag sold,
And the soul on the edge of perdition
Icoud preach EN- a sermon but need my breatl
To blow my one comfort 'twixt this and DEATH
From bowl that's black as my heart is;
Yes, Yes, old pipe, thou art black and foul
just hs TO be stuck in my ugly Jowl.
fonr one eye CLEANS like the eye of an owl,
Unfit for respectable parties
AS to the starvation, well, can say
I've lived upon that for many a day,
Till my SKINS too big for its scaffod,
Therell be the lees to bury no doubt,
When they cover me in and carry me ont,
There isn't worm butll turn mp his snout
At finding himself SO baffied.
Gone ont, my Old piper We'll, need not wait,
For / hear them unbarring the dingy gate;
wish t would close me forever
Lie safe III my bosom till morning comes,
To find you again in my toothless gums,
While seek for refuse in filthy slums,
And warm my old bones with shiver.
Now, what the pauper dreamed in his dreams
l cannot tell, noryou but it seems
That his sleep was sound and lasting.
When the summons came to go breaking stones
They found just bundle of senseless bones,
And the coroner said, in plainest tones,
- The cause Of his death was fasting!"
One hand was grasping his pipe fu ! fast,
And fighting death for that till the last,
HIS cheapest and dearest treasure.
However they bundled him into a she'll
And hurried him off to his grave pell nell,
And all the tears that oyer him fell
Might be kept ir bottomless measure.
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The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-10-29

A timber merchant in New Orleans has
on exhibition a cypress board from Ala
bama, which is 13 feet long, SO! inches
wide and 2 inches thick, and is without
knot or split. This is probably the largest
piece Of timber ever seen in any market
outside of California. The companion to
this plank is reserved for our Centennial
Exhibition. The tree from which it was
feet in diameter
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-10-29

One of the big newsboys, who can't read
a word of print, was yesterday looking at
the cuts in daily paper as he sat on the
postoffice steps, having the paper upside
down.
"Well, Jim, what's the news?'' inquired
a lawyer, struck by the boys careful inter-
est in the paper
Jim was looking at the cut of steam
boat, which was of course upside down with
the paper, and he promptly replied
"Worst kind of news; steamboat has
tipped over in the lake, and every darned
one of the folks III be drowned
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-10-29

When it takes SO little to make Detroit
boy happy, no one could have the heart to
refuse his requests. A Porter street boy
yesterday secured two boards and an old
bedquilt, set up grocery in the back
yard and stocked it with an apple, four po-
tatoes. a whistle, two steel pens and an
ancient horse -radish crater, and he sat on an
ash box all the afternoon and finally closed
a complaint.
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NEWSPAPER pEc1sroNs.

l. Any who takes paper regularly from the Pcss
Office whether directed to his or ansher's or
whether he has subscribed nos responsible for the
payment.
pay all arreaages the publisher will continue sand
IL until payment is made and collect the whole amount
whether tho paper is taken from the Office or not.
s. The courts have decided that refeing to take the
ing and leaving s aeealisd for pfia aefa evidence
of intentional fraud
Papers ordered to any address be changed to anof
er address at the option Of the subscriber ga 81
Remitances by draft check, money order registered
letter. may be sent at risk. All Postmastees
quired to register letters application.
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Two or three months ago Detroiter
started to build him house, and as he had
always heard his wife "jawing around y
about the closets in houses he determined
to give her an agreeable surprise. She
went up with him a day or two ago, and he
pointed out eleven different closets to her
and asked:
"Now, what do you says"
"Well," she replied, after another look
around, ''if there was just one more closet
off the hall I'd be willing to live and die
here ~
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-10-29
DETROIT HUMoR.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
When Detroiter makes up his mind to
do a mean thing he gets aboard crowd
ed street car and waits till it stops on a
switch and everything is quiet, and then
sings out:
II thank heaven that I haven't red
noser'
The passengers will look at each other
right and left, and the foundation is laid
for an all-day's feeling of utter desolation.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-10-29

Parson Newman, in a recent discourse on
the Egyptian pyramids, informed his hear
ers that tradition tells us that the ashes of
Joseph are contained in one of those pyra-
mids, and that he doubts not that he there
beheld the sepulchre of Joseph. A CORE
spondent Of the Washington Star calls the
attention of the parson to .Joshua's account
Of the removal Of the bones of Joseph from
Egypt, and their burial in Shechem, and
wants to know what kind of bible ex-
FOUNDER Newman is
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-10-29

They talk about General Butler being
shelved and all that, but those who calcu-
late upon such a thing count without their
hosts. If he does not mean to be heard
from before the close of this century then
what does this iCem in the New York
World mean? General Butler is having
mounted at Chcopee sword four feet tlong,
of finest Toledo temper, the hilt of which
will cost $1,000" The cost of the hllt
would suggest that the General has an idea
of entering the army of the Khedive.
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jennie is a wat, puir bedie.
Jennie's seldom dry;
She drag'lt a her petticoatie,
Comm thro' the rye.
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POETRY.

The Last Pipe In the Poor-House.
FROM corE's ToBAoBo-PLANr.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-04-24
Testing Seeds.

One of the little things which a farmer
may neglect to his cost, is that of testing
field and garden seeds before planting
them. Most important in this matter is
the corn crop. An experienced corn
grower can generally give pretty safe
openion as to whether corn will be good
for seed. There are some special marks
which help to determine this question Of
vitality, but when it is SO easy to deter.
mine the question definitely by planting
a few kernels, it is not wise to run even
a slight danger of being mistaken. In q
less important degree, the same is true of
garden seeds.
We strongly advise taking few seeds
OF each kind to be planted in box of
good earth. kept in a warm room and
watered as needed. In a few days the
plants will appear, and if all or nearly
all the seeds have terminated vigorously
the quality OF the seed may be consider
ed positively settled. This work should
be done promptly, so as to get another
assortment if that on hand prove defect
i've Western Rural.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-04-24
SHERIFF'S SALE.

St cork1 9e Of A AlSsz. Sss.
In the District Court It'll Judicial District in
and for Allen county, Kansas.
Michael H. Moore, Plaintiff,
vs..
VIM. Buchanan, Harriet NJ
Buchanan, L. A. Howes and
Lou HOwes, Defendants.
By virtue Of an order Of sale to me directed
in and for. Allen county, Kansas, in the shove
entitled cause, will ON
Tuesday, May 18th, A. D. 1875,
at 10 O'Clock a. m of said day 1t the front door OF
the court house in the city Of lola, Allen county,
Kansas, Oner for sale NJ public auction to the
lowing described lands and tenements, to-wit:
The north half Of the southeast quarter Of sec-
ton number fifteen (l5 in township number
twenty-fOur (:4) south Of range number eighteen
(iS) east; and also lots ten QU) eleven il) and
twelve (i2) in block number one hundred and
eight QUe) in the city Of lola; also the undivided
one-half of the west alf Of the northwest quar-
ter Of section sixteen Q6) township twenty-fOur
(2D range nineteen (l9) east; and also c0mmenc-
ing ut the northeast corner Of the southeast
Der twenty-seven CD township twenty four (ss)
range eighteen QS) east, thence west two and
eighty-f0ur hundredths (s.sD chains, thence
south fifteen degrees, west i've and sixty-nine
hundredths q. 6s) chains, thence east four anA
thirty hundredths u - chains, thence north ass
and sixty two hundretiths e 81 chains to Begin
ming containing two acres.
All being situated in Allen county, State OF
Kansas. Said real estate has been levied upon -
the property of the above named defendants and
sherirs ONCE, lola, April 5sh, 1875.
J. L. WOODEN,
lot Sheriff Allen County, Kansas.
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One or Buffers Hits,

One of The last as we'll as one of the
neatest hits made by Gen. Butler, just
before the close of the last session in
Congress, occurred during the famous
deadlock" fight on the Civil Rights
Bill. The question VI adjournment was
under consideration, and Gen. Butler
had stepped oyer to Mr.. Randalrs desk
for private consultation. Butler "a
vored Sunday session. Randall op-
posed.
bad as l am, l have some respect for
Gods day." said the Democrat, land I
don't think it proper to hold session Of
Congress on that day"
'Oh pshaw ?" responded Butler, "don'r
the Bible say that it is lawful to pull
your OK or ass out of the pit ON the Sab
bath-day? You have seventy three
asses ON your side Of this house that
want to get out of this ditch tomorrow,
and think l am engaged in q holy
work."
"Don't do it, Butler" pleaded Sam. 1
have some respect for you that I don't
want to loose. l expect some day to
meet you in better world"
you'll be there. as you are here"
retorted Butler, quick as thought-'a
member Of the LOrer House.-Harper's
Magazine
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-04-24
European Breeds Of Neat Cattle in
America.

Several of the more valuable breeds of
neat cattle were established early in the
Old World. and improved during the
period spoken Of Pedigrees began to be
carefully looked after. The first volume
of the Eaglish Short Horn Herd Book ap-
peared in 1922, but its pedigrees began
at about this period, or q little earlier.
Only thirty animals are recorded that
Aourished in 1880 and earlier and while
the blood of unrecorded animals after
wards came in, for the present purpose
the pedigrees of all the thousands Of
thoroughbred short-horns date back to
about that time. theoretically at least.
Precisely when the first importations of
this breed were made to this country is
uncertain. 1t is now believed that they
occurred very soon after the Revolution
airy war, and there are traditions of sew
eral importations before 1900. Soon after
that date importations begun in earnest,
and have gone on ever since. The first
volume of the american Short Horn Herd
Book was published in 1916, the thir-
teenth last year. and in them are record
ed some $4,000 pedigrees. Certain
strains OF this breed have thrived peculi-
arly we'll here, and the sale of one herd,
September 10, 1873. at New York Mills,
was doubtless the most extraordinary
cattle sale that has ever taken place any
where. At this sale 100 head sold for
about $3S2,OOO, or an average of over
$500 per head, the highest price being
1900 for a COW, and several sold for
over $40, 900 each, a calf but five months
old selling for $4,000. The Devons
were also introduced early, aud previous
to 1910 were imported more abundantly
than the short-hOrns, and have perhaps
had as wide an influence on the improve
ment of American cattle as the last
named breed, or even a wider. Now all
the more distinguished breeds of Europe
are successfully bred here, and some five
or six of the most numerous or important
have American herd books now publish
ed.
The effect of all this has been to enor-
mously elevate the quality of American
cattle; and so completely has the mon
grel or ''native" stock been improved
through these that in certain agricultur-
al societies where premiums are offered
tor the best "natives" it is found that all
that are offered as such are, in fact,
grades" having had an infusion of bet
ter blood within three or four genera
tons Even the Spanish cattle of Texas
and California are being rapidly changed
aud improved through and by these
better breeds.-Harpers Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-04-24

Mr.. New, who succeeds Gen. Spinner
rs Treasurer of the United States, il
cashier of the first national bank of Jndi-
annapolis. and is a gentleman of culture
and wealth. He was State Senator for
four years. During the war he was
Quartermaster General on the staff of
Governor Morton, and while holding
that position was entrusted with prOvid-
ing money to meet the war expenses of
the State in arming, clothing and feeding
volunteers, ut a time when the Demo-
cratic Legislature, for the purpose of
crippling these measures, refusing to
make any apprpriation. Mr.. New sue
ceeded in raising large sums from corpo-
rations and capitalists, and providing the
State with the necessary funds until a
loyal Legislature was elected. He is a
man we'll known throughout the State,
and Of high standing.
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Tho Want Net By Christ.

Strauss neglected in his work the point
which should have been most essential
the origin of Christianity, the supreme
and critical epoch in which the doctrine
arose. Liberty and the Republic died in
Rome. The philosophers of Greece had
been converted, with the Stoics, into
practical moralists. Jerusalem, which
always endeavored to preserve its God
apart from the world, experienced the
desire of the Sadducees to give him in
communion to all nations and make Him
known to all the world. The deserts
were filed with saints, with ascectics and
hermits, who DANGEROUSLY demanded the
dew Of Heaven for their desolate. thirst
ing souls. In Egypt, wherever there
passed conqueror, tribune or poet,
the people asked if this was he who they
hoped for. Alexandria brought together
the ideas of the East and West, as if to
form a new dogma. The Ebionites and
Essenes were scattered about Jeralem,
making public profession of poverty, with
the presentment of the rich renovation
of the spirit. The Genostics brought in
vague echoes of the Oriental religions,
reflections of the early twilight of the
religious conscience. And all this crisis
was collected and personified in youth
of the most benighted region, the most
people, the divine Youth who
religions caste and gave His
life for the two grandest ideas of future
for the moral liberty Of our
souls and religious equality before God
for all men.-Hdrper's Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-04-24
Agents Wanted
ADDRESS,
Wilson Sewing Machine Co.
CLEVELAND, OHIO.
MISSOURI KANSAS 4 TEXAS
RAILWAY.

The completion of the great iron
bridge over the Missouri river at Boon
vile, enables this popular line to offer
still better facilities for the business be.
tween the Northeast and the great South
west.
Two daily trains will be run between
Hannibal and points in the great Neosho
valley, in direct connection with all lines.
Also, two daily trains between St. Louis
and points in Southern Kansas.
For the Texas trade, new and better
facilities are offered. The rates have
been greatly reduced, and arrangements
have been made whereby through Pull
man palace sleeping cars are run from
Chicago, Quincy, Hannibal and st.
Louis, to Galveston, without change.
passing through the finest portion of
Southwest Missouri, Southern Kansas,
and Indian Nation, and the most desira-
bic portion Of Texas.
Any one contemplating . trip to
Southern Kansas, the Indian Nation or
Texas, should address Thomas Dorwin,
general passenger agent, Sedalia, NO.,
for q correct map, with time tables, rates
of fare &c.
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The Best Evidence.

The following letter from Rev. f. S. Best,
Pastor of the NJ. E. Church, Natick, Mass, will
be read with interest by many physicians; also
those sufierering from the same disease afflicted
the son Of the Rev. Z. S. Best. No person can
doubt this testimony. as there Is no doubt about
the curative power Of vEGETINE.
NArICK, MASS. , Jan. l, 1878.
MR.. II. r. STEVENS:
Dear Strive have good reason for regarding
your VEGETlNE medicine of the greatest value
We feel assured that it has been the means of
saving our sons life. He is now seventeen years
Of ages for the last two years he has suffered from
necrosis Of his leg, caused by scrOfulOqs affection
and was SO far reduced that nearly all who saw
him thought his recovery impossible. A council
Of able physicians could give us but the faintest
hope Of his ever rallying; two of the number de-
claring that he was beyond the reach of human
remedies, that even amputatiOn could not save
him, rs he had not vigOr enough to endure the
operation. just then we commenced giving him
VEGETINE and from that time to the present
he has been continuously improving. 1Ie has
lately resumed studies, thrown away his crutches
and cane and walks about cheerfully and strong
Though there is still some discharge from the
opening where his limb was lanced, we have the
fullest confidence that in little time he will be
perfectly cured.
He has taken about three dozen bottles of VEG
ETlNE, but lately uses but little, as he declares
he is too well to be taking medicine.
Respectfully yours,
f. S. BEST.
nl5A Mrs. L. T.. +. BEST.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-04-24

"Many and many a year ago,"-how
many, deponent said no.-a youthful
couple appeared at the gateway of the
parsonage in town not hundred miles
from Harvard. Mounted on sober nag,
they also claimed companionship with a
bag, evidently filled with, to them, some
valuable commodity. Dismounting, the
gallant youth left his lady and the bag,
and proceeded up the avenue of elms
leading to the pastors door and entered
the mansion. Soon re-appearing he
waved his hand to the waiting damsel, at
the same time calling in stentorian tones.
"Come along. he says he'll take the
beansw Guiding the steed to the door,
the lady was received by her wouldbe
lord, and soon "the twain were made one
fesh," aud the minister was left in pos
session OF goodly supply Of beans.
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Farm ana Firesioe.

Raw beef, it is asserted, proves of the
greatest benefit as a diet for persons Of
frail constitutions. it is reported that
physicians are now administering to con-
sumptives diet of finely chopped raw
beef. properly seasoned with salt, and
heated by placing the dish containing it
in boiling water. This food is given also
in cases where the stomach rejects almost
every other form of food. 1t assimilates
rapidly and affords the best nourishment,
while patients learn to long for it and to
like it as much as DR.. Kane did his Are
tic dinner of raw seal aud walrus.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-04-24

Never paper wall over old paper and
paste. Always scrape down thoroughly,
Old paper can be got off by dampening
with saleratas and water. Then go over
all the cracks of the wall with plaster of
Paris, and finally put on wash ola weak
solution of carbolic acid. The best paste
is made out of rye -four, with two ounces
of glue dissolved in each quart of paste
half an ounce Of powdered borax i'm
proves the mixture.
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lOoNShODbO = MN E1h6I EAdE.
dead, of the hero es of the sea as we'll as
the land. of the lord high admirals who
sail the historic ships that come not back
on seas that have no shore. To the men,
ory Of all We will cast into the engulph-
ing sea sweet magnolia blossoms saying,
"rhats for thoughts" and there will
bloom in our hearts and feelings magno-
liza blossoms of peace and good will for
all.
On this summit of the century, we turn
with trimming eyes from the old to the
new. Before we pass down and over this
peak in Moab to the 'leal land" of the
hereafter, our thoughts recur to the fu-
ture of your great profession. Want of
time makes this forbidden ground. Let
US hope that, as the world grows older
and better, journalism will become less
sensational and more substantial; that
readers who hunger for the details of
railroad disasters, gallows scenes and
Brooklyn horrors, will turn to the con-
genial pages of the Police Gazette, if the
law of that enlightened age will tolerate
such sewerage of scandal.
1t will no4have escaped your notice
that the fourth page of the first newspaper
was left blank. 1 see the hunger pain of
many an eye. aching to have written
there, "a local." with an autograph. Sir
Joshua Reynolds, often painting in his
imperishable colors, your sister, the
queenly Siddons, as the Muse of Tragedy
said to her, 81 am resolved to 60 down
to posterity on the hem of your gar
ments." Editors, you who have hung
with Swinton on the ragged edge If bat
tie for an item, or with Richardson offer
ed your lives at the cannons mouth for
a paragraph, you would have given eve
rything but your souls hereafter for that
blank page in which, as an argosy, to
sail into all the future eching your
name! And you would have written
there good works, kind words, full OF
humanity and hope, words clear and
pure As the arctic sun-beams, no sicken-
ing faint of some Brooklyn scandal, no
grim social horror. Every page before
you is that unwritten page. In this age
of types and stereotypes, of books and
libraries, of newspapers with their small
est items, our daily food passing into and
assimilating with the worlds life, of tel.
egraphs obliterating space and bringing
the nations together, elbow tip to elbow
tip, so that one to that one touch of nat.
ure or of sentiment thrills through all
and makes them kin: no good thought
written dies, but pulses round the world
instant and ever. Your art being pres.
ervation of all the arts, what you say on
paper goes to make the sum of all good
or ill. You write, not in water, but on
stone tables of eternity. Make truth
your tragic muse, paint with pen and
pencil tipped with her immortality, and
you may be proud to 60 down to post err
ity on the hem Of her queenly robe.
You can yet gill the page Ben Harris
left blank for you! But fill it with no
word which, dying, you would wish to
blot.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-04-24

Now is the time to give up fatty foods,
and betake ourselves te lean meat and
vegetable or faripaceous diet. As warm
er weather approaches the latter should
be depended on altogether. With these
precautions we shall not need the annual
purifying the blood with medicine,
nor experience Spring boils.