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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02
OsNAN PAsHA's FAMILY. :

OsMAN PAsHA's FAMILY. - Osman
Pasha's family is here, and consists OF
one wife and two sons. He has been
married for fourteen years, and has been
at home only three months in all that
time. His military service has been on
the frontier of Persia and among the
wild Arabs of YOmen. He has no prop.
erty, and his family has always lived in
very pillar to post fashion, changing
their house whenever the landlord raised
the rent. At the beginning of the pres,
ent war, Muhktar Pasha offered to lend
Osman two thousand pounds to buy a
house so that at least he might feel that
bis family were comfortable, but Osman
Pasha declined to be in debt. The Sui.
aan has sent many presents to Osman's
family lately, and since the fall of Plev.
ma he has has caused the Oldest son to
be entered on the roll of a cavalry
regiments, with the rank of sergeant,
and directed him to report to the palace
every day for duty. The fortune of that
boy is made. He will probably be a
colonel at sixteen Consiantinople Let.
ter
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

The Hon. E. ]. Morris, of Philadel-
pbia, late American Minister at Constar-
nople, says, in an interview, that Eng
land opposed the first treaty of COM
merce between the United States and
Turkey, and opposed the concession of
trading in the Black Sea. He declares
that the commerce of the world is in
debted to Russia for the opening of the
Black Sea, and expresses the opinion
that England is more interested in clos
ing the Dardanelles to ships of war than
Turkey, the Porte knowing that Con-
stantinople is really safer with the fleets
of the world riding before its walls than
it is when they are excluded. The views
of Mr.. Morris, it will be observed, accord
with those expressed by our specials from
London.-hter- Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02
Mr.. A. NJ. BLAIR having resigned Il

Mr.. A. NJ. BLAIR having resigned the
Office of Collector of Internal Revenue
for the Second District, Col. J. G. Car.
penter, of Chanute, has been appointed
to the place. Col. Carpenter is one Of
the best known and most popular men
in Southern Kansas. He has twice been
elected State Senator, and is now Presi-
dent of the Senate. He is amply quail
fed for the position, and no better ap-
pointment could have been made. In
speaking of this matter, however, we
cannot omit saying good word for Mr..
Blair. He has made an accommodating,
efficient and honest officer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02
The New York Sun double leads

The New York Sun double leads a
special from Washington in which it is
declared that the Democratic members
of Congress are not equal to the occasion
which now presents itself. There is no
harmony among Southern Democrats,
and the Northern Democrats are torn BY
mean and petty rivalries. Another
thing, the San declares, which affects the
Democratic party in Congress, is the
pitiable lack of brains. The party is q
dead level of mediocrity. The Demo
cratic majority in the House is disor-
ganized rabble, and the Democratic
strength in the Senate is little better.
This is Democratic papers estimate Of
the Democracy. This is the picture of
the Democratic party of to-day as drawn
by Mr.. Tilden's organ.-hter- Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02
AUGUST BELMONT, in his little speec

AUGUST BELMONT, in his little speech
to the Manhattan club the other night,
made a very significant admission as to
the next Senator from New York. Re-
ferring to the feuds of the Democracy he,
said: I'm our own state these dissen-
sions have deprived US of majority in
the legislature, which is ours of right,
thus rendering it impossible for one of
the best governors who ever held office
to carry out the great reform commenced
by his distinguished predecessor, and
next year the Democrats of New York
will not be able to send United States
Senator to Washington to help Francis
Herman in the great work he has to per.
form" What this great work is that
Mr.. Herman has to do, we don't know,
but we do know the admission from this
leader that his party is whipped in ad-
vance of the fight is very gratifying to
the good men Of the country.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

QUITE a business has been done dur
ing the past quarter by the county un-
der the scalp bounty act. We last Mon
day morning looked over the County
Clerks file Of bills for money under this
law. and found one hundred and sixty
eight accounts filed for allowance, aggre-
eating in money $259.7O. If all were
rabbit scalps there would be 1874, but
there are few wild cat and wolf, and
as the bounty for them is $1.00 each,
they probably amount to enough to re-
duce the number of rabbits to about
5000. More pains have been taken in
some parts of the county than in Others
to kill these pests, and probably the
bulk of those reported have been taken
in very few localities. Mr.. James
Mills, jr., informs US that the decrease
in the number of rabbits in his region
is already perceptible. He thinks the
law wise provision, and says that he
and some of his neighbors found that it
paid them to give boys five cents piece
for every rabbit they killed on their
premises before the law was passed.
They have been known to kill apple
trees seven and eight years old in sim
gle night. In such depredations the
damage cannot be estimated in dol.
lars and cents, for a valuable tree can
can only be replaced by time and care.
care. Mr.. Mills thinks the operation of
the law has already saved him s25 on
his farm, enough to pay his tax for this
purpose for probably twenty-five years,
besides saving him from losses that can
not be calculated in this way, and are
far more important. More have been
killed during the past quarter than alto
gether heretofore. We hope the NOR
tality will increase during the next
three months, and that ere long rabbits
will become scarce enough to be classed
as game.-Eureka Herald
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02
4 TEEToLALER, BUT NOT BIGorED.

A TEEToLALER, BUT NOT BIGorED.-
The following anecdote is told by the
Virginia New Chronicle: "Come and
have q drink, boys" remarked a we'll
known Bulgarian of this city to num-
Der of friends with whom he was chat
ting in front of Malloon's store this
morning. They all went in and ordered
their drinks. There was a charming
uniformity in the orders-''a schmall
sup O. that whisky, Jim," seemed to
cover all the requirements. As they
were about to quaff. one of the party
suddenly called out to another, "Hello,
Dougherty, you drinking whisky? Sure
it was only yesterday, ye towld me ye
was taytotler." .'Well," said Mr..
Dougherty, evidently somewhat discon.
certed, "you're right, Mr.. Kelly-it's
quite right ye are-I am a taytotler, it's
thrue, but Him not q bigoted one |"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

THE New York Tribune, admitting
that, during the progress of the silver
debate in the Senate, both Senators from
New York have been kept busy present
ing petitions from a large number of
counties in that State praying for the
reconciliation of silver and the repeal
Of the resumption act, and that no petit
tions except from New York banks have
been presented on the other side, con.
strues this to be sign of the practical
unanimity of the people of the State for
hard money. The vast majority is too
conscious of its strength to worry about
memorials to Congress.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

Hon. JOHN FRANCIS has gone to
I Washington for the purpose of investing
$40, 900 of the permanent school fund
in United States four per cent. bonds
The School Fund Commissioners have
bought up school bonds as fast as they
could be obtained, but still find large
accumulation of funds on hand, and
these United States bonds are about the
\only other investment they can make.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

Mr.. SHERMAN's speeches in favor of
silver as money equal to gold rise up in
judgment against him. They are as
persistent as Banduo's ghost, and will
not "down."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

The Commercial Nationa! Bank, of
Kansas City, suspended payment last
Wednesday. 1t was comparatively
small affair, and its failure will not pro-
duce any particular excitement in fpan-
cial circles.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

+ THE latest advices from British Amer
lea state that Notwithstanding the recent
reports. Sitting Bull has not crossed the
! line, nor is there any indications that he
Intends doing 80.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

The superintendent of the poor farm
in Lyon county has been sentenced to
pay fine of 5000, and be imprisoned 80
days. for locking one of the inmates of
the institution in room for three DAYS
without proper food or water, and this
without Just cause or provocation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

D000 Is not easily earned in these times. INIT
NI11 It can be made In three months by snV
II one Of either sex. in any part Of the
~. country who 10 willing to work steadily
week In your own town. You need not be sWaV
nun rum home overnight. You can give your wkols
We have agents who are making over S90 NJ
Gay. All who engage at once can make money
I. last: AZ the present time money cannot be made
y easily and rapidly at any other business It
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

TIE Canada Former says that q lib
erai sprinkling of wild PEPPERMINT In a
barn will drive away the rats. u
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

CRAWFORD County, last Tuesday
voted, by q majority of Sc, in favor of
issuing $4,000 in aid of the Kansas
Central Railroad project.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

BARNUM says that he has sold since
he began business no less than $SS, 00O,-
600 worth of tickets.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02
LIVE AGENTS WANTED.
KNITTING MACHINE,

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Address BICKFORD KNITTING HACHINE
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

The annual income of the chdrch ell
England is $50, 00O, 900.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02

FIRST it will be peace for Turkey, and
then pieces.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02
EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC

For Constipation, Headache, Pain in the Shout
ders, Dizziness, Sour Stomach, Bad Taste in
the Mouth. Bilious Attacks, PalpitatiOn Of
the Heart, Pain in the region Of the
Kidneys, Dependency, Gloom and
foreboding of evil all of which
are the offspring of dis
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-02-02
COLO IN CHILDREN
1T HAS NO EQUAL

Price sl.oo. ssld b. eli DrusEists.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-02
drinks about + pail of water day and
oOnSlI mes ah0l5t ton ,orpJo &C ,,ooot

drinks about pail of water a day and
consumes aboQt ten pounds Of meat.
"There is }his difference between
tiger and lion,' said our encyclopedia
of wild beast lore. "a lion will tear
you out of spite and temper occasionally,
but a tiger attacks you only for sheer
love of blood. A tigers claws, too, are
even sharper t4,an lion's. The leopards S
claws are less sharp, while a hyena's
foot is like dogs, clawless, the byena's
strong point being, like scolding wo.
man, in the jaw"
Having now pretty we'll exhausted the
subject of wild-b beast tanning ind training
a concluding word may here be said as
to the pay of. the professional wild-beast
tanner. This: is much smaller than is
generally supposed, ranging from $3.50 to
800 month. Considering the risks of
life and limb these men daily take, and
the fact that there are not fifty of them
altogether in the world, this would seem
scanty compensation. But the men
themselves seemed satisfied, aid there
appears to be: wild bizarre fascination
about this wild-beast life, which, like the
love of art in fine artist, is its own
even if it is often its only reward.--N
Y Kernld
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-02
Prof. Swing on Hell.

In sermon to his congregation, last
Sunday, Prof. Swing, the famous Chicago
preacher, said:
The old theology is dying peacefully,
and will evidently soon cease to exist,
and, as when a king dies, they combine
the shouts, "The king is dead Long
live the king" So in the death-chamber
of old theology the Christian world will
minglc m emory and hope in one SEN
tence: "The creed is dead! Long live
the creed!" A new faith will have dis
tinguished itself from the old, and
a grander religion will sit down upon a
throne which has been gathering domain
and subjects for eighteen centuries.
VIII this overturning of the old belief
regarding future torments affect badly
the future of Christianity or of public
morals? Are we not left to conjecture for
reply? The majority of Christians have
not for century realized that there was
any such hell as that pictured by the
church. The words have been repeated
as of old, to some degree, but with Cath
olic and Protestant the old significance
has fallen away, and left behind only the
general truth that "God will punish sin
and reward virtue" From this debate,
which now shakes all doctrines, no harm
can come, for the ideas which most iniu-
ence the human mind are moving on
without change.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-02
Marrying for Money.

A late author very truthfully says !:
"Gold cannot buy happiness, and the
parents who compel their daughters to
marry for station Or money commit a
grievous sin against humanity and God.
And woman who marries churl for his
wealth will find that she has made tez-
rible bargain-that all the gatherings of
heartless grandeur are phosphorescent
gatherings Of Observation-Disclosures; that
her life will be one of gilded misery, and
her old age will be like 8 crag on the
black side of desert mountain, where
cold moonDeams sometimes glitter, but
no birds sing, but wild storms howl and
hoarse thunders roar, and through the
sweeping storms shall be heard the stern
voice of the great God, saying, Your
riches are corrupted, your garments are
moth-eaten, your gold and silver are
cankered, and the rust of them shall be
a witnes IS against you, and eat your flesh
IS if it we're fire."
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-02
Miscellaneous,

There were only eighty-three murder
ers hanged last year among population
OF $4,000, 900.
Lynn is said to be losing its trade id
boots and shoes, which used to be almost
q monopoly. Western manufacturers are
getting large share of the business.
The legislature of Washington terri.
tory has woman for its clerk, another
FOR messenger, third for enrolling clerk,
while fourth attends to the engrossing
Of bills.
A cloth made from the down of birds
is coming greatly into favor in Paris. 1t
is waterproof, and estimated to be five
times lighter and three times warmer
than wool.
a story comes from Coventry. Conn,
giving an account of woman who com.
menced marrying at fourteen, and has
Kept it up until she has scored seven
husbands. -
Wallace Williamson, Salt Lake mur-
derer, chose shosting as the mode ot his
death, and suggested that sufficient
delay might be granted to enable his
friends at q distance to attend.
CanePs hair shawls are not made Of
cameps hair. They come Of the WOO! Of
the Thihet goat. Thus it will be seen
that women not only have the wool
pulled over their eyes but over their
backs.
AS an illustration of the decline Of
New England villages, it is mentioned
tha. Westfeld, Conn, which, twenty
five years ago, had 200 families, nearly
all American, has now only 100, forty Of
which are foreign. Il
The largest mass Of gold yet discov-
cred In Nevada was found near OsceoIa.
Il weighed N pounds and 15 ounces,
and q i contained very little quartz, its.
coin value was near 8 900.
Birds killed ON the western prairies,
packed closely with paperin barrels. and
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-02
Claiming a Woman.

An English woman has been chalnea
up by her husband and brother lnlaS, ".
They dragged her from The parlor 10 'ls
chamber, put heavy chain about nsl
body, fastened her to the wall "l'n
paddock and kept her there about twenty
four hours. They did not carry the alS
cipline of the household so tar as :"
muzzle the chained woman, and sne
ought, perhaps, to have been grateful 70
them for their indulgence. But she was
not grateful; she was mad, lnferpally
mad and she had them both arresssas.s arss.s.. J.
The husband, who is publican in sax
ilbury, explained to the magistrate that
his wife was a woman of intemperate
habits and that the village doctor had
advised him to chain her up. The mag
istrate urged the employment of other
means of repressing intemperance. "Bet-
ter get a woman to help you take care OF
her." he remarked. The poor fellow
his shoulders. Gone woman
would be OF no use" he gasped.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-02

sale, and dedicate to the public, various
lots of ground as sites for school houses,
churches, etc.
Captain Brown, OF the engineers in
charge at Eads' jetties, in his late report,
gives considerable space to the question
whether there is filling up in 'front.' OF
the jetties, and reports as result OF all
his observations since last summer, when
a slight fill has been noticed, that there
has been no appreciable increase 10 tne
depth of the fill then reported.
The secretary of the treasury has
bought the right to Use the Neal steam
printing press. One machine now III the
department goes into immediate, use
and as conse quence, one thousand i'm
pressions of plate cost about two dol
lars, as against nineteen dollars hereto
fore paid to the bank note companies by
the old mode of printing by hand.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-02
Better Writers than Speakers.

It is a common thing, On this side OF
the Atlantic; for journalists and liter
ateurs, past and present, to fail as speak
ers. Forbes, at the dinner given to him
by the press made miserable bIunder
at an attempt to acknowledge the compli-
ment he had received. He said he never
was good speaker, and he would sooner
stand to be shot at for halt an hour than
stand and speak for the same length of
time. He only said few words, and he
said them in a tone of hesitancy and
confusion. Thackeray couldn't speak i'm
promptu. Douglas Jerold, SO witty when
sitting at tahle, was an idiot on his legs.
Once, at shetlield, when suddenly pre-.
sented with some memento of his visit
by a deputation of working men, he
couldn't frd six words in all his
vocabulary to acknowledge the gift.
Years ago, when lot Of the Punch men
went down to Boston, in Lincolnshire,
to help their friend Ingram at his elec'
ton, the whole town was covered with
astonishnlent to find that Mark Lemon
and his humorous colleagues couldn't
make a speech among them. once sat
by the side Of Dallas, of the Times, when
his health was proposed, in the company
OF Shirley Brooks, Tom Taylor, Burnand,
Lemon, Tenniel and others. He could
only say "Thank you" l have seen the
most brilliant men look like fools when
called upon to speak. Among modern
writer's, Sala and Tom Taylor are notable
exceptions. Among those of the past,
Dickens was another. He liked to have
the chance of thinking out a speech, but
it was not necessary to him. Sala is q
fluent and charming talker. He thinks
and speaks on his legs as felicitously as
he writes.--London Cor. New York Times
St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-02
THE CHHHYENEY GOBLIN.
BY MARION MANyILLE.

There's goblin in the chimney
With an impish shrek and cry,
Who, with sounds of mocking laughter,
Varied now by moan or sigh,
Holds high carnival and chorus
With his kim beneath the caves,
Or. with melancholy wailings,
In the chimney sits and gl1eVes.
Every household has this goblin,
In his sooty perch on high,
Who. with answering boot or whistle,
Jters the winds as they 30 by;
Mady uaacing through the eave"troughs.
Whirling round the corners fast,
Or, with scampering Oh the shingles,
Adding tumult to the blast.
And the little chimney goblia,
With his shiny, grinning face,
Leaping out in dusky smoke wreaths,
Joins ne spirits in the race;
And they h Id noisy frolic,
All the sprites on mischief bent,
Like the wiches in the fable,
Who with fails to Gath was sent.
Loi fancy as listen
To the wild sounds OF the wind,
Aud [ think the gobin's talking
Some strange jargon to his kind,
AS thev sit among th' cinders,
Cross-legged like lot of Turks,
Sending SCOT and sparks and smoke-c!ouds,
Out from where the goblin turks
And the merry little fellow,
Whistiing down the chimney gay,
Sits there in serene cOntentme3t.
Through the long hours Of the day
Sits there, laughing. singing grooming
Old strange legends to himself,
For the sooty chimney goblin
Is a merry little elf.