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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

The Chicago & Alton connects Chi
cago, st. Louis and Kansas City. Its
last connection, three hundred miles in
length, was built in four months. They
can do at least that well again on
Kansas soil. The company is one of
the most able in the West, and is
owned ~ Chicago capitalists, and Mr..
Gould cannot buy it. Chicago may
"get her back up" and push the road
one of these days. We rather look for
it. Chicago cannot afford to, and will
not, part with the grain trade of Kansas,
and st. Louis is the last town to which
she will yield any advantage.-Sdtipd
Advocate.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19
School Report.

The following Is the report Of the school in
Dist. No. q, for the month commencing Nov.
18th, and ending Dec. 18th, 1879:
Whole number Of days taught, 10; total en-
rollment, 81; average daily attendance, 50;
greatest number present any day, s..
The following persons deserve notice for good
department: Luellen and Ada PurdOm, James
and Ellie Hilderbrant, Herbert Hays, George
and Charles Forsythe, Myrtle and Howard
Washington, Charles Kelley, The following
for perfect department: Mary Eldridge, Chas.
and Sarah Preston, Pheba Micheal, Julia Smith,
Oracle and Walter Valentine, Marian Wilson.
A. NJ JOHNSON, Teacher
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19
Five Huudred Thou.and Strone.

In the past few months there has been more
than 5OO, 900 bottles of Shiloh's Cure sold. Out
Of the vast number Of people who have used it,
more than 2 200 cases of consumption have been
cured. All Coughs, Group, Asthma and Bron-
chitIs, yield at once, hence ii is that everybody
speaks in its praise. To those who have not used
1T, let US say. if you have Cough, or your
child the Group, and you value life, don't fail to
try it, For Lame Back, Side or Chest, use Shi-
loh's Porous Plaster. Sold by r. Il. Stevenson,
lola, Kansas
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Mr.. A. J. Reveal, who lived across
the river for several years, left this
county some months ago, dead-beat-
ing the Register small account. If
any one of our readers can give us his
present address we will try and post
the people where he has made his
home as to the style of a man he is.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

All those knowing themselves in
debted to me by note will please be
prompt in paying the same as it be-
comes due, and to those who have ac-
count Oh book will please come forward
and settle the same, or as much as
possible, in the next thirty days.
w. II. RICHARDS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

as iestOrer Of vitality to the euervated constI-
tuition has made Its appearance than the PERUv-
Ian SYRUP. It is great purifier of the blood,
and by striking at The root of disease effects u
radical cure. After taking 1t for reasonable
time the sufferer from debility feels like new
man, and go es about his daily avocations with
renewed hope and energy. The great secret of
its success is that it supplies that indispensable
element to the blood-Irou .-Bosfon Sunday
Courier. Sold by John W Scott.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Not being engaged in the toy bus
mess 1 am at liberty to give my entire
attention to the Legitimate drug trade.
and if you want anything in that line
during the holiday season don't fail to
give me a call. J. w. SCOTT.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Attention is called TO the advertisement in
another column OF the Leavenwor;h Times. Mr..
Anthony, the proprietor, offers the Weekly Time,
and the New York Weekly Tribune. for one year
for SEQ. The price Of the Trtbxas alone is
$500, SO you really get the 1Smes free. The
Aaerican Agriesltxrisf and the Leavenworth
Weekly Times are also offered for Sz.OO for Que
year. We think these are the best offers ever
made to The people Of this county.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

y On account of conflicting engage
ments which will necessitate the alb
sence of many members of the Teach
ers's Association OH the Sd prox., it is
deemed advisable to postpone the
meeting until Saturday, the 10th.
A. c. SCOTT, Pres.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19
California Goods.

At w. H. Richards grocery store.
Plums, Pears, Peaches, Alden Apples,
Pitted Cherries, Prunes and Pure
Maple Syrup, Sauer Kraut and every
thing that is nice for the holidays.
Call and Charley Lakin will show you
through our stock.
w. III. RICHARDS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Children's and misses mittens;
lawyers and doctors pulse warmers,
too comfortably. to think of being with
out, at J. F. COlbOrn's.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

have opened restaurant one door
north of McClure's store. Meals at all
hours. Give me me a call.
I. S. WEIGH.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19
A Straace Peerl..

our community, We say strange because they
see m to prefer to suffer and pass their days mis-
erably, made so by Dyspepsia and Liver Com
plant, Indigestion, Constipation and General
Debility, when shiloh's vitalizer Is guaranteed
to cure you. Sold by R. B. Stevenson, lola, KS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Fresh goods and low prices is the
rule at Klaumann's grocery store. You
are invited to call and see the stock
and prices.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

We have speedy and positive cure for CatsrTh.
Dipfheris, Canker Mouth, and Head Ache. in
Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy. A nasal Injector free
with each bottle. Use it II yoa desire health and
eetsw breath. Price 50 cents. Sold by r. b
Stevenson, lola, Kans.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Purchasers will find it to their own
interest to examine our prices before
purchasing elsewhere.
o. P. NORTHRUP & Co.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Elegant holiday goods at Steven
sons. The best place in the county to
buy Christmas gifts. Cali and see the
large assortment.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Largest, neatest, best selected, cost
liest, cheapest stock of holiday goods
in Allen county at the popular drug
store, which is r. e. Stevenson's.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

c. A. Steele wants to see everybody
before the holidays. Ladies and gen.
tlemen, girls and boys = everybody
come.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Ifyou want to make your wife hap
Ply buy her pair of those velvet slip
pers for Christmas present, at Col
bOrn's.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19
Coal! Coal Coal!

The best Fl. Scott coal always ON
hand as cheap as the cheapest.
A. w. BECK.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19
For Sale.

A house of i've rooms and cellar.
Good well, fruit, shrubbery, etc. Call
on or address for 80 days
J. p. BOYD, lola, KS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Notice to Those Wanting Pres
entS.
If I have not got what you want,
come and look through my catalogue
and see what can get on short notice.
G.. A. STEELE.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Our Fall Stock is nou
complete. The fine styles
good quality and re.
naarkobly
LOW PRICES
is the 1UOnder and 0dDai-
ration of all. Gull and
see for yourselves and be
convinced that 1Ue have
the cheapest ind best Sc
Iected stOck of
flames,
Blankets,
Waterproofs,
Jean,
Shawls,
Cloaks,
Ladies'
Underwear,
ChildrenS'
Underwear,
Mems
Underwear,
Boys
Underwear,
FINE OnlfCS,
Balmoral Skirts,
Kid Gloves,
Neck Ties,
Hosiery,
Gloves,
Hoods,
Nubias,
Germantown
Yarn,
Yephyrs
In all the popular shades,
lOWclS,
Table Linen,
Wool Jackets,
Silk
Handkerchiefs,
Linen
handkerchief,
Canton
Flannels.
The ne.U ClOGks are
marked rery cheap.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

Nan oAtIKR spend y 'ur money where
getting your printing done at this Office.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19

AW we ask of the pub
lie is to call and see the
goods and price before
purchasing elsewhere.
Remember the place.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-03
An Interrupted Story.

Old BOdkin likes a game Of euchre, but he is
such an inyeterate narrator of pioneer incident
that he often makes it unpleasant for others by
trying to play and tell a yarn at the same time.
The other evening he began a story just as he and
three others sat down to play a social game. He
said: [" Ii was in l849 that a family by the
name Of GObins emigrated from Greenbrier coun-
ty, VIrginia-eut for deal-to the glorious west
shucks, I never could cut anything bigger than a
ten spot. There were seven in the family; three
girls and four boys. The girls were bright-eyed,
rOsy-cheeked-I pass-graceful gazelles, and two
of the boys were big enough to handle their axes
and riaes-d'ye turn it down? I'll make it
elubs-and could help their old father a right
smart chance-an ace beats a king every time.
Play on a heart-They wound slowly over the
Alleghanies, and finally in May, 49,, crossed the
Ohio yalley-gOOd enough Hearts are better'n
trumps, but l haven't any left-heading straight
for Arkinsaw, intending to make that territory
hold on! You don't play that OH US, my partner
trumped the last trick-their future home-take
it up; best we have got; lead, partner, according
to Hoyle.-They got away out there in the viii
derness, and the weather was getting pretty hot
that's it! Now Wen come the c~ross-lilt on 'em!
Play on that bower l-One evening they stopped
near where q spring gushed up-that makes us a
couple more! Dern my picture If it wouldn't be
a good joke If we could skunk EN- the first game.
They thought it would be n good place to camp,
and the old man unhitched the horse-well, well,
what q foolish play was that of mine; it let 'em
nave one on our Oeal-anQ one oil the DOyS ran TO
the spring to get a drInk-pass-it was one of
the hot springs-play, Capt; don't be so unde-
cided-and when he touched his lips to the
water-that's our triek-hO bounced up and
yelled to the old man-whose ace is that, Ell ? I'll
salivate it with n trump hitch up and drive on.
dad. Hell's not n hall mile from here.'-How
did you come by these points? Seems to me you re
good counters if you can't play much.-Well sir,
it had the effect to-diamonds? Haven't any;
pass-change the old mans opinia%r, Of Arkinsaw.
and-Yhat's y a S1ades9 Have a lt,ie nne"
ne started across the wilds for Oregon"
Thus old BOdkin continued the same narrative
through fifteen games, and when the party rose
from the table at ten o'clock. Bodkin had the
GObins family away out beyond the alkali desert
in the sage brush, with their horses stolen and
two of the girls captured by the Indians-the
boys following the Piutes with their rifles and
the old woman a raving maniac. And yet the
story was not more than half completed when the
party walked off on the narrator Madison Cour-
Ter.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-03
A Patriarch at Thirty-Nine.
THE FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF
PYTHIAS.

THE FOUNDER OF THE ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF
PYTHIAs.
The visit to New York of Justus H.. Rathbone,
the founder of the order of the knights of
Pythias, and Senior Past Supreme Chancellor of
the orde-, has awakened much interest among the
officers AID members for this section. Mr.. Rath-
bone has not yet reached the prime of life, being
just 80. He was born in Deerfoot, New York !;
is tall, but not too stout, and is likely to live to
a good old age He tells many stories about his
tours in the West. where the lodges he visited
looked for q patriarch, and hardly believed the
young man before them was the originator of
their order. Concerning the founding of the
order, Mr.. Rathbone says that when he was 10
he was teaching school in Michigan. The boys
were anxious to get up a sort Of a dramatic enter
tainment, but lacked ladies to take the female
parts. To overcome this they wrote to a dramatic
agency in New York to send them plays with as
few female characters as possible. One of those
sent happened to be 8 Damon and Pythias," and
while reading it over young Rathbone thought he
saw q good chance for a secret brotherly organic
alton. He Immediately wrote out the ritual,
which he carried in his pocket for some years.
During 1864 he was stationed in Washington as
a military attache to the War Department. He
gathered a few clerks of the different departments
together on the evening of February 18th, and
after duly binding them to secrecy, read the
ritual Of the knights Of Pytbias, which pleased
them so much that they Immediately began to
fOunQ q lO0ge- linen came JealOuslee ana cOnten-
tons, which threatened at times to sap the
growth Of the body. Mr.. Rathbone fought
against odds, and finally succeeded in overcoming
his opponents. Now the order numbers 10 900
members and has thirty-four Grand Lodges,
besides q Supreme Lodge. The initials of the
order are +. e. B., meaning " Friendship,
Charity, Benevolence." As a token of the
esteem and respect in which Mr.. Rathbone is
held, the Supreme Lodge of the world presented
him with a gold badge, which he carries with
him. 1t has the shape of triangles c~entering on
a hemishere from which projecfihe heads of FIVE
spears, joined by a wreath of m. rtle. On the
uppermost triangle is the word '"yriendship,''
and the date on which the first lodgewas organ
lied, February 10, 1864. On the Z'sht-hand
triangle is " Charity" and the date O the or
ganization of the supreme body, and on -he left
triangle is d" BenevoleHce,' - ard the date of the
appointment of the committee to design and pro-
cure the badge. On the border of the hemisphere
is the inscription, "To Justus II. Rathbone.
Founder Of the Order" The badge is surmount-
ed by n knights visor, to which is attached n
blue silk ribbon. Across the center Of the rib
bon is a gold bar on which are inscribed the
words, IS FOns ct origo."-Net1 York World.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-03

to be punished by the pillory and bamboo, and
subsequently increased the punishment TO lmprI-
sonment, transportation, and death. denceiorth,
the opium trade was simply smuggling. But be-
tween the ayidity of the Chinese for our opium,
and our avidity for their silver, the neiarious
traffic soon grew TO great proportions.
That this contraband trade was carried on
without mourning the penalties Of the law was
owing to the excess of corruption IN the executive
part Of the Chinese Government Commons he
port, 1881. Our traders bribed the officials
whose business it was to prevent 1t. They could
we'll afford to bride them largely, ana they oia
so. In vain did the Government protest IN VAIN
did it from time to time make example OF some
offender the love of money was stronger tnan
the fear of penal consequences Indla continued
to supply the fatal drug, and no po6er could pre-
vent It's entrance"
4. The first vessel chartered by harren Hast
ings was furnished with cannon and soldiers; thus
beginning the trade "a a arms, as 1t has ever
since been carried on. The transaction was
strongly condemned by the directors at home, and
furnished one of the charges against Hastings in
his celebrated trial in 1886. But they soon
changed their minds the chance was too lucra-
tive to be neglected. While managing to pre-
serve their name for honorable dealing with the
Chinese Government, the trade was furtively but
actively continued.
). - By the year 1920 (when the number of
chests Struggled into China had increased to
SAD the liking of the Company for opium as an
article of commercc had grown into eagerness and
jealousy of any rivalry - and henceforth they go
applied themselves to the development of the
trade, that before it passed from under the con-
troll of the company, viz, in 1888, the import
into China was 20, 900 chests n year, costing an
nually nearly three millions sterling-more than
all she received from Great Britain for her tea.
6. In 1884 the East India Company was
superseded in the Chinese seas the trade was
thrown open, and almost every merchant con-
nected with China, whether native, English, con-
tinental, American, or Indian, was engaging in
this business against the earnest and repeated
protests of the Chinese Government. Year by
year the trade increased, till in 1883, We
struggled into China more than 5000 chests of
opium. Then began those more earnest efforts
to suppress the trade on the part of the Chinese
Government, which brought on them the wrath
of England, and involved them in two cruel and
disgraceful wars-viz., those of 1S39-42 and 1857
60, to which l shall again refer"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-03
From the Friend for May. 1871
Foreign Community at Makawao.


The Rev. L. Fl. Rouse thus writes to the
editor of the San Francisco Pacific under
date Of February 10th
You said, in recommending the islands,
that it was a good easy life for a minister.
But | have found nowhere a greater stimu-
lus to study and thorough preparation. The
people are very intelligent, and well up
with the times. Private Libraries are large,
and of the best books. There are several
good classical scholars in my congregation.
All the leading newspapers, magazines and
quarterlies are taken, from the North
American and Bibliotheca " down. I
never, in any place, had so large an access
to the best current periodicals as here.
There are two good pastors libraries in my
parish, besides private: that of the Rev. ].
). Green, the venerable missionary recently
deceased, and that of Rev. J. NJ. Alexander,
formerly Of San Leandro, a choice man and
a most helpful ministerial brother-com
PEELED by i'll health to leave temporarily the
ministry. Then, all these islands feel, in
the direction Of intelligence and piety, the
spirit and influence of the old missionaries,
a few of whom yet linger-Rev. w. p. AL
exander and DR.. Baldwin, venerable and
lovely men, whose labors have been -espec-
tally associated with Maui"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-03

TEMPERANCE IN ENGLAND.-The Bishop
of Exeter (says the NJ. Y. O6serUer), speak
ing recently at Exeter, alluded to the politi-
cal aspect of temperance reform, and ex-
pressed his satisfaction that the question
was now making its way rapidly. At one
time he was the only bishop on the bench
who was a total abstainer, but it was not so
now besides which they found peers of the
realm, men holding high o ce, and men,
bers of the House of Commons, all avowing
themselves on the side of temperance. He
endorsed the opinion OF Lord Derby, that of
all reforms the reform of the drinking habits
of this country was most important to the
working classes.-Friend for May.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-03

nearest approach in 1922 Uranus r%evolyes
HrounI the sun ouc- in 81 years That would give
a. pcrihelion IN he year 1864. The annual move
m-ut- of ib-e two planets in their orbits are-for
Neptune two degrees and ten minutes OF arc :;
Uranus. lour degrees and f~ortyiOur minutes Of arc.
The V-riheliln % Mars in the year 1877 is we'll
Remembered. This disposes OF three of the super
Tor plants. and leaves Jupiter and Saturn not
accounted Tor. Where the would-be astronomers
are going 10 get four superior planets in perihelion
in 1850. I do not know. Some Of the writer's in
the public journals evidently do not know what
they are wiring about bat they should be care
ful and not crelt- 4 needless alarm.
WALTER EDHuND WooD
Honolulu April. 1879.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-03

PAYING A WIFE's BnLs.-The question of ex-
actly how far a man is responsible for goods, etc.
furnished by tradcsmen to a wife from whom he
was separated, was presented in the suit of Bart
lett, Berry, Reed & Co., against Edmund Warning,
which was tried before Judge DAILY and a jury in
the Common Pleas Court of New York. The
action was brought to recover for two dresses
and some kid gloves, besides a loan of money,
furnished by the plaintiffs to Warnings wife in
June and August of 1876. By way Of defense,
Waring urged that he had been separated from
his wife, and that he made the latter a sufficient
allowance to provide for her necessities. Judge
Daily, in his charge, told the jury that when the
trodesmen supplies a married woman with goods,
with the expectation of having her husband pay
the bills, he takes the chance of three things
first, it turning out that these goods are not nee
essary for her or for her condition in life; or that
the husband has supplied her with all the money
which is necessary; or that although the goods
are suitable for her condition in life, she has al
ready supplied herself elsewhere with what was
necessary. As to the borrowed money, it was a
question, lie thought, not free from difficulty
either by the law of this State or by the law of
England. He considered it ought to be left to
the jury to say whether a woman being left with
out necessary articles by her husband, has not
the right to borrow money to procure them. The
jury brought in a verdict for the defendant
Baltimore Sun.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-03
From the Friend for May, 1871
Bayard Taylor's Successor as Minister to
GERMANY,

Notices have appeared in American pap
ers that the position would be offered to DIR.
Thompson, who now resides in Berlin, and
in SO many ways has served and honored
his country. We understand if it had been
offered him he would nave positively de-
clined, on account of the precarious state of
his health. We rejoice that President
Hayes has appointed a Minister so eminent
ly fitted for this responsible and honorable
position, as will appear from the following
notice clipped from the Chicago AdUance i:
1.-THE Hon. Andrew d. White, who has
been appointed Minister to Germany to
succeed the late Bayard Taylor, is a native
of Syracuse, N. Y, his father being a
wealthy and prominent resident of that city.
His collegiate studies were begun at Hamil-
ton College, where he spent a year, and
finished at Yale in 1853, where he was
graduated at the head of his class, and took
first prize for scholarship and oratory. He
then went to Europe, where he was for a
time an attache to the American Legation
at St. Petersburg, and where he laid the
foundation of his present magnificent library.
On his return he was elected to the chair of
history IN the Michigan University at Ann
Arbor. which he accepted after declining a
similar position offered him at Yale. ..t 3SgiSs
to ill health, Mr.. White resigned in 1868,
and spent six months in Europe. On re-
turning to Syracuse he Vas chosen a State
SENATOR serving two tefms at Albany. He
met Mr.: Cornell, founder of Cornell
University, at Ithaca. When the Univer-
sity was organised in 1866 Mr.. White be-
came its President, an office he has held
ever since. In 1871 he was one of the
Commissioners to visit San Domingo. Dur
ing the same year he presided over the
REPUBLICAN, State Convention at Syracuse,
and in 1876 he was a delegate-at-large from
this State to the Convention which nomi-
mated President Hayes"