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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07
Johannes Rex.

OF all the wonderful adventures ever
told, commend us, says the London
Daily Telegraph, to the history of Mr..
John Dunn. Mr.. Dunn is q cOlOnist
who had the skill to gain the good favor
of the Zulus, and the wisdom to utilize
his luck in the most practical manner.
He is the son of an English officer, and,
for aught We know, pattern son, an
excellent father and a model husband.
He ought certainly to be the latter ut
least, or if he be not, it can hardly be
for want of practice, for Mr.. Dunn has
quite become a convert to Zulu ideas,
and possesses harem worthy of piOus
King Solomon himself. Now, this
worthy man was by trade (start not, o
readerD smuggler, purely and SIM
ply. The British Government forbade
the expectation of arms to Zululand,
and Mr. Dunn snapped his fingers at the
British Government and ran his mus
kets across the Tugela River by the
hundred. On the breaking out Of the
war it seemed a toss-up whether Mr..
John Dunn would accept the post of
generalissimo of the Zulu Army or
whether he would find it more to his
advantage to bring his pigs to our mar
keith other words, to turn spy upon
the people with whom he had lived and
whose confidence he had gained. With
that noble disregard for the smaller de-
tails of morality which characterizes
your soldier in want of information, we
bribed Mr.. John Dunn into taking
his chances of being shot with one of
his own rifles or stuck with an asseaig
of his own invention, for we have but
little doubt that CetewayO would have
shown him scant mercy had he fallen
into Zulu hands. This, however, may
have been all right and justifiaole; the
funniest part of it was to come. Sir
Garnet Wolseley's great scheme turns
Zululand into a sort of negro United
States, with paternal providence some
where in Natal, and one of the States is
to be ruled by Dunn! That this eide
cant smuggler and whisky seller and
present spy and enlightened pOlygamist
should be made a king is really too re-
markable an idea to have emanated
from any one but the author of "Vivian
Grey" John Dunn signing Johannes
Rex and treating as an equal with her
Majesty's Resident would make an his
torical picture which might be hung
cheek by jOwl with another represent
ing Mr.. Dunn's 20 or 80 dusky spOuses
being presented at court. Perhaps,
however, on the principle that your con-
verted poacher always makes the best
game-keeper-a principle well knowntO
and often acted upon by our proud no.
bility-Sir Garnet thinks that John
Dunn is the right man to stop the snug
Cling of arms, which we have decreed
is now to cease. This much, at least, is
true, that Dunn will never let any one
smuggle arms-but himself.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07
A Lady's Response to the Toast Of
ssThe Men,"

Mrs. Duniway of the Ne,o Northwest,
at literary reunion at Salem, Oregon,
"toasted the gentlemen as follows:
"GOd bless 'em! They halve our joys,
they double or sorrow, they treble our
expenses, they quadruple our cares, they
excite our magnanimity, they increase
our sef-respect, they awake our en-
thusiasm, they arouse our affections,
they control our property, and out
maneuver us in every thing. This would
be very dreary world without 'em. In
fact may say, without prospect of sue
cessful contradiction, that without 'em
it would not be much of a world anyhow.
We love 'em, and the dear beings can't
help it (; we control 'em, and the precious
fellows don't know it.
GAS husbands they are always con-
venient, though not always on hand; as
beaux they are by no means match
less.' They are most agreeable visitors !;
they are handy at State fairs, and in
dispensable at Oyster-saloOns. They are
splendid as escorts for some other fell
lows wife or sister, and as friends they
are better than women. As our fathers
they are inexpressibly grand. A man
may be q failure in business, a wreck in
constitution, not enough to boast of as a
beauty, nothing as a wit, less than moth
ing as q legislator for wOman's rights,
and even not very brilliant as a member
of the press; but if he is our own father
we overlook his shortcomings and cover
his peccadilloes with the divine mantle
of charity. Then, as our husbands, how
we love to parade them as paragons!
In the sublime language of the inspired
poet: -.
wen lie for them,
Well cry for them,
And If we could we'd ny for them,
We'd any thing but die for them.'"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07
So. Micholas has been SO popular

st. Nicholas has been so popular in
England for several years, and SO well
appreciated on the continent, wherever
it has found its way, that the publishers
have recently accepted the proposition
of q Paris publisher for an edition in
French, to be issued in Paris. twill be
like the American st. Nicholas in cover,
pictures, and most of the reading mat
ter, though possibly some of the rhymes
and jingles will not bear translating.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07

AT reception in London given in
honor of distinguished American, who
was rather dark, having been much
tanned, an elegant lady, q professional
beauty, kindly inquired of the dark
complexioned American, els your tribe
at peace with the whites?n
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07

RUSSIAN ladies have just begun to
take part in boat races. In SaratOff the
first prize, golden bracelet, and the
second, golden breastpin, were ad-
judged to the two young ladies who ham
died the rudder. -4.f IN
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07

"A saloon-keeper went down to the
train recently to overhaul q man who
owed him SIG. He announced his in
tention of wiping the platform with the
man if he once got hold of him. He
found the man, and the two had a talk
about the debt. The creditor told a
pitiful story about his hard luck, and
said he had only just enough money to
get to Elko. The saloOn-keeper IS 3
kind-hearted German, and, after hear
ing the story of the fellows misfor-
tunes, the tears stood in his eyes, and he
remarked: "Mine Colt, Pill, ish dot 50?
Veil, here's two tOllers and half for
you to get grub on de way" and, thrust
ing the money into the mans hand, he
pressed it with warm grip and trem-
ulous Goot-by, Pill" and went mp
town murmuring, "DOt poy ish always
in hart lug"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07

The lap of luxury-When the cat gets
cream.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07
school and Church.


Sankey's hymns have been trans
lated into Chinese, Gaelic and Kanaka.
Yale, including the art and medi-
cal departments, has 1,l0O students.
The New Testament has been trans
lated into japanese by the Rev. d. l.. H.
Gulick. a3.s ! E8 go $50 "a
Fisk University opens this year I'M
der very favorable auspices. In the
boarding department there are 20 stu
dents, and in the school 200.
The Lutherans have in the United
States about $3.50 ministers, 5000 con-
gregations, and 725, 900 COMMITMENTS.
they are increasing largely from the
large German and Scandinavian immi-
grafton. .la
-Ex-Gov. Claflin of Boston has given
to the Freedmen's Aid Society the
League property, adjoining Cla6in Uni
versity, at Orangeburg, 5. c., consist
ing of 81 acres and buildings, valued al
$4,000. raa '9e
The first woman lay delegate has al
length been admitted to q General Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. 1t happened out in the State
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07
TOads in Trees and Stones.

A large toad was found few years
ago in an old apple-tree at Wenham
Manor; it came to light when the tree
was blown down. The Memories of the
French Academic des Sciences contain
description of a living toad found in the
heart of an old elm tree. Near Nantes,
when an old oak was cleft open, a toad
was found in the very heart-wOOd,
although no crevice or other channel of
entrance could be detected; there were
about 80 rings in the trunk of this oak,
leading to the inference according to
one theory that the animal must have
been in his prison-house 80 years. Mr..
Jesse, in reference to frog found in the
trunk of q mulberry-tree, expressed
belief that the annual rings had been
gradually but surely inclOsing the reptile.
Toads in clay have been more frequently
met with than in trees; sometimes q
whole family have been thus ferreted
out at once. In 1856 toad was found
at considerable depth at Benthall, near
Brosely, Shropshire. Mr.. Bathurst,
earthenware manufacturer at Benthall,
ascertained that the creature was met
with about six feet beneath the surface,
in layer of tough clay customarily used
for making coarse brown ware. Above
this layer,i successive strata, we're fer
ruginOus coal of poor quality, clay,
loan of clay and gravel, and meadow
turf at the top. The toad was found
filling a cavity as wax does seal. A
minute examination of the superincum-
bent strata failed to detect any fissurc
through which the animal could have
entered. The light of day seemed at
first to distress it, but this it soon became
accustomed to; the eyes we're brilliant,
the skin moist, the mouth quite closed.
-CHGnberS's Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-11-07


he will be able to supply his own house
hold with sugar and sirup; if he plant
an additional five, or 10, or 20 acres in
sorghum, he will have sugar and strip
not only at low cost for his own use.
but to sell. Sugar and sirup, which are
now among the more costly items of
family expenditure, will be then within
the reach of every man who will plant
o few acres in sorghum, and without re-
ducing his acreage in other crops, he
can add sorghum to his list of prOduc-
tons for sale. This sugar and strip
thus produced ON the farm will be of a
quality superior to that generally sold
by the refineries; it will be the pure
product of the cane, and not adulterated
and poisoned as nine-tenths of the sugar
and sirup sold by grocers are now.
France has devoted many years of
scientific labor to the cultivation of the
sugar-beet, and not only produces the
greater part of the sugar consumed in
that country from beets, but exports it
largely to England and other nations.
The production of beet-sugar is also ex-
tensively followed in other European
countries. There is no reason, there
fore, why we should expend annually
the entire product of all our gold and
silver mines for sugar, when we have the
soil, and the acreage, and the climate
adapted to tn. growth of amber cane in
unlimited quantities. The sugar-mill at
Crystal Lake, Just north Of Chicago, will
produce this year and sell in Chicago
$50 barrels of sugar. Next year the same
mill may produce $500 barrels, and
there is no reason why it should not
rapidly reach 10000 barrels year
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-09
Terms Of Subscription:

Professional aud business cards, of ten
line, or less in length, sl5 per annum; for
six months, $40; for three months, 81
Business advertisements of greater length
will be inserted at above rates.
Legal advertisements will he charged at
legal rates, where fixed by law; otherwise
at special rates rs published above.
II Special notices ~ cents per line,
Funcrai notices Of less than ten lines,
and marriage aud religious notices inserted
gratis.
Job-work executed in the ncatest style,
and at reasonable prices.
August y, 1877.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-09
CREED.
BY NARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND [xARiFFA

Ibelieve if | should die,
And YOU should kiss my eyelids when
lie
Cold, dead and dumb to all this world
contains,
The folded orbs would open at thy breath
And, from it's exile in the isles of death,
Life would come gladly back along my
veins.
believe if | were dead,
And you upon my lifelcss heart should
tread,
Not knowing what the poor clod Glanced
to be-.
It would find Sudden pulse beneath the
touch
OF her it ever loved in life 81 much,
Aud throb again, warm, tender, true to
thee.
believe If on my grave,
Hidden in woody deeps or by the wave,
Your eyes should drop some warm tears
of regret
From every salty seed Of your dear grief,
Some fair, sweet blossom would leap into
leaf,
To prove death could no, make my love
forget.
Ibelicve il | should fade
Into those mystic realms where light Is
made.
And you should long once more my face
to see.
| would come forth upon the hills of night
| And gather stars like fagotS, till thy sight,
| Led by their beacon blaze, fell fall on
me!
Ibelievc my faith in thee,
Strong rs nv life, 80 nobly placed to be,
would a. soon expect to see the sun
Fall like dead king from his height sub
lime,
/ His glory stricken from the throne of time,
A. thee unworth the worship thou hast
| won.
believe who hath not loved,
Hath half the sweetness of his life I'M
proved;
Like one who, with the grape within
his grasp,
Drops it with all it's crimson juice I'M
pressed,
And all its luscious sweetness left un'
guessed,
Out from his careless and nnheedine
clasp.
believe love, pure aud true,
Is to the soul a sweet, immortal dew
That gems lifc's petals III its hours OF
dusk
The waiting angels see and recognize
The rich crown jewel, Love, of Paradise,
When life falls from It's like witheFe'
husk.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-09
The Iron Vault.

| live in San Francisco, and am
locksmith by trade. My calling
is a strange one, and possesses
certain fascination, rendering II one
of the most agreeable of pursuits.
MANY who follow il see nothing IN
il but labor-think OF nothing but
it's return in gold and silver. To
me it has other charms than the
money it produces.
am called upon almost daily to
open doors and peer into long'neg-
lected apartments, to spring the
stubborn locks of safes, and gloat
upon the treasures piled within; to
quietly enter the apartments OF
ladies with more beauty than dis
erection, and pick the locks OF draw
ers containing peace-destroying mis-
sives, that the dangerous evidences
of wandering affection may not
reach the eye OF husband or father,
in possession of the missing key;
to force the fasteDings of cash
boxes, and repositories of records
telling Of men made suddenly rich,
of corporations piundcred, of or.
phans robbed, of hopes crushed, OF
families ruined. Is there no charm
in all thisi no food for speculation'
no scope for the range of pleasant
fancyi Then who would not be a
locksmith, though his face is be
grimmed with the SCOT of the forge
and his hands are stained with rust
But | have story to tell-no'
exactly q story, either-for a story
Implies the completion as we'll AZ
the beginning of narrative-ant
mine is scarcely more than the IN
PRODUCTION to one. Let him whit
deals in things of fancy write tn
rest. In the spring OF 1856
think it was in April opened
little shop on kearney street, AM
soon worked myself into fair busl
1 ness. Late one evening, a lady
closely yelled, entered my shor
= and pulled from her cloak a sma'
iapanned box, requested the to ope
!. it. The lock was curiously cor
II strncted. and | was all Of an hou
fitting it with a key.
The lady seemed nervous at tn
= delay, aud at length requested N
TO close the door. | was littl
/. surprised at the suggestion, but
lie course complied. Shutting the do6
4 and returning to my work, the lad
=, ,s withdrew her veil disclosing 9
sweet face AZ can be well imagil
" ed. There was a restlessness
= the eye and pallor in the chez
Il however, which plainly told OF
re heart i'll at ease, and in a mome1
every emotion for her had give
place to that of pity.
"Perhaps you are not we'll, ma
am, and the night air 10 too chilly
said /, rather inquisitively.
1 felt a rebuke in her reply.
w. "In requesting you to close 9
nd door I had no other object than
"a escape the attention of other pt
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-09
A Dyspeptic's Dinner.
New York Evening Post. |


There came to the dinner table
at the Lawrence House, the other
day, two strangers, one lean and
hungry looking customer, the other
"a decent appearing young fellow.
AS they reached the table the older
man clutched frantically at the bill
OF fare, aud remarked az follows
"Let's see what they got. You
know can't eat everything. Been
nearly dead for ten weeks with
dyspepsia. Alb, 'oyster SOUP
guess that won't hurt me-" To
waiter-"Bring me some oyster
soup; and, let's see-'boiled white
tish'-yes, Ill have some O. that"
The soup and the fish were rapid
~ eaten.
"Now let's see what else they've
got-you know l can't eat every.
thing. Roast turkey that ought
not to hurt me. III have some o.
that. Roast beet'-yes, I'll have
some O. that. Chicken pot. pie
yes, that's easily digested; III take
some. Let's see-I can't eat every.
thing; III take a bit of the boiled
ham, some macaroni, and, alb! some
chicken livers and vegetables"
The waiter had been taking the
order, and the man with the weak
stomach reached this way for
crackers, that way for butter, here
took piece of bread, there a pickle
and stalk of celery, and, frequent
" remarking that he couldn't eat
everything, stayed bis stomach
until his dinner was brought. He
looked it over, sent the waiter
back for some roast veal and an.
other onion, remarking that bis
stomach was weak, he had been
suffering terribly from dyspepsia,
and couldn't eat everything. But
at last got to work and cleared the
dishes.
The matter Of dessert troubled
him some, because his stomach waa
80 weak, but he finally ordered
mince pie, plum pudding, ice cream
!, with a cup Of coffee.
They were brought and devoured
', and then he called the waiter and
,, made her a confidential communi
cation that he had been sick will
, the dyspepsia, that his stomach
was weak, he couldn't eat every
: thing, and would she bring him ,
bowl of milk
The milk was brought; he crum
! bled some bread therein, and AZ hi
y younger companion had departed
the man with the weak stomach
. remarked to the gentleman acros
!. the table from him that IL wa
darned rough 10 have to come dow
to bread and milk, but he had beeI
sick, lie couldn't eat everything AM
had to he careful.
: And now the landlord is anxiou
> for that man to come around wheI
/" he is well. He needn't come hu
once.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-09

and bury me and my secret togeth-
er. She seemed to read the sus-
picion, and continued eoldly, "Do
not be alarmed; you are not the
man.'
| could not mistake the truth or
the fearful meaning of the remark I,
and | sbnddered rs ! bent my head
to the handkerchief My eyes were
as carefully bandaged as before,
aud | was led to the cab, and
thence driven home by more cir
cuitous route, if possible, than the
one by which we came. Arriving
in front of the house, the hapdkef.
chief was removed, and l stepped
from the vehicle. A purse of $500
was placed in my hand, and in a
moment the cab and its ysterious
occupant had turned tue corner,
and were out of sight.
entered the shop, and the purse
OF gold was the only evidence I
could summon in my bewilderment
that all had done and witnessed
was not a dream.
A month after that l saw the
lady and the gentleman taken from
the vault walking leisureiy along
Montgomery street. / do not know,
but believe the sleeping husband
awoke within the vault, and his
bones are there to-day! The wife ID
still resident Of San Francisco.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-09
MINDEN HOTEL.

THE travelling pablic and regular board
ers will find this house a. comfortable
and well supplied "a the resources and CON
,lition Of the country will permit. The
charges are very reasonable. The Stage
stand is kept at this Hotel
have also attached TO my hotel new
and commod,ous Stable, we'll supplied with
proyender and water. and good ostler al
wavs on hand to attend to stock.
The travelling public will do well to give
me q call. A. D. hLiNoLbo.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-09

The impression prevails 1t Wash.
ington, and much to the cOusterua.
ton of the stalwart element Of tho
Republican party, that Presidest
Hayes will approve the appropfia-
ton bills, in whatever shape or with
whatever amendments they happen
to pass. Secretaries Evarts and
Schurz are both in favor Of his &c
quiescence with the Democratic ma
jority in Congress, 20 far - theee
measures are cQncerncd.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-09

The average cost Of construetiaA
per mile of the frst-class standasa-
guage roads now built u aboat -
follows: One hundred tone ofe4el
rails a, $50; 5000 tiea, n, ~ oeoo
pounds Of spikes, u, - 81 -
bars, d, AS So labor o5o2 - -
%, ~ 80. To layi1g 90
the common iron mi 60
per cent lees
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-07-17

Monday morning about seven O'Clock
when Mr.. Goodwin, Cashier OF the Bldt,e-
ford National Bank, opened the outer door
leading to the banking rooms OF the Bideie-
ford Na,ional and Blddeiord Savings Bank
he found . note on the stairs from Hoo.
Il N. Chapman, Treasurer OF the Bldde-
ford Savings Bank eaationing axAins, doing
Any business D, the bank usill he saw or
heard from him. Mr.. Goodwin FASTENED
up stairs and found tina, q large revolver
kept In the bank was gone. lie Immediately
closed the bank and wen; to the Biddeford
House. A. Mr.. Chapman had not been
seen. they broke open his room and found
him dead In bed with bullet wound direct.
ly over the heart. BY bis side the revolver
which had been taken from the bank. lie
apparently had been dead several hours.
coroner bcinx summoned considered An
inquest unneoessAry. For several DAYS
Mr. Chapman has been anweil and PROB
ably committed The act under . state OF TEN
Po'.Sy '"s."!'y Nj fAApmAn VAS abon,
u years OF age. The A6airs OF the banx
are considered all right.