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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

JAMES CLsPHANE. aged ninety. who
lives in Washington. read proof with
Sir Walter Scott on his novel 'Waver-
ley"
For his comedy of Black-Eyed SUI
san," which still holds the stage, Doug
lass Jerrold received just what Milton
did for +" Paradise Lost "-S25.
FANNY DAVENPORT pays twenty-four
hundred dollars to Anna Dickinson for
her new play, and fifty dollars q night
for every performance after il has run
three weeks.
APOEM on "Death," by the late Rev.
DR.. Daggett, of Hartford, Conn, was
being set up for printing in the October
number of Scribner's as the news came
of his death.
BJORNsTERNE BJoRNsON, the Nor
wegian novelist, dramatic poet and
pamphlet writer. recently arrived in
New York by the steamer Germanic, in
company with Mrs. Ole Bull. the widow
Of the violinist.
Nix. BRET HART is in luck in England.
Every scrap that he has written. includ-
ing q biographical preface and q por-
trait of the author, is to 60 into i've
volume edition of his works now in the
hands of a London publisher.
The maddest performance recorded
in Mr.. w. T. Dobson's history of "Lit-
erary Frivolities'' is that of the man
who discovered there were SO, 535 ways
of spelling the word scissors, and who
accordingly sat down and wrote them
out in work containing three volumes
of 800 pages each.
JOHN A. CUTHBERT, resident Of
Mobile. Ala, is the oldest living ex-
Representative of Congress. He was
born at Savannah. Ca, in 1888; was
graduated from Princeton College in
1905, served in the war of 1928 and
was a Representative from Alabama
from 1919 to 1921, sixty-one years ago.
Mr.. DANTE GABRIEL ROssErTI, the
poet, lives q most secluded and retired
life; he rarely goes into society, end
even his brother does not venture to
bring visitors to his studio. It is since
the death of Mrs. Rossetti, beautiful
and sweet-natured woman, that this
habit of reserve has grown upon the
husband she left to regret her. When
she died, ROssetti was so wretched that
he felt his own intellectual life was at
an end. and in her grave he buried all
the sonnets he had written, AID which,
by the way, were addressed t. her. His
friends. resolved that the poems should
not be lost, opened the grave and res
cued them; and after time revealing
tc the poet that they were in existence,
persuaded him to print them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-29

cave US to-night-and You have saved
my child from wandering, and starving,
perhaps, in those wild woods; no.
must have you tonight under our own
roof"
Strange to say, Ben did stay under
that roof that night, and great many
nights besides; for Mrs. Writ found 50
many things that needed to be done,
and was SO sure that Ben could do them
better than any one else, that he was
obliged to stop and do them, or act
rudely to lady, and Ben was too polite
to do that.
His ragged. patched clothes were
gradually exchanged for better ones; he
began to love the Wirts, and through
them to think better of his kind gener-
ally. Mrs. Writ had learned or knew
by instinct that to make one feel at
home he must be made to feel that he
is needed, SO before long she declared
that the house must have another l. to
make it proportioned right, and Ben,
with a carpenter to assist, was set to
work at once to build q room for him.
self and one for Tom to keep his pet
birds and flowers in.
If at any time Ben showed wander
ing spirit Mrs. Writ had only to say:
80. Ben. what if that strange Tom
should run away once more!' and he
felt that he was needed and was con-
tent; but Tom never ran away again.
~ Y. lri6une.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-29
HOW TOMMY WAS LOST.

"QUATHY it'll dead, gueth, for
thowed sthick at her an sthe didn't
sthir bit,'' lisped five-year-old Rob
pointing with his chubby hand toward
q log where Quashy, a large white hen
lay Stiff and stark. Rob, in his shor,
trousers and striped waist, of which
last only a very harrow strip was Wis
ible above his waistband, looked for all
the world like q little old Dutchman
His stiff hair, too, hung straight down
to his eyebrows in q perfectly natural
'bang."
''Tommy killed her, that's sure,''
piped a voice from the hay close
If Rob. in his sturdy shortness,
looked like a "Mynheer," then Dick,
with his long legs dangling from the
end of the hay-rick. where he sat both
whistling and whittling, might be fair
type of the Yankee.
"Oh, Tom, how bad you be-" and
Milly shook her almost four-year-old
curls sadly over such extreme wicked
ness, and went on with her burr-basket
making.
WHATS Tom been ADDING now
that's. bad? You think am always
doing something" came half petulant-
ly from dreamy-eyed Tom, lying at full
length under an oak tree, where he had
been watching the glimmer of the sky
through the leaves for the last half
hour.
Dear me, how inherent some
folks are," said Dick, who was nine,
and two years Toms senior, and whose
advanced age made him think himself a
privileged censor. "Quashy is dead.
AID it's plain enough who killed her
Wasn't You just tearing mad the other
day when she scratched up your pre-
cious fower-bed, and didn't you say she
ought to be hung"'
Tom was fully aroused now. and sat
upright with his gray eyes wide open.
"Me kill Quashy! You know l
wouldn't do it. If did say she ought
to be hung. I didn't mean nothing
was 50 sorry about the flowers. I'm
always getting 'cused of something /
didn't think of" and he looked at Dick
Indignantly.
"Oh! no, you never do nothing-you
didn't lose that nice book all full o:
pictures of animals, all along of watch
ing in the woods to see if a woodchuck
was like the one in the book; and who
broke the bread-knife a-digging u,
wild plants, and put caterpillars il
mothers best bonnet box to see if they,
come out butterflies, and who lie
teenty Mary fall out of the chair an.
almost break her neck?" Dick stoppe,
to take breath.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-29
Tea.Table Gossip.

SOME OF the new black stockings have
red bands woven into them, so as to
make them look as if cross gartered.
The big button, the owl button, the
scallop shell or palmer's button, the
Vatican button. hand painted on pearl,
and the many-tinted cut steel buttons
are some of the new styles.
Bonnets of white plush, with pearl
and silver faceted beads, white ostrich
and graceful drapery of Spanish lace,
are shown for wear at day receptions,
the opera and the theater.
The daughter of wealthy Turk is
having her wedding outfit made in
Paris. and part of it is gown of hello
trOpe satin with a court train and q
trimming of velvet and point lace, and
q point lace apron and veil.
Tablecloths are becoming so rich and
beautiful that nobody will dare to use
them. One of the newest patterns is of
damask embroidered with peacocks in
three shades of blue silk and with apple
blossoms. 1t is valued at one hundred
and fifty dollars.
Some of the new trimmings are made
with beaded braid, which initiates beads
without their weight. This braid con
sists of fine round cord, wound around
with strip of tinsel or tlne metal re-
sembling gold, silver or jetted beads.
A mammoth bow of very wide satin
ribbon is now worn on the left side,
just below the waist line. This gives a
pretty finish to many simple toilets,
especially when worn with q null fichu.
Three wide loops and two short ends
form this square bow.
The beaver and felt hats come in all
colors. In place of the slightly rolled
brims of last year these have straight
fat rims. raised at one side with POM
pom or bunch of feathers. They come
in old gold and two coloR--the outside
of light tint, the facing of darker
beaver.
Some of the bonnets are almost bar
barrie in their rich materials and tropical
colored plumage. Among the new and
unique shapes are the Charlotte Corday
and the MOnsignor, an imitation of an
Italian Bishops hat; and the caleche,
revival of the Old-fashiOned 'calash;"
this last comes in beaver, and does
not require any trimming but strings.
A simple way to make raised worsted
work is to take hairpin or stiff wire,
bent in shape of straight hairpin, bend
the wires near or far apart, according
to how high you want your work.
Wind the worsted around the wires.
the threads close, continuing until you
have it as long as you want single
leaf or part of a flower. Nowlay this on
your cloth, or whatever you wish to
put your work on. Sew through the
middle, catching down each thread or
worsted. Pull out the wire, cut in the
middle of each loop on both sides, pick
out with a pin until it all stands up
round, then trim with scissors. Before
sewing on it is best to draw the threads
tight together, passing thread around
with your needle and fastening. For a
rosebud. wind shaded worsted, the
light at one end and the dark at the
other; over this wind green, a few
threads over the light and thicker over
the dark. and you will have shaded
bud with calyx outside. You can
vary shading and size according to taste.
m 7. Graphic.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-29
HUMOROUS.

"HOw MUsICALLY his hoof-beats
soundr' exclaimed an enthusiastic lover
OF the turf, as st. Julien speeded
around the course at Brighton last
week. EYES," replied his matter-of-
fact companion; "he is beating time"
Boston Transcript.
PEDAGoGUE: "What is the meaning
of the Latin verb ign0scow Tall stu
dent (after all the others have failed to
give the correct de6nition): 81 don't
know" Pedagogue: Right; 60 up
to the head"
81 WISH I could settle this confound-
ed Coffee" said an impatient traveller
at q railway restaurant. t'Try q
broomstick." said moody man with q
scratched nose, "that is what every
thing is settled with at our house. -
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
"WBO are you going to vote for?''
somebody asked Gilhooly. II am
going to cast my vote solid for De
Smith" "Do you think he is entitled
to the confidence of the people2 Do
you know him!' "Never saw him in
my life, but saw the other fellow, and
that settled Galrsston Nesos.
LITTLE PAUL, clambering on his
fathers knee" Pa, what Is 'hum-
bugr" Father-"Why, what on earth
do you want to know that for?" Paul
IL beard you say it to ma q minute
ago." Father-"Yes. my son. Hum
bug is when your ma pretends she loves
me and there are no buttons on the neck
of my shirt"
sHYLY he bent DER the dainty head
And, wont you; won't your
Begging from the saucy miss
just for the l)an of one sweet kiss.
The maiden tossed her pretty head
And, mo, wont yOu"
She sauciiy said.
HE should not ask for, but steal the kiss"
GERsrER got an average of 800 for
each time she sang in this country. At
this rate it is estimated that she has al
ready sung 81, 600. coo worth to her new
baby. And the youngster doesn't seem
10 appreciate it any more than it would
the wild and tortuous strains from q
seventy-five cent accordiOn.-Norris-
toun Herald.
The Central New York Farmers Club
recently sent out invitations to its
annual picnic. with its initials head
ing the card of the ivitation. &C. N.
Y. F. C.r' Indignantly read an old
granger, ''ef that amt the blamedest
way to spell knife! This comes of yer
new-fangled spellin' leformr' And he
Immediately sat down and wrote
wrathful letter to Professor North
about it.-Burhngton Hawkeye.
Boast not thyself, o denizen of the
city. that thy summer has been inexpen-
sively passed at the home of thy country
relative. for even now that relative
hath said unto his wife and his sons wife
and into his daughters and his daugh-
ters' husbands and unto his cousins.
even unto the third and fourth genera
tons: ''Lo! the winter approacheth.
and William will be pleased to see us in
his city home, where theaters, lectures
and such like vanities do beguile the
time. Let us fee urto him, every one"
ndthey will come, as sure as Christmas.
Verify. they will have their revenge
Boston Transcript.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-29

"HE sleeps where he FELL" says a
late ballad. which suggests that he must
have been drunk.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-29


Writ returned to the twins and, calling
Mr.. Writ, said, with a mixture of anx-
iety and amusement: 1.-The queer
child! he has surely run away, and all
of US must start right of to find him, for
the shower is about over, and it will
soon be dark"
But as she prepared herself to go, and
sent the men and boys of, she thought
with dismay of the many roads on that
wild lakeside--roads that branched of
in every direction and ended in deep
woods or snake-haunted morasses.
Dick, whose uneasy conscience sorely
troubled him, remembered the. little
caves on the lake shore which he and
Tommy had dug out in the sand-knob
and rooted with boards the last time
they had q holiday at the lake, and per-
maps little Crusoe had gone there to
i've by himself, SO, while the others
we're inquiring at the scattered fruit
farms along the various roads, Mrs.
Writ and Dick rode to the lake three
niles away. As long as Dick lived he
never forgot that sad ride under the
,howery trees, for Mrs. Wirt's few
words, scrrowfuly spoken, in regard to
the care that should be taken not to
sound the sensitive feelings of dear
,aes, or of any one however lowly,
.ade deep impression on thoughtless
lick.
They reached the lakeside and found
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-21
How to Laugh.

As to laughing, how seldom, except on the
stage, do we hear a really musical laugh!
girls make dreadful grimaces when
they laugh. A little education in the art
would not make it artificial, and they would
surely enjoy it all the more if they could
realize that they might indulge in mirth with
out making themselves look so very ugly, as
is occasionally the case. 1t runs in families
sometimes TO distort the eountenance wien
laughing. l know a family who laugh a great
deal. Their eyes always shut up when they
do so, and it is the funniest thing VIXEN one
dimes with them and something amusing is
said,to look around the table and see exactly
the same distortion on every face. There is
not an eye left in the family. Three sis ers
whom l know show quite half an inch of pale
pink gum when they laugh. In their pres
ence, like Wendell Holmes, one q never dares
to be as funny as one CAM" for fear of seeing
this appalling triple vision of gums. A little
training in childhood would make their
laughter q pleasant thing to look at, for they
have all pretty little square teeth, very white
and even. Henry Ward Beecher says: GA
good laugh is worth a hundred groans in any
Market" and l am sure a pretty one is worth
a thousand.-Lond0n Truth.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-21

But it is when we arrive at the sense of
hearing that we come to the point where
proper aesthetic feelings begin. 1t is quite
impossible to doubt that birds are fond Of
musical sounds. The song of our own night
ingales and ~liinets, the deep notes of the
South American bell bird the incessant cooling
of the dove, the noisy chattering of the par
rots, the ringing cry of the whippoorwill, all
lead to the same conclusion. Here, again,
these sounds are of precisely the same nature
as those employed by the crickets, katydlds,
cicadas. and other musical insects, as well as
by man himself in his vocal and instrumental
music. Something of the same taste is dis
played among the quadrumana by the howl
ers and other monkeys. But it is a nOtewOr-
thy fact that a large majority of these pre-
sumably sexual calls in birds, insects and
other animals are true musical sounds, not
mere noises.
But there is certainly a singular analogy in
this respect between sounds and COlOrs, most
animals preferring the relatively pure and
simple musical tones to confused noises; and
the relatively pure and simple analytic COL
ors, red, blue, green and yellow, to confused
mixtures, such as brown gray and mud color.
At any rate, a bird evidently pays far more
attention to the musical class of auditory
perceptions than to mere noise. A canary
will take no notice of ordinary confused
sounds in a room; but, if one begins to chirp
or whistle to it, it Immediately responds with
another chlrp in emulation. So, too, when a
piano or other musical instrument is played
in the neighborhood of a singing bird, it will
often show its recognition of the musical
character by pouring out its very fullest food
of song, as it to conquer its unconscious ri
val. OF course, the singing matches between
birds themselves are too Familiarity known to
call for separate mention. 1t may be worth
while, however, to notice that this love of
musical sound exists even among certain rep
tiles; for | have often seen the common
house lizard of Jamaica listening with evil
dent interest and attention to the playing OF
a piano, turning his head from side to side,
and scampering away when disturbed, only
to return again to the fascinating sound after
a minute or two of hesitation.-Prof. GRAM
Allen in Popular Science Monthly for Sep
TENDER.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-21
LITERARY INTELLIGEN CE.

Harper & Brothers are reserving their more
important publications until after the coming
elections.
jefferson DAVIS HMemoirs' will be pub
lished by the Appletons very soon after the
elections.
An autograph letter of Burns, in which he
quotes sScots wha bae," was lately sold by
auction for $460.
Mr.. Conway says that Carlyle neither reads
nor writes, but lies OH a sofa and longs for
death. Carlyle will be 50 in December.
Walt Whitman has been Engaged by an
English magazine publisher to write his
estimate of the poets of the nineteenth cen-
fury.
DR.. j. Hammond Trumbull, of Hartford,
has taken upon himself the task of translate
ing the meaning of the Indian names of "
and rivers in New England.
James R.. Osgood " Co., of Boston, have
issued "Reminiscences of a Journalist" by
Charles I. Congdon, papers which have ap-
peared in the New York Tribune.
The Duke of Argyll intends to continue the
argument of his Reign of Law in a series
of essays on "1he Unity of Nature" to be
published first in the Contemporary Reriew.
Mr.. Aldrich's new story, "The Saltwater
Tragedy" just concluded in the Atlantic
Monthly, will be issued in book form by
Houghton, Miffiin 4 Co., and will be for sale
by book dealers generally.
Among the authors who have had their ar
ticles declined with thanks are mentioned
Kinklake, Charlotte Bronte, Trollope, Dixon,
Motley, Brougham, and George Eliot. But
this doesn't prove that every holder of a re-
turned MS. belongs in that company.
"The fate of Republics" dedicated TO ex-
President Grant, by ali anonymous author,
has been published by Estes & Laurian. The
conclusions of the writer are that THE only
thing which can save the United States from
the fatality of historic republics is Biblican
Christianity among the masses ofthe people,"
Prof. Mommsen, whose historical library
ant manuscripts were burned in Germany,
has de .lined to have a fluid raised in Eng
land. He says the property was insured for
enough to cover its intrinsic value, and money
cannot restore it. He is soon going to Italy
to renew his copies of ancient Roman inscrip-
tions.
General John Mcdonald, the exposer of
the "Secrets of the Whisky Ring" was unable
to find a firm in St. Louis which had sufficient
enterprise to undertake the publication Of his
book of revelations, and has brought it to
Chicago. This book is now in course of pub
iication by Belfords, Clarke Il Co., of this
city.-Chicago Times.
The Parisian says: ave record without
praise or blame, and merely as a sign of the
times, the revival OF the taste for CAV stories
IN the vein of b ~ccacclo, Marguerite of Ma
varre and others. There are several Partisan
journals III which a daily tale of the Kind
known as Histories grdreleuses, or, as an
American humorist might say, low-necked
is the leading feature"
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-09-21
New York Bullion and Metal Market.

3ullion.-There was, for a few days the
past week, a slight rally on silver in the LON
don market, growing ont OF rumors of the
payment of silver in lieu of gold by the Ger
man government; but the authoritative de-
NAL of this yesterday has lowered the rate to
the point at which it has ruled for nearly a
month. The market is quite nominal and
without indications of either a higher or low-
err range of prices.
Copper.-There have been no sales in this
metal since last We wrote, and the market
remains dull, without change in prices from
last week. We have been shown a letter,
FROM a reliable source, dated London, Aug.
2Sth, in which the writer says there is an ac-
emulation of about 5000 tons of Wallaroo
copper, in addition to which the Tharsus
Company have accumulated about 5000 tons.
How to get rid of this large stock without
breaking the market is all enigma.
Lead.-The total sales of pig-lead for the
week aggregate about 800 tons from 4.SIa6
ass down as low as 4.SO, at which latter fig
ure the bulk of the business has been done.
But these sales have pretty we'll cleaned out
the cheap lots, aud it is doubtful whether any
more lead can be had at $50. The actual
consumption of lead in the shape of the va
rious manufactures of lead is something IN
precede nted.- Engineering and Mining Jour-
Hut. sept. IL.
Bullion.-The London market tor bar sill
yer has been a trife tirmer during the latter
part of the week, the cable quoting So 9-166
So SD per ounce. Here the nominal quo.
tation for fine bars has been advanced tC
$1.13s@1.144 per ounce. The San Francisco
market remains dull and nominal with very
little demand for shipment to China.
Lead.-The demand for Common Pig has
been limited and the business in progress
confined to a few unimportaht jobbing sales
Sellers are asking 4a645 cents, according tt
quantity, but the tone of the market is in the
buyers favor. Corroding is quoted at 5565i
cents.
Copper.-The market for Ingot is dull ant
rather nominal in value. Lake is held at l!
cents, but can be readily bought for less, ant
Baltimore is offered at 1S561Sa. There
seems to be very little demand.-Nsw Yorl
Mining Record, Sept. II.
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REFLECTIONS

They that write books on the worthless
ness of glory take care to put their names on
the title page.
A man is an i'll husband of his honor that
entereth into any action, the falling wherein
may disgrace him more than the carrying of
it through can honor him.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth;
to use them too much for ornament is atfecta-
ton to make judgment wholly by their rules
is the humor of a scholar.
In the youth of a state, arms do flourish;
in the middle age OF a state, learning; and
then both of them together for a time in the
declining age of a state, mechanical arts and
merchandise.
When a man has once forfeited the reputa.
ton of his integrity, he is set last and moth
ing will serve his turn, neither truth nor
falsehood.-TWlotson
Beast not of escaping the justice Of the
gods; thou shalt receive thy due reward,
| either here or in the realms of Hades, or in a
place more wild than these.-Plato.
II the best mans faults were written on his
forehead, he would draw his hat over his
eyes.-Grdy.
Charity toward the weakness of human
nature is a virtue which we demandin others
but which we find very hard to practice our
selves.
1t is impossible to make people understand
lhoir Ignorance, for it requires knowledge t.
perceive it; and therefore he that can per
ceive it hath it not.
There are two distinct kinds of boys il
this world-the human boy and the boy win
exists III Sunday school books.-Andrescs
Bdzdr
Let a liver run beside a town and it vii
cause no discord, but let it run through
town and it makes the people living on on
side hate those living on the other, throng
there is no reason why they should.