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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05
How they Dress In Syria.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Providence
Journal, writing from Beyrout, saws:
The inmates of the harem walk abroad
enveloped in gray silk, or more COM
monty in white, as though on their way
to q masquerade, or as if cemetery
had suddenly come to life, and the
shrouded forms were out on general
parade. The faces must be kept COW
cred with q piece of figured cotton,
called s.mandil," which is indescriba-
bly, ugly. The feet and ankles of these
sheeted figures are in full view. The
Syrian women and children 90 visiting
and to church with q scarf of white
dotted lace thrown jauntily over their
pretty black hair and bright ribbons,
but modesty requires them to don the
Moslem sheet when they do shopping in
the bazars. They are ambitious wom-
en-, who aspire to Paris styles instead of
the palmer print of the ordinary Syrian,
and who yet cling to the gayer colors
of q more barbaric taste. As for ex-
ample, one whom saw at the Pasha's
garden reception was attired in scarlet
and drab walking suit, plum-c0lored vel
vet hat with light blue feather and pink
flowers and yellow kids, her child deck
ed in red velvet and gold braid. There
was grand wedding the other day in
the heightened native society, where
the trOsseau was from Paris, and the
supper by q caterer, but some of the
relations from the country, not under
standing the ways of more civilized So
ciety, put their hands into the salad
and helped themselves, sitting with
their shoes off and their feet tucked up
under them on the satin divan.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05

kittyr' he exclaimed. I've got some
paper in my pocket and . little stub end
Of pencil. and can print:'
Susie stopped crying and watched with
great interest while BEN slowly printed
down these words on . torn slip Of
paper:
.DeeR Mama, We air up here Tansild in
BRiRE Bush. CuMp
Then he found piece of string In his
pocket, and tied the note around the
white kittens neck. When that was
done. he turned her head down the hill
towards home, and clapping his hands
at her, said in dreadful tones:
.sScat! Scatr'
The frightened kitten darted down
the hill, and was quickly out of sight
among the bushes.
"N0v mamma'll Gomez said Susie,
with sigh of relief. But Bonnie had,
thought Of something else.
"Tm going to send letter in boat
now," he said. and again he slowly
pinned on another ragged slip
Deer Mama, We air up heRe Tangled in
This he fastened to piece of birch
bark, and launched it down the little
tumbling stream, which carried it.
swiftly out of sight.
"Now she'll come pretty soon," he
said, sitting down in perfect faith to
wait.
Their mamma baked her bread that
morning, and then she baked pies and
made cookies and got her dinner over
before she had time TO think much about
the children. Then she stepped to the
door to see how they were getting
along. and called them, but there was
no answer.
The wind blew in her face and the
white kitten rubbed against her feet.
"Where are the children, kittyr'
she asked, looking down, and then she
spied the note tied around the white
furry neck. She took it off and read
the blurred words:
deer Mama, We air up here Tangild in a
BRiRE Bush. CuM?"
She caught her sun-bonnet off the
nail and started, but hardly knew which
way to go. They were up the hill. of
course, but she might miss them. As
she stood irresolute, right in sight down
the brook came the little birch-bark
raft, with piece of paper pinned to it
which was too wet to read, but it told
her all she wanted to know. for now it
was plain that they had gone along by
the brook.
So she started swiftly up the hill,
pushing the bushes aside. with the little
white kitten running before her, and as
it was not nearly q mile nor even a
quarter, that the little ones had gone,
she soon reached the spot where Susie
stood YEARLY in the grasp of the brier
bush. and Ben sat patiently waiting at
her side.
Was there ever a tangle that mann
ma could not set right? Gently and
skillfuly she freed first the curls, and
then the little dress, and then with her
light-hearted girl and boy followed the
stream back again, just in time to meet
papa as he came to dinner.-Mary L.
Bolles Branch, TN YOUTHS Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05

In dressing the head. more errors are
made by men than by women, although
men are very fond of indulging the i'd ca
that when fashion is talked about
women only are referred to. Close
caps, mufilers, tippets are often the
causes of colds. Beside, the hair Is
rendered unhealthy and tho hearing
often interfered with. It is one of the
virtues of the silk hat that it stands up
little from the head. If, as should
be, there are q few holes made
through it, there is opportunity for
air without draught. The more open
bonnets of women do not expose them SO
much to evils of overhead, and inure
them to exposure when not too severe.
The hair is the natural covering of the
head. It is somewhat doubtful whether
any other is really needed. So we do
not criticise women for treating the hat
as q mere head ornament and not q
projection. Where changes Of climate
or exposure require it, they only need
to have at hand some other protector.
II was an improvement when hat strings
were made to come behind the ears
instead of over them. Fashion rejoices
in change, and we are not disposed to
find fault with her so long as she does
not interfere with health.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05

AT no period can he be honestly called
. handsome or q graceful animal, but
his courage and tenacity Of life demand
our respect.
In point of teeth the tame pig has
sadly deteriorated. The wild boar of
India, which is the type of the barbaric
pig of ali ages, is armed with long semi
circular tusks. Those in the lower
jaw sometimes attain the length of
eight or nine inches. They curve out
ward and upward, and the edges are
kept sharp by the pigs constant habit
of securing them against the tusks of
the upper jaw. The swiftness and
power with which he uses those tusks
to carve an enemy are almost incred-
ible. A hunting-dog is frequently cut
nearly in two by q single stroke OF
boar's tusks, and horses and men
are occasionally killed by bears which
have become tired of being hunted,
and which try to infuse little variety
into the affair by hunting their enc
mics. When wounded he is an exceed
ingiy dangerous beast to face on foot,
unless the hunter is lawless ruff
fan who is capable of killing him
with q rifle. One can scarcely ina
CINE an Englishman 80 lost to all
sense of decency as to shoot fox. and
next to that crime ranks, in Anglo
Indian estimation, the loathsome out
rage of killing a pig by any process ex-
cept that of pig -sticking.-W L. alden,
in Harper's Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05
The Wild Hog Of India.

THOSE who have formed their concep-
ton of pig exclusively upon the tame
pig of the civilized sty have no
adequate idea of the free wild pig of the
Indian jungle. Like the North American
Indian, the pig is debased by con-
tact with civilization. He becomes
cowardly. weak. dirty, and prey to an
inordinate thirst for swill. The distance
between the tame Indian of Saratoga,
who steals chickens and wallows drunk
en- in the gutter, and the fierce
warrior of the Western plains is not
greater than that which separates the
despised pig of civilization from the
wild and fearless quarry of the East In
dian pig-sticker. The latter pig. whose
spirit has never been broken with pig
yokes, and whose moral nature has
never been poisoned with swill, is one of
the bravest inhabitants of the Jungle,
and has been known to attack and put
to rout the majestic elephant and the
ferocious tiger.
The full name of the East Indian pig
is Sus i,sdicus, though no one except q
punctilious scientific person ever calls
him by it. Among beginners in the art
of pig-sticking he is sometimes mag
niloq1ently described as wild boar
though he is very often q wild
SOW; but pig-stickers of reputation
uniformly cali him pig or hog.
Sus i,sdicus often grows to the length
of four feet and eight or ten inches, and
reaches the height of three feet, or even
forty inches, at the shoulder. When
Full grown his strength is enormous, and
in speed he will sometimes rival the
fastest Arabian horse. He enters upon
existence in q striped state; subsequent
II he becomes brown; when in the prime
Of life, he affects q dingy black color;
and when old. he is gray and grizzled.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05
Bedding for Cattle.

THERE is no farm work, considering
the outlay, that pays so large dividends
as the procuring of some sort of bed
ding for the cattle, for it not only keeps
them clean-a great point in itself-but
also promotes their growth and thrift
ness. and the additional accumulation
for the manure pile will more than pay
for the labor. There is usually large
amount of litter that goes to waste, that
if thus utilized would be of great serv-
ice. Straw, oats. cut corn butts, ETC.,
are valuable, and fine sand is not OBJ
jectionable, for in itself it is one of the
most clearly of beds, and as it is large
absOrber of liquids, and is of real ben
eft to clay land, there is no solid reason
why a few loads of it may not be Judi
ciously used. A farmer of our acquaint-
ance late IN the fall takes his trucks,
puts in long stakes, Ind makes four
foot deep box and gathers forest leaves.
One man gathers them with rake and
basket, and another treads them into
the basket. These leaves are stored
away in an unused stable, and what
can be crowded into bushel basket
makes fine bed for q stable of cows
for couple of nights, and are fine alb
sorbents. There is no farmer but that
can provide bedding of some kind. and
also have dry, wholesome stables fol
his cattle, and. if he consults his inter
ests, and once fully tests the value OF
plenty of bedding, he will always in the
future practice bedding his cattle and
stock.-EIchGn1e
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05
A StOrk as q Mouser.

A LARGE and handsome whooping
stork, says the Council Bluffs NonpGrteI,
can be seen daily strutting around the
yard at the residence of Prof. Paige in
this city. The elongated bird was pur-
chased by the professor during visit
to Mexico some months since and has
become quite tame. Among other food
that the stork relishes is nice fat
mouse. Mrs. Paige has small wire
trap in the house, and whenever mouse
happens to wander therein he becomes
a sweet morsel for his sterkship. The
other day Mrs. Paige noticed the bird
standing near the barn watching in
tently at small hole leading beneath
the building. The stork remained in
an attitude of watchfulness for nearly
half an hour, and Mrs. Paige, becoming
curious, concluded to watch and see
what followed. Finally she saw q
mouse creep into sight from under the
barn. and the same instant the intelli-
gent stork bounced down on the mouse
and took him in," killing it first and
then eating it. After performing this
intelligent feat, the stork resumed his
vigilance at the mouse hole, and after
watching sharply for over an hour
seemed to grow weary of his work or
get out of patience. and marching to
the house entered the kitchen, and
picking up the mouse-trap, from which
he had so often been fed, he returned
to the barn and set the trap down near
the hole, evidently appreciating the use
of the trap, and believing that it would
catch a mouse for him: If anyone has
got a brighter bird than that we would
like to hear from it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05
A Campaign Incident.

A cRAzY-LooKrsa HUcKsrER wagon,
filed with the products Of the farm and
garden and drawn by dilapidated
horse. attracted considerable attention
in Titusville yesterday. The occupant
of the vehicle was . little old man in
homespun, who rode with one foot on
the outside of the wagon-box. Interest
in the odd-looking turnout was greatly
increased when the driver refined up in
front of the Petroleum World Office, and
raised . small sign-board in his wagon.
upon which was Inscribed in an unc0uth
hand:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05

How quiet the cave grew. presently;
She smiled, and stopped low down to see,
And what she saw was her little brigand
Travelling far into Sunderland.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05
Our Young Readers.
IN sLUNBER-TOWM.

=.
rxAxxA AND BABY AT BsD-rnn.l
"Come!" she said: eft Is sleepy time;
1 will sing you such sweet i6tle rhyme
Something that you can understand.,,
.No," he said, Ut win not be goodI
I'm r0bber-I live in great big wood;
You can go to Sunderland, If you pleased
I" But listenr' she said; sin SlumberTown
Everybody is lying down,
And ali the creatures, from man to fish,
Have something better than they can wish"
"Then they don't know how to WISH he said.
think il is stupid to lie in bed!
am going to burn the world all down,
And I don't want to go to your slumber-
Town."
t" But listenv' she said; Gin Slumber-Street
You often hear music low and sweet.
And sometimes, there, you meet face 20
face
People you'll meet in no other placer
"Oh, that" he said, twill not make me go;
like haDd-organ best, you know,
With monkey; and do not care
To meet strange people dnywhere!
" But listen!' she said; "in Slumber-House
The cat fOrgets how to catch the mouse;
The naughty boys are never there
Stood in q corner or set on chair!
" Well, that is little better" said he,
" But am going, at once, to sea;
I'm Captain. I'm not little boy,
And this is my trumpet-Ship ahOyr
" But listenr' she said; "in slumber-Room
Such beautiful flowers you see In bloom;
The best of them all, the very best,
You may pick If you choose-its name Is
Rest
Why, that's a queer name for flower" he
said;
" But you needn't think am going to bedl
I'm rObber again-a great big. brave.
/. Splendid rObber-and this Is my cavev
How quiet the cave grew. presently;
She smiled, and stopped low down to see,
And what she saw was her little brigand
Travelling far into Sunderland.
Two curtains white. with their fringes
brown,
Had shut him fast into Slumber-Town,
And she knew that the restless little feet
Were walking softly in Slumber-Street.
-MdrVarct VGndc0sVt, In st. Nicholas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-11-05
COUNTRY PRODUCE
ALSO THE
POLITICAL ISSUES DISCUSSED

This legend soon attracted a large
crowd, when the little old man stood up
in his crazy wagon and made a formal
announcement that he had for sale
nice lot of garden produce, such as
pumpkins, turnips, cabbages, some
chestnuts. etc. 81 also have,' said he,
as he lifted q faded bed-quilt from a
key, ga few gallons of hard cider which
1 think is the best ever brought to yer
town."
"What about the political issuesP'
yelled q man from the curbstoAe.
"We'n come ter that by and by
jes' as soon as sell some Nv this truck
outer the wagon so as kin hav q place
ter stand"
The crowd realized that they had at
last struck something original in the
way of a political orator. and it was
plain that they meant toencourage him,
even before he had made the suggestion
regarding business.
The cider was the first thing they
tackled. As many men as could gath
cred around the wagon. and the cider
was closed out in short order at five
cents cup.
''Drink hearty, gents" the little old
man would say; "this remin's me nv
the hard-cider campaign Nv 40, when |
tux the stump fer Old Tppecanoe; an,
besides. it's made NV as fine fruit as ever
growed on a tree"
"See here! tell us about Mainer'
yelled temperance man whose thirst
was for political information.
old
mans response.
One man bought all the chestnuts he
had, in order, as he said, to reduce
stock and get around to the political
issues.
Pumpkins, squashes, parsnips, ETC.,
were purchased rapidly, the old man
remsrking that the drudgery of farm
life was distasteful to him. and he was
only truly happy when on the stump
discussing the great issues before the
people. ;
Seraping under the seat with his feet
he unearthed gourd, and holding it
up, said:
"Gents. this is the last shot in the
locker, who is the lucky man!"
Twenty-Five or thirty men, apparent
", offered to purchase it. The man
who succeeded bowled it down street
with, an oath, and said that what he
wanted was some chin music.
The crowd was breathless with anx-
iety, or would have been had it not
been yelling "speech!' "speechn'
The little old man stood up in the
wagon. took off his hat, and said:
"No occasion for speech now,
gents. Goods all sold without it. IF
ye'd hung fire like I expected ye would,
I'd harangued ye till shutdown. But ye
kern right up like little men and bought
my last parsnip. That's the way I like
ter do biz. Thanks, gents, thanks"
The party who had been the heaviest
purchaser ran to take the horse by the
bits; but that animal laid his ears back
on his neck and showed his teeth in the
most vicious fashion.
81 forgot ter tell ye," said the old
man. quietly. "not ter 60 near Romeo,
for he's liable ter swallow some one. :"
He then dropped down into his seat
and drove of. remarking that when he
went actively into politics. business in
garden truck would be darned sight
duller than it appeared to be now
Petroleum World.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-10-14
Emancipation Of Women in the
East

There are many single indie a.
tinns which may be fairly accepted
as L arks Of the comparative pro-
greSsi and civil zatirn of various
nations. None is more significant
than the posi- ion which is assigned
to women in social life, and the
measure of influence they exert,
directly or indirectly, in public,
affairs. The Tsraelitcs were dis
tingnishcd among the nations Il.
antiquity forthc free and honorable
part borne by their women in the
social and public life of the people.
The true religion, as redeen.ing
agency, has tended, alike under
The Old Testament nndl the New,
to remove the curse which the
mother of our race drew upon her.
self and her daughters by her first
trans gression. En- modern times,
the history of Christianity contains
the history of the emancipation of
women. Where the quickening
words of linn who talked with tho
woman Of Samara, and released
Mary of Magdala from her thral :
dom, have not teen heard. thcra
has been no real amclioration Of
women 5 condition. These consid-
erations lend gIeat interest to the
following facts concerning the con-
,iition OF women in the distans
East: CAS- time progresses, the
condition OF the women Of the
orient rapidly inn roves. Japan
has taken the lead i'll this respect,
and to-day japanese women occupy
a position and exert an influence
that few of them would have dared
dream of a quarter of a century
ago. China Is being taught the
lesson, though more slowly than
Japan, and women are entering ia
a limited extent into the world OF
business and politics Merchants
OF Cantor, who would have Sc
cluded their wives with the utmost
care Il decade ar two ago, now per-
NIT them to be seen. and, what is
more, they allow them to converse
with other men. They travel with
them on the steamers that navigate
the Chinese rivers and the waters
along the coast, and it is said that
some of them have gone SO tar as
to allow their wives to sit with
them at the public tables. Similar
progress is observable among tho
Siamese and other eastern nations.
The world still moves
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-10-14
Nevada's Natural Phenomena.

Nevada is n land of curious nat
ural phenomena. IIor rivers have
no visible outlet to the ocean. She
has no lake Of any magnitude. She
has vast stretches Of alkali des-
erts, however, the give every indi-
cation of having been the beds or
bottoms os either seas or lakes.
Down in Lincoln county there is a
sp,ing Of icecold water that bub-
bies up over rock aud disappears
on the other side, and no one has
been able to fad where The water
goes. At another point in the
samo county is large spring,
about twonty feet square, that ia
apparently only some eighteen or
twenty inches in depth, with n
sandy bottom. The sand can be
plainly seen, but on looking closer
it is pei ceiyed that this sand is in
a perpetual state Of unrest. No
bottom has ever been found TO this
spling. 1t is said that teamster
on reaching this spring one day,
deceived. by lis apparent shallow
ness concluded to soak one of his
wa ION wheels to cure the Ioseness
of It's tire. He therefore took it
off and rolled it into the, as he
thought, shallow water. lie never
laid his eyes en- that wagon wheel
again. Our mountains ere full of
caves and caveins many OF which
have beer explored to great dis
tance. Speaking Of caves, a redeo
was held last spring oyer in Hunt
ineton valley. During its progress
quite number OF cattle were
missed and for a time unavailing
sea'ch was made for then. At
last they were traced to the mouth
of natural tunnel or cave in the
mountain. The herders eptered
the cave, and following it for y
long distance at last found the
cattle. 1t appears that they had
probably entered the cave. which
was very narrow,in search of water.
1t had finally narrowed 60 that they
could proceed no further. Meth
er could thev turn around to get
out. They had been missed some
days, and if they had not been
fonud must inevitably have per-
ishcd in short time. As it was
they were tx'racte1 from their
predicam ent with difficulty, by the
herders squeezing past aud gettlua
in front OF them and soaring them
into retrcg' ado movement 10y
Tapping their as into the f,c ~
OF the stupil boyiues. EWeks
| Leaacr,
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-10-14
WINSTON, N. c., THURSDAY, OCTOBER "a. 1880

good book says that We must re-
loice with those thar d. rejoice and
.seep with them who weep-anG
that's just what | am going to do.
When | see tie ore hundred thons-
and office holders a walking cut
and hear their mnrNnring wall, I'm
going to. weep with 'cm ont of
sympathy but that's all Pm going
to do for 'cm, shore.
Yours, BILL ARP.