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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-03-05
Brother Gardner on Debates.

"No, dis club nebber hez any de
bates," replied Brother Gardner. 81
used to incouraige such ings, an dar
was time when I felt myself power
in de land on debate. But lib to see
de evil effects. I diskivered dat if de
ole woman wanted an armful of wood 1
wanted to stop fur half an hour an argy
the matter. If I wanted a clean shirt
she had fifteen different reason why de
hull pile were in de wash. Members of
de society squatted in grocery stores an
made demselves believe dey were at work
an earnin' two dollars day, an two of
dem would stop on de street an argy
fur half day ober de query: (Which
am de greatest benefactor, de elefant or
de whale?' 1 fink we are doin' well
huff as it am, an we will leave debates
to outsiders. "-Detroit Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-03-05
A BACHELORS WILL.

The sun of an August day was sending
golden shafts through the interlacing
foliage over-shadowing a impid trout
stream. A young man was kneeling
beside it, pole in hand, ostensibly fish
ing, but the speckled denizens of the
brook had but little cause for alarm.
The cool brain and steady hand, SO
dangerous to their peace under ordinary
circumstances, were not really putting
forth any efforts against them. 1t was
a handsome young face turned in such
evident eagerness toward the family
defined foot path leading through the
woods to the sylvan spot. The features
were almost too regular for masculine
ideas of beauty; but the firm way the
red lips were set together and the mas
sive chin redeemed them from weak
ness. He started to his feet as the
cracking of dried leaves and twigs
betrayed an approaching footstep.
Another moment, and a breathless
young creature was beside him, painting
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-03-05
A Young Hero.

We have boy in town who is hero,
and we would like to speak his name
right out, but dare not do so for fear that
he may not like it. This boy is an in
dustrious, saving, and energetic worker.
There was a mortgage of several hum
dred dollars on the home of his mother,
which she was gradually paying by
economy and hard work. This excellent
son saved his dimes and dollars and
kept his wealth to himself, and recently
he boarded the Eastern train, was gone
a few days, returned and presented his
good mother with a release of the
aforesaid mortgage. We call that no
BILE act, and have no fear of predicting
an honorable and useful and high posi-
ton in the future for that boy.-IoacG
Falls Sentinel.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-03-05
The Spirit of Erin.

Mute, mute is the harp in cabin and hall;
Silent the song, ceased the dance on the
lea;
A shadow-of centuries-broods over all,
And none hath the heart to list, joyous,
to me,
The Spirit of Erin.
arise
Not echoing laugh, nor jest of the hour
But curses, and groans, and the weak wom-
ans cries;
And shuddering shrink shorn, songless, of
power,
Sad Spirit of Erin.
All, why hath the sun brought no warmth
with its gold?
And why hath the shamrock paled, mocking
our hope?
Why doth the harvest but famine unfold,
And the gaunt jaws of hunger in mad ter
ror ope?
Crushed Spirit of Erin!
No answer comes down from infinity's place,
And the isle that is fairest sends upward
vain prayers,
And turns to the human, pale Poverty's
face,
To ask of the strong ones the strength that
is theirs,
For the Spirit of Erin.
Give, give, that the hearts that are breaking
may leap
From the torpor of senses that, dulled by q
pain,
Make towards of freemen! Wake, wake from
this sleep
That the brave sons of Ireland may feel
once again,
The wild Spirit of Erin!
Made strong with the food that is liberty's
gift,
They shall breathe, with new breath, free
dom's soul winged air;
Fen now, through the black cloud of honor,
a rift
OF brightness out-shines; tits the answer to
prayer,
Glad Spirit of Erin!
Sound loud the sweet harp of thy nation, o
Hush wall; lift voice that the wide world
may hear;
The souls that are freest stretch generous
hand,
And the poet is prophet, and halls the new
year,
For the Spirit of Erin.
The song shall awaken, the dance on the lea,
The laugh, and the jest, and the heart that
is fire;
And Ireland, down-crushed, in her rising
shall be
The mother of nations that grandly aspire,
In the Spirit of Erin!
Marie LIE Baron, in the Washington Capital
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-03-05
The Sitting of Peter.
A FOLK-SONG.

FOLK-sONG.
"Behold, Satan hath desired to hare you, that
e may sit you as eat."-St. Luke, xxi. 81.
In st. Luke's Gospel we are told
How Peter in the days of old
Was sifted;
And now, though ages intervene,
Sin is the same, while time and scene
Are shifted.
Satan desires us, great and small,
AS wheat, to sift us, and we all
Are tempted;
Not one, however rich or great,
Is by his station or estate
Exempted.
No house SO safely guarded is
But he, by some device of his,
Can enter;
No heart hath ar1nor SO complete
But he can pierce with arrows fleet
Its center.
For all at last the cock will crow
Who hear the warning voice, but go
Unheeding,
Till thrice and more they have denied
The Man of Sorrows, crucified
And bleeding.
One look of that pale suffering face
Will make us feel the deep disgrace
Of weakness;
We shall be sifted till the strength
OF sef-conceit be changed at length
To meekness.
Wounds of the soul, though healed, will
ache;
The reddening scars remain, and make
Confession;
Lost innocence returns no more;
We are not what we were before
TranSgressioR.
But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger,
And conscious still of the divine
Within them, lie ON earth supine
No longer.
II. ". Lonafellou, in Harper's for March.
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81 will keep silent until you give me

81 will keep silent until you give me
permission to speak," said Dot.
She wrote at once to the old lady, and
in due time received a reply which con-
firmed her suspicious. So she imme-
diately began to put things in train so
that Miss Ingraham should receive her
rights.
A month had gone by when, much to
Dots amusement, Mr.. Dinsmore called
and requested a private interview with
her. She had noticed his growing fond
ness for Miss Belmont's society and
half suspected the denouement.
As she went into the room he rose to
meet her, and for the first time Dot felt
an emotion of sincere liking and respect
enter her heart for him. Under the
influence of genuine feeling he seemed
different person to the plausible,
polished man of the world who had
tried to palm off the semblance of love
upon her during his unsatisfactory
courtship.
"Miss Ingraham," he said, flushing
as he spoke, 81 have come to make a
confession, and ask your forgiveness.
Not for Withdrawing my suit, for I
know you have never even liked, much
less loved, the unworthy man who
stands before you; but for prosecuting
you with my unwelcome attentions.
Under the light which a genuine pas
sion has shed upon my actions I see
how contemplate they have been, and
1 wish to apologize to you and make
my peace before dare speak to the
young lady I love of my desire to win
her for my wife. Will you forgive me'''
Dot held out her hand. "With all
my heart, Mr.. Dinsmore, and shall
always respect you for the frank, manly
part you have acted at the last. You
have my best wishes for your success" "
Mr.. Ingraham was at first very angry
at Dram Dinsmore's detection. but
when Dot said decidedly: 81 would
not have married him if had remained
single all my life," he determined to give
up trying to direct the course of true
love, making virtue of necessity, yet
thinking himself model father.
Dot was willing that her father should
please himself with this delusion as long
as he withdrew his opposition to Philips
coming to the house.
When, few months after, the real
heiress, Miss Dorothy Ingraham, ap-
peared upon the scene, uncharitable
persons said that Mr.. Dinsmore had
known of the mistake.
But Kate Belmont, his betrothed wife,
had the pleasant consciousness that she
had won his heretofore mercenary heart
while he thought Dot the true heiress,
and that he valued one glance of her
bright. eyes more than he did Dots sup
posed thousands.
The real testatrix was very much taken
with her namesake, and would not con-
sent to take more than half the property.
The mistake about her legacy had been
the means of drawing her into the society
of young relative of whose existence
she would otherwise have been ignorant.
1t proved very pleasant to her to have
such a treasure-trove of warm human
affection bestowed upon her, for young
Dorothy loved her aged cousin very
dearly, and was always pleased to en-
terrain her in her pretty home, for she
became the wife of Philip Bertram, and
the happiest little matron under the sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-03-05

MONT BLANC is not the highest emil
nence in Europe. Accordingto the latest
measurements, the Elburz, mountain
of the Caucasian chain, exceeds it by
more than $500 feet.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-03-05

short"
81 wonder if you and Miss Ingraham
are related to each otherp am quite
sure that Jared Ingraham was her
lovers name. If it was the same per-
son doesn't it seem strange that he
should have left his money to young
chit like you, begging her ladyship's
pardon, instead of his faithful old love?"
Dots face was study as Kate ratified
on. 1t fairly shone.
"Kate," said she, 81 see it all! I
am an hterloper. Isn't it nice? The
will said, Il give and bequeath to my
dear Dorothy Ingraham'-that's all I
can remember verbatim, but that's
enough. All the law terms in the world
wouldn't make it any palmer to me.
We all thought it strange that he should
have left it to me when he never had
paid me the slightest attention when he
was alive; but the lawyer said that to
his knowledge there was no other per-
son of that name, so I must be the one.
Give me your friends address, and I
will soon get the bottom of the matter"
"1'l give it to you, of course, but first
promise me not to say any thing about
it until you are sure"
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cred up his fishing tackle and started
for home.
A distant relative of the Ingrahams
had lately died, and had willed his
property to his cousin, Dorothy Ingra-
ham. During his lifetime he had never
shown that he was aware of the existence
of our little Dot, and it was great sur
prise to her when the old gentleman's
solicitor came from New York with the
intelligence that he had made her his
heiress. At first it was great pleasure
to the girl, and she built many pretty
s'castles in the air" about the way she
would use her wealth, until a change
came over the scene.
Mr.. Ingraham, who had heretofore
seemed well pleased to have his daughter
in Philip Bertram's company, began to
entertain higher views of her, and when
young Mr.. Dinsmore, son of the presi-
dent of the village bank, began to drop
in of an evening, with the evident in
tention of seeing Dot, though he asked
for her father, poor Philip began to be
treated coldly, and at last was forbidden
the house.
Had Dots mother been living, things
would have been different, for her
National Republican., 1880-08-18
MENDAC1ous NAyIGATIoN.

We make haste TO announce the circum.
stance that somebody has been found who
is mendaoious enough TO deny that HAMP-
TON uttered the sentiment which his own
papers imputed to him in their report of
his speech at Staunton, Va, July 26. We
expect next to hear that HAMPTON was not
at Staunton at all, aud next that he docs
not now exist, and then that he has never
had an existence, for such contention is
not at all inconsistent with democratic ex-
pediency and mendacity at this period. 1t
has become the adopted policy Of the demo-
cratic trumpeters to denounce everybody
but themselves MS liars, to turn attention
from themselves, who long ago discarded all
acquaintance with the truth and its appli-
cation to public statements. These whole
sale and retail dealers in fabrications the
most improbable and the most foul, attempt
TO conceal their own wares and merchan-
disc from public view by declaring that
" the republican managers have started out
with determination to make the cam
"paign on villainous calumnies. They
I" have hired and are paying experts to con-
q duct and utter lies in their interest"
Now doubt is thrown upon this allegation
by the fact that it has been uttered in that
quarter. If it were true that the rcpuhli-
cans are hiring and are paying experts in
lying, ii would be equally true that the
utterer Of such an allegation would be in
their service, for cupidity and mendacity
when yolled together seldom resist an ac-
tive market and tempting pay.
The democratic organs begin to find that
Jordan is hard road to travel. With
magnificent fraud placed at the head of
the confederate column to dupe the people !;
with the confederates constantly stopping
over and exposing the deception with an
affinity for falsehood and bad memories to
guide their wanderings through the laby
rinths of falsehood, they are constantly run
ming against their own fabrications, and
their dexterity in duplicity and mendacity
is taxed to enable them to escape exposure
They are having very busy and troublous
time in their efforts to navigate the sinu-
osity of their own mendacous stream sue
cessfully, and they are making very awk-
ward dst ut it too. 1t takes most of their
| time to plug up the holes that are knocked
in the bottom of their boat by running
upon the snngs of lies that they have
planted along their own channels. 1t is all
they can do now to keep from sinking, and
they are sure to go down before November.
National Republican., 1880-08-18

strayed or about the samo time, Ia thoroughly
disgusted with democracy, and is struggling
with pride to got back among his old associates.
The Lyons ficpTJScan prints political
straw to the effect that a vote was tShen in
the county jail which resulted ten for Han.
cock, and one for Garfield.
JEFF DAVIS and Bob Toombs are not heard
Of In this canvass, but Wade Hampton, Ham
burg" Butler, General Early and all the con-
federate brigadies arc for Hancock and Eng
lish. Every Reconstructed rebel soldier and
all the "unreconstructod" rebel women Of tho
south are doing their '1evel best for Hancock
WADE HAMPTON con fesses that his Staunton
speech is genuine. He does II in a roundabout
way, but II is n full confession nevertheless.
He sends to the Herald n copy Of tho speech,
with all the indiscreet" passages carefully
eliminated, and says that is tho only version
which has received his personal Endorsement"
Ho is very careful not to say that the other
version, from which the Tribune has so gener.
ously quoted, is false in any particular. What
docs personal Endorsement mean2 What
does It mean when a congressman makes q
speech in the house when he is excited, care
fully trims It when hO Is cool and prints 1t as
the same in the Record2 That is personal
Endorsement" Hampton's attempt to shirk
the responsibility for the speech is a confess
sion, not only that ho made 1t, but that he
considers II damaging.
National Republican., 1880-08-18
POLITIC1L NOTES.

HANCOCK and Wade Hampton evidently
mean the same thing, but they state it differ
emily.
SENATOR CoNKLING has made engagements
to speak in Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Column
bus, in Ohio, and in Indianapolis, Tene Haute,
Fort Wayne, aud Evansville, Indiana
THE only time it was possible for Hancock
to have secured a majority Of the votes of
those entitled to tho franchise in this country
convention. But no such time will occur
again during this campaign,
THE Wick sburg Miss Herald has this burst
of truth: General Garfield says the negroes
are bull dozod aud ballot-stuffed out Of their
rights, In some instances this is true. As we
said before, the affairs in all parts Of the south
arc not yet perfectly regulated"
AMONG the veterans at Columbus recently
there were 1893 who had suffered the torture
of rebel prisons. or these 1929 are for Gar
field aud Arthur and one for Hancock and
English. The boys that wore the blue arc
opposed to tho principles that Leo and Jack.
son fought for.
DEMOCRATIC managers appeal TO working.
men to support tiuket That has an aristocratiC
soldier at one end of 1t and shyloci at tho
other. This is almost as consistent as asking
patriotic soldiers and loyal citizens to support
party imbedded in which are the principles
that Lee and jackson fought for
THE trouble IN tho Twenty sixth Pennsyl
vania district between the rival republican
candidates, Messrs. Miller and McJunkin, has
been amicably settled by tho withdrawal OF
both gentlemen in favor Of Mr.. Roberts o
Crau ford county This insures the election o
republican congressman from tho Twenty
sixth district.
Ex.GovERNoR AUSTIN BLAIR Of Michigan
who drifted into tho democratic camp with
Horace Greeley In 1872, has returned to the
republican fold and is ont strong for Garfield
Ex. Governor Curtin Of Pennsylvania, who
National Republican., 1880-08-18

were voted upon in the house on the 9th OF
April last, and for which erery q1irmatiUe Uotc
ercPt tico pas cdstbgd democrat or greeHbdcker.
This is only one of the many conclusive
proofs that the financial policy Of the dem
ocratic party, If it has any such policy, is
under the absolute control of the grecnback
and repudiating majority of that orgoniza-
tion in all questions of currency and finance;
and it is rs certain as anything can be in
politics that democratic victory would be
victory for the fanatics of initiation and
the "scalers," "funders' and reputation
lists of the south. That such victory
would prove utterly destructive to capital
and business credit and subversive of nil
industrial prosperity and progress, no intel
ligent business man eau for moment
doubt This is what business men should
ponder upon-thot they will do 50 is Ger.
tain, and that they will to man rally to
the support of the party whose policy is
honesty, whose principles are the only ones
upon which our wonderful prosperity and
progress can be maintained, we cannot
doubt, Taking this view of the coming cam
paign we confidently predict the success of
our national ticket, and that solid, honest
north will bury the democracy under such
a majority as was never before rolled up in
the history OF the republican party.
National Republican., 1880-08-18
TIE NoNIApIC FoRNEY.

The saddest spectacle of political recre-
ancy in the country is that of JOHN w.
FoRNEY. OF course il is not case that
assumes great magnitude per Sc, but it is
somewhat remarkable in its insgnifcance.
FoRNEY deserted the democratic party
long ago because he quarreled with BU-
CHANAN and found it uncomfortable to re-
main in that political relation. He came
into the republican camp and that party
made the mistake it often does of taking
recreants to its bosom and putting them on
taffy diet Mt once. He was carried in the
arms of the party and fed with golden
spoon much longer than it was profitable
always had more than his share of repub-
lican sweetmeats. He has been petted and
spoiled even in the midst of his own prodi-
gality and worthlessness. He became bur-
den and was laid tenderly down TO care for
himself That act applied test to his po-
litical sincerity and integrity, and he soon
lost confidence in republican principles,
and when HANCOCK was nominated thought
he discovered his opportunity TO overthrow
the republican purity and bring contempt
upon its principles by desertng its cause
and throwing tho weight of his powerful
mind and influence into the democratic
scale. Neither party seems TO have been
seriously affected by the change. The re-
publican party does not miss him, only rs
it misses his opportunities for taf,y, while
his recreaney to principle does not seem to
have swelled the HANCOCK boom to enor.
nous proportions. FoRNEY devotes most
of his time now TO the vilifcation of
General GARFIELD, and no one can afford
such attentions better than the republican
candidate for the presidency. When this
contest is over FoRNEY will discover that
he is more of political waif than ever, for
the democrats will have no power to care
for him and the republicans will have no
occasion to do so. This will leave FORNEY
out in the cold, with none to pity his sor-
rows or drop a nickel into his pleading hat.
This is the fate of political recreaucy, and
FoRNEY should know it. Not once in fifty
times under experiment does it pay. There
is nothing like integrity of principle and
purpose as a paying political investment.
1t never forleits respect, while it is sure to
bring some reward sooner or later if nothing
more than a consciousness Of being right
aud consistent
National Republican., 1880-08-18

We believe that there is not a republican
paper in the United States which has dared
to attempt specific defense of GARFIELD's
action in the De GoLYER case.-B Buffalo Courier.
Republican journals do not feel called
upon to defend against a thrice-exploded
ealumny. There is nothing more to de-
lend in the DE GoLYER case than there
would be with the Courier if it should be
charged with having fixed a price upon n
column advertisement and had found q
customer who was willing to pay it, There
is good deal of noise and nonsense about
the DE GoLYER matter, but nothing more.
National Republican., 1880-08-18
How Long. oh. Lord, How Long?

To Tie Editor Of The National Republican:
SIR Magnus Thompson is a very efficient
clerk ia the naval store at the Washington
navy.yard. He was appointed by Secretary
Thompson. Aagnus is the cousin of the secre.
tary, hence his appointment. Magnus is
great democrat, and has picture of Hancock
aud English oyer his desk ia the yard.
There arc three other clerks in the yard ap.
pointed by Secretary Thompson who arc ex-
confoderates and democrats.
Some old personal friends Of the secretary
from Culpeper county, Va, have been ap.
pointed to positions in the navy department
They are democrats.
Two clerks recently appointed in the bureau
of medicine and surgery by the secretary are
democrats. Senators Eaton and Whytc urged
the appointment of one of these young men,
More democrats have been appointed to po-
stions in the navy department than in any
other department Of the government during
this administration.
Secretary Thompson is now out west stump.
ing for the success Of the republican ticket,
which reminds one of the fellow who sapped
the foundations of his house all summer and
then tried to brace it up in tho fall.
Would any other party, except the great re-
publican party. stand such nonsense? How
long will the party last with these democratic
sappers and miners at work under protection
of heads of departments? Yours,
NAyy-YARD
National Republican., 1880-08-18
A Solid DisirlCt.
To The Editor of The National Republican.

To The Editor of The National Republican:
SIR The following is from the Evening
Star of the 10th inst:
Reports bv letter from Georgia state that Hon.
A. Ii. Stephens will be renominated for congress
without any opposition, and will have walk over
ut the election.
"a walk-over" Well, should say 80; and
it need not be more than snaips pace ut that.
Mr.. S. WAS elected" TO the present (forty-
sixth) congress by 1856 against 5S votes, in
the face of the fact that, according to the
ninth census, there was voting population of
over 1900 in the district. If tho bulldozers
would permit republican TO run, the old
humbug would be distanced Mt his best speed.
But why indulge in the luxury of an election
at all? The counters certificates ought to be
recognized as sufficient, without going through
the empty and unnecessary form Of opening
polling places. REPUBLICAN,
National Republican., 1880-08-18

THE Montgomery (Ala.) advertiser calls
General WEAVER, the greenback candidate
for president, "a genuine blatherslite,"
while the democrats of Maino are attempt
ing to utilize the followers of this genuine
blatherskite" for the benefit of the demo-
cratic party.