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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09
How Rats Steal Honey.

When the clerks in certain Roches-
ter drug store are not operating with
the mortar and pestle, or compromising
a black draught. or mixing equal parts
of Turkey rhubarb and hydrocyanic
acid Qor children teething), or spread
ing shoemaker wax on porous plasters
or engaged in any of the multifarious
modes of making themselves useful
known to apprentice apothecaries; i'll a
word, when they have an idle hour and
2 friend to entertain, they resort to q
plan decidedly novel and not without
interest to lovers of anecdotes about
animals. What the boys do is to take
the honey jar from the shelf, take the
stopper from its mouth and place it
near q rat hole from which one OF the
rodents energies quickly when the store
is quiet. 1t discovers the presence of
the honey in a short time through the
assistance of its nose, and then puts in
practice a plan it has found to work
well for reaching the sweet contents of
the jar. The expedient is simply to in
sert its tail in the mouth of the jar deep
enough to reach the honey, then with
draw it and suck the linked sweetness
at its leisure. The clerks are ready to
swear this story is true, and they are
now carefully observing, for the benefit
of science, the effect on the human fam
lily of strained honey in which rats tails
have been soaked. IN. ~
TniOn
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09
One OF Horace Greeley's Schemes.

The lands comprising the once ia
nous ''Sylvanian Home," near La cka-
waxen, Pa, founded as socialistic
enterprise b. Horace Greeley, are now
ownerless, having been offered for sale
by the County Treasurer for accumu-
lated taxes. but no purchaser could be
! found. When Mr.. Greeley purchased
the property it comprised 1000 acres,
and in 1913 he founded the Home.
About three hundred people lived
there. All property was held in COM
mon; a cOmmissary elected by the
members provided all the food, which
was served three times day, at one
large table. On Sundays the chaplain
delivered a sermon, and twice a week
dances were held. The proceeds of the
labor of the various artisans connected
with the society went into the treasury,
and affairs were progressing to Gree
ley's satisfaction, when it was decided
to erect temple. The ground was
selected, the foundation put in and the
corner stone laid with imposing cere-
monies, Mr.. Greeley himself deliver
ing the address. Bickering and jeal-
ousy arose among the members, work
ceased. the association went to pieces.
and Greeley was stuck for $40.
The property afterwards passed into the
hands of a wealthy gentleman. the
agents he entrusted it with fired the
buildings, collected the insurance
money and fed the country. Nearly
fifty miles of splendidly- CONSTRUCTED
stone walls, the work OF the society,
yet remain in place, forming the only
remaining sign of what was orce
town of nearly five hundred inhabit-
ants.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09
The Swiss Lake. Builders.

The first discovery was made in the
Lake of Zurich, in 1853, by NJ. Appii,
of Milan, and now we already know of
towns or villages which have left no
record of their existence in any page of
human history. The leading motive
for constructing lacnstrine habitations
is easy to imagine. The first dwellings
made by primitive man. however solid,
would, if built on terra tirma, be neces-
sarily exposed to all sorts OF attacks,
from wild beasts-at that period strong,
numerous and hungry-and from men
even more fierce than they. What did
those early builders naturally DO? They
did for their homesteads what nature
has done for Great Britain. In order
to be. better able to defy aggression
they put 4 silver streak OF water be-
tween themselves and their enemies.
Forestalling Venice, in a stronghold
built on piles, surrounded by the swamp
or iuttng out into the lake. they could
sleep in peace by night, and quietly re-
commence by day the slow progress of
civilizing art. And they advanced fur
Their than might be expected. In the
lacustrine cities numerous flint instru-
ments have been found. some evidently
intended for hatchetS. others for knives,
saws and arrow-headS, besides articles
of pottery. which sometimes, in form,
remind one of weaverS' bobbinS. For
weave, somehow, they certainly did.
Our early lakers were not content to
dress themselves out on their gala days
in yestments of skins. They have left
behind them many morsets OF hempen
CLOTH and linen. And these suggestive
scraps of manufactured tissue date as
far back as the age of stone. Nor were
they ignorant of the use OF bread, and
consequently of the culture of wheat.
The turf of the lakes has preserved to
our day cakes. fiat and round. made OF
coarsely-crushed grain, besides dried
pears and apples. They also possessed
domestic animals. Horses, sheep and
oxen lived. in company with their mas
tiers, in these dwellings securely sus-
pended over the waters. The dawn of
European civilization had, therefore,
appeared at an epoch long anterior to
Caesars invasion of Gaul. Its remote
ness may be estimated py the facts that
lake cities were built during the age of
stone, to which succeeded civilization
whose tools, instead of stone, We're
made of bronze; and that it was only by
slow and tedious steps that men ac-
quired the iron instruments and weap-
ons with which the Gauls resisted the
Roman legions.-AU the Year Round.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09
Gor naung Bfaders.
"I'LL TRY"

To-day. as went down the street,
passed my neighbOrs yard,
Where at a task q little lad
Was working very hard.
He tried, and failed, and tried again,
And every failure met
With determined air that said:
I'm bound to conquer YETI
Another boy stood idly by
With hands in pockets thrust,
And watched the little fellow work
As those who conquer must.
Now what's fine llse:' he said. I'm sure
You can't do that, nor L.
I" Perhaps can't" the other said,
But anyway, IW tyr
All! that's the spirit, boys, that wins!
Don't stand before your work
With idle hands. afraid of it;
The victOrS never Shirk.
Just graphic with the task, my boys;
YCu'il conquer by-and-by;
Those always fail who say: can't"
Those win who say" IL! try"
-Eben Il. Rcrfori. in Golden Days.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09
The VastneSs Of the Russian Empire.

1t would hardly seem possible for a
sentimental raveler-supposing a per-
son OF that description to exist in our
days-to arrive for the first time at ST.
Petersburg at this moment without a
mixture of feelings in which sadness
predominated. He is aware that he
has crossed the frontier OF a large
State, the largest OF all compact states,
and. perhaps. only second to that of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, with all its colonies and
possessions; so big state that from
The frontier station at Vierzbolow, or
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09
Vegetable Animals.

What is an animal. and what a veg
etable? Most persons are in the habit
of thinking them entirely different, but
who can draw the line of distinction
between them9 Cuvier, the celebrated
naturalist, thought that motion, the
power of moving about at will, was a
faculty which animals had and which
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09
Laughed At.

suppose all nv little readers are oc-
casionaily laughed at, and that none of
them enjoy it very much. When one
has made mistake, or your friends get
a good joke at your expense, you can
join in the laugh as heartily as those
who perpetrated the joke. But when
people laugh at you and you do not
know why thev laugh, it is often NOR
tifying, if not vexatious. That was nv
experience not long ago, and it was
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09

While goldfish produces 1856, 76O
eggs, mackerel Laws only 454, $50; but
if mackerel would devote less of its
energy to the process of becoming
salty, perhaps it would then be able to
bring forth as many eggs as the more
productive Goldfish.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09

Alexander Burns, granddaughter
of the poet, died recently in Louisville.
He was one of the oldest and most ca
pable engineers on the Western waters.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09

The appointment of four negroes
on the Philadelphia police force mas
been followed by the resignation OF one
white officer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-09

-Comanche Bill says Buffalo Bill is
no front;ersman, and Buffalo Bill says
Comanche Bill is 3 tenderfoOt fruad
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14

ali tina bella Of eternity az the burning
os a world. In That ,dav what do vo,I
think C6TIst viii ldo With T1aPG Why.
Ghrist will sav. -nThere Ia that man
whom I callsd TbsTa SihitbSt0 woman
wbose aonl imnortnned. But thew
wonId not anv of nv .wsys, I gave them
innumerabie onportunities of 'salyation.,
Tbev sra;ectad ,p' them al. ~ DaDark. d i
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14

A FEW weeks before the incoming Of
the Garfield administration, q meeting
of anti.monopolists was called at Cooper
Institute, New York, and among the dis.
tinguished gentlemen invited to be pres
ent was VIM, Window, then a Senator
from Minnesota now Secretary of the
National Treasury. Mr.. Window was
not present in person, but wrote a long
letter denunIatory Of railr osd manage
mentp and corporation encrOaChments
generally As stOek-watering he said:
B" What then is to Hinder railroad man:
ayers from depressing or inf iting the
value Of all kinds Of property to suit their
caprice or avarice, and thereby gather.
'inginto their coffersthe wealth Of the ma.
tion2 Where Is the limit to such power
as this2 "WhatshAli bs said OF the spirit
of a free people who will submit with,
out \ protest 70 be bound ssE thus hand and
.foot2 -, ,''' ' y, D." - ~ a,
/, In the pending litigation Of Willard
against the Directors of the Northern
Pacific, iE is disclosed that this same
Window was 4 beneficiary Of the water.
ed stock of that concern to the market
value of$87 900. so y.n-, pGru o.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14
DESERVING MAHoNE IN VIRGINIA


Mr.. T. Fl. Murphy, a prominent Read
juster Of Rockingham county, Va, has
written letter declining to act as re-
adiuster committeeman for his precinct
to which he was recently appointed
Mr.. Murphy in his letter states that he
has been Readjuster since 1872, and
voted for the Malone electoral ticket
last fall, believing it, however, to be
simon-pure Democratic ticket" and con-
Cludes: .....
"But while l have been and am still a
Readjuster, / have always been Demo
crat and when l find the recognized lea.
der of the Readjustment party, General
Malone, man whom l have followed
almost blindly, deserting the Democratic
party and voting with the Radical party
on party questions in the Senate of the
United States; when | find the leaders Of
the July electoral ticket, and its organs
last fall, openly indorsing Mahopes
course and coalescing with the Radical
party, and one of these leaders and an
6loCGOr AZ lhTB6 Ou Iut Ju'y olbClpIal
ticket, accepting a nomination Of Rad.
ical Caucds; when / find the Radical or
gans everywhere applauding Mahone's
desertion; when 1 find that readj1stment
has been prostituLed into scramble for
Office, and that it means now an alliance
with Radicalism, and an effort to Radio
alize the state, 1 am forced to declare, as
Democrat, l will have nothing to do
with the Readjuster Radical party; and
l have no idea any sincere Hancock
man who voted the July electoral ticket
in the late Presidential election will fol-
low Malone into the Radical party. AS
to the state debt question, must express
the hope that the Democratic Conven.
ton in August will adopt a platform upon
which all Democrats who have the set
tlement of the question truly at heart
can unite, and that all will come together
in an effort similar to that of 1869 ;osave
Virginia from Radical supremacy and
negro domination, now threatened by
the desertion Of Malone and his Co.of-
fee seekers"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14

had unless some of The neighbors would
send him a loaf of bread, a pie, or a
roast chicken. One morning about
twenty years ago rs farmers wife,
whom we will call Mrs. Forethought,
was baking bread, she made up her
mind that as it would be done about
nine o'clock, she would detain one OF
her boys from starting to school till he
could take a loatof warm bread to the
roor old man. Now, as soon as the
long pan OF bread was taken from the
oven loaf was boken off, wrapped in q
paper, and the boy, being in a hurry,
and having mile to go, took it and ran
all the way. Arriving at the shanty he
found the door ajar as usual, and Old
B lily was on his knees praying. With.
out disturbing the worship er the boy
placed the loaf just inside the door, on
a box, vnd ran off to school. Soon after
this the old man told some Of the peo;
pie one day he was very hungry, and
knelt down and told the Lord that he
had nothing but carrots. and wanted
bread, "and," said he, while was
praying the Lord sent it right down
from heaven, hot out dfthe oven.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14
JUSTICE AND EQUALITY OF


An equal diffusion Of riches through any coun-
try ever constitutes happiness. Great wealth in
the possession Of one, stagnatest and extreme
honesty with another keeps him in unambitiona
indlgence; but the moderately well to do are
generally active; not too far removed from hon.
esty 70 fear its calam iIles nor too near extreme
wealth 70 slacken the nerve OF labour, they re.
main still between both, in state OF continual
nuctuation, How impolitlc, therefore, are the
laws which promote the Accumulation Of wealth
amsng the rich SmOre impoliue still, In attempt.
ing to increase the depression On honesty. OtiSen
Of ths World Letter LXXII- --oLIvER GOLDSMITH
The same author has the following in
his "DeSerted village: ..l. f1or a -
Ill fares the land to threat'ning ills prey,
, Where wealth accumulates and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish Of may fsde,--I
, A breath can make them as breath has made;
Butthe bold laborer his country's pride, si' I'd
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
And again in bis poem entitled "The
Traveller y: arp ,f ,.,s5g.r.rs.r.,.. r@r
And all that freedoms highest aimBean reach,
Mbut TO lay proportional loads on each. ..ir
Hence, should one order disEopoTtioned grow,
It's dOubleWelght muat ruinall bel0wSh .yIr
, These extracts show the learned au@
,thor's idea Of government; namely, that,
in the management 81 public affairs,
equality Of rights should be the aim and
rule. This is justice, and nothing else is,
What right has government, which is
the agent of the people, tofavor ("pfo.
tect") certain favorites, establishing mo.
lnOpolies, making the rich, richer, and
the poor, poorer2 sgg.,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14

SENATOR MORGAN, in discussing the
position of the Republicans on the Ma
hone matter, made the following point
on Dawes:
Mr., Morgan said sometimes fraud got
the upper hand, but that was no reason
why man should sit down simpering
and put his fingers in his mouth. It was
no reason man should lose his man
hood, because his rights had been taken
from him-not by reasonable majority
but snatChed from him. He alluded
to the cheerful countenanCe Mr.. Dawes
every day turned to the pleasing CALLER
les, and likened him to the LaCedemon
youth who had stolen fox and hidden
it beneath his shirt, bearing with smil.
ing face the gnawing Of the beast at his
vitals until he had fallen dead. He did
not charge the Senator with stealing
fox or anything else. He had merely
found fox and put under his garments,
and for twenty days that fox had been
gnsWing at his VitalH, and yet he (Mr.
DaWes) had been smiling upon the SEN
ate with that beaming expression of
CountenanCe which would commend him
to the photographer if not to history.
He would find in the end he would have
more trouble in getting rid Of the fox
than he had in catching it. He passed
over the question of a contract between
the treaty making powers, for he did mot
know the circumstances. Gentlemen
who had accustomed themselves to the
requirement of political power, no mat.
ter by what means, might be able to jus.
tify the means by the result, but he cod
not wear the honorable character of a
Senator Of the United States, and for one
have it supposed he had been
concerned in villainous bargain about
the officers of the Senate, -.l..u. .rI
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14

EARFHopAKE shocks continue in Swift.
zsrIand to an extent that, in view Of the
terrible disaster at 1IsChia, is causing con-
siderable apprehension A ysFy'strong
oscillation was observed at Henivail, il
Zurich, early Monday morning, and at
2 o'clock on the following morning two
separate shocks were felt at Lausanne,
Two deaths resulted in rather singular
way on Friday last from the earthquake
of the preceding day. The shock loos.
ened mass Of rock overhanging qlar.
ry at 0berburg, in Berae, aud twenty
four hours afterwards it fell, literally
grinding to powder two unfortunate
men who were working hard by.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14

I. The haste of the Malone Republicans
to Teadjust the Senate, although exeCu-
tive business is neglected, is due simply
to the suspicious Of lMahOne, who wants
hispay. O He 10 like q Park row boot.
black, who, when he suspects his Gus.
toner, demands his fee before commens
cling the Second shoe. MGhone
,haslblaOkened the eacommittee shoe, bat
before he willyblaokenl the executive
session shoe, he wants his Riddlsberger
in hand. Half-paym be good enough
for 1.-The creditors of Virginia, butit will
not do for Mahone.-N Y. World.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14
gIl EIb HUns bnH iDpd on ..st
BREAD FROM, HEAVEN,

Once upon a time, IN q q very small
shanty on the fourteenth concession Of
West Williams township, there lived q
queer old man, commonly known as '0.d
Billy Blair. He had q little garden,
where he raised carrots and potatoes,
which seemed to be ali the food he ever
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14

i4 u-t. 1.iai Iat GH
.ia tId- apr np
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-04-14
HOW 1T WAS DONE.

How do yOn manage" said lady to her friend
ito appear so happy and good natured all the tmeP
II always have pArker's Ginger Tonic handy" was
the reply, and thus easily keep myself and family
in good health. When am well always FEEL good
nAtured" Read about IN smother coluuln. APIS
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-02-12

They seemed busy about something, and l
concluded there must be chimney on
fire, or something of that kind. No such
thing; they had formed snow mountain
from the roof to the ground, and in few
minutes down went the whole company,
shouting for JOY, on straw mat, which
did duty pro tenlpore for a sledge."
These ice mountains are said to be an
invention of the English, which is proba-
bly, true; but many changes have been
made in their construction, which have
improved considerably. The recreation is
a very ancient one, and is found in active
practice all over Russia. 1t is scarcely
probable that these ice mountains will
ever find their way among us. Ours
is comparatively new country, with that
goa headative energy that has grubbed
the forests and split the trees into shingles.
The minds of our people are practical, and
their views on most every subject utilita-
rian. In fact if VIC get amusement now
a-days it is on the condition that it costs
nothing. The money-craziness of Ameri-
cans is greatly deteriOrating their physical
condition. Time that should be spent in
exercise is gobbled up in study and work.
We need national sports and more active
participation in them. OF course it is not
expedient to 20 too far. Extremes are
always dangerous. A judicious medium
of pleasure moderately INDUCED in, win
be great factor in the improvement Of
the present and future generations.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-02-12


The French cooks of New York held
their fifteenth annual ball on February 1st,
using the Academy of Music and Irving
Hall for the scene of their festivities.
The most attractive part of the entertain
ment was the tables in Irving Hall, which
were filed with specimens of the culinary
art prepared by sixty Of the chief cooks
attached to the hotels, club houses and
restaurants. The following is list: From
the Brunswick was candy tower enclosing
Cupid; from the Albemarle, dove cote of
suet, with cooked birds; from the Metro
politan, quail pate as big as half bush
el basket; from the Everett House, yege-
tables cut in geometie forms aud covered
with jelly, the whole forming representa-
ton of Fort Lafayette; from the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, boned turkey, with real
turkey heads sticking out of the paralelo-
pipedoD; from Demmer's restaurant, fish,
three feet long covered with spinach stiff
fened with eggs and braided into graceful
forms; from the St. Denis, a pyramid of
iced meats; from the Union League Club,
two lofty pyramids of candied oranges,
through which the light shone with beau
tiful effect; from A. Schaffner, caterer,
the Egyptian obelisk in fat, three feet high,
with the hierOglyphics accurately copied;
from Fleschman's Model Bakery, mini
ature bakery, with oven aud men at work,
all in white; from the Hoffman House, two
Aliases holding worlds on their shoulders,
and on the worlds a great platter of iced
meats, under the platter aud at the feet of
the Aliases dozen mounted cannons, with
gunners and matchloeks; from the Astor
House, the work of President Fere, big
roast pig on standard, with a mammoth
sugar eagle on its back ready to carry it
off; from the Union League Club, repre-
sentation of "Plonty" made of fat; from
the Gllsey House, tree full OF quail
about to fly, and hunters below with dogs
and guns; from the Buckingham Hotel,
mammoth salmon from the Merchants
Club, sugar horse tearing along and
dragging sugar man on sugar wagon
loaded with sugar boxes of merchandise
from tie Hotel Victoria, pate with big
Injun on top; from Joe Demmer, Tower
of Babel of head-cheese; and, finally, from
the Astor House, plan for crossing the
Isthmus of Suez, designed by PrOcede Sc
billot in 1872 in Paris.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-02-12

Tennyson can take sheet of paper and
by writing a poem on it make it worth
$4,000, That's genius. Mr. Vanderbilt
can write fewer words on a similar sheet
aud make it worth s5,O0O,000. That's
capital. And the United States can take
an ounce and quarter Of gold and stamp
upon it au eagle bird and Twenty Dol
lars" That's money. The mechanic can
take the material worth $50 and make it
into a watch worth $3.50. That's skill.
The merchant can take an article worth
twenty-five cents and sell it to you for 81.
That's business. A lady can purchase a
comfortable bonnet for $40, but prefers to
pay a hundred for another because it is
more stylish. That's foolishness. The
ditch digger works ten hours day, and
shovels out three or four tons of earth, for
81. That's labor.