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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09
Shelter Saves Food:

Every keeper of animals would actu-
ally profit by little study of chemistry
and physiology. Here is short lesson:
All kinds of food. as hay, grain. bread,
meat. etc., are, like wood, mainly COM
posed of charcoal (carbon) and water,
with considerable nitrogen in some of
them. To prove this, strongly heat any
of the above food materials in q coal pit,
or better, under glass. Water, with
some nitrogen gas, will be driven off
and can be found in the glass receiver,
while only charcoal will remain. Let in
more air and the charcoal itself will
unite with the oxygen of the atmos.
phere, and also 60 of as transparent,
invisible carbonic acid gas. This chem
ical action sets at liberty heat that was
before concealed or insensible, the
same as when wood or coal is burned
rapidly in q stove producing an active
fire; or as when wood decays, butgives
off heat 80 slow as not to be observed.
Exactly the same thing occurs when
any food is dissolved (digested) in the
stomach of animals or men. and is taken
into the blood and carried to all parts
of the body. The blood gets oxygen
also from the air in the lungs and car
ries it all through the body. The atoms
of oxygen meet the atoms of digested
food. here, there, and everywhere in
the blood vessels. The two unite Just
as they do in q stove; heat is produced.
only minute quantity at any one point,
but . great deal of it, taking the whole
blood circulation together, and so the
whole body is kept warm, though
heat is constantly escaping from the
whole outside surface. Nature pro-
vides that the body shall always be kept
warm, otherwise it would quickly per-
ish; and so II the oxygen in the blood
don't find food enough to keep up the
internal heat, it will attack and con-
sumo any fat or flesh stored in the body,
and thus make the animal poor.
We must have an ever-burning fire
If the surrounding atmosphere is cold,
and carries off heat rapidly from the
surface of the body, we must increase
the internal production of heat by put
ting in more food. or by surrounding
the body with a covering that will pre-
vent the escape of much heat.
Is it not plain then; that by keeping
animals warm. by means of close build
inds. or shelter against heat-stealing
winds, less food will be needed, and
there will be less waste of flesh in max
ing hest? ANY arrangement of shelter.
cover. stable, shed, blankets anything
that will prevent the natural warmth
from passing away from the surface Of
any animal-will be . great saving of
food required to keep up the absolutely
necessary internal lie warmth; will
prevent loss of flesh; viii allow the food
to 60 more to adding to weight Of
flesh. or the yield Of milk or of wool.
Shelter and external warmth in cold
weather are most economical and there
fore profitable in the keeping of farm
stock.-Anserie0n A0ricsslturis.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

that it must have been the knife with
which young Edmond Dantes (the
Comte de Monte Christo) had ripped
open the sack in which he had been
S0wn~by the sjailer a. tho corpse Of
Able Faiia. Old Ahxsndre. after
lspShi1g heartily ht the incident sent
handsome present. 70 the 6hermn md
flung thesk1ife into the drawer q hia
bureau. where it remained until his
death, when it came into the possession
Of his son. Young Alexandra was led
by its quaint shape to look upon it as
something strange and weird, and had
it set in q silver handle and placed in q
sheath to carry in his pocket. Ever
since he thus appropriated it, he feels
that he Is doomed to good fortune.
His pieces all succeed. His speculations
never fail. The superstition has taken
such root, that he is frequently called
upon to help in the recovery Of lost
articles and the restoration of lost at
fections. A curious example of this
credulity was exhibited the other day
at Deanville, where q Polish Princess
of great influence in the world of fash.
ion had dropped on the sand bracelet
of great value, containing portrait Of
the late Empress of Russia set in dia-
monds. The tide had washed up twice
since tho accident and all efforts to re-
cover the jewel had been in vain. The
Princess, who, like most of her country
women, has the greatest faith in tails
mans, Immediately wrote to Alexandra,
with the conviction that, aided by the
rusty knife, he could find the bracelet.
OF course the appeal excited great mer.
riment among his friends, but his chiv-
alrous gallantry induced him to answer
the appeal, and he started for Deanville
at once. On his arrival he Immediately
rushed to the PLACE, and after having
saluted the fair Princess and expressed
his conviction that no power could
restore q heavy gold bracelet washed
out to sea by the tide, he strolled down
the sands out of sight to have dip
before dinner. No sooner had he
plunged his foot into the water then he
drew it back with an exclamation of
pain. He had trodden on something
hard and sharp, which had caused q
deep wound in the sole of his foot,
making the blood flow. He stopped to
ascertain the cause, and to his utter
amazement drew forth the golden
bracelet, which had become wedged
between two stones, and thus pre-
vented from drifting out to sea. The
delight of the Princess may be easily
conceived. and her faith in the rusty
knife blade has increased from faith
almost to worship.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

Governor Long, of Massachusetts. Is.
sued the following somewhat unique
Thanksgiving proclamation:
WHEKEAs. It is a common and an
Gent custom to set apart after the har-
vest day of public thanksgiving and
prayer to Almighty God, now. there
fore, I. John d. Long. Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the
Council. appoint therefor Thursday.
the twenty -fourth day of November
next.
'"Unto Thee. o God, do we give
thanks! Thou visitest the earth and
waterest it. Thou blessest the spring.
ing thereof Thou crownest the year
with Thy goodness. The pastures are
clothed with flocks; the valleys also
are covered over with corn; they shout
for joy; they also sing"
BLESSED is he that considereth the
poor"
''Come unto me all ye that labor and
are heavy laden. and will give you
rest."
10 painter of the fruits and flowers,
We own thy wise design.
Whereby these humble hands Of ours
May share the work of Thine!
Apart from Thee we plant in vain
The root, and SOW the seed;
Thy early and Thy later rain,
Thy sun and dew we need.
''Our toll is sweet with thankfulness,
Our burden is our boon;
The curse of Earth's gray morning IL
The blessing of its noon.
"And still with reverent hand we Gull
The gifts each year renewed:
The good is always beautiful
The beautiful is gOOd!'
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09
The Awkward Predicament Of q Womal
Who tainted In q Church.

Some women never can faint in the
WoPG manner snQFattes right time.
Andt Il q womSn sc4nnot bring about
ibis happy ccmbnation. of <f6e and
Aaue ef and sVDo4 the hadlbetter gel
Gong without swoe6ing. Now, about
two weeks ago, one Sabbath evening al
Bradford, Pa, the best-behaved and
most Thoroughly moral town 'inths oil
country, city not given to fainting OF
other unseemly displays during relig.
ioug1ervices. the Methodist Episcopal
conference was In session and its min.
listers were conducting service. Just
after the ordination of deaconsa woman
in the gallery tainted. Now, while the
ordination of deacons is most holy,
solemn and deeply impressive cere-
mony, it is not widely thrilling and ex.
citing, like the initiation scenes in the
Sons of Malta, and it is nothing to faint
over. But this woman tainted, and q
beautiful faint she made of it. It seems
that she was sitting in the front seat in
the gallery, and slid straight forward on
to the floor, thrusting her unconscious!
- feet right through the gallery rail.
AAOy AuSU uoVC UOOA q Dual pail VI
feet to view, for the moment they were
observed by the congregation the panic
stricken worshippers raised the cry that
the gallery was giving way, evidently
installing the swaying feet for dis
placed columns or bracket braces. In
the most worldly manner the congrega-
toni made rush for the doors, and in
the panic the saints trod the sinners
under foot, and the sinners walked
along on the backs Of the saints, &C.
cording to the respective SIZE of saint
and sinner. all being animated by the
desire to get out from underline threat
ening shadow of those overhanging
feet. In the midst of the confusion
and terror, one of those unconfined luna
tics whose mission is to say and do the
most idiotic things under the guise of
sanity. sprung through window and
shouted fire, and unfortunately escaped
alive. That brought the fire depart
ment and a miscellaneous crowd of a
few thousand men and boys swarming
around the church. and although Chap
lain McCabe began singing a hymn at
the top of his rather penetrating voice
the panic could not be stayed and the
people got out, but there wasn't fall
bonuet in the congregation fit to look at.
And how badly this woman must
have felt when she realized how great
a ruin she had wrought by fainting in
thatridiculous manner. sticking through
the gallery rail like asaw-buck hanging
on q picket fence. And how the women
with ruined hats will glare at her. es-
pecially those women who can't afford
to buy new ones. A woman who is
given to fainting ought always to pick
out a suitable place before she lets go;
and no woman whose feet are sufficient
ly startling in their development to
throw congregation of worshippers
into panic has any right to faint at all.
burlington HaWE-Eye.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09
Women at Auctions.

To those who dote on the exciting
episodes of auctions and the browning
satisfaction of wonderful bargains
Washington is perfect paradise. Tho
clack of that fend's tongue-who is
always going! going!-only ceases far
into the night in order to gain renewed
vigor to begin again early the next
morning. Great ladies alight from their
carriages at the doors of distinguished
people when they are to be auctions
therein. Secondhand dealers and
clearinghouse keepers. natural enc
mics from a conflict of ages. push in
wherever the red flag proclaims q sale,
scowling at each other as they knead
the beds and toss up the pillows to find
the best to bid on. Ten determined
women will sit around q kitchen stove
for hours, waiting for Mr.. Going to
reach that article. and they will bid
against each other with the ferocity of
wolves struggling for bone. The
triumphant pOssessor, after paying al.
most the price of a new stove, finds
when reaching home that her purchase
has q broken backs afflicted with
asthma and chronic dyspepsia, being
unable to digest coal. There are auc-
tons all day long-on street corners
crowded with white people, and at night
there are special auctions for colored
folk. Going! going! pierces the ear the
length of Seventh Street when the even
ings begin to spread out.
There was an auction last week at the
British Legation. The English Gov
eminent is the only one that owns q
house here and furnishes it for the use
of its representatives. The object Of
the sale seems to have been to rid the
house of quantity of old, worn out
and discarded articles. Had they be-
longed to an ordinary mortal they
would scarcely have found purchasers,
but as it proved they all brought fair
prices. The china and glass wrought
with. the Thornton crest was run up to
q high figure. Two banged-out pianos
brought respectively S24O and $3.50.
Several engravings from Landseer's
works were sold above valuation. A
quantity of cooking utensils were run
up to high prices, but long and loud
were the lamentations of the purchasers
when they saw the dilapidated condi-
ton of the ware. The collection was q
lot of worthless pots and pans worn out
in the service of the English Ambassa-
dor. Washington Letter..
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09
The SchoOlmaster.

The curiosity that have TO show
you to-day, children, Is perhaps the
most wonderful in the collection. He
beats all. I ...
The schoolmaster it is said, trains
the young idea how to shoot. He u
not himself given to shooting. however.
He takes more delight in the rod than
the gun. = ts'fi7 st Yfs1sI Eel
The schoolmaster is not . military
man. b6t his principal assistant Is.
The name of this assistant is Corporal
Punishment. It is to be hoped that the
corporal will soon be remanded to pri-
vate life.
The schoolmaster is sometimes called
q tutor, and occasionally he is called
an ass. On the whole, an astut0r man
is seldom found. 'si
The schoolmaster thoroughly UNDER
stands the rule of three. but always
insists upon the rule of one. So you
see his understanding is out of all pro-
portion to mis- rule.
Although the schoolmaster is ruler
of boys, he has his own ruler. If he
be no stick himself, his ruler always is.
The schoolmaster is q very inquisi-
tive person. He is always asking
questions. His is questionable call
ing:
The schoolmaster can be found in all
classes. He is also given to classifying
knowledge. sometimes think would
be in his classify could.
The schoolmaster is good at figures.
He would cut pretty figure If he were
not. He is the fgure-head of the
school, or should be; but sometimes a
boy gets ahead of him.
He is also good at spelling. He can
stand long spell in good situation
without flinching.
He is always correcting the errors of
his pupils, and consequently has but
little time to attend to his own.
The schoolmaster is not man OF
war, but he often employs q monitor.
He would be all at sea without his mon
itor. He gets the monitor to see in his
place.
o shun misbehaviDg. children, or the
see of the monitor shall overwhelm you.
The schOolmaster teaches the A b
G, but he cannot make bee see.
Every sort of ology is taught by the
schoolmaster, but tautology is no better
coming from him than from anybody
else.
In q school of young rascals the
schoolmaster is always the principal.
Some schoolmasters are actuated en-
tirely by the law of love-love for their
situations. Some entirely by hate
hate to give them up.
The schoolmaster loves to have call
ers at his school; but habit has so pos
sessed him. that he not only collars his
scholars, but also scholars his callers.
fused to wonder at the schoolmaster
during my school days, but my school
daze will never return.-B0st0n Tram
script.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09
What Lieut.. Schwatka, the Arctic Ex
plorer, Thinks Of the Lost Jeanette.

Lieutenant: Schwatka, the Arctic ex-
plofer and commander of the successful
Franklin search expedition, is at the
Palace Hotel. He was asked last night
by Chronicle. reporter what he thought
in regard to the fate of the Jeanette
party. He replied: cit is, of course,
merely conjecture with me. While I
must confess that the failure this year
to hear anything of them makes their
safety and return very much more dubi-
GUS. I do not give them up by any
means. 4 think that the Jeanette
pushed on during the first season as far
north as possible, and probably reached
the Perry Archipelago. lying northwest
of the American continent. / presume
she went somewhere about Prince Pat
rick's Island, on the northeastern part
of the group Both Mcclure and
Perry reached that neighborhood. and
as she had favorable season and was
reaching for the Pole, have no doubt
she pushed that far north. She may have
pushed on to the Pole or through Baf-
fms Bay, and ultimately come out on
the Atlantic side Ar.any rate it is GER
tain she will not be heard of this year,
for all avenues are closed there now.
It is not improbable that she is fast in
the ice somewhere about the Perry ISL
ands and may get out. If she does not.
I don't think we shall ever see any of
her people again, because if crushed in
the ice they could hardly reach the
mouth of the Mackenzie River, which
would be their best channel of escape,
and if they had abandoned the vessel
fast in the ice without her being crushed
they would long ago have reached the
Mackenzie, or-,-the natives near
it, and have been heard of. 1
think that after searching Wrangel
Land and finding it worthless,
they pushed on towards Prince
Patrick's, and it is not unlikely that the
vessel is now fast in the ice somewhere
there. In that event they would prob
ably stay with the vessel in hopes of
getting her out while the provisions
lasted, because the chance of escape in
the vessel while she remained sound
would be much better than by such q
siedge journey as would be necessary.
It does not follow that she must have
got out in such q case during such an
open season as this If she ever could.
What might seem to us an open season
might have been one unfavorables for
tho extrication Of the vessel, because
the winds may have been adverse and
driven the ice, as the warm season
broke it up, in pack upon the vessel,
thus adding to her letters. I don't
think the Rodgers from her present po-
sition, has any chance of finding the
Jeanette next season. 1t is hard from
here to criticise Justly an officer in the
Arctic, but it seems to me that the Rod
ger only chance of success in her search
wss lost when she failed to- take ad-
vantage Of the open sea and push on
north from Wrangel. 1t is not likely
that two such open seasons will occur
in succession SGn francisco Csron-
ce1o
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

The oldappellation Dead Letter OF.
fee has been changed to Returned Letter
Office inLondon, owing to the fact that
q multitude of people misunderstood its
significance. The controller was be-
sieged with demands for information
about missing people and letters ad-
dressed to dead ones.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09
The Bitter Bitten.

Gettingup corner in pork, whea1
or corn IS not q modern device. Year,
ago, when the thriving city of Milwau'
kee was but q territorial town. with
only one thousand five hundred inhab-
itants, q Spectator thought that he
could make large amount of money il
he should buy and thus control all the
salt there was in town. So he bought
every barrel he could find and stored it.
Having, as he thought, a corner, he put
the price up to ten dollars per barrel.
Unfortunately for the spectators prof
its, another citizen heard of the specu.
lator's purpose, and saw therein q
chance to make an honest penny. He
despatched a schooner to Chicago for q
load of salt. The winds were propi-
tious, and the schooner with her load
was soon at the good citizens dock.
One morning farmer came into town
for q barrel of salt. Going to the spec
ulator's he was asked ten dollars a
barrel I" Salt has riz," was the only
reply vouchsafed to the farmers pro-
test. He, however, would not pay that
price, and soon discovered that there
was schooner-load of salt for sale at
the dock at twenty shillings barrel.
Having purchased barrel he returned
to the SPECTATOR and telling HIM of his
purchase, denounced him as q swindler.
You must have stolen the salt. ~
said the Spectator, "for there amt any
salt in Milwaukee except what 1 have. :"
30, there amt! o mol Let me tell
you there's q schooner load of it at
SWEETS dock"
Then I'm ruinedr' exclaimed the
SPECTATOR, as he rushed out to verify
the statemert-and he deserved to be.
Companion
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

Domingo Ramos died recently in
the hacienda of Apapasco, Mexico, at
the patriarchal age of 148 years. His
memory and general health were per-
feet to the last. Al 100 years of age he
had natural and complete renewal OF
teeth. He had been twice married, and
his death was mainly caused by the grief
he experienced when his second wife
died. q few months ago. His eldest son
is eighty years of age, and he leaves q
vast progeny of great-grandsons and
daughters to mourn his loss. ~
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

Some cocoons raised at the Swiss
colony in Grundy County, Tennessee,
are finely developed and of superior
quality. Silk culture is beginning to
receive considerable attention at the
colony, and is becoming very impor-
tant and successful industry.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

lRasea = RAnlM 0ssaa Company.
Al the great italian Industrial Exhibits,
just closing in Milan, Italy, the higbsse:
aWards for musical instruments, Silver
medal and diploma, were taken BY IN AmeE1-
can manufacturer, the Mason + Hamlin ".
gan Company, whose cabinet organs were
Judged b Be % Superior that they were H.
only reed organs Of any manufacture. Euro
pean or American, which were awarded .
medal + = great nouor TO these maks1D-
that1in nsly itsssi, thsvssy homsof nnsisb
their organs should receive such distinction1
Thsy sxcitek lnueh interest among mu-
aieians, and Xers .hy special order repeated
" exhibited to the Royal Court BY Cario
Ducd, the distinguished artst of Roma
y. 7. xbeaasg Xal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09
Dumas Rusty Knife.

A curious story is told of tho good
luck which is supposed to follow Alex
andre Dumas fls through all his enter
prises in life... This luck has long been
assiibuted BY his family and friends to
the possession of q rusty knife blade,
which . fisherman OF; Narseilles drew up
IN his net at the foot of the Chateau
d'n, and which the good fellow sent to
Dumas pere, with the full conviction
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09
TIE Ase Of Miracles

is past, and DR.. Pierce's /" Golden Medical
Discovery" will not raise the dead. will not
cure you II your lungs are almost wasted by
consumption. It Is, however, unsurpassed
both a. . pectoral and Alternative, and will
cure obstinate and severe diseases Of the
throat and lungs, coughs and bronchial AZ
fections. By virtue Of its wonderful altera-
tive properties 1t cleanses and enriches the
blood, cures pimples, blotches, and erup-
lions, and causes even great eating ulcers "a
heal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

DIR. PIKRCE's sFavorite Prescription -
for all those weaknesses peculiar to women,
IL an unequalled remedy. Distressing back.
ache and "bearing- down" sensations yield
to its strength-giving properties. By drug
giOta. -E-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

TIE Babylon q. ~ SostA Side Sieral
quotes from Missouri paper: Mr.. VIM. F.
Quinlan, Crystal City, Mo-. suffered occa-
sionally from rheumatic pains in his knees.
for which he successfully tried st. Jacobs
CMl
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

TIE Milwaukee .(Wis.) Ebenar0 W5seonsis
says: s. In all our experience we have never
heard % many favorable reports from al
classes g We have concerning st. Jacobs on
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

HAN . Hundred TA00aAnA.
Tho Widespread popularity Of SMITH
Tonic Syrup and BULBS Sarsaparilla il evi.
denced BY the sales In the single month e
September last Of between 10000 and 30, OOo-
bottles. The pFoprietors know their RENE.
dies have merit and understand how to keep
the public acquainted with them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

WHEN man tells . story he thinks Is
funny and the crowd does not catch on, his
face falls naturally. It IL affected by the
force of gravity.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

A POOR young man remarks that the only
advice he gets from capitalists Is ''to live
within his income" whereas the difficulty
he experiences il to live without an income.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

REAL merit, and satisfaction or no trade,
has made "Tansilps Punch" &c. Cigar the
most popular on earth. Do you smoke themi
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09

AN old negro says: ssSass II powerful
good In everything but children. Dey need
some other kind Of dressing"