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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02
"Bogus +" Pictures.

Few persons are aware of the extent
to which the ''bogus" picture business
is carried on in New York. There are
whole stores where only such pictures
are sold. and into which visitors to the
city are allured by the continual cry of
the auctioneer. Entering, they see
ranged about the walls pictures which
attract the eye by their gaudy brilliancy.
and. having but limited knowledge of
paintings. they become possessed with
the idea that here they can buy some
thing of real merit for small part of
its value. ''What am Iotfered now for
this masterpiece" exclaimed an auc-
tiOneer in one of these stores not long
since to a crowd of persons who stood
before him. The picture in question
was called "a Scene in Venice, by
Ralazzi," whoever he may be. or have
been. Five dollarsr' shouted man,
whose large felt hat showed thathe was
a stranger ''Five dOllarsr' repeated
the auctioneer, in apparent surprise.
why, gentlemen. I'm not selling the
frame only, but the picture. too" And
he continued repeating the bids until
they had increased to fourteen dollars
and fifty cents. when the picture was
knocked down to young man who
wore pomatum on his nair. SUISSE
,quent investigation showed that this
0icture. with the frame, could be
bought down town for three dollars and
fifty cents.
Up rickety flight of stairs is the
attic. aud here are the rooms where the
pictures are made. Do you remember
the gaudv painting you must have seen
in restaurants adjoining railway sta
tions?-the ilocks of shaggy sheep and
the obese COWS rambling beneath in
credible trees and over brooks flowing
above their sources' They were painted
in this attic. or, if not, then in some
place of the same character. Here
there is no romance. The artists sit
about the three small rooms in the
front of the garnet and work like
beavers. They have the knack of the
brush and the mah!-stick. and they
keep the .'pot boiling" SO to speak.
Here is marine picture on the easel of
the nearest man as you enter. The
ship in the background seems to have
paytaken of the vim and energy of the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02
How t. Get Rieh.

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There are two ways to get rich-ths
right way and the wrong way; the easy
way and the impossible. way; the COM
mon way and the rare way. And Of
course the wrong and impossible way Is
the common way.
To be rich is to have all the money
you want, is it not? And the common
way of trying to get rich IS to try to get
money enough for ones wants. The
ineradical and unconquerable difficulty
in this way is that the wants always
grow faster than the money pile. You
want to be rich enough to hire horse
and buggy; when you begin to hire you
want to own horse; when you drive
your own horse. You want to own a
span; when you have span. you want
q pony for the children. A hundred
millions ought to be comfortable COM
petence; but MIR. Vanderbilt has lately
been large borrower of money. When
q man buys railroads as other men buy
horses. he may be in straitened cir
cumstances though he has fifty millions
in United States bonds. The more
money poor man has the poorer he is,
if he has not learned to moderate his
desires as well as to accumulate his sup
plies. Baron Munchausen's horse, cut
in two by the descending gate as his
rider was escaping from the castle,
drank increasingly at the spring by the
roadside, to the Armament of his rider.
till looking back he discovered that the
unfortunate beast was cut off just be-
hind the saddle, and that the water he
was taking in in front was run
ming out behind. An Unsuitable spirit
is worse than Baron Munchausen's
horse; the more it drinks the thirstier
it grows.
The only way to be rich is to keep
ones desires within his income. If
one wants what five cents can buy, and
he has ten cents, he is wealthy. A
bright dime to a street arab is greater
wealth than a thousand dollars to
merchant prince. The right way to be
rich is never to want what you cannot
buy; then you always have as much
money as you want. This is the easy
way. No man can regulate the con-
tents of his purse; every man can regu-
late the quality of his desires. Capital
is not within every mans attachments;
contentment is. He is wealthy who
has learned two arts: first. how to be
contented with what he can get; second,
how to use what he has. Abraham
Lincoln had a better library in the
single coyerless book which he read by
the light of the pitch-pine knots in the
Kentucky cabin than the man who has
lined the walls of what he ironically
calls his library with calfskin bindings
at SO much a square foot. 1t is always
easy to have plenty of money; spend
less than you earn. 1t is always easy
to have all the money you want; want
less than you have. The cases of
actual suffering from cold. nakedness or
hunger are in this country very rare.
In all other cases Paurs prescription
for wealth is the best that was ever
devised: Having food and raiment,
let us be Herewith content" The
lesson he learned in prison in Rome is
worth all the lessons taught in college
business or Otherwise-since the
world began: II have learned, in
whatsoever state am, Herewith to be
content. Christian Union.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02

artist and skins the waves with no lag.
gard prov. But the pennant ct the
fore is streaming one way and yet her
sails are doomed out in Just the other
direction! It is unfortunate that the
artist in his haste to complete the pict-
ure has overlooked the fact that the
wind never blows from opposite points
of the compass at the same time. els
that sop he says. vixen his attention is
called to the fact; ''oh, they don't mind
little things like that out West!' On
the broad beach in the foreground are
strewn surprising kinds of seaweed.
and climbing over the rocks here and
there are red Holsters! But what of
that? If they don't object out West to
the wind being represented as blowing
from opposite directions in the back
ground, surely they will not object to
boiled Holsters crawling over the rocks
in the foreground. A notable thing
about these 'scOmmerciar'. artists is
their preference for large brushes, such
even as are used by house painters.
Their rapidity is not less noteworthy.
They literally ''sling'' the paint on.
Stencil pictures are also now made in
great quantities and sent West, where
there is large demand for them on &C.
count of their cheapness. 1t is only by
a careful examination that they can be
distinguished from the ordinary cheap
painted pictures, and if the parts where
the several different stencils join have
been carefully painted over with
brush, it is said to be impossible to tell
one kind from anOther.-Art Ansatemr.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02
To Frank Thompson,
From the Citizens of c.,
In Honor of a Brave Deed.
nno 81 1000

This was the date of the fire. And
the medal was hung about Frank snecK
in the presence of all his school-fellows,
while one of the gentlemen made a lit
tie speech, in which he told the pupils
that it was always a brave lad who
dared to do right. and always coward
who dared to do wrong.
And now that the story is told, let us
give three cheers for brave Frank
Thompson and all the other boys like
him.-WiGe AUdEe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02
TRUE BRAVERY.

was fifteen years old, and he lived in a
large city in the State of Ohio, where
he was pupil in one of the public
schools. He was slender lad with
quiet gray eyes, gentle ways, and with
nothing of the "brag' about him.
Some OF the boys called him a coward
because he never would fight; and
whenever a rough fellow would shake
his fists in Franks face with "YOu
don't dare to fight" Frank would quiet
ly say: Il dare not to tight;' which was
q much Drawer thing to do.
But there came day after which no
one doubted Franks bravery. 1t was
itmid-winter, and the fires in the school
building were fed with bushels of coal
in order that the rooms might be kept
warm for the hundreds of boys and
girls in the schoOl-rooms in that very
cold winter weather.
Suddenly the teacher in the division
where Frank Thompson studied dis
covered from cloud of smoke that
burst into the room that the school
building was on fire, and there were
five hundred children in it; and in less
than one moment half the children in
her room knew, as did she, of the. dan
ger, and were preparing to rush out of
doors. The teacher, Miss Olney, said
not word, but springing to the door,
she lifted her hand and with a COM
manding gesture motioned the pupils
back into their seats, and they dared not
disobey. She then hurried from the
room to warn the other teachers of the
danger and to give the alarm of fire.
Quick as flash, a slender boy with
flashing eyes had taken the teacher 8
place at the door, for every pupil in
the room had risen to his feet to escape
as quickly as possible. The boy at the
door was Frank Thompson.
.'Stapd backn' he cried; mot one of
you can pass through this door! DISC
hey orders. and you will be crushed on
the stairsr'
And do you think boy moved? Not
one. The pale-faced, flashing-eyed lad
at the door with uplifted hand was equal
to an army with banners. Every one
felt that the boy who dared not to
fight, dared to hold his post, and guard
it, too. And so he stood until the
teacher returned, when he stepped into
a pasSage-Way, and fairly flew to one OF
the lower rooms. where he knew there
was tiny little fellow. weak and lame,
who might be overlooked and lost in
the danger. Hunting him out of the
crowd of little ones, Frank lifted him
in his arms and never lost hold of his
burden until he had put him safely
down at his mothers door, two or three
squares away. Then he returned to
the school-building from which the
children had all safely escaped by leav-
ing it in quiet order, and the fire-en-
gines were rapidly putting out the fire.
You may be sure there were no boys
to call Frank Thompson coward after
that. The story of his bravery, his
quick, determined action. got into the
newspapers. and several gentlemen had
a gold medal made, and on itwere these
words:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02
MIR. Archibald Macarthur an

MIR. Archibald Macarthur, said to
be the Oldest man in Scotland, died a
few days ago at Dunoon. He was born
on September 5, 1777. and was thus in
his 105th year. For many years he car
ried on eyangelistic work among the
Gaelic population.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02

The tailor measures his customers
whenever he takes a fit.-DetroH Free
Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02
One Sight Of the Sea.Serpent Enough.

The sea-serpent has been seen again,
this time in inland waters. 1t was in
the Machias Chain Lakes, and Mr.. E.
Hall, of Calais, was the individual who
met with the encounter. In relating
his story he waxeth earnest, is impa
tient at any expression of doubt, and
his excitement. evidently unfeigned,
convinced his listeners. 1t was broad
daylight, eleven o'clock a. m. the hour,
when he beheld the spectacle, and OF
course he can not be mistaken. He
and another logger were on the shore
of the lake when the serpent came
round a point at great speed, and, with
his head six feet in air, bore down upon
them. When very close to Mr.. Hall
and his horror-stricken companion the
monster, on account of shallow water
or another cause. suddenly turned and
went down the lake and through the
thoroughfare ''iike steamboat" leav-
ing a great wake behind. The SER
pent. according to Mr.. Hall and his
fel.ow-witness. was as ''big round as a
pork barrel" not less than fifty feet
long, and measured at least two feet
across the head. Immense scales COW
cred his back. which at one time ap-
peared above the water. Mr.. Hail
never wants Ito see such q sight
again." and will scorn hereafter all
men who in his presence express the
opinion that the sea-serpent is u myth.
Bangor (.Ne.) Commercial.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02
DR., JOHN BULLS
Smiths Tonic Syrup
FOR the CURE OF
fever and ACUE
Or CHlLLS and fever.

The proprietor Of this celebrated medicine
Justly claims for it . superiority over all rem
edies ever offered to the public for the SAFE,
CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERMANENT cure
ofAgus and Fever, or Chills and Fever. wheth.
o. Of short OK long standing. He refers to the
entire Western and Southern country to bear
him testimony to tho truth Of the assertion
that in no case whatever will it fail to cure II
the directions are strictly followed and carried
out. In great many cases single dose has
been sufficient for q cure, and whole families
have been cured BY single bottle, with Q per.
feet restoration Of the general health. It il,
however, prudent, and in every case more cor.
tain to cure, If its use is continued in smslleR
doses for q week or two after the disease has
been checked, more especially in difficult and
long-standing cases. Usually this medicine
Will not require any aid to keep the bowels In
good order. Should the patient, however 70.
quire cathartic medicine, after having taken
three or four doses Of the Tonic, a single dose
Of BULLS VEGETABLE FAMILY PILLS
viii be sufficient.
The genuine SMITHS TONIC SYRUP must
have DIR. JOHN BULLS private stamp on each
bottle. DIR. JOHN BULL only has the right to
manufacture and sell the original JOHN ].
SMITHS TONIC SYRUP, Of Louisville. Ky.
Examine well the label on each bottle. If my
private stamp il not on each bottle 40 not
purchase, or you will be deceived.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-02

While Mr., Gault, agent for a dyna-
mite company. and having lot of dy-
Mantle with him, was breakfasting at a
hotel in Australia, terrible explosion
occurred. On the smoke and dust
clearing away, and when the confusion
had subsidized, it was found that almost
the whole building had been demol-
ished. The landlady and her family
escaped unhurt. but were blackened
from head to foot. A search was made
for the unfortunate gentleman. when
one leg with portion of the body at
tached was found hanging to the raft
ers, the trunk and a portion of the head
being discovered on the roof of the
kitchen, thirty yards away.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-14
To Proven Cracking Of 8.sEsap
ChsitaKZSys.

The following receipt for keeping
lamp chimneys from cracking is
taken from the Diamond, a Leipsic
journal devoted to the glass interest.
Place your tumblers, lamp cbimneya
or vessels, which you desire to keep
from cracking, in q pot filed with
cold water; add little cooking salt;
allow the mixture to boil well over n
fire, and then cool slowly. Glass
treated in this way is said not to
crack, even if exposed to very sud-
den changes of temperature. Chin
neys are said to become very durable
by this process, which may also be
extended to crockery, stoneware,
porcelain, etc. The process is simply
one of annealing, and the slower the
process, especially the cooling portion
of it, the more effective will be the
work.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-14
4 MGsLEOXAIRE's PAsTIME.


From the Poston Traugcr,pt.
LEBANON, Pa. Feb. Few of the
visitors to the great Cornwall iron es
tate, in this county, receive invitations
to inspect the workroom of the young
millionaire, Robert Coleman. Mr..
Coleman destroyed palace, half buiit,
when his young bride died, year ago
and her embalmod body WAS brought
from Paris to be entombed in mauso-
leum here, in the shape of an Episcopal
cathedral, that cost euarter of mil
lion.
Since the death Of the young briJe
the grief stricken widower has paid
much attention to machinery and engi-
neering He had building erect,
containing n single large room, with
ceiling and fresccol walls. A circular
roilroad. with double line of steel
tracks, extending around the room.
Patent safety switches, electric crossing
signals, safety frogs, and the lat st
methods of fastening rails are in use on
this PLAYHOUSE railway. The total
length of track is shout $50 feet,
double track and two sidiu9s. At one
end is q roundhouse, with turntables
that osernte automatically. Three
miniature locomotives are employed.
| Every pipce Of mechanism, every rod,
| bolt, screw, lever spring, tire, cock,
pipe and pump IRE on these locomo-
lives. The boiler. iackets, rods and
drivers are nickel plated, and some Of
the bright work is silver plated. The
cabs are OF solid walnut, and the boilers
proper and the tire-boxrs are of wrought
steel. The tenders are of copper, nnd
their water supply is taken 10y scoop
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-14
THE CHAMPION FARM,
From the Chicago Tribune.

from the Chicago Tribune.
The ranch of Fl. j Glenn, in Colusa
county, is one of the largest and most
noted in the State, and perhaps, the best
Illustration of extraordinary farming
along the Sacramento. On being asked
recently why he planted wheat alone, his
reply was as follows: "People ask why
raise all wheat. The answer is simple:
1t is the only crop that will bear trans
portation; 1t is the only crop not perish
able. | must not raise on my land what
ruins me, hut weat is profitable" DR..
Glenn's ranch comprises about 60, 900
acres of land sud the number of acres
in wheat each year ranges from 20, 600
to So coo. Reckoning an average OF from
20 to % bushels to the acre, the aggre-
gate crop each year amounts to some
thing more than goo, geo bushels. This
enormous amount OF grain.requires vast
appliances for planting and bringing it
to market; and the capital invested in
machinery alone sums up Il considerable
fortune.
During the harvest time there are en-
| ployed on the entire ranch some 500
men. DIR. Glenn is Seneral-in chief Oh
his force, and the ranch is divided, fol
convenience of operations, into nine
smaller ranches-each with dwelling
house, laIns, blacksmith shop aud other
necessary buildings. In charge OF these
are T fJremen, under whom are rs black
smiths, II carpenters, 6 engineers, G
machinists, commisaries and numerous
cooks and servants, The common work
men are divided into gangs and detailed
where they are needed There are 1870
gang plows, so herders, to which belong
1870 wagons, cleaners, 100 harrows, s
seedere, 6 thrashers, 6 engines. Besides
there are many smaller instruments AMI
| vehicles, which cannot be classified. Co
operating with their human brethren in
The great labor are 900 work horses
and mules, with 4 kinship Of 900 brood
mares and younger stock which has NOT
yet achieved the dignity OF labor. There
are 81 dwelling houses, q barns, IA
blacksmith shops and other structures
sufficient to swell the number to 100
The machinery could not be replaced
for $l25, coo: the work horses and mules
are worth $4,000; tho brood mares
and young stock, $50 600, and the build
iugs on the place $1,000 The ranch il
about twenty miles above the town Of
Colusa.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1881-04-14
Thursday, April "A, 1881
The improvement Of thc INSISTS
sisG9si.

Ne al Hli a iMAt.)
The bpsiuess doing on. the Mississippi
river by the bar9cs that are now trans
ferring wheat and corn to New Orleans
for transport 80 Europe; the entire
success OF Ead's lettfes in giving ready
and constant ACCESS to the sea; tho
alarm shown by new York at the turn
ing of cereals, ana perhaps, ultimately
cotton toward New Orleans, and the
evident advantage to Southern and
Western trade eli cheap transportation
by river, and delivorance from pools
aul rings aud discrimination Of railroads
I'LL these are combining to direct the
attention OF the country toward the
suhinut of securing safe and constant
navigation from st. Paul to the gulf.
The work must be done by Congress
providing for the execution of those
improvem: which, science has de-
monstrated, will accomplish All that is
wanted whenever the Mississippi is not
INSTRUCTED in its upper coarse by ice,
The accomplishment OF work that
would crowd the Mississippi with an
active trade, and give prosperity to the
vest regions watered by its streams and
t,s)se Of its ailuents, would benefit, not
iniure the trade Of New Yorl, and the
other prominent Eastern cities, The
West and tho SoEth cannot increase
their wealth and extend their trade
without The benefit of the change adding
to the prosperity of the East and the
North. Unfortunately this truth is not
at present perceived in its full m1gui-
tIldc, and there is n disposition in New
Y0ri, and elsewhere to oppose aly
efforts Of Congress to PIT the Misslssip'
pi chnnnel 10 u condition TO secure
permanent line Of water travel from ST.
Sanl, MINI, down. This opposition
has to be met and overcome before
Congress viii do its whole duty in rela-
ton to the Mississippi river. Happily
the pewer of the Mississippi valley II
Congress is 30 great that nothing Is
wanting but union among the congress
men and senators from the valley &c
accomplish all that is desired. Tho
New Orleans DRMocnAT shows, as fol
lows. what strength there is with which
to overcome the Eastern opposition.
"The Mississippi valley Sta; 3 ant
parts Of States washed by the Iississip
pi river and tributaries, have 14S con
gressmen and 1870 electoral votea, 1888
500 population, raise $G15,3l5,5j8 O
agricultural products. In other words
these States and parts of States repre-
sent 80 per cent, Of the conglossiono
strength, as per cant. Of the electora
vote, 80 per cent, of the population q
the United ,ta-es; raise So per cent. O
all the agricultural products Of the
country, have "a per cent. OF all The
acres in cultivation; raise 81 per cant
OF the cotton crop, 80 per cent. Of tht
corn, G5 per cent, Of the wheat, and u
percont. OF the hogs. SO equipped
the great valley can go into the contes
and carry off the victory. All tina
wants doing is to organize the forces
and every city, county and state inter
ested should be IN and doing that by
meeting, agitation and discussion every
senator and every member Of the House
from the Mississippi valley may be il
readiness to 90 his duty in his place il
Congress.