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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22
The Lad and the Man.

As the boy begins, so the man will
end. The lad who speaks with affecta-
ton, and minces foreign tongues that
he does not understand at, school, will
be a weak chrome in character all his
life; the boy who cheats his teachers
into thinking him devout at chapel will
be the man who will make religion q
trade, and bring Christianity into con-
tempt; and the boy who wins the high
est average by stealing his examination
papers will figure some day as q tricky
politician. The lad who, whether rich
or poor, dull or clever, looks you straight
in the eyes and keeps his answer inside
of the truth, already counts friends who
will last all his life, and holds capital
which will bring him in surer interest
than money.
Then get to the bottom of things.
You see how it is already as to that. 1t
was the student who was grounded In
the grammar that took the Latin prize;
it was that slow, steady drudge who
practiced firing every day last winter
that bagged the most game in the
mountains; it is the clerk who studies
the specially of the house in off hours
who is to be promoted. Your brilliant,
happy-go-lucky, hit-or-miss fellow
usually turns out the dead weight OF
the family by forty-fve. Don't take
anything for granted: get to the bot
tom of things. Neither be sham your
self, nor be fooled by shams.-N T.
Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22
Psychological Wonder-A Young Lady
Predicting Her Own Affections.

There is in this city, says the Vir-
ginia City Enterprise, q young lady
whose case is not only the most dis
tressing imaginable, but which also is
most curious and puzzle for physi-
clans and all who are acquainted with
her condition and the peculiar circum-
stances attendant upon and connected
Herewith. The young lady is Miss
Mary Kenney, aged about Is years, who
resides on the Divide. Previous to her
illness she was pupil in Prof. Flint's
school, where she was distinguished for
her close application to her studies and
her quiet and ladylike department. She
was ambitious to become teacher, and
studied very hard in order to be able to
pass an examination. Some six weeks
ago Miss Kenney told her mother and
others that great calamity was soon to
befall her: that she would be stricken
blind, deaf and dumb. In making this
announcement she was much distressed
and wept bitterly. 1t was in vain that
her friends tried to comfort her; she
said it was q thing that must come. A
few days later, while on her way home
from school, she was suddenly struck
blind, and was led by the hand the re-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22
An Indian Agents Adventures.

George H. Spencer, of St. Paul, ap-
pointed agent for the Crow Creek In
dams, has had quite an eventful time
among the savages. He has had an
experience of thirty years among the
red men, speaking the Sioux language
as well as he does English. He partici-
pated in the outbreak of 1862, was shot
several times, dangerously wounded,
taken prisoner and held for six weeks,
his life being saved through the instru-
mentality Of a friendly Indian, after
whom the town of Chaska is named.
When he recovered he was turned over
to Gen. Sibley. Mr.. Spencer was with
Gen. Sibley in his expedition in 1868.
The Indian Chaska, at whose death Mr..
Spencer was present, has q wife named
TAFT, living near Mendoza. Previous to
the outbreak in 1862 Mr.. Spencer was
engaged in trading with the Indians at
Big Stone Lake, near the head waters of
the Minnesota, on the spot where the
town of Ortonville now stands, but his
store was pillaged, his property de-
stroyed, and he left penniless. He is q ma
tive of Kentucky, and is fifty years old.
His appointment was made on the rec
ommendation of Bishop Hare.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22
japanese and Chinese.

S. Kurino, Japanese student, writes
to the Boston Herald that his love of his
own country impels him to set forth ''a
nationality utterly distinct from that of
China.'' The principal reasons given
by him for rejecting the theory that the
Japanese are of Chinese origin are that
the customs of the two people are gen.
orally different; that the former are far
superior to the latter in intellectual pro-
gress; that their earliest written Ian
guages are dissimilar, and that history
indicates the descent of the Japanese
from the inhabitants of ancient Babylon.
Kurino admits, however, that the an
Gent history of Japan is too fragmen-
tary and untrustworthy to be of much
value. That there was an invasion
about $50 years before Christ is certain,
but he contends that it was not from
China. He takes pride in the fact that
the Japanese, unlike other Asiatics, do
not treat women as interiors; and he
claims that hari-kari, or the execution
of the death penalty upon ones self, is
proof of genuine chivalry. SIT must
not" he says, 'be COMPOUNDED with
common, ignoble suicide; it was, on the
contrary, q public act, attended with
great ceremonies, and kind of capital
punishment intended for the privileged
class. The high privilege, hari-kari,
was granted by the code Of honor only
when q military retainer was guilty of
some high political offence not unworthy
of his rank, in order to save him from
the infamy of being abandoned to the
ignominious hands Of the common exc
cutioner."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22

Everybody said that Fred was . bad
boy at table. He split the salt, he up
set his mug of milk. and he knocked
over his glass of water. He found fault
with whatever was set before him: the
bread was too old, the soup too hot. the
milk too rich. In fact, he never came
to the table without grumbling abou.
something, and making everybody un-
comfortable. He clattered his Knife
and fork, and made faces. He talked
loudly and acted 20 much like . little
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22

clown. that Il made his father ana
mother very miserable. They often
had to send him away, or punish nam.
At the same time he talked . great
deal about what he would do wnen ne
was q man. He used to put on ms
fathers hat and take his cane and strut
about, Just to see how it would seem 10
be 8 real man.
al hope you won't spill your soup
over your jacket when you're reai
man." said his little sister.
"Men don't wear jackets" Fred
answered. s'That's all girls know
about it,
One day, when his father was late TO
tea, Fred slipped into his place. and be-
gan to ask the other children what they
would have, in big voice. =
Presently his father came in and look
Fred's seat; but he was hardly seated
before he astorished Fred by pushing
his plate away and snarling out that he
didn't want any of that stuff. Then ne
twisted in his chair, and overturned
dish in his neighbours lap. He cried
out that he wanted to be helped to a big
niece of cake. ssGive me some MARINA
Jade. l tell your he roared; g l will
have some; 1 won't eat my supper If
don't have it." And he began to eat
with his mouth open. dipped toast,
he cried, II hate it." And he made
such q horrible face that it almost
caused Fred's hair to stand on end.
"He's acting just the way you do.
Fred" said one of the children.
From that time Fred began to mend
his table manners. He now behaves
like a gentleman. He does not roar for
what he wants. He does not make
mess on the tablecloth. He does not
slop his milk about. He does not get
spots on his clothes, or tip over back
wards in his chair. You would never
know but he was already grown man.
Mary N Prescott, IN Our Little Ones.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22
The Stature Of Different Races of Men.

In comparing races as to their stature,
we concern ourselves not with the tall
est or shortest men of each tribe, but
with the ordinary or average-sized men
who may be taken as fair representa-
tives of their whole tribe. The differ
ence of general stature is well shown
where q tall and q short people come
together in one district. Thus, in Aus
tralia the average English colonist of
five feet eight inches looks clear over
the heads of the five feet four inch
Chinese laborers. Still more in Sweden
does the Swede of five feet seven inches
tower over the stunted Lapps, whose
average measure is not much over five
feet. Among the tallest of mankind are
the Patagonians, who seemed race of
giants to the Europeans who first
watched them striding along their cliffs
draped in their skin cloaks; it was even
declared that the heads of Magalhaens'
men hardly reached the waist of the
first Patagonian they met. Modern
travellers find, on measuring them, that
they really often reach six feet four
inches, their mean height being about
five feet eleven inches-three or four
inches taller IMAM average EnSnSnmen.
The shortest of mankind are the Bush
men and related tribes in South Africa,
with an average height not far exceed
ing four feet six inches. A fair con-
trast between the tallest and shortest
races of mankind may be seen in the
Patagonian and Bushman, whose head
only reaches to the formers breast.
Thus the tallest race of men is less than
one-fourth higher than the shortest, a
fact which seems surprising to those not
used to measurements. In general, the
stature of the women of any race may
be taken as about one-sixteenth less
than that of the men. Thus, in Eng
land man of five feet eight inches and
a woman of five feet four inches look an
ordinary well-matched couple.-E. B.
TAILOR, in Popular Science Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22
Our Young Folks.
LITTLE FOXES.

Among my tender vines SPY
A little fox named-Bv-0nd-BNf
Then set upon him. quick, say,
The swift young hunter-RiJht-1ac0
Around each tender vine I plant,
find the little fOx-I can't;
Then fast as ever hunter ran
Chase him with bold and brave-I cdn!
No use in trying and whines
This fox among my tender vines;
Then drive him low and drive him high,
With this good hunter named-I'uty!
Among the vines in my small lot
Creeps in the young f0x-I fOr0ot;
Then hunt him out and to his den
With acilI-nOt fOrget-1gdin!
The little fox that hidden there
Among my vines isl don't care!
Then let I'm sOrTlthunter true
Chase him afar from vines and you.
-ChRdren's Hour.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22
Pruning DeciduOus Trees.

As general rule, the less shade trees
are pruned the better. Nature will
form better top and a more harmo-
NOUS tree in all its parts than art.
Severe pruning is no longer practiced
even in fruit orchards by our best hor-
ticulturists. The custom that formerly
prevailed, of pruning evergreens and
other trees, so as to make top-shaped,
ovate and other fantastic tops, is no
longer regarded as good taste. If you
plant one that grows that way. If you
want an ovate or pyramidal top, plant
a tree that will make such top, but do
not attempt to force trees to assume
different forms from those which nature
gives them. Each tree treated in this
way is standing lie, and proclaims to
every passer-by the folly of its owner.
The true idea is to make each species
assume as nearly as possible the typical
form of that species. To do this, some
pruning is sometimes necessary. If
trees are not crowded-if each one has
room enough for the air and sunlight to
have free access to it on all sides, it
will round out and develop its full pro-
portions, and if it does not actually at
tain it, will approximate its typical
form. Where the lower limbs are in
the way, of course they must be sacri-
feed, but where they are not, leave
them and you will have finer and more
thrifty tree. If a limp, as is often the
case with the elm in our dry soil, ex-
tends beyond the rest, absorbing the
strength and destroying the symmetry
of the tree, it should be cut back while
yet small.
The soft maple often throws out
limbs that have no firm attachment to
the body, and will sooner or later split
Off; these should be removed while
small. The idea of cutting back the
top of a soft maple, or any other tree,
to prevent it from becoming top heavy,
is fallacious; it relieves for the time but
makes it worse afterwards. If soft
maple, as some of them will do. breaks
bodily, and continues to do so, it is bet
ter to remove it and plant another in its
place. Severe pruning lowers the
vitality Of any ordinary tree, making it
less able to bear the drouth and heat
of summer, and the cold of winter, and
leaving it an easy prey to b0rers and
other noxious insects.
As strong man is able to resist dis
ease, 80 vigorous tree is able to resist
the attacks of its enemies, while fee
BILE one succumbs.
So far as possible all limbs should be
removed while small. 1t is rarely nee
essary to cut . large limb from tree
that has been properly cared for.-Dr.
j. z. SteUart.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22

mainder Of the way home. Four physi-
clans, including DR.. Weber, county
physician, have been attending the
young lady since her illness, and have
been unable to determine tho cause of
the malady which so suddenly seized
her. After losing her sight she soon
lost her hearing. and then her vocal or
CANS became paralyzed. For several
DAYS past she has been unable either to
hear, see or speak.
Her disease appears to be of the ma
ture of paralysis, and this had yesterday
extended to her legs and the lower part
of her body. For some days she has
had but little use of her hands, and then
only under certain conditions. The most
curious feature of her case, however, is
that all this time she has been able
to communicate with all about her
though bereft of all her senses. This
she has done in writing. In asking
her a question it was necessary to do
so in writing, her hand being laid on that
of the questioner during the time he was
writing. This being done she at once
wrote an answer to the question, but
while doing SO it was necessary for the
questioner to place his hand on hers or
to lightly hold the top of the pencil with
which she was writing. All this time
her eyes were closed and her head rest.
ing on her pillow in such position that
she could not have seen what was doing
and she not blind.
It appears that the young lady's is
peculiar organism-that she has long
been q sort of psychological puzzle.
Many instances might be given Of this
popularity, but they nearly all concern
people well known here and who do not
wish to have their names mentioned.
As to the character of these things, we
may say that she in several instances
felt impelled to go to persons who were
strangers to her and tell them things
that were for their good, and which
made their hair almost stand on end, for
the reason that her revelations showed
that she knew almost every action of
their lives. In speaking of some per-
sons she said she knew every action of
their lives from childhood. Another
curious thing remains to be told.
In Gold Hill, fully half q mile away
from the residence of the girl, are two
persons who appear to be affected
through her. One of them is boy
about six years of age and the other a
man of mature age. Since she has been
stricken down these persons have felt
every change that has taken place in the
young lady's condition; nave known it
instantly. She has had frequent con-
WILSON'S, and whenever one of these fits
has seized her the man and the boy at
Gold Hill have in some way been made
aware of the fact. Also, whenever she
was seized with spell of vomiting
(Which spells were quite frequently the
fact was instantly known to the two per-
sons at Gold Hill. In order to prove
this, persons interested in this curious
business have made many quick trips
from Gold Hill to the Divide, carefully
noting the time, and always found that
the man and boy had exactly described
the young lady's condition.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22

Miss Emma Thursby, after having
made highly successful tour in the
principal cities of Germany, Austria,
and the Rhine, sang in the Opera House
at Madrid before the King and Queen
and brilliant court audience.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22

given beautiful pearly one, or ono
that has been plated with gold or silver.
Fastened to the lace BY pin and chain,
they make unique ornaments.-N. Z.
Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22

tive often heard of the fruits of
marriage" said Bubbles. when inform
ed that he was the father of twins;
80 but most seriously protest against
having those fruits presented to me IN
the shape Of pairs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22

"A witness was on the stand in an
Illegal liquor sale case. The counsel
was trying to find out in what kind of
glass the liquor was handed to the wit
ness in. and at last exclaimed: "What
kind of q looking glass was it?'' ..Be-
CORA, sor, it was not looking-gla at
all. it was lumber"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22

Never neglect one duty under pt<
tence of attending to another.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22

"A serious drawback-A blister be.
tween your shoulders.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-22

COLI AROUND the arm, CunSlnS on Win
all the tenacity of their golden, bejew-
eled imitators that are now so fashiona-
bic. Animals, or parts of them, al
though naturally the adjuncts of bar
barrie splendor, are greatly used in the
makeup of fashionable toilets of the
present day. Some of the handsomest
sleeve-buttons and studs are made of
polished fish-skin-sharks or dogfish be-
ing preferred, as they take a fine polish,
and closely resemble the fossil coral
favosite, that is also used, and when
highly polished the delicate cells that
were once the home of the coral polyp
are distinctly visible, and as whole re-
sembies honeycomb.
An expensive costume was q cape
made of an extremely rare humming-
bird. The whole bird was hardly larger
than ones thumb, and on its breast q
single patch of gold was found about an
inch in length. The cloak was COM
posed wholly of these patches, and in
the sunlight must have We'd with golden
fleece. The birds are valued at fifty
dollars each.
A lady in St. Augustine created sen.
sation by appearing in public with a
chameleon resting on her head-dress,
and held there by delicate silver chain.
The little creature was perfectly tame,
and made no attempt to escape; but
when touched by other than its owner
its throat puffed up and curious waves
of color passed over the whole body,
ranging from deep green to DARK
brown. Small lizards are used in
Egypt by some of the native ladies ~
ornaments, and lie half concealed in the
drapery that overhangs the face. The
red-clawed soldier-crabs are sometimes
used in Mexico as pins. The crab i
dislodged from its stolen shell and
, 1881-07-16
TURKEY AND E

VIENNA, JUNE 10,
The exchange of the notifications OF the
Turko.Gre Convention seems TO have
produced a very favourable impression
in Athens, and to have diSsipated the
uneasinesS which had existed about the
delay in the conclusion of this last act.
Gradually, too, there appears to be a
growing disposition to acquieSce III what
has been gained and to lose no time i'll
taking possession of it. No difficulty is
apprehended in this respect from the other
side. On the contrary. the Porte has
already begun to close the different All
ministrative Offices and to withdraw its
employees. With regard to the Mahomedan
population, they appear to have become
reconciled to their lot. 1t is not believed
in Athens that many of them will leave
the country. They are for the greater
part large landed prOprietors, who, unless
under great PRESSURE, will be unwilling to
leave their property, which, in many ca
ses. has been for centuries in their fami-
lies. Most of them have connexions III
the larger towns, where they live among
themselves and occupy a prominent posi-
ton. With regard to the evacuation,
the cession of the first section is to begin
on the Goth inst, as, according to the
Aanere to the Convention concerning the
evacuation of the ceded territory, this
first section has to be coded within three
weeks after the ratification has been
made; and as this ratification was made
on the 18th inst. this leaves q week for
the evacuation of the first section, which,
us it is the smallest, and as the prepara-
lions for it have been going on for some
time, is considered i'll Athens as quite
sufficient. AS with the ratification of the
Convention, so with the evacuation the
Turks do no more than they are bound to
do. Thus, the ratification was to take
place three weeks after the signature of
the Convention, or, if possible, sooner. The
Turks strictly adhered to the date, the Con-
v~ention was signed on the Oath of May, and
the ratification was made on the 18th of
June. All this looks very reassuring /; so
that the impression existing in Athens
that all will 20 quite smoothly may turn
out to be quite correct.-Times.
, 1881-07-16

Stmr. sDonn from the West Indies arrived
here at 8 a. m. to-day.
New York, 18th July-President Care
field passed a restless day yesterday, but
was better in the evening.
The New York Sugar Refners are re-
ducing the over::production by ten million
pounds weekly.
Dispatches from Constantinople state
that it is thought probable that English
interference will save the life of Midhat
Pasha.
In England it is believed that the Bey
is inspiring the Arab insurrection.
In regard to Tripoli the Porte explains
that troops were sent there merely to pre-
serve order.
The French beetroot and wheat crop
will merely reach the average.
New York, 18th.
Flour y brl. st. Lawrence brand, $3.50.
Meal. best Brandywine, % brl. S38
Heavy Mess Pork P brl. $163 to 1863
s,, Crystals y ID. 81 to j..
o"sai' Fair to good refining y ID u. to 8.
English Islands Molasses p gal, sc to 39c.
Exchange, New York & London, 4.S3a
London. July 18th.
(Demerara Crystals y cwt. 81. los
Sugarcj Muscovado y cwt. sl Is Cd.
Clayed II %avanna, No. u. El 6s I'd
afoat.
Demerara Rum ~ gallon, IS. I'D.
Trinidad Cocoa ~ c~t. &3 los. Cd.
Consols. 1911 to 3.
Bank of England Rate of Discount % pc.
Liverpool Cotton Middling Upland v ID
st to (.
) per cent Rentes in Paris Fcs. sc.
, 1881-07-16
FENIAN "-SKIRMISHERS."
DUBLIN. JUNE II.

DUBLIN, JUNE IL.
There can De no doubt that the outrage in
Liverpool is Fenian, and is only one of a &C.
ries first projected in New York. The connex-
ion of FeniaDism with the land agitation as an
active ally has been shown all through the
movement. Without its help some of The de-
monstrations In the West could not have beer
held at all, for in some places the Roman
Catholic clergy, especially the parish priests,
were opposed to 1t, or at least gave it no coun-
tenanoe. Fenian detachmen:s were summoned
from long distances, and 10 one town 10 Mayo.
where the parish priest refused to take the
chair at a meeting and exhorted his flock not
to attend, it was held beside his W house.
The movement was very slow and weak until
a spirit Of terrorism was infused into it by
Fenians who saw in it a means of furthering
their " objects. The commission Of such
as that at Liverpool hss been DELHI
erateIy recommended 10 . programme origin