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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Bridgeport, Conn.,, has Congrega-
tiOnal- Methodist Church.
-Philadelphia has more Presbyterians
than any other city in the Union-23,-
346. Chicago has 6, PAL.
Maine has 243 Congregational
churches with a membership of II, 1888.
This is loss of 126 members since last
year.
The first Presbyterian church in
Canton, China. was organized nineteen
years ago with six members. Now
there are three organized churches with
nearly 400 members.
Said the Kaiser to the Gar: sis it
hot enough for vou2' +" Well, should
remark" replied the Car of all the
Russias. IS have a hard time of it. It
is bomb in nation.''
"A recent religious census taken in
Prussia shows that that country con-
tains 17,645, 4O2 Protestants, 9,2O5, 1876
Catholics, 1868, 100 Jews. AZ, 518 Dissent
ers and zoos persons protesting no re-
ligion.
1t is not only among the natives of
tuC OduuWlCu xSltsuuS GlstL Tic I6SlvA VI
religion is in progress, but also among
the Chinese. The Rev. Sit Moon, who
is pastor of the Chinese church in Hon
olulu, reports that about 25O of his
countrymen are Christians, and that the
number is continually on the increase.
The late Rev. DR.. Stuart Robinson
was strong man. socially as well as
Intellectually. He was possessed of q
large income, lived in q fine house in
Louisville, and was noted for hospital
ity. After his famous controversy with
DIR. Breckenridge, and his unsuccessful
efforts to unite the two leading wings
of the Presbyterian Church. he gave up
in despair, saying that s. 1.-The Church
can never be united until God sends me
back to Ireland and takes DR.. Breckin-
ridge to HIMSELF" says the Christian
1I1ocn,e
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18
PUNaENF PARAGRAPHS.


Drowning her Kittens hurts the old
Eats felines.-PkilGdelpkiG Chronicle
Herald.
Some things are past finding out
The love for whisky is what staggers .
man.-Nesc Orleans RcGywne.
All that is needed to sell mining
stock is q water-colored map. two
pieces Of ore purchased at jewelers. s.
and . man with cheek and . fool with
money.-Detro1 Free Press.
The man who has been specializing
in Confederate bonds explains that he
did 50 because he wanted to tackle
something that was . little safer than
the average mining stock.-Boston Post
1t is estimated that 800, 600. 900 ID
annually expended in the United States
for funerals. And vet funeral is the
last thing man would think of spend.
ing money for. Singular things are so
curious!-B0sson Transcript.
There is only one woman we know
Of who can etother women pass by her
without looking after them to see
whether their p0lonaises are shlrred in
the elbow and cut bias on the watch
pocket. The woman in question is q
tobacco sign on Pine street.-Wilianss.
port Breakfast Table.
Anything that is worth doing is
worth doing we'll" Always remember
this when you are sparkling q girl, and
don't sit looking at her with your
thumb in your mouth when she feels
faint and needs your strong arm to sup
port her. Waist no time, but seize the
opportunity-and the girl.-Keokuk
Gate city.
Chicago water has to be boiled be.
fore it is fit to drink. 1t is mighty in
convenient for q thirsty Chicagoan to
have to wait in a saloon until the bar
tender boils him q glass of water. so he
surmounts the difficulty by calling for
glass of whisky. which doesn't re.
quire any cooking. The Chicago in
Jellect is equal to any emergency
N0rrist0Un Herald.
-''Show me typographical error"
said the visitor from Yellow Springs.
who was looking through the HACK Eye
newsroom. And the busy compositor
only stopped long enough to point to
the jour. printer who had walked all the
way from St. Paul and was lying drunk
under the imposing stone. The visitor
looked at the spectacle in dazed sort
of q way. then cast an imploring glance
upon the imperturable countenance of
the composition who glued his truthful
eyes to the blind copy on his case and
went right on getting up fourteen thou
sand an hour. And the visitor silently
tiptoed out of the room and said to
friend who had been afraid to come in,
that he believed that printer fellow
was a coddin' of him" -Burlingto
HdUk-Eye.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18
A Type Of the Tramp.

A dirty, shabby, WORKOUT old man
came into our Office few days since
and wanted to know if we could help
him on his way to distant city. His
tone was gentle. the expression of his
face seemed to indicate that he expected
nothing but rebuff, but nevertheless,
he would ask. We asked him to give
US q glimpse of his life, to tell us why
he had been q failure, and why at last
he was wandering about as . common
tramp. 1t was the same old story, q
boy with plenty of friends and plenty of
money, a boy who disregarded the
wishes of father and the prayers of q
mother, young man who knew more
than friends who had fought many of
the battles of life, q young man who
laughed at the c0uusels and advice of
those he pleased to term old fogies. A
youth who wanted to enjoy life and in
dulge in all the so-called pleasures of
the world, youth to whom women
were as fascinating as they proved false;
man united for reverses when they
came, q man made weak by the f0llies
of youth, . man deserted by men and
without hope in God; man despairing,
hopeless, penniless. with no knowledge
of business. no desire for work, no am
bition to overcome the obstacles in his
pathway and no hope for the future,
his only aim. his whole object, being to
keep from starving and to get enough
money to buy the accursed drink, which
was fast becoming the only thought.
the only object of his miserable exist
ence. For him life might have been a
success, ambition might have been graf
lied. home. friends. wealth. happiness,
all might have been retained had he not
listened to false advisers and followed
q course that the lower passions dicta-
ted.--Wiltiansspot Pa. Sun and Stand
ord.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18
The Fresh-Air Habit.

Early impressions are very enduring,
and can make useful habits as well as
evil ones a sort of second nature. In
order to forestall the chief danger of
indoor life, make your children love
sick after fresh air; make them associ-
ate the idea of fusty rooms with prison
life, punishment and sickness. Open a
window whenever they complain of
headache or nausea; promise them a
woodland excursion as reward of ex-
ceptionally good behavior. Save your
best sweetmeats for outdoor festivals.
BY the witchery of associated ideas q
boy can come to regard the lonely shade
trees as primary requisite to the en-
joyment of good story book. "Only
the movement of my feet seems to set
my brains a-going," says Rousseau,
and it is just as easy to think. debate,
rehearse, ETC., walking as sitting. tho
peripatetic philosophers derived their
name from their pedestrian proclivities,
and the stole sect from their masters
prediction for an open porch. Chill
dren who have been brought up in by
genie homes not rarely ''feel as if they
were going to be chOked" in unventi-
lated rooms. and I would take good
care not to cure them of such salutary
idiosyncracies.
Every observant teacher must have
noticed the innate hardness of young
boys, their unaffected indifference to
wind and weather. They seem to take
a delight in Drawing the extremes Of
temperature, and, by simply indulging
this penchant of theirs, children can be
made westher-proof to an almost I'M
limited degree; and in nothing else can
they be more safely trusted to the guild
ance of their protective instincts.
Don't be afraid that an active boy will
hurt himself by voluntary exposure,
unless his chances for outdoor play are
so rare as to tempt him to abuse the
first opportunity. Weather proof peo-
pie are almost sickness-proof; . merry
to the snow-clad
highlands will rarely fail to counteract
the consequences of repeated surfeits;
even girls who have learned to brave
the winter storms of our Northwestern
prairies will afterward laugh at
''draughts'' and raw March winds"
DR.. felir L. OsUG!d, in Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18

The habit so long popular of ladies
kissing each other when they meet has
almost gone out of fashion. Leaders Of
society argued that the meeting with
and being kissed by q score of friends
in one afternoons calling was disastrous
to the paint, enamel and other neces-
saries of life used on the female face de
vine Tor otherwise), and that it should
be stunned as dire devil The new
style is to simply touch each others
finger tips. murmur the usual conven-
tional prevarication, $50 glad to see
you," and pass on
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18

An communications for this paper should b.
accompanied by the name OF the author, NOT
necessarily for publication, but - evidence OF
5000 faith ON the part of the writer. Write
only on one side of the paper. Beparticularly
careful, in giving names and dates, to have al
1otterD or figures plain and distinct
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18

Neither old Mr.. Crawford nor his wife knew
anything more concerning their young neigh
boris evening call than that It seemed . some
what shortened one. 1t had been quite plain
that he hxd had yet another errsnd ''up the
road" They knew that by the rapid gait at
which he rode away.
Virginia was well satisfied to spend the fol-
lowing day 8" in town." and even that her
fathers business at last compelled them all to
remain there over night When, however, on
the next day, they set out for home, she was
conscious of feeling OF uneasiness, which in
creased with every mile they travelled. Her
IA her seemed to share it with her, but she un-
derstood that better when he at last remarked:
' They do say the prairie was all attire, here
away, last night You can zee the smoke Of
it now. Reckon it didn't git across the slough.
It couldn onless thar was high wind; but
then the winds risin' and it's a-bl0win' the
wrong way to suit me-
Meantime it had been Z. great relief to
Marshall Hayne to have . large job on his
handsome he could push along feverishly,
!" SO we can get at work ct the corn shuck-
ing.n
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18

There have been set up in the
Grand Opera House at Paris . number
of mirrors, measuring forty-6ve by fifty
two feet, and weighing from ZOO to
LOGO pounds.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18

fierce charge up the slope, like the English in
fantry at Inkerman.
s'Now for it! Life or deathr'
He went forward with a great, stag like
bound, and the smoke-cloud closed around
him.
He had not been watching the double buggy
for some few minutes. but there had been
something in it worth watching. The driver
was alone on the front seat, with q bag of
-four beside him, and he did not turn to look
behind him As he steadily remarked:
'tlt isn't Of any use, mother. That blaze'll
reach our PLACE before we do"
Stern and silent sat old Mrs. Crawford
while her husband was speaking; but . young
er and better pair of eyes had been straining
their vision upon the smoke wreathes and ed
dies ahead.
"Father! There's . man on the hill He
WIN be burnedI'
"God pity him! That's so!'
The buggy had been driven along the prairie
road Is closely in the rear Of the advancing
f-e a. old Mr.. Crawford dared to press his
snOrting. frightened span of bays, and the dis
lance between them and the knob was not 90
very great. A gust of wind lifted the smoke
from 1t, just for moment.
"Father! Father! Can't you scot Can
We not do something's Mother-mother-
mother-it Is Marshall Haynem
The old man shivered from heat to foot,
and Mrs. Crawford turned suddenly around to
look at her daughter. She needed hut one
look.
Virginia! My poor girl! Oh, did not
know It.!
Virginia's lips were parted, and she was
staring fixedly at the black pail of vapor which
had again hidden the prairie knoll from view.
Marshall Hayne was in there, somewhere, she
knew, with the fierce fire shifting him.
White, oh how white q face was hers for q
mother to gaze upon. There was no trace Of
color, even on the lips.
Old Crawford refined in his horses, groaning
aloud.
II seemed but minute more, N eternally
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18

Members of four generations Of ono
family, Farwell by name, are officially
connected with the Claremont On. H
National Bank.
Potatoes are being boughtin Ireland
at fifteen cents Sushel.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-18

territory OF Oklahoma would have now
been covered with settlements. The in
truders have been kept out by companies Of
troops marching from east to west and back
again, on the south side Of the line between
Indian Territory and the State of Kansas,
while the intruders marched to and fro, in
Kansas, on the north side Of the same line.
The question, as understand it, Is this:
Congress bought certain lands from
Indians belonging to Indian Nation, for
the purpose Of colonizing other bands
of Indians upon these lands. After
some hostile Indians had been settled on
portions Of these lands, some Of the mem.
bers Of Congress and Senators Of adjacent
States, becoming alarmed at the assembling
Of these Indians in Indian Territory, secured
the passage Of an act prohibiting the re-
moval Of certain outside Indians to Indian
Territory. Then the people, styled the
"intruders. I" ret up the claim that what
was left Of this purchase, which d now
named Oklahoma. was subject to the same
conditions Of settlement as any other public
domain, and they still persist in their pur.
pose Of obtaining possession Of It. There
fore earnestly recommend some Con-
gressional action which will settle this
question and release the military from the
complications involved by this Oklahoma
trouble"
New-York tribune., 1881-11-20

novelty among bis works here in presenting
view OF village street with buildings and figures The
only really characteristic work is seen in the foliage OF
the trees alOaC TIE roadside. small flower piece, by
lrnZ, Il peculiarly rich and erikng. strong resem-
hance - Van MHr0ke il visible in cattle piece paint ed
Icy Madame Dctcre, his daughter. large water color,
bv VT Richards, gives view Of the port OF Cornish,
WIZ the surrounding steep cliffs and small breakwater
AT knocder's, The Lafk's Mirror has been replaced
BY GOnzalezs " On the Terrace" This shows French
grr IN costumes Of tho last century, several ldDg AT
le AMI two GorgeOusy attired young n0biemen Prac-
tcins with the fols Beyond the heavy marble Dauss
trades g.ilnpec is afforded OF the distant city.
In large picture b. Kaenmcrer, "An Ascension In the
year the artist has seized the opportunity presented by
an excited crowd viewing balloon ascension, to make
tile most of the decorative elements In the costumes OF
an earlier day Dainty lace caps long bright trains and
low necked dresses with the broad skrted coats OF ne
men, Ike JDsephs, OF divers cOlOrs, make up pretty
series OF combinations, while the excitement aud en-,
thlsasm Indicated by the waving handkerchlefs ana
hats nd additional animation In the Immediate 1ore-
ground one unfortunate has tumbled backward from his
ehar while lady beside him shares his fate. Above the
balloon Is steadily rising, containing man and woman
the htcr waving the ri color and In the background
arc trees and masses OF buildings.
\ spirited painting by Joseph Chemanski ia called
"Tne Russian Mal-Carrier." A huge black horse with
howing name Is dashng the snow, drawing my
sled by CaOanel there large figure painting repre-
scntng the opening of the caskets in the from the
Merchant Of Venice"
decorative group by ClOnadin two figures by Charles
hessoner and painting by NJ. Rico, have also been
recently shown here.
A. collection OF paintings win be placed exhibition
at LeaNiis galleries Tuesday, including several OF
considerable interest.
New-York tribune., 1881-11-20
HAVING HIS MARRIAGE ANNULLED.

The trial of the suit brought in the Supreme
Court by william H. Gardner, bookkeeper OF No. 80
Downingst. against Helen May Gardner, to have a
marriage celebrated between them in March last de-
cared null and void was had Friday before Felix V.
r. Kennedy, 20 whom the case had been referred by
Justice Donohue The defendant, who formerly q
bar.naid in London had already assumed many differ
ent names and In the Of her career
before she met Mr. Gardner, the home OF his aunt In
Downngst IN this city. To him she represented her
self a. an innocent yonng woman, who in seeking en-
uloymcrt Of Howard ). Ingersol. manufacturer, had
been cruelty insulted by improper proposals. and in
whose eyes she had aferwar thrown painful quantity
Of red pepper.
Mr. Gardner married the woman, believing, with a
lovers creduty all her statements concerning her past
ufc AMI future * Mr. Ingerso In the mean
ine had gone to work systematically 10 collect evidence
70 cstabsn the real character OF the woman who had
not only thrown red pepper in his eyes without any just
cause but who Ina also succeeded for the time in repre-
.enting Linn 10 the public who had insulted
a. cent woman applying 10 him Tor work lie caused ner
arrest, aud on the trial at Special sessions produced
abundant proof that she was an adventures Win a
very extensive experience at the time she asserted thnt
she had bcsu n-dtel by hltn MT Girduet Ieafhed Or
ne ut time h- trial that the decncelcss maiden,
whom hc had undertaken forever after 10 delehO al
other such defender In the person
of William L. Morrison. The woman convicted Of
a,saulting r IugersO and now serving out term
I'M the Prnitcutiary on BlackwelPs Island MI Gard
rrr upuu the conviction Of his supposed WIFE, began an
acton 70 have the marriage annulei' on the ground
that the woman had been previously married 10 W. r.
Morrison VINO still living On the trial before the
referee the wOmau's marriage with MI Morrlson was
ryed nv several witnesses and among others by the
Row +. A. HyIand, who performed the ceremony. NO
def nee was offered against the suit, ana the referee IL Is
understood has made his report In when ne uhus tna
tl lnf,uIgut WAS married Mr. Morrison at the time
of the marriage ceremony with Mr. Gardner
New-York tribune., 1881-11-20
LIFE on THE ERIE CANAL.

A TALK WITH AN OLD CANAL BOAT CAPTAIN
PROFITS OF HIS BUSINESS.
"The season for making money i'll our business Is
about over" said an old canal boat captain to a
TRtpUVE reporter recently. 81 start for Tona-
wanda TO morrow, where intend to lay up for the
winter. Some of the younger men may make an
other trip, Tut the hardship attending passage in
the late fall don't agree very well with man as
old as am"
- How long does it take you to make a trip ~
asked the reporter.
"If nothing hinders me. | can take an empty
boat throuph from New York 60 rOnawanda which
10 aLont tweIye miles this side of Buffalo in twelve
days With n loaded boat 1t takes nearly three
weeks -. - .,,.
ness 10 permit you TO lie idle four or I'VE months IN
the year, ,, ,,,,L .ho,o = M.
nearly much made now as there us9u 10 pe % so.iic
venrI ago There was "A time when Thought moth
ing of clearing 3 900 in six months, but The rall-
roads have cut down the rates SO tbat IL Is ABOUT M
bont-to. month with most of the young men all the
time As tor myself | don't care much whether
school keeps or not. I've made my pile and can
afford TO take things pretty easy 49,
The actual running expenses OF round tr1p are
nearly 800 You see | employ four men, Two
steersmen aud two drivers. | keep them with me
a throul,h the season and sure OF never beng
short OF help Many of the captains dscharge their
drivers at Albany, rs there Is nothing much Tor
them to do on the way down Tue river, anu lney
are often badly left for so doing, for during the
busy season good driver is very hard TO find
Besides think tho boys deserve little rest, for 1t
is pretty hard word to travel alongside team Oh
mules twelve hours out OF the twenty-iour have
known drivers though. who would not walk step
i'm the night They would climb on the nlulo
Lack and sleep rs soundly and contentedly as
though they were in bed IL takes 40 EXPERIENCED
steersman detect this. There Is only one way ol
telling and that is by the motion of tue boat, whlcn
decreases in speed when the driver is not urging tne
ha n n
in be night for the tow-lne is generally about 800
ieet long. The steeIsman depends upon the driver
To warn him of boats approaching III the opposite
Grertion. and also of those which laid up IN the
canal. Some captains having only one team never
travel in the night" .,
don't suppose | average more than nine, but II
they are ordinarily profitable l can afford to stop
for the remainder OF the year"
Dinners ready, Paw" sung out wOmans voice
from under the reporter feet.
"My daughter said the captain, explaining.
. She does the cooking for the crew come down
and Join us. You WON'T Well, goOd-day."
New-York tribune., 1881-11-20

other lines Of transportation and the carrying on ef
other business incidental thereto. The company has .
contract with the Board of Internal of thu
State of Florida the terms OF which give to the company
one-haf OF all the land reclaimed that portion Of the
peninsula Of Florida south of latitude 2s0 15 NORTH
comprising OF about 1900 square miles The
company Las also purchased from the Florida Land and
Improvement Company 600 acres Of land eompris.
ing the choice lands Of the Dsst0n purchase 100000
The lands reported TO be admirably adapted
for farming aud the production Of semitropica fruts
The climate il unsurpassed for saubrty, and the tens
peratre seldom falls below 800 I'm winter rises above
800 In
New-York tribune., 1881-11-20
NEARING THE END OF THE COUNT

The Board Of County Cenvassers yesterday
completed the canvass Of the votes In the XVIII,
XvIrh, XvIIIth XIXth and Xxth Assembly Districts.
g. NJ Lockwood the candidate for Attorney General
the Greenback ticket who elected Friday be-
cause he insisted being heard with reference TO his
protest succeeded In having IL accepted yesterday. He
merely protested against the for his ticket
being counted scattering The contest for Aldermen
III the Vth District definitely settled yesterday By
the canvassers B. F. Martin, Tammany candidate,
ceves 66j3 votes to 628 for Nicholas Heny the can
ddate OF the County Democracy giving tho former Q
majority of 25
New-York tribune., 1881-11-20
4 POSSIBILITY or CHANGE.

A committee has been appointed by the ke-
publican Central Committee to consider anu repor' w.,
amendments to the constitution are necessary to enable
all Republicans members OF the Respective 90
sembly District Associations The committee CONSISTS
OF George Bliss Elnu Root, Jacob NJ Tiniar
Henry Graeme, S. " X. Cooper Cbatiea N, f,aHiai
Fredrriek q. Gedney, Edmund Stephenson nnu ,,or ~
e. Rollins. Nothing has Yet been done IN ihe mn'Voi
New-York tribune., 1881-11-20
FLORIDA LANDS.

The Atlantic and Gulf Coast Canal and
Okeechobee Land Company OF Florida, was chartered
by special act Of the Legislature of Florida last spring
for the purpose OF purchasing and improving certain
,racta Of laua In Florida the building Of canals and
New-York tribune., 1881-11-20
A NEW COUNT ORDERED.

Judge Depue, of Newark, on Friday granted
the petition Frederick H. Teese the Democratic
didate for State Senator at the last election for re-
count OF the tha show apparent majority OF
46 for william b. Stainsby the Republican candidate.
New-York tribune., 1881-11-20
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.

Sun 6:53 Noon rises. 64i Clock slow 14m.05s
Sun ses.-... 439 Moon souths 1881 Moons days 3
HIGH WATER roDAY-A. NJ
Sandy Hook. els Gov Island. 664 Hell Gae.... e45
HIGH WATER To-DAY-P. NJ
Sandy Hook GAO Gov Island. 7:13 Hell Gate... e02