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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-05-19

The secretary of war is also authorized
to expend money appropriated by the
act of March 3, 1879, for construction of
q harbor of refuge at Port Oxford on the
Pacific coast, if in his opinion it be
deemed judicious to do 50.
Reports from all portions of Illinois to
the department of agriculture to May 1st
indicate an Improvement in the condition
OF winter wheat in all sections of the
state, and are made by prominent farm
ers who have the best means for deter
mining the condition of the growing
crop. Wheat on drained land is much
above the average, and has seldom prom
ised better yield per acre. Wheat on
wet land has been injured by excessive
and continued rains, and will not make
an average crop. Chinch bugs in large
numbers are reported in various loca-
tions, but no damage has yet resulted,
and unless the season is dry until harvest
there is not likely to be any. The con-
dition of the northern portion of the state
improved three per cent. during the past
month, and prospects are encouraging
for five per cent. more than the average
weld per acre Of winter wheat. This is
80 per cent. better than the condition a
wear ago. In the central division the
condition has improved three per cent.
since the 1st of April, and gives promise
of three per cent. more than the average
weld. This is A per cent. above the
condition year ago. The condition in
southern Illinois promises to be three
per cent. more than the average yield per
acre, and present prospects are good for
26 per cent. more wheat than the same
counties produced in 1881.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-05-19

War is great weeder out of surplus
population. We have no war on hand
ct present to speak Of, but baseball we
have ever with US.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-05-19

Secretary Chandler does not favor the
new Arctic expedition.
If boy gets on the wrong .'track" it
shows that his fathers 'sswitch" has not
had fair chance.
On the railroads OF Continental
Europe the introduction of mineral oil
for lubricating purposes Is proving both
efficient and economical.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-05-19

DAMAGED BY SMoKE.-A queer case is
on trial before court in one of the
Pennsylvania coke regions. A farmer
brings suit to recover damages from a
furnace company because of the injury
the smoke has done his land. He claims
not only that his crops are less on &C
count of it but also that the quality is
deprecated. For instance, he cuts less
grass to the acre than before the furnaces
were built, and the milk and butter Of
the COWS fed on it show the effects of
the SCOT and smoke. The case is meant
as O test of the responsibility of manu-
facturers. and the verdict, whatever il is.
win affect scores of other farmers.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-05-19

If man drinks like fish his head
will be apt to swim like one.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16

his haar brushed and Ii siotAss M
he could mot think Of any Bad thing =
wanted to do.
"rn 20 out on the street," thought
Robby: "ru yet i've CENTS out o. my
bank, and buy kcoFice drops; ormay b
IN buy some some cigars"
Robby's hank had very unsafe
chimney, through which . little patient
rafting soon brought . silver quarter:
THAT'S too much to spend. said
Robby; "but IN keep the change-men
always have change in their pockets"
A little way down tho street was 9
corner stand where IN old col0red
woman sold fruit, candies and cigars
As Robby walked up With his hands il
his pocket she beamed down upon him.
and asked: l.f,s ms
"Wot is de liz gemman gwine to buy
Of ole Aunt Silvy?"
"Five cents worth Of Gcorice- dropsI
said Robby. who could not quite screw
his courage up to . cigar; but. wheD
old Silvy was rummaging in her pocket
for change, he added: "And guess
I'll have Q cigar"
claw sakes, honey! fer yer paris
said Silvy, shaking her fat sides. -
Robby turned very red. and, graspin9
the cigar and the change, hurried awat.
"Wot ever Is desc yer young oneD
comm TOP" she muttered to herself.
Robby, with the cigar in his pocket
felt so guilty that he half expected to b
arrested before he got home; but, afte4
sauntering for while around the back
yard, he stole in like q thief and gol
some matches, and retreated with them
to clump Of bushes under the nursery
window.
"Seems to me-" said mamma, pres
emily, 81 smell tobacco-smoke."
Five minutes later, papa called from
the library to ask if the coachman were
smoking in the kitchen.
Five minutes more, and mamma, with
q look of perfect horror, called him to
the nursery window. Down below, in
the bushes, lay Robby, his short legs
crossed, vainly trying to control an ex-
preston of disgust that would creep
over his pale face as he pulled heroically
at the dreadful cigar. Papa was orua
enough to laugh.
II think" he said. che is nearly q
the end of his experiment, and will MOI
wish to repeat it."
1t must have been Robby who orepe
up the stairs little while afterwards
but he looked very unlike the rosy.
wide-awake boy who went down. He
dragged his heavy feet. and held hn
aching head with his trembling hands.
His lips were pale, and his eyes stared
out of great purple shadows.
20 Robbyr' said mamma, rushing
towards him.
20 mammar' walled Robby; Ute
awful being bad boy, and I nsveH
never, new"
The rest was smothered with pitfft1
sobs, while mamma soothed and COM
forted and nursed him just as tenderiR
as If it had not all been his own fault.
But Robby never wanted to repeat hb
experimept-Ensi!y Huntingdon MiQ&,
in s. s. times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16

III. hammond sir my wife Il Sick nv on
txade md wants 30 bac out We WIZ e1ve yol
yoee money bac and move yqs hee to Town .
teFmofrof fur IN anser.
s.youFsandeoforth JAMES HRnY OAvIas
"Well, Susie?' said Mart.
"Well3' said Susie.
What do you think of the letter?'
"Rather awkward" answered Susie.
20. don't care for that; the propo.
sition?"
30, that's it?'' said Susie. {" Do you
want to sell outT'
Mart was silent . moment and then
said:
Suppose we could get. say, five hun.
dred dollars for our bargain; what would
you say to that?''
"What would you do with the
money! inquired Susie.
"Turn it all over to you, and let you
buy suburban residence if yen wished
Il"
IN" :. And give up farmins''
II should say sell, then, even for less
than five hundred, or one hundred,
dollars. rather than stay here"
IL kUs Lucus 6dlU 01dEts pEO
vided the Oldest Davis boy will take the
mastiff off my hands"
Mr.. James Henry Davis called the
next day, and after some sharp dicker.
ing on both sides, it was decided that
the Davises should pay the Hammonds
two hundred dollars for their bargain,
and that the Davises should move the
latter back to the city free of charge,
and that the oldest Davis boy was to
take the mastiff and return the watch
and the pocket revolver and the three
dollars. All these agreements were car.
ried out to the letter, and Mart and
Susie and Freddie, after having been
farmers for the space of three days and
four hours, found themselves in the
city once more, two hundred dollar,
ahead in money. and several hundred
in experience.
Mart made the oldest Davis boy Q
present of the EARNING Made Easy"
and everything was settled in satisfac.
tory manner. Susie selected q beautiful
suburban property. which was bought
at q bargain, which made them q nice
little home.
Mart gets excited sometimes, and
commences to tell about the farm he
used to manage. but always Gains down
when Susie comes into the room, OF
Freddie asks any questions about the
bio mastiff.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16
A Blind Boy.

You never would think to looH u
Teddy's bright eyes that he was blind.
and am sure if you pitied him because
he couldn't see, he would have been
very much surprised, and would have
assured you he could see everything
just as well as you could, but let me tel
will agree with me that he Is bind
He and Joe had an errand to do foe
me one day at q house about q mile
from home, and when they came back.
l asked Teddy what he had seen.
"Seen? Oh. nothing, mamma" ha
said.
"Nothing at allp''
"Why, no, I don't remember that ]
did; we had nice walk, but there
wasn't anything special to see that J
know Of.
Then asked Joe whathe had seen.
20 mamma, it was lovely there; the
trees were just coming out and you
can't think how pretty the maple buds
and tassels were, red, yellow and green
I didn't know before there were 80
many colors on trees.
II found five kinds of grasses ]
brought some home to you. And ]
wanted you ever so much to see the
birds; they were so funny chipping and
flying about to findplaces for their nests;
they looked as if they were playing tag.
they were flying about so.
''Then when we got to the farm
there were so many things to see, ]
wanted to stay longer; when we come
in will tell you all about them, the
bees, and chickens and lots of things"
+" Didn't you see all that. too, Teddy"
/ asked him.
"Oh, 1 don't know" he said. 'sJoe'a
always poking about and calling 'Loob
at this, and oh, see here;' but I neves
see anything worth looking ut when b
shows me what he has found, 80 I juse
walk along and leave him hunting
about"
Now don't you agree with me thaA
Teddy is blind?
hope you are not blind, too. for you
will miss great deal Of pleasure II 700
do not see all the little things which Lie
in your way.-Yosss6's Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16
AFZERGL0W.

10 one abstr1se conundrum much aer,ous
why Is it that the good men die. and all the
" why is It we never know our neighbors
rare PROJECTIONS
In his last win and testament u read to h,s
connecticut - = :, ., =
an then the the daily papers spread his virtues
All abroad: - ls
1aey s ss es q esd =. honest nanthe no0'ess
How good 10 was, how wise he was how hon
est in his dealing;
what tenderness Of heart he had. and what a
Perhaps the man was one Of those-ah, would
Who all his life ground hard and close the
VINO drove his debtors TO despair by premature
Then paid his pew-rent in advance, with inf
mite composure.
. serhaps ne was the lordly ''head" Of some un-
Called home" by use and courtesy. but lack
Who held his children criminals for every tri-
Who pinched his household half to death, and
kept his wife in terror.
Perhaps he was lawyer deep, whose quib-
bling tricks and words
adeiped base executors to rob poor widows Of
tHeiT IulfuSs
Perhaps thrifty grocer-man, whose wheed-
ling, false palavef
Sold toughest steak for porter-house. and
chieory for Java
Any of these he might have been-the types
are nowise rare
But when he dies, behold, we passed an angel
unaware!
Since type and tongue proclaim his worth, what
cynic shall dispute them?
MANY there be who meet the gods" we read,
but few salute themp
Why don't the papers say fine things of men
before they die.
And Indicate these sanity souls ere yet they
soar on high?
Then we might recognize them ere grim death
ana ''cOld obstruction
Have made 1t quite impossible to get an intro
duction.
All, weil--perhaps when at last beneath my
burden faint,
i, too. snail win the title of a paragon and
saint.
And be, when deaths cold breath has blown
aside life's dust and soiling
"A grain of that superior salt which keeps the
world from spelling!
-Etizdbeth Aksrs AUen, in Century Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16
Our Young Readers.
LONG AGO.

A LT1TI3 sIsfKR's s101E
When the fairies used 10 live here
Then you know
There was never any dark
IN. ii. s Es s1 81 ' o1n i.pe sa,p,ne
And ths Tosss just Ee?e blooming.
Oh. 90 bright at 49,
And the little children never
Toaood their mothers,
And the little girls always
Loved their brothers,
And tho 6rothers|they we're Just -
Aiid sad Kind,
They would mind:
And they played % uerD gently
But you know
Ihdt was when the fairies Nved hero,
Yes, the fairies used to live hereI
You would meet
The dear dariings In the garden
And the street.
Dressed in rainb0ws, oh, 20 l0velyl
With bright wings,
And their voices like linnet
When he sings,
And their sweet kind eyes 80 loving
They were Wishing ali good wishes
Then the flowers bent to kiss them
When they'd pass,
And the small blades reached to hold them
From the grass;
For each pretty thing about them
Loved them 30,
When the darling fairies lived here
Long Ago.
Then the dollies were not made
OF wax alone,
But were just like other babies,
Flesh and bone;
They could sit and they could stand,
Yes, even"walk;
They could laugh, and they could cry-dear
1hsy could t0uti
And they never got their legs
Or arms broke,
When the naughty boys just pulled them
For Joke,
For there tcere no naughty boys,
But then you know
That was when the fairies lived here
Long Agol
Then the nurses, when they brushed
The longest curle,
Never snapped and hurt the heads
OF little girls:
You could wear your bestest dresses
And they never spoiled with any
You could make mud-pies and still be
Just as clean
A the neatest little child
Was ever seen.
Boys big pockets bulged out
EuiI of tops,
Marbles, pc nnies, knives and
Acid drops,
Whips and trumpets, whistles,
Lovely toys,
That Gould make such awful
Lots Of noisel
You could eat ice-cream and candy
All day long,
And no one ever told you
1t was wrOngl
. What were all the mothers dOing?
don't know;
This was when the tdirjes lived here,
Long Ago.
And you never heard q single
Children cryl
You wish they lived here nOw? Dear,
So do L
-WdE Asnd6eR
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16

Sometimes the boys come in to sec
US and sit around and sing and other.
wise disturb the course Of editoria1
thought We beg, and look displeased,
but all to no purpose. They won't stop
for anything like that, Then it Is thai
we threaten to favor them with our imi.
tation of Lawrence Barrett, and that
always clears them out with . rush.
L0veU Citizen.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16
In feeding hose for q long 10,

In feeding a hose for long jour-
ney do not give more than the regular
quantity of food before starting. but
only after the work is done. A horse
that is regularly driven requires very
small amount of hay in the morning
feed, if any, and none at the noon feed.
and at night, Just before closing the sta
BILE, fill the manager with hay.-Chieage
Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16
Midnight Bravery.


night was. The wind blew the blinds
and banged them against the hevse. and
played Wagnerian overture tAzvaga
the lightning rods, and the rain dashed
against the window panes in ftful
''swashes'' as If Dame Nature was out
for her annual spring cleaning. Mr..
and Mrs. Shuttle were sleeping quietly,
after q day Of excitement, when all u
once an unusual rattle of something b.
low stairs reused Che couple, and befoYs
they knew it they were sitting bolt up.
right in bed.
whisper.
1.-The blind door slammin' guess, I"
replied Mr.. Smith, cautiously, for he
didn't feel quite certain about it.
either, and you know it. It's them
burglars that broke into the house or
the next street and stole all the silver.
ware, and there's all my spoons in the
dining room closet-and-"
"Lay down and 90 to sleep, woman.
Burglars be darned! There amt enough
in the house to tempt burglars. What
are you thinking about?''
There amt, is therep Well, I guess
if you had to buy all the stuff in the
house over again and pay for it yor
wouldn't say Burglars be darned.'
Job Shuttle you are afraid to 60 down
stairs and see what's goin' on. There,
hear 'em again. There. there, thai
closet door creaked and know it.
dispose you 60 down and tackle 'em,
I'll back you up" said Job, beginning
to feel little bit nervous, himself.
aren't you ashamed of yourself. to
put your poor defenseless wife up to .
job like that, Mr.. Shuttle. If I'd .
known was to marry coward, twen-
ty-three years ago, 'twould have been
different, l tel you. But I'll 60. Oh.
I'll 90. If MY husband won't defend
my property that's been handed down
from grandma, to ma and to me, will.
So there" and springing out of the bed
she started for the stairs in the dark.
"You laundering fool. Why don't
you light the gas" shouted Job. "You
can't get the best of burglar in the
dark. in voice loud enough to frighten
the neighbors. say nothing about posi-
BILE burglars.
"Sh! Sh! Don't make so much noise.
They'll take the alarm and get away
with the spoons" and she seized the
carpet sweeper as she CROPPED along the
half way. "Oh, Job. Job. Come down
with me. If they should grab me- said
she, in a tremulous whisper.
"Go along, 60 along. What ye 'frad
Of" was the encouraging words of Job.
who had got out of bed and was leaning
over the stair rail. I'm here. / Won't
let 'em hurt you. There amt anybody
down there, anyway"
Whats the matter with you, dad?'
shouted up a familiar voice from the
dining room. "Why don't you behave.
like man, and tackle the burglars. I'm
the man, and I'm digging out the inside
of a new pie. Go back and go to bed.
ma. It's all right 1t was the oldest
con Just in from a three o'clock soiree
with his best girl. The couple, after
having given the young man q double.
dyed blessing, went to bed again and
Mrs. Shuttle twitted Job of being q
coward until day-break, when her tongue
gave out and she dropped into quiet
morning nap.-New Haren Register:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16

"A Chinaman recently died at Eure.
la, New. and was buried with the usual
formalities. The night after the burial
some Indian squaws robbed the grave
of the roast pig and were enjoying
it very much. But the heather. sus.
pecting that this might occur. had doc.
tored the pig beforehand. and shortly
after eating it the squaws were attacked
with violent fits of vomiting.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16

"A warning to smokers comes from
Philadelphia. John Clancy, Of that
city, died the other night from injuries
received in the morning of the same day.
when he fell from sofa while smoking
q clay pipe. running the stem into th1
roof of his mouth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16

Eight bales Of alligator hides Won
shipped from Savannah to New York
recently. They are to be manufactured
into shoes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16

world, after all, and, aScertaining that
the mastiff was chained, he laid Freddie
on the lounge and went out to the barn.
yard. With the aid of Susie he man.
aged to get pretty well through by noon.
only forgetting to turn the calves away
from the cows; but then that was not so
bad, and he consoled himself with the
knowledge that he would have no milk
ing to do that afternoon.
At six o'clock he was very tired, but
had most of the work done, and sat
down to read a few chapters in his
book. He had read but a few lines,
and was becoming more and more dis
gusted with farming, both on paper and
in reality, when there was sudden
rafting of the mastiff's chain, loud
barking, and then all was quiet.
'How do you expect the dog to capt
ure any horse thieves unless ne is I'M
tied?' asked Susie.
"Win you be kind enough to let him
loose, dear?'' said Mart, with some en-
barrassment. "He doesn't seem to
know me yet"
Susie started toward the door, and
reached it just in time to open it in an
swer to a knock from the outside. The
party proved to be the Oldest Davis boy,
who handed letter to Mart, and bid
ding them good-evening. withdrew and
disappeared into the darkness.
Mart very deliberately deposited his
Earning Made Easy" on the table,
and proceeded to open the envelope,
which was directed to "mr. Martin
hammond, esquir, private
Mart read the letter and handed it
over to Susie, who also worried through
| its contents, which read as follows:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16


to be sure, with determination to get
the work done up in a half hour or so,
and come in and spend the forenoon in
reading new book he had just pur-
chased entitled Farming Made Easy,
or Every Man his own Gardener" He
went out and fumed around awhile, and
did not get the cows MIXED until half
past eleven. There were more things
to attend to than he had anticipated,
and it was near four o'clock before the
pigs were fed. They would have been
forgotten entirely if they had not kept
up such terrible squealing that Mart
went over to the pen to see what the
trouble was. He soon found out, and
relieved their sufferings.
After this he hurried into the house
to eat his dinner. which had been await
ing him q couple of hours or more.
Susie hustled about and took the meat
and potatoes from the oven, where they
had been stored to keep warm, and was
Just pouring the steaming coffee when
Freddie came in and informed his father
that the horses had gone crazy, and
were paving great holes IN the barn
floor, and were gnawing the feed-boxes
in the hangers.
Poor Mart jumped up with very red
face and hurried out; he had forgotten
the horses. After he had fed and
watered them he hurried back to the
house. Susie was out. and Freddie,
who had one hand fast in the sugar
bowl, did not know where she was.
Mart was in the act of sitting down
again, when he heard deafening bonn
barlment in the direction of the wood
shed, and going thither he beheld the
wife of his bosom making frantic efforts
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-26
RESCUED FROa DEATH

The following statement of WilliamJ Cough
lin, of So!ncrvile, Niass., Is SO remarkable that
We beg to ask for it the attention OF our read
ers. lie says: "1n the fall of 1876 was taken
with Il violent bleeding of the lungs followed
by q severe cough 1 soon began to lose my
appetite and flesh. was so weak at one time
that could not leave my led. In the summer
of 1877 l was admitted to the City Hospital.
While there the doctors said l hal 4 hole in
my left lung as big as u half collar. l expend-
Ell over Il hundred dollars in doctors and med
icine. was SO far gone at one time a report
wen: around that was dead. l gave up hope,
but q friend told me OF Or. WM. HALLS BALsAM
FoE THE LUNGS. laughed at my friends, think
ing that my case was lncurabic, hut got q
bottle TO satisfy them, VIXEN my surprise
and qualification, commenced to feel better.
My hope. once dead, began to revive, and to-
day feel In better spirits than have the past
three years.
IL write this hoping you will publish it, so
that everyone afflicted with Diseased Lungs
will be induced to take DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam
tor the Lungs, and be convinced that con-
SUMPTION can be cured. l have taken two
bottles antl can positively say that 1t has done
more good than all other medicines l have
taken since my sickness. My cough has al
most entirely disappeared and shall soon be
ablo to go to work" Sold in Lancaster at
Cochran's Drug Store. l37 and l39 North Queen
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