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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
Decision Of Character.

Decision of character is of the greatest
importance when taken in connection
with the subject of religion. If a man
cannot get along comfortably in the at
fairs of this world without it, he GER
tainly cannot in what pertains to an
other. In the first place, no person can
become Christian without it to some
extent. Religion consists in renOuncing
the world, and taking consistent, de-
cided stand for God and the truth. How
can person do this without decision of
character? There are often more OBJ
stacleS in the way of becoming Chris
tan, than in doing anything else what
ever. There is not unfrequently OPP
position to stem, ridicule to encounter,
reproach to endure, temptation to resist;
and unless person has good degree
of independence and decision, these diff
ticulties will never be overcome, but
will forever separate between him and
Heaven.
Without decision of character per-
son can never grow in grace after he
becomes q Christian. The difficulties
which he has to encounter when he
commences the Christian course, will,
some of them, at least. attend him
through life. The battle is not fought
when person first enlists in the Lords
army. There is usually little skirm-
ishing to begin with; but generally the
heat of the contest is not till some time
afterward. To be good soldiers of the
Lord Jesus, my friends, you must DO
decided, resolute and persevering.
There is to be no wavering, no timidity,
no shrinking back; but you must march
right up to the enemy, face to face, and
let him understand that you are pre-
pared to die rather than desert your
post, or yield him one inch of ground.
Instead of yielding, you must be de-
termined to 90 forward. You are tc
set your faces as flint against every
temptation to wrong, and 60 onward in
the divine life, and become more holy
every day, growing in grace and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ. One great reason why
Christians do not grow in grace more
than they do is, they have not sufficient
decision of character to say no, and to
stick to it, whenever tempted to sim
Rec. C. c. Bald,Ui,a.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
international Sunday. School Lessons.
Sermons and Pulpits.

There are two ways of regarding a
sermon, either as a human composition,
or divine message. If we look upon
it entirely as the first, and require
our clergymen to finish it with their ut
most care and learning. for our better
delight, whether OF ear or intellect, we
shall necessarily be led to expect much
forma'ity and stateliness in its delivery,
and to think that all is not we'll if the
pulpit have not a golden fringe round
it, and a goodly cushion in front of it,
and if the sermon be not fairly written
in black book, to be smoothed upon
the cushion in a majestic manner
before beginning all this we
shall duly come to expect, but we shall
at the same time consider the treatise
thus prepared as something to which it
is our duty to listen without restlessness
for halt an hour or three-quarters, but
which, when that duty has been de-
corously performed, we may dismiss
from our minds in happy confidence of
BEING provided with another when next
it shall be necessary. But if once we
begin to regard the preacher, whatever
his faults, as man sent with a message
to us, which is a matter of life or death
whether we hear or refuse; if we look
upon him as set in charge over many
spirits in danger of falling, and having
allowed to him but an hour or two in
the seven days to speak to them; if we
make some endeavor to conceive how
precious these hours ought to be to him,
a small vantage on the side of God after
his flock had been exposed for six DAYS
together to tie full weight of the world
temptation, and he has been forced to
watch the thorn and the thistle spring.
ing in their hearts, and to see what
wheat had been scattered there snatched !
from the wayside by this wild bird and
the other, and at last. when breathless
and weary with the weeks labor, they
give him this interval of imperfect and
languid hearing, he has but thirty min
utes to get at the separate hearts of a
thousand men to convince them of all
their weaknesses, to shame them for all
their dangers, to try by this way and
that to stir the hard fastenings of those
doors where the Master Himself has
stood and knocked and yet none opened,
and to call at the openings of those dark |
streets where Wisdom herself has |
stretched forth her hands and no man |
regarded-thirty minutes to raise the
dead Inlet us but once understand and |
feel this. and we shall look with changed |
eyes upon that frippery of gay furniture
about the place from which the message
of Judgment must be delivered, which |
either breathes upon the dry bones that |
they may live. or, if Intellectual, remains
recorded in condemnation, perhaps |
against the utterer and listener alike,
but assuredly against one of tlsem. We
shall not so easily bear with silk and |
gold upon the seat of judgment, nor
with the ornament of oratory in the |
mouth of the messenger; we shall wish |
that his words may be simple, even
when they are sweetest, and the place
from which he speaks like marble
rock in the desert, about which the peo-
pie have gathered in their thirst.-Joh's |
RusEi1a
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

in a single high school in Charles
ton. S. c., there are 1,4OO negro pupils.
Three teachers in the public schools
OF Philadelphia have recently died from
-overwork.
California has seventy-seven Bap-
list churches with forty-six pastors and
1924 members. Ten missionaries are
employed by the Associations in the
State.
During the past year Bishop Little
john, of Long Island, confirmed LIZA
persons. and licensed twelve lay read
ers. The number of clergymen in the
diocese is 100.
During the past year the American
Bible Society issued from the Bible
House 1,O94, 1O8 copies of the Scriptures,
and in foreign lands 43O, 665 copies,
making total of 1,524,773.
John P. Eldridge, late President of
the Connecticut Fire Insurance Compa-
ny, left an estate of 1925. 900, of which
$lS5, 900 is bequeathed to missionary or
charitable purposes.-Boston Post.
The Rev. Father Havermans, pastor
of St. Mary's Church, Troy, N. Y. who
is the only one now living of the 259
Catholic clergymen who were in
America in 1884, commemorated the
fifty-third anniversary of his ordination
and the forty-second of his pastorate in
Troy, a few days ago.
The North Carolina Methodist who
sang SO loudly and discordantly in
church as to annoy other worshipers,
and was indicted as nuisance, has won
his case. The language of the Court is:
1.-The disturbance of congregation by
singing. when the singer does not intend
SO to disturb it, but is conscientiously
taking part in the religious services,
may be a subject for the discipline of
his church, but is not indictable.-N
y Herald.
"A clergyman in Maryland recently
received an anonymous letter contain
ing ten dollars. Afterward another
ANONYMOUS communication was re-
ceived, as follows: "Please pray for a
family so given up to dissension and
hard thoughts all are unhappy. World
ly care has driven out peace and love,
and only God, who can change the
heart, can make change of the con-
duct and the disposition. Please pray
that He would interpose in their be-
half
The American Missionaries who
penetrated through. the jungles and
feyer-stricken country of Umzila's king
dom, in Southeastern Africa, to his cap
ital, report that the King was delighted
to see them, sent greetings to America,
and asked to have five missionaries with
their families sent to teach his people.
The King is said to be the finest speci-
men of royalty in Africa. His face is
full of intelligence and genuinely pleas
ant He is tall and spare, but well pro-
portioned. Louis Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
Religious Department.
NEW EVERY MORNING.

Every day is fresh beginning,
Every morn Is the world made new.
You who are weary Of sorrow and SHINING,
Here Is q beautiful hope for you;
hope for me and hope for you.
AL the past things are past and over:
The tasks are done and the tears are shed.
Yesterdays errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterdays wounds, which smarted and
bled.
Are healed with the healing which night has
shed.
Yesterday now Is a part Of forever:
Bound up in sheaf. which God holds tight,
With glad days, and sad days, and bad days
which never
Shall visit us more with their bloom and
their blight,
Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful
night.
Let them go. since we cannot re-live them,
God in His mercy receive, forgive them;
Only the new days are our own.
To-day is ours, and to-day alone.
Here are the skies all FURNISHED brightly,
Here Is the spent earth all reborn,
Here are the tired limbs springing lightly
To face the sun and to share with the morn
In the chrism of dew and the cool of dawn.
Every day is a fresh beginning;
Listen. my soul, to the glad refrain,
And spite of old sorrow and older SHINING.
And puzzles fOrecastcd and possible pain,
Take heart with the day. and begin again.
Susan Coolidge, in Christian Union.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30

OF country and showing themselves here
and there to keep the animals from
straying off and move them forward in
the desired direction. Couriers were
sent to the Grow village, and soon the
whole tribe was in motion for a small
piece of bottom land on the river half
surrounded by an amphitheater of hills.
Beyond the hill-tops the squaws. chill
dren and old men were stationed. with
some of the ponies and with red blank
cts. The most skillful hunters posted
themselves, mounted, by the river side.
About noon the great herd, urged on by
the scouts, came laundering down the
hills into the bottom. Then the people
on the hills closed up their line behind
them, and the hunters dashed into the
herd and began the slaughter. When
ever the animals would stampede to-
wards the hills they would be driven
back by the squaws waving the red
blankets. The hunters rode to and fro.
with wonderful skill evading the charges
of the wounded bulls and carrying on
the slaughter with little more trouble
than they would have had in drove of
cattle. When their ponies were exhaust
ed they rode up the hills and got fresh
ones from the squaws. After two or
three hours of this kind of work the
Chief gave signal, the line on the hills
opened a gap, and the survivors of the
herd were allowed to escape. About
five hundred animals were killed n all.
The tepees were set up and the village
feasted for month, while the squaws
skinned the dead beasts, tanned the
hides and dried the meat. -Montana Con.
Philadelphia Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
Historians generally agree thu

Historians generally agree that
General Washington death was caused
by cold contracted by exposure while
riding on horseback on acold December
day. Mrs. Young, the last surviving
child of Washington's steward, Ander-
son, herself just deceased, related
recently how Washington's death
might have been averted. 1t is true
that he caught the cold referred to and
returned home; but he was then sum-
moned to give instructions about the
completion of boat, and while stand
ing without hat or overcoat on the
banks of the Potomac, the chilling
blasts increased the cold, which proved
fatal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
Inst as a pirl was about to DIR

just as girl was about to drown
herself at Athens, Ala, a man caught
her. She struggled, but he held her
fast. "rn give you ten minutes to
think it over" he said. land if you
then want to die I'll let you do it."
When the time was up he released her,
and she quietly went home.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
Mrs A. II. D.
1t f. the concurrent
Testimony Offl1e puh.

1t f. the concurrent
testimony offhe pub
lie and the medical
profession. that Hos
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thorough and be-
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bic, conquers kidney
and bladder COM
plants. and hastens
the convalescence Of
I h ose recovering
from enfeebling dis
eases. Moreover tits
the grand specific for
fever and aguc. For
sale by Druggists and
Dealers generally.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30

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The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-18
Organize! Organize!y
Virginih Granger

There is greater necessity now
than ever before that the farmers
organize for self protection and the
protection of rights dear to the
hearts of true patriots.
Much has been accomplished
through farmers organization, but
there is much more to be done. The
fact is, mere beginning in the
right direction has been made, and
it will not do that halt be called.
We must press forward with the
work if We would accomplish the
grand purposes which are so neces-
sary to place the agricultural people
in that position to which they are
entitled. 1t is too often the case
with farmers that they stop work
too soon. A few extra strokes
would add greatly to the harvest
which is to be gathered. The seeds
which have been sown in Oranges
and other properly organized agri-
cultural Associations will surely
ripen into rich and magnificent
AAol NCSt, ii OiIdi ., tiliotiGS duO WCCuS
are not permitted to choke out the
tender plants. 1t is especially nee
essary that watchful eve be kept
on the field, or else ENEMIES will
sow tares among the wheat, and
when havest time arrives much dis
appointment and trouble will be ex-
perienced. Especially WILL THIS BE
the case-indeed, is EVEN NOW THE
CAsE-in regard to matters of leg
islation. Farmers, Changers, look
after your representatives. Let
them know that you are watching
them-that you will hold them re-
sponsible for the votes they cast.
These votes are sometimes hard to
explain harder still to understand.
There is only one way to control
and direct these, and that is by the
farmers organizing.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-18
MISSISSIPPI


Amite county,. r. Galtney, I. P. Street,
H. H. Ratclif, ]. F. Webb, j. L. Wilmington /,
Liberty.
Attalla--A T. Middlebrook, Kosciusko.
Alfalfa and Lefors-Hon ] G Hamilton,
Durant, and j Linder, Emory.
Calhoun. H. Allen, Banner.
Chickasaw-S. L. Wilson, Houston.
Choctaw---W. R Love, Chester.
CIaiborne-T. j. Ably, Hermanville.
Clarke-J. G.. Macarthur, Meridian.
Clay-Robert Hardy, ]. 0. Young, R. II.
Payne, Silaom.
Coahoma-Dr j. A. Peace, Clarksdale.
Copiah-J. F. Sexton, e. B. Conn, Crystal
Springs.
DeSoto-T. A. Dodson, Horn Lake.
franklin. G.. King, Little Spring.
Grena da-B Taylor, Duck Hill.
Hinds-L. E. Afford, Jackson.
Jasper-W. e. Smith and F. M. Moseley,
Montrose.
Jeffe1son-Joe D. S. Davenport, Fayette.
Kemper-J. G. Macarthur, Meridian.
Lafayette DIR. Fl. R. Brennan, Taylor's
Depot.
Laudcrdale--J. G. Macarthur, Meridian.
Lawrence-J. C. McLaurin, Mount Zion.
Lincoln-S. J. Hodges, Summit; DR. ] M
Grafton, d bennett, Brookhaven; Rev e P
Douglas, Wesson.
Leake-W. A. Patton, Oklahoma.
Lowndes-A. P. Leech, Columbus.
Madison-W. B. J. Barnett, Camden.
Montgomery-B. B. Taylor, Duck Hill.
Monroe-S A. M. Saddler, aberdeen,
Robert Gordon, 0kolona
Neshoba-J. G.. Macarthur, Meridian.
INSTRUMENTATION Cooper, Decatur.
Noxubee-H. M. Hunter, Macon.
Oktibbeha-Isaiah Medley, Double SprqSi
Panola-G. F. Scott, Water Valley,
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-18
Texas as an Agricultural state


The productiveness of the soil of
large areas of land in Texas is no
longer a question admitting of dis
pute, and the inducements of the
State to immigrants, not only of
small but of large capital, are being
demonstrated by the labors and
success of a steadily increasing
stream of settlers, attracted here by
the cheapness of land, by the mild
climate, healthful conditions, variety
of pursuits which are open TO enter
prise on almost any scale, and by
social surroundings of which the
immigrants generally are ever ready
to testify in terms of satisfaction
and praise when writing back to
their old homes. Yet still persons
are found from time to time reciting
isolated facts, and making them the
basis of denunciation of Texas; and
their letters find their way into
Northern newspapers which are
not supposed to be especially well
informed about Texas, and which,
therefore, at the best, may be ex
pected to print such matters with
little discrimination. If especially
interested in any Northern land en-
terprises, such papers often base
articles of their own upon few
reckless assertions of a dissatisfied
person who has perhaps not re-
NAMED in Texas long enough to
see single crop made, and the
comments will, in many cases, show
| the interested feeling with which
one sided statements are welcomed.
In the cases where no animus is
visible, but where the illusions of
ignorance and prejudice are simply
received and printed without com
ment, as often occurs in first class
Northern papers, such matter still
has tendency to create prejudice,
| for the writer seldom states the ex-
tent of his experience and what is
his own observation and what hear
say, which he might as we'll have
written without ever being in
Texas, nor does he often show that
he has been successful elsewhere in
a pursuit of which he alleges the
inadequacy of the condition for its
prosecution in Texas. There are
men who come down here with the
idea that any man can farm who
never farmed before. Some of
them know a little less than moth
ing. That is to say, they have no
practical experience, but they have
/ imbibed certain crude views as to
what should be done to raise a crop,
and they would practice on those
views without regard to change
of climate and soil from the place
of their first slight observations.
Consequently, if they begin to farm
they are fortunate if they unlearn
their unwise confidence in their
Town knowledge in year or two.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-18
The Curse of Bank Power.

All history shows this to be the highest
power of sovereignty, which no free peo-
pie can hand over to corporation and re
main free. The men who hold it in their
hands hold the keys of war and peace.
Kings, Presidents, Senates and Courts are
their tools. The workshop, the school,
the press. the altar. the fireside, and even
the grave are no sanctuary against their
rapacity. They rob the unborn child,
they tear the rags from the helpless widow,
and, to satisfy their greed, they snatch the
crust from the furnishing wretch. Panics
are their harvests. 1t is their delight to see
hunger and misery amongst the. people
lean Congress be mad enough to straddle
such a system on our ignorant, trusting
people for all time to come?-Okf0 Star.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-18
DETROIT LUBRI. MFG. CO.,
Office: SO Griswold street,
nOST HOLE AUGER.
Best in the World.
Warranted to gfUe satisfaction, or no sale
NOW RI ADV.

REVERSIBLE Posi- HOLE AUGERs, pat
ented March IS. 1881. Farmers, see this
improvement before purchasing any other
kind of auger. With this Anger man
can bore from $50 to 200 post holes per
day in the hardest dry soil of midsummer.
The only Anger that will successfully op-
crate in every soil Retail price, S.. Lib
eral reduction made to the trade. Sample
Anger shipped to any address on recent
of price. Territory for sale on Royalty.
Price, SIS per 100 Augers.
References Hon. E. n. Hartshorn, AL
lance, O.; Mr.. Edgar Whittleson, Coun-
ty Commissioner. Atwater, O.; Prof. Hi
ram E. Brush, Notary Public, Atwater, o..
Money sent in registered letters at my
risk. Address, ]. H. GOULD,
Atwater, Portage county, Ohio.