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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
To Quench the Thirst.

A great many industries start afresh
| and with great impulse in the spring of
the year. One of these is the business
of preparing cooling beverages for
the summer drinker. The bottling es-
adjustments are in operation the year
through, but in the spring preparations
are made for the summer increase. The
demand for the lighter drinking materi-
al, if not for all, is regulated by the
weather to a great extent. If the sea-
son be hot and dry the people will be in
the same condition. The amount of
sweetened water that is sold under vari-
Gus names is simply enormous.
Soda is water impregnated with car
bonic acid gas. Carbonic acid gas is
made from pulverized marble and
vitriol. The marble is put into re-
ceiver and mixed with the vitriol. The
gas is thus generated, and after passing
through purifiers or through water is
ready to be charged into any kind of
sweetened water. A bottling machine
fills bottle second with the help
of one operator. Over the bottling
table are the reservoirs containing
sirups, connected with the bottling
machine. The carbonic acid gas,
mingled with water, is let in, the sirup
faucet is opened and in the space of a
second bottle of ginger ale. sarsa-
parilla, pop or other mixture is ready
for market.
The discovery of ginger ale gave re-
freshing drink to millions. 1t is sup
posed that more would be sold if the
name ''ale'' was not given to it. As it
is nothing more than water sweetened
with ginger strip ana charged with
carbonic acid gas, it has no very marked
intoxicating or even stimulating quail
ties. 1t is the great summer drink
harmless. pleasant, refreshing and
healthful. The item of bottles is an
important one. The bottles cost
more than the ale. Every bottle
requires washing, of course. every
time it is emptied. For this pur-
pose machine has been invented and
put in operation to take the place of
hand labor. This machine washes sixty
bottles per minute, and does it as well
as the most careful hand. The saving
in labor is great. Besides the city con-
sumption the sea-shore trade will soon
begin again. At the summer resorts
the chief diversion of many is drinking.
Why not? The salt air produces thirst.
l-PrOUidence (R. 1. Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
Only the General Manager.

At q station on one of the railroads
leading out of Detroit the train had ar
rived and departed, the other day,
when the station agent, who had been
in the place about three weeks, and was
looking for q call every hour to come
to Detroit and take charge OF the line.
was approached by quiet, well-dressed
man, smoking cigar, who asked:
keep you pretty busy here?"
"Yum." was the jerky reply.
"Business on the increase"'
"7um," again.
s'Do you run this station?'' asked
the quiet man, after turn on the plat
form.
Nobody else runs it!'' growled the
agent ''Have you got a patent car
coupler?''
"Oh, no."
Il was going to tell you to 60 to thun-
der with it if you had. Want special
freight rates, suppose"'
mo. sir.''
81 don't give any passes.''
81 don't want any"
"Waiting for the next train2''
"Not particularly"
"Want to charter car?'
Ono"
The agent left him on the platform.
and entered his Office and busted himself
for half an hour, when the quiet man
looked in on him and asked:
Whats the salary Of position like
this?''
THAT my business. " was the prompt
reply.
"What's the income from this sta
tion?'
"Ask the baggageman."
"YOur name is -, isn't it?"
"Suppose it is?''
"Oh, nothing much-only I'm the
General Manager of the line, and I'd
like to exchange cards with you.-De-
troI Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
Youths Department.
THE WINGS OF THINGS.

As Molly sat by her mother,
She heard of some curious things;
For one lady said to another:
Yes, money has certainly wings.
Oh, has it?' thought little Molly,
+lnever knew that 6efOre?
And, questioning, looked at her dolly,
VINO calmly sat on the floor.
Then entered breathless caller,
With shawl hanging quite unpinned:
Lest q thunderstorm should befail her,
She had come ION the irin1s of the tctad.
y wonder where she would leave them
Thought Molly, and looked about;
From the window she couldn't perceive
them
They had flown right along, no doubt
Two facts quite rec onciled Molly
To this confusion of things:
She was safely tied to her dolly,
And her mamma had no wings.
st. Nicholas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
VoIcEs OF TIE SEA.

Makeful lay at night and heard
The pulsings of the restless sea;
The morning surges
Sounded like dirges
from some far-back eternity.
Whose spirits from the deep are stirred.
Awaking with the morning light,
Again listened to the sea;
But with its Sur2es
We heard no dirges.
Eut only lifes activity;
Morning dispelled the gloom of night
At noon sauntered forth to view
The throbbing of that living sea,
Still II was surging,
But only urging
All men to be both strong and free
Strong in the soul with conscience true.
AT closing day once more stood,
Gazing across that mighty sea;
Far ships were sailing;
The light was failing;
Time. lost in Immortality.
WaSthe reflection of my mood.
1t is the mind, and not the place.
Our moods, and not a VARYING yOfcoL
That fill with sadness,
Or thrill with gladness,
soul whose one great ruling choice
Reflects in all things its own force.
-Lntslrs Living Age.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30
Fitted to q Chair.

In a fashionably- furnished store, I
didn't at first know what to make of the
actions of a young woman. She was
deliberately gotten up as to clothes, and
had some advantages in the way Of
natural good looks. so that she was
altogether a thing of considerable
beauty. She was in an upholstered
easy chair before a big mirror, and
striking various poses-now lying back
on the soft stuffing. both her arms
spread out negligently; now leaning
against one of the sides, with elbow
supporting her body; now sitting bolt
upright in the middle. All the while
she regarded her reflection in the glass
with a critical air. What do you sup
pose she was at? Why, getting herself
fitted with a chair. She knew how hard
it is to be graceful in some of the chairs
of novel shape, and was bound to have
one that would help instead of hinder
ing her in posing prettily before her
visitors. When a girl sets out to be
fascinator, you understand, she must
use all the devices available for that
purpose. So this creature was neither
lunatic nor fool, though the appear
ances were little against her. / hung
about covertly, and saw that she finally
bought the chair, with the proviso that
the sides should be lowered two inches.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30

The latest theatrical advertising
dodge is for one partner in theater to
get out an injunction against another
have the whole case reported, and then
calmly announce that the matter has
been amicably arranged. This little
game has just been played IN New
York.-N Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30

"a ranger in the Pacheco Noun
tains, San Benito County. California.
who had recently lost several hogs in a
mysterious way, took his gun the other
day and went In search of the maraud-
er. Before returning home he had en-
countered and shot three large Cali.
fornia Chicago Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30

The Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette re-
lates that in removing q large apple
tree, which had stood for many wears
on property known as the James Gale
estate, it was found that it inclosed q
fence post, and that it occupied the ex-
act center of the trunk. When the tree
was cut about it fell over, and the post.
lose in the center. drew out and broke a
foot or more below the cut. The post
is OF chestnut. as near as can be made
out, and must have been inclosed in the
tree perhaps one hundred years.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30

President Hinsdale. of Hiram Col
lege, the old friend OF the late President
Garfield, has been elected Superintend-
ent of the Cleveland public schools.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30

The latest man in Maine is dead.
His name was Joel Barry, ard ha
weighed 400 pounds
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-30


some Italian words; now she takes up
an uncut novel from the table, and reads
a page or two here and there, wherever
the book opens; she walks to an en-
hroidery frame, and takes great deal
Of trouble in selecting and comparing
woods, and threading needles, bpt when
this is accomplished, she does not do
three stitches; then she loiters listlessly
about the room, looking at the pict-
ures, chiefly valuable engravings, which
adorn the pale silver-g::ay walls; but at
last she is so utterly weary, that she
filings herself into deep easy-chair
close to the open window, and
sits idly looking down, across a
lilliputian forest of heliotropes and ge-
raniums. into the hot, sunny street.
She is looking very lovely; but she is
not looking at all happy. The rich
masses of her dark brown hair are
swept away from her broad, low brow,
and secured in coil of superb plaits at
the back of her head; her simple white
morning dress is only ornamented by
large knots of broad violet ribbon, and
she wears no ieweiry whatever, except
tiny, slender gold chain, which she
twists perpetually in and out of her white
fingers.
S he sits for about half an hour. always
looking down across the plants in the
balcony at the pavement opposite, when
she suddenly starts, and wrenches the
thin chain off her fingers in her agitation.
She has seen the person for whom she
has been waiting. A gentleman. who
lounges lazily along the other side OF
the street, crosses the road beneath the
window. and knocks at the door.
sat lastr' she says; ''now. perhaps.
this mystery win be explained.
A servant Announces: "Mr. Mar
grave"
"At lastr' she says again rising, as
he enters the room. 90, MIR. Mar.
grave. have been so anxious to see
your
He looks about on the crowded table
to find, amongst its fashionable litter, g
place for his Eat, fails in doing SO. and
The Iola register., 1882-03-17

o'clock and howled outside till the drive
got up and quieted him. He got t., b
. nuisance, but they couldn't drive hin
away. He thought he was doing hi
duty. The poor beast was run over BY
an engine and killed some time ago."
''Would these dogs 60 up . ladder
when the building was ablaze?
''Of course. Thirty three had q dog
that was famous because he'd follow the
pipe everywhere. Wherever the nozzle
of the hose went that dog went too
ssIs he there now?''
mo; they got rid of him because they
thought he made one of the horses balk
The horse wouldn't take the swinging
harness. He had lived in his harness for
years, and, though he was splendid ami.
| NAL, he would not take to the new ar.
rangeDent. He was transferred way uI
town, where they still use the old style
of harness, and is very highly spoken of.
That company once had trick dog g-one
of the heavily coated ones they have id
shows. One warm day they clipped him
and put on an old Mother Hubbard bon
net around his head. just as they had
him nicely bedecked an alarm of fire
came in, and away they went up Sixth
Avenue, dog and all. The dog looked so
astonishing that the people chased him in
a perfect mob, and it was such process
sion as is seldom seen. Captain, now
Chief, Breslin was running along by the
engine, when the dog tried to run be-
tween his legs. The dog got through all
right, but the Captain didn't. He got q
pretty lively fall, and the dog was relin-
quished after that. The Captain said he
was good dog, stylish dog, and a
handsome dog, but it took too much in
tellect to run him and the department
too"
The ex-Alderman changed to a still
easier position, disposed his legs anew.
and continued:
''It reminds me of a dog Eighteen en-
gine had, which would stand by the front
doors when there was an alarm, and as
soon as the driver yelled Ready that
dog would jump against the doors and
push them open. Never failed. It's
difficult to tell which has the greater in
telligence, dog or horse. Horses-seem
to stick to their habits longer, and they
carry them out with more force. Chief
Breslin was telling me the other day of
an old horse that backed into their house,
No. 33. with a manure wagon. Nobody
knew he was an old fire horse until the
alarm struck, and the old plug started
out and nearly took the whole interior of
the house with him. He demolished the
staircase and made havoc of the wagon,
but he was on time"
"Such horses need attention?''
Il should say so. I'll never forget the
Jersey City milk dealer Who drove over
here one day with an old department.
horse. An engine went along Greenwich
Street, and so did the milk dealer. He
didn't want his horse to 60 to that fire,
but the horse wanted to 60. He went.
The milk was half butter when he got
there, but he drew up behind the engine
on time.-N. Y. Sun.
The Iola register., 1882-03-17
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

1t is little singular that a cranl
cannot be turned in the right direction
I-Nes0ton Republican.
What can make more vocal noise
than boy driving ten cows through 8
town? Why, boy driving two cows,
of course. The more cows, the less
noise.
The Atlanta Constitution notices that
''a pair of black eyes give man sort
of raped expression" The man with
poulticed eyes and face has an expires.
sion still more wrapped.-NeU Orleans
Rcayune.
During dearth of news in a West
ern newspaper Office, the Office cat was
jammed in the job press, and the editor
Immediately set up the following head
lines: dreadful Accident" ''Nine
Lives Lostr'-Bosto,s Commercial Bulle-
tin.
A Galveston school teacher asked q
new boy: IF a carpenter wants to cover
a roof fifteen feet wide by thirty feet
broad with shingles five feet broad by
twelve feet long, how many shingles will
be needed?' The boy took up his hat
and slid for the door. ''Where are you
going?" asked the teacher. ITO find a
carpenter. He ought to know better than
any of we fellers. ."-Hartford Times.
-Fogg has neat way of turning a COM
pliment now and then. Seeing the elder
" Miss Pangley in the street the other
day he tried to avoid her, but did not
succeed. When they met, said Miss Pang-
Inv, sSO 0,o,, nounbfv v,,opl Vo,, MN r<oI
to cut mer' Replied Fogg, blandly. Il
should be cutting pretty figure, wouldn't
Ip'' Miss Pangley tells her friend, Miss
Sagegreen, that Mr.. Fogg is a perfect
gentleman.
Two sides to it.-''There are two
sides to everything" said lecturer, II
repeat it, there are two Sides At
this juncture tired looking little man
stood up in the front seat to say: ''Well,
if you've no objections, will just step
out and see if there are two sides to this
hall. know there is an inside, and if
l find there is an outside you'll know it
by my not coming back. You needn't
be alarmed if shouldn't return.' And
as he walked up the aisle he was followed
by the admiring eyes of the whole audi
ence. Their sympathies were with him,
but they were deficient in moral courage.
Boston Transcript.
Austin Society Notes.-C Colonel Bill
Snooks is looking smiling and happy
His mother-in-law left yesterday. We
were glad to meet Nose Swindlelmeyer,
the handsome drummer. The Sheriff
will also be glad to see him, as he has .
capias against him for not paying his
drummer tax. Bill McSnifter, the tai
ented horse thief, is in town en- route to
Huntsville. He has many friends in
Austin who are disappointed at his not
being hung. Judge T. c. Blowhard, of
Bungtown, is once more in our city. BIS
visit has no political significance. Tho
Grand Jury is in session. just now at
that's what brings him over.
The beautiful Miss Peggy Priggins left
yesterday on the 2:40 train for her home
in Crosby County. The young men no
gret her departure, and especially the
dry goods clerk who let her have credit
10 the amount of seven dollars is uncon-
uolable, as it will be deducted from his
salar1.-.Teras Stsings.
The Iola register., 1882-03-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Compulsory education is being en-
forced IN Mexico.
The Maori Christians in New Zea
land built for themselves six new
churches last year.
Rev. DR.. John Hall, of New York
says there is more positive Christian Life
in New England to-day than ever there
was before.
The first senior class of Colorado
University win be graduated this year
It has six members. The whole number
of students now in attendance is 118.
Benjamin P. Cheney, of Boston,
presented the town of Cheney, in Wash.
ington Territory. with q schoolhouse
and has sent staff of teachers at his
own expense to establish the institution.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spurgeon devoted the
$50. 900 presented to them at the recent
anniversary of their wedding to the en-
dowment of an orphanage for girls.
They had already established one fol
boys.
Announcement is made from En-.
gland of the death, at the age of ninety
seven years, of Rev. S. Oughten, for
many years associated with Baptist mis-
sions in Jamaica during the most mem
orable parts of their history.
1T takes the long-suffering school
committeeman to appreciate the indus
try of school-book makers. When he
goes home to find spelling books on ev-
cry table, readers in mail box and geog-
raphies under the door-mats, he appre-
ciates the enterprise of agents and his
own dread responsibilities.
Out in Paterson, N. j., the other
day, it was so cold in school house that
the only way the teacher could keep
her pupils from freezing was to set them
dancing a Virginia reel, the music for
which was played by one of the pupils
on a piano. After the children were
aglow from the exercise order was called,
when they went through their studies in
comparative comfort.
The pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church in Newark has recently resigned
after a pastorate of thirty-two years.
Although more than 200 years old the
church has had only fourteen pastors,
including Aaron Burr, the father of Col.
Aaron Burr; Abraham Pierson, first
President of Yale College, and Alexan-
der McWhorter, friend and adviser of
Washington's. If the next pastor re-
mains as long as the last, he will stay
there until some time into the next CEN
tury.
The Rev. John w. Butler, of the
City of Mexico, in an article on the prog
ress of evangelical missions in Mexico in
the past ten years, gives the following
table of their present condition Foreign
missionaries and assistants, 81; native
helpers, 209; congregations, 239; men,
bers, 10, 764; probable adherents, $4,000;
Sunday-schools, 103; Sunday-school
scholars, $685.; pay-schools, 70; pay
school scholars, 2,7S2; church edifices,
81; other places of worship, 1872; proba-
BILE value of church property, 1920, ,61O;
presses employed, -; religious period
icals published, IL; their united circula-
ton, 1850; pages of religious literature
issued in 1881, 6,071,9O0. Ten years
ago there were 125 congregations, II
churches, 80 halls of worship, % free day
schools, and % night schools.
The Iola register., 1882-03-17
ThOrOughness.

Worcester's definition of thorough"
is "perfect, total, complete, entire,
finished, full" ThorOughness, then, has
the qualities indicated by each and all
these adjectives.
The effort of many men and of many
women is to reap the results that are won
only by ''fidelity over the few things" /"
and reap them with the least fidelity and
toll possible-reap them at half price.
Hence we have very few first-class work.
men in any field of labor. And hence
the few first-class workmen we do have
command, in whatever field they may be
found, high position and large remuner-
alton.
1t is related of 's Billy Gray, one of
Boston's merchant princes sixty years
ago, that on one occasion, when reprov-
ing an employe who had known him in
early life, the latter, rather impudently,
reminded Mr.. Gray of former days, when
the now millionaire was employed to
beat a drum EYES," said Mr.. Gray,
e" but didn't beat it soell7'' In that re-
ply was contained the secret that had
lifted the drummer-boy to the Senate of
his State. and had made him the largest
shipping merchant of his time. What
ever he did. if it we're only to beat drum,
he did it " well," MoroMghly.
The foundations of thoroughness in any
sphere of activity, are clear comprehen-
sion of the requirements involved, ca
paeity to meet those requirements and q
consciousness that will not allow any re-
missness. any sighting, any neglect.
The gods see everywhere
That man who has the Ideally to grasp
the possibilities opened to him by his pro-
fession, occupation, trade, who has the
ability patiently to labor toward the reali-
zation of those possibilities, and the con-
scientiOusness that will not permit him
to slight any part of his work, cannot
fail Of attaining high position in his class.
Comparatively few comprehend the
heights that may be attained in the quail
ity of their work, in its extent, in its in
quence, and of those who do comprehend
this, comparatively few have the courage
or the patience to attempt the possible,
and still fewer are conscientious and
thorough in the work which they do per-
form.
In every department of human indus
try ''there is plenty of room at the top"
There is always room for first-class states
men, first-class lawyers, first-class
preachers, writers, physicians, farmers,
engineers, brakemen, stenographers,
stonemasons, seamstresses, housemaids,
laundresses, street-cleaners, boot-blacks.
The man who honors his work by doing
it well, and has that within him which
will not permit him to do it slightingly,
is sure of employment and equally sure
of promotion. There is no vocation so
humble that it may not be lifted into
honor by conscientious fidelity in the dis
charge of its duties, and no vocation that
may not be made a stepping stone to
something higher.
We have great many skilled work
men in all departments. but what is
needed equally with skill is the moral
quality which win keep the skill always
applied whea .s6I where needed, the
self-regulating power which compels
fidelity to trusts when infidelity to them
might be known to none save the All
Seeing One.-N Y. Tribune.
The Iola register., 1882-03-17

so fortunate as to gain the victory, he
was crowned King, and reigned over
Mexico for years afterward. wise and
good ruler.-SorGh G. Very, IN 81.
Nicholas.
The Iola register., 1882-03-17

Frank Armstrong. who committed
suicide recently in San Francisco, was
prosecuted to his death. He once served
q brief term in the Oregon penitentiary
for stealing an overcoat while drunk.
Being afterward restored to honest en-
ployment in Portland, every ex-convict
who knew him blackmailed him in sums
ranging from fifty cents to S10,, and kept
him in constant fear of losing his place.
He could stand the persistent calls for
money no longer, and two weeks ago got
on a spree and then resigned, going to San
Francisco. The note saying: :. Will you
forgive and forget now?'' in all probabil-
ity is intended for those who blackmailed
him.
The Iola register., 1882-03-17

When we consider that seven hun
dred and fifty umbrellas were left in the
New York Elevated Railway cars last
year we begin to appreciate the extent
OF human forgetfulness. ST. LosceU Journal
The Iola register., 1882-03-17
" How MANY lenses are there

=" How many lenses are there ?"
asked a teacher Of boy. "Seven," an.
swered the boy; "the present, the per-
feet. the imperfect, the plu-perfect, tho
first future, the second future and Oscar
Wilde.'' "Why," asked she, .what
tense is he?' 90" replied the boy,
I" "he's intenser' Judge.