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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-03
The Signal Service.
WASHINGTON, October q.

WASHINGTON, October21.
Tho Chief Signal Oficer of the Army, in his
report, says eleven new stations have been
added, and special reports are made for the
cotton and tObaccO-growing regions of the
country, and the means for giving warnings
to cattle-raisers of Texas against the approach
of ''northers" have been improved. Expert
ments have been made with a view of increas-
ing the value of the farmers bulletin by the
addition of a weather chart of the United
States, and it is believed that in a short time
these charts may be successfully reproduced
on the farmers bulletin. With each year the
popular knowledge of the uses of this bulletin
enables those interested in agriculture to judge
of the correctness of forecasts, and with the
addition of the proposed weather-map individ-
uals will be able to make correct predictions
of the weather for localities which it is
impossible to provide for in the brief sentence
which expresses the prevailing weather indi.
cations anticipated for an entire district. 1t is
contemplated, as the work of the office pro-
crosses, to add to this bulletin brief instruc.
tons for the use of instruments which may
hereafter be furnished for local observers.
The railway bulletin service has proven of
great value the past year. The system of frost
warnings for the benefit of the sugar interests
in Louisiana has been continued During the
couiitg year IL Is propoSeu W telegrdpu IFOSi
warnings direct from the Sigma Office to all
telegraph offices in the sugar-gI owing sections.
1t is proposed the coming fall to establish
a system of frost warnings for the
benefit of the tobaccogrowing interests
of the country, also similar service for the
benefit of the grunge growers of Florida. A
system of reports for the benefit of the cotton
interests has been thoroughly organized and
successfully operated since September, 1881. Al
the solicitation of those interested in the cusi
vation of wheat and other grains in the North
west it ia contemplated to establish service
similar TO that now in operation for the benefit
of the cotton interests, which will enable this
Office to publish in the journals of the North
west the daily rainfall and temperature, as de.
termined from Il large number of stations
The cost to the Government of the men who
do the signal-service work is less than Sl5000
q year. The cost of salaries alone for the same
number of civilian clerks would amount &c
more than $4,000.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-03
The Eyesight Of Readers.

Awriter calls attention to the danger
which readers run of injuring their eve
sight by the use of bad light He re-
marks. that engCwers, watchmakers and
all others who use the eyes constantly in
their work take extra care to preserve
them by getting the best possible light
by day, and using the best artificial light
at night. The great army of readers are
careless, and have, sooner or later,
to pay the penalty of their carelessness
by giving up night work entirely, and
sometimes reading, except at short in
tervals, and under the best conditions.
All departures from common type, max
ing the matter more difficult for the eyes
to take in, increase the danger. The
magnitude of the physical labor of read
ing is not appreciated. A book of five
hundred pages, forty lines to the page,
and fifty letters to the line, contains one
million letters, all of which the eye has
to take in, identify and combine each
with its neighbor. Yet many a reader
will go through such book in day.
The task is one he would shrink from if
he should stop to measure it beforehand
-E1change.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-03
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


Matt Morgan has, organized a life
lass for art study in Cincinnati, giving
his services as tutor gratuitously.
The Nickel Church, to be built at
Palestine, Texas, is to be paid for by
not less than 100000 persons contribu-
ing nickelapieee.
MIR. Freeman A. Smith, who has
been for nearly thirty years treasurer OF
:he American Baptist Missionary Union,
IS constrained by i'll health to resign his
position.-Baptist Weekly.
THE sound of Christian bell, it is
remarked in the Missionary Her aid,
s.seems to be peculiarly offensive to a
Moslem. But these bells are yet to ring
all over Turkey"
Contrasts: The Conservatory OF
Music at Milan, Italy, last year had two
hundred and seventeen pupils. The
New England Conservatory in Boston
during its last winter term had nine hun
dred and seventy pupils.-Christian
Union.
The church a. Newton, N. H.. was
formed in 1855, and is the oldest Baptist
church in the State. After having been
without regular pastor more than
seventeen years, it has called Rev. ID. l..
Crafts to the pastoral relation, and he has
accepted the call.-Baptist Weekly.
General Emil Frey, the new Swiss
Minister in Washington, recently, in
company with Mr.. John Hitz, visited the
Wallack school building in that city.
Upon leaving he expressed himself much
pleased with the American system of
teaching and building and arranging
schools.-N.. Y. Post.
The London Times, commenting on
" the progress of religious liberty in the
United Kingdom" says that mo courage
is now required to profess tolerance to-
ward differing creeds a, I doctrines.
Rather the praise of singularity has to be
earned by open adhesion to rigidity and
positiveness of belief which was the COM
mon mark formerly of all but sectarian
minority"
DR.. David Gordon Lyon has been
appointed to the Hollis PrOfessorship of
Divinity in Harvard College. The chair
has been vacant for many years owing TO
an insufliciency of funds. DIR. Lyon is
thirty years old, a native of Alabama,
a.d graduate of Harvard College.
The chair he accepts is the Oldest in this
country, and was founded by Thomas
Hollis, London Baptist layman, in
172l.-N. Y. Herald.
Recently three hundred Brahman
ladies. representing the most influential
families in Peru and its neighborhood,
held 4 meeting for the purpose of pre-
senting petition to the education COM
mission on the subject of the difficulties
in the way of female education in India.
The meeting was eloquently addressed
by the Mahratta lady Rahabbal Sans
krita, who stated that ninety-nine out of
one hundred educated men in India are
opposed to female education. The mu-
nicipality Of Poona have since offered to
become responsible for girls as well as
boys schools.
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THANKSGIVING.
Thursday, November 3Oth.

WASHINGTON, October %.
The following Thanksgiving proclamation
has been issued:
by the President of the United States of
America, a proclamatIOn:
"In conformity with custom the annual
observance of which is justly held in honor by
this people, j, Chester A. Arthur, President of
the United States, do hereby set apart THURS
DAY, THE BOTH DAY OF NOVEMBER NEXT, as a
day of Public Thanksgiving. The blessings
demanding our gratitude are numerous and
varied: For the peace and amity which sub
sist between this Republic and all nations Of
the world; freedom from internal discord
ana violence; for increasing friendship be-
tween different sections of a land of liberty,
justice, and constitutional government; for
the devotion of the people to our free institu-
tons and their cheerful obedience to mild
laws; for the constantly increasing strength
of the Republic, while extending its privileges
to the fellow-men who come to us; for I'M
proved means of internal communication an
increased facilities of intercourse with other
nations: for the general prevailing health of
the year; for the prosperity of all our indus
tries, a liberal return for the mechanics toll.
affording market for the abundant harvests
of the husbandmen; for the preservation of
the National faith and credit; for a wise and
generous provision to effect the intellectual
and moral education of our youth; for the in
fluence upon the conscience of a restraining
AMI transforming religion; and for the joys of
home. For these, and for many other bless
ings, we should give thanks.
Wherefore l do recommend that the day
above designated be observed throughout tho
country as a day of National Thanksgiving
and Prayer. and that the people, ceasing from
their daily labors, and meeting in accordance
with their several forms of worship, draw near
to the Throne of Almighty God, offering to
Him praise and gratitude for the manifold good
which He has vouchsafed to us, and praying
that His blessings and mercies may continue.
And I do further recommend that the day
thus a. pointed may be made a special occa-
sion for deeds of kindness and charity to the
suffering and needy, so that all who dwell
within the land may rejoice and be glad in
this season of National Thanksgiving.
witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
TO be affixed
Done al the City of Washington this 25th
day of October, in the year of our Lord 1882,
and of the Independence of the United States
the I0.th. CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
by the President:
FREDERICK T. FRELINGHUYSEN,
Secretary of State"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-03
Terrible Railroad Accident in Massa.
chuSetts.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass, October

NORTH ADAMS, Mass, October 81.
A terrible accident to a caboose of working
men. belonging t. the North Adams freight
yard, occurred this morning, in which thirty
men were injured several fatally. About6:3(
this morning Engineer Charles Wells and Fire
man James Bostly left the North Adams depot
on the engine Deerfield on the State Road
pushing cabGose loaded with thirty men go
ing to wo.k ut different places near Zcar and
Charlemont. The party in the car included 9
section-gang John Flynn, foreman; gang of
miners, John C. Madden, foreman; stone
crushers, Peter Barry, foreman; tracklayers
Thomas Quinn. foreman; and carpenters
j. j. Peckham, foreman. The engine
and caboose started for the tunnel. and had
gone about half the way there when the ca
bose, which was in front, collided with o
Troy & Boston engine. The caboose was
raised from its tracks and carried to the COW.
catcher of the engine Deerfield. The front of
the engine was smashed in. Steam and hot
water flew into the caboose. The men not
hurt in the collision were burned badly, and
but few escaped without injury. None would
have been seriously hurt but for the explosion
of the engine Deerfields boiler.
LATER.
It is now certain that eight men injured in
the accident will not live. The doctors have
nearly completed their examination of the i'm
jured men, and find thirty-three injured, all
scalded, many with cuts, bruises and broken
bones.
The explosion of the engine was caused by
the drawbar of the caboose bursting in the
plate of the cylinder of the engine Deerfield.
The steam blew open the door Of the caboose
and filed the car in which there were thirty-fve
men crowded close together. Many were I'm.
able to reach the doors, and in the stampede
many bones were broken. The boiling water
and steam saturated the mems clothes in
moment and the men were fearfully burned.
All the injured were carried to their houses.
All day the doctors offices were crowded with
anxious friends, beseeching them to first at
tend their injured.
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Georgia Hospitality.

As I got beyond Rossyille, in riding
ont to the battlefield of Chickamauga,
it began to rain, and the way the
thunder roarei, lightning flashed and
the flood gates opened was appal-
ing. A farmer just over the Georgia
line beckoned me in out of the wet,
and there | stuck from one O'Clock until
dark. 1t was a steady storm, without
break for minute, aud as there were no
signs of its clearing mp before midaight
the man said had better stay all night.
1t looked that wav TO me, too. but it was
lOg house with only one room, and only
two beds for the twelve of us. There
were six children, some half-grown. the
farmer and his wife, an old woman, 4
sOn-in-law, young woman and myself.
1t looked us if some of us would have to
stand up to sleep. and along about nine
o'clock began to get nervous. Perhaps
the man noticed it, for soon after that
hour he said:
Stranger, We'll step out and look at
the weather."
We went to the barn, and after look
at the horse returned and found all the
women i'll one bed and the light out.
.Shake off and jump into t other bed"
whispered the man, and followed d.
rections. / was no sooner in than he
followed. Then came the young man,
then the old one, and then three boys
lay across our feet, the upper one rest
ing across my knees. 1t was impossible
to move or turn, but in ten minutes all
were snoring away as if that was their
usual way of going to bed. | heard the
old clock strike eleven, twelve, one and
two, and was finally doing off when
some one opened the door, walked in
and began to undress. The noise aroused
the farmer, who carefully called out:
Who's that?'
"Mer'
Who's me?''
Jim Baker,"
go. Jim. Ell! Want to stay all night?''
Il reckon"
swell, strip off and pile in between the
fust two on the front-there's only four
of lying n'thwisen'
Jim piled in without another word be-
ing said and was soon asleep, and as I
was sliding silently out to finish the night
on the floor, the farmer sleepily queried:
That you, Tom? Pull off yer butes
and slip in here-lots of room left ye.r'
Detroit Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-03
The Indians.
WAeHrroroN. Oc,

WAeHIH0roN, October n
Commissioner Price, of the Indian Bureau.
has transmitted to the Secretary of the Interi-
Or his report for the fiscal year ended June 40
1879. The Commissioner says: "Land has
been opened to cultivation, houses for Indian
residences built, schools opened and operated,
and in many cases and in various ways the
cause Of civilization generally advanced. The
difficulty OF procuring agents of the ngh1
stamp is regarded as one of the most i'm
portant causes which operate to retard The
Improvement of the Indians"
The cooperation of the religious societies Is
regarded by the Commissioner as a very import
ant auxiliary in the civilization of the Indians,
and he points to the benefits derived from
their work during the past few years. The
present appropriations are regarded as entire
ly too small to compass ends to be obtained
within q reasonable time. The Commissioner
says: If $1,000, coo for educational purposes
given now will save several millions in future,
1t is wise economy to give that million at once,
and not dole 1t out in small sums that do little
good" The evils of cash annuities are
commented upon and an instance given
where, after a cash payment to the
Utes, 5000 were spent for firearms, ammu-
milton and whisky in Salt Lake City, and in
short time nine-tenths of the payment went in
the same direction. The funds appropriated
by Congress in the regular augmentation bill
for the s,rpport of the Indians nroved entirely
insufficient. mainly owing to the high price of
beef and fIour. The total number of Indians
In the United States. exclusive of Alaska. IA
2ie,3G6.
The Commissioner comments I'm severe
terms upon the iniouty of the liouor traffic
among the Indians and o,,otes many instances
of trouble arising from II. He recommends
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-03
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

This seasons vests will furnish
patches for next years trousers, Sweet
are the uses of diversity.-N Y. Com
nlerciaL AdUertiSer.
"A gentleman had his picture taken
recently; cost him $500 and still he is not
happy. A fellow took it out of the hall
when the latch was up.-BOSton Com
n,ercial Bulletin.
lin what condition was the patri-
arch Job at the end of his life?" asked a
Sunday-school teacher of a quiet-looking
boy at the foot of the class. Dead"
calmly replied the quiet-looking boy.
When Troy man disappears mys-
teriously, his wife sends round among
The neighbors to find out whose wife is
unaccounted for. A woman has curl
osity about such matters. Post.
"A domestic is being sent away.
Madame, if you wish to look al my
trunk" 1T is useless, girl" MA
dame, insist. Six months ago you lost
ten francs. | know you suspect me of
having found it, and / wish you to see
that do not carry it away in my trunk!'
French Paper.
A preacher was exhorting his unbe-
levers, and his text was The Flood. -
As he waxed eloquent, he said: 'And
Noah warned the wicked that they might
repent, but they needed him not; and the
floods came and drowned them all. and
what doyou suppose they thought then?"
Chicago Times.
-.Mamma," asked little Edith, - .'be
ali grown folks hateful?'' ..Why,
Edith?" replied her mother, ..What put
that idea in your head?'' Nothing,
mamma, only l know everybody who
comes here is hateful, cause I've always
heard you say so after they went away
Boston transcript.
We never have had the experience, but
we should think it would roll an editor
fearfullv after he had worked the most
of the day, getting up an editorial de-
claiming that a man is better of for
being married, to go home and be jawed
all the evening because he forgot to bring
two dozen clothespins, or some such
thing. -SomerUiUe Journal.
A Connecticut optician has invented
spectacles that he claims twill enable
any one to read small type under water"
We cannot believe that short-sighted
man would care to stay under water
longer than the time it would take him
to read column of nonpareil market re-
ports. So we fear the invention is lack
ing in practical utility.-Tezas Sittings.
She was Chicago girl, and was tell
ing New York drummer what time
she had in taking care of her class in
Sunday school, when he sympathizingly
said: :" Why, you must have had an
elephant ON your hands" She gazed at
her dainty digits for an instant, then
quickly said: 80, no; that spot looks
like an elephant, but it's only MOLE"
N. Y. Commercial advertiser.
-. No, Samuel" calmly replied Mrs.
Bartlett, in answer to his furious and
sarcastic questions, "no. 1t isn't because
there is no grey cloth in Burlington that
1 patched your summer trousers with
seal-brown basket cloth, but I'm going
to break you of your loaferish habit OF
going in your shirt-sleeves during bust
ness hours, or I'll make you the laugh
inc stock of the town." And when Mrs.
Liyermore makes up her list of super
fiuous women" she leaves Mrs. Bartlett
out, every time.-Burlington HACK Eye.
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THE EAST.

The viii of Mrs. Caroline Fillmore, the widow
of ex-President Fillmore, will be contested by
her BROOKLYN cousins. 1t is estimated the
property viii inventory at about sl25, 900.
Seven steamships from European ports
landed 4, 4S4 emigrants at New York on the
23d.
The Biddeford (Maine,) striking shoema-
aers returned to work at old prices.
Capt. William A. Parker of the U. S. Navy,
died recently in Boston at an advanced age.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes has resigned the
Parkman Professorship Of Anatomy in the
Medical School of Harvard University, which
Office he has held for thirty-five years.
In New York the Grand Jury found indict-
ments against W. d. C. Rowson, telegraph
operator, and Gee. E. Road, the conductor of
the New Haven train, charging them with the
responsibility for the late Harlem tunnel dis
aster.
An explosion of fireworks in the park at
Philadelphia at the William Penn Anniversary
celebration resulted in the death of eight
persons, and large number wounded, six Of
whom it was thought would die. The killed
were Mrs. Mary Ann Coakley, aged thirty;
John Coming, aged seventy-fve; Isabella
Scudder, (colored) aged twenty-nine; Howard
scudder, aged three; Ulysses Thompson,
Icolored) aged nineteen; Dorothia L. Modier,
Aged seven. William Summers, aged thirteen,
died from heart disease.
VIM. Y. Brown, assistant book-keeper of the
Poughkeepsic On. " National Bank, who
pleaded guilty to making false entries in the
books and defrauding the institution of many
fhorsands of do1lore hos baap eoptao,ad 80
five years imprisonment.
]. c. Tiffany, formerly Indian agent in
Arizona, was arrested in New York, charged
with conspiracy to defraud the Government
of upwards of $1,000, embezzlement and
perjury. Tiffany says he resigned his position
last July and has been engaged in the steel
business in that city since April last. He said
he had heard of five indictments, but did not
think they would ever be presented, as it would
not do for him to tell of some things that he
knew. Ee was admitted to bail
Rowell, who preriszs 70 starting, offered to
bet SO 900 that he would win the pedestrian
race in New York, broke down and was with
drawn after making 81 miles.
Avis Regar, hotel-keeper of Buffalo, n.
T., with his wife and family, were poisoned by
pancakes. One child is dead and the father
and mother In precarious condition.
Richard B. Cornell, indicted for embezzling
upwards of $4,000 from the Fourth National
Bank of New York, has jumped his bail and
fed to Europe.
A FIRE at East Brady, Pa, recently, destroyed
q large part of the business portion of the
town; loss $4,000
Frank A. Crawl, Assistant Postmaster at
Wellsbcro, Pa, has been arrested for rifing
registered letters. There have been very heavy
losses in registered mail in transit through
that Office.
Fire caused BY spontaneous combustion de-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-11-03
Good Little Boy.

Two little Austin school boys got into
a quarrel, and one of them said to the
other:
"If it wasn't for your ma being such a
good woman, I'd tear your shirt all to
pieces"
"You tear my shirt, if you dare"
81 amt going to tear it, because your
ma would have to mend it, and i don't
want to put her to any trouble, because
she gave me two cakes the other day"
As with some grown up people, the
way to child's heart lies through his
stomach. SittiDgs.
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THE SOUTH.

At the late election OF the first branch of
the Council, in Baltimore, the Democrats
elected their candidates in seventeen wards,
and the Republicans in three gain Of three
Republicans, the last Council being composed
entirely of Democrats.
The eighth annual Congress Of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church of the United States
assembled lately at Richmond, Va. Rev. j..
N. Gallaher, D. D., Bishop of Louisville, de-
lvered an address giving succinct review of
the object and scope of the Church Congress.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
lately in session at Louisville, Ky., elected the
following officers: Second Grand Engineer,
F. Payette, division SO, Point st. Charles,
Quebec; Second Assistant, H. E. Mills, Clinton,
Iowa, division lbs; Third Assistant, c. B.
Clifford, Louisville, division as.
It is reported that an epidemic of typhoid
malarial fever is prevailing among the hands
on the construction of the Memphis extension
of the Kansas City, New Orleans and Gulf
Railroad, in Howell County, NO., some twenty
miles Feast of Springfield. One hundred and
fifty hands are said to be down with the fever.
A shock of earthquake was felt recently at
Paris, Texas. The shock was felt plainly by
I'll in their houses. Clocks, ETC., were shaken
from the walls.
Thomas Nugent was killed and Joseph
Tickner probably fatally wounded by the fall
ing of scaffold while painting church spire
in Baltimore.
Mrs. Francis Elizabeth Brown died at Dali
las, Texas, recently, in her SD year. Mrs.
Brown was a well known poetical writer, hav-
ing published several volumes of poems. She
was woman, polished and educated, and was
a lifelong friend and correspondent of Long
fellow and Whittier, and a contributor to
many of the leading periodicals.
A great portion of Hopkinsvilie, KY, was
recently destroyed by an incendiary fire, in
Guiding one bank, the post-office, opera house,
one church, two newspaper Offices and many
business houses. Four blocks were destroyed.
Loss on buildings s7oO, 900, and on stock $780,