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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-29
The Llama.

Travel IN the Andes is peculiarly 70.
mantle and difficult. There are few, il
any, easy passes from the western to
the eastern slopes. Wild, rugged deiiles
and steep. dangerous llama paths. wind.
ing along the treacherous Drinks of
frightful precipices, are the only high
ways. In such a region the llama is al
most as indispensable to transportation
as its congener, the camel, is to the
tribes OF the great deserts of Africa and
Asia; and it is still, as in the DAYS of In
cas-, the chief reliance of the Peruvians
and their southern neighbors for burden
bearing. Like the latter, this hardy ami
NAL thrives best in barren places, where
other beasts OF burden, unaided by tillage,
could not maintain themselves. Like
the camel it is capable of going long
periods without food or water. Oppo.
sitely, as the feet of the one are peculi.
arly adapted for desert travel, so are the
feet of the other for rough mountain
routes. As the one thrives best in low,
level, heated regions or upon arid
plateaux, so the other is native of high
mountain districts. 5000 to 10000 feet
above the sea, where it multiplies most
rapidly and attains its largest size. 1t is
a notable fact that the llama prefers the
bare, bleak eastern slope of the
Andes to the forest-clad western
slopes facing the Pacific. Naturalists
divide the family of the camelide into
these two genera, camels and llamas,
and the latter are subdivided into four
species; the guanaco. the largest sized
and most widely distributed species (be-
ing found in all ATTITUDES from ten de-
grees north of the equator southwark to
northern Patagonia) the llama proper,
the next in size; the alpaca, whose wool
forms one of the chief articles of home
consumption and foreign export, and the
vicunna. the smallest species, inhabiting
only the highest regions, at attitudes
ranging from 10000 to Ii, ZOO.
The llama is about the size of an or
binary American deer. 1t is capable of
carrying from 110to $50 pounds over the
toughest mountain rocks, for DAYS in
succession. Although its wool is not so |
fine as that of the rare and diminutiye |
vicunna, it is so abundant that it ranks |
next in importance to the wool-clip OF
the alpaca species. The meat of these |
especially that of the males, is
coarse and unpalatable. except when
young, yet it constitutes a staple of the
home market.
Its chief habitat is Peru and Northern
Bolivia; and these countries raise large
numbers of them, Bolivia alone is said
70 contain over 100000 llmas, taking
INTO account all of the several species,
Ind Peru contains nearly double that
nany.-PeopLe's Worker.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-29
Fences and Country Highways.

Said the United States Consul at Zu-
rich: "Were the millions and millions
OF dollars now wasted in fences in the
United States to be expended i'm build
ing good roads, not only present profit
would accure to cattle holders. but
future generations would call us blessed.
In the West, it is safe to say, land would
raise in value 100 per cent. in a single
decade"
Experience has demonstrated again
and again that building fences to Keep
animals out is always expensive, and
usually foolishly extravagant; that cattle,
sheep and swine can be more economi-
cally and pro6tably kept under what is
known as the soiling system than by
permitting them to run in pastures
which must be fenced at enormous cost.
American farmers cannot be Justly
called conservative when compared with
the farmers of other lands; but they
certainly seem to have given little study
to the subject of fences and highways.
or at least to have failed to appreciate
the benefits which would certainly fol-
low the construction of good, hard.
well-drained highways, over which
heavy loads might at any season be
hauled with comparative ease.
Barbed wire fences are declared to be
the cheapest, most effective, and lasting
of fences; but they cost from seventy
five cents to one dollar per rod At
the latter price the fences on both
sides of the highway would cost S540
per mile-a sum which, supplemented
y <ba TO
year, would do much toward making
and keeping in good condition
very fair graveled road. Scarcely
week would pass at any season of the
year when farmer would not receive a
direct and most noticeable benefit from
having such highway connecting his
farm with the markets, and every day
would bring him some good through the
freedom he would have from the many
losses and annoyances which come from
the fence-rOw.
Vendors of patent fence-wire claim
that their fences will last more than
twenty years under ordinary circua-
stances. Freedom from noxious weeds
and from vermin which find congenial
refuge and breeding ground in fence
rows would last forever if the better
plan was generally followed; and the
graveled road, with proper care, grows
better and more useful year by year.
The value of the lands near such high
way would be greatly enhanced by the
demand which would come for farms
so fortunately situated. until, as Consul i
Byers wrote, land would raise hundred
per cent. in single decade. Chicago
Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-29
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

OF London's population of fou,
mi lions, one million are not recognized
members of any Christian denomina.
zion.
The salaries offered the new Pro.
lessons of the University of Texas range
from $1,000 Ito the occupant OF two
chairs) down to 50,
Natives of Madagascar have given
Sl.000.0o0 in the last ten years to
spread the gospel. The advance OF
Christianity in that island is one of the
most remarkable achievements in the
history of missions.
AN English essayist writes: "Mr.
Moodys eyangelistic campaign will not
De forgotten while Scotland stands"
de regards Mr.. Moody's work in that
country as one of thegreatest events in
The history of Christianity.
The eighty young men for whom
The Br. fish WESLEYAN Conference could
find no room have all been employed as
svangelists. in various parts of the con-
nection, under the direction of the
President of the Conference.
Rev. John Rankin, of Ironton, O.,
Is said to be the oldest living clergyman
of the Presbyterian denomination in
the United States. He is ninety years
of age, and began preaching in 1916.
He organized an Abolition Society in
Kentucky in 1917.
The school directors of Liverpool
propose to substitute some standard
novel now and then for the stupid read.
ing books ordinarily in use. They will
begin with Scott. Publishers of patent
school books do not appear to be getting
their work in with school boards over
there.
All the signs of reli ,ious movement
IN Germany 60 to show that that coun-
try is being fast prepared for genuine
evangelical awakening. Not only are
evangelists springing up over that
country to carry on the work already
begun, but the cry for more of such
workers is becoming more Emporium
ate.
Michael Davitt's assertion that
Archbishop Hughes once said: "A man
threatened with hunger would be justi-
fed in Selling bread from the altar" is
denied by the Freeman's Journal. The
Archbishop. according TO this author ty.
-'was too inten,e ely Catholic in his own |
pure personal life ever to have uttered |
so sacr.legious sentence"
The Yale catalogue for 1928 |
shows total of 1,096 students in the
various departments, an increase of
four over the last catalogue. They are
divided as follows: Theology. LOG;
medicine. 30; law, 75; graduate. Al;
undergraduate academical, els: Shelf.
field Scientific school, 206; fine arts,
40. This makes a total of Liz, from
which % names are to be deducted for
double insertion.
The report of the Tripoli station,
Syria, presents re:rospectof ten years.
which shows that nine schools in seven
towns have increased to 30 schools in "a
towns, 81 schools being of high grade;
3lS pupils have increased to 1.142; 80
girls are now represented by PIG; Sum
day-school attendance has risen from 15S
to 745. Against Is native employees
there are now 46.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-29
Pioneer Women.

Sometimes a pioneer settlement in
the far West owes its origin to an acct.
dent Thieving Indians may have left
the emigrant without horse or an OK
to drag the heavy wagon that is laden
with all his worldly goods. He and his
wife. adapting themselves to circum.
stances, may then have felled the near.
est trees, hauled the logs and raised the
first cabin. Then other emigrants came
along. A broken axle causes delay
long enough for them to become inter.
ested in the locality, and other log huts
were raised.
One of these pioneer settlements
which began in a breakdown, was Wis
tied once by an English sportsman
seeking game. 1t was a collection OF
eight or nine huts. Ne men were away
attending to a distant cattle drive
Subsequent. to their departure. rumors
of an Indian outbreak had reached the
women, and they had retired to a cellar
fort, come ted by subter anean pas.
sage with the largest log cabin.
Riding few miles ahead OF his CON-
panionS. the Englishman reached the
cabins some hours be ore they arrived.
Long exposure in the mountains had
made havoc with his clothes. and his
hands were red with the blood of
mountain sheep, whose skin and QUIZ.
tiers rested on. his saddle.
Not knowing of the Indian news, he
was unprepared for the shrill "Haltr'
which stopped him a few yards from
the fence surrounding the first cab n.
Looking, he saw ri e resting on the
hor IF hA
boy of eleven or twelve years of age
Say. stranger. what are you. any
how? Be Won redskin, half-breed. OF
a white MANI" shouted the boy-sentry.
a laughing answer caused the gun to
be lowered 81 am the boss of this yer
camp" said the boy, answering the
maas question. go into the hou-e
where mann oughter fought to be- cook.
ing dinner"
Entering the cabin. he found WON.
an busy about the stove, against which I
leaned a Winchester rife. Her waist
was girded by a weli-fl!ed cartridge |
belt, to which was attached long six.
After dinner, the guest made the tour
of the cab ms under the GU dance of the
boy, whose place as sentinel was taken |
by a neighbours daughter
The cellar fort was twelve feet
s Iua7e and seven high. Where the
walls joined the earthwork roof there
were loopheles.
The mar ow passage connecting the
cellar with the log cabin was only -four
feet high. and sloped upwards. 1t was
so arranged that it could be filed with
earth at moments notice. A heavy
pile of earth. which covered the rafter
roof, made it impossible for the Indians
to fire the structure.
The English outfit" as the English
mans party was called. soon arrived
and camped near the cabins until the
men of the settlement returned. They
we're grateful, but to the Englishman
he incident was one of many illustra-
ions which showed the self-help and
OF the pioneer women,
md the readiness with which they
adapted themselves to their surround
YOUTHS Companion
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-29

peranuation bill, an honorable gentle
man opposed the measure on the ground
thatit was opening the door for the in
sertion OF the thin edge of the wedge"
q preliminary process which should at
least tend to make the work of the
wedge easy. 1t was the same member
who paid . compliment to the chambers
OF commercs as ''the intelligent pioneers
who feel the pulse of the commercial
community" Here we have wildly
summoned before the minds eve q pict-
ure OF man-probably in the uniform
of the guides. certainly with q piokaxe
on his Misunderstanding about on Change
feeling the pulses of the merchants and
brokers. On the fifth night of the de-
bate on the address in the current session
Sir Patrick o. Brien in a luminous speech
declared that the suspension Of the ha-
beas corpus act would merely leave the
rotting sword fostering in the wound.
Politics, like all engagements that heat
the blood, leads largely to indulgence in
metaphor. During the general election
Sir John Hardy, addressing the East
StaffOrdshire electors, assured them that
If they sent him to Parliament, sit would
be pledge against the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of the Empire" This was not nearly 90
good as the elaborate and deliberate
metaphor with which Mr.. Thwaites, one
OF the Conservative candidates for Black
burn, sought to recommend himself to
the electors. He was speaking of the
condition of the National finances, at that
time in the hands of Sir Stafford North
cote. "Unfortunately." he said, '.the
Government is on the wrong side of the
book; but. however, you have had pru-
dent Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
he has done his best. He has done what
l would like you, my friends, to do.
When you have laid an egg, put it by for
rainy day." Why electors of Black
burn should be expected to lay eggs is a
question that disappears before the
greaterimportance of the query why they
should save them for a rainy day!
In different way, but quite in tho
same spirit, is this sentence from a recent
article by the Rev. MIR. Hawels on an
American poet: Sublime singleness of
purpose! divine simplicity of heart-the
little child is again set in the midst of US
by the dear Lord, and presently he over
comes the mailed Goliath with sling
and stone" This does not mean any
thing in particular; but surely such mix
ing up of the Old and New Testaments
was never before perpetrated by gen.
tleman who must of necessity have read
both. A friend of the late George Eliot,
writing to one of the daily papers on the
private character of the great novelist,
tripped only less grievously in attempt
ing to adorn his text with scriptural
imagery. ''She possesses" he writes.
Ito marvellous degree, the divine gift
OF charity. and of attracting moral out
casts to herself, whose devils she casts
But by shutting her eyes to their exist
ence."-BeLgraria.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-29
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Fogg speaks of the cacklings of the
hen after she has laid an egg as ova
tones.-Boston Transcript.
Beware! He who courts and goes
away may live to court another day; but
he who weds and courts girls still may
get in court against his will.-Quiz.
"A Cortland man who read ut the end
of a friends marriage notice. No
cards" sent him eucher deck by the
first mail.-Maratton Independent.
"A leading lady in London society
'took the cake by marrying her baker.
He was probably well-bred fellow when
he found he was needed.-N Y Aiysr-
tiSer.
=" Viola" wants to know what
rhymes with honeymoon. Well, dear,
SO far as our observation goes, we think
it is money soon, and don't let your
foud husband forget it.-Burdette.
"A French doctor makes a business
of curing snoring and warrants a cure
for ten dollars. But he isn't making
much money, as few men will admit that
they snore.-Boston Post. ..I t-r..
Bacon has said that reading makes
a full man." and many restaurant
keepers have adopted the plan of sup
plying their customers with morning
papers.-N. o. Picayune.
A young woman in Oil CITY posses
SEES bass voice with a compass to ID fiat
in the bass cleft. 1t is understood that
when this girl asks her young man if he
loves her as much to-day as he did last
Thursday, he unhestatingly replies in
the Observation-Disclosures.
AT a recent divorce trial the wife
was asked question to which she made
the following reply: "When was first
married was so jealous of my husband
that l thought every woman l saw want
ed him, and now 1 wonder how l ever
could have been such a fool as to have
wanted him myself
"A gentleman conversine with
group of ladies concerning an absent
beauty OF thirty at the very most, re-
marks: 'How handsome she must have
BEEN" The words are greeted with
sympathetic murmurs, and he continues
..And for that matter she
is so yeti! A glacial silence ensues,
with feverish f1uttering of fans.
The following is the reply of fond
father. who had just received letter
from his son, student in his own alma
mater: "Mv dear Son-Accept NV
heartiest congratulations. Twas engaged
10 the same Miss Bunter when 1 was in
college, and can appreciate the fun you
are having. Go it while you are young.
Your loving father" -Bowdoin Oriem.
DIR. Holmes. in his farewell speech |
It Harvard, remarked that there were
hree times in mans life when he
night probably consider himself the GEN.
er of attraction-at his christening, at
lis marriage and at his own funeral.
This is true as to the christening and the
uneral, but not as to marriage. The
most insignificant person at a wedding
s the bridegroom. However essential
lie may be to the ceremony nobody pays
my attention to him. 1t is the bride
Who is the center of attraction then, and
he man by her side is of less conse-
uence than her diamonds. His turn
ONES later
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-29
FARM AND PRESIDE.

1t Is not always the farmer who SOW
The most acres who raises the best crop
or the most bushels. They who rest hal
of their land alternate years have tn
best cess.-Erchange.
Onions cut up with food for chicken
are said to be an effectual remedy 70
chicken cholera. A little ground ginge
mixed with their meal once every day o
two is also beneficial when symptoms o
cholera appear.
"A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph keeps rats out of his granary
by daubing all the angles on the out
side of the building with hot pine-tar
to the width of three or. four inches,
and also any seam or crack where rat
ormouse can stand to gnaw. This is
certainly cheap expedient-if efficient
The Rural Ne0- Yorker. says the re-
tail fruit stands of large cities often give
valuable hints to inquiring horticul
turists. A few days ago the proprietor
of one of these stands said to the writer
that he was selling two barrels of Ben
Davis to one of any other kind of apple,
because they are the only kind not
worm-eaten.
An experienced housekeeper fur.
nishes the following recipe for tapiocs
cream: One cup of tapioca soaked UNI.
til soft in two cups of cold or lukewarm
water. If the water is lukewarm, and
kept warm, it will soak in less time.
Boil one quart of milk; beat together the
yelks of three eggs, one cup of sugar
and teaspoonful of salt. Stir the
tapioca into the milk, and when boiling
add the beaten eggs and sugar. Re-
move from the fire, add flavoring, stir
IN lightly the whites beaten. and pour
INTO serving dish. Serve cold.
One of the first things for An or
chardist to learn, says the Weekly Ttib-
uae, speaking of the art of pruning, is
to distinguish fruit buds and spurs from
those which produce mere wood. The
object then is to secure fair annual
growth of each, taking care that an ex.
cess of wood does not smother the fruit
buds, but that all are spread or placed
80 as to have fullest possible light and
Tree air on their leaf surfaces. The fruit
itself is generally best when screened by
the shade of leaf. If = tree does not
make its proper average of new wood
growth in any year, it will decline unless
the fruiting is reduced.
Hop plants can be used for various
purposes. Thus the wires. or twigs, are
Of service for basket and wicker-work.
and the leaves furnish food for farm
stock and sheep. from the tendrils vege.
table wax is obtained. and from their
juice coloring matter. The young
shoots, too, are eaten. tasting, when
boiled like asparagus, and when bleached
they can be made into strong paper and
from their fibre, in Sweden,
yarn and linen are spun. and the ashes
are used by the makers of Bohemian
glass; while from the flowers, which give
IN agreeably bitter taste to beer, tinc-
sure is derived. and a medicinal extract;
and a pillow filled with hops will often
cause sleep. and is a great specific with
danes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-29
A SemnambuIist.

4 Constable named Deneer was Oh
duty in Stonehouse, England, Novem.
Der p, when q man rapidly passed him
attired only in trousers and shirt. The
Constable watched him, and. seeing
him make for the quay, followed and
secured him in time to prevent his ia l.
ing into the water. The Constable then
discovered that the man was in state
of somnambulism Finding that no
efforts could arouse him, Deneer took
the somnambulist to Mr.. Lert, q sur
geon. and that gentleman succeeded in
waking him. The man then stated
that his name was Frederick Aker, that
he lived in King street, Plymouth, and
that he was in the habit of walking in
his sleep.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Judaism in the home. says the .'e,o-
fsh Messenger, ''has converted the rude
Bedouin into the self-reliant Hebrew"
Three hundred and three school.
houses have been built in Indiana during
the present year at q total cost Of
S35, 400. ~
1t is said that the lowest caste in
India is that of cobblers; and yet it was 8
cobbler, William Galley, who first effect
lively carried the gospel there.
Ninety years ago the first English
missionary offered himself, and now the
whole number Of foreign evangelical
missionaries is 5000, and they are lead
ers of a native host of 80. 900 helpers of
all kinds.
MIR. Isaac Holden. M. p, recently
told some school children that although
he was seventy-five years old he had only
recently begun to understand geography.
Mr.. Holden should come to America and
run for Congress.
The American Baptist Home Mis-
sion society has just completed its fiftieth
year. During its existence it has paid
out for mission work 81, zoe. 900; for ed
ucation among colored people and In
dams 81, 900. 900. and gave as loans to
build churches $4,000
The revival spirit seems to be largely
abroad in Virginia. Many religious
meetings are attended with extraordinary
results. At an outdoor meeting recently,
in one of the Methodist circuits, one hun
dred and thirty conversions were re-
ported.
The New York City Bible Society's
report just issued states that for the year
ending September last 100000 immi-
grants landed in New York, among
whom and among others were dis
tributed 125,935 Bibles and parts of
Bibles, 1927 were for officers and
crews of emigrant steamers and sailing
ships, and about 81. ZOO among the immi-
grants landing at Castle Garden.
The Inter-Seminsry alliance recently
met at Chicago. More than thirty theo-
logical seminaries of all denominations
of Christians, including Episcopalians,
Baptsts, Methodists, Presbyterians,
Congregationalists, were represented.
Missions, Catholic Aggressiveness in the
W OSe, lclSOlai SOuScCTatiOu, anu tue
Extention of Christ's Kingdom were
among the topics discussed.
Jews, of more ignorant class, hold |
a superstition that they can for money |
buy good deeds from one another. A |
case recently occurred in Troy, N. Y,
in which fracas took place on account
of a Jew refusing to sell his credit in
Heaven for $3.50. The rabbis don't
allow the practice, but it is derived from
. misinterpreted maxim in the Talmud:
Good deeds buy the future world. -
N. y Examiner.
The Rev. S. r. Driver, the successor
% DR.. Pusey as Regius Professor of He
brew and canon of Christ church, Ok
ord, Is an able Hebraist, the author of
he best work on the Hebrew lenses, a
of the Revision Committee, and
. liberal in theology. He took his B.
4. in 1870, carried off in competition four
scholarships, and is as yet quite young
nan, not over thirty-six. He took orders
'nly ayear or two ago; and his sudden
'referment IS without precedent. He
vas one of the editors of the Variorum
Bible. Great things are evpected of him,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-29
Former NastineSS.

In the time of James 1. so little re-
gard was had to cleanliness that the
''dunghill' within the castle precincts
chad increased to such a size and big
ness that it was in length ninety-eight
yards, the depth Of it was ten yards, and
the breadth of it thirty-two yards" some
27.OOO tons of filth having thus been
allowed to accumulate. In the seven
teenth century the greatest plague was
one of eleven epedemics: it alone caused
1000 deaths, and it led, by the almost
complete desertion of the town and port,
to aruined trade and wasted treasury
Nature.