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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19
A Witch Doctor i'm Trouble.

The days of superstition and witch.
craft are not vet over, at least in the
Cape Colony, where the readiness of the
native races to believe in things supernat-
ural is occasionally brought under no
tice. Acase of this kind recently came
on for hearing at the Queenstown Cir
cult Court, in which Katfir named
Xamlasha, described as doctor" was
charged with having obtained money
from several natives by false pretenses,
in so far that he made them believe that
he could cure their cattle of the disease
which they were suffering from, which
he attributed to witchcraft. Like ev-
cry other dabbler in the black art. the
plan he adopted to bring about the cure
was an eXtraord nary one, and could
not fail to suggest to the mind of the
most illiterate that its exponent was an
impostor. Apparently. however, no
such thoughts occurred to the owners
of the ''bewitched cattle" Perhaps they
were only too glad to embrace every
means likely to check the disease. AT
any rate. Xamlasha was allowed to pro-
coed. This worthy, it seems, had dis
covered whether after communion with
unknown spirits or not is uncertain
that the withcraft proceeded from
poison contained in the earth
beneath the kraals of his pa
irons. Accordingly he set to work,
and with some substance man.
aged to dig some pretty large holes
in the ground. After certain depth
had been reached the knowing ont"
de Jared that he had found the poison.
which he Immediately spirited away to
somewhere else. no doubt by some
secret incantat on or other. For this
bit of magic the doctor" demanded
high fees. which were paid to him I'M
CRU 'gingly, n some cases few head
of cattle being given in lieu of money.
Naturally enough the result was looked
forward to with considerable interest
on the part of the uninitiated occupants
OF the kraals. but, strange as it may
appear, the cattle still continued to be
attacked with the disease. This. of
course. caused dissat sfaction among
the owners, and united alton was
take against the destroyer of poison"
who had thus failed to carry out the
Iargain in effecting perfect cure
after he had received literal payment
In dealing with the case. the jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty of fraud. hut
his lordship deferred passing sentence,
simply Tin ling the accused over in his
own recoe nizances to appear and re-
ceive sentence any time when callel
upon within the next five years. The
Judge, no doubt. took into account the
fact that the proprietors OF the cattle
were greatly to blame themselves for
icing led away by the story toll them
by the doctor" - GraIanlstO Un
South africa Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19

Blanche show symptoms Of the malady
say. Miss IA ME. will you promise &c
see me through if am taken with it?''
A bright color flashed into the sallow
cheeks, and STOPPING over her he whis-
pered:
dear Fannie! l love you better than
any woman l know; can YOU ever care
for such an old fellow as /. 90 YOU
think; Pm not half good enough foI
you"
30 hushr' she cried. Il am not de-
serving your generous love. My family
my poor father"
He stopped suddenly over her. and the
list of objections came to n summary and
untimely death in a very remarkable,
though perhaps not entirely original,
manner.
Just then some one said: ''Viola An
derson." calling over the new name &c
see how it would sound.
Il told YOU. darling. long ago."
Ralph whispered. THAT it maize no diff
ference ABOUT a girls name"
..But | was Viola Montford little
while-I had an honorable name to
bring you." she replied. with faint
flash of the old pride in her eyes.
A little after, Tom Arnold told with
great gusto of the comical blunder he
fell into trying to make match be-
tween Blanche and her cousin, when all
the time they We're doing the same
thing for themselves in another direc-
ton
Blanche Arno'd's eve looked out Cd l.
ly from their heavily fringed lashes. and
the small, graceful hands made quick.
nervous movement, but she laughed
softly, and looked up serenely and
brightly into the face of her cousin.
think she deceived him. entirely; but
Viola was a woman, and it takes q
woman to read a woman, YOU know
But will not tell what she thought
because, for Nictor's sake, want you
TO believe in her. as he so very evident
" does. and doubtless always will--ai
least, | hope so.
THE END.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19
How a Judge Checked Perjury.

A Danish colonial magistrate. for
whose exceptional character and ability
We can vouch, once made a grimly
comic experiment in this direction and
upon this principle: He was appalled,
by the endless perjuries committee in
cases before him, determined to stop
them, and did. He. of course. SAID
nothing of his method. but an English
friend seated beside him on the bench
noticed that whenever witness told a
palpable lie he jumped.
He asked the reason. and the magiS-
trate, after a caution, revealed his
secret: MY orderly stands behind the
witness, and whenever | put my left
hand to my ear that indicates that the
evidence is false. and he runs pin into
him." 1t is well-known fact TO the
many who will recognize this story that
the sting of conscience" in this ma
terial form proved effectual, and that
the magist ate, who died honored
throughout Denmark. in three years
TUNED an Alsatia into one of the most
orderly and law-abiding of eommuni-
ties. He could always get the truth
London Spectator.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19
NeighbOrly Cooperation.

They Who live on farms often COM
plain that they are denied many OF the
creature comforts constantly within the
reach of jewellers in towns; that, while
the farmer may have of luscious fruits
abundance, he is generally unable to
provide for his family such fresh meats
even as the laborer in the city expects
to find be ore him at every meal. Few
families on farms can consume, even in
winter. the flesh of even so much as a
lamb of fair size before its freshness and
the appetite for mutton will both have
gone.
The American farmers family has
for generations contented itself with an
abominable diet, in which hogs flesh
was most of the time the only meat
We know of parts of the country where
e en- now. when beef and mutton form
very important part OF the farm prod
ucts. bit OF steak. a roast. or piece
OF boiled beef is almost unknown TO the
tables OF the farmers. The reason is
plain: The family can use but small
part of the carcass while it is fresh, and
the town is too far away to allow of
the frequent visits which would be need
ed TO keep a supp V of fresh meats on
the table.
In some neighborhoods remote from
the shops of the butchers the farmers
have made a regular system of what
was a. first but a neighbOrly courtesy.
In one case. in Tennessee, sixteen or
eighteen farmers formed club, each
member TO furnish beef from eighteen
months TO two years old. Then one of
the members who has the most skill in
the butchers art dresses all the beeves,
and for his labor receives the hide OF
each animal he kills. All the beeves
are driven to the home OF the butcher
to Re slaughtered. If desired one beef
is killed each SATURDAY. during the warm
months until the sixteen or eighteen
beeves are all disposed of.
TO the member whose steer produces
the best beef a premium of five dollars is
given and fine of ike amount is i'm
posed upon him whose beef fails TO show
twelve per cent of fat meat. The meat
is nicely handled and so divided that in
the course of a season each member re-
ceives every part of the carcass. As the
beeves usua ly net from 300to 400 pounds
there is, when divided into sixteen or
eighteen parts, enough in each part to
supply fam " for three or four days.
As the club has been in existence for
more than twenty years, and its men,
bers say they would not let it 60 down
for any reasonable consideration, il
may be declared decided success and
worthy of imitation.-C3 icagO Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19
B4BTS EYES.

Baby-eyes of summer blue,
No one yet has sung of you:
OF the soft pink lids, that close
Like the petals OF rose
Lift them. sweet, that / may see
What they will reveal to me.
Looking up, or dropping down,
Bright with smile, or dark with frcwn,
What a world of mystery lies
In the depths of baby's eyes,
Little mirrors, clear and deep,
Faithfully my image keep:
For whenever may look,
Clear as sunlight in a brook,
In the.r liquid depths | see
Perfect duplicate of-me!
How could mammals face, my fair,
Ever find its way in there?
And look of pleased surprise
Lighters up the baby's eyes.
- Little mirrors, clear and deep,
Who dotn all your secrets keep?
From their surface who can know
Soundless depths that lie belowl
Searching, who can understand
All the paths of babyland?
Can you ne er reveal to me
Half the glorious things you seer
As question. mute replies
Come to me through baby's eyes:
-''Tis a sweet. mysterious bend
Links US TO the world beyond.
None save babes can understand
Heights and depths of babyland.
But lis given Us to strew
blessings wheresoe'er we go
Light and love to cheer the way
Where the paths of duty lay.
All that's good and pure and wise
Comes to you through baby's eyes"
Looking in their quiet deeps
har - arii nh
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19

When some of the Congressman
sent their albums around in the House
for the autographs of their colleagues
the other day, one of them, thinking
that the pages who presented the books
for signatures also owned the volumes,
wrote words of fatherly wi dom before
his name. In Senator Edmunds book
he wrote with flourish: BE a good
boy and you will become a good man."
The Senator hopes to profit by this adj
vice and even to grow up. perhaps, to
be the pride Of his parents.-Detroa
Post
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19

"A curious case came before the
Liverpool County Court the other day.
A pawn-broker was sued for the value
of two coats, which the plaintiff had
pawned, and which had been injured
BY mice eating away the pockets. 1t
having been proved that crumbs had
been left in the pockets, it was held
that the mice had been attracted by
them, and that the owner had been
guilty of contributory negligence"
so the pawnbroker tri implied.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19

The man who never failed is a
myth. Such an one never lived. and is
never likely TO. All success is a series
OF efforts, in which. when closely
viewed, are seen more or less failures.
The mountain is apt TO overthrow the
hill: but hill is reality, nevertheless.
Ii you fail now and then don't be dis
Outraged. Bear in mind it is only the
part and experience of everv cceSsful
man. and the most S ccesSful men often
have the most fai ures.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19

The largest fruit seller in New Or
leans, ON being asked what became of all
the coeoanut shells. replied that he sent
annually 1.500. 900 to New York to be
ground up with black pepper.--M o.
Picdylile.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19

We meet in society many beautiful
and attractive women whom we think
would make excellent wiyes-for our
friends.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-19

-Aa Atlantic City squire who mar
ried couple received the princely fee
of thirty-twO cents.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06

enoe, took the floor and made one Of
his prancing campaign speeches. His
effort was listened 10 with marked at.
tention until he called attention to the
fact that new converts are generally
very Jealous, and emphasized his re-
marks by quoting:
"Whsn the devil was sick
The devil q saint would be;
When the d vii got we'll
The devil n saint was he
This sally provoked a good deal of
merriment at Buffers expense. SEN
ator De X, who made a brief but point.
I'd reply, thought the shoe fitted the
governor 80 we'll. The committees as
constituted are certainly not partiran.
Tho chairman Of the leading commit
tee, Senator Kinksid, lie a straight re.
publican, and considering their num-
Der, the republicans h-vo had a very
fair apportionmcrt. II the same fair
ness is shown by Speaker Humphreys
there Sill DO no grumbling on the
other sido.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06
MEDILL FOR SEaAToR.
An Enthusiastic Send-Off for the Edi-
itor of The Chicago Tribune.
Special Dispatch 10 TIM Ban,

Special Dispatch TO TIN BRH.
CHICAGO, January 5.-Congresman
John Finerty proposed Joseph Medlll,
editor of The Chicago Tribune, for
United States senator. The conclusion
of u long article, eulogiatic of Modill,
is an appeal by Finerty to his fellow
democrats to join the republicans and
elect MediIl. "To democrats," The
Clifton says, "by following our aug.
gestion they will send to the senate
an American of the Americans;
a man who believes in up.
holding tho power and dignity
OF this republic at home and abroad;
o man who believes in the full riahts
of adopted oitizons, and who would
never permit any unfair or cowardly
discrimination to DO made between
them and the native born people Of
America. Such n man, Wa emphati-
oally repeat, AZ patriot ne well as q
statesman, ought to be the next sena.
tor chosen by this splendid state to
represent It in the higher branch OF
the national legislature"
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06
Gebbnrdt Comes West.
clal Dispatch TO Tue bHH.

CHICAGO, January 5.-The New
York tram this morning had among its
passengers Frederick Gebhardt and
II. A. Maura and Q. A, SwartS, of
New York There we're not a half
dozen persons upon the depot plat
form when the train pulled in. A
moment thereafter tho passengers be-
gan to alight, and a young man
dressed In the height of fsshion,
wearing a brown ulstsr overcoa5 and \
Derby hat of the same color, and terra
Gotta kids, alighted from the train. 1.
wrs but u moment before tho passen.
gors said, There goes Freddie Ggb,
ha-dt." Tho depot employees got Q
glance 1T hnn aB he passed out End
proceeded to walk 10 tho Grand Pa
oidc. Or his Orri yal at the hotel, h'
walk3 I'D directly to the register anc
registered as Fl. Gebnardr and ser
vaus, 4. A. Maura, @. A. Swartz
New York" lie was shown to hi
| apartments.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06
THE eIsLAT1vE GRIND.

LINooL Neb., January Booth
branches the legislature met at
the usual ,ur. In the senate a reso-
luton w'S offered by Senator Rey-
nolds to sppoint a committee consist
lug of De-, Heiat, Barker, Brown OF
Douglas, md Patterson, on senate
rules. Il was carried.
The neaate commenced the opening
of papers in the contested cases and
at IL 40 adjourned till 2:30 p. m. next
Monday.
In the house, Bicrbower, of Chey.
cnne county, Occupied the chair, and
a good deal of diminishing WAS done,
but nothing OF Importance except to
vote each member and officer of the
house ten three. cent stamps, ten me.
cent wrappers, and ten daily papers,
or their equivalent in weeklies.
The house then adjourned till 2 p.
m. next Monday. Most of the mem
bers will leave on the trains for home
tonight.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06
Patsy Moors's Partner.
Special Dispatch 10 TIN BKR.

CHICAGO, January 4-The Inter
Oceans Baltimore special says: Last
Sunday at tho Catholic cathedral,
Miss Lizzie Mcdonald, eleven years q
sister of charity teaching In Mobile,
Chicago, Milwaukee aud elsewhere,
married Patrick Moore, of Wash
ineton. BY permission, being Ill, she
lett the convent five years ago. After
recovering she nursed her father
through q protracted illness. Going
to Washington abe met Moore, Love
at first sight. She did not return to
the sistorhood.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06
PoIaoning a Husband.

DENVER, January o The RapubIi.
cans Albuquerque IN, M specia.
Gays: Alej1 Garcia, y Mexloa living
near Meaalla, was killed to-day b.
poison placed in his food BY his wife.
R-p.rta Artilla DsGarcia and Jos,
Aa,Jieta, her psramour, Raperta II
IN attractive young sonora of an ex.
calleat Mexican family, Both are il
jail.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06
TELEQRAPH MOTEL


CHICAGO, January 5-Jaues Il Arker
declined tho position of c mmlssioner Of
the FOuthwegtorn passenger pool.
CAMDEN n. J, January 5.-William
III. Gross aud thomas 5. Call, employe
Of the Met opolitau In urance company,
arc misbing. The former ia under bond ~
emtezzling funds ( the Prudential Life
Iu-uranoe company, and for forgery,
NEW YORE, January : Judge Law.
romeo dismissed tho writ Of habeas corpus
and deuisd tne pei i N FOR discharge filed
hy En5at Harver, uud0r bsil for perjury
and lib | in the suits brought by Marie
PRESCOTT, the actress. Her ruits are based
IA Hsrver's testimony in her case against
tae American News company for libel.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06
A Theatrical Recognition.

CHICAGO, January 5.--Miss Emily
Faithful and Miss Kate Pattisop, OF
the Langtry troupe, were rendered u
reception this evening by Mrs DR..
Sarah Hochett. 1t was a brilliant
affair, at which tho leading society
ladies of the city were present. There
were many costly floral tributes.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06
Cotton Mills Idle.

BpeclAl d patton 70 Inn BBh-
PHILADELPHIA, January 5.-It Is
estimated that al least ten thousand
looms, and probably two hundred
thousand spindles are idle in the cot.
ton ana WOODEN mills in this city and
vicinity.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06

New hoRK, January 5.-The battle Of
New Orleans will be celebrated here IN q
public meeting, under the auspices of tie
countydemocrscy. Congressman Carlisle,
! Of Kentucky, will deliver the address.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06

railroad land grants forfeited, on mo.
ion of Mr.. Knott it was laid on the
table.
THE TARIFF REVISION.
The ways and means committee wac
to. day at work on the free lis tariff
commission report They struck out
quinine and fixed tho duty on the
preparation thereof at ten per csat &C
valorem.
NOMINATION..
The president to-day nominated
Gustavus Coward. of Illinois, to be
seoretsrs Of the United States legation
to Japan.
Gen. Grant wi dine with s
Miller of Califorr il, On Monday,
with the secretary of state on Tuese ny,
aud the president on Wednesday
The Chinese minister called on him
to-day.
The director of the mint reports a
gain in metallic circulation by the
coinage and imports during the psst
ak months of about 1914, GOO. 90 in
United States gold c,iu, aud about
Sl4 5C0, 600 in silver coins.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06

The senate naval committees to-
day agreed on a general bill, which
will allow tho government officers Of
tho United States TO receive medals
from foreign governments,
The house Judiciary committee to-
day, after discussing Knott's resolu-
tion declaring all Northern Pacific
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06

Oar educational institutions, public
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06

WASHINGTON, Jsnuery randall
said he was unavoidsbly absent from
the house yesterday, but had he been
present r. would have voted for the
passage Of the civil service reform bill.
Mr., Singleton (IIls,) }, didn't hear his
name called. H9 would have voted
against the bill
The house then, In committee, took
up the Distritt Of Columbia appro-
prtotion bill. It appropriates So, 433.
S47, being So, GAP less that the esti-
mates. The bill is substantially a. the
present law,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-06

railroad land grants forfeited, on mo.
ion of Mr.. Knott it was laid on the
Aoh1o
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-06-09

THE Albuquerque Democrat re-
wives stale lie when it says that
Jno. a. Logan attempted TO organ
ize a regiment for the Confederate
army in 1861. We know Jno. A.
L., lived in his State when the war
broke out, we were in Washington
in July 1861, when Logan was a
NJ. c., and heard him express him
setf fully on the questions involved
in the war; were cognizant of his
writing and telegraphing to friends
in the Sucker State to organize Il
regiment for him; know that when
he returned home a brigade of
men were awaiting his leadership,
and The world knows and conftsscs
that he proved to be the best citi-
zen officer in the Federal army
Prior to the war he was a partizan,
but like unto his political leader,
Douglas, he then SAID "We must
be either partizans or patriots, and
the former | sink into the latter"
Having lived in Southern Illinois,
where Logan gamboled when =
boy, and where he resided until
since the war, we speak by the
card, and feel that it is about time
that the slander should be wiped
out. We do not believe the Dem
0crat man believes the story
enough to nerve hin to tell Jno.
A. to his face that he was ever at
heart a rebel and contemplated
battling against the Flag of the
Union.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-06-09
A MUSCULAR PREACHER.

1t is a beautiful sight to see an
unsophisticated student, a lover OF
wisdom and diver into the abyss
of the infinite from the classic
shores OF modern Athens, wander
forth alone into the wide rude
world and have the dust Of ages
knocked out of his clothes in quick
er time than that other eminent
Bostonian, Mr.. Sullivan, can
knock out a fellow being.
Now comes the Rev. Joseph
Cook, who has been in every
known country in the world save
Ireland, who made himself famous
by delivering lectures at his home
church every Monday afternoon,
lectures so high-fown i'll language
that no one could understand them,
though everybody tried to; wrote
articles for magazines which read
as intelligibly backward as forward,
lectured in ali the principal cities
in the Union when now comes
said reverend gentleman with a
grievance. The other day, in an
Illinois town, Cook sat down at a
restaurant table, and beside him
sat stranger, who proved to be q
commercial tourist, or drummer.
The drummer ordered rare steak,
Cooks mind thereupon was divert
ed from the contemplation of Her
bert Spcncer's theory Of biology
and observed that "no gentleman
would eat raw meat" The remark
was resented and the threat tc
knock the gentleman out of time
made. The two stood upon theil
feet, the waiter girls screamed, the
clerk and police rushed in, and the
drummer was finally content to eat
his raw steak. Cook afterwards
Said:-" In fair fight can knock
that man to pieces, but | am not
prepared to be perforated with bul
lets. l understand he threatens tc
shoot me, and | demand the pro
lection Of the police" Bah!
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-06-09
Justice to Whom Justice is Due.

Editor Leader
LINCOLN, n. NJ. June +, 1888.
Ii seems to us that the stereo-
typed report of each successive
grand jury to the District Court, at
the close of each term is, to say the
least, a work of supererogation.
The District Coueti is presided over
by Federal Judge, appointed by
the President OF the L. S., and
the holding Of terms in the several
counties Of the Territory was a
matter of after consideration for
the convenience of the business of
the respective counties. The DIS
trict Judge has no power to cor
rect any abuses on the part OF
county officials, except when pro
ceedings arc properly instituted
and brought forward for trial as
other cases are. 1t occurs to US,
therefore, that the set phraseology
Of each grand jury in its turn, III
summing up county abuses and
grievances, has an air approaching
the ridiculous. The report is filed
away and that Is the last ever
heard Of 1t. The grand jury is
composed of citizens and tax-pay-
ers Of the county, and if its mem
bers discover any irregularities OF
short comings in county officials,
they should endeayor to correct
them by laying the matter before
the County Commissioners, or by
finding bills Of indictment against
the delinquent officials, and plac
ing the matter properly in the
hands Of the District Attorney, OF
procure the Commissioners to EN-
ploy special counsel, as they have
right to do.
The report Of the last grand
/ Jury is open to the above general
criticism. If the previous Probate
| Judge has allowed administrators
to evade settlements of the estate:
in their charge, there is a proper
] remedy. The assumption by the