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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-14
Mustaches Made to Order.

care you ever called upon to raise
mustaches for youngsters" q Post
Dispatch reporter asked a professor
of hair culture who seems to have an
extensive following here.
| 80, yes, indeed" was the hair-com-
peller's reply. II have many custo-
mers from sixteen to twenty-one, and
even as high as twenty-five, whom L
treat specially for the growth of the
mustache. The youngest customers
are anxious to force the crop of hair on
their upper lip; the old ones find the
growth too scanty and are anxious to
| increase its luxurianee. In the latter
instance the seed pores have not been
opened or life has disappeared from
the bulb before it got a chance to sprout.
The easiest cases to handle, though,
are the young men, who want preco-
cious mustaches. By feeding the hair
roots, keeping the soil moist and warm
and the pores open, / have found it
possible in three months to give a six
teen or seventeen-year-older a very
good-looking mustache before the rest
of their face is ready for the touch of =
razor"
"Are there many young men anxious
for this labial decoration?''
You'd be surprised to know the
number. have now under treatment
three young men from local boarding
school, two boys in one of the railroad
offices, the son of a prominent operator
on Change and q clergyman's boy.
They come here regularly every three
weeks to have the furze clipped from
their lips, which strengthens the hair.
No, do not use the razor. 1t would
pull the hair roots out in the tender con-
dition in which the treatment leaves the
flesh. A fine sharp scissors does the
work"
"What do you charge themp"
"Five dollars bottle for the wash
and dollar for each clipping"
.Do any of the boys want side
whiskers9"
never had but one call for them
since went into the business. Ayoung
fellow studying for the ministry came
in and asked me if could produce a
pair of blonde side-boards on his face.
/ said could produce the hair. but is
might not be exactly blonde. The hair
of his head was red, and when /
wouldn't guarantee to decorate his Jaws
with yellow tow he got up and left o.
it's fuan'-St. LOUIS POSI- Dispatch
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-14
For Young Readers.
n DOLL'S GRIEVANCE.

Ny name is Lady Ethel:
How d. We do? How d ye do?
NY hair is curly yellow,
My eyes are CLASSY blue.
] came with gay old Santa,
So my name he ought to know,
And he called me Lady Ethel,
Two long, long years ago.
NV little mamma loved me
From the day that came:
So i wouldn't mind her spankings,
If she wouldn't change my name.
At first she called me Ethel.
Then Queen Bess. Rosa Belle,
And Dolly, Polly Adeline-
And they did pretty well.
But since her fine French doll came
Oh think it's SO mean!
She sets me in q corner
And calls mo Evergreen!
Our Little Ones.
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Gems Of Thought.

No one who is lover of riches, OF
lover of pleasure, or a lover of glory,
can at the same time be lover of man.
". NJ. Taylor.
DIR. johnson once said: 81 do not
envy clergyman's life as an easy life,
nor do 1 envy the clergyman who makes
it an easy life"
Honor is like the eye, which can
not suffer the least impurity without
damage; it is precious stone, the price
of which is lessened by the least flaw
BoSsuet
This world is the school-house OF
our childhood, where our Father is
seeking to educate us for the duties and
joys of an eternal manhood and woman
hood in Heaven.-AdUance.
AS the hot sun, which scorches and
destroys the shallow-rooted plant, only
helps to ripen and perfect the strong
and deep-rooted. SO temptation, which
causes the shallow, unstable man to
fall, strengthens the faith and perfect
career of the Christian. Trench.
Ever since Christianity began to be
understood, the best Judgment of man
kind has acknowledged with admira-
ton that all its requirements make for
the liberation of the soul from sin and
its restoration, at length, to the image
of God which it had at the beginning.
-Morning Star.
Enjoying the Flowers
Enjoy to-day the flowers that blow,
Even though they fade amid their blowing;
Enough for you to calmly know
That God has other flowers in growing,
As fair as those so swiftly going.
Enjoy to-day the flowers that blow,
Though yop. too, fade amid their blowing;
Enough for you to calmly know
That God has other gardens growing.
And you to fairer blooms are going.
Wade Robinson.
We know of some people who are
miserably poor, and some who are mis-
erably rich. Of the latter we think
there are several classes. l. Those who
do not know how to enjoy their wealth.
2. Those who are too stingy. to enjoy
their wealth. 3. Those who fail to diff
fuse their wealth. 4. Those whose
wealth makes them imagine they are
superior to other men. 5. Those who
seek their happiness wholly in their
wealth. Miserable men, all of them!
s'Giye me neither poverty nor richest"
Presbyterian.
-Mangaia is one of the Hervey ISL
ands. Within the present generation
the inhabitants were savage idolators,
and many of them Cannibals. Learn
from the Evangelist what change has
come over them and what produced it:
Now most of the people are members
of Christian churches. Sabbath is
strictly observed, and nearly the entire
population attends service. At early
dawn they assemble for an hour of
prayer. Between the two preaching
services they meet to read the Bible and
pray. When the Bible was translated,
and printed copies were brought to the
island. they bought copies to the value
Of $387.50. When a fresh supply of
corrected edition appeared their pur-
chases quickly amounted to 1876 in
value. When one of their missionaries
babe them farewell recently. they gave
him $500 as "a token of love and esteem
When thenative brethren of New Guinea
needed boats for their mission work,
these Mangaian Christians sent them
$3S4.50 for that purpose"
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tanu, tTainplHg IL uoSu sOfiu- Inc oCSt
wheat was raised on the turning row. ="
[ remember that an old farmer and
very successful wheat-raiser, as long rs
twenty years ago, turned all his farm
stock on his freshly plowed wheat
ground that they might tramp it down:
Wheat-raisers learned that the seed-bed
should be solid because nature taught
them so; but stronger tenet OF farm
ing was that wheat should be sown on
freshly plowed land. And thus for
MANY wears after it was known that 3
firm seed-bed was best, wheat was
sown on loose ground. More knowledge
has brought better methods, including
early blowing and firm seed-bed.
The last advantage of early blowing
which l shall mention is. that it admits
of surface manuring. The old prac-
tice was to haul the manure on the
land and pillow afterward. 1t was said
that the manure must be buried, for if
it was left on the surface of the land,
exposed to the action of the sun, it
would lose all its strength. Men sup
posed that because the sun evaporated
the water from the barn-yard and stable
manure and made it dry and light, it
bad lost all its value. They rated
the value of manure in proper
ton to its weight. But we have
fortunately got beyond that. We have
learned that dry manure may be as
valuable as wet manure. That rains
may leach out manure and carry away
its substance; but the danger of this is
greater when the manure is spread
upon the unplowed land than when it
IL spread after blowing. Manure
should not be left on the surface OF the
land. Then it can be of little avail.
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CURIOUS rRANsFoRMArIoNs.

The students of the school at Hamp-
ton Roads, which is doing good work in
educating Africans and Indians, have
an odd way of illustrating the meaning
of English words and phrases:
One altered line of Gray's "Elegy,"
"Nor cast one longing, lingering look
behind" into "Nor cast one longing,
1oathsome look behind" because" he
explained, lingering meant that they
were loath to leave"
Another, to illustrate the opposite
meanings of the afixes "pro and con, 3"
quite innocent Of satire, suggested pro-
gress and congress.
One of the colored students gave an
anatomical turn to Macaulay's stirring
verse, "And be your orifamme to-day,
The helmet Of Navarro" by the impos-
sible exhortation, "And be your dia-
phragm to-day, The helmet of Ma
Yarre."
This suggests the story of the little
girl who, in her examination paper; de-
fined the diaphragm as an important
porous tissue organ extendin' from the
collar bone to the hips"
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MOTHER.

But, after all, she used to be good
90 us"
+ vas son who said this of his
",n-:.eG, whom some nervous malady had
oler:aken, and who was certainly very
str;,''is trial TO her family.
The yor,ng mans lie, too, was weary
ono. lie was clerk on a salary. He
va, i.ard-worke5 through the day, and
1t va depressing to go home at night
30 !auitlAding and to fretfulness.
Harder still was it tc sleep, as this
aoG lid, week after week and month
att:ar month, with all his senses half
awake, that be might hear his mothers
footsteps if they passed his door, and
hurry after her to keep her from wan
,leling out into the night alone, as her
melancholy half-madness often led her
10 Try to do.
Strangely enough she had turned
against her husband and her daughters.
Only this one son had any power to per-
shade her for her good. His work by
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day and his vigils by night wore on him
sorely. but he never complained.

day and his vigils by night wore on him
sorely, but he never complained.
One day his sisters asked him how he
co;tM bear it and be always patient,
when she-mother though she was-was
in the house only as presence Of gloom
and foreboding and unrest. And the
answer came:
But, after all, she used to be good
to us"
and then the thoughts of all the
group went back to the years before
this nervous prostration came upon her
when she had nursed them in illness
and petted them in childhood when
she had been good to them," one and
all
Il know" the boy said, thoughtfully,
flat I was nervous, uncomfortable
child myself the first three years of my
lie. Father said he thought they'd
never raise me, but mother said, Yes,
she would;' and she tended me day and
night for three years, till I began to get
strong like the rest Of you. I owe her
those three years, anyhow"
And so he girded himself afresh for
his struggle. It will not last forever.
There are signs which the doctors can
recognize that the cloud is lifting some
what, and no doubt before long she
viii be her old self again. And then
VIII come her sons reward. He will
feel that he has paid little of the debt
he owed to the love that watched over
lis weak babyhood.
20 many mothers, worn by long care,
such years Of melancholy and nervous
prostration must come. And the sons
and daughters who find their homes
saddaned by such SORROW should low
inGly remember the days in which they
were helpless and mother was good to
them. "-YOuth'S Companion.
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.ABOUT STRIKES.

From the ninth annual report of the
Pennsylvania Bureau of Labor Stats
tics is taken the following summary of
154 strikes occurring in the State in
the last forty-fve years. Of these ~
we're of coal miners, Is of factory opera
tives, IL of puddlers and boilers, OF
laborres, and 10 of railroad employees.
There were % in Allegheny county, 6e
in Philadelphia and 16 in Lackawanna.
The causes were: To secure better
wages, II; against reduction, AZ; to Sc
cure shorter days, 16; against the or
ganization of labor, 8; to enforce union
rules, 10; against the boss, for regular
pay, and against store orders, one each,
The result was: Successful, 45; I'm.
successful, &c; partly successful, IL;
compromised, 10; result unknown, II.
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the run of thirty hogs and $50 or 200

the run of thirty hogs and $50 or 200
sheep and lambs during the summer.
Enough grain or bran are given them to
place them in good condition. They eat
every blade of grass and green things
close down, and every fallen apple as
soon as dropped, for which purpose
sheep are better than hogs, which sleep
SO soundly as not to hear an apple fall,
but sheep are always on hand and de-
YOUR everything as soon as it touches
the ground. The fruit each year grows
fairer, with fewer wormy specimens,
ard the manure, from feeding so much
grain. has given healthy growth to
the trees. To prevent the animal gnaw-
ing the bark the trunk is washed over
once a month with O mixture of seap-
suds, whale oil and sheep manure"
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DENOMINATIONS FOR MONEY.

In his "Thesaurus, worthy old DIR.
Roget says it is cash, funds, bullion,
coin, dust, sinners, tin, blunt, rhino,
specie, the needful, etc. Washington
Irving canonized it as "the almighty
dollar" In slangy America it is fur
Their denominated in the bonds as cap
ital, pewter, ducats, greenbacks,
stamps, Doodle, rags, shekels, brads,
hard stuff, stakes, dizzy, scrip, lucre,
dingbats, pocket-lining, coupons, pad
ding, soap, root-of-evil, cent-per-cent,
retainer, bar-veneer, sugar, tough-to-
get, easy-to-go, sinews-of-war, letter-of-
introduction, character,test, and titles
lad infnitum. "-AnaeTicd1a Queen.
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FEMALE FARM KINDS.
astonishing Evidence Elected at q PdrliG-
noeHtdTy Inquiry.

HOtHCUF9 1EIUIDs
From the New York Times]
Americans visiting some parts of Eu-
rope are apt to be shocked by the labor
imposed upon women, who work In the
fields, load dung carts and sometimes
harnessed with dog help to draw their
produce to market. But very often
things are not what they seem" in this
matter more than in any other. A re-
markable illustration of the attraction
that field labor has was afforded some
years ago in England. A contractor for
various kinds of agricultural work
formed gang of young women whom
he took from place to place in the East
ern counties to perform hedging, ditch
ing and draining for farmers. This went
Oh FOR several years, until at length the
rumor3 Of the evils from it assumed so
serious a character as to result in a Par
Gclnentary inquiry. The evidence was
remarkable. It all went to show that
the women positively delighted in
this free, active and nomadic life, and
one OF its chief charms was the aston
islling health and strength they attained.
Their limbs became muscular, they
lad the digestion of ostriches, and
aches and pains were unknown to
them. They, in fact, enjoyed the
most exquisite Of al human sensations
perfect health. How many American
ladies enjoy that for even five years of
their lives after Is? The other side to
The matter vas that the moral we'll
bang Of these agricultural Amazons was
b. no means on a par with the physical.
They bore children whom they regarded
q, NJ mtolera5ie incumbrance, inasmuch
as 5hey kept their mothers from work,
ard, consequently, it was ascertained by
a volume OF Evidence, put these children
out to nurse. The nurse with whom
most children died was the prime favor
tie, and significant feature in the evil
dence was that of druggists, who testi-
fed to the enormous consumption in the
district of those soothing sirups which
so efeetually succeed in soothing in
fants out of their existence. It was in
view of the dreadful infant mortality
that Parliament interfered and sup
pressed the gang system. But the case
of the German, Flemish OF Dutch wom-
en- who help husband or father in his
fields, is not open to this objection. II
| the labor be not excessive it is desirable.
It produces the strong, hardy women
who rear q stalwart race. Half the fine
ladies' who now find few turns on a
piazza almost too much for them would
be al the better for q graduated scale
| Of garden work. Beginning with a
quarter Of an hour day, they would
find at the close OF a month that they
could easily do their two hours, and
that they ate and slept as they had
never done before, while they forgot
that such evils as blue devils and nerves
had any existence.
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+" What way?"

"What way?"
"Giye me sheaf iv oats every morn
ing and feed iv bran every night"
every night?"
eyes, every night. Do ye consint p
II do" said Pat.
well, then, set about it at wanst,"
resumed the mare. But I want We to
understand afore we sthart, I'll be the
same good-natured old mare that hev
always been. Do as I say, and you'll
niver hear me again"
Pat got into the wagon, drove home
again, and rather surprised Widow
Hegarty by bringing to her little cab
in no less than five hundred weight of
meal, when all she had asked was one
hundred.
On his saying he wanted no pay at
any time for it, she was still m ore sur
prised, and ever afterward was loud il
her praise of Pat Delaney, while all
others continued to despise him, as he
deserved to be despised.
Widow Hegarty got her meal, and
since Pat would take no money for it
he got what were to him, let US hope,
more serviceable-the prayers of the
poor widow.
Nor were the other requests of the
mare unheeded. Every morning Pat
gave her the sheaf of oats, and at night
the bran, which sorely troubled his
misery heart, and to be relieved Of do
ing so he would gladly have sold her,
but his fear prevented his doing so.
He did not work her so hard, either,
since the memorable day she spoke to
him, but always treated her with great
respect.
The mare, on her part, kept hel
promise. She never again said one
word to her master, but continued while
she lived to serve him with the most ex
emplary patience.
That the mare spoke to Pat he kept
for time a profound secret, but by
degrees it crept out, as does every Sc
cret, until it was generally talked Of il
the district, though few believed it.
We will say, in conclusion, that dur
ing the week the mare spoke to PA
there was ventriloquial entertainment
being given in the village close by, and
that it was by the ventriloquist that the
widow was consoled.
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Blue JAY.
BY CELESTE NJ. A. wINsLow.

What clear tote wakes the wintry air,
And sends thrill of sudden cheer
Through these dark last days Of the year,
When skies are cold and trees are bare?
A flash Of blue lights up the gray,
Defying every wintry i'll,
Small wrath of summer lingering still
On icy ground or leafless spray.
I see YOU with sad surprise;
Thought the gloom had taken wing,
And the soft splendors of the spring
Should bloom before my weary eyesI
Ali summers of the long ago,
Too sweet to loiter by the way,
In those brief notes find voice to-day,
Lone singer, passionate, plaintive, slow!
And still the barren branches sigh;
The heavy clouds more grim appear;
My heart finds sorrow ever near,
While faint hopes tremble, droop and die.
and yet, hope f1ickers in your song,
hint of brightness, warm and true;
Brave Blue Jay, still wait, with you.
wait-although the time be lorgI
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it as well as anybody else, for it's hard
pressed am, not doubt iv it"
To give verbatim report of their
conversation is not believed necessary,
but let it suffice to state that after a
good deal of by-p1ay and a great many
broad hints on the part of Peggy, and a
well-assumed ignorance of their mean
ing on the part of Pat, she at length
said:
well, seeing as how I am so short iv
money and names at the prisint speak
ing, might I venture to ask We for a
numbered weight iv meal until SIGH
times as can pay ye, which won't be
long, praise goodness?"
GA numbered iv meal, did We say ?"
said Pat, as though he doubted his ears.
"Troth it's glad I would be to sarve ye,
but it's beyant my power, so it is, or it's
myself wild do it, 'cead-meal-a-fatha. >"
Peggy was by no means surprised
it was just such an answer she ex-
pected; yet until she heard the word
there was little glimmer of hope-a
glimmer which his answer at once ex-
tinguished, for well she knew that fur
ther application was useless.
Nor did Pat wait for further applica-
ton, but, continuing to mutter his hyp-
ocritical regrets, he applied the whip
to his old mare, and moved slowly
away, while the poor widow sat down
by the wayside and began to weep.
Pat had proceeded but a short dis
lance, when a gentleman, going in the
same direction, approached the widow,
and seeing her distress inquired the
cause.
Peggy at once told him briefly the
scene just recorded, giving an outline
Of Pats character as she proceeded.
That gentleman consoled her, saying
that perhaps Pats mind would change,
and that the meal might be sent during
the day or evening; and, so saying, he
hurried on in the direction Pat had
taken.
In the meantime Pat proceeded in
his old wagon, every now and then
flashing his old mare to increase her
speed, and very necessary it was to lash
her, for not infrequently she came to a
stand until the whip and voice of her
master were called into requisition.
On one of these occasions Pat spoke
as usual to the poor creature, saying
"Go up out iv that" and was in the act
of applying the whip also, for the voice
alone was seldom effectual in making
her move, when the mare in good,
| rich Irish hrOoTa raDIiad.
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LMMATERLAL.

@Don't you have any schools Iere?"
Had kind of school here last chow
der season, but the teacher was too
willing"
How 500"
"Oh, some Of the blue fishers asked
him if he taught that the world was
round or square, and he said se-n' as
he was QUITE a Job Led teach her round
or sdnarc-just as the School Beard
wanted j: teacbed Sal i was iuma-
trYiaI. "-NeW YORK Str
THERE are epidernics OF noblenesS AZ
well as epidemics OF disease. -Fioi45s.
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4 QUEER NODE OF SELF-DEFENSE.

Il QUEER NODE OF SELF-DEFENSE.
oldest of ali defensive methods is
that off swapping off the tail. The
blind worm, or slow worm, is a little
snahe-like lizard common in the Old
World. When alarmed it contracts it's
muscles in such manner and degree as
to break its tail off at q considerable
distance from the end But how can
this aid it? The detached tail then
dances about very lively, holding the
attention Of the offender, while the
lizard himself sinks away. And for a
considerable time the tail retains its
caIabiity OF twisting and jumping every
time It is struck The lizard Will then
grow another tail, so as to be prepared
for another adventure. There are other
lizards which have similar power.
though in less degree.-PopatiGr Sci
e1lce Monthly.
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A FARMER hired a harvest hand on |

a FAKMER HIr6U IIaTVtSG ItHu Oh ITS
assurance that he was never tired. The
same morning he found his man
stretched full length on the ground
After the farmer had finished his opin.
ion Of that method of harvesting, and
reminded him that he said he was never
tired, the ingenious man admitted that
If he didn't lie down and rest a good
deal he would soon be as tired as the
other fellows; and that was the only
way to keep from being so.
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THE FIGURE "14" AND LOUIS KY.

THE FIGURE 8: II" IND LOUIS KY.
Louis XIV. was King OF France. 1t
is a singular fact that if you want to
recollect the prominent events of his
life, all you have to do is to resolve the
dates at which they took place into the
figure IA. Thus, Louis XIV. became
King in 1913; 1, 6, 4, 3, equals IA.
Again, he was born on the 18th day Of
September; count the letters in the
words ebay Of September and you will
find them to be IA. Again, he became
of age at IA, the legal age for Kings of
France. Again, he began his personal
government, at the death of AIazarin, in
1861; l. 6, 6, l, equals IA. Again he
reigned 70 years; multiply Z by 2,
equals IA. Again, he died at IT.; and
z equals IA. Again, his father, Louis
XIII. died May IA, 1913; 1, g, 3,
equals IA His grandfather, Henry ",
died May "A. Louis XIV. died in 1851,
and SO kept the Il up even to his death,
for 1, Z, 5, l, equals IA.