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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16

ESQ endeth-tAe inst lesson" he
murmured, and then all earthly tangles
for him were over. and LIES rough
places grew smooth and plain.
Jim was greeted with congratuls-
tions, praises and questions on every
side.
"That was brave decd of yours. sir
"a dangerous undertaking, very skill
fully planned and executed" declared
an officer of the road, with a congratu-
latory shake of the hand. ut far more
than cancels that little misfortune OF
yours last fall. There is no telling
where this thing might have ended but
for you. Cali around ut the office in
the morning. will you? We shall have
something to say to you"
What does that mean?" questioned
eager Dell, as Jim made his way to her
side.
at means that everything is all right
again." answered Jim. with an odd
smile playing about his lips. "Queer
how soon Bit of success can change q
great crime into merely little misfor-
tune"
The excitement was over, and the
yard slowly settled back to its ordinary
routine. but the young engineer and
pretty Dell fingered for last plying,
tender glance at the still form, rever-
emily covered now.
"For whatever he may have been to
the rest of the world. dear Jim. for us
he fulfilled his mission" said the girl,
softly.-Kate W. Hamilton, in The Con.
tinent.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16
Rest for the Weary.

There is an unusual amount OF i'll
ness this autumn of the type known as
nervous prostration." 1t is prevalent
among hard-worked people, who have
been deprived of the needed summer
rest and relaxation, men who carry
their business home with them every
night, and women who are worn out by
domestic cares and worries. 1t is very
strange how much we are told about
food, clothing, ventilation, drainage,
exercise and other things which have
an influence on our health, and how
very seldom we think of rest. And
vet, a. a remedial and restorative
measure, it is of the first importance in
many cases. Most physicians know
what to do and when to do it, but q
good deal of common sense is required
to discover how not to do something,
and when to let the patient alone. A
combination of drugging and fretting
kills more than half the sick people in
the world: A mans enemies can not
do him near so much damage as bis
friends. The world is possessed with
the notion that when q man is taken i'll
a terrible ado must be kept up, an al.
formation of nursing and fussing, while
preternaturally wise and whispering
doctors, sympathizing friends, fearful
relatives and chattering nurses add
their contributions to the wrong side,
and all because somebody is i'll and
needs chiefly rest. We have moi
yet, most of us, gotten rid of the old no.
ton of the ancients that disease is per.
sonality, q something that is in the air,
that travels about, enters our dwellings,
and finally seizes hold of US; something
akin, in the minds of the ignorant, to a
goblin, ghost, fiend, demon or witch.
which only pills or rotations can exor.
else, kill or cure. We are confident that
many sensible physician will say. il
the patient will let him, that two-thirds
Of all the maladies of all thepeople in the
world would get well in few hours or
days, if left to themselves, with no othel
appliances than such as instinct would
suggest and common sense employ. But
the patients often estimate the doctors
skill by the wonderfully wise look
which he assumes, and the extent OF
variety of his prescriptions; and sick
mans friends hate to seem unsympa.
thizing, and so are apt to be oficious.
It is to be understood, OF course, tina,
we are not speaking of extreme cases.
but of the treatment of most of the ills
which flesh is heir to-the troubles
which come upon oyerworked men and
women, so many of whom we find all
around us in this pushing competitive
age. Their best remedy, If they can
take it, is rest. If that be impossible,
we can only pity observation-disclosures Or.
~ Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Not single city in the United States
has accommodations for its school pop
ulation.-M Y Independent.
"A large college is to be erected al
Rugby. Tenn, Thomas Hughes having
conceived the idea while on recent Wis.
it to that place.
"A young Danish Count, travelling
through India, has become 50 much
impressed with the need of religious
work there that he has become q mis-.
sionary himself.
The oldest school-teacher in New
Haven, Conn.,, is Sarah Wilson, a ne
gress seventy-seven years old, who has
been teaching for sixty years. Her
father was born 3 slave in New Haven,
but bought his freedom. Mrs. Wilson
has good education.-Har.ford Post.
The Chicago Erensng Journal
counts the kindergarten and the Manual
Training School the most important adj
ditions made to our educational institu-
lions during this century. The time
will come. it predicts. when a training
in both will be deemed an essential part
of every child's education. We are in
clined to accept the probationary Y.
Examiner.
-Sixty-one thousand five hundred
and fifty-seven dollars! That is the con-
tribution to benevolent objects made in
one year by Plymouth Church, Mime
apolis, in addition to carrying on its
own great work. Not in Boston, OF
New York, or in any of our great cities
has any church e9ualed it so far as re-
ported. A few years since this
Plymouth Church was Home Mission
station.-Bdptia Weekly.
"A writer who describes the Indian
schools in Albuquerque, and who says
that additional buildings are to be
erected, adds: "The experiments in
Carlisle, Pa, and in Hampton. Ia, have
demonstrated the wisdom of establish
ing schools for Indian youth. 1t il
found that, aside from philanthropie
considerations, schools in which the
head and the hand are trained are more
economical and more thorough than any
method hitherto devised for civilizins
the Indian"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16
Indecent Publications

Georgia has q severe law against the
circulation of indecent literature, and q
man named Montrose has been con-
victed under it and sentenced to fine
of 81, 900 for circulating certain New
York paper devoted to the publication
of scandalous and criminal news. The
publisher of the paper has made Mont
roses case his own and will seek ia
bring the law before United States
Court tor the purpose of having its
constitutionality definitely passed upon.
Every friend of decency and good
morals will join in the wish that the
Georgia law may be upheld in its letter
and spirit. 1t is > good law. 1t is the
expression of an effort on the part of a
virtuous and honorable people to keep
pure the fountains of instruction and
protect themselves from the foul i'm.
purities which, in the name of itera,
ture and news, are spewed out from
Northern cities. These immoral and
demoralizing sheets. dealing in crime
and scandal alone, and invariably en-
bellished with pictorial illustrations,
are published and circulated under the
protection of the liberty of the press.
but if the liberty of the press, which
originally meant and ought still to
mean, the unrestricted right to speas
of and discuss public affairs, has be.
come bulwsrk of protection for as
saults upon the moral foundations Of
social order, it is time it were recon
sidered and subjected to more severe
definition. Liberty is one thing, IL
cense is quite another. The one mean:
the right to seek good ends in the indi.
viduaI and the public welfare; the other
means the right to do wrong and to
inflict wrong on the public by corrupt
ing its morals and sneering at its vir.
tue. No harm would be done the peo
pie of Georgia by forbidding the circu.
Iation of the paper in question within
that State. On the contrary, q great
good would be accomplished. Indeed
great good would be accomplished BY
forbidding its circulation in every State,
for its whole tendency is immoral and
corrupting. The Georgia statute is a.
good law as the inhibited qualifications
Is a bad paper. and it would be apublis
misfortune, q triumph of vice over viz.
tue, if the statute should be set aside a.
an infringement on the freedom Of tha
press.--&. Louis Republicon.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16
Hosiery.

Black stockings still prevail for gen.
eral use, but there is an effort to revive
the fashion of having the hosiery match
the dress. Solid colors with embroid-
cry in open designs and in thick work
are chosen for handsome silk stockings,
fine Balbriggans, and for those of Isle
thread; the embroidery begins at a point
on each side and widens until it almost
meets on the instep. and this needle
work, as well as the plainest clocks,
must be of the color of the stocking
not in contrast to it. For the street,
black. gray, navy blue, emerald. green
and dark cardinal-not scarlet are the
colors most used. To match suits there
are golden brown stockings with tan
color, seal brown, bronze, Judic, mouse
and blue-gray. For evening toilets are
flesh tints, salmon and pale coral; pearl
white stockings are worn only by
brides. Ribbed silk stockings cling to
the limb and are warm enough for out
of-door use in winter; raw silk stock
ings are also for street use, apd with
fleece Innings are comfortable in the
coolest weather. Ribbed Balbriggan
hose made of the fine Sea Island cotton
are shown in all the dark colors. with
white soles that have a fresh and clean
~ appearance; these are especially liked
in black, navy blue, seal brown and
cardinal. Cashmere stockings are soft
and warm, and are preferred to those
of merino as they do not shrink;
it is poor economy to buy low
priced wool stockings, as they
are not we'll shaped, are badly
dyed and do not wear well. The most
luxurious stockings are mixtures of
camel's hair and silk, with the toes and
heels entirely of silk; these are $3.50 .
pair, in soft, dull gray and drab shades.
Misses stockings of wool or of cotton
match the dark color of the dress, or
else they are black. French cashmere
stockings of dark colors with white cot
ton feet are chosen for children. Boys
wear long ribbed stockings, either navy
blue, gray or black. Fine wool stock
ings for very small children are now
woven double over the knees.-Harper's
Ia gar,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16

1t takes 1900, 900 postal cards 20
weigh one TOM r Times.
Out of population Of 1900, 900 in
New York City, only 1859 persons
own real estate.-M r Tribune.
in his report to the Secretary Of the
Interior, Governor Tritle, of Arizona,
claims for the Territory . population OF
1900.
Texas organized sixty-eight new
counties last year, making 300 in the
State. The increase of her taxable
property in the year was $3.50, 900. 600.
-Chicago Herald.
New York City has $50, 0OO, 900 in
vested in the oyster business, and last
year ate at home 5000. 900 bushels of
the tOothless fish. A Washington Mar
ket woman is getting rich selling 500
bowls of soup day at ten cents bowl.
M Y. Sun.
1t is unusual for Southern planter
to make $500, 900 by farming. Mr.. L..
NJ. Hill, of Wilkes County, Ga, has re-
Gently died. He made 100000 by
farming. In the same county General
Toombs and his brother Gabriel are
each worth $5OO,OOO, nearly all Of
which has been made by farming
Louisville Couricr-Journai.
When Horace Greeley visited Utah,
the saints told him that there were
more girls than boys in Mormondom.
which they argued was sign of Gods
approval Of pOlygamy. The latest sta
tistics, however, show that of the births
in the church during the last six months
1900 were male and LOO female.
Moreover, the last census shows that
there were then in the Territory 1882
males under ten years of age and %, 762
Chicago Times.
One of the finest coffee estates in
Mexico is said to be that of San Anto-
Mo, northward from the city of Colima,
the property of Messrs. Adolf Kefe.
Arnold Vogel, Enrique Stoldt and
Arthur rArivel. There are 80, 600 trees
in fruit, which will produce abundantly
this year, $4,000 which will produce
their first crop, $4,000 planted in the
current year, after having been in the
nursery three years, and from 100000
to $50, 900 trees in the nurseries, max
ing total of $4,000 plants. of which
11O, 900 are in bearing.
The great bulk of the horse-hair
used in the United States is imported
from the Argentine Republic and
Uruguay. The total amount imported
in 1882 was 1852, 600 pounds. In the
previous year the importation was g.
643,972 pounds, and in 1880 nearly A.
OOO, 900 pounds. Assuming an average
price of % cents per pound the amount
imported last year would reach total
value of about 81, 1901 COO. The bulk Of
this horse-hair is manufactured by four
or five concerns, one of which is in
Boston, one in New York, one in Phila-
delphia and one in Balimore.-M y
Herald.
"A league has been organized in
New Engl to inaugurate q war
against the excessive granting of divorce
DEGREES. During last year 5S7 divorces
were granted in Maine-an increase Of
nearly so per cent. in twenty years.
New Hampshire divorces have increased
from 1O7 in 1860 to 314 in 1882; Massa.
chusetts divorces from 243 to 600 in the
same length of time; Connecticut di.
vorces from IA in 1849 to AS in 1880;
Rhode Island divorces from 1872 in 1869
to POI in 1882. The New York courts
granted 2l8 divorces in 1880, 253 in
1881, 316 in 1882, and this year the
number promises to swell to 4O0.-Bos.
ton Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16
They Must Steal.

There are in St. Louis dozens ol
ladies, the wives or daughters Of
wealthy citizens, who are addicted to
kleptomania. Every prominent dry
goods store has several such customers,
and when known they are followed from
the time they enter the store until they
leave it and by careful watching every
little article they abstract is noted down
and included in their bills, which are
always paid without demur.
One young lady kleptomaniac mani.
tests her disordered mind in stealing
buttons; everything else is sacred, but
she invariably edges up to the button
counter and slyly slips card with q
dozen or so of buttons into her reticule.
The boys at the counter all know her
and place the commonest buttons within
her reach. Any kind satisfies her; still
her bill for buttons during year is
something that would surprise you. As
her family are good customers we offer.
ed to take back the buttons. But no,
they said the would rather consider
anything she took out of the store in
the light of purchase. Now, the
young lady in question is model Of
probity in all other respects and seems
to be perfectly unconscious of any trans
erosion of the moral law.
The wife of well known uptown
pastor is confirmed kleptomaniac,
much to the sorrow of the good man, her
husband. She is never allowed to &C
out shopping without being accompan-
led by some one, and a messenger is EN-.
ployed to return the purloined articles,
which are usually of trifiing value. A
venerable old lady, devout member Of
the Presbyterian Church and a real
motherly old soul, is victim to the
habit. She is widow and the mother
of young lady, the announcement OF
whose prospective marriage to one OF
our society beaux appeared in the paper
the other day. The old lady is wealthy
and not addicted to extravaganza in
anything. She will steal regardless OF
the value of the article, and if nothing
else is handy will fill her pocket with
paper. The first time she was detected
in our store the salesman brought her to
my private Office and complained that
she had stolen some cotton hose.
thought it an ordinary case of theft and
gave her severe lecture on the moral
wrong of pilfering, interlarded with
threats of condign punishment on q
repetition of the offense. She both e,n.
fessed and lamented her unhapp, pro-
pensity, but claimed that she was I'm.
able to control this horrible habit. She
gave me her name and address, and
when 1 verified them put the cast
down as one of kleptomania, and sub
sequent events proved that l was right
st. LOUIS Post Dis patch.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16
Houses for Poultry.

Poultry houses may be either orna.
mental or useful, or both combined, &C.
cording to the taste of the builder.
Where it is intended to continue in the
business year after year it is better to
put up substantial buildings in the first
place. A very good poultry house,
which will last for many years, can be
put up for thirty dollars by farmer
who has timber lot. Such building
would accommodate from twenty-five to
thirty fowls. according to the breed.
There are many good plans for poultry
houses, but some are better than others
on account OF adaptation to situation
and locality. The chicken house should
be separate from that occupied by the
adult fowls. When new there will be
little difficulty in raising chicks. 1t
should be kept clean and dry. The roof
should be low and glazed on the south.
ern exposure. It Is better to let the sun
light in through the roof. as then the
fowls receive the full benefit of its rays
on the back. where most required.
The chicken house should have q
ground floor of light sand and earth,
raised above the common Level and pro.
vided with good drainage. This may
be done by paving with cobble stones,
imbedded in gravel, covered afterward
with loose earth. The roof windows
must be arranged to let down from the
top for ventilation in sunny days, when
the air becomes sitting. which is weak.
ening to the chicks. There should be
some method of heating artificially dur.
ing cloudy and stormy days. This is
best done by coal stoves. With these
appliances chickens may be Matched in
March, and If not kept too tender will
be able to run abroad when the mild
days of April come. Eight feet at the
peak is hig h enough. The roof should
slope from this to four. The building
should be twelve feet square on the
ground. This is sufficiently large either
for raising chicks or wintering adult
fowls, if placed in a sheltered location,
or rather partially underground on the
north side.
For spring and summer raising Of
chicks it might be lower at the peak, as
the young chicks would run out in mild
weather. The cold and stormy days Of
early spring are trying to young poul.
try, and for these some provision must
be made. There must be separate apart.
ments or buildings for adult fowls and
for chicks. The greatest difficulty in
raising young chicks under glass is the
lack of good ventilation and fresh air,
which makes them strong and robust.
Of the large breeds, or Asiatics, the
April chickens are strong and vigorous,
and less liable to the disorders that at.
tack the later Matched chicks.-C. B.,
tn Country Gentleman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16
ICHABOD TURNER'S MISSION.

"Crookedl Crooked! Crooked" rang
out the sharp, peculiar, dissonant voice,
and the tall, thin figure in seedy gar
ments and Tapping hat swayed to and
fro on the stump that had been selected
for rostrum. "All things have gore
crooked in this world, and I've come to
set 'em straight-to undo the snarls,
give the power where it belongs and put
men in their places. Oh-h-h my
friends! The world is topsy-turvy; the
tops at the bottom and the bottoms al
the top, and I've come to turn things
right eend up"
The six o clock whistle had sounded
fhe close of another days work at the
shops, and the men, pouring out from
the various smoke stained archways,
paused to listen. 1t was motley group
some bedaubed with many colors
from the paint-rooms, some with grimy
hands and faces from foundry or ma
chine shop, while farther back on the
dong platform that extended along the
track, were gathered that inevitable adj
junct of any crowd. the boys, and a
sprinkling of women-some of the lat
ter with children in their arms. The
speakers excitement seemed to deepen
as his audience increased. The keen
eyes under the old hat darted lightning
Like chances here and there, he gesticu-
aaeed wildly and his voice rose to a still
higher pitch.
Oh-h-h yes! Look at me! I'm
Ichabod Turner, and the mission I'm
sent en- is to mend all crookedness and
turn things right eend up!'
The men seemed to find grim pleas
ure in the harangue. They laughed as
they exchanged comments.
Chosen good point to begin at,
eh, Jack?" questioned one.
- l should say SOL He'll have a tough
contract, even if he doesn't extend his
territory
''Gein' to set all things straight? It'll
take mightier than Won to do that Job
wish to massy he'd begin it soon.'
murmured an old woman on the plat
form, as she picked up her bundle and
trudged on again.
The two men looked after her, and
the elder shook his grizzled head.
'.Poor soul! No doubt things seem
crooked enough to her; her boy was
crushed between the cars last year
Does seem as if somebody might invent
a way to get along with killing fewer
prakemen."
Jim Barclay, sauntering down the
dong walk, stopped beside bright
young girl who had paused for mo-
ment on the outer edge of the crowd.
..If that fellow would begin his work
BY altering the days and ghts a little,
Or my means of enjoying them, I'd be
obliged to him." he laughed.
The girl turned with a little start of
surprise and pleasure.
"Why, Jimr' Then glance at his
sunch-basket brought the swift ques-
ton: You're not going out tonight
Its not your run"
81 must make it though, they say.
1t's an extra train, and they are short of
men, somehow-off or disabled. feel
considerably disabled myself"
You were out last night?''
"And all the night before and nearly
all Yesterday. didn't get in to-day
until afternoon. and I was scarcely set
tied into a comfortable sleep before
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16

The Surveyor of Customs at Green
port, L. l., reports that 81 $50, 900 men,
baden were caught in the waters about
Long Island during the past three
months. The value of the fish was
100000. The fish made 274,65O bar
rels Of oil.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-11-16

Over the door of q cabin in Mon.
tana, on the line of the Northern Pacific
Road, is written with charcoal these
words: "Only nine miles to water and
twenty miles from wood. No grub il
the house. God bless our home. Chs
cGgo Herald.
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manded IN surprise.
SLEW down." painted Jim; "sent to
help you. But what on earth do you
mean by trying to start the millennium
in broad day light?'
Daylight" repeated Ichabod, be-
wildered by an earnestness and assur-
ance as fierce as his own.
Don't you know we must wait until
the stars begin to fall? Besides, we
must 90 back and telegraph to all the
world to clear the track for U.S.
He was improving his companions
momentary confusion by gently edging
into his place and crowding him back,
while ne urged the superior advantages
of his own plan of proceeding. All the
details of that brief, horrible ride Jim
could never clearly recall, but, with the
engine once in his own hands, he held
possession, and as soon as it was posi-
bic reversed it, endeavoring the while
to distract the others attention BY a
stream of explanations concerning their
joint mission. The suggestion of clear
ing the track seemed to suit Ichabod's
crazed brain, and Selling the cord near
him he chung to it so persistently that
Tue silIich'uSs ucaIChiuS Stcd" WuiStlc
drowned out all farther efforts ct con-
versation, and never ceased its terrific
din until they rolled back into the great
yard. Officers, police and train dis
patchers had been hastily notified, only
10 find themselves helpless in the mat
ter, and line of anxious spectators
watched the engines return. Then,
discovering for the first time that his
project was foiled, or bent upon some
new scheme-no one could ever tell
which-Ichabod suddenly dropped the
cord, and. before his companion could
surmise his intention. leaped to the
track. A moment later he was drawn
from under the cruel wheels and ten
derby lifted.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

The charities that soothe and heal
and bless are scattered at the feet of .
man like flowers Wordsworth.