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The Iola register., 1883-09-28
The ArkanSaw Cow.

The Arkansaw cow is, perhaps, the
most athletic animal of her species.
She may be reduced in flesh. but her
horns are always in 4 flourishIHI Icondi-
ton. She seems to have been intended
more for the production of horn than Of
milk. Her milk receptacle is always
small, pale and delicate. If her calf
has lost its appetite, she may give milk
enough to satisfy the stomach, other
wise the calf must go hungry. 1t
would seem that the milk done up in
such small, almost silken bag, is rich
and of fine flavor, but it is not. The
bag is so thin that in summer the milk
gets too warm. 1t is favored with pen
nyroyal and herbs that have never pos
sessed any attraction for the human
family. The native Arkansaw cow does
not long for hay or corn; she wants the
buds of the sassafras sprouts and the
twigs of the dogwood tree to mix with
her pennyroyaL You might bring her
from the hillside and present her with
a bundle of fodder and a bucket of
wheat bran for dessert, and she would
shake her horns in disapproval. She
thinks that such nick-nacks are
good enough for the bloated cows Of
the North, but for the feet-footed COW
of Arkansaw such stuff is, degrading.
Her great pride seems to be in her fleet
ness. Some time ago party of gentle
men came from New York to this State
for the purpose of engaging in an ex-
tensive deer-hunt. They went out
among the hills and turned loose their
hounds. A wild and exciting chase
Immediately began. The gentlemen
were in luck; they had not dared to
hope for such easily-acquired sport.
The deer fled along the hillside, and,
strange to say, kept in the paths. The
excited dogs howled and exerted every
nerve, but they could not catch the
wild antelope. Along toward evening
a farmer came upon the party and an
grily exclaimed:
I'm a great mind to shoot you fel-
lows. You amt got no sense"
1--WE did not know that this land
was posted replied the leader of the
party.
" Posted! y vociferated the farmer;
"you are chasing my milk cows"
The Arkansaw cow has one virtue
that can not be denied. Her butter is
never strong. 1t is always weak and
delicate. The older it gets the more
gray-haired it becomes, the weaker it is,
until at last its white locks are brought
down in sorrow to the grave.-Arkan-
saw Trapeller.
The Iola register., 1883-09-28
Anecdotes Of Abraham Lincoln.

Mrs. Alice D. Shipman's Reminis.
cences of Illinois Pioneers, published
in the PtrenologicaI Journal, state OF
Colonel w. H. Davidson, that though
he supported Douglas in the contest OF
1860, nevertheless Lincoln, after his
Inauguration, wrote to Colonel David
son offering him any Office that he might
think fit to name, proposing, himself,
the Secretaryship of the Treasury. ="
The origin of Lincoln's intimacy with
Joshua F. Speed is thus related: s.Mr.
Speed began his business life as a mer-
chant in Springfield, ILL.,, where he was
settled when Mr.. Lincoln came there to
open law Office. One day as he was
leisure, Mr.. Lincoln, whose ingrained
awkwardness was then aggravated by
youth, came up to the counter, and ac-
costed him with visible embarrassment.
Il want to know, Speed, he said, the
cost of bedstead and bed,' adding a
rough description which indicated the
cheapest kind of both. What you
want, answered Mr.. Speed, will cost
YOU about S17.' At this Lincoln's jaw
dropped and painful expression OF
sadness and perplexity spread over his
countenance. Mr.. Speed, noticing the
look, and rightly interpreting it to sig
Nifty that the price exceeded Lincoln's
means, quickly added: Mr.. Lincoln, !
have proposition to make you. My
partner has just married, and his bed in
my room upstairs is vacant. If you
are willing to occupy it, and share my
room with me, you are more than well
come The painful expression Instant
ly vanished from Lincoln's face as,
with few simple words of thanks, he
accepted the offer, and disappeared. In
a short time he reappeared, with pair
of old-fashioned saddle-bags on his arm,
and, directed by his new friend,
shambled upstairs to the designated
room. A minute had scarcely passed
before he shambled down again, and as
he reached the shop room cried out, his
face beaming with jocund content:
6 Well, Speed, rre naored.' Hencefor-
ward unto death Lincoln and Speed were
bosom friends"
The Iola register., 1883-09-28
erRsoNAL AID IiTRRARY.

Mrs. H. B. Stowe i. about to begin
. new story, which win be entitled
"Orange Blossoms"
"A daughter Of General Winfield
Scott is the wife of Virginia gentle
man named Winfield Scott.
The Public Library of Boston con-
tains AZ, 116 bound volumes. It stands
as No. 10 of the great libraries Of, the
world.
The Buffalo newspaper man who
married the widow Of millionaire
Fargo, the express company magnate,
has started morning paper.-Bufdlo
Express.
Henry Clay Thurston, of Mount
Pleasant, Tex, the tallest man in
America, is seven feet seven and one
half inches high, fifty-three years of
age, and weighs 2sO pounds.
-Raceo Nina, an Italian author, who
has dedicated book to Postmaster
General Gresham, now asks that official
to send him enough money to cover the
expense of printing the first edition.
Bronson Howard, the dramatist,
who is living on royalties from his plays,
in England, is the possessor Of double
tricycle. on which he and his wife, and
and whatever supplies they feel like
carrying, make twenty-mile and thirty
mile trips about the country.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe says
that the novels of the day lack romantic
interest. Human passion has come to
be synonymous with mawkish hysteria,
to be photographed without grace, and
by what strikes her as dry process,
which takes the victim in the middle Of
an emotion, as q horse is caught with
all his feet in the air.-N Y. Graphic.
For some time Miss Louisa M. Al
colt has been at work upon new story
for boys and girls. 1t is a sequel to
Little Men," and is to be called "Joe's
Boys. and How They Turned Out
Miss Alcott hoped to have the book fin
ished for the fall, but owing to the i'll
ness of her father she has been obliged
to put off its completion indefinitely
Boston Post.
viii Carleton, the popular verse
writer, is thus described by reporter
in Indianapolis, where he has been Wis
iting: HE is nearly six feet tall, of
slender build, with a bright, rather
youthful face, blue eyes, aquiline nose
and short wliskers, which cover only
his chin. His hair, which is slightly
tinged with gray, is combed smoothly
back, and this, combined with the scme-
what clerical cut of his clothes, gives
him rather the appearance of well-to-
do young minister on a vacation"
One of the most interesting subjects
discussed by the American Library As
sociation at Buffalo was the practice of
changing the original title of book, or
of giving book more than one title.
Sometimes the change is effected by
fraud, often by thoughtlessness, but in
either case it causes annoyance. As
examples, John Habberton's 'Just One
Day." became, with a change of pub
fishers, ..Mrs. Mayburn's Twins; with
Her Trials in the Morning, Afternoon
and Evening of just One Day" Mrs.
Fetherstonhaugh's story. ''Kilcorran."
is enlarged to '.Lil, Fair, Fair, with
Golden Hair; or. Kilcorran.'
The Iola register., 1883-09-28
A Bit frustrated.

A s'summer fa;luren in the interior
of the State started out the agent of Q
New York wholesale house the other
day, and when he reached the town he
found no satisfaction beyond an empty
store
sDo you claim that you sold out
the entire stock?" he demanded in
amazement. ft's
+, Every single article
''And where's the money!"
"Well, you see, that's where was
lame. went into business determined
to make this town howl. had $4,000
worth of goods. contracted for $1,000
worth of advertising and printing.
Then / put prices down to fifty cents
on the dollar. What 1 got from the
stock paid to the printer, and came
out only ninety-eight cents behind.
Icall that mighty close figuring for
man who was peddling fish up to year
ago!''
"Yes, but you owe us IS, ,OOOr' howled
the agent.
That's so-that's so, and am sor-
~ for it. 1 don't care so ' .uch for the
ninety-eight cents l owe TIE printer, for
hen carry me sixty days, but that
$1,000 [ owe you does SORT O. Illustrate
me every time l think of it."-WaH
Street NeUS.
The Iola register., 1883-09-28
Sailing Mines.

There are sharpers in the mountain
mining camps There are many tricks
these men play. The most successful
one is sailing" the ground for tender
feet prospectors. One of these lazy,
Idle creatures will walk from dump to
dump, from shafthouse to shafthouse,
from tunnel to tunnel. picking up rich
ore. When he has enough. he scatters
the rock on distant hillsides. He
"salts," not the mine but the ground.
He does not claim to have found q lead,
but he does claim to have found the
hoat or Outcroppings of a lead He
persuades strangers to advance few
hundred dollars to pay for prospecting
the lead. He will give half the lead
for $500 or $500, the money to
be expended in searching for the
vein. He will work himself
for nothing, but he must have another
man to help him. The stranger is taken
to the distant hillside and shown the
ore. A small piece of it is pulverized
in mortar and panned. There are
plenty of colors in it. The tender
foot is eager to invest. He pays the
5000 or $500, aud returns to his Eastern
home. There is pretense of doing
work, but two-thirds of the money paid
remains in the pocket of the sharper.
The swindler plays this game four OF
five times during the year. He has
made enough to live comfortably. The
next year there is assessment work to
be done, and the partners of this dishon-
est man, who are in the East, pay their
share. The swindler spends the money
for food and clothing.
A man can buy land, houses, ships
and even horses from his friends in safe
ty. But mine no man can sell, and
in selling tell the truth about it. The
fact that in the Rocky Mountains,
where all men mine more or less, valu-
able mines arc not allowed to pass into
the hands of outsiders is overlooked by
Eastern investors. A really valuable
mine can be sold in an hour in any
Western town such as Denver, Salt
Lake, Leadville, San Francisco or Pueb-
10. In all of these towns are wealthy
men who understand the business OF
mining, and who are on the watch for
good mineral property. They pay cash,
and pay roundly. too, for mines that
suit them. If these men do not buy the
Double Eagle or Gold Hill. it is because
they know it to be worthless. They
are willing.to assist the mining experts
to shear Eastern or English lambs, but
they decline to be shorn.
The Eastern visitors to the Denver
Exposition must understand, if they do
not want to lose money, that the West
ern men are fully as able as they are,
and that they have forgotten more
about mining than the Eastern men will
ever learn. A look at the statements
of the banks doing business in Denver
will surprise Eastern investors. The
line of deposits is very large and gives
the lie to the statement that there is a
want of capital with which to develop
the resources of the mineral belt
Rocky Mountain Cor. N. Y. Sun.
The Iola register., 1883-09-28

prettier," coaxed the dressmaker; "or
you might have jet ornament.
"rd rather have that than q bow" "
says Mrs. Homespun.
Then you want another on this side
behind"
"Oh, Idon't want to pile SO much
stuff on to it. Mrs. Homespun looks
at her reflection in the mirror again.
"Well. l suppose l shall have to have
one there"
"Bows would look ever so much bet
ter" the dressmaker suggests"
r"No, won't have bows. I suppose
l shall feel like fool as it is; but ]
guess it wil look better with the orna
ments."
And so it goes on for half hour OF
more. The dressmaker goes away, and
then comes another investigation before
the mirror. Mrs. Homesp1n asks hall
dozen times: 'Now, don't you think
these sleeves are too smallp Doesn't ii
stick out too much behind? Doesn't il
look as though was trying to make Q
girl out of myself?" etc, ETC., etc. And
she is as often assured that they are
Just right, that she looks real nice in it,
that they never saw her in anything
that became her so, and much more to
the same effect.
Next day, Mrs. Homespun calls on
the dressmaker and tells her that: 81
have a good mind to try them bows
jest to please Mary, you know; though
/ don't believe I'll ever feel contented
in it. And while you're about it, you
may take the sleeves in jest little.
1 don't want to be way out of the
fashion, and 1 guess they are a little too
loose. And don't know but you'd
better put in the whole of that wigan,
perhaps it tOiN set little bit better"
When Mrs. Homespun appears in her
new dress, the sleeves are skin tight; a
big bow with long ends is on front and
another on behind. and any one can see
with half an eye that Mrs. Homespun
has got ON that hustle she bought in the
city yesterday, as an auxiliary to all
that wigan.
The dressmaker has carried her
point; she always does.-BoSton Tran
script.
The Iola register., 1883-09-28
HUMOROUS.

An earthquake usually causes an
active movement in real estate.-Som-
erU1lle Journal.
Some one who believes that ''brevity
is the soul of wi" writes: Don't eat
Q cumbers. They'll Wup."
-Adele-Yes. your poem, "He loves
me very dearly" is remarkable pro-
duction; but if you want those pleasant
relations to continue, don't let him see
it. As for the copy sent hither, it will
be carefully placed in little basket,
not necessary for publication, but as
guarantee of good faith.-Erchange.
81 feel so worried about Charles?"
sighed Mrs. Wildhusband. '.It's get
ting late sure enough" said sister Kate,
looking at the clock; "but guess moth
ing unusual has happened" That is
what frets me-" replied Mrs. Wild
husband, "I am afraid something usual
has happened to Charles. ."-Detroit
Post.
Last week the Governor of Rhode
Island packed his State in a hand bag
and took it down to Cape May for
holiday. This was kind of the Cover
nor, and makes the Governor of Texas
hide his diminished head when he con-
trasts the generous action with his own
selfishness. Catch him taking his State
anywhere. Bless you, it's as much as
he can do to keep it at home.-Burling-
ton Hawkeye.
-Ingratiating photographer (after
carefully posing little Violo): "And
now you are going to be very good
little girl, and sit as still as mouse for
few minutes. Violo (who, though
but mite, has a mighty will of her
own, quickly imposing and assuming a
most determined expression): 80, in
deed, Mr.. Man! That's all you know
about it! I'm going to be as naughty as
possibler'-N Y. Herald.
-Cesar's mistake: "Boss, will you
tell me how to make root beere' asked
"a colored man of clerk in drug
store, a day or two ago. "Yes. will:
Take hickory stick, three gallons of
water, an old hat, a quart of molasses,
a paper of tacks and pound of cayenne
pepper, and boil and skim and set in
cool place" 'Say dat again, boss, so
l can disremember" The clerk re-
peated his directions and the customer
brought his fist down on the counter
with the exclamation: 81 sees where
spilled my hull batch! I left out de
tacksr'-Bosto. Gazette.
-Honors were easy: A German citi-
zen. approaching the window. re-
quested that check payable to the or
der of Schweitzercase be cashed. "Ja,
dots me-" he nodded reassuringly, in
answer to the teller's lock of inquiry.
"But I don't know that you are Mr..
Schweitzercase. You must get your
self identified" said the teller. '.How
vass dot?" asked the German citizen,
with puzzled look. "You must get
some one to identify you," repeated the
bank officer. '.Ah, jar cried John.
much relieved; "dot's all right. i
don'd know you neider. "-ButaIo COM
mercidl.
The Iola register., 1883-09-28
His Revenge.

They were riding up from the Wall
street ferry in a bus. He lifted his hat
to her in q gingerly manner, and she
bowed with the coldness OF an iceberg.
"Know herr" asked q man at his ell
bow.
"Know her! Why I was engaged to
her last fallr'
"And what?"
"And she gave me the bounce: She
,aid she loved me, but she could not
endure the thought of a struggle with a
French flat and tapestry Brussels car
pets. Invent forth . crushed man, but
revenge is mine!
"How?"
"Why, her father put one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars In . summer
hotel, and the company hasn't made
enough to pay the wages o1 the head
wsiter!'-Ra0 Street Nssos.
The Iola register., 1883-09-28
Swindling the s'Grangers."

The success of the man who goes
among the farmers soliciting their
money for his useless wares has long
been a scandal and shame. 1t is not
all the farmers fault. He is like other
men in most respects. Human nature
is much the same, the world over. But
his isolation offers fewer opportunities
for consultation and for combination in
self-defence. A scheme that would fail
in the town merely because it would at
tract the attention of others, and be dis
cussed by them while looking on, may
be carried out in the retiracy of the
farmers home A band of scoundrels
covering house in the village with
network of ightning-rods, and then
bulldoZing the owner into promlssory
note for ten times the cost of the work,
would fail merely from the casual pres
ence of the neighbors who might chance
to pass while the work was going on.
Yet this transparent fraud may be sue
cessful when attempted on an unsus-
picious and busy man who stands alone.
Legal technicalities tend to demOralize
the farmer. He sees some one swindled
by the combined shrewdness of two
swindlers, one of whom is lawyer,
and he learns to distrust the law.
Finding his name signed to a very HARM
less contract, he is persuaded that he
has 'got his foot in il" and he will pay
out rather than stand for what he
knows to be his rights, fearing the law.
And. at all this, the self-sufficient man
on the crowded streets will smile, and
say the farmer ought to have more
sense. And this is true. We should
know more than we do. But experience
is slow school, and it is essentially the
school of those who live in isolation.
But the position of the farmer offers
the swindler better opportunity to es-
cape detection. The latter may be
cleaning in far-distant pastures before
his little scheme has been discovered,
the village, the idle loafers, the lawyers.
the officers, all would have been on his
track while it was yet warm.
1t is the duty of the press, as well as
of reading and observant farmers and
others to warn everybody against the
oily tongues of the peddler of cloths,
carpets, linens, etc., that have escaped
duty, or are bankrupt stocks, and sold
for song. The travelling vender Of
gratis and fruit trees is dangerous
fellow. for it takes long time to prove
his guilt. But tree-planting is matter
Of so much Importance to the planter,
and he should be so absolutely certain
Of what he is doing, that it seems
strange that any one should permit him.
self to take the risk of relying on the
representations of an irresponsible
stranger.
But it is useless to attempt to enum-
crate the wiles of the wicked. The wis
dom of the serpent will be sufficient to
enable him to hide his trail. An old
swindle will be succeeded by new one,
and when the old is forgotten it will be
revived. The only safety is in giving a
wide berth to offers of sudden riches at
the hands Of strangers-to all offers OF
something for nothing-and especially
to every proposition that suggests on
its face any intrigue, any fraud upon
the Government or on private persons,
Or any gain where others must lose.-
Western Farm Jowrnoa.
The Iola register., 1883-09-28
Where He Had Us.

There were seven or eight of us in the
smoking-car, and by and by the conver.
sation turned upon hotels. Six of the
crowd were going to stop off at the same
village in Georgia, and one of them re-
marked:
swell, gentlemen, you can make up
your minds to 60 through purgatory to-
night
"Why?"
swell, there is only one hotel in the
town, and that is run by the meanest
man south of the Ohio River"
"Do you know him?' asked a chap
who was suspected of being lightning
rod agent from Chicago.
Il rather reckon"
"And what's he mean about?'
Everything. He has bugs in his
beds, uses beans in his coffee, his rooms
are dirty, and he's robber in his
charges"
"And there's no other hotel?''
"No. If there was he wouldn't get
custom enough to keep a cat alive.
He's the meanest man in the State ci
Georgia, and if ever catch him outside
of his town I'll put head on him.
81 move that we resist any swindle
on his part" said drummer from Chi.
cago.
"H find bugs I'll fire the bed out OF
the window said a patent-churn man
from Ohio"
And thus it went on for half an hour,
everybody anticipating and predicting,
but the conversation finally closed by
the originator remarking:
"Well, We'll have to put up with it
suppose, but you can make up your
minds to see the meanest, low-down,
hang-dog tavern-keeper in America"
1t was after dark when we reached
the village, and after delaying awhile
with the baggage five of us rode up to-
gether in the bus. The sixth man had
disappeared, and we didn't see him un.
til we reached the hotel. Then he was
discovered behind the desk, pen over
his ear, his coat off-in fact, he was the
identical landlord himself! One after
another walked up, took a look at him
and fell back, and we had adjourned to
the veranda and were talking of sleep
ing out on the grass that night when he
came out and said:
Gentlemen, will you walk in and
cegisterP" -
One followed the other, and though
we all remained until the next evening.
not word was said nor 2 hint dropped
about the conversation on the cars. 1t
was only as the train was ready to go
that he shook hands ali around snd
kindly remarked:
1.-The meanest, low-down, hang-dog
tavern-keeper in America hopes to see
one and all again. Have q cigar, gen.
tlemenP'
We sent him . gallon of wine and a
box of cigars from Augusta. but he was
still our creditor.-Detroit Free Press.
The Iola register., 1883-09-28
''FrOgging." "

Frogs have long been considered a
delicacy with gourmands, but it is new
for ladies to think it a sport and ro-
nance to catch them, or better, per-
haps. to spear them. The poverty oi
amusements in several villages near the
city, made resort dur..g the summer,
suggested to some enterprising woman
the idea of going out in the evening
with jack lanterns to the ponds frog
ging" with spears, or pitchforks tied
with ribbons. 1t is said that at first the
ladies could not keep from screaming
when they saw the big frogs on the logs
or in the bullrushes, and would throw
down their implements of torture and
run some distance, but after a
second sober thought go back to face
the enemy under the instruction
of a native frog-hunter. The popu-
lar style of "frogging," however, has
been to go IN boat with jacklights in
the bow. The frogs, attracted by the
lights, come from their hiding places,
give a croak, and all is over, as rib
6oned spear dispatches them. Some
times the ladies fish for frogs, using a
hook baited with red flannel, and say
that a well-mannered frog can not re-
sist the temptation of swapping at this
much-esteemed color. 1t is predicted
that another seasJn of "frogging y"
will be immensely popular at the in
land watering places. The mania for
water turtles with the fair sex is
another novel caprice. The smaller
the turtles the more they are priced,
and are deemed sufficiently pretty to
be carried about in ornamental silk
bags on the arms of the owners. A
young girl returning from Richfeld
Springs had dozen or more diminu-
tive turtles in box, which she played
with, pulling their tails and legs. and
throwing them about as she emptied
them on the table, where they scam
pered industriously to her infinite
amusement and pleasure. T. Cor.
Syracuse Journal
The Iola register., 1883-09-28

Mr.. Henry A. Sprague, close OBJ
server in the boundless field of natural
history. writes to the Mirror and Farm
er against red squirrels, which he ac-
cuses of not only preying on fruit. but,
what ~ worse, fighting with birds for
the contents of their nests.
The Iola register., 1883-09-28

All commun cations forthis paper should be accom-
panied By the nsme Of the suihor not necessarily for
publication, but evidence Of good faith on the
part OF the writer Write only one side of the Pc
per- BE particularly careful In giving names and datcs
10 have the letters and figures plain and distinct.
Proper names often difficult 10 decipher becauss
Of the careless manner In which they are written