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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
How . Mountain Nan Loves.

Atall, broad-shouldered. gray-bearded
miner from Montana, while viewing the
sights about town, strolled into one OF
the theaters the other evening and took
seat near the stage. During the per-.
Torrance he became deeply interested
in one of group Of females who were
disporting themselves on the stage. The
dark eyes and rounded form of the siren
completely captured the heart of the
rugged miner, and he lost no time in
gaining an introduction to the fair en-
SLAYER, and he made an engagement to
meet her at rehearsal next day. The
miner was punctual in keeping his APP
pointment, and waited patiently until
the artistic had finished her rehearsal.
He then brusquely invited her to take q
walk, and she nothing 10th consented.
This promenade was probably the most
profitable one in which the actress ever
engaged. for her companion led her into
a dry goods store. and without much
ceremony began purchasing such ar
ticles as he seemed to think she needed.
Fine hosiery and underwear. a richly
trimmed cloak and handsome lace
collar were among the purchases which
the man from Montana made for the OBJ
ject of his affections.
On the following day another walk
along the leading thoroughfare was
taken by the pair. The snow was fall
ing. and the generous miner took his
companion to stored and bought her
gossamer cloak and a pair of rubbers.
As they left the place he requested the
woman to accompany him to the depot.
Arriving there the miner bestowed a fond
look upon her and said, with pathetic
smile:
"You think I'm funny Teller, now,
don't you? Well, now. III tell You what
I'll do. I've taken fancy to you, and
if you II marry me and GO to Montana
I'll buy you $500 sealskin sacque. OF
course you needn't go if you don't want
to; it will make no difference in my feel
ings for you if you don't. ashanti think
hard of you if you don't. Now, what
do you say, yes or no?'
The favorite of the footligbts turned
her head and hurriedly reviewed the
situation. The thought of forsaking the
glare and glitter of the stage, and APP
plause and attentions of the habitues of
the theater was too much for her, and
she flatteringly replied:
Il don't think will accept your
Offer"
':All right; good byer' exclaimed the
miner as he hurried into the train, and
thus they parted. .......
On arriving at the theater that evening
the actress was informed that a package
had been left for her. 1t was found to
contain '.love of hat" which she had
when out walking with the
miner, and a handsome morocco pocket
book well filled with gold pieces and
Chicago NeWS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
IS SeaSOnable Weather."

Even the most comprehensive survey
of the country fails to give more than g
faint conception of the vast sums which
depend upon the maintenance of the
average conditions of the weather pecu-
liar to each month and season.
Next to a cold, unfruitful summer, .
warm open Winter causes the greatest
disturbance to business. There is nc
doubt that the resumption of prosperity
after the panic of 1873 was greatly de.
layed by the warm winters of 1856 and
1861, which made the whole interior
a vast sea of mud through which travel
was almost impossible, except by rail.
The consequence was farmers and others
could not get to their market towns, the
unsold goods of the retail merchants
filled their shelves, collections became
impossible and business languished to
StagnatiOn.
The mild weather of last winter had
most disastrous effect upon business.
Naturally it manifested itself most in the
clothing trade. Dealers, as usual. laid
in at the beginning of winter stock of
goods as large as their credit would adj
NIT of. The sale for these during the
winter was not to exceed thirty-three
per cent. of the average. The result was
that when spring came, with its matured
bills, and its need of another stock OF
seasonable goods, the dealer found two
thirds of his winter goods still on hand,
and only funds enough to pay very
small part of his liabilities. He was EN-.
barrassed, the jObber who had extended
him credit was also embarrassed, and
this trouble was greatly enhanced when
the spring proved as unreasonable as the
winter had been. and left the dealer with
another quota of unsold and unpaid for
goods. a..
This married the general business sue
cess of the prosperous season of 1882.
ool-growing. wooden factories and
allied industries naturally sympathized
very keenly with the depression in
clothing, and languished through the
year. A host of other industries suffered
fearfully, though the injuries to them
were not SO apparent as TO those We have
mentioned.
Though there has been reason at times
for thinking that the matter was some
what overdone the weather this winter
has been so seasonable as to highly favor
business activity. There has been q
splendid trade in all kinds of goods,
farmers have been able TO market their
productions. at good prices. they have
had good travelling to and from their re-
spective towns since the winter began,
and consequently they have bought
freely. Another thing; deep SHOWS and
hard frosts are invariably followed by
enormous fruitfulness in field and tree,
and there is no doubt that next Summer
will be a most bountiful one for the
husbandman.- Toledo Blade.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
Norwegian Engagement Customs.

As soon as young man and young
woman are engaged in Norway. no mat
ter in what rank of life. bethrOthal rings
are exchanged. These rings are worn
ever afterward by the men, as well as
by the women. The consequence is that
one can always tell a married man, or,
at least, an engaged man, in Norway.
ried woman in England when she shows
rich, but silver, either solid or in fila
gree, by the poor. There is no married
man in Norway, no matter how humble
ne may be, who does not bear this out
ward mark of his submission to the
matrimonial bond. But this is not all
As soon as the man is engaged he has
calling cards printed, with Ne name OF
his fiancee Immediately below his own.
-EIchqnge- Noes ...,.,..rv T.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
Tragic Death Of q Father.

Gas Jacques lie Canadien. a character well
known to sportsmen, was blacksmith
and voyageur Of La Torente. He at
sended fishing excursions. and had two
sons, to one Of whom he left his proper
ty. The other. hearing that he had been
disinherited, repaired to his fathers
house and upbraided him with the fact.
Words ran high. and the father proceed
ed to thrash the son. "Why have you
robbed ne and left all to a canaille2"
demanded the son. Why" replied
Mr. Jacques, in paroxysm of rage,
"why, because have two canailles of
sons; It does not matter which I leave it
TO. You are just as" The words
died away on bis lips. and Jacques fell
dead in bis wife's arms, while bis son
fed terror-stricken from the house. 1t
was rumored at first that there had been
murder done by the son, but syncope of
the heart was the verdict of the Coroner's
Sury.-zoronto Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
What the Telescope Did for Astronomy.

The foundations of physical astrono-
my were laid in the invention of the tel
escope. Every one has heard of the
emotion which filled Europe at the an
nouncement of the discovery of an in
strument which had the power of making
distant objects appear as if they were
near. 1t was at that time that Calico,
having only learned that such an instru-
ment existed, discovered its arrange
ment, constructed one, turned it toward
the sky. and, with this aid, fertilized by
his genius, made series of magisterial
discoveries. These discoveries belonged
prominently to physical astronomy, and
form its first courses. II we except the
sun and moon, which have a very sensi-
BILE diameter, and admit of some obser-
vations without the aid of the telescope,
all the stars appear to the eye only as
brilliant points, and admit of no studies
except of their motions. Therefore, an
astronomy without the telescope would
never have permitted us otherwise than
as matter of probability to consider the
planets as like the earth in form. consti-
tuition and office. But when it was seen
that these brilliant and almost blazing
points were resolved under the
telescope into well-defined disks,
showing indications of continents, clouds
and atmospheres; when satellites were
perceived around these globes play
ing the same part to them as the
moon plays to the earth--then probable
tiles gave place to q clear certainty.
Telescopes, then, are the instruments BY
means of which the. constitution of the
solar system has been definitely unveiled,
and the earth has been assigned its part
and its rank in the system of the planets.
The discovery of the spots on the sun
and of its rotation completed the con-
ception of the solar system and prepared
for the theory of its formation: Here is
marked well-determined phase in the
history of human ideas respecting the
universe, and it is characterized by the
great name of Calico. -...
Was it possible at once to 60 beyond
this? Was 1t possible to question the
stars in their turn, and inquire If, like
the sun, they had sensible disk, spots.
q rotation, and planets revolving around
them; was it possible, in short, to extend
70 the stellar universe the notions we had
already acquired concerning the solar
system? The methods in use did not
permit this.-JiIles G. jansen, in Pop
uiar Science Monthly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
A Fatal Choice.

With the drifting clouds OF smoke and
steam that rise from the ruins of the III
fated Newhall House at Milwaukee, there
comes also a sadly romantic story, in
which gentleman of this city is one of
the actors. Only a few months ago Mr..
Porteous. of this city, went to Canada to
marry Miss Sutton, to whom he had
been engaged for some time. He re-
manned there some time. His friends
waited, with no little wonder at the de-
lay, to hear that The ceremony had been
performed. No word came. however,
and to the surprise of all. when at last
the groom-elect did return, he brought
with him the sister of the lady to whom
he had been engaged. and for whose hand
he had gone to thn Dominion.
1t seems that when Mr.. Porteous
reached the home of his fiance another
had come between them. She had met
and learned to love an actor, and prom
ised to become his wife. This Mr.. Por-
teous learned when she had refused him
her hand and given him his liberty. He
then found out that his affection had
itself to Miss Sutton's sister,
and forthwith wooed and won her, re-
turning home in triumph with bride.
The young lady to whom MI. Porteous
first intrusted his heart, no longer fet-
tered with betrothal, then gave her
heart to Mr.. John Gilbert, of the Minnie
Palmer Company. and with him went on
the boards. This fact was not known to
the wife of Mr.. Porteous. however, and
for several weeks she has been expecting
q visit from her sister. When two days
ago the news of the terrible calamity at
Milwaukee was flashed over the wires.
Mrs. Porteous was struck by the name OF
Mrs. John Gilbert among the victims.
and an investigation proved the sad facts
too true. Her only sister, the bride OF
one night, was burned in that fearful
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. C0urier-JonrndI.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

BY means of telephone clergy
man was enabled to have an audience
forty miles distant from the one before
which he preached in New Britain
Conn.
Plymouth Church, last wear, paiG
out $4,000 for Mr.. Beechefs salary
$1,000 each for Assistant Pastor Halii
day and the sexton, and Sc, 600 for music
The Independent.
"A Pharmaceutical school, for the
education of women only, has been or.
ganized at Louisville, under the al
spices of the Kentucky Polytechnic So
ciety. ir -fr. :, latl-I.
There are Christian converts in
Japan SO poor that when they change
their residences they can carry all theil
possessions on their backs, and yet theiI
contributions average eight dollars pei
Church Union.
"A deep and widespread religious
awakening is spreading over Sweden.
The Queen continues to take the deepest
! interest in the work, and wherever evan
gelistic services are held. at any hour OF
the day, great crowds attend.
That was a pleasant way of giving
notice to pastor that the wind had been
raised which was illustrated by the par
ishioners of Rev. DR.. Cliff, of Nawark.
n. j., who received fan made of bank
notes from the members of his flock
Baptist Weekly. 20.
The annual report of President Eliot,
of Harvard College, favors the shorten
ing of the college course to three years.
1t is believed that the plan will enable
the students entering professions to begin
their studies in that direction earlier,
and those desiring to study four years
can devote the extra year to studying
for an A. M. s EE
III The ministers meeting in Hartford
recently discussed Herbert Spencer's phi
Iosophy. The idea prevailed that he is
greatly overestimated in this country,
that his celebrity is groundless. and that
his philosophy will soon be looked upon
as ridiculous 1t was stated that Presi-
dent Porter had endeavored to take sew
eral of his classes through Herbert Spen-
GERS First Principles. and that they had
given up the work in disgust before COM
pletang it.-Neto Haren Register.
Between May 1 and December 81
of last year. the Congregational Building
Society received S55, 262.S9 for churches,
and So, 1874 for parsonages. Besides
this it received So, S64. 80 in gifts for par
lcular churches. 1t has discussed S49.-
1890. and so has aided fifty-eight
churches and three parsonages. 1t has
also made grants for one hundred and
fifteen churches in twenty States and
Territories. The treasury is now over
pledged S17,646, and calls are being
made upon it continually. Golden Rule.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Enquirer: No, we don't believe in
taking the bull by the horns. We tried
taking a goat by the horns once, and
that was excitement enough for u.s.
Boston Post. JEs OIL. 10 sIan -...
& One of the quizzical weekies notes
that Christine Nilsson wears a sad and
troubled expression, with two rows of
pearl buttons down the center and
.shirred around the bottom edge.-N y.
-NeUs. y "a sadE aGsaEI --aa1
"A fashionable lady. in Boosting of
Der new ..palatial residence" said the
windows Were all of stained glass.
THAT'S too badr' cried her mother;
''but won't soap and turpentine take the
stains out?'' nE
Mr.. Nor, reading Virgil:
ssThree times strove to cast my arms
about her neck, and''-"that's as far as
Igot, Professor. .sWell, Mr.. Nor,
Z think that was quite far enough
Wooster Cotkegian.
= They say Judge Hilton, in his efforts
20 keep up the house of Stewart, lost six
millions of dollars. We do wish we
knew where he lost it. We'd borrow a
lantern and wouldn't go to bed minute
for the next six weeks.-Bvltngto
RaUk-Eye. -. $50
; 1t was Persian philosopher who,
when asked why he named his son John
Henry, answered that it was to show his
sex aud prevent any one calling him
Nancy. There are fathers in this country
who should have thought of that.-De-
troI Free Press. g. u. % aa .a
-"What is the difference betwaue the
youths and the min departments at the
big clothing shopf'' asked an Irishman
of friend, and, receiving no reply, he
continued, because at the wan buys
meclothes and ut the other I clothes me
b'ys."-Harvard Lampoon.
"A story is told of woman in the
rural districts who wanted to keep up
appearances, who was often thwarted in
this by her innocent and matter-of-fact
daughter. One day, when a visitor was
present at the table. the hostess said to
her daughter: "Where are all our
knives?" Here they are, both of them,"
was the astounding reply Chicago
NeUs. Pc
DR.. Hall says it is very unhealthy
TO live on the ground floor of a house.
Doctors right. Afellow's creditors can
climb in on him with SO little trouble.
And then he loses all the joyous recrea-
tion of peeping out of an upper window
90 watch awrathful collector stand on
the stoop and pull the bell handle half
way across the street, repeating the ac-
lion until the bell falls down or the
handle pulls of.-Burlington Hauck-
Eye.
% Mrs. Bezunbee's call: Mrs. Be-
zumbee, q tall, elderly lady. who
always dresses in deep black and
is very much given to making
calls, will from now on make no
more friendly visits to the mansion of
Colonel Barney Dayton. She was sitting
on the gallery surrounded by the family
when large turkey buzzard alighted on
a tree near the house. What q large
buzzardr' remarked Mrs. Bezumbee.
lis that a buzzardy' asked little Emily.
very much amazed. .Yes. my child.
that's buzzard." ..But it don't look
much like you.'' ..Of course it don't
look Like me. Who says buzzard looks
like megn asked Mrs. Bezumbee. indig-
nantly. why. ma does. Every day
when she sees you coming she says:
There comes that old buzzard again."
Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
A Singular Attempt ut Suicide.

An east bound express train on the
Ohio & Mississippi Railroad recently
carried a passenger who was SO evidently
suffering from delirium tremens that i.
was great relief to the conductor and
every one else when at last, after various
antics, he betook himself to his upper
berth and disappeared behind the cur.
tains. But suddenly violent jerk on
the bell rope brought the train to full
stop, and in a moment the explanation
was found. The drunkard had wound
the rope around his neck and jumped
from his berth with the intention of
hanging himself, but there was too much
slack, and he was discovered sitting half
naked in the aisle, screaming like q ma
MAC. He was taken to Cincinnati and
sent to hotel. uiD .H.HaVlYsurs 7 I
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
A Canadian Border Town.

Whoop Up IS town in Canada on the
border of civilization. 1t was originally
what is called in the Northwest a
s'whisky stockade," but has lately
grown into something of village. The
stockade was built by men who had a
practical knowledge of Indian fighting
and trading. 1t enclosed three acres,
and the buildings were of heavy logs,
with openings only on the inner square.
The business consisted of buying skins
from the Indians and paying for them as
much as possible in whisky. The In
dams would fill themselves full of the
reduced high wines or adulterated whisky
of the traders, and when they were
fighting drunk, would be enticed outside
of the wall. Then the gates were shut
and the savages were left to fight out
their fury among themselves. Next day
the thrifty traders went out to bury the
dead, succor the wounded and drive
away the rest. 81 never get drunk
myself when 1 trade whisky with the
Injuns," says David Akers, the present
owner who considers himself a reformer
of the old methods. $50 of course |
can watch its effects on them, an rs
soon as see one gettin' leetle too
much, l put more water in his Ticker.
[ give it to the critters weak enough to
begin with. but the second cup is alters
weaker'n the fust. But never kick 'em
out or refuse to give 'em drink as long
as they have anything to trade. Inever
kick 'em out anyhow, and seldom re-
fuse 'em drink. Ye see, after they get
so fur / just give 'em good, pure water
out O. the river, but never refuse 'em.
They like me, too, coz they don't have a
headache next morning. jist keep 'em
feeling good and rich, and jolly, but they
never get drunk enough to hurt one
another, or cut, or shoot, on my whisky.
No, stree, not as long as there's good
water in the river."-N Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

The suggestion that on account of
intellectual and physical fitness wom-
en- should be employed as pharmacists
is not favored by medical journals. One
of them states that as women will talk
while doing business they are untitled
for pharmacy or other work requiring
concentration of thought and mental
isolation. But itshould be borne in mind
that woman are filling with credit to
themselves positions for which, ten years
ago, they were presumed to be wholly
unified. What woman, after all, ever
talked more than the average barberP-
N. 7. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

"A granite and bronze mausoleum is
to be placed in Forest Lawn Cemetery,
Buffalo, to the memory of the late Cen
eral A. J. Myer, cold Probabilities"
as he was called.) In general outline
the mausoleum will be square, merging
above into circular form and surmounted
by globe. The base of the mausoleum
will be twenty feet square and the dis
lance from the base to the top of the
globe thirty-nine feet. The transom
panel over the door will be of bronze,
double medallion of General Myer and
the late Judge Walden, the latter the
father of Mrs. Myer, by whom the monu-
ment is to be erected.-Butaio IN ~
Empress. -.--.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

An Express train on the Lake Shore
Railroad struck snow-drift as it was
passing West Hamburg station, near
Buffalo, N. Y, the other day, and threw
the snow aside with such force as to
dash in window in the station-house,
sash and all.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

The New York Evening Post says
it is the right of trial by jury that en-
cOurages suits for breach OF promise;
and intimates that if tried by Judges.
very few plaintiffs would make out theil
cases.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

Rev. DIR. A. F. Baird. Of Syracuse.
N. Y, is to succeed Rev. DR.. Hitchcock
in the American Church in Paris.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

In the western part of Pennsylvania
the number of Congregational Churches
has do ubled during the last seven years.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16

:-Welsh parents will make great sacri-
Gees in the. wsy of giving THAR sons apre.
urinary education