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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
A Renaissance Of Governor Morgan.

A neighboring merchant made the re.
mark in my hearing: 1--WE buy goods
and lose money. Morgan buys goods
and makes money" The meaning was
that Morgan generally struck the market
in the right way and at the right time.
while others So often made blunders
Another old merchant exclaimed: "LOOk
at Morgan that is buying up everything.
A little while ago he came here green,
and now he can give his note for $780,
O0O." The only mistake in the remark
was that Morgan never was green.
Politicians made the same mistake.
They supposed that man just indicted
into office would for while at least.
need leading strings. Morgan, how
ever, showed himself Immediately the
master of the situation either in bust
ness or in public life. He met every
exigency with surprising readiness. At
one time, for instance, he purchased an
immense quantity of tea at q public
auction sale and the auctioneers told him
that the amount was rather large for
one mans note. Morgan's reply was:
IL will give you Your own paper instead
of mine" He went into Wall Street
and bought a sufficient quantity Of that
very firms naper to meet the bill and he
never had to repeat the lesson.-N. Y.
Letter.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
A Tough Story.

The Elke (Nev.) Independent has
this tough story: A report reached here
soon after the Cinnamon who were so
fearfully frozen at MontelIo were takeu
west that the chiefs of the company to
which they belonged, on beholding their
pitiable condition. had them at once put
to death, and from reliable source it is
now ascertained that the statement then
made was literally true. 1t will be re-
membered that the Chinese at the
station-house some FIVE in number.
were bound by the robbers. and after the
latter had left the Chinese in their fright.
ran from the house, and wandering
shout in the snow all night, froze their
feet and legs in Q shocking manner.
The poor devils were sent by train to
San Francisco and delivered over to
their company, by whom they wers
s'humanely" put out of their misery.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
The Earthquake Sensation.

All who have related from actual ex-
perience how an earthquake feels, agree
In describing the sensation as one OF
of peculiar sickening fright and despair,
as il the bottom had fallen out of the
world and the whole universe was going
to pieces. In "Travels in Peru and
Mexico" the writer gives Juan Rom
eros story of o recent terre-naoto in the
equatorial Sierras, from which he and his
cattle were sufferers.
At the first warning rumble in the
ground, himself and his family and his
workmen all quilted their occupations
and ran to the middle of an open field.
"But before we reached this" he
says, ''the earth trembled violently be-
meath our feet and we were all thrown
to the ground.
We were all. however, soon on our
feet again. and in position of compare
tive safety where we could watch the eff
fects of the earthquake upon the animals.
These all stood motionless with their
legs stretched out and their heads bent
down almost to the ground, one or two
of the cattle moaning.
"a second shock was very different.
During the first one we seemed to be
drawn or pushed from side to side: but
now we felt. for minute or more as il
some weight were pressing us to the
ground. and Immediately after this as
light as if we were all ascending into the
air, showing that the shock was in the
first case horizontal, and in the second
in a perpendicular direction"
OF hls own feelings. Mr.. Romero said
that he experienced kind of terror hard
to describe. "My first sensations were
q dread that the earth was about to open
and bury everything within its bosom.
But what l felt after this was not like
the fear of death which have expert
enced in other cases. l have faced the
bayonet and stood before the cannon's
mouth. and cannot say altogether with
out fear of human enemies who, one
might suppose. experienced the same
unpleasant sensations as oneself. The
prospect of death. however, is generally
accompanied by hopes of the future; but
during an earthquake the reason is SUBJ
dued and my predominant feeling was
that we were utterly lost Itseemed as
If all nature was about to expire; and
for an hour or two after the shocks there
was the same appearance of dread among
the whole party.
sEven the beasts stood for some time
in the position which they had taken
during the shocks. and required patting
and reasSuring before they would move"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Yale, Harvard, Williams and Am
herst colleges were literally remembered
in the willof the late Henry L. Morgan
\ of New York.
The. Christian Union says: ssIt Il
more difficult to live the twenty-fourtl
psalm than to sing the twenty third, ant
it is just as religious"
The first society for the exclusiv,
purpose of circulating the Bible wa
organized in 1905, under the name O
the British and Foreign Bible Society,"
NJ Y. Herald.
"A Lancaster school teacher whipped
boy for swearing during school hours
for which he cursed her to her face, and
she whipped him again. A school marin
like that deserves a husband.-Ratiadet-
phia Press.
During the twenty years pastOrate
of Rev. Howard Crosby at the Fourth
Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York.
O0persons have united with the church
on confession of faith, and many more
letters from other churches.-N i.
Times.
Fall River, Mass, ought to be most
grateful to Mrs. Mary B. Young. She
has Just presented the corporation with
a lot valued at $50, 900, and is to build
thereon high school. She proposes
also to furnish the structure and provide
mechanical, philosophical and chemical
apparatus Finally she is to pre- ent the
corporation with an endowment fund Of
$4,000. 1t is thought that the building,
which is to be a memorial to Mrs.
Young's deceased son. will cost $780,
00O.-Boston Posi-.
"A committee to plan an industrial
school at Springfield, Mass, have de-
cided to teach the rudiments of trades,
and not to turn out finished mechanics.
The desire is to give the boy q know
ledge that will enable him to choose a
pursuit for which he recognizes his own
adaptability, SO that three or four years
of his life may not be wasted after he
leaves school in trying to determine how
he will earn his living, and finally drift
ing through ignorance and necessity into
work where manual labor, not brains, is
needed
-"In our humble Judgment" SAYS
the Buffalo On. W Courier, there is
rather too little than too much memoriz-
ing in American education, or it may be
the memorizing is in the wrong direction;
for important things cannot b. too well
learned. Let us close with practical
illustration of the value of formulas
learned in childhood. Which one of our
readers could answer out of hand if we
asked him how many days there are in
the month of March, And which one of
them would fail to recall the old rhyme
which he learned when studying arith-
meticp
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November, ETC."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
But an outsider can't make any money.
By dealing in them. "-Chicago Tribune.

But an outsider can't make any money.
by dealing in them. "-Chicago Tribune.
In . subsequent interview with the
senior member of one of the leading
firms OF the city the Tribune reporter
gleaned the following. Ths gentleman
interviewed said:
In yonr article to-day you have givep
currency to the statement of some par
ties to the effect that nearly everybody
on the Board of Trade is engaged in this
illegitimate trading. 1 deny that alto
gether. A great number of me ubers of
the Board do not. and never did, trans
act any of that class of business. either
before or after the State law was passed
which outlawed it. For ourselves we
emphatically deny the imputation; and
l want to state further, for the credit
of the membership of the Board of Trade,
that there is no scarcity of prominent,
honorable and responsible houses on the
Board who can and do transact a salts
factory business in speculative orders
without touching put and calls. con-
slider it humiliating fact that the Presi-
dent is engaged in it; l am exceedingly
sorry to know it is so. I don't say that
no reputable house has anything to do
with pits ana calls-there is no necessity
to go 50 far. What do say is that. as
| general rule. the most reputable houses
don't touch that class Of business. We
have never done it, though We have lost
valuable customers because of eur re-
fusal. We can do q satisfactory busi-
ness without it. and we prefer to have
nothing to do with it, irrespective of the
law. You can see that it Is in the inter-
ests OF those who are engaged in it to
represent that others are in it also. Con-
sequently most OF the N will assert that
the principal men on the Board are en-
gagged i'm it more or less. Don't .lieve
anything of the kind. for is is contrary
to the fact. The amount of this illegal
trade that is being done is certainly a
revelation to most people,"
"Can you form an approximate idea
as to the number of members of the
Board Of Trade who transact business i'm
puts and calls"
Eyes; you may 90 pretty near il.
There can not be one third of the mem
bers at i'll should say it was limited to
bDout ItCIc IL uo" VII
culate: The membership of the Call
Board is about loo. and of these 800,
or four-fifths, are members of the Board
of Trade. Any member of the Boarl of
Trade who deals in pits and calls is
also member of the Call Board. for this
put-an Ill trading is done in the Call
Board after the call is over. Of these
800 members. probably not more than
the ha.f do any of that business. and as
the total membership of the Board of
Trade is over 1870, you can see what
the per centage is. In any case that
four-iifths of the Call Board members in
cludes all the members of the BOart of
Trade likely to be engaged in this illegal
business, so you can understand those
statements that nearly all are engaged
must be untrue" y.t
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

The schooner Laura arrived at San
Francisco recently and with her cargo
were six young sea elephants. three
males and three females. The schooner
has been on hunting and fishing voy-
age down bout the South Sea Islands,
where the sea elephants were secured by
catching them on 3 sandy beach and
throwing sack over them so to prevent
their having chance to bite. On the
way up the animals were confined on
deck. inside of q sort of corral. They
readily ate fish. if it was fed to them at
the end of a string suspended in the air,
but refused all food if it were thrown to
them on deck. They are as bright and
frisky As when first taken.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

The researches of modern astrono-
mers have shown that outside the round
globe of the sun, as we see it, there is an
enormous envelope of matter, greatly
exceeding in bulk the visible sun and in
timately connected with it. What the
constitution of this great envelope of the
sun is, how far it extends earthward,
how it is affected by outbursts in the
visible globe of the sun. and what part
it plays in the suns influence upon his
family OF worlds, are questions to which
science is intenxly seeking answers.-N.
Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
Our Great Source Of Wealth.

There were in the United States ir
1890 4,00S, 907 farms, embracing s34.-
1852 acres of improved land. sup
pose there should be equal to ''one scre
more" planted in corn to each farm. the
result would be at forty bushels to the
acre, 160, 900. 900 bushels. These figures
serve to show what farmers are, by o
little extra effort, capable of accomplish
ing.
This country is great in resources and
varied in climate, and a few facts from
the census show that we have not over.
rated the agricultural interests n their
relations to the wealth and industry OF
the Nation. Here are the figures:
Number OF farms --..-..... 4,08,9Gi
Improved la,ds.-.-....-....... 2Si.y ,J.
Naiae OF farms ------.......-.- fiO-I q, y3.iR
Va:ue OF implements. ......... 4G,a9,gS
value OF nVe STOCK ---.--....... l.5ll&f.dU9
Value Of farm products. Aiken, 5ss
There are miMiOnaires in cities and
rich merchants and manufacturers, but
the great wealth.. and that which does
BOs shift much and is reliable. lies in
our farms. and these. as we have al
really said. are the basis of all our in
dustries. Ii is business. too. that is
not likely 10 be overione. and never
had farmers better prospect ahead. or
greater in iucementS 10 plant one acre
more, than in this year. loS3.-casesL-
,s0ti Commercial Gnze"e.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

Three professional Chinese actors
arrived at San Francisco with a play
which takes ten years to perform. 1t
generally takes that time to get an
American play on the stage.-Boston
Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

I'm Toronto. Canada, on q receu,
Sunday evening. forty-seven pastors u
different denominations exchanged pus-
pits.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

-"Inquirer'-The Tongue River. in
Montana. is so named because it Is al
ways rapid. running and babbling.--
Somervtlte Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

William Ozark. ex-Consul to Italy,
proposes the scheme of an American
school in Florence for the education OF
American girls abroad
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

One of the MODEST workers o. the
age is Miss Leigh. known as the I'm
glishwonan's good angel in Paris"
len years ago she established in that
city home fOr friendless young women;
from this has grown an orphanAge. a
church and parsonage. mlsaa mary
hall, Young Woman's Christian Asso-
eiati IN, . Young Mems Institute. . free
registry, a kindergarten and infant
school and q sanitarium.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
Pathetic Incident.

Mr.. e. L. Wakeman, in a letter to
the Louisville Conrier-Jou nal, relates
the following which is strictly true:
"a most pathetic and remarkable incl
dent in connection with the death this
week in Quincy of Samuel j. Medill,
late managing editor of the Chicago
Tribune. has been related to your cor
respondent by his brother-in-law, Mr..
James u. Carson. at present General
Manager of the Union Depot Company
at Kanses CITY. Mfr. Medill had owned
small. shaggy pet dog of which he
was extremely fond, but the care of
which had been SO great burden to
him in his condition of health that he
had given ii to friend near Quincy last
fall. The animal had seemed at times
restless, but ordinarily well contented
in his new home. OF late it had ap-
parently been especially well domiciled
and happy. Early in the morning of
the day Of Nc. Medill's death the dog
suddenly disappeared from its home.
At about six O'clock a. m the dog APP
peared at the residence of Mr.. j. B.
Carson. three miles distant. where Mr..
Medill was already dying. 1t howled
piteously about the place until admitted,
and instantly with some unexplainable
and marvellous instinct, dashed up
stairs to Mr.. Medil's room, bounded
upon the bed. and covered its d, ing
master with its 10 al caresSes. 1t is
stated that Mr.. Medill. although already
at times almost unconscious. gave re.
cognition to the occurrence, and seemed
to realize its surprising impressiveness."
An English traveller, on the Ameri-
cans love for the green5ack. says:
">ince the year 1861 they hardly care
about handling silver dollars and quar-
tiers. A friendly telegraph clerk in 1880,
in Chicago. in handing me a gold
twenty-dollar piece (about as handsome
coin as can be met with .anywhere) as
change out for telegram to Europe.
apOlogized for troubling me with VIII at
he called this truck (rubbish) instead
of giving me q roll Of paper"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

1t is related of the famous Spanish
banker, Don Jose de Salafnaaca. who
died recently, that in 1858 ne gave Q
single dinner that cost $40, 900.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

because be don't know anything
about the trade"
mo, not that. don't want to saw
that he would never make any money.
bpt the chances are that he would not"
"Why?''
THE fluctuations Of the market are
so small on the average that the amount
of money he pays out for the puts and
calls would far exceed the average fuc-
tuaions of the market; and there would
he no money in it for him. To make
this point plain: Suppose for instance
you bought a put tonight on 5000
bushels of corn, you would have to buy
it at one-half cent probably from the
market. YOu pay five dollars for the
privilege, which is one-eighth of cent
nearly; so the market would have to de-
cline tomorrow five-eighths of q cent
to ge. down to the put price-what it
cost. And then if you put il you would
have to pay One-quarter of a cent COM
mission. which would make seven
eighths OF cent the market would have
to decline before it got to the point where
you could make any money. You would
make all below q decline of seven
eiShths, but the average fluctuation Of
the market isn't that much per day"
Investing in puts and calls by out
Sides then is about as unsafe as the club
and fund business?'
at doesn't involve 50 much money,
but so far as it goes it is about as bad an
investment. There is only one class of
people who can make any money out of
puts and calls, and they are the scalpers.
who buy them, and then watch the
market closely. and operate on the puts
andcalls. They don't make any money
on the fluctuations above the call or be-
low the put: it is privilege that they
hold to speculate on through the day.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
ssPu,s and Calls"

"What is the extent Of the trading in
outs and callsf" said reporter to MIR.
]. b. Hobbs, President of the Chicago
Board of Trade, who proved to be rory
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23

Secondly, il must not contain any chem
zeal which can harm the metal. Thirdly,
it must contain q very fine powder, free
from any gr;. or sharp grains. which will
nevertheless be hard enough to remove
BY gentle friction. the stained surface.
Three substances fulfill these conditions
rouge. whiting (he purified form, sold
as precipitated chalk.) and infusorial
silica, often sold as electro-silicon. Of
these. whiting is. perhaps justly, the
favorite: and if the practice of one good
houseKeeper is followed. namely, to stir
it up with wafer and carefully float of
the fine portion and collect it on aclOth,
leaving the coarse grains behind, it is
probably as good as any powder need be.
OF one thing theAousekeeper may be
sure. t. at in nine cases out of ten whit
ing. more or less pure, or chalk, will
form the basis of her fifty cent box or
bottle of silver polish. A little organic
coloring matter is often added when
rouge is not. and the liquid polishes con-
tain alcohol or ammonia. No alchemy
has yet "bviated the need of care and
knowledge on the part of the hOusekeep-
er, and she must teach gentle handling
of electro plate, must not allJw the dire
full clatter of the knives and forks and
spoons, so often heard. if she wishes ito
keep the surface smooth. She must also
look well to the material in which silver
is wrapped when it is laid away Tissue
paper is best and Canton flannel is next;
wooden flannel should not be used either
to wrap silver in or rub it with, since
sulphur is used in the manufacture or
dressing of flannel. and sulphur in all its
forms is thing which we wish to keep
from contact with silver.-BostoD Iran
script.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-06
h WEDDING YESIEEDfY.

Miss Hannah Maria Townsend, daughter of
Edward u. Townsend, was married 10 Augu-tc T.. Mon
tant by the Rev. Thomas j. Dury, pastor OF ST. L"os
Roman Catholic Church al y. ~. yesterday. In the
house af the Lridcs frthcr, No - last Twenty second
st. There was Il large gathering present some l.1OO IN
yatios having been s'icd. and The paloTs were pet
ills decorated Tue BRIDE ,uIslds wclc Miss Townsend
and Miss Adam and the u-Lcis wer Jules A. Mohant
G. A. MOutaut, Edward IOwnscHG, a., ud Richard lllm-
bic reception was held from 1880 10 $50 =. III, after
which in accordance with an old custom
tho young people present danced german TO Lander
music. Among tiOsc who attended the Wedding were
Mr. A. f. MGntani Mr.. Ia Montague, Mrs. Dwight
townsend. Mr. bartholomew, Mrs. Brady, OF iniladci
pina Mr. Woodbridge, Mrs. W. Is. D.usmDrC, MIA. William
d. Sloan, General and Mrs. webb, the Misses
webb, Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. ioyt,
DR.. Dawson Miss Merritt, Samuel Ialcs, hr. and Mra
Aimed Young, blr ana MIS-. BebrOnt PuIdy, MIS- A.
Morgan ana MTB. Bun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-06
MAsIIlNGInN NOTEs.

NNsniSaTON N0ndly, Nov. = lSS3.
4 Nlw N,r!o,u. Bt>L.-Tic Controller Of The Cur
Tcncy today authorized The l-' Nalonal Bank ~ clay
Centre KAN 10 begin business with capital 81 10000
TIM PRESIDENTS Among thc President ''-
itor. today were SECRETARY Lincoln Senator Nc- Admiral
Rogers Representatives Kelley, ~ Icnn-l l'Hnia ana
Thomas 81 Illinois Captain Hap Us. ~ anu Sp''h''
Keller
TIN. AMSTERDAM TvmHuIov-Thc Department Of
state has hccu informed that the opening Of the Intern!
t.oual Exhibition 10 De held in Aiu-lrido mas '', I'
r,,,,d Ia August - ISL and that 10 VIII remain open
until september q, following.
Mr.. DAVIS srccrrps JrrGr Ouo.-M the conclusion
~ tbr reading Of opinions IN the United STATES Supreme
Court TO-DAY Chcf,Iu-ticc Wtto ANNOUNCED The f'7igt
tiou of judge OTTO official reporter uf tr court hH" u
appointment Of J. &. Bancroft DAVIS q" Ii" the vacancy
thus caused.
I>.rtcIoR FOSTER ro-tinn-t. General
Gresham has made the following 0idrr: 1T appearing
tlu To-i office Inspector Amos T. Poster h"- Ai""inLg
To the Department d' aud fraudulent Att" -
Dnd has thereby succeeded obtaining money 10 Mh,h
not entitled, he j, iLci'I"r' hI-i''' '''' wv
service as such Inspector.
prorofipS~ =, Tue ArWY.-Tho SECRETARY OF war h''
decided that In future promotion, in tho Army WIZ ne
goycrucd sricy i paragraph thirty .iN ~ the irSu'
finn. which uo,ldr- t'ft promotions &" NE Ihih7 81
Colonel ebaI be- by seniority except IN ease 81 u-'I'l
ar nLrr iurnuprtrury Consequently Officers MI NV"
been found disabled 10y recurring DUN" "''' '' w. -
InUtcd 20 "a higher grade
InSpn, Nov G.-Ih0ma. sexton, Member OF iaih'-
,oc,l for County Sligo delivered speech at Gnsso" LAST
c,c,t,y lorgc number Of Oraugcmrn assembled Z" III
,crf.rr with the meeting, but were prevented
p,rl, NOV 5-Thc Molning Mars published report III
q, conversation with NJ. Clcmcuccau which the "'''l
denied having had The denial not having been lhHrr,
i IN, Nm, A. Clcmrn,yau has begun l'Si plo'''""7'
o,..iu,t tho manager OF the Journal