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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05

ulolneut u pleduiAS w nave Cast asloe ulS-
guise.
mo, James, it can not be J" said at last,
tired of his protestations. "My answer
would have been just the same yesterday
but could never like in that way a man
who could let dog die with q cynical
sneer."
"You will think better Of this, Amber, %
he said, with pale smile.
81 shall never think better of you," an
swered, savagely, crushing down the pity
/ felt for his disappointment by working
myself into rage.
He had pressed me sore before we parted
thus; yet when, on leaving, he offered me his
hand. he smiled so blandly that l could
fancy it a dream. And seeing him smile
hand on the horses neck, l was somehow
uneasy without rhyme or reason.
Ii.
We were at breakfast the morning after
James visit, when Ainslie, who had had
his and gone into the town to the little read
ing-room; entered hastily with news in his
face. & e. q 81 =
amber, have heard in the town that
Sir Martin is ill. Icame in to tell you at
or we should have been the first to hear
it."
"Grandpa i'll! How can that be? James
said he was as well as usual"
'Sir Martin must have been taken i'll af-
ter James left the park. Still, wonder
that he has not telegraphed to you. There
is a train at eleven which reaches the sta
ton by quarter to twelve. could drive
you almost as soon if ] could get decent
nag from the Angel"
But, slow as was the little cross country
line, preferred to trust to it. Needless to
say, was in great distress at the news
My grandfather, cold and unsympathetic
as he was, was yet the only relative l had
in the world except James, his younger
never recovered from his grief at the death
of both his sons in the same year-my IA
ther in India, and his brother of typhus fe-
yer at the Park. But he had always been
kind to me in his stern way. Though had
long known that he cherished the wish
that should become James wife, he never
clearly mentioned il to me.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05

his will in that belief; and has left all to go
to me with the title, feeling sure that
shall do what is right by You. II he dies,
or rather when he dies, you will be penni-
less. 1 am playing both for love and for
tune, Amber. II You will not marry me,
at least you viii take no fortune to your
husband"
He said much to the same effect, but only
excited more and more my indignation and
anger. l refused to bind myself, refused
with scorn; and he left me, after telling
me how futile was all hope that should be
released unless would promise to do as he
wished. He avowed that he had planned
to keep me at Ludfcrd in ignorance of Sir
Martins illness, satisfying the old man
with lying excuses of my absence. But the
news oozed out, as we know, and then my
telegram announced that he was defeated
that l was coming. In his perplexity he
hit upon the desperate scheme of shutting
me up in my own rooms; and with this
success.
All this he told me. So wild did it render
me that l tried to take the key from him by
main force when he rose to go. The woman
pulled me back, and sobbing bitterly with
rage and grief flung myself upon my bed
Slowly the weary hours of the night were
away. Now l would leap restlessly up and
try the door; now would strive to move
the woman, persuade, bride, brighten her;
but all in vain. Now l would moan as |
conJured up the picture OF my dying grand
father only few rooms away calling upon
my name. 1t was q frightful night in
deed.
Early in the morning James came again;
this time he stayed merely to ask if my res
olution held out; and finding that / loathed
him he went sullenly away again. He was
haggsrd and perplexed; could my grand
father have taken turn for the better? My
heart leapt high with hope and then sank;
would Sir Martin be safe in my unscrupu-
lous cousins hands! And this added
baize door came no sound of life.
At dusk he paid us . third visit. Il was
fruitless, though he told me that Sir Martin
was worse; and, more dark-eyed and bag
gard than ever, went away again. This
time made up my mind that would es-
cape. My passion had worn itself out by
this time, and fear had taken tts place. In
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-01
Fifteenth Days Proceedings
SENATE.

SENATE.
AUSTIN, Jan. rs, 1888.
The senate met at 10 a. m, Lieuten-
ant Governor Martin presiding, and a
quorum present.
On motion of Mr.. Traylor, reading
the journal was dispensed with.
PETITIONS.
BY Mr.. Kleberg: From the. citi-
zens of Goliad, asking for amendment
to the present game law. Referred.
by Mr.. Houston: From j. II. Ma
son, county judge of Bexar county, as
follows:
To the Honorable Legislature OF the state Of
Texas:
respectfully call your attention to
the conflict in articles Nos. 279, 1862
1913 and 1914, of the code of criminal
procedure, which bear on the feed,
care and maintenance Of out-county
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-01


not get our state bonds to invest
in and the further fact that provision
Inay be made for the investment
OF the fund in comfy bonds, we may
place it beyond our power to have the
exception broad enough to embrace
such contingencies.
Mr.. Fleming-There is no limita
ton placed; the counties may levy 1
tax for courthouses; the limitation i.
simply as TO revenue.
BY Mr.. Patton, a substitute: THAI
the people of any county in the STATE
may, by The vote of two-thirds of thu
qualified electors of said county
authorize the levy of an additional
tax for county purposes.
Mr.. Pope-What is the question be
fore the senator
The Chair-The pending question i.
the substitute offered by the senator
from Lavaca-
The substitute was lost, and Mr.,
Fleming's amendment adopted.
BY Mr.. Pope: Amend by striking
out the word roads"
Mr.. PopeAThe road law might b,
construed to levy taxes to construct
roads or improve roads, and do moi
think it is the will of the people I,
have roads worked by the levy of taxes
think il may work in the future
If the resolution is adopted as it is
including roads. To construct roads
l think, is proper; but to improv,
roads, l think is wrong.
AIR. Pfeuffer said that under tn,
present law the property-owners o.
the county did not contribute theil
share towards maintaining the publ,
roads, hence tax upon them is proper
In addition, in many sections of tn,
state expenditure of money is neces
sary TO keep roads in repair. Ii,
thought the condition generally Of
roads throughout the state required
the necessity of a change in the road
laws. He did not regard the resolu
ton in the light of making a road
law. but the question was as Il
whether there should be tax levied in
counties for work essentially neces
sary. The llusion to the Davis adj
|
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-01

uOW uuuCT NllSCuSolOu. OuCl1 a. pIO-
vision is demanded by the people OF
my district. 1t was fully discussed
in the late campaign, and with almost
one voice the people complained of the
present road system and demanded
that small ad valorem tax be levied
for road purposes. The present sys-
tenn is a failure. However efficient il
might be in theory it is not executed
and the roads remain impossible at
certain seasons of the year in certain
neighborhOods. The senator from
Harrison says he fearsIthis provision
will be construed as allowing the COM
missioners court to levy Il tax upon
property for road purposes. will say.
as the author of the resolution
that that was precisely my object, and
II the language is ambiguous would
like to so amend it as to put it beyond
doubt. The present road system
bears unequally upon the people. Ii
is not right that the man who owns
but one horse, or one team, should be
compelled to contribute as much
towards good roads as the man who
owns twenty or thirty teams; that the
man who has but two or three bales
of cotton to haul to market should
contribute as much to good roads as
the man who has one hundred bales
But, Mr.. President, point which has
not yet been touched upon in the de-
bate. and point which, to my mind
is of paramount Importance, is the fact
that by levying small ad valorem
tax for road purposes nonresident
land owners will be compelled tt
contribute to the maintenance
of good roads in the state. 1t is no.
torious fact that large tracts of land
are held by parties without the state
Lands, in every part of the state, art
enhancing in value, and these CAPT
talists are quietly holding the lands
refusing to sell and reaping the bene
fit of this boom in lands. Besides
these lands are as much benefited by
good roads as the lands of actual occu.
pants, and l think it only just ant
equitable that they should bear a part
of the burden. Ii does not follow by
any means, Mr.. President, if this res
olution is adopted that the roads must
be maintained exclusively by an aJ
\ valorem tax. would oppose any such
law. There are too many people
who have no property and yet
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-03
Life in Toxic.

The Rev. W. E. Grifrs writes from
Toxic, Japan, to the Christian intel
l5gencer: Yeddo began to be large
city in 1903, when Japan's greatest
ruler, Eseyasu, made the place his head
quarters. Until 1854 it was never. visit
ell by foreigners, except the Dutch
merchants from Nagasal1i: but in, 1868
the mikado left Kioto, which had been
the old capital for over nine hundred
years, and made Bay-door the kio, or
capital. Then it became "The Won
derful City of Toxic" about which Mr..
Greer has written lively book, as full
Of pictures as 8 Japanese novel. Those
who read "The Young Americans in Ja-
pan" viii know at once without any
introduction who Mr.. and Mrs. Jewett,
and Fritz and Sallio and Otto Nambo
are. They are living in Toxic, and
many pleasant walk do they take
through its lively streets. They live
in a Japanese house, which consists
chiefly of paper, mating, thin wood
and tiles. and which rocks in the fire.
quent earthquakes like cradle. They
don't plaster the ceilings or walls,
Ni-LS44J OCO6QOO oCOI1c dIO OO1OCI Ulltel1
hard lime, and a lively earthquake,
which shivers as though old mother
earth had chill, tumbles over the
lamps, so that fires are numerous. For
whole village to be wiped off the face
OF the earth like rows of chalk-tigures
oil black board is no uncommon sight.
L have seen, at one time, three or four
miles of burning houses in Toxic. The
Japanes take it, as matter of course,
as thing that cannot be helped But
it is rather hard for people from less
combustible cities, who see their more
expensive houses, churches and stores
laid In ashes because the natives are as
! careless as foolish children. Now the
old swamps of Bay-door are filed up,
and Tsuki-ii (filled-nuiGpD is the part
of Toxic in which our missionaries live
and Christian houses of worship are
/ built-though our Reformed church
has other chapels in this great wilder
| ness of houses. Nowadays when ou1
parlors, dining and bedrooms and sum
mer cottages are decorated with gay
| Japanese fans, parasols, curtains, racks
napkins, and all the brightly colored
/ paper finery and lacquered woodwork
it is fine fun to read of the Jewetts visit
| ing the Japanese Lawmakers at home
seeing the porcelain-painters at work
and going shopping in Toxic stores
| where every one sits on the floor an6
(! sips tea, while the clerks add up theil
| columns of figures on rows Of sticks full
of sliding buttons. Notwithstanding
all their pretty things, many of them are
very costly, the greater part of the PEG
! pie are very poor, and earn but few
cents daily.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-03
.sGaII" Wins.

One of the mysteries in railroad OPP
erations is that so much is done in the
way of counting the non-paying theat-
rical business. A reporter Glanced to
be in one Of the local outside Offices
when one of those cheeky advance
agents Of theatrical troupe came in.
The first thing he called for was a rail
way guide, the looking over of which,
laying out his route for couple OF
weeks, occupied fully fifteen minutes.
He then began to talk business. His
first request was a pass for himself and
his lithOgrapher to o point 3S4 miles
away, with a dozen stop-otfs. Then,
in a few days his programme distribu-
tor would be along, and he wished q
pass for him and some 500 pounds of
baggage. Then, at the same time, there
would be boxes Weighing 1900 pounds,
which he wished sent through to the
terminus of the route laid out, free.
This was all consented to. The adj
vance agent then remarked that there
was % cents a day storage on the last
named box, which he wished the local
agent would arrange with the baggage
men TO throw off. he then asked for an
order for the. treasurer Of the troupe
for thirteen tickets, in which the amount
q cent per mile for each) would be
stated. Then the matter of connection
was brought up, and it was found nee
essary to hold the train thirty to forty
minutes at three points, that they might
| fulfill their engagements. This was all
arranged. Then the advance agent re-
marked that their scenery was bulky
and probably it would be necessary to
put it on a special car to carry it. Just
then a sturdy farmer, who proposed to
emigrate to q Kansas point, came In,
stating that himself and his wife, and
his wife's sister and seven children were
to emigrate there and he wanted the
lowest rates. The local agent named
the rate, which was % cents per mile
per head, carried this side of the Bis
souri, river, and an arbitrary rate was
added en- the west side. Here the bag
gage question came up, and It was
found that it would cost him SIS to oct
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-03
Venetian Sunsets.

Words cannot be formed to express
the endless varieties OF Venetian sun
set. The most magnificent follow after
wet, stormy days, when the west
breaks suddenly into q labyrinth of
fire, when chasms of clear turquoise
heavens emerge, and horns of fame are
flashed to the zenith, and unexpected
splendors scale the fretted clouds. step
over step, stealing along the purple
caverns till the whole dome throbs. Or,
again. after a fair day, a change of
weather approaches, and high, infinitely
high, the skies are woven over with
web OF alf-transparent cirrus clouds.
These III the afterglow blush crimson,
and through their riffs the depth of
heaven is of a hard and gem-like blue,
and all the'water turns to rose beneath
them. l remember one such evening
near Torcello. We were we'll out at sea
between AiaZZorbo and 1Iurano. The
ruddy arches overhead were reflected
without interruption in the waveless
ruddy lake below. Our black boat was
the only dark spot in this sphere of
splendor. We seemed to hang sus-
pended; and such as tins, [ fancied,
must be the feeling Of an insect caught
in the heart OF fery-petaled rose.
Yet not these melodramatic sunsets
alone are beautiful. Even more exquis-
tie, perhaps, are the lagoons, painted in
monochrome Of grays, with Just one
touch of pink upon a western cloud,
scattered in ripples here and there on
the waves below, reminding us that
day has passed and evening come.
And beautiful again are the calm set
tings of fair weather, when sea and sky
alike are cheerful, and the topmost
blades of the lagoon grass, peeping
from the shadows, glance like emeralds
upon the surface. There IS 10 deep
stirring Of the spirit in symphony OF
light and color But purity, peace, and
freshness make their way into our
hearts, FFGSer'S MdgazjRe.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-03
The Study of Languages.

At meeting of the st. Louis Teach
ers' Association one of the members,
speaking of the study of language, adj
vised that the first lessons be to teach
the children how to talk If they talk
correctly, they will write correctly when
they know how to spell. The children
should be led to talk, babble, if the
word suited better Dolls, bows and
arrows and kites should be taken into
the room; even q kitten might be in
troduced and talked about. This would
help to Danish restraint from the school
The children could talk upon them and
their errors Of speech be corrected. On
the subject of definitions the reader
caused considerable merriment by cit
ing the case of q teacher who had
wasted two months in trying to get from
a child O definition of the word "hole. F"
In lis own eighth grade recently q pu-
pill supposed a girl might be ductile be-
cause she could easily be drawn out.
This was absurd, but Just such absurd
ties we're encountered daily in school
where definitions were looked for.
In an eighth-grade class, in Chicago,
an honest, Woodworking girl was re-
quired to paraphrase a couple Of stanzas
from SCOTS Lady of tie Lake. They
ran:
1.-Two dogs of black st. Hubert breed,
Unmatched for courage, breath and speed,
Fast III his flying traces came
And all but won that desperate game;
For scarce a spans length from his haunch,
Vindietive toiled the bloodhound staunch."
The girl went faithfully to work with
her dictionary and produced the follow
ing:
! "Two dogs of black color and ST.
j Hubert's breed were not fit for valor,
respire or haste, came in a hurry on
their swift two straps by which vehi-
Gle is drawn by horses, and all but
gained that furious jest for hardly a
distance larger than spear or sharp
weapon used in war, from his hip de-
pending labored the bloodhound dog
firm and steady"
Such possibility with a faithful
scholar should not exist The girl
should have studied the subject with
her teacher.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-03
.Repentance on the GalEo,rs.

The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher does not
believe in gallows-tree saints. His report
ed words are:
Nothing to my mind is more indecent
than the way in which great criminals are
cossetted and carried out of life A muir
derer is in prison awaiting the expiration Of
his crime on the gailows, and the most sal
acious, and abominable sympathy is shown
to him. Womend send flowers to his cell.
Some of them would even kiss an ulcer
for him. Priests and philantropists run
to see him. Tracts, books and delicacies
are crowded upon him, and all,
forsooth, because he is going to
die. Are not poor men dying al
around and no sympathy poured out for
them? But here is monster, and for him
the hood-gates are opened. The news
papers say he died trusting in Jesus.
Faugh! What world of mischief that
thief on the cross did! Can the whole cur
rent of mans life be changed in a mo-
nent? Can one become LEANED in the love
of heaven in minute? Can reeking pas
sions learn from vestal purity? Can boor
from the country learn in night how to
conduct himself at party in mansion =!
And yet a man who has crept to the gal
lows through the common sewer blossoms
out at the last minute, when all hope of
pardon is gone, into saint. 1 don't
believe it."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-03
The Ross MonI.e, Of the Cnae.

Among recent additions to the Geological
garden were twenty-five monkeys from the
East Indies, says the Philadelphia Times.
They were green monkeys, Rhoesus mon
keys, spider monkeys, lemures, and maca-
Gus, and one of them, large Rhoesus
monkey, with beautiful, smooth, yellow
ish-gray coat, soon won distinction for
himself. All these animals we're put in
the big cage in the monkey house,
when the big Rhesus began jump
ing up and down in kind of hysterical
dance, which drew the keepers attention
at once. After he became a little &C
customed to his surroundings and began
climbing about with the rest, his first ex-
plot was to seize bonnet monkey named
Frank" one of the oldest inhabitants,
and hurl him boldly from the top of the
cage to the floor. This was the signal
for an uproar. which began Immediately,
and big macacus, which is kept fastened
by long chain because of his fierce
disposition, started up the ratings to chas-
tise the aggressor. The newcomer met
him halfway and both dropped to tbs
floor in close combat, while pretty much
all the other monkeys in the cage jumped
on top of them. For about ten minutes
there was the liveliest kind of tussle in
the cage, while the keepers could do moth
ing but look on in dismay. Finally the
Rhosus whipped the crowd, and from that
moment he has been known as Sullivan
He and a big female macacus are now the
"6osses" of the cage, which contains about
sixty monkeys, and apportion out the pub
| lie patronage to suit themselves.
There were evidences of another battle
royal when the keepers opened the house
yesterday morning, and little monkey
was nursing a limb that had been almost
bitten off; but, as a general thing, the cage
contains a peaceable and apparently happy
| family
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-03
LATE MINNEAPOLIS NEWS.

Prof. Warren was unable deliver his lec-
ture before the Reform club last evening.
and the meeting was turned into general
discussion.
The proposed council meeting failed to
come to time. Three or four of the alder
men met in the council chamber, but there
being no quorum present the, meeting was
adjourned.
A lamp explosion at los South Washing
ton avenue, called the fire department out
at o'clock last evening, but little pres
ence of mind and pail of water had ex-
tinguished the flames before their arrival.
Damage, nominal.
Charles Gilmour, the kleptomaniac car
penter, who has figured so conspicuously
in the annals of Hennepin county the past
three years, was arrested on bench war
rant yesterday. lie is charged with steal
ing a large quantity of beef and butter.
The exhibition game of billiards be-
tween Jules Meyer, Of Minneap polls, and
L. w. Sherman, of California, occurred at
Turner hall last evening before light au-
dience. Owing to poor light, the chande-
Tiers being fully twenty feet above the Ia
bic, the game started out slowly. Many
easy caroms, which either player is GER
tain of making, were missed on account
of the shadows cast by the balls and rails.
The latter part of the game, however.
proved more interesting. The table
was a fine new Brunswick s. Bake,
and had the conditions been favorable, an
excellent average would have been scored.
The score stood at the end, Meyer. 634,
and Sherman 40 points.
The late Senator Ben. Hills monument
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-03

u pnrougn, owing TO excess in weight.
The farmer, who was going west to fur
nish produce which would be carried
over these very roads. accepted the sit
uation, called for the tickets. but, as he
pull out his poeket-booil. said Look
here captain, cant You put little chap
we have, about six years old, through
free?" "Well, no; but I tell you what
/ viii dol viii get him through OF
half-fare" The farmer paid his money
and left without murmur, but the adj
vance agent was still there using the
paper of the railroad company and
writing two or three kilograms which
he wished sent free. The reporter left
at this juncture, thinking that were he
a general manager the theatrical party
should pay high rates and the horny
handed farmer should be the favored
one Of the wo.-l'1dianapoliS jour
nal