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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-03

Pr ,lrl c~ y. N,ofcs,iic, i
q. nho hcsd, tic u.A .wn 'Clue ber
lomi,y.' and ean ilay OF nike instru-
u.ai.fs i; 80 tlme, b.ought suit against
a steamer company at Washington, n.
c., because the vessel by some detect OF
the steam pipe threw ssalding steam up
on his little daughter, marking her for
life with scars.
One strong reason why congress
shcald relieve newspapers OF the Postage
Tax is because the big Northern Dai lies
like the Herald, Tribune, Inter Ocean,
Phila Record, etc., oppose the removal
OF the tax. These selfish fellows know
that were the tax taken off, there would
be many more and better country news
papers than at present. The big papers
would rather pay $4,000 to $50, 900 a
year than to have more papers started.
But congress should know that the
more local newspapers We have, the bet
ter for the country. The paper IS a.
necessary as thc school.
1t is Colonel Glenn now. We refer
to TIE popular young Representative
from Rockingham county. Capt. Jas. d.
Glenn who has just been elected Colonel
Of the 3rd Regiment, State Guard.
R.idsville Weekly says
Colonel Glenn is not only prince
among clever fellows, successful farmer,
a useful legislator, but is perhaps the
best tactician in the county. being a full
graduate OF the Virginia Military Insli-
;ute. The third regiment will never have
cause to regret his promotion. K. A.
Foard, cf Greensboro, was elected Ma
Jur.
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FOR SALE.

We wish to sell on accommodating terms part
the whole Of tract OF land, 342 acres, Eitu-
ated within miles of OxtoId, the Raleigh
road. An easy 10 the churche. and excellent
schools in oxford. Persons wishing to purchase
would do " III to call and examine the property.
II desired would sell the stock of mules, cows,
hogs, and farming ipiplem, nts with the farm.
The improvements consist OF large dwelling
house with seven rooms smoke house, cribs, gin
ho.se aud fixtures, and AL other buildings
ssry the farm. There Is good orchard Of
select fruit and also uifailing well OF excellent
water the place. " oud be pleased to show it
to {! Vse wishin to buy.
Dec -D4t. L. e. n. A. TAYLOR.
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Mr.. +. c. Vaughan, Warrentown
n. c., says: Browns Iron Bitters is a
tirst-class tonic it cured me of chills."
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-03

c. lest he should bc lynched if he re-
manned at Aiken
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IS VERY DURABLE,
Strong and Easily Adjusted |
Is an Economi cal Machine: tho quAnd-
ty OF Seed to be sowcd can bo reg
ulated by the screws under
the bottom.
1t can be run as near 10 the ends OF the
rows and near stumps A.
the plow can go.
without having any one to canvass
for il their were sold in 1880 in tho
counties Of Edgecombe, Wilson. Warren,
Wayne, Halifax Nash and Pitt alone,
400 Edgecombo Planters aud in the same
counties IN 1881 there were sold 500
Edgecombc Planters.
For sale by
l.. l.. POLK s. CO.,
Raleigh. N. q.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29
A Salt Lake on Top Of a Mountain.

There is q remarkable salt lake. stu
ated one hundred and fifty miles west
and south of Albuquerque, in New
Mexico, and about fifty miles from the
Arizona line. The lake is located on
the top of a volcanic mountain, and
evidently occupies an extinct crater.
The lake is perhaps three-quarters of
mile in diameter, and is so strongly
impregnated with salt that n thick crust
of pure white salt of spongy consist
ency like floating ice encrusts the mar
gin. 1t is so plentiful that it is carried
away by the wagon load. 1t has long.
been used by the Indians. The salt il
white, of the purest quality and desti-
tute of sand or any foreign ingredient.
The texture is porous, like CONCEALED
white foam. There was one specimen
inclosing the stem of some vegetable
and can be handled like an apple By it.
stem. But the most curious feature Of
this lake is tall circular column, Of
monumental-shaped formation, which
the height of one hundred feet. and
which appeared to be composed OF
white lava thrown up by some convul-
sion during some ancient geological
period. The outside of this singular
column sloped from the base toward
the top. and was rough enough to en-
able it to be assembled. On reaching
the top of the cone the interior was
found to be hollow like a tube, and at
the bottom there was seen a circular
pond of water with bright emerald
green color in appearance, probably to
be attributed to the sparse rays of light
which penetrated this huge tube. and
were reflected from the smooth, mirror
like surface of the water. A party with
some difficulty descended the projecting
sides of the interior of this bowl. and
they found no incrustations of salt ON
the surface like that on the outside, but
on thrusting the hand into the water
and Withdrawing it, the hand came opt
perfectly white from the particles of
salt that adhered to it. TWAS evidently
very strong brine.-A. L. Morrison,
IN st Louis Republican.
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CObbler Preachers.

A larger proportion of shoemakers
have become preachers than have turned
to any other one of the learned profess
siOns, perhaps because the trade is of q
serious tendency, and when man has
natural turn for speculation his
thoughts are directed more readily to
religion than to any other topic
Whether or not this is the reason, it is
certain that no small number of leaders
in religious thought in England have
risen from the bench. Not in the ES-
tabliShed Church, however; the ranks
of its clergy were never recruited from
the lower classes of the people; there
were too many fat livings for the
younger sons of noblemen to be forget
ten. The conference lists of the dis
senters contained the names of the
cobblers, and these sometimes were the
most famous on the rolls. George Fox,
the founder of the Society of Friends,
or Quakers, was cobbler. He made
himself suit of leather, and when
about nineteen years old started out to
convert the world. His effort was not
successful, but he certainly left the
world much better than he found it,
and the sect he founded has exercised
no inconsiderable influence among men.
Though he spent no small share of his
time in Jail, and in fact was hunted
from one prison to another throughout
all England, his faith in his mission
never wavered. and the result has more
than justified his labors and sufferings.
Another most remarkable shoemaker
was Thomas ShillitOe, who conceived
that his mission was to rebuke the noble
and great of the world, and call them
to repentance. He was disciple OF
Fox, and did not turn to the ministry
until in middle life. In these DAYS a
religious enthusiast who insists on
pressing his views on people in author
ity is sent to the nearest insane asylum,
but in the first wears of this century il
was not so, and Shillitoe found it nc
very difficult matter to gain audiences
of the King of England and of Prussia
and Denmark. and of the Emperor of
Russia, all of whom listened to him
with some show of interest He de-
signed paying visit also to the Pope,
but never had an opportunity, neither
did he have a chance To air his views i'm
the presence of Napoleon, though he
visited France especially for that pur-
pose. These names by no means ex-
haust the list of cobbler-preachers.
among whom are found such names a
those of Huntingdon, the celebrated
Methodist; Robert Morrison, the Chi
nese missionary; John Barnet. the noted
philanthropist, and John Kitto, the
Biblical scholar and author, whose
studies in Oriental lands and literatures
have done so much to explain not a few
lark passages in the Scriptures.-&
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29

darling Of many friends. The other
q thin, sharp featured, melancholy
"old maid belonged to the world
represented in the cheap boarding
house, where she earned scanty liveli-
hood.
Through some circumstance unneces-
sary to mention here, the women had
been brought together, and real, deep
friendship sprung up between the two.
There was q keen sympathy of taste
and feeling which brought them near to
each other.
For years this was Margaret's only
CLEAN of pleasure in life. Her friend
had too much tact to offer her money,
which she was too proud to accept, but
she gave her companionship. She took
her from the alley where she lived out
to the green hills and riverside. She
read to her; went with her to hear
noble music and to look at great works
of art
Margaret had known nothing but hard,
coarse poverty. Her work would never
be any higher than the sewing of cheap
coats and trousers. Thu only glimpses
which came to her of nature, of the
world of beauty and refinement; her
highest idea of God and of the loving
Savior-came to her through this one
sympathetic friend.
In the winter of 1875 she was attacked
by slow, painful disease. Mrs. Lewis
came to her every day, and cheered and
comforted her in every way,
About Christmas she apparently re-
covered. There seemed to he no neces-
sity for daily visits. The cold was in
tense. Mrs. Lewis engagements were
pressing, and she was not strong. In
short, it needed little effort to find her
way to the obscure quarter where her
friend lived, and she did not make it.
In the meantime Margaret l'egan to
sink rapidly. She would not srnd for
her friend.
''She Is i'll, or she would come t. me-"
she said.
Day after day passed, week after
week. One spring morning Mrs. lewis,
with twinge of conscience for having
neglected "poor Margaret" so long,
drove to the house laden with spring
flowers. When she found h,r way to
her room, its aspect of chill ne!tness
alarmed her. The fire was out. The
sewing-machine was closed and stood
against the wall.
Margaret" she called; "M.rga-
ret -
The landlady appeared. 1--WE turied
her yesterday" she said. 81 wish
you had come earlier, ma'am. Every
day she would make me put her chair
by the window where she could soc the
corner of the street you must turn, and
whsn it grew dark she would say: May
be tomorrow she'll come No, there
amt nothing you can do now, thank
you. Her debts are all paid, and she's
gone" ~.
"Not all the sins of my life," said
this woman afterwards. "hurt me so
much to remember as this carelessness,
for it is irreparable. l never can ask
Margaret to forgive me-
We tell this little story, not to sadden
odr readers, but to urge them TO over
look their own lives and see if there is
some sad, lonely heart to whom their
sympathy and love may bring happi-
ness Some poor dependent, or IAN
old bore" of a testy uncle, or grand
mother neglected in the corner.
Remember the vast solitude in which
poverty and age dwell apart. Go into
that solitude as one sent by your Master.
Make the little effort. The time is short:
and once gone it will never return to
you.-Touth'S Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29
Religious Miscellany
I CAN TRUST.

Z can not see, with my small human sight,
Why God should lead this way or that for me:
I only know He hath said: "Child. follow
But can trust.
know not why my path should be at times
50 straightly hedged, SO strangely barred be-
fore;
I only know God could keep wide the door;
But can trust.
Z md no answer, often When besct
with questions fierce and subtle on my way,
And often have but strength to family pray;
But can trust.
often wonder, as with trembling hand
Y cast the seed along the furrowed ground,
III ripened fruit for God will there be found;
But can trust.
can not know why suddenly the storm
Should rage so fiercely round me in its wrath;
But this know, God watches all my path
And 1 can trust.
Z may not draw aside the mystic vail
That hides the unknown future from my
sight
Nor know if for me waits the dark or light,
3 50 But can trust.
have no power 70 look across the tide.
To see while here the land beyond the river;
But this know, shall be Gods forever;
So can trust.
1 n London Ecenisg Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29
jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer.

A correspondent, while in Concord,
Mass, recently, visited the prison in
which Jesse Pomeroy is confined The
boy has reached mans stature now.
Under the condition of his sentence he
is kept in solitary confinement. He
has no intercourse whatever with the
other prisoners, and the visitor was not
permitted to speak to him. Solitary
confinement in his case does not mean
the utterly cherries existence that one
could imagine. Pomeroy, it is said.
has developed into q young man OF
more than ordinary intellect, thought
fulness. and reasoning powers. He is
allowed to have all the books he wants.
and with these companions his mental
life is not wholly devoid of comfort
Since he has been in prison he has ac-
quired enough knowledge of several
languages to read them well. His cell
is spacious and well lighted and venti-
lated. Young Pomeroy remains to-day
what his crimes showed him to be i'm
his boyhood-an abnormal character.
While more intelligent and intellectual
than the average, he is destitute of a
moral nature, and hasn't the slightest
conception of the enormity of the acts
by which he took the lives of several
little children.-ChicGgo Times
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she's leaking either, or the water in heI
would be deal higher. Let's try the
pumps and see."
To work they went, and were soor
joined by Mr.. Crossley, who, now that
his faintness had worn off, did as much
work as both of them together. After
q long spell of pumping Bob went to
"try the WE'LL" and returned with the
good news that the water had fallen six
inches.
"Bravo!' cried Jim; "we'n pump
her dry in few hours at this rate, fol
it's only the after-hold that's been filled.
Let's look about for something to eat,
and then at it again."
After some search they rummaged
out biscuit chest and q small cask OF
water still unhurt by the sea. While
they were eating, faint CLEAN of light
began to show itself in the east.
"Hollo!' cried Bob; II thought this
was. supper, and it turns out to be
breakfast. Look alive, mates; the sun'll
be on deck soon, and he mustn't catch
us skulkipg."
At it they went again, and by sunrise
the ship was SO much lightened and the
sea so calm that the three worn-out
workers thought they might venture
upon nap. When Jim awoke again
the sun was well above the horizon.
"Bob," cried he to his chum, who
opened his eyes at that moment, "here's
breeze getting up from the east. Now
if we can only manage to get some sail
upon the old craft, think we II find our
way homeyet.
Bob and Mr.. Crossley We're on their
feet in twinkling, and the three set
to work to make sail. The foremost
and jib-boom being still sound, they
succeeded-not without some difficulty
in hosting the jib and foretopsail.
Then Jim went to the helm, while his
crew of one man and a boy stood
ready to obey his orders. For even in
this first boyish adventure OF. one who
afterward became so famous he seemed
already to command and be obeyed quite
as a matter of course.
The breeze freshened, and the light
ened ship went pretty rapidly through
the water. All that day she ran before
the wind on westerly course, and just
about nightfall our three voyagcrs saw
the distant coast of England looming
shadow-like along the horizon.
THANK Godr' said the merchant,
drawing a long breath.
ave haven't made such bad voy-
age. after ALL" laughed Jim. ave
went out in boat, and we're coming
back in ship. Pm sorry for poor old
Sam, though, losing his boat, because
he was so kind as to lend it to us! If
we get any salvage for bringing this
craft into port We'll give it to him"
Never mind tie boat, my boy" re-
joined Crossley; "rll make that good;
and you may rely upon some salvage
for saving my life, whether you get any
for the ship or not. By-the-bye, what's
your name9h
flames Cook" answered the boy.
"fll remember it," said Crossley;
land Pm much mistaken if all England
doesn't some day remember it too"
He spoke truly. Thirty years later
that barefooted boy was the greatest
seaman and explorer in Britain. and
Mr.. Crossley, then a white-haired,
wrinkled old man of seventy-iive. was
never tired of telling his friends about
the strange voyage that he had once
made in a water-logged vessel with Cap
tain Cook.-DaUid Ker, in Harper'S
IOuRg Peopie.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29
For Young Readers.
WRINKLES.

"where do the wrinkles come from?
And the joyous little Grace
Looked gravely in the mirror
At her rOse-tinted face.
"where do the wrinkles come from?
Why first, dear, suppose,
The heart lets in a sorrow,
And then the wrinkle grows.
Then anger comes tapping.
And the hearts door opens wide;
Then hasten naughty envy
And discomfort and pride.
sand the wrinkles follow slowly;
For the face has for its part
To tell Just what is doing
Down in the secret heart.
And the red lips lose their sweetness,
And draw down So" said Grace;
And the lovely, youthful angel
Goes slowly from the face"
Watch the gate of the heart, my darling,
For the heart Is the dwelling place
OF the magical angel of beauty,
Whose smile is seen in thy face"
Indianapolis Sentinel.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29
Neglected Duty.

a few years ago there lived in New
York City a woman whom we shall call
Mrs Lewis, well known in the world of
art and society. and Margaret Hopkins,
a poor seamstress. One had fame,
wealth and happy home. She was
brilliant, warm-hearted, witty, and the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29

"A Russian traveller in the Malay
Peninsula claims to have found in use
there the smallest "coin in the
world. 1t is minute wafer, made
from the juice of tree. Its value is
about the millionta part of dollar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29
Choice Selections.

Sunday is the golden clasp that
binds together the volume of the week.
-LongtetlOw. -..-4.
To realize happier condition OF
society truth must be our guide, justice
our method, and courage our inspira-
tion.-Dr. Lees.
Deep convictions setting in the
light direction hold the soul steady in
its course against the comparatively
lighter influences and passions which
fret the surface of life.-W C. GRAY.
The best thing to give to your ene-
my is forgiveness: to an opponent, toll
erance; to friend, your love; to your
child, q good example: to your father,
Difference; to your mother. conduct that
will make her proud of you; to your
self, respect; to all men, charity.-Mrs.
BaJour.
The sense of obligation must under
lie our duty and service as Christians,
but it should spring from the heart with
spontaneous and free devotion if it
possess the fragrance of the broken ala
baster box. Love makes precious the
offering of the heart. Golden Rule. D :
-Contentment and Peace "a
Itwere good to learn the lesson
OF contentment and of peace:
For although the hands were busy,
All the restless strife would cease:
Father, teach it to Thy children,
Give US perfect trust in Thee,
Then alone amid the tumult
Can our hearts responseful be;
All the worry will be oeer
When we understand at length
How in QuietneSS and confidence
Shall be our strength.
Marianne FdrninQhdn.
Ut is fact suggestive of the infiu.
ence of the Gospel on the condition OF
| women that in Turkey, where q few
years ago men yoked their wives with
oxen, the curriculum in some of the col
leges for the education of women now
compares favorably with similar insti-
tutions in America. One of the girls
who was graduated from Harpoot Sem
mary is at present engaged in markings
concordance of the Bible in modern Ar
MISUNDERSTANDING.
Every solitary kind action that is
done the world over, is working brisily
in its own sphere to restore the balance
between right and wrong. Kindness
has converted more sinners than either
zeal, eloquenee or learning; and these
three never converted any one, unless
they were kind also. The continual
sense which kind heart has of its own
need of kindness keeps it humble. Per-
haps kind act never dies, but extends
the invisible undulations of its influence
over the breadth of centuries.-F. w
Fd6er.
1t is one thing to make mistakes ir
judgment or conduct, but quite another
to be guilty of deliberate falsehood and
injustice. The man who does the form.
er deserves charity, forbearance and
help to reform; but he who does the
latter deserves only that stimulus to re.
form which comes from just rebuke ami
punishment. That is a spurious chart.
IT, which tolerates vice in others, either
from an unwillingness to incur theil
displeasure by rebuking them. or by in.
difference to their welfare. We car
hardly be too merciful in our treatment
q those who do wrong ignorantly, and
ought to be very careful not to be- too
lenient with those who sin willfully and
ineXcusably.-InteriCr.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29

There were 9S2 fires in Paris last
year, and of these forty-seven broke out
in shops, thirty-eight in places where
alcohol and chemicals were stored and
fourteen in theaters. With less than
fifty exceptions, all the buildings in
which the fires occurred were insured,
and in more than 700 cases out of the
9S2 the furniture was insured as well.
The total amount of damage done wa,
estimated at rather more than $1,000.
900.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29

The Philadelphia Press solemnly
announces that Captain Eli Wanga-
mon. of Blairsyille, has "aimost" dis
covered perpetual motion. That is
about as near as most inventors have
got to it, but it is very wide word.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-29
-Contentment and Peace

-Contentment and Peace
1t were good to learn the lesson
Of contentment and of peace;
For although the hands were busy,
All the restless strife would cease;
Father, teach it to Thy children,
Give US perfect trust in Thee,
Then alone amid the tumult
Can our hearts responseful be;
All the worry will be oeer
When we understand at length
How in quietness and confidence
Shall be our strength.