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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
a VOICE FROM THE FARM.

~You say that nv life is a round of toilY'
The stalwart farmer said:
THAT 7 scarce can wrest from the Oft lied
NV pitrsnce of daily bread2
Well whal you tell me in part is true:
lam seldom an idle man,
BUT I value the blessing of rest. as you,
Who have much of it, never can
- And. surely, have never worked in vain,
Prom the spring to the golden tall:
The harvest has ever brought waving grain,
Enough and to spare for all;
And when in the evening. freed from care,
see at my farmhouse door
My wife and little ones waiting there,
Oh, what has the millionaire more?
MY children NAV never have boarded wealth /;
Their lives may at times be rough.
But if in their homes they have love and
They will find these riches enough.
The only land they will ever own
Is the land that the strong right arm
And the patient, fearless heart alone
Can till to a fertile farm
~ have nothing beyond my simple wants
And a little for cloudy days:
But no grim specter my homestead haunts.
Such as silver and gold might raise.
Around mf are eyes that with sparkling
Or with placid contentment shine
And no wealth-clogged lord upon all the
Has lot more blessed than mine.
aOh. yes. I'm laboring all day long.
With the mind and the muscle too:
But | thank the Lord, who has made me
strong,
And given me work to do
For what, indeed, is the idle drone
But vampire on the land,
Reaping fruit that by others was sowu,
" y. IsIcer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
Two Enterprises.

$50 you would marry Ethel?" de-
manded the father. as he wheeled around
20 face the trembling lover.
Eyes, SIR"
Sand you have money in the bank
real observation-disclosures, say $75, 600
WORTH"
..N-no, sir, but can work up. IL
an bound to win, sir"
s.How?"
81 shall go to Florida, buy 100 acres
Of land, raise 100000 oranges per
Tear for the market, and in ten years
shall be rich"
Hum! Yes! Humr growled the old
man. Every enterprising-very good
opening, young MANI"
Yves, sir!''
81 have an enterprise ON hand a.
well. Ethel will marry q Buffalo
widower this spiing. He is consump-
tive. He won't live two years. He
viii leave her 500, 900. Go hence! Go
10 Europe for three years. That will
kill him. bury him and give her a year
to wear weeds and get over her grief.
Then she's yours, cash and all, and I
will put my hand on your head and
bless your
When the young man left the house
he didn' tseem to believe it.-WaU Street
Daily NeUs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
B0logneSe Customs.

In the Bolognese territory some curl
GUS customs prevail. A young man may
have courted a young woman for sew
eral years, walking with her home from
church. and assisting her in field labors;
house till he comes for betrothal before
the priest. Even after this. the girls
father is not supposed to be officially in
formed of the affair until week before
the marriage is to take place. the BRIDE
2 oom's father. or some one in his stead,
goes to ask for the hand of the bride
Her father "plays the Indian" is as
tonished and reluctant, but at length
bestows his consent. and they all set out
together to buv the marriage gifts.
which consist of as much garnet jewelry
a the bridegroom can afford. besides
several rings The buying of these
things is a fete to all the family-the
amount of bargaining for them and dis
cussion afterward aS to whether they
could have been got better and cheaper
elsewhere is something incredible to
those who have not heard it. When the
bride is dressed for the marriage cere-
monv. wearing her maiden necklace of
coral. the bridegroom is intro
duced with his garnets in his
hand, and asks her whether she
will exchange her coral for what he
brings. Her new ornaments add the
finishing stroke to her attire. which is
usually gay lowered dress and en-
broidered six or muslin apron. tied with
a broad sash. and white veil. After
the ceremony her husband takes her
home, and at the door she finds broom.
Her mother-in-law has designedly left
the dust thick on table or on the floor;
if the bride does not notice it. it is
sign that she is bad housekeeper; but
she is usually warned of this trap. and
falls to sweeping with the convenient
broom. 1t is very necessary that she
should appease the presiding genius of
the house, for no matter how old the
sons may be when they marry, the
parents still no d undisputed sway. and
rs they usual y all live together under
one roof and st one table, daughter
in-law's position is BY no means an easy
one if she is disliked by the heads of
the family. She is greatly separated
from her own family, in a ceremonial
point OF view; eight DAYS after marriage
she pays them n visit: and then and
henceforward she is addressed by them
with the formal "you' instead of
the tender thou TO which she has
been accustomed Springfield
(.fasS.) Republican.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27

"You are mistaken. father, it is no
Jest, and / do not mean to be offensive
to you l intended it to be q pleasant
surprise"
MIR. Calthorpe surveyed his son with
an expression of mingled dubiety and
vexation.
You to be married." he exclaimed,
CLOSING his sheer with pretended play
fulness; Ito another landlady's daugh-
ter, l presume, or some pretty Oxford
street milliner."
You have made q very bad guess.
have no fear that you will be discon-
tented when you know the lady," said
Maurice, smiling at his fathers Efforts
to maintain his air of calm politeness.
MAY be permitted to inquire what
is her name?"
'.At present it is BY her request Sc
cret even from you"
''Umph. Has she a for
tune?'
Yes"
land position?''
Eyes, and beauty and goodness be.
sides"
.Ah, the first two qualifications will
suffice to bear the burden of the others.
My dear boy. the best congratulations l
can offer you is in telling you that this
news has added twenty years to my
life, and rejoice that we shall be able
TO send them together-for of course
you will make Calthorpe your head
quarters
81 am not sure of that yet and at any
L. IL - -
Calthorpe is free"
"Of course, of course. it is q mere de-
tall" assented the father. hastily dis
missing the disagreeable reminder. and
proceeding with as much self-compla-
cency as if mortgages and probable
foreclosure were unknown to him:
Now l can go to Cuthbert's with a light
heart and-aha!-Yes!-by Jove, see
it now"
TO BE CONTINUED.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
A Woman Hanged in 1858.

The execution of females has been Of
rare occurrence in New England. 1t is
said the last was that of Ruth Blay Of
South Hampton, N. H., who was exc
cuted at Portsmouth, December 80,
1868. Brewster, in one of his volumes
of '.Rambles About Portsmouth, thus
alludes to it: In August, 1853, Ruth
Blay, of South Hampton, was indicted
for concealing the death of q child.
whereby it might not be known whether
it were born alive or not. The English
statute prescribed the penalty of death
for this oflQse. This blood written law
was not repealed until 1892, when q
milder punishment was substituted for
that of death. The e1ordium of Attor-
aey-General Claggett in the above pros
pompous solemnity. He called Heaven
to witness that he was dfscharging a
duty that he owed his country, his King
and his God" An old lady who was
present at the execution of Ruth Blay
said as Ruth was carried through the
streets her shrieks filed the air. She
was dressed in silk, and was driven
under the gaHows in cart. Public
sympathy was awakened for her, and
her friends had procured from the Gov
ernor reprieve which would have soon
resulted in her pardon-for circum-
stances afterwards showed that her
her child was probably still-born, and
she was not murderer. The hour for
her execution arrived. and the Sheriff,
not wishing, it is said, to be late to his
dinner, ordered the cat driven away.
and the unfortunate woman was left
hanging from the gallows, q sacrifice to
misguided Judgment. II weare rightly
informed, she was girl of good educa-
lion for her day, having been . school
mistress. The indignation of the popu-
lace can hardly be conceived when it
was ascertained that sreprieve from the
Governor came few minutes after her
spirit had been fastened away. They
gathered that evening around the resi-.
dence Of Sheriff Parker (the locality OF
ex-Ma.yor Richard Jenness' house), and
An efigy was there erected, bearing
his inscription:
Am to lose my dinner
This woman for to hang?
Come, draw away the cart. my boys
Don't stop to say amen
Draw away, draw away tne CAL.
Boston Post
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
Characteristics Of GreyhOunds.

When a greyhound chases anything,
he means killing it. Should little dog
become scared and start to run from
two or three greyhounds. his life may
be numbered by seconds unless he
quickly finds place of refuge where
his pursuers can not o. ia n access to
him and where he can "bow-wow" his
disgust at their want of courtesy and
their bloodthirStiness without fear OF
retribution. As for cats. of ali the
many enemies of the feline race, none
are more to be dreaded by them than
the greyhound. In q field where there
are no trees, poor pussy is soon run
down, when one grip from the long.
powerful jaws of her pursuer instantly
settles her accounts in this world. And
this habit of chasing everything that
runs from them is SO much part and
parcel of their nature, and is so fostered
by training. that to eradicate it is i'm
possible without rendering the dog use
less. On the other hand, have many
times seen them run up to small ter
rier who was plucky enough to stand
and face them. awaiting the course OF
events. when they would simply nose
him all over, as is the nature of strange
dogs in general when they meet one an.
other, and let him proceed on his way
unmolested, although l must admi,
there is generally a 'lursing devil in
the corners Of their eyes as he trots quiz
city o to see if he will not break into
a gal!op and so give them an excuse toI
chewing him forthwith. Also this
breed one and all must plead guilty to
the charge OF larceny. Most impudent
THE YES they are, too, not being at all
particular about stealing under the very
noses of the owners of the property
purloined. and having got possession Of
the coveted plumber. they. to quote an
expression of our American brethren,
"hop a ound livelv," leaving the =
grieved proprietor the option of VOW.
ing vengeance agsnst greyhounds
in general. and that hound in particu-
lar, and so put up with his loss. or else
visiting the owner of the dog and en-
deavoring to obtain satisfaction and re-
dress from that quarter. The best wav
to escape trouble from either of these
two faults is to keep your hounds
coupled so long as you are in the neigh
borhood of shops, and. although this
may not be a perfect cure for the evil,
you will find it great check on thei1
propensities in these direotions.-To-
r0rato Globe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
A MOck.AuctiOn.

Villains enough escape the laws pur.
suit to destroy all possible excuse for
affording the laws protection to any
more. Certain dishonest practices
downright robbing in fact), carried on
under the sham and semblance of trade,
can manage to run for a long time in
some large cities without interference,
and (apparently) with the direct con-
nivance of the officers of the law. 1t is
due to this that the Peter Funk" shops
and mock-auctions still survive. A let.
ter from a correspondent to the Cincin-
matt Enquirer sketches recent inside
view of one of the New York mock.
auctions:
A red flag and the gable of an auc-
tiOneer drew my attention to q small
store on my return to Chatham Square.
l entered what was intended to be mis-.
taken for a bankrupt cigar concern.
Several showcases were piled promis-
cously on boxes and some smokers
utensils were tumbled on the shelf
A burly fellow scrutinized me covert
" as walked in. He was at the same
time excluding some women of a kind
which were thronging the street. The
place was full of men, among whom
were a number of stool-pigeOns, for
this sale was fraud.
One of the swindlers told me his
regular lie, which was that the sheriff
had seized the stock and was shame
fully sacrificing it. Then he pretended
TO buy twelve boxes for six dollars, in
the expectation that 1 would bid the
same for the next lot. If I had done
so, would have found that was buy
ing a dozen at six dollars apiece, and
could take my choice between losing
that sum or seventy-two dollars.
made some casual remark about the
Stiffness of anybody who would permit
himself to be fooled by so transparent a
trick. That aroused bad feeling and l
was loudly blackguarded out of the
place.
you had better not make any
trouble in there" said q policeman,
whom had encountered before.
''You had better stop their swindling,"
[ replied.
Look here" and he scowled as he
toyed with his club, II don't allow no
man to tell me my biz"
His "biz' was to protect that mock
auction.
The base ingenuity of these men is
seen in the bubble by which they ex-
peet to escape prosecution, even if any
one should invoke the law against them.
Twelve boxes for six dollars may
mean Twelve boxes for six dollars
apiece" 1t is like the meanness of the
,landerer, who succeeds in getting
seyiling article into print against some
member of society, and lodges punish
nent by writing q blank or an initial
instead of the persons real name
Though everybody is morally certain
whom he means, he can sag he meant
somebody else.-Foath's Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
An Undisputed Fact.

1t is no use Disgusting the fact. Farm.
work is not popular aith either the
young men or the young women ir
farmers families. Many farmer who
is getting old sees with a sort of vague
dread of an approaching calamity the
silver threads streaking his loved anc
faithful companions hair, as the ageG
pair sit alone in the long evenings.
thinking sadly of their son who is in the
city, and of their daughter who is also
far away. They realize, too, that new
tastes and new desires and hopes have
estranged their children from the farm
and the homestead, the memories OF
which cling and Irvine around their OWL
hearts and bind their affections to the
place, on every foot of which there il
some work or improvement done by
their own handsome tree planted,
some spot beautified, some waste re-
claimed, some building arranged-and
now all must go, by and by, into the
hands of strangers who will tear down
what has been built up with so much
pains and has been tended with so much
loving care. In thousands of farm
houses such cases as this may be met
with, and they are very sad to one who
knows how it is himself
To know that one has some compan.
ions in his misery is supposed to be 8
consolation. If this is so, we in Ameri-
ca may look across the Atlantic and
take comfort to see the same thing 60
ing on in France, where the French
farmers are mourning because their boys
are abandoning their homes and becom-
ing cooks and Wallets and shop men, and
the girls become nurses Or mattresses
and stand behind the shop counters, as
they do here. And German and Italian
immigrants work on the farms and in
the vineyards, and when the old farmer
die these newcomers buy the land which
the young men and women think to be
below their notice.-N Y Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27

Violin, guitar and banjo strings, and
In fact all sorts that come under the
general head of 'tgut," are made from
the entrails of lambs and cattle, from
the delicate threads used for sewing
racket-ball covers up to the half-inch
thick round belts. After lamb is seven
months old its entrails are no longer fit
for making strings for violins; conse-
quently this branch of the manufacture
can only be carried on few months in
each year. All the work of making
gut-stringsi is about the same, but greater
care has to be exercised in preparing
those intended for musical instruments
than others. The process in manufact-
uring those is comparatively simple, but
far from easy. When the entrails, for
which a good price has to be paid, are
thoroughly cleaned, they are split with
q razor. Only one-half is fit for use in
violin strings. That is the upper or
smooth half. The lower half is fatty,
rough and of unequal thickness. The
strips are put through rollers turned by
hand for eight or nine days to take all
the stretch out of them. Then they are
spun or twisted. Five or six strands go
to make an E string, eight or nine an A
string, and twenty are put into q ID
string. Then they go through bleach
ing bath of sulphur fumes. After that
they are twisted again. Then they are
softened in pearlash water. again SUBJ
jected to the action of the sulphur fumes.
twisted again, dried and finally rubbed
down smooth with pumice stone. AL
together it takes ten or eleven days to
make a string. When done they are
each seventy-two inches long-four
lengths for a violin-and thirty of them
coiled separately and tied together make
up the bundle of the trade. We can
make Just as good violin strings here as
the best that come from Saxony or any
other part of Germany, and very much
better than any that are made in France,
but we cannot compete with the best
Italian strings in point of quality. Ex-
cept in the latter. not more than one in
three will be absolutely correct and
equal in tone throughout; but there is
one maker in Italy who, by some secret
process of his own, secures and
guarantees perfect accuracy through
out for every string he makes.
He does not make more than sixty
Jr one hundred bundles q year,
out his strings command $40 per bundle
here-eost that to the importer-while
other strings are worth only 80 or "a,
and others only s1.50. The Italian
makers have one great advantage-the
raw material is thin, fine, free from fat
md evenly smooth all around. so that
hey can use the whole, instead of
having to split it, as we must. That
gives to their completed strings dur
ability and evenness that we can not
attain. No gut harp-strings are manu-
iactured in this country.-N Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27

The Philadelphia Record has come
to the conclusion that moles, freckles
and warts do not detr ct from a WON
ans beauty. The editor of the Record
has undoubtedly seen q wealthy girl
who had 'em.-N Y. Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27

The Guardian episcopal. New
York; prints communication headed:
Favorable Testimony of Our Mode OF
Worship, from the Penitentiary in
Iowa"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
A HEARTS PROBLEM.
BY CHARLES GIBBoN..

Author Of Robin Gray" " For Lack Of Gold, y
I'm Honor Bound "For The Ktng,"
Queen Of the Msddou," Etc,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27

1t is said that the Mormon ennis
,aries in the South have never succeeded
N converting negro to Mormonism.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27

An immense amount of railroad
building is said to be- in progress in
South America
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27

/ etruestueSS VIII WHICH III Hau Deen
made.
"Then YOU mean to persist in your
/ insane course?'
lit is too late TO alter it now"
| This doggedneSs was very trying to
| the father. open rebellion he could I'M
derstand and deal with; but this dull.
| passionless re ection of a reason was
most irritating. and this insensibility to
every ordinary feeling of seH-interest
was as incomprehensible to Mr.. { al
thorpe as it was apparently insur-
mountable. They had come to q dead
lock.
Very well," said Mr.. Calthorpe,
rising slowly, 1--WE need not prolo2g
this painful conversation. l may men
ton. however. that l have this morning
received an invitation to luncheon at
Colonel Cuthbert's; it is written by
Miss Cuthbert, and in postscript she
tells me that she particularly wishes to
see me. Have You no friendly word to
send?"
mo"
Mr.. Calthorpe waited for a moment
IS if hoping that Maurice would yet re-
lent Then, sarcastically:
"May not even convey your con-
CALCULATIONS on her forthcoming mar
riage2"
"Oh yes, certainly" replied Maurice,
with symptoms of agitstion at last
"You may congratulate her for me If
you like: and you may tell her at the
same time that also am about to be
married"
"Your jest. sir, is not agreeable or
timely. and sounds somewhat like mock
cry of me-
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1883-09-18
Another Good Man Gone.

It is with regret that we chronicle
this week the death of DIR. Robert A.
Lucas, which occurred at his residence
about two miles south of town on
Tuesday night last. DR.. Lucas had
lived to good old age, being in his
sixty-ninth year, and there are few
men in the community who have had
so many warm friends and who will be
more missed by allhis neighbors and
friends. He was educated for a ply
sician, but never practiced medicine,
having no fondncss for the science,
and in early life commenced farming
on the place where he was born, lived
and died. He gave his whole atten-
ton the business, and no one has been
more successful farmer than he.
His pratical knowledge was always
eagerly sought after and appreciated
by those who desired to be informed
on matters pertaining to the cult va
ton of the soil.
DIR. Lucas was no politician and
never sought any political office, but
no man was more firm in adherence to
principle, and throughout all the mu-
tations of parties, from his boyhood to
the time of his death, he retained I'M
der all circumstances the convictions
of his early life, and never swerved
one iota from them.
As q citizen he was always highly
esteemed, and was never failing
friend to those he loved and honored
them on all proper occasions. lie
was social and genial in disposition
and was fond of company, and enjoy
ed in a high degree visits from his
friends and ncighbors. Every one
received kind welcome at his hos
pitable home, and hospitality to stran-
gers will not be forgotten by many
who received it. AS father he was
greatly beloved by his children. His
wife who survives him, was daugh-
ter of the late Abraham Shepherd,
and she will receive the sincere
coincidence of many warm hearted
friends. Four daughters, all mar
ried, and one son are left to mourn
his loss, and large number of i'm
mediate relatives will sadly miss the
pleasant face and kind advice of their
kinsman.
Ills remains were laid to rest in
Elmwood Cemetery on Thursday
morning, and a large gathering of
relatives and friends attended the
solemn obscquies. The family and
friends have our heartfelt sympathy
in their bereavement.
[ShepherdStorn Register.