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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07

that they have the property Of interesting
people who cannot play. The two
finest collections ever gathered were
those of Meux, the great English
brewer. and elliott, the steel pen man
ufacturer. Neither of these gentle
men couA play q note, and their in
struments were generally unstrung.
Mr.. Waters, of Brooklyn, used to have
two or three superb instruments. They
came, think, from the Plowden col
lection, which was sold in London
about twenty years ago.
''It is strange, too, that bows cannot
be made as well now as they were
nearly hundred years ago. Those OF
q Frenchman named Tourte sell to-day
for over one hundred dollars each.
Violins are now made in enormous
quantities by machinery. Here is one
built on the lines of fine 'Strad.' 1t
is sound, well made, and quite well
vanished, and l can sell it for five dol
lars"
.'How is the tone?"
swell, to tell the truth, pretty rough
at present, but it will improve each day
the instrument is played on. If it isn't
as good as 'Strad' $50 years from now,
bring it back and I'll return your
money. IN Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07
PAGERS and Pacing.

Mr.. George Brownell writes from
Liverpool to the 50. James Gazette: ssIn
the various remarks which have lately
appeared in your paper on Pacing
Horses l have not noticed any allu.
sion to those of Peru, where that type
of hack has been brought to a perfec.
ton probably unknown elsewhere.
Doubtless this has originated from the
climate, the nature of the country, and
the extensive sandy deserts in which
trotting or galloping horse, sinking
fetlock deep, would soon exhaust him
self; but apart from practical uses the
gait has there attained the position of a
positive art, and it requires very prac4
ticed rider in that style of riding to do
justice to true 'caballo de paso. There
are at least ten recognized varieties of
the 'paso, or pace, known to the
initiated-the 'paso andante,' the .paso
compagnera,' etc. The great majority
of the native horses are PAGERS; but a
really first-rate one becomes an article
OF luxury, and may command an ex-
travagant price. On some of the estates
great care was devoted to the breeding
OF these horses, many of which
were OF extreme beauty, and
their training and biting was
process to which the greatest patience
and plenty of time was given. notice
the gait styled artificial In Peru it
Is not so; a true PAGER is born so-he
PAGES naturally, though this NAV be
varied or perfected by education. Trot
he will not; if he can be driven into a
gallop it is at once seen that it is I'M
natural to him. But, then, his pace is
so superior to that of the animal who
has only been taught to pace that there
is no comparison whatever; and it is a
little surprising that SO few have been
imported into this country; though this
may be due to his true merit being that
of a Journey horse, for which purpose
he would of course be of little use here
For coaches and for their cavalry the
Peruvians have relied mainly on horses
imported from Chilli
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07
Love Survival.

Cases of the survival of love are now
and then being cited that lead us to be-
lieve the human heart is a substantial
trust after all, and that caprice or
counter attractions cannot always move
the settled fondness from its keep. At
one of the summer resorts there is a
man of many years, but tall and fine
looking, with a charming little wife who
is prematurely gray. The two have
turned fifty, but are yet young in spirit.
They are tenderly devoted to each other
and are the envy of many a younger
couple. Their life is romance. They
loved when young, but cruel parents
drove them asunder. They parted and
afterward contracted unwilling mar
riages with less-loved objects of their
circumstantial choice. After twenty
five years the woman became a widow.
A year ago the man became q wldower.
Neither had children. They met again
free agents of their own wills. A
month ago they were married and ara
now supremacy happy.-Chicago Her.
add
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07
..shake,s Telephone

81 guess I hat my telephone took out
of my house," said resident of the
eastern part of the city as he took
seat beside Manager jackson the other
day.
Anything wrong?"
Eyes. eafrytings is wrong" was the
doleful answer.
Perhaps the battery needs moro
water?"
"Vhell, may be so, but doan' keep
no track of dot. You see, vhas down
to my peesness good deal. In der
morning, after vhas gone a leedle
while. somepody rings aboudt sixteen
hundred times and scares my old
vhoman half to death. She asks Who
vhas dere, und somepody answers:
Hello! Shake, vhas dot you? Say,
Shake, how aboudt dot leedle gal dot
wrote you dot letter? Ha! hal hat,
Und dot makes my vhife so mad, dot
she shumps oop und down und pulls
her hair, and when 1 comes home she
goes for me like some tigers. Vhas dot
der right vhay to put up some shobs on
q mani"
'.No, of course not"
''Und pooty queek after dot some-
body else rings oop my house two tou-
sand times, und my White almost faints
AWAY. When she asks who vhas dere
somebody answers: Say, Shake, Isaw
you riding oudt NIT your White on der
Lake road last Sunday! Doan' be
afraidt-I doan' give him awayr Und
den my White vhas madt enough to bust
in two, und when l comes home she
sthrikes at me NIT der teapot DO you
call him telephone convenience"
81 call it shame, sir"
"Vhell, some odder times somepody
goes r-r-r-r-ring-ing-ing-ring like tun-
der, und my White vhas as pale ash q
bedquilt. She thinks dot vhas some oc-
cident to me. or some steamboat blowed
OOp NIT her sister. Her heart beats
like it would slump oudt on der floor,
und when she asks who vhas killed
somepody answers: Ish dot Shake2
Say, Shake, how much you gif dot
policeman to keep sthill on you, Ell!
All! dot vhas fine racket, Shake, but
if der oldt vhomans drops on it you
vhas gone oOp like some Gilderoy's
kiter Den my White she vhas madt
some more, und she packs oop her
trunks, und she vhas all ready to go
when comes home. Was dot some
more convenience by electricity"
II shall certainly look into the mat
ter. Such things must be stopped"
''Und sometimes somepody rings
softly, shust like cats, und my vhife
wants to know who vhas dot. Mel
Who vhas me?' .Katier who vhas
Katie?' Why, Shake, doan' you know
dot vidder vhomans you met ON der
boat. Say. Shake, how vhas der olde
vhomans to-dayP' Und how vhas dot
on me when goes homer Und how
can make der oldt vhomans pellet
vhas in my saloon all der time, und dot
1 doan' know some vidder vhomans
from a load of hay? l tell you, Misser
Shackson, dot telephone preaks oop my
family if doan' look oudt. Eafery
day it is Hello! Shaker und eafery
evening when comes home it is some
more crying und talking like vhas
der worst man in Detroit"
He was promised speedy and per.
manent relief, and as he backed up
stairs to the sidewalk, he said:
"Vhell, dot makes me feel like I vhas
happy.
If somepody WANTS to Hello! Shaker
on me let him come to my saloon. /
gif him some telephone convenience SO
he vhas lame for six months!"-Detroit
Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07
A Genuine Bull Fight.

Last week Frank Damn, butcher of
Norfolk, bought herd of cattle in that
city which he sent to his slaughter pens
in Brambleton, Among the cattle there
was a large long-horned bull which
would not be driven into the stable lot,
and becoming very mad, attacked every
thing that came near him. The owner
ordered the colored man to bring out
the bulldogs, and ten large, heavy
mouthed CANNES were turned loose.
At their masters command these trained
dogs made q dash at the Infatuated
beast, and few seconds afterward one
of them was going heavenward at a
rapid rate that astonished his master.
The bull then turned and dashed down
the street, making for the open country,
but being overtakeE, he turned again
and made fight, this time driving horn
through one of the savage-looking dogs
which attempted to catch his nose.
After some hard fighting, in which
the bull as well as several of the dogs
were seriously injured, he again made
a retreat, but only to turn quickly and
toss another dog in the air, which, no
sooner than falling to the ground, he
almost mashed into jelly. This fight
continued for several minutes, the dogs
being assisted by men, who did every
thing in their power to conquer or
kill, and at last, after most gallant
struggle for life and liberty, the bull
had to bite the dust. After the death
the dogs returned home considerably
worsted, many of them hardly able to
walk back to their kennels. Two died
the following evening. But for the
desperate assistance rendered by the
men, it is said that the bull would have
killed the entire pack. A gentleman
who witnessed the fight said that if the
dogs had been turned loose, one at
time, the bull could have killed hun
dred of them.-Lynchburg (Va.J id.
Udnce.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07
FRATERNITY.

who holds the household one and all
As slaves to his despotic sway,
His every within a mighty law
That no one dares to disobey2
My baby brother.
Who often in nights Silly hour,
About the lonely stroke of one,
Doth often raise his piercing voice
And sing to the delight of-none?
My baby brother.
Who roams alone adown the stairs
That bump and bang his precious noodle,
And tries at throwing somersaults
Before he has learned how to toddle?
My baby brother.
Who mauls my books and bric-a-brac,
And useth them for chewing-gum,
Then giggleth at my sore distress,
While dutys holds me sadly dumb?
My baby brother.
Who viii be glad when baby's old
Enough to suffer discipline,
And feel as oft he used to feel
The smarting consequence of sin?
His elder brotheri
e. r. Terry, in N. Y. Independent.
<T1,a word adrtv,, is hara cionifoant of III
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07

Journalism is not such bad pro-
fession after all, says the Photographer
of the Boston Globe. Here is another
newspaper man who has made fortune.
His name is Fargo, and he has just mar.
ried a rich widow out in Buffalo.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07

Down in Chattanooga they shut
down on the BARRIERS ON Sunday, but
allow the newsboys and bootblacks full
liberty. In this case it is the little
shayers who get through the laws
meshes, while the big shavers are
caught.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07

The world came near losing its
smallest man the other day. His name
is General Pin. He is two years old
and weighs five pounds, being the
smallest child ever born. His mother
is slightly demented and endeavored to
commit suicide by jumping into the
river with the midget in her arms. The
husband and father rescued them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07

Snake matches are the latest
wrinkle in field sports on Long Island.
The contestants start in different direc-
tons, and the one returning with the
greatest number of snakes hanging to
his belt is proclaimed the victor.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07

Gable cars have been SUCCESSFULLY
tried on the great Brooklyn bridge, and
will be run at the rate of one per min,
ute during the busy part of the day.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07
4 DREAM OF MILLIONS.

sThe word "duty" is here significant of
snaternal presence.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-07

'sHere is one by GaSpar iii SalO dated
1911, and he had then been making
them some years. To him is due the
credit of perfecting the present violin.
Prior to his invention there were only
lutes and viols, both comparatively
clumsy in form and poor in tone. You
will see, if you notice closely, that this
violin is little larger and tlatter than
the model of the best of Stradivarius'
make, and the f holes are larger. The
tone, therefore, is little follower, and
not so brilliant. 1t has what players
call tenor or alto quality, like that OF
the viola. The Amatis, large family,
were the next great makers, though
Magini, pupil of Salo, made some ex-
cellent instruments. Antonio Stradi-
varius, the greatest of all makers, was
pupil of the now famous Amati.
Stradivarius, even in his own day, was
considered an artist, and was treated
with as much respect as agreat painter
or sculptor. Yet his instruments sold
for about twenty dollars each. Quite
equal in value, though not in beauty of
workmanship to the Strad, are the
violins of Joseph Guarnerius, a con-
temporary maker"
"Where is the finest violin in the
world?"
THAT is matter of opinion. Joa-
chin has a noble instrument. So has
Leopold Auer. In fact, all the cele-
brated solOists have choice specimens.
The whereabouts and history of nearly
every great violin is as well known as
that of a masterpiece of Raphael. One of
the most singular things about violins is
National Republican., 1883-10-04
Our AIlegcd Goyernment.

The application of militia company for
arms made to the district commissioners,
and by them referred to the chief of ord
nance, United States army, brings up again
the subject of tho relations of tho people of
this district to the government set up over
them. There is nothing to criticise in the
tone of tho letter of President Edmonds. He
comedies that we are a peaceable community,
and expresses tho opinion that less than
any other city in the union are
We likely TO require tho guns of
tho militia to be turned upon us
to hold us in order. But he says our militia
is neither under the discipline nor the control
of law, and he makes that statement by way
of suggestion to tho chief of ordnance that
he does not wish to be considered as asking
for arms on behalf of tho company whose
communication he transmits, We think it
worthy of inquiry who is to undertake the
task Of maintaining order here in case OF
turbulence or riot. We have a large population
which requires at times strong check. II
might some day get beyond the control of the
police. We do not believe the district com.
missioners should be given the power they
say they do not now possess, viz: to command
the militia in case of tumult How could
they all three take command. They have Il
in civil affairs, but Gen, West, Maj. Lydecker
and Mr. Edmonds might get into dead loci
on the question of field tactics and the mol
might get away with themilitiA while it wa
awaiting the unlock. The President coulc
doubtless order out the militia to aid il
the execution ofthe laws Of the United States
If they were obstructed by combination
too powerful, &C., but the democratic pres
National Republican., 1883-10-04
THE coREAN EMBASSY.

They Visit the Treasury Department and
are shown Through tho Different Bu-
reaus.
Tho Corean embassy visited the treasury
department yesterday forenoon, and were
escorted through tho building by Horace A.
Whitney, represent ing the treasurer w. p.
Titcomb, assistant treasurer; L. B. Daskam,
chicfofpublic moneys, representing Secretary,
Folgcr and Capt. Cobaugh, Of tho treasury
watch.
EThe embassy consisted of three representa-
two Corcans, accompanied by the interpreters
and Lieut.. Mason, u. 8. N. They were
received by Col. Webster, chief clerk, Who'll
introduced the party to Secretary Folger,
after which they viewed the different points.
Of interest in the building. Tho absorbing!
point Of interest TO the Coreans was the secret
service museum, whore the pictures
of several thousand counterfeiters are
exhibited, besides molds for making
counterfeit coins, bogus checks and notes,
and many ingenious devices adopted
by crooks in all parts Of the United States in
furtheranCe of their arts. During the pas
sage of tho party through one Of the corri-
dors, Miss Tilley, clerk in the department
presented her autograph album to the chief
ambassador, who placed his signature upon 1t.
He wrote very slowly with the pen. The in
tcrpretcr explained that in Corea pens are
unknown. and those who can write do so with
small brushes Tho embassy were much
pleased with their financial experience and
rambles through the United States treasury,
and returned thanks TO the attendants for
their courtesy,
National Republican., 1883-10-04
" 1Iahone-Virginin." )"

The address of Con Malone which appears
in this issue of THE REPUBLICAN, will be
found thoroughly patriotic, earnest, aud ele-
waited in tone, strong and eloquent in Ian
guage, unanswerablo in argument and Inn
prcgnablo in business facts. We invite its
careful perusal, and hope to see II reproduced
in the northern press. Its history of Vir-
ginia finances should at least have space in
the great metropolitan dailies, whose publish
crs should haye only desire to give their
readers the facts on important public ques-
tons. Tho term "lunders came to be ap-
piled to tho bourbons because, under tho pre-
tense of only funding tho state debt they
undertook to manufacture an increase of it for
the benefit of plunderers. The term "readiust-
ment is tho word which the funders them
selves applied to their setting Off of one-third
of the debt to tho state of West Virginia as
her equitable share, a measure which mono of
any party oppose, and which has been
stamped with the approval of the supreme
court of tho United States without dissent
| 'cn' DlunOuO Is inc CHOSEN leauer OF o
majority of the people of Virginia, including
the main body of the sturdy ex-confederates
of the southwest and the valley of the Shen-
andoah and the grateful and faithful black
men of eastern Virginia and the south side,
to whose children his strong arm has opened
tho school room door and free
way TO tho ballot box. Added to
these are the progressive and enterprising
democrats and republicans throughout the
state. He is nobly fulfilling the mission to
which destinyappears to have called him, viz:
to lead Virginia back out of the pit into
which, with bleeding feet, she followed the
leaders of the old regime and to guide her
toward the place of power in the nation to
which tho solid worth of her people and her
great natural resources entitle her.
False witness has been borne against Gen.
Malone by political enemies and their dupcs,
but as he is himself the soul of honor, so his
public life is devoted to liberty, law edu-
cation, progress, public financial integrity,
national restoration, and state reform. The
Virginia bourbons will encounter their fourth
defeat in November.
National Republican., 1883-10-04
The YelIn,v IHnvrr.

Surgeon Main, of tho marine hospital SER
vice at Brownsville, Tex, reports to the sur
geon general the following items brought by
the latest Pacific mail At Mazatlan, Mexico,
yollow fever is still tho reigning terror.
Every house is hospital. 1t is impossible to
keep track of the deaths, which run into the
hundreds daily. The inhabitants are fleeing
in every direction. Yellow fever has existed
in Panama since April, but almost exclusively
among the natives. II has recently become
more pernicous, and is now spreading widely.
1t has made its appearance in the below
named Pacific coast cities: San Jose Costa
Rica, Nicaragua, Acapulco, Zucatula, Mama
nilla, Corrientes, and San Bias, and is spread
ing northward. At Guaymas so many are
down with the fever that many die from
want of attendance. The dead are buried by
the cartload by Indians. At Hermosillo the
fever death rate is about twenty daily.
Surgeon General Hamilton, OF the marine
hospital service, has telegraphed the collector
at Yuma, Ariz., to appoint sanitary inspectors
at that place and at Benson, to inspect trains
arriving from the south. This action has
been taken because of information received
from the governor of Arizona that q soldier
at Huachaca, in that territory, had died OF
yellow fever recently.
National Republican., 1883-10-04

I AN so far in favor Of free trade as 10 be OPP
posed to any tariff upon foreign merchandise if
the government did not require the revenue TO be
derived from it. Free trade between nations, as
between individuals is undeniably the founda-
ton upon which all commerce should rest
Joseph Mcdonald, Of Indiana.
We can say of the democracy of tho above
as the western epitaph said of the Aliens re-
volvor and the man who was accidentally
shot by it: 1T was of the old kind, brass
mounted, and of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven" What Mr.. Mcdonald means he
says. He is against any duties at all-that is,
he is for protection to foreign goods, with an
incidental tariff for revenue only. We un-
derstand. And Henri Watterson has letters
from the main body of the democratic con-
gressmon elect to the samo effect. The
"tariff for revenue only" will not be choked
off, neither by being remanded to the districts
nor dealt with as local question. The house
is democratic, and there is going to be some
fun. Mako room for the terrible infant.
National Republican., 1883-10-04

THE widow of stonowall Jackson refuses
to Join the southern bourbon papers in their
Trades against tho north. She says that
"Gen. Butler was wanting in no courtesy to
the guests of his state" and that tho people
of tho north certainly gave evidence that her
husbands namo was "hold in such honor and
reverence that her heart could not but bo
touched with tender and grateful emotion"
These are good words, and becoming the
gentle lady of most gallant hero. 1t is to
be hoped that before many years such OK
plantations from such u source will not bo
rendered necessary by the churlishness of
narrow sectional bourbon newspapers.
National Republican., 1883-10-04

always has declared it tyrannical an uncon-
stitutional for troops TO do anything warlike
under presidential orders since they ofiiciatod
IN aid Of United States marshals to apprehend
fugitive slaves in the north thirty years ago.
All of which again compols us to say that a
population of2OO,OOo people ought to have some
say in the matter of preserving the public
peace. If there is ever to be any shooting
into an assemblagc of people here it will bo
more satisfactory if it is preceded by usual
methods, undcr the direction of police author.
ities, accountable directly to the people for o
faithful discharge of duty.
National Republican., 1883-10-04
ARMY AND NAVY.

Secretary Lincoln is expected to return to
Washington on Saturday.
Col. j. G. Tidball, 1st artillery, was yestor-
day assigned to the command of Fortress
Monroe and the military school ut that post.
The acting secretary of the navy last even
ing received the following telegram from
Commandant Welch at Pensacola mo new
cases of fever and no deaths"
The United States steamer Pinta left
Portsmouth, N. H., yesterday, for New York.
If her trial trip shall have proved successful
she will be ordered to proceed to Alaska.
Commodore Walker chief of the bureau of
navigation, has gone to New York to join
Secretary Chandler in an inspection of the
United States steamer Trenton, now being
fitted out for the Asiatic station.
Lieut.. John S. Mallory, Cd infantry, has
been detailed as professor of military science
and tactics at tho agricultural and mechani-
cal college of Texas, to relieve Lieut.. Charles
| j. Crane, oath infantry, who is ordered to
| join his company.
Commander Il. G. Norman, commanding
the United States steamship Adams, reports
to the navy department, under date of Sitka,
| Alaska, Sept, Is, that everything was quiet
| throughout the territory and that the health
of officers and crew was good.
Commodore Upshur has been authorized Ia
detail two naval officers and six men from the
New York navy yard to attend the funeral Of
Rear Admiral Sands, which takes place from
81. AIMS church, in Brooklyn, tomorrow
This was done in accordance with the last
wishes of Admiral Sands. The funeral will
not be with military honors.
1t is expected that the following naval yes
sells viii participate in the Newburg Centen
NAL celebration on tho tenth instant, viz
Flagship Tennessee, Alliance Vaudalla
Yantic, and Swatara, of tho North Atlanti,
squadron, and Saratoga aud Portsmouth, o
the training squadron. Several of tho above
named vessels are now at New York. Th
others aud on their way to that port.