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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
Getting His Moneys Worth.

A man, little topheavy, rushed into
a Sixth-avenue telegraph Office, seized
a telegraph blank and stub pen. with
ball of dried ink on the end, and, by
propping himself against the counter,
managed to write the following mes
sage:
kate; won't be home till morning.
"What'n that cost" said the man,
handing the message through the port
hole to the manipulation of electricity.
Let me see. Seven words fifteen
CENTS
Fifteen, Ell! How much for ten
words?''
1.-The same price; anything not ex-
ceeding ten will cost you fifteen cents
to any address in the city," answers
the operator, making spring to muzzle
an instrument that was suffering as if
it had delirium tremens.
"rm bound to have the worth of nv
money out of your corporation, then,"
said the man, bracing himself against
the counter as he traced on blank this
clear message:
aIncomprehensibility manufacturers. trans.
sex, Massachusetts,, assassination, Pennsyl
sania, imperturbability, philoprogenitive.
iess."
There, string that on your wire and
send her at 2:40 gait" said the man,
with a look of vengeance in his eye.
The operator counted the words, but
volunteered the information that there
vas no sense in the message, and that
the dictionary must have been ran
sacked for the longest words.
81 know there's no sense in it, but
Kate'n understand it all the same.
Sh'll know I'm on a drunk anyway
when l send message at this hour,
whether it's sense or not. l make 'em
long on purpose to break the back of
your darned machine. Shovel 'em in
and start the crank. I'm in for a good
time. Never mind the expense. Here's
your fifteen cents" And the man ran
out and hailed a passing cab.-M Y.
World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
Biting OF Tails.

At least one-haf, and possibly more,
of the cruelty inflicted in England on
dumb animals arises much less from
deliberate intention to cause physical
suffering than from sheer ignorance;
and it is, consequently, desirable to give
the widest possible publicity to cases in
which stupid adherence to barbarous
custom has brought persons within the
province of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. On
Saturday, at the Croydon Petty Ses-
sions, a young man appeared to sum-
mons issued at the instance of the of
ficers of the Society, charging him with
cruelty ill-treating dogs by biting off
their tails. The defendant pleaded
guilty. 1t was shown that the dogs
maltreated were two terrier puppies six
weeks old, and their caudal appendages
had been bitten off at about an inch
and half from the tip. A veterinary
surgeon was of opinion that the pup
Dies would suffer an acute irritating
pain until the wounds made by the
bites We're healed. This anguish they
might endure during some twenty-four
hours. The witness, it is stated, adj
mitted that the dogs would not be worth
anything unless their tails were taken
off, and added that the practice of SO
removing them was cruel, but uni
versal one. Vhat, however, is only an
individual expression of opinion. A
very distinguished authority on dogs,
Sir Edwin Landseer, publicly declared
that it was not only cruel but useless
and pernicious to crop either the ears or
the tails of dogs. In the Croydon case
the defendant was fined ten shillings
and seventeen shillings cost; and we are
quite willing to believe that he was not
actuated by the slightest intention of
cruelty in mutilating his two terrier
puppies. He only complied with an
old and savage custom, corresponding
to the barbaric practice, now happily
fading out of use, of docking the tails of
horses to within very short distance
from the root. Ladies in Rotten Row,
seventy years since, used to ride horses
whose tails were locked to degree of
exiguity which, at the present day,
would be thought not only cruel but
ridiculous. Equally inhuman with the
practice of docking horses and cropping
dogs is that of biting off the tails of
young lambs-a process not unfre-
quently resorted to by shepherds in some
parts of the kingdom at this season of
the year.-LOnd0n Telegraph.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
The Oldest Californian.

On May 4, 1888, a party of four, oil
which the writer was one, visited Juan
Capistrano, at his home in little val
ley among the hills at the base of
Monte Santa Lucia, in Monterey
County, fifteen miles west of the Mis-
sion San Antonio. Juan was born near
the Mission in 1862 and baptized into
the Catholic Church in III, when nine
years of age. He is now, therefore,
12l years old, as shown by the Mission
records. Juan is an Indian of rather
low stature, but broad-chested and mus
cular, with large, massive head, still
covered with an abundance of iron.
gray hair In shaking hands his firm
grasp indicates good deal of physical
vigor. Though now blind, he still
walks about, and until three years ago
worked his little plot of ground. How
much of the most important part of the
worlds history has been made during
the life of this man! He was old enough
to bear arms when the Declaration OF
Independence of the thirteen English
Colonies in America was published to
the world. He was thirty-six years old
when Virginia coded the Northwest
Territory to the United States-the
great Northwest, now dotted over
with cities and innumerable vii.
lagos, the home of industrious,
prosperous, happy millions. He was
at middle age when Napoleon the
Great was at the zenith of his rerown.
He has lived to see the three million OF
colonists grow into a nation of more
than fifty million-the mightiest power
on earth, with the most liberal Govern.
ment, the most enterprising people.
with capabilities unparalleled and a
future bright beyond conception, and
to see his own race, who inhabited this
great continent from the frozen North
to Darien and from Puget Sound to st.
Johns, almost entirely disappear from
the face of the earth. He was past
middle age when the first experiments
were made in the use of steam and
when Morse was perfecting the system
of telegraphing. He has lived to see
continent changed from wilderness to
a grain-field and its wild animals eX-
changed for lowing herds. He has
lived not only to see nations born, but
also to see nations die and the worlds
commerce changed to new channels,
controlled by new peoples. But APP
prehend it has been all the same to
Juan, who, in his Indian fashion, has
said his Ave Marias and Pater Nosters
and ate his acorns and beef, I'M
disturbed by the changes wrought by
his more ambitious and restless fellow
man. Though remarkable only for his
great age, one cannot but feel some
thing of awe in the presence of this liv-
ing link connecting the present with the
remote past. May his remaining days
be as free from suffering as his life has
been innocent and aimless-Belmont
(Cdl. Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
FARM AND FIREsIDE.

The flesh of poultry that have
always been allowed their liberty and
air and sunshine without stint is much
superior to those confined while fatten-
ing in filthy coops,- Chicago Journal.
Stains from vaseline and kerosene
will not come out with washing. The
following is said to be effective: .'CoveI
kerosene stains with Indian meal, and
when the oil strikes through remove
and put on fresh; repeat this until the
oil is removed. IN. Y. Herald.
AN enterprising farmer near Read
ing. Pa, has room fifty feet square,
entirely surrounded with ice, in which
he stores fruit. In this refrigerator he
is able to keep apples and pears until
they will bring twice or thrice the same
fruit marketed when first picked.
Cows when first turned to grass
will eat and need considerable dry feed
daily. Even straw will be eaten at this
time, the grass not having substance
enough III it to satisfy the animal. II
the COW is giving milk the meal ration
should be continued until June, OF
longer, if eaten readily.-Ciicago Her.
aid.
To prevent the hair falling off a
horses name and TO restore the growth,
rub the skin or the part with the follow
ing mixture, viz: One pint of alcohol
and one drachm of tincture of canthar-
ides. Give the horse dose OF salts
Twelve ounces) and feed some wheat
bran, which will allav the irritation OF
the skin to which the loss of hair is due.
Toledo Blade.
MANY so-called cases of pear
blight on ounce stock are not blight at
all, but are simply the killing of the
ounce roots from being planted too
shallow. The quince rootisvery tender,
4snd in localities where winters are Sc
we're should always be heavily mulched.
As the ounce likes cool, moist soil, the
mulch may be left on during the follow
lag summer. "-ABaericdn CultiUdtor.
Tip top cake: One egg, one table
spoonful of butter. one cupful of sugar,
one cupful of sweet milk, two and one
half cupfuls of flour, two large table,
spoonfuls of baking powder and little
salt and whatever fiavoring is liked.
This is by no means rich, therefore eN-
cellent for children who like an album
dance of cake for luncheon, but whose
stomachs are too weak for the ordinary
rich mixtures called cake.-The House
hold.
A correspondent of the Farmers
Rerieg has practiced during severa!
winters the plan of keeping apples in
dry sand, poured into the filled barrels
after storing in the cellar, and finds it
a decided improvement" on any other
ever tried, the fruit remaining till late
spring .tas crisp and apparently as fresh
as when first gathered. He does like
wise with potatoes and uses the same
sand year after year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
Witchcraft in India.

There are in India protested heart.
eaters and liver-eaterS, who, by theiI
spells and lamentations, pretend to steal
away and devour these vital organs,
thereby reducing the luckless indi.
vidualS thus attacked to the greatest
extremity. These extraordinary feeders
are, it is said, able to communicate theil
art by giving those who desire to ex-
ercise it a piece of liver-cake to eat.
They are dangerous people, effecting as
much mischief by their pretended
power as if they were actually able tc
achieve what they profess; since they
work upon the fears and excite the
imagination of the unhappy individuals
who are subjected to their diaboiical in.
tiuence, producing upon the victim
who is rendered hypochondriac by the
artful suggestions of the enemy
anguish, disease and finally death.
A recent Indian mail gave very
curious instance of the fatal results
which arise sometimes from native
superstition. 1t was brought to light
in the course of a trial held before the
Agent of the Governor of Madras at
Gangam, in South India. A paltry dis.
pute had arisen between two men regard.
pence) which had to be divided between
them, and it ended in one of them 60
ing into house and fetching knife,
with which he inflicted several
stabs upon his opponent, from the eff
fects of which he died. On being taken
up, the accused admitted having caused
the death of the other man, but said he
had done so in order to save himself, as
the other had threatened to turn HIM
self into tiger and kill him. There is
d superstition among the hill tribes to
the effect that such metamorphosis
can be made; and coupling this with
the circumstance that the crime was
apparently unprecedented, as the
weapon with which the wounds were
inflicted did not belong to the prisoner,
the Governors agent did not consider
the case such as to call for the exercise
of the utmost severity of the law. The
prisoner was found guilty and ordered
to be transported for life.
The Mohammedans adopt another de-
vice for taking away the life of an enc
my. They construct an image of earth
taken out of grave, read a particular
chapter of the Koran over it and then
repeat the prayers backward, every
word spelled in the same way-that is.
with the letters reversed. These and
other preliminaries being accomplished. |
the image is perforated with wooden |
pegs IN every part. and being shrouded |
like human corpse, is conveyed with
funeral solemnity to the cemetery of
the place and inferred in the name of
the person whose death is desired, and
who, it is believed, will not long survive
the performance of these obsequies.-
Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
In Psntomfme.


One of the traces of the street car
horse broke. delaying the car for seven
or eight minutes. Afar off to the right
one could see into the backyard of
house, and directly the passengers on
the car were gazing that way at pam
tomime. A man on the car took it
upon himself to explain what was oc-
curing. He began:
"A woman and her husband appear
at the backdoor She is excited-he
the picture of calmness."
1t was so. The woman waved her
arms and gesticulated-the man seemed
TO whistle.
s.Now she leads him to a bedstead
which she has been scalding," con-
tinued the passenger. ''She is prob
ably saying that she will smash it with
the AK, and he is probably replying
that she'll have to sleep on the floor if
she does. If l had time I'd advise her
to use kerosene oil in the crevices, but
l haven't"
The woman then led the man to a
carpet hanging on the fence and waved
her arms some more.
She's telling him to pull off his coat
and beat it" explained the passenger,
land he replies that he'll see the old
thing burned first. No true wife will
ever ask her husband to have anything
to do with carpet.
The two suddenly disappeared into
the house, and the interpreter re-
marked:
Hold on-this isn't the end! She's
taken him in to show where she wants
the kitchen stove moved to. There
they come, and she is madder'n ever"
The actors reappeared and stood in
the attitude of enemies about to begin a
combat.
..She's saying that she rues the day
she ever set eyes on him. whispered
the passenger. ..She's calling him a
loafer and a drunkard, and he's telling
her to set the chimney afire and let the
tiremen do her house-cleaning. Whoa!
there-she's flying off the handle!
There! she's hit him with a bedstead
slat! He staggers, but RECEIVERS and
tries to grasp her! She whacks him
again, and now he turns to flee. He
reaches the fence, but she reaches him.
Some of the passengers ran out upon
the platform to get clear view, but
the interpreter climbed to the roof and
continued:
.'She has him down on an ash-heap!
She's telling him that he has reached
the end of his rope and has got to cut
bait or fish. He struggles-she chokes
him and jams his head into the ashes!
Now he is quiet. Now she lets him up.
Now he is walking towards the carpet
with a stick. Ladies and gentlemen.
the great moral exhibition is over and
virtue and perseverance have won an
other glorious triumph"'-Detroit Free
Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
The family of Mrs. Harriet Beech,

The family of Mrs. Harriet Beechef
Stowe hold her in such reverence that
some of them apparently think that she
wrote the Bible. Her Ii tie grandson,
at the age of five, swinging on neigh
boris gate, was reproved by his mother.
who told him Mr.. Smith would not like
it. Il don't care for Mr.. Smith," said
the urchin, ''nor for his OK, nor his ass,
nor anything that is his.' willy"
asked his mother, do you know who
wrote those words you use so?'' Il
don't know" was the reply; Grand
ma Stowe, 1 s'pose. M Y Graphic.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
A Tell with A Tomahawk.

One OF the most remarkable exHbi-
tons of skill ever seen in Leadville was
witnessed one afternoon recently by q
Leadville Chronicle reporter. The skill
of Indians in throwing the tomahawk
and shooting with the bow and arrow Is
well known The reporter, who was of
doubtful turn of mind, requested Mr..
Allen to let him see little of the In
dams experiences. Mr.. Allen gladly con-
sented to the news mans request, and,
taking the latter into the little room
where the Navajo Indians lodge, the
former told Shilo, who can speak Eng
fish, his mission. Shilo gladly consent
ed, and the reporter was requested to
stand against the wall with large apple
on the top of his hat. The news man
trembled lest he should be deprived of
his scalp, and what little brains he had
been endowed with scattered on the
wall. Being treasured by Shilo that no
harm would come to him. he stood up,
but with closed eyes. With whiz the
tomahawk was thrown by Shilo's trained
arm, the apple was cut in two and the
tomahawk was lodged in the wall.
Three times in succession was the skillful
feat performed.
At Mr.. Aliens request the chief Wait
ema, who is one of the party of Indians,
was called upon for an exhibition of his
skill. At first the aged Navajo declined
to comply with the request, but on Shilo's
telling him that the white man would be
displeased if he did not do so, he picked
up bow. An old hat was placed on the
reporters head, and once more that in
dividual was placed against the wall as
target, and as he stood there he
thought that his days were numbered.
The chief examined the bow carefully,
and, picking up an arrow, adjusted it
with quick movement, took aim, and
like flash the arrow flew, piercing the
hat and pinningit to the wall. Six times
Waitema pierced the hat with arrows
within radius of two inches.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
Advice to Consumptives.

On the appearance of the first symptoms
AS general debility, loss of appetite, pal
lor, chilly sensations, followed by night
sweats and cough-prompt measures for
scrofulous disease of the lungs-therefore
use the great anti-scrofula, or blood. purifier
and strength-restorer,-Dr. Pierce's "Gold-
en- Medical Discovery" Superior to Cod
liver oil as nutritive. and unsurpassed as
a pectoral. For weak lungs, splitting of
blood, and kindred affections, it has no
equal. Sold by druggists the world over.
For DIR. Pierce's pamphlet on Consumption,
send two stamps to WORLDS DIsPENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
A MALARlAL vICTM.
The Trying Experience Of . Prominent
Minister In the Tropics and
ut the North.
To THE EDITORS:

The following circumstances, drawn from
.S,..;.,,,. a. inrortant
10y peisUnai ~. r.,t
ana really remarkable tnaS ha'e ie.'
called upon to make them public. Tner
truth can be amply verified:
Tn 1917 T uovsd from Canton. ST. Law.
rencs Connty' n. v. To Florida. which
State 7 ;nten3ea 70 male INV futIre resi-.
Jsnce nnrchased = home On the hanks
of the 81 5obn,s R;var and settled down.
es tbonght for life The summer follow.
inc the first winter I was Conscious of most
Macmillan sencations which seemed tn he the
Observation-Disclosures If a chance of climate I
feIt a S;nt;ng at the nit of the Stomach ac-
comnanied Nv occasional dizziness and
nanSea Nv head acbed Nv limbs pained
me and had an onnressive sense of weari-
ness. had a thirst for acids and INV anne
tite was weak and uncertain. NY diges-
ton was impaired and my food did not as
simulate. At first l imagined 1t was the
effort of nature to become acclimated and
so thought little of it. But my troubles
increased until became restless and fever
ish and the physicians informed me L was
suffering from malarial fever. This con-
tinued in spite of all the best physicians
could do and l kept growing steadily
worse. In the year 1850 my physicians In
formed me change OF climate was abso-
lutely necessary-that could not survive
another summer in the South. l deter
mined to return North, but not to the ex.
treme portion, and so took up my resi-
dence at Upper Sandusky in Central Ohio.
The change did not work the desired cure
and l again consulted physicians. found
they were unable to effect permanent
cure, and when the extreme warm weather
OF summer came on grew so much worse
that gave up all hope. At that time l was
suffering terribly. How badly, only those
can appreciate VINO nave contracted ma
larial disease in tropical regions. 1t seemed
as II death would be relief greater tnan
any other blessing. But notwithstanding
all this, am happy to state tnat am To-
day perfectly well and healthy man. HOW
1 came to recover SO remarkably can De
understood from the following card Volun-
tarily publlshed by me IN the SandusKy,
u, republican,, entitled:
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.
EpIroRs REPUBLICAN: During nv recent
visit to Upper Sandusky, so many Inquiries
were made relative to what medicine. or
course of treatment had brought such
marked change in nv system, / feel it to
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
Anthony X. Henderso

Anthony K. Henderson, who died
in Erie. Pa, recently, bequeathed his
fortune of 100000 to $3.50, 900, after
some small personal requests are de-
Quoted, to the towns of Newcastle, Pa,
and Cleveland, o., for the establish
ment and maintenance in each of an
industrial home for poor boys, in which
they may betaught the trades and given
a sufficient education for the ordinary
requirements of business life.-Paila-
delphia Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

There are nearly a million less
males than females in the United States.
If anybody doubts this he has but to
to spend week at summer hotel, or
keep his seat in q crowded horse-cer
without feeling like a hog and villain,
Boston Transcript.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
The Testimony of a Physician.

James Beecher, NJ. D., of Sigourney,
Iowa, says for several years 1 have been
using a Cough Balsam called DR.. WIN.
HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS, and in al
most every case throughout my practice l
have had entire success. l have used and
prescribed hundreds of bottles ever since the
days of my army practice QS63), when was
surgeon of Hospital No. I, Louisville, Ky.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

HAVE used Ely's Cream Balm for dry
Catarrh (which every Eastern person is
subject to who comes to live in high alti-
tude) and found it the most efficacious of any
article ever before used. 1t has proved a
cure in my case. B. F. NJ. Weeks, Denver,
Colo. See advertisement.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

writes: al want every one to know that I
was cured of dyspepsia, heartburn, sour
stomach and other disagreeable symptoms
of weak digestive organs, by using only
one bottle of DR.. Guysott's Yellow Dock
and Sarsaparilla. My stomach now readi-
ly digests any kind of food"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

ALL our readers interested in live stock,
agriculture or the markets, need a reliable
paper like the SPACE Kansas City Lire
Stock Indicator. 1t is superior to any we
know of, and only costs $3.50 per year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

1mpotency of mind, limb or vital func.
ton, nervous weakness, sexual debility,
ETC., cured by WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDI-
CAL Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Address,
with two stamps, for pamphlet.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

DIR. PIERcE's "Favorite Prescription is
everywhere acknowledged to be the stand
ard remedy for female complaints and
weaknesses. 1t is sold by druggists.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

PENNINGTON, ILL.-Dr. NJ. T. Gamble
says: ~ prescribe Browns Iron Bitters in
my practice and it gives satisfaction"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

WHY suffer longer from Catarrh and
Cold in the Head. A sure cure is EIy's
Cream Balm. 1t is not liquid or snuff
and is easily applied. Price 80 cents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
faStOr UnlverSallSt Gnu
Woodstock, o., May 10, 1883.

THE large stone hand of an idol in Chi
nese temple recently fell off and severely
injured worshiper beneath. "Satan finds
some mischief still for idol hands to do."-
Burlington Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

To THE "pooher" all things are poor
Yonkers Gazette.