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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
A Lost City Retaken.

The Chilians have at preseS. several
thousand men advancing frOm>liffer.
ent directions into the Araucanian ter
ritory. Up to now they have met with
slight opposition, although past events
have led the Government to anticipate
that stubborn opposition would be en-
countered. Among number of letters
from correspondents accompanying the
different expeditions is one descriptive
of the newly discovered site of the city
of Villarica, populous and opulent
city, which, after siege of two years
and eleven months, fell into the hands
of the Araucanians in 1892.
The writer states that he has walked
among the ruins now thickly studded
with well-grown oaks, and among
them has traced streets which were
fully one mile in length, and whi,h had
been divided into blocks of 100 yards
square, as was customary in most of the
cities founded by the Spaniards. The
city had been surrounded by a wall,
which is yet in fair state of preserva-
ton from three to six feet from the
grounds sufficient defense in former
days against any ordinary Indian at
tack. Tiles were found which have
hardened to the consistency of stone.
and which are in better condition thar
vixen they were the mute witnesses OF
the destruction of this inland CITY 80
many years ago.
In the vicinity there is very extern
sive lake, in which an island is situated
which is reported to be swarming with
the descendants of the domestic animals
belonging to the Spaniards who were
here sacrificed by the victorious Arau-
canians. The description given is briei
in the extreme, but it will soon be sup
plemened by fuller and yet more inter-
esting reports of this and other cities
which were destroyed at the same time
All the districts now being explored
and notably that surrounding Vii,
larica-abound in mines, which returned
large sums during the Spanish occu.
pancy. These mines will again be
worked under different auspices, and
will lend their assistance in promoting
the rapid settlement and development
of Araucania, SO long occupied by the
scattered bands claiming dominion over
it, but which now promises to become
one Of the richest provinces of Chilli
Panama Star and Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
Miilet.

A Virginia farmer says: "Millet is
more certain than oats especially
spring oats) and by far more profitable
on good land, for it often yields from
one to four tons per acre, and / am
glad to see our farmers are beginning
to see the good of this crop. / have
grown it regularly for seven years, and
when l first tried to sell it in Richmond
1t was abused by many persons. They
3 found much fault with it: but by de-
grees it was tried. and, if fairly done,
that man was sure to sow it again, I'M
I'll most all the farmers near Richmond
grow millet and large quantities of it.
As hay it is offered and sold in ouI
market every fall. 1t is one of the best
soil crops for COWS, causing them to
yield a good flow of milk, richer in
butter than any other green crop /
have ever tried. Then the hay. cut
when the seed are first formed, makes
excellent feed for horses, cattle and
sheep. The land for it is a rich loan,
not stiff, and should be well plowed and
thoroughly dragged until line. Sow
the seed one bushel per acre on rich
How grounds and three pecks on high
land; again drag and roll Iprefer the
Gelman n,iliet"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
How a Man Walks.

One of the most remarkable thing:
about mans walk is the diagonal
movement which characterizes it., The
reader may imagine the hands and feet
to form the four corners of parallel.
gram, and the diagonal limbs are OF
course the right arm and left leg anC
the left and right leg. By '.diago
nal movement we therefore intend tc
convey the fact that the diagonal limb:
during locomotion always, swing in the
same direction. A soldier on parade
keeps hisarms motionless by his side and
on no account must they be allowed tc
ivibrate. This is not what he would nat.
urally do if left to himself. 'l..f
Watch any one person out of the hun.
dredS walking along the streets, and il
will be seen that he invariably swings
his arms as he goes along, perhaps to
an extreme degree if he be a rustic, and
less so if he be town bred. The arms
swing by the body like a couple of
pendula, and with speed which en-
tirely depends upon the rate at which
he may be walking. The athlete,
anxious to complete the given number
of laps in a mile or a couple of miles
and outstrip his competitors, swings
his arms to and fro with quickness
which corresponds with the motion of
his swift feet; the Businessman also
swings his arms with motion which,
if not so quick, exactly times with the
motion of his legs; and even the idle
man about town, lounging along some
fashionable quarter, unconsciously
gives slow motion to his arms which
corresponds to his tardy legs.
Now, if the motion be even careless
" observed, it will be found that the
right arm swings forward at the same
time as the left leg, and when the right
leg is advancing it is the left arm
which accompanies it. This is the nat
ural gait, and to convince ones self
that it is so iii only requisite. to get
friend to walk across the room in the
opposite fashion,. c., to swing the
right arm forward when stepping out
with the right leg, and then in the
same manner, when bringing forward
the left leg. to accompany it with the
left arm. Such gait is both unnat-
ural and uncomfortable to the person
who tries it, and also ludicrous to the
observer who watches first attempt of
the kind. The diagonal movement of
the limbs is therefore the natural meth
cd adopted by man when walking, and
it is the first and most apparent fact
that one ascertains in studying hui
man locomotion.-Er
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
How Mr.. E1beadle Saved His Own Life.

Many years ago, when Denver didn't
have any opera house, and the Rocky
Mountain country was terra incognita
Of the world, there wandered out to the
region of Fort Benton a man named
Exbeadle, who made himself unpopular
among the Shoshones by killing some
Of the most prominent men whenever
he could catch them away from home.
As result Of this course of proce-
dure, Mr.. Exbeadle had a large private
cemetery, and hostilities were declared
by the tribe.
Mr. Exbeadle was speculator, and
one day fortune threw in his way a LOT
of fireworks that didn't meet with q
ready sale and he purchased them, moge
for his own amusement than anything
else. These he put to one side, and
didn't think of them again until one day
there was a council of war in the ShO-
shone tribe, at which it was resolved to
extinguish the light of Mr.. Exbeadle
and send him across the mysterious
river.
They notified him that the intention
was to make him climb the golden stair
in about fifteen minutes, western time.
1t looked pretty dubious for moment,
and he didn't know exactly what to do.
not having time to consult counsel.
1t was dark night in autumn, and
Mr.. Exbeadle felt that the morrow would
be of very little interest to him.
Like an inspiration, however, came
the recollection of his fireworks. He
rose and said:
Gentlemen of the forest, you APP.
parently have the bulge on me, and ]
admit you are largely in the majority.
butyOu donot know me. lam medicine
man from Michigan, and 1 can make il
mighty interesting for you if you carry
this thing too far. l just say for youI
own good, and more in sorrow than in
anger. If you take out my vitals and
feed them to the vultures L will linger
near you in the spirit, and l will annoy
you pretty plenty. | am aware that ]
have planted some of your leading men
in the cold, cold ground, but that isn't
a marker to what will perform when
l get out of the flesh, where won't be
delayed by the inclemency of the
weather.
q will now proceed to show you
few little amateur efforts of mine as
medicine man from away back"
Mr.. Exbeadle then let off a new style
of sea serpent from a slight elevation.
1t was the biggest thing in the line of
pyrotechnics that was ever turned loose
west of the Missouri. 1t shot out into
the dark about nine feet like car load
of delirium tremens and squirmeG
through the inky bosom of night like an
uneasy demon in his sleep. The gath.
ering warriors of the tribe took one hor
rified look at the Kissing emissary and
lit out They left all their baggage that
didn't happen to be tied to them, ana
there hasn't been Shoshone Indian
seen there since. = '.t.rs.t ~
Mr.. Exbeadle picked out the best
ponies belonging to the tribe, loaded VI
the rest of the fireworks and went home.
He lived many years after and became
one of the most trusted Indian Peace
Commissioners known in western his
tory.-Nyc's Boomerang. lirs r.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
C0fTee.BeanS to Order.

(. .'Giye me your opinion of these,
young man." said the east-side grocer,
as he spread before the reporter hand
full of coffee-beans. They aren't very
regular in size, are they? Now COM
pare them with these, and tell me
which you think are the better"
The grocer placed a second handful
alongside of the others. The two lots
were of the same dark brown color.
and at little distance away presented
no very marked difference. Closer in
spection showed that while the coffee
beans first shown were not all of the
same size, the second handful were of
extraordinary regularity, the beans be-
ing very plump and large.
Il know what you are going to tell
me, and at first glance any one would
say SO. Your opinion is that the last
lot is the best, isn't it? Well, the diff
ference between the two patches is that
those which | showed you first are a fair
lot of coflee-beans. while the others
aren't coffee at all, and never grew on a
coffee bush.
What kind of bush did they grow
on?''s
mo bush at all. They are a manu-
featured article. You need not look as
if you didn't believe it, for it's fact on
which you may safely risk your last
dime. They are nothing more or less
than limitations, made out of dough,
and Drowned to resemble the true
coffee. They are made in molds and
baked afterwards. Each one is almost
perfect in shape, and all are alike.
You won't find genuine coifee-beans to
have such regularity.
''They look all right, but it strikes
me that no one would mistake the
beverage made from them for coffee
'.You are wrong again, young man.
No respectable grocer would be foolish
enough to give any customer who buys
a pound of coffee pound of the imita-
ton. No, indeed. They mix Il in the
proportion of four or five of coffee to
one of the imitation. Nobody ex-
amines each bean. You hear pesons
complaining of bad coffee all the time.
I'm sure can't tell how it is. says the
housekeeper; Il buy the coffee in the
bean and grind it myself. lam sure it
is not adulterated.'
"You see, the grocer can mix chicory
with ground coffee, but when coffee is
bought in the bean something's got to
be done. Some brilliant mind got over
.he difficulty by making ceGee-beans 20
order. IN y San. $3.50 -
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
Mengolian Pity for Animals.

Nowhere will YOU find less cruelty
than in Mongolia. Not only do their
cattle and t1ocks receive expressions Of
sympathy in suffering, and such allevia-.
ton of pain as their owner knows how
to give, but even the meanest creatures.
insects and reptiles included. are treated
with consideration. One of the best
proofs Of the habitual Kindness of the
Mongol is the tamenesS CT the birds on
the plateau. Crows perch themselves
on the top Of loaded caniels, and de-
EberatelV steal Chinanen's rusks and
Monsd's mutton before the very eyes
of the vociferating owners; hawks
swoop down in the market-place. at
hands of the unwary, who simply ac-
euse the thief Of patrseide and pass on;
and swallows, year after year, build
their nests and rear their yDung inside
the very tents of the Mongols.. A Mon.
golian's pity seems to flow o,lt freely
toward the suffering of all creatures,
even the meaness and most vexstiOus.
NV bald-headesi cameEdriver was
nearly driven 10 distraction one even.
ing by q cloud of mosquitoes, which
kept lowering over and alighting on his
shining plate. During the night there
came a touch of frost, and, when we
rose in the morning, not an insect was
on the wing. Looking at them as they
chung benambed to the sides of the tent.
he remarked. .'The mosquitoes are
frozenr' and then added, in a tone of
sincere sympathy, the Mongol phras.e
expressive OF pity. '.Hoarhe, hoarhcf'
There was no sarcasm or hypocrisy
about it.-"Amoag the MongoIs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The New York Legislature, before
its adjournment, passed bill to retire
and pension school teachers over
seventy years of age.
Said student of one college to q
friend who was attending q rival in.
stitution: 'Your college never turns
out gentlemen" mo, y was the reply,
s'our college allows gentlemen to GO
right on end graduate. "-Baltin,ort
, american
s. -Workmca engaged in painting
Trinity Church in Newport, r. l., re
Gently took down the vane which was
placed ON the spire in Queen Anne's
reign. Is was six feet four inches
across and four feet high. and sur
mounted by crown, which is believed
to be the largest vestige of regal rule in
America. N
in the New England Methodist
Episcopal Conference held recently the
Rev. DR.. Fox, making q report for the
Freedmen's Aid Society, denounced the
introduction of the color line in the
churches and schools of the South, and
protested against sending contributions
from the Conference to those who
would separate the white from the
black. q s. @
According to the Baptist Yearbook
for 1888, the number of baptisms last
year was 94,6S0, gain of 1910 upon
1881. The membership was increased
over all losses by $500, and carried
up to 2.394,742. The contributions for
congregational and benevolent pur-
poses amounted in 1882 to S5.2l9,-
396.07, an increase of S6IS, 4S5. 20 over
the previous year. EFf
"A New Hampshire paper says that
the country district school in that State
is far from being what it was genera
ton ago. Benches which were crowded
then are nearly empty now, and in the
place of merry groups of children scat
tered along the roadway, here and
there a solitary scholar takes up his
lonely walk to school. The towns very
generally make liberal provision for
their schools. but they have not the
children TO send
President Eliot, Of Harvard, thinks
it would be q great improvement in the
relation between minister and congre-
cation, if the minister were frankly
allowed sometimes TO comment upon
fresh book instead of preaching ser
mon, sometimes to read other mems
sermons instead of his own, and, in
general, to direct his hearers to good
reading, and bring them to know some
thing of the minds and works of the
leaders of The race, living and dead"
AT the animal meeting of the Saliva
ton Army in London Gen. Booth stated
that the ermy had now 491 corps. with
an income derived from them of f12l,-
600. The rental of barracks entailed
al expenditure of Ell, 900 ayear. and the
army had property of its own now worth
S150,09o. upon which there was debt
of e54,0d0., About 10000 was CON
tribnted during the day. Among those
who took part in the meeting was a
Yorkshire woman eighty-four years old,
who said she had been in prison go
times for drunkenness.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
-..Do Won know the nr;soneror .sl

do you know the prisoner" asked
3 Harlem judge of witness. "Yes,
sir, do; I know him intimately; he and
were in a bank together at the same
time" "Ah, when was that?' was the
question of shrewd lawyer, who was
counsel for the prisoner. swell, as
near as l can remember, it was five
years ago. and about three O'clock in
the morning; none of the bank officers
were present at the time.'' The wit
ness was speedily excused. Harlem ~
Y Times. -.r.-f-rs
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

Hints for liars about the weather
(From the Erench.) 81 never remem-
anything like this season for dry
ness. Three months without any rain!"
bah! That's nothing! Now, in 1916,
L remember, we 2dn't have a drop OF
cain for eighteen months!''
YES" remarked Mrs. Poormouth,
eve have been going from bad to worse,
andwe would probably have been in the
almshouse. long ago only we hadn't the
money to buy silk dresses for. myself
and the girls, and you know we should MT
want to be looked down upon by the rest
of the paupers. "-B0ston Transcript.
An unfortunsse wife was killed at
Troy. NY, while cooking her husband S
breakfast in a fearful manner.-Ncto
FORK Illustrated Times There are a
great MANY women all over this free
land of ours who cook their husbands
breakfasts sin fearful MANNER" but
II is not often that justice oyertakes
them, as it seems to have done in this
case.-Tcnas SiftingS. lEa
"A colored man was hanging around
one of the opera houses the other even
ing in manner to show that he was
deeply interested in what was going on
inside, and a gentleman finally said to
him: "Why don't you go in? Under
the civil rights bill, you can take seat
in parquette circle" Eyes, sab, 1
knows all bout dat. sah," was the
reply. Under de cibil rights bill ken
take any sect in de house, but under the
present strain ON my finances couldn't
buy two shingles if hull opera houses
war sellin' for ten cents apiece, sab. y
Detroit Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

The largest block of stone ever
transported, no7excepting those in the
Chinese wall and the Pyramids, was that
from which was cut the pedestal OF the
statue of Petsr the Great, in St Petsrs-
burg. 1t VISA block oSgraniae weigh
ing 800 tonk, and was found Isolated
on marshy ground about fpsr miles
from the News. Its shape was that Of
an irregular prism, twensy-four feet
high, forsy-seven feet long and thirty
feet broad in its largest dimensions.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

When Ira Phillips, a Deputy Mar
shall of Pittsboro, went to an Illicit dis
tiller's house, the other day, to arrest
him, the moonshine dropped quietly Oh
the floor, stretched himself at full
length, and told the officer to take away
the goods. As the distiller weighed
800 pounds, the revenue officer was
obliged to go for help, and when he re-
turned the bird had flown.-Loatisrile
COurier-Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

Judge David Davis, while on his
wedding trip, said 10 San Francisco
reporter: :" You newspaper men are the
most persistent and aggravating people
alive. l declare. l have not had mo-
ment's peace from them anywhere,
There is consequently but one place
which l can look back upon with .
sense of enjoyment-Santa Fe-for
there, thank heaven. finished my stay
without running foul of even one Of
them
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

Grace Memorial House, a day nur
sery for children in New York City, has
been formally opened. The house is
the gift of the Hon. Levi p, Morton, as
tribute to the memory of his wife,
Lucy Kimball Morton, who died in 1879.
1t fronts on Fourth Avenue, and is i'm.
mediately in the rear of Grace Church
rectOry.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

"A New York letter tells of q New
York rag-pieker who suddenly became
wealthy by some means unknown.
bought mansion on Fifth Avenue,
educated his children, kept = carriage,
declined IN body and mind, was finally
found one night in shirt-sleeyes wearing
diamond studs and poking away at an
ash-barrel, and is now in a private
asylum for the insane.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

-"Kjaerlighedans" is the Norwegian
for love. Fancy the feelings of an
active Norwegian who hears the old
man coming just as he has struck the
second syllable. Chicago Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

Nearly million feet of lumber ia
annually turned into baseball bats.
One firm. alone in Michigan uses hall
that amount, and employs about one
hundred men at the turning lathes.-
chicago Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

Omaha reports the cost of living
there thirty per cent. more than in
other cities of similar size in, the region.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

. Flowers decorate the horses, driver
and footman of the carriage in which
brides are carried to church this season
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08

Infant baptism increased in the
Southern Methodist Episcopal Church
from l4,739 in 1866 to n, 2O5 in 1883.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
.PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

No matter. how. hard it is to find q
rocking chair during the day, man is
sure to fall over one when he is in
search of the matchbox after dark.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-08
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ssPhAfBus WIS nc. painting stall

Canes for dudes. made of single
straws. are The latest things out 1t is
. feared they will beso heavy as to over
balance their brains, but a trial Of them
will be made in the cool hours of a
spring day,-2Toy IN ~ Times. @
Mrs. Pinaphor can't understand
why poet should write inessssTo a
Waterfowl" when such fowl doesn't
even know the alphabet. and wouldn't
understand the verses if they were to
be read to it Sure enough.-NorriS-
torn Herald.
s. They were 1ounging on the parlor
siounse, their arms entwined.. go!
my Sophie dear" he sighed. '.you
alone know how to love. /" ..Yes, Eben,
that is what they all tell me-" The
thermometer dropped to 0.-N.~K. Trfb-
HlP
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1883-03-26
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