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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
sEnded Life as He Began"

A burial difficulty of novel kind has
Just arisen in the county of Dorset. The
squabble arose over the corpse of a
Waterloo hero, which was to be buried
at BridgporG. The parties concerned
were no nearer agreement than were the
relatives and admirers of the late Gam
BETA on the question of his interment;
in fact, they were further apart. Tho
soldier had shuffied off the mortal coil
before an understanding had come as to
which of his surviving children should
bury him; and so his remains were left
uncoffined for several days. But some
thing had to be done to avoid the inter-
ference of the sanitary authorities. So
at last one of the deceased's sons pro-
cured a coffin and wished to put his
father into it. Here another difficulty
arose. The daughter at whose house
the old mans body was lying declined
to give it up, upon which the son tried
to obtain possession fit by force. Be-
tween them they had the making of
good funeral. but they did their utmost
to spoil it. The supporters OF the re-
spective parties fell upon one another.
and the SON and his friends were elected
from the house. Thus, peaceful as he
Law, the old soldier ..ended life as he be-
gan''-amid the din of battle. st. james
Gazette.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Bob TOOmbs' Wrath.

81 have no answer to make" was the
sententious reply of General Robert
Toombs to messenger who handed him
a note from his granddaughter. Mrs.
Galley, in which she asked the privilege
of visiting her grandmother, Mrs.
Toombs, who was likely to die at any
moment. Mrs. Galley, nee Miss Camille
Dubois, was the General s favorite grand
child. Mr.. Galley was raised in the same
ncighborhood in Wilkes County. Be-
tween him and Miss Camille love de-
veloped, ending in an engagement.
Galley was poor, and this was a mortal
sin in Toombs' eyes, and he forbade
communication between them. He read
his will to Miss Camille, in which she was
remembered to the extent of S60.0O0.
81 will make it 100000 if you will
break off this engagement" said Gem
eral Toombs. The lady offered to re-
main siugle during her grandfather's
lifetime. Growing violent, he declared
that if she intended to throw herself
away on poor man he would give her
forty-eight hours to leave the house.
This brought matters to crisis which
Mr.. Galley and Miss Dubois settled by
getting married Immediately. General
ToombS at once disinherited her, and
refused all communication. The young
couple are applauded by the community.
General Toombs is blind in one eye. and
the other is almost out. An Atlanta
oculist is to operate on him next week.
Atlanta (Ga.J Spectal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Stage Dancers.

A woman in Newark, while attending
a performance of "Around the World in
Eighty Days." about q week ago, dis
covered her daughter in the ballet. The
incident has suggested to some one the
writing of a sensational story about the
abduction of young girls from their
homes to swell the ranks of stage
dances. This sort of rubbish succeeds
in gaining publicity oftener than it
would if more were known about stage
dancers and the lives they lead. In this
city there is always ademand for large
number of ballet girls, as there is never
time except during dog-days, when
ballet is not one of the attractions of
from one to three or four theaters in this
city and vicinity. A woman can not
hold her place in the ballet of the metro
politan theaters unless she be at least
passibly proficient in her art and attain
even mediocre excellence requires hard,
persistent work and temperate living.
There are probably three or four hum
dred women here who are professional
dancers, and they constitute prosaic
and for the most part an honorable class
of Woodworking girls. Many of them
are in the employment of the same
amusement managers year after year.
The last time the Kiralfys brought out
one of their spectacular plays here it was
noticed that in their ballet were many
of the dancers whom they took with
them to Chicago six years ago, when
they produced "Around the World in
that city. What some of these ancient
L. - hn hal OF Ion ly frac hou
make up in proficiency. Many of these
girls get from twenty-five to sixty dol
lars a week, and there are few of them
who do not help to support poor mothers
and sisters. Some of them live in
Brooklyn, and they may be seen in the
ferrv-boats about twelve o'clock any
night trooping homeward. A few
among them have been so industrious
and saving that they own the houses in
which they live. There is Ballet Girls
Protective Benevolent Union, into which
each member pays a monthly fee for
the benefit of those who may need
assistance. Many of the best dancers
on the New York stage are not person.
ally attractive by any means. If they
once were, the lapse of time has robbed
them of their youthful charm of face.
The art of making up, however, goes
far to transform an old woman into
young one, and plain face into one
that is pretty.
There is a factory in Brooklyn for the
manufacture of many sorts of theatrical
goods, including silk and cotton tights
and padded hosiery. This last-named
article is not worn by theatrical people
alone, but many women and some men
who may be daily seen along the.
avenue and on the drives wear padded
hosiery, with fine silk hosiery over it,
particularly at fancy dress balls. The
tights worn by ballet-dancers are almost
always padded with lamb s-wool fleece.
so that, in spite of her seeming scanti-
ness of attire, the dancer is not likely
to suffer from cold.-M Y Cor. Chicago
Times
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

range about . mile long. and near il are
edible laid out handy. Every kind OF
cooked meat stands under big pewter
cover, which swings aloft on a chain and
pulley when a man wants to cut off .
slice, and everywhere is wonderful order
in the midst of wondrous confusion. AL
the dishes are kept warm on q series of
steam-heated racks hung with curtains
to keep specks off, and near by are
series of watts where the dish-washers are
up to their ears in mist. sliding crockery
around in soap-suds by the barrelful.
The laundry is q repetition of this
terrible hustle-a mass of vats and
wringers, fiat-irons, white-covered IRON
ing-tables and good-natured girls, who
flop off napkin as if it we're no joke at
all, or turn q collar over with the dex-
terity of laundry-born and bred China
man.
An important adjunct of every hotel is
the wine-room, under the supervision of
the wine steward. In the bar-room are
two or three bar-tenders, man who
washes the glasses and sings drinks
when he is not washing, and a cashier,
all of whom have there duplicates, SO that
there is change in the hands on deck
about every six hours. The billiard tables
are looked after by q set of boys, who
hand out the balls, head the cues, brush
the cloths and keep things in shape gem
orally.
This much for hotels. A great deal
more might be said about milk contracts
and match contracts, meat-stacks as big
as ice-houses-and all that sort of thing
from boxes of wooden tooth-picks up
to tons of coal-but enough has been
said to show that hotel is worth look
ing into, when the top is taken off, and
the reader is left to infer whether the
original premise be not true-thata large
hotel in a large city is village all by
itself.-Chicdgo Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
The Amsterdam Jews.


The Jews in Amsterdam are among
he most prominent citizens. The Jew.
merchant, the Jew broker. the Jew
banker. the Jew physician, the Jew
artist and the Jew lawyer, is just as
great here as he is in all the cities of the
continent, only here he is not so intense
ly hated as he is in Germany. The race
has its palatial residences, its wonderful
bazars. and, as it is everywhere, it has
its fingers upon the financial pulse of
every country in the world. They know
every market, every money and mer-
chandise, and silently but certainly they
control it. They don't go about the
streets Boosting Of what they do and
what they know-they are not after
glory, but solid results. Solong as they
corral the ducats they don't care straw
as to who has the credit of it.
So one class of Jews in Amsterdam
live in palatial residences with as luxur-
ious surroundings as any noble in the
land, solacing themselves for any per
centage the noble gets in the way OF
rank. with the calm sweet reflection
that he can buy or sell any one of them
any minute. In fact they have good
and lawful mortgage upon almost every
thing that is mortgageable.
But the Jews in Amsterdam are not all
of this class. There are $4,000 of them.
and of the number majority are as poor
as people can be and live in any sort of
comfort.
The Jew quarter in Amsterdam is the
most peculiar place in Europe, except
Petticoat Lane in London. tits peculiar
in a great many ways. 1t is dirt and
sgualor intensified. The streets in which
they live are barely twenty feet wide, the
sidewalks are only sidewalks in name,
the houses are narrow with stairs that
are SO steep as to make an ascent the
work OF a gymnast, and the smell-well
if there is anything that smells worse,
that is more offensive, we have not yet
discovered it.
In these noisome streets, crowded with
men, women and children, the latter
predominating, all the occupations of
the citizens are apparently out OF doors.
There are small shops by the thousand
devoted to the sale of something. This
one deals in knit goods, next to it, in a
shed built out upon the street, is cob
bier, the next is rag and bottle shop,
close by is rag concern, pure and
simple, next is a woman frying fish in
some sort of greasy compound which
the passers-by purchase and eat, next to
that is man saving old barrels in two,
making out of each barrel two wash
tubs with handles and all complete. And
so on. ...
The poor Jew is the apostle of the Sec
Ond hand. l doubt if he could deal in
new material it he tried. His mission is
to gather everything that nobody else
can do anything with and make it good
for something.
The street is lined with cabbage leaves
and refuse vegetation, and thare is an
OdOr comes from it, ageneral sloppiness
and dirtiness, strangely in contrast with
the scrupulous cleanliness of the other
parts of the cleanest city on the globe.
ID. II. Locke'S Cor. tn Toledo Blade.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
An Orang.Outang Accepting Fate.

The largest orang-outang ever brought
to this country was received few days
ago. 1t is an adult male and reached here
within about six weeks after its capture
in an African forest, so that it was as
far from being tanned as q wild animal
could well be. When the close front
of its box was taken off, the sight of men
aroused it to paroxysms of apprehension
and rage. 1t would alternately squeal
like cornered rat and grunt like an
angry boar, varying its vigorous and
dissonant remarks upon the situation by
violently shaking its cage and assuming
the most diabolical facial expressions.
In couple of days, however, it made an
exception in favor of its keeper. sturdy
German, who supplied its frequent meals
of dates, bananas and egg-yelks beaten
up with sugar. Then it began to dem
onstrate lively curiosity about the
strange sights and sounds surrounding
it. The continual chorus of shrieks.
whistles, screams and songs from the
myriad of birds within hearing. the chatter
of couple of young dog-faced balloons
in the cage below it, the antics of pair
of lop-eared rabbits in an opposite cage,
the automaton-like industry OF the men
filling seed and water into the crates of
canaries within full! view, all seemed to
have interest in the intelligent brute and
in cogitation over the enormous problem.
what sort of place have l got into?'
it appeared to forget both fear and
anger.
Already it looks with equanimity upon
most persons who stop to exchange re-
CARDS with it, and it is likely to make
any other demonstration than an osten-
tatious interest in the skylight. to avoid
meeting the too sharp and prolonged
gaze OF visitor. When colored man
stopped before it few days agoit showed
pleasure and appeared to recognize in
him the sort of human being it has been
used to in his native jungle. Its philo-
sophie acceptance of the new conditions
of existence into which it has been
thrown, and its readiness to learn all it
can of them, make it an interesting
beast,-N. Y. Star.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
Dangers Of Railway Travel and Railwa.
Service.

Some very interesting and also some
very startling deductions may be made
from the table of railway accidents in
the United States, reported by the Gen.
sus Bureau for the year ended June 80,
1880. The total number of passengers
carried during the year was 269, 5S3. $40,
and the number of officers and employees
of all kinds was 41S.957. Although this
includes general officers, clerks and 9TH
ers whose duties are not especially dan
gerous, we have not reduced the result
as we might have done by substracting
them. Taking the official totals We find
the following averages:
KILLED AND INJURED
through causes beyond their own control:
kiled-Passengers-6l,o or l to every a, 4l9, 40
Employes-2tO, or to every. 1911
Observation-Disclosures; or to every s14,42l
Employes-l,0o4. or to every All
Through their own carelessness:
Killed-Passengers-s2, or1 to every. 3.2ST, 6Ol
Employes-6G3, or to every. 62
Injured-Passengers--s to every, s65,6tg
Employes-2,6l3. orl to every 100
Aggregate. killed and iniured;
Passengers-6S7, or to every. 1872 i0i
Employes-4,5i0,o or / to every. ..... %
From this it will be seen that the dam
gers of railway travel to passengers, if
they use ordinary care, are astonishing
small, only one passenger being killed
by fault of the railways to each 4, 40, 400
who travelled during the year, aud only
one injured to each S14,42l. The num-
Der of casualties resulting from the care
lessness of passengers was somewhat
greater, but still very small compared
with the vast number transported.
With railway employees, however, the
result is far less satisfactory. Out of
every 1,6l1 officers and men of all grades
one was killed. and out of every All one
was injured during that year through
causes beyond their own control. The
ratio of the killed and injured through
their own carelessness is far greater.
while the aggregate casualties from all
causes show the shocking average for
the year of one killed or injured to every
ninety-two employees! These figures
seem almost Incredible. and yet it is
probable that they even fall short of the
truth. as many minor casualties are
doubtless not reported. If the numser
of accidents to train hands alone were
given. it would show still more terrible
average. Certainly these figures call for
greater care on the part of those opera
tinG our railways, and also for more per-
feet appliances by which this recors OF
suffering and death may be largely d.
minished in future. Railtoay Age.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
The fattening of horses for market

The fattening of horses for market
has grown to be quite a business in some
places in the United States, and notably
so in few counties in Western Penn
sylvania. Horses are prepared for sale
with as much care as the finest beeves,
the horsepower making it poist to
have his produce in the best possible
condition for the buyer. This has proved
to be an excellent business, and the
feeding off" has no little to do with its
success. See that your horses have first
class form and condition, as well as good
blood, and when the sale returns are re-
ceived You will find yourself well repaid
for your pains-Philadeiphia Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

"A Brooklyn dog ''takes the cake"
He is big Newfoundland, and little
girl was carrying the cake in her hand,
He jumped upon her, knocking her
down, carrying off the cake and leaving
her badly cut and bruised upon the side
walk.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09
The first Jewish marriage which has

The first Jewish marriage which has
taken place in Madrid since the expul-
sion of the Jews from Spain two cent
uries ago, was celebrated two days since.
The bride, who was welded to her first
cousin. was the daughter of foreign
merchant long established in the Spanish
capital. More than fifty persons, in
Guiding members of the very best society
in Madrid, were present at the ceremony.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

Handsome tides are placed on
satin-covered sofas, not SO much as
guaranty of good faith as to cover up
the SPOT that is worn out.-PUek.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

"A marriage notice in the Elmira On.
Y.,) Advertiser tops Off this way: s'No
cards, no cake, no flowers, no preseAta
and nobody's business"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09

result in personal injury or loss of life, the
corporation operating the road upon which
the accident occurred shall give immediate
notice thereof to the Commissioners, whose
duty it shall be, if they deem it necessary, to
investigate the same, and promptly report to
the Governor the extent OF the personal in
juries or loss Of life and the cause thereof, and
whether the same was the result of misman-
agement or neglect of the corporation on
whose. line the injury or loss of life occurred.
Provided, That such report shall not be evil
dence Or referred to in any case in court.
Section Is. 1t shall be the duty Of said
Commissioners, upon the complaint and ap-
plication of the Mayor and Council Of any
city, or the Trustee of any township, to make
an examination OF the rate of the freight tar, e
charged by any such company, and of the con-
dition or operation of any railroad, any part
Of whose location lies within the limits of
such city or township; and if twenty-five or
more legal voters of any city or township
81 all, By petition in writing, request the Mayor
and Council of such city, or the Trustee Of
such township to make the said complaint
and application, and the Mayor and Council,
or the Trustee, refuse or decline to comply
with the PRAYER of the petition thty shall
state the reason for such Noncompliance in
writing upon the petition, and retdrn' the
same to the petitioners; and the petitioners
may thereupon, within ten DAYS from the date
Of such refusal and return. present such petit
ton to said Commissioners, and said Com
missioners shall, if upon due inquiry and
hearing of the petitioners they think
that the public good demands the ex-
animation, proceed TO make it in the same
manner as If called upon by the Mayor and
Council of any city or the Trustee of any.
township. Before proceeding to make such
examination in accordance with such applica-
ton or petition, said Commissioners shall give
to the petitioners and the corporation reason
able notice in writing of the time and place of
entering upon the same. II upon such an
examination it shall appear to said Commits
sioners that the complaint alleged by the ap-
plicants or petitioners be well founded, they
shall go adjudge, and they shall then and
there decide what is q reasonable charge for
such freight, and shall inf orm the corpora
tions operating such railroad or other trans
portation company, of their adjudication
within ten days, and shall also report their do
ings to he Governor, as provided in section
6 of this act, and shall certify to such COM
plainants the result OF such adjudication, and
such adjudication shall be prima faeie evil
dence of what is reasonable charge for such
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09


stock, If any, and the condition OF its prefer
nent; third, the amount of its funded debt,
and the rate of interest; fourth. the amount
of its floating debt; fifth, the cost and actual
present cash value of its road and equipment,
Including permanent way buildings and rolling
stock, all real estate used exclusively In OPP
Grating the road, and all fixtures and con-
veniesces for transacting its business; sixth,
the estimated value of all other property
owned BY such corporation, with schedule OF
the same, not including lands granted In all
OF Its construction; seventh, the number of
acres originally granted in aid of construction
Of its road by the United States or by this
State; eighth. number of acres of such land
Remaining unsold; ninth. list of all its Off
GERS and directors, with their respective places
Of residence: tenth, such statistics of the road
and of its transportation business for the year
as may, in the judgment of the Commission
ers, be necessary and proper for the informa-
ton OF the Legislature, or as NAV be required
BY the Board. Such report shall exhibit and
refer TO the condition Of such corporation on
the first day of July Of each year, and the de-
tails of its transportation business transacted
during the year ending June 30; eleventh, the
average amount Of tonnage that can be car
ried over each road In the State with an en-
CINE OF given power.
Section 2. TO enable said Commissioners
to make such report. the President or man.
aging officer of each railroad corporation or
transportation company doing business in this
State shall annually make to said Commits
sioners, on the fifteenth day Of the month of
September, such returns, In the form which
they may prescribe, as will afford the infor-
NATION required for their said official report |;
such returns shall be verified by the oath of
the officer making them; aud any corporation
herein named whose return shall not be made
as herein prescribed, bv the fifteenth day of
September, shall be liable to penalty of 500
for each and every day after the sixteenth day
of September that such return shall be wilful-
IL delayed or refused.
Section g. The said Commissioners shall
have power, in the discharge of the duties of
their office, to examine any of the books, pa
pers or other documents of any such cor
poration or to examine under oath or other
wise any officer, director, agent or empioye Of
any such corporation, or any other person.
The Commissioners or either of them are en-
powered to issue subpenas and administer
baths In the same manner and with the same
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-09


A first-class steward gets a salary of
from 81, 800 to $500, and under his di-
rection are second steward, couple
of receiving clerks, who take in all the
provisions; brace of storekeeperS, who
have charge of them after they are taken
in; then seventy-five or hundred wait
ers, with head-waiter, of course, and
usually French cook, or chef, with an
army of cooks under him. There are
walters in the dining-room, waters in
the restaurant (if the hotel happens to
have one), and walters who carry meals
to sick ladies or other indisposed guests
in their rooms, and all these 20 on and
off w:ich at judicious intervals. The
chef is very big man in his way. and
gets $500 to $1,000 a year. according
to his ability for artistically hashing up
s.things to eat" He has twelve or fifteen
assistants-meat cooks, pastry cooks,
vegetable cooks, bakers and confection-
ers, for, according to the modern neces-
sites for the division of labor, even
cooks have their specialties, and then
there are about twenty-five or thirty
dish-washers, and lot of people who
handle table-cloths and napkins. crockery
and silverware, and a whole raft of su-
pernumeries concerning whom no fellow
on earth can find out what they are apt
to do when the dinner-serving business
is in full blast. 1t as much as mans
life is worth to get in the kitchen when
meal is under way, for the whole regi-
ment, cooks, walters, dish washers and
all go sliding around like so many peas
in an enormous pod, and the air is as full
of steam and smoke as pandemonium
itself. Everything is clean and glistens
like Furnished silver. so dainty stOmachs
need have no fear of getting more than
their rightful ''peck of dirt" out of ho-
tel kitchen.
Along one side of an immense room is .