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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-06

Now is the time of year when the wayfaring
man is beguiled with advertisement such as
"Going out of business" "Suock must be closed
out in thirty days." slaughter sales," "Ruinous
prices" Goods sold for less than cost" owe re-
tail goods at wholesale prices" etc. This SEN
sational sort of advertising may deceive the uu-
wary, but intelligent people pay no attention TO
it. Merchants find that a plain, straightforward
presentation Of their goods is the kind of adver-
Using that brings returns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-06
The New Board.

Captain W. r. Clinton took his place as q
member of the Board of County Commissioners
Yesterday, Mr.. Smith retiring. The board was
reorganized with Mr.. Ostermeycr as president
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-06

KING & ELDER have some handsome neT
things in parlor goods.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
A Series Of Remarkable Casualties.

Yesterday afternoon, while street
EAR was nearing the bridge, footman
signaled the driver by waving his ban
danna. The driver whistled down
brakes and the car came to q sudden
halt. A young man who was occupy
ing the front platform was thrown for
ward, and, losing his balance, dropped
q watermelon which he had under his
arm. The melon fell against the heels
of the off mule, which gave terrible
kick with both heels. sending the melon
back into the face of the owner. The
melon divided into halves, one part of
it glancing off struck the driver on the
nose, knocking him off the platform.
The other half went flying through the
car window, Knocking off one bonnet,
two hats, landing in the lap of an old
colored auntie," who at once seized
the core and commenced eating it.
The mules, in the meantime becoming
frightened, flew the track. A granger
in the rear end of the car started to
catch the mules, when he fell over the
feet of Topeka belle and skinned his
nose. When the driver sufficiently re-
covered to head off the mules he found
them out in the jimson weeds quietly
cropping the succulent sun-fiower. The
owner of the melon contemplates
bringing suit against the street-car
company for damages.-Topeka COM
y,foa,reoIfh
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
The Long Journey Of a Will.

On the 4th of August, 1880, job,
Davenport, brother and one of thr
heirs of the late Dr.. Davenport. of thii
city, died in Gloucester County. En-.
gland. His will was admitted to probate
in London. As he left property in this
county of the value of some $4,000. il
was necessary that his will should be pro
bated here. In order to have this don,
it was necessary that the original docu
ment should be brought here, the Law
of the State not allowing certified
copy of the document to be used. Now
when a will is probated in England it is
taken in charge BY the Probate Cour,
and kept in its charge, In order tina,
the original will should be brought her,
it was therefore necessary that an office
of that court should come here with it
Accordingly, Hon. Conrad Adderley
Dillon, an officer of the Probate Division
of the High Court of Justice of England.
arrived here day or two since, in COM
pany of Henry Davenport, having the
document in charge, and it was adj
mitted to probate yesterday. In con-
versation with Mr.. Dillon, an Oregontan
reporter learned that this was the first
instance of the kind that had ever
occurred. The only instance of a will
ever having been allowed to part from
the custody of the English Probate Court
was in the case of that of the great Napo-
leon. When Napoleon LII. was collect
ing relics of his famous uncle, he ap-
piled to the court for his will, and the
British Government allowed him to
have it. Mr.. Dillon also said that the
wills of Napoleon III. and his son, the
Prince Imperial, were probated in En-
gland. He leaves at once for San
Francisco en- route Cor England,
having taken advantage of the
long vacation three months-to
make the trip out here. The Probate
Court of England does considerable
business, as Mr.. Dillon states that over
1 900 wills are admitted to probate there
every week.-P0rlasd Oregonian.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
The Old Folks.

Most everybody is dead. That is, all
the old folks. There are mighty few
left OF the old stock that used to move
around so lively and take the lead in
business and public affairs. Some of us
are getting lonesome now. The ranks
keep filling up, but we don't know the
new recruits. Old Father Time is a
conscript officer, and he won't take any
substitute nor give anybody a bomb
proof place. There are no quarter
masters nor cOmmissaries Lor potash
getters in this war, but it is fight, fight,
tight all the time. Sooner or later all
OF us have got to 60. We can't desert,
nor dodge, nor play sick, nor shoot
finger of, and there are no furlOughs
and no pensions and no discharge.
There is not even promotion for good
conduct or noble daring. There is
nothing but to do and die Well, it's
all right, l know, or it wouldn't have
been so, but it grieves me to hear the
bell tolling all about and to see the old
stock passing away. Thirty-two years
ago moved to Rome, and it was right
smart town of three thousand people.
ihey are not there now. What are left
can count on nv fingers, hardly q
dozen of the old settlers, and they move
about very slow. Old Mother White
died the other day. The oldest of them
all She was always going about doing
good or trying to. She outlived her
old "maun," the Scotehman, and
she outliyed her children, but
she never surrendered to grief or
trouble. These old Scotch people have
habits and principles like cast-iron.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
The Virtues Of Watermelon.

The gay and festive watermelon, :"
said a State street physician, lis q
powerful diuretic, an aperient, and the
pulp has delicious refrigerating taste.
But 1 think people should par.ske of it
in moderation, and it should be eaten
with condiments sprinkled upon it. 1t
should also be cool when eaten, but not
too cool, so as to produce congestion.
When partaken of in immoderate
quantities it is likely to result in
collie, pains, cramps; and if fer.
mentation should set in congestion
and dysentery will follow. Let q
man drink much beer after german
dining on watermelon. and a process OF
fermentation will begin which will fill
him with gas and extend his stomach
like drum. Then cholera morbus is
almost certain to follow. Moreover, a
melon should be perfectly ripe and
swe2 when eaten, and if sprinkled with
pepper or nutmeg the stomach will be
stimulated and digestion promoted.
When pulled green an acid soon forms
in the pulp which is harmful. A good
watermelon may be preserved for ten
days or two weeks in an ordinary ice
box. A good circulation of air should
be around it.-Boston Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
Baby's Kiss.

For several evenings lately has one
simple incident given me such pleasure
that now regularly lounge in some
convenient corner of my gallery that ]
may not miss it. Lolling back in my
comfortable chair, the fragrant smoke
of a post-prandial cigar curling about
my head, / listen in half dreamy state
to the tinkling bells of the passing cars.
Near me sits my wife, while on the
pavement close at hand romp my little
ones in all the vigor of childish glee. A
sense of contented quiet, with which the
laughing shouts of the children are in
perfect accord, has entire possession of
me; the atmosphere about grows grayer
with the aging day, the sun makes one
last effort to live beyond its hour, the
evening breezes 90 whispering through
the foliage of the adjacent trees, and
nature itself seems about to rest.
And then there comes to the corner
of the street young woman, carrying
in her arms little babe, scarce old
enough to say its one first word. There
they wait, this mother and her child;
wait till one certain car is sighted on its
way up the street. The mother must
then Involuntary press her little one
closer to her, for baby brightens up as
though it knows papa is near. Pres
emily the car is there at a stand-still;
the driver reaches over the dashboard,
takes the little one from the woman's
outstretched arms, kisses once or twice
the roguish mouth, and then hands
baby back again.
Sometimes the car is filled with pass
engers-it has never been empty-and
though some of the occupants may at
first wonder at the stop, the reason is
soon found out and a kindly feeling
excuses the momentary delay. Away
rattles the car; out the darkening street
into the distance beyond passes the
woman with the child, but the pretty
picture hangs about the place for many
a moment after.
It's trifling, simple thing; but !
hasten every evening to my accustomed
nook.-N o. Picdyune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
A Rocky Mountain Glacier.

To Prof. Candy, member Of PUN.
pelly's Northern Transcontinental Sur
vey party, we are indebted for the fol-
lowing account of the discovery of a
glacier by the party, and description
of the country around the Upper Marias
Pass. between the headwaters of the
Flathead River, west of the Rocky
Mountain range, and Cut Bank Greek,
east of the same. The locality is about
one hundred and fifty miles north of
Missoula.
Prof. Candy saws that on the 1st of
August the party, after having left the
Upper Flathead River (about eighty
miles above the lake,. entered the
gorge that leads up the mountain to the
Pass. This is walled in by steep mount
aims, which are crowned by rugged
precipices thousands of feet in height,
sometimes terminating in knife-like
edges, and sometimes running up in
to sharp, rugged cones, which make
the sky lines Of the mountains most va
ried and picturesque.
At the summit of the Pass three main
amphitheaters come together. They are
nearly horseshoe in shape. From the
Pass there are in full view ten or twelve
high peaks, often running up into regu-
lar, sharp rocky cones.
Some ten or fifteen miles away, look
inc to the westward, a great mass of
snow-covered mountains were in view,
and below these SUBMITS was seen a
true glacier, having frontage of at
least mile, and in some places face
estimated at 500 feet in height. From
underneath this glacier flows a stream
of milky-colored glacier water.
Prof. Pumpelly, with the Indian
guide, penetrated the amphitheater in
which this glacier lies, and counted
twenty-five cascades over five hundred
feet in height, besides seeing many
smaller ones. The sides of the mount
aims which surround this amphitheater
are covered with deep bodies of snow,
which are the sources of the many
streams flowing into the valleys below.
There was but little snow on the Pass,
and with care it was not difficult to
cross. In descending the eastern side
of the mountains the gorge presents
some remarkably lofty and stupendous
precipices. Those gentlemen of the
party who had visited the Yosemite Val
ley considered the scenery of Marias
Pass to be of q more varied character
and grander in every respect.
The summit of the Pass was found to
be seven thousand eight hundred feet
above the sea level. We shall wait with
much interest for more thorough and
complete survey of this new and Won
derful mountain district of Montana
Helena (Nont. Independent.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
Why He Didn't Go.

"Uncle Abe, amt yer gwine ter dc
funeral?" asked a colored worSan Of
an old man who stood on the street as
funeral procession passed.
mo, chile, l amt got time"
Il thought dat yer was great hen
ter go ter funerals. Dis is de fust one
dat ebber seed yer miss"
wall. dar was little misun er.
standin' twix' me an de man in de
hearse, an l thought dat l wouldn't
go"
dat doan make no difference. Yer
ken forgive him now dat he's dead"
"Yas, i could forgive him easy
enough, but l fears dat he couldn't for
give me. Yer see owed de gen leman
seberal dollars, an if was ter go out
dar, when da open de coffin at de
grave-an' dat's what da's gwinter ter
do-Td forget myself an say: Pay yer
dat money in a day or two, sah.' No.
chile, Use so absent in my mine dat !
speck I'd better stay away. Dar'H be
a anuder funeral putty soon, mebbe,
an den ken make up fur los time
Arkansas Trdreiler.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28

They never change. The old 'smaun,"
as we called him, was always merry,
and always at work making harness,
and he died in harness. He had his
time to eat, and to sleep, and to pray,
and to sing, and to read the Bible, and
his time to work, and he never neglect
ed the regular programme. Old maun
White couldn't sing, but he thought he
could, and he considered it as much a
duty as to pray. He was heavy man.
but he waddled up the hill to the meet
ing-house with alacrity, and took his
seat like he meant business, and he did
mean business, He said amen and
amen all through the preachers prayer.
and then he opened his hymn-book with
eagerness and stood up in front Of the
choir and sang from away down. He
tried to follow, but was sure to get q
little ahead, for he enjoyed it and want
ed to do more than his share. The choir
did their best to smother him, but they
couldn't. His bellows was strong and
blew loud. His kind of singing wouldn't
have been tolerated from any other
man, for he was always q little up or a
little down, and he tapered of. His
voice was a good deal below bass, and
came up like there was cog-wheel in
his throat. But everybody that knew
the old man enjoyed his singing, for ii
seemed to do him so much good, and at
times when the words were very
tender, the old man would say
"Amen" at the end of the stanza. ]
remember that one time when Henry
Gartrell and George Stovall were lead
ing music, the old man turned two
leaves in his hymn-book and got from
long into short meter, and the words
didn't fit the music. There wasn't
enough of them, and the old maun
shook his head and gave grunt and
filled out with couple of amens. He
heard litter behind him, and, looking
round. muttered audibly: Thar sum-
thin wrong about here" We joked
him about it next day, and he laughed
as he said: '.Ah, well, you know that
David said sing unto the Lord new
song, and 1 deed it. Yes, ] deed it"
l wonder how many children old Moth.
er White has taught in Sunday-school.
She has had class of little ones eve1
since knew her, and she taught them
all the same thing, to love God and tell
the truth and do right. 1 don't think
she ever improved on that. She didn't
know anything about the science of re-
Ggion or the evidences of Christianity,
and she didn't want to know. 1t was
enough for her that she loved heI
Maker and loved everybody, and her
Maker loved her. Her faith was IRON
clad; she lived in it and died in it, I'll
could trade in chances for Heaven i
would be willing to trade for hers. She
is there, reckon. and some of the chill
dren she taught are there, too, and they
gave the old lady welcome that was
Heaven enough for her.-..BiU arp" in
atlanta Constitution.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

-Pennsylvania has 1856 public
schools, New York 1855, Zone less),
Ohio 6,47S, and Illinois Is, POS.
Spring Lake, N. j., one of the
new coast summer resorts below Ocean
Grove, already has three churches.-M
Y. Examiner.
Mr.. Bliss, who worked with Messrs.
Moody and Sankey in England, has or.
ganized band in Plymouth that goes
By the euphonious name of the bliss
full Brothers,"
During the recess in the public
schools of New York City and Brook
lyn the Boards of Education have ex-
pended nearly one million dollars il
repairs and improvements.-N T.
Times.
MIR. Vanderbilt's oldest son, Cor.
nelius, is q very pious young man,
sustains the branch Of the Young Mems
Christian Association at the Grand
Central Depot, and personally conducts
its religious services twice a week. He
is also Superintendent of the Sunday
schooL-N =. Graphic.
1t is said, on good authority, that
the Society of Friends is not decreasing
in membership in America, but steadily
growing. In North Carolina it has
more than doubled in the last twenty
years, and the increase has been very
marked in the west. A larger majority
of the members are young persons
Philadelphia Press.
MIR. West, whose donation of $780,.
600 has given Cincinnati perpetual
art loan and school of art. says that.
having no one dependent upon him. he
" thought he owed it to the people who
had helped him prosper, and whose
labor had improved his real estate, to
make an honest dividend to them" He
is glad he did it.-Chiedgo Herald.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
has decided that Bates College, of Lew
iston, Me, is not entitled to the S1OO,O
bequeathed to it conditionally by the
late Benjamin Bates, of Boston. The
will contained the condition that another
100000 should be raised within two
years. which the heirs proved, to the
satisfaction of the court, had not been
done.-Boston Transcript.
Rev. Father Mclaughlin. pastor Of
the Catholic Church of the Blessed Sac
rament, at New Rochelle, Westchester
County, n. Y, announced to his con-
greeation recently that Mrs. Adrian
Iselin had given him check for &c.
600, with which to pay of the entire in
debtedness of the church. The ch urch
bell was rung after mass by way of her.
aiding the glad tidings.-..M Y. Tribune.
The post of janitor was vacant in a
Kansas City school-house, and many
citizens applied for the place, but the
trustees were most impressed by the
application of a colored man, named
James Dyer, and he was appointed.
This is what he wrote:
/ want To be 8 taniror,
And with the janitors stand
A coal bod at my elbow.
A broOmStick in my hand.
10 do my work up decently,
I'll strive and never tire;
You'll perfect satisfaction get
If you'll employ James Dyer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
Dressy Mantles.

Dressy mantles for church, visiting
and driving are made quite short in the
back. scarcely covering the tournure.
are very high and full on the shoulders,
and only medium height in front. In
some of these there are elbow sleeves,
but most have the high-shouldered
wing-Ike side-pieces shaped over the
arms or with arm-hole Sits in them;
some of these mantles are scarcely
larger than the shoulder capes worn
during the summer, while others have
8 scarf-like shape. The fabric of which
these will be most often made for early
autumn is black gros ottoman silk, with
great cords or reps of three or four
sizes making defined pattern. This is
lined with pale gray or pearl-colored
satin lightly wadded and quilted. and
the trimming is chenille fringe of thick
strands, each of which is finished with
a jet drop, or with ball or diamond Of
satin threads wound upon q frame Of
cork to make them light. There are
also many of the sleek chenille fringes
called rat-tan fringe, and sometimes
two or three thicknesses of chenille are
employed in the same fringe. For gay
er mantles colored velvet or plush is
used in gold or brown shades with col
ored cashmere laces for trimming
them, or in the brightest ruby with
black Escurial lace heavily corded, or
peacock blue with ecru lace and che
Mile fringe, moss green with ecru or
black lace, and black velvet with lace,
embroidery and fringe. One seam
that down the middle of the backs
the only one visible on these garments;
the shaping is done by darts, seams and
fullness added on the shoulders, and all
these are concealed by epaulets of en-
broidery. applique-work, or else the
new corded passementerie ornaments.
many of which are heavily beaded. The
neck is trimmed with a box-plaited
standing ruche of the material, or else
an English collar standing in the back
and with broken points in front; the
full ruches of chenille and plaitings OF
lace are still retained. Harper's Bazar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
PLAGIARISM as q Fine Art.

If we are to believe a contributor to
the Literary World, there is not STAN
dard author in the whole range of En-
glish literature who has not been guilty
of gross and repeated acts of plagiar-
ism. The breadth of the charge is
enough to cause its rejection; one might
as well expect to be believed if he
charged all men with being swindlers.
1t must be acknowledged, however,
that by a diligent ransackino of Bart
let's Dictionary of Quotations the writer
In question has managed to make out
pretty large list of parallel passages.
in which the correspondence of thought
and expression can not always be con-
sidered accidental, even with the largest
exercise of charity. But on the other
hand, it must also be said that of the two
hundred instances given, large pro-
portion are such verbal condolences as
may well have been accidental, while in
other cases nearly as numerous the bor-
rowing is only of a line or phrase
surely not very heinous sin at the
worst. The really serious cases are
thus reduced to less than q score, and
these had been pointed out long ago.
The charge of plagiarism is as fire.
quently brought against an author now
adays as that of dishonesty against q
politician. If one believed all he read
in the newspapers, he would be COM
PEELED to regard every man in public
life as scoundrel, and every man of
letters thief. Common sense will
save most men from any such sweeping
conclusions, but because these accuse
tons are ridiculous it does not follow
that they are not outrageous. Reputa-
ton is the breath of his nostrils to
man of letters, and in no way can his
be so injured as by an
of plagiarism plausibly sup
ported. Gases OF the offense are un-
fortunately not rare, yet the ACCUSE
tons are far more numerous than the
offenseS.
A word may be profitably said as to
what constitutes plagiarism. 1t is not
to be COMPOUNDED with mere parallelism.
The great bulk of literature Is COM
posed of commonplace ideas that
might easily have occurred independ-
emily to several minds. The Patent
Office authorities tell US that there is
hardly q model of an invention that has
not been duplicated. and that nothing
IS more common than for q man to find
that his machine, though originally
thought out, has been anticipated by
some other inventor. 1t is matter of
record that Charles Darwin and Alfred
Russell Wallace simultaneously and in
arrived at the theory of
natural selection; and that Adams and
Leverrier by simultaneous and indie
pendent series of calculations demon
'trated the existence and position of the
planet Neptune, till then unknown
The invention of printing and gunpow-
Ter in Europe were none the less orig
nal because the Chinese had used them
'or several centuries previous. Paral-
elisms of thought and even of express
non do not necessarily prove plagiar-
SIN, nor even constitute \ prinsa Jaeie
.ase Of the offense; the accused is en-
titled to the benefit of the doubt till
more conclusive evidence is furnished.
N T. EI0niaer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-09-28
FACE TO FACE.
KANSAS

Face TO facet There's nothing like IL
In this world of joy and woe.
Never shrinking. never hating,
Whatsoever may come or go.
Should q monster seem to threaten
Life and limb, or peace of mind.
Face him with the eye of courage,
And lamb-like foe you'n ind.
Thus il is, when. like a panther,
Creeping SANDER comes apace:
Half his tales will melt and vanish
When we meet him face to facet
Face to face with cares and trials;
Face TO face with wintry blasts
That may sorely wound and pain US
While the angry tempest lasts.
Face to face with truth and Justice;
Never turning from the right
While we have hand to work with,
And an eye to md the light.
Face to face with friends that love us,
May we ever prove most true.
Face 10 face with joys above US
When LIES journey shall be through.
Mrs. NJ 4. k6ider, IN MI Ledger.