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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
Breton SuperstitiOns.

A Paris correspondent says: At the
Cotes-du-NOrd assizes five days have
been occupied with mysterious case
of murder, throwing some light on
Breton superstitions. One morning last
September, in the village of Hengoat,
farmer named Ompes, twenty-five
years of age, was found suspended
from the top of a tumbril. He had been
thrashing on the previous day, had slept
in the barn in order to guard the corn
from thieves, and had evidently been
strangled in his sleep and hung up when
dead. His mouth was gagged with a
handkerchief and his arms extended as
though crucified, by stick, which was
placed in the coat-sleeves. He was the
mainstay of his aged mother, was about
to marry, and was popular in the vii
lage, except with his sister and her hus-
band, Marguerite and Yves Guillou.
They had for three years borne agrudge
against him, because, on his fathers
death, he had sworn to debt of $50
francs, which they had been obliged to
pay. They maintained that they had
not left the tavern kept by them all
night; but woman asserted she
saw them coming home from the di-
rection of the scene of the murder
at two that morning. Another per-
son declared that Marguerite's shoes
were muddy that day Yves, more
over, despite policeman's pro-
hibition, washed his trousers, which
were soiled at the knees with dung,
and the marks of knees were noticed
near the corpse. A month previously
they had hired an old woman for five
francs to go to neighboring village
where there is chapel containing a
statue of st. Yves, which is resorted to
by the whole district as means of
obtaining sure vengeance. The old
woman was commissioned to invoke
vengeance on Omnes for perjury. But
she was unable to perform the errand,
for the priest, scandalized at the evil
passions which made the shrine fire.
quented, had removed the statue to his
back garden, and on the wall being
scaled to invoke it had locked it up in
his loft. The theory of the prosecution
was that despairing of sanity inter-
ventiOn, the couple resolved on aveng-
ing themselves, and what clinched the
popular suspicion against them was
that the candle sent by Guillou to an
altar at Guingamp, with an invocation
for his brother-in-law' benefit, would
not burn. At the trial, however, the
witnesses to the facts that the two
prisoners were out late at night, and
that the woman's shoes were muddy,
were less positive than when originally
examined: and the prisoners were ac-
quilted, Notwithstanding evidence that
they had made no secret of their wish
for the deceased's death.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
How TO Detect Classical Music.

1 can give you a simple rule by which
the most ignorant may know whether
any given piece of music should or
should not be admired. If you know
at once what it is all about: if it seems
to be saying 1, 2, 3, hop, hop, hop, or
l, 2, 3, bang, bang bang, You may con-
elude at once that you are listening to
something of very low order, which
it is Your duty 10 despise. But when
you hear something that sounds As if
an assorted lot of notes had been put
into barrel and were being persist
emily stirred up, ike kind of har-
monious Cruel. You may know its a
fugue, and safely assume an expression
pear to have been dropped by accident
and are being fished up at irregular in
tervals in s. sort of placid or drowned
condition. it is likely to be nocturne;
and nocturnes, you know, are quite too
utterly lovely for anything. If the
notes seem 20 come in carloads, each
load of different kind from the last,
and if the train seems to be an unrea-
sonably long time in passing a given
point, it will turn out most likely TO be
symphony; and symphonies are just
the grandest things that ever were. II
the notes appear to be dumped out in
masses and shoyeled vigorously into
heaps, and then blown widely into the
air by explosions of dynamite, that's
rhapsody; and rhapsody are among the
latest things in music.-Cor. Chisass
Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
Great Result from an Apparently Triv.
ial Cause.

Many are the illustrations of the truth
that great result may flow from an
apparently trivial cause. The follow
ing story wen illustrates this truth. II
is related by the distinguished Archi-
bald Alexander. who was a professor in
the Theological Seminary at Princeton.
DIR. Alexander says:
In attending Commencement at Dart
mouth College, in 1901, l became ac-
quainted with Rev. DIR. Packard, of
Shelburne, Mass. In travelling with
him on horseback down the Connecticut
River. my horse became lame, and he
invited me to go and spend few weeks
with him in his parish, SO that my horse
might recruit. l did SO. During my
"tay in Shelburne, there was an inter
,esting work going on in the church.
Many of the children and youth were
influenced by it.
As DR.. Packard and myself were one
morning walking along by a house, he
said TO me:
There, | wish you would go and
talk with that cRunk of y boy, who
stands by the fence yonder."
did SO as faithfully rs l could. 1. OF
course, did not suppose that l should
see or hear of the boy again.
Some years ago a stranger passed
through Princeton, and called At my
study. He said:
lyon are DR.. Alexander. Do YOU
remember that you spent a few weeks
in Shelburne. Mass, many years ago?'
81 do" said |.
do you remember DR.. Packard
asked you one morning to talk with q
chunk of boy that stood by the
fcnce?"
why" said l, ..the circumstance
had long been forgotten, but l now re-
call it 10 mind
That chunk of a boy was myself.
The words which you spoke to me were
blessed to my spiritual good. / date
my religious life back to that time"
The chunk of boy. who. rs man.
thus confessed that his religious life was
due TO an apparently undersigned con
verSation. became one of the most dis.
tinguiShed ministers of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States.
Thus slight are the means which ere
often used for the accomplishment OF
great results in the Kingdom of God.
Cast thy bread upon the waters. -
YOUTHS Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
A Wild Girl Of the Mountains.

On the northern slope of South Mount
ain, in Millcreek township, Lebanon
County, lives a family, among whom is
a girl resembling wild woman and
who is kept more like beast than a
human being. The family consists of
but three persons, the father, a son and
the girl in question. They occupy an
old log hut, which is nearly ready to
tumble down. The girls mother died
when she was child and the poor
creature has had no one to train her.
Her mind has always been weak and
she was neglected entirely in every
way. She has not been inside school
room in all her life; she can not renl OF
write. She is very shy of strangers
When she sees person approaching
her she disappears in the bushes and
rocks on the mountain. In the spring,
it is said, her father compels her to 90
out on the Hill with'a flock of turkeys,
which she has so trained that they fol-
low her through the thickets and woods
from morning until night. Kind neigh
bors have several times attempted
to catch the girl when she
was out WIFI the turkeys Snu
care for her. but all to no purpose.
She runs at the sight of a person and
disappears, with the fowls at her heels.
Wheat bread, the neighbors say, is I'M
known to the creature; that her princi-
pal diet was corn-dodgers and sort of
paste made of dried rye flour. Her
father generally acts in the capacity of
cook and baker. Her dress consists of
old rags, which are tied about her body.
Some time ago one of the neighbors
took compassion on her and made new
calico dress, which was probably the
only one the girl has worn for several
years. Headwear and shoes are IN
known to her in her rambles through
the rough woods and mountains. She
has long auburn hair, which she wears
hanging down over her shoulders. The
household affairs of the wretched fam
ily are said to be very primitive. Stories
of most outrageous character have
been circulated about this family. 1t is
stated by good authority that a number
of citizens will call the attention of the
proper officials to this family and have
the matter Philadelphia
Times
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
Religious Miscellany.
AN ORPHAN GIRLS PRAYER.

o. Father of all forsaken, take pity on me. I
I look to Thy loving kindness. alone in the
world to-day,
to the better land;
o, list to my duplication, and lead me by Thy
handl
All me, when think it over, the happy life we
Until that sorrowful morning they told us he
was dead,
nv strong, brave-hearted brother who In the
war was slain,
And our gray-haired father and mother were
ne'er the same again.
Morning and noon and evening she sat by the
cottage door,
who would come no more,
Until in the dreary autumn she could no longer
wait. .
And passed from us to meet him within the
golden gate
\ All, father. loving and tender, he loved me
well, know,
But his heart was crushed and broken; he sank
beneath the blow;
he always seemed to be searching for some
thing he could not find:
So long they had walked together, he could not
stay behind.
Alone in the world. o, Father! 'Tis hard and
In trial and temptation. be Thou my help and
stay!
Bereft of father and mother, to Thee alone 1
plead; #.t ser
o Father of all forsaken, be with me in my
need
Ny father mother and brother, they rest with
Thee above:
And ], Thine early orphan, rest me in Thy
love:
i go as Thou wilt lead me, upon Thy will
wait
Until Thou st me join them within the
golden gate.
-HdrDcr's Young People.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
Wise Sayings.

christianity has one virtue that its
bitterest enemies must acknowledge; il
magnifies all the virtues of life with 4
refreshing Golden Rule.
1t is much safer to obey than to
govern. Who is so wise that he can
fully know all things? Be not, there
fore. too confident in thine own opinion.
but be willing to hear the judgment OF
others.-Thomas kempis.
He sendeth Them
He sendeth sun, He sendeth shower;
Alike they re ncedful for the flower;
And joys and tears alike are sent
To give the soul fit nourishment.
As comes TO me or cloud or sun,
Father, Thy will, not mine, be done.
5. +. adams.
oh. thanks to God for His visible
Church! for her hymns and her prayers,
for her ordinances and the promises she
inherits, for the fellowship of the saints
on earth with saints in Heaven, for the
history of her sufferlngs, and the future
of her triumphs! Thank God for hel
immortality! While everything else in
this world must die and rot, there is one
thing over which death has no power
one thing that smiles at the grave as il
passes on to life that has no end
DR.. Austin Phelps.
Christ did not complete His mission
as a teacher He began the work and
left it to His disciples and followers to
complete. He indicated certain lines OF
teaching. and left them to perfect tina,
which He began. Neither did He com
plete His mission as sufferer. He be-
gan the suffering and left it TO be com.
/ pleted by His disciples and followers
lie initiated the sacrifice in which He
calls every disciple to share. This is
what He means when he says: If any
man viii come after Me let him take
up his cross daily and follow Me-" The
cross is the symbol not merely of self
denial, but of loves suffering for sim
cleansing.-N Y. Observer.
Some worldly men have a way q
excusing their lives to profesSed church
members by saving: s'Of course it is al
right and to be expected that YOU KEEP
! the Sabbath and refrain from practices il
which l indulge. for you have assumed
certain responsibilities" This is nct
true, and should never be admitted for
moment There is not a single con
mand of God, or law of Christ, which J:
not as binding on these men as on thost
who are members of a Christian church
The latter have not assumed any re
sponsibility. They have simply recog
niZed obligations which are equal,
binding on all who hear the truth. Th,
difference is that one man is conform
ing his life to the law q God. and the
other is not even making the attempa
OF all inconsistent and ill-mannere
things on c1is earth, the criticisms c,
non-professors upon the lives of Chris
tians is the most absurd and nnreason
able Chicago Adrdnce.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
How a Hunter Captured Two Bears.

A. j. Wyiand, of Ciackamas County,
Ore, writes as follows to the Oregon
City Enterprise: "A short time since,
while hunting in the woods, l came
across a she bear standing erect on a
log. She looked savage, and had her
ears laid back on her neck. l put a
bullet in her skull, an inch above one
eve, and she rolled off like bundle of
chips. As the gun cracked, up young
cedar climbed q. couple of young cubs.
l loaded the gun, and found the mother
stone dead. l looked up at those two
young whelps, and concluded that l
wanted them for pets. So. putting
down the gun, l started for them. and,
as the climbing was easy, was soon able
to reach them. 1 grabbed one by the
back of the neck. when he let 90 all
holds and went to work scratching
with a vengeance. The blood flew, and
l gave him welt that knocked him as
timber as mop-rag. / then stuffed
him inside the bosom of my shirt, Us he
was senseless, and grabbed the other by
the head, and he set up a yell that
could be heard for a mile. / quickly
knocked him senseless. too, and put him
on my shoulder and commenced to
descend. Just at this point the
one inside my shirt crawled
around on to my back and dug
his hind-claws into my back just above
the belt, and put his arms around my
body, when both commenced to fight
me. l got to the ground in hurry,
threw off the one on my shoulder to the
ground, put my foot on his neck, choked
him senseless until could tie him, the
other one all the time trying to tear all
the meat off my back. l grabbed him
by the fore feet and pulled, but he held
on with his hind feet. / then pulled
him by the hind legs, but he held on by
his front claws, and couldn't pull him
off either way. l then opened my cellar
wide and lay down alongside the one
that was tied. Presently he came out
and made for large tree near, but |
caught and securely tied him, too. His
long, nice, silky hair felt nice to my
pelt, but his cfaws-they were about the
size of a .raccoon, but could outscratch
seven wildcats. One would .,imagine
that they were SO small they could
be handled without any, danger, but they
can turn themselves around in theil
hides, and be always facing you. Twas
about two miles from home, and aftel
a while got tired of carrying them, Sc
| put them down and united them, AM
they followed me like two little dogs
My advice to. all young hunters is tina
If ever you catch young bear, DON
put it in Your bosom, as l shall carr,
the scarsEmine. gave me as. long as
live,"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

in having garden-plat surrounded by
grassland, for, using the pillow, culti-
va.or, or harrow on it, the horses can
turn on the grassland. The grass can
be kept short for the distance of rod
on each side. Nearly all vegetables
can be raised in drills to the best adj
vantage. The drills, or rows, should
run north and south, so that all the
plants will have a fair amount of sun
light. The rows should be straight SO
the soil can be stirred with horse hoe
without injuring the plants. Beds are
only desirable for raising herbs and
other small plants. Walks are unneces-
sary and their care calls for large
amount of labor.-Chicago Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
Seed and Plants to the Acre.

The Southern Agriculturist gives the
following table. as showing its view OF
the quantity of seed and plants to be
used to the acre of ground:
Asparagus in Pinch drills. Is quarts.
Asparagus plants, by II feet, 5000.
Barley, q bushels to the acre.
Beans, pole, Lima, 4 by feet, 20
quarts.
Beans, Carolina, prolific, 4 by feet,
10 quarts.
Beets, mandgolds, drills, p feet,
pounds.
Cabbage, outside, for transplanting,
II ounces.
Cabbage sown in frames, ounces.
Carrots in drills, p feet, 4 pounds.
Celery, seed, ounces.
Celery, plants, by J foot, $4,000.
Clover, Lucerne, 10 pounds to the
acre.
Clover, Alsike, pounds.
Clover, red with timothy IL pounds.
Clover, red WITHOUT timothy, 16
pounds.
Corn, sugar, 10 quarts.
Corn, field, quarts.
Cucumber, in hills, 8 quarts.
Eggplant, plants. 3 by 2 feet. q
ounces.
Endive, in drills, q feet, pounds.
Grass, timothy, with clover, quarts.
Grass, timothy, without clover, 1G
quarts.
Grass, orchard grass, 50 quarts.
Grass, red-top or herds, 20 quarts.
Grass, blue, 70 quarts.
Grass, rye, 20 quarts.
Grass, millct, 81 quarts.
Hemp. broadcast, ] bushel.
Kale, German greens, 3 pounds.
Lettuce, in rows, q feet, 8 pounds.
Lawn grass. 35 pounds.
Melons, water, in hills by feet, 5
pounds.
Melons, cantelopes, in hills 4 by 4
feet, pounds.
Oats, 2 bushels.
Okra, in drills 2! by I feet. 20
pounds.
Onion, in beds for sets, so pounds.
Onion, in rows for large bulbs,
pounds.
Parsnip, in drills 2! feet, 5 pounds.
Pepper plants, q by foot, 1880.
Pumpkin, in hills by feet, quarts.
PARSLEY, In ur1llS 1eet, pounds.
Peas, in drills, short varieties. 2
bushels.
Peas, in drills, tall varieties, 1 to II
bushels.
Peas, broadcast, bushels,
Potatoes, 8 bushels.
Radish, in drills 2 fees, 10 pounds.
Rye, broadcast, II bushels.
Rye, drilled, II bushels.
Satisfy. in drills y feet, 10 pounds.
Spinach, broadcast, 80 pounds.
Squash, running. 8 by feet. -
pounds.
Sorghum. quarts.
Turnips, in drills 2 feet. 5 pounds.
Tomatoes, in frames, 8 ounces.
Tomatoes. plants, $500.
Wheat, in drills, II bushels.
Wheat, broadcast, 2 bushels.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15
General Training.

1t was general training day. If you
don't know what that means, ask grand.
ma. John knew; and he wasn't deaf
Not he. Nobody heard the drum and
fife that morning any palmer than he
did. / don't know that it sounded
sweeter to any boys ears. Yet he
wasn't rushing alone the streets OF
Windsor with the rest of the boys, eagel
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

New sunshades and parasols repre-
sent almost enough money to start 3
national bank in the country, and they
are rich and beautiful almost beyon1
description. Happy the maiden who y
engaged, and whose intended brings
her one of them instead of the obsolets
SCx of candy.-N. y. Mall.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-15

-Ruheleben is the suggestive name
of village near Berlin, which contains
a tree of melancholy reputation. A few
days ago the body OF the seventeenth sui
eide was cut down from its branches.
Inasmuch as it never occurred to the
authorities to cut the tree down, it will
doubtless continue to bear fruit of the
same kind.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-10
Concerning the Letter "R."

ITO what extent the consonant r has
been lost in actual speech is an import
ant question of English philology. 1t
has been investigated by several OBJ
servers, among whom Mr.. Ellis, OF the
Pathological Society, holds a distin-
guish d place. Their researches have
exploded the common notion that this
sin of omission bese cts o but London
ers. It prevails throughout the whole
east coast of England, and most OF all
among the cultivated classes of society.
AS regards American habits OF speech,
we have similar testimony from Prof.
Whitney. s'In my natural and unre-
generate state" he says-'namely, be-
fore I had begun to school my utterance
to conformity with orthographical and
orthoepical rule-I never pronounced at
all an rthat was not followed by a vowel.
1 fear that I hardly do SO know, except
when I am thinking of it. And
I have taught French and German pro.
nunciation to pupils enough, from all
parts of the count, y, to he convinced
that this absence of utterance and OF
trill when uttered is very general char
acteristic of American pronunciation"
What Prof. Whitney says here is in per.
feet conformity with the practice Of
American poets, even of the rank Of
Poe, Whittier and Longfsllow, who
rhyme vista and sister, or morn and taDn,
without remorse.
"Those who, like myself, always pro
nounce an ? even in iron, a only utter
an unavailing protest against this pro.
cess of decay, which has COMPOUNDED
father with farther, stalk with stork, Leoi
with Lear, etc. The rising generation
are satisfied, no doubt, with their own
dialect, and treat u disapproval with
indifference. james Lecky in 81. Jane
Gazette, London.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-10
One Cat on the Head OF Another.

A relative of mine residing near the
Blue Hills has developed a mania for
cats. He is posses sed Of sixteen cats of
all ages and sizes. Being on a visit to
MIN last week and conversing with him
in the kitchen, / heard a rafting of the
latch of the door leading to the cellar.
Surprising some one was in the cellar
who wanted to get out and could not
readily find the latch, 1 opened the door
myself, and there sat a grave and se.iaie
old cat on the landing, and standing on
her head was a half. grown cat, s~teadying
herself by the frame of the door With one
paw and with the other striking the
thumb piece of the latch with the evil
dent intention of opening the door.
Finding the door open, they gravely
walked in and seated themselves in the
family circle.
"Do these cats ever open the door in
that way?' I asked in great astonish.
ment.
"Oh, yes we've left a pane of glass
out in the cellar window, and when the
cats are tired of staying outside they
come up the cellar stairs and open the
door for themselves it v us the
trouble"
"Did you teach them to do it 7"
"Oh, no; they found out the way
themselves."-Z. A. w., in Boston
Transcript.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-10
1t Got Too Hot.

Three or four years ago two residents
of the same town in Michigan who had
always been the warmest of friends,
were nominated in opposition for the
same office. They had q consultation,
and agreed that while it was necessary
that each should call the other a liar
and a horse-thief and a thorough o
drel, fer the benefit of the public, their
personal friendship should not be broken.
Everything went all right until the can
vass warmed up, and then one day as A.
was abusing B. before a meeting, calling
him a demagogue, trickster, hypocrite,
liar and Sd forth, B. mounted the plat
form and whispered:
"Say, A, I want you to do me a great
favor"
eyes, of course-what is itf"
"My side of the house is kicking
because I stand your abuse without a
row. You must let me knock you DOWN.
"But I thought we we're to be frieuds7'
Certainly, but unless I exhibit q
proper spirit you'll lay me out by 900
majority, and I know you don't want to
send me to the political graveyard.
Here I goP
And he hauled off and knocked A.
head over heels, and taking his place on
the platform, observed:
"Gentlemen, the hydra-headed oppo-
sition must be crushed and the Union
preserved if it takes every drop of blood
in this country! Let freemen rally p
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