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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06
The Deacon's Experience.

Actions speak louder than words. We
nave been greatly interested in a little
experiment as told by Rose Terry
Cooke. 1t is called the .Deacon's
Week." and narrates the experiences of
Deacon Emmons for one week in trying
to live out the "topics" as given for the
week of prayer.
On Monday, Deacon Emmons really
tried to be temperate in speech and in
act: Tuesday, he visited his Sunday
school scholars; Wednesday, he called
on his Christian brethren and confessed
his shortcomings; Thursday, he endeav-
ored to be very pleasant in his family
relations; Friday, to act as Christ would
in his place; Saturday, to preach the
Gospel to the heather at his own door,
and Saturday evening he came with a
troubled, weary look, as had all the
other members of the church, and, the
lot falling on him, rose and told them
of the time he had had in trying to live
out these "topics."
His experience will do us all good, if
we listen to it. Monday, he battled
with his appetites; he knew coffee was
bad for him. and he got the victory over
it in the morning, but at dinner the pie
beat him. He knew, dyspeptic man as
he was, that he ought not to eat it, but
he did, and felt mean enough all the
rest of that day. Tuesday, he set out to
hunt up his Sunday-school class; one
was sick, and so glad to see him; an
other man had been saying if folks prac-
ticed what they preached, Deacon En-
mons would '.ha' come round to look
him up afore now," and how glad he
was that he had. Wednesday, he got
along finely visiting neighbors till noon,
when he heard that Squire fuckers
bull was in his lot. Then he called on
Amos Tucker, being mad, but he won a
battle. asked the Squire to forgive him,
and brought back a brother to Christ.
Next day opened his eyes wide when his
wife looked scared at his offer to get
breakfast. seeing her head ached, and
Joe told En- that father was like to die
because she's so everlastin' pleasant
and good natered" We do not wonder
that when he heard it he sat down on
the cellar stairs and cried. Friday he
lost \ bargain by being exceeding hon
est. and felt mean to think how many
little tricks he had resorted to. Satur-
day the Deacon called on Miss Vedder
to do little missionary work, and got
tripped up quick as a flash and driven
off with broom. Then he went to see
a man who was half drunk, and had ten
ragged children, and the man "give it
to me, too"
The good Deacon went home thor
oughly humbled. But he had learned a
lesson which lasted him for lifetime.
And so had all that church; and it did
them great good. And wouldn't it do
us good, brethren. to try this for one
week? Instead of grumbling about the
cold condition of your church. just try
this plan, and get some of your brethren
TO do the same, 1t is time to stop talk
ing, and act. For it is true that actions
speak louder than words, and if we do
not act most surely we will find that
our words have far outrun our deeds
Golden Rule.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06
Nanny's Chocolate Creams.

"Dear me-" said Cousin Prue John
son, yawning, "I'd give half dollar fol
| a paper of chocolate creams"
Cousin Prue wasn't very old young
lady, and she had Il sweet tooth. Nanny
looked up quickly from the corner OF
the lounge where she was sorting over
her last years magazines.
"Will you. honest, Cousin Prue?''
she asked; twill you give me fifty cents
for fifty creams?'
"Yes;" said Cousin Prue, ''for
twenty-five. But it's showing too hard
to go out, dear"
Nanny laughed brightly, and ran up
to her mothers room; because the first
step was always to ask mamma. In q
minute she was down again with long
apron on that reached from her chin tc
her toes. She went straight into the
kitchen, and this is what she did there:
She mixed half-a-cupful of cream with
two cupfuls of sugar, and boiled the
whole for five minutes. Then she took
it off the stove and put in just tea
spoonful of lemon and stirred it until il
began to get white and creamy.
1t was in the very first place that she
filled the big platter with corn-starch,
and pressed it full of little hollows as
thick as they could be, with her new
silver thimble. Then she filled the little
hollows with the cream.
''Oh, goodr she cried, 1--WE got
sixty-nine!" ...
But they weren't chocolate creams
vet, YOU know-nOt until Nanny had
cut up piece of chocolate and melted
it in a saucer. without putting in any
water, over the tea-kettlc. Then she
rolled the siXty-nine sugar thimbles in
the melted chocolate and set them away
to harden.
Half an hour afterward she carried
fifty of them to Cousin Prue johnson
who tasted very gingerly at first.
"Why, they re delicious" she erie d.
then. You never. never made them
yourself. Nanny Grover!'
Eyes m, did," said Nanny. "Any.
body can that's a mind to, and it s
lovely fun .......
That's what Nanny said about it; and
you'd never guess that she gave her
fifty cents to little Joe Spooner to buy a
chicken for Joe and his mother and hi:
sister Dolly.-Tou,h'S Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06
Hem Get Adopted.

"Whv don't you get somebody to
adopt you?" asked one elegantly attired
young man of another, as the two lolled
in graceful attitudes on sofa at the
Grand Pacific. Several of the incest
boys in town who are in hard luck have
told me they were going to try it.
Good idea, b. George" exclaimed
the other young man, Frightening up IS
the thought hit him.
sits much more genteel, you know,
the first young man said, .sthan to make
your own living. as you Just now said
you were afraid you would have to do.
A young fellow of good form ought to
have little trouble in becoming a rich
mans son by adoption. If nature hasn't
done the proper thing and supplied him
with a real father who has plenty of
money"
Every true" murmured the other
young man.
'.Think of the rich merchants" re-
sumed the first young man, ''who have
Heaven knows how many thousands to
spend, and who haven't any gentle
manly sons to spend them. Think of
them, dear boy. There's promising
field for you. Why shouldn't every one
of them have a handsome fellow like
you in the family to give it social
standing?"
"Yery true" said the other young
man, hesitatingly. "But aren't those
dreadfully rich people inclined to be
vulgar?"
"Well," slowly answered the first
young man, "there's no denying, my
dear fellow, that one must run across
vulgar people everywhere. Old folks
never have elegant manners. If you
don't associate too much with the ones
that you allow to adopt you, little
vulgarity on their part may be over
looked. Vulgarity, dear boy, can be
more easily endured than hard work"
"Workr' gasped the other young
man. ..Yes. to be sure, I'll get adopted
right away" Work is disgusting
Clicago Nous.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06
The Valley Of the Rio Grande.

The sand and gravel Astounding
about Ell Paso and for fully thirty miles
around assure dry foundations for
building and capital roadbcds for rail-
roads, but are unfavorable for garden
ing or farming, very little of which is
yet attempted. Even the corn and
beans, the staple food of the Mexican
population, has in great part to be i'm
ported. Potatoes and other vegetables
are chiefly brought from CALIFORNIA;;
the green and red chillies Frightening
almost every abode wall appear to be
the only articles freely produced.
Poultry, although plentiful like the
children, are left to scratch about, and
receive scant attention; and eggs are
usually five cents each, but curiously
do not alter in price at different sea-
sons. Chickens are rarely seen on the
hotel tables. Milk is almost invariably
a very diluted solution of the condensed
article. Butter is imported from Iowa
or Missouri. Oxen, worn out by many
years team work, dragging their loads
with ropes attached around their horns.
for yokes have not yet become general
here, do not furnish the tenderest of
beef; the mutton is decidedly scraggy;
the carcass hung up averaging from
twenty-five to thirty pounds. In Ell
Paso a great deal of the food used for
animals. as well as for man, as yet
comes from a distance. From Cali
fornia is brought mixture of barley
and oats, with occasional admixture of
q little wheat cut just short of ripe
oil IN Try EnI hnr
and with hydraulic pressure formed in
to bales of POO pounds, secured by wire,
and sold here for 'one and one-fourth
cents per pound. Alfalfa, or lucerne
hay, is brought from Southern Texas in
similar bales. and sells Mt the same
price. Bran from the stone mills with
old-fashioned separating appliances.
and hence with plenty Of adhering -four.
ranges from one to one and one-half
cents. Dry, hard Californian barley is
chiefly used for the small proportion Of
horses which are granted, and careful
managers give at least one of the daily
feeds soaked for twenty hours, but not
allowed time for mailing. The stoutest,
best-bred horses in this region come
from California, but there are numbers
of smart, active ponies, twelve to four
teen and one-half hands, brought in
from Old Mexico, where they cost from
Sl5 to $50. Some of these MEXICAN and
many of the Indian ponies are cream
and fancy-colored. Some of the mer-
chants have good mules from Southern
Texas worth $500 to $500 per pair, and
here, as elsewhere, dearer than the cor
responding class of horses.--London
Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06
A Young Editors Good Fortune.

About three years ago young boy
left Philadelphia to seek his fortune in
the West. He went to Colorado, and,
having had some experience in news
paper work, supported himself for
awhile by writing letters to the Chicago
papers. To use the native phrase OF
this country, he finally ..got stuck on
mines" He had been in the West
about year. when he fell in with an
old fellow who was an expert mining
engineer. The two became fast friends.
The newspaper writer knew very little
about mines and less about prospecting.
Then he was rather frail young man.
ill-fitted for such hard life. He drift.
ed into New Mexico, and was employed
on the Las Vegas Gazette, afterwards
getting control of it. He worked very
hard, and divided his earnings with the
old miner whom he had joined. without
question. He grub-staked " him for
all his prospecting tours, and every now
and then when he would come into civ
ilization furnished him the extra money
he required for a spree and new clothes.
| For two long years, in season and out
of season, this young boy stood by and
helped the miner from out of his scanty
earnings. .....
Il met this old prospector," said he,
"who is thoroughly educated man
and a member of the Royal College OF
Mining Engineers. had faith in his
honesty and ability, and for more than
two years our mining interests have
been inseparable. / have divided all ]
could earn with the old man ever since
we met, and, although it has been a
long time coming, have never lost
faith in his striking it fat some day.
suppose / have given him 1880 to
$1,000 in all, and would have contin-
ued to help him as long as he wanted
it. 1t was mighty hard grubbing for
both q us sometimes, but we stuck to
one another as though everything had
been sunshine. A few weeks ago he
struck it very rich, and, like the honor
able, honest man that he is. he at once
transferred to me one-half interest in all
his claims. seven in number"
WAS he bound 10 be so liberal?"
"Not at all. Everything depended
upon his sense of right. Legally, he
was not bound TO give me anything:
but he has more than justified my opin-
ion of him as man of homer and abil-
ity."
How rich are your claims?'
1.-The most valuable vet found abou,
Silver City, the richest mining region
of New Mexico. Last week gathered
up 465 pounds of the debris from the
diggiDgs, took it to Denver, and had il
smelted. They gave Inc check for
81. 600 for the proceeds. This would
make the ore yield Sc, 400 per ton.
think this is only fair estimate of the
value of the Mines
"Will You hold and work them?'
81 have not yet determined what
will do. have just refused $3.50, O0C
for my interest in the property. But il
is worth, and l can get, a much larger
sum for it. may sell, f,rI am in love
with my profession, and if 1 made 6
half-dozen millions l would still want
to be connected with newspaper
Cor. PHILADELPHIA Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06
Choice Extracts.

Good has but one enemy-the evil;
but the evil has two enemies-the good
and itself.-Julius Muller.
If any man seeks for greatness, let
him forget greatness and ask for truth,
and he will find both. Mann.
A Just view of the Sabbath will
unite every workman in civilization tc
defend the day. The Sabbath was
made for man, and bad capitalists seek
to rob man.-N. ". Christidn AdcO.
cate.
When You lie down. close your
eyes with a short prayer, commit your
self into the hands of your faithful
Creator: and, when you have done,
trust Him with yourself. as you must
do when you are dying.-Jeren,y Tag.
l0r.
The earnest men are so few in the
world that their very earnestness be-
comes at once the badge of their nobili.
ty; and as men in a crowd instinctively
make room for one who seems eager to
force himself through it, so the way is
made open to one who rushes zealously
toward some object lying beyond the
crowd.--Baptist World.
The incontestable proofs of the
Christian religion are to be gathered
from the witnessing body of believers.
The reason for this lies in the fact that
religion, to be of any value to a human
soul, must be personal and experiment
al. Christian testimony, that indicates
clearness of judgment, depth and sin.
cerity of conviction, will always have
weight with the unbelieving world, be.
cause the world is unconsciously sigh.
ing for that joy and rest which the true
believer claims as his privilege.-Er.
changc.
1t requires a good deal of courage
to follow the dictates of duty any
where, rather than mar for a momen,
the souls integrity. 1t is not always ar
easy thing to speak to a poOrly-dressed
man or woman in the crowded vestibule
of fashionable church; but it is right
After few more years are past, it will
not make any difference to our fashion
able friend or to us if we do this, while
one friendly grasp of the hand may
be remembered throughout eternity
Neither is it comfortable thing tC
bear the scorn of the world in defense
of an unpopular cause, which we know
to be just; but it is a duty.-Gotder
Rule
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06
Tree.Planting Holidays.

You may think. boys, perhaps. that
we have trees and woods enough. But
men who have studied the subject will
tell you that in many parts of'our land
we have already cut down too many.
When ali the grand old trees have been
removed from a hillside the rains be-
gin to wash away the soil, and the
mountain slope that was once so green
and shady soon becomes barren and
stony tract. This is the case near Boston.
at place called Middlesex Falls. The
land here was formerly covered with
white pine; now, whole tracts are bare
and useless. The people are therefore
trying to replant trees and restore the
old forest.
lately read a pretty story how a
forest was replanted in part of Swift
zerland. The people in an old town
there determined, IKE, the people OF
Middlesex Falls, TO transform piece OF
waste land into forest. They thought
it would be good plan to give the
Job TO the school-boys and school
girls in the village. So they
gave the schools holiday one day. and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06
For Young Readers
AS TAIL As PAPA.

q Well, Welt I am really as tail as papa!
I'm almost man! Do you see?
don't have TO tiptoe to look i'm his eyes.
Would you have believed 1t of me-?
= 'Tis time for mamma to be cutting my hair.
don't like to have 1t i'm curls.
don't want a feather to wear in my hat;
1t makes me look Just like the girls.
: Iwant her to cut all my ruffies of, too;
For men do not wear them at all.
] want stiff collar to wear on my neck,
And a hat that is shiny and tall.
= And then. on my trousers want her to sew
Some pieces of some kind of stuff.
To make them reach farther than just to my
knees.
They never are half long enough.
And then they must give me a cane and a
watch.
Dear me- but I'm going to be grand
And then shall walk all alone in the street,
With nobody holding my hand.
Yes, yes; am tired of having such clothes,
Just 1T for a baby to wear: tt
For see, I'm exactly as tall as papa,
When climb up and stand in a chair"
Sydney Ddyrc, In N. L. Independent,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06

unfinished. are sold by the pound. This
fraud is liable to cause serious damage
TO the valuable knives that are used in
cutting the veneers."
'.How about our native woods? Do
you deal much,in them?" 80
"Yes, to some extent; but for choice
cabinet work the foreign woods are, of
course, more highly priced. Burls in
ash and maple are plentiful and cheap,
selling for two to four cents pound.
Black walnut burls command higher
price-ten to twelve cents pound
but they are getting scarce. Yes, the
demand for choice cabinet woods is
constantly increasing. In the houses
that the wealthy are now putting up,
the fine woodwork now constitutes a
large item in the expenditure. Look at
these veneers for table-covers. These
handsome designs and this artistic
ornamentatiOn are all mosaic work,
made by piecing together small frag-
ments Of wood of different colors, or in
sorting them in the body of the large
sheet that constitutes the background.
To one not acquainted with this work it
would look like drawing on wood: but
turn the sheet over and you see the lines
run through. You can get these veneers
for fine tables at almost any cost. You
can get one as low as twenty-five dollars
and you can have designs put together
at as high price as you may care to
pay"
care there many dealers of such
woods in the United States?"
1.-The number is very small, but the
business is large and the competition
keen. One of our firm makes frequent
trips to Central America and elsewhere
to look for rare specimens of cabinet
wood. These trips have their attrac-
tons, but they are not infrequently &C
companied by hardships and danger"
MY San
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06
Panl'S Visit to Rome in the Year 81.

In 81 A. D. the lifelong wish of Paul's
heart was to be gratified. He was to
"see Rome" of which he claimed to be
a citizen, and he was to be judged by
that Cesar to whom he had appealed.
That Caesar was Nero. We may come
upon Paurs vessel, the corn-ship Castor
and Pollux. as it is passing in the early
spring of the year 81 through the Straits
of Messina. Leaving the bright cone of
Strombon on the left, Paul makes a
direct run of one hundred and eighty
miles to Puteoli. We know the view
that burst upon the apostle as he en-
tered the Bay of Naples and made for
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06

Ten boys. twelve or fifteen years
old, inspired to heroic deeds by reading
about the cut-throat James and his
kind. have been detected in all kinds OF
thievery in Freehold, N. j., and will
exchange the pleasures of the good
homes of respectable parents for the re-
straining influence of the Reform
School.-Newark Register.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06

Cats in Pittsfield. Mass, are worth
something. A '.yowling'' Thomas was
shot from an irate mans window the
other night, and next day, on complaint
Of the cats owner, the shooter paid a
fine of ten dollars and costs, or S19. go
in all.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06

The citizens of Newburgh, N. Y,
are making extensive arrangements for
the celebration of the centennial of the
close of Washington's military life, on
the 18th Of October next
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06

When Queen Elizabeth died TWENTY
seven fans were found in her wardrobe.
One of them was valued at f4O0; the
handle was covered with diamonds.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-07-06

Next to French walnut, ebony Is
probably the most valuable. Occasion
ally fine piece is found that brings
even a better price than the French
walnut. Not long ago saw some that
sold for Sl5) ton. For particular
large piece, even five dollars a pound
might be paid. In ebony the main
thing is size. 1t is difficult to get large
pieces that can be used without cutting.
Rosewood and mahogany are always in
demand. The best mahogany is that
Of San Domingo. Next come the
mahoganies of Cuba, Honduras, Mexico
and Africa. There is much less differ
ence in value between different mahog-
anies and rosewoods than between diff
ferent specimens of ebony and French
walnut. Fair rosewood will sell in sle
log for five and half and seven cents
per pound. French walnut can Oc-
casiOnally, if poor. be bought as low
as three cents per pound but the finer
bulls will sell for hundreds of dollars.
Burls worth from $500 to 1000 each
are not rare. 1 recently bought one
myself for 1.2OO, and think / shall
make it pan out $4,000. We must be
very careful, however, in buying these
burls. Their value is often greatly les
sened by the existence of hOllows, some
times in the very heart of the wood,
the result of decay or malformation.
These hollow places are filled up by
fraudulent dealers with a substance
that is made to resemble the genuine
wood, and they will then sell the burls
as sound. Manure, compressed to the
requisite degree or hardness, is much
used for this purpose. Worse even
than this is the practice to which such
knaves sometimes resort of placing
stones in the hollows to increase the
weight, for the burls, as have already
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-07-07
HOW WATCHES ARE MADE.

1t will be apparent to any one, who will
examine SOLID GOLD WATcH, that aside
from the necessary thickness for engraving
and polishing, large proportion of the
precious metal used is needed only to stifien
and hold the engraved portions in place and
supply the necessary solidity and strength.
The surplus gold is actually needless so far
as utility and beauty are concerned. In
JAMES BOSS PATENT GOLD WATCH
CASES, this waste of precious metal is over
come, and the SAME sOLIDITY AND STRENGTH
produced at from one third to one halt of the
usual cost of solid cases. This process is Of
the most simple nature, as follows: a plate
of nickle composition metal, especially
adapted to the purpose, has two plates Of
SOLID GOLD sOldered one on each side. The
three are then passed between polished steel
rollers, and the result is strip of heavy
plated composition, from which the cases,
backs, centres, bezels, &C., are cut and
shaped by suitable dies and formers. The
gold in these cases is sufficiently thick to ad-
NIT Of all kinds of chasing, engraving and
enamelling; the engraved cases have been
carried until worn perfectly smooth by time
and use without removing the gold.
THIS is THE ONLY CASE MADE
WITH TWO PLATES OF SOLID GOLD
AND WARRANTED BY SPECIAL GER
TIFICATE
For sale by all Jewellers. Ask for Illus
trated Catalogue and to see warrant.
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