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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23
Those Spiked Cannons.

AUsToN. TEX, May 15.-The spiking OF
the four cannons of the Travis Light Artill.
cry has created quite stir in the eommuni
ty. County Attorney Dudley G. Wooten,
who lives in the neighborhood where the
cannons are located, publishes card, en-
dorsing the spiking of the cannons and re-
fecting upon the officers of the artillery
company. and also the Chief of Police.
Mr.. Wooten winds up his article by suggest
ing that the police force take turns boring
out the files. 10 this Marshal Lee replies
through an afternoon paper. He intimates
that the police are near a solution Of the
problem of who spiked the guns.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23
A Had Cave.

SOMERSET, Pa, May 13.-Intelligence
has been received here that large
part of the roof of the eastern end
of the South Pennsylvania tunnel
under the Allegheny mountains at Dex-
ter's gap eaved in Saturday afternoon in
stantly killing two men and badly injuring
thee others. The tunnel was being
pushed with great vigor when the
laborers struck quicksand and before
any precautiOn could be taken the
roof came down with a crash. Superinten-
dent White had just gone into the tunnel
and was so badly crushed that there is little
hope of his recovery. The names Of tho
Others are unknown. .'.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23
All In the Meat.

A wolf having fallen victim to the.
tiger, set up loud lsmenting and
begged hard for his life. He made
such fuss over it that the tiger finally
released him and babe, him go mis-:
road. The wolf was hardly stones.
throw away when he met hare and
bounced upon her.
''Spare my life. as the tiger just now
spared yours!' cried the hare.
''NOt this EVENING"" was the calm re-
ply. Its true that the tiger spared
my life, but while he doesn't care a.
cent for wolf-m meat, / am extremely
fond of hare ~
MORAL
When you appeal to the honor %
crook you make bin tirsd.-Detrvis
Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23
The Murraysville Riot.

GREENsBURG, PA, May 1.-THE Muir
raysville riot cases came to close by Judge
Johnston ordering change of venue to Al
legheny County for Milton Weston, of Chi
eagO; Colonel Blakely, Of Pittsburg;
A. M. Bower, of Irwin Station,
and Johnston, Mcfarland, Remaley and
Miller of Greensburg. The records have
been sent to Allegheny County and the re-
naming sixteen persons who prefer to be
tried in WestmOreland County cannot have
their trials until after the Allegheny trials.
Weston and the other incarcerated prisoners
will be removed to the Allegheny Jail i'm
mediately.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23
THE EAST.

IA BRIG-RIGGED steamer was recently
seen ashore of the island of Anticosti, in
the mouth of the st. Lawrence.
MECHANICsyILLE, n. Y, depot was de.
stroyed by fire the other night.
The Murraysvills riot cases came to q
close at Greensburg, Pa, by Judge John.
ston ordering a change of venue to Allie
gheny County for Milton Weston, of Chi
cago; Colonel Blakely, of Pittsburgh; A.
N Bower of Irwin Station, and Johnston,
Mcfarland, Remaley and Miller, of Greens
burg. The remaining sixteen persons, who
prefer to be tried in Westmoreland County,
cannot have their trials until after the Al
1egheny trials.
The reported defalcation in the Second
National Bank in New York was denied
by President Emo.
AT the church extension meeting of the
Methodist Church at Philadelphia recently
S3l,OoO were raised to build churches on
the frontier.
JUDGE WALLACE, of New York, has re-
moved Shipping Commissioner c. c. Dun.
can for not having properly performed his
duties, and appointed James c. Reed in his
place.
A HIGH-PREssURE boiler exploded in the
Pennsylvania Railway machine shops at
Altoona, Pa, recently. The two firemen
were blown to atoms, one of them not be
ing found at all. A sick man lying in bed
In an adjoining tenement house was struck
by piece of the flying wreck and fatally
injured. Two little girls were also in
Inred.
WITHIN few days a woman and a child
t Pittsburg, Pa, have lost their lives by
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23
THE SOUTH.

FULLY r. WISE, a prominent attorney,
and brother of George d. Wise, q member
of Congress from Virginia, died at San
Francisco recently.
A HAzLEHURsr, Copiah County, Mss,
special says: 1.-The jury in the case of z.
B. Wheeler, for the murder of ]. P. Mat.
thews, was out about an hour and returned
verdict of not guilty."
JUDGE RICHARD REED, of Mount Ster-
ling, KY, committed suicide recently. He
had been complaining of a pain in the head
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-23
WASHINGTON NOTES.


As PASSED by the Senate there is added
to the Indian Appropriation bill about
5000 more than the amount reported by
the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
TIE American Fish Culture Association
began its thirteenth annual session at the
National Museum building, Washington,
on the 18th.
The Comptroller of the Currency ap-
pointed Walter s. johnson Receiver of the
Marine National Bank, Of New York.
johnson was Receiver of the National
Bank of the State of Missouri at st. Louis
The House Committee on Elections in
the contested election case of English vs..
Peelle, of Indiana, decided by q vote of five
to three to report in favor Of English.
Those voting in favor Of English were J..
J. Adams, Lowery, Robinson, Converse
and Bennett. Those in favor of Peele,
Hart, Pettibone and Hesburn.
The President has issued a proclama-
ton restoring to the public domain the
lands set apart by the executive order as Q
reservation for the Jeirell Apache Indians
in the Northwestern part Of New Mexico,
embracing 900 acres.
TIE House Committee on Judiciary has
decided that Congress has no legal right
to declare forfeiture of the land grant of
the New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicks-
burg Railroad Company.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-05
RECREATION.
The Necessity of Throwing on All Thought
of Our Burdens at Intervals.

The Necessity of Throwing or All Thought
ofOur Burdens at Intervals.
There is homely saying among the
fishermen "that those who will not
mend their nets will soon be unable to
catch fish," and one is seldom found so
improvident as to let hole grow larger
and larger until the net is useless. The
nearest approach to absolute rest is
sleep, and of this every man, woman
and child should have abundance, pro-
portioned to his constitution and occu-
patton; but there is a relative rest. quite
as important, and more neglected by
most men and women; this rest
is recreation. The II haven't
time excuse, although as pop.
ular as ever, is sadly threadbare.
A man owning property can afford to
invest thousand dollars though he
withdraw it from active business, if he
is sure that the money will double itself.
We all have twenty-four hours every
day to invest, and if one hour with
drawn from business can be better in.
vested, is it not wise thing to do it?
Relaxation, however, to be profitable,
must be whole-hearted. 1t is not rest
for the business man to bring his affairs
and worries home with him. 1t is not
rest for the student to brood over
theories and formulas when he walks,
neither is it rest to take ones fear and
anxieties to our friends table. If we
haye no heart to throw off these burdens,
we should make the effort in spite of our
selves. We have been bound to our cares
as the convict is to his ball and chain,
and it is time TO master circumstances.
instead of being their slaves. Mental
slaves are more independent upon the
physical condition than we are inclined
to think. Irritability means over
strained nerves; the ''blues" and "black
butterflies" are ether names of indiges-
ton and poor circulation. Recrea-
ton, it is to be remembered, is neither
dissipation, nor yet absence of activity.
Complete change of thought is relaxa-
ton; and Hood is quoted by q recent
writer as saying that the Quaker al
ways enjoys life, for he makes pleas
ure of his business and business a
his pleasure-Every Other Saturday.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-05
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


Religious teaching in our public
schools is generally failure because
those who instruct make it a pack-horso
! upon which to load all sorts of human
inventions, church catechisms, and
public bugbears in the public schools
School Journal.
Twenty new Baptist churches and
four parsonages were erected in Ne
braska during the past year, at an ag-
gregate cost of $65,00O. During the
same time twenty-five church societies
were organized, and the membership
throughout the State increased $780,
Chicago Journal.
Joshua Bates, a teacher of long ex-
perience, is evidently of very praeti-
cal turn of mind, for he suggests in ths
Journal of Education that the indus
trial feature be incorporated into girls
as well as boys schools, and urges that
the former be taught ''aptness in the
use of culinary utensils"
For another year the school chill
dren of Easton, Mass, will be rendered
happy by the possession of magazines
| which will be sent them regularly.
Those in North Easton are supplied by
the Cakes Ames school fund, while
those in other parts of the town are in
debted to the liberality of Oliver Ames-
Boston Transcript.
WHATS the use of his going longer
to school? He's to learn a trade. aud
ability to read, write and cipher toicr-
ably is all that he will needr' Mistaken
idea! If you are able, give your chtl-
dren good education-the better you
can afford, the better for them. Edu-
Gated labor is more valuable than ur-
educated labor, and has better prico
in the market.-Detroit Every Sat,ns
day.
New Haven has followed Ball.
more's example in starting its technical
schools on small scale for exper:-
mental purposes. Pupils from the va
rious schools are sent to the workshop
for few hours of each week, and ia
this way a partial trial can be mace
of the value of the system. If it WORKS
well on a small scale it will be easy 90
have it extended. Newark, n. j., 10
about to try the same experiment.
There is no doubt that the solution
of equations of the fifth and sixth de-
grees is at last an accomplished fact.
Algebraists have latterly gone to con-
siderable trouble to prove that these
equations are insoluble, but to the city
of Toronto and Toronto University be-
long the honor of producing a mathe-
matician to solve the problem which has
vexed the most profound minds Of the
scientific world for ages.-Tcrondo
Globe ON q paper By Prof Young.
The grown-up Mormons are exceed
ingly hard to convert to anything like
orthodox Christianity. But the teach
ers and missionaries who are trying to
evangelize Utah are at work on the
children, who are plenty in that coun-
try. Seventy-one school buildings have
been built, at a cost of nearly $500, 900,
and dozen of more schools arc held in
rented buildings. There are about
$500 Mormon children under anti
Mormon instruction, and they are said
to make good scholars Chicago Her.
aid.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-05
THIMB LES.
How the Gold and Silver Guards for
Dainty Fingers Are Made.

How the Gold and Silver Guards for
Dainty Fingers Are Made.
In a second-story back room on the
corner of Washington and York streets
sit eighteen men through whose fingers
a stream of wealth is ever flowing. Not,
like Midas of old, do they turn all things
into gold at thei. touch, but they touch
little that is not either gold or silver, so
long as their work goes on. They make
thimbles-not the Ordinary two for a
cent brazen things-but pretty silver
finger guards and chased and orna-
mented shells of shining gold in which
you can see your face; such as seemed
n luxury, indeed, to the lone reporter
who does his sewing by bracing the
head of his needle against the wall
and showing the business end through
the opposing fabric by sheer muscular
force.
On its face the thimble is a small af-
fair, but its Story is worth knowing.
This Brooklyn firm makes two hundred
and fifty styles of thimbles in twelve
sizes, different In form and weight, from
the dainty y.sag seamstress' shell-like
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-05
WIT AND WISDOM. ..

Folks who live by their wits live by
the want of wits in other people.
The reason why men succeed who
mind their own business is because there
is little competition.-N Y. Sun.
Those that can look with dry and
undispleased eyes on another's sin
never truly mourned for their own
Bishop Hale.
Hard words are like hail-stones in
summer, beating down and destroying
what they would nourish were they
melted into drops.
"A man in . hurry met q trouble
some neighbor, who was known as .
gossip. "How are you? how are YOUR
said the gossip. "What is going on?"
Il am" was the reply, as the other
shot past and escaped.-Golden Days.
An exchange has an elaborate ac-
count of the newest wrinkle in stock
ings. 1t omits, however, to mention the
principal wrinkle, which still continues
to carry on business at the old stand
under the heel.-Burlington Free Press
You're not dancing, Miss Sweet;
are you engaged?" "Oh, Mr.. Lyon,
this is so sudden, but wait; I'll ask
mamma" In his hurry to get down
stairs he sprained his ankle, and is now
awaiting suit for breach of promise
Boston Post.
How the zeal of the scientist bene-
fits mankind: An English editor read in
a Canadian paper that train had been
thrown from the track ''by broken
frog" whereupon he wrote learned
article on the peculiarities of toads.-
Anon.
The arctic regions are not without
their pleasures. The Esquimaux girls
are very pretty, dance, sing, and do
not care for ice-cream. Hot drinks
and walrus blubber are their peculiar
vanities, and seal-skin sacks are sold at
two iron hoops and ten-penny nail.
Have you registered?" asked the
clerk. "Oh, yes, l registered before I
left home" "But have you written
your name in the hotel register" tho
affable clerk again mildly suggested
'.Ah, that's an other thing" said the
drummer, as he scrawled his signature.
He got room under the eaves.-De-
troit Sunday Express.
Like flakes of snow that fall un-
perceived on the earth, the seemingly
unimportant events of life succeed one
another. As the snow gathers so ara
our habits formed. No single flake that
is added to the pile produces sensible
change; no single action creates. how
ever it may exhibit, mans character
Jeremy Taylor.
A young man becoming engaged
recently was DESTROYS of presenting his
intended with ring appropriately in
scribed, but being at a loss what to
have engraved on it, called upon his
father for advice. well" said the
old man. "put on when this You see,
remember me- The young lady was
much surprised few daysafter at re-
ceiving beautiful ring with this in
scription: '.When this you see, remem.
Der father!"- Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-05
FEEDING FOWLS.
The Advantages Resulting from the Use
of Dry Feed.

of Dry Feed.
My practice of giving poultry dry,
Underground feed is not founded on
any theory, but the result of much ex-
pertinent. was never what is known
as '.fancier," though 1 have done
much in the past in the way of breed
ing. l imported, several years ago,
one of the finest strains of Silver-Gray
Dorkings ever in the country, and l
have had good many other choice
fowls of one or another breed. / made
the business pay in small way, but l
had so much trouble with unhealthy
fowls that l gave it up entirely long
ago, and have since only kept fowls for
family use. l tried portable houses,
and all the various schemes that ever
heard of for counteracting the tenden-
cy to disease, but never hit anything
till 1 adopted this method of feeding.
Twas feeding wet feed, and became
greatly annoyed by the gluttony of
few of the ruling hens, They would
stand over the feed and drive every
thing else away till they gorged them
selves so as to be good for nothing.
l got lot of old tin pans and set
fruit can weighted with stones in the
center of each, so they could not get
into the feed, but they would travel
around it to drive the others of. was
at the time experimenting in small
way with several breeds of hens, and
crossing them with Brown Leghorn.
found very soon that the gourmands
were not nearly so prolific layers; that
their eggs were not so fruitful, and that
the chicks were not so hardy or so
healthful as those of the victims who
were compelled to stand back and get
a mouthful of food here and there as
they could catch it.
There was an old unused sink among
the rubbish and drew it out, put lit
tie roof over and put quart of corn
meal in the bottom of it and two quarts
of fine wheat bran on top of that, leav-
ing them to do the mixing. soon after
filled up more boxes and from that time
to this have not wet any feed for hens.
At that time my hens were sOrely
troubled with scaly legs. 1t was only a
little while before every sign of the dis
ease disappeared, except a few old
scars, and l have never seen any of it
since. 1 imagine it is due to their
scratching in the meal and bran. do
not object to corn or wheat or any other
kind of unground feed. per Sc, but only
to the manner in which the hens eat it.
They must eat the dry ground feed
slowly and can not gormandize it. In
my experience they do not overeat when
so fed. When running at large they
avoid it altogether if they can. There
is scarcely anything else that they do not
prefer-O. S. Bliss, tn N. Y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-05
FOLLY AND FLOWERS.
The Foolish Extravaganza INDUCED In I
Many Persons at Funerals.

The Foolish Extravaganza INDUCED In by
Many Persons at Funerals.
The tribute of flowers on mortuary or
nuptial occasions is so common and
profuse that they smother sentiment
often out of sight and are actually Of
fensive to good taste. A sentiment is
touched by either event, and flowers
are the embodiment of grief or Joy.
The modest and beautiful bouquet that
was deemed sufficient in former times
is superseded by floral displays rivaling
a Horticultural exhibition, and incon-
gruous piles of devices, hardly regard
cd and perhaps not known save in the
reports of the gentlemen of the press,
crowd the mourners or the mated
with such profusion that it becomes
puzzle what to do with them. 1t is the
fashion to do it, and florists are taxed
to produce original pieces, not so much
to express respectful or more tender
grief, but for the sake of getting up
something new. At funerals is this
excess most manifest, and whole car
riages are at times devoted to bearing
to the grave the various Tyres, baskets,
pillows, broken shafts, gates ajar and
what not, that are but half seen
through the mourner's tears, and sub
ject to the curious, who speculate on
their cost and criticise their construc-
ton or appropriateness. The latter
criticism often obtains where designs
are sent that have little or no relevancy
in their meaning, as was the case some
time since, wi, re a spectator said, re-
garding the floral tributes for one who
had led life that would not have met
the approval of the angels: "Why,
the designs were elegant, and among
the rest was beautiful gate ajar that
was very graceful" A modest old
lady, who had heard the erlogium of
he flowers. and knew the party
honored, replied: (Which gsteP"-
Hartford Posi-.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-05
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

-Sorghum-seed, as a fat-producing
food for hogs, is pronounced to be ex-
cellent.
Dried bark of sassafras root put up
around dried fruit will protect it from
worms.-Toledo Blade.
Don't work by fits and starts. The
even-going individual is always the
most comfortable.
Leaks in roofs, about chimneys and
elsewhere may be stopped by thickening
whitehead paint with line clean sand
albany Journal.
1t is a good plan to keep merino
sheep in small flocks. They do much
better than when a large number are
together. Times.
The average cost to the farmer in
the Northwest to raise wheat is esti-
mated at forty-eight cents per bushel,
for which at present prices he realizes
from thirty-fve to fifty-five at the home
market--Dencer Journal of Commerce.
The State of New York has 241 ,050
farms of over twenty acres each, while
all New England has but POI, 232 farms
of twenty acres and over. Only two
other States have larger number
Ohio has Pa, 1S9 and Illinois has 1885,
al.
Fried ham for breakfast is particu-
larly nice when the slices are cut the
night before and are allowed to soak all
night in a cup of water to which ia
blespoonful of sugar has been added.
This softens the meat and takes out the
oppressively salt taste.-Boston Budget
One pint of oats, with like meas
ure of bran, is a days ration in two
feeds for breeding eve. A week after
lambing the ration should be increased
by adding one-fourth of pound of oil
meal. She should also receive as much
cut hay and straw as she will eat
Troy Times.
Those farmers who planted their
roadsides with apple trees fifteen or
twenty years ago are now reaping a
rich reward, the increased crop on such
trees often making the roadside the
most profitable land on the farm in pro-
portion to the ground occupied. On
much travelled highways the droppings
of horses and cattle are washed into low
places on the roadside, and there apple
trees are almost uniformly very produc-
tive.-N Y. Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-05
HIS LITTLE LOVE.

She loves me. She. the dearest, best
Most perfect of created things.
Has said she loves me. and has pressed
Her lips to mine. My whole heart sings
With joy, because / am so blessed.
No more with doubts. with fears oppressed
Ny whole heart sings.
Would for her sake, my own, my sweet,
That riches, fame, all precious things
Were mine to lavish ut her feet
But, save the love that takes not wings
And flies away on pInions beet
No wealth have to bring my sweet;
Naught else but love-.
Dear love. the heavens are not so fair
As is the hight of her blue eyes;
One lock OF that pure gold. her hair,
More than the wealth of worlds | prize.
oh, strange that she for me should care,
Who has all beauty for her share!
Oh, sweet! oh, strangel
Yet tnat she loves me well know.
In her pure heart no guile could dwell,
And she declared some days ago
my sweet. my precious, baby BelD
In lisping accents. soft and low
IL love you, papa! love You 50!
j love you So"
julia +. Berklcy, in N. I. Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-12-05
Cider That Made a House Settle.

A prominent member of the local
police force purchased fine barrel Of
cider from farmer a few weeks since.
and carefully stored it away in his
cellar for winter use. This barrel Of
cider was no exception to the rest of
its brethren, and soon began to fer
ment. Yesterday, about noon the
good people in the neighborhood of the
officers house were startled by a sound
as if cannon had been fired in L.
Rushing to the spot, it was found that
the barrel had burst, sending CIDER,
slaves and hoops in all directions. and
actually knocking out one of the brick
piers from under the foundation In
consequence of this the house had set
tied so that several of the doors can
not be opened. No one was in cured
Rochester On ~ Democrat.