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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21

to him the age of the child was altered
SO that she was made to appear rs being
in her fourteenth year. The Judge ex-
amined the papers. and then came out,
and, taking look at the child, said a,
once: II won't marry the girl. as she is
not of lawful age and is nothing but a
child" The girls mother stepped for
ward and explained through Bergamini
that the marriage was with her consent,
but the Judge firmly refused to perform
the ceremony, and again the party left
in search of the necessary official. None
could be found, and the parties then left
for home, Mr.. Bergamini stating that
the ceremony would be performed on
Monday at two o'clock, when plenty Of
Aldermen will be about.
Judge McAdam said, after the bridal
party had left, that, wholly apart from
the improperly of marrying such a
child, the ceremony could not legally
be performed, and that any magistrate
or Alderman marrying her would be in
dictable for misdemeanor, as the statue
provides that females under fourteen
years of age, or males under sixteen,
can not be married, even with the cs.n-
sent of the parents. He was also ont
spoken in denunciation of the attempt
to deceive him about the age of the girl
by changing the figures upon the papers.
N Y Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21

! been renewed last winter, but there's
no chance to do it now and insist that
you have the holes in it chinked so as
to keep the hogs out. or they will de-
stroy the crop"
| During this lecture two of the plant
er's sons rode up with the skin of 4
bear that they had just killed on tins
edge of the swamp, near the corn-fielc.
Johnson's eyes glistened as he saw th,,
fresh skin. '.All right, Mr.. Parker, I'll
keep them hogs out Of the field now"
was his reply.
"very well. Don't you kill them.
, thought
s'No, I'll not kill them.
That evening johnson succeeded IN
tolling q large boar into the, lot H.
was penned and sewed up in the beat
skin.
The next day the hogs made their
regular raid on the corn-field, and theI.,
with all hands present to witness opera
tions, the boar was turned into the same
field. Scared badly ct his surround
ing" he rushed at full speed for his
comrades for countenance and pre-
lection.
Terrified at the sight of an apparent
bear charging towards them, stan
pede ensued among his comrades, and
the finest scrub race occurred right
there that / ever witnessed.
''Booh! booh!h was the starting sio-
nal and away they went at full speed,
closely pursued by their supposed ens-
my. The nearer the bear got the faster
the bunch ran. When the leading ones
got to the hole in the fence, where they
had crowded in one at time, few
got through in regular style: but the
balance were too much pressed for time
by the demon in pursuit to await their
turn-they charged the old fence, which
gave way, and into the woods, headed
in the direction of the swamp, hOtly
pursued by their handicapped comrade,
they disappeared.
Two years afterward while walking
down the strand in Galveston l was &C
costed by the negro porter of drug
store. who reminded me of having seen
him at Mr.. Parker's. his OLD master, the
time they sewed up the boar in the bear
skin.
81 remember you now, Nelson.
How long after 1 left Mr.. Parker's was
it that the hogs came back?"
''Guess them hogs mus be runnin'
yet, mass'r. or all got drowned in de
swamp" was Nelson's reply; ''at leas'
we neber seed hide nor har of a single
one of 'em back .dar up to de time lief,
bout two months ago."-Arkdnsas1
Trore,cr-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21
A QUEER COASTING.PLAcE.
Sliding Down Hill Where There Is No Snow
or Ice.

or Ice.
Cuzco, the ancient capital of the old
Inca Empire of Peru, is situated high
up among the Andes, at point so ele-
waited that, although under the tropics,
it has the climate and products of the
temperate zone. 1t still has many re-
mains of Inca architecture, distin-
guished for its massiveness, which are
likely to endure for centuries to come.
On hill, or emincnce, nearly thou
sand feet high, overlooking the city,
are the remains of the great Inca fort
rcss of the Sac-sa-hua-man, in the
storming of which Juan Pizarro, the
brother of the conqueror of Peru, was
slain. This fortress was built of gigaD-
TIC stones, or rather rocks, and theiI
great size and the accuracy with
which they are fitted together astonish
all who see them.
In front of this fortress is curious,
domc-shaped mass of rock, called the
RO-da-derO, and sometimes also La
Pedro Lisa, or smooth rock" because
its convex surface is groovcd, as if the
ioCN httt bCCH sIuccHcu up, "nllc III u
plastic state. between irregular and I'M
yielding walls. and then hardened into
shape. A mass of dough, forced up
under the outspread hands, would give
something of the same appearance in
miniature. But the hollows of the
grooves on the Peruvian hill are smooth
and CLASSY. 1t is said in the old chron-
icles and traditions, that the Inca youth,
long years ago, amused themselves by
coursing, or sliding, through these
polished grooves on festival days and
holy days; and this custom is still prac-
ticed by the modern youth of Cuzco.
There is one advantage. and it is a
great one, too, which these boys possess
over the northern boys, who live in tie
land of ice and snow, and that is, it is
not necessary for them to toll up long
and slippery hill, dragging after them
their heavy sleds, which grow heavier
with every step they take, so that the
longer they ride the harder work it is to
get back to the starting-place. The
Cuzco boy sits down at the top of the
rock in one of the grooves, and, with a
slight start, away he goes with all the
speed imaginable, until he reaches the
bottom, landing in soft bed of earth;
then he picks himself up, runs around
to an easy place of ascent, and is up
again in a minute to repeat his ride
Z. George Squier, in ST. Nicholas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL


The United States Methodist Epis.
copal Church has ninety-seven confer.
enccs and includes $4,000 clergy and
1850, 900 members.
They are complaining in Texas that
all the professors for the State Univer-
sity are chosen from other States, and
that only the porters and bell-ringers
are taken from home.-C Chicago Jour
nal.
Rev. James White was recently
installed minister of the Prcsbyterian
Church, Stonebridge, Monaghan. Ire
land, in succession to his father, who
presided over the congregation for
tifty-four years. The church was
founded nearly two hundred years ago
by Patrick Dunlop, from Kirkcowan.
Scotland.
Out of $50 Congregational churches
in Massachusetts, 1853 have responsive
reading in some form; in 100 the peo-
pie unite with the pastor in repeating
the Lords Prayer: in sixty-ono there IL
chanting in some form, generally the
"Glory be to the Father" and in ten
the Apostles Greed is repeated.-Bcs-
ton Post.
The English Baptist Handbook for
the current year reports that while the
last ten years there has been decrease
in the number of Baptist churches in En-
gland the number of scholars in Baptist
Sunday-schools has increased by about
100000. Its total number of scholars
now is 437, 1877 over against 304,8O2
church members.
"A missionary in Georgia writes:
"In five years have organized 2S1
Sunday-schoOls, with teachers and
scholars; visited and aided "a schools,
having 1863 teachers and scholars; de-
livered 1861 addresses; visited 6,3S5
families; distributed 3,4O1 Bibles and
Testaments, and other publications to
the value of 1902; travelled 24.S9O miles
in my own conveyance. ~. Y. Eram-
liner.
The librarian of the Young Mems
Christian Association in New York is
thus quoted: 1--WE are now keeping open
on Sunday afternoon and evening, and
the library at such times is well patron
lied. We give out no fiction. but re-
strict the reading to more substantial
matter, such as the Bible. history and
theological treatises. There is demand
for light reading. but we do not respond
to it,
A year ago. say the Congregation
aiist. ut the completion of fifty years
from the establishment of the first Con-
gregatiopal church in Australia. grand
jubilee was celebrated at Sidney, and
an effort was begun to raise fund of
$4,000 for UNCONVENTIONAL purposes.
At the expiration of year 100000 has
already been secured. The money is to
be used in paying debts on churches, and
establishing a fund for aged and infirm
ministers
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21
The American Silver Product.

From the days of Cortez, in 1921,
down to the beginning of this century,
and even to the present time, except
when interrupted by revolution, the
Mexican silver mines have poured fol- tn
an unceasing stream of silver. such as
the world has never seen. 1t is es IL
mated that the value of the silver coin
and bullion of the country since the con-
quest is over $4,000, 000,0 900, and it is
well known that some of the '~.ir es
have been profitably worked almt'st
without interruption from that time TO
this, and that one of them, ct least, is
still running out silver at the rate of
S5.000.000 per year. California bas
yielded about S1,100, 100000 of gold
and silver. Nevada has turned out
something like $500, 600, 000-possibly
more. Suppose that all precious meta,
was silver dollars, and that each dollar
contained 4l2l grains, and that sixteen
such dollars would weigh one pouDd-
and that $7O,OOO,OOO per annum for
thirty years has been secured by the
people of the United States, it would
weigh Isl, $50, 900 pounds. Now let a.
load this vast amount into wagons
Allowing 5000 pounds for each wagon
it would take $3.50 wagons. Allow.
ing eighty wagons per mile, it would
make a train of wagons $40 ! miles
long.-Detroit Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A kindness can never be concealed,
not even by repaying it.
If all would realize that cruelty is
as bitter to others as it is to themselves,
there would be less of it practiced.
To be happy the passion must be
cheerful and gay, not gloomy and mel
ancholy; propensity to hope and joy
is real riches; one to fear and sorrow,
real pOverty.-Hame.
There is nothing impossible to the
determined spirit" says philosopher.
Evidently that philosopher never tried
to reach up behind his shoulder to get
hold of the end of broken suspender.
-Somerrillc Journal.
Whats the price of this two-foot
rule?' asked q carpenters boy in u
hardware store, one morning. Thirty
six cents" was the reply. "Well, it's
too high. Why, / can get much
longer two-foot rule for half that"
You can do anything, if you have
patience" said an uncle who had made
a fortune to his nephew. who had nearly
spent one. water may be carried in
sieve, if you only watt '.How
long?" asked the penitent spendthrift.
It'll it freezes" was the cold reply
". Y. Independent.
On one of the first very warm DAYS
little girl with pretty but close sun
bonnet on went out to .''pick flowers"
Her curly hair was clinging close to her
pink, sweaty little forehead IS she came
in, clutching in her rosy fingers a few
..innocents,' two or three half-grown
violets, and some short grass. She
threw off her sun-bonnet, and said:
..Oh, mamma, it's dwefful warm. fink
it's mos time to pick faE5. "-Harpers
Bazar.
Pa" said a Boston urchin Of
S.. couldn't Daniel Webster knock out
Sullivan in three rounds" The Bos-
ton father did not look surprised, as
perhaps New York father would, but
said: Not much, my lad" "Was
Dan an n. e. slugger, pa?" Daniel
Webster wasn't q slugger at all, my
boy. What are you talking about?'
He was slugger! What did that
man you were talking with call him the
great expounder' for, them" = En-
change.
II love your daughter, sir, said a
bashful swain to his steady company's
parent before he had mentioned the
subject to the girl. I'm glad to hear
you say Sc" was the old gentleman's
response. "Good; give me your hand
on THAR exclaimed the pleasure-seek-
CT. ''Well, hadn't you better ask my
daughter for hers first?" was the wise
suggestion. The young man decided
that he had, and Immediately sought
the girl to see if he would suitOr.-
YOEEers Statesman
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21
THE TYPE-wRITlNG Gill
Fact and Fiction About the Successors OF
the Stenographers.

Fact and Fiction About the Successors OF
| the StenOgraphers.
The stenographer is rapidly being
succeeded by the typewriter. Men are
too clumsy to acquire great facility at
this sort of work, and it seems especially
suited to women. The advantages
which it possesses over the older fashion
is that the work is finished Then the
operator has reached the end. A large
element of uncertainty enters into life
when one employs stenographer.
With the type-writing girls it is differ.
ent. As rule they are busy copying
Supreme Court papers, which, by the
way, they lay aside without the slight.
est regret, and they are apparently the
only people who look with contempt;
upon the Supreme Court, and begin al
once to prepare for work. The prepa.
ration is the longest part of it, After a
few general remarks about the weather.
she removes her rings one after the
other. looks at them carefully, places
them in an ordinary row beside the
typewriter, pulls a hair-pin out of the
and then thrrIsts it with unquestioneG
belligerence into the back of her head.
Then she yawns prodigiously. leans
back in her chair and says she is ready.
When you begin she suddenly remcm-
bers, rises from the machine. goes to
tine wash-stand, toys with the faucets
for few moments. touches the enis of
her fingers to the towel. then cV,mes
back by the way of the mirror.
| have become convinced by long
experience that the average female
typewriter never really cares to wash
her hands. 1t is a strategic subterfuge
for the purpose of aliording her an OPP
portunity 20 look in the mirror. she
the chair, and briskly puts q sheet oi
paper into the machine. Having done
this, she withdraws the paper turns il
around and puts it in in that way. This
is system they never depart from
under any circumstances. She is not
ready yet, however. At this point it
becomes necessary to open u small
drawer at the right hand side of tine
typewriter, fish out more or Htss
snowy purse, glance officially and some
what sadly within. throw the purse back
again. and bring forth an ink eraser,
rubber, fruit knife and half eaten
apple or peach. Some one viii probably
interrupt her for quiet chat, and after
that, if you are still there, YOU will be
thoroughly startled. Once under way.
an expert typewriter is fully as fast as
the average stenographer.an when you
have finished debating you may take the
manuscript away with you. have OBJ
served one peculiarity about the female
typewriter. She never makes mis-
take. 1t is always the machine. If she
puts sixteen vowels in the word
Through, "she first hits the keyboard
violently, then raises the roof of the
structure, pokes at the type with her
first finger. INDUCES in some airy crit
icism of the manufacturer, brings the
whole thing together violently again,
and continues to make the most grievous
and absorb errors with Il face of utter
satisfaction and unruffled high spirits
She eventually marries the managing
clerk of the law office. - Brooklyn
Eagle
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21
THE AIR OF HOUSES.
Facts Which Would be Appreciated II Fully
Known.

Facts Which Would be Appreciated IL Fully
Known.
There is much confusion in the minds
of some people with respect to the dry
ness or dampness Of houses. An air
tight room is more or less damp, though
people are generally apt to think it 9TH
erwise if there is no draught, and all
the air is carefully shut ont. As gen.
eral rule, We invariably find the most
draughty house is the dricst. as it will
be generally found to be the healthiest,
if not the most comfortao Ole, in cold
weather. But the air of a room, as that
for an invalid, may become too dry: it
may be oyerheated by stove, which
would become injurious to the patient.
In certain cases vapOrizers are now en-
ployed to give the air of the sick cham.
Der its healthful proportion of moisture.
MIR. u. j. Symons, in paper on me.
tcorology, has remarked that the SUBJ
Ject of the hygrometry of The sick room
was unknown two generations ago. If.
in addition to temperature. the quantity
OF moisture in sick room we're indicated
W .hC HsSTOiHctcf, Il pTt'1t Gedl might
be done for the invalid's comfort. 1t is
just as easy to regulate the hygrometric
condition of the sick room as its tenn
perature. and, in many respiratory COM
plants, the former is even of greater
importance than the latter. The hotter
the air is the more water can it contain,
and this condition does not appear to be
apprehended by those who dwell in such
rooms, or provide the means of heating
and ventilating them.
Prof. Tyndall found that the mois-
ture in the air of an ordinary room alb
serbs fifty to seventy times as much OF
the radiant heat as the air does. Mois-
ture is the regulator and conservator o,
the heat, and in due quantity acts like
a blanket, by protecting us from too
sudden cooling or heating. The question
is one, We think, worthy more attention
by the sanitary builder than has beer
given to it. Complaints are loud
against certain hot-air furnaces, as they
overhead the air and render it unfit for
breathing; they tend to scorch and dry
the air, and to this extent they are I'M
healthy.-LondOn Building NeUs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21
KILLED BY ELECTRICITY.
The Fate of a Man Who Recllessly Han.
died an Electric Current.

The Fate of a Man Who RecISlcssly Han.
died an Electric Current.
John McGowan, molder, with two
friends, stepped into the electric-light
works last evening. and obtained per-
mission from one of the men in charge
to 60 through the works. McGowan
declared that he knew considerable
about electricity and its workings. They
entered the generator room from the
engine-house and going over the north
west corner of the room stood before j
thirty-Gght dynamo. They stood before
the machine for a few minutes, when
MCGOWAN was observed to bend down
and reach out hiShands. Instantly he
was drawn close to the generator and
did not utter = sound. He was dead.
In the front part of, and well under, the
dynamo are two brass rods about four
teen inches long. To reach these one
has to make special effort, as other
parts of the machine protrude beyond
them. They are known as the positive
and negative rods, the former receiving
from the generator the electric current
and conducting it to the insulated wire
which carries it out to all the lamps in
the circuit belonging to the machine.
The negative rod receives the current
from a similar wire that returns it from
the lights and is thereby conducted back
into the generator. The circuit is thus
made complete. These two rods spring
from cylinder on opposite sides when
they are about four inches apart. Then
they extend downward forming cone
and are nearly two feet apart at the
widest point. MCGOWAN caught hold OF
the positive and negative rods and was
killed as quickly as he did so. Instead
of going out over the circuit the elec.
tricity took the shortest route. and was
passing out of the generator to the posi-.
tive rod where McGowan's right hand
was, and on through his body to hislefl
arm and back to the negative rod and
into the machine, and so on around
One of McGowan's friends attempted to
seize him
"For Gods sake, don't do that OF
you'll be killed instantly" shouted Engi.
neer Wagner as he shut down his
engine and, in his excitement, pulled
the plug in the switchboard which
breaks the electric current. This last
act could have been of no benefit to
MCGOWAN, even if be were not already
dead, as he was at the dynamo and had
formed a complete circuit before the
switching-off point was reached. The
contraction of the muscles of the body
was so great that his legs and arms
were drawn out of shape. and his head
was drawn forward so that the chin
pressed tightly against the chest. As
soon as the engines could be stopped
and it was considered safe he was taken
away from the rods. So firm was the
attraction thatpieces of his skin adhered
to the rods.-Syrocnse Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-21
POULTRY FENCES.
How to Bald n Cheap Fence, Which Is
Neat and Seryiceable.

Neat and Serviceable.
Everybody knows how 10. make q
fence for the poultry yard. but every
body does not know how to make a
cheap fence. Fences are very cxpen-
sive, and any plan that enables per-
son to make a fence in such manner as
to cost but little and yet be serviceablc,
will always be adopted. The cheapest
fence Is made of lath, but unless it is
well made it is worthless. The desire
should be To have the fence as strong as
possible. and the weakest place is near
the bottom. The objection to lath
fence is that dogs sometimes break
through, not Intentionally on the part
of the dogs, but because the fence will
not withstand pressure.
To make a good, strong, durable lath
fence, six feet high, the panels may be
eight feet. Having placed the posts
eight feet apart, procure some good
shingling strips, (shingling lath,) and
securely nail the bottom strip from post
to post, and six inches above the ground.
Nail the next strip exactly eighteen
inches above the first one. Thus ths
first strip will be six inches above the
ground, and the second strip being
eighteen inches above that, will conse-
quently be two feet from the ground.
The third Cor top) strip should be
nailed three above the second, or five
feet from the ground. Now, nail to the
bottom strip half laths. AS lath is
four feet long, half lath will be two
feet in length. Let the bottom touch
the ground. Nail the lath to the two
strips, the bottom of each lath of course
being on the ground; the top of the lath
is nailed to the second Cor middle)
strip. Place the half laths one inch
apart, which will keep in the chicks as
well as the larger fowls. Here it will be
noticed that you have a strong, close,
good fence, with the cross strips only
eighteen inches high, and six inches
only from the lower strip to the ground,
but the fence is only two feet high.
Having made the fence only two feet
high, but close and strong, you now de-
sire height. This is made of the whole
lath. which is nailed to the middle and
top strips, but instead of being only one
inch apart, two inches will be close
enough. The fence will thus be six feet
high and durable.
The practice of mailing whole laths
with half lath above it is here re-
versed, as we place the half lath at the
bottom and the whole lath at the top.
There are several advantages to be
gained by so doing. First, the strips
are brought close to each other, making
The pressure against two strips instead
Of one. The half lath can be placed
closer together, with economy. than
with the use of the whole lath. Should
it be desired the whole lath may be at
three inches apart, as full security of
confinement is made by the lower. 1t is
cheaper to repair rotten half lath than
whole one, and as such fences usually
begin to give out at the lower part first,
this is great advantage. Such fence
combines strength, cheapness, and eff
cheney, and can be made by any one
Poultry Monthly.