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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17
Unsolved Mystery Of the sWamps.
IChicago Herald

At various times for fifty years smoke
has been seen issuing from the swamps Of
Florida and every Conceivable theory pro-
jected to account for it. The swamp 10
impossible, but men have penetrated very
near to where The smoke ought to be.
There, however, they could see no sign Of
it. 1t is even claimed that some have
gone directly through It without knowing
it, and Judge White, an aged citizen, is
positive he was once within five or six
miles of it, when It was perfectly plain.
So the weight Of scientific opinion ID that
it is q vapor collected by peculiar condi.
tions in the great swamp, invisible, OF
course, to one in 1t, but opaqne to those .
few miles away. We all love oystery,
and so the common voice runs that an
opening in the swamp discharges baas
smoke from some underground souseA
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

1t costs less to keep fat team than
. lean one.-CSncjnnati Times.
The profit Of crop is the last few
bushels and the profit Of fat animal is
the last few pounds. ThorOughness
pays.-Boston Post.
Would You like to drink the water
the cows are drinking? Do your child
rem drink the milk made from this
NATURALIZATION Rural.
Who has such an excellent chance
to have a beautiful lawn about the house
as the farmer? He can surround his
house with much prettier green carpet
than the average suburban resident car.
Boston Globe.
Tea cakes: Mix for fifteen minutes
four eggs with half pound of sugar,
half a grated nutmeg and as much pow.
dered cloves as will lie on the tip of .
dinner knife. Then add half a pound
of dry and sifted flour, and mix thor
Oughly, have CREASED or waxed tin,
drop a tablespoonful of the dough at in
tervals upon it, and bake q pale brown
in a moderate oven.-BOstOn Budget.
"A wise creed:
Whether the currents ebb or flow,
Whether the future smile or no,
Whether the harvests blight or grow,
Whether the years are swift or slow,
In davs of joy or days of woe,
In fortune high or fortune low,
This be my creed for friend or foe
Gather the roses as you go.
Few farm crops take up so much
potash as the potato. 1t is an alkaline
juice that stains the hands when pairing
potatoes; and it is best removed by
Oxalic acid. This alone should be q
sufficient hint as to the kind of fertilizer
most needed for potatoes. and is the
reason why this crop soonest fails on
sandy soils, where potash is usually de-
ficient.-1rOy Times.
There is no doubt that much fist
class honey does not bring iirst-class
prices because of the manner of putting
1t up. Its delicate flavor is lost and it
soon becomes tainted by being put into
whisky or molasses barrels, or even
fresh wooden barrels may give taste.
Tin cans are perhaps safer for storing
or shipping honey in than any sort Of
wooden receptacle.-N. Y. Farmer.
Too many horses have a number of
teachers anu are taught III This way w
one, III that by another and in an en-
tirely different way by third. hence he
gets things mixed; so mixed indeed,
! that he doesn't know this from that. or
indeed, what is expected of him half
the time; this usually results in the use
of the whip, a tug at the lines. Or 4
shout fit to awaken terror in Il rock and
then more whip and yet more Juggling
and Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
Next to the man who fails to sup
ply fruit for his family during the sum-
mer, we put the man who will not go
to dinner when the signal is given.
Many good men seem to be unable to
understand that house-work is as much
of business as their own work. They
always wait to hoe another row. take
another load. or do little more after
dinner is ready. This is all wrong.
Nothing is gained by the extra work;
the housewife is often put out of pa
thence, and the dinner may be injured.
Stop work when you hear the bell, and
90 to dinner.-N Y. Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17
TO A SERENADER.

Ihear thy music soft and low,
And know that thou art nigh:
Tha. STRAIN! i hear it come and go
As on my couch lie.
Now near, now far, 1t dies away,
And then it comes again;
All, mel To keenest dread q prey,
listen to that strain.
Just as soft slumber DER me crept
heard thy melody;
Had'st thou but waited till slept,
"Twould have been well for thee.
Thou might'st all night on me have fed.
But now thou'lt meet thy doom,
For I'm about to spring from bed
To chase thee round the room.
know that thou art swift to flight,
But rage and hate are ditto.
And mashed Ihouit surely be Tonight
Pestiferous mosquito.
Boston Courier.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17
ASSORTED SNAKES.
Place Where Thousands Of Them Can
be Found Summing Themselves.
Toledo TO-, Blade.l


Toledo (O.) Blade.l
"Snakes! Good gracious" remarked an
old hunter, "if you want to see snakes Of
all kinds, blacksnakes, vipers, rattle.
snakes, copperheads, massasaugas, water
snakes, blue, black, brown, green and
every other color, go to Bay Point in the
fall. after the frost comes, on q warm day.
selves-thousands Of 'em.
"a hunter went down to the point one
day to kill snakes. He shot and shot
among the squirming, Kissing snakes
until they got fighting mad and went for
him. He thought it quite funny at
first to fire shot from both barrels
Of his gun into the snakes, but the
number of snakes increased SO rapidly that
he was compelled to run as fast as he was
able to get rid of them. They chased him
for q considerable distance. He killed one
hundred and eighteen snakes. They were
counted the next day. Why, it's nothing
to see thousand snakes on Bay Point on
a warm afternoon in the fall.
"Another thing on Bay Point Is curl.
osity. A man went over to the point not
long ago and began digging in the sand.
When he got down in the sand about eigh.
teen inches he struck q body of solid ice.
There must be thousands of tons
there. You see the way it got there
was during the foods in the spring Of
the year. The ice rushed in along the
point, tore up the sand, and block after
block piled on each other. When the
water receded the sand settled ON the ice,
and now there is q frs.-class ice deposit
there. should say there is sufficient ice
in that place to furnish Toledo with the
cold stuff for year. Perhaps you think
am not giving you straight goods, but if
you don't believe what tell you, ask the
man that has charge Of Guard island. He
will verify all that have said about the
ice."
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17

"A little three-year-old boy became
unruly at home, and his mamma wish
ing to get him out of the way, lifted
him over into a great wood box in the
kitchen and babe him stay there. An
older brother came in soon after and
seeing him there said: ''Well, Charlie.
what have you been doing now?'
20. nawthin'," was the reply. ''Only
mothers having one of her bad spells. p"
Boston Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17

Let the boys take an interest; even
give them q share of the crop. You
have trained them to work, they can
help you better than any one you can
hire. Make their labor interesting that
they may stay with you. - Prairie
Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17

The blood orange is produced by
grating an orange scion into a pome-
granate, and at the end of two years
again grating scoin from this growth
back into an orange tree.-ChacaQo
Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17

~An communications for this paper
siiOuld be accompanied by the name OF the
as an evidence of good faith on the part of
the writer. Write only on one side of the
paper. Be particularly careful in giving
names and dates to have the letters and hg-
lures plain and distinct.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17

= Subject That Embraces Every Home
The Chairs Made Vacant by Absence
and Death .s'Thou shalt be Missed
Besaess Thy ssst VIII b Empty"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17

"Oh," she replied, II have been this way
fifteen years"
l said: "Do you suffer very much!"
ooh. yes" she said, 81 suffer very much ;
suffer ali the time; part Of the time was
blind. always suffer-"
"Well," said, "can you Keep yoIr cour-
age up:'
"Oh, yes" she said, 81 am happy, very
happy, indeed"
Her face showed it. Sh g looked the hap
piest of any one on the ground. Oh, what
means of grace to the world, these in
valid chairs.
On that field Of human suffering the
grace of God gets its victory. Edward
Payson, the invalid. and Richard Baxter,
the invalid, and Robert Hall, the invalid,
and the ten thousand of whom the world
hos never heard, but Of whom all Heaven
is cognizant. The most conspicuous thing
on earth for Gods eye and the eye Of
angels to rest on is not throne Of earthly
power, but it is the invalid's chair. Oh,
these men ard women who are always
suffering, but never complaining-these
victims Of spinal disease, and neuralgia
torture, and rheumatic exruciation will
answer to the roll-call OF the martyrs, and
rise to the martyrs throne, and will wave
the martyrs paint But whom one Of thesl
invalid's chairs becomes vacant how sug.
! gestive il is! No moro bolstering up o.
the weary head. No moro changing from
side to side to get an easy position. Nc
more use Of the bandage, and the cata
plasm, and the prescription. That In
valid's chair may b folded up, or takel
apart, or set away, but It win neve
lose its queenly power; it will Away
preach Of trust in God and cheerful sub
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17

there. Even in memOry-even now
she shrinks from the pain of living over
what came after. The foolish pride.
the mistimed offense, the misadventure
and misery of it all, when she called on
heaven to help her; when she
chung desperately to the hope that
blessed chance or strange adventure
might come in friendly aid; when the
fond belief still fingered that some kind
heart, ere hers was broken quite, would
take home her sorrows and come to her
rescue. That. and that, and Hat-such
little things-might have been done and
all saved; and no one did them. and the
critical time went by, and the world
went clrciing on. and mad cries of re-
sistance and despair went up to heaven,
and still there was no answer.
=
Let it all be forgotten now. A long
lifetime lay between that time and this.
If the edge of the weapon still be keen.
let it lie in the sheath. 1t is in the
happy tine, the magical time she lives
now, while she waits to look upon the
lover from whom she parted half a CEN
fury ago She saw the carriage coming
from afar. Two men were in it, one OF
middle age. with but slightly-grizzled
hair: the other old with rime of many
winters on his scanty locks. She knew
him at once-the lover of her youth.
She would have known him anywhere.
But oh! the change. Yet the features
were handsome still, and a calm dignity
was on them, that looked like an habit
ual expression. Age, extreme old age,
was there, but in no repellant form.
Only the eyes that had sought her own.
and wrecked her peace of mind SO
sorely. would never look again on
maiden, sky, or meadow. Their lids
were dropped SO as completely to con-
ceal them; for during many years he
had been stone-blind.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-09-17

Gle.
I saw In the French palace and in
the throne room the chair that
Napoleon used to occupy. It was beau.
tiful chair, but the most significant part OF
It wns the letter an" embroidered into
the back Of the chair in purple and gold.
And your fathers old chair sits in the
throne room Of your heart, and your at
fections have embroidered into the back
Of that chair in purple and gold the letter
"F." Have all the prayers OF that old
chair been answered. Have all the cou n
sells of that old chair been answered?
Speak out, old arm-c chair! History tells
us of an old man whose three sons were
victors in the Olympic games, and when
they came back, thess three sons, with
their garlands, and put them on their
fathers brow, the old man was so rejoiced
at the victories Of his three children that
he fell dead in their arms. And ore you,
o man, going to bring wreath Of joy and
Christian usefulness and put 1t on your
fathers brow, or ON the vacant chair, or
on the memory Of the one departed:
Speak out, old armchair! With refer
ence to your father, the words Of my text
have been fulfilled:
Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat
win be empty.
a.Igo little further on in your house,
and find the mothers chair. It il very
apt to be q rocking chair. She had &c
many cares and troubles to soothe that il
must have rockers. I remember il we'll
Il WAS an old chair and the
rockers were almost worn out
for I was the youngest, and the chair had
rocked the whole family. It made Z
ereaking noise ~ It moved, but there wa.
music in the sound. Il was just higl
enough to allow NJ children to put on
heads into her lap. That was the bsul
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-03
MIIestOnss on The Road to Health.

The recovery OF digestion, and the re-
sumption % activity by the liver,
bowels and kidneys. are milestones
y mich mark our progress on the road 70
health. They speedily become PeToep-
uble when HOsietter's stomach Bitters
is used by the invalid. Nothing 50
surely and expedit ousiy consumes the
distance 70 the desired goal. As no
bodily function can suffer without I'M
pairing the gene raj health o, the system
so the system Can never acquire per
vigOT, Esaith's synonym, until that
function be actively resumed. Take.
for instance. digestion, a suspension Of
which il invariably Testiied BY the Bit
tiers. IL the organs upon which il de-
wolves grow weak, biliOusness, COHsti-
patiOI. headache, poverty Of the blood.
and hundred other symptoms super
vene. which indicate Enthusiastically the
baneful general influence Of dyspepsia
The disappearance of all these symp-
toms. through the use of the Bittets.
show with what thOroughEsss Il re
moves their cause.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-03

iair-mInded and disposed 10 obtain cor
IecL information. his class he IL
gardeu as homes thei minds w-rs un.
biased anu would not listen II the views
VI those who were sntagnu sic. Men
and women who travel aud min. 10 with
people IF different nationaIiiies were
more liberal fhan Others. and ssvs
credit 10 other people besides them
selves for knowing something. In CON-
yersstiun with one gentleman, on SAT-
urdsy. he found him OF different turn
OF mind TO his Eel Ow-tTavelers. TWAS
known that the SAINTS had been berat, d
and abused. and called rebels, traitors
and everything else that was foul. FL
der Bywater bad no malicious or harsh
cling towards the class who uid this /;
they msnted his pity and cOntemp'.
The stories of peing discVurteous 10 the
STRAINS ers would not be believed. Their
record vi treatment VI visitors was &C.
know edged To be q good one. The
g-ntlemai. he referred 10 said that he had
EXAMINED many things and concluded
that the Aormo1s Lad been he'd aoout
most grossly. The gentleman was Of
German descent, and was IN a good
posiii n In Utica, n. Y. There were
9th rs Of he visitors, who were intelh
gent and unprejudiced, who acknowl-
eiged that the abuse heaped on the
Latter-day Saints would do Them more
good than injury. The reports OF u c
enemies OF the Latter day Saints were
no tue, sad ore aged gentleman; he
would uot ~ to an enemy 10 know the
ideas, principles and beliefs of people
or community. lie thought II very bad
taste for men TO come here, receive
cUurtesies and then turn around and
ab.se the people. No matter what their
peculiarities, what they did or 50 q f,
after | have accepted their hospital " =,
have 10 tight to speak illy of those
people. They were not sent west 10
stamp out MOrmOnism, they we're SONG
70 a reunion encampment; they were
not all opposed TO ne people Of Utah
and Elder Bywater therefore. Urged mp
on his hear rs to not bee ONE prejudiced
against tn Grand Army of, Republic.
because of the yer euOus utteranct $ and
misrepresentation of few LOt-heated
sore-headed. disgruutled ones.
The practices Of the Latter day Saints
had aTraye Ell against them the entire
world. Yet, those p:ac ices wire In
harmony with the sscieo Scrip
lures. The Christians were again
become heathens, rs John Wesley
MOAAIH 1AAu DlAkEI
ness, hatred aud persecution re-
suited, as q consequence, as they did in
The days of Jesus. The beliefs of the
Lstier-day Saints. in God. His Son, the
Holy Ghost, were reiterated. These
would bring all into The presence of the
Father. Thew had been Taught 10 pray
for those WHO spitefully used them tney
uOpeu all things, and hoped To endure
all things. They held as priceI, tb,-
prir cipies OF hegospel, yea. even beyond
the cost Of life.
dc advised all not TO become beWil-
dsred by the conflicting tales OF their
enemi,s; 20 do good 10 them that hate
them asked 20 be imbued with he Holy
Ghost 20 guide al ia the contamination
OF Gods purposes o. earth.
singing OF the anthem Il Wiil Praise
Thee" by the choir and the solo, Rest
in the LO;d,' by Mrs. Thomas.
Bene0ietion b. Elder Farley P. Pratt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-03
AT THE TABERNACLE.
The DiscOurses There on
Sunday Afternoon.
THE SPEAKERS IN THE STAND.
Elders Morgan, POLAND and BywAter
on the Belitfs Of the Latter
day saints.

On Sunday afternoon the Tabernacle
services we're begun by the choir singing
the hymn commencing:
When Gods own people stand in need.
His goodness VIII provide supplies:
Thus, when Elijah faints for bread,
A raven 10 his succor flies.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-03

SALT LAKE 3 WESTERN RAILWAY.
Going ives. Stations. Going zass
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-03

GnMORE'S NEURALGIA ruEEis
q positive cure for Neuralgia - -is race.
side and stomach. For sS.e az u. :.
smith & Co.'S Drug Store. 9
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-03

Trains win stop At stations marked
only when signalCd
UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-03
DRIROMANIA B. PRATT.

Eye and Ear. Testing for spectaoiss,
Obstetrics and Diseases
Of Women
Once over Godbe { Pitts Drug S1ore; tsis-
phone Us 81 residence. GOibe < Pits Drug
Store ONCE
Instructions given 70 students In Md
EiferY and Monthly Nurses.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-07-17

Pie is not one of the Inventions which
punitive providence left for the exer-
else of Yankee genius. 1t is very much
older than America, so far as the mod
ern age knows anything about America.
1t is French, spanish, italian, English,
German. 1t is of the north. 1t was car
ried into the British Islands by the ma
rauding migrants from the northern
seas. Our own word is corruption of
very early British word, and is, in
stymology, a first cousin of "pastie" OF
'pasty." Pie is our name for what is now
more Familiarity known as start" in the
land where all was once pasty.
The tart of to-day differs from con-
5emporaneous pie only in this: The in
bsrior of the tart is thicker than the in
terror of the pie. 1t takes more apples
10 make tart than to make pie, if the
pie-maker be frugal, as she generally is
In the European countries the tart is
baked in deep earthen dish. In Yam
keeland pie is stewed into sogginess in q
tin Chicago Herald.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-07-17

By the new process of toughening tim
Der it is claimed that the effect produced
upon wildwood is such that cold chisel
is required in order to split it. This re-
suit is accomplished by special method
of steaming the timber and submitting
it to end pressure, technically "upsetting
it," By this means the cells and fibers
are compressed into one compact mass;
and it is the opinion of those who have
experimental with the process that wood
can be compressed to the extent of some
70 per cent, and that some of the timber
now considered unfit for use in such
work as carriage-building, for instance,
can be made valuable by this means as a
substitute for ash, hickory, etc.-Chicago
Times.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-07-17
Cartridges of the War of 1919.

Doorkeeper Date, of the Connecticut
house of representatives, has ten cart
ridges that were carried by Jude B. Gage
in the retreat from New London in the
war of 1912. They are handmade, the
wrappers being pieces of newspapers,
and the round balls are kept in place by
tow-strings. Mr.. Gage, when 90 years
old, gave the relics to Mr.. Date.-Chi-
cago Times.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-07-17
Mountain Air as a specific.

mild cases of nervous disturbance,
in simple overwork, and mental ex-
haustion from worry and anxiety,
mountain air is often specific. Its tonic
properties, the distraction Of magnificent
scenery, the purity of the air, the still
ness of high attitudes, all contribute to
the beneficial result.-Phrenological
Journal,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-07-17
cholera Not of Recent Origin.

Asiatic cholera, DIR. Semmelink holds.
in his Historic du Cholera" had existed
from time immemorial in what now con-
sttiittutes British India, and that it was
only in 1917 that It quilted its normal
abode to spread into Asia, and subse-
quently into other parts Of the world
Chicago Heiald.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-07-17
Rn..in >. an rron producer.

Fifty years ago Russia stood almost first
among iron-producing nations; now her
name is nearly last, ard her imports Of
iron and steel amount 30 more than $780,
900. 900.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-06

was pressing close after the nylng
"ome when It suddenly swerved at
GOING. He turned his horse with a
quick movement OF the rein-tne
ground was soft just there-anda s tns
oobedient brute turned 1t stumDieo ahu
fell, and worst of all,
ROLLED ON HIS RIDER.
Assistance came quickly, and soon inc
hands of sympathetic friends eieasgo
him from the terrible position. he
was seen to be badly hurt, n was
unable to utter a word. A messenger
rode swiftly to town after DIR. ADAMS
who at nee fastened to his assistance
and found him suffering and still I'M
conscious from serious Internal !nJu-
ries. A messenger who came IN u -
have a prescription filled ABOUT .
O'Clock bore the sad news that the uh-
fortunate young gentleman was 0 eA'
pected to live. In the every
thing had been done to make him COM
Mr.. Lamborn has for a long time
held a position IN the Fort worth
National bank. He stands high ano
has a host of friends in this city Who
will be deeply grieved to hear OF the
sad casualty. 1t is yet hoped he may
not be so badly hurt as reports indicate
Later-A messenger arrived fromMr,
Lanes a short while before midnight
confirming the worst tidings OF the &C.
cident. All hope of his recovery was
abandoned, and friends were sorrow
fully awaiting..the swiftly approaching
moment that should mark the exit O.
this noble young spirit-to re'appea'
among them neVermOre.