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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15
A SPOOL OF THREAD.


How They saved the Battery ut Fort
Duncan.
Well yes e: lived in Texas in the spring of
And I'll relate the story. though 1 fear. sir,
Twill be little worth your hearing: It was
Unheraided in rondeau: that the grander
poets sing.
There had come a guest unbidden, at the
opening OF the year,
To find Judgement in our hearts; and the
tenants name was Fear:
For Secessias dawping mandate was call
for men and arms
And each recurring eventide but brought US
fresh alarms.
They had notified the General that he must
And all the muniments of war surrender to
the State:
But he sent from San Antonio an order to the
To convey on board the steamer all the forts
artillery.
Right loyal was his purpose; but the foe d.
vincd his plan,
And the willy Texans set q guard to intercept
the man
Detailed to bear the message They placed
their watch with care,
That neither scout nor citizen should pass It
unaware.
Well this was rather awkward. sir, as doubt
less vou will say:
but the Major. who was chief of STAFF, re-
solved to have his way,
Despite the watchful provost guard; SO he
asked his wife to send.
With Ett.e box of knick-knacks, letter to
her friend:
And .he mssive held one sentence remem.
her to this day:
e.The thread is for your neighbOr, Nj. French,
across the way.
He dispatched youthful courier. OF course,
The Texans searched him thoroughly. and
ordered him to show
The contents of the letter. They read it DER
But failed to find the message they had
hindered once before.
SO it reached the English lady: and she won
dered at the word,
But gave the thread to Major French, ex-
planning that shed heard
He WISHED a spool of cotton; and great was
his surprise
At such tribe. sent unasked. through leagues
of hostile spies
s'There's some hidden purpose, doubtless, in
this curious gift, he said.
Then he tore away the label, and inside the
Was MAJOR NicnoTs order, bidding him con-
All the arms and ammunition from Fort
Duncans battery.
ssDown to BraZos speed your hOrsesl" thus
the Majors letter ran:
'Shift equipments and munitions, and en-
bark them if you can"
Yes the transfer was effected: for the ship
lay close at hand.
Ere the Texans guessed their purpose they
had vanished from the land.
Do know it for fact, sir? Ills no story
that I've read.
1 was hut a boy in wartime, and carried him
thetEread.
Sophie T.. Eastman, in n. L. Independent
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15
WIT AND WISDOM.

If we can not always avoid hearing
a scandal we can surely avoid repeating
philadelphia Cal.
As riches and favor forsake a man
we find him to be fool. but nobody
could find it out in his prosperity.
-Sharpe-What's the matter. Were
YOU afraid / would take your hat and
leave my own? Shabby Stranger-No;
/ was afraid you wouldn't -Rambler
1t has been stated by a scientist
that the red tail. a little bird. will catch
nine hundred flies in an hour. The red
tail ought to make a good record at
base ball.-Boston Transcript.
-Doan' be disappointed in your
teller mans weakness. Some of US
hev bin whitfield out of SIGH green tim
Der dat we warped in de scanning
Brother Gardner, in Detroit Free Press.
"A young lady book-keeper who has
Just married says that there shall be no
side door to her house. She proposes
to keep her husband on the single en-
try system.-Burlingt0 Free Press.
Fond Mamma Ito young miss)-
Did / not forbid you to 90 to the park
without protector? Young Miss-But
had protector. Fond Mamma-You
mean to tell me- Young Missiles.
1 went to the druggist and bought 3
chest-protector.-Chieago Tribune.
What a frivolous girl Miss De
Puyster is" exclaimed New Yorker.
"Have you found her so?' II should
saw I had. She can't talk baseball 8
little bit. She is all the time wanting
to waste her time discussing The
Wilderness of the Is. IN Y Nail.
Here, said an angry pawnbroker
to the dude, ''why don't you pay me
and take out your watch? Il can't"
replied the dude. "Well, you are the
worst ever saw" II guess I am"
candidly admitted the dude. 'Ihaven't
a single redecming quality. Washing
ton Critic.
You must do q lot of fishing now
adays," said friend to an impecunious
acquaintance with a fishing basket slung
over his shoulder. ''Well. you see. it's
just this way: My clothes are getting
kind of seedy-looking. and when 1 pack
this creel around folks think I've put
on my old clothes to go fishing. San
francisco News Letter.
-Congressman-Any thing new in
the papers, Sarah? Congressman's
wife-Nothing except some reports of
scientists ON the earthquakes They
say there are never any serious earth
Quakes where there are volcanoes, as
they act as safety-valves. ''Humphs
That's all that's the matter then. Well.
I'll demand an appropriation for a
volcano at the very next session. -
Omaha World.
win you love me then?-
A little mole 10 growing, John,
Just here beneath my chin:
It gives me 80 much trouble, John,
I'm growing pale and thin.
Another one il coming, John,
Just here beside my ear,
And shall be disngured, John,
For life, sadly fear.
And so want to ask you, John,
Will e'er your love grow cold:
Oh! tell me now. my darling John.
Will you love me when I'm moledY
Boston Courier.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15
ALlBERAL GROOM.


How He Rewarded the Preacher and
How the Latter Disposed of the Fec.
lChicago Inter.Ocean.I
twas their first wedding. The groom
"new," so was the bride, and the Congre-
gational clergyman had committed matri.
mony only in his imagination. Things
did not pass of so smoothly as many we'd
dings before or since have done. A good
rubbed of when the young preacher asked
the groom il he would take the brides
maid for better or worse. and there was q
necessity Of beginning all over when the
sweet little bride entered . blushing yet
vigorous protest. Finally, however, it
was all over; the twain was ono Of flesh,
and the little wife was weeping in the
arms Of the mother who had nursed her
SO many years, cared for her so kindly,
only that she might go away from he's
when most the aged arms and dim eyes
needed support and help. Tho groom
slipp ed up to the nervous minister, and a.
that gentleman was about to pass out into
the night, pressed coin into his hand.
"a twenty dollar gold piece" thought
the young preacher. His heart beat faster
now tuou Wucu Nc WIS OIuCI8tInS at luz
wedding. He had needed the money so
much. Indeed, he often wished his meager
salary was only half its size, he had such
difficulty in collecting it. And now to re.
ceive twenty dollars all at once-why-
Then it occurred to him that it was Gus.
tomary for the minister TO make the bride
o present Of his first marriage fee. The
good man sighed as he removed his thin
overcoat and returned to the room where
the guests we're Offering their corgratula.
tons to they newlp welded couple.
II forgot something" said he, as he ap.
preached the bride. "This is the first
marriage fee have ever received. 1t is
yours 1t should be kept as = reminder Of
this OCCASION"
The young bride stretched out her hand
and the coin rung as it touched her mar.
rage ring. The guests looked up; the in.
conscious wife did not close her hand upon
the fifty.cent piece that lay there, and all
saw it. The minister was glad it was his
first marriage; the guests tried to appear
as IL they did not see the half.dollar, and
the reporter, quietly smiled and thought
perhaps the young husband was Saving
up to buy the divorce. Who knoWss
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

Sod school-houses are still used in
Cheyenne County, Chicago
Herald.
The First Colored Baptist Church of
Nashville, Tenn, has $685. house,
and membership Of 800.
According to the Interior, the Pres
byterian Church ought to give SIC, OOO,-
600 year for missions
bingham, Mass, has not only the
Oldest church in America, but the oldest
sexton, he having served in that capac-
ity for fifty-six consecutive years.
Boston journal.
The London Bat tistis quoted as saying
frat Mr.. Surgeons sermons are more
in demand among the English ritualistic
clergy than those Of any other preacher.
Most Of the 1900, 600 necessary
for the endowment of the new Roman
Catholic university at Washington has
already been subscribed, and ground
will be broken for the erection of build
ings next spring.
AT q colored camp-meeting near
NOrristown. O., clergyman who had
been invited to preach, was SO disap-
pointed at the small attendance that he
merely sang hymn, took up cOllec-
ton. which netted % 66, sang another
hymn, and departed Clereland Leaaer.
"A recommendation recently pre-
sented to the school trustees at Oak
land, Cal, by lady applicant for a
position in the public schools stated that
the young lady was so versatile and
amiable that the trustees could not
help loving her. She was engaged-tO
teach-on the spOt-San francisco
Coll
When one of Prof Stowes's stu
dents, in a quizzing mood. interrupted
the lecture to inquire how it happened
that John, who was only fisherman.
obtained such ready entrance tO.the
high priests house on the night of the
trial. quick as flash came the answer:
II don't know; perhaps he sold him
fish,"
The massacre of Bishop Hanning-
ton on the borders of Upsala, Central
Africa, says the Independent, has been
followed by the death of Rev. John
HoughtOn and his wife, missionaries in
the Gala country, at the hands of menu
beers of the NASSAU tribe. 1t is believed
that the motive of the murderers WAS
money. Mrs. HoughtOn was the first
white woman ever seen in that part of
Africa.
In the line of Christian heroism can
any thing surpass the conduct of Father
Damen, the apostle of the lepers of
Molonai, among the Sandwich Islands?
This devoted disciple of Jesus, says the
Christian at Work, has voluntarily with
drawn from all the joys of association
with civilized society, in order, for years
past, to minister to the wretched outcasts
afflicted by leprosy on this lonely island.
until at last the contagion has reached
himself.
The Foreign Mission Committee of
the English Synod has accepted the of
fer made by Mr.. Morton. of Caterham.
to open up new mission district in
China. Mr.. Morton will bear the entire
cost for three years. including the send
ing out and maintaining of four mis-
siOnaries. Two missionaries, one med
zeal and one ministerial will be de-
spatched as soon as possible. Mr.. Nor
ton, in addition, has offered to purchase
site and build . hospital at Taiwan-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15

MI DiOWuheNu tucu S1Iu tflut btsNID$
escape from the Indians. he came East
with hh immense wealth 10 share it
with his son; that he learned that the
young mans character had blight
upon it from the affair at Queenstown,
and confiding his identity to Mr.. Small
weed only. he assumed the name Of
Brown until he had become strongly
convinced of Walters innocence. Mr..
Smallwced being in the secret, they
readily understood why he WIS so
easily persuaded to take Walter in his
employ.
A few weeks later, the capture of
the burglars and death Of Jack
Hawkins were things of the past. All
six of those captured, on being az
raigned. plead guilty, and the doors of
the States prison now shut them out
from that world in which they had
proven such dangerous citizens Mr..
Miles bought the farm Of Jack
Hawkins from his heirs, and they soon
after disappeared from the neighbour
hood, never to be heard of again.
1t is sunny afternoon in winter.
Daniel Hodge comes hurrying into the
kitchen where Aunt Margaret Is pre-
pairing dinner. Uncle Dan has thrown
off his coat as though it was midsum-
mer, and waves his hat in one hand
and his cane in the other. ''Oh it's a
goin' to belts a-goin' to be right
soon!"
whats a-goin' to be?" asked Aunt
Margaret.
"A weddin'," cried Uncle Dan.
"Who?''
"Walter Brownfeld and our Pink
ey. o bless me, wasn't it a quick match
though? 1 knowed it would come
soon. The best boy an the best gal on
earth are a goin' to be made one, an
we're both goin' to be invited. Get
yer neatcst cap ready. Iwouldn't miss
it fur nothin'. Oh never was so hap
py-nobody is happier, unless it's Wal
ter and Pinkey."
"Dan'l, arc you goin' crazy?''
"Blamed if l amt pretty near il, ="
he answered.
"Who told You Walter an Pinkey
were goin' to be marriod?"
"Walter Jest now told me hsself,"
cried Uncle Dan, ian I'm goin', if We
don't go with me, I'll go by myself.
It's a goin' to be next Wednesday, an
I'm goin."
Uncle Dan was there and kissed the
happy bride. Walter, by way of ret
ribution, kissed Aunt Margaret. who
looked quite pretty in her neat frilled
cap. We are sure more pleasant
wedding was never known in that por-
ton of the country.
Years have passed since was in
Preston Flat. Yet from reports / know
it is rapidly growing into one of the
most prosperous portions of the Union.
A few days ago happened to glance
over the Bushville Courier, which some
unknown friend had sent me, and
there noticed an account of Mr.. David
Black and his son-in-law, John Miles.
shipping several hundred head of cat
tie. So it seems that John Miles won
the beautiful Susie Black at last.
though we doubt if he ever entirely
mastered the English grammar.
The same paper states that Mr..
Walter Brownfield. of the firm of
Smallweed & Brownfield, bankers, had
been elected to the Legislature. That
he would be absent from Bushvillc
during the winter, as he and his ac-
compiished wife and three children
would start in few days for the CAPT
tai.
The principal characters of our story
seem to be doing well, SO VIC bid them
adieu.
Crrr r>rn
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15
And It Was Put There.

"Do you like a mustache?' he asked,
IS he sat beside her gazing on the rising
moon. Il ask because there are young
ladies who say they are horrid."
II don't know" she replied, limo
Gently. whether / like one or not.
never had one on my lip"
''O!' he exclaimed. with q long-drawn
breath; then he drew her closer. and
there was a sound as if q bird had
ehirped. Courier.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15

to the pavement below. He ran hur-
ricdly down to the creek bank.
ais that you, Waltz" asked a voice
which he recognized as Jack Hawkins.
ut is" he answered. II had almost
given you up"
ats just the hour-midnight." said
Jack, in whisper. ''Is every thing
ready?"
"Yes," said Walter, in tone which
had about it fierceness that Jack Q
companions could not understand.
.sThen lead the way; we must git
this job over before daylight an be
home in our beds asleep"
''Come on" said Walter.
The seven dark, fierce men followed
him, and when in front of the bank he
paused and whispered to Jack, saying:
II will now go through the window
and unfasten the door. when it is open
you can rush in"
II guess we understand our part, :"
said Jack. Walter lifted the window
and sprang in. The bolt had already
been withdrawn, and Mr.. Smallweed
stood in the far corner, string at
tached to the door to pull it open. The
sheriff and his posse with deadly fire.
arms were ready to receive the robbers.
''Quick now," said Jack Hawkins,
in sharp tone of authority, ':ipside-
cut that feller's throat and the money
is all ours"'
There was a rush of feet. The whole
building shook with stunning reports,
and to Walter who stood in the rear, it
seemed one blaze of fire. Dark Ian
terms were flashed from without and
within. There were screams and
shouts as if pandemonium reigned.
There were grOans and cries of pain.
Walter saw men from without closing
in on the burglars and beating them
down from the rear. He also saw one
tall, dark form lying PROSTATE and
CHASTITY in the doorway. The sight
was too much for him and he turned
away.
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day anyhow; and the man who worked
with him on the same Sabbath is still liv-
ing, but a helpless invalid under the same
flash. On the road from Margate to Rams.
gate, England, you may find a rough mon.
ument with the inscription:
A boy was struck dead here while lin tho
act of swearing.
Years ago in q Pittsburgh prison two
men were talking about the Bible and
by name, applied to Jesus Christ very
low and villainous epithet, and as he was
uttering 1t he fell. A physician was called,
but no help could be given. After lying a
day with dis.ended pupils and palsied
tongue, he passed out of this world. In .
cemetery in Sullivan County, in this State,
are eight headstones in q line and all
alike, and there are the factsi In 1871
diphtheria ragged in the village, and o
physician was remarkably successful in
curing the patients. So confident did he
become that he boosted that no case of
diphtheria could stand before him, and
finally defied Almighty God to produce q
Ease Of diphtheria that he could not cure
His youngest child soon after took the
disease and died, and one child after an.
other, until all the eight had died OF
diphtheria. The blasphemer challenged
Almighty God, and God accepted tho chal-
,enge.
But I come later down and give you a
fact that is proved by scores Of witnesses.
This last August of 1886, man got pro-
voked at the continued drought and the
ruin of his crops, and in the presence Of
his neighbors he cursed G cd, saying that
te would cut his heart out II he would
Tome, calling him liar and coward. and
knave. And while he was speaking his
Uwer jaw dropped. smoke issued from
routh and rostrils. and the heat Of his
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15

the newspapers oAPioSiOuS VI SOCIAL uI0
that make the story Of Sodom quite re-.
spectacle; for such things, Christ says,
were more tolerable for Sodom AMI Go.
morrah than for the Chorazins and Beth.
saidas of greater light. It is NO unu sual
thing in our cities to see men in high posi-.
ton with two or three families, or ref ned
ladies willing solemnly to marry the very
swine of society II they be wealthy.
Brooklyn, whose streets fifteen years q 60
were almost free from all sign of the social
evil, now night by night rivals upp er
Broadway in its hamboyant wickedness.
The Bible all aflame with denunciat ion
against an impure life, but many Of the
American ministry uttering not one point
blank word against this iniquity, lest some
old libertine throw up his church pew.
Machinery organised in all the cities OF
the United States and Canada by which
to put yearly in the grinding mill Of this
iniquity thousands Of the unsuspecting
of the country farm-houses, one
procuress confessing last week in
the courts that she had supplied tho in
fernal market with 15) souls in six months.
Oh, for five hundred Pail MrX Gazettes in
Am erica to swing open the door of this
lazar-house Of social corruption. Expos
ure must come before extiSpation.
While the city van carries the scum Of
this sin from the prison to the police court
morning by morning, it is full time, il We
do not want high American life to become
like that Of Louis XIV, to put millionaire
Lotharios and Pc mpadours OF your brown
stone palaces into . van Of popular indig-
nation, and drive the m out Of respectable
associations. What prospect Of social
publication can here be as long rs at
summer watering places it il usual to zee
D young woman of excellent rearing
stand, and shipper, aud gigsle, and roll up
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-15

About five hundred women, It IS
said, do editorial or reportorial work
on the large newspapers Of this coun.
trYs
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-08-14

member and In attendance at Its
meetings, enthusiasm is aroused by
eloquent speakers, who present the
issues of the campaign to the unthink-
ing voter, in a.clear and forcible light,
aud show him his duty so plainly that
he is no longer laggard but an earn
est soldier in the cause, pressing for
ward eagerly fer victory. Both our
city and county are largely Republic
can II the vote can be called out, and
stripped of sympathetic tendencies.
This we propose to do and to that end
earnestly request all Republicans to
meet at the court house In Miles City
on saturday evening, August l4th, at
s o'clock, to aid in forming the first
Republican club in Custsr county.
ANDREW F. BURLEIGH,
F. +. HAMMOND,
c. b. TOWERS,
c. S. WHITNEY,
y. BoRCHARDT,
Committee.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-08-14

Hon. Jos. X. TooLE, being inter.
viewed by Helena Independent
man, expressed his opinion Of the bill
restricting special territorial legisla.
tion, about which there is much in.
quiry. Mr.. Toole said: II regard II
as a highly meritorious piece of legis.
lation. 1t forbids the execution OF
jobs in the legislature and the election
Of men with jobs in view. 1t permits
each territory and each county to in
cur reasonable amount of indebted
ness and by no means prohibits the
funding Of existing Indebtedness. II
allows the territory to incur debt OF
one per cent of the taxable property OF
the year preceding the negotiation OF
the debt. That is to say, Montana
can now make loan of over half a
million dollars-much more than she
will need while she remains terri
tory. Counties and other municlpali-
ties are allowed to incur a debt of 5
per cent of the taxable property,
which would appear to be all that tax.
payers ought to be asked to stand.
Municipalities are forbidden to loan
their credit to railroads or other simi.
lar private enterprises. Does 1t forbid
the division of counties? No; it for
bids special legislation to remove
county seats and also forbids all
special legislation where general laws
will apply. But 1t says nothing oI
changing county boundaries and l dc
not believe that the law can possibly
effect that class of Legislature in any
particular. 1t leaves those questions
to be treated locally as heretofore"
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-08-14


The County Republican Committees Of the sew
eral counties viii proceed TO call County Conven.
tons in their respective counties and elect dele.
gates and alternate delegates from each Of said
counties to the Territorial Convention above
designated.
IL Is desired that suficient notice Of such con.
ventions be given. The Territorial Republican
Committee respectfully recommends that the said
County Conventions be held early In September.
but such date should be fixed therefore as, after
giving due notice TO the Republicans Of the c0un-
ties, will be most convenient.
IL is presumed that the custom heretofore pre-
vailing In the several counties Of the territory
whereby delegates to the Territorial convention
conventions which as emble 10 nominate county
officers will prevail during the present year
To the end that all counties In the territory, re-
mote from near TO the place Of holding the Ter
ritorial Convention, shall have opportunity to be
represented therein fairly, and to prevent any
traneous interference with the deliberate desires
Of the Republicans Of each county, the following
rules have been prescribed by former conventions
for the government Of the Republican Territorial
Conventions In the territory OF Montana
l.-Delegates and alternate delegates shall be
elected in the future TO Territorial Conventions,
and In the event Of the failure OF delegst 10 at
tend, the alternate delegate shall cast the vote Of
the delegate whose alternate he is.
AIN the absence Of delegate andshis alternate
majority Of the delegation from tha county
shall cast the vote Of the absentee.
SIN the absencs OF all the delegates and alter
nate delegates from any county, no vote shall lie
cast for such county.
Ain the county in which the Territorial Con-
vention shall be held, when any delegate and his
alternate delegate absent there shall be vote
cast in their half
5.-Dele .aies and alternates must be Repubi-
can residents OF the county which they represent.
By order Of the Territorial Republican Com
mmittee. AcD. McCuTcHEoN,
A. J. sELIexAS, Secretary. Chairman.