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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26
IN NEWGATE.
The Plaster Casts, Handouts and Irons to |
BE Seen in This Famous Prison.

The Plaster Casts. Handouts and Irons to
BE Seen in This Famous Prison.
Newgate stands in the very center of
the life of London. up quiet street of
Ludgate. famous through all the world
as Old Bailey. Here it has stood for
centuries. till its gray stone has taken
on blanched appearance, as does the
head of old age. From the first mo-
ment of entering the prison, there is
full qualification of the sense of the
dramatic. On ringing the great bell.
the warder makes careful survey of
the applicant over a low gate. spiked
and dOubly locked. On entering YOU
find yourself in small, low-rO0fed
room with many doors. each vieing
with the other in respect of cnormity
of locks and maSsiveness of hinges.
These doors have swung open for many
generations of noted criminals, and
sometimes have never opened again to
let them out into freedom and fresh
air. Turning to the left under the in
telligent direction of the chief warder.
the visitor passes through one of these
picturesque doors. and suddenly finds
himself in distinguished CON-
paDy. Over the doorway on the
inner side is row of plaster
casts of heads. Up to the year
1866 it was the custom to take
casts of the heads of murderers imme-
diately after execution. But On that
date the practice was discontinued.
The last yerson whose lineaments are
thus preserved for posterity was a man
named Jeffrey, who stands at the head
of the row. Amid collection of mean,
cruel and evil faces, Jeffrey's cast
stands out with remarkable distinction.
He has quite pleasant, kindly, intelli-
gent face, about the last man one would
expect to see in this grim company.
Oddly enough, jeffrey took keen in
.erest in executions long before the ap-
proach of his own made it personal.
In those days. whilst executions were
still public, jeffrey made practice of
appearing on the skirts of the throng
and distributing tracts, often with a
word Of special exhortation. He had a
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

| little step-son, six years of age, who
was q great trouble and expense to
him. One day he determined finally
to settle this difficulty. He according
" took his pocket-handkerchief and
hanged the boy. making his escape,
and for some time defied detection.
But he was caught at last. and saw q
public execution from q new point of
view.
Side BY side are the casts of Green
acre and Daniel Good. Here also is
Courvoisier, who, number of years
ago, murdered Lord William Russell.
The sightless eyes of these and scores
of other heads stare straight across at
cupboard, on the other side of the pas
sage, which contains u rare collection
of curiosities. There 10 specimen of
the old original handcuff, roughly
made head-piece of iron beaten out in
| the figure of 8. Later specimens of
various dates show how these things
have advanced with growing civiliza-
ton till they are now quite natty little
things. There is complete set of
chains with which convicts charged
with capital offenses were at one time
dCCuStOlucu ~ NC ScCuICus 1HcIc III
| fine preservation, a pair of leg irons.
When a man was sentenced to death
these irons were fastened on his legs,
and riveted by the smith. There is the
identical set of irons with which Jack
Sheppard was accommodated when he
took up his brief residence in Newgate
in the year 1924. Having managed to
escape out of the ordinary irons, a
special set were made for the noted
highwayman. They weighed just a
quarter of a hundred weight. and were
riveted on Jack with great satisfaction
by the authorities of the day. But the
next morning, when Jack prison cell
was opened by the warder. there were
only the irons to tell of his recent
presence. Another notable set of irons
weighs thirty-two pounds.
There is Old Newgate and New New
gate, the latter with the open gallery
system of modern times, but lacking
altogether the grim picturesqueness Of
the portion of the building which Jack
Sheppard knew SO well, and which. but
lately threatened with demolition, still
stands one of the most striking monu
ments of elder London.-Youth's Conn
paniOn.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26
STAGE MAKE-UPS.
Secrets of the DressingRoom as Revealed
by Theatrical Man.

Necrets of the Dressing-Room as Revealed
by Theatrical Man.
..See here! have letter from an
amateur asking me to give him direc-
tons how to make up for an old man,
and l don't know any better way than
telling you every thing about it and let
ting you tell everybody" Thus spoke
Jerry Taylor, stage manager of the
Walnut Street Theater, to a reporter.
when star enters his dressing
room," said Mr.. Taylor. ..he finds the
contents of his dressing-case or make
up box spread out before him on a
table, in front of a glass that is hung
between two lights. He has ready in
his hand sticks of grease paints of all
colors, and cosmetics, pencil brushes.
spirit gum for sticking on noses or
whiskers and hare foot. Now, sup
pose he is going to make up for an old
man. He takes stick of fiesh-colored
grease paint, warns it slightly and
rubs it all over his face, just the same
as scene painter sizes his canvas
before painting the picture on it. Then
if he is going TO make up for some his
torical character he has picture of the
original before him and he must line
his face according to it. Otherwise he
goes to work and makes the face he
fancies. After the first coat of flesh
colored paint he covers his. cheeks and
lips with yermillion. He next draws
two short lines wide apart at the top and
almost converging between them. These
lines are put on with Indian ink applied
with a pencil brush. Crows feet with
three little lines at the outer corner
of the eyes give them the old wrinkled
expression. Two parallel lines on
each side of the face, one beginning
near tho inner corner of the eye and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26
CONVERSATIONAL ART.
A Rare Gift Which Requires Inspiration n
Well as KNOWLEDGE.

Rare Gift Which Requires Inspiration as
Well as Knowledge.
Between talking and conversation, in
its finest possibilities, there is as wide a
difference as between walking and
dancing. Conversation is one of the
fine arts, and We venture to assert that
it is rarer one than music. There can
be found a dozen people who can rem
der a sonata acceptably, who can pro-
duce an average drawing or painting
or write a readable novel, to one who
has the gift, the grace, the supreme
charm of conversation. 1t is the art of
arts. 1t necessarily includes all others,
not in matters of technical knowledge,
but in their essential elements. Only
true culture-that culture which is an
achievement. not an external acquire
ment-can produce conversation. Talk
is cheap and largely mechanical. and
is of no Importance save rs one of the
convenicnccs of existence; but CONVEX
sation is a gift of the gods. A woman
is by no means necessarily cultivated
because she happens to have studied
! this, or known that, or because she has
travelled, or lived in a certain grade of
society. True these things conduce to
culture, but they do not necessarily
confer it. To know this or that fact
in history or in art, to have read a
novel. or listened to an opera is of
little consequence unless there has been
a response in mental vigor, unless these
isolated data give their fine aroma,
their essence, that enters into and is
| assimilated in character and re-
produced by intellectual activity.
| taught to be a pianist, as she may
be taught embroidery: she may be
! trained to a certain technical degree of
excellence in pictorial art; she may be
cultivated in all conventional forms of
etiquette; but she can no more be
taught, by external means. to be good
conversationalist than she can be
taught to write novel or dramatic
poem. 1t is the tragedy of life that the
/ generality of people have nothing on
earth to say that is worth the saying or
hearing. They have read the latest
novel; they have met the reigning
social lion. But what have they to
show for it? They will inform you
that they like-or dislike. as may be
the novel. the opera, or the individual.
| And what does that signify? Their
personal preferences or prejudices are
of no possible consequence. But the
woman who can dramatize her impress
sions-who has certain definite reasons
for the faith that is in her, who can tell
you what the oauthor means in the
novel. or to what degree the artist
realizes lyric art, or who can define for
You something in the personality of the
reigning social lion of the moment
how rare and how precious does such a
one make the hour. She brings to life
new insights. new magnetisms, new
forces. Conversation is, too, very
largely spiritual relation. with
one man." says Emerson, Il walk
among the stars. while another pins
me to the wall Conversation is
stimulated. drawn out. or repressed
and eNtinguished to a great degree by
these mutual magnetisms of tempera-
ment-Boston Traceler.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

Mrs. DR.. F. Cartwright. of Garden
City. Kan. received a telegram at 9:335
a. M, announcing the serious illness
of her mother. and asking her to como
Immediately. She packed her trunk.
put up Il lunch. appointed A. H. Ad-
kinson her attorney to dispose of ten
thousand dollars worth of property
during her absence, and left on the
train at 9:54 for her old home in Iowa,
all in nineteen mi.utes.-C chicago
MniI
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26
The japanese are away ahead of ,

The Japanese are away ahead of us
in some things. They always keep
their back yards in apple-pie order-no
ash-heaps, garbage barrels. tin cans
and rubbish. The Japanese back yard
is little paradise, and is made as beau
tiful as art and nature can make it.
The Japs, however. have no front yards
and they dump their rubbish in the
street.-N. 7, Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

IN another column of this issue will be
found an entirely new and novel specimen
of attractive advertising. 1t is one OF the
neatest we have ever seen, and we thinK
INV one will he we'll repaid for examining
the supposed display letters in the adver-
tisement of Prickly Ash Bitters.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

PIXIES TOOrHACHE DROPs cure in minute, 30
Gtenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. &c.
GERAAK CORN REMOvRR kills Corns BunionR.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

CONGRESSMAN BAeLEY, Of Michigan, says
Red Star Cough Cure Il simple and eflica-
cioua.
Ex-Mayor Baxter, Of Louisville, KY,
says st. Jacobs Oil Il . specific for every
pain.
"TM well backed with silver" - the
looking glass said.-StocktoH Aareriek.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

WIZ Is an avaricious man like one with .
short memoryi He is always forgetting.
So is the wise parent forever getting Tayi
lor's Cherokee Remedy Of Sweet Gum and
Mullen, the Group preventive, and cough
and consumption cure. Ask your druggist.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

As toilet luxury, Halls Hair Remover
never fails to give satisfaction.
Sufferers from Bronchitis will find speedy
relief by taking Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

A SOFT Shaving q young man for the
frst time.-Eou Rirer Adranee,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

If silence is golden what . valuable mis-
fortune lockjaw must be.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN win begin series
Of articles on "Reminiscences Of the War"
in the National Tribune Of Washington, ID.
c., in the issue of April 2. Subscribe at once
to secure the first number. t1.O0 per year.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26
An Avaricious Man

WHEN a man is "light-headed" it IS NO
sign he is brilliant.-Paeifc Jester.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

BRONCHITIS In cured by frequent small
doses of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

Ii afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompscn's Eye Water Druggistssell it. sc.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

THE American joke has been formally
introduced into Japan.-ArkGnsdr 1rdreter.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26
Throw Away Trusses

A GROWING evil-Your next door neigh
boris squalling baby.-Someryiue Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

EVERY bonnet has . "b'' In it-Lossll
Citizen
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26
sAs oeed ~ Nsv,~

ars the words used by . lady, who was q
one time given up BY the most eminent
mere skeleton, pale and haggard, not able
to leave her bed, from all those distressing
diseases peculiar to suffering females, such
a. displacement leucorrh9a, innamma-
ton, ETC., etc. She began taking DR.. PieFces
" Favorite Prescription" and also using the
II now, she says, "as good as new." Price
reduced to one dollar. By druggists.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-28
The Law For Children,

No one with the proper parental atfec-
tion, or even the ordinary philanthropic
instinct. can read without deep feeling the
touching letter of Mrs. kramph, regarding
the case of the Powder boy. which called
forth in the INTELLIGENCER some advice
to the judges touching their too ready COM
INITIAL of children of tender years To the
House of Refuge Mrs. kramph lsa practical
phlanthropist she has gone about dong
| good for many years; to her unsetish et-
| forts are largely due the establishment
| and the work of the Home here and
she and her faithful Coadjutors may be
safely trusted to do the best for the moral
and mental welfare of the children com
mitted to their care.
1t may be that as the law now stands no
provision is made for the court to commit
"vicious," " vagrant and " incorrigible'
children to any other institution than the
House of Refuge; but the whole subject is
one for the discretion of the judges: and
where the home management is willing to
undertake the care of an orphan child
under twelve years of age it ought to be al.
lowed to do so. We doubt il any one OF
that age has developed such ineradiCablt
criminal tendencies as to put him or hel
beyond hope from the good Influences
which surround the inmates of this ipSti
tuition.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-28
limlnary proceeding drank liquor until
tl,o,r heads svam. Then some of them be-

limlnary proceeding drank liquor until
their heads swan. Then some of them be-
pan 10 think they were not having a good
enough time and a row in a saloon was
provoked. Many of the participants were
badly used up, one young student named
Whitelaw, being critically i'll from the ter
rible beating he received.
This mans parents live in St. Louis and
are of great wealth. When they were get
ting ready to attend the commence ment
exercises to see their son graduate with
distinction, telegram was received thai
he was lying1etween life and death as the
result of q drunken fracas. 1t would take
an infinite amount of fun to compensate
for the sorrow this news caused his dotine
parents.
Perhaps, after all DIR. Leonard Woolse!
Bacon's plan is the best Rowdy students
| should be sent TO an institution for th,
| feehle-minded
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-28
Sudden Sensitiyeness.

The Tribune reports some of the Ohio
Republicans very much exercised because
no investigation has been ordered of their
charges against Senator Payne, that his
seat was obtained by bribery and corrup-
ton. In the shape they came TO the Sen.
ate, and after the futiity of the hostile
partisan investigation in Ohio, the Senate
could do nothing more or less than it did :
and 1t is not likely to be much affected by
the alleged sensitiveness of the Ohio Re-
publicans to the shame and scandal at
taching to their state on this account.
An Ohio Republican was elevated to the
presidency in lS76-77, by means the most
despicable and corrupt that were ever at
tempted, and made triumphant in Ameri-
can politics. Fraud and force, corruption
and bribery were the instruments of that
wrong.
In lsSO-Sl another Ohio Republican was
chosen president. His election was accom-
plished by the free and unscrupulous use OF
money in Indiana in October, and by put
ting particular 10000 where it did most
good among 700 voters of New Yorl
IN November.
An Ohio Republican was recently an
pointed to the supreme bench of the United
e...es IN pursuance of corrupt bargain
WIN tne railroad monopolies who want tn,
iayor Of that tribunal
,ne ONO Republican stomach hayin.
calmly aigested all these things can not h,
maue uncomfortable by the Payna buo;,os.
Its sudden sensitiveness is a sham %
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-28
Gle Canfastcr lntclligcnier.
LANCASTER. JUNE Is ,sss
Our Agricultural Possibilities.

The interesting and valuable article by
Edward Atkinson, the statistician and
economist, in Brddstreet's, reprinted in the
INTELLIGENCER, to-day has a much more
profound significance than its gratifying
exhibit of Lancaster county's agricultural
pre.eminence. The essential point of the
article is that comparatively small part
OF our national domain has yet been
absorbed by the wonderful agricultural
development of America and this is
made particularly plain by the accompany
ing diagram. OF million and half
acres of arabic land in the country four
fifths yet remain untitled and from the one
fifth that is furrowed by the plough we
raise all our grain, hay, cotton, sugar, rice
and garden vegetables. The proportion
which the pasture land that supports the
beef, mutton and dairy interests bears to
the entire grazing and meadow ground is
yet small, and vast area of mountain and
timber land remains uncleared which
pecessiity will sometime fit for agricultural
purposes.
Behind this exhibit, however, lies the
consideration that the soil already under
cultivation has vast possibilities that have
not been tested. In most of the advanced
regions of high farming where one blade
of grass is now grown two if not a dozen
can be made to spring forth. With the
increasing population of the sea.
board cities, the comparatively small
area of country that surrounds
Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Philadel-
phia and Baltimore must be made to yield
from year to year increasing crops of per.
ishable market supplies to the teeming mil.
lions who crowd these busy marts.
While it is true that the bulk of meat and
cereal supplies, a class of products requiring
wider area of country, must come from the
far West, it is equally true that the acres
of the East have increased in value as new
markets for new supplies have opened tC
them at home. 1t seems to be cause fol
wonder to Mr.. Atkinson as it doubtles.
will be to many others, that notwithstand
ing the apparent transfer of the genera
agricultural interest to the great West
the thirty three leading counties il
wealth of product, all reporting owe
four millions yearly, are, with tive
exceptions, on this side of the Mississippi
fourteen of them are in the commercial
state of New York and seven in the
mining and manufacturing state of Penn
sylvania. Our own great county of Lam
caster, it is fit subject for local
pride, though less in population than
its chief competitor, Monroe county,
New York, leads it and all others three
million dollars and nearly fifty per cent. in
agricultural products. Our tobacco cul.
ture has had a good deal to do with the
maintenance of this primacy. 1t seems tc
have been added extra to our production
1t has supplanted nothing, driven nothing
out; and indeed the average productive.
ness of our soil has been enhanced during
the tobacco growing period, not to speak
of the increase of stock feeding. There is
subject for a good deal of gratifying study
by Eastern farmers and landowners in the
census figures
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-28
Bayue's Pain.

A dispatch from Washington to-day
says: Representative Bayne, OF Penn
sylvania, says the House will certainly en-
deavor to have the pension bills which have
been returned unapprOved, passed over the
president S vetoes. Mr.. Bayne thinks the
opposition to the vetoes will not be party
question, but that the parties will unite
in opposing them. Leading Democrats,
however, scout this idea
Well may Democrats scout such an idea.
The president is the first public man in a
position of influence who has sized up to
his duty on the pension business. The
country IS with him the Democracy will
stand by him; and it makes the situation
all the more delightful to hear statesmen
of the Bayne calibre rant and roar.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-28

SUNSET Cox, our genial minister 10
turkey, Is growing tired of the land of the
settlng sum- according to recent private
letter lie ieeis that he is in practical exile,
ana though the novelty of his place was
great Tor time, the pleasant things that he
had IN Constantinople had in them nothing
ofpermanence If Mr.. Cox is relieved in
time for the next congressional elections in
New York, he will make it very warm for
Hon. Timothy J. Campbell, who sits in the
seat once occupied by Mr. Cox in the House.
There is danger, however, that the latter in
his brief sojourn in Turkey may make him.
self so indispensable to the sultan that his
departure will cause rupture between the
two countries Whatever decision Minister
Cox makes he must remember that it will
be iraught with mighty results for veal or
woe.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-28
PERSONAL.
SENATOR CAMERoN's wife has presente,
him with son and the senator never locke,
better or happier.

SENATOR CAMERoN's wife has presented
him with son and the senator never looked
better or happier
GEORGE J. GOULD, Jay Gould's eldest son,
- SAID To have gone to London to wed Miss
Edith Kingdom, an actress in the DAILY com
pany.
GENERAL FITz JoHN PORTER has written
an earnest letter of thanks to Senator Sewell
Tor his efforts In securing for him a ylndica-
ton.
HIRAM LUTz, formerly of this county. WAS
bitterly antagonized tor reelection as mem
Der OF the local assembly arbitration commit
tee of the Philadelphia car drivers and con.
ductors But in poll OF 500 votes he pulled
through by plurality of 3.
FRANKLIN HOWELL, a prominent young
man In scranton, was to marry Miss Efiie
Coslett, an estmable young lady, ON June 3.
He did not turn up on the appointed day, aud
it now turns out that he consulted New
YORK medium, who advised him to put of
his marriage until some other time.
JUDGE SLOAN, OF Milwaukee, in holding
knight of Labor for trial said "Laborers
or capitalists may organize for their own pro.
tection. but have no right to take the aggres.
sive- In our social and industrial life and
our government the Socialist, the Anarchis,
and the boycott have no place."
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-28
COllege Rauaxis,

This is not only the season Of coumo.
men1 preparation but it is likewise the
period when college rowdyism reaches S i,S
. highest development. The exuberance Of
ee young cOllegians, rejoicing in the
4 fought that their long time of restraint Is
: an end, is most natural; and when under
ais Indictment they are guilty of few ex.
ccsses, he must be cross-grained citizen
who would hold them too closely account
sole. But there are collegian excesses and
exoesses.
: otl Or night in Boston mysterious
ysowd of students from Harvard college
esteim ned TO swim in fun, aad as pre-