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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-08
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WAsHIN0TON MorEs.

WASHINGTON NOTE8.
CONSUL GENERAL WILLIAM, at Havana
transmits his report to the Secretary of
State. which shows that nearly 81 per cent.
of all the sugar cane product Of Cuba for
the first quarter of this year, found ICON
Stunning markets. in the United States.
The Treasury Department has decided
that tobacco partly stemmed, rolled into
packages and tied at the ends is sufficiently
manufactured to be dutiable at the rate of
40 cents per pound.
The first meeting Of the Cabinet since
the Presidents return was held at the White
House on the 18th. There were present Sec
rotary Lamar, Postmaster General Villas,
Acting Secretary Fairchild and Acting At
torney General jerks. The other members
of the Cabinet were ont Of the city.
In every case submitted to him by the
Treasury Department, Acting Attorney
General jerks has decided that coverings
used in transportation of merchandise are
exempt from duty.
The Comptroller of the Currency has de-
clared third dividend of five per cent. in
favor Of the creditors of the First National
Bank Of Leadville, Col. This makes in ali
thirty per cent. Of claims proved, amount
ing to about 100000.
SECRETARY LAMAR has overruled Com
missioner of Pensions Blacks decision and
granted a pension Of Sl7 Q month to Mrs.
Pavy. wife Of DR.. Pavy, who died in the
Arctic region while with the Greedy expe-
dition.
A LARGE number of dismissals have been
made in the Government printing Office at
Washington. Public Printer Benedict
claims that his predecessor purposely eat
up the appropriation SO that his successor
should have the obloquy of making the
discharges.
The Secretary of State was officially in
formed on the LIST that the Canadian au-
thorities, having learned that further rep
reservations in behalf of Sproule, the
American convicted of murder in British
Columbia, were on the way to the Depart
ment of State to London, have again re-
spited him until October g. He was to
have been executed on the LIST.
The public debt estimate shows the re-
duction of the public debt during the
month Of September to be Sl0.627, Ol3 IL,
and total cash in the Treasury $465, 3s5,-
1888
The Treasury Department has granted
an application for permission to transport
certain crates in bond from New Orleans
to slaughtering houses in the interior of
Texas, and for their return to New Orleans
filled with fresh beef for expectation, pro-
vided bond is given for said return within
a period of thirty days.
The remains of the late Chief Justice
Chase will he rem owed from WaShinpfon
to Cincinnati shortly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-10-08


ground that it promoted the recent disor.
ders in that city.
SHREvE & WOLF, dealers in guns and
sporting materials, San Francisco, have
made IN assignment to H. E. Skinner.
their bOokkeeper. for the benefit of their
creditors. Liabilities, $50 600; assets, s45,.
Coz!
GOVERNOR MARMADuKE, of Missouri, has
Issued his proclamation quarantining
against pleuro-pueumOnia-
OK Drexel boulevard, Chicago. the other
evening, several runaways occurred, re-
su!ting in the serious injury of twenty or
thirty persons. The runaways appeared
to be species of contagion, one fright
ened team starting the others.
The New York Secretary Of State has
instructed the State inspectors of elections
that they have no right to reject the votes
of females.
VIOLENT earthquake shocks have occurred
throughout Thuringia and other parts
Of Central Germany.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred the other
day at Altoft's colliery, near Wakefield.
Eng. Seven men were found dead, eight
were rescued and seventeen are missing.
In all probability the missing seventeen
lost their lives.
NINE cases Of pleuro-pneumonia have
been discovered at Verona. N. j., among
the cattle on the farm of William Chase.
The farm is surrounded by other farms on
which there are droves of cattle.
s. s. HAMILTON, prominent citizen and
pork-packer of indianapolis, fell down the
stairway of his Main street Office recently
and broke his neck. He died instantly.
Some audacious thieves recently stripped
two unoccupied Chicago residences of fix
tures-mantels, piping, ornaments, etc. In
one residence the damage done amounted
to 5000. The thieves took the Looiy
away in q wagon.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-11-24
THANKSGIVING DAY.

~ silence hlled with holy awe
A consciousness OF love Divine
That closes every murmurtng lip,
And shows how bright our favors shine.
oh, for grateful heart to say
This is indeed Thanksgiving Dayi
cool retreat where heated Toll
May wear upon his aching breast
For Just one short and tranquil hour,
The soul-reviving flower of Rest.
Opearl of blessings, let thy ray
Extend TO al Thanksgiving Day.
a trysting place At which the past
And present once again unite,
To hold communion, close and sweet
With olden dreams Of fond delight
Let not Sc ef-worn memory stay
IN sight on this Thanksgiving Day.
A mount apart, whose summit CLEANS
Above the vapors sh arp and clear,
Above the poisonous mists of earth,
Within Heavenly atmosphere,
Lord meet US there. we humhly pray,
In plying love Thanksgiving Day.
JULIA II THAYER
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have escaped from prison - they feel
like school-boys when recess comes they
want to rock somebody or fight yaller
Jackets nest. They hardly took time TO
kiss and say howdy and shuck off their Sun
day clothes before they were of, dabbting
in the branch, rocking tie dnci.s, fighting
She ganders, fishing for minnows, catching
frogs, rolling an old hogshead down the
hull, breaking the bull calf, and every little
while coming 20 grandma for some mora
g!1g1r- Here they go and therc they
go, while their poor grandma jumps up
every few minutes to sec II they haven't
get killed, or drowned, or turned over the
hen-hou3e. She had liked to have taken %
At this morning as she looked out Of tho
window and saw them coming down the
big roa1 with the bull calf pulling u wagon
on gum log wheels.
One was pulling haw' aud another geo.
and four were riding and AL were yelling,
and they made such racket the calf run
away with the whole concern, and never
stopped till he got In the branch and land.
ed their gable ends in the water Bless.
inys on the children and the childrcn's
children How l do. love 10 have them
around and see them frolic, and ever and
anon hear one squall with cut finger or a
stump'd toe, or the bark knocked of his
hide somewhere. A child w1thouta grand.
pa to humor and o grandma to comfort can
never have its share of happiness in this
world. Blessings ON the good Old people.
too-the venerable grand parents Of the
land-the people with good old honest
ways and simple habits and limited desires.
who Indulge in no folly and banker after
no big thing, but live along calm and Sc
rene, coveting nothing but the happiness of
their children and their children children.
BILL ARP
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ering suicide, it is -or on Old widowcr who
has raised one crop Of children to marry a
young wife and so TO cropping again. 1t Is
against the order OF nature, and ho will
hardy get to Heaven, for paradise was not
nade for fools. s..
When a man beg rs to get along in years.
he gradually changes fr6sn being king in
his family to a'patriarch. He is more ten
der and Kind TO Lis oifspriny and instead Of
ruling them, the first thing he knows they
are ruling him. 1t is ths first born children
who get the most licking, and this is right
and according to nature. They are the
trainers OF the younger ones, both by pre-
way and must ba made TO lead it right
They get the most favor, too. and enjoy ths'
most privileges. They go when the parents
60. They wear 40. secondhand clothes
They have tie birthright and must keep
up and hand down ttS good name Of tho
iaclily.' But ono by one they srsw up and
marry and leave us for other loves that ara
stronger. shan ours. How sadly. silentl.r
Jealous we arc of those loves. How harI
20 be rcconciled. How do our hearts recoil
with q stronger Affection towards thos,t
who arc still our own, all our own, ana
cling to us for love and support. / said To
good old mother not long ago: ''Well,
htsr that Anna is TO be married soon"
.'Yes, sir" said she, smiling sorrowfully
IL don't know what l will do My last
daughter is going 10 leave me. Eve nursed
and watched and pettcd her all her life.
and / kind % thought she was mine and
would always be mine, but she has run on
after feller she is no kin 10 w the world
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coop of fat turkeys on huclrster wagon
that was rafting along toward the city
Hit don't pestcr me, yUnncrsta But
than young fellcrs in thGtt3ir coop is
sk-yeard, IN bad slS-ycard at thnt People
lows at turkey don't know nuthun about
ut. Tn they don't adzackly know-but
they've gut thur suspicious. Any body
nodus um right clostc kin see MlGt. Yes,
sir! they're sk-yeari.
"You kin tel by my locks at I'm middlun
ole for turkey-specially fur turkey in
this country whur ThanLsgivun un Christ
mas un New-yurs comes right plum along
too-yuther lack than thre toes On that
tair foot q mine. Yes, sir. than toes was
froze mighty nigh plum often my foot one
night. Lack n tho1e me ento fits at tho
time; but by gum hit turned out to be bout
good as a life ensurance.
You see, than times they wouldn't take
no turkey with MS toes froze off fur
ThanlSsgivun. They've gut over that no,c
But I've gut so old at Pm moce too tough
fur the market.
Young turkeys puts me en- mine uv a
boy-they've gut blame sight to learn, un
nat so overly much saince to learn ut scith. |
rockieleck when was a young feller step
PCn' roun' the yard nose'n ente uvver-
theng coald see UNI thenkn' all the ole
Gobblers roun' there was a lot dod-burned
ole fools, TN nobody but the young fellers
knowed anythcng wuth knowun.
"WeT, sir, see q tub settun down avn
the groun' rn' looks at it little, ur
thinks /: what the dash-nGtion you s'poso
hits gut in ut anyhowt
My nanny seed RE sanchern' roun' the
tub; TN che hollord to me to come away
thrum ut rclsc I'd git myself into business
thurreckly. Bat l nuvver let avn at 1
h-yurn 'er; un hops up awnto the aige a
the dod- burned theng, un by gum, sirl fore
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and who never did 90 thirg for her but
give her ring and book and littlo
Ere s3h candy now and then 1t does look
mighty strange, and couldn't understand
it at all if-if-if / hadn't done the very
same thing myself in the long ago.'' And
she kept knitting away with smile and
tear upon her mother.y face.
Raising children is a mighty big thing,
and it takes two TO make it success.
Every child ought 10 have father and
mcther-a father to govern with vigor and
mother to love with. tenderness. A man
4, Is the head of the house aboGt some things,
and about some other things he is oniy next
to head, if he amt foot. A man can punish
his children, of course, when they deserve
it, but it is always advisable to make %
reasonable explanation 10 the good mother
who bore them, for they are her children
sure enough, and she knows it. There
never was but one case Of doubt as to whn
was the mother of a child, and King Solo.
NOR settled that in short order The paiu
and trouble and nursing and night watch.
ing have al been hers. The washing ant
nressing and m ;ndinS and patching ticing
I'D fingers anu toes and syinpatkizifg with
all their great big little troubles. II nlf
falls to her while the father is attending to-
his farm or his store or his Office, or may be
his club and his billiard table. I've seen
VIZ oNu hSI SCFdlCu W9EK ana WOrry ali
the day for her tiny brood and I've seen
the old rooster step around and look ou
with paternal pride and do nothing Ever
and anon he would find a worm OF q bug
and call them TO come and get it, and Just
before he got there he ate it himself When
woman says "this is my child" il carries
more weight and more meaning than when
man says it; and / have no respect for a
law s..c.s VIII S..,.e man the preferences
just because he is man
Our crop is laid by-and now there is
new lot of little chaps circulating around,
0r grandchildren have come to visit rs and
make for US genuine Thanksgiving Day in
ouE country house. What a burlesque it is
in childhood's joy for the grand parents TO
1--we in crowded city penned up with brick
walls with few sickly flowers in the front
window and a back yard to play IN about as
big as wagon sheet. The old folks should
live in the country where there is latitude
and longitude, and fields and branches, and
hills and valleys, AMI cattle and hogs, and
rabbits and dogs, ana pure air, and wild
flowers and fruits, AMI every thing to make
them froe and happy. When our grand
children come TO see Us they feel Lko they
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-11-24

Never again viii they be crawling over q
tired paternal, or riding on his hack, or trot-
ting on his weary knees as Ne sings tho
same old songs he has sung thousand
times before. Our last and youngest of a
dozen has passed the rubicon--bless her lit
tie heart-I almost wish she never woald
grow any moro, or get any older, for shc is
the comfort of our declining years. Sbe
can now wash and dress and undrcss AMI
say her own prayers and put her little self
10 bed. She can sing her own songs and
she waits on Us Ike fairy and fills the
house with sunlight.
The erop IL laid by. IL Che heyday Of our
youthful ylgor a kind Providence enables
Us TO bear up splendidly under those bur
deus, but an old nlan can't An old bachelor
had better not begin. 1t is fraud upon his
Young wife. fcr Il leaves her al ihe b1ricps.
II there i ans u,lfl = - y + k linz
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o. tnat noney-iocus tree, taat night, 10
roost
"well sir, hit was bright moonlight un
yoa could see rabbit mighty nigh a mild
of, the ground was so white.
Hit wss5 bout the coldest night ] uvver
put over en- my life, too. But l wouldn't
froze nothun more'n the tip eend NV my
snout eff / hadn't h ii to stan up most o.
the time, std a squattun un hunllerr down
on my toes agin the limb.
"Pd ben asleep fur three four ars when I
h-yurn some feller just scruncfiilY along
thoo the snow. Un SO / looks acrost the
big medder-u un h-yur come pdssel a col
ored fellers at lived over sore'rs en- the
bresh long Otter crick
"Well, sir, L watched UNI tell they sneaked
up TO the barn un cotch rnighty nigh uvver
turkey tuey was on the plaist. Then they
Lit out fur home, un went right plum under
the honcy-locus whur was settun
II spose eff I'd KEEP still they'd gone
AVN un nuvver n nodust me. But was
SIX yeard so blame bad at made some noise
ur other. un two the blame ornerry lei
iers stopped un give they're turkeys to
the other fellerS un the other .felleYs
laughed un said somehHn, un then went
avn.
"But the two fellcrs az stopped, went to
climun NV the tree, un tell You they lack
TO nuvver give ut up. The long thorns
avn the honey-locus was most too many
fur um though, un they had to git down un
go way with thur clothes about all torn
often um. But you see they KEEP me a stan
nun mighty nigl tp-tce-un all night. Tn
ncxtday could scaiselee git about tony
meals
Il h-yurn at than colored fellers had the
highest ole Thanksglvun dinner Nv any
body rOuns thnrn-IIr nmOst auvNvhlrS ffr
that matter.
'They was mighty fine, slick fat young
goDbler struttun roun h-yur un puttun avn
before the hens all fall. Tn sez to i'm seq /:
"'Never mind, my larlSy. You'll ketch ut
long about Thanlksgivun, sez T. You'll
wush at you wasn't quite SO dod-burned
p-yeart, so you will
"'Who k-yurs fur Thanksgivun,' sez he,
j;st as sassy.
"'Well,' sez /, 'ef you'd a seed as many
slick young gobblers tuck away un put ento
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look on with aln------:--=-.-lt Ct tic b:.3y
crowds in great city that are ever going
to and fro like fiddler's elbow, and the
most of them are working and struggling
TO please and maintain Children. 1t is the
excuse for all the mad rush that hurgie5
rlanliini through tho world 1t is the
apology for nearly all the stealing and
cheating and lying in the land.
Not long ago one of my re ghbors sold
me PolanG-China sow for fifteen dollars,
and she ate Up five dollars worth of chick
ems the very next day got her, and when
asked him why he didn't tel me she was a
chicken-eater, he smiled and said he
thought that would find it out sooner or
later. His girls came to meeting next Sum-
day with brand new bonnet5 on that wero
bought with that money, and SO ] forg ave
him. He cheatel | me TO please them. Some
times when j ruminate upon the meanness
Of mankind / wish that children would
never get grown, for they don't get mean
or foolish until they do.
Solomon says hat "Chil5renare the chief
end Of man and the glory of his declining
yeSrs,n and i am prepared TO add that rails
ing ten or dozen Of them from the cradle
TO courting time is about the busiest thing
in this life and the most responsible in tho
life TO como.
But the crop is laid bv. We arc nearly
through, thank the good Lord for His mer-
cies, and wouldn't go through it again for
a world full of gold.
The last tender shoot is out of the grass
mo more nursing and trotting and toting
arouEd-no more washing and dressing and
undressing and putting TO bed. No more
tp-toeing around when they are asleep, or
playing horse and bear and monkey when
they are awake. No more baby songs and
paragoric, or tcething, or collie, or catnip tea
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NnUhLhENs
METHODIST EPISCOPAL every
AN1 sunday at n 0u o.. M. aud 10 y. ~. sun
day school every SUNDAY ~ 1.n1 y. ~. Prayer
meeting pVsty "Wednesday evening ~ s:o0
fuauFprs invited. W. VI. GILLIAN, Pastor.
DUESuYTEttt w. - Services every SUNDAY M
y m a. m. aud Z. 20 D m. sunday SChuul NJ
10 a. m. NFv MCELHOY. Pastor.
OiiHlSTtAN.-. Preaching every sunday ut
I'll U'Cluck 4. ~. sunday school ~ 10 O'clock
y. m. every sunday. \. ~. MULNET. Pastor.
CATHOLIC .CHTRCii - Services op 2ud
Sunday of every month ~ ShrrlOckS hHt. at
1850 q. m. fArIrn kEAiFrL. Pastor.
Postal.
pustoiicr tWcflrine io.j~r opeu froui5 , y
thgr IN. Sundays tnp hour en- arrival ut wsil.
Money order Oiucu. Z. \. NCCLrAUT. y. ".
a. =. NCCLENuT. Assistant.
Tee Nails:
rruu Attica aud n'l Eastern points. arrives
hullV 20 80 M; l'uy"s ditily ~ t:.G IN.
frotn AShltul tuldWutcr. Nc-catuugn. Sol
dicr Cr'ps. lied irn"i. sun Cty. Lake City.
Mingoun, kingu1r, Br1ss. New kiuwa, arrives
dallt.
T. 90, ui1i.es Monday. Wrtnc-,,ly- ani FRI
" vsHthrN. Departs Tuesday "A, Thut- -daysa
Saturdays rt- n.
frcm iuta, 'ln Nils and Sarotp~a arrives ou
IuesdNys and fri.luys ~ = rN and departs on
Wtdu' 'sliva ana Sptur,lrrs gtSNN.
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TABLEAu UNCOMFORTABLE.
A Bad BOY Who Would Tell Tales on His

A Bad BOY Who Would Tell Tales His
sister.
sMiss De Ton, won't you sing something,
please: ! would dearly love 10 hear yon,"
said Chauncy Moneyton 80 D reigDing bello
on Thanksgiving eve.
"What shall it be. Sentimental, comic or
operatic. Mr.. Moneytonf'
"Pleasc yourself an1 you VIII suit ms
nicely" was his stereotyped reply; for he
bad said the same thing every night for
month.
She played the pss!cdc through, and then
began:
He thinks dc not love h;nli
He believed each word sl.i;
And Ec went away IN sorrow
Ere the sun had LEFT it's bed.
IN hlvc told the truth this mornings
BEt he rcE Is out Of sight;
On, wish my voice could bring h:=1
Where we partel yestern'Zht;
: Say Chauncy.'' sail young Tcrky from
under the piano. s.shc don't mean a word
of that song. Here sister, you stop kick.
ing nc. Ill toll If want too She sail
she wished YOU would either propose to hr
tonight or get ont and give the other fellow
chance. | said I'd toll YOU, cause shS
wouldn't let Inc go 70 ride with hcr aud her
other feliar this afternoon. "
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un he could git when he jumped his level
best
'.Ef Pd had any saincc i could a walked
along the faince piece, un a hopped up
into apple tree at they was there. BntI
jist set there too sk-yeard to move fur thee
four ars. Tn uvver time that red Arslf
setter I'd make jump I'd drap back tel
I'd mighty nigh fall plum ofTun the faiacc.
BY the time the pup had to leave Ia lost so
much flesh at my own nanny didn't know
me, uD was jist about to hop awnto me un
shash me-thenlsn l b'loagSi 20 anothe.
hen they was there.
"But the worst sk--car ! rvver gnt was
the time / froze my toes ofEun me.
sd jist about gtt my growth when tic
fust little slzift ~. Snow come, Ens lsix cresl
the ground all ever as white as bite shirts
They was q tall honcy-locns tree growed
right back ny the barn, un 50 jist fur my
dcvilncpt aies ric'lt plan 1p en- lisc top
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the pot as have SEE /, you'd k-yur somc-
hun fur Thanksgivun, SO you would.
Now sez l, you jist go un run thro
haige faince somc'rs thrce-four times day
fur about week, till you git bout all than
slick black futhers torn often You. Then
when you git to lookun bout as
ornerry an tough as 1 am you'll DO
purity safte-thcy won't want you.
But long as you stay purity an fat you're
jist as shore to GO euto the pot as Thanks
givun day is to come roun'.'
..T've listened roun bout the house q good
'eal, to see eff ] could 11ne out whit ufley
have the Thanksgivun fur. But blame
ef could uvver h-yur UNI tell nothun bout
ut at a feller could git a holt NV ! don't
then!x ar folks knows any theng bout
how the Thankgivun come They know
hits mighty good ixcuse fur catun turkey,
though. I'm that's all mocc people wawuts
70 know about ut" H W. TAYLoR
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''we have roast turkey and roast heesS,,,sv',
said our boarding house waiter-girl 70 to
new boardeT oa Thanksgiving Day.
.'l'u try a little turlss If you please, wit.l
a tile ex the side"
) whats;'
~ file for side dish. 'Toa see .duiicr
my teeth 40 nadly on that piece Of steak had
for breakfast that shall 5e obliged 10 .ii.f
them dos a ic point t..fsrr tack, nv
tus.s
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"Thenks l whut the
destination is the
blEne fool a do-un
thataway fur. Tn by
gum h-yur i went q
sanchern right plum
Up to i'm. l ort to a
bad ny tail-futhcrs
all iorked onten me,
fur be-un sich a blame
fool, 50 / ort.
"All nv a sudden up
he jumps nm makes a
grab at mel By gum
than tIIshcs q hisn
looked 70 me lack
they syas a yard long,
SO they did. But /
give one yecp as he
grabbed nc By the
tail, un' away ] went
up awnto the top nv
the plank faince, jist
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could git any purchase on the slclSry aige
NV the blame theng-kuh-slawsh i goes
into the soap-suds head over heels. Tn
tell you, eff hadn't ben a middlun p-yoarC
young feller I'd ben drownded shores
yore born!
"But elm outen there arter spell. Tn
you nuvve- Aetch ME nose'n arcun no tubs
after that
Next warst sk-year at ] gut was about
thee-four months afterwards
Gar dawgs roun the plaist nuvver dast TO
poster urSe turkeys no more un nothun.
Guild walk all over um Of ] wawnted to-
un they wouldn't bulge. So lowed az all
dawgs was jist the same, yunners:an. Tn
so one day they was a feller come TO ar
house TN he had one a athemInair dod-burncd
Arsh settlers Arsh settlers, ia whut they
call uIn--lOng with i'm.
HE was pup, bout six monts ole-un
he had list about half as much saInce as
had. An that wasn't so overly much, now
you kin bet. He went a tearun roun' the
yard tell he cotch sight me, un then
down he lays fat en- the grasst. un looks
straight at ne thout movun hair.