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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01
4 HUSTLER.


Hew . Chicago Dr1nnsf PssfoRnsd n
Unparallelsd Feat.
al had . little experience the other,
night, said drummer, ''that took all
my nerve and gan to bear up under.
Ever since I've been on the road Two
made it principle to meet all engage
ments. More than once I have skipped
three or four towns in which I was sure
of selling big bills Of goods in order to
keep my engagement to call on some
girl or other. When agree to be at .
certain place at q given minute. you
can bet your last dollar I'll be there.
Well, the other day l landed in st.
Louis, and suddenly discovered that in
q moment of forgetfulness had prom
Used to take two girls to the theater
that night. The girls were not &C
quainted, either. hate liar and a
sneak, and the girls brothers were
customers of mine; and so, after think
ing the whole thing over, l made up
my mind I'd live up to my contract.
So bought my seats at two theaters,
engaged my carriage and prepared for
the campaign. sent word to the first
one that I'd call for her rather early,
and to the other that / might be few
minutes late. / whirled No. l of,
seated her, excused myself for min
ute before the rising of the curtain,
slipped out, and in two seconds the
horses were on run for No. 2. l got
her in her seat five minutes after the
curtain rose. Stayed the act out, ex-
cused myself, went back to the other.
apologized, and everything was all
right. l spent the evening fitting
from one to the other, and got my
moneys worth out of the hackman, as
l made him hump. l made inquiries as
to the hour the plays would be over,
and found had twenty-five minutes
leeway. Then 1 made such good use
of those twenty-five minutes that | got
No. l home and was back after No. 2
Just as the curtain went down. To do
this cost me twelve dollars, and the
next day had to skip out of town be-
cause the hackman was after me with a
bill for one of his horses, which had
died from Dyerdriving, but not till after
l had sold big bills of goods to the
girls brothers. Besides, l had the sat-
isfaction of keeping my engagements
and of performing an unparalleled feat
in the theater-going business. That's
the kind of hustler l am Chicago
Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01
ABOUT cEMENIs.


Cemposition Of C0hsfing Mediums for VI.
ri6as Purposes.
The value Of . cement is, first, that
It should become . strongly cohering
medium between the substances joined;
and, second, it should Withstand the
action of heat, or any solvent action of
water or acids. Cement often fails in
regard to the last consideration. For
waterproof uses, several mixtures are
recommended, and the following may
be mentioned: One is to mix white
lead, red lead and boiled oil. together
with good size, to the consistency of
putty. Another is powdered resin one
ounce. dissolved in ten ounces of
strong ammonia; gelatine, five parts;
solution Of acid chromate of lime, one
part. Exposing the article to sunlight
Is useful for some purposes. A water
proof paste cement is said to be made
by adding to hot starch paste half its
weight of turpentine and small piece
of alum. As cement lining for els
terms, powdered brick two ounces,
quicklime two, wood ashes two, made
into a paste with boiled oil, is recon-
mended. The following are cements
for steam and water joints: Ground
litharge, ten pounds; plaster of Paris.
four pounds; yellow Ochre, One-half
pound; red lead. two pounds; hemp
cut into One-half inch lengths, one
half ounce, mixed with boiled linseed
oil to the consistency of putty. White
lead, ten parts; black oxide of manga
nese, three; litharge, one. Mixed with
boiled linseed oil. A cement for joints
to resist great heat is made thus: As
bestOs powder, made into thick paste
with liquid silicate of soda. For coat
ing acid troughs, a mixture
of one part pitch, one part
resin, and one part plaster OF
Paris, is melted and is said to be good
cement coating. Correspondents fire.
quently ask for good cement for fixing
iron bars into stone in lieu of lead, and
nothing better is known than a COM
pound of equal parts of sulphur and
pitch. A good cement for stoves and
ranges is made of fire-clay with a solu-
ton of silicate of soda. A glue to re-
sist damp can be prepared with boiled
linseed oil and ordinary glue, or by
melting one pound of glue in two quarts
of skinned milk; shellac, four ounces;
borax, one ounce; boiled in little
water and concentrated by heat to a
paste. A cement to resist white heat
may be usefully mentioned here: Pull
verified clay, four parts; plumbago.
two; iron filings, free from oxide, two;
peroxide of manganese, one; borax,
One-half, sea salt One-half. Mix with
water to thick paste, use Immediately,
and heat gradually to nearly white
heat. Many of the cements used
which are exposed to great heat. fail
from the expansion of one or more in.
gradients in them, and an unusual
stress is produced, or the two sub
stances united have unequal rates OF
expansibility or contractibility. The
chemical or galvanic action is import
ant. The whole subject of cements
has not received the attention it de.
serves from practical men. Only Port
land cement has received anything like
scientific notice; and a few experiments
upon waterproof, heat-resisting and
other cements would show which
cements are the best to use under Ger.
tain rcumstances.-Fdrnl, Field ana
Stockn1an.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

Look out what you say to him; Tor Q
tribe - win take your life. Lower down
and lower down until, outcast Of God and
man, he lies in the aims house blotch of
loathsomensss aud pain. Sometimes he
calls out for God, and then for more { ink.
Now he prays, now curses, now laughs a.
nends laugh. Then bites his nails
to the quick. Then runs both
hands through the shock Of hair that hangs
about his head like the mane Of wild
beast. Then shivers until the cot shakes
with unutterable terror. Then, with up
lifted fists, fights back the devils or clutche.
the serpents that seem winding him In
their coils. Then asks for water which is
instantly consumed by his cracked lips.
Going his round some morning the sur.
geon finds him dead. Straighten the
limbs. You need not try to comb out
out or shove back the matted locks
Wrap him in sheet. Put him in q box.
Two men will carry it down to the wagon
at the door. With chalk write on the TOT
of the box the name of the destroyed.
Do you know who 1t is.
That is you. Oh, man, il, yielding to
t0O VcAuPtoSlOuS w y uAocs PosSu AAASS ySo oS
out and perish.
There is way that seemeth bright and
fair and beautiful, but the end thereof is
death.
Devote these December, January and
February evenings to high pursuits, in
nocent amusements, intelligent, sociali-
ties and Christian attachments. Do not
waste this winter. We shall soon have
seen the last snow.shower, and passed
up into the companionship of him whose
raimcnt is white as snow-as no fuller on
earth can whiten it. To the right-hearted
the winter nights of earth will soon end in
the June morning of heaven.
The river of God from under the throne
never freezes over. The foliage of life's
fair tree is never frost-bitten. The festi-
walls and hilarities and family gatherings
Of Christmas times on earth will give way
to the larger reunions, and the brighter
lights, and the gladder scenes, and the
sweeter garlands and the richer Hastings
of the great holiday of heaven.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01
A PHANTOM TRAIN.
A Lightning Express Train That Made No
Noise.

Noise.
Hanover Is. H. Speciall
John Saunders and Hiram Townsend
were riding home from this village last
night, when they came to a crossing over
the railroad track.
There's a train coming" said Saunders,
pointing up the track in the direction of
East Berlin.
The men pulled the horses in by the side
of the track to let the train go by. 1t ap-
peared to be surrounded by a thick mist,
although the night was clear and the stars
were shining. The engineer could be seen
looking out Of the window of the cab, but
there was no noise as the train drew near.
The fireman kept pulling on the bell rope
as is customary when nearing a crossing,
but not sound came forth. The phantom
engineer was recognized by several parties
as Tom Williams, who was killed on this
section of the road few weeks ago, while
running on the midnight express.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

"A man in Salem. Mass, has in
rented a method of ventilating railway
ears by means of fans revolving under
heath the car through pipes having
,ell-shaped movable openings above
Zach seat; but this air is freed from
lust by passing through water. 1t is
IN trial by the Boston & Lowell Rail
.oad.-B0st0R Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

Some person mutilated an enrolled
bill amending the Liquor law which
had been passed at the late session of
the Oregon Legislature by drawing a
pen through the words "be it enacted. "
But Governor Moody decided that the
mutilation was not material, and signed
the Chicago Mail.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01
Hydraulic Postal Delivery.
[Tombston e "a. IT, Epitsph.l

IHOakOss0HS ~ H.f''s"Pf'l
In the mountains above Chico, the resi-.
dents along a lumber flume have a novel
way of getting their mail. 1t is started on
q raft from the head of the fume at regu.
lar dates, and the people below watch for
it, take out what belongs to them, and then
send the raft, with its precious cargo, on
the wsy.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01
Maryland, My Maryland.

Maryland legislators, who are always
alive to the public interests, have endorsed
the new discovery, Red Star Cough Cure,
because it contains neither morphia nor
opium, and always cures. The price is only
Is cents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

PIXIES TooTuACHE DROPS curein minute. sc
Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. sc.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns BuniOnS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

Why is a fire-engine called "she"a Be-
cause she is most at home when sparkling.
ST Paul Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01
Gen. Ticket and Passenger Agt. c., r L &
P. Ry., Chicago, Ill

CURIOUS Investigators have discovered
that the Siamese twins were well connect
ed.-N. Y Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

FRY and secure place in every6ody's
goodwill, not forgetting youz rich uncle's.
-Tr0u Times
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

"a MISS is as good as o MILE" and Q
great deal better. You can't kiss mile
I1si,adelphia Call.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

TEE bowels may be regulated, and the
stomach strengthened, with Ayers Pills.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

TIL. fisherman who got a bite from tie
mouth Of a river has been heard from.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

Mrs. Frank Gilman, OF Hollis, N.
H., has made quilt containing 1874
pieces.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

II afflicted with Sore E-cs use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell 1t. &c.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton. Cures where other remedies fail. Csc.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

EVERY one is perfectly satisfied who Uses
Brckiugham's Dye for the Whiskers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

A PRovERB says-Hunger is the best cook.
That may be so, but hunger hasn't got any
thing to cook-Texas Si}fi,.gs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

A PAn Of siippers-Banans and orapeo
peel.-L0es0 Cias0.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01
ElY'S
CREAM BALM

when applied into the
n0strils. viii be absorb
ed. eaectually cleans
lngthe head Of catarrh-
q virus. causing heal
thy secretions. IL al
lays Inflammation. pro-
tects the membrane Of
the nasal passages from
additional colds. com
pletely heals the sores
and restores sense Of
taste and smell.
not auQulD q SNUFF.
A few applications re-
tfeve. A thorough treat
meat ,cQI cure.
Aparticle Is applied Il
use. Price 50 cents by
circular. ELY BROTH
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

Isthere one of the little nock that lacks the power
and consequent desire TO romp and play like the rest
lfso try for time diet Of Ridges Food for the liz
tie and II the vgor wanting will not IL
10 thoroughly cooked in its manufacture that very
little power Of the digestive organs Is necessary, and
it, strengthening properties arc marvellous. &
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

night wondering Ii d0Wn undeT Tue water
thereis not some quiet place for broken
heart. She takes one wild leap-and all is
over!
Oh. mingle not with the harmless bever-
age of your festive scene this poison of
adders, Mix not with the sugar of the
cup the snow of this awful leprosy! Mar
not the chatter of cutlery at tie holiday
feast with the clink of n madman's chain.
Stop and look into the window of that
pawnbroker's shop. Elegant furs: elegant
watches; elegant scarfs: elegant flutes.
People stand with pleased look, gazing
at these things; but look with a shudder,
as though / had seen into a window of
hell. Whose elegant watch was that: 1t
was a drunkard's. Whose furs! They be-
longed TO a drunkard's wife. Whose
flute. Whose shoes! Whose scarf? They
belonged to q drunkard's child. If l could
Iwould take the three brazen balls hang
ing at the doorway, and clang them to-
gether until they tolled the awful knell OF
the drunkard's soul. The pawnbroker's
shop is only one eddy of the great stream
of municipal drunkenness.
Stand back, young man! Take not the
first step in the path that leads there. Let
not the flame of strong drink ever scorch
your tongue. You may tamper with these
things and escape, but your influence will
be wrong. Can you not make q sacrifice
for the good of others? When the good
ship London went down, the captain was
told that there was a way of escape in one
of the lifeboats. He said: "No: will go
down with the passengers" Ali the world
acknowledged that heroism. Can you not
deny yourself Insignificant indulgences for
the good of others? Be not allured by
the facs that you drink only the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-01

with some rod Of dlSenchantinent
until his two eyes would become the cold
orbs of the adder, and on his lips would
come the foam of raging intoxication, and
to his feet the spring of the panther, and
his soft hand would become the clammy
hand of wasted skeleton; while sud-
denly from his hear. would burst in crack
ling and all-devouring fury the unquench-
able flame. and in the affected lisp of his
tongue would come the hiss of the worm
that never dies. But, until disenchanted,
nothing but myrrh and balm and ringlet
and diamond and fiute-like voice and con-
versation aromatic, facile and Frenchy.
OFT is beautiful to see young man living
alife of purity standing upright where thou
sands of other young men fall! You will
move in honorable circles all your days
and some old friend of your father will
meet you and say: "My son, how glad
am to see you looks SO well. Just like your
father, for all the world. I thought you
would turn out well when / used to hold
you on my knee"
But here is a young man who takes the
other route. The voices of sin charm him
away. He reads bad books, lives in vi
cious circles, loses the glow from his cheek,
the sparkle from his eye, and the purity
from his soul. The good shun him.
Down he goes, little by little.
They who knew him when he came
to town, while yet lingering on his
head was pure mothers blessing, and on
his lip the dew of pu-e sisters kiss, now
pass him and say. "What an awful
wreck" His eyes bleared with frequent
carousals, his cheek bruised in the grog-
shop fight, his Lip swollen with evil indul-
gences.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-09
WILLOWS FOR FUEL.


The Promising Experiment Made by .
Western Iowa Farmer.
A few weeks ago I put ont 1900
willow cuttings on the shoulder side or
space between the ridge of a machine
made ditch, $50 yards long, plowed out
last spring, and it is expected that they
win grow one-third faster, and as much
larger, in six or seven years, than they
would in high and dry soils.
In this State, and others of the
Northwest, there are large number Of
Dogs or sloughs--narrow and awk-
wardly formed parcels of marsh land
which are most of them quite wet
several weeks in spring, producing only
a profusion Of large weeds and coarse
grasses that are not suitable for graz
ing or hay. Scores of miles of bitches
were plowed through these scattered
and numerous sloughs last spring, cut
ting many of them in two lengthwisc.
In my own case, there are only two
sloughs, varying from four to dozen
or sixteen rods in width, and the ditch
and its excavated bank viii make an
earth basis for good and necessary
| fence. As this willow grows SO freely
on moist land. both here and in En-
gland, have decided If survive till
next spring-to set out strong willow
cuttings, Is to 20 inches long. ON
enough of the moist, narrow strips Of
marsh land to raise wood lots for fuel
| for one or two small farms.
There was temporary doubt at first
about preventing the newly set cut
tings from being shaded and smothered
| by the rank growth of natural grass
and weeds produced on this slough
soil. But on consideration it is found
that mulching with coarse manure, old
straw, etc., will keep the grass and
weeds down, and allow the willows to
grow up and get tall start in the first
two seasons, without check.
The width apart of these wood-loi
| willow rows may be from6 10 10 feet, and
the distance between the. set cuttings
/ in the rows from 2 10 feet according
to size of cutting. depth Of soil. etc.,
| the greater width between the rows
being to admit teams and wagons Of
sIeighs in drawing wood for fuel six Of
seven years hence II the rows aver
age 8 feet between. this will be -four
rows to the rod; and as, when seven
years grown. y rods in length of .
single row win supply cord Of willow
wood for fuel, = single row Ut 40 rod
each in length, will probably supply
sixteen cords Of home-raised willow
wood fuel-enough to serve largS
farmhouse for six months with fire
wood; and only ten such rows, 40 rod
each in length win supply fuel perma
nently for century, If IRE is kept on
Of the plantation and reasonable car
is exercised in cutting the poles Of
smoothly n Clarke, ~ c0wntrI
Gentlemen
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-09
Moist Air and Fog.

It has recently been demonstrated
that in perfectly moist air no forma-
ton of fog is possible, however much
the temperature is lowered, as long as
the air is absolutely free from dust, and
that the moro air. sufficiently moist, is
charged with such foreign particles.
the more intense is che formation of
fog. If filtered and completely moist
air in glass ball have its pressure di-
minished, soon . few particles Of fog
will reveal themselves by the most care
full inspection. But if . few cubic milli-
meters of ordinary house air. be now
admitted into this filtered air, very
fine silvery. transparent fog .at once
forms itself. of such slight density that
even In the case Of . considerable area
of it the transparency Of the atmos-
phere would be but very slightly af-
(ected. At the first moment Of its
formation. II q reelected image of. the
sun or the reflected light Of an electric
lamp be viewed through it. the image
will be seen surrounded by an intensely
luminous blue or greenish tightly
Y. 6Wa.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-09

How many people who have TO make
e1oeping-car journeys ever try 10 have
their berths made up with their feet to the
en~ine! Nine out Of ten who ones try 60.
fng feet first never will sleep any other
way ON . train. Nervous women espe-
cially find that they get up ''better restedr
and with less headache than II they lay
with their head toward the engine, the
blood constantly jerked and Jared to tho
head by the motion Of the train. Chill.
dren invariably sleep better IL their berths
are made "wr ong end to-" as the railway
porters call the way which is now recon.
mended.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-10-09
FARM AND FiREsIDE.

Nothing adds to the value of farm
more than good roads in the country
adjoining it.
According to the Toronto Globe q
hen set at evening instead Of by day.
light will be more sure to stick to tho
nest"
/ Among various and destructive i'm
sects perhaps none is better known
or proves more troublesome than the
tent caterpillar.
Clean out all the rose bushes by
taking away the old wood and then
shortening the stronger shoots one
third. The growth and appearance
will be greatly improved thereby. -
~ Y. Telegram.
We have watched fields that have
been fortified almost wholly with
commercial fertilizers, and on being
seeded 10 grass no such results follow
as come from liberal use of manure.
-Germantown Telegraph.
Plain Cake: Break two eggs in q
cup, fill it up with sour cream. add one
cup of sugar, stir well, tablespoonful
of soda, one and one-haf cups of -four.
salt and nutmeg. Bake three-quarters
of an hour in q moderate oven.-Thl
Household
"A Dream Cake: Make rich batter,
and bake it in three layers. The layers
should be frosted with confectioncr' s
sugar and the white of eggs. The
frosting for the first layer should be
AannVaA NTH Tor l,n To- NJ
with vanilla, and the top layer should
be favored with few drops of rose
water and thickly covered with cocoa
nut-Boston Globe.
Dreamed Clipped Beef: Shave beef
very thin. freshen by placing in cold
water and bringing to a scalding heat;
pour off water, add a piece of butter
washed free from salt. little pepper,
let fry few minutes, then add one-half
teacup of sweet cream, in which you
have stirred one teaspoon corn starch.
Simmer five minutes and serve very
hot.-Erchange.
ITO take cinders from the eye, in
most cases, simple and effective cure
may be found in one or two grains Of
flaxseed, which can be placed in the
eye without pain or injury. As they
dissolve a glutinous substance il
formed. which envelopes any foreign
body that may be under the lid, and the
whole is easily washed out. A dozen
of these seeds in the porte-monnaie
should be added to every traveller out
fit--Prairje Farmer.
The Sanitary Engineer gives the
followingas method of getting rid Of
cockroaches: give the bug kind OF
phosphorate paste. A few of the bugs
eat some. Then those cockroaches
who do not get any set to work and
kill those who were fortunate enough
to get some. and tear open their
stomachs, SO possessed are they to gel
some of the paste. These bugs in re.
turn are killed by others, until there
are no cockroaches left. The paste
kills the last set. J"
An old horseman has this to say
about the use of blinds on horses
Usually the use of blinds causes the
very evil it is intended to remedy--shy.
ing. The horse shes because he sees
something imperfectly, or can not see
at all an object which makes noise.
the nature of which he does not under.
stand. If he has not blinds to interfere
with his sight he will shy less often.
If you have horse addicted to shying,
remove the blinds and be kind to him
for few days. until he has gained
confidence in himself and in you. This
will effect a radical cure.-N. r. Iele-
gram.