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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-06-26
TEMPERANCE READING.
PROVERBS XIII: 2e-aa.

Who hath woe, and who hath sorrow,
Babb1ngs, wounds, contentious borrow1
Eyes that open on the morrow
Bleared and red?
They that at the wine-cup tarry,
Choicest vineyards seek and harry,
Mixed wines to their store-rooms carry,
Overhead.
Look not thou, as thy soul liveth,
When its color right it giveth,
On the cup where sorrow grieveth
AT the last.
Like serpent's fangs it biteth,
Like fiery blast il smiteth,
Like an adders tongue it blighteth
All whS taste.
Ellen W. CdreM
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-06-26

THE LiUieg Church says: ''The Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia has
published in his diocese the decisions
of the recent Plenary Council of Balti-
more in regard to the sale of liquors
on Sunday. He has announced that
all Roman Catholics under his jurisdic-
ton must either abstain from selling
intoxicants on Sunday or leave the
church. Should they disregard this in
junction the priests will refuse to grant
them absolution, and thus deprive them
of the sacraments. The Archbishop
stated that the decree had been affirmed
by the Vatican, and would be enforced
all over the United States. We shall
hope to hear of its publication in Chi
cago SOON"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-06-26

There is in the possession of the
railroad company at Chambersburg,
Pa. one of the original stones used to
mark the Mason and Dixon line be-
tween Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The stone had been taken from its posi-
ton and for while used as doorstep.
The present owner will place it on the
historical line at the station of the road
at State Line. PHILADELPHIA Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-06-26

AN exchange argues that distilling
alcohol can not be so very bad, since
it has been the custom of all nations
from the earliest recorded time. The
writer has good case, but while he
was about it he should have said good
word for sin, which dates back to the
first man.-M Y. Independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-06-26

"A Northwestern writer asserts that
there are no venomous snakes in the
entire State of Minnesota.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
STOCK.BREEDING.
A Financially Dangerous Business II Not
Properly Managed.

A Financially Dangerous Business II Not
Properly Managed.
The young man who is ambitious to
become a breeder of bloOded stock
should look the ground carefully over
before risking his fortune in the bust
ness. If he makes study of it he will
find that very few men have ever been
successful to the degree of making
money raising thoroughbreds. while the
list of failures is Interestingly long.
Breeding fancy stock has great at
traction for wealthy gentlemen with
rural tastes. A craze takes possession
of them and they buy too much, and
the next year finds them unloading upon
a market already too full. These men
are numerous enough to keep the sell
ing rates a little below profitable
prices, because they do not care what
the enterprise costs them, as their OBJ
ject is more to obtain pleasure than
profit. The man of modern means can
not stand up against this opposition I'M
less he is remarkably bright-witted and
admirably adapted to the business.
Look well before you leap, and begin
in modest way if you hope to pull
through with profit and glory.-Ameri-
can Dairyman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
PRETTY CONCEITS,
Novelties In Caps. Dresses, Buttons and
Kid Gloves.

Novelties In Caps. Dresses, Buttons and
Kid Gloves.
Jersey, polo. and Scotch caps are all
worn by small girls.
Many elegant dresses are provided
with two bodices; high corsage for
day wear, and low one for evening re-
ceptions.
Fur hoods made of seal-skin, are
popular for sleighing and are usually be-
coming, they are bOrdered with otter,
or light beaver.
Elegant cloth costumes have bands of
black Astrakhan around the bottom of
the skirt on the jacket, and also on the
turban and muff, which are now con-
sidered necessary accomplishments.
A new pottery called 'Peach Bloom"
has the exact tints and shades of q ripe
peach. This beautiful and low-priced
ware is shown in vases and pitchers of
handsome shapes. The Leeds ware is
pretty in the new yellow shade.
Buttons were never so handsome as
at present, some of them are so richly
carved and colored as to resemble jew
els. They must be of two sizes, small
ones for the dress waist. and the larger
for draping the dress.
The new shades in gloves are dark
browns. garnets and gray for day wear,
with silver gray mauve. putty and flesh
color for evening wear. The mosque
taire is still the favored shape. but long
wristed buttoned gloves are worn by
ladies with plump wrists and arms
N. Y Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
HE WAS DIVORCED.

Uncle Aaron's Qualification AID his Subse-
quent Disgust.
''Good mornin', Marse Dick" said
Aaron Morse, as he stepped into the
store of Richard Kelly, down in Missis-
sippi, and dotted his hat, holding it in
his hands behind him.
''Good morning, Aaron. What can
do for you this morning?" said MIR.
Nelly.
'.Da'se got me agin, Marse Dick"
''Who's got you?'
"Der gran gurer.''
what have you been doing?"
muffin, Marse Dick"
"You must have done something
wrong, Dick, or the grand jury Ger
tainly would not have indicted YOU"
"Fo' God, Marse Dick, hain't done
muffin"
"Well, what do they say you have
done?''
'.Da 'scuse me er compromising wild
a hog"
II knew you had been at some devil
ment. Aaron. You've been stealing q
hog, and if you are convicted the court
will divorce you from your wife for two
years and send you to the penitentiary."
Hit will?'
'Yes."
II golly, Marse Dick, dat's good"
''What! going to the penitentiary for
two years good?'
mot that part so much, but der I'D
der part, dat what tickle me-
What part?"
Getting dat deforcement from the ole
ooman-dat what plees dis Niger
Then, I understand that You are
willing to serve two years in the peni-
Tertiary to get rid of your wife,"
Oats der conclusion of hit, for er
CONAN dat don't take NO intrust in her
husband, and don't do muffin fer he's
sport, and forces him to skarmish in
der woods for raehuns got no dismiss
wild er husband"
Aaron was tried the following week
and the Judge gave him four, instead
of two years, and now he wants his
wife to sell her two cows to pay a law
yer to appeal his case to the Supreme
Court. But she rather likes the divorce
herself, especially as it costs her nothing.
Detroit Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
THE ToeoocAN.


Graphic and veraci0us Description Of the
Great Canadian Sport.
The toboggan is q sled with single
runner. which spreads clear across the
bottom of the sled. The top of the to
boggan is just like the bottom. 1t is
somewhat thicker than q sheet of writing
paper and about as long as an after
dinner speech. Its seating capacity Is
limited only by the number of people
who can get on it. The urbane and
gentlemanly conductor sits aft and uses
one of his 1.-the and willowy legs for q
steering apparatus. by which he guides
the toboggan some way or rudder. It
is easy to slide down hill on q toboggan.
In fact, after you start down you can't
do any thing else. True, you could fall
of: That Is easily done. The flying
machine is not high. SO you haven't very
far to fall. Still. If you have to fall from
q toboggan half way down the slide. or
else fan down stairs with kitchen
stove, you take the stove and the stairs
every time. 1t isn't so exciting and it
isn't SO soon. The prince and walked
up the stairway for the purpose of
sliding down the banister on q tobog-
gan. The president of the club
took his place aft, somebody said,
''let her 60" Then we stopped and
the president said, '.How did we like
it?" l left my breath at the top of the
slide and we had to go up and get it.
There it was, great gasp three and
a half inches long, sticking in the air
like an icicle, just where / had gasped
it when we started. 1 took it down,
stuck it into my left lung and began to
breathe again with great freedom.
The toboggan is to any other way of
getting down hill what flying is to going
to sleep. If was in hurry and it was
down hill all the way would rather
have toboggan than a pair of wings,
any day.
p. S.-There is usually an angel on
the toboggan with you, which has a
tendency to confirm the impression that
you are going down with wings.
N. B.-A young Canadian of broad
experience assures me that Toronto
angels really and truly have wings, in
somuch that often he has to drive with
one hand, using his other arm to hold
the angel from flying away.
Addenda-I have known the same
thing to happen in this United States
Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
Forcing Business.

didn't you sell any peanuts? in
quired the experienced train boy Of the
new recruit.
'.NO," was the reply.
go through the car an give each
passenger peanut.
The new recruit did so.
'.Now try 'em agin," said the train
boy of experience.
Presently the new recruit came after
more peanuts.
'.You want to keep your eyes open in
this business, young Teller, admOnished
the expert, refilling the basket. "Any-
body'll eat a peanut what don't cost him
nothin', an when he once gifts the flavor
he's gone. You've got to study human
nature. IN. Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
WIT AND WISDOM.

The first in conversation is trut.'
the next, good sense, the third, goo
hum0r, and the fourth, wit.-Sscif.
When Fogg heard the landlady be-
low stairs pounding the beefsteak i.c
remarked that Mrs. Brown was tender
ing banquet to her boarders.-Bosto,:
Transcript.
Beware of prejudices; they are rats.
and mems minds are like traps. Pr
JUDGES creep in easily, but it is doubtful
if they ever get out--Christian Adro-
cate.
The mind of childhood is the ten
derest, hottest thing on earth. Let
parents stand as watchers at the temple,
lest any unclean thing should enter
NJ Y. E1ami'ser.
what is the first thing you would do.
Jones. If you were stung by hornet?"
asked Smith, who had been reading an
article on the treatment of stings.
Howl" replied Jones, solemnly. And
the conversation abruptly ended
~ r Independent.
"A disciple of Blackstone at Albany,
Ga, was met carrying home q 'possum.
He was asked: "Hello. j., what is
that?' "'Possum!' ''What are you
going to do with him?" I'm going to
have q big 'possum supper. '.How
many will be there?'' 1.-Two; me and
the 'possumr'-AtLanta Constitution.
John is very kind to the poor"
said Mary, ''but after all it may be more
for the sake of praise than doing good"
Look here, Mary" said her husband.
''when you see the hands of our clock
alwaysright you may be sure that there
wrong with the inside works"
Chicago Mail.
The latest anecdote about the old
lady who thinks she "knows every
thing" is about how she went to .
church sociable, and as she entered the
church the young ladies said: Good
evening, auntie. we are glad you came;
we are going to have tableaux this
evening"" "Yes, know, l know"
was the reply. Il smelt 'em when I
first came Western Rurol.
Jaw, "drawled a city swell to coun-
try boy, whom he met in the road one
morning, ''the supcrlative ge-
lidity Of the circumambient atmosphere
renders extrafOraneOuS peregrinatiOns,
much less delectable than subteSulane-
Gus pursuits, don't yOu know" Gosh
amity." said the boy. do it though? I
it was too dang cold for that"
Merchant Ir1ce}er.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
A WORD TO MOTHERS.
Why They Should Under No CircuR-
stances Brighten Their Children.

Why They Should Under No Circun-
stances Brighten Their Children.
write to you, parents, concerning
the welfare of your children. But espe-
cially do write to you, mothers, as
having the greatest responsibility in the
bringing up of the little ones and in the
molding of their characters. The mes
sage l would bring home to you. one
and all, is this: Never frighten them.
Do not. l beseech Of you, run the risk Of
making idiots of them by filing their
young minds with horrors. Do not at
tempt to Brighten them into good be-
havior by solemn warnings of imaginary
terrors. A large proportion of mothers
use these means to coerce their children
into obedience. They fill their infant
minds with dire stories of COLLINS, Ogres,
''boglemen, raw-head and bloody
bones" and hosts of other fictitious and
terrible characters. The little ones go
about expecting to find lurking fiend
in every corner. The practice is not
only devoid of common sense, but is alb
solutely injurious and dangerous. Many
child has been driven insane through
intense fear. So deeply instilled are
these things in their minds-for mamma
would not tell a lie, you know-that it
takes years and years of after-life to
thoroughly eradicate them.
The writer had q kind. good, self
sacrificing mother-God bless her!-but
she committed this one error in bring
ing up her children. Many time 1 lay
in my crib with covered head and suf-
fered the most intense agony of
fear; many a time l nearly went
into spasms upon being caught in the
dark, which l imagined peopled with
strange and fearful beings, and fraught
with unseen dangers for naughty boys
like unto me. And. strange to say,
these feelings followed me nearly to
manhood, and believe they still Turk
somewhere in my innermost nature.
Now, mothers, for the very love you
bear your children, avoid this great err
ror. Bring them up as near as you can
without the knowledge of fear. If fear
be shown by them at any time try to
reason it away, and show them that
there is no cause for it, if there be none.
Tell them no tales of ghosts, ogres,
COLLINS, or other imaginary characters,
neither tell them of horrible realities,
such as Indian atrocities and the like.
Such narratives take deeper hold on
their young minds than upon maturer
intellects, and many little one awakes
at midnight with the cold sweat of ter
rOr on his brow, from the effects of some
blood-curdling tale he had heard or read
before going to bed.
Make the little folks live as happily as
possible. and so bring them up that in
after-life they shall have no cause to
entertain hard feelings towards their
parents. Good Housekeeping.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
WHY NOT?

~You tell me that your child il dead,
And yet you greet me with q smile,
And let the sunshine flood your rooms,
And with a song your grief beguile!'
sAnd why not smile? If she had gone
To dwell in sunny Italy
TO gaze upon those palaced slopes
And wander by that summer sea-
>'Would not Joy to follow her
In thought beneath those classic skies,
To note with every changing scene
The rapture in her glad young eyese
yet with my winging joy. alas!
Always brooding fear would mate
Not knowing when along the way
Some nameless woe might lie in wait;
~But now for her. with love ensphered,
No evil thing can work its spell:
Safe talismaned from II. she treads
The fields where living fountains we'll.
why then not smile and open wide
MY windows to the blessed light,
since she forevermore abides
In that fair land that knows no night?"
Mary b. Sleigtt. in COngre0dtionalist
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

Among recent publications is a
book of advice to homely girls. telling
them how to cultivate health and beauty.
There is a great rush for the volume.
but of course no young lady will buy it.
if she can avoid it, and thereby ac-
knowledge that she is one of the homely
girls; but they get over that by sending
their little brothers afteri it. When they
are forced to go themselves. they inva-
riably remark that they want it for =
friend.-N. y Nail.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26
A WANT SUPPLIED.

| How . Heavy Load was Lifted from ~
Honest Farmers Mind.
A farmer from the romantic region Of
the Chenango Valley was being shaved
in barber-shop on Chatham street the
other day, when some one spoke to one
of the BARRIERS and called him Count. ~
what! what's that?" exclaimed the
farmer as he sat up on end, with the
lather over his face. Have you Count
here?'
Eyes, SIR"
"Is he alivea"
20, yes"
''French or Italian?'
''Italian."
by George! but I want him! Here,
you COunt-are you married?"
mo, SIR"
Good agin! Want to be spliced?'
''May be like to-"
''Of course you do! I've got q gal
nineteen years old who is crazy to marry
an Italian Count. She's handsome,
healthy, good-natured, and I'll give her
ten thousand dollars as dowry. What
dye say?"
''Tl see about it,
''GOOd! Go on with your shaving,
and arter I'm scraped I'll have talk
with you. WOosh! Aunt Jerusha, but
I'm in luck! Saves me trottin' that gal
clear over to Italy, and we get hus-
band for her who is both a Count and
a barber. Scrape me of quickr'-N.
Y. Star.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

"A bucolic salesman of the town Of
Mexico, N. Y, drove to the village dur
ing the peach season last fall to dispose
of his crop of peaches. and offered them
for sale at one dollar a bushel or a
shilling peck. ut was very singular, ~
he said. THAT nobody took a b,vshel, but
almost everybody took peck. and
some took two or three pecks."-
Buffalo Express.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

There is q marked contrast between
the temperature at the surface and in
the depths of the mines on the famous
COmstOck lode. While severe winter
weather is prevailing outside the heat is
so intense in the lower levels of the
mines that the workmen, who have no
clothing on but Overalls and heavy bro
gsns to protect the feet, can work only
on short intervals.-San Francisco
ChrOnicLe
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

-NIinda Campbell. who died at Sa-
vanah, Ga. recently. aged ninety-five
was the mother of Tom Simms, the
fugitive slave, whose trial in Boston in
1850 created great excitement. and re-
suited in the decision sustaining the
validity of the fugitive slave law. Bos-
ton men purchased Simms' freedom
after he had been returned South
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

ness would soften the bright brown
eyes, to be Immediately dismissed with
a toss of the tawny head as Thisbe
would lift up her voice in some gay
song, to which the baby boy would
crow an answer, while her husband
listened with smile of happiness
CHICAGO Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

"A daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton says that when her mother and
Miss Susan b. Anthony work togeth sr
on their History of Woman Suffrage
they often get into animated discussions
over their subjects, and dip their pens
into their mucilage bottles and theil
mucilage brushes into their ink bottles
in indiscriminate excitement-Iroy
Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

The Pennsylvania Railroad recently
burned up fifteen hundred useless coal
cars to get the old iron in them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

Knoxville, Tenn, is built over .
cave. and occasionally the bottom OF .
street drops out
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-26

waters of the North and South rivers
locally so-called.
The description of all the early voy-
ayers, when compared with their charts
and their references to tides, ATTITUDES,
etc.. all point to this place as the landfall
of John Cabot, whose sailing directions
were naturally followed by those who
came after him.
1t is known that the early FIR ench
voyagers all established a trading town
on these shores, where beaver and other
furs were found in great abundance.
and all the descriptions thereof accorded
with the point on Charles river above
mentioned, and which appears to be
confirmed by Prof. HOrsford's remarka-
BILE discovery of the remains of the old
fort. The article is accompanied by a
plan of the place. made from a survey
by the engineer of the Cambridge wa
ter-works, whose great new reservoir
is on Stony brook. close by. This plan
sustains the description of Thevet, in
regard to the ditch and general fea-
lures. This ditch, which took its water
from Stony brook, Prof. Horsford
found was known to the proprietor
from boyhood, who supposed it had
served for purposes of irrigation. But,
though the property had been in his
family for a century or more, he had
never heard of it being used for any
purposes whatever. The ditch is, alto
gether, about two thousand three hum
dred feet long, of uniform level from
the point on Stony brook, where it re-
ceived the water, to where it discharged
beyond the fort into the Charles.-Bos-
ton Herald.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-09-28
Church Items.

The new Baptist church at Luray,
Va. will he dedicated next Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. johnson, of Mobile, Ala.
preached in Zion (Episcopal) Church
last Sunday.
A %protracted meeting viii he begun
in the NJ. E. Church South in this
place next Sunday.
Rev. w. G. Eggleston preached at
Zoar, and Rev. DR.. Hopkins at Beu-
lab, last Sunday afternoon.
Winchester Presbytcry will meetin
Petersburg, Grant county, w. Va,
on Wednesday, October 9th.
A collection for the benefit of the
Charleston sufferers will be taken up
in the Presbyterian Church next
Sunday.
The general convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church will
meet in Chicago, the first Wednesday
in October.
Rev. W. X. Marshall has been con,
Quoting a revival meeting at Man.
ning's School-Housc for two weeks
past, with a dozen or more ~professed
conversions. The meeting is still il
progress.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-09-28
Advertised Letters.

List of advertised letters remain
ing in the Post Office at Charles
town, Jefferson county, w. Va
September %, 1886:
Mrs. Jacob S. Brown, Miss Ruby
Gray, Miss Hannah Harris, Miss Ma,
linda Mason. Miss Lille Leigh Page,
G. w. Amsworth, L. p. Douglass, G,
P. Fisher, Inman Frazier, Benz. Gray
Reubin Gypson, c. E. Henderson,
Edward James Williams, John III.
Linsey, Lewis Moss, Benz. S. Nor
gan, George Newman, Geo. Scranage.
G. F. Sillman, John T. Swami.
The above letters, if not called fol
within thirty days, will be sent to the
dead letter office. Persons calling
for them will please say that they are
| advertised.
GEO. II. FLAGG, P. NJ.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1886-09-28
Personal Mention.

VIM. L. Wilson, Jr., has returned
to Columbian University, at Wash
ington, d. G.
Miss Mary E. Hilbert, of Wash
ington, is visiting her sister Mrs.
John f. Hilbert.
Lynn NJ. Campbell has returned to
the Fishburne Military School, at
Waynesboro', Va.
Mrs. Amelia Hamaker, of Staunton,
Va, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Brownold.
Col. Jno. NJ. Coyle and wife have
returned from their trip to the springs
in Webster county.
Mr.. Geo. T. Kearsley, of Knox
vile, Tenn, has been visiting his
parents in this place.
MI. George S. Watson, of the Wat
son House, has gone on 4 trip to the
western part of the State.
Miss Jennie and Dora Custer, OF
Summit Point, r visiting friends at
Sane Brook, New Jersey.
Mrs. Timberlake and her daughter,
Miss Eliza, have been visiting Mr.. F.
w. Berry and family, in Luray.
Mrs. Ballcnger and son and, Miss
Sue Henson, of Bunker Hill, visited
Mrs. w. S. Merchant on Sunday.
Misses Lulu Higinbotham, Jennie
Brenneman and Mary Stouffer have
returned to the Hagerstown Female
Seminary.
Our young former townsman Mr..
r. S. L~eisenring, now of Lutherville,
Md, is visiting his parents here, and
has been on the sick list.
Mrs. Martha Elvans, of Washing
ton City, and Miss Fannie V. Miller,
of Montgomery county, Md, are Wis
iting Mrs. Geo. w. Haines.
Miss Ella Reese, of Norfolk, and
Miss l.. r. Harris, of Louisa county,
Va, who have been visiting at Maj.
G. w. L. Kearsley's, left for their
homes yesterday, much to the regret
of q host of friends and admirers in
this place.