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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30

Fur Insteao Of cbediently approaching
Mr.. B.nke's cutstretched hand, Sim rose
on his hind legs and staggered across the
room, wildly waving his hand above his
head. Then he chartered and hiccoughed
alternately for q moment, after which he
plunged boistervusly at unhappy Mr.
Putter, and whom he bit in the calf OF the
leg. He's mad-he's got the hydro
phobiar" shouted Mr. Putter, in dire dis
may as he held on 10 the wounded member
with both hands
If Sim srds mad there was method In his
madness; for all at once, having violently
twitched the tail Of the Angors cat In pass
ing, he skipped nimbly up on a side table
upon which stood the handsome buhl
writing desk belonging to Mrs. Brown.
Before that estimable lady realized the
situation Sim threw back the lid and
snatched in his small paw an addressed en-
velope with broken seal, with which he
sprang to the floor.
Mrs. Browns fine color gave place to q
sickly pallor as she saw the act.
Catch him, some one-that letter"--she
gasped, and Francie Bruton. who was not
in the least afraid Of Sim, whom she had
often coaxed into her room with bonbons,
was quick to respond.
Selling Sim laughingly as he dash ed
past her, Fraucie wrested the envelope
from his paw, but as her eyes unwittingly
rested on the address SO plainly visible un.
der the glass chandelier, she uttered a lit
tie exclamation of surprise.
"Why-it's addressed to me-and the
seal is broken!'' sine exclaimed, fixing her
clear eyes on Mrs. Theodosia Brown, who,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30

mime ,sasons fer speaking in a sighting
way of Francis Bruton.
Now, Dicks heart had long before gone
ont into Francie's keeping If the young
girl herself was aware of this she made no
sign Why should she when he had never
spoken-in words. But on this particular
day Dick Blake had resolved to
49,. ...----put it to the test
And win-or lose it all"
This, then, was the meaning OF the sheet
after sheet which, completed and torn up
in disgust. filled his waste-paper basket
Thanksgiving morning, while small Sim,
The monkey, having temporarily escaped
from his mistress room. sat looking down
at the disturbed ~.-::ter ~',tI =. flute inter-
est frog Ire open transom over the door
But finally Dick managed to compress
his hopes fears and desires into four
closely woven pages of commercial note.
al, may venture to hope" he said, in
burst of originality at the close, will
YOU wear at yoIr throat when you come
down to dinner one of the Jacqueminots
the chamberma d left on you dressing
case this morning." and signed his name.
This epistle, developed and addressed, he
took upstairs. Miss Francie's door stood a
little ajar. He rappet once, twice, but
only echoed replied. Hcsitating moment,
Mr.. Blake stepped softly in and with half
reverent glance about the pretsily fur
nished little apartment with its atmos-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30


for the moment, was stricken dumb.
There was an awkward silence that was
su idenly broken by Dick Blake's deliber-
ate " ice.
"Yes, MISS France" he said, quietly,
II know It is yours, because wrote it and
laid 1t in your room while you were out
this morning The seal was unbroken
them" he added, with curling lip
"By Jove, that's facer for the widow"
muttered Buffer, who was known to have
sporting prcclivities.
~ think I must bid ypu good night"
said Francie, bowling with a slightly
heightened color to the curious faces about
her. Good night. Mrs BROWN" and van
ished through the door.
Half an hour later Mr. Blake heard a
gentle tap at his door. Throwing it open,
he stood for moment in q state of eXtatic
bewilderment
For before him stood francie, looking
demurely downward at knot of roses,
whose carnation seemed reflected in her
cheeks
With rapturous exclamation Blake
sprang forward. But lifting her glad eyes
to his own with sweet, yet shy glance,
which told him all he would know. Fran
Gle turned and sped lightly up the stair.
way. Pausing at the heAi OF the flight
and detaching one Of the roses from her
breast, she touched her :resh young lip.
to it and tossed it SO deity that it fell al
Blake's feet.
Something to be thankful for" she
acknowledgement And Blake. no;
unfrequently, calls his wife his Thanks
giving rose. FRANZ H. CONVERSE.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30
THE WESTERN WOMAN.
She Is q Grand and Noble Type of Our Very
Best WOmanhOod.

She Is q Grand and Noble Type of Our Very
Best WomanhOod.
The woman born and reared in the
West is a grand and goodly type of
womanhOod. She is full of life and
grace and freedom; she is quick to feel
an injury. and she is quite equal to
being her own avenger.
Her business ability and executive
talent are of a very high order. as a
proof of which is the fact that some of
the finest cattle ranches and most ex-
tensive and most prosperous sheep
runs are owned and managed by
women.
Ihave now in my mind the case of
a woman born in Ohio. who. ten years
ago, in this city of New York, was
earning s. or Sc a week, with which
sum she supported her mother and
her fathers brother, a semi-invalid
old man.
At the time speak of, when this
woman was about nineteen years of
age, she obtained, after much difficulty
and delay. grant OF quarter section
of Government land to which her dead
father had become entitled through his
services in the rebellion.
The land was located in Oregon. She
sent her old uncle out to take up the
land, and she pinched and saved and
sent to him from time to time, almost
dollar by dollar, money with which to
hire help to clear space in the timber
and to put up a log house.
As soon as this poor shelter was
provided for them she took her mother
and went out and lived on her land.
As she could, from time to time. she
bought stock. and so she crept on step
by step. until now she has good home
and barn. and last year she cleared
from the sale of stock she had raised,
and from the sale of her crops, several
thousand dollars.
And what this woman has done
hundreds of women are doing every
year.
And if many of these women have
not got much education their sons and
daughters will have. And it is well
with a land that breeds such women.
and it is well with the men OF the land
who have such Observation-Disclosures
in Beltord's Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30

to create diversion by loudly inqu.T;ng
as to the whereabouts Of his friend Sim,
whom he had not seen that evening.
Had Mr.. Blake known that wicked
young man among the guests-Bluffer by
name-had been slyly plying Sim with
egg-nogg behind the window curtains, he
would perhaps not have ventured the
query.
''Sim! oh, he's chained in the bay-win-
dow, sound asleep" responded the widow,
with giance in that direction.
But alas! Sim was neither chained o.
asleep, and at the repetition of his name
he suddenly crawled from beneath the
curtaia folds on three legs, and uttering
sound like hiccough strangled in its
birth.
The lsore timid of the ladies uttered
small screams and cast imploring glances
at their male protectors Miss Dash, gath
ering her skirts about ner, skipped upon
the nearest chair, as females do at the ap-
proach of a mouse.
Naughty SIM" said Mrs. Brown, re-
bukingly. 'sMr. Blake, will you"
The sudden pause in her adjuration was
caused by the unexpected action Of Sim,
who in strict Justice was usually one Of
the most gentlemanly and mild hammered
Of small monkeys.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30

pathos, as the case may be, are quite famil-
lar to present day readers.
1t vaguely occurs to me that I have
somewhere read or heard that truth is
stranger than felton, Ard this shall be
my apology for thus DEF arting from es-
tablished usages in the simple Thanksgiv-
ing tale which itself is connected with
Sim-Theo1osia Browns monkey.
The monkey was only part of Mrs.
Browns ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Mrs. Bax-
ter's other boarders called it. The widow
was also the owner of a parrot. two
dwarfcd pugs with sawed-off noses, an
Angora cat and a small pet alligator. But
Mrs Theodosia Brown had inherited from
the deceased Brown something like half
a million. And as she paid literally for
her two front rooms on the first flight,
Mrs Baxter would have allowed her to
have kept an anaconda or baby elephant
provided they did not annoy the other
boarders-
Dick Blake, who had the room opposite,
was never annoyed by Mrs. Browns pets.
Indeed, generally speaking, they were to
him a source of perpetual JOY and comfort
1t might have been the extreme interest
which he took in them all-the alligator
excepted-that led the fair widow to fancy
that in spite of her six years of seniority
she had made a conquest of the handsome
young fellow at whom she had cast ian
gushing eyes.
Dick himself was far too modest to
dream of the interest he had aroused in the
widows heart Indeed, he would as soon
have thought of making love to Mrs. Bax-
ter, his landiady, who was old enough to
be his mother, even had his affections not
already been pre-empted.
Her name was Frank or Francie-ac-
cording to the fancy of her friends. Dick
called her Miss Francie always. pending
the time when he fondly hoped to call her
Francie darling. Her room was up three
flights, and Mrs. Theodosia Brown always
spoke of her in view of her occupation as
THAT type writer girl"
But Mrs. Brown was thirty odd, some
what high coiored, inclined to embonpoint
and Langtry wave: while Francie was
nineteen, with a graceful, well-rounded
figure and firm, elastic step, suggestive
of perfect health. And when add that she
had a sweet, refined face, lustrcasdark eyes
and heavy hair curling teudril-ike over a
broad, white forehead, and was, withal, as
good as she was pretty, it will be readily
seen that the widow had the best of fem
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30
ExcusabIe Delay In the Mails.

Young Authorize you know that
our mail service is in most demoral-
lied condition? 1t seems to. take a
letter an age to reach its destination.
Old Friend-Have you been troubled
with IT?
Young Author should say / had.
I sent a poem to a New York paper
more than four months ago and
it hasn't been printed yet-BinghGas.
tom Republican
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30
One Last Request.

"My dear friend" said the minister
to the dying man, lit must be a source
of great consolation to you as your end
approaches to feel that you have
always led correct Christian life"
1T is, SIR" was the weak reply.
land now" went on the minister.
gently, ..is there any thing more I
can say to you; have you any last re-
quest to make?"
YES" responded the dying man.
feebly. 'Will you please see that my
diary is burned?"-Harpcr's Bazaar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30
Who stood in the yestibule.


Who stood in the vestibule.
The parsoh stayed a moments space
BY the beggar grim and gray:
He said: Good morrow, my worthy friend
Are you giving thanks to-day
Move on-no doubt your dinner waits"
And the parson went his way.
The beggar smiled: MY Fathers lands
Extend from sea to sea;
He feeds the ravens when they cry,
And He'u save a crumb for me.
aSomewhere within His wide domain
A table doth await:
Beneath some humble cotter's roof,
Or by the rich mans gate;
only know need not haste,
Twill not be too late
Then Farmer Kent passed where he stood
He was a kindly man.
With shoulders broad, and heartsoire voice
And cheek and brow OF ian.
He saiu: ~ own as fair home
As is beneath the SKY;
Yet when catch the scent OF fame,
Orwhen the WIND is high,
Ifear, mayhap. Il smoking heap
Will greet my eager eye.
MY fields are rich with fiocts and herds,
Ny wife is good and fair;
And half a score of gi.ls and boys
Crowd close about my chair.
eff could know death would not come
And all their beauty blight
This morn was happy man,
may not be to-nigdt.''
Shall not the Judge of all the earth
Do for His own the right.
Some time ayone, it is not long,
Your fortune fair was mine;
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30

ii L THANkSGIN-
ing story of fiction
is apt to have a GER
tain sameness about
it. The country, the
gathering under the
family roof-tree, the
dinner and the wan
derers' return, all
con n ected by a
sll - 1~
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30
FARMER kENT's PaRsoN.
Written for this raper.l

THANKSGIVING DAY
and the solemn
church
With autumn fints
was bright;
The purple fra { and the
russell leaves
Shone fair in the
tempered light
while the anthem rose
as free and strong
AS an eagles skyward
flight.
When the people passed
from out the door.
Some gazed with rid
icule
On q ragged oeggar, old
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30
DICK BLAKE.
The Story Of His Thanksgiving
Rose-How He Won It.

Written for this paper.l
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-30

can carry. Better to have one talent and
put it to full use than five hundred wick
eddy neglected.
Ny subject teaches me that there is
going to come a day Of solemn settlement.
When the old farmer of the text got home
he Immediately called all the servants
about him and said: Here is the little
account l have been keeping. want to
see your account and we will first compare
them; and I'll pay you what l owe you
and you'll pay me what you owe me. Let
us have settlement" The day will come
when the Lord Jesus Christ will appear,
and say to you: "What have you been
doing with my property? What have you
been doing with my facilities? What have
you been doing with what l gave you
for accumulative purposes:" There will
be no escape from that settle
ment. Some times you can not get
a settlement with a man, especially if he
owes you. He postpones and procrasti-
mates, and says: ''Pll see you next
week." or 'I1l see you next month" The
fact is, he does not want to settle. But
W hen the great day comes of which am
speaking, there will be no escape. We
will have to face all the bills. have
sometimes been amazed to see how an ac-
countant will run up or down a long line
of figures. If see ten or fifteen figures in
a line and attempt to add them up, and I
add them two or three times, make them
differ emit each time. But have admired
the way an accountant will take long
line of figures, and without single mis-
take, and with great celebrity, announce
the aggregate.
Now, in the last great settlement, there
will be a correct account presented. God
has kept long line of sins, long line of
broken Sabbaths. long line of profane
words, long line of discarded sacra-
meuts, long line of unimproved privi-
leges. They will all be added up, and be-
fore angels, and devils, and men, the ag.
gregate will be announced. o, that will
be the great day of settlement. l have to
ask the question: ''Am ready for it," 1t
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-09-13

There is one class of men who are, without
exception, in favor of protective duties. They
are night ht-watchmen.-New HaUen Neus
A Massachusetts, editor has married his lady
proof reader He will now have his own errors
marked.-LOuisUiHe Conrier-Jounal.
1t is the man who cannot write who makes
his mark in this world. But life is full of
crosses to him if he has to sign his name often.
boston Courier.
A boiler which exploded out West few days
ago was said to be as thin az paper. 1t was
attached to stationary engine, Of course
Pittsbnrg Chronicle.
Convicts are the only persons who do not be-
lieye in their convicti0ns.7-Detg0t Free Press.
The dentist may not bo much of politician
but he knows how to take the stump.-H0tet
Mail
A subscriber sends US goat in payment for
a years subscription. He will hereafter take
charge of the rejected manuscript, having a
fondness for poems on Spring and obituary
notices exceeding ten lines. He has already
1evoured long letter on the Mills bill, and is
looking wistfully toward poem entitled To
My Love" ."-SomerUiAe NeaoS.
Should knife and fork be used in eating a
sandwich?
Well that depends; if it is at railroad sta
ton, we would recommend you eat the knife
and fork, without using the sandwich.-Pack.
Ranger, have you half dollar that you
don't want?"
"Why, certainly Here it Is"
The next day: Say, Ranger, that half dol
lar you gave me was counterfeit"
g Yes Bromley, you asked me if had half
dollar that | didn't want"
"Half of this bottle Of vino is gone It
| seems to me that you should be able TO stand
,fgFf bYgfo IN
his colored servant.
dat ar am easier said dan done, boss"
At any rate, you should come out like a
man. and say that you stole the wine"
q Dat ar am easier done dan said, boss"
"Dear mel" exclaimed Stiggins, that new
Surgeon gave Squantum's boy a new lip from
| the chiId's own cheek What painful opera
tion it must have been
Ive had pair Of lips taken from my cheek
more than once" replied Mrs. Stiggius, and il
| wasn't painful operation at all"
| "When were the Pyramids of Egypt discoy-
| cred ?" asked the teacher.
In the Middle Ages" replied the scholar at
! the foot of the class.
WHAT do you mean by the Middle Ages? /? .
/ further questioned the pedagog.
"Why, the Pyramidal Ages!" answered the
scholar.
"You are much taller than you were year
ago" said gentleman to a friend.
Yes; l have reformed; that makes mt
taller"
And how is that?"
'Well. as I have reformed, have become
necessarily more upright"
A popular clergyman was greatly bored by
lady who admired him without reserve
" oh, my dear Mr.. X, )" said she, one Sunday af
tern0on. "there isn't any harm in one loving
| ones pastor is there 2"
Certainly not madame" replied the wor
thy cleric, mot the least in the world, so Ions
as the feeling is not reciprocated."
"Can you tell me-" asked pundit, "why 9
conundrum that nobody can guess is like tn
ghost?"
Shall I tell you now or next month";"
"Now, if you please"
well sir, sooner or later, everybody mus
give it up"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-09-13

We are getting to know good deal of the
mysterious empire of Japan. There has ap-
peared in Paris a translation of q japanese
Manual of Philosophy little book that is used
in all the schools of Japan, and is made as IA
miliar to japanese youth as the Catechism is
to the boys aud girlsiof this country. 1t is, in
fact, kind of japanese Whole Duty of Man.
The following sentences may serve as speci-
mems:
Heaven and Earth are the father and mother of
all things. Man is the most honorable creature /;
lie is more particularly the son of Heaven and
Earth. Therefore he ought always to worship
Heaven and Earth, and acknowledge by all means
the infinite blessings of Heaven and Earth
A child without lilial pety will never prosper
much less man, the son of Heaven and Earth, if he
does not obey them.
In order onrrive Mt perfection, we should devote
ourselves altogether to our business like the eat
watching the mouse, or the hen Matching her eggs.
True knowledge is that which is acquired in or
der to govern ourselves not iii order TO be known
by the world.
Every evening we examine the faults of the day
in order to correct them to-morrow every day cur
work progresses; in a month there will be the
work OF SO days; every year will have 36O COM
pete days; in this manner we advance in virtue
and knowledge, and we have delights not TO be de-
| scribed.
OF all precious things, none is more precious foI
| men than time.
/. Do not rest even while taking breath. After
| death shall rest.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-09-13
SCIENTIFIC CHAT.

"A. M. Pitman, Englishman, of Canton,
China, recently bought sow with six legs. The
front part Of the body is smple-that is, the ami
mai has one head, one thorax and two front legs.
Behind, all the organs are doubIe--it having two
trunks, two tails and four hind legs. The French
Consul at Canton persuaded BIr. Pitman 10 let him
have this strange creature for the Paris Museum Of
Natural History, where it may be seen. IT is white
with great black spots, and appears to be ia perfect
health. The separation of the two trunks seems
to begin after the dorsal yertebye; but the animal
is so fat that this cannot be precisely determined
The International Congress of Americanists
viii hold Its seventh session IN Berlin from the I'd
to the 9Th of October next. The Organizing Com
mittee has just issued the program Precedence
viii be given TO questions relating to the discovery
of the New World to the history of America before
the time of Columbus, and to American geology.
The Iowa State Board of Health says, in one of
its monthly bulletins Said father who was re-
turning from q Summer resort, where he buried
four lovely children who died of diptheria the re-
suit of defective drainage and polluted water
That hotel-keeper IS as guilty of murder OF my
children as though he had shot them with a revo-
yer.' As matter of justice the father right.
but in law, probably not; but the law ought TO be
such to hold the keeper of hotel or q public re-
sort responsible for the healthy condition of his
premises and liable for neglect to provide pure air
and water for his guests"
"A firm of watchmakcrs in London who have
studied into the of the breaking of the main
springs of watches, say that unrefiecting people
fancy they have broken the spring by winding,
or in other words have drawn asunder a piece of
steel by the force of finger and thumb. But the
springs break through n subtle molecular change
usually fly asunder a few hours after being wound,
at or 4 o'clock in the morning. Many watches
and clocks come to the workshops for springs
after frost, but until thaw has set in; still
more come after thunderstorms"
The British Medical Journal strongly advocates
the drinking of water at meals and especially be-
fore breakfast. II says that when ingested during
meals, water may do good by washing oct the di-
gestcd food and by exposing the undigested part
more thoroughly to tie action of the digestive fer
ments," aud enumerates quite a catalog of benefits
to be derived by drinking water ut meals.
The Philadelphia Medical Record says the vaga
ries of the appetite far beyond the explanatory
science of physiology. We cannot tell why this
thing agrees with this individual and at the same
time utterly destroys his brother Tho
writer has met Brnzilians who rave over boa con
| sirict0r steaks, and count monkeys and parrots
| very good meal. In the West Indies baked snake
| whose honey they have stolen"