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am l wild me arrums full to overfiowin'
wild illigant prisints bought at Moueymore
this blissed morn-and it's tin to wan if We
have aiven thought to give to me-fegs,
but l. left, the dayr'
"Oh. Archie, did Idream it''
"'Drame itp says she! but, there,
cushia, AK me an aisy wan!'
"Why, Archie, l lean all that about
Shane Magroo-and che soldiers! Where
were you, sir, all that time! Your wife
was almost in danger, Archie O'Neill, and
you you -"
"Was spindin' me last ha'penny on me
ongrateful little wifel There, there, Mary
mine, don't We be maxim such awful eyes
at met Why, sure, nothing could harm We,
We beautiful wan! Wan sight av that
shwate, pitiful face would melt the heart
of a statueo' stone intoirely"
1t is no use. l can never be angry long
at Archie. The rich. tender, mellow tones
of his voice when he speaks to me are like
some ravishing melody that soothes while
it charms. And with this Irish voice he
tells me where he has been. and of the
news that has come to him, that none OF his
kinsfoik are at Bann Castle, but are
wintering in Dublin. So we need not con-
tinue upon our fruitless journey, but
hurry across Tough Neagh and catch the
Belfast steamer bound for Liverpool on the
following Wednesday.
say goodbye to Moreen Maginnis re-
luctantly, after having, with his consent,
shared with her the most of Arches
Christmas presents; spring into close
carriage and am driven rapidly back over
the rough road leading to Moneymore.
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NOTES FOR SUFFRAGlSTS.

AT an annual school meeting recently
held in Fairport, n. Y, forty women
voted.
TwENTY-FOUR women have gradu-
ated as lawyers in Michigan during the
last year.
The dear sisters of the South are be-
ginning to feel the need of the fran
chise. They find it is no less dignitied
to walk up to the polls and deposlte
their ballot. than it is to stand In the
mud all day and buttonhole men, and
ask them to vote for God and Home
and Native Land, with the chance OF
nine times in ten of their voting against
it. We find it easier to do a thing our
selves than it is to beg all day for
somebody else to do it, and then not
have it done after all.-Rer. Aisnie e.
ShaU.
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After all don't know that am so deep
~ disappointed at not seeing Bann Castle,
Could l have had my choice, I'd have
chosen rather the romantic episode of so
novel a character as that experienced in
the Maginnis shanty; and the hearing,
with my own ears, the story of the noble
youth who befriended the tenantry at the
risk Of his life. shall always feel a near
ness to Shane Magroo since have CHANGED
to be mixed up in the very search for him;
and so muse and muse and muse.
Out at sea. Our good boat has plunged
through the waves of the North chan mel,
we have dipped down past the Isle of Man,
and Ireland is being left miles upon miles
behind US My bridegroom's arm is about
me as we sit. sheltered from all human
observance in a curtained nook Of the
well furnished cabin of the little channel
steamer. use the word human advisedly
in this instance, since am sure the angels
must be near, SO much state Of heaven is
it, and am content to hear the musical
Irish voice murmuring pretty nothings
and exquisite something's into my listen
ing ear.
"Whist, Mary, ashore! Wake up, my
darling! Is it asleep that you arel"
mo, lRueeu, ArCnle, OUT III seems ike d
dream to look back over the last three
days. Ishall never forget my Christmas
in Irelandp'
Sand which part OF it all seemed the
most wonderful to you, Mary, dearF"
Honestly, Archie-dOn't laugh-it was,
think, to see how poor old Granny Ma
ginnis sat at her post Do you think il
chronic, ArchIel'
'Chronic'-what might you mean by
that, Maryl"
''That box-chair; does she eucr leave itl"
"She left it that night you were there,
Mary"
THAT'S just what she didn't do, Archi-
bald, dear"
"Come, now, let me explain. Can We
kape a saycrit," 1t will have been no
ticed that my liege lord lapses ofttimes
unconsciously into the modern Celtic.
"Can We kape a saycrit, cushla" he re-
peats.
Far better than money!" say l.
Every well, then. That was not Gran
nv Maginnis who sat in the chair the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-21
A BALLOONIST'S JUMP.
How an Aeronaut Felt When He Made
His First Parachute DesccnsiOn.

How an Aeronaut Felt When He Made
His First Parachute DesccnsiOn.
II have made" said Prof E. D. Hogan,
1853 ascensions and three jumps One
Jump, made out in Jackson, is the biggest
on record-9, 500 feet. shot down 400 feet
before my parachute opened. The popular
impression Is that the parachute opens
with snap, but this is not SO. First one
section opens, then another, and so on by
easy degrees, and as I've watched it open
ing when it was just above me and was
thousands of feet up in the air, it remind
ed me of rose opening in the morning.
How did I feel when l made my first
jump! Oh, well, rather afraid. looked
down and saw the hills and fields away
below me, and the people looked barely
foot high, and the buildings looked like
toy houses. / looked down and shivered
when saw the space between me and the
earth, and then looked at the barometer
and found the distance to be almost one
and a half miles; but all the same !
jumped / leaped into space, hanging to
the parachute, and down went like shot
for two hundred feet The parachute then
began to open, gradually lessening my
velocity. ] heard the peoples applause
very family. 1t rose up to me like the
merest suspicion of sound. ! afterward
learned they clapped and cheered for all
they were worth. The parachute was
oscillating somewhat, and l came near
being banged against several chimney
tops. The buildings are our greatest ter
ror. Many an aeronaut has been dashed
against building and killed-more, in
fact, than being dragged over rugged
ground. 1 met with one accident See
here" pointing to a big bulb on his right
ankle. ~ got that in Nebraska in August
of 1883 by being dragged over a heap OF
rocks. l never could bend that ankle
stand on that foot alone.
O"You see great panorama from bal
loon in mid air. continued the professor,
"but of course, the landscape is all il
miniature and through slight haze."--
Chicago Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-21
"An, at whom wull they be speerin. a,

"An' OF whom wull they be speerin' at
now, mons"
'Sreerin'l It's joke, sure! Divil a
wan other than the Lad o. Sperrin' Mount
ains-our young Shane MagrooW
At this there was a gathering downfall
of the harness-collar, traces, straps and
reins, and a hurried and whispered confab
of the two men.
Then came Archie; and l saw suddenly
Issue from an astonishingly near-at-hand
window a bright CLEAN of light, and heard
voices-my husbands and anothcr's--in
merry laughter blent. The very darkness
and loneliness changed like enchantment
all about me, and it was as if the whole
world had passed suddenly from state of
isolation to that of a social, hospitable and
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woman totters up the frozen street.
Once red those Iivid lips now rent with signs
That strangely haggard face has once been
fair.
OF sapphire blue are still the great sad eyes;
The CLINT of Furnished gold is in her hair.
Yet now the tagging footsteps weaker grow;
wall goes up: 'Oh God. can this be resty'
The woman sinks upon the drifted snow,
Her child close clasped upon her wasted
breast
And midst the angel shapes that hover by
And, p tying, hear the sinners dying moan,
Is there not one to whisper tenderly:
LET him who is without sin cast a stoneg'
HAROLD X. EYNNR
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Opportunity and Ability.

Opportunity is as important as abili:,
to any mans success in life; for unless 6
man has an opportunity to show hi.
ability, his ability can never appear to ad
vantage. But opportunities are always
showing themselves, while men with
ability are not always ready to avail.
themselves of the opportunities that open
before them When, therefore, you fine
man who thinks that all he lacks OF
success is good opportunity::to display hii
ability, you find a man who has let slip q
great many good opportunities, and whe
is likely to let another slip while he i,
complaining of lack Of such openingo es
good work on his parts s 1Ssxss.
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night the police visited the cabin. Tho
ould woman slept the night at q neighbours
the Widow Muldoon's."
"Archie O'Neill, who was it, them"
"'Whor says you. Why, the very man
the police were after, to be surer
"What-Shane Magrool Impossible!
How do you knowl"
Because" says the laughing voice
close in my ear, because, me jewel, me
beautiful pearl, 1 am Shane Magroov'
EVA BEST.
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must have fall en- asleep as listened; ;
for, when l opened my eyes some time
after, the fire had burned low and Moreen
had disappeared. But the ''ould woman"
still sat in the box-chair, in spite of my
husbands rather authoritative order, and
seemed more bundle of rags than before.
There was something SO weirdly fasci-
mating in the shapeless mass Of old clothes
that was really living, breathing emit ty.
that l fixed my two eyes upon her and
kept them there during long quarter of
an hours hard thinking.
What kept Archie! What time could it bel
Where was Moreen! Could Ban Castle
be much further awayl Was it possible
for US to get there in time to dine with the
Vallancys tomorrow. Was it always such
wonderfully mild weather as this in Ire
land at Christmas timel Would / rather
be at home: Was it in any way
In came Msreen cloaked to the eyes. She
went up to the figure in the tall box
chair, leaned down until her rosy lips were
on a level with supposable ear. and
whispered something knew to be Hiber-
MAN The figure started erect with a sud
den strength wonderful to see, and seemed
about TO arise from her sitting posture.
Moreen's hand detained her and said:
"Moreeul'
an it's g bitther cowld night widout-the
rain is turnin' to slate an the slate ull be
turnin to snow, an thin phat ull become av
US all, phatiyer.'
do you call this cold. Moreenr' /
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LEN IL was lOuUu I'LL
possible to proceed
to Magherafelt on
account of the break
ing of an important
bit of harness, re-
grets that we had
left Moneymore that
morning began to as
sail me.
The night was clos
ing in Christmas
Eve it was, too-and
our final destination
lay even hey on d
N a g h er at e 1t, and
nearer Tough Beg,
where Archie's folks
l.l =. A. Is
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SHANE MAGROO.
The Story of My Christmas Spent
in Ireland.

Written for this paner.l
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-21
THREE CHRISTMAS SCENES.

, LAUGHING maid, with
golden waves Of hair
CLEAN ng like sunset
mid Morayiau skies,
Her broad, smooth brow
than fairest snow
more far.
The blue OF happiness
in her dane. ny eyes
Romps with her young
companions here to-
night,
Gay youths ard m aids
who swiftly come
and go
In the rude hall. that
blazes with the light
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-21

well-peopled district. l felt the clasp Of
Archie's strong arm about me as l care
fully made my way from the rocky road
side, and as we advanced towards the
promised shelter, told him of what 1 had
hoarb
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Vegetable Lore.

According to the Toronto Globe, the
word pea comes from the Greek city, Pisa,
in Ellis, where they were grown in large
quantities. The mess of pottage for
which Esau sold his birthright was a
dish of peas. They were called lentills
then, and it is said that in Middlesex
and Oxfordshire, England, the common
people still call them "tills," dropping
the 'len." In the reign of Mary they
were called "peason," and in the reign
of Charles I. ''pease."
The uses of beans were anciently rather
more sacred than culinary. Among the
Egyptians it was held to be some sort of
crime to look at them, and Pythagoras
forbade them to be eaten. In Athens a
judicial as we'll as sacred character is
attached to them, and they were used in
gathering the votes of the people in
electing magistrates and in drawing lots
In England they were unknown until
1900.
Asparagus, brought to Erg;and in
Eljzabeths reign, was cultivated so as
siduously by the Romans that Pliny says
in his time three heads weighed one
pound. 1t was cooked by rapid boiling,
and Augustus, in requiring haste on any
business, is reported as saying: "Let
that be done quicker than you would
boil asparagus" Z.
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Wheat Growers COntr asted.

It makes ones heart ache, says an OBJ
servant traveller in the New York Com
anerrih Advertiser, to think of the Brit
ish wheat grower as you see the cereals
in India, even in native State. When
you get to British territory the wheat,
maize, barley, gramm and jowary ar mag
nilicent. How ran the British farmer
grow wheat against the Bombay ryott
lie has six sunny days month, not
thirty; stiff clay land, perhaps, not black
cotton growing soil that will bear wheat
fifty years running without any manure
whatever; costly labor, not skilled labor
ut twelve cents day, and uns&illed at
cents; complicated machinery, not a
plough so simple that one could make it
oneself, and SO easily handled that one
man with four bullocks works it invari-
ably; tive-year rotation, not wheat
yearly: heavy rent, not 81, 80 to 81 per
acre for irrigated wheat land, ST. IS to
- cents for unirrigated; expensive
habits, with q hunter and q piano, not a
vile who keeps the house and clothes
the family on 81 or $1.2J week; and
donkevs to be hired at $1.a5 per score
per day; harvest in September, not in
February; land pulverized by the frost,
not by the genial and unfalling sun.
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eyes, Mamie" he answered, as he
looked fondly down on her golden head
that was pillowed on his manly bosom,
says the Pittsburg Post.
t'This is the year when the proposing
is done by the young ladiesa"
eyes"
"Ihope you don't expect me to propose
to you2"
"Why, Mamie, dear, I never gave the
matter thought-I-er-to to tell the
truth, I've only known you for-that is
to say"
'tI'm glad you didn't expect me to
propose. I m not that kind, I hope.
No, John, dearest, COUNT be SO i'm
modest 1 am going to let you do the
proposing yourself in the old-fashioned
way. The old-fashioned way is good
enough for me-
And the gentle maiden gave her lover
a beaming smile, and yet the youth
rejoiced that he had found such a treasure
of modesty.
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The Infant Kings First Command.

The King of Spain, who is barely IN
short dresses, has already distinguished
himself as speaker. Although he has
finished with his wet nurse, he is very
much attached to her, and objected
strongly, as she herself did, when the
order arrived that her services were to be
dispensed with and she was to return to
her husband and child in the country.
The Queen Regent refused to interfere
on behalf of her royal baby or his nurse,
and the nurse applied to the Kiag him
self. She was at that time teaching him
to say a few words, and evidently
trained him in one particular sentence.
When, few days ago, he was taken in.
to room where great dignitaries of
state were assembled to meet their SOW
ercign and see that he was going on well,
the latter shouted in very pure Spanish:
"The nurse must stay. want it So"
In Spain direct order from the King,
even if he can hardly talk, must be at
tended to, and so the artful nurse, ac-
cording to the story, is to be retained,
at least for the present. -Ns~ York Sun.
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AIYays Saw HArkalinsah."

The proper pronunciation of 'Arkan.
sas" is "Arkahnsah," accented on the
first and last syllables. This was the
old Indian pronunciation, which the
early French traders expressed in letters
as "Arkansas." The French is always
broad, and the final is silent; so
Arkansas" to the French was pro.
nouuced "Arkahnsah." Congress spelled
the name, in the act organizing the
Territory, "Arkansaw," and fo1 some
years the name continued to be so
spelled. Finally, as every one knew the
pronunciation, the original spelling was
brought again into use. Then, however,
came people who knew not the history
or the pronunciation of the word, who
called it "Arkanzass," with the accent
on the second syllable; and this mis-.
pronunciation throve, and was accepted
bv many. In 1880 the State Historical
and the Eclectic Societies jointly in
vest:gated the name and its pronun-
citation, and on their report, the sub
stance of which is given obove, the
Legislature of the State decided that the
legal pronunciation was "Arkahnsah."-
Ng,r )o.E SIM
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A Chinese Parable.

Joaquin Miller has been translating
for the New York imtependent some
Quaint stories from an old Chinese history
in his possession. Here is one of them
''In the Chinese dynasty lived boy
named WI Ming, who at eight years of
age furnished wonderful example of
tilial pIety.
His parents were poor; indeed, such
was their poverty that they were unable
to provide themselves with mosquito
netting, and so found themselves ex-
posed to the cruel assaults of those
fcrocious little animals. The tilial heart
of the son would not allow him to look
with complacency upon the restless,
sleepless condition of his revered parents,
and so every summers night he retired
early, long before his father and mother,
and allowed the mosquitoes to take a
full meal of his tender Hesh and pure
blood. Although they were very many,
hc would not drive them away lest, their
hunger being unsatisiied. they 60 from
him 70 disturb the rest of those ne loVeo
better than he loved himself.
sI'ruly he execllcd all others IN hllal
pietv and the love he cherished for his
Dareutsh
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C0mrtship of Katydids.

In the twilight of evening my atten
ton has been drawn, says a writer IN
the ChautauGuan, to quite an unusual
syllable sound-ka. ka, kat, ka. The
repetition was sharp aud incisive. Indl.
eating that the musicians were young
and full of life, and why they did not
complete the schenectady did, Katy
did it-aroused my curiosity sufficiently
to incite an investigation of the matter.
Stepping out on the veranda / soon found
Miss Katy on vine which ran over the
piazza, SURF bundled by group of gal,
lants. Whether she was sad tirt and
had brought the intliction upon herself
of so many callers, or whether 1t was her
own inherent loveliness and beauty that
attracted so many at the same time, was
not for me to know; could see only
the result of some law or katydid eti-
ouette which was inexplicable to me.
There were five of these young suitors
looking precisely alike, and, so far as !
could see, no preference was shown to
one more than to another by the fai1
Katy. who was seated on q spray OF
honevsuckle and embowered by an over
hanging cluster OF belated flowers. Her
visitors walked around her in slow,
courtlv manner, with their lcng, antennp
lying straight back over their wings.
But every little while one and another OF
the number would politely salute her by
bringing forward his antennG and gently
waving it over her: then would come
the sharp chorus of voices -ka, kat, kat
all talking at once, when the suitor
would subsde and replace his antenna
over his back and fall into rank with the
others.
Happening to know that another
female was not far away l secured her
and placed her near this group, thinking
thereby to divide their attention. I put
her below them, knowing her tendency
would be to walk upward rather than
down. She no sooner reached the party
than the first Miss Katy began to rise up
until she stood on the very tips of her
toes, looking like young g:antess, and
all the time waving her antenuie as if to
dismiss her, while the sharp click OF the
males rcsounded on every side, as if as
suriug her of their entire devotion, and
that thew would not be swayed from
their loyalty by this unbidden guest.
She did not tarry long, however, but
walked away with single follower, and
only one of the gallants saluted her as
she passed, touching her with his an-
tennr.
The mode of communication among
all insects is with these organs, and for
aught we know their language may be as
perfect with them as ours with US.
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Writing by Wire.

sMercy on US! That looks like the
bookkeeper's writing on the telegram.
1 hope nothing's happened to your
father"
Such remark made a few months ago
would have subjected the speaker to not
a little ridicule, but the onward march
of science is robbing us of our jokes at
the same time that it adds to our con-
venicnces.
Cn July 31st a patent was granted to
an Illinois professor for a tclautograph,
by means Of which messages may be sent
over the wire in the handwriting Of the
sender himself, without the assistance of
nm operator. 1t is possible, therefore,
that the poets and Presidents of the
next generation may be asked for their
autographs by ''return current."-
GOll{sH i,r0OSU.
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got $25, 900 out of it as it was, but it
only served to annoy me. At five o'clock
in the afternoon 1 had the wealth of two
or three kings in my hands. At sunrise
next morning all had vanished-all but
the triflle I had carried away to prove
the fact of my discovery. 1t was my
first and last find in India, and | never
think Of it without beng inconsistent
enough to hope that every dollar of the
spoil caused the death of native.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Cannibal IdyI-Value Received
Educational Item-A Reader
of Character-Early or
Late, Etc. Etc.

A cannibal maiden loved too we'll
A missionary good,
And lie loved her, but dare not tell
His love-for thus it stood:
A csnnibul she and clergyman he,
And their creeds were wide apart;
And how could he take, for sentiments
sake,
A cannibal to his heart?
Oh, twas problem vexing, very,
For the cannibal maid and the missionary
Indeed it was.
But the cannibal maiden's love grew bold,
For she was simple thing;
And thus her love to her love she told;
"Oh. marry me! Be my king
For love you, my sweet well enough-oh,
to eat.
IT'S terrible thing, know:
But must be your bride, or encompass you
Oh, must. for love you So"
Oh, twas Il problem veHing, very,
To the maiden, but more to the missionary
Indeed it was.
He looked in the depths of her dark brown
eyes,
With their wealth of love and trust,
And he cried, in the flush of glad sur
"Ah, we'll, if must, must!a
They were wed Oh that day; for tits ever the
way
That passion must conquer creed.
And happier pair it's remarkably rare
TO diScover-it is indeed!
And so twas settled nicely, very,
For the cannibal maid and the missionary
Indeed it was.
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