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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04

direction. Of Palmer's millinery store
Within half block of his destination
he was startled by slap on the shoul
der.
"Hallo. Kesterson! Where are YOU
bound for?"
A reddish glow, the very parody Of {
blush, passed over Philemon's homes,
face. Then he recollected that Charley
Kent was probably as indulgent hus-
band as himself, because q much more
recent one.
ITO tell you the truth, Kent, I'm
going to buy my wife bonnet-no.
hat"
Charley first laughed and looked
guizzical, then grew suddenly serious ss
the possibility of his Dora being at that
moment signing for suitable head-cov.
ering occurred to him.
"Women always do want new bonneta
for Easter, don't they?"
From the standpoint of a longer
matrimonial experience Philemon, with
decision. answered: yes"
Funny, amt it?"
every"
'Guess I'll go with you. How do you
know you'll get what your wife will
like?"
That's as easy as rolling of . log
She told me-"
"Oh! Not surprise, then?"
'Nc."
When the two gentlemen entered
| Palmer's Mr.. Kesterson explained to
the saleslady who waited upon them the
particular features of the particular
chapeau his wife desired. At least he
endeavored to describe them.
''The color had two names" he said,
''and, though 1 can't exactly remember
them, know / would were / to hear
them again."
Crushed strawberry" she suggested.
ssNo."
Harrison blue?"
Moo,
Terra cotta?"
Mr. Kesterson wiped his forehead. He
feared his friend was laughing at him
and he was becoming desperate.
Yes" he murmured, 81 think that's
it-terra-cotta."
ous tucu Wills uluSb Uo IL, anu SQe
brought from the showcase trim little
bonnet.
''Has it tips? She said the one she
preferred had tips"
Dear me, yes" replied the saleslady,
as she smilingly revolved the bonnet
before his ignorant eyes.
''All right then. Give me a couple of
cards" On one he wrote the address
and on the other, with rly dear love.
Philemon"
"How much?" he asked.
Twenty-Five dollars"
kesterson gasped, but he went he
roically down in his pocket and counted
out the sum.
Think I'll take that one for Dora"
said Kent, indicating an esthetic hat in
the window. And when he had paid for |
it and given the address he and Kester-
son walked out and over to Kinsley's,
where on the strength of their good |
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04

were gone she went up to her husband,
and leaning over the back of the chair
wherein he sat bent and kissed him
several times.
"You dear old Phil! l was cross to-
night-wasn't 1? And l didn't thank
you for that beautiful bonnetr'
But" stammered Kesterson,
SIT is exactly the shade of the faille,
and I'll have my dress Of that made up
right away. 1t is charming bonnet!
You darling boy!'
Beamingly Mr.. Kesterson received
his delayed caresses. But he made up
his mind at that moment that one
never could understand a woman, and
that it was no use trying to do so.-Kate
NJ. Cleary, in Chicago Times
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DEBTOR AND CREDITOR.
Their Relations at Various Periods of thu
Worlds History,

Their Relations at Various Periods of tbs
| Worlds History.
| Looking back from this common-sense
era upon the laws and customs Of the
past, the cruelty and folly of the old
laws for the satisfaction of debts seem
| enormous.
The stern Romans were more merci-
less to debtors than to criminals, for
while their wealthy felons could COM
pound for various atrocities with money,
the insolvent debtor became, in many
cases, the slave of his creditor, who
could sell him in open market, or even
put him to death. . t,.s.t
The Greeks, who are extolled by some
worshipers of antiquity as models of
equity, at one period of their history
not only made bondsmen Of debtors
themselves, but of their Immediate
kinsfolk.
The Hebrew laws also permitted the
enthrallment of unfortunates who could
not fulfill their pecuniary obligations,
but there was saving clause in their
code, by virtue of which the bankrupt
helots recovered their freedom at the
end of seven years, and were reirstated
in their patrimonial rights to begin the
world anew, with all their liabilities
cancelled. This enactment, Of which
Moses was the author, was really a very
liberal bankrupt law, considering the
age that gave it birth.
In China creditors, from time imme-
mortal, have had the right of quarter
ing themselves and their families upon
those who owed them money; but as
boarding and lodging with wretches
utterly without means must be q PEN
ance rather than a privilege, we infer
that well-to-do Celestials rarely avail
themselves of their legal opportunities
to take pot-luck with their pauper debt
ors. If Chinaman gets into debt by
gambling, or any sort of trickery, he is
soundly thrashed and banished to Tar
tary. which, upon the whole, is about
what he deserves.
1t appears from history that our An
glo-Saxon progenitors had very little
consideration for people who could not
meet their liabilities, and, strange to
say, as they became more civilized in
other respects they grew more savage to
pecuniary defaulters. As late as the
middle of the last century, debtors were
confined in chains in English dungeons,
debarred from the fresh air and exer-
else necessary to health, and refused
permission to see their friends. Even
the dead body of a bankrupt could be ar
rested in England century ago. In
deed, it has only been within few years
that the treatment of debtors in Great
Britain has been any thing short Of
brutal, and even now the absurd and I'M
christian idea that incarceration is an
expedient penalty for Indebtedness re-
sulting from misfortune, has not been
entirely abandoned there.
In America the honest debtor-except
in particular class of cases-can not be-
subjected to Imprisonment. We have
worldly wisdom enough to know that it
does not pay to deprive men Of the OPP
portunity to cancel their monetary Obli--
cations by putting them in Jail The
creditor lays his hands-if he can-upon
the property of his debtor, but sees
neither profit nor justice in Selling and
holding his body.-N. Y. Ledger.
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the Kestersons sat at breakfast. A BIZ
Persian rug partly covered the polished
floor; there were sash curtains of Chin;
silk on the windows; the table was :
miracle of snowiness, sparkle anC
tempting viands; bowl of violets stood
on the low, tiled mantel. and over on q
broad lounge in the bay window kicked
little dimpled, rosy baby, Philemon
Eesterson, Jr.
my love, what is the matterT'
''Oh, nothing
Mr.. kesterson laid down the pape,
with an air kindly but determined.
"You are ill. Augusta, or you are wor
ried. Which is it?r
Mrs Kesterson rolled between he,
slim, white fingers one of the ribbons OF
her old-rose morning gown.
I'm w-worried," she replied. with
quite pathetic tremble in her voice.
''Well?' 9ueried her lord.
Il haven't any'money!" burst out Mrs.
Kesterson.
Philemon stared.
why, my dear Augusta. it is only
i've days since you drew fifty dollars"
II know, d1r6Rg;; but I saw such
lovely faille selling at an absurdly low
price. l thought it would be swindling
you not TO buy it. You'd have to paw SO
much more, if should happen to need
some in the future. Don't YOU see.
loveP"
Mr.. kesterson put his hands in his
pockets and leaned back in his chair.
He had not been married long enough
to make him either callous or irritable
regarding requests for money.
well. no, my dear, l can't exactly
say l do. What is it you need?"
"A new hat to wear Easter Sunday"
Mr.. Kesterson laughed. "Now, why
in the world do women always want
new bonnet for Easter? l don't buy
new hat because Lent is over. Well,
well, how much viii the bonnet cost?"
Il don't want bonnet" corrected
Mrs. kesterson. II want a hat. A
bonnet makes one look so old"
Philemon smiled benignantly on the
wild-rose face across the table.
and thought it would be peculiar head
dress which could impart to its curves
and color an appearance of age.
NWell, hat, then. How much?"
Il don't know, but did see Just the
very one want. 1t was in Palmer's
loveliest hat, all sage
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04

some recompense, some sweet repair!
Where are our lost! We wander weeping
Filled full with anguish and dismay;
The world is vailed the skies are gray;
Faith in our hearts is dead or sleeping:
In vain we watch, in vain we pray.
Hark! on the leafless boughs above US
A bluebird's MARBLE, soft and clear;
Look down! blade Of grass is hera
Slight choral, tiny hint. to move US;
Yet It's the turning Of the year.
Hear in thy soul, thou unbelieving,
One word forever dear and surei
81 live" The promise stands secure.
Here is the balm TO heal thy grieving,
Hope of the patient and the pure.
Break out o beavens. into singingi
Awake and shout, o slumberins clodi
Here is thy life. The breath OF God
Through earth and Heaven in Joy is ringing;
His spring the cold gray fields hath trod-
Ye lilies Of the field, adore Him.
We that have slept in dust and dew;
Ye faithless mortal spirits, too,
Bow down with -apturous song before Him.
Behold, He maketh all things newt
Rose Terry Cooke, in Harper's Bazaar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
"Not at home?-

| ''Not at homer"
! no, ma'am, but she will be soon
Won't you step in and wait?'
Mrs. KeSterSon hesitated. She was
fatigued. The parlor beyond with its
ruby portieres, its sparkling little fire,
its general air of comfort and coziness,
was most inviting. So she went in.
Mrs. Kent said she would be back by
four" said the servant, and then she
drew the portieres and went away Mrs
Kesterson, seated by the piano, pretty
as picture, in her MORE street suit,
looked critically around the room, as
women have trick of doing when alone.
Her glance fell on peculiar-shaped
parcel on the sofa "A new bonnetr
She got up and walked toward it. From
Palmer's. How should love to see it!
1 believe I shall take peep. Dora and
l are SO intimate she won't mind" So,
accordingly, two small, gloved hands
snapped the cord, removed the paper,
took of the cover, and unswa thed from
its tissue-paper wrappings green vel
vet hat all trimmed with surah and
curly tips.
''Oh!" she cried, my hatr' For in i'm
agination it had already been hers. She
stopped to pick up the card which had
fallen on the rug. In blank astonish-
ment she read the line thereon. In
wild suspicion she reread it. In an
agony Of doubt, bewilderment, misery,
she perused it again. Her husband had
sent Dora the very hat she had de-
scribed to him! Hadn't she heard ru-
mors of his having been attentive to
Dora long ago? But now. that was his
writing-and his name! with his dear
love-oh! But Dora would be return
ing soon. In feverish hurry Mrs. Kes-
terson restored the hat and card to their
places in the box and tied up the latter.
Then she drew down her vail, let her
self softly out cf the house and hurried
home. There she found awaiting her
the terra-cotta bonnet. HE didn't in
close any card to me'' she commented,
bitterly. ''Oh, no. Just sent me this
ugly old thing"
When Philemon, radiant at the pros
pect of his reception. entered his home
that night he was confronted by red
eyed, irresponsible and resentful little
lady.
.'W-what is it, dearest? Didn't you
get the-the hat?"
mo. L didn't get the hat retorted
1is wife, with singing emphasis on
he prenoun which was quite lost on
her innocent spouse. 'Igot a hideous
little bonnetw
Wasn't it the one you describe d% |
Iueried Philemon, aghast
A look of crushing scorn was the only |
Inswer he received. That very evening,
S mute and miserable they sat in their
'arlor, who should be ushered in but |
DR. and Mrs. Charley Kent. And Mrs.
Aent wore her new hat She to come.
Ind wear it! The insolence of it made
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
How to Prevent Rheumatism

By the exercise Of a little care and tho
adoption of a few simple rules, great
deal of rheumatism could be prevented.
Abstemious living, free exercise, fire.
quent bathing to keep the skin active, q
liberal use Of fruits and the drinking of
water in large quantities are sure pre-
ventives- Water dissolves and washes
waste matter out of the system, and it's
use is essential where there is any i'm
pairment in the action of the kidneys,
bowels or skin. BY the applications OF
this simple treatment and ordinary care,
immunity from rheumatism can be OBJ
tained.-Boston Commonwealth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
Fido and the ChiIdrez.

Fashionable Lady (mother OF several
children)-Nurse, I'm going out now.
Eyes, mum"
Lady-And as I'm going to take Fido
with me you can turn the heat off en-
tirely until sc get back. If the chill
dren cry put them to bed Texas Sift-
ings.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04

1T is expected that the Manchester
(Eng.) ship canal will be completed be-
fore the time stipulated. the end of 1891.
Work goes on night and day, 1000 men
and ninety-six steam navvies being EN-.
ployed. The locks will be spacious
enough to accommodate the largest
steamers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
AN EASTER BONNET.
Two Funny Mistakes That Ended
in Very Happy Way.

eOU haven't tried
a muffin, DEAR
said Mr.. Kester-
, son.
} "No," dismal.
ly.
"Nor touched
your chop"
'No," m or e
dismally.
IN or tasted
your coffee. 7"
"No," m o s t
dismally.
1t was a very
pretty 90 m
that in which
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04

deeds they treated themselves to very
choice luncheon. Meanwhile the in
telligent and discriminating saleslady
boxed and forwarded Mrs Philemon
kesterson's terra-cotta bonnet to that
lady, but inclosed Mrs. Philemon Kes-
terson's card with Mrs. Charley Kent's
green velvet hat
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
EASTER SONG.
"Because I Live. We Shall Live Also

HE earth is dark, nor
leaf nor blossom
Decks the brown
waste; the hills
are bare;
Loss and regret are
everywhere.
All! sleeps there not
In Nature's
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04

life. You gave up; you said: II can
not stand it any longer. believe l will
take my life. Where is the rail train, or
the deep wave, or the precipice that
will end this torment of earthly exist
ence?" But suddenly your mind bright
ened. Courage came surging into your
heart like oceanic tides. You said: ''God
is on my side, and all the adversities He
can turn for my good" Suddenly you
felt peace, deep peace, the peace of
God that passeth all understanding
What made the change? A sweet and
mighty comforting angel of the Lord
met you. That was all.
What an incentive to purity and
Righteousness is this doctrine that we
are continually under angelic observa-
ton! Eyes ever on you so that the most
secret misdeed is committed in the midst
of an audience of immortals. No door
so bolted, no darkness so Cimnerian, as
to hinder that supernal eyesight, not
jealous eyesight, not baleful eyesight,
but friendly eyesight, sympathetic eye
sight, helpful eyesight
Confidential clerk Of store, with great
responsibility on your shoulder, and no
one to applaud your work when you do
it we'll, and sick with the worlds in
gratitude, think Of the angels in the
counting room raptured at your fidelity!
Mother of household, stitching, mend
ing, cooking, busting, planning, up half
the night, or all the night, with the
sick child, day in and Gay out, year in
and year out, worn with the monotony
OF life that no one seems to care for,
think OF the angels in the nursery,
angels in all the rooms of your toiling,
angels about the sick cradle, and all in
sympathy! Railroad engineer, with
hundreds OF lives hanging on your wrist,
standing amid the cinders and the
The St. Johns herald., 1890-06-26
The Parsons Awkward Mistake.

Not long since a clergyman of my acquaintance, who practices what he breaches on the Hill, was called to attend to funeral in a Long Island town. Not being at home when the messenger called he did not have an opportuni- tY to inquire concerning the de- ceased, and, by some means or other, got the idea that it was the mans wife that had died. When he addressed the mourners he spoke very feelingly to the afflicted hus- band and sympathized deeply with him in the loss of his wife. The clergyman noticed several times, however, during the discourse that the audience seemed a little un- easy, and he was almost mortified once to think that he perceived some of them trying hard to repress a smile. When the casket was opened and permission given to view the remains the preacher step ped forward and-it was an old gentleman, and, he soon learned the father of a; young man who came for him to attend the funeral, while the healthy looking wife by his side had been listening to her own funeral sermon. - Brooklyn Life.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-06-26

The largest railway system in the world is in England. The London and Northwestern Railway Com pany is capitalized at $528,000,000 and has an annual income of $51,- 100000, with expenses of S26,000,- 900 in running and other expenses. The road employs 60,000 men on the 2,50O miles of track operated by this system. They have 16,0OO locomotives, carry annually 57, ,000,- GOO passengers and about 36,000,- 900 tons of treight.-Baltimore Merchants and Manufacturer's g Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-06-26
4 Wonderful Plant.

A strange legend comes to us from the Sioux, who alone can tell the true history of that deadly ambus- cade. They say that on the hillock where Custer fell now grows a plant never seen there before-a curious plant with tall, slender leaves, with edges so sharp as to infict keen wounds ppon unwary hands, and those who pluck it once soon drop it, so strangely cold and clammy are its leaves. It bears a golden hued, heart-shaped blossom, and in the center is one small spot of bril- liant red. like a drop of blood. The Indians regard it with superstitious awe. They call it "Custer's heart" {" and cannot be induced to touch it, claiming that the blossoms crushed in the hand leaves blood-red stan impossible to remove.-Denver Re- publican.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-06-26
A Blessing After All.

A citizen was passing up Macomt street the other evening when a man rushed out on him from an alley and knocked him down, but had hardly done so before he said:
 "Really, now, I beg a thousand pardons. You are not the man was after"
 "But you have bunged my eye for me, "said the other as he got up.
 ''Yes, but it was through a mis- take"
 "But what am Ito do?"
 Hay for some other fellow and black his eye"
 "But I am no fighter. I never hit anybody in my life. When go home with this my wife will want to know how it happened, and she won't believe that there was a mis- take"
 'Lay it to the police"
 "How?"
 "Why, say that you were waiting on the corner and a patrolmen came up and gave you a whack."
 "By Georgel but that solves the problem One was around our place last week and notified her to re- move pail of ashes, and she hit him with a tomato can. She'll be- lieve it quicker'n scat, and she's just the woman to go down and blow up the Superintendent. Much obliged for your kindness, sir. This may be blessing in disguise. ."- Detroit Free Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-06-26
The Java Death Plant.

] A magnificent kali mujah, 0
 death plant of Java, has been re
 gently received in Philadelphia b,
 Mrs. Madison Black. This speci
 men, which is the only living one
 that has ever been brought to this
 country, was sent Mrs. Black by
 her brother, Jerome Hendricks, who went out as a missionary to the is. land. The kali mujah is found on ly in the volcanic districts of Java
 and Sumatra, and theA rarely. It
 grows from two to three and a
 feet in height, with long, slender
 stems armed with thorns nearly an inch long and covered with broad satin smooth leaves of a heart shape and of delicute emerald on one side and blood red, streaked with cream, on the other.
 The flowers of the death plant are large, mild white and cup like, being about the size and depth ofa large coffee cup and having the rim guarded by fine, brier-like thorns. The peculiarity of the plant lies in these flowers, which, beauti- ful as they are, distil continually a deadly perfume so powerful as to overcome, if inhaled any length of time, a full-grown man and killing all forms of insect lite approaching it. The perfume, though more pun gent,is as sickeningly sweet as chlo- roform, which it greatly resembles in effect, producing insensibility, but convulsing at the same time the muscles of the face, especially those about the mouth and eyes, 1 drawing the former up into grin. An inhalation is followed by a vio- lent headache and ringing in the ears, which gives way to a tempo rary deafness, often total while it lasts.
 Other plants seem to shun the kali mujah, which might be termed | he Ishmael of the vegetable king lom, for it grows isolated from every other form of vegetation, hough the soil about it may be fer ile. All insects and birds instinc- lively seem to avoid all contact with t, but when accidentally approach ng it have been observed to drop 0 the earth, even when as far from t as three feet, and unless at once emoved soon died, evincing the ame symptoms as when etherized. Philadelphia Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-06-26
His Leg a PinCuShiOn.

l It would not be supposed tha
 any enc could get any fun out of ;
 cork leg.
 1 Yet I know man who had the
 misfortune to lose his leg who got 2 good deal of amusement out of its
 cork substitute.
 Once he nearly scared an old gen. tleman out of his wits.
 It was in this way The said cork leg was very we'll made one, and when its owner was seated you could not tell the difference between the real and false article. One day my friend was in railway car, and opposite him was an old gentleman. My friend took his penknife and began pairing his nails.
 When he had finished, instead of putting his knife back into his pocket, like an ordinary mortal, he gave it jerk and it stuck in his cork leg, and it uibrated to and fro in a sufficiently horrible manner.s.s
 The old gentleman's feelings can "better be imagined than discribed," as they say in the novels. He turn ed beautiful green color, and at the next stoppage skipped from the car in a most active manner. He 5videntiy thought he had got in with a nadman, and probably inn agined his leg would be the next to be expegimented on.-New York Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-06-26
WOmen'S PeCuliaritieS.

Speaking about queer people, " said an observer yesterday, 'has any one ever noticed that almost every man or woman, no matter how we'll balanced, has some little idiosyncrasy that manifests itself in his way of spending or saving money? I knew woman who used often to declare that there must have been a precious rascal back somewhere in her ancestry, because she always finds herself trying to evade the collection of her fare on a horse-car. She dosen't mean de- liberately to do it, she says, but just as on as she is fairly seat ed she egins to devise some plan by which she can cheat the conductor into believing that she has paid her fare, and if it actually does happen that she gets her ride without paying for it she says that it gives her a glow of happiness that lasts for a week.
 q knew another woman who had no other peculiarity in the expen- allure of her money except that she never could be induced by any stress of necessity to buy her own hairpins. She used to say frankly that while she was willing to pro- vide everything else for herself she could not shake of the belief that the world at large owed her her hairpins. And so she would bor- row, beg or steal, she used to de- clare, whenever an opportunity of fered, but as for buying-she hadn't bought a penny's worth of these bits of all-round usefulness since the first day she 'did' her back hair New York Evening Sun.