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The Iola register., 1891-05-01
Drove the Agents OF.

ABILENE, Kas April 27.-Lightning
rod agents have been quilting the farm
ers of this county with misleading con-
tracts which cheated them out Of from
81 to $500 each. After taking legal
advice several farmers armed them
selves with shot guns and drove the
agents off when they came to put up
the rods TO-DAY.
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

AFTER tedious examination of the
Chicago election returns. it was found
shat the republican candidate formayor
Hr. Hampstead Washburn was elected
BY plurality of less than 800 over
Mayor Cregier.
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

The relative price of sugar and corn
has changed TO such an extent that
while one year ago the price of one
bushel of corn would buy but two
pounds of sugar, now it will buy ten
mounds
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

A St. Louis commercial traveller car
Eies the most euique sample in the pro-
SESSION. 1t is a human body three
pears old, an example of the efficacy of
certain embalming fluid.
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

DR.. T. De WITT TALMAGE has
shaved. The loss of his ''sideburns, &"
while it gives him more youthful ap-
Pearance does not make him more
handsome and robs his face CT some of
rs DIGNITY OF expression.
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

CENSUS returns show Philadelphia 10
oe the leading manufacturing city of
America. The returns of 1890 show
ser product worth 700 millions against
New York's $50 millions.
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

THE production of precious stones in
she United States in 1889 amounted, ac-
eording to the census bureau, to $685.
900.
The Iola register., 1891-05-01
FOREIGN.

Mr.. Healy declares that he has writ
ten Mr.. Parnell's speeches for him and
has given interviews in his name and
now Mr.. Parnell calls him a gutter
sparrow. =. 1t is said that traffic in
women kidnapped for Turkish harems
still tlourishes in the Russian provinces
adjoining Turkey, and that Russian Off
cials are not guiltless in connection
with it. THE Cars bitterness
against the Jews is shown by the fact
that with his own hand he penned di-
rections for the carrying out of the de-
cree excluding Hebrews from Moscow.
A similar decree is projected for st.
Petersburg Miss Josephine Simon, a
San Farncisco prima donna, was marri-
ed in London to Edward Bayley. liberal
candidate for parliament from Gambler
we'll. Mr.. Bayley. in business life, is
wealthy wagon manufacturer &. &. Four
hfths OF the Welsh tin plate manufac-
turers will shut down one month. A
slick mine has been discovered in Can
ada. Glass factories are contemplated.
Lord Salisbury has demanded an ex-
planation from Portugal in the seizure
of Beirra. E. 1t is estimated by Nc
Carthyites in London that a general
election in ireland would oust twenty
ParnelliteS members of the parliament,
including Parnell himself =. Baron
Fava, now in Paris, is accused of trans
lating enormously the first note from
Italy to the United States, and of ex-
aggerating the tone of Di Rudinis pro-
test. AN anonymous pamphlet, of
which Prince Bismarck is supposed to
be the author, has been published in
Dresden. 1t is entitled ''The Ruin of
Austria, and, among other things, it
suggests that Germany's truest policy
is an alliance with Russia and italy.
The local government of Prince Ed
ward Island has resigned. The lieu
tenant governor has decided not to dis
solve the parliament and Mr.. Peters
has called a meeting of the Liberal
members of both houses of the legisla-
ture to discuss the situation. -. A war
rant Is out for the arrest of DeCOsain,
Irish conservative member of parlia-
ment accused of unnatural crimes. =.
The Berlin Post says: peace is less
than ever endangered and the relations
of Germany and Russia are now more
friendly than for long time.
Alarm prevails in ireland over the re-
port that the seed potatoes distributed
among the poor farmers are barren.
Many tons planted weeks ago have
shown no signs OF life d. .. An the Euro
pean governments are said to have pro-
hibited outdoor demonstrations by
Anarchists on Nav ]. Labor Day. The
all over Europe are actively
to demonstrate. .. Prince
Bismarck has tacitly consented to
stand a reballot in Gestemunde and has
also consented to become a candidate in
the Lehe district, where he is certain
of retllrn
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

SUPERsTITIoUs people are feeling
nervous because in the pres idential
party are just thirteen and it started on
khe 18th of the month.
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

Two hundred and seventy witnesses
have been summoned by the New Or
leans grand jury to testify in regard to
the Malta lynching.
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

Il is fact worthy of note that, al
though woman may be elected school
commissioner in Missouri, she cannot
vote for one-not even herself.
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

THE next National Encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic will
De held at Detroit August 3rd to Sth.
The Iola register., 1891-05-01

JENNY LIND's memoirs have been
published.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
HOPE.

What If the world seems harsh and cold,
And leaves grow yellow, and trees grow
bare.
And the grass is withered, and brown and
old,
And the chill of winter is in the air;
Take heart, for the clouds meier so black, but
the blue
And the shining sun will come smiling
through.
What il the VOW that were pledged in youth
Have been broken. and coldly thrown
aside,
And our hearts seem sick with a bitter truth.
a no sympathy colors the worlds cold
tide;
Take strength; for the clouds meier so dark.
but the blue
And the shining sun can come smiling
through.
Some day, If our strength but do match our
will,
And our will is strong, we shall surely
find =
That the sky and the sun are smiling still:
That twas only our weakness made us
blind.
there's meier a cloud so black, but the
blue
And the shining stln can eorhe smiling
through.
&C. q. Rogers, in Detroit Free Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
Ancient Man in The Mississippi Vale.


Let US now take the antiquity of elias.
steal lore and see how it compares with
that of the American continent, as evi-
denced by our mysterious mounds, and
the indications of q great and glorious
past set forth by our lost and ruined cit
les, as well as by the fossil remains
brought to light through the researches
of Agassiz and others eminent in science
and archaeology. In the "Types of Man
kind" PIP. 137, 138, we have the follow
ing:
Gin digging for the gas-works at New
Orleans, sixteen feet below the surface,
beneath the fourth forest-level, burnt
wood was found and the skeleton of a
man."
DR.. Bennett Bowler, in his "Tableaux
of New Orleans" goes into a calculation
which proves it correct, that the fourth
cypress forest level must have been
formed $1,000 years ago, and that CON
sequently the skeleton had been reposing
where it was found for that period of
time. Such of the mounds OF the Mis-
sissippi Valley as have been explored
have clothed US with a prehistoric past
the most mysterious and overwhelming.
They reveal another page in the history
and chronology of the world-a strange
civilization OF a great people that had
passed away thousands of years before
that mummy had sswalked about in
Ihebess streets.-Btlffora.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
sT1s E REST.

When in the early dawn of life
The childish hands grow tired of play,
Then from the nursery din and strife
The baby feet speed fast away
And never cease until they find
That mothers door is open wide;
And tightly elasped id arms so kind
The little one doth now abide;
What cares he now, her baby boy,
His weary head is on her breast,
To him the world is naught but joy,
For o he knows, "'Tis sweet to rest
Years pass. He's now in middle life,
His youthful joys have fed away,
His soul is rent by care and strife.
His hearts no longer young and gay;
The mother whom he loved so well
Has long since sought her home above,
His wife and child have gone to dwell
In realms of everlasting love;
He's lonely, weary, and in vain
His feelings he has long suppressed;
For now they all rise up again
And tell him that, "'Tis sweet to rest.n
But quick! lead on, good Father Time.
Who a that aged stranger be2
See now the hillside he doth climb,
And now sinks down all YEARLY.
His hoary head is bent and gray,
The Pickering spark of life is gona,
His Borrowing soul has passed away;
And now his weary toll is done,
He sleeps the sleep of peace and joy,
He's gone to lie on Gods dear breast,
The mothers come to take her boy
To where tits ever sweet to rest.
katherine Walker, in Boston transcript.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
!" Woodman, spare That Tree. =

The United States has always been
looked upon as aWooden country but
its ligneous resources are not inexhauti-
BILE, and if the Commissioner of Public
Lands is to be believed, there is a pros
pect of a serious lack of timber in this
country. The lumbermen on our north
eastern border have made tremendous
havoc with the forests Of that region, and
IN the West immense forests of woodland
tracts have been literally deforested with
IN the last twenty-five years. The hew-
ing down is continuous, and there is not
enough planting done to c6unterbalance
the deforestatlon. Agriculture demands
the sites of the ancient woods for her
harvest fields, but neglects to drop the
acorn and the nut or to plant the sapling
in localities which are fitted for the pro-
duction of trees, and for nothing else.
There are countless acres In the North,
west which are almost entirely bare of
sylvan vegetation, and the Government
surveyors should see to it that a course
of systematic planting be forthwith init
lated there. Forests are essential to
agriculture, for they promote irrigation.
The streams of a section of country that
has been shorn Of its timber inevitably
dWindle or dry up. Nature has been
wonderfully bountifn1 to the soil, but
we are terrible spendthrifts, and waste
her most bountiful gifts shamefully. Let
settlers on new lands and farmers every
where follow the example set in certain
parts Of the West, and as they cut down
one forest plant the germs Of another.
Otherwise yen in this generation, tim
Der will become comparatively scare and
dear.-Ns0 TorI Ledger.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

Promises Of aerial navigation are mul.
eiplyiag with such rapidity, observes the
Pittsburg Dispasc1, that all that is neces-
sary to inspire definite hopes Of seeing,
within the present generation, aerial
navies flying through the blue, is an ounce
or two Of performance. The Western
flying machine companies have given u
glowing statements of what they are go
Ing to do; but up 70 date their most i'm
posing achieyenentlhas been the creation
Of immensely capitalized companies on
The expectations 81 the future.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

L
Among notable printers in politics the
New York Worid names Governor Hogg,
of Texas; Governor Peck, of Wisconsin;
John II. oberly, Of Illinois, Ex-0ivil
Service Commissioner; the late Daniel
Manning, Cleveland's Secretary Of the
Treasury; Assistant United States Treas
arer 3. H. Roberts. United States Soma
tor GslIinger, Of New Hampshire; Con-
gresham Davis, of Kansas; Cummings,
Of New York; Fithian, Of Illinois;
williams, Of Massachusetts; and sena.
tors Hawley, Of Connecticut; Dawes Of
Massachusetts, and Plumb, of Kansas.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

It has been shown that if the sun wa
a burning sphere of solid coal it coul
not last 5000 years.
The price of PLATINUM has advances
fully 100 per cent, owing to its in
creased use for electrical purposes.
When the Minneapolis suspensio
bridge was removed recently, the anchor
age irons. although they had been care
fully imbedded in cement, were found t
be deeply corroded.
One million tubes for Koch's lymph il
the work which is at present engaging
the attention of a German glass works
The tubes are made of a fine quality Of
glass, and are closed with a glass stop
per.
A sugar, fifteen times sweeter thar
cane-sugar, and twenty times sweetel
than beet-sugar, is reported by a German
chemist from eotton-seed meal. It can
not be sold to compete with the ordinary
article.
M. Damoiseau, of France, has in
vented a camera to take panoramic
views. 1t is made to turn on its axis so
truly that the picture on the entire strip
of sensitive paper is said to be perfectly
clear in its details.
The four most common causes of boil.
er explosions are external %corrosion,
| overheating, overpressure and weakness
Of fue. The four least common causes
are absence of safety valve, bad material,
weak manhole and deposit.
The principle of the compressed paper
car wheels, which are so widely used
throughout the world, is applied in
France to the manufacture of pulleys for
power transmission. The pulleys are
said to be very light, cheap and service
able In every respect.
A Swedish metallurgist, G. A. Casper
son, tests the hardness CT iron OF steel in
process of manufacture by electrically
melting a sample of certain size and COM
pairing the strength of current necessary
With that known to be required to fuse
standard pieces of metal of determined
hardness.
A firm of stone cutters in Berlin have
introduced q pneumatic chisel into their
establishment. The workman holds the
syringe-like apparatus with both hands,
and, as he slides it over the surface of
the stone or metal, the chisel, making
10, 600 or $4,000 revolutions a minute,
chips off particles.
A German electrician, Herr Gulcher,
has made a thermo-electric battery Civ
ing electric power equivalent to LOS per
cent. of the heat employed, and hopes
60 exhibit at Frankfort a battery which
will yield at least five per cent. net effect.
With an economical source of heat, he
believes that his thermo-electric battery
will even excel the dynamo machine in
efficiency.
A gallon pail filed with fine sand
placed within easy reach of each work
man employed where oiling and finish
ing is going on is strongly recommended
as an essential part of the equipment for
IRE protection in wood working estab.
This practice can be followed
With advantage wherever there is n pos
of fire starting in oil or oil-soaked
materials. It has been found that noth-
ing will subdue an oil-fed fire so quickly
and ~efectually as sand, and the subse-
luent freedom from water damage is a
strong point in its use.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

The scarcity Of farm laborers, a phe.
nonaenon~ particularly noticeable through
put New England, and the crowding Of
titles with men almost starving for the
Want Of work, do not appear to be BON
dned to the United States. According TO
! writer in the Nsnetsens1 Century, they
Exist IN Australia, where the demand for
lsboE to develop the immense agricul-
iural resources Of the country is very
pressing. There, IS here, q dispropor-
donate growth Of rural and urban popu-
htions has taken place.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

! J. 7. Murray, of st. Louis, says there
has been quarried in Maine a solid shaft
of granite that will be much larger than
the obelisk m Central Park and will be
the largest monolith in the world. II is
without a crack OF flaw and is LIS feet
long and ten feet square at the base.
The largest Egyptian obelisk, which is
now at Rome, is los feet high, 50 that
the Maine stone exceeds it by ten feet.
It Is computed to weigh not far from $50
tons,
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
Liz Splitting a Log.

Oliver Wendell Holmes was a class
mate of DR.. Clark at Harvard College,
and, according to the "reminiscences of
the latter, the Autocrat Of the Breakfast
Table was as witty then as now. One
day the two were talkingof metaphysics,
when the bright-tongued little great
man exclaimed: aTll tell you, james,
what I think metaphysics is like. tt is
like q man splitting q log. When it is
idoDe ne has two more to splitt'-
lAseonaat, -
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
The Humps of Camels.

The humps Of camels are mere Jumps
of fat, and not provided for in the
framework Of the skeleton. When the
animal IS in good condition the humps
are full and plump. On q long journey
where food is scarce the humps are en-
tiTely absorbed, the skin covering them
hanging oyer the flank like an empty
hox.-&. Louis Republic,
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

DR.. X. j. GatIIng, the 1nventcr or rne
famous gun that bears his name, says
that he also invented the first wheat drill
in this country. That was in 1643, and
the invention led the way Tor the sue
ceeding wonderful advance in agricul-
tural implements.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

There are twelve streets in Amsterdam,
Holland. on which no horse is ever al
lowed to be driven, even to draw a
hearse or fire engine. They are kept as
clean as floors, alleges the Detroit Free
Ress, and when a pedestrian wants to
rest he sits down in the street in prefer
euce to roosting on a drY.goods box.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

y y an open secret, asserts the New
York Times, chat The United States, dur
Ing the recent war ia Haiti, threw the
weight of its moral support with the
Hippolyte faction, BY reason OF az i'm
piled " not expressed assurance that, Ii
victorious, Mole ST. Nicholas would be-
ceded 70 the United States. .sBut every
one familiar with the Haitian character y
said 9 man the other day who has had
considerable experience Id that land,
anticipated the difficulties which Adj
mlrai Gherardi encountered il bis IN
sHectual astennpt 70 conclude negoti.
ations for the coaliug station. It Is q
triss saying that 1 politician Of the
Haytiau Republic Is peradious and dime.
serving. The natives have, however.
a almost superstitious reverence for
pfobity. "a i cemetery ii tie northern
portion q the Island i the grave If !
Cabinet Minister. and OVERT Is ] monu.
naent inscribed with naughs but shs
anne md apprsoiative sentence: sHs
W. honest. snblinsly simple epitaph,
g which 4 ssHnMsd up the rarest yireui
u aeesa laaa
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

Eight thousand acres of land in Mis-
souri have been bought by a syndicate
and will be planted in corn and used as
d fattening ground for range cattle. The
projectors of the scheme expect it to
make Missouri the leading cattle State in
the Union.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

The Italian Chamber OF Deputies has
passed a bill extending the age of mill
tary liability three years, TO forty-two.
Hitherto the limit has been thirty nine.
The measure is an unpopular one, learns
the Chicago Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

Two Of the seven living ex-Governors
of Ohio were born in Kentucky. Ex-
Governor Charles Anderson was born in
1914 at Louisville, and Ex-Governor
Richard NJ. Bishop was born IN Fleming
County In 1872.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25

A Michigan Judge IS the Ia5est JurIss
to decide that an umbrella is public
property, and that failure to return one
borrowed does not constitute larceny.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
New Shaving Saloon.

HAVING recently built and refurnished
Il throughout, my Barber Shop, I am
now prepared, with increased facilities,
to serve the public in First-Class Style
in my new quarters between Brand and
Moriarity's. Shaving, Hair Cutting,
shampeoing, etc, done in the highest
style of the art. Give me a call.
E. A. BODEMULLER.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
D. STEWART.
Contractors, CARPENTER & BU1bpER.

CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER & BUILDER.
Will contract for the erection of build
lngs Of all kinds, furnishing all material
II desired. Work done promptly and at
reasonable rates. Orders through the
postoffice given prompt attention. Es-
Inmates and plans furnished. Having
special facilities for obtaining Lumber
at Reduced Rates, / will give my pat
ron @ the benefit of the same.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25


Washington il tho only city Of a
quarter of q million inhabitants ID tho
Union that has no factory girls. The
lack Of manufacturing and commercial
enterprises reduces the working women
80 4 minimum. 4 few are employed in
retail stores. Photographic galleries and
private Offices, but the majority who
earn their living are ii politics. An
other novelty is the total absence of tene-
unent house lite. Even the poorest little
colcred nanny has . house of her own,
where she rsigns queen Of the castle and
high prlestess Of her daughters children.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
SAN FRANcrsco. Nov. 10Th. 1870

L ~ 06N - ARtNSloS0g lNOfs HULL AC0Vs -
my DEAR MABEL: At last 1 have a few
minutes to spare, and / shall tell you some
thing about the wedding. / suppos you
have seen by the papers it took place Tues
day. Parker made a beautiful bride and
Jack was joy ~personified. You know they
were engaged in England, three years g
but that horrid Mrs. Mortimer, who used to
drag Jack around after her, broke the match
off. She told Parker that Jack was only
marrying her for her money, and her story
seemed SO straight and SO true that Parker
believed it. After that her fortune was i
barrier between them: but six months ego,
when she lost every cent, Jack came right
over, and was able to prove it was not her
money he cared for.
oOf course, when he was comparatively
poor, | wanted him to marry a rich woman:
but since he has come into a fortune of his
own. / could not have chosen him a sweeter
or more charming wife than Parker; and
now that everything has turned out so
happily, Jack, who has been looking wretch
edly ever since their first engagement was
broken, is quite his old self again.
II am the guest of MIR. Grey, Parker's
uncle, who has entertained me most hand
somely. I shall be extremely sorry to leave.
but l sail the first of next month, to get
Melton House in order by the time Jack and
and Parker arrive. So I shall see you before
very long.
HHoping you and the dear children ara
quite well, You afectionate cousin,
HARRIET CRoFToN.
"P. S. Parker's presents were superb"
-NeW York LEDGER.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
MISS PARKER GREY.
BY N s. r.

Jack Melton was Lady Crofton's only
brother, and her greatest wish was to see
aim happily married, but to a wife who
should be able to keep up the Melton es-
adjustments in their former splendor.
Lord Melton was not wealthy, but his
title dated from the Norman Conquest.
snd many were the matrimonial nets
spread for him by m~aneuvering mammas.
But for the past eight years he had
been attentive, in a lazy, half indifferent
way, to a certain Mrs. Mortimer, one of
the beauties. It was to the influence Of
this be%wltchiDg young widow that Lady
Crofton attributed her brothers con-
tinued state of single blessedness, and
she disliked her accordingly.
Six months before the opening of this
story, Lady Crofton and her husband
had Travelled in California for the benefit
of the latter's health, and had there be-
come acquainted with Parker Grey, a
Western heiress. Miss Grey lived with
her brother, and was chaperoned by a
Mrs. Braxton, an English widow, who
had formerly been her governess, and to
whom she owed her English accent and
modulated voice. But in every other re-
spect she was thoroughly American.
Lady Crofton became very fond of the
girl, and on hearing that she and d party
of friends were to SAIL in April, to trasel
through Europe for a year, she invited
her to come a month sooner, spend May
at Crofton, and then join her friends on
their arrival in London.