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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

bravo, mon vieux gaillardi'' cried
Captain de Hamal. "Your sentiments
are the same as mine, with very trifling
difference. You believe women to be
angels-I know them to be devils
mais il ny gu, un pas entire les
deux! We will not quarrel over
a word-a rotre sante mon cher!
And he drained his glass, nodding to
Mancini. who followed his example.
perhaps" said the smooth, low voice
of Captain Freccia, ''our silence was
caused by the instructive consciousness
of something wrong with our party-a
little inequality,-which dare say our
noble host has not thought 1t worth
while to mention"
Every head was turned in his direc-
ton. "What do you mean?" "What
inequality?" Explain yourselfl" Choir
used several voices.
Really 1t is mere nothing" an
swered Freccia lszily, as he surveyed
with the admiring air Of gourmet the
dainty portion Of pheasant just placed
before him. II assure you, only the I'M
educated would care two scudi about
such a circumstance. The excellent
brothers Respetti are to blame,-their
absence tonight had caused but
why should disturb your equanimity?
/ am not uperstitious,-m chi SAP
some Of you may be-"
II see what you meanw interrupted
Salustri quickly. ''We are thirteen at
table''
ITO BE CONTINUED.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
One Of Those Criminal Court Stories.

Maxwell Stevenson tells good story
of an Irish thief that he once had for q
client. Two coats had disappeared
from the Hibernian's boarding house,
and as he was known to have been in
perihelion. as il were, with the same,
suspicion fell upon him to the extent
which led to his being indicted by the
grand jury. Mr.. Stevenson was re-
tanned as his counsel. and on review
ing all the circumstances, says the
lawyer, II advised him 10 plead guilty
and throw himself on the mercy Of the
court. 'Mistber Stevenson said he.
'Wella said I. .Misther Stevenson,
what does I hire you fori I was
silenced for moment, but I told him
that the circumstantial evidence
against him was enough to convict him.
Och. said he, 1 can explain every
thing" Sure enough, in court he took
the stand and did explain everything
to the entire satisfaction OF the jury.
The coats were gone; nobody knew
where they were, and neither. the jury
were convinced. did my client. They
acquitted him without leaving the box.
Judge Of my feelings when. as he was
about to step forth free man and my
brethren were congratulating me on
getting a verdict. Patrick leaned over
the dock and said to me in Q stage
whisper: VIVID it be safe to wear
aither o. them nowfn
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

The training of monkeys for stage
performances demands peculiar talents
and curious psychological ability on
the part of the instructor. Brockmanu,
probably the most successful monkey
trainer that the world has seen. once
described thus the necessary method
of approaching q monkey pupil:
TO the monkey man is a strange
and incomprehensible being. / there
fore must adopt as far as possible the
monkeys way of regarding persons
and things. The monkey must find in
me one of his own kinda monkey
like himself only a much stronger
monkey. whom he must obey. Then
he has something which he can under.
stand. he accustonls himself to it, and
he voluntarily takes more pains to
comprehend me than he would take to
comprehend being who made on him
about the same impression that q mon
ster from another world would make
on us. adapt. therefore, all to his
mode of life. When he disobeys and
rebels against me do not strike, be-
cause he does not strike; but bite be-
cause he bites"
The behavior of troupe of MONKEYS
trained by Brookmann would u0doubt-
eddy strengthen the convictions of the
Russian Duroff, who gave up teaching
10 q high school to inJtruct pigs and
geese. and who holds that, of all
pupils. human pupils are the least
docile. A man once behind the scenes
of Brockmann's monkey theater wrote
. few weeks ago:
Il have always regretted that Brock
mann did not give his performances
on perfectly open stage, so that the
audience could see the waiting per-
formers. The conduct of the quad
ruped actors while awaiting their parts
was much more fascinating than their
best acting before the audience. Like
a company of gnomes or Liliputians
the little performers sit there dressed
and made up, perfectly we'll behaved,
each 10 the proper human attitude on
his tiny chair. each following with un-
divided attention and eager anxiety
the progress of the play so as to be
ready at the exact moment for his ap-
pearance. No person is near them,
no servant or attendant to distract
them. and no prompter to whisper at
the proper time:
''Fraulein Lehman, look outl You
come on immediately or Herr
Schulze! Where is Herr Schulzs9
Quick! Quick You must go on
Every one knows his part perfect
~. Every one is acquainted with the
progress of the plot and with the
stage of the development at which he
is expected to appear. Without CATCH
word or motion he hurries down from
his tiny chair and out on the stage.
plays his little part. and without q
bow for the approval of the audience,
turns back to his place. not to leave il
before duty calls him again be-
fore the footlights. Here all alone and
these little fellows never
forget their roles so far as to settle
down on all fours. cover in monkey
fashion. or indulge in the pranks Of
their mercurial natures. IN Y. Sun
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
MISS STEVENS HANA

most marvellous extent. and yet some OF
the hands so well looked after are cap.
able Of an enormous amount Of work
Look at this hand, for example. 1t lie q
hand which has been wrought In plaster
and marble. photographed In every con-
ceivable fashion and written Of BY every
paragrapher in the country. II Is like .
baby's hand-soft. tiny. dimpled and of
satin smoothness. 1t IL the hand of
Neatly Stevens, the celebrated pianist
Adelina Patti said Of her hand, ut IL
the hand of an artist" Miss Stevens is
justly proud of her beautiful hands and
arms and always dresses to emphasize
their attractiveness.
Perhaps Lillian Russelps hands are %
perfectly shaped and groomed ss any In
New York. They are plump, ivory
tinted. pink nailed and glitter with
gems. She has pretty trick, In gestur.
ing, OF curling the fingers until the
hands look like dainty cups. The student
of palmistry would find mnch OF inter
est in the lines that cross Lillian's rosy
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
AFRICAN HABITS.
How the Natives OF the Dark Continent
Eat and Drink.

At eating the negro, having always
first washed his hands and rinsed his
mouth. sits Upon the ground and holds
the larger pieces between his teeth
while he cuts off bite with his knife.
but does not use both. hands to hold
food. except in gnawing bones, says
Paul Richard in the Popular Science
Monthly.
With the usual dishes he lays his
right arm over his knees, and. reach
ing into the pot, moulds the thick
mass into Jumps about the size of a
walnut, which he throws into his
mouth with jerk, without scattering
any of the food. TO take out vegeta-
bles or soup he presses a hollow into
the lump and dips with it. Politeness
is shown to the host or housewife after
eating by smacking loudly enough to
be heard.
While the negro is capable of eating
meat in an unpleasant state of decom-
position he is very sensitive against
some tastes, and will make evident
manifestations of his dislike of them.
He is careful about the outer matters
va Vi A1O Ills
mouth first, even when he is intensely
thirsty. II the cup Is not too small he
takes it in both hands. and likes to sit
down with it. If the vessel is large
and open he draws in the water from
the surface with his lips without bring
ing them in contact with the dish.
Sometimes negroes pour water into
their mouths. When drinking at
ponds and rivers the water is carried
10 the mouth with the hand. For some
mystic reason it is considered bad to
lie fiat down when drinking from
rivers. The fear of being snapped up
by crocodile may have something to
do with the matter.
Great attention is given iu most of
the tribes to the care of the body. The
teeth are cleansed with a stick which
has been chewed into kind of brush.
The hands are washed frequently, not
by turning and twisting and rubbing
them together one within the other.
as with us. but by . straight up-and-
down rubbing. such as is given to the
other limbs. This manner of washing
is so characteristic that an African
might be distinguished by it from a
European without reference to the
color. The sun is their only towel.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
(T0 BE CONTINUED. J {
The Customs of the shsps.

A report of the manners and Gust
toms of the Shan States shows tuat
when Shan becomes father he must
on no account drive pigs, carry the
dead, bore holes, fill in holes in the
ground, or indulge in mockery. If one
of either sex dies without marrying, the
body before burial is banged against a
stump, which is considered as repre-
senting the husband or wife. This is
supposed to guard against the danger of
unreQuited love in the next life Di-
vorce is easy, the man me, ely giving
his wife letter permitting her to re-
and the wife merely being re-
quired to pay an unwilling husband
thirty rupees for release. Only high
Shans can be cannibals. Their theory
of the cosmogony is that the earth
came out of the depths by means of
white ants"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

A VISION OF SWEETNESS.
traction Il possesses the last month be-
fore Christmas What's the use keeping
your clothes tidy when II Ii so much
more fun to wallerf
That Is a happy boy who Is sent into
the country. He doesn't for q moment
insist that father or mother shall go
with him. No boy who 10 practicing
for President of the United States is for
one moment afraid to start out into the
country alone. All he asks is that you
buy the tickets and put him on the
right train. II is no sort of q drawback
that he never has met the people he ID
honoring with q visit. He will be &C.
quainted within three minutes after ar.
irving. And from then on he IL az hap.
py IS an Apache In Geronimo's time.
There are lakes to visit, woods to ex.
plore, fields to traverse and snakes to
kill. And what boy wants more than
thatf If be can persuade the big boy
In the country to take him hunting he is
happier than king. and IL in addition
he Is permitted to drive the horses to
the moving machine he wouldn't trsde
places with the sultan of Turkey, harem
and all. His weekly letter announcing
kudt hC 10 ullsO ID COutiuudl ICCOiu Va
miracles, for the city boy emancipated
takes all the chances he can find and
digs for more
But the summer vacation 10 good
thing. 1t puts boy on his tnettle. It
makes him acquainted with himself, and
he doesn't feel aftetward so much of q
stfangeness and consequent reverence
for the powers OF earth. IL be has been
a bad little boy, and be permitted to 60
his own way, the probabilities are he
will weary Of homelessness and lawless:
ness and come into the Septembef
foundup with a chastened air Of humil:
ity. II he be a good but q healthy boy
and the two Qualities may 20 together
he will come home, If he went away;
or begin school, IL he remained at home,
browner and broader and better than
ever he was before. He may have had
stone bruises and briers, hornet stings
and kicks from the colt; but he has had
a month of freedom such as no grown
man ever saw, aud will be blest by the
pains as much as BY the pleasures
CHICAGO Herald
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

While Robert Louis Stevenson was O
member of band of art students at
Barbizon years ago. the question arose
as to which one Of their number could
best be spared by the world. The
vote was unanimous in favor of Steven
son. He has contradictsd the wisdom
of their choice somewhat emphatically.
A palindrome is line or phrase that
reads the same backward as forward.
The Latin language Is full Of such lin
guistic freaks; the English has but few.
One, at least. is ininlitable. II repres-
ents our first parent politely introduc.
tnR himself to Eve 10 shsss wsrdss
"AAdsH, I'm Adar,,h
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

Sometimes vacation confronts q boy
who has no money to spend. Generally
freedom IL an ill.tasting Wand without
the sauce Of spending money. II boy
Is bad, he will sulk and spoil his vacs.
ton. II he be good he win look around
for some place to earn q trifle. The
managers OF State street stores viii tell
you they have q thousand applications
for cash boy situations the nrst week
after school. II confectioner should
hang boy Wanted" sign In bis front
window in this season he would think
the frogs Of Egypt had come back
again, changed to boys, and clamoring
for job. It has been noticed that Q
Boy Wanted" sign in hardware store
will draw just one-ten-thousandth az
many applicants as will the same legend
tilted In the front alcove OF Q candy
store.
1t is 70 season when base ball -four.
ishes. More boys leagues" are sold
from iuss 90 espiembsf than In all he
sssi Of tes ysas. Bats, thfsHsheus sais
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

waiter announced in solemn tones beft-
ting his dignity
''Le diner de Monsieur lie Comte est
servi!''
at once led the way to the banquet
tng-room,-my guests followed gailv.
talking and jesting among themselves.
They were all in high good humour,
none OF them had as yet noticed the IA
tai blank caused by the absence of the
brothers Respetti. had,-for the num-
Der OF my guests WIS now thirteen in
stead OF fifteen. Thirteen at tablet /
wondered II any of the company were
superstitious. Ferrari was not. I
knew,-unless his nerves had been
tatterly shaken by witnessing
the death of his uncle.
At any rate I resolved TO say nothing
that should attract the attention of INV
guests to the ill-omened circumstances, II
any one should notice it, It would be
pesy 90 make light Of it and Of all similar
tupersttions myself wss the one
EPa k8setss b. ih-it he'd for me ) srfi.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
HANDS OF NOTED WOMEN.
HOW THEY INDICATE THE CHAR.
ACTER OF THEIR OWNERS.
Pen. Pictures and Sketches OF Those You
May or May Not Have See "A
Glimpse Into Futurity.

In all ages poets have written. must.
clans sung and artists painted woman's
hand. Man loves the hand Of bis sweet.
heart = the dainty, perfumed, white
wonder, the hand of his wife, that
smooths his tired brow and rocks his
children's cradle, and the memory Of
other hands. wrinkled, faded, lying
white and cold across a pulseless heart
the hands of his mother.
Manicuring and palrnistry have
brought the hands Of women into great
publicity of late years. Then there
have been the fads of phot6sF aphIdf and
sculpturing the hand. Women have
petted and pampered their hands to the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
BAD BOYS VACATION.
MO EVER HEARD OR READ OF
GOOD ONE IS A QUESTION:
they Evidence the sort 81 Reading En-.
joyed, and Take to MANLY sport Oh
Itowdy Excavations:


All through the last three weeks Of
school the small boy looked forward to
vacation. Sc long as father could rush
him out OF bed in the morning just in
time for mother TO rush him to school;
so long as a mean little woman In q
school mistress chair could boss him
around for FIVE long. sunny hours; so
long as bedtime came in the evening
before play-time had fairly begun, there
was no hope for happiness. But he
had great plans when vacation came.
He consoled himself in each little disap-
pointment with fairy pictures Of what
he would do when books were laid
aside, snd taxed his Imagination to
manufacture yarns for the dedication
Of companions.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

1t Is hardly probable his brightest
dreams have been realized. Busy men
forget the time when they were boys,
and generally decline to give the young.
ster full swing. Some of the little Eel.
lows conclude to take the swing, with
or without permission. The class of
reading they have had during ten months
at school reveals itself when freedom
comes. II they have had Bloody Bill;
or, The Terror of Texas-Being an Ac-
count of the Most Daring and Success
full Stage Robber Who Ever Went Tn!
hung" they take the pennies they have
saved and purchase broad white hat
with which 10 brighten the frontier.
The tennis racquets and base ball masks
are pulled out of the garnet and traded
to the bad boys for q fve-chambered
revolver and bowie knife with buck
horn handle. With these little Jim
starts out, but ia put of because he can
not pay his fare. Then he changes his
plan and concludes to revenge the
Wyoming massacre by killing all the
Indians on the reservation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
The Value of Good Roads.

At a recent meeting of amateur pho
tographers, photographs were shown
of the condition of an ordinary French
country road after heavy rain, and as
a comparison piece, photograph was
shown OF one of the best roads in Penn
sylvania also after a storm. Pictures
OF the vehicles that travelled over those
highways under like conditions were
also shown and the lessons that these
series conveyed were such as to prove
10 the most obtuse the value of good
roads.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
MISS RussFLL's HAND.

"1SO hOooIno HAND
palm. especially the fate and heart lines.
For the joy of the many thousands who
admire the charming artist the writer 10
glad to state that Miss RusselPs life.
line is unbroken and extends to good
old age.
Here Is Mary Anderson's hsnd--as
white. as cold, as chsste. as Greek a. ito
owner. See Its extreme length Of
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

A San Francisco paper predicts great
things of the cultivation of the ramie
plant as California industry, shd de-
ulsres ths1it 4 the coming ahrs Of the
world tpr textile fshries.s
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

The investor who follows tips fnva.
tisbly loses hie money In tbs long ren.
-keHdsB World
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

~ HAND OF MARY ANDERSON. -
thumb. Bee its classic repose. II 10 the
hand of the student rather than that of
the artist. Compare il with this hand.
which is the embodiment of fire. passion
and nervousness See the abandon ex-
pressed in the droop of this little hand,
hanging Imply under Its load Of bar
barrie rings. Love of life and Its pleas
ures is plainly indicated BY Its shape. 1t
Is hand which kings might tremble
kissiDg-the hand Of Sarah, the Divine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

ALBANIs HAND.
woman than of the artist--the hand Of
that great artistic and good woman, EN-
ma Albani Gye.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

And here Is the sort Of hand In whose
hollow man might safely 10y his life
and honor. 1t is a strong, noble hand
. hand that could battle fate or smooth
q weary brow-the hand OF bhe who
loves flowers dnd children, home and
husband. 1t Is both artistic and woman:
". but Of the two indicates more Of the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

Next TO 1t put this hand-quite 40
graceful and well shaped, but ono which
10 every curve of it's little fingers tells
another story. This hand indicates good
business ability. shrewduess mingled
with the love Of pleasure. 1t Is the
reckoning hands hand that allures aud
beckons 1t 10 an historic hand, more
over-that hand that slapned q naughty,
naughty man at the last French ball
the hand of Oiero, she Of the Madonna
face and Mephistophelian heels.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
MONKEY ACTORS.

A Man Mus, Become Monkey to Teach o
Monkey-BehInd the Scenes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
wom.n's Power

She may be so frail and delicate that, leaning
on your arm,
You would break your neck In sympathy to
keep her out of harm:
Yet she'll WELD her little slipper, though Il
numbers only two.
On n rebel urchin's trousers till she beats him
black and blue.
She can do more with q baIrpin than Q man
with all his tools;
She can make the smartest statesmen act like
animated fools;
She can argue without reason. on some notion
in her head,
TIL man with sound intelligence will wish
that he was dead
Found Floating.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14

And here Ia the hand Of the American
Cleopatra-a hand whose lines show
great determination and will power, and
indicate love OF life and q stormy fate.
1t is not the hand Of voluptuary like
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-08-14
THE VENDETTA,
The Story of One Forgotten
BY MARIE CoRELLI
CHAPTER XIII.
BY MARIE coRELLI

HE clock struck
eight and my guests
began to arrive and
one by one they all
came in save two
the brothersRespet-
ii. While we were
awaiting them, Fer
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-07-31
Remarkable Ghostly Actions.

One of the most remarkable modern
instances Of supposed ghostly disturb
ance occurred in the home of Rev. DR..
Phelps, of Stratford, Conn. Upon re-
turning from church one day he found
that all the doors of his house, which he
had carefully locked on his departure,
were wide open and the contents of the
rooms on the first floor in the widest
confusion. Nothing had been stolen.
In room in the upper story, however,
eight forms were found, each one with
an open Bible held close to its face On
examination these were found to be
bundles Of clothes, cunningly and very
skillfully arranged to represent living
beings. Everything was cleared away
and the room locked, but within five
minutes the same scene was repeated,
although the clothing had been carefully
put away.
For seven months the house was dis
turbed by extraordinary phenomena.
The most unearthly noises were heard
day and night. Furniture and kitchen
utensils were mysteriously moved.
Glassware and window panes were
broken by unseen hands before the
startled inmates, and once the eleven
year-old son Of the doctor was lifted
bodily and carried some distance. The
most diligent research discovered moth
ing, and not until he applied to some
spiritualists in Boston did the disturb
ance cease.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-07-31
SILK Undergarmenrs Galore.

Many women who have in past times
longed for the luxury of silk underwear
can now revel in them, for good strong
surahs and washing silks, but especially
surahs, white or tinted, can now be pur
chased at incredibly low prices, and they
are so easily cleaned and freshened that
the price for the doing up" that was
asked for the old style skirts, beflounced
and bedecked with lace frills, bands,
points and insertions, is saved over and
over again by the adoption of surah gar
ments in their place. There are few
toilets that do not look and hang infinite
ly better over silk skirts, and the pres
ent sheathy style Of dress really demands
them. OF course, there Is sense Of
neatness and freshness about fine linen
and muslin garments, and, in their place.
they have no rivals; but for certain uses
silk is supreme.-Albany Journal