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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-18
SCHOOL BOOKS!
States! CRAY0NS!
MAPS and TABLETS!

Bring IN your old School Books and get ne,O
onesfor thene-sonae at un evea exchange, some
q small exchange price, others at reduced pri-
ces; none at an odUance-in fact on, the most
favorable terms ever offered Kansas school.
IhaUe made special ransenaents to keep O.
supply of the books adopted, and Nth the er-
perience have had and effort made to post
myself and CLERKS, will enable you to make
the exchange more satisfactorily than Nth
nev dealers. Districts cunning their books
WiW do u0elJ to make their erchonee Mroueh
me.
My stock of school supplies, such as States,
CToyon, Ink, Pencils, Tablets, etc., is larger
than usual. The coyer on some of our cent
tablets of t1Oo or three hundred pages uould
hare sold for 5 cents q few years ago. Ihave
q si;r hundred page tablet for 10 cents. You
can come nearer getting everything you Uant
about q school at the Corner Drue and Book
Store in lola than any place in Allen County.
1t 10ilL pay you to trade NTH
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-18
OVER LAND AND SEA.

The Fsirest City Of the Earth-Reminders OF
''Romola and its Author-English
Graves i'm Italy-Florentine Art
venice-Scenes of the Pr
ANA Of st. Mark
Some Famous
yenetia.n
Bridges.
FLORENCE, Aug. Is, 1891.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-18

Will d Cur Tall duo tuc ciHiSsdIy Vi tue
Catholic church who held the strings
declined to draw them for less than
two dollars-and I declined to Invest.
He would probably have come down
to % cents but didn't have time to
"Jew" him. 1 simply took it out in
telling him that when 1 got ready to
buy his stuffy old church I would let
him know. 1t may be, though, that /
don't do st. Marks justice. After one
has spent large part of his time for
two months visiting churches, he is
apt to become just the least bit btase.
A step from the old church is the
old Palace of the Doges,-to write a
history of which would be to tell the
story of Venice for a thousand years.
1t is picture gallery now, and has
wonder full collection of paintings. L
walked through all its rooms, and
went down into the hideOus dungeons
below it, and-of course-crossed over
the Bridge of Signs which connects
it, at the third story, with the prison
on the other side of the little canal.
1t is a very pretty little bridge, about
Is feet long, covered and made of mar
BILE. But nobody outside of Venice
would ever have heard OF it if Byron
had not written two little lines about
it. The Rialto OH the other hand-as
[ should have noted at the proper :
place-is really remarkable bridge. /!
Its span is less than 100 feet but it is i
built of marble throughout and with I
ab9r at seven cents day cost 500, 900
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

threaten him? Were his Thoughts dis.
tureed by apprehenSions that his COW
little home was menaced by creditors2
Had some of his investments turned ont
b3Giy? Was he planning aud s..Ie,,ing
TO add to his wealth? Or was lie Ink,
ing Of his only daughter, the pride of his
heart, the soace of mis- declining valrs
whose charming features Reproduced in
SOFT and flowing outline and exDrassion
the sterner visage OF her father? Was be
Thinking with ID pang, of the conscious
blush that had dyed her lovely check The
evening before when the ringing Of the
door-bell announced the coming of the
tall shapeiy youth who, pnrchlnco-but
let Us not anticipate. His reflections were.
interrupted by the entrance of customer.
ne latter, young man, came forward
with an embarrassed air, looking hastily
about as # to reassure himself that thew
were alone, and with trembling voice he
faltereo out question. The man or husi-
ness behind the counter looked keenlv
at INN. Gone was the look of ahs-r92tion
from lis face, vanished the dreamy oaze
MOI his eyes. The problems of the pres
ent had crowded out in one instant the
specuations Of the future. H was him.
self again, the alert man of affairs as wall
as the tender, loveing fl,her of-but arain
We dlgress. Prompl, he spoke il r3pIy
to the trembling youth. With tue de-
ciSlon OF a man accustomed to dealing
with matters of lite and death and in a
fate Itself, he said, slowly but en-
phatically:
No, my young trent, CANT let you
hatt more ash d tollar ind feefty cents on
dot watch
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
A FEW ASTONISHERS
Errors in Pronouncing Many Common
Words in Everyday Use

Words in Everyday Use.
How many people are there who pro-
nounce any proportion of their words cor
rectly. not merely by reason of clipping
and mounting, but by ignorance of good
usage? We find them everywhere, and
they lay the accent on the first instead of
the second syllable of acclimate, for ex-
ample; they pronounce the second syllable
of acoustics coo. instead of COW; they do
not put the accent on the last syllable of
debit as they should do; they leave the
sound out of buoy: they pronounce duke
with the sound of 90 instead of the simple
sound of u, and emphasize the first in
stead of the second syllable of euervate,
and sound the t in often. They are aston
ished to know that precedence has the &C.
cent on the second syllable, and pIacard on
the last; that quay is called key: that
sough Is sui; and that instead of the
souna is to be given in sacrifice, and the
reverse in rise; tuat subtitle and subtle are
two different words: that the last syllable
OF tortoise is pronounced it's instead of
''tns:' that it should he u ed and not ust,
and that it is not the - zoo,'' but the 20
illogical gardens. 1t is quite time, we
think. when we near one of these takers.
for some of the fancy work and fancy
,tudies Of the day to be dropped and
little hard work In the dictionary put in
their place.-Harper' Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
FOREIGN.

GERMAN ministers decide not to reduce
the duties on com.
HUNDREDS were FILLED and thousands
injured by the cyclone in Martinique
TWELVE persons were killed Sun
day by railroad collision in Switzer-
land.
THIRTY lives were lost Monday by an
overflow of the st. Marie at Port, au-
Prince.
THOMAS EDDINGToN & Co., of Glazgox v,
Scotland, have failed. Their liabilities
are s250,000.
: THERE is u great demand for American
wheat and produce in Peru, the CHILEAN
supply being cut off.
The Anglo-Australian bank, another
land company connected with the British
Bank of Australia, has suspended, with
liabilities of 100000.
! THE British Bank of Australia has sus-
pended. The liabilities are $500 900. of
which about half is held in England.
The international labor congress, or as
it is now called, the international Social
lst workmen's congress, has opened in
Brussels,
A RANCHMAN named Medina, living in
the United States of Columbia, has con-
fessed to numbering thirteen children I'M
der months of age. Ten were his own
children, and three his grandchildren.
ITALIAN government organs assert that
If the next conclave is held abroad the
government will occupy the vatican and
exclude the new pope from it.
The dispute between the foreign repre-
sentatives and the Chinese government has
taken favorable turn, and there is pros
pect of an amicable settlement.
A TENEMENT house, inhabited by ten
persons of the poorer class, was burned at
Sandwich Saturday, Two persons were
cremated, woman was killed by jumping
and two others were seriously injured
The supreme judge at Leipsic, after
three days deliberation over the question,
has decided that the meat of dogs is not fit
to be used In the manufacture OF sausages
and that 1t is therefore criminal to sell
sausages when composed in any part of
dogs meat.
A GOVERNMENT steamer has brought to
Quebec reports COZ frmlng the distress
among tne people of Labrador and the
northwest coast CT Newfoundland on ac-
count of grip, dipbthefia and starvation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
FIRES AND CASUALTIES

FIRE at Mcdonald, Pa, Friday destroy
ed over IL 600 barrels of oil.
Two woRKMEN were badly injured by a
fall at the West hotel, Minneapolis.
A MINNEAFoLIs sewer inspector lost
his life 10y the caying 10 of sewer.
A TERRIBLE hail storm at Deer Creek.
MINI, Monday night, destroyed about
1000 acres OF grain.
lie Damon iron works of Cambridge.
Mass, were DESTROYED bv f,e Tuesda,
morning. The Loss Is 100000.
ONE man was killed and another ser
iousIy injured in St. Paul by runaway
freight cars.
JOSEPH TILFORD, of Martinsville, Ind,
was dlowned Sunday while batting.
A HAIL-sT RIM at PheI ps City, Neb.,
killed a large humber Of cattle and ruined
corn crops.
CHARLES McCALLUP and J. Martin were
killed, and Dive Flaharty injured. in a
wreck on the Union Pacific near Brighton,
Col.
THREE white men were killed by a
railroad wreck on the Valley route near
Cleveland station, Mississippi.
JOHN BERRY, farmer living near
Mount Carmci, Ill.,. fell from a tree
Wednesday and was so badly injured til at
be died within an hour.
AN Erie excursion train ran into a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
CRIME.

MARTIN PIERCE has been arrested al
Kalamazoo, Mich, for wrecking.
GEORGE FoLGER, a member of the
senior class at Knox college, committed
suicide at Galesburg, Sunday.
DICK and buck Phares were'dangerously
injured Sunday in cutting affray neal
SheIbyville, Ind.
MAYOR LAMBERT of durango. Col, is a
defaulter to the extent of $4,000 and a
fugitive from justice.
WILEY P. WILLIAMS the assistant post
master at Demianco, n. c., has been ar
rested for ritiing registered letters.
RUDOLPH SCHIMPF, a wealthy German
OF Peoria, ILL.,, drowned himself in foun-
tain Tuesday.
GEORGE E. MELcHER committed sui
eide at the Oakland hotel, Chicago, Tues
day. He was at one time agent for the
Northern Steamship company.
E. B. PRESTON, lumber merchant OF
North Ottawa, Kas., shot and killed his
wife Sunday, and attempted to comm it
suicide.
LOUIS GooDHEIM, aged thirty-two, an
innate Of the Hebrew home at New York,
committed suicide Monday morning by
hanging himself.
MIDI DELIGHT, aged II. was shot by an
unknown man at New York, Tuesday
morning and died before reaching the
hospital.
WARDEN CAKES and other officials of
the Vermont state prison have identified
Almy as George II. Abbott highway
man, who escaped that institution six
years ago.
KITTIE WooD went walking with
George Wilkinson at Flint, Mich, last
Wednesday evening and has not since
been seen. Wilkinson has been arrested.
HENRY G. VANNATTA a we'll known
real estate man of Philadelphia, has
absconded, leaving debts behind him ag-
gregating 100000 or more.
A NEGRO cut the throat of boy named
Henry Par, at Clanton, Ala, Friday. The
murderer was captured and lynched by a
mob.
JOHN J. S. WILSON, a commercial
traveller, whose residence is Bloomington,
ILL.,, committed suicide at his father S
home in Chicago, Monday.
HIRAM J. BAKER, a New York travel
ing man who was sent to jail at Quincy,
ILL.,, because of his inability to pay 800
board bill, committed suicide by cutting
his throat.
cat New Auburn, Mimi, Mrs. Dickin-
son tied her fourteen-year- daughter to
herself and then jumped into the lake
Both were drowned. Mrs. Dickinson lived
unhappily with her husband.
CHARLES LAWRENCE, ex-assistant cash
Ter of the Keystone National bank of Phil
adelphia, who pleaded guilty to false en-
tries in the books, was sentenced Tuesday
to seven years imprisonment and fine of
500 and costs.
AT Ashland, Pa, acrowd of Hungarians
at christening got into row among
themselves. -Four deaths will probably re-
suit.
NEAR San Mateo, Cal, Avon Taylor, a
farmer, while drunk, beat his wife and an
eight-year-old son over the head with a
pick handl9s Mrs. Taylor cannot recover.
POLICEMAN THURsToN, while protect
ing the foreman of brick yard from an
attack by four Italians at Exeter, N. H.,
Wednesday, had his skull fractured. The
Italians fed to the woods and are being
pursued by citizens and police.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

LAND is purchased for another Jewish
colony in New Jersey.
IT is said that Jay Gould is seriously i'll
and has gone to Soda Springs, Idaho, for
treatment.
EXPERTS and scientists come to the con-
cluslon that the holy coat was made in TIE
time Of Christ.
On Friday, Interstate Commerce Com
missioner Walter L. Bragg, of Alabama,
died at Spring Lake, n. J.
JOHNSTON, TALLMAN & Co., of New
York, importers of fireworks and toys,
have assigned. Their liabilities are $780,
000
CALIFORNIA papers demand the appoint
ment of Californian at the head
the bureau of horticulture of the world S
fair.
A HAILsToRM which swept over a wide
strip of country south Of Sandbury, n.
D., Wednesday, laid waste 1000 acres of
grain.
DYRENFURTH's rain-making expert
ments In Texas have apparently met
with some success. Every time explosions
have been made rain has followed.
MINERS of the Argus coal company at
Fort Dodge, Iowa, are on a strike for an
eight-hour day.
COTTON worms are destroying crops
around Breham, Tex, which is one of the
most productive sections in Texas. Sever
al other places report the pest.
CHINA is notified to cease the persecu-
tons of foreigners or suffer the conse-
quences of a demonstration of several
powers, including America.
IowA's weekly crop bulletin says ali the
conditions during the past week have been
favorable to the corn crop.
WILLIAM A. BRICKILL, of New York,
has sued the city of Baltimore for $780,
900 damages for alleged Infringement of a
patent for a feed water-heaters for steam
fire engines invented by him.
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY -four pack
ers and nailerS at Minnea polls, Mimi,
struck Tuesday morning for an advance q
Is cents a day. This being the busy season
the milers had to submit and the men
gained their point.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL willed all his
manuscripts to Charles Elliot Norton, who
is made the poets literary executor. Har-
ward college gets such of his books as it
wants, and the rest Of the estate, which is
small, goes to Mr.. Lowell's daughter.
The Illinois trust and savings bank, of
Chicago, has begun suit to foreclose a
second mortgage on the plant of the
Pacific street railway at Los Angeles. The
amount involved is Sl,664,000, with in
terest.
The United States commissioners to
Behring sea have returned to Nanaimo on
the steamer Albatross, having concluded
their labors. The British commissioners
are also returning, and will reach Victoria
in few days.
ALBERT SALISBURY, a milk dealer of
Jackson, Mich, left his home Tuesday
morning and has not been seen since. He
is fifty-four years of age and has been in
business In Jackson sixteen years. He
was well provided with money when he
disappeared.
OBITUARY: At Lincoln, Neb., ex Chief
Justice Oliver 2. Mason, aged sixty-two
At Vlcks5urg, Miss, ex-Mayor R. F.
Beck, aged forty-eight. At Columbus,
Onlo, DIR. Benjamin W. Freeman, aged
sixty-four. At Bloomington, ILL.,, Gilbert
Green, aged seventy-eight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

wagon at Paterson, n. j., Friday night.
killing Peter Flanagan and iniuring
John Malone
A NUMBER Of cottages were burned Fri
day at Ocean Spray, Mass, near Boston.
Two men! were burned to death as wave also
two horses. Loss, SIS 600.
WILLIE ARMSTRONG. aged 9, was
drowned Wednesday at Birmingham. Ala
Two sis ers, aged 10 and Is, went to his
rescue, and both lost their lives.
SARANAC CLUB HOUSE. 10 mile from
Saranac village, n. Y, was destroyed by
fire Sunday. Seventy FIVE guests lost nearly
ali their personal effects. Origin of fire
unknOw
A FREIGHT train and express coIIided
near Egg Harbor City, n. j., and seven
persons were severely injured
FIRE at Waco, Texas, Monday destroy
ed the torres of Godstein & Nigel and
Curtis & Grand. The loss is estimated at
1915, COO.
JAMES Fox. of Rock Falls, Iowa, was
and so badly injured that his recovery is
impossible.
Tom PACE. aged 1e, an employee of tie
Enstey furnace company, at Birmingham,
Ala, fell into lake OF molten Stag Wed
nesday and was roasted to death.
REV. W. T. CARRIE, rector of St. Paul's
church at Grand Forks, n. D, his daugh-
ter, Miss Ruth Carrie, and Miss Dora Van
Kirk were drowned Monday evening in
Red Lake river.
A CANAL boat with fully 200 pleasure
seekers COLLAPSED Tuesday NIGH below
Dayton, O. A number of passengers were
severely injured.
AT Utica, N. Y, H. c. MulIigan, and
John Lawton were killed, and j. E. Hickey
was fatally injured, Tuesday night, at a
crossing, their carriage having been run
into by train
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
QUEEN OF SNAKEHU
Young Tennessee Girl Kills 63 Rattlers in
One Day.

Beckie Parker is about 10 years of agu,
strong. healthy looking and handsome,
but with very determined face. Sac IS
splendid rife shot, and is often seen with
her Winchester. che goes after ginseng
harefooied and alone. The roots are gath
ed in May and September, and during
these months she does a thriving business.
One day, however, she came acloss den
of rattlesnakes. She had only stones and
sticks with which to fight the desperate
battle. Some of the snakes were consider
ably larger than a mans ankle, and a few
as large of the caf Of ones leg. For
hours she fought them as they hissed and
ratified around her. The mountain seemed
filed with them, and no sound
could be heard by their incessant and
blood curdllng rattle But the brave, de-
termined girl battled with them until she
exterminated every one that dId not sue
coed in hiding among the crevices OF rocks
and in the dense bush. When she had
crushed the head Of the last one to be seen,
she counted the dead and there were
just g.
The country between Little and Big
Black mountain is great lnseng region,
and the Parker family are motel as ''seng-
ers." The girls 60 out barefooted III the
mountain, though the country IS infested
with rattlesnakes and copper heads, and
dig the ginseng, for which they get good
prices at the stores, and from which 1t IS
aiken to Pennington Gap for shipment.
But along Clover Fork and up K lttlesnake
creek are numberless reptiles, says the
Big Stone PENN Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

UPRIsINGs of the people to purify the
moral atmosphere are becoming common
in different parts of the country. These
outbreaks and expressions of public opin-
ion show that the people generally do not
rest quietly under continued violations of
the law that officials appear to beignorant
of. When public sentiment is aroused to
action it is useful, at least, in squirting
the officers to their duty. What everybody
sees and is crying out against, the law Of
fcials cannot longer refuse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

F1oN applications for sugar bounties
er an expected production of 100000
pounds of maple, 20,21O,O0G pounds of
beet, and 566, 623, COO pounds of cane
sugar during the present fiscal year. 1t is
not expected that the maple will as rule
contain the required 20 per cent. Of pure
sugar, and SO will get bounty of but l q
cents pound instead of 2 cents. Making
allowances here and for possible overesti-
mates of production by appliances, the
government officials place the probable
payments in bounty at s11 100000, or
from 100000 to 100000 above the
estimates of the trainers OF the law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
JAPANESE NIAIDENS.
They are Bright, Happy, and Often Elk
tremely Prett

They are Bright, Happy, and Often Ex-
tremely Prett
lIn physiognomic. mobility, and variety,
and defniteness of expression, japanese
women DIRE doubtless, as a rule, inferior to
our women; but by way of atonement
they have fixed facial expression of ami
ability and girish sweetness that is ex-
tremely facinating. This charming ex-
preston, which is result of the habits of
obedience, kindly disposition and desire
to please, inbred and cultivated from
their childhood, is common to all
classes from the humblest to the highest.
In cOurteousness, esthetic tastes, good
manners, and personal cleanliness, the
Lowry and Ignorant women ofaJapan are
far superior to the corresponding grade in
America or Europe, and indeed, to many
who make pretenses to a higAer sphere.
Besides the expression of amlablllty, there
is another one of contentment and absence
of worry that attracts one In these women.
This is found even in the servant mai DIS,
who are always at beck and call; even in
the laborers in the muddy. malodorous
rice fields, under a hot sun; even in the
poor women and girls who. for one cent
an hour, spend 10 hours day
stirring tea with their bare hands in a
hot kettle.
As regards sparkling, laughing eyes it
would he difficult to find anything to match
the dark orbs of the japanese maidens
when you chatf them in English, which
sounds so funny to them, or in (your)
japanese, which sounds more funny still.
They are the 01erriest girls in the world.
always ready to laugh on the slightest
provocation, and their laugh is as musical
as their language.
They are naturally fond OF reading, and
there Is large literature especially writ
ten for them by authors, male and female.
As regards the latter, Mr.. Aston remarks:
Il believe no parallel is to be found In the
history of European letters to the remark
able fact that very large proportion OF
the best writings of The best age OF Jap
anese literature was the work OF women.
Were asked, Are japanese women
beautifully" | should say that Japanese
women are rarely beautiful, because they
age too soon; bus japanese girls are often
pretty, and as rule delightfully."-
sweet, fascinating and girlish. japanese
men. perhaps, seem to Us somewhat femi-
nine in physical appearance, but in Japan
itself this does not strike the eye, because
the women are so much more so. They
are, indeed, the most womanly women in
the world. - II. T. Frick, in Cosmo-
politan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27
CAIIEORNIA.S DESERT.

An interesting story told respecting the
lake recently formed in the arid region.
apparently demonstrates the marine origin
of the sudden inundation. After tracing
the powerful stream of which the lake is
an expansion, it was found that its waters
were brackish, and In Sc seral places bodies
of dead smelt and also some crustaceans
that are found only on the P cilic shores
south of San Diego harbor were picked up.
1t is stated also that an analysis of the
water shows that it has saline density of
eighteen per cent. Sea water ordinarily
contains about four per cent. of solid mat
lake entirely derived from the Pacific
ocean their salinity should be greater than
that of the ocean water. because while
spreading out over the heated land they
sould undergo rapid evaporation. This
phenomenon is attributed to the action of
the earthquake of June % last, when huge
rock masses were torn from the mountain
sides. Three hours later the telegraph
announced tue thrush of waters into the
depressed salt plain. The first theory was
shat the flooding must be traceable to
rise of the Colorado river. But obserya,
ions seem to disprove this theory in
most conclusive manner. But it is i'm.
portant that the whole scene of the over
Cow should be carefully explored. 1t is to
De hoped the geological survey officers of
California or the National geological sur
vey will make thorough exploration of
the inundated region.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-27

IT is all very we'll for the New York au
lhorities to indict all the editors for print
ing the news about the electrical execu
tions. That is the best possible way of
assuring the repeal of the law which for
bids the papers to print such news. The
trial on these indictments will doubtless
involve the question as to the constitution
atty of the law, and it is not likely to
stand the test