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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-30

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Land once WORK pecreasing.

WASHINGTON, Dee. 26.-The state
ment of the commissioner of the general
land Office in his annual report to the
effect that the work of that Office is
up to date was regarded as a crafty
ing condition, but the sequel is
not quite so agreeable, because the
land office officials are confron ted with
the problem of how to keep employed
the present force of clerks. Two years
ago the weekly issue of land patents
was approximately 5000, and this num-
Der has now fallen to less than 1000
per week. 1t is expected that early in
the new year there will be n reduction
in the force from 20 to 30 per cent
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PoIsoNs ONLY TO THE BLOOD.
Interesting Facts Regarding the Deadly
Venom of Reptiles.

Nature seems to have provided that
no poison which acts externally shall
have any effect internally, and vice
versa Thus the most deadly snake
venom can be swallowed with impunity,
the juices of the stomach presumably
decomposing and rendering it harmless.
Many experiments have been made to
prove this On one occasion, recorded
by Humboldt, one person swallowed
the whole of the poison that could be
obtained from four Italian vipers with
out suffering any bad consequences In
the same way the envenomed arrows of
the South Americans can be swallowed
with safety, provided only that there is
no wound on the lips or inside the
mouth. Fontana, who in 1887 published
q book on poisons, remarks:
being reduced by contradictory evil
dence to the necessity of testing the
venom myself, 1 did so, but not without
repugnance, and 1 shall advise no one
to try it in gayety of heart lest he
should happen to have some excoriation
on the tongue-a circumstance not al
WAYS easy to determine ] could find
no taste in it except of a very insipid
liquor"
Among all the people the sucking of
the wound has ever been considered the
most effective remedy of immediate ap-
plication for snake bites. In Africa
cupping instrument is employed in
emergencies of the kind todraw out the
poisoned blood. The ancients followed
the same method, and when Cato made
his famous expedition through the SER
pent-infested African deserts he en-
ployed native snake charmers, called
Psylli, to follow the army, They per-
formed many mysterious rites over men
who were bitten, but the efficacy of
| their treatment appears to have con-
sisted in sucking the wounds.
A vivid notion of the intensity of a
cobra's venom is given by the experience
of DIR. Francis T. auckland. He put a
rat into cage with snake of that spe-
cies, and it was killed after plncky
fight Upon examining the skin of the
dead rat immediately afterward he
found two very minute punctures like
! Slldll nCCNtlC uOAtSs tlAS VI
the cobra had entered. The flesh
seemed already to have actually morti-
fed in the neighborhood of the wound.
Anxious to find out if the skin was af-
! fected, DR. auckland scraped away the
hair from it with his finger nail. Then
| he threw the rat away and started
| homeward. He had not walked a hun
bred yards before all of a sudden he felt
as if somebody had come behind him
and struck him severe blow on the
head and neck. At the same time he
| experienced most acute pain and sense
of oppression about the chest. He knew
instantly that he was poisoned, and SO
| lost no time in seeking an apOthecary
shop, where he was dosed with brandy
and ammonia He came very near dy-
ing. Undoubtedly small quantity OF
venom had made its way into his system
through little cut beneath his nail,
where it had been separated slightly
! from the flesh in the process of cleaning
the nail with pen-knife a little time
before. Commercial Gazette
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LIFE IN A PIRATE SHIP.
Merit aud bravery Rewarded aud DishOn
esty Very Severely Punished

Merit aud bravery Rewarded aud Dishon-
esty Very Severely Punished.
The customs and regulations most
commonly observed on board buc-
cancer are worth noting. Every pirate
captain, doubtless, had his own set of
rules; but there were certain tradition
al articles that seem to have been gen.
orally adopted. The captain had the
state cabin, double vote in elections,
double share of booty. On some YES
sells it was the captain who decided
what direction to sail in, but this and
other matters of moment were Oftener
settled by vote of the company, the
captains vote counting for two The
officers had a share and n half or
share and a quarter of all plumber, and
the sailors one share each. Booty was
divided with scrupulous care and ma
rooning was the penalty of attempting
to defraud the general company. if only
to the amount of gold piece or a dol
lar. Every man had full vote in every
affair of Importance.
Arms were always to be clean and fit
for service, and desertion of the ship
or quarters in battle was punished with
death On Roberts ship man who was
crippled in battle received $500 out of
the common stock, and a proportionate
sum was awarded for lesser hurts.
Louther allowed $50 for the loss
of limb, and other captains instituted
sort of tariff of wounds which extend
ed to ears, fingers and toes. In chase
or battle the captains power was abso-
lutte. He who first spied a sail, if she
proved to be a prize, was entitled to the
best pair of pistols on board her over
and above his dividends These pistols
were greatly coveted, and a pair would
sell for as much as $50 from one pirate
to another. In their own common
wealth the pirates are reported to have
been severe upon the point of honor,
and among Roberts crew it was the
practice to slit the ears or nose of any
sailor found guilty of robbing his fell
lows
Such feeble interest as now attaches
to what was once the formidable fame
OF the pirates is not even aesthetic, it is
merely comic. No imaginative essayist
discusses piracy as a fine art: but Paul
Jones is resurrected as the hero of a
musical burlesque. Poor Paul! And
he is almost the only one of the whole
buccaReering race whose story discovers
trace of the legendary gallantry of
piracy. Paul, whose father had been
head gardener to Lord Selkirk, plum
dered the Selkirk mansion of its plate,
which he subsequently returned in a
parcel to Lady Selkirk with letter of
polite apology. Review.
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Gold Thread.

The base of the gold thread of COM
merce is silver, which is brought from
the Bank of England in cakes weighing
about one thousand ounces. Gold leaf
is carefully incorporated with the silver
by hammering and afterward the whole
is subjected to charcoal fire. The bar
is now ready for conversion into wire.
This is accomplished by drawing it
from one hundred to one hundred and
fifty times through merchandising
holes in steel plates and finally, when
the capabilities of this metal have been
exhausted, through apertures in dia-
mouds. rubies or sapphires. The deli
cate wire thus obtained must now be
passed through the steel rollers of one
of Herr Krupp's little flatting mills.
This brings up to the final process-the
spinning of the fattened wire round
silk to form the golden thread of COM
mcrce. These spinning machines are
worked by water. although two steam
engines are to be found in the factory;
for water power is considered to be
more regular and even in its action
Waverley Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-30
HAVOC OIL THE TRACK.

y Locomotive Opens It, Valve After
Bump . 'uoiEer and starts Sack ON a
Career a. 9F>tTu"tiOn.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, Dee. ga run
away switch engine in the Louisville &
Nashville yards shortly before daylight
played havoc. Two engines collided
and the valve of one of them few open.
The engineer and fireman had jumped
OFF before the collision. The latter en-
CINE started backward rapidly with
four cars attached. 1t ran a mile
through the ward at terrific rate. The
two switchme1 on the cars jumped off
Near Eighteenth street the wild train
dashed into another engine with seven
cabooses attached and the entire outfit
was wrecked. Engineer William Har.
isou, OF the laSi-aaIaed engine, was per-
haps fatally burled Fireman Ed Mo
berry was also badly hurt Three en-
gines, seven CHOOSES and four cars
Were wrecked.
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FOUND IN PRINT.

THE town of Icicle. in Washington,
has been renamed Leavenworth.
y PERSONAL in a Boston paper reads:
''Mr. Rowland, who had his face
slapped at the horse show in New York
the other night, is at the Vendome."
HERE IS the college yell' of the
Central university, Kentucky: "Brack-
ETY.. Kax, Kowax, Kovax. Brackety,
Kax, Kowax. Kowax, Wo-oop, WO-oop;
Hullabaloo-C. T.. c. T."
\ BosToN schoolboy. who evidently
has bright future awaiting him, late
ly began an essay with these words:
The world was formerly inhabited by
immortals, but they are now all dead"
SOME of the residants of 4 new town
in Oklahoma desired to name it Upper
airy: others wanted TO call Jerusalem.
After heated discussion. they came to
a compromise, and the town is known
as Tippcrusalem-
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perial family He is now in Brussels
and the Bonapartist leaders in Paris
have sent agents to that city to induce
him to sign the manifesto and author
ize its publication. He has been living
in comparative retirement recently, but
has kept a careful watch upon the
course of events.
The imperialists have been canvass
ing earnestly for supporters among the
deputies, but not with much success,
while the division between the mon.
archists and the Bonapartists her-to-
fore on common ground as opponents of
the republic, has grown and each now
shows considerable jealousy as to which
vii. profit by the difficulties of the re-
pubic.
Should the Bonapartistssact it is ex-
pectcs, that they will attempt to strike
a blow in Paris rather than in the prov
inces They. like the monarchists, are
being carefully watched and every
movement Is reported to NJ. Ribot and
President Carnot The proceedings of
the secret conclave, at which the mani
festo was determined upon, were known
to the government almost as soon as
the conclave had adjourned and the
government is already in possession OF
the terms of the manifesto.
NJ. de la Fosse writes to Figaro that
the parliamentary republic is ruined
and ought to be replaced by consular
republic with Prince Victor Bonaparte
as the first consul The suggestion is
looked upon as an attempt to revive the
empire through the same process by
which the first Napoleon arrived at the
Al,rn.,n
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SLATER'S INCINERATION.
The business Part of Missouri Town
Quilted.

Quilted.
SLATER, Mo-, Dec. 26.-The business
portion of this little city was visited by
a disastrous fire and before the flames
could be controlled twelve of the lead
ing mercantile houses were in ruins.
The total loss is estimated at 800, 200,
with an insurance of S65 0OO Addition
al reports may, however, swell the
value of the property destroyed to Sl25,-
600.
The FIRE was first discovered at about
$3.50 o'clock burning briskly in the toy
end notion store owned by r. L. Hol-
loway. The alarm was Immediately
given and despite the increasing inclem-
ency of the weather, every man in town
was soon on the ground. BY this time
Rosenthars meat market adjoining
Holloway's store was in flames and
the citizens directed their efforts toward
preventing the spreading of the flames
Several bucket brigades were quickly
formed and the surrounding business
houses We're soon deluged. Nothing,
however, could stay the progress of the
flames and the fire rapidly ate its way
through the block, consuming every
thing within reach. When the end of
the block was reached the fire burned
itself out
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-30
"CRARk" LEGISLATION.

y Peculiar 1911 Introduced Into the
senate.
WASHISGTON. Dec. 2S.-0ne of those
peculiar ''craul'' bills which OCCASION
ally ind their way into congress was in
troGuce1 Yesterday by MIR. Mitchell in
the senate. Its elaborate title provides
for the prohibition of electro magnet
-'n, mesmerizing and hypnotizing hui
man beings, etc. and prescribing pun
ishment. Numerous petitions and doc
uments accompany the bill, and others
equally voluminous are referred to
The bill in brief provides that
any person who, anywhere with
in the jurisdiction of the United
States sinai. apply current of
electricity upon a person for the pur-
pose Of affecting another. or which does
so affect, SHALL be suilty of a crime
punishable by death, and that any per-
son haviaC knowledge of such current
having been applied. who fails to noti-
ty the proper authorities, shall be pun
ished by a fine of not less than 81. 900
nor more than - l,OOO, or 10y imprison-
mCnt ranging from two years to the
period of ones natural life
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CONGRESSIONAL.
The Weeks Proceedings of the Senate and
House Given I'm Condensed Form.

Soon after the reading Of the Journal in the
senate on the 18th Mr. German announced the
death OF Senator Gibson, OF Louisiana and de-
livered brief eulogy after which the senate
adjourned. &c. There was very slim attendance
when the house met Mr. Wilson. OF Missouri,
called up the senate bill increasing the pension
of pensioners of the Mexican war from $ TO s12
month The bill was passed Mr. Culberson,
of Texas. moved to suspend the rules and pass
a bin limiting the Jurisdiction of the circuit and
district courts of the United States. The bill
prohibits suits in United States courts BY or
against corporations except to the courts Of
the legal domicile of the corporation in cases
where jurisdiction depends upon the citizen
shin OF the parties. The motion was agreed to
and the house adjourned.
TIE senate was in session four hours on the
2Oth. Several important bills were introduced
and two were passed-one authorizing the sale
of lands near Fort Mifin. Del. The McGarra-
han bill was not taken up, but went over. An
effort was made by Mr.. Blackburn TO have the
Hudson river bridge bill taken up but as that
would have had the effect of side-traclSing the
anti-option bill the effort was successfully re-
sisted by Mr.. Washburn. Mr.. Blackburn's mo-
ton was defeated by a vote of 10 to Al The
anti-option bill was then taken up and was I'M
der consideration until adjournment. In the
house nothing was done, the object Of the men,
bers seeming TO be that nothing should be done
until after the holidays,
THE session Of the senate on the 2ist was de-
voted mainly to speech making. Among the
speakers were Senators Perkins and PETER,
the latter favoring the anticipation bill and the
former spoke as TO the policy to be pursued as to
the Indian territory He favored statehood or a
territorial government and opening the Outlet
The holiday recess resolution was adopted and
Mr.. Mcpherson q. j. introduced joint reso-
luton TO suspend the purchase Of silver under
the Sherman act Of 1925. Adjourned 81. There
was no quorum in the house and the attempt
to transact any business failed. Adjourned
without doing any thing.
IN the senate on the I'D the McGarrahan bill
was debated at some length. Mr.. Hunton (Va)
closing mis- three days speech in it's favor. 1t
then went over. Mr.. PETER further spoke in
favor of the anti option bill After a short ex-
ecutive session the senate adjourned until Jan
uary A.. The house was in session only fifteen
minutes, when il adjourned until January l.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-30
COLD SNAP.
Jack Frost ReplevIns His Possessions In
the West.

Jack Frost RepleTins His Possessions In
the West.
KANSAS CITY, No., Dec 26-It was a
wretched Christmas yesterday so far as
the weather went and the elements
seemed in conspiracy to make it chill
and drear and desolate. In the morn
ing the sky was hidden by thick dun
veil The wind, cold and raw, came
from the north, with occasional blasts
from the far northwest British possess
sions and intermittent chills from On
tario and Quebec-shifting to strike
vulnerable points of Christmas cele-
orators, but never getting many points
away from the pole.
Just as the noon chimes rang, came
the snow, filling the air and putting
clean raiment upon everything out Of
doors.
As the day wore on it grew colder,
touching zero at IL o'clock. At this
morning it was 6 below and at o'clock
it was - below.
Dispatches show the storm to have
been general and very severe all over
Kansas. 1t came from the north and
has PLAYED havoc with the wires in
many places. So many operators being
away from their posts for Christmas
makes reports from many points i'm
possible, but the Western Union in
general way declares the storm very
severe.
A dispatch from Washington says:
The temperature fell rapidly during
the forenoon and middle of the day
over all districts east of the Mississippi
river and in the southwest began to
rise very rapidly in the afternoon, with
increasing northwesterly winds and
rapidly falling temperature over the
lake regions, central valleys and the
southwest An extensive area of very
high pressure is moving rapidly south
eastward from the Dakotas and will
probably cover the eastern states, the
central valley, the lower Mississippi
valley and Texas during Monday night,
with very low temperature.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-30
An-Ntsht saloons For New York.

NEW YORK, Dee. 23.-The excise COM
mlssioners have approved the applica-
tons Of POO saloon keepers for the priv
nege of keeping open all night The
au-night license costs 500, and is dis
tlnet from the usual license. which al
lows the saloons to keep open from a.
N to 4 m. The applications must
meet the approval of the new board of
aldermen. which is regarded as prac-
ticaiiy assured. The list begins with
the saloons nearest the Battery and
goes upward Other patches of appli-
cations will De approved and submitted
to the board Of aldermen later.
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500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease. requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
OF the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building mp the constitution and
assisting nature in doing it's work. The
proprietOTs have 50 much faith in its cura-
tive powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that il fills to cure.
Send for list of testimOn as.
Address, F. j. CHENEY d Co, Toledo, O.
"a Sold by Druggists, 7Sc.
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These are Fats
wkih
H0nsekeepe,y Should Seriously Connder.

knowledge and skill attained by over quarter of
a centurys experience is available in its present
preparation. The consumer is not experimental
upon by changes of formula that are constantly
being made in other powders in an effort to get
mixture that will not cake" or lose Its strength,
or that follow changes of proprietorship or manu-
facturers. The Royal Baking Powder is always
certain and equal in Its work; teaspoonful does
the same perfect work to-day that it did yesterday
or last week or month, or last year.
While the last teaspoonful in a can of Royal is
as good as the first, other powders lose their
strength after being made short time, and par
ticularly after the can is opened.
The exactness with which the active principle
of each ingredient prior to mixing is ascertained
by expert chemists; the actual prohibition enforced
against the receipt into the works of an impure in
gredient; the care with which the materials are
dried, coated and prepared before their combina-
ton, and the precision in packing the powder SO
that it shall be delivered to the consumer in the
perfect condition in which it leaves the factory,
are some of the details which go to make the
perfect Royal"
The same means are not employed by other
manufacturers There have been a great many
limitations of the Royal, but no equals. Pure
materials are not employed, care is not taken in
their preparation and combination, while in the
great majority of baking powders alum IS added to
give them strength, while cheapening their cost.
The great popularity and general use of the
Royal Baking Powder attest its superiority.
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THE CHILDREN'S RIGHTS.
Offspring of Whites Il Reds Allowed tho
Rights uf FuiI BIoOds.

Rights uf FuiI BIoOds-
Ell RENO, Ok, Dec. 26.-In the case
of Morrison VS.. Wilson in the United
States court here. Judge Burford held
that the children born to white citi-
zen of the United States who had mar
ried a female member of the Arapahoe
tribe might still be a member of that
tripe of Indians and entitled to an al
lotment under the treaty as a member
OF the tribe and that the laws of descent
in Oklahoma applied to Indians, and
that the administrator of an Indian de-
cedent was entitled to the possession of
the lands so allotted. The decision
was rendered in an ejectment suit in
volving 100 acres of land adjoining FL
Reno, of great value, and is of great inn
portance, as similar questions are pend
ing in all the courts of the west where
allotments have recently been made.
The decision is contrary to the decisions
in the northwest under similar treaty
with the Sioux
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ClippinCs.

DR.. John Eye, the skin grating
specialist, of Reading, Pa, has new
scheme. This is TO graft pieces of
hairy skin on bald-headed men. so
that they viii be able to grow lux
uriaut head of hair. He says he has
already tried it and that it is a success
The rather rare event of a diamond
wedding was recently celebrated by
Mr.. and Mrs Ira Ward, at their home
in New Haven, VT. They are aged re-
speetively 81 and IS years
Vice President-elect Stevenson was
most Hospitality entertained by his
southern friends during his late visit
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Two Ladies' Killed.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 26.-Mrs.
Mary Noonan and Mrs. John Schward-
ner met a horrible death at Sieman &
Bro. 5 book store They were ascend
ing in the elevator, when the boy in
charge lost control and it shot
rapidly upwards. The ladies, becom-
ing frightened, attempted to jump off
at the third floor, but fell backward
into the shaft and were hurled to their
death 90 feet below.