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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23
Make the New Year a Happy One.

Every one of our actions finds its re-
Election in the life of some one else. No
matter how humble may be our sur
roundings, we have an influence on
some other life. Individual good cheer
bright we brighten our neighbor; the
neighbor is an emissary to the commu-
nifty, and the community, in turn, to
the great world at large.
Thus in the year before us we have it
pretty much in our own hands. Ma
tional advantages are ours; we need
only supply the individual elements.
The past is valuable only for the les
sons it can teach; the present for its OPP
portunities; the future for its possibil-
tiles. Whatever the past year may
have meant to you make it dead his
tory. But let the new year be living
issue. With a big, fresh sponge, drip
ping with the clear water of forgive,
ness, wipe clean the slate of your heart.
Enter the year with kind thought for
everyone. You need not kiss the hand
that smote You, but grasp it in cordial
good feeling, and let the electricity of
your OWL TeSOlVeS Il1lu us connecting
current-which very often exists where
we think it not. An ill-natured thought
often makes us unhappier than the per-
son to whom it is directed. A happy
mind is an elixir, and as are the spirits
of the wife in the home, so will be
those of the husband, who in turn will
carry them into the outer world. Do
nestle happiness often colors CONNER
cial prosperity. The hearthstone is the
corner of the counting-room. An I'M
happy wife makes blue merchant. As
we men live at home, so we work in the
outer world.
Therefore, to the thousands, yea,
may say the million and more of women
to whom 1 speak with these words, let
me say: Make the new year happy
one in your home; be bright of dispo-
sitiOn; carry your cares easy; let your
heart be as sunshine, and your life will
give warmth to all around you. And
thus will you and yours be happy
Ladies' Home Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

Let me mete it out 10 others that II NAV
endure. Nothing must be allowed 10
stop with us. We must pass it on, for
we ourselves stagnate when our feel
ings and experiences do. Let us not
confound peace and rest with stagna-
ton. They are sweet and beautiful; IL
is something to be avoided, even if not
foul
An old Italian proverb says: "He is
richly endowed who is cheaply divert
ed" If we take view of American life,
we shall recognize how much need there
is of this rich endowment. People can
not be ''cheaply diverted" The fault
lies largely in our education. We must
learn to divert ourselves more by min
istering unto others. Let us turn more
often and more lovingly to nature. She
is never-failing source of delight and
instruction to those who are able to re-
ceive what she can give. Then let us re-
vive the sweet and real friendships that
used to be in the good old times" when
the world moved slower and the people
had more time. Now the idea of friend
ship is degraded to mean an acquaint-
ance of variously modified degrees. We
all need friends that are true. deep
sources of joy and strength. But these,
too, must come through ministration.
If we would gain the greatest friend
ship we must be the greatest friend.
cannot turn my thoughts to other
things without taking you with me
where have been since | made the re-
solve above. We have read the kind
wishes of many friends for Happy
New Year." and thoughts grouped
themselves about us which, push them
back as we might, persisted in being
recognized. Yes, sorrowful thoughts 1
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

far we walked; l hardly knew in
what direction we were going; my
one thought was to keep moving.
The poor fellow near me was complete
ly gone, and lay down to sleep. 1
begged him to get up, to try to move. !
beat him; L dragged him along; but he
only begged to be left alone. l grabbed
him by the collar and just pulled him
along, stopping to rest every few min
utes. 1 couldn't see; 1 couldn't feel;
myself longed to lie down in the soft
of the dear ones at home; would never
see them again. This gave me
renewed energy, and, dragging
my half-lifeless comrade, stumb-
ling under the weight of the
pack. plunged on. Finally was COM
pletely done; l couldn't go another
step; l felt that death couldn't be far
off. Oh, the utter misery of despair of
that moment, j sank down and cried
in utter helplessness. l don't know
what made me, but 1 struggled to my
feet once more and called again and
again, but the storm only Knocked me,
and sank down once more. / was so
sleepy and tired, and it was SO nice and
soft lying in the snow. The next
thing i remember / was feeling some
whisky being poured down my throat,
and then that l was being dragged
through the snow and that l was home
and safe. Well. boys, do you know
who did it? Why, it was that little
woman sitting so quiet by the fire,
there. 1t appears that she somehow
had presentiment that was out il the
storm and she kept going to the mouth
of the tunnel every little while, as she
had been doing nearly every night.
When l gave up to die 1 was nearer
home than l thought, and she heard
my call. She got some whisky, and,
making the man hold a torch so that
she could find her way back, she
plowed through all that snow and
storm until she found me, and then by
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

some time; also, as our grub was get
ting pretty low, we were going to push
through to Dolores, to provision up for
the rest of the winter in case we
couldn't get through again for some
time. / also wanted to get the Christ
mas presents for the kids: so l told the
little wife not to be anxious if l didn't
show up for several days.
"Well, we all started, only leaving
one of the boys behind. who had been
sick and wasn't quite well yet. We
had the deuce's own job fixing up the
cattle and getting through to Dolores.
1t took us over a week, and several of
the boys We're badly frost-bitten. We
were ready in a few days to push back
again, but another heavy snowfall
came, and another, and another, until
really it seemed to be showing all the
time. The days slipped by, one by
one, until Christmas came, and there
was snow-bound in Dolores, getting
more and more anxious about the
folks at home. / knew their grub
must be getting low; and, besides, here
was Christmas day. and nothing for the
kids. was nearly wild, 1 can tell you.
Well, two days before New Years
there was let-up, and l made up my
mind to push through at any cost. l
could only induce one of my men to
come with me; the others fatty refused.
They said it would be sure death; that
another storm was coming up-this
time a regular blizzard. At any rate,
we started on our fiftymile ride. The
trails were simply one succession of i'm
nense drifts, so we made mighty slow
progress, as we had to lead n pack
horse. After one days riding we had
,nly gone twenty-five miles, and new
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23
ANOTHER CHRISTMAS.
Some of the Many Things We May Conf
IDENTIFY Expect with the Day. -

some
IDENTIFY Expect with the Day.
Another Christmas day is about to
dawn, and the customary thanks are
awaiting the customary presents, and
everybody is prepared to criticise the
Christmas sermons, and compare the
weather of this year with the weather
of last year, and we are all ready to
wish all our friends IA merry Christ
mas" and good many more of them.
We speak softly of those who are
gone, and recall with tenderness the
gracious memory of their sweet pres
ence; we wonder where we shall be next
year at this time. and we all hope for
something better and more satisfactory
as time goes on.
The young people sigh because Christ
mas comes but once year: the old peo-
pie are sad because it comes SO often.
The man of large family and lean
pocketboolx wishes it did not come at
all, and the hungry boy, with his grow
ing appetite, welcomes it as an epoch of
plum pudding AID turkey, with all the
''stuffing" he can eat, and pound cake
in unlimited quantities to top off with.
The churches hang their walls with
graceful ferns and evergreens; the
choir practices for week beforehand
on some noted anthem with zigzag
quavers and trills in it, and the good
and hard-worked pastor changes pull
pits with q brother in some adjacent
town, and by this arrangement the two
manage to work off their last years
sermons on the new and unsuspecting
congregation. And who can blame
them? For if it does not require genius
to say something entirely new on the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23
THE TRUE SPIRIT.
"Not to BE Ministered Unto, But to Min
ister."

mot to BE Minfstered Unto, But to Min
ister."
The New Year has overtal1en us and
carried us on with it. Those who stop
to question ask: 'Where?" and
"How?'
The first question no one can an
swer. but the other is for us to reply to
by our acceptance of what the year
brings us. Our feelings are particular
" keen just now. Love seems to burn
up brighter on the hearth. no matter
how brightly it burned before. Selfish.
ness has for time been conquered.
Our hearts are warm. What has
warmed them?
Tell us. grandma, was it the warm
shawl which you received at Christmas,
or the bright and unusually kind smiles,
that warmed your heart most? Could
it have been the card case from the
thoughtless granddaughter who knew
you never made calls, or was it the
sweet thought that she had not forgot
ten you, which made you happy?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23
Maxims for the Kew Year.

l do not point out this fact to you
that you shall this year be mournful.
Make it the best year of all your life
the brightest, the happiest and the best.
Undue your heart with the freshness of
the morning, your soul with the sparkle
of the dawn. Resolve by good deeds
and thoughts to make this the most
triumphant year of your life. As a Sc
ries of short maxims to carry with you
through this year, let me give you
these:
Make every day begin and end with
God.
Be content with what you have.
Have hearty, joyful family altar in
your family circle.
Fill your home with as much good
reading and bright music as your means
will allow.
Think i'll of none, but well of all.
If fortune favors you, think of others
Don't sham; be real.
Keep busy and you will keep healthy.
Respect all sacred things.
Love God.-Talmage,i in Ladies Home
Journal
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

main force she dragged me back to the
house. Not only that, but she went
back again and brought in the other
poor fellow. What do you think of that
for pluck? 1t was weeks before l got
over the effects of that night; but tell
you what, boys, that was the happiest
New Year ever had. It's nearly twelve
o'clock; SO fill up, all, and make ready
to drink the New Year in when the
clock strikes, and one toast that know
you'll all join with me in drinking will
be: The Heroine of New Years Eve
MY Little Wife. ". ID. Charlier, il
Once a Week.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

cency the numbers of merchants who
are ready to ruin themselves by selling
their merchandise ten per cent. below
cost! A strange philanthropy which
prevails about the time the demand for
Christmas and New Years goods is over.
The merry sleigh-we have always
heard it called the merry Sleigh so
we thus dominate it-skims along, if
there is snow enough, filled with people
who enjoy having their ears and toes
frozen and their eyes knocked out with
snowballs; and the horses like the fun
as they toss their heads and jingle
their bells and seize the first opportuni-
ty to upset the whole business into the
deepest drift on the road.-Kate Thorn,
in y. Y. Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

fireplace in the living-room, drinking
their coffee after late dinner. The
lights were not lit and the party sat in
the Pickering light of a big fire of
cracking pine logs, which threw out
quaint shadows in every direction. This
party was the usual one that yearly
gathered at Jack Ralston's to spend the
Christmas holidays with him and his
family. AS they sat in the cheerful
warmth and glow of the fire they lis
tened to the fearful storm that roared
outside. a blizzard had been raging for
the past three days; the wind howled
and shrieked through the mountain
peaks, driving the fast-falling snow be-
fore it and piling it up in immense
drifts against every obstruction. 1t
was bitter, biting, cold wind, too, as it
tore through the valley like a demon
seeking whom it might destroy, doing
its utmost to completely bury the house
from view in the snow: but, sheltered
as it was by two giant rocks, one on
each side. with the mountain-side at its
back, the Louise was safe, in its snug lit
tie spot, even from the storms greatest
fury. The inclement weather had kept
the men indoors, and they were grum-
bling over their enforced idleness, and
Dragged about the amount of game
they would have bagged had they only
been able to get out.
Say, Jack, it's some time yet before
midnight. Can't you spin US a yarn?"
finally said Bobby Caruthers, after
long pause in the conversation.
well, l was just thinking" said
Jack, ''of just such night as this,
fifteen years ago, when, if lit had not
been for the pluck of that little woman
yonder, would not be here tonight to
see the New Year come in," and he
gazed fondly at his wife, who still
looked like a young woman as she sat
in the Pickering light, although on one
side sat her son, fair young giant, and
on the other her daughter, a beautiful
girl just poisoning into womanhood.
Lets have it." came in a chorus from
the party.
We'll, fill your pipes, and I'll tell
you my story. You see. fifteen years
ago, wasn't as prosperous as l am
now. / was Just starting out ranchlng,
had only been here some three years,
then, and where this house now stands
we only had a small log cabin. Young
Jack over there was only six years old
at the time, and Miss Ruth was trotting
round, young three-year-old. The
winter had opened badly; snow had
come very early, and with it bitter cold
weather. We had plenty of fuel, so we
managed to keep warm enough. The
cabin was in the same spot as this
house now is, so the two big rocks
helped to keep off the fierceness of the
wind; but we were completely buried
under the snow, so that we had to dig a
tunnel from the front door out into the
open air. Myself and all the boys were
kept mighty busy taking forage out to
spots where the cattle could get to it,
and so not starve to death. Well. one
morning, about two weeks before
Christmas, after heavy snowfall, 1
started out with all hands on one of
these trips, intending TO gather all the
cattle together as much as possible, and
to build some large hay-stacks, so that
they would have plenty of food for
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

He ne'er brings me expensive toys
He never brings a sleigh,
A rife or velocipede
Or soldiers blue and gray.
He leaves no trains of cars at all,
And Just think it's mean,
He fills my stocking TO the brim
With apples red and green.
Now, there is Mr.. McAdoo-
He's rich, all people know,
And Santa Claus brings lovely things
Each Christmas eve for Joe.
He brings him hobby horses, skates,
And boats that go by steam,
And hollow, spotted pasteboard cows
All full Of chocolate cream
And then upon his Christmas tree
He hangs red candy dogs,
Gold cornucopias, rubber cats,
And wind-up jumping frogs
And know other rich mems sons
With whom it's Just the same;
The high-priced presents left for them
Are more than L can name.
Another poor mans son like me
Is little Jimmie Pott,
And fifty cents would pay for all
The Christmas that he got
Now if our fathers were so rich
They didn't know what TO do,
Would Santa Claus bring to US boys
Such costly presents, too?
Puck.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

Head of Firm-You had better give
the Office boy a couple of dollars, Mr..
Penwiper, for Christmas.
Mr. Penwiper Cthe bookkeeper)-I
think we had better make it a New
Years gift, sir. 1 have just sent him
out with a telegram, and don't think
he will get back by Christmas.-Brook-
lyn Citizen.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

same theme for fifty
two days i'll the year
something that
somebody else has
not said before
something that will
not displease a good
paying member,
something that will
be thoroughly with
in the old orthodox
standard if you
think it does not re-
quire genius, then
you had better try
to do it, and if You
succeed you can
name your own sal
airy.
About the time
when Oh ris tmas
puts in an appear
ance you can safely
expect cold weather.
Your aunt from the
country will come
on a visit and stay
all winter, and every
Gay she Will tell you
that there is not
money enough in
the world to tempt
her to live in the
city.
The shortest days
in the year will be
upon you, audit will
be dark at four p.
m. and the gas bills
will be. frightful,
and the coal bin will
lower with the mer-
curry, and all the coal
dealers will be build
ing brow MS tone
fronts, and their
wives will wear dia-
monds in their ears
and on their fingers.
All creation will
have colds, and the
man who has pat
ented a cough sirup
and advertised it !
well will be sure of |
a bigger income
than the president
of the United States.
Bright colors will
flame on the streets
as the pretty girls
and the fashionable
women go by to look
into the shop win
dows and note the
cut prices and OBJ
with oDu,Y,Ia
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23
Like a Woman.

Wife, must have some more money,
my dear. 1 find that the Christmas
tree itself costs very little, but that it
takes great deal to fix it up.
Husband-That's just the way I've
found you all these years.-Epoch.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

storm was coming
up; and it proved a
regular shorter, too.
We dug a hole in
the snow and lay
down for a few
hours sleep, for we
were dead beat; but
it was so cold that
we were only able
to get about forty
winks, and started
again, SO as not to
freeze to death.
1.-The storm in
creased, ge tting
worse and worse as
we went on; the
snow, driven by the
fierce wind, cut our
faces like SO many
needles, while the
bitter cold seemed
to numb every fac
ulty and to be slow
ly freezing out our
very lives. My horse
the n gave out
couldn't move an
other step, so l let
him go and mounted
the pack horse.
Night then came on.
and our whisky, that
had given us some
S t + e n G t h and
warmth, gave out.
w e didn't know
where we We're. but
thought we couldn't
be many miles from
home if only we
were on the right
trail. My mans
horse next gave out,
and. las | was strong
err than he, l made
him get on nv
horse, and, holding
on to the saddle,
walked along by his
but only a mile
or so further and
our last hors e
dropped down ex-
hausted. What were
we to do? l don't
know where L got
the strength, but l
the pack
myself and we both
plunged on. l would
not give in the
thought that they
might be starving at
home forced me on,
I don't know how
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23
30 Faint Heart About Him.

Jennie (reprovingly)-But we're not
under the mistletoe now, Jaekl
Jack (unabashed) - So much the
nicer!
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23
CHRISTMAS EVE.

Father-Why, Tom, what are you do
ing on the roof, this time of night?
Tom-Well, I've got my doubts about
that Santa Claus story, and came here
to watch the chimneys, and find out if
there is such a person.-Life.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

Frightened Youth producing CT
garettes and dime novell-Here they
are, mister; that's all I've got-honestl
Puck.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23

THE stocking is monarch of Christ
mas day.-Brooklyn Life.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-12-23
A Suggestion.

He remembers his letterwriting ex-
periences of last year.-Chicago Mail
Morris tribune., 1892-09-14
WILL BE REFUSED a LANDING.
Vessels Bringing Immigrants from In-
facted Ports NAV BE Sent Hack

Vessels Bringing Immigrants from In.
fected Ports May Be Sent Back.
WASHINGTON, Sept. II. The president
is taking an active part in the fight
against cholera and is in constant and
direct communication with the national
authorities at Washington Secretary
Foster has made public the following
telegram received by him on Saturday
from the presidents: '.'It is an outrage
that the steamship companies continue
to bring immigrants from infected ports.
Say to them that it should stop or we
may be compelled to turn back pest
laden vessels
'sThis dispatch" said Secretary Fos-
ter, "was given to Collector Hendricks,
with instructions to send copies to the
agents of the steamship companies. One
Of the difficulties that the steamship
companies encounter is the fact that a
large percentage of the people now COM
ing over are American citizens OF
course our duty is just us solemn and
binding to the poorest steerage passen-
ger who is an American citizen as it is
toward the richest cabin passenger. ]
think that most of the steamship COM
panies are now refusing to bring immi-
grants to this country and I trust those
who are persisting will desist"
Morris tribune., 1892-09-14
-..- -.----
STARTLING NEWS.
TIE SCANDiA REACHES NEW YORK
WITH CHOLERA ABOARD.

Tbtrty-twn Deaths Occur During the Pas
sage from Hamburg-The Stricken Yes.
sas Carries Nine Hundred Steerage Pas
ssZgSrs.
Morris tribune., 1892-09-14

board was. held ana resolution w4s
passed that ii Or, Vought would so With
Lawyer Reid 10 the steamer and see that
the injunction papers were served the
board would allow food and blankets to
be taken aboard. The excitcment did
not abate in the slightest degree after
the Cepheus had Withdrawn to the
stream. The crowd remained on the
dock, muttering threats and swearing
that the people on the excursion vessel
could rot before they would be allowed
to land.
Cause of the J 1rouble.
70 go back to the beginning of the
story-the Normannia cabin passengers
who had been for eight days confined in
cholera stricken ship were greeted on
Saturday with the promised and long
hoped-for relief in the shape of the
Stonington, to which vessel they were
transferred that evening. On Sunday
they were to go to Fire island, which,
through Governor Flowers generosity,
had been secured, with all its houses and
the Surf hotel, for the accommodation
of the ill-fated Normannia. On Satur-
day night they slept on the Stonington,
but in the morning it was discovered
that she had no means for cooking, was
of too deep draught to cross the bar,
and, according to statements made, she
was old and too unseaworthy to venture
so far in the open ocean. The iron
steamboat Cepheus was then hired and
the first and second class cabin passen-
gers
Started for the Promised Land.
After a voyage of about thirty six
miles the captain weakened and said he
was afraid to take the Cepheus over the
bar without pilot. In consequence of
this the iron steamboat started back to
the horseshoe bend and the first class
passengers were one more put ON board
the rickety old Stonington liner. The
second cabin passengers were kept on
board the Cepheus without beds or even
a pillow on which to lay their heads.
They were strewn about the settees and
carpeted decks of the steamer. Early in
the morning the Cepheus once more
started down the bay to embark the first
saloon passengers and take them to Fire
island. The trip was again a rough one
and after reaching Fire island they We're
met by the angry mob and refused a
landing, although they were told time
and again by health officers that they
run no risk of cholera.