The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-07-14

don't like to believe.
When Mr.. Herbert was small boy
his mother found it very difficult to
instil in the mind of her precociOus but
cratic infant, belief i'm the efficacy
of prayer. One day Ewing lost his
iack-knife and refused to be comforted
by anything but another one. His
mother saw i'm this a glorious oppor-
tunity. She told him that if he would
pray for one with faith, that God
would surely send him one. When
Ewing knelt that night with his
black curls falling over his white
gown, and sent up his evening petit
ton for the jack-knife, his mother
slipped new one, purchased that
day, onto the bed beside him. AS the
ey es of the small devotee opened and
observed it he exclaimed, "Where in
- did that come FROM"
A friend of ours came mighty near
making 81 500 all at one dab the other
day. He went to the races at Kansas
City and picked out an old bay mare
probably A. Z. Brightley's) against
which the odds were 80 to l. He con-
Guided that he could make more mon
ey on her, if she won, than on any Of
the others, and he reasoned that
lightning or heart disease or some
other benefcent intervention of prov
idence might kill all the others off be-
fore they came under the wire, and
he remembered too having read some
where that the race was not always
to the swift. And so he put up $50 on
the old mare. If she won he would be
81 800 ahead. 1t made his heart jump
to think about it. He crowded up to
the fence and feasted his eyes on the
flesh that was going to win him so
much money. He wasn't sure wheth-
er he would pay off his mortgage with
it, or buy the so that Joined him.
Maybe he would be buy piano for
his-but there they go! The old
mare is in the lead! She keeps it for
half mile! He starts to the book
makers to get his money, but remem-
bers that the race is for a mile and
turns back. The horses are just COM
ing under the wire. All but the old
bay mare. She wasn't anywhere i'm
sight. 81 had to borrow money to
get home on" said our friend. but
if that old mare had won l should
have been 81 500 ahead A man who
won't bet when the odds are fifty to
one is a blanked fool"
The hotels were very much crowd
ed during the last Republican State
Convention at Topeka and the Allen
county delegation were lodged on
cots all in one big room. The cots
were not very wide and the pillows
were decidedly small. Soon after we
got to bed one night Ed. Barber said
softly: Don't say anything funny
boys, for l am afraid if 1 laugh I'll
fall out Oh both sides of this cot"
We had hardly got over that when
Bob Stevenson shifted uneasily and
said: IF any of you fellows hear a
cha mbermaid inquiring for lost pill
low tomorrow morning, tell her to
look in my ear"
A man went into the Probate
udge's office the other day and said:
''Say, Judge, me and my wife got
spliced here a few years ago. We
go t along all right little while but
here lately we've been having a.
of time. She wants her way and /
want mine and we don't seem to be
able TO agree any more at all. And
so, Judge, since you joined us 1
thought l would come in and ask you
if you couldn't divide u.s." The man
was whole lot disappointed when
the Judge told him that he had tied
the KNOT 100 Jlgnt 10 untlelt.
One of the first bicycles brought to
lola was high wheel owned by Nor
ris Rodman. 1t was thought by
everybody to be very paragon of
beauty and grace, and Morris was
greatly envied by all the boys and
admired by all the girls. Julius
Kruger has that same wheel now,
and how everybody jeered at him
when he brought it on the street the
other day. 1t attracted as much at
tention and about the same kind of
attention, that chignon and a Gree
ian bend would if one of our dear girls
should resurrect and disport them
some day. We are living rapidly.
One Sunday night last summer the
preacher at one of our churches was
lust about to announce the last hymn
when some small boys outside the
church called him to the window near
the pulpit. After speaking with
the m he turned to the audience and
said: 1.-The boys say there is very
sick horse outside and some of the
men would better so out and look
after it. And now, brethren let us
sing Rescue the Perishing y"
All the oats and wheat i'm the coun-
! ty will be i'm stack or shock this week.