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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE ToMs OF MAHAL.

Erected in Memory of a Woman oy an
Indian King - Twenty Thousand haen
Worked Two Decades to Complete II
Built of Pure White Marble and Lo-
Gated In a Charming Garden.
Even in modern times, as well as an
eient. has it been the pleasure OF man
TO enshrine in some enduring form the
memory of loved ones gone on before,
and these memorials have taken many
shapes. More than two centuries ago
Shah Jehan, potentate of India, lost
his beloved wife, Mahal, and erected
for her tomb, which should tell to the
world his thoughts of her.
For nearly two decades twenty thou
sand men were employed to complete
this structure. whose whiteness should
reflect her purity and virtue, and whose
perfect symmetry indicate her lowell
ness All that boundless wealth and
richest art and endless love could give
were focused in the superb structure
now known as the Tai Mahal," or
tomb of Mahal. 1t stands on broad
plain a little way from the CITY Of Agra,
with Its snowy feet bathed in the
river Jumna. High walls block out the
garden where it lies from the turmoil
of the kings highway, and noble por-
tai admits enc in the hallowed pre-
cincts.
My first view of it was by midnight.
Directly before me was long pond,
bordered by stone walks, whiHl were
hemmed in by lofty cypress trees,
throwing their pointed heads far up
in the evening sky and away down at
the end of the vista of shrubbery rose
the famous Tai, matchless, imperial
and almost angelic!
1t is a square structure, with four
corner domes and one immense central
dome, all made of the purest white
marble. Its windows are screens Of
the same material, and its adoraments
consist of mosaics and profusion of
delicate tracery in fair white marble.
With measured tread and slow, one
walks down this long avenue and comes
under the very brow of the tomb, and
feels the mighty greatness of Tai, with
its splendid dome rising like rounded
cloud two hundred and fifty feet in the
Indian heavens. 1t sits on huge plat
form of marble four hundred feet
square, at either corner of which rises
a long, slender minaret of marble.
Cne enters reverently, for a queen is
here, and gazes up into the dim re-
cesses of the splendid dome of solid
stone unsupported by any arch or pill
lar, and then, indeed, the magic spell
of the Tai comes over you, enchants,
permeates and enfolds you in its ire
sistible influence.
You abandon yourself to witchery
totally unlike that to be felt in any
other place in the whole world, for here
beauty, life, death and sound with COM
bined forces make you captive.
The echo is marvellous, yet it will
not render back i'll noises or rude and
scurrile sound; but if some woman's
lips and gentle breath utter strain, if
some soft bar be played, some verse of
Indian love lament, the white walls
take the notes and reverberate their
melting antiphones. Low waves of
harmony encounter other waves rip
ping on the rounded milky shores, and
fainter and higher the music signing,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
the MEEk.s IRAoE.
Obstacles That Are Rloc:sne the Paths to
Business Prosperity.

New YORK, Feb. 16-R. G.. DUN g
Co.'S weekly review of trade saws:
Another week exports OF gold from the treas
ury will have almost entirely stopped by the
contract for purchases OF gold from MessrS
Belmont and Morgan For the moment ousl-
ness only waits to know whether sales OF
American securities and Withdrawals OF gold
from the treasury have been lastingly stopped
by the remarkable increase Of confidence
The two obstacles which block the path just
now are exceeding cheapness OF farm products
and restricted operations in the industries
There has been no gain in the prices OF 1arm
products on the whole; corn is nominally =
cent higher. but with insignificant movement,
while wheat also, with q movement hardly naI
OF last years, Is 4 Of cent lower for the week.
Cotton with continuing large receipts. remains
unchanged
Few words tell the old story; the corn crop
is undenIably short, although probably much
larger supply than official reports indicate.
Wheat and cotton supplies are so far oenlnd
the worlds demands that extreme low prices
are natural and any speculation for advance IS
greatly handicapped. Restricted purchases
by the west and south naturally result
The output OF pig iron February was l6'.29l
tons against los. Ala week Of January |. but the
stocks remaining unsOld were 1lsO13 tons
against 645. ass January I, and indicate de-
crease Of l6,l37 tons in actual consumption
weekly during the month Of January. The Sc
we're storms in February have further entailed
production. Sales OF steel rails we're only $50
tons in January. and the weather has arrested
structural work and retarded deliveries OF all
kinds. But there appears a better inquiry for
some finished products. especially in wlre'
wire rods. nails and barbed wire. the business
| is encouraging. Pig iron is unchanged IN price
here and at the west. though northern sales
are pressed and the demand for bar iron IS
about the same. Lake copper is quoted at go.
Continued dizziness is reported in cOttons ana
reduction in prices by the Amoskeag mills
causes some hesitation. In the main the works
are well employed. but with extremely Scanty
profits and considerable doubt whether the
market will be found for accommodating stocks
of some goods.
Trade in woOlens is by no means satisfactory.
though fairly large in volume in medium and
low grades, but prices have been generally re-
duced and competition with cheap foreign
| goods is felt somewhat more. Sales OF wool
| continue within about sixth Of a week : nor
| NAL supply for eastern mills, amounting TO D.
O6s 400 pounds. OF which 1886 900 were domestic
| Fine fleece are not stronger and sales OF Ohio
| Xxx are quoted at 1871 cents.
| Failures for the week are 20 in the United
| States against 3g3 last year, and 81 in Canada
| aVainSt SIS last wear.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
The origin of O1tan Soup.

During the reign of terror in Paris
in 1898 many of the nobility were re-
duced to starvation and beggary. The
abattoirs sent their hides fresh TO the
tanneries without removing the tails,
and in cleaning them the tails were
thrown away. One of these noble beg
CARS asked for tail, and it was willing
" given to him. He took it to his loGg-
ing and made what is now famous) the
first dish of oxtail soup; he told others
of his good luck, and they annoyed the
Gamers so much that a price was put
lIpou them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
THE TOMB OF MAHAL.

dieth upward, so sweet and fine that at
the last you cannot tell when silence
comes"
Then you try to grasp the beauty OF
the wondrous tracery Of this inner
shrine. the work in chalcedony and
jasper and laZulite, made into roses and
lilies and jasmine, and best seen by
day, when the golden sunlight filters
through the marble screens with so
tender a grace that You almost feel
that here, at least, nature paid obei-
Sance to art.
Wander in the gardens in the silver
night and get glimpses of it through
the shrubbery, gaze at it from the river
or an adjacent tower and let its gleam-
ing whiteness dazzle you, it is still the
one perfect thing.
Pace the long cypress walk, and
Gray's words, along the cool Sc
ouestered vale of life spring to your
lips, and the Tai seems very like piecs
of Heaven let down for protane NOR
tails to gaze upon. 1t inspires, subdues
and calls to nobler thoughts by its in
scription in the Persian tongue, which
says: The world is a bridge; pass over
it, but build not upon it! The world is
one hour; give its minutes to thy
prayers, for the rest is unseen"
1t is so exquisite in detail and so per-
feet in its entirety, set in the garden
which it beauties. The dead queen
loved her garden, and it was sweet
eonceit of the devoted husband that
her last home should be among fra
grant flowers, so ''she who loved her
garden lieth now Tapped in garden
John C. Boroker, in Ladies' Home
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
GuntemaIa Accants.

CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. 15.-Mexieo's
conditions have been peacefully &C
cepted by Guatemala, who guarantees
the fulfllment and will be published Of
ficially next week. Both sides have made
concessions. The Guatemalan question
is at last amicably settled upon an
equitable basis between the two repub-
lies. The boundary line between the
two countries will be definitely de-
termined upon and war indemnity is
accepted by Guatemala, who will have
to pay damages for Mexican property
DESTROYED
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
Phil Martin Hanged.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 16.-Phil
Martin, the negro murderer of Eli
Stilwell, was hanged at OILS o'clock yes
terday forenoon in the county jail build.
ing at Missouri avenue and Oak street.
He was assisted to the scaffold sobbing,
and crying to God to have mercy on
his soul. His neck was broken by the
fall through the gallows trap. His
body hung limp and motionless and in
eight minutes he was dead. The doc
tors, who were on the coroner's jury,
said his death was absolutely painless.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
Herder and sheep Perish In a Blizzard.

HELENA, Mont, Feb. 16.-The news
was received in Helena yesterday of
the total determination of a band of
of $500 sheep belonging to Helena men
and the death of one of the herders by
a blizzard near Ora few days ago.
The herder's name was Eugene Watts.
There had been chinook in the after
noon, and the blizzard struck them
without ten minutes warning. Eugene
was so near his shed that if he had had
ten minutes he would have saved them
and himself. The efforts of the other
herders were futile, SO furious and sud-
dent was the storm.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
LIlIuokaIanI ArraIgned.

SAN Francisco, Feb. 16.-According
to mail advices from Honolulu, dated
February 8, Liliuokalani, ex-queen of
Hawaii, was arraigned February on
the charge of misprision of treason.
The original charge was treason. The
military court will probably bring in
verdict of guilty in her case. Sentence
will be passed, but it is not believed
she will be imprisoned, but will be al
lowed freedom on her own recogni-
zannR
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
SUDDENLY STRICKEN.
isaac Pussy Gray, Minister to Mexico, Die
Unexpectedly.

ABhaC uscy ONayg -hAAhAoSCA W -aAcAA~cS DaS1
Unexpectedly.
CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. 15.-Isaae
Pusey Gray, United States minister to
Mexico, died very suddenly at 7:45 last
evening of pneumonia Mr.. Gray was
born in Chester county. Pa, October
IS, 1928, and moved to Union county,
Ind, in 1855. He served throughout
the civil war as colonel of the Fourth
Indiana cavalry. After the war he
filed many offices of public trust, serv-
ing his people as state senator, MEM
Der of congress, Acknowledgements
and governor of his state. During the
war he was a republican, but Joined
the democratic party in 1871. Two
years ago he was appointed minister
to Mexico by President Cleveland.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
OUR MILITIA FORCES.

Abstract Showing the Organized Strength
for Missouri and Kansas.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-A letter from
the secretary of war transmitting to
congress an abstract of the militia
force of the United States shows the
following facts: Missouri-Organized
strength, 2,O96, including officers and
men; citizens available for military
duty, $4,000. Kansas - Organized
strength, 1,724; available, 100000 The
total of the militia of the United States
is 116, 500, and the available force I'M
organized is reckoned at 9, 5S2, SOC.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
scIentIacaIly Con.idered.

Merely as a new experience, Wen
dell" said the Boston young woman,
blushing family and wiping her lips,
Il find it not disagreeable, but do not
let it happen again. 1t is utterly
Illogical, irrelevant, and recent scien-
tiic investigation shows that it is
fraught with microbes"
1t seems the foolhardy young man
had kissed her.-Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
Something the Matter.

Doctor" said the excited man, 81
want you to come to the house at once.
My wife's aunt, who is living with US,
has something the matter with her
lower jaw. She can't get her mouth
shut"
when did 1t happen?" asked the
medicine man, as he drew on his gloves.
Il don't know just when it happened,
doc, but to-day was the first time we
noticed il. "-Cincinnati Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
The Difference.

Hostess with whom little Willy is
taking dinner)-And does your mother
allow you to have two pieces of pie
when you are at home, Willy?
Willy who has asked for the second
piece)-No, ma'am.
Hostess-Well. do you think she
would like you to to have two pieces
here?
Willy (confdently)-Oh, she wouldn't
care. This isn't her pie, you KNOW
Puck.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
RIbbon for AM EvenInr Waist.

: An effective garniture for an evening
waist is made of white satin ribbon,
embroidered with tiny gilt spangles in
terspersed with an occasional spangle
of roSe-hued glass. The ribbon should
be about an inch wide. Two rows serve
for the stock collar, two for the belt,
and single row is brought from each
side Of the collar in front and passed
around under the arms and carried
down to the waist line in the back and
tucked into the belt.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
Trains Collide In 3 Tunnel.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 1.-two
trains on the Castle Shannon railroad
collided last evening in the tunnel
near Monongahela and five men were
hurt and al engine and twenty-five
ears demolished
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
ALunar Ralpbox At colon.

SAN Francisco, Feb. 15.-The steam
er Colon from Panama brought story
of lunar rainbow at Colon January
IL. At first light cloud of vapor APP
peared and then the rainbow formed.
The colors were peculiar and startling.
This is the first evidence of lunar rain
bow since the sixteenth century.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
WOMEN MoNEYMAKERs.
A New Business Is That OF Decorating
Bachelor Ouarters..

Women as art decorators have done
a good deal of work within the past
year or two, but a unique speciality is
that of Miss Minnie Lewis, New York
artist, who has devoted herself largely
to furnishing bachelor quarters. One
suite arranged by her is called by
Chauncey NJ Depew the handsomest in
the town, and this is how the rooms ap-
pear:
The sitting-room is done in green,
drab and ecru, and the windows are
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
WISDOM,

Inquisitive Friend-I suppose you
wouldn't be defending that bank
robber if you thought he really took
the money?
Bright lawyer wouldn't be de-
Tending him if didn't think he took
enough to pay my bilL-N.Y. Herald
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
A Hawaiian Schooner Seized.

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. 15.-Ths
schooner H. C. HOLDER, Capt. Martin,
on arrival at this port to-day was seized
by Collector Fisher on charge of hav-
ing delivered arms to the revolutionistS
at the Hawaiian islands
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
MI..ourI Po.tmasters Named.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Fourth-class
postmasters: Borland, Lafayette coun-
ty, Mo-, L. q. Graham, vice ]. T. Har-
ness, resigned; Dinsmore, Mercer coun-
ty, Mo-, G. w. Horton, vice J. c. HAM
ilton, dead; Orchid, DeKalb county,
Mo-, L. D. Fisher, vice j. /. Redding,
resigned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22

MARK TwAIN's hands were photo
graphed recently and copies sent to
each of four experts in palmistry. One
discovered "a strain of southern blood
dating back 24O years" OF the fous
only one discovered any sense Of humoA
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
To Cure a Double Chin.

: A certain indolent woman with ten
dency toward having double chin has
hit upon a method of warding off the
evil day. She dislikes TO arise as soon
as she awakes, and she spends the half
hour or so before she gets out of bed each
morning in stroking her chin down into
her neck with firm, even strokes The
massage is undeniably good for her
chin, and she feels that her incidence
is forgivable under the circumstances.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-22
The Rashness of 1t.

Peggy-Was We hearin' that jeanne
Anderson's gettin' marriet?
Kirsty-Stupid creatur'! Hoo is she
able tae keep man7-London Punch.
The herald., 1895-12-07

would be well nigh universal. The Turks
had never a genius for civilization. but
they arc when inspired by the fanaticIsm
OF religion, among the bravest fighters in
the world.
"This is my plan for the solution of
the question:
Let the powers deposc the sultan and
place on the throne some able man con-
nected with the royal family of Russia.
Then let united Europe guarantee absu-
lutely the indie ,,endence of ouch govern
n; ent from outside interference. Fortu-
nately there are two men in Europe to-
day who would suit thu emergency. Pri-
marily my choice would be the Grand
Duke Alexander, who married the sister
of tho czar. Alexander visited the worlds s
fair at Chicago and is man OF ability
and liberal views. The other available
candidate for the Turkish throne is King
George OF Greece. who is an uncle of tho
Russian ear.
II believe, too, - continued Mr.. White
''that the European nations should DC
given some share of the spoils of the east
ir order to maintain the stability of the
Turkish government such AS suggested. I.
to protect the boundaries of the new en-
pire and to preserve peace and order.
Let Russia, for instance. have full swing
in Armenia. Give Syria to France. Let
England title to Egypt he confirmed.
Austria should be allowed Salonica tor a
Mediterranean seaport and Italy might
in return pe given Trieste ON the AdrIatic
by Austr ie. -
The herald., 1895-12-07
THE LOSS WAS SMALL
A Fire In the Wall Street Assay Office Caused
Excitement

Fire In the Wall Street Assay Office Caused
Excitement
NEW YORK. Dec. g. There was great
commotion in the assay Office in Wall
street this morning. The journal of an
engine in the deposit melting room,
where 50, 400, 900 il gold bars was being
arranged for shipment, became over eated
and the oil ignited. The flame followed
the oil tram along the point OF the ma
chinery to the ceiling. Great volumes
OF blAok smoke quickly filed all the
rooms of the building. Outside on the
Wall street side came grent kicking at
the doors. 1t was policeman trying to
get in. An official opened the door about
an inch and then Slammed the door in
the policeman's face. Tha policen an IAN
to a fire box and turned in ah alarm, and
in u few moments two engines ratified up
to the corner. The fremen, axes in hand,
made an onslaught on the iron doors, but
they were refused admittance. They IN
sisted and finally fifteen vera allowed to
enter
Mr.. Cross, chief clerk, said the only
danger was that the fire might have ex-
tended to the assay rooc. over the de.
posit melting room. The building was
old and the timbers very dry and conse-
quently highly inham mable.
The damage Will not amount to over
$l00. Most of 1T was done to the betting
and woodwork. There is sum amount
ing to nearly $20,0n0, 00O in the vaults in
the assay office; Sa00, 900 OF which is in
silver. The shipment of So, 400, zoo will
not be delayed. The assay office is in
building tnat was erected in 1928.
The herald., 1895-12-07
DURRANT'S DEATH Sentence
Has Been Pronounced by Judge
Murphy
A NEW TRIAL IS DENIED
The Court Expresses Concurrence ia
the Verdict
The Prisoner Ordered to San Quentin Prison
There to Await the Day to Be
Set for the Execution
NEW TRIAL IS DENIED
Associated Press Special Wire.


SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6.-Judge
Murphy this morning denied Theodore
Durrant's motion for q new trial and or
dcred the prisoner back to the county
Jail. In ten days he will be taken to San
Quentin prison, there to await sentence.
Durrant will appeal to the supreme court.
4 large force of deputy sheriffs was no
cessary to aid the police in guarding the
entrance to the court room. The crowd
was as large as during the trial.
Judge Murphy briefly overruled the
motion for new trial. He said he had
twice reviewed all the testimony in the
case, and every ruling he had made dur
ing the trial. He had examined all the
affidavits submitted and all the authori.
ties cited. He said If he thought any in
Justice had been done the prisoner OF
any error made whicn affected his rights,
he would not hesitate to grant new
trial, whatever the consequences or what
the criticism might be. But the court
was satisfied no error had been made and
that Durrant's trial had been fair and
impartial; that no right accorded to him
had been invaded, and that the Jury's
verdict had been in accordance with the
law and the evidence.
Durrant was then ordered to stand up.
The prisoner arose, pale and scowling,
but I'm passive as ever. The Judge briefly
reviewed the crime OF which Durrant
had been proven guilty. and expressed
his entire concurrence with the verdict.
He advised Durrant to seek repentance
and forgiveness in the divine source, now
his only refuge.
The court then pronounced sentence
which was that Durrant be kept in close
confinement by the sheriff in the county
Jail, and within ten days be delivered to
the warden of the San Quentin STATE
prison, there to be kept in close confine.
ment until such a day to be after wards
fixed when he should be hanged in Sar
Quentin until dead.
Durrant heard his sentence without
twitching a muscle, staring at the Judge
defiantly. Then he sat down and made
some remark to his father and smiled.
Dickinson, for the defendant, took for
NAL exception to the remarks of the court
ON the merits of the case, and said be
would this afternoon give notice OF ap-
peal to the supreme court. The court
room was then cleared.
1t Is limited by the district attorney
that Theodore Durfant will NOT be tried
for the murder of Minnie Williams at
present. The accession of the supreme
court on Durrant's appeal from the yer.
dict in the Lamont case will be awaited.
The herald., 1895-12-07
HE CAUSED A SENSATION
French Chamber of Deputies Startled
by a Shot
No Cause Is Assigned for the Act-The Shoot
er's Pistol Was Filled With
Blank Cartridges

PARIS, Dec. 6.-In this chamber of
deputies today, ut the conclusion of the
debate on the budget of the ministry of
justice, stranger in tine gallery fired
two shots from revolver. Thereupon
the electric bells, which we're placed all
over the building after the bomb out
rage was committed by Voillant, the an
archist, were rung ana the doors wers in
stantly closed and guarded. The
stranger was arrested. Nobody was hurt.
Gilbert LIE Noir, who fired the shots,
was seen to fire in the direction of the
diplomatic gallery and when he was
seized ne made no resistance. Gilbert
lie Noir ls found to be respectable
draper's clerk, 90 years of age. Upon his
examination by magistrate he declined
to respond to the questions put to him.
search of mis- sleeping apartment
proved without result. Nothing has yet
been discovered as to the motive for the
outrage. When arrested he said his
name was Gilbert lie Noir. His pistol
contained tour cartridges when it was
taken from him.
LONDON. Dec. 6.-The Paris cores
pondent OF the Times says it is believed
that lie Noir's pistol was charged only
with blank cartridges.