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The morning times., 1896-03-29
Laughs that May Echo Through the White House
Corridors
DIPLOMATIC CHUCKLES AND WELL-BRED HA-HAS
Jolly HawHa Mckinley Makes the Wekn Ring
and Is

Commerce, laughed like this. A guest re-
membcred it AMI reproduced itnext day:
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, would al
most lead one to believe that he had studied
TO initiate the silent merriment of Hawkeye,
the scout, immortalizcd by the late laInentstt
Fenimorc Cooper in THE Last OF the NJ
hicans.' The Davis laugh is like Davis him
self, reserved and silent 1t was "a difficult
thing to get a photographic reproduction
of it, SO much Sc that the effort was 1T last
given up in despair. 1t is a pity, however,
that the world should be deprived OF this
unique laugh, so the laugh has been repro
duced as nearly as possible from descrip-
tion given to the composer OF the music,
and when set to music runs easily.
If Speaker Reed be cZar, then long life
to the race of cZarS if all can laugh from
the ground up, as he does. No difficulty
was experienced in catching the Reed
laugh in the phonO graph. 1t could be heard
all over the corridors of the House when
the owner was laughing at the joke OF a
friend. There is full, round sound to
the Reed laugh that tells OF hearty digeS-
ton and a healthy soul.
1t comes suddenly like pail OF water
stopped over. II comes loGd like Niagara 5
roar. 1t affects the speaker. He wipes
his eyes, laughs again, and goes on talking.
This is his confidential laugh. For aC-
quaintances he has merry ripple.
The cheerful man who has not been
blessed by nature with a proper means
| of giving vent TO his cheerful feelings
and there are cheerful men who can't
The morning times., 1896-03-29

In a political canvass many qualiftca-
tions are nece ssary If tie candidate for the
popular favor is TO make a favorable i'm
preston.
OF all these, none is more requisite to
success than the ability to laugh heartily,
to laugh long and to laugh at any and every
opportunity where laughter can be judi
ciously interpolated.
Personal Impressions in Il Presidential
campaign count for much, therefore it is
not to be wondered at that the various
gentlemen who have Presidential bees
a-buzzing round their bonnets are prac-
ticing their campaign laughs and getting
into training for the fight for popularity
and votes. To some of them 1T comes
extremely hard to assume the role OF a
"jouy good fellow" for their natural
bent is serious one. To Others laughter
comes as ripples on lake.
Among the hearty, whole-souled laugh
ers who find mirth easyis ex-Speaker Crisp
His nature is personification of good
fello wship, externally, ana when he hears
a humorous story he throws his head back
and laughs long and loud. He grasps the
point OF Joke quicker than a constituent
does a proffcred public office, and his
"ha! hal hai' makes the roof ring. 1t is
a musical laugh, too. 1t appealed TO o
musical visitor in the Crisp home, who set
The morning times., 1896-03-29
OWNERS ARE
MATELESS
Palatial Nests, Where Lone
Widows, WidOWerS and
Bachelors Manage to
Drag Out an Existence
With the Aid Of Lux
urieS that Countless
Millions and Social
Position Give.
Wedding Bells Soon to Ring in
AStOr'S Mansion.

for her and dispensing hospitality during
Mrs. Grants many visits TO her other
children
Mrs Sheridan's home is a delightful one,
but her fortune is said 70 be small for so
tEustriOus a name Sun it is Ioveliness
and fame that count IN the matrimonial
interest, and this both she and Mrs SartOri5
OVID
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard Of New York Is
a widow whose millions and whose position
in society make her mark FOR The for
tune hunter and the man who wants to
marry into the highest grade OF society.
Though Mrs. Shepard has never had a
reputation for what is known as sweet
ness" she is very elegant IN manner and
is the typical grande dame, able TO pre-
side at the head Of a table set with q
service OF solid gold.
The Shepard town house stands on Fifth
avenue, a few blocks below Central Park
1t is one OF several built by Mr.. Wander
bilt for his children Its location and SiZe
make il one of the cOSJliesJ spots In New
York. The country house best liked by
Mrs Shepard is a country mansion recently
built up the Hudson in the midst OF rOllina
acres.
Mrs Shepard's best friends hope that she
VIII marry this year. Within a short time
her home has lost one daughter by death,
another by marriage TO David Hennen Nor
ris. and has had heartache, it is said, over
the trouble OF Elliott T Shepard, jr., in
Yale
And there are other homes that may be
filled this EasteTtide, homes that would in-
terest thousands in the marriage feast
One of these belongs to ChaunCey NJ De-
pew, that warrior of society who holds OUT
through all temptations, looking for "a
woman famous. talented, beautiful and ad-
mIrable. She need not have money, as I
have enough for her adds the inimitable
ChaunCey.
There is a national prejudice against
encouraging q change IN certain famous
names-LOgan, Blaine, Grant, Sheridan,
Custer, Garfield. But where youth and
beauty interfere this prejudice must be
waived.
The home OF Allison may receive a bride
this Easter. and the home OF Harrison
VIII assuredly get such a bounteOus gift.
In america it is deemed desirable for
those high in life, political and social,
to fill the vacant chair in front OF the
family hearth. IL is her venerable age
alone that keeps Mrs William AStOr'5
name so free from talk Of marriage.
But even she has been coupled with q
| weIEknovn widoweT whose New York
house is only less magnificent than Mrs.
Astor's. This lady, now IN London, soon
to go TO Paris, then TO the United states
for the Newport scaSOn-au In three
monthS-is able to presiGe over the new
est and Hvehest establishment in town
1t is pity that foreign etiquette does
not encourage its BismarCks, its queens,
its Nine. de Lesseps, its Mrs. Carnots,
and its prinCesses to marry again IL
Victoria had welded all would have
| been different.
The morning times., 1896-03-29
Twelve Ships Have Pre-
Ceded NanSen'S Stout
Little Vessel in Search
of the North Pole and
the Fame and Glory
that Will Reward the
Finder if He Returns
to the World.
NOrWegian'S Theory of a Northwest
p9SSaOn
Passage.

Pole or no pole; hero or crank, successful
or unsuccessful, Fridtjof Nansen comes
home soon-by boat, with flying colors. if
he has succeeded; footsore, without a sledge
and with displeased crew, If be has not His
little home near Christiania is waiting for
him. His wife, who has been his co-workeF.
is looking for him; and, though Nansen's ex-
pedition went 10 stay five years, it is al
most certain that this spring viii find him
back again IN his Morse home.
When DE Long died up In the Arctic re-
gions, after losing his good ship. the Jean
nette, he left writings and diary that
advanced theory that is still alive, though
DE Long Is not. That theory was that the
great current that carries ships up toward
the pole at the west OF Alaska comes Down
from the pole again between Greenland
and Norway. 1t was while looking for this
current that De Longs ship got squeezed
in theice and broke. This is what happened,
expressed in plain language
Nansen saw that De Long had the right
theory regarding the pole, and started TO
carry lt fCrther three years ago. He set
out for the north in December, 1893.
His ship is the thirteenth one that has
started in the polar regions that has been
gone long enough TO entitle it to be called
ship That has passed into the arctic night.
Many have started and have come back
after three months convinced that death,
and death without glory lay beyond. But
NanSen's is the thirteenth with a record of
bravery
The commanders who have made a rec
ord are less numerous than the ships Sew
era have gone twice, taking a new ship
with them on each voyage Sir John
Franklin began in S45 Elisha Kane
started In 1853, Char.cs Hall and Isaac
Hayes looked for the poe in $50, remain
ing a longer or shorter time, but still among
the valiant searchers. Baron Nordenskjold
essayed 10 place his name win theirs in
1868, and in 1879 the ill-fated De Long
made a stride with the Jeanette that is
still reaclng in arctic work Greedy in
1881 ana Pcary In 1892 brought back
tidings a few years later that are still
news. Then, with a few boats intervcn'
ing, EanSen set out in 1898 Wellman and
Jackson followed him in 1894
But il IS in Nansen that interest now
centers because NanSen claims to have
accomplished, or report claims for him
that he has accomplished, that which al
the brave host came back pronounCing
impossible Those who could not get bach
with such tidings left their bodies, like
De Longs, as monuments of the unattain
able.
"It could not be done, or I had done 1t
It could not be won or faith had won it. >
Never lines told better than these the
human energy exerted and the impossi
biltiies Of human strength going further
But in The face of all this comes Nansen's
"Eureka-I have found itl''
The news came toy carrier-pigcons, b!
Siberian messengers, by the meager way
The morning times., 1896-03-29
Reeds jolly Laugh.
McK;nley's "WeIkin" Laugh.

laugh-should take the Reed laugh as q
model and work industriously TO initiate
It, To the ascetic man who would like
to change his condition and get fat the
Reed laugh is offered as a recipe.
An effort was made to catch the laugh
of ex-President Harrison, but the attempt
failed, for that gentleman laughs aloud
not at all and is contented with smiles.
Almost of the same type is Senator Cor
man, but his laugh was caught after some
trouble. 1t is cold and formal express
sion of feeling. 1t is not calculated to
encourage the man who prides himself on
his stock of good stories. 1t is the laugh
of a man who thinks seriously of the
affairs of life and has neither time nor
inclination TO indulge in its frivolities,
OF, If he does, he studiously conceals the
fact behind an impenetrable mask of
gravity and smiles
The morning times., 1896-03-29

1t to music. The genuine Crisp laugh
is here given in musical measure, so that
any one who wishes to cultivate one
similar can try it over on the piano and
study it at leisure.
Senator Hill is not a hearty laugher.
He laughs in the reserved way Of man
who would say, II would like to laugh
heartily but really-really am too bash
full to do so. l shall put way this matter
and laugh about it when L get home to
Wolferts Roost, where my dog lives.
Now laugh up my sleeve
There is always something slightly de-
pressing about the Hill laugh. 1t does
not encourage familiarity. Yet 1t is a
laugh that a dignified bank president or
even a 1ignitary of the church could prac-
tice without losing caste among his as
sociates as a frivolous man.
The phonograph has been called into
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-11

Mr.. Frank Smith made his wife
happy last week by presenting her
with a high grade Chickering piano.
c. G. Null was united in marriage
last Tuesday evening to Mrs. Ella
Curnutt, of Colony, the ceremony TAX
ing place at the home of the bride.
Every body knows "COn." Null, for
he has been here since the water was
turned on up in Deer Creek, and
everybody who knows him is his
friend. Mrs. Curnutt is held in the
highest regard by those who know
her. The REGISTER extends cOngrat-
ulations and best wishes.
This is to certify that 1, Geo. Alyea
am SO years of age, and have been
bald for more than fifteen years. l
have been using KnOwltOn's Dander-
inc for sixty days, and now have a
good growth ofhair completely cover
ing the bald spot. am greatly sur
prised at the wonderful results of
your remedy, as it has done for me
what 1 considered impossible for any
remedy to do. Formerly of lola.
Kan, now Kingfisher, Okla. For
sale by Campbell & Christian.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-11

The city council is having a tem-
porary building put up on the lot
recently bought by the city, to serve
as a "city hall' until we feel rich
enough to erect a great big permaA-
ent one. The building is 25x4O and
will have room for the Police Judge
and city council. room for the fire
apparatus and a store-room for tools
and implements. The entire cost of
the structure will not exceed $3.50, and
the council has used wisdom in max
ing this outlay instead of continuing
to pay rent.
Ed McHugh and "Shadder" were
arrested the other day for shooting
craps and are to be tried before Judge
Gard on the 18th. A certain man
who learned that his boy had been
playing the game at certain places
about town, went around one day last
week and served notice that if he
ever heard of another game going on
at those places he would have every
body connected with them pulled.
And he won't do thing" but keep
his word either, so the safe plan fer
the offenders is to quit.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-11
the WEEKS NEWS.

Buckeye Churn at COutant's.
Fountain pens at Walt McNiel's.
Buy your groceries Oft. M. Bartels.
8 bars Silk Soap for 25c at Malcom's.
Buy drugs of Campbell & Christian.
ViOlins $3.50, Guitars S4.95, at Goff's.
Ladies gold and silk Guards at
GofFs.
Coffee Is cents a pound at Klau-
mann's.
Pure Buckwheat at Cowan & Aush-
erman.
Home made cookies. Champion
Bakery.
Lamps! Lamps! Lamps! at t. NJ.
Bartels'.
Hickory nuts at KIaumann's at CSC
bushel.
Lunch at any hour. Nickel Plate
Restaurant.
Parsnips and sweet potatoes at
Klaumann's.
Malcolm & Co. will sell you gallons
best oil for 55c.
Ten bars of soap for twenty-five
at Klaumann's.
NJ. w. Neal went to Eureka Mon
day on business.
% pounds of sugar for S1.OO at Brig
ham & Munger's.
Laundry soap, two bars for five
cents. L. R. Ray.
Special prices on canned goods.
Champion Bakery.
Xmas novelties are beginning to ar
rive at CulbertsOns.
Get window glass and putty at the
Crystal Drug Store.
Hicks sausage, lard and mince
meat at Klaumann's.
We will trade new stoves for old
ones. Bartels & Son.
Car load of Northern potatoes at
Brigham & Munger's.
S. Malcolm, LaHarpe, will pay Is
cents dozen for eggs.
> Malcolm & Co., LaHarpe, want your
butter, poultry and eggs.
We are the depot of Allen county
for Lamps. T. NJ. Bartels.
Stop and look through the show case
at the P. o. Jewelry Store.
Judga Knox, of Princeton, ILL.,, is in
lola this week on business.
Canned Asparagus. Nothing finer.
Try can. II. Klaumann's.
20 pounds of granulated sugar for
$1.OO at Malcom's, LaHarpe.
Rye -four and pure Buck-wheat
-four at Brigham & Munger's.
Restaurant to sell, good location,
good trade. Bostwick & Acers.
Money to loan on improved farms,
lowest rate. BOstwick & Acers.
A. n. Swigart returned from a
business trip to Moran Tuesday.
Mrs. Bette McCreery, of Ottawa,
has fallen heir to a great fortune.
Roger Bros. knives, forks and spoons
at reduced prices at Walt McNiels.
Pure maple syrup and pure apple
vinegar, at Cowan & Ausherman's.
If you buy your Meat of Ray you
3 will get good Meats and good weight.
If yeu have any tin work don't fail
to consult prices of w. L. Bartels &
Son.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. McCloud returned
from their visit to Pittsburg last Sat-
urday.
fyou have any tin work of any kind
that you want done, get w. d. Roots
prices
New goods, new styles and moder-
ate prices at the West Side Furniture
Store.
A fine line of medallion pictures just
received at the West Side Furniture
Store.
Trade at II. Klaumann's, he sells
cheap and pays more for country
produce.
Butter knives with Pearl Handles
in satin lined boxes for $3.50, at Walt
McNieps.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-11
The Ques tion-

Before us is, What shall we make, or
what shall we buy for Christmas presents?"
The husband wonders what to give his wife;
the wife busies herself studying up some
thing appropriate for her husband ; the
young man is worried little over a present
for his sister and a great deal more over one
for some other fellows sister, and the other
fellows sister is hard at work on similar
problem. Then fathers and mothers, aunts
and uncles, children and cousins and friends
all have to be remembered. It takes both
money and brains to get through the Christ
mas season. We can save you some money
on presents you buy of us and will give you
the use Of our brains free, in the matter of
what would be appropriate. Try us. We
have piles Of damasks and napkins; lots of
fine towels; dozens upon dozens Of the
daintiest handkerchiefs, feather boas, silk
muf1ers, gents slippers, bed spreads, fancy
caps for children, mufs, portiere curtains,
rugs, and all kinds Of materials
for fancy work.
~ OrtE1rup 9rOs.,
Leaders in Low Prices.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-11
EARN A DOLLAR

~ every day to that often and buy
Y Oh $1,000 worth of goods, when you will get a
Want discount of 10 per cent and then zen. you have
10 quit sale, but is a enough cut on the
=@ price of goods for cash in hand in which
we divide the ordinary profits with you. We shall
nue this cut in prices long it is popular with the
public as it is now 1t has stimulated trade suf
GENTLY to make it very profitable to We have sold
enough goods by giving this discount to make us
money than continue at the old prices charged
by other merchants You actually 10 cents every
dollars worth and every dimes worth of goods
you buy if you buy of u.s. and you get the money back
in your hand prove it. Everything is marked in plain
figures so there be mistake Or we will take your
corn at cents bushel above the market price.
RIB STEVENSON,
King of Low Prices
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-06
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET

New York, Feb 5.-The general
opinion in Wall street to-day was that
European financiers cannot fail TO be
profoundly impressed by the result Of
the popular loan experiment. The
large percentage of foreign bids is very
significant, in view of the previous
apprehension felt as to the probable
unfavorable effect of the free silver
manifestations of the United States
upon European sentiment. During
the forenoon the maket displayed
hesitancy which was reflected in an
irregular movement Of prices and
moderate volume of business The
official announcement regarding the
aggregate bids and average OF prices
impaired actual buoyancy 10 the mar
ket, prices advancing all along the
line ON the execution of heavy orders.
More genuine commission buying oc-
Cured than has been noted for some
time past, and wholesale covering of
shorts took place. About two-thirds
Ut the transactions were recorded III
the afternoon session. st. Paul again
led the active market in point of ac-
fivity with sugar few thousand
shares behind
The closing was animated ana strong
ut about the best prices.
The favorable influences bearing
upon stocks were also reflected in the
bond market. The speculative issues
were the most conspicuous. The deal
ings amounted to Sl,970.000.
The government market responded
to the favorable news regarding the
latest government loan by strength
and unusual activity. The new As
coupons rose 3 per cent. A number OF
transactions were executed, ''seller 10
and 20 days" The aggregate dealings
were S13s,000.
WV YoRB, Feb. 5.--Money an call
firm az 3MS per cent; Il oaa er
cent. closed 2 Pc cent. me 3eercan
tile Beoet per cen d ing change
steady. with sctual hrsin ess IN Msnkers'
bills at ~ MA IS for de II sd mn
A. 81 FIR go DAYS Posted rates 49, "A sSl4
nd ASK IA s91S Commercials I'LL ass
Bar silver 67N Silver certificates 6iLG
9TH. Mexican dollars Gov snm-pt
bonds buoy MT. State binds dull Rail
road bonds firm.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-06
Wheat Advanced l l-2 Cents in
First Hours Trading.
MANY MILLIONS ARE SOLD
Rut 1t Held It's Own and Closed
"a Cents Higher.
COTTON CLOSED LITTLE HIGHER
The Result of the Popular Loan Expert
ment Caused an Advance in the
Price of Stocks Along
the Line.

New York, Feb. Cotton opened
steady with near months slightly
higher and late months slightly lower
Throughout the session the market
showed a tendecy to widen differences
between the near and future deliver
les. The general level of prices has
been higher on the successful out
come of the now bond subscription,
but commission houses claim that they
are still practically without outside
interest. orders being very scarce from
any source. The firmer feeling was
increased by reported small offerings
in the South. The firmness was well
maintained up to the close of the mar
ket. the smaller buyers being largely
responsible for the improvement of 2(d
6 points and steadiness seen at the
close of business. The larger snort
operators propose to remain by their
contracts until the movement shall
have shown some decided tendency to-
wards falling off.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-06

Train on The Scotland Neck Branch Road
leaves Weldon 3 50 p m, Halifax 4 10 . IN, a IN.
rlVfS scotland Neck o. p m, Greenvflle 45
p IN, kinstOn % D III. Returning leaves Kin.
ston q m, Greenyiile s % a m arriving at
Halifax u 90 H. Weldon II 90 a M. daily ex
cept sunday
T aims on the Washington Branch leave
Washington 90 m, arr ives Parmelp 40 q
IN, Tarh0ru ~ 90 a M. returning leaves Tar.
boto 80 y m Pal IneIe 20 y ~ arrive Wash
tH2 ton - y m, daily except sunday. Con
netts With trains on Scotland Neck Branch
Train leaves TarhOrO daily except sun.
day at 4 40 p IN, Sunday PAS y m: arrives
plymouth % p 10, 90 p m; returning leaves
glVmouth dairy except Sunday, 90 a IN .
sunday > 30 81 III; arrives TarboTo 10 - NJ
Train on Midland n G. Branch leaves
Goldsboro daily, except Sunday O5 a M ar.
irving Smit' field 30 n N: returning leaves
omlthheid SEQ IN; arrives at Goldsb ro
Trains on Nashville Branch leave ROCKY
Mount az ! 30 p IN, arrives NashViIle5 o. % M
sprung Hope . 30 ~: returning leaves
spring nope on a III, Ma hVille IS n IN. ar
rrlvfS az Rocky Mount o. IN, daily, except
Sunday
Trains on Latta Branch, orence r.
leave Latta 40 p IN, arrive Dunbar 50 y M
Clio Us; returning Clio s 10 n, Dunbar z Il
day.
rain en- Clinton Branch leaves warsaw
for Clinton daily. except Sunday, at IL Id 4
m: retuI ming leaves Clinton st 20 % IN. and
90 . M.
Train No u makes close connection ~
Weldon for all points north daily. an rail
via Richmond, and daily except Sunday via
Portsmouth end Bay Line. Also at Rocky
Mount with Norfolk & Carolina r. r for N@f
folk daily and all points north via Norfolk
daily, except Sunday.
JOHN + DIVINE. GenISuu
j X. kENLY, Genl Manager.
L. NJ. EMtRsoN, Traffic Manager.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-06
BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE, Fcb. --ti3or- Fl IN;
Western guDerfne s2.550l4. 70, do extra
~ 9l1S. 80: family s3.6G43.S5, winter whaa1
patent S3 9004 Is; spring wheat, parent
dc. spring 81; spring wheat straight s. 500
800
n haat- Unsettled and b cher; arol and
February 7515@75M March -; Nay 1890
749[; steamer No. red Southern wheat
by Sample 7sM77; do. on grad 1915.
Corn Firmer: spot and February 35|M
331k March 3. IGte4 May 3518@ 359z; steam
e. inixea 203 Is; Southern white corn
s22z Gl33% do yellow corn, a2Sz@ 3}M
Oats-Frm; No 2Whlts Western ~; NO.
2 mixed western do highs
Rye Quiet and stead; 30. 2, 81 IA for
near by: 4e447 for western.
Hay-DuIl: choice Timothy sl6 asked.