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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
ST. MARKS.
Sentiments Inspired by an cid Church
Efect of Eugue Music.

S0uL1nGnI4
Effect Of Eugue Music.
ANY old and beautiful church give Ha
all that is most moving and noblest-
organism, beauty, absence of all things
momentary and worthless, exclusion
of grossness, of brute utility and mean
compromise, equality of all men be-
fore God; moreover, time, eternity the
past and the great dead All noble
churches give us this; how much more,
therefore, says the Contemporary Re-
view, ST. Marks, which is nohlest and
most venerablel
1t has, like no other building, been
handed over by man to nature; time
molding and tinting into life this struc-
ture already so absolutely organic, so
fit to live. For its curves and vaultings,
its cupolas mutually supported, the
weight of each carried by all; the very
color of the marbles, brown, blond, liv-
ing colors and the irregular symmetry,
flower-lille, of their natural patterning,
are all seemingly organic and ready for
vitality. Time has added that, with the
polish and dimming alternately of the
marbles. the billowing of the pavement,
the slanting of the columns and last,
but not least, the furnishing of the gold
and the graduating of the mosaic into
an uneven surface; the gold seeming
to have become alive and in a way
vegetable, and to have faded and shrunk
like autumn leaves.
One Sunday morning they were sing
ing some fugue composition. by know
not whom. How well that music suit
ed ST. Marks! The constant inter
change of vault and vault, cupola and
cupola, column and column, handing
on their energies TO one another; the
springing up of new details gathered
at once into the great general balance
of lines and forces: all this seemed to
find it's natural voice in that fugue, to
express, in that continuous revolution
of theme chasing. enveloping theme,
its own grave emotion of life everlast-
ing: Being, becoming; becoming, be-
ing.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
silver Question In /. Nutshsll.

In every rural town of the country
ree coinage advocates are promising
farmers that Is to ! would raise the
price of grain and meat and thus re-
duce the proportions OF the produce OF
the farm that goes to pay the labor en-
Dloyed. OF all brazen performances OF
the century, the most fmpudent Is that
by which at the same time the wage
Farmers are invited to assist in a cam
1aign to make their food more dear to
shem and to reduce the wages of the
most numerous class of wage earners IN
the country.
There is the silver question in nut
she'll. It is simply a question as TO
whether our wage earners are getting
too high wages. They may as we'll face
The question. If our wage earners be-
lieve they are getting too high wages
and that this country is suffering In
consequence, all they have to do is to
take lower wages. If they prefer 3
roundabout way, they can favor free
coinage of silver, and they will get their
wages cut down half without any fur
Their trouble ON their part.
In the light of our experience with
fat money legislation. from the green
back to the Sherman pig silver certif-
Gates, this long suffering country will
finally learn that wealth is not created
by fat, but is made by labor; that the
law can put no dollar into any mans
pocket unless it first takes it from the
pocket of some other man, and that
wage earners are first and most inter-
ested in opposing interference by law.
There has never yet been made law TO
put into any laboring mans pocket q
single dollar that he did not earn. He
of all men, therefore, has the best right
to insist that there shall be no law passed
that will raise the price of what he has
to buy, and thus take from him any
portion of what he has earned.
John De Witt Warner in Present "Prob-
LENS"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Farmer Browns Dilemma.

We had public mCetin in the schoolhouse here
last week,
And Teller from the city was invited down to
speak.
He'd studied up the subject Of finance in every
light
And claimed that he was competent to show
as what was right.
He says this whole blamed country is a-goin
straight to smash
Unless we get free coinage and increase our
stock Of cash.
He's iggered out daisy scheme and claims
twill work immense.
He wants to make our dollars cost US only fifty
cents.
He'd take 'tfour bits" of silver and would run
it through the mint
And stamp it plain "'one dollar" with the gov
ernment's imprint.
The mines would dump their silver, and the
nation, slick as grease,
Would grind out brand new dollars at Just fifty
cents apiece.
That sounds all right, but since that night
somehow I've often wondered
When buy dollars for fifty cents who'll take
'em for hundred.
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Confiscat ion of Propertr.

A farmer who had his crop of wheat
stored in his granary or manufactures
who had his warehouse filed with the
products of his factory would think it
an outrage if the government should in
sist upon confscating one-haf of his
wheat or his goods What better is il
by the adoption of free silver coinage to
confscate one-half of the wage of the
laborer or one-half of his accumulated
savings, or one-half of the dover of the
widow. or one-half of the pension of the
soldier?-Philadelphia Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
RESTORATION OF OIL WELLS.
An Electric Heater Designed TO Cause the
Renewed Flow.

An Electric Heater Designed TO Cause the
Renewed Flow.
The general theory concerning the
exhaustion of so many oil wells is that
the oil, in passing through the stone,
has clogged the porous stones with par
affine in such quantities that the fur
ther flow is stopped and the well ceases
to produce. In many cases, says the
Age of Steel, the supply in the earth has
not given out, but only ceases to flow
when the exit is stopped. The stone
through which the oil passes is of a very
porous nature, and, as the liquid is in
a crude state, the thick matter becomes
as dregs, settling in the rock near the
edges of the bottom of the well. Tor
Pedoes have been used to shatter the
stone at the bottom of the well, thus
breaking up the clogged matter, but this
method is expensive. A new method
consists in lowering a peculiarly-con-
structed electric heater into the well.
The machine, which is eight feet long
and resembles an iron cartridge. is
placed in the bottom of the vel and tho
current regulated so that the heater
receives just enough to produce an enor-
nous heat without melting the metal.
By this peculiar construction of the
carbon-packed chambers the intense
heat is radiated about into the rock in
all directions. Thus the paraffine and
other refuse are softened and melted
up so that they run, and when the we'll
is started fresh flow takes place, just
as strong as it did when the we'll was
lust sunk.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Wages Go Up Slowly.

Every cheap money experiment ever
tried in this or in any country has dem
onstrated that. while prices respond
quickly to changes in the value Of
money, wages respond but slowly.
Hence, though wages appear to rise
when money is depreciating. they are in
reality falling The difference in rapid
ity with which wages and prices go up
has been illustrated by prices going up
in elevators while wages walk up the
stair steps. 1t is certain that wage earn
ers always lose and never gain by being
paid in a deprecated or depreciating
currency.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
A Baby Carriage.

Mr.. Frederick Locker-Sampson men
lions in his photographed sketch.
my Condolences" that walking in
Greenwich park one day, the only NOR
tai he met was simpering lass, reading
comic paper, and pushing her charge
il a baby-carriage. He thus comments
on the meeting: There is nothing mere
beautiful in nature than a woman with
a child in her arms. An experienced
nurse handling baby is pretty sight.
Conceive if Raphael had had to deal
with the perambulator!
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
The One Thing Necessary.

EYES," said the wife of the man who
mad become suddenly rich, 1--WE are look
ing for a summer place. If you know
of one that's for sale"
al do" interrupted the caller. 81
know of a splendid place"
"Well, if it has hyphenated name,
like Sandtop-on-the-Hill, We'll ve1y like
" buy it."-Chicago Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
The Priv Council.

The Law Times, of London, calls at
tention to the fact that the privy coun-
Gil, of which the cabinet is merely a
committee unknown to the law, has
entirely ceased to hold meetings for
purposes of deliberation and has be-
come a body of a merely ceremonial
nature. So completely, however, have
the functions of the two bodies been
ASSOCIATED that whereas the privy coun-
ell cannot meet except under the presi-
dency of the sovereign, the sovereign
cannot constitutionally preside at a
meeting of the cabinet.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Restore the Zero Freezing Point.

In the haste in which the Democrats
at Chicago prepared their platform they
forgot to include the plank declaring in
favor of restoring the natural freezing
point of zero Mankind has suffered and
shivered tremendously because of this in,
human standard of temperature adopted
undoubtedly at the instigation of coal
barons and quack doctors. Without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation let Us proceed to lower the
freezing point and to reform our climate
in the interests of the masses.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Want the Rest Tools

The farmer and the mechanic must
be free to use the very best tools and
supplements, and the merchant and
banker must be free to use the very best
money and instruments Of credit. An
honest and stable measure of value is
Just as necessary to both as are honest
and stable measures of weights and
quantities, and it requires no argument
to show that without these it would be
impossible TO transact the ordinary bust
ness of the country. John g.
Carlisle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
The Bargain Counter Candidate.

''Some of the reports say that the
women went wild over Bryan at differ
ent places along his route, remarked
the horse editor.
That's natural, replied the snake
editor. He is the bargain counter cam
didate. &"
''How so?''
''He wants to mark the dollar down
to 50 cents "-Pittsburg Chronicle-Tel-
egraph.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
The Wrong Kind.

EYES," said the man in the straw
hat, "Sharpleigh tells me that he takes
his religion into his business"
The man in the new tan shoes shud-
dered.
That's why I'm always scared to do
business with SharpleIgh," he returned,
his head.-N. Y. Recorder.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
KIPLING,S SNAKE.
Showing the Force of an II-Ordered I'M
aEfnatiOn.

Showing the Force of an nl-Ordered Inn
aEfnatton.
a writer in McClure's Magazine tells
how he edited a paper in India with the
help Of Rudyard Kipling. and he men
tons as a side issue peril from snakes
which Kipling once underwent. The
danger OF snakes in Lahore was real
enough, and the place was rich in Scor-
pions. The person who tells the story
had been stung by scorpion in bed one
morning. and Kipling aided him in the
afternoon in a scorpion hunt. They
found &c under the mating in The YER
anda outside the bedroom door. beside
a few eeBtipedes, and put the lot into
a large tUmbler. and filled it up with
whisky.
One day. when we were dressing in
the morning. I heard KiPling shouting,
and went into his room. His face was
pale with horror. and he was tightly
clasping one leg above the knee.
There's a snake" he gasped, inside
my trousers, and think I've got him by
the head. Put your hand up from be-
low and drag him out"
Iobserved that Kipling only Thought"
he had it by the head. and that really
its head might be at the other end. in
which case-but before had finished.
saw the horror in his face relax and
give place to a puzzled look succeeded
by fits of laughter. Endeavoring to as
certain by the sense of touch whether it
was the head he was grasping, he had
discovered that it did not really feel like
any part of snake at all. In fact it had
4 buckle, and he realized that his braces
had been dangling inside the garment
when he mt IL on
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
How Bryan VIII "Do" the Trusts.

Mr.. Bryan to the Trusts-You fell
lows are not in it with me. You think
you're doing great things when you put
up the price of one thing at time
and you get cussed for it besides. But
my little silver trust scheme puts up
prices on everything at once, and 1
make 'em think we're doing 'em a
favor. You fellows are too slow.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Satisfaction.

Henly-Smith and Jones called each
other a liar. Have they given each
other satisfaction yet?
Digby-Yes.
Henley-With fists or pistols?
Digby-No; they left it to COM
mittee of two of Jones' friends and two
of Smiths to say who was the liar, and
the committee was evenly divided
Bay CITY Chat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Even though the farmers NAV

Even though the farmers may be
right in thinking that they are not as
prosperous as they ought to be, it by no
means follows that free coinage will
improve their condition. Because a man
has rheumatism is no reason why he
rhould take the advice of a quack doc
tor who prescribes big dose of ipecac.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Good Thing for Dyspeptics-

Mrs. Cumso-Jack, dear, what doyou
think of the idea that food can be intro
duced into the stomach by means of
the cathode ray?
Mr.. Cumso--Well, think that would
be the ideal light luncheon.-Town
Topics
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Highly Appropriate.

"Uncle George, what is a valedic-
tory?"
Its the farewell address the girl
graduate reads to her weeping class
mates the night before she packs her
trunk to visit among them all summer"
Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
He Had Remembered Her.

Miss Singer wonder if that rich
uncle OF mine remembered me when he
made his will? / used to sing for him.
Mr.. Law-Pm sure he must have. He
hasn't left you anything. - Yonkers
Statesman
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
His Idea of Size.

Talking about chickens" said the
rural citizen who hsbitually exag-
gerstes, ''I've got the most remarkable
hen in the country"
"a good layer?'
That's her strong point. Why, sir"
he said. getting excited as he talked,
"that fowl, sir, lays hens eggs as big as
hail stones" -Washington Star.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Gratifying improvement.

"I am glad to see you are looking 50
much better than when l met you last,
Miss Quickstep."
"Why, when was that, Mr.. Spoona-
more?"
Last Thursday, on the boulevard.
You were riding a bicycle. Chicago
Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Queer Church spire.

One of the most eccentric church
spires is that of the parish church (Ail
Saints of Chesterfield. with its curious
spi-e. POS feet high, and CA feet of the
perpendicular. Whichever way che ob-
server looks at this curious spire it APP
pears to bulge out in that direction.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Where Cupid Has Wheels.

81 love her!" he cried in frenzy;
81 love her." he did declare;
But, alas, we can never marry!"
And he wildly tore his hair.
1--WE money to pay the grocer,
The landlord could have his share,
But my stipend is all too meager
To keep two wheels in repair"
Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
The Next Best.

Well" sighed the girl, "as cannot
be man, suppose must do the next
best thing!"
what is that?" asked her mother.
"Have one."-N. Y. World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
Mere Force of Habit.

Force of habit is great thing"
What makes you think 500"
81 just saw Jawkins and his best
girl on a tandem, and they had the
lamp turned down until it was almost
extinguished."- Y. World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
A Delay.

What is the baby's name? Indeed
We haven't one selected,
We're waiting till November comes
To see which mans elected.
Washington Star.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-30
DispropOrtionate.

Once more the clamorous chase for power
Sets all the watching world a-thrill,
While leaders promise in an hour
What centuries could scarce fulfill.
Washington Star.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-27

Alma grew ND as beautiful as one OF
Raphael's picture angels; u her peau-
~ was OF a directly opposite style
10 that of her handsome mother. al
ma rcsnmbled the patrician women OF
her fathers family. Her form was OF
fairy-like proportions, small, slender,
delicate, vet ~wellrounded n very
graceful. Her features were OF Inc
purest Grccian type, her complexion
was exouisitely fair, with the falntest
rosc-tint flushing cheeks and lips. Tier
hair was of a pale-gOld color; her eye
brows and eyelashes of a darker hue,
shaded deep-bluc eyes, full or pensiNe
thought. Hers was Il beauty thaI
might have gladdened a family circle
and adorned society. But, alas for Al
ma. Her young life passed III a worse
than c%onventual seclusion.
Scarcely any form of existence
this world could be so lonely ana II
as that Of this fair girl III
Edeniawn-Edenlawn, II paradise TO
look at, a purgatory to live in!
After the departure of her governeSS,
Alma was literally solitary. Her moth
er. in the blind seltishness OF Il cher
ished grief. dwelt apart in her oWn
private suite of rooms. which she new
err left except at the call of charity.
Alma had neither brother, siste',
friend or neighbor: II was utterly
companiOnless, and her life. Therefore
more lonely than perhaps that OF any
other creature in the world.
The children of the poorest parents
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-27

I the ceuter, from level to level, from the
house to the lake. 1t was adorned
with parterres of beautiful flowers,
groves of rare shrubs, and groups of
fine statues.
On each side of these ornamented
grounds, and behind the house, stood
the ancient woods, where the fine old
forest trees were kept well trimmed
and free from underground by he zeal
of old Davy Denny, the head gardener,
whose care of his place was a labor of
earnest love.
And this was well, for ali the interest
taken in 1t by the proprietrnss, the
Hon. Mrs. Elyerton. this paradise
might have fallen into desolation, or
been transformed to Il Gehenna.
For this beautiful Edenla wn, though
a comparatively new place, was a
house with a very dark history.
1t was some years before the time of
which We now write that the Honor
able Hollis Elverton, only son Of Baron
Elverton Of Torg Castle, in Yorkshire,
while staying in Paris. married the
beautiful and naughty Athenie de la
Compile, daughter of that celebrated
General de la Compile, who held so high
Il place In the esteem of the eX-King
Louis Philippe, and in the councils of
the nation.
Atnenie de Ia Compile was a tall and
dark brunette. with raven black hair
and flashing black eyes, and with an
imperiouS temper and 4 commanding
presence.
Immediately after their marriage the
young couple set out for a heightened
tour on the continent, md came to
England only at the end of twelve
months.
After a short season spent il London,
where the imperial beauty of Mrs. Ell
verton created an immense sensation,
at the close of the summer the young
husband brought his youthful wife
home TO his beautiful villa of Eden
lawn, which had been built, furnished
aud adorned by Lord Elyerton express
ly for the residence of his son and
daughter-inlaw.
A few days after their settlement at
home they were Joined by a select par
ty, of invited guests, who came down
from town on a visit of a few weeks.
Mrs. Elverton then issued cards for a
large evening party, to all the neigh
boring nobility and gentry. The party
was "A great success, and formed tt
initiative Of a series Of neighborhood
festivities.
1t was In the midst of all this
gaiety that the thunderbolt fell that
struck the proud Athenic to the dust
and spread a desert round her.
On a certain evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Elverton, and the friends who were
staying with them, had returned late
from a dinner party given at the An
chOrage. The visitors had withdrawn
to their several apartments for the
night: but Mr.. and Mrs. Elverton, as
was their daily custom, remained for
a few minutes behind them in the
drawing oom to discuss the events of
the day before retiring to rest.
While, with the %buoyancy Of youth,
love and joy, they We're sitting talking
and laughing together. n footman en-
tered the room and announced n
stranger who imperatively demanded
to see Mr.. Elverton, and would take
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-27

Left the Cell and Locked Her tn
no denial. although Charles had ex-
planned that it was too late for his
master to be disturbed.
Mr.. Elverton. though the most cour-
teous of gentlemen, could not be sad
To have yielded so much to courtesy
as to curiosity to know who this i'm
Fortunate stranger might be, when he
ordered Charles to show the unsea-
sDrable visitor into the library, width
or he himself Immediately proceeded.
The stranger was a woman OF ma
jestic presence, whose ACCOMMODATING
figure was wrapped in Il long black
cloak; and whose unknown features
were concealed beneath a thick black
veil. Thus much only the servants
saw OF her a Charles showed her
into the library, whittier she was in
stantly followed by Mr.. Elverton.
Charles. in the conscientious dis
charge OF the principal duty of his
office, applied his ear to the keyhols;
but his virtue was not rewarded by
any satisfactory result. He only heard
Il low exclamation of astonishment
from his master, n muttered reply
| from the stranger and then the sound
of their steps %retreating toward a dis
tant part Of the room, where the words
of their conversation We're quite maud
ible.
The ingenuity and perseverance of
Mr.. Charles was really worthy of a
better cause and n greater success. He
shut his eyes, plugged the orifice of
| his left ear with his little finger, and
concentrated his five seis,es into the
| hearing of his right ear. which he
| plastercd to the keyhole.
Alas, he could make out not q single
syllable Of that mysterious interview
| ond rhe few sounds that he heard Only
tortured his curiosity-these sounds
were occasionally a deep, half-smoth
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-27
CHAPTER Y

IF Allworth Abbey was the most an
cient and gloomy. and IL the Anchor
age was the most commanding and
cheerful, assuredly Edenlawn was the
most beautiful and delightful estate in
the neighborhood Of Abbeytown.
The three estates formed a right an
gle, OF which Allworth Abbey WAS the
eastern, Edenlawn the southern. and
the Anchorage the western points.
Edenlawn was eQui-distant, about
three miles from the two.
The mansion was an elegent modern
edifice OF white stone, In the Grecian
order of architecture. browning the
summit OF a green and wooded hill
that assembled gradually from the banks
of the lovely little lake Ec.en. A wide
vista had been npaned between the
trees from the white front Of the man
Sion down 10 the clear waters Of the
lake. This vista was laid out In ter
gaces, with stone steps leading down