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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-01

The Leanna school closed Thursday
for week's..vacatiOn.
Grandma Wheeler who has been
sick is improving slowly.
Mr. and Mrs. l.. E. DeHaven of
Savonburg are visiting relatives at
Leanna during vacation.
Otis and Will Smith are visiting
friends at Prairie Hall during vaca-
finn
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-01
ELSMORE.

". E. Custer is the authorized reporter and
agent for the REGISTER at ElsmOre. Those
desiring to subscribe may do so through him
and any assistance rendered him in gathering
the news of the neighbOrhOOd will be appre-
ciated
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-01
THE COUNTY NEWS.
Interesting items From An Over
Allen County.
THE MOST IMPORTANT DEEDS
DONE BY YOUR NEIGHBoRs FAITH
FULLY AND IMPARTlALLY SET
DOWN BY REGISTER
REPORTERS
GENEVA.

Miss Kuowlton Is the authorized reporter sno
agent for the REGISTER at Geneva. Those deslr
fng 70 subscribe may do so through her, and any
assistance rendered her in gathering the news OF
The neighborhood viii be apDreciated0
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-01
MORA5.

(Hsrry J Bassett is the authorized reporter and
sgeut for the BEGIsTER al Moran. Those desiring
= subscribe may do so through him, and any as
distance rendered him IN gathering the news of the
neiRhborhood wiz be sppreciAted9
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-01
RAILROAD TINE TABLE.

MISSOURI KANSAS AND TEXAS,
NORTH ROUND.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-01

Lives on farm west of Geneva,
but was absent. Mrs. Spencer was
found busy making Christmas pres
ent for one of her many little friends
and was in as happy and chatty
a msod as if but girl herself. They
were young people together here 80
years ago and have lived on farm
near Geneva ever since except once
in California for seven months. They
prefer this locality to any other spot
between the two oceans, both of which
they have seen. Their son Clarence
w. is just starting in the cattle bus
iness, feeding 30 steers and hogs
with them and has no longing to
leave the farm.
They have just moved into a COM
mOdiOus new house finished in hard
oil and provided with all the conyen-
fences of modern home and take the
REGISTER.
We next passed large nicely
painted school house just over the
line on WOOdsOn county and were
told that that was
PUMPKIN COLLEGE.
"Oh, now you are guyIng US, we
replied, but the citizens insist that 80
years ago or thereabOut in little log
school house that stood in the corn
field was held an exhibition and q
stranger coming noticed the ripening
pumpkins and remarked There is
pumpkin college sure enough" and
the waggish painter who placed the
picture of a fine pumpkin with the
word "college" painted below on the
tablet, fastened the name there for
generation past.
]. w. JOHNSON.
The times., 1897-07-11
Costly Newspapers.

For those who wish To learn of the
happenings Of The world, the newspapers
of the present day are worth many times as
much 70 the reader as they were forty years
ago. Yet, in spite of their increase in
size and cosIiness of news given, they
are sold for a sum that would have been
impossible then IN war times the great
dailieS We're mainly four or six page papers,
and sold at from 8 to cents. Now they
run from eight to sixteen pages, ana while
cents is the standard price, very many
sell for 1
But there are still certain great news
papers in the world that have never low
cred their prices Chief OF these is the
London Times, the most influential daily
paper in the world, whose subscription
price is S2S a year, single copies selling
for cents. In Paris the venerable GaiIg
nam's Messenger costs subscribers $50 a
year, and buyers cents a copy.
The most costly general ews spaperi the
United states is the Spanish daily the
Novedades. published in New York at
cents a copy.
The most costly magazine in the world
is the weekly International edition OF the
American a architect of Eoston, which is
gu q cdi OF OO tchts a copy
BUJ it the English newsra pers printed
in the great Asiatlc cities that sell for the
highest figures. Fancy the Japanese news
boys in Yokohama shouting out - Weekly
Mail just out! only SIR That is the
price $50 for a years subscription. or 81
a copy. The Tien Tsin Weekly Times and
Ne Shanghai Weekly Mail sell single copies
for so cents and ~ cents apiece, respect
lively, while the Singapore Weekly Times
can be had for S32 year, or 75 cents a
copy.
CostAeSt OF all, however, is the Calcutta
Engiisnman, newspaper published once a
month and selling for 81 so copy The
FIJI Islands Times comes out every two
weeks at 81 20 number
The highest priced daily in the world is
the Hong Kong Report, cents a copy,
or S3S a year. The Bombay Daily States
man is good second at 2 cents a copy
OF S2S year.
The times., 1897-07-11
ECCENTRIC Millionaires.

Mere money-uaking seems not To have
satisfied Barney Barnato He wanted 10
have the fun of spending money, 700, and
To enjoy everything that 1t would buy.
His taste III this paI ticular is in vivid
contrast to that of the late AIR. Joseph
Richardson, of New York, who iied il no
9, leaving fortune estimated ut $30,J0o,- )
600 He was about eighty-three years
old, and his long life had apparently been
passed very much to his satisfaction He
was contractor of great energy and dili-
eenca, ana laid the foundations of his for
sune in that calling He was a millionaire
when the civil war began, and as long rs
he lived he kept on earning more money,
and investing his gains with excellent
Judgment. He built waterworks, rail-
roals and many great buildings. and was
very proud of s1me OF his professional ex-
pIoite hut the work for which b.. was most
famous was the erection Of four-story
house on a five-root strip of land at the
northwest corner of Lexington avenue and
Eighty second street
He happened to own that little strip Of
land. A man who had planned to build
Il block adiuining il Offered him 81 900
foI his holding. He wanted $1,000, and
failing to get II concluded to build him
self house, which he did very inge-
niously and lived in it for fifteen years.
He had a summer resort at Bridgeport,
Conn, but the five-fOot house was his
home for half the year.
Mr.. Richardson ideas Were somewhat
peculiar, ard recall those Of the late Mr..
Faverwea ther, who left 50 much money 10
colleges; but We cannot deny him the
measure of respect which is due to
man who lives out his life according to
his own preferences instead Of patterning
after someone else. He liked to make
money, and he made great deal; he
liked 70 save money, and me saved nearly
ali he made; he did not enjoy spending
money. so he srent little. By his VIII he
left $50 900 to a clergyman, SIT zoo 20
the Central Tark BAPTIST Church, ard the
rest of his fortune To his wife and two
children. .-Harper's Weekly.
The times., 1897-07-11
No Honor IN This Thief.

You can say what you please de-
ClaTed the II an who used 10 blow sales and
bunco the unsOphiSticated, but there is
such a thing as honor among thieves I
know there are plenty Of men you could
never trust as pals, but If you train with the
right sort they VIII stand by you 70 d finish.
L IN going 10 tell you abOUtthemeanes man
| ever knew in the business, ana I'm glad
ne was drowned before l got d chance at
him. Otherwise l would have had 10 Ie-
pent OF murder among nay other sins.
This fellow came 10 NE one morning
early with a lot OF money ana bonds that
had been stolen from a bank He told me
that he had been hard pushed, that his
place would be closely watched and that
he could throw the officers of the scent
by going home empty y-hanGed- ! never
argued that matter at all, but stovved the
plunder for him, gave him some good ad-
vice about keeping his mOuth shut and as
suTed him that the stuff would be ready
for him whenever he made a deulaudo ON me.
When a big reward was offered through
the papers for the recovery OF the bonds
and still larger one for the capture. Of
the thief and money, l never thought OF
peaChing 1 was too honorable a man 10
AileiNS illtlAcl III sum hltltllt
having a hint OF trouble my house was
Taided, the wealth was found and l was
placed under arrest rs the burglar Even
then I never offered TO squeaI bub got
word to the real bank TObber TO do " hat
he could for me He did. When the trial
came on he was the main witness for the
prosecution and swOTe point blank that
had planned the robbery; that I had
asked him TO join me, and that ~ rel used
The true story as told by me was only
laughed at When u man has done time
and Is caught with the bOosIe ne Btighs
Just as Wen throw up his hands / got
ten years, and the other fellow got the re-
ward. All that time I was nursing NY
wrath and chafing Co get out thai 1 might
work my revenge But he was settled by
shat old man on the white horse 5na5 nols
of Us can dodge Detroit Free Press
The times., 1897-07-11
The rhinuttnus Rnt.

two-horse load OF tin clippings was
being transferred TO the rear basement OF a
prominent hotel. II had come from a can
factory, and the narrow, curling strips had
become - twisted and inteFtwined as to
form a CongIomerate mass that was moved
with tie greatest difficulty by two sturdy
fellow with stable forks y bystander who
was curious enough 10 inquire what use
d swell hotel had for such truck v as an
syveIed by an attache OF the house: We
use it for rats; / mean the big gray fel-
lows with whiskers The hotel rat is big
ger, boIder and wiser than any other rat
He laughs at traps. fattens on poison. and
The killing or chasing OF dogs, cats and
fe=rets is his pet diversion Even when en-
ergetic measures have rid US OF tie pests,
they are with US again in Augmented force
within q day OF two. They VIII tunnel
through almost anything for incredible dis
tances. 1t is their boring ability that has
giveE us Sc much trouble hitherto No
matter how we close up their passagew ays
the routes were promptly reCpenCd FIJI
ing the holes with broken glass was con
sdeTed good scheme until we found thar,
with marvFlOns patience. they removed the
glass piece by piece. But we think we've
got them now. With this tanged-up tin
we construct Il sort of abattis, covering al
places where the beasts are likely TO enter
cur cellars They can't get through it
They can chew il and they can't carry 10
away as they 10 broken bottles for when
Mr.. Rat takes hold of a single strip Of tfs
tin he finds IL an tnseparahle part OF a net
work weighing many pounds. '-Phlla-
deIphia Record
The times., 1897-07-11
AHOLDING THE BRIDGES

as the enemy sulIenIy fell back, but Tom
interrupted him with:
what yer maxim cussed fool %
yerself fur?"
We've licked 'em aginT'
Licked helll IL this war don't end In
iess'n three months you won't know 'nuff
to pound sandi The idea Of your yawpin'
and whOopin' over victory when we've
lost at least twenty men, and when we ar
sartin TO be wiped out body and butesl
Look along the lines"
Ben looked up and down the lines and
ihiyered as he noted the dead and wounded
Eho had fallen out And now the enemy
epIoyed a force to the right, another 90
ne left, and the men crept forward to the
iery brink of the ravine and opened such
a hot fire that no defender OF the earth
w0rEs coaid ntt bis head. Under cover or
this fire force formed up In the road for
a dash across the bridge. The captain sent
an order along the earthwork, and each
crOuching man made ready TO rise up and
fire when the critical moment came.
Say, this is gettin' TO be red-hot!'f
exclaimed Ben as the bullets sent the dIrt
flying over his head
Wall, we don't need any Ice Jest now!''
grimIy replied Tom
We ar goin' to git licked on this deal.
old man.
Not licked. but wiped out. The orders
ar to hold the bridge TO the last, and our
captains the man TO do IL. Purity IeetIe
fight-Inighty purity. Lots O. heads VIII
git busted when we raise up to fire Never
had bullet through yer ookernut, did
ye?''
Ben did not answer. just then came the
T.-ffa-
BOXED over the earthworks the enemy
! Cheered and dashed for the bridge a
third time. Over the rocks and bushes OBJ
Structing the road-over the woInded
crying Out-over the dead and over The
| oiood-sp0ts-and again they reached the
earthwOrk and fought hand 60 hand.
'Guess they'll stay licked this timer
| growled Ben, as tine enemy fell back after
/ ten minutes fighting.
Z ''Oh ye dor sneered Tom, as he tabbed
! his bayonet into the earthwOrk to clear
/ it OF the blood wall, OF all the blamed
/ idiots in Grants army you take the caEeI
We've got about ten men left 20 hold
a division, and ye ar ooUntin' On
/ vic5'ryl''
| Then why don't we retreat"
"AGin orders. ye old sheH-back Here's
| wtar' we die, and over thar Is wnar'
| they'll bury us
] Now the enemy, maddened by the delay
| and resistance. crossed men above and
| blow the bridge, and they were soon tax
: ing the bIsastwoTk in rear. The captain
war down-his lieuteuants were dJwn-a
/ corporal had command Of the remnant Cf
the hundred men
What IL ye call this?' asked Ben as the
! bullets began 70 come in f5on flank and
| rear
Next dOOt 70 heIl"' replied Tom Face
about and see If ye can init a barn door,
I've dropped a man every time I've
| fired, aHd-and-"
Got yer dose. eh? Wall, told ye IL
! would be wipeOut Sorry fur ye. old
| man. but war would be picnic II no.
body was killed Guess I'm the only
one LEFT, andIH 20 hack and report
And half an hour later, wounded in
! arm and shoulder and hip, a powder
stained, dust-covered old veteran ap-
| Feared before his colonel and saIuted
and said:
Company F. sir detailed to hold
the bridge above"
"weU9''
Enemy forced the crossing half an hour
ago Captain dead -heutenants dead-aU
dead but mer'
CHARLES 3. LEWIS.
The times., 1897-07-11
"Rnhs -

Next to the Queen herself the three no
table personages in the great jubilee process
D. BON were Lord Roberts, the Lord Mayor
and the man who fell from the tree. 1t
is W ell known that there is no love lost be
tween Lord Wolseley, the advocate of the
'short SERVICE" and Lord Roberts, the
champion ofthe long service in the army.
Besides this, ''Bobs'' is very popular with
the people, and Lord WolseIey is not. 1t
was graceful and touching iucidentin the
affairs of yesterday that the Queen should
decorate LORD Roberts A rab charger. W hich
har, with a war medal, which the animal
Wore round its neck In the procession. The
Lor[! Mayor is always big parsonage in
London. No one takes him very seriously,
but he is pre-eninenly great in his own
domain, where he rank next TO royalty, and
the ''verye goodbye sword of the time OF
Queen Elizabeth, which his lordship car
ried, was great attraction. But the man
" no fell Off the tree and excited royal SYM
pathy carried off the palm There is al
procession. When the maiden princess
came from Denmark to become the wife Of
the English prince, stupid urchin-not
so stupid after all-feil under the carriage
wheel and called forth the sympathfesof the
fair young lady, who stretched out her
hand to save him. II was the event of the
day.-New York Advertiser.
The times., 1897-07-11
A Senior Schedule.

We're a-studyingS of literature
As hard as e'er we can;
We dote on revolutions
And the brotherhood of man.
We're returning TO the people
With truly lyric cry;
And for democratic spirit
We'd lay US down and die.
We're areading of philosophy
To ftnl out why we be,
And a-learning what external worlds
Lie wholly in the me.
We don't believe in matter,
And of mind were not quite sure;
We're inclined to think uncertainties
Most likely to endure.
We're a-studying geology
OF prehistoric times,
Before the tides OF primal sea
Got written into rhymes.
When the ''old world spun forever
And the poets never knew it
And all the rocks. and stones, and things,
Were nicely mixed up through it.
We're a-looking at fine pictures
Made by people what are dead.
And we oriticise cathedrals
With u Ruskin at our head.
We're a growing awful learned
There's lots more of the kind
But we do not mind eonfessing
That it's all beastly grind
wellesley Lyrics.
The times., 1897-07-11

syndicate, an,; then the cook. With these
IDEAS firmly fixed he went aboard again,
and going into the lonely foc'sle, climbed
into his bunk and forgot his sorrows In
sieep-in sleep so sound that the Others,
upon their return an hour later, failed to
wake him. until Henry, as last expedient,
threw slice ofbread at him. After which
everybody had to keep awake ali night to
mount guard over their lives.
(To Be Continued.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-04-11
EASTER LILIES.

How Woman Raised Flowers and Re-
 gained Her Health.
 Me were about stranded, and there was no uso in trying to blink the fact, The dectcr had sent us to Bermuda, and the last thing he had said to me was that if my mother couldn't get well there she could net anywhere This is what made it seem SC hard, after q stay Of three months, when I found our mcn- ey nearly gene and mother yet weak, though convalescent. Another six months we felt, would bring the ines timable blessing of renewed health. But how were VIC to stay when there seemed to be nothing to stay oil?
 While cogitating this problem one sunny day in January 1 atrolled into . secluded vale lying between tho high read from St. Georges to Hamilton and the southern shore Of ! little islet. Like so many of those charming dells ill this cluster of isles and islets, it was filed with q se,nitropieal vegetation, with or ange and lemon trees, pomegranates, bananas and figs The hill erests around were covered with edorous cedars, their skirts fringed with lantanas in showy bloom, and the pocket of earth between the ridges was as rich and fertile as the hill slopes were sterile.
 Vending my way through this bit of tropical paradise, 1 came upon g straw thatehed shanty, or rather a group of primitive dwellings of this character, down 10 a cre.e. 1ntic beach of snowy sand lying between cutcropping coral lodges. An old man aat i'll the doorway of the principal shanty smoking q long stemmed pipe, such ! pipe as Tennyson loved to smoke, known ill the old coun- try as "churchwarden. 's Nonc but | philosopher or roet-at any rate, q man of leisure and calm temperament smokes this sort of pipe, and 1 knew that he must consequently be one or the other, and hence safe 10 assume well worth the knowing.
 And my conjecture proved true. for on accepting his hospitable invitation teenter his humble dwelling l found it filled with all sorts of natural history objects, such as shells, stuffed birds and dried plants In shert, my aged ac- quaintancc was naturalist, and, S l afterward learned, t skilled one, well known all over the islands
 He was nearly so years of age, his long, snow white hair fell to his shoul- ders, and in every feature was an air of cheerful hcnevolence that won my heart and engaged my attention, so that il less than half an hour VIC were convers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-04-11
there arc Easter SD

there arc Easter sports and games quite unknown to Us.
 The Easter festival of our forefathers covered a period of 15 days. The week beginning with Easter Sunday was al- most entirely given over to sport and games and general merfymaking An cdd feature of the old time celebration was that of heaving or lifting, the
 iheaved" sitting ill chair decorated with white ribbons. Easter Monday and Easter Thursday were known as heav- ing days, the women sitting in chair on Monday and the men OH Tuesday, Those heaying or lifting the chair were expected to life 1t three times and then kiss the occupant, who, ill t I'll, issed them. To the regret of the lads and las- sies ill the districts where tho novel cere= mony was g9nce performed, the custom has long since died out.
 Handball was formerly one of the most common of Easter games, and at one time q sort of water tilting contest was much in vogue. Young men would drift about ill boats without cars and allow tho craft to drift against . shield suspended ill midstIvam, strikil it as with lance If the lance w;,s broken against the shield, it wa$ considered q good stroke md won applause, but if the shield was missed or the spear remained
 intact the owner of the lance invariably
 lost his balance and tumblc,l into the water
 h Switzerland . peculiar gamo is played at Easter. Large baskets filled with bran arc placed iii . circle some where on q free field or public place Thcn' as many rows of TOO eggs as there are competitors are laid, each egg a foot or so apart from tho next, the rows { fatliating from the baskets to un equal distance. The task is to put the 100 eggs, Dne by one, into the basket with InlF breaking my, and who docs 1t i'll lthf shortest space of flmcis the winner. In Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities swings and merry go |roltndssare erected fertile festival season on { the Boulevards, and all sorts of mtsemellts prevail i:l the concert and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-04-11
AN EASTER SYMPHONY.
sha ! .lrummed on the piano,

oHu v uinlA1iI LII tilC i}lIllC, With no thought of how sho played, And the Easter bells chimcd sweetly While her fingers aimless straycd. Now sounds 1ainoas deen and solemn. Thcn maiers hagp and clear, From the bells fsA riano
 Issued tones or cheer. And some rcme. Cit within mo The various Hotss combined Into ohorde that sNst..r | the feelings, Raised to eessasS ily mind, Till my soul v:s 1..lrl with music, And lived hst ia B cream Mid tho shifting La and shadows Of q grand ore!estyel theme. Ansl it's sway became still stronger AS each innt,' wa:e of sound TremLletl o'er tlle chords of feeling, Stirred my sa;sl to depths profound But no earthly f;,ssion swayed me, For I lived ia ligber sphere, And my world ..f sense had vanished. With 1t vanisl.ed doubt and fear. And thanked the risen Christ . For that symphony divine, For such potency of music
 Of surety WAS not mine. Who composed itY Who the player2 Ask the violin cs it thrills At tho touch of master player Whence the soul of sound it fills.
 NEIL MACDONALD.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-04-11

those of an older generation . quarter of q century since In making such re- view one fact becomes apparent before all others. Beauty IS relative term, and, let one be as nsthetic as she may, her. sense of fitness is largely governed by the fashion of the day.
 To be sure, we may beast with truth that the styles of the present. are some what better than many that are past be- cause of a certain improvement ill dyes and certain artistic truths that have been poured into our cars by those who consider dress as an art. But it is doubt ful, nevertheless, if q future generation will not laugh at us even as we laugh at those who have gone before Whatever is in style is pretty, said q young wo- man with enthusiasm not long ago, and, while we may smile with indulgence over the remark, it really voices the opinion of most humankind, for men as well as women have their foibles, and if they have evolved amere sensible style of dress it is due rather to the exigen- cies of business life, from which the feminine world is only now beginning to suffer, rather than 10 any superiority on their part.
 But at Easter the Easter bonnet is, above all things, the one that looms mp