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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-09-10
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

THE treasury department figures
show a total immigration into the
United States for the month of July
of i4.T74, against 81, AL for the CORE
spending month last year.
JOHN G. WOODS, superintendent of
mails at the Louisville, KY, post office,
has brought suit against Postmaster
General Gary and the post office de-
partment authorities, to prevent them
from removing them from the service.
The case will probably be test of the
power to remove a government official
embraced within the civil service rules.
SECRETARY BLISS is taking great in
terest in the forestry problem, and is
watching the developments in the sys-
tenn of employing agents with assigned
districts for the complete supervision
Of the segregated tracts. The results
so far attained are regarded with sat-
isfaction.
IN recent interview at Washington
Acting Comptroller Coffin predicted a
most prosperous financial season in
the United States. He said New York
bankers were loaning money in Lon
don, and that the great accumulations
of capital would certainly result in
lower rates of interest.
ITwas reported in Washington on the
9th that the leave of absence granted
to Consul-General Lee at Havana would
be extended indefinitely and that Gen.
Lee would not return to his post. The
same report slated eX-Congressman J.
Frank Aldrich. of Illinois, as Consul
General Lees successor.
IT is officially announced from Wash
ingtOn that the next superintendent of
census will be S. n. D. North, of Bos-
ton. The president is said to favor a
permanent bureau of census.
THE men of the United States navy
are to be taught how to handle mobs,
to be available when the army is not.
They will be taught how to scale 15-
foot walls, firing on the mob during
such movement.
A WASHINGTON dispatch said there
had been greatly increased demand
for American meat abroad. and as
consequence more meat inspectors are
needed at Kansas City and other west
ern points.
CLARENCE KING, ex-chief of the
United States geological survey, says
the country is on the verge of a great
mining era He says the time is not
far distant when man can start from
Denver and travel to Klondike, stop
ping every night at a mining camp.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-09-10
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Discourse Upon the Relations of
Capital and Labor.
What Human Wisdom Cannot Achieve
VIII BE Accomplished by Christian
ity-The SaviOur's Solution OF
the Labor Problem.

DIR. Talmage's latest sermon at
Washington. a plan for settling the in
dustrial troubles of our day, is set
forth in this sermon. His text is Matt
vii, II: Whatsoever We would that
men should do to you, do you even so
to them"
The greatest war the world has ever
seen is between capital and labor. The
strife is not like that which in history
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-09-10

is called the thirty
years war. for it is
a war of centuries.
it is a war of five
continents. it is a
WAR hemisphere.
The middle class in
this country, upon
whom the nation
has depended for
holding the balance
of power and for
acting as mediators
between the two
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-09-10

A man is the moving factor in getting en-
gagged, but the woman keeps things stirred
up until the marriage is consummated.-
Atehison Globe.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30
GIANTS OF SAN NICOLAS.
Discoveries Which Prove That the
Inhabitants Were Buried Alive.

A party of relic hunters recently
landed on the island of San Nicolas
and discovered many relics, which they
brought back.
The Clemente went after the party
last week, but owing to severe gale
in the channel was unable to effect a
landing until yesterday. The party
found 81 skulls buried in the sand of
the island, but were only able to Sc
cure three entire. They made one eX-
cavation 20 feet square IL which they
found nine skeletons in a crouching
attitude, as though men, women and
children had been buried alive. In an.
other place they found the remains OF
hundreds of bodies that had been
burned, and some of the party believe
that cremation was practieed by the
ancient people of the island.
Positive evidence was found that the
island was inhabited by two or more
different races in the dim past, one OF
which was of great size, peculiar char
acteristic being gigantic jawbones.
Some. of the specimens of the latter
brought by the party are almost large
enough to slip over the head of an ordi-
nary man. Mr.. Longfellow, the leader
OF the party, speaking of the trip, said;
Zone of the most interesting relics
brought back by us was part of q
skeleton of large man in whose bones
long bone spear-point was sticking.
In the shattered skull was big round
stone used as a war implement. The
spear passed through the heart and en-
tirely through the shoulder-blade I
am sure that two different races fought
and died on the island, as most of the
bodies were of moderate size, while
some were almost giants. The latter
were always in isolated graves. We
found many implements and weapons
of stone, but all are very crude and show
almost no ornamentation''
Mr.. Longfellow says the island in a
large part along the coast is sand and
powdered shell, which the Indians in
some way made into cement This they
nodded into various utensils, which are
far harder than basalt. On the island
are hundreds of small red foxes. The
only other creatures are two horses
and flock of 500 sheep-San Francisco
Chronicle
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30

every time they caught sight of him,
and soaring the poor old man so that
he left the country and never did come
back till this spring. And now, as
say, he's afraid of everybody, except
father, and he lives all alone in cave
down there in the Pocket, farming that
little patch of land for living"
And what became of the heavy VI
lain Gates, 1 mean''
That's what makes it so bad When
he was sure that Mr.. Kilgrow had left
the country he told it around that he
had bought the farm in the valley; and
when the new town company came
along he sold it. to them, took the
money and went away"
Thorndyke's studies in the law had
necessarily been the reverse of prac-
teal, but as he sat up and refectively
nursed his knees he was surprised at
the readiness with which the lawyers
point of view suggested itself.
How large was this farm in the
valley?" he inquired, after few mo-
ments of thoughtful silence.
Il don't know that, but father says
if Mr.. Kilgrow had his rights he would
own half of Allaccochee"
Philip went into another revery, COM
ing out of it to say: 81 wish were we'll:
1 should enjoy taking up thing of this
kind. I've half a mind to try it, any
| way, and take the chances on living
long enough to see it through You
didn't know I was n lawyer, did YOU"
mo, indeed; are you?"
81 presume I'm not. in the useful
sense of the word, though / have a
piece of parchment somewhere among
my belongings that says am. Perhaps,
| however, | could scare up enough COM
mon sense to help your old friend out
of his trouble; it seems to be very
clear case"
"Oh, Mr.. Thorndyke If you could
only do that!'
Ter face was alight with the sacred
enthusiasm that makes an irresistible
! special pleader of every good woman
enlisted in the cause of the unfortunate,
and for the second time that day Thorn
| dyke felt the subtle inspiration of her
personality tingling through his veins
! Ike the ere of a strange wine. There
were incendiary things at the tip of his
| tongue, put he withheld them. rising
and saying that they had better go
| back to the farmhouse. On the long
walk across the plateau he said but lit
tie, asking an occasional question bear
ing upon Elsie's story and listening at
tentively TO her explanations. Just be-
| fore they came in sight of the house he
asked her to wait moment.
eff am to do anything for your old
mountaineer I must first have your IA
theirs confidence. Have you made up
your mind to tell him that I'm in The
secret?"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30
a LITTLE NONSENSE.

Miss Cynie-'.I hope we shall De
He-"When do you expect to be set
tIed?" She-"Oh, not for a month or
so."-Yale Record.
-"We told Mabel her wheel-skirt
must be heightened down to her shoe
tops" "Yes-?" "Well-she went off
and got shoes that come up to meet the
skirt. Puck.
What! You cannot mean to tell
me you found the professor stupid?
Why, he knows everything" Il know
he Does" said the Sweet Young Thing.
but I'd rather talk with some one who
knows everybody indianapolis Jour
nal.
II don't believe Sallie can know
that rich old Brown, or she'd never
marry him, in spite of all his money
why not?" HE has such violent
temper" 'Oh, that's all right That's
why she has been giving so much time
to gymnasium work lately. Chicago
Post.
Bring me-" said the gentleman
with the Clan-na-Gae1 countenance, as
he pointed to the Holsters in the show
window, bring me wan av thin in
FORMERS" why do you call them
informers, Casey?" asked his compan-
ion. 'Bedad, they wear tn green to
begin wild, and put on the red coat as
soon as they get into hot wather."-
Indianapolis Journal.
She was standing alone on the
beach, gazing pensively on the ocean.
A youth approached-then paused.
NO" he murmured, II will not dis
turb the current of her thoughts. She
is cOmmuning with the gods!" Then
she saw him, and, turning toward him.
said: Il say, mister! How fur does
this here mill pond go, an whar'bouts
does it stop at?'-Atlanta Constitu-
| ton
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30


When one begins to argue with his
conscience it is foreordained conclu-
sion that conscience will get the worst
of it. Lest Philip should be set down as
poor figure Of a man, prone to do weak
things as are the sparks to fly upward,
let it be said that he did only what
seemed at the time to be good and
right. Love, or what passes for love, is
not always accountable to logic or to
common sense; it may, perhaps, be the
adopted child of the intellect, but it is
begotten and nurtured by the senses.
Propinquity, contact, daily association,
the fairness of one object and the near
ness of another, all these influences
were, in Thorndybe's case, opposed to
what was unconsciously becoming day
by day more of an abstraction-his
fealty to Helen. And, besides, when
one firmly believes he has made his
salaam to the king of terrors, the con-
viction may so distort the mental and
moral vision as 20 make one practically
color blind.
Half an hour after Elsie and Philip
had disappeared in the forest, Protheroe
rode up to the gate with a packet of
letters for Thorndyke. When he
learned that the invalid and Elsie were
on the mountain together, he seemed
quite as anxious TO get away from the
farmhouse as he had just been to reach
it. On the way back to town he had
another impatient argument with him
self, coming out of it as on former oc-
casion, with a certain measure of philo-
sophical resignation, for which he paid
rather dearly in the coin of disappointed
hopes.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30

Eyes, indeed; I shall tell him to-
night. =
"Ihen you may say that am willing
to do anything can in the matter"
I'll tell him. It's very good and kind
of you to offer to help; I don't know
how we can ever make it up to YOU"
Philip hesitated little before saving
that which would push him still farther
into the unexplored regions of duplic-
ity; then he answered her.
''You can pay me with your approval;
you can help me ly-not by
lifting me over the hard places, as you
did awhile ago, but by giving me credit
for the energy and pluck that I ought
to have. Will you do that?"
Indeed I will" There was no en-
barrassment in her manner now, and
no shadow of reserve in the honest blue
eyes that were lifted to his. "We will
all help you; and / believe with all nv
heart that you will win-I don't mean
for Mr.. Kilgrow alone, but for YOUR
self"
THANK you; that's enough until 7
have done something" he said. and
they went on down the mountain.
ITo BE Continued
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30
THREE FAMOUS WOMEN.
Known 60 the World as Models of Grea
Virtue,

KNOWN Co the World as Models of Great
Virtue.
In stately gallery of an old
mansion In Norfolk, England. there
hangs among the fair English faces of
the mothers of the race the portrait
OF dark young girl, with black hair
and sad, yet defiant eyes. On the
frame are engraved the words:
Motoake, daughter of the mighty
Prince Powhatani, Emperour of Vir-
ginia: converted Christian, and mar
ried to the Worshipful Thomas Rolf.
Aged twenty-one, 1885,
This was the heroine Pocahontas.
Tradition states that she bore herself
well as an English matron and the
mother of English children.
At Burghley castle, the seat of the
Cecils, in Somerset, hangs a portrait of
red-dheeked, innocent girl of sixteen,
which is marked as ''The Peasant Coun-
tess" She was Sarah Higgins, the
daughter of a laborer, whom the earl
saw and loved for her goodness and
simplicity. He married her, and his
torians assert that with her children
came new and robust virtues into the
family line.
The house of Hapsburg, the oldest
reigning family in Europe, preserves
the portrait of a. peasant woman who
was the wife of one of the first counts,
600 years ago. To her, it is said, they
owe the valor and strength of body
and mind which won them their throne.
1t is a singular fact that the peculiar
features of this peasant ancestress are
still seen in her descendants.
The virtues of these three women,
being set ON a pedestal of rank, have
been known to the world for genera
tions. Yet it is wholesome and cheer
ing to remember how many millions OF
nameless women as good and true and
helpful as they, sleep in unknown
graves. while the work which they did
lives. God has their record, whether
they died princesses or peasants.
There is a hourely old proyerb which
is worth remembering: Whether you
cut your swathe ON the upland or low
land does not matter. 1t is how you
cut it that counts when wages are
paid. "-Youth's Companion.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30
ON The STAR.

Tho the skies are dark and lowering,
And the tempest bowls in wrath,
And the rains incessant pouring
Scatters puddles in my path,
Yet see the sunshine breaking,
And bid adieu to care
For the sweetest picture making,
MabePs standing on the stair.
Half way down she runs to greet me,
Just emerging from the gloom,
For she's always sure to meet me
Ere I've reached our cozy room,
AS my homeward way I'm vending,
She is waiting, debonair,
Till see, the darkness rending,
Mabel's figure on the stair.
Kisses warm and fond embraces
Are the dearest things of life,
And I'm sure the tabled Graces
Have combined to make my wife,
But with all her other beauties
She has formed a habit rare,
Adding to her list of duties
Meeting me upon the stair.
When I end my earthly journeys
And am on the road for home
Done with life and all it's Journeys,
Destined nevermore to roam,
Oh, st. Peter, hear a mortal,
Listen to my earnest prayer,
Place my Mabel at the portal,
Standing on the Golden Stair.
Ed L. Sabin, in Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30

The study of definitions presents
many obstacles and difficulties to child
ish minds.
Spell ferment and give its defini'
tion,"" requested the school teacher.
''F-e-rm-e-n-t, ferment. to work" re
sponded diminutive maiden.
Nov, place it in a sentence, so that
may be sure you understand its mean
ing" said the teacher.
SIN summer would rather play out
of-doors than ferment in the school
house," returned the small scholar with
such doleful franlness and unconscious
humor that the teacher found it hare
to suppress a smile.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30
JOHN BROWNS LAST LETTER.
1t Was Written shortly Before His Exc
cutiOn to an Ohio Friend.


Lora L. Case, of Hudson, O., lately
found among his correspondence let
ter from "Ossawatomie" John Brown,
who lived in Hudson in the early 4Os,
dated December 2, 1859, and which is be-
lieved to be the last letter he wrote be-
fore being hanged for the affair at Har-
per's Ferry. 1t is a follows:
''Charlestown, Jefferson County, Va,
December 2, 1S59.-Lora Case, ESQ.,
My Dear Sir: Your most kind and cheer
ing letter of the 28th of November is re-
ceived. Such an outburst of warm,
hearted sympathy, not only for myself,
but also for those who have helped,
compels me to steal moment from
those allowed me in which to prepare
for my last great change, to send you
a few words. Such feeling as you
manifest makes you shine lin my eSti-
matiOn) in the midst of this wicked and
Perverse generation as light in the
world, and may you ever prove yourself
equal 70 the high estimate have placed
upon you. Pure ana undefiled religion
before God and the Father is, as l un-
derstand it, an active mot dormantj
principle. l do not undertake to direct
any more in regard to my children. !
leave that work entirely to their ex'
cellent mother, from whom have just
parted. | send you my salutation with
my own hand. Remember me to all
your and my dear friends. Your friend.
"JOuN BROWN"
st. Louis Republic.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30
GAMBLERS HAVE A HARD TASK.
Almost Impossible to Break the Bank
at Monte Carlo.


Those who have passion for gam
bling and have found it improbable,
class nearly as numerous as those who
gamble at all, might well consider the
recent announcement that a dividend
| of 100000 for last year has been de-
clared by the stock company running
the gaming tables at Monte Carlo.
That amount is the interest on $100,0O0,-
300, and represents an extraordinary
profit. There are about 400, 900 visitors
year at Monte Carlo, and as, in addi-
ton to the dividend named, they pay the
expenses of the gaming resort, with its
thousand attaches, they will not be dis
posed to deny that gambling is highly
expensive amusement. Though there
is a tradition that somebody occasion
ally breaks the bank at Monte Carlo,
| it's dividends are never seriously af-
fected. They pour forth in an unbrok-
en- stream, and the army of fresh vic
tins is not apparently diminished,
| though most of them are aware that
Monte Carlo, in the language of lead
| ing encyclopedia, is "a small town in the
territory of Monaco, notorious on ac-
count of it's gaming tables, and the
numerous suicides of ruined gamblers -
AS the games at Monte Carlo appear
| to be what is called square, even those
familiar with them are at a loss to &C
count for the enormous profits. The
chances in the play seem to be almost
evenly balanced, yet the millions gray
| itate rapidly to the side of the bank.
So it is in all gambling, even in those
forms where one side is not more expert
or INSCRIPTIONS than the other. A
gambling bank has no emotions or pas
Sions. In a certain sense it makes nc
bet of its own, except to maintain that
the outsider cannot bet right. 1t has
no theories or systems, and allows 9th
ers to wager money that they can fiji
one set of circumstances to another set
Every possible advantage of the game
is known to it, and it is never compelled
to draw out after risking its last coin
If the croupier is perfectly fair, he
goes through his motions with indiffer-
ence, knowing that all the fallacious
calculations and whimsical impulses Of
those who play against him will tel
against them to his advantage.
If the mere betting on red and black
which is prevalent at Monte Carlo, is
so profitable to the bank, many other
forms of gambling are far worse. 1t is
needless to name them. The visitors tC
Monte Carlo could make at least 5000,
600 year 10y not going there. 1t is a
large stake, but they will not see it in
that light. Gambling is ruinous in 9th
er ways than the loss of money. 1t with
draws the mind from legitimate work
and places it in the habitual attitude Of
merely waiting for chance results, with
the possibility of lucky strike, which
seldom comes, and when it does come
unsettles the energies and lowers the
stamina. One glance at the regular
profits of Monte Carlo is enough to con
denim all gambling, and to warn those
who indulge in it that the odds agains
them are practically unlimited.-St
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30
American Boxes in Brazil.

Rio Janeiro. reports lay much stress
upon the advantage of the United States
mode of packing many articles in small
paper boxes, which make much neater
and more convenient shelf packages
than the brown paper parcels affected
by Europeans. and the excellence of
these MANILA and cardboard boxes is
said to have been considerable factor
in advancing the American export trade
in BraZil.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-07-30

not because Sne was afraid to trust
Thorndyke, but rather for the reason
that the daughter of James Duncan
could not well help inheriting some
thing of his cautious habit. At length
she said: Perhaps you could think
of some way to help him; I'll tell you
the story, but you mustn't say anything
about it at home till after I've told
father. Let's move back a little way,
so he can't see us from down there"
They retreated few steps from the
brow of the cliff and Elsie sat down upon
a log, while Philip stretched himself
upon the grass at her feet.
''The trouble commenced long time
ago, when the mountaineers used to
make whisky and sell it to the valley
people, she began. They knew it
was against the law, but don't think
they cared much about that, and, any
way, they kept on till one time the
revenue officers raided the mountain.
AT that time John Kilgrow was living
on a little farm over yonder where you
see the old orchard, and for years he
had been in the habit of making few
gallons of apple brandy from the apples
that he couldn't sell. I'm sure he never
thought he was doing wrong; and
father says he never sold any of the
brandy, though he used to give it away,
sometimes, to his neighbors. Besides
the place up here, he owned a farm i'll
the big valley, and that was rented out
to a, man by the name of Gates.
';Father says Gates always had a bad
name; he used to encourage the noun
taineers to make whisky, and then he
would help them sell it in the, valley
He was owing Mr.. Kilgrow two or
three years back rent at the time of
the raid, and to get out of paying he
told the deputy constable-or what
ever you call him-that Mr.. Kilgrow
made brandy, offering to show him the
house and the still"
''The Internal wretch!-I beg your
pardon-I didn't mean to be profane.
Please go on
"Cates did what he said he would.
but he was sharp enough to see that
Mr.. Kilgrow might get clear if he was
taken, or that he himself might be ar.
rested as a witness; SO he went to Mr..
Kilgrow first and pretended to warn
him as friend. Did you ever hear of
such a mean thing"
Never. I hope it didn't succeed"
eyes, it did; it all turned out just as
Gates had planned. The revenue men
surrounded the house, but Mr.. Kilgrow
| got out of a back window and ran. They
| chased him clear away over to the other
| side of the mountain, shooting at him