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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-09
BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
There Is Sunshine on Every Cloud
Says DR.. Talmage.
what We Consider Gods Affections
ON Us Are Always Influences for
GOOd-Wby the Useful Are
Taken.

ICopyrght. 1881 Washington. Dec. l.
In this discourse DR., Talmage takes
an optimistic view of many Things that
are usually accounted as ineXpIicable
in human experience ald shows us that
even trouble and affection may not he
wholly without their brighter side,
Text, Psalm 49:4; Il will open my dark
saying upon the harp"
The world is full Of the ineXplicable
the impossible. the unfathomable, the
insurmountable. We cannot 90 three
steps in any direction without coming
up against hard wall of mystery. rid
dies. paradoXes, profundilies. laby
rinths, problems that we cannot solve
hieroglyphics that we cannot decipher,
anagrams we cannot spell out, sphinXes
thar will not speak. For that reason
David in my text proposed TO take up
some of these somber and dark things
and try to set them to SWEEP music
81 will open my dark sayings on
harp" SO look off upon society and
find people in unhappy conjunction of
circumstances, and they do not know
what II means, and they have right TO
ask Why is this? Why is that? And
] think will be doing good work by
trying to explain some OF these strange
things and make you more content with
your lot. and shall only be answering
questions that have often been asked
me or that we have all asked ourselves
while ! try to set these mysteries 10
music and open my dark sayings on
harp,
Interrogation the first: Why does
God take out Of the world those who
are useful and whom we cannot spare
and leave alive and in good health so
many who are only nuisance 10 the
world? | thought | would begin with
the very toughest of all the seeming
inscrutabes Many OF the most useful
,nen and women die al 30 or 40 years
Of age while you often find useless peo-
pile alive at 60 and 70 and so John
Careless wrote TO Bradford. who was
soon to he put to death. saying; "Why
doth God suffer me and other such cat
erpillars TO live that can do nothing but
consume the aims Of the church and
take away so many worthy worlsmen
IN The Lords vineyard" Similar ques.
lions are often asked, Here are two
men. The one is noble character and
a Christian man. He chooses for
lifetime companion one who has been
tenderly reared. and she Is worthy of
him and he is worthy Of her. As mer-
chant or farmer or professional man
or mechanic or artist he tolls 10 edu-
cate and rear his children. He is sue
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-09

ceeding. but he has not yet established
for his family full competency. He
seems indispensable to that house old.
but one day. before he has paid off the
mortgage on his house. he is coming
home through strong northeast wind.
and n chill strikes through him. and
four days OF pneumonia end his earth
~ career. and the wife and children go
into struggle for shelter and food.
His next door neighbor is man who.
though strong and we'll let's his wife
support him lie is around al The gro
Gerry store or some general loaling place
in the evenings. while his wife sews
His boys are initiating his example and
lounge and swagger ard swear. All the
use that man is in that house is to rave
because The coffee is cold when he comes
TO late breakfast or Ia say cutting
things about his wife's looks, when he
furnishes nothing for her wardrobe.
The best thing that could happen to
that family would be that mans flu
neral, but he declines to die. lie lives
on and on and on. So we have all no
ticed that many of the useful are early
cut Off, while the parasites have great
vital tenacity.
take up this dark saying on my harp
and give three or four thrums On the
string i'm the way of Surmisne and
hopeful guess. Perhaps the useful man
was taken ont of the world because he
and his family were So constructed that
they could not have endured some great
prosperity that might have been just
ahead, and they all together might have
gone down in the vortex Of wordliness
which every year swallows up 10000
households. And so he went while he
was humble and consecrated. and they
were by the seventies of life kept close
to Christ and fitted for usefulness here
and high seats in Heaven. and when
they meet at last before the throne they
will acknowledge that. though the fur
mace was hot, il purified the m and pre-
pared them for the eternal career of
glory and reward for which no other
kind OF life could have fitted them On
the other hand. the useless man lived
on to so or 60 or 20 years because all
the ease he ever can have he must have
in this world, and you ought not there
fore begrudge him his earthly longev-
ity, In all the ages there has not u
single loafer ever entered Heaven.
There is no place for him there TO hang
around.
Interrogation the second: Why do
good people have so much trouble, sick
ness, bankruptcy, persecution. the
three black vultures, sometimes put
ting their fierce beais into one set of
tangled nerves? think now Of good
friend once had lie was a conse-
Grated Christian man, an elder in the
church, and as polished Christian gen
tleman as ever walked broadway.
First his general health gave way. and
he hobb,ed around on cane. an old
man at 40. After awhile paralysis
struck him, Having 10y poor health
been compelled suddenly to quit bust
ness, he lost what property he had,
Then his beautiful daughter died;
thena son became hopelessly demented,
norhsr son. splendid OF mind and com
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-09
KeNemEe.

First Dentist got even with the
photographer who took my picture.
Second Dentst-liOw did you do it?
First Dentist-Whcn he got into my
clair | said; Look pleasant, please"
N Y Truth
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-09

The Gentleman should think you
would find it cheaper to smoke pipe.
The Wanderer-Me friend, you can't
pick up smokin' tobaccer on the streets
like you kin siggars.-Cincinnati En-
nllirer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-09

"Claredon Dawdley is the most hope
lessly lazy man ever knew"
"Doesn' he do anything at all?'
"Do anything? lie doesn't even
blame his parents for not bringing him
up differently. Chicago Daily Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-09
Nenr-sInhtch.

Briggs didn't know that you were
near-sighted!
Griggs - Near-sighted! Why,
walked right up to one OF my creditors
Yesterday !-Boston Traveller
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-09

speaking of the stage" said AS
bury Peppers 10 the boarder who had
no chance to escape, "a plump figure is
worth a round sum- Cincinnati En-
ouirar
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-09

The Sweetheart-And did YOU some
times think of me while AT the front?
The Soldier-les, whenever they
blew the "call to arms" ~. Y. journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-09
A General Banking Business Transacte
it's branches.

foreign
points and proceeds entted on day Liberal
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

The Press-Eaaie wants to know what assurance Mr. Brewster will give his fellow Democrats that he will be satisfied if again defeated.
 Whenever he is legally and honestly defeated, Mr. Brewster will retire from the race and not before. But he has not been defeated
 this year by the honest and legal
 voters of the county. He has been twice the nominee of the party this Spring and Summer, but each time lis plurality has been small and the Mccoy people have tried, and so far succeeded, in deprivlng him of his nomination by seheming and ras- cality. As long as the Mccoy peo- pie seek to defeat Mr. Breweter by stuning ballot boxes and false cleo tion returns (as was done ia Melton township at the May prlmary), and by voting negro Republicans and counting illegal ballots for Mccoy to overcome legal and honest ballots for Mir. Brewster, fas was done in June), that long will he contest for his rights if they can't be secured in any other way The day has passed for false election returns and other unfair election methods. Nobody has heard of the Brewster forces doing anything of that kind for him, neither will Mir Brewster s friends tolerate or submit to such methods resorted to to defeat him of his legal rights. We are here to fight for these rights to the last ex. tremity, and Ue will meet you again at Phi1ipi.
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WE observe that our editorial on aThe True Situation" is causing Maj. Mccoy and his organ, the Press Ea9ie, considerable diseen. fort. The GRAPHIC told the truth, and the opposition can't get around it. It is the TRUTH that hurts. We again repeat what we have before remarked, that Maj. Mccoy and his partisans can't go before the people on the record they have made during the present distracted and distressing campaign.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28
Renntx Ia nIood Deem.

Clean blood means q clean szin No beauty without 1t. Cascarets, Candy Cathar- tie clean your blood and keep 1t clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all inn purities from the body. Begin to-day 10 banlsh pimples, boils, blotehes, blaelheads, and that sieklY bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, ,-beauty for ten cents. All drug gsts, satisfaction guaranteed, l0e, 25c, 50e.
 Cheap Rates to Omaha via Cotton Belt Route-Fine Bluff te Omaho, Neb., and return $2l 05.
 First-Aecount National Eclectic Medical assn, tickets onsale June E 20; return limit July [.
 Second-Account American Insti- tute oi Homeopathy, tickets on sale June 22-23; return limit July [
 Third-Aeeeunt Trans-Mississippi Teachers assn, tirkets on sale june @; return llmit July ,.
 Fourth-Accout Frans-Mississippi Turn Fest, tickets on sale June 29th, return limit July Sth.
 Special cheaprates to Omaha Neb., account Trans-Mississipp and Inter national Exposition, June Ist tc November 1st, lS9S, $25.-l0 Pine Bluff to Omaha and return. Tickets on sale daily from June lst to October 15tb, return limit 90 days from date Of safe. H. BFlNGMAN, Agent.
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Domstic as low as four cents per
 yard, Ai'n't that splendid. when times
 are so hard. Latest garments ready made, ex-
 anime them, don't let them
 wait. Shirt waists, the prettiest you
 ever saw, They can't be beat in Arkansaw. Laces and emroideroies we don't
 sell. but almost give away, Call and you will admit the same
 and say, Wolf Nichols would probably
 never have dissoverd this
 glorious land, But everything turns to gold what
 he once takes in hand.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

I beg to remind the people Of this
 great land, That the Fourth of July will soon
 be on hand. On this great and glorious Inde-
 pendence day You surely must have something
 to say. George Washington, our great
 man, buried the hatchet, Wolf Nichols at the time was
 not there to catch t, But he is here now, to celebrate a
 Nations day And on this day 10 give away
 dress goods we sell as low as
 two and one-haif cents. Dear people, economize and save.
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TIE cruise of Camara toward the Philippines is declared 10 be only g strategem of war. But our Naval Strategy Board are something of strategists themselves, and when the American fleet lines up from of the Spanish coast, Camara will have to come back.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

Mr. C. P. J. Mooney has 2 most interesting and well written article on Imperial and Conquest Bogies7 in Sundays Commereiol Appeal. He lakes issue with the fearful patriots who can sec nothing but disaster in 2 policy of territorial expansion, and draws upon history to show that the really great nations of Ahe world have all been of the conquering and annrxing sort. He admits that ihere is danger in this policy, but contends that the peril is not so great as that which is bred of isolation. The dominant nations of old, he holds, went to wreck not because of their outlying possessions or the results of their conquests, but be- cause of decay at home, winch can
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

NEWS has been received at Key West to the effect that a reign Of terror exists at Havana. Gen. B.aneo threatens to shoot his critics and then take his own life, and in the meantime a rebellion is threatened among the Spanish police. A famine is also imminent and the in- habitants are threatened with starvation.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

ynE Mccoy people find the GRAPHIC such "hot stuff" that Maj. Mccoy has 10 explain his own acts every day or so by 'eardn ia the Commerciel, while the editorial columns of the Press Eogle are filled every weeK in an effort to show that Maj. Mccoy got nomination winch be did not get.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

not be attributed in any reasonable degree to their aggressive spirit b fact, he finds authority to shoW that their period of decline began when they ceased 10 be aggressive. The article is well worth reading, both for the style and the matter of it.- Memphis Seimltar.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28
Pneumonia 61ure l.

Mrs 4. ]. Lawrence, of Beaver, Pa., or a severe attack of pueumon.l ii splendid shape It is q wonderful rem edy for coughs and lung troubles. Also, and chapped hands and face, it ares like magic. t is invaluable | tar family
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AS TO CIRCULATION.

The Daily GRAPHIC has nearly double the circulation of any other IPine Bluff daily newspaper. and the Daily and semi-Weekiy GRAPHIC have a combined circulation larger than that of any other Pine Bluff daily or weekly newspaper. Advertisements accept ed on this guarantee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

TIE Daily GRAPHIC was the first newspaper to bring to the Pine Bluff reading pubic yesterday the news that fleet would be dispatch ed to Spanish waters to lombard the Spanish coast. The morning papers today only have further de tails.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

SHALL we have another primary or Nill the Central Committee nom- mate for the State Senate at it's next meeting to fill the unexpil ed term of the late Senator Graee2
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

TIE American and Spanish forces at Santiago are only four miles from earch other and 8 decisive engage ment may be expected at any mo. ment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

TIE new government stamp which goes into effect July 1, will work 2 revolution in all kinds of conner cial transactions and will be sorely felt by the business world.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

He IS a man of great energy
 holds his money tight ., :
 lock and key, And his savings arc in part
 turn to you, Come and examine our
 stock in shoes, We have q line that canao
 beat, And we wish to receive your
 ognition to lead. Come one and all. from Mo
 on to the 4th of July. Our bargains are on hand for
 to buy. We will sell you when oI
 can't. This is plain talk, see us and
 will understand.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

FIFTEEN Regiments atChickamau- ga are now ready to quit camp for Cuba.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28
Doa,s Tobaeeo spit bod smoLc ronr u

Doat Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your IIfe Away.
 To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netie f0ll Of life, nerve and ygor, take No-ro. Bac, the onderworSer, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 50c or St. Cure guaran. teed Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co.,. Chicago or New Yorh
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28

Gunther's famous chocolates and bCnhons at Mitchell's. only, POS Main street. II f5 If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-28
PINE BLUFF. ARK. JUNE 2. 1898.

Entered at the Post-office at Pine Bluff. Ark .assecoad-elassm mailmatted
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of Hope Domestic, 44, originally for Swiss Null 12 to Sc originally this week for lOc. Big lines Ladies Waists. originally IOc this for &c., 50 pieces of Lawn. originally 5c, this week for Q Big line of Mems Ne9liQee Shirts. shirts soc week Our 8l shirt for 65c $l 25 shirt this line in beached drill original price we for 95Ct
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The evening times., 1898-02-09
MARTHA WASHINGTON.
The Wife of Our First President
Usually Retired Early.

A homelike picture Of Mrs. Washing
ton and her favorite granddaughter is
given by Mrs. James Gibson. who fire.
quently visited her when. as Presidents
wife. she resided in Philadelphia, then
the Capital Of the United States. Mrs
Gibson's language is quoted by Miss
Wharton in her Martha Washington"
Mrs. Washington was in the habit
of retiring at an early hour to her own
room. unless detained by company. and
there. no matter what the hour, Miss
Custis attended her.
One evening my fathers carriage
being late in coming for me. my dear
young friend invited me to accompany
her To her grandmamma's room. There.
after some little chat, Mrs. Washing
ton apologized to me for pursuing her
usual preparations for the night, and
Nellie entered upon her accustomed du-
ty by reading a chapter and a psalm
from the old family Bible, after which
all present knelt i'm evening prayer.
Mrs. Washingtons faithful maid
then assisted her TO diSrobe and lay her
head upon the pillow Nellie then
sang q verse Of some swe6tly soothing
hymn. and. leaning down. received the
parting blessing for the night. with
some emphatic remarks on her duties
improvements, etc. The effect of these
judicious habits and teachings appear
ed in the granddaughter character
through life
The evening times., 1898-02-09
WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE.
Charles Mckensie Says They Ought
To Have Elective Franchise.

Charles McKensie in the course OF
a recent interview. says some things
that are practically a plea for equal
suffrage for women. He said:
In a republic such as ours there
must always be national issues TO di-
vide the people. The din over the. bat
Tie between metallic standards has
subsided. There is one question. how
ever. toward which the minds. of the
thinking people of the United States
seem to be turning, a question that
lies deep set in the foundation of
American institutions: TIE elective
franchise. how and by whom shall IL
be exercised and what means shall
best be adapted to keep il intelligent.
pure and patriotic?
The elective franchise should he
conferred by reasonable and Just rules
and not merely by arbitrary laws
Ihere Is no difference in the allegiance
that man owes to the General Gov
ernment from that which is exacted
from woman Ii would be ridiculous
10 say that red-headed men should
vote. and that black k-haired men should
not vote; and yet this is no more alb
surd than to say that a man should
vote and a woman should not. The
color of the hair is an accident of
birth. SO is the distinction of sex. We
near defamation against class legis-
lation everywhere. and we wonder
why class legislation is any more OBJ
jeCtiOnable than Sex legislation"
The evening times., 1898-02-09
MITTENS MINUS THU MBS.
They Are the Most Convenient for
the baby

Fer generations doting mothers and
impatient nurses have sat with wig
Cling infants (Who must needs have an
airing, though the thermometer regis
ters 40 below freezing poinD on their
knees, using their best endeavors to
crowd baby's refractory thumb into the
place where the thumb ought to go.
knowing full we'll all the time that no
sooner would the ungrateful offspring
be tucked away in his carriage than
by hook or by crook he would manage
to work the little member free. and ten
chances to one lose his mitten in the
process.
But not until this end of the century
has there arisen woman clever enough
to hit upon the perfectly obvious i'm
provement of thumbless mittens for
baby. Only the experienced can realize
how il simplities matters to slip the
little hand into a case that just fits
it. without any Superfiuous arrange
ment for the tiny thumb.
In knitting these mittens one has
simply to shape them to the little hand
as it lies fiat, the thumb lying along
side the forefinger.
Some prefer them knitted with wrists
that extend half way to the elbow.
The evening times., 1898-02-09
. THE MILITARY GIRDLE.
Made Of Brass Buttons Collected
From Soldiers Uniforms.

If you want to proclaim yourself as
belonging to the army and navy set"
and therefore in a very gay social swim.
you must wear a military belt. which is
not. as its name might indicate. a pom
derous leather and gold affair, pattern
ed after the kind belonging to- soldiers
uniforms. Ii is indeed. the product OF
much devastation of those uniforms,
but the articles plundered are not the
belts, but the buttons.
Every fair damsel who has military
friends smiles upon one after anather
until she has persuaded each la mutt
late his regimentals in order To bestow
upon her the one favor which she asks
above all others, pretty brass but
ton from the front of his coat. In vain
he offers to bring her one the next time
he sees her; she will have none of his
promises. but will snip the button off
herself before he escapes her. In rare
cases. an officer gets off by promising
to bring her a half dozen or so. for of
course that would lessen her labor and
shorten the time before the necessary
materials for the belt were collected
Having obtained couple, of dozen of
these buttons she hies her to ieweler
who fastens tiny links to the edges of
the buttons and connects them with
chains until sufficient girth is reached
To encircle her presumably slender
waist A diamond shaped buckle is
then formed of the rest of the buttons
and the belt is complete--unless there
should happen to be few of the militia.
ry souvenirs left, in which case they
may be used for a chatelaine.
The belt next In favor is designed to
represent a circlet of peacock feathers.
The feather part is dark. oxydiZed sill
yer, and the eyes" are made of pur.
pie enamel that glitters like amethyst.
Such a girdle costs $25, but il is great
Iavorite with the swagger New York
err. Notwithstanding the superstition
that peacock feathers are the plumage
of i'll omen
In general. belts average about two
inches wide, and the newest ones are
made of a succession of round or
square pieces linked together over an
inner belt of silk-usually gray. to
match the silver. This introduction of
a silk lining into the composition of