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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-07

why you are not absorbed in gratitude
to them because they turn you on spit
Peddlers of night shade! Peddlers Of
Canada thistle! Peddlers of nuN yom-
lea! Sometimes they get you in cor
ner where you cannot very well escape
without being rude, and then they tell
you all about this one. and all about
that one, and all about the other one.
and they talk, talk, talk, talk. talk talk.
After awhile they 60 away leaving the
place looking like barnyHrd after the
foxes and the weasels have been around;
here wing, and there a claw, and yon-
der an eye. and there crop. How they
do make the feathers hy
Rather than the defamtiou of good
names il seems TO me il would be almost
as honorable and useful if you just took
a box of matches in your pocket and
razor in your hand and 20 through the
streets and see how many houses you
can burn down and how many throats
you can cut That is not a much worse
business. The destruction of a mans
name is worse than the destruction of
| his life. woman came in confessional
to priest and told him that she mad
been slandering her neighbors. The
priest promised her absoution on CON
dition of her performing peuance. He
gave her a thistle top and said: You
can take that thistle and scatter the
seeds all over the field" She went and
did so and came back Now" said the
priest, gather up all those seeds" She
said: 81 can't" "Ah," he said, 81 know
you cant. Neither can you gather up
the evil words you spoke about your
neighbors" All good men and all good
women have sometimes had detrac Crs
after them. John Wesley's wife whis-
pered about him, whispered all over
England, kept on whispering about
that good man-as good man as ever
iived-and kept on whispering until the
connubal relation was dissolved.
Jesus Christ had these whisperers
after Him, and they charged Him with
drinking too much and keeping bad
company. "A wine bibber and the
friend of publicans and sinners You
take the best man that ever lived and
put detective on his track for ten
years, watching where he goes and
when he comes and with determine
tion 70 miscoustrue everything and 10
think he gocs here for bad rurpos,
and there for a bad purpose, with that
determination of destroying him, at the
end of the ten years he will be held de-
spicable in the sight of a great muny
people
If II is an outraCeous thiup 10 despuil
mans character bov mucb worse is #,
to dnmoce n vomau's reputation? Yet
tbat OWL crows from century 70 cen.
turv. and il is uli done low wLisuers. A
suspicion is started. The nest whis.
nerer who gets hold of II states the s,l,.
niciop rs a nroyen fact. and monv good
woman -. honorable as vour vii, or
yopr mother. has beeu wLi.rered out o.,
an l,indI,. ASSOCIATIONS and yyLisrerel
into ,hc rrove. some p,orIe saw there
q, .r, 81, = ...t
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-07
A noy Loses nn Eve IN Celehrntinr.

Troy, Kan, July 5,-The young son
of ex-County Treasurer w. H. DeVer-
eaux lost an eye by the bursting of
toy cannon while celebrating.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-07

have used Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in my family for years and
years and always with good result-,'
says Mr.. W. b. Cooper of FL Rio, Cal.
For small children we find it
especially effective For sale by
Campbell d BuIrell.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20
American Woman Cyclist in Java.

Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman, daugh-
ter OF ex Gov. Bullock OF Massachusetts,
who is now in Kashmir preparing for
climbing trip in Baltistan, has just fin
ished cycling tour of 1900 miles in
lava. She is the first woman to wheel
the length OF the island. The chief OBJ
stacles cyclist meets with are the lin
most parts) enervating heat, Java being
only FIVE degees from the line, the many
steep gradients, and often very poor
roads, the food, which the Dutch call
good, but which must be, Mrs. Work
man says, thoroughly disagreeable to an
Anglo. Saxon palate, and the difficulty oil
making ones self understood.
Owing to the Dutch system Of keeping
the people down, the Javanese, as a
whole, while quiet and well hammered,
are decidedly stupid in the interior.
Only in the large towns is Malay spok-
en-, so that smattering of that Ian
guage is of little use in mid Java, where
Javanese predominates, or in the noun
tains, where such dialects as Sundanese
and Tengcrese are used.
The tropical nature, combined with
grand mountain peaks rising to over
10000 feet from the plains, is over
whelmingly beautiful. in my Asiatc
wanderngs," writes Mrs. Workman, II
have wheeled through much enchanting
scenery, in the palm and banyan groves
of Orissa, over the green and scarlet
slopes of the Terai, which eliminate in
the grand hills at Darjeeling, and in that
lovliest OF palm islands, Ceylon; but
have never before cycled 1900 miles
through a country so continuously
beautiful, and where every scene that un'
folds itself to the cycer is either graceful
grand, or weirdly lovely.
THE Hindu and Buddhist temples are
also of great interest, and compare favor
ably with those of India, from which
land the original architects came. VI Wo
mans Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20
liars at Close Range.

All the monster glasses with which the
late rapid advance has been made IN
knowledge of our celestial neighbors
have come into being since the civil war.
Until then, in this country, the Harvard
telescope of 10 inches was the largest.
About 1860 one of 1872 inches was or
dered for the university in Evantson, Ill.
1t is only since 1870 that really huge
instruments have multiplied and are
nightly turned upon the starry skies to
ask questions which seem to our impa-
thence so slowly answered. But many
answers have come, after all, and some
things are clear which before could only
be surmised. For instance, we feel quite
sure now that Mars has an atmosphere,
though not more than halt as dense as
our own, but far better than none, as
we can tell by looking at our bright
though dead and desolated moon, from
which air and water have long since dis
appeared. And if Mars has air, the
polar caps alone would seem to show
that he has also ice and snow and there
appear to be, as well, areas OF water or
marsh though less in extent than the
land.
The northern hemisphere looks brighter
through the telescope, even showing
tints of red and yellow, which astrono-
mers are inclined to think are chiefly dry
land. probably desert; while the south
ern is dark, the "seas" brown or dull
gray, quite as water might appear.
These spots were first called seas, like
the smooth regions of the moon, and the
1A fhatr
may be.
In 1877 Mars was at his nearest to us;
near, that is, from an astronomers point
of view, though really at the enormous
distance of 35,O00,000 miles. Yet a
great deal was learned about this
neighbor in the sky-among other things
that he is attended by two tiny satellites
or moons never seen before. And the
same YEAR an Italian astronomer, MIR.
Schiaparelli, made careful studies and
drawings of the strange markings on
Mars. completing with the fine telescope
at Milan a series of elaborate sketches
afterward combined into an accurate
detail map.
Again in 1892 and 1894 the earth and
Mars came near each other in their flight
through space, though somewhat farther
than during the year 1877. And within
the last few months we have been once
more in good position to observe each
other, but we are favorably placed be-
cause only under these conditions can we
see the north pole of Mars, and So much
more is known about his south pole that
there is, of course, strong attraction IN
|
Only at this great distance is the north
mole praciously tilted toward us, so he
has been constantly watched this spring
and so he will be again in little over
two years. Eight years, however, will
pass before the Marian south pole can
again be studied to good advantage in
September of 1909, too, all observatories
will be on the eager lookout for news news
from this fascinating planet'-lSt
| Nicholas.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20
The Lost Ball.

PLAYING one day on the golf links, l was
trembling and i'll at ease,
And had no heart for driving, but idled
around the tees;
7 hardly knew l was driving, or If was
dreaming then,
Rat struck one ball in a moment with a
whack like the cluck Of a hen.
II rose in the air like an eagle; DER bunker
and hop 1t flew,
And straight and steadily l watched it, till 1t
law on the green l knew;
And my heart was filled with gladness, for
felt that now / could play,
And pictured myself as the winner of the
cham ionship cup, some day
So walked to the green in triumph was
sure with little care,
One stroke Of the putter would hole it-but
alas no ball was there.
And | sought, but sought it vainly, that
one lost ball OF mine,
Till the wintry day was waning and the
moon began to shine;
And | gave my caddie sixpence and he
searched from green to green,
But the ball 1 drove so grandly has never
since been seen.
have oft topped ball or missed it, l have
scooped the sods at my feet,
But that one great stroke with the driver
shall never again repeat.
1t may be that some bright angel will show
where my ball has lain.
But it NAV be that only in heaven ! shall
drive like that again.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20
HEAVY INSURANCE.

The biggest insurer in the world is the
Prince Of Wales. 1t issaid that his death
would cost English, German, French, and
American companies not less than $780,
100000. No other person carries 20 per
cent of that insurance, but comparative
" little of it is tor the benefit of his fam
ilv; perhaps not more than 81 900 900.
Some years ago large policies were taken
out by his creditors as security for money
loaned. If he should ever pay his debts
they would of course revert to him, and
might be carried for the benehtIof his fam
lily, but his premiums, like the premiums
on all of the royal families of Europe, are
very high-much higher than those paid
by private individuals for the same
amount Of insurance. tits curious fact
that So, 100000 or $3,000,000 of iusur
ance, perhaps more than that, has beer
placed on the life of the Prince OF Wales
as speculation by persons who do not
know him and have never had any rela
tons with him whatever. This would
not be possible under the insurance law:
of the United States but it is allowed by
some of the English companies.-[Daily
| News
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20

The story of love Is as old as the world,
and as all embracing as the universe. 1t
furnishes the sentiment for all romances-
all novels-all plays.
The novelist considers it wholly from the
sentimental, intellectual side, but there is
another aspect even more important-the
physical side. Sentimental love between
men and women leads to close physical as
sociation-to marriage-to the rearing of
children. And so health must be consid-
cred. A weak, sickly, head-achey, back
achey woman cannot be good, helpful
wife She cannot bear healthy happy
children. She cannot give her children
the proper care and training.
A sick woman has no right to marry. A
sick woman has no right to attempt moth
erhood.
But no woman need be sick unless af-
hicted with cancer. There is a sure way
for her to regain her health. She need not
go to a local doctor and submit to the dis
agreeable questionings, examinations
and local treatment" " so invariably in
sisted upon, and so justly abhorrent to
every modest woman.
DR.. r. V. Pierce of Buffalo, NJ Y, has
cured more cases Of female weakness than
any hundred local practitioners. He has
proved that diseases distinctly feminine can
be cured right in the privacy of home.
Write to him stating your symptoms and
an account of your trouble and he will give
your case careful, confidential considera-
ton and prescribe for you free of charge
Mrs o. N. Fisher of 1861 Lexington Avenue
New York City, writes: az had been sufferer
from nervousness with all its symptoms ant
complications In the spring of 1897 began tt
take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Now
am not cross and irritable I have good colo
in my face and have gained ten pounds"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20
California in Three Days

Via Chicago, Union Pacific and North
Western Line. 1.-THE Overland Limited"
leaves Chicago daily at 6.30p. m,
reaches San Francisco evening OF
the third day and Los Angeles the
next afternoon, no change of cars, all
meals in Dining Car "a la CARTE" Buffet,
and Smoking and Library Cars, with
barber. Pacific Express" leaves Chica
go daily at 10.3 p. m, reaches San
Francisco the fourth morning. Through
Tourist Sleeping Cars every day in the
year between Chicago, and California
and Oregon. Personally conducted ex-
cursions every Thursday. Tourist car
rate to San Frascisco, Los Angeles and
Portland, Sc 90. For tickets, reservations
and full particulars apply to your near
est ticket agent or address ]. E. Britain,
36S Washington street, Boston, Mass.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20
A W0man's Problems.

when breakfast things are cleared away
"tThe same old problems rising,
cor She again sits down to think
Of something appetzing.
rive dinner she must soon prepare.
or Give the cook directions,
ID ID Great is the relief she feels
When she has made selections.
1yt,eu dinner things are cleared away
The problem that Is upper
:. ;nst the same, with one W. ord changed
- What can l get for supperl"
Che wants to give them something new,
And long Is medit ,tion
,riil choice Is made. and then begins
The work OF preparation.
When supper things are cleared away
Again her mind is worried.
ror then she thinks of breakfast time,
When meals are often hurried.
She ponders DER it long until
The question is decided,
Then bustes round till she makes sure
That everything's provided.
Three times each day, week in, week out
This problem she is Getting
And often she is sore perplexed
In making plans for eating.
For one likes this. and one likes that,
And what Is appetizing
~ some is by the others spurned
As food that they're despising.
That "womans work is never done"
Has often been disputed,
Rut that she's worried is fact,
And cannot be refuted.
The worry over what to eat
IL greatest of these questions,
And glad she'd be II someone else
would make the meal suggestions.
[Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegrapl
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20

forehead was badly cut, and he quivered
in every limb. Several passengers gath
cred round him and tried to persuade
him to go to the hospital in the next
cab, for fear of any internal injury; but
the poor fellow continued to grip the
brass hand-rail, although with shaking
fingers.
NO." he said, 81 must keep at work.
dursn't leave my bus. dursnt in
deed"
Then out from the crowd stepped the
white-haired figure OF DR.. ]. l.. Patter-
son, the learned Roman Catholic titular
Bishop of Emmaus.
Don't be foolish, my friend, )" he said,
in his kind way. "Ofr you go to the
hospital in that cab. Give me your bell
punch, cash-bag, and tickets, and I'll
look after these people Tor you to the
end of the journey"
He tripped on to the footboard with a
vigorous step that would do credit to a
man thirty years his junior, fully meaning
what he said. 1t was no wonder there
was a disposition to cheer. However,
the distinguished ecclesiastic's services in
the capacity of bus conductor, although
freely offered, were not called for. Pas
sengers quilted the bus, and the driver
drove it off to the yard. presumably
leaving the conductor free to secure sur
gical treatment.-[ Youths Companion.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20
Yesterday and To-day.

A history of how the old Galena &
Chicago Union Railroad company, in
corporated in 1886, has grown into a
system having 7,931.96 miles of main
track in interestingly given in a little
booklet, yesterday and To-day. This
will be carefully preserved and studied
by many progressive railroad men be-
cause: 1t is not often any railway makes
so intimate statement of its affairs as
is contained in this brochure; and the
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Sys-
tenn has a peculiar standing in the rail-
way world for substantial achievement
in the matters of conservative, econom-
cal managemer and solid growth, prog
ress and expansion. The history of this
road is star chapter in the history OF
the railway development of the United
States, aud in this little book the subject
is presented in chapter and short one
at that. No doubt copy can be OBJ
tanned by addressing the General Passen-
ger Agent, Chicago.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20
Solid Walls of Wheat ,

Oklahoma's largest wheat field lies
few miles west of the small railway
station of Bliss, in Kay county. 1t con-
tains 5000 acres, and belongs to the
noted ranch "101" which controls l 8 900
acres of land leased from the Ponca
Indians. Two hundred men, more than
300 mules and horses and twenty-four
big Irvine binders were employed in cut
ting and shocking the grain grown on
this magnificent field this year, and it
was not until recently, with an army
OF laborers working night and day for
ten days, that the last acre was har-
vested.
Every principle of good farming was
observed in cultivating this big field,
with the result that the total output
will not be less than 100000 bushels of
as good wheat as can be found in Okla
homa. 1t is estimated that the average
acre yield will be from 20 to rs bushels.
There are many acres that will run
from 40 to so bushels. Buyers have
already offered go cents bushel for the
entire crop. 1t is probable that the
owners will get from 60 to 70 cents,
gross sum OF sos, 900 or $4,000. The
cost of producing this wheat and put
ting it on board cars will be rs cents
bushel, leaving net profit OF about
$35, 900.
Wheat was king in the Strip last week,
and its Importance eclipsed every
thing else on ranch "1O1." Numerical
ly, 500.acre wheat field is not very
impressive. To ride over it, however, in
blazing sunshine is to give rise to the
feeling that it covers the face of the
earth. The 5000 acres of wheat on
ranch "101" are divided iuto two fields
of almost equal size by the Salt Fork
River, a stream that pours down a
large volume of water at this time OF
year. Great yellow undulations of grain
swept alongside the river and then away
toward the distant hills, until they
seemed to reach the sky. 1t was so far
across the fields that the shocks look
like solid wall of wheat. In the field
on the south side of the river the first
circuit with binder was made by SUI
perintendent Miller.
There was not a man who could
guess how long it would take me to
make the round,' said he. 81 piled a
supply of Irvine on my binder, and
started. 1t was almost dinner time
when got back. l was gone four hours
and Travelled six miles"
The distances are so great on the
ranch that it is impossible for the men tc
turn in at one place for their meals
The loss of time would amount to hun
dreds of dollars in a season. Accord
ngly, camps are established at differen
places, generally close to a stream
where the men live in tents and the meal
are prepared by ranch cooks.-[F From
the Kansas City Star.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20

Rutland is to have kindergarten in
connection with its public schools.
The movement to wipe out the debt
amounting to $11 400, of the Rutland
City Hospital started last winter by
President Field, has been successfully
carried out, and the association is now
practically free from debt.
There are now at Fort Ethan Allen
five officers and sc recruits tor the 43d.
The regiment will probably not leave
this winter.
Fire originating from spontaneous
combustion in a quantity OF oil paints
destroyed the stock of Mrs. 7. c. Dodge's
millinery parlors at Burlington Sunday
afternoon. The loss is estimated at
$4,000 and there is insurance of $4,000.
The contents of the store OF Ii. II. Brad
ley & Co. were also damaged.
Harry, the 15year-old son OF Elmer
Jacobs of Montpelier, was drowned Sun
day afternoon while bathing at Mont
peiier Junction. He could not swim and
got beyond his depth. The body was
recovered.
A despatch was received in Burlington
Sunday evening from Col. Rice OF the
26th Regiment stating that the regiment
arrived at Oakland Park, Cal, Saturday
and would probably sail for Manila on
the Oath.
The condition of Mildred Brewster
now confined in the asylum at Water.
bury is gradually becoming one of total
dementria. Her physicians at one time
believed she might recover, but now the
indications are that she will never be
better.
There are lis boys and 81 girls in the
Vermont industrial school at Vergennes
At a meeting of the directors of the
Island Pond National Bank, Col. Porter
H. Dale was unanimously elected presi
dent, vice George H. Fitzgerald, resigned
The wife of an employe in one of thu
mills at Bennington has just received
notice that by the death of a relative il
Germany she will Immediately come into
possession OF $500 in U. S. money.
The bankruptcy petition of Isaiah Piper
farm laborer Of Stannard was filed il
the office of the district court clerk il
Burlington Saturday. Liabilities $1193
so assets $40.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-09-20
Uncle Sans Odd Expenses.

Everyone knows that it costs almost
$500 000, 600 year to run the United
States Government in times of peace, and
the Departments Of War and Navy, the
Indian and the Pension Bureaus absorb
the larger part of this amount; but in
the course OF years large number of de-
pendants upon Uncle Sans purse have
come into being, of which the general
public knows little. Such, for example,
are the International Bureau for the Re-
preston OF the African Slave Trade,
located at Brussels, highly laudable ill.,
sttution, to the expences OF which onr
Government contributes 500 year; the
International Bureau of Weights and
Measures. also at Brussels, to which
S2270 is contributed and the Inter-
national Geodetc Association, the ex-
pences OF which our Government shares to
the extent of$15o0 yearly, says Leslie's
Weekly. As a leading member of a group
OF nations specially interested in humane
and phllanthropic work, we subscribe
1926 year to lighthouse service on
the coast OF Morocco; about $500 to be
divided among citizens of other lands for
service rendered to shipwrecked Ameri-
can seamen; $500 year toward main
tanning a hospital fo- sailors at Panama,
and $4,000 Tor keeping and feeding Ameri-
can convcts imprisoned in foreign coun-
tries. Among the unfamiliar purposes
in the home country for which money is
appropriated from the Federal Treasury
is the maintenance of the Washing
ton Monument, costing S11, 500 annual
ly, and the provision of artificial limbs
for soldiers, calling for $547 900 year.