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The Iola register., 1901-04-19
A BIG MORTGAGE
KOhlsatt Mortgages the Herald for
S3,600.000 to the Record Herald

Ry soupps- s-McRae Press Association.
Chicago, April lS.-The largest
mortgage ever placed on a newspaper
was dled by II. II. Kohlsatt when he
mortgaged the property of the Chi
cago Herald Company to the pub
fishers of the Record Herald for s.
600, 600 on behalf of the bond holders.
In view of the fact that nearly every
session of the board of county com
missioners is occupied in turning peo-
pie out of jail who have not paid
either their fine or costs, simply be-
cause of the expense of keeping them,
the recent action of the board of Usage
county is interesting. That board
has decided to establish q rock pile
and the Usage Free Press says Of it:
thereafter man who Is sentenced to
pay fine can either pay cash or
break rock for it. The imposition of
a fine upon offenders ought to mean
something. If the man who is sem
fenced to jail for thirty days and to
pay a fine Of 800, has to work one
hundred days to pay that fine he will
be far more careful to keep out of
trouble. There will be very much
less violation of law in Usage county
after the county rock pile is estab-
lished.n
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
SHORT PERSONAL STORIES.

Mark Twain tells thus the story of his
first great London banquet, at which, by
the way. there were 800 or 800 guests. He
admits that not having ben used to that
kind of dinner he felt somewhat lonesome.
The lord mayor. or somebody. read out
list OF the chief guests before we began to
eat. When he came to prominent names
the other guests would applaud. I found
the man next to me rather a good talker
Just as we got up an interesting subject
there was a tremendous clapping of hands,
I Strengthened up and set to clapping with
the rest, and I noticed a good many peo-
pie round me fixing their attention on mo
and some of them laughing in friendly
and encouraging way. moved about in
my chair and clapped louder than ever
"'Who Is it?' l asked the gentleman on
my right.
Samuel Clemens, better known in En-
gland as Mark Twain he replied.
II stopped clapping. The life seemed to
go out of me. I never was in such fix
in all my days."
Mrs. Edward Gould is one of the most ar
dent collectors in America and at one time
she declared that If she could only get hold
of the club with which Cain pommeled
Abel she would be the happiest of women.
On recent visit to New Orleans she exs
plored the French quarter of that city and
was rewarded by finding numerous relics
of days long before Andrew Jackson
whipped the British there. She also picked
up many valuable articles dating back to
the Napoleonic period, one being a solid
silver piece which once had been the prop
eryt of Jerome Bonaparte.
-
About year ago Mrs. Alfred Schermer-
horn. a society woman of Brooklyn, lost
her fortune in speculation. Nearly all OF
her swell friends manifested such strong
disposition to drop her acquaintance that
Mrs. Schermerhorn took the initiative by
dropping theirs, and being woman Of sense
began to look around for some means Of
sef-support. She hit upon the idea OF
operating laundry and opened such an
establishment Southampton, l.. l., where
the faithful among her former friends are
helping to make the venture success.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
ADOPTS TINE GRANDFATHER cl, ,Usf.

The brief reports received from the
scene of the Alabama constitutional
convention afford only a meagre idea OF
the manner and motive of it's transac-
tons, though it is evident that the So
called "grandfather's clause" was only
adopted after strenuous resistance on
the part of plucky minority. This will
be recalled as the device invented IN
Louisiana and initiated in North Caro-
lima, for the purpose of disfranchising
the negro vote.
When the proposition was under de-
bate in the Louisiana constitutional con-
vention it was opposed by both the
United States senators from that state.
who announced to their constituents the
belief that the clause was unconstitu>
tional. Likewise in the Alabama con-
vention, both Senators Morgan and
Pettus. two very able constitutional au-
thorities, objected to the disfranchise-
ment measure for similar reasons. They
were reinforced in their opposition by
the chairman Of the democratic state
central committee, who seems to have
challenged the action of the convention
on the ground that the wishes Of a ma
jority of the citizens of the state were
betrayed.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
SAFFRON SENSATION LESS IN DEMAND.

Ore of tic striking and agreeable
tendencies Of the times is the growing
preference of Sunday newspaper readers
for purely literary entertainment. Within
less than a year distinct alteration has
been going on in the makeup policy OF
a number of the larger Sunday dailies
Of the country, and in every instance the
change has been for literary better-
ment.
The pioneer of the movement was the
New York Times, which, in addition to
it's long established page of magazine
extracts, devised literary supple
ment of very high order. The experl-
ment proved such an immediate and
pronounced success that it inspired emu
lation even in the yellow journals, sew
eral of which now abate their Sunday
saffron horrors to considerable extent,
in order to feature their compendiums
Of current literature.
This new departure, and the manifest
appreciation it has aroused, indicates
clearly enough in what direction the
tastes and desires of American news
paper readers are running. The inteIll-
gence and literary curiosity of the people
never could be measured nor understood
by that kind Of editorial talent which
revels in Illuminated feasts of crime, de-
formity and degeneracy.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31

1t Is plain from the decided division
of opinion in Alabama, and the previous
appeals of the Louisiana senator's to
their constftution-makers. that the
southern members of the upper house
of congress are convinced as to the un-
constitutionality of the grandfather
clause. The conservative sentiment of
the south is apparently falling into line
with their position. Reports from the
Virginia constitutional convention give
assurance that this clause will not be
adopted, and If Mr.. loves pronounce
ment in the Alabama convention was
correct the people of that state would
have preferred that the Louisiana dis
Reimbursement method were omitted
from the new constitution. hra .
In Louisiana the New Orleans Times
Democrat expresses itself forclbly
against the amendment and declares 1T
never has believed in that provision OF
the suffrage. Suit already has been taid
in that state. at the instance of the Afro
American league of Washington, Which
has contributed a fund for the purpose
of testing the objectionable clause in
the United States supreme court.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31

Rather a unique project has been
launched in the constitutional conven-
tion Of Virginia. 1t is to provide for
the exercise of the suffrage by the wives,
widows and daughters of confederate
soldiers. No educational qualification is
mentioned. Virginia is evidently solving
the problem of maintaining a ''solid-
south majority for the democracy, anl
at the same time rendering her congress
sional apportionment safe.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31

Elijah Dowie, the heaven sent humbug
who Is tolerated at Chicago, has had a
great fall. He worked the Zionist
prayer cure on a number of defective
mortals with varying success until he
encountered houseful of diphtheria
Here the efficacy of his verbal labor
suffered total eclipse. After one of
the three daughters of the family died.
an officer of the health department quar-
antined the premises, and suggested to
the prophet that little antiltoxin would
save at the same time his prayers and
the lives of the patients. AS the children
grew worse under the prayer treatment.
the health department expert was ad-
lnitted to the house in time to rescue
them, with serum applications. Dowie
may learn after awhile the utility, even
in the charlatan business, Of medicine
chest - -
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31

The good oldfashioned horse, on four
legs, is far from being out of style in
those resorts of the world where high
speed contrivances are supposed to have
relegated him for all time. J. After
w. K. Vanderbilt's fast automobile was
crippled and put out of commission, he
received at Newport machine described
as the Red Devil" Recently he drove
it two miles at the rate of "A miles an
hour, and was returning home leisurely
when it broke down. With his two crack
autos laid up Indefinitely for repairs, Mr.
Vanderbilt had to fall back on com.
monplace runabout and horse, and his
appearance on the driveway behind a
whip caused a greater sensation than
the arrival of his fast electric machine.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
CHARACTER READ IN TIE EYES.

When the upper lid covers half, or more,
or the pupil the indication is of cool de-
liberation. An eye the upper lid of which
passes horizontally across the pupil indi-
Gates mental ability. Unsteady eyes, rap
idly jerking from side to side are fre-
quently indicative of an unsettled mind
1t is said that the prevailing color of eyes
among the patients of lunatic asylumns
are brown and black Eyes Of any color
with weak brows and long. concave lasnes
are indicative of weak constitution.
Eyes that are wide apart are said to in1i-
cate great intelligence and a tenacious
memory. Eyes of which the whole iris
Is visible belong to erratic persons, even
with tendency toward insanity. WIDE
open. staring eyes in weak countenances
indicate jealousy. bigotry, intolerance, and
pertinacity, without firmness. fTS
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
DEMOCRATS PRAYING FOR DISASTER.

When the democratic editor, for want
of better political ammunition, falls to
deriding the prosperity which has un-
failingly followed the adoption of repub-
lican policies, it is wasting mental tissue
to take him seriously. But when he in
dulges his propensity for joy in visions
of national disaster, from the wreck and
ocratic party step forth to victory, he
demands a certain amount Of attention
as revealing state Of mind usually re.
strained within the walls of an insane
asylum or penitentiary.
It is curious phenomenon Of Ameri-
can life that so many citizens who style
themselves, in political warfare Jeffer-
sonian democrats, never cease hoping,
praying and prophecying that the coun-
try will go to smash, in order that their
party may have another lease of the
power it has turned to such small ac-
count on previous trials. Here is a SAM
pie, from the Jacksonville (Fla.) Me-
tropolis, Of the rejoicings among south
ern democrats at the misfortune and dis
tress wrought by the recent hot wave:
Something good comes out of every
calamity. The latest is the predict
tion of the Tampa Herald that the
hot weather Of the west will turn
people democrats. Here is the Her.
AIDS statement:
IF the hot winds go on and de-
stroy the crops and reduce the peo-
pie Of the Northwest to poverty, the
states up that way will go demo-
cratic at the next election. When
men are poor and detected and
stricken then they turn to democ-
racy as the prodigal son came home
to his father. When they are rich
and naughty and insolent, when
their stomachs are full and their
heads are turned with self-glory,
they are naturally republicans.
IF the crops fail, and the finan-
cial bubble bursts, and the glories
of wealth and style go glimmering.
the masses will flock to the good old
democratic banner like bees to the
tap of a sugar maple. 1t is always
so. 1t is the rule of human nature"
| 1t is doubtful whether the adherents
of the Chicago platform in Kansas, Ne.
| braska and other states, which have
| not been blighted so severely as antici
| pated, would indorse this calamity man
| AeE oI COuuuctulS d ueuIOCIAlIC cam
paign.
Unconsciously the Tampa editor hal
drawn a little contrast between prac
tical democracy and republicanism tina
would make republican vote getter al
campaign document. Poverty. dejec
ton and despair, with a stomach gnawet
by the tooth of hunger; crop failures an.
financial cataclysm; the disappearance
of wealth-these and kindred evils ar
| the inspiration of democratic hope
with such as this Tampa genius, VIII
suffer from shortness Of memory. It i
only five years since we recovered from
just such conditions, brought on b,
| democratic experiments with govern
| ment.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
A PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTION.

"Doctor, I received your bill yesterday,
and to be frank with you, must say that
I think 1t very high"
You have come to that conclusion with
cut due consideration: you do not make
note of the fact that during the greater
period Of your illness your fever was very
high"
And you have evidently failed to be i'm
pressed with the fact that. as you repeated
ly said yourself, my condition was very
low
"Very true. but You must know that our
rates are not based upon the state of the
patient. but on the character Of the dis
ease."-Richmond Dispatch.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
DID YOU EVER MEET THIS W0MAN7

Her husband is all right-but he Is SO
fat!
Her little boy is all right-but he is
growing so spindling!
Her home is all right-but the paint
is too light!
Did she like the last lecture at the
ciuu: Liked what he said very much
but his hair was cut SO short-ltke a
prize lighters!
Her new tailor suit is all right-but Mrs.
Xyz has her coat trife, the merest
shred, longer, and it's much better.
Her new hat Is elegant-but If that rib
bon was q shade darker now!
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31

Secretary Long has decided to consider
himself as member of the navy depart
ment, and to abide by his own instruc-
tions respecting the Schley-Sampson af-
fair at the peril of something too serious
to be thought of just now, if he has any
thing further to say. The country would
have complacently overlooked the as
sumption by the secretary, of the right
to speak at any and all times, as the
head OF the department. 10
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
"A WoMAN'S QUESTION"

Salt Lake City, July q, 1901.
To the Editor: A few days ago, think
your issue Of July 23rd, there appeared
poem entitled "A Woman's Question"
signed Hazel Earle" do not know
whether Miss Earle claims the authorship
of this little bit of verse, but one would
certainly infer as much, as no mention is
made of the author Mrs. Elizabeth Barret
Browning I have clipped the enclosed
out of an old edition of Mrs. Browning's
poems and also ne Answer" by Pelham.
really think that both of these should be
published. as no doubt many more of your
readers have noticed the piracy.
EDWARD FLETCHER.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
FEAT OF A SUBMARINE BOAT.

The Paris newspapers are enthusiastic
over the successful feat OF the submarine
torneilo hat Morse Admiral Fournier or
dered the Morse to proceed from Cherbeurg
to Hayre and there torpedo the Eunboat
Cocyte, The Morse arrived at Havre after
a run of eleven hours. Eight miles ON the
harbor she was Submerged ana nxeo =
torpedo to the gunboat without being dis
covered. She then returned to Cherbour4.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
PLENTY OF sELF-APPROvAL.

"I'ye saved a heap o time" said Mean
dering Mike, complacently.
..By hurrying?" asked Plodding Pete. ap-
prehensively.
mo. jes' by takin 1t easy. Instead OF
min. up wealt' an havin' to git po0r by
irwin II away, / started out pOr In de fust
place an have heit me own manfully ever
since."
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
HER OWN SWEET WAY.

'When you see a girl ostentat'1usly re-
moving a fieck Of dust FROM a young mans $
coat" said the observing man. you may
rest assured that she is his and she wants
every one to know 1t.
"Yes and after marriage" remarked the
Renedict. "she removes the dust from his
clothes unostentatiously to prove that he
is hers"
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31

years ago the deposits amounted to
81, ,62s, ,O79, ,749, or $S5s.04 as the average due
each depositor. The number Of deposit
ors increased in the ten years from 4,533.-
PIT to 6107,0S3. Investigation has de-
veloped the fact that half the deposits
in the savings banks belong to wage
oorporc
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31

Dan Lamont as a candidate for the
democratic gubernatorial nomination OF
New York, will have to do some ground
and lofty tumbling to keep the sage of
Woolfert's Roost and the oracle Of
Princeton in tandem humor.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31

Frenchmen are certainly setting the
pace in aerial and submarine navigation.
Count de la Vaux, who will soon attempt
to take his balloon over the Mediterran-
can from France to Africa is one of the
most intrepid and successful aeronauts
that ever lived
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31
ACTS AND FIGURES.

Last year the markets of New York paid
as revenue into the city treasury $25So0
from rents, exclusive of $4,000 collected
from stalls and privileges in Wallabaut
market, Brooklyn, and $500 from market
cellar rents, a total of more than $SO0, 600.
Among the British newspapers there are
now lGe Advertisers, l5e Timeses. 14s
Newses, l2S Gazettes, 10 Chornacles. 1ls
Heralds, lO4 Journals, IS Expresses. 20
Guardians, 6S Observers. . Standards. and
q Nercurys. There are % Free Presses,
s. Teiexraphs, 81 Mails, - Posts. q Inde-
pendents. . Cour1ers, and a. many Exam
iners, and p Echoes.
The first labor day Japan ever knew was
observed in Toxic On April last. he cele-
bration was proposed and managed by the
Niroku Shinpo, a newspaper. "a friend OF
the laboringman." Scarcely ten days had
passed after the first announcement OF
the ...roku's undertaking when more than
s.. 900 laborerx eargerly secured their tickets
of admittance to the picnic
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31

The memory of Mrs. Carrie Nation and
her little hatchet will scarcely be en-
balmed in the nursery fiction of the
country.
The Butte inter mountain., 1901-07-31

Ey Elizabeth Barret Browning.
Do you know you have asked for the cost
liest thing
Ever made by the Hand above
A womans heart and a woman's life,
And womans wonderful love?
Do you know you have asked for this
priceless thing
AS a child might ask fol a toy?
Demanding what others have died to win,
With the reckless dash of a boy.
You have written my lesson of duty out,
Man-like you have questioned me-
Now stand at the bar of my woman's soul,
Until l shall question thee.
You require your mutton shall always be
hot,
Your socks and your shirts shall be
whole;
1 require your heart to be true as Gods
stars
And pure as heaven your soul.
You require cook for your mutton and
beef
1 require far better thing:
A seamstress you're wanting for stockings
and shirts
I look for a man and king.
A king for a beautiful realm called home,
And a man that the maker, God.
Shall look upon as he did the first,
And say, 1T is very good"
From my soft, young cheeks one day
Will you love me then, mid the falling
leaves.
AS you did mid the bloom Of May?
Is your heart an ocean so strong and
deep
| I may launch my all on its tide?
| A loving woman finds heaven or hell
! On the day she is made a bride.
I require all things that are grand and
true.
All things that man should be:
If you give this all, would stake my life
To be all you demand of me.
If you cannot do this--a laundress and
You can hire, with little to pay;
But a woman's heart and a woman's life
Are not to be won that way.
REPLY TO "A WOMAN'S QUESTION:
Pelham.
You say 1 have asked for the costliest
Ever made by the Hand above
A woman's heart and a woman's life,
And a woman's wonderful love.
That 1 have written your duty out.
You demand that I stand at the bar OF
! your soul,
While YOU in turn question me.
And when I ask you to be my wife,
,Ane head of my house and home,
| Whose path l would scatter with sii1'
| shine through life,
The shield when sorrow shall come
You reply with disdain and a curl of the
lip.
And point to my coats missing button.
And haughtily ask II 1 want cook.
| To serve up my beef and my mutton.
'Tis king that you look for. Well, an
| not he,
But only a plain. earnest man,
Whose feet often shun the nara pain ehcS
should trend.
| span.
IT'S hard to believe thar the rose vii
fade
From the cheek so full. so fair
'rwere harder to think that heart proue
and cold
Was ever reflected there.
True, the rose will fade, and the leaves VII
And the Autumn Of life will come:
Rut the heart that I give thee Will bt
true as in May,
Should make it thy shelter. thy nome
Thou requir'st "all things that are gooe
and true:
All things that a man should be-
All! lady, my truth, in return. doubt not
For Inc rest, I leave 1t to thee.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-07-25

Mr.. q. b. HatIock was taken to ST.
Mary's hospital last week end under
went N minor oE,e ration. Cocaine was
used az ans auestitet.c it being injected
into the spine. Nc. Halloek is now
improving.
We all Thought Il wis hot here Tues
dav, hut wtea GpHe Huntingdon
returned iram Milt,aBk that evening
and told us tina it had beea I08 there
that day with a hot wiad Slowing, we
all went and put GA oar eoats.
Miss Clara Avefili arrived from
Libertyville Ill.,, Monday morning for
an extended visit with her Uncle A. FL
Kramer and faulty, Monday she went
out TO join a ca mpiag party at Tamahe
park as a guest of Miss Peabody.
Mr.. aud Mrs y f. Ybibeau and
granddaughter, Mary George, of WI
mona. who have speut some time with
Col. Huntington a&i fasary ,depasted for
Aberdeen Tuesday Ereaiag for a visit
WIN HftuNc w tNdS thsCc.
Grant Smith, who years ago was a
resident OF Day caxHty aud still has
ma ny irieuds here, rode up from Iowa
the first of the week 20 sake n visit at
the home of Mr. aad MRS. y. 4. Goodwin
MIR. Smith il dariag the school year
employed a. instructor ia zoology by
Beloit College,
Louis Palmer, WHO has been visiting
his cousin. Mahle Wiiliains, for the past
two weeks departed for his home near
Waubay, "Wednesday morning. His
cousin accompanied I'D will spend
a couple OF weeks irandpapa,
and Grandma Rs
The normal iustitate TO r this year,
which by the way was one OF the most
pleasant and proatable ever held ir
this county, adjoarsed last week FRI
day. A dauce was given ia honor OF the
teachers that eyeaing at the opera
house and despite tLe heat an excellant
time is reported.
Kuut .. Trgeu aud Amelia Sellevoid,
of Thorser. weseaaited aearriage Jai v
81, 1901. SIR Tiegen il a rising and
prosperous young farsaer aud Miss
Selleyold is the daughter OF G. L. SeIles
void, one OF the thrifty farmers OF rhor.
sen. The young eeaIAe begin n,arried
life with bright prospects.
Lost. strayrd OK stoieii-Five months
Llewellyn pup, dogs answers co ths
name Dash black as&d and ears, white
stripe down ceater OF NOSE. QUE black
roand spot behiad front right leg Ola
belly, two black spots as side oil back,
legs well ticked. A literal reward
well be given for tho return of
same or any information leading to ais /.
recovery. Adress ali iniormatioa 90 r.
Il. Taylor, Wsbster. =. u.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-07-25
Peabody's Drug Store.

TT. E. Egge and family drove u to-
Temahe park Tuesday evening. I. +,
returned Wednesday. The folks will
remain for a few days at the popular
resort.
For Sale.-My hotel property in the
town of Lily, with twelve good rooms,
IA good barn and well with windmill.
Prices reasonable. Inquire or address
l.. M. Hazelton, Lily, s. ID.
>fIhomas McKennett took his family
out to their cottage at ramahe park
last week and spent several days with
them, he returned Monday and is now
taking care OF his harvest.
George Bathan is in from the lake to
remain for a time with his headquarters
in this city. He is keeping the strictest
watch over the game in this locality
and promises trouble for any and all
offenders he can detect.
Jack Hunsley has sufficiently recov-
cred from his recent attack of neckyoke
fever to be about town again. We are
informed that the parties who welded
the weapon are now paying Jacks
board and doctors bill.
Joseph b. McCloud, who has gained a
state wide reputation for the bill that
he presents to each successive legisla-
ture for boarding the soldiers during
the Indian troubles of 1890, was in this
city the fore part Of this week. He ia
on the road for the Chamberlain insur-
ance company and reports his company
doing a good business in this state.