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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22

preached from it a sermon that would
not have been exceeded in interest and
instructiveness by any sermon that
was preached from any other text. To
have sketched that life i'm detail. from
its humble beginning, through the
days OF early struggle, through the ex-
citing and dramatic episodes of the
war, through the triumphs of mature
life, triumphs in law, in politics, in
administration, that should certainly
have been a pleasant task. And then
when the time came to point moral
what an argument for Christianity
life. Here was man of the calmest
ana most rational nature, governed
always by his intellect, and not by his
emotions, trained lawyer, skilled to
the last degree in weighing evidence,
an honest man who would scorn to
profess a creed in which he did not
man was a Christian all his life, and
an earnest, working Christian, the
strongest argument that the Chris
tian religion is the true faith, that it
rests upon foundations which stand
the tests of the most rigid criticism?
1t is common for cheap and ignorant
skeptics to scoiT at the Bible as a
string of old wives tales which nobody
who amounts to anything really be-
lieves. How completely such a jeer is
answered by the life of Benjamin Har-
rison. The whole nature of the man,
his moral make upand his intellectual
equipment were such that he could not
accept Christianity without investigat-
ing the evidences upon which it rests,
and without being abundantly satis-
fed by those evidences. He became a
Christian because Christianity com
mended itself to his mind as well as to
his heart. And he remained a Chris
tian while pursuing the career that
brought to him the greatest honors his
country had to bestow.
1t seems to us that the life of Benia-
min Harrison would have been a good
text for sermon.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
Spring BniIding Has Begnn.

1t is a little early but the regulation
hustle to build seems to have begun in
lola. The three story Masonic Tenn
Pile is, of course, the chief building
now going mp, Then George Apple is
building a 40 by 80 foot one story
brick on his lots on West Madison;
Jim Barton will add to his restaurant
room: Harry Bragg, Of Humboldt,
will build long, one story brick at
the corner of East and Jefferson
streets: the Northrups will add room
on the.rear of their old store; and
John Wood will make an extensive
addition to his livery barn on east
Madison for the accommodation of
his horse and mule market.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
COST OF WATER CONNECTION
Council Makes Prices to Users
Electrical Engineer Hired-Sup-
plies BOught building Permits.


plies Bought Building Permits.
The city council met Monday night
pursuant to adjournment.
The application of Harry Bragg, of
Humboldt, to erect a one story imple-
ment house 10 feet long and 27 feet
wide, on lot . in block 81, was granted.
j. S. Barton was granted permit to
erect an iron-clad 12x14 on lots 2 and
3, block 10.
Northrup Bros. were permitted to
build two-story brick on rear of lot
s block 20.
j. r. Wood was permitted to build
on lots and a. block 81, 12x120 feet.
The cement company was allowed to
borrow the city rock crusher for two
weeks, they to take. same from river
and delivered where wanted in city.
The committee having the matter in
charge, reported favoring selling
Readicker and Pruet gas from city line
at $l.50 per month, they to take gas
from main and pay all expense. The
council acted favorably on the re.
port.
1t was moved and seconded that the
charge for connections with water
mains on the avenues be fixed at SIC
and on streets 50. Same to be collect.
ed from persons taking water
1t was also agreed that the
Mueller stop and waste curb
stop cocks and the Mueller corpora.
tion cocks and swing joints be adopted
The mayor and clerk wero authorized
to have ordered of L. NJ. Rumsey
manufacturing company the above
material for 100 connections and 1000
feet of service pipe.
1t was moved, seconded andlcarried
that w. b. Bolts be employed as city
electrician at a salary of $50 aImonth,
the city to furnish him house rent.
Contracts were drawn between the city
and Mr., Bolts, as electrician, and Mr..
Frank Howard, as waterworks en-
gineer.
Mayor and clerk instructed to order
supplies as per list furnished by Mr..
Howard, first engineer. On motion
the council adjourned.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
G. w. Apple Will Build.

G. w. Apple has broke ground
on his lots at the corner of Walnut
and Madison avenue just west of the
odd Fellows block, for a new store
building. 1t will be one story high,
forty foot front and eighty feet deep,
thus occupying the entire ground
which he owns at that point. He does
not yet know what business will oc-
cupy the building as he has numerous
applications. He may construct the
building in one room and possibly
divide il into two.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
WHO STARTS THE STORIESP
Authors of Many Good JESUS That Go
the Rounds Are Never Dis
covered.

Who starts the good stories that
help us to kill time and tighten the
burden of the day? / have tried to
trace mny one to it's origin and
always failed, says writer in the
New York Press. To be an expert
teller of stories is to have a follow
ing. Men will pause in the midst
of business to hear something
good" Pass the word along that So
and-So has a "new one" and see how
the boys will gather for a laugh,
mostly old and middle-aged "boys,"
not children. A few men, like SEN
ator Depew, appropriate every fresh
story that reaches them and tell it
in the first person instead of the
third, as if they had just invented
it. This requires assurance of high
order.
1 venture to say that there is not
living man who has not asked him
self the question time and time
again: "Who originates our slang
phrases and words?" 1t would seem
that they just grow. Some takers
take as naturally to slang as a duck
does to water, and to hear them
is as amusing as monkey show.
When forced il loses all snap and
flavor. l wonder how my old friend,
Frank c. Kenmore, is getting on with
his work on american Word and
Phrase" 1t must be particularly
difficult for an Englishman to catch
on" to our "twaddle," but Fenmore
is practiced newspaper man, having
been for nine years connected with
one of the British journals. A fel-
low-countryman of the name Of
Farmer has compiled volume of
old and new Americanisms, paying
especial attention to origin, and even
people on this side of the "pond" find
it extremely clever in some respects.
Mr.. Kenmore cries that he is
stuck" when some one hurls at him
the phrases, "fess on clean board. "
"grave-orchard" and "hived perfectly
frigd." He ought to have attended
the hazing investigation by the mem
ber from Brooklyn. The phrases are
used by the cadets at West Point, and
mean "to know nothing about a les
son." the mouth" and Caught with
out a chance of escape" Isn't
"grave-orchard" appropriate for
mouth? "His mouth looks like a
graveyard fun of broken tomb
stones" is certainly as common as
your a-b-cs. A rapid beast" is an
impertinent plebe. Dad" is the old
est cadet in the class. "Hunkey boy
with tin ear" is a lucky fellow.
"Gurtsey" is the fattest man in the
class. To get off keen" is to make
a witty remark. To be perfectly
dummy is TO be stylishly dressed.
Fast animal and ''menagerie" are
companions to rapid beast" the for
mer meaning n plebe who puts on
airs, the latter a newly arrived ca
det. The American Dialect society
has published "an exhaustive" arti-
Gle by Eugene II. Babbitt on college
Words and Phrases" yet not one of
the West Pointisms mentioned i'm this
paragraph can he found in it. Scores
more of the same sort are i'm Far
rows "West Point and the Military
Academy"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
4 rEXr EDR A SERNlN.

The REGISTER is not at all In SYM
pathy with The sentiment which de-
mauds a literary lecture from the pull
pit on Sunday instead Of IL sermon.
We are old-rashioned Presbyterian
enough to believe that the Object of all
preaching should be to make men bet
ter, to turn their thoughts for am hour
at least from temporal 10 eternal
things and to cultivate their spiritual
natures.
But we do not think, on tie other
hand, that the pulpit should be deaf
and dumb and blind to the things that
are going on in this world, The most
successful preachers have ever been
those who were in closest touch with
the humanity that is son earth now, and
were thus able to bring it near TO the
Divinity that was on earth nineteen
hundred years ago. The preacher
who can take the happening of yester.
day and turn it into lesson for to-
day is the preacher who will always
have congregation
All of which is merely preliminary
to the remark that every Christian
minister in the United States might
have taken for his text yesterday the
'Life of Benjamin Harrison" and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
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The Gazette claims that Emporia is
the pOlitest town in the State because
the pest house there is called 1.-THE
Country Club"
4 professional horse trainer from
Boston has located at Hutchinson,
having heard what runners the short
grass county puts up.
Ottawa's latest infant industry is
shirt factory. Shirt making has
been counted along with the infant in
dustries by housewives for hundreds
of years.
y Spring Hill woman on her death
bed told her husband where she had
hidden SI00 which she had saved with
out his knowledge. He tearfully for
gave her secretiveness.
W. a. Crawford, an Argentine min
lister who helped close joint, was
met and abused by the jointist and
knocked the abuser fat on his back,
has been forgiven by his conference.
The Kansas Evangelist tells story
of preacher travelling in West Vir-
ginia who asked a woman If her hus-
band feared the Lord, and she said
she guessed he did for he always car
ried his gun with him when away from
home.
An Indiana man who embraced the
opportunity and woman had to pay
81, 300 into court for her benefit; but
out here a man who refused such an
opportunity would be condemned to
solitary confinement the rest of his
days by the girls.
Topeka is making goo-goo eyes at
the Methodist conference and trying
to induce it TO move Baker University
from wicked Baldwin te virtuous To-
peka. The conference occupies the
attitude Of one who says: "You1l
have 10 show NJ. +. ~
Thos. O Toole, the Ft. Scott man
said to have pretended to die in
Texas to defraud three lodges out of
IS, 100 insurance, has bobbed up and
is sueing the lodges of TT. Scoit for
S24 500 damages for iujuring his char
arcter The lodges are W. @. w,
Royal Neighbors and NJ. w. A.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22

VIII White; If you work on u
daily paper your idea of II snap is a
weekly; if you work on a weekly you
think easy jobs are all on monthly
magazines. The editors of the maya
zines published monthly, think that
the quarterly magazines are oases in
the desert, and men who make quar-
terlies think men who get out ANNALS
do nothing but cuddle down and sleep
in the lap of luxury, and every man
envies the man who seems to have lit
tie work to do. Yet when man has
to be hanged and will have nothing
much to do but pop around on hot
griddle for eternity he makes his
friends chase all over the earth to get
him pardon. What an inconsistent
brute man is
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
Medical Practice.

Bids for the Pauper Medical Practice in the
townships herein after mentioned win be re-
ceiyed by the Board of County Commissioners
of Allen county, Kansas at the oftice of the
County Clerk until IL O'Clock m on the first
day of April, 1901, viz; lola township and lola
city including county jail and Carlyle town
ship including Poor Asylum, Marmaton twp,
Esmore twp, Elm twp, Humboldt twp.
lola twp, lola city including jail, and Carlyle
twp, including Poor Asylum areto be included
In one bid. Other townships to be bid for separ-
ately, BIDS must include surgical and medical
attendance including medicines
The right to reject any or all bids Is hereby
reserved by the Board.
By order OF the Board
ATTEST; JAMES L.oCKHART,
@. A. Fronk, Chairman
County Clerk,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
THREE ARRESTS ARE MADE
County Attorney Issues Warrants on
Sworn Testimony of George
ClaypOOl Against Three Men.

The district court was led by its in
depreciation of the law to hold that the
arrests of the thirteen jointists several
weeks ago was unlawful and all the
cases dismissed But the Law and
Order League was not content to let
the cases thus drop without any ques-
tion being raised as to the guilt of the
parties, and a delegation waited on
the county, in company with George
Claypool, the complaining witness in
the other cases, and Mr.. Claypool
swore TO specific sales made TO him
by VIM. Frampton, 10y Sam Mills and
by Willard l1ibbs. So the county at
torney issued warrants for these three
men and they were arrested and placed
under bond, 500 for each count.
The only surprising thing about the
affair is that Mr.. Claypool swore to
exact knowledge of facts against the
entire thirteen on the former occasion,
why is it he can now remember sales
only made by three of them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22

at may sound odd to you" said a
bookkeeper, "but the date 1901 seems
already more familiar to me than
1900 ever did. You see we don't get a
cipher at the end of year date but
once in ten years, ana we get two
ciphers there only once in hundred
years. Practically no man ever sees
more than once in his lifetime a year
with two ciphers in it; and, as mat
ter of fact. it never gets to be fa-
miliar to him; and so 1900 seemed
just about as strange at the end of
the year as it did at the beginning;
whereas a year running out with fig
ures to which we are accustomed,
does seem familiar. Actually. 1901
seems like an old friend, and I'm glad
to see tn. Y. Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
Banner SalNe.

letter, eczema and skin diseases
ield quickly to the marvellous healing
qualities of BANNER SALVE made
rom a prescription of skin special
st of world wide fame. Campbell &
Burrell.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
Cheap Insurance,

Many man has been insured
against Bright's diseases, diabetes, or
other dangerous ailment by a fifty
cent bottle of FoLEY'R KIDNEY CURE.
Campbell h Burrell.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
After LaGrippe What?

Usually racking cough and a gen
eral feeling of weakness. FoLEY's S
HONEY AND TAR is guaranteed to cure
the grippe cough and make you
strong and we'll, Take no substitute
Campbell g. Burrell,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
Eat u Whole Cahhnpe

If you want to. 1t won't hurt YOU.
People used to think cabbage hung
heavy in their stomachs. After each
meal, no matter what You eat. take
dose of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
You will never suffer from Constipa-
ton, Indigestion, Sick Headache or
Stomach Troubles. Chas b. Spencer,
lola and Kline d Son Moran.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22
Stops the Cough
and Works off the Cold.

Laxative BrOmo-Quinine Tablets cure
cold in one day, No Cure, No Pay.
Price 25 cents.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-22

Andrew Carnegie has offered Fort
Scott Sl5, 900 for library If the town
will raise $1,000 annually to sup-
port 1t,
The age-herald., 1901-12-08
SHERIDAN IN PORT.
Left Manila for America Fifty-one
 Days Ago.

San Francisco, December 7.-After many exciting adventures in oriental waters, having narrowly escaped foun- dering, the transport Sheridan is safe in port. With several Congressmen on board and large number of sick and discharged soldiers, the Sheridan left Manila fifty-one days ago bound for San Francisco. She had been at sea but a few days when she ran into a typhoon that all but shook her to pieces. When the storm abated, the Sheridan tried to make headway but the machinery became dis abled. The transport drifted for a time with the currents of the sea, and almost went ashore on the Japanese coast.
 On October 30 she reached NagasalSi, much the worse for wear, and was put in dry dock. The passengers were trans ferred to the Warren, sent from Manila for the purpose. Then the Warren went aground and the passengers went on board the Hancock. That steamer bumped on a reef in the inland sea, but after a delay of twenty hours, was lowed off and resumed her voyage reaching here uninjured.
 After being thoroughly repaired the Sheridan left Nagasaki and made the TUT to this port ip seventeen days and five hours.
The age-herald., 1901-12-08
HOLD TWO SESSIONS.
Committee On Revising Presbyterian
 Creed Is Progressing Slowly.

Washington, December 1.-Two sessions were held today of the revision commit tee of the General Presbyterian Assem- bly,. A statement issued by the committee says:
 The committee is making progress, but in discussing the great questions pending progress must be slow and nothing final can be reached for a week or more. When such themes as God and the Trini- ty, revelation and creation, the divine decree and the fall of man are under con sideration and statements that will be satisfactory to the church are to be pre- pared, 1t is obvious that care and time must be required. The discussions have been harmonious and the committee is animated by the one purpose of prepar- ing a form that will be at once true and toast, "The Presbyterian church.
 The Mems Society of the Church of the Covenant gave a dinner tonight to the committee.
 The Rev. H. c. Minton, D. D., modera- tor of the general assembly, spoke to the toast The Presbyterian chursch.''
 District Commissioner Mcfarland spoke of the National Capital; Bishop Sat terlee on 'The Sister Churches;" Rev. H. VanDyke, D. D., of Princeton, on "Edu- cational Institutions and MT. J. E. Par sons on ''The Laity."
The age-herald., 1901-12-08
KING EDWARD WILL
 WEAR CLOTH OF GOLD
 AND MANYDIAMONDS
SATURDAY REVIEW
 FEARS AMERICA
ADVOCATES AN ALLIANCE BE-
 TWEEN ENGLAND AND GER MANY TO OPPOSE AMERICAS
 GROWING POWER.

London, December 7.-In an intensely bitter anti-American article the Saturday Review today advocates German-English friendship for the purpose of holding the United States in check. Emperor Will jam, it declares, says he sees in the grow ing German population of Chilli and Brazil the inevitable necessity for future interference which fin any form involves a conflict with the United States"
 This the Saturday Review holds is inn possible for Germany to wage successful ly if Great Britain is hostile. While not advocating an alliance with Germany against the United States, the Review says: I've advocate a still less one with the United States against Germany. In the event of conflict we might, with ad- vantage to ourselves, hold the balance. With a friendly Germany forever elimin- ated from the political chess board of the new world. We should with our pres ent policy admitting the unbridled pre- tensions of the United States everywhere one day find ourselves elbowed out for ever from both North and South America, while Canada would be found to have become fraction of an empire
 The Saturday Review stigmatizes Great Britain's policy regarding Nicaragua and other matters as fatuous. ridiculous and unpopular.
 Today's Spectator devotes its chief ar ticle to advocating a closer understand ing with Russia in order to head off Ger many from Shom. It declares it is im- possible for Great Britain to expect friendliness, adding: "A German alliance is the least stable ground on which we can lay the foundations of foreign nolicv
The age-herald., 1901-12-08
NELLIE CROPSEY
 IN BALTIMORE?
NORFOLK POLICE CHIEF THINKS THE MISSING GIRL LEFT ON A BOAT FOR 6ALTIMoRE-ABDuc- TON THEORY.

Norfolk. Va, December 7.-Police Chief Vellins of this city is confident that Nell lie Cropsey, the Elizabeth City girl, whose mysterious disappearance on November 20 from her home. has to this time re- mained mystery. is now in Baltimore.
 On the morning of November p a girl came to Norfolk on the Seaboard Air Line train from Franklin, Va, and secur- ed a room in a boarding house During the day she met Edward F. Kelly, who boarded at the same house, and she din- ed with him at a restaurant She went by the name of Jessie Baker and told him that she was from Elizabeth City and on her way to Baltimore, where she would visit for six or eight weeks and possibly go to Pennsylvania. Kelly spent the major part of the day with the girl and saw her board the Baltimore steam CT that evening. She was alone and with no baggage.
 Police Chief Vellins wired Attorney A. G. Cropsey of New York tonight that he had every reason to believe Nellie Crop sey is alive. Police Chief Dawson of Elizabeth City, is here tonight and still insists on the murder and abduction the ory.
 Charlotte, N. O., December IA special from Suffolk, Va., says:
 The mother, sisters and cousin of Nell lie Cropsey say her dress at the time of her disappearance varies from the descrip- tion given them yesterday by Edward
The age-herald., 1901-12-08
Coronation Rites in Westnin- ster Hall Will Last
 Over -Four Hours
QUEEN WILL WEAR OLD ROBES
Over 5000 Precious Stones, Diamonds Pearls, Rubies, SapphIres and Emeralds Will Be In the
 Kings Crown.

London, December 7.-The designs for the coronation robes have finally been decided upon King Edward will wear a cloth of gold, underjacket embroidered with palm branches and the shamrock. rose and thistle. On the Kings stole the cross of St. George. the royal crown and the rose, shamrock and thistle will be woven in gold thread. His cape win be 3 magnificent garment, decorated with sil- yer eagles and f1eur de lis and the na- tional floral emblem.
 The Queen will wear robes almost ex- actly similar to those of Queen Adelaide. which will be brought to Marlborough House from Brodie Castle, where they are kept as heirlooms. In spite of their age they are in excellent condition They are of black velvet manufactured on hand looms, elaborately embroidered and laced, having gold trimmings and with huge hanging sleeves.
 The coronation rites will last four hours. After the sacrament has been adminis- tered to the King he will discard the church vestments and put on his state robes.
 Over three thousand precious stones diamonds. pearls, rubies. sapphires and emeralds-will be included in the King 8 crown. There will be 1860 pure white dia- monds and 127O rose diamonds. The his- toric ruby which the King of Castle gave the Black Prince in 1867 and which was subsequently, worn by Henry at Agin- court. is in the center of the crown. placed in the heart of maltese cross.
 There Is a smart saying current in Lon- don that nowadays all the peeresses are | either actresses or Americans and that 1 the members of the old aristocracy have all gone into trade.
 l The latest recruit from the latter is tn, l Duke of Cambridge's daughter-in-law Mrs. George Fitzger, whose husband Is colonel. This lady will shortly start { | hygfenic beautifying concern in the hear | of Mayfair where she hopes to rid her fashionable friends faces of wrinkles and | other blemishes.