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The Iola register., 1902-06-06

mailed. He was, however, allowed to
walk about the country under guard,
and at last managed to slip note
into Il wayside post box.
Miss Pinder was in agony. She got
no answer to her letters and could
not find where her lover was. At last
she heard from his relatives that the
marriage could never take place, and
Immediately after received the letter
from Adolph, explaining his silence
and pledging his undying love. Her
parents forbade her to leave Key
West. She wrote to her brother-in-
law in New York, DR.. j. Victor Will
son, and then began the investigation
that ended in Gundesheimer's re-
lease.
II had never seen Mr.. Gundeshei-
mer,' said DR.. Wilson, but he had
not been adiudged insane by any
court and deserved n trial.
"The family was induced to bring
him to the supreme court in Brook
lyn. They testified that he had boast
ed that he was the strongest man on
edIlll, ana Salu ne coulu eat more
than anything alive. Two physicians
declared him insane.
"llowever, the family agreed to
the appointment of two alenists by
the supreme court and to his release
in my custody.
"Dr. Allan Hamilton and DIR. Sach,
the alienists appointed, pronounced
Gundesheimer sane"
my examination failed to reveal
any mental unsoundness. lie had no
delusions.
His memory and judgment were
not at fault. His handwriting did
not suggest insanity"
Bertram Barnett spoke for the
family.
1.-TWO physicians pronounced our
brother-in-law insane. Two did not.
1t only shows how diagnoses can dis
| agree. We are glad to believe Adolph
is mentally sound and hope he is hap
py"
The Iola register., 1902-06-06
GREAT DANGER LINE
Central America and Lesser Antilles
Full of Volcanoes.
aigantic Craters Along the Line of
the Proposed Nicaragua Canal
Once Fiery Now Are Em-
eraId Gems.
Especial Costa RIca Letter.l

EROM where the eighty-second de-
~ gree of west longitude touches
the Pacific coast of Colombia,
3.30o miles due south from the city of
Cleveland, draw line straight north
westward $500 miles to where the
twenty-afth degree of north latitude
crosses the Pacific shore of Mexico,
1900 miles from New York city, and
count the once fiery, now emerald,
gems, which jewel that belt.
Near the beginning of that line is
Mont Blanco. It's head rises $3.50 feet
above the Caribbean sea, which seems
TO one who looks down from its crest
to be scarcely more than a stone
throw away. A mere step, say IS or
20 miles farther, along our line an
other mountain lifts its head a hun
dred feet higher than that of Blanco.
Then come many mountains of little
less height, before Turrialba rises, a
majestic sentinel at the southern ex-
tremity of that broad and fertile plain
which stretches 1925 miles to the north
ern shore of Honduras. and forms the
larger part of three republics.
Across this plain flows the Rio San
Juan, draining northeastern Costa
Rica and all the basins of the great
lakes of Nicaragua. II is along this
river and through the larger of the
two lakes that the proposed ship ca
nal would be made. should that route
be accepted by the United States.
Turrialba is II 900 feet in height, and
standing shoulder to shoulder with 1t
So Irazu. 11.4so feet high. At its foot
sits the beautiful city of San Jose,
clean and provided with electric lights,
tram cars and telephone and telegraph
lines, ice plants and water supply, ho-
tells and cafes, blooming parks and a
magnificent theater, with other con-
veniences, comforts and luxuries. A
thousand feet higher, on the flank of
Jrazu, is the solid old city of Cartago,
long the capital OF the republic. If
The Iola register., 1902-06-06

Strung closely along the line are q
score or more of dead little vol
canoes, Telica, Nieio and Corcovado,
pushing their shoulders high above
the others. Then comes Coseguina,
standing on or forming the promon-
tory which in part shuts in the great
bay of Fonseca. Coseguina has been
most quiet mountain ever since, in
1896, it burst and startled by its
noise even the City of Mexico, near
ly a thousand miles away. Through
three days the hammering of its eX-
plosions terrified four republics, and
in that time the volcano covered
three republics with a pail of ashes
that, over much of Honduras at least,
was inches in depth. Old people of
that country have told of the death
Of thousands of animals, caused by
the cloak that hid all green things,
stopped the flow of water in the
streams, and suffocated the beasts.
That was probably the most terrific
outburst ever known by civilized
man before the Krakatoa mantled
the sea with pumice and minute dust,
and for many weeks tinted the skies
which it had burst it's rocks. So
Coseguiana also threw its dust so
high into the sky that it hid from
the sunshine all the region within
$50 miles, and even fell upon Ja-
maica, 500 miles TO windward.
1t would be tedious, and useless, to
| attempt to count all the volcanoes
which dot the line between Cose-
guina in Nicaragua and Colima in
MiXico, for they are too many, and
the once sayagely fiery hearts of
most of them are dead and cold. But
! from Colima, now threatening vio-
| lence, eastward to the shore of the
bay of Campeche is a short arm of
the mighty Andean cross, the only
east and west range of volcanoes in
| all America. In that arm are set
seven great volcanoes, the grandest
being Popocatepetl, 1890 feet in al.
titude.
OF especial interest just now is
that part of the great American vol
canic system which lies in the sunk
en- valley in which are the lakes of
Nicaragua and their outlet, for
there is the line along which will be
the Nicaragua ship canal, If it shall
be made. Within the last century a
dozen of those volcanoes have
belched lava and steam and dust
and earthquakes have been of almost
monthly occurrence.
Little injury has been done by
earthquakes in that region. It IS
true that Leon, in Nicaragua, has
been badly shaken several times; and
no longer than two years ago the
massive ornaments were tumbled
from the towers Of her churches
and wide gaps were opened in their
walls, as like seams were opened IN
those OF the queer, black sandstone
church of Managua, 40 miles distant
PAUL BITT.
The Iola register., 1902-06-06
FREED FROM ASYLUM
Plucky Florida Girl Saves Lover
from Living Death.
Brothers-In-Lnw of Young Man OPP
pose Match and Lure Him Into
"sanitarIum''-Expe Say
He IL Sane.

Jenny Urania Pinder, of Key West,
Fla, after months of incessant ef-
fort, succeeded in releasing her lover
from the insane asylum at Amity-
Vile, L.. l., and married him few
days ago in the face of all opposi-
tion of his people, says the Chicago
Tribune.
Adolph Gundesheimer, for it is the
young mans name, is well-to-do
citizen of Mobile, La. lie met Miss
Pinder on visit to Key West last
fall. where her father, Whitemore
Pinder, is merchant Of high posi-
tion. Last November, when Gundes-
heimer left Key West to visit his
brothers-in-law in New York the hap
ply pair arranged to be married the
month following. He was run down
with hard work and malaria, and
looked forward to his visit with
pleasure.
When he reached New York he
found that Isaac and Bertram, the
brothers-in-law in question, were OPP
posed to his coming marriage. They
b'EENh iiih w p'H'I I'h' ~ "''i' Nv
was recovered, and, with the help of
the family doctor, induced him to go
TO n "sanitarium" to rest. He left
for Amityville one night with a
nurse.
II never entered his head that the
great house to which they drove was
an insane asylum until the following
morning he found his door locked.
Storming was of no use. Gundes-
heimer submitted TO the advice of
DR.. Wilsey, the superintendent, who
declared that his relatives merely
wished him to stay two weeks, and
urged him to profit by the chance to
rest.
The patient wrote daily to his
fancee. At the end of two weeks he
was cot permitted TO go, and discov-
cred that his letters were never
The Iola register., 1902-06-06
HERE AND THERE
Miss Beadle went to Chanute.

Miss Beadle went to Chanute.
Mrs. f. b. Fleming went to |. 7.
VIM. Davis went to Oklahoma City.
VIM. Readicker went to Humboldt.
Mrs. d. Robinson went to Col
ony.
Mrs. Chas. F. Scott VENT to Lawrence
to visit her sisters.
Mrs. Geo. A. Fry went to Defiance,
Iowa to visit relatives.
Capt. H. A. Ewing went to Topeka to
attend Supreme Court.
Miss Sadie Nichols went to Neode-
shs to visit her sister Mrs. Lottie
Rreuger.
Mr.. Van Nest of Kansas City who
has been here visiting his daughter
Mrs. r.. A. Edgar returned to his
home.
Mrs. Lynn and Miss Stratton who
have been here visiting Misses Hank
ins and Odell returned to their home
in Neosho Falls.
Merritt Esse who has heen i'll with
typhoid fever is much improved and
his early restoration to health is con-
fidently predicted.
Frank Canatsey, who is leid up so
he cannot work, has found nice
berth as juror and is serving these
days pretty regularly.
A Kansas man who went over the
big water to Europe this spring wrote
home: 81 had six meals day on the
voyage-three down and three up"
Ted Jones, who has learned the
tricks of the trade as assistant chemist
in the Works No. l of the Lanyon
Zinc Company, has accepted posi-
tion with Lanyon Brothers smelter at
Neodesha.
The summer Of 1902 began this
week. The folks who grunted
about the rain and GOODNESS last week
groaned over the heat Monday. The
transition required about thirty Sec
onds of time.
Announcements are out for com
mencement week at the University of
Kansas. during the week from June
9TH to llth. 1t is the thirtieth COM
mencement of that institution and
promises to be very interesting.
Chanute Tribune: j. c. Heller and
Alferd FELTON,, the Indiana glass men,
who we're in this part of the state a
month or two ago looking for loca-
tion, spent Sunday in the city. They
say they will locate in the Kansas
field before going back.
The doctors and lawyers of lola are
planning a matched game of ball at
the fair grounds in the near future.
Baxter McClain will twirl for the "di-
vorce getters" and DR.. Reid will twist
for the "undertakers' assistants" 1t
promises to be something fierce.
The Iola register., 1902-06-06
DON'T LEAVE THE CITY
Plenty Of Proof Right Here
in lola

Claim is one thing, proof another.
Columbus claimed the world was round.
Did people believe it? Not until he
proved it.
Unproven claims have made the peo-
pie skeptics.
Every claim made for the Little Con-
querer' is proven.
Proven in lola by local experience.
Here is one case from the many we
have:
Mrs. f. A. Rowden, of COL No JEFF
ferson ST., says: "a dull aching in
the small of my back annoyed me for
two or three weeks. Wishing to check
it in the incipient stages when | no.
ticed Doan's Kidney Pills guaranteed
to cure pain in the back from kidney
complaint, l went to G. B. Spencer x
Co IS drug store for a box. If the
treatment had not brought undoubted
benefit would be the last resident ol
lola to publicly endorse the medi-
cine.
For sale by all dealers. Price 5C
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take NO other.
The Iola register., 1902-06-06
G. f. Adams For Court Clerk

Elsewhere inthis issue will be found
the announcement of c. h. Adaps, of
Carlyle, for clerk of the district court
of Allen county on the Republican
ticket.
Mr.. Adams was born in Indiana in
1853. When his parents came west
and located on a farm on Deer Creek
in Allen county in 1860 he came also
and for the past thirty-two years has
been resident OF the county. For a
good many wears he farmed and later
engaged in the mercantile business at
Carlyle. Fourteen years ago The was
appointed postmaster at that Iotiice
and conducted that Office in cennec-
tion with his business. Being an old
settler he is widely acquainted over
the county which, with his lifelong
Republicanism, will assist him ma
terially in his race for the Office.
The Iola register., 1902-06-06
A Splendid Remedy.

Neuralgia pains, rheumatism, lum-
pago and sciatic pains yield to the
I enetrating influence of Ballard IS
Snow Liniment. 1t penetrates to the
nerves and bone, and being absorbed
into the blood, its healing properties
are conveyed to every part of the body
and effect some wonderful cures. Mr..
D. f, Moore, Agent Illinois Central
Railway, Milan, Tenn, states; 81
have used Ballard's Snow Liniment
for rheumatism, backache, etc, in
my family. 1t is splendid remedy.
w Q could not do without it," 25c, SOC
nd y1NN A q Hl Spencer & Co.
The Iola register., 1902-06-06
For Register of Deeds

In another column of this issue ap-
pears the announcement Of John j.
Forester as candidate for the Re-
The Iola register., 1902-06-06
Playing Ghost Is E1peuaive.

1t cost Truman Met2gar just $175 to
have little fun as a ghost. He is n
farmer of Weymart Centre, N. Y, and
to frighten his friend, Frank Chapman,
he arrayed himself in mask and a
white sheet. When Chipman came
along in wagon ont popped the
ghost" off ran the terrified horse,
throwing the driver to the ground and
breaking his arm. TO avoid lawsuit
the "ghost" paid his victim Sl75.
The Iola register., 1902-06-06

CTamous Central American Church
Cracked by Earthquake)
canal; passes through the volcano of
MADEIRA and the perfect cone of the
volcano of Ometepe, then through El
Zapatero and that vast ruin which, in
a sudden rage, hurled its entire roof
nearly or quite ten miles, to fall in
fragments and make in the lake reef
of islets, some of which afford farms
for those who dwell in contentment on
those proofs of the power of the most
prodigious and destructive force this
world has known.
Following the line one sees to the
left the south wall of another volcano,
n vast low crater, burnt desolate,
living south of the ancient Indian town
of Masaya, which dreams away its hot
and dusty days at the edge of another
crater, in which is a lake of pure wa
Ter some 200 feet below the level Of
the town. A dozen miles westward is
the capital city of Managua, nesting
like a hen in hot and dusty roadway,
at the edge of Lake Managua, and at
the foot of the tiny volcano OF Tiscapa,
Rehind the wall of the crater, only
200 or 500 feet high, 10 a deep pool Of
The Iola register., 1902-06-06

we promptly obtain U. s. and Foreign :
The Iola register., 1902-06-06
DIscovery of a big PcnrI.

A pearl has been found in West Aus
tralia an inch and a quarter in length,
of graceful shape, and perfect luster.
In the same oyster she'll two other
good small pearls we're found.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20
that way.
A DAY FOR CHILDREN.
the Little Folks
Happy.

Christmas seems to be the one fes-
tival of the year which rightfully
belongs to the children-the time
when the Christ-child came
into the world, born in such lowly
place, that no child, however humble,
but should share in the joy of his
birth. If we have children in our
homes, says a writer in the Farm
and Fireside, let us invest the Christ
mas-time with all the beauty and
brightness that is possible. Teach
them the sweet old Christmas songs,
such as Holy Night" "Once in Royal
David's City," 80 Little Town of
Bethlehem" and Joy to the World"
Tell them again the story of the
birth of the Christ. All children love
It, and it is ever new These talks
are made more interesting by looking
at pictures. Good copies of old
masterpieces illustrating the life of
Christ are very cheap now, and
should be in every home. Such
pictures as Corneggio's Nativity"
"The Worship of the Magi," "The
Madonna and Child" will make last
ing impression on child's mind.
AS Christmas commentaries Gods
greatest and best gift to the world,
il is a sweet custom for friends TO
give some gift to each other symbol
izing. their love. In too many homes
the children are in danger of having
IF Chrss &c
getting something, instead of sharing
in the joy of giving. In this way
they lose the best part of the Christ
mas JOY. Be sure to let even the
little ones have a share in the Christ
mas preparations; teach them that
the best part of every gift is the
love that goes with it, and to try to
make happy Christmas for as many
as they can. 1t would be a good
thing if all children would commit
to memory these lines, by Phoebe
Carey, and practice them:
Children whose lives are blest with love
untold.
Whose gifts are greater than your arms
can hold
Think of the child who STANDS
To-day with empty handS!
Go fill them up and you viii also fill
Their empty hearts. that be so cold and
still,
And brighten longing eyes
With grateful. glad surprise.
May all who have at this best season seek
His precious little ones-the poor and weak;
In joyful. sweet accord,
Thus lending TO the Lord!
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

The blood is life. We derive from the blood
life, power, beauty and reason, as the doc
tors have been saying from time immemo-
rial. A healthy body, fresh appearances.
and generally all the abilities we possess
depend on that source of life. 1t is, there
fore, the duty of every sensible man to
keep the blood as pure and normal as pos
sible. Nature, in its infinite wisdom, has
given us a thermometer indicating the state
Of the blood, which appeals to our reason
by giving notice of its impurity. Small erup-
tions of the skin, to which we scarcely pay
any attention, headache, ringing noises in
the ears, lassitude, sleeplessness, are gen.
orally a sign that the blood is not in nor
NAL state, but is filled with noxious sub.
stances. These symptoms deserve our full
attention. II more attention were paid to
these symptoms and steps taken to remove
them, then many illnesses from which we
suffer would become unknown, and the hui
man body would become stronger and health.
Ter. Attention, therefore, should be paid
to those warning signs, and the blood can
be purified and poisonous substances re-
moved from it by the use Of DIR. August
Koenig's Hamburg Drops, discovered more
than 60 years ago.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20

People cannot be too careful IN
guarding against fire when trimming
a Christmas tree. There have been
scores of Christmas tree fatalities in
homes and in Sunday schools which
little care might have prevented.
The present writer once set a tree
in blaze, consuming nearly half of
IL, tinsel ornaments going with the
green branches. A tiny candle had
been wired too high, and it took only
few minutes of its brisk heat to
char a branch above it, and start a
fame, says Good Housekeeping. A
thick portiere was torn from its
pole and thrown over the blaze. 1t
il had not been at hand the light
window curtains in another minute
would have caught fire. Since that
Christmas our tree has always been
placed in the. center of the room, and
we have eschewed cotton wool, tissue
paper angels, and celluloid orna-
ments. First of all, we wire each
candle securely in place at the
furthest end of branch which has
nothing above it, either firtree or
trimming. Then as the tree is denud-
ed we watch carefully the fast dis
appearing candles Sometimes one
of them, nearly burned down, win
topple over or be merely a spark of
fame, but near to something infam-
msble and be . menace
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-12-20
NOT FOR EXCHANGE.
He Proved His Exceptions to tAeR.,s
That No Man Can Select the RisAt
Present for 4 Girl.


He-Well. here's Christmas Eve at
last. | suppose you've been puzzling
your little head about the presents
you'll get?
She-No, that's a piece of foolish
ness | gave up years ago. What's the
use of imagining you're going to get
the very things you really need, and
then wake up on Christmas morning
to find a lot of duplicate presents and
other odds and ends you can never
use?
Hell thought it was only us poor
men who received the impossible
Christmas presents.
She~-No, indeed; the girls find them
selves in the same boat. can't imag-
inc why men are SO foolish as to think
a girl cares for nothing but mani
cure set, a photograph album or box
of artists materials. Why, l have a
terrible time every year going around
to the different stores to have the
things exchanged for something girl
can really use.
He-Why don't you come right out
and tell a fellow what you'd like, and
thus save all this trouble?
She-Oh, pshaw! That would never
do at all. 1t would spoil all the fun
ii you knew beforehand what you are
going to get.
He-Well, hope you won't get my
present exchanged.
She-Why?
He-0h-er-because it has spe-
cial significance.
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A CHRISTMAS SERMON.
ness of n Little Bed-Ridden Girl
In Her Letter to Santa Claus.

When we are prone to think that
Christmas has degenerated into a
date for the payment of obligations
as regards gifts, it is pleasant to en-
counter genuine unselfishness, writes
Katherine l.. Smith, in Youths Com
panion. A true incident of this kind
occurred last year in large western
city.
The day before Christmas the clerk
of large hotel, while sorting over
the mail, came upon letter adj
dressed to"Mr. Santa Claus,--Hotel."
AS no such gentleman had registered
there, the clerk showed the letter to
two or three of the guests, and they
decided to open 1t.
1t proved to be from a little girl,
who signed merely her given name;
she had added, however, the street
and number, which were in one of
the poorer parts of the city.
What most impressed the readers
was the fact that although the child
had asked Santa Claus for many
ling, "a AOii ipi sJuSiS. a VI Cos lOk
mamma and dog for Tommie"
one thing in the long list was to be
for herself.
Two of the business men who had
read the letter determined to seek
out the little, unselfish being, and see
how she was situated. They found
in humble home which lacked many
of the comforts of life a poor bed
ridden little girl who had written to
Santa Claus with the supreme faith
of childhood, and asked for gifts, not
for herself, but for those she loved.
The visitors, touched by the child's
pathos. consulted physician, and
ascertained that with proper treat
ment she could be cured. She was
sent to a hospital; and in that city
now there is a well child who can
thank not only the generosity of
others, but her own sweet nature for
her new strength and happiness.