The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-31
EDITORIAL RANDLINos.

1hpioNiuS INC opportunity auOrueO
US by the kindness of the County
Treasurer in furnishing ''copy" for the
outside of this issue, we took little run
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
last week up into "Poor Old Missouri
Most of our readers are familiar doubt
less with the route from here to Kan
sas City, and nothing needs be said of
it, if we except passing mention that
the corn crop in all the counties but
our own talas y is much better than We
expected to see. OF course there were
q few fields as poor as any in this coun.
ty, but good ones were oftener seen.
Allen county seems to have had hard
er luck than any of her sisters in get.
ting fair stand. Taking the state
over there need certainly be TO alarm
about the corn crop. With anything
like a decent season from this out the
shortage will hardly be noticed.
But it is in the Missouri bottoms be-
tween Kansas City and st. Joseph that
corn may be seen in all its glory.
Miles and miles of it, tall, silk-tipped
and tasselled, look in at the car win
dows as we glide along. Rather pic
turesque country on the whole, that
between Kansas City and st. Joseph.
The Great Muddy on our left, sullen,
"a little too thick to swim
in and little too thin to walk on"
somebody has said of it; on our right
hand, heavily wooded hills, reminding
one of southern Ohio and Indiana, shut
out the view of the country beyond.
1t is as different from southern Kansas
as if it were q thousand miles away.
Prettier perhaps, but not 50 home-like.
And then you can't see more than a
mile or two. At a number of places
the road passes along the banks of
beautiful ponds, literally covered, from
shore to shore, with water lilies. A
prettier sight could hardly be imagin-
ed than these acres of broad green
leaves, floating on the water they con-
ceal, with the delicately tinted but re-
gal lilies i'm full bloom, scattered pro-
fusely among them. The great bOu-
4uet is picture to carry in ones men,
Dry long time.
st. Joseph at last. A city of 10000,
perhaps, but nearly as quiet as our own
little village. One wonders at this till
he learns that the town is engaged al
most exclusively in the wholesale bus
ness. 1t Is the retail trade that makes
= hustle, and there is very little of that
In st. Joe.
The object of our visit there was to
take humble part, as member of the
Arion Quartette, i'm a concert given i'm
the Opera House on Friday evening of
asst week. This Quartette. it may not
be amiss to remark here, is n "relic of
~ gone days." 1t first got together
a the State University, where its
members were students, along in the
winter of 1879. During the three sue
,eeding years it sang great deal at
social gatherings, political
allies, funerals, ETC., and became per- |
maps the most popular musical organi- |
.atiOn i'm the University. In 1881 three |
If its members left the college and the |
Quartette was not again together until /
asst New Years. when it met at Law.
'ence and spent the day singing and |
,alling on old friends. About the mid.
lie of May it sang also at concerts i'm
Topeka and Lawrence. Geo. e.. Smith,
IN the editorial staff of the st. Joseph |
Herald; Scott Hopkins, Attorney,
dolton, Kansas; J. w. Gleed, Attor-
ley, Topeka, and c. F. Scott are the
James Of the members.
AS the beginning of the preceding
stated the object of our Wis.,
t, so this, although We are long get
ing at it, shall state the object of this
etter; and that is to testify to the hos
,itality of st. Joseph people. The
Arions have been treated well every
where, but they must yield the palm
% st. Joseph. From the time we en-
cred the town until we respectfully left
t, every one we met seemed to make it
lis special duty 20 see that we enjoyed
ourselves. And each succeeded, for
We did enjoy every moment of our stay
here. Certainly we have now a new
appreciation of the word hospitality"
70 mention all to whom we are indebt-
d for courtesies received would be to
lame all we met. But we are sure the
'ther two boys "from Kansas" will
econd us in expressing our special OBJ
igations to Mr.. John Strong, the gen.
al owner Of the Herald, and to Mr..
md Mrs. Christy, at whose elegant
lome we spent some pleasant hours.
There are many other things we
would like to speak of but they are al
most purely personal and would per-
APPS not interest our readers.
c. F. s.