The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30
O. P. NORTHRUP & co.

Tuesday, which were famed into a
flame and carried to the barn by the
strong south wind of Thursday. Mr..
ClaibOrne's loss will not be less than
$500 as there was a buggy, set of har-
ness, two saddles and brides, 25 BUSH
els of corn, a ton of hay, and a number
of smaller agricultural implements, all
Of which were destroyed. The barn
was insured for $50.
From our talk with farmers and seed
men about town it is evident that q
much greater variety of crops are being
planted this spring than usual. Nearly
every one, for example, agrees that a
vastly larger acreage of oats has been
sOwn than usual. The same is true, to a
somewhat less extent perhaps, Ofbroom
corn, while Mr.. Beck judges that there
are at least 400 acres Of castor beans
planted this year to where there were
| 10 last year. This variety in crops is
thing the REGISTER has often urged,
and it is glad to see that the system is
beginning to be- so widely adopted.
The advantages of it are obvious.
While it is true that corn will always
be our main crOp-and it is right that
it should be so for it rarely fails-it is
nevertheless the part of wisdom to pro-
vide against a possible failure of this
crop by having other things TO fall
back upon. 1t can hardly ever happen,
for example, that q man who has
planted corn, oats and mi;let will be
without feed of some kind. And when
in addition to these a man plants
broom corn, castor beans and wheat,
he CON n n rdlxy foil 70 hovo SoDoofhiner
to sell. Most Kansas farmers have
land enough and to spare. If they
give it all to one crop and that crop
crop fails they are all wrong. Better
against contingencies.
1t appears that we have again buried
one of our jokes so deep that we must
dig it up and scrape the sides so that it
may be seen through. In closing our
account of Prof. Harris fire in our last
issue, We used these words: ''He Jesse
SMITH probably did this carelessly al
though there are some that urge that
Prof. Harris procured him to do it in Or
der to stimulate the insurance businers.
This latter suggestion, however, is SLAM
derOus and is not generally accepted"
We had no more idea of charging Prof.
Harris, man whom we hold in the
highest regard and with whom we
have always maintained the most
friendly relations, with being accessory
to the crime of arson or of intimating
that any one else go charged him, than
we now have of charging him with
murder. And we were more surprised
to learn that our words had been con-
strued literally than we would have
been had some one accused US Of of en-
couraging the boys in vicious practices
by our remarks in the same issue OIL
coughs" Since they seem, however,
to have been construed in this way by
some-although it is impossible for us
to believe that many minds could have
80 regarded acknowledgements for
Us but the humiliating confession that
the whole thing was intended as joke.
or course we do not believe, and We
know Of no one else who believes, that
Prof. Harris had any more to do with
that fire than if he had never
been born. When the REGISTER
wants to charge man with crime, it
will go about it in a very different way.
When it is tempted hereafter to tell
SOAK" we might as well add, it will
remember Lord Chesterfield's advice
10 his son ON the subject of marriage
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