The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05

From the list of July 10 the Let Of January.
there are institutes, fairs. reunions.
months Of sociabjIity: the glad and happy
meetings Of Kansas men and women.
That which binds us. friend 70 friend.
Is that soul with soul can blend.
EOul.lke were the DAYS OF yOfe:
Let US walk in soul once more.
1t Is the meeting together. hand to hand.
eye to eve: the warm sympathy OF brother
hoos;. And, when we can't meet, We read the
the cali for the next meeting in the paper.
The paper binds: stronger than iron are pa
per wheels. When the paper does not come
around at its accustomed hour. then the
Pope: .... s,s .,,.. c..,. -o.,,..,,
who wants to be alone? Solitude is prison.
Kansas talks, and writes. and reads. and ad.
"In civilized epochs, says Michelet, '.men
write histories, in barbarous DAYS they act
them" rst, John Brown, then John In
risKed its life. Trot out any kind Of an age.
beginning. m ddIe or end, and the Kansas
man. king Of men, vaults into the saddle.
We are the Ancients Of the earth,
And in the morn ng OF the times.
And when some outsider NEEDLES with Our
kettle of fish. he is made to excaim W tn
Byron: "Methnks have lived in some Olden
time. and this hell-the best that it's not
eternal."
The kansas editor. going to a new field,
W tn a patent outside and a shirt tail full of
type" us Prentis has it, makes name in that
county and State that will live while the
world turns round. The millionaire. when
he dies. is cut off from his money; he ''gets
left"
All that editing could do for Kansas was
done BY Editor Greeley. Tho overt act was
done bv John Brown. Through his own
blood he obtained the Territorial and National
redemption 'And almost all things are by
the law cleansed with the blood; and without
shedding of blood is no rem ssion." Captan
Brown was quite other than an editor-was the
Only parsonage who has trOdden these prai-
" tn him divine message and III ssion. When
our poop G build statues, Brown and Greeley
viii enter the pantheon-the dOer of the
word and its predicter and recorder.
The greatest editor, though he creates or
embodies the SD rt and purpose of period,
is not equal to the executive III nd of a Lin
coin, or to the prophetic and divInely-driven
Osawatomie Brown. If Br.. vn was insane,
then he was also sacred, as the anc ents had
IL. Some university Professors, who took
only partial course in the humanties. think
that Lincoln and Brown were failures; but
their ads. are marked "tf." for the ages: and
were paid for in advance. in sacrifcial blood
An expensive offering: I "cOmes high" and
is not apprec ated by pedants: no pedant has
ever spent u drop of it, and he does not know
il when he sees {
1t NAV be remarked in passing thai took
two decades-frOm 1853 TO lSS5-fOr Quantrili
to rece We an honorary mantle of whitewash:
No Kansas cd tor held the brush; the oldest
Kansas ed tor. who will speak to you TO-DAY,
NAV not have enjoyed the picture. for two
sors of John Speer were murdered by Guam
triIl. and their bodies burned to ashes. But.
rs Mr.. Toots said ''its of no consequence"
The ''revaluat on" of history is Of more i'm
pOrtance.
talk to the people. without any possibil tv of
a reply ia the barber. and that Is the reason
that he is barber. If you talk back to
barber YOU cut YOUR own throat. For Il sim
to write. If unv man talks back he cuts his
own throat in full V ew of the public. And
the editor sleeps well that night. Ought 10
have known better than write a card" and
he SIN les in his dreams.
We can get along W thout rain and enjoy
1t; make fun over the rain; saw it don't
amount to much: but Kansas can not get
along without newspapers, and lots of them.
The press is the iron. the editor the blood;
they are the first things on every town site.
The editCri s harmless; sometimes instruc-
tive and amusing. He invents words and
phrases :for us and fills the place of the
HOmeric ballad st and the middleaye
troubadours. The editor is usually in.
sOlent; thaws the ice and dfssOlves. not de-
YOURS the fluids in all societies which he
enters. 1t is the goOd-naturcd man who
makes every person feel ut case as soon as
he comes into the room. Jack Downing,
Bill HutchisOn, George Isbell. Eugene Ware,
Jim Steele Hanrv King, Ed. Howe Aleck
BnttS-kansas mas never passed an instant
wlthou, tre WIZ, huinor, oriGlnniiiy. GuahI.
ness; OF these pecul ar men Oh gen US: "
was 'houghI th't Proh pltion Wouin ne rata,
to them. but they IRE its most TAX and
attractive friends. They take that dry drink
ana turn INTO heaiihiul ana spark ng
champa1ne. we nave prohibition bet ause
we want to save the bOvs-want to save the
ppVS-tnev are 700 goon 10 rose. Inc hcst
societN Is over tntre: t'iieu UP "ccahse
tner are .nG Dr. AS s pa. We Mmo nave
Kansas 10 I'VE II UNI sucn ehrtnIy at,rlc-
puS aIo"n , US tha. uM.rc y one ProGIesso"
Which we 40 NOT ION III uiiSecillI. al.cri,s.
we nei eNc IN ,ne .,, ~, M pasS.
60 ny 70 oe Vnrv seiy v 81 me sPr'ns. ~ Is
nereut ~ ieA,s. " n'sh, 10 - i.iheuiai
iie.S ,h ooWn lit III 'h"' eiiih"'e' anu
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Suppn.t alaniIa s ,,s -. FOWL ~ .'io
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MAI ~ iacd Moss hor old soul She nn,.ar
vii KNOW II is roo late for her 10 take n
hand in tho game II is short whist now: two
hands a. go With E,,S,s ho,5s hob ~,
them MANY a rearis IN its grave. Alabama.
moo vour lonr.bo;red son came nm hcre and
tried to turn these pr'i' rieS into slave and
lash p'an'ation-yearS OF decay and death to
you. of life and growth for MS. The books
were closed AZ montgomery. I'VE ana twenty
years ago. The rebel government was form
ed in your town just ten DAYS after the day
we ceieur',te-a,ter hansas i,ar;neu .Il.o IN. me
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