The Iola register., 1888-05-18

old wagon, a plow, 8 head ofcattle ant
$50 in money. Adding $l4 of his owl
he made the hrst payment Of 500 on {
quarter section of prairie land with NJ
Improvements except house. giving
a mortgage of $500 for the deferred
payments. Since then he has paiG
this mortgage, has bought 12O acre.
more land which is alsO paid for, hal
40 acres in cultivation, the entire farm
fenced and cross fenced, with good out
buildings and large orchard, has &C
head of cattle, 2 horses, all the neces'
sary farming implements, 1896 cash in
bank, and doesn't owe q cent. Or, to
sum 1t up, this young man, without
the help of a dollar from any outside
source, except the small start first
noted has supported his family and in
six years has accumulated property
worth::a: ieastS5, ,OOO.more than his orig.
inal investment. This is perhaps an
exceptional case but it shows what
can be done on a Kansas farm. And
We submit that it is an insult to offer
pity to class Of men engaged in an
occupation that shows such possibili-
ties. And We submit farther that an
economic system under which such re.
suits can be obtained is not very badly
out Of keller, however much it may be
deprecated" by the democratic par
ty.
$50 parasOls received at Rodman's.
The assessors tell US that they find a
growing reluctance among the farmers
to give the agricultural, stock and dai.
ry statistics which the law requires the
assessors to take. The reason given is
that the gamblers of the stock and pro-
duce exchange take advantage OF the
knowledge afforded them by these sta
tistics to depress prices. There is little
doubt that this is true. But even If it
were not, it is hard to see i'm what way
these statistics repay the cost Of taking
them. The assessors tell us that it
takes as much time and trouble and
therefore costs as much to collect them
As it does to assess the property. That
is, if it costs 81 600 each year to assess
the county, $500 of that amount is paid
for taking statistics. And so far as we
know they are Of no practical value.
In the old "boom" days, tO be sure,
they were mighty fine thing to help
Kansas brag. But Kansas doesn't
need that any more. Or at any rate
once in five years is often enough, and
not once every year. We have not
studied all the pros and cons of the
matter, but it looks, 0ff-hand, as if the
law as it now exists entails q useless
expense upon the people,-occasion
possibly great deal of damage also
wi thOut yielding any corresponding
benefit.
New gloves and mitts at Rodman's.
In half the schools of Kansas taught by males
contract is signed. and many q adeserving young
man 10 turned away from where he may have
done excellent work because he is democrat.
-Courdnf.
Can the Courant furnish a single
atom of proof of the above assertion I?
Miss, Chamberlain assures US thatlno in.
stance in support of it has come to her
notice since she became County Super
Mr.. Henderson says that
he never heard of such q case during
the four years that he administered the
office. We know that the school board
Of lola city, all radical republicans en-
plOyed q successor to Prof. Olin with.
out having the faintest idea Of his pol |
itical affiliations. Is Allen county an
exception to the general rule? Or did
the COurdnt, in a fit of atrabilariOus-
ness, simply make the statement with
out any idea whether it was true or |
not?
Judging, probably, by stray copy |
Of the COurant which fell into his |
hands, that everybody in Allen county |
was compelled to borrow money "tO /
keep their families from starving" a
general agent of an eastern loan COM
pany opened correspondence with H.
l.. Henderson recently with view to
establish an agency at this place.
nothing satisfactory from
Mr.. H. he came here this week to see
him personally. Upon arriving, how
.ver, he went first to the records where
ne found that just tUo mortgages had
been received during the past fifteen
lays. That settled it. He told Mr..
that he had no use for an
agent in place where people were
,nly placing mortgages at the rate of
our 4 month.
Judge Knox, of Princeton, ILL.,, is in
he county this week and we are in
Ormed that he has placed all the land
owned hero by Bureau county, ILL.,,
nen-many thousand acres in all-in
he hands of John 8. Martin, of Moran,
with full authority to treat with the
Leaguers who now occupy it. AS
lgent for other parties Mr.. Martin has
.lready compromised with a number
# the Leaguers and We trust that
hose who occupy the lands above re-
erred to will be wise enough to accept
he generous terms that Mr.. Martin is
low authorized to give. It will be not
,nly the part of good citizenship for
hem to do so, but it will be money in
heir pockets in the end.
Three or four weeks ago young
nan applied to Judge Arnold for
license. A day or two after
wards he returned with the license and
wanted his money back because the
Intended bride declined at the last
homer to become wife. He wooed,
,ut she wouldn't, as it were. This
week the young man again appeared
It the Propate Office, and this time,
hat there might be no slip, he brought
he lady-n0t the lady who had once
leclined, but another-with him, and
lad the Judge tie the knot then and +
here. When a Kansas man starts out
o get married he never lets one little
,luf discourage him.
lutte last Friday on suspicion Of having
Anderson & DeClute's
tore, as noted last week. On being
,rought before Judge Walters he
,lead guilty, alleging only, by