The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-08-02
CORRESPONDENCE
From Register Reporters-What Is
Being Done Throughout tho
County-Eventsa and Cos.
sip OF The Week.
West of The River.
(CrO,cdsd Out Last Week.


EDITOR REGISTER;
We, wife and daughter, were over last even
Ing to see the show and get our weekly mail
In the first named we succeeded, and we, like
as an advertiser But We, like yourself, can
see no good reason for his great success as a
healer of the sick, simply because he has lived
With an ignorant Indian: His girls can blow
as an orator we can't call the Doctor very
grand success. But after while when the ex-
citement dies down, and when the great Doc
tor is gone, and when his patients fin out
that they are not yet cured of their many all
ings and when they begin to get notices from
their bankers that their notes are there held
for collection In favor of the DIR ;quack for from
return to their old family physicians, and
consult him In reference to their pains. Ills
then that they will repent and moan in sack
cloth and ashes. Oh the folly Of this world
But our mail now Mr.. Editor. we farmers
away out here five or six miles from town, are
too busy during the harvest time to quit our
work early In the day and ride into town after
our mail, besides If we were to leave our fields
and five or six hands, We would sustain quite
a loss by 30 doing And again the Sundays
are all the time that we have to read our pa
pers and letters from our relatives and friends
work Is finished and we come In wash up and
put on a clean shirt. eat our supports at six
O'Clock, hitch up our horse, take our wife in
and drive in t, town, reach the pOstoflice
at 70 minutes past seven and flnd the office
closed, peep iuto our box and see that it con-
tsius our papers and also the very letters look
ed for from the dear ones at the old home.
turn to Mr.. A, and inquire where is the post
master and are Informed by that gentleman
with broad grin on his face that it Is after
Office hours and that the postmaster had
ended his weeks work and gone home we
take another peep In at our box and we turned
again to look at Mr.. A, who 1t seems lad BY
this time lost all thoughts of us, and was
arranging his goods upon the counters for his
do at,ip md haxI -
time or two, take view of the surroundings
to see that there arenO ladies or children about
and then and there dispose of our last New
years resolutions by saying words unbecom-
ing to a gentleman Now for the difference
we farmers labor and toll In the Sunshine from
"a to Is hours day, we are up and going from
daylight until dark, and IL We are successful
In making the ends meet at the end of the yeaT
we consider that we have done well. There
are not one half of the farmers In Allen county
that are doing 1t. We have to take the CHI ances
our stock by disease. while our postmaster
and all other saIaried officers have to suffer
none of these disadvantages, but can sit In the
shade while at their post of duty and walk
under umbrella when exposed to the sun
and yet they draw from tho hard earned dol
lars of the farmers from one to three thousand
dollars year. Sure pay and no chances. And
can open up their places of business when the
snn Ia high up In the heavens and close their
doors and retire long before the farmer thinks
Of stopping. Is 1t right, or is 1t as IL should
be2 Are the government employees IL the ma
iority? No. Then is this majority govern
ment, aud If so, why should the majority be
imposed on in this way? when we drive six or
eight miles for our mail we want 1t, and ought
large that our postmaster might hire cheap
boy to remain in the Office until at least eight
or nine o o'clock at night, and when q weary
farmer arrives hand his mail ont to him and
making every thing blue around as he returns
home.