The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-19
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

KANSAS CllPS ANU CUMMEM Is
The Abilene Reflector thinks tina
jeff Davis prolonged life Is q har
slam at the doctrine of the survival q
the fittest.
There are $50 varieties Of sorghum
i'm cultivation west of the Chemica
Laboratory, under direction of Prof
Failyer at the Agricultural College,.
The Burlingame Chronicle make
editorial mention Of some ice cream
and cake that it and its "better half
sampled on the Fourth. We fear tina
post office must have had a demoraliz
ing effect. Nc. used to have a bette
sense Of the fitness Of things.
Kansas City Gazette: Kansas ha
built school houses at the rate of on
for every day in the year for the pas
four years and has 131 more to spar
for good count. And yet SOM
philosophers say the State is going II
the dogs because the beer business ID
not regulated to suit them.
We remarked last week that the
business men of Erie did not properly
appreciate the Record. 1t is evident
however, that the commissioners oil
Neosho county do as they have award
ed that paper the county printing al
full legal rates. Sensible commission
ers. Fortunate Record.
The Chanute papers, both Demo.
cratic and Republican, display very
commendable generosity in praising
the action of the county commissioners
in letting the new contract for the
county printing at full legal rates, and
in congratulating the Erie Record to
which the Contract was awarded.
The new editor of the Paola Times
evidently finds 1t. hard to decide
whether to use "In or 1--WE" In his
editorial Columns. Thus far he seems
to have balanced the thing about
eqally, using both the plural and the
singular, not only In the same para
graph but in one sentence. 1t may be
that he has been recently married and
doesn't know yet whether there are
two or only one of him.
We never said q good thing of any.
body but what somebody privately in.
formed us of number of that mans
faults. But, on the other hand, we
never said bad things of q man but
what somebody insisted that he wasn't
half SO bad as he was said to be-
Minneapolis Messenger.
But did you ever have a man come
around and thank yon for any good
thing you said about him? And did
the man you abused eve, forget it his
whole lie long?
Patents granted to citizens Of Kan
sas during the past week and reported
for this paper by c. A. Snow & Co.,
patent lawyers, opposite U. 8. patent
office, Washington, D. c.:
A. Elliott, Kansas City, carcoupling
M. Gates, Wichita, adjustable inter
bevel; G. o. Graves, Washington.
heating stove; Suplear Pecord. Con.
cordia, kitchen cabinet; VIM. J. Ptor.
ney. McCrackent blacksmith's forge;
A. J. Reams, Eldorado, signal or alarm
transmitter and indicator.
Wichita Eagle: Notwithstanding
the disadvantages Of the unusually
rainy season, the crop of cocoons In
Kansas this year will be the largest
ever raised in the State, and will no
doubt aggregate one-third Of the entire
product of the United States. From
experiments being made at the station
in this city. it is very evident that
there are some valuable developments
in store in the silk industry. The ex-
tent of its possibilities and profits is
little dreamed of by the public.
The thinning out process goes
merrily on in the newspaper field, the
Coffeyville journal and Sun being the
latest consolidation. This is in accor-
dance with the logic of events, and is
one Of the signs that Kansas is get
ting to be an "old settled" commun-
ity. A new country supports large
number Of newspapers. But when
the community becomes stable and
business settles down into established
channels, newspaper patronage drops
Oft and 1t then becomes question of
the survival Of the fittest. 1t is q rare
thing in eastern State to find more
than one paper in town of less than
5000 inhabitants, and the time is
rapidly coming when it will be just as
rare a thing to find one in Kansas.
We are sorry to see that T. w.
Fields has abandoned the Williams
burg Eagle where he succeeded
and gone into the daily busi-
ness.at Ottawa, where he is bound
TO make failure. He was persuaded
to make the move doubtless by the
assurance of a few of the enemies of
Sharpe and Anthony that the moment
new paper was started every body
would flock to it and leave the Repub-
ticDn out in the cold. He will find,
We fear, that people do not "fiock"
that way. A man who tries to build
up new paper against an old one, in
a town which cannot give even one
paper decent support, has a mighty