The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-29

chimes followed the sun across tn,
continent, calling, calling. And tn
soldiers heard the call, and put OF
. their blue uniforms, and pinned t,
their breast the black badge o
mourning, and answered, finding
their way into the churches and tn,
great halls and sitting i'm the seats o
honor as next of kim to the dead o
whom the services to be held wer,
u commemorative. Here i'm lola. as il
New York and San Francisco, and il
every city and hamlet between, tn,
old soldiers heard the call of the bell.
and answered. The chances are tina
: as the preacher looked from one to tn,
other as they took their allotted seats
{ he saw a good many new faces, faces
that he had never seen before i'm any
house of prayer. But as he spoke O
the qualities of good soldier; of pa
triotism, and courage, and endurance
of the duty of serving ones country
even unto death; of the honor that is
the reward of loyalty;-as the preach.
er spoke of these things he could not
have failed to notice that he had q
; Ireverent and attentive audience. II
lmay be that sometimes he looked into
eyes that, while they seemed to see
him, were really looking far beyond
him. The preacher spoke of the Will
derness, and Charlottesville, and
Gettysburg. What wonder if some
soldier half forgot for awhile that
there was any preacher, and allowed
tho words of the present to be crowd
ed out by the thoughts of the past.
Thoughts first of "the regiment" how
long the line was when it was drawn
up to be mustered in and how many
hands were lifted swearing true faith
and allegiance to the United States of
America; thoughts then of the weary
marches and dreary camps, and the
frightful battles, and the prisons;
thoughts of the comrades who fell on
this field and ON that, keeping the
oath they swore; thoughts of the short
line of the living, all that was left of
the regiment, that fell in at the last
parade; thoughts of those who have
dropped out of the ranks since until
now the roll of the dead is longer
than the roll of the living; thoughts
of the future, wondering dimly Oh
which roll his name will appear a year
from now; wondering too if what was
won was after all worth what it cost,
whether it will be priced and guarded
by those who come after. The
preacher may have noted the dreamy
eyes and far away look but it certain
ly did not occur to him to reproach
his listeners with inattentiOn, for
wherever the soldiers thoughts were
they must have been in harmony with
the occasion. And when he was re-
called to himself, and looked about
him and saw the great hall filled, and
noted how those born since the war
hung upon the story of the brave, and
heard the exultant anthem, and saw
how the flag was hanging every
where,-then surely the soldier must
have taken heart and said, 1.-THE dead
have not died in vain; those who re-
member will preserve"
Chas. Barth has lately received a
letter from his brother-in-law in Ger
many. from which it would appear
that the distress and discomfort there
must have nearly reached the limit of
endurance. Mr.. Barth permits us to
make a few extracts from the letter, as
follows:
We are Just about as usual in old Germany |
Lots of soldiers, no money, high taxes and
great suffering, which with the poor business |
prospects LOOKS DARK ana dismal. In many 10 |
calities in Germany the poor people are lit |
orally starving. With all the hard work some |
families only earn fIom marks 90 pfennig TO 3 |
marks t55 cents to sl:2o) week and have to |
subsist on that. Notwithstanding the suffering |
and everything else, all the warehouses are I'LL
ed to Overfowing with goods which cannot be |
shipped out OF the country. Now comes our
great Bismarck and runs for Office against a So |
cialist in Stickwahl This self-seeking man, /
who has brought Germany into shame aud dis |
grace and keeps 1t in uncertainty, seems to be |
unwilling to go out of this world without an Of |
flee. Concerning American meat our glorious
Government will know nothing, preferring to |
let the poor people slowly starye on diet of po-
tatOes, so that the rich land owners may fill |
their pockets. Thousands of workmen are
without work and without bread When will |
this unrghteousness and Acknowledgement come
To an end?
Sheriff Hobart went to DuValls
Bluff, Ark, last week after G. NJ.
Benjamin, against whom n warrant
had been issued on the charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
1t is charged that he sold horse upon
which there was chattel mortgage,
assuring the purchaser that the ami
NAL was free. The sheriff returned
with his prisoner. Mr.. Ho-
bart says that Arkansas is the same
God-forsaken country that it was be-
fore the war. At wide intervals a
frame house may be seen, a sure token
of a settler from the North, but in the
main there is only the old log cabin,
with its one room and its whiskey
tobacco-eating, snuf-dipping
deniZens. The towns show some signs
of progress, but the country is stag
nant.
Our Allen Center and LaHarpe cor
allude in fitting terms to
the death of A. u. Funk which occur
red at his home in Elm township last
morning. Mr.. Funk was born
January 2, 1851, in Madison, West
morland county, Pa, and lived in that
State until 1870 when he removed with
his parents to Cass county, Missouri. n
In 1879 he removed with his family to
and settled upon the farm he
has since owned. Mr.. Funk was an
and successful farmer,
and he was a thoroughly earnest,
honest and public spirited man: His
death is loss, not only to his fam
lily, but also to the church of which he
was jealous and faithful member, to ,
the community in which he was q
power for good, and to the State, OF
which he was an unselfish and patri-
otio citizen. II
The story in the REGISTER about
the justice who would not admit the
Kansas Reports as law in his court has l
brought out good many other stories [
1T the expense of these much abused
wrists: One of the best is this: In Il
9ne of the country townships a man ]
had been arrested for failing to work /
nut his poll tax. The man was a erip-
pie and popular feeling, which was ,
made plainly manifest, was an his
'ide. When the evidence was all in
md the attorneys had made their