The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-06-23

can, the paste pot and the office tow
ell. And the popularity about this
odor, is that one whose Olfactories
have once become efectually soaked
in it. is a slave to it forevermore. He
longs fol. it as aBedouin for his desert,
as a smoker for his pipe, as the
drunkard for his: bowl. We have
known tramp "prints," who were too
old or too drunk or too tired to work,
to come up and beg quarter and
then ask if they might not go in and
s'smell the shop awhile" 1t is sort
of intoxication, not so violent and
deyilish as that which whiskey
brings, but Just as absolute in its
SWAY, lust as hard to break. That is
why a man who has been a printer
ten wears can never be anything else.
1t ia not because the work is so pleas
ant or profitable; it is because he can
not live without the smell of the shop.
And it is hereditary, too, this print
shop smell intoxication. There was
Jake Admire, for example, who used
| to run the Usage City Free Press. He
| had a boy Jim that he was mighty
proud of, and he was determined that
| he should be something better than a
country editor. So about the time
Jim was coming of age, Jake sold the
Free Press and got a job i'm the Land
Office at Kingfisher, and got another
Job for Jim. But it was no use.
Somebody asked the old man not
long ago. 80 yea," he said, "Jim's
runpin, a newspaper. God knows it
amt nv fault. tried hard enough to
keep him from it. l told him he
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horses, and save more money boiling
soft soap. But it wasn't any use.
The smell had him. 1t was born in
him, 1 reckon. Couldn't help it any
more than he could help having black
eyes" Secretly, though, Jake is glad
that Jim has got paper, for he can
sneak around there himself once or
twice a day and smell the shop.
Why we remember-but that is
another story. We simply started
out to say that Miss Pearl Arnold.
who worked in this Office two or three
years but who has been at Lawrence
since Christmas, returned home last
week. She made this Office a very
pleasant call the day after her arrival.
The District Court convened Mon
udl dltcIuOOh dIlu hdc Vie BOcCo VA Noc-
es on the docket as follows: State VS.
Jim Williams, defendant pleaded
guilty to grand larceny. State VS.
Lucius: Gillihan (whiskey easel de-
PENDANT failed to appear and his bond
of 500 was declared forfeited. State
VS. Burris Fisher assault with intent
to kilD verdict of guilty of assault
with intent to commit manslaughter
in the second degree. Christina l..
Hettinger vs. Louis Eizer and Albert
Eizer, (foreclosure) judgment for plain
tiff for S292. and costs. l.. l.. North
rup VS. II. NJ. Burtis ct al, judgm
for plaintiff for S393.31. Mrs. Libbie
Heck vs. o. p. Berger ct al, (foreclo-
sure) dismissed at plaintiffs costs,
Schuster 4 Co. vs NJ. +. Briggs (suit
on account) Judgment for plaintiff for
SI64.14. Paul Fisher We Elizabeth c.
Bush (foreclosure) judgment for plain
tiff for 1852.
This Office was favored last Monday
with visit from Benz. j. Gum, of
Crawford county. Mr.. Gum is the
author of a book called "a Son of q
Gunn,n and of some poems published
in a small pamphlet On the theory
that 1--WE authors must stand togeth-
er," he gave us a copy of his book
and we gave him copy of Letters"
Both of us promised faithfully to read
what the other had written. but prob
ably neither of us will. Judge Still
well says, though, that 1.-THE Son of a
Gunnr is really a very amusing and
remarkable book, and good many
people have spoken good words for
the Letters; so maybe they will
both get read after all. Mr.. Gum is
a pleasant gentleman and We are glad
of his acquaintance.
Readers of the REGISTER will re-
member that some three weeks ago
Burris Fisher shot, in the back of the
head. Geo. A. Williams, with whom
he was travelling to Oklahoma. He
was tried for assault with intent to
kill on Tuesday, and the jury brought
in a verdict of guilty of attempted
manslaughter in the second degree.
Williams told practically the story
that was first given i'm the REGISTER.
Fisher swore that Williams first as
saulted him and that he fired in self
defense. He told a very crooked
story, however, and it is evident that
the jury did not believe it. Sentence
has not yet been pronounced, but it
will hardly be less than five years in
the penitentiary.
There was a match game of lawn
tennis Tuesday between the boys team
and the girl team. We went and watch
ed it awhile, but they didn't seem to be
playing any as long as we stayed.
They tossed the ball around a good
deal with their funny little paddles,
but they didn't put anybody out, that
we saw, and there wasn't a home run
made in the whole game. The only
thing about it that seemed like real
business was the kicking against the
umpire. That sounded good and nat
ural. The rest of it was too slow and
languid for any use. Now if that
same crowd of boys and girls had
been playing foot ball?!!
Taking it all in ALL" observes the
junction City Union, ''this has not
been q bad year on the pauper farm
ers of Central Kansas. Very poor
prairie hay has been selling from s. to
s., hogs from $50 to 81 and upwards,
cattle from S4.5O to S., eggs and butter
from 20 to so cents, and scarcely a
week passing that from one to two
horse buyers did not ship out one or
more loads. The high price Of beef
and pork, backed by prospects for an
old-time Kansas corr crop, ought to
make even our Alliance brethren con-
clude that the State is not, figurative-
" speaking, nearly so near the point
of going to the devil as they had sus-
pected.
Are you insured? If not. now is the
the time to provide yourself and fam
iIy with bottle of Chamberlain Col
lie. Cholera and DiarrhRa Remedy as
an insurance against any serious re-
suits from an attack of bowel COM
plaint during the summer months