The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-05-26
There was a nlain drunk before the

1t was the umbrella man who had
sought to drown his woes but had
only made bis condition the more
woftll. He argued his own case. Il
was not drunk, Your Honor, he said.
"If staggered it is only a way have.
I was born that way and can no more
! help it than Your Honor can help
being bald-headed. 1t is an infirmity
] that my mother-who is now in hea-
| ven, God rest her l-mourned over all
the days of her life. But by her bless
ed memory, Your Honor, l was not
drunk "Then you will not plead
guilty?r coldly inquired the Judge.
"PIead guilty. How can 1, Your
Honor, when / am as innocent as Sen
ator PETER who brought me here"
and he bowed profoundly in the dir
ection of the assistant marshal S
| flowing beard. ~ am a poor lone
man, Your Honor. My father was
lost at sea before / was born. My
mother---Heaven's peace be hers =
| has been in glory this many long
year. NV brothers and sisters are
scattered so widely over the big earth
that don't know where to find them.
My wife" he stopped, and choked
up little, and then he turned an inn
ploring face to the court. LET me
90, Judge. / am only an umbrella
mender,-the sorriest trade that any
| devil-ridden son of man ever work
ed at. l am sad enough now without
taking any new burden upon my
weary shoulders. Let me go. l was
not drunk. Why, how could | be? L
assure Your Honor solemnly-and it
is Gods white truth l am telling you
u have only visited one drug store
since 1 came to town. The Judge
had been inclined at first to relent,
but that last admission was fatal and
the prisoner with the uncertain legs
was sent to work out dollar and
costs on the rock pile.
The suggestion of the REGISTER
that station be established some
where in the county to supply our
farmers with infected chinch bugs,
met with such general approval that
at their meeting Monday the count y
commissioners agreed to act upon it.
After careful consideration it was
wisely concluded that five stations
would be better than one and accord
ingly the following gentlemen were
agents.: j. +. PancOast, lola: VIM.
Andrews, Humboldt; J. :. Miller,
Moran: VIM. Clarkson, SavOnburg;
c. l.. Knowlton, Geneva. Prof. Snow
has been requested to furnish diseas-
ed bugs to these gentlemen, together
with instructions for prOpagating the
contagiOn, and it is expected that
within a few days all the farmers
whose fields are threatened may be
supplied from the station nearest them
with the infected insects. The only
payment they will be required to
make will be to furnish about 100
healthy bugs for every diseased one
they get in return. This is probably
the only case on earth in which di-
seased animal is worth more than
healthy one of the same kind.) Of
course this method of exterminating
chinch bugs is still something of an
experiment, but it has proven success
full thus far in about so per cent of the
cases, and the REGISTER hopes our
farmers will give il generous and
careful trial.
The name of A. w. Thayer, of Cot
tage Grove, has already been men-
toned in this paper in connection
with the office of Sheriff. Probability
is made certainty this week by his
announcement which appears in the
proper place. Mr.. Thayer was born
in LaCygne county, Wisconsin, less
than 10 years ago. AS soon as he was
old enough he went as sailor on the
lakes and worked at that trade until
he was u. He then went TO farming
-, or no
until seven years age when he came
to Kansas. He located first at Moran
where he engaged in the hay business
for nearly year. He then removed
to Crawford county but soon came
back to Allen, settling at Leanna
where he has ever since lived, work
ing at his trade of blacksmithing.
Mr.. Thayer is not very well known in
this part of the country, but he is a
fine looking, genial hammered man,
and his friends say be is a hustler"
so he is likely to be heard of before
the campaign is over. He has never
before been a candidate for any office.
c. G. Null went to Washington last
September to attend the G.. 4. r. En-
campment and just got back last
Thursday, having wintered in Ind
lana. He says that they were just
getting the Peoples party organized
in his part of Indiana when the Kan
sas war came on,-and it killed the
movement too dead to skin. He says
that Hudson's Letters to Lewellingn
are as well known there as they are
in Kansas and that they have done a
power of good in showing the people
the true inwardness of the new
movement. Mr.. Null expects to re-
main in and about lola all summer.
Women are more honest than men,
and they also have better memories.
We have had the names of a good
many women on our subscription list
in the past ten years, and we never
lost dollar by them. And they pay
promptly. AS rule women have a
horror of debt and they would no
more think of letting their subscrip-
ton run until it amounted to so or
SIS than they would think of wearing
a last springs bonnet. We are think
ing of requiring some of the men on
our list to sign a note with their
wives as security.
Suppose the city council pass an or
dinance requiring all cigarette dealers
to pay a tax of 500 a year. That
would probably stop the sale of them
in lola and thereby abate great nui-
sance and a great evil as well. If we
had a boy anywhere from l. to 20
years old we would rather he would
spend ten cents a day for whiskey
than the same amount for cigarettes.
We hope the communication touch
ing the Farmers Mutual Insurance
Company, published on our last page
will be carefully read by those most
interested. The writer is one of the
shrewdest as well as one of the most