The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-12
lola SHOE STORE,
w. H. RICKETTS,, MANAGER.

Tom BOwlus has written q piece
for the Scientific American describ
ing the manner in which the direct
pressure of the natural gas was used
in running the engine ct tha new gas
well, and the article has been accepted
and will be printed. Miss Reimert
took q photograph of the engine at
work with the gas last Tuesday
night which will be used to illustrate
the article. The REGISTER cOngrat
ulates Tom on his success in getting
into a publication OF such high grade
wishes him q continuance Of good luck,
and the good work.
One of them "dsng eyetalics" with
harp stopped on Anderson & De-
Clute's corner Monday evening and
announced that he was going to give
the bystsnders some music. He said
however that he would have to have
his pay in advance 80 be proceeded to
take up a collection. Evidently the
twenty cents which he got did not
satisfy him for he put the cover back
on the harp and he walked away sing
| ing Had a good yOb and jumped
it", and leaving the men who had
contributed the twenty cents to pom
! der on the old adage about some peO-
pie and their money gather no moss
Miss Beulah Reimert came down
from Kansas City last week, called by
the Illness of her mother VIII is now
much improved. Miss Beulsh's new
song "The Very Latest Out" was
sung at Chicago recently before an
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er was called five times. This looks
as if it had Ego" in it. Miss Reimert
has another song nearly ready which
she thinks Is much better than her
first one.
When Lutte Slower was assistant
postmaster down at Black well he was
just as good Republican as he 10 now,
although the postmaster himself was
q Kentucky Democrat. Some OF the
Democrats there thought that the
place Lutte had ought to be given to a
Democrat and q committee waited on
the postmaster one day and told him
so. He listened to them patiently and
then he said: "I know Slower is q
Republican. He never lied about 1t
or beat around the bush to conceal it.
But / know too that he Is the best
pOst-Office clerk there IL ia the strip,
and so I guess / will just say that as
long as the kid wants the job, and I've
got it to give, he can have It," And
that ended the argument.
Just as q matter of curiosity we
kept tab last week on the papers that
came into this Office which contained
some quotation from the lola REGIS
TER or some comment upon some
thing the REGISTER had said, and
we found there were thirty-eight. AS
the total number Of papers examined
was about one hundred the percent
age is fairly large. Newspaper men
are about the most fastidious and
critical readers of newspapers that
there are in the world. With q hun
dred or sO,-and in the daily offices
with nearly acknowledgement COM
| ing into their hands every week, they
must learn to separate the wheat
| from the chaf at q glance or they
would be swamped. There must be
something in newspaper that news
paper men think enough of to read
with the care that clipping or COM
ment requires. The fact that more
than one out Of every three Of the
busy men who receive the REGISTER
every week consider IL worth reading
and what it says worth reprinting or
| talking about, Is compliment which
this Office very much appreciates
1t seems strange to Us that farmers
will let the chinch bugs destroy their
crops and not even try Prof. Shows
exterminator. az have no faith in
it", they say. 1t doesn't take faith;
it takes work. But why shouldn't
you have faith in it? It proceeds on
a reasonable theory. Didn't you ever
hear of herd Of hogs being killed OF
by the cholera? Would il not be pos
sfble for all the hogs in this country
to be killed by carefully and diligently
spreading the germs Of cholera among
them? Or suppose We should take .
notion to destroy all the children;
could 1t not be done by spreading
scarlet fever or diphtheria among
them? Why is it not reasonable, then,
to believe that chinch bugs can be kill
ed by spreading among them q disease
that is fatal to them? Il doesn't cost
any money, and only q little work.
And yet it may mean the salvation
of half or all of your crop. Isn't the
reward big enough to justify the ex-
pertinent? Somehow when we hear
man say ii is all humbug and ne
won't try il, we are reminded Of the
snake bitten Jews who would rather
die than lift their eyes to the brazen
serpent.