The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-05

time since auditing bills. They will
take q recess over to-day and be in
session again tomorrow.
1t isn't because lola lacks patriot.
ism that she is not celebrating in q
great big noisy way to-day. lola has
as much patriotism to the square inch
as any town ON earth, and then some
But lola is generous. She is willing
to give her neighbOrs a chance fol
their white alley once in a while. AS
long as lola has a celebration nobody
who lives near here goes anywhere
else. 1t is only fair therefore that she
should give way once in two or three
years and let her sister towns have q
chance to get crowd. That is what
has been done this year. But, peo-
pie, just watch us next year
How much do you think it rained
here last Friday and Saturday? Just
one inch and five eigths. That was
all, in spite of the fact that it began
at five o'clock Friday morning and
rained nearly all the time till Satur-
day night. But it was the kind Of
rain that counts. Slow and steady
All went into the ground. Did ten
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amount had fallen in two hours. Stay
ed cool afterwards so that very little
of it evaporated. A regular corn rain.
Two more rains like that at the pro-
per time during this month and AL
len county will have the biggest corn
crop you ever saw.
1t is the general judgment that A l.
len county never had finer prospect
for corn crop than it has to-day.
And yet we have had only half as
much rain thus far this year as we
have had during the first six months
of any of the past three years. Mr..
Dibble says the total rainfall of the
six months of this year now ended has
been just IL 1-2 inches. In 1894 it was
% IA, in 1898 it was % rs, and in 1892
it was q SIS. And yet in not one of
those years was the general outlook
for good crops so good the first of July
as it is this year. Which simply
shows that we can get along with
mighty little rain if it comes at the
right time.
Night Police Harry Brown got a
dispatch from Chanute Wednesday
morning to be ON the lookout for a ne
gro who had held man up and rob
bed him. He according met the ear
ly passenger train, and there ON the
platform of the blind baggage was his
man. Harry promptly cOllared him
and marched him up to the calabOOse.
A railroad ticket with the name
"Moses johnson" was found on his
person, and this identified him be-
yOnd question as that was the name
of the man who had been robbed.
The Chanute authorities came up YES
terday and took him back for trial.
Mr.. Brown deserves much credit for
the capture.
A woman's rights woman remarked
in our hearing the other day some
thing to this effect: suppose some
women should organize a company
and go to boring for gas, ana should
find it, and should have no more fix
iDgs for controlling it than if they had
expected to strike apple butter, and
should be utterly unable to get con-
troll of the well and stop the waste for
three weeks and maybe longer. Don't
you know that every man in town
would be joking and jering about the
shameless incapaeity of women to do
business?" But then the W. r. W. had
lost good deal of sleep on account of
the roaring of the new gas well and
was nervous and irritable.
We used to envy Gov. Riddle, of
the Minneapolis Messenger, because
he had town behind him with $500
people and electric lights and water
works and all that sort of thing. But
we rode down ON train with him
the other day and now We dent envy
him any more. For his town has on
ly 1900 people now, and the electric
lights have been put out and the wat
er works have run dry, and every
body is blue and discouraged. lola
isn't any blOomin' city, but she never
had a boom and so she hasn't got a
hundred and sixty acres of empty
houses and lot of bankrupt and dis. |
c0uraged citizens. On the contrary
every good house in town is occupied |
and business is getting better very
month and every year, and the peo-
pie who live here are happier and |
better satisfied every day. There is
no occasion for any body who lives in |
lola to envy anybody who lives any
where else.
Dozens Times: And now the Kan
sas farmer who has been beefing loud /
and long has taken on new courage |
and will sing another song and the |
folks who left the country loOkin' for
a better lay have given up the job and
are comm back to stay-they're a
drillin' back to Kansas since the rain.
For the oats are lookin' better and the
taters have start, and the corn is
jist a-humpin', gittin ready for the
mart; and the boys who left the eOun-
try when the prospects all were bad
are lOokin' as they're feelin', and
they're feelin' mighty sad-and they
re drillin' back to Kansas since the
rain. It's great old state, is Kan
sas, though she has a funny way, but
the boys who stick right by her are
the ones who'll make it pay while
the ones who got disgruntled, sour
and sulky, sad and sore, and who
pulled out from her borders swearing
they'd return no more-will come
drillin' back to Kansas since the rain.
EASTERN CUSTOMS.
Prominent Men of India Who Pass Into
Utter Obscurlty.