The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-02-15

mously welcome by cracking few
old chestnuts, with whiskers on them
like billy goat. Then he wakes con-
fidential, and spreading himself all
over the case, tickles the printer
nearly to death by talking to him,
while the latter is making frantic eff
forts to keep his mind upon the copy.
He makes himself otherwise useful
and welcome by tearing the wrappers
off all the exchanges, reading copy on
the hooks and whistling while he
rests his face. And yet some people
wonder why printers are profane.
| The Topeka CORES pOndent of the
Wichita Eagle in a recent dispatch to
his paper has the following compli-
mentary allusiOn to the Senator from
this district: Senator Charles Scott
of Allen county is one of the most
forcible men in the Legislature. When
he takes hold of anything he stays by
it with persistence that is astonish-
ing. Next to Senator O'Bryan the
Pops fear him more than any other
member of the Senate. O'Bryan,
however, fights like an Irishman, all
in bunch, while Scott fights like
man would fight pneumonia or yellow
fever. He does not go in with ruth
but he fights step by step, always fo,
ward, slowly and surely, but never
backward.
Considerable complaint is being
brought to this office by our readers
at Funston. Some of them say they
do not get their papers at all and.oth-
ers tell us that when they do get them
they are in such shape that they can
not read them One man said when
he got his REGISTER two weeks ago
one page was nearly burned up. Now
we don't know whose fault this is,
but it would not take long to find out.
We don't want to know, because we
hope it will not be continued. We do
not want to say anything to hurt any
ones feeling nor do anything to any
one but we must insist OH the proper
handling of mail Please be- more
careful.
Thursday morning between two and
three o'clock, two men broke into w.
s. PTyor's shop in the west part of
town by removing the glass in one of
the windows. Mr.. Pryor was i'm the
house near his shop and heard the
noise and arose to see what it was,
and blew out the lamp that was burn
ing in the house. The robbers were
frightened when they saw the lamp
go out and made their escape. In re-
moving the glass from the windows
they evidently cut their fingers pretty
badly as stains of blood were left. 1t
is thought they were after tools, but
none are missing. The fellow with
cut fingers had better keep himself
hid awhile.
The REGISTER believes that dumb
animals have feelings. Last Wednes-
day man drove team of nice large
gray horses to town early In the
forenoon and tied them to the hitch
post opposite this office where we
could not help noticing them, where
they stood nearly all day. There
they stood in the bowling wind and
the snow, shivering with cold, while
tho owner, presumably. was some
where enjoying a good warm fire. 1t
doesn't cost great deal to put team
in tho livery stable and when the
weather is so bad it would be the right
thing to do. The young man who
owns this team would not.like to stand
tied to post all day such day as
Wednesday last was. Now would
you?
PdrSOn Peterkin: There are two
things, my son, that men will never
forgive. One is lying and the other is
dishonesty. Almost any other fault
or error or vice or even crime will be
forgotten after awhile or forgiven.
But when you have lied to a man
once he will never trust you any
more. This is true in business. 1t is
even more true in politics. know a
man who was a candidate not long
ago for very high office. He was a
brilliant man and if men had had con- |
fidence in him he would have been
chosen, hands down. But they did |
not have confidence in him. Not be- |
cause he had been profligate, or been
addicted to drink-ihese things could |
have been forgiven. But he had made
promises and broken them, and he |
had made debts and failed to pay
them. And so men could not trust |
him. Aud so the ambition of his life |
was thwarted. There are whole lot |
of things, my son, that you would bet
ter not do. But there are two things
you must not do. One of them is to |
lie, and the other is to defraud.
The pleasant residence of Mr.. and |
Mrs. Otto Kreuger was the scene of !
much pleasure and merriment on last
Saturday evening, the occasion being
a party in honor of their niece, Miss
Minnie Spielman. The evening was
spent in the usual delightful manner
with cards, checkers, dancing and