The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-17

The land being almost perfectly Diet
has to be drained, and alter the
ground Is broken, there being no
freezing to loosen il, the second plOw-
ing is harder than the breaking, and
il has To be plOWed and narrowed and
replowed repeatedly before it is COLI
sidered fit for planting. Some are of
the opinion that il takes three years
cult ating to secure the best results.
Tons of commercial fertilizers are
used. The supply of hay Is unlimited
and can be cut from May until De-
cember but Kansas men say that 1t
has only about half the nutriment,
either as hay or grass, that it has III
the North, Grain and nearly all
provisions are about 40 per cent. high
er here than in Kansas. No apples
81 .25 per barrel. When people here
tell us they never saw an apple RIOw-
ing on tree, we feel that anyone who
never saw an apple orchard in full
bloom or bearing is entitled to our
deepest sympathy. Many Ofthe "na-
tives" here had never seen snow
storm until two years ago last winter
when a regular Kansas blizzard pre-
vailed for twelve hours. Business
was practically suspended in the city
and itch and poor, white and black
had something in common, for once,
and all went into the streets and
played in the snow.
Galveston is now a deep water port.
The government expended over &c.
10000 on the jetties, and from II feet
of water on the bar there is now rs.
And untold quantities of grain anu
other freight comes to this water way
from the great Northwest. Last
February the big batileship "Texas"
came over the bay and lay at anchor
for several days. Thousands of peO-
pie came from the interior to pay
their respects to the namesake of the
great commonwealth of Texas. A
schooner load of US went down from
here, and doubtless all came away
feeling secure under the protection OF
a fleet of Uncle SANS defenders of
which that gallant ship and her $50
trained seamen was fair representa-
tive.
The Fourth of July is not so gener-
ally celebrated in this state as i'm
many others. "San JacintO Day.
A pril 2lst, is religiOusly observed, it
being the day when Texas on the field
OF San JacintO, gained her indepen-
dence from Mexico.
Volumes might be written in regard
to the manner in which the political
and educational interests are manag-
ed, as we'll as on that inexhaustible
subject, the "race question. But L
will only say that the writer of re-
cent article in the X. C. Star. who as
serted that the cOlored race is dying
out, ;" might have occasion to change
his mind, were he to take drive
through central Texas where, for
days, travel lies wholly through col
ored settlements and the woods"
seem full of pickaninnies "thick as
black berries" and very much of such
q uniform size. They are not gener-
ally called the "cOlOred race" here
nut ''niggersn with a capital I'M.
Perhaps if the treasure expended dur
ing the war, could have been used to
buy the whole state of Texas and all
the "woally tribe" were gathered
from the "fOur winds" and cOlOnized
here and the whole state decided TO
them and "their heirs fOre\ er" the
vexed race question might have then
been solved, but at the present out
look. it will be problem for all time.
MRS. f. w. GROEsBECK.