The Iola register., 1901-03-08

huNlSGT, III paper CONClS, SOhN llCC Ou
receipt of al one-cent stamps to pay ex-
pense of mailing only. Address DR.. r. V.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
to Washington at this time was to ex-
pedite, if possible, the installation of
the free postal delivery service at
lola, and of the various free rural de-
livery routes that have been petitioned
for in the county. AS to the latter,
have the assurance of the Department
that the inspectors will be ordered to
Allen county at the earliest possible
date. AS to the former, as readers of
the REGISTER have already learned,
the reply of the Department was. that
it would be impossible to start the
service before July l for lack of funds.
The only relief that could be secured was
an allowance for clerk hire which
should have been granted last July,
but which Postmaster Henderson has
up to this date been paying out of his
own pocket. The premature exhaus-
tion of the appropriations, which were
supposed to be ample for the needs
of the Post-oflice Department, is due,
so the officials say, to the unexampled
growth of the business of the country
during the past year.
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In looking after these and other
matters committed to my care l have
been much assisted by MIR. Bowersock
and the other members of the Kan
sas delegation, to all of whom
am indebted for cordial
greeting and the utmost courtesy.
They have spared no pains to "put me
onto the ropes" and have made easy
what would otherwise have been ted
ious and difficult. 1t is pleasant to
note the cordial relations existing
among the members of our delegation,
and still more pleasant to observe the
high esteem in which it is evident they
are held among their fellow members
and among the officials in the various
Departments. The men who have rep.
resented Kansas in the 56th Congress
have maintained here unblemished the
high personal reputation they estab-
lished at home, and are recognized as
among the hardest working and most
efficient men on the floor of the House.
Kansas has added materially to her
influence in Washington 10y re-elect-
ing them.
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In company with Assistant Post
master General Bristow and Congress-
man Bowersock went to the Chinese
embassy Monday to invite Minister
WI Ting Fling to make an address at
the Ottawa Chautauqua next summer.
The Minister is man somewhat
above tlNe height of the average
Chinaman, with a big head and APP
parently big body, although that
last appearance might have been due
to the voluminous folds of the blue
and yellow garment he wore, He
greeted us cordially, and the cpnver-
sation thai followed was quite free
and informal. While Mr.. Wu speaks
English freely and with great exact
ness, he seems to comprehend it-at
least the Kansas brand of it slowly,
and it was some little time before it
was made clear to him that we wanted
him to go to the Ottawa, Kansas.
Chautauqua, and not to the Chautau-
qua, New York, Chautauqua. When
he comprehended at last he was re-
minded of similar confusion that he
had suffered on Lincoln's birthday
and Washington's birthday, which
were celebrated all over the country
at the same time. He seemed mnch
enlightened by suggestion that
Washington could only be born on
one day in the year. He laughed as If
he thought he had perpetrated good
joke when in reply to one of his in
Vulnerable questions the Kansas men
admitted that there we're more people
in Missouri than in Kansas. In reply
to suggestion that the Assembly
would expect to pay him literally he
said; 81 have many Invitations to
make addresses for money; don't do
that" Mr.. Bristow hastened to assure