The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-12-04

a member of the state board of chart
ties. Knowing Monty" We are for him.
Too many marriages are made on
earth and not enough in heaven. This
accounts for the frequency of divorce.
The thermometer registered six be-
low zero Thursday night. For an
italian climate this is doing pretty we'll.
There are those who believe that G.
T. Weber would look we'll behind the
bars-of the general delivery window of
the postOAice.
Psradoxial as it may seem, the goose
that lays the golden eggs in this coun-
try is the COW. Every farmer should
get better acquainted with her.
In appointing Hon. Ed Little as his
private secretary, Gov-elect Leedy has
not only recognized a deserving young
man, but has secured a secretary that
will do him honor.
The Episcopal Guild will hold
Christmas sale of dolls, doll clothes,
fancy work and aprons, Saturday, Dec
cember 5, in the Bourne building Re-
freshments at the lunch counter.
Topeka has 400 deserted wives, many
Of whom find it impossible to make a
living. The State Journal has inyesti-
gated and finds that the cause Of their
desertion is the prevailing hard times
There was an impromptu jack chase
held Saturday morning northeast of
town. The gentlemanly game of cOurs-
ing has so been allowed to lag that the
hares are getting so bold as to invade
the town in search of a chase.
Miss Laura A. Wilson of Pittsburg,
Kan, has been admitted to the bar, be-
ing the first woman in Kansas who has
attained that honor Now that the ice
is broken "attOrneyesses-at-law" can be
expected to become plentiful.
The Sixth district, and especially
Sherman county, don't want the earth,
but in looking around for good senator
ial timber, the attention of the legisla-
ture is called to the excellent quality
of material displayed in the represen-
tative from Sherman.
The Kansas City World is couduc ting
a popular voting contest for United
States senator from Kansas. Straw
votes, however, rarely favor the can
didate that gathers the plum in the
real contest, therefore let even the most
unpopular aspirant renew his hope.
Down in Russell county strange dis
ease is carrying off a good many horses
aad the contagioR is rapidly spreading.
All the luck in Kansas seems to be To-
Gated east of the western tier of coun-
ties. Out here a cayuse lives on for
ever and his appetite never fails.
The pot hunters are preparing to
move against Br'er Rabbit, The plan
of procedure is to drag long wire be-
tween two wagons behind which the
hunters shoot the rabbits as they are
scared up" by the wire. Hundreds of
rabbits can be killed in this way in
single day.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is a
late acquisition to the vocabulary of
science. It is the name applied to an
antiseptic lately discovered. While
YOU may pronounce it according to the
dictates of your own conscience, the
average scholar should be pardoned if
he should oallit h
Evangelist Moody, who is now snatch
ing brands from the burning in New
York City, says he would like to see
William j. Bryan enter the ministry,
because she is q good man." There are
several millions of American citizens
who hope to elect him president in 1900
for the same reason.
As a rule the women are for the pro-
posed constitutional convention. The
ancient bugabOo Of 'resubmissiOn" is
not such q fearsome object as it was
before "local sentiment" got in its fine
work on the prohibitory amendment.
Suffrage, to them, outweighs all other
possibilities iu such convention.
The irrigating ponds have been the
means of allowing the boys and girls
to enjoy ice skating this week While
not as proficient in fancy skating as
The youth Of more favored localities,
Goodland has several boys and girls
that can cut the spread eagle and fall
without cracking the ice.
The elements have been acting very
eantankerous to the people of the
vest the past week. While the north
egn states have been swept by freezing
billiards, the south has been torn by
cyclones and hurricanes. In Kansas the
weather has just been cold enough to
give the base-burner an appetite for
coal that would bankrupt a millionaire
10 satiate.
Master Read Morton entertained a
party Of juvenile friends at his home
Thursday afternoon, the occasion being
the celebration of his fourth birthday.
TIE party from every standpoint was
aa unqualified success, tempered only