The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-09-03

When without or within no voice Of sin
Is Turing your soul away.
But it's only negative virtue
Until u is tired BY FIRE,
And the life that is worth the honor Of earth
Is the one that Fesists desire
By the cYnic, the sad, the fallen,
Who had no strength for the strife,
The world highway is eumbered to-day;
They make mp the item Of life.
But the virtue that couQueTE passion.
and the soTroW that hides IN a smile
It IS these that are worth the homage Of
For we ind them but once in a while.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
FROM HE wAYsIDE.
KIondyke vr New Jersey have no
edge on Sherman couuts when it comes
% mosquitoes. They are simply gigan-
TIC with stingers as long as laundry
bills.
In a sermon at sslina, Kan, on a re-
cent Sunday, Rev. Lockwood said:
"Let US give a man a little more taffy
while living and not so much epitaphy
when dead"
In Alaska a mans wealth is account
cd not by his pile Of gold, but by the
size of the pile of his provisions. A
man up there who has enough fresh
meat and provisions to last a year is
millionaire.
The editor of the Garnett Eagle be-
ing asked what was good for Chiggers,
pondered deeply over the subject, and
concluded that the fat, juicy, tender
flesh Of q Kansas girl ought to be good
enough for any chigger.
Hard luck item from KIondyke Tyre:
The widow Larkin yesterday met with
misfortune which will, we are sure.
cali forth the sympathy of the public.
During the heavy rainstorm in the
afternoon regular torrent ran down
the gully back of her house and wash
ed SO much gold dust into her pig sty
that the pig was smOthered. A sub
soFiption has been started for her
benefit.
Tonight and tomorrow night the
amusement-lOyiug people Of GOOdland
will have an opportunity to enjoy them.
selves at two different entertainments
Tonight st. Paul's Guild of the Epis
copal church will give a concert at the
opera house in which home talent and
artists from Colorado Springs will take
part. Tomorrow night Saturday the
Rathbone Sisters will present min
strel show at the opera house. Both
entertainments are worthy of. patron
age and should be we'll attended.
The republican judicial convention
which met at Colby last Friday nomi
mated Judge Charles W. Smith Of
Stockton, the present incumbent. by
reclamation. Judge Smith has oocu
pied the bench of this Judicial distric
for nearly nine years, and as rule
has given general satisfaction. There
is no doubt that Judge Smith is heaC
and shoulders above any other repub
lican in the district in a judicia
respect, and that his nomination il
the result of merit and fitness.
Chief "Touch the Clouds" will heaC
the band of Cheyenne and Arapahot
Indians at the Topeka Fall Festiva
which opens September q. When th
northern Cheyennes went on the wa
path against the Sioux up in Wyoming
"Toueh the Clouds" was an ordinar,
brave. But just before the battle b
rode around the Sioux camp on re
connOitre, and when the fight was Of
he led a grand charge on the Sioux
He rode snow white pony, and ate
thu battle, which resulted In victor
for the Cheyennes, the prints of tw
bloody hands we're found on the from
Of the white pony. So now "Touch th
Clouds" makes this his trade mari
He always rides a white pony and
keeps it marked with two red han
prints. "Touch the Clouds" is now th
chief of the Cheyenne tribe.
A preacher came at a newspaper ma
in this way: "YOu dare not tell th