The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14
NOT al EoR SALE

NOT ALL FOR SALE.
Riches, like insects, while concealed they lie,
Wait but for wings, and in their seasons fly
To whom can riches give repute and trust,
Content or pleasure, but the good and iust7
Judges and senates have been bought for goldi
Esteem and love are never to be sold.
-PoEE.
Jron, tie ggaapsi0e.
It's curious how costly free things
are.
A fool never gains anything by going
to college.
The man who can't spit over his
necktie has no business chewing tObac-
CO.
Mrs. Edict lives at PhillipsbuFg. tt
has always been supposed she was of
royal pdE6hJdg5'
Long experience with life leads the
philosopher Of the Atchison Champion
to rise and remark that not 10 be born
at all is to millions the greatest bless
ing.
All along the line east of here cream
cries are being built and operated
Isn't it about time GoodIand pitched
up her boomers and took out after
one.
The insurance commissioner Of Ohio
is making the same kind Of a fight
against the insurance monopoly as is
Webb McNall in Kansas. May they
both win.
Confession is good for the soul
While in a confidential mood the other
day, New York preacher admitted
that it was always the intellectual runt
Of the family that is 'called."
Pythagoras pithily said: The paths
of virtue and vice resembles the letter
V. Both start from the same point,
but, in diyerging, vice turns to the left
in a broad path and virtue to the right
in a narrow one"
Drying potatoes is a new wrinkle,
that is being successfully tried out in
California. The tubers are pared and
dried in the same manner as apples,
and are said to keep in this manner
for an indefinite time.
The Abilene Reflector says that with
corn y cents in Kansas and 80 cents in
Texas, with lumber Sc in Texas aud
so in Kansas, the lesson Of a closer
north and south connection between
the prairies and the gulf ought not to
be hard to find.
The saloon that opened in Topeka a
few days ago is said to have broken a
drought of 16 years standing, This IS
a serious reflection on the resources of
the drug store reservoirs, which have
always beeu considered equal even to a
legislative demand.
Kansas has more ex Governors living
than any other state in the Union.
They are; Samuel J. Crawford, the
third goyerno.; Thomas A. Osborne,
the sixth; john p, st. John, the eigh, il;
George W. G. ok, The niuI h; L, D. Lew
cling, tue eleventh, and E, N. Morrill,!
the twelfth.
The Kansas cat that was taken by IFS
owner to an Indiana town 600 mile.
away from its former home stood il
ju-t three week and then pulled out
for The ~uoioNer state, reaching it.
destination @uIy fooisore but II
otherwise good condition and happy
Once a Kau-an always a Kau,an.
The newspaper men aud politicians
of Kansas, both much maligued, eau
get grain of satisfaction out of Tine
knowledge that among the 1000 cOu
victs in the penitentiary there are eight
bankers, twenty lawyers, eighteen
preachers and twenty-five doctors, but
not a single newspaper man and, as yet
no ex-member of the legislature. L
pays to know how to cover ones tracks
we'll.
The man in the prairie schooner
wanders east, wanders west, wandeTl
south and thence north, but like q los
soul, finds no abiding place, sou
west" has long since ceased to eyi .
the homestead has gone to join poo
Lo and the buffalo; the work Of b,
pioneer has ended; the mau in b,
schooner is without an occupa ION
What government lands are open TO
settlement are of such quality as Offer