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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14
HE COW A wINNER.
Prosperity Lies 10 Her Wake for the
Kansas Farmer.

Prosperity Lies In Her Wake for the
Kansas Farmer
Nothing succeeds like success, and
the humble COW Of Kansas under any
and all sorts Of conditions has proven
to be an unqualified money maker for
her owner. Kansas has raised wheat,
corn, horses, hogs land hell at times.
with Indifferent success, but there
never was a time when her COWS failed
to return a dividend. No better illus
tration of this could be cited than the
assessors returns from Dickinson
county, as summed up by the state sec
rotary of agriculture. He says: "The
people Of Dickinson county, more than
those of any other in the state of Kan
sas, have caught the inspiration, as the
assessors returns show q per cent.
more mich COWS here than its closest
competitor in daFying has, and a dairy
output 24116 per cent. greater in value
the past year than any other county in
Kansas. Furthermore, while there
has been a slight decrease in the num-
Der of COWS probably gone to do mis-
siOnary work elsewheFe) the value Of
the county's COW products, in spite of
falling prices, has shown an increase
of about $4,000 or IS per cent. Neither
crop failure nor the "crime of 70"
have prevented the COW owners of this
county from jingling in their pockets
more than a quarter of a million of
good 100 cent dollars received for milk
during these 365 days of depression.
I am loyal enough to Kansas and to
those who have been my fellow citi-
zens during all the years of my man
hood TO maintain that any good thing
in an agricultural way that the Danes
can do in Denmark the Canadians in
Canada or the Norwegians in Mime
sofa, we can do in Kansas-not only as
we'll, but a good deal better. What
Dickinson county is doing other coun-
ties can do. We want to get out of
the slough and into the sunshine. Our
horses and our oxen have not taken US
there as We had hoped, and my sugges-
ton is that We now try hitching the COW
on in front"
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

From Our Correspondent,
DR.. Shelly was called here Sunday
and Monday to attend Mrs. Converse
who has been quite sick.
@. NJ. Harding is moving his family
to the country. He may work on the
Ruleton section.
Corn and millet now occupy the
farmers attention. Some of the much
ly prised Hog millet will be sown in
this vicinity, the seed having been OBJ
tanned from Nebraska.
Farmer ]. E. Rule has been feasting
this week on radish, lettuce and onions
grown in his own garden, and reports
them quite toothsome. He expects a
cup of alfalfa tea from the same source
soon.
The writer visited Mary Tomblin's
farm this week and was surprised at
the variety and character Of plant life
growing there, both in hot houses and
out of doors. 1t is an object lesson of
what pluck and work can accomplish
here, and well repay a visit.
Crops are growing finely and a rain
any ways soon will make the growth
luxurious.
We are already repaid for cOmpli-
ments rendered the ladies. After ad-
mOnishing man to heed the council
of his wife more often, and stating that
We thought their judgement here was
more practical than mems had BEEN
his wife said she would go home and
tie knot in the stove pipe as a memo
rial to the truth Of the statement
They were from Grant.
JIM. Leonard and William Richard.
son will soon cut the first crop Of alfal
ia. Theirs has done well on upland
without irrigation.
Rev. Rogers is attending the minis
terial association at Jennings this
week, but expects to be home for Sun
day.
jim Hollingshead takes c. NJ. Har
diDg's place as section foreman.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14
COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS
Pleasant HOms Items,

toHAhuS HUNS AtotAa'
From Our Correspondent.
Pleasant Home Sunday school has a
supply of new song books.
Uncle John and Aunt Kit Artman
visited at F. NJ. Koontz Wednesday
Uncle Ernest Lister was a Goodland
visitor Tuesday.
a number of our young people at
tended church at the Lockwood school,
house Sunday afternoon.
The singing at Mr.. B. Listers wa;
not very well attended Wednesday
night owing to the rush of farming.
Byron Lister is able to be at wOrL
again.
Mrs. May MewhiFter led the Endeav
er Sunday night, and as usual, a Root
time was had.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14
KILLED WHILE ESCAPING.
A Burglar Meets His Fate While Flee
ing From His Crime.

A Burglar Meets His Fate While Flee
ing From His Crime.
Friday evening the Book hardware
store was broken into and the show case
raided of its stock of knives razors etc.
amounting in value to about $50. Sew
eral knives found along the street lead
ing to the depot indicated the direc-
ton the burglars had taken, and suspi-
ciOn was directed toward two trsmps
that we're in town that day.
Enquiries at the depot ELECTED the
information that the men were seen
in the yards about the time that No. 6
was due, and as the men we're known
to have come in from the west it was
thought certain they had kept on east.
While the sheriff was telegraphing
the description of the men to points
along the line, telegram was received
by the train dispatcher from COnduc-
tor Denny, who had gone out that
morning on so, stating that he had
found dead man lying beside the
track three miles east of Colby, aud
that his pockets were full of knives.
The sheriff and Mr.. Book left On the
second No. 80, and upon arriving upon
the scene the cutlery was identified by
Mr.. Book as a portion of that lost by
him.
From the position of the body it was
judged that The man, who was one OF
The men suspected, had been stealing
ride upon the top of one Of the coach
Is on No, 6, aud had fallen of. An III
deutaliou on the grading showed where
be had first struck, and then rolled
along to the position in which he was
found. The force Of the fall had evil
IDENTIFY killed him outright, as there
we're no signs of his having moved
after he ceased to roll along the en-
baukment. The body was turned over
to the coroner of Thomas county, and
buried under his direction.
There was nothing on the body that
could reveal the dead mans name OF
where he had come from, excepting a
small tattO mark representing an an
Choir on his left arm.
The companion of the dead man, and
probably his paTduer 10 the burglary
has not been heard from. The bal
lance of the stolen cutlery was no
doubt in bis possession.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14
LaB!anohe Items.

LRB!anehe Items.
From Our Correspondent.
Ed Strand vas having his windmill
pump repaired last week.
Mrs. Salome DOerfer took her daugh-
ter frankie up to see a GoOdland ply
stefan on account of some poison ivy
on the fishing banks Of the Smoky, We
suppose.
Mr.. Willie DOnnebsFger and Charley
Mccoy we're callers at La Blanche post
Office Saturday afternoon.
Miss Lizzie Butler seems to be teach
ing a good school at the Barr school
house.
Gus Strand is wanted out here again.
His nephew Edwin says his father
wishes a s. "WilliamH mot bill chang
ed to pay for some millet sesd.
BIZ. Horizons little boy had bad
spell again Thursday morning, and
Anna Horton also has q very sore
thzoat
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14
RAILROAD NEWS.

The work train Sundsyed in Good
land.
Mr.. Tompkins is calling crews at
night now.
Engineer BrOsso has the local run
now On engine 545.
George Wilson, superintendent Of
motive power, was here last week.
Traindispatcher. W. A. Young, left
yesterday for q visit to his folks at
Minneapolis, MINI.
Conductor Tom Edwards returned
Sunday from a visit to Pueblo, Denver
and Colorado Springs.
The new time card goes into effect
Sunday. The time has been shortened
35 minutes going west, and 40 minutes
going east.
Conductor Al Beer is running pas
senger for a few weeks, taking the
place of Conductor Fuller, who has
taken q temporary lay off.
Frank Houston, who has been in
charge Of the station here, during
Agent Bailey's absence, left Sunday
for his home in zeandale, Kan.
/ CboIav CoDrdou hos boov, Drowofod
to be baok-shop foreman, taking the
place of Dave Cunningham, who is pro-
NOTED to the master workmanship,
Frank Hamiin, who has been laid up
at the Grier house for some time from
| injuries received from falling of Rock
Island train No. 5 at KsnOrado, so far
recovered as to bs able TO resume bis
| Journey to San Francisco Saturday.
n
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

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 gold
Esteem and love are never to be sold.
-PoPE,
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

lam prepared to do laundry york In
a satisfactory msnner a9d desire your
patronage. Work collected aud de-
liversd. In the Goodrich residence.
hrs. n. J. sT0yER.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

The law fixing the standard Of
weights and measures viii go into eff
feet about June l. Kansas heretofore
has never had a standard, which has
been the cause Of much confusion, and
the new law will tend to obyiate this.
The standard in pounds per bnshel as
fixed by the new act, is given here
with: Wheat, so; rye, Sc; shelled corn,
IS; ear corn, 70; rice corn, So; sorghum
seed, So; buekwheat, 80; barley, 49;
oats, 80; bran, %; corn meal, 80; beans,
go; sweet potatoes, 80; turnips, S.; fax
seed, Sc; clover seed, 90; millet seed,
50; Irish potatoes, 60; onions, 81; salt,
so; castor beans, 46; blue gras, q; tim
Othy, 45: dried peaches, 80; dried ap-
pies, "a; green apples, 48; coal, so;
lime, 80; kaflF corn, Sc.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

If there is anything to the prevailing
superstition that the No. 13 is an IN
lucky one, the quarter dollar is an
original package of i'll luck, as there
are no less than ten repetitions of the
Ii on each coin. There are ID stars, ID
letters in the scroll the eagle holds in
its beak, 10 marginal feathers in each
wing, 13 tail feathers, Is parallel lines
in the shield, 13 horizontal bars, 13
arrOwbeads in one claw, 10 leaves on
the branch in the other claw, and just
ID letters in the words, quarter dol
lar" Anyone wishing to get shut Of
these unlucky coins can throw them in
at the transOm of The REPUBLIC Office,
which will be open at all hours while
the rush lasts.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

Long experience with life leads the
philosopher Of the Atchison Champion
to rise and remark that not TO be born
at all is to millions the greatest bless
ing.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

The city council have Gxed the poll
tax ct 81 cash OK tEo days works o.
the streets. Dog tax must be paid b
May %. B. T. Brown,
City Cierss
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

There are a number of good towns
in Kansas that are losing their grip by
not quarautiniugall cases of pessimism.
One pessimist can hurt a town more
than four crop failures and a cyclone.
A man was never yet born so ugly
but what thought the pretty women
who stopped to shuddeF at his hideOus-
ness were smitten with his charms.
The man who laughs most at woman's
foibles is generally one whom some
sensible woman declined to tie to.
The advance agent of prosperity will
soon acknowledge that his show has
Cancelled all its engagements.
Lots of people who think they have a
kick coming to-day, would be ashamed
70 r,oIxo II Lzvovyr, FO v,orrOU
--'''-N
rich man never vet GAINED tbe con-
49, .,o.s,',s.. ,,ro -.
49, -s,., go .,o.-t ,ha L,,,, =
- La.,,, hiso,a,bas
who,o foIror, d,.oorsrs hot oirI
is &c s,voot os smear no .bonldr.t NO
-''OAluS IL '''u''
Tho 1,,, ,,o,or rot Ia;d H. hand IN O
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

Mrs. Edict lives at PhillipsbuFg. 1t
has always been supposed she was of
royal parentage,
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

The man who can't spit over his
necktie has no business chewing tObac-
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

The man in the prairie schooner
wanders east, wanders west, wandeTs
south and thence north, but like q lost
soul, finds no abiding place. "Out
west" has long since ceased to Ell 9;
the homestead has gone to join poor
LO and the buffalo; the work Of he
pioneer has ended; the mau in lhe
schooner is without an occupa lou.
What government lands are open for
settlement are of such quality as offers
no inducement TO the man in the
schooner, who has had the pick of he
mighty empire of the west, and has
scorned lis choicest bits. He has
carved out the wilderness homes for
the millions, but none for himself; and
now be wanders, aud will wander until
his restless spirit is Gained in death,
searching for newlands to conquer, but
searching in vain.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14
Herdinr

aAE-AAA9'
Cattle taken for the season after
MAY 1. Plenty Of range and good
water. Refer to C. E. STARTS.
1873. Ms. F. B. CUTHBERTsoN.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

Why is it that sheep are almost an
unknown quantity on the farm? Nut
ton can be produced cheaper than
either pork OF beef, and yet it sells for
more than pork and for fully as much
as beef. The wool is an incidental
profit The sheep barons of Colorado
howl for government aid, but without
it they have waxed rich. The farmers
Of America have unwisely discarded
the sheep, being led to believe that
without protection the industry is a
losing one. This is far from being
true, and every farmer should have
his flock of sheep. They would prove
money makers.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

The county normal institute will
open June Z and close July ,. The
prospectus is already being distribu-
ted by Superintendent Smith, who will
conduct the normal, being assisted by
Prof. J, S. Dawson, of Hill City, and
Profs. ". S. Coleman aud A. S. Warri
ner Of Goodland.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

A fool never gains anything by going
to college.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

All along the line east of here cream
cries are being built and operated
Isn't it about time GoOdIaBd pitched
up her boomers and took out after
one.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

The insurance commissioner Of Ohio
is making the same kind Of fight
against the insurance monopoly as is
Webb McNall in Kansas. May they
both win.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

J.B. Moore vas up from LaBlanohe
Wednesday marketing 50 bushels OF
millet seed. he still has 80 bushels
at home.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

The Abilene Reflector says that with
corn y cents in Kansas aud 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 Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

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."
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14
money makers

Speaking of the allegations of east
ern investors that pOpulist legislation
drives capital from the state, Webb
McNall says: "We do not need laws
which will have a tendency to drive
eastern capital out of the state, but
laws which will prevent our own capt.
tai from being taken away. Last year
as shown by reports on file in this Of
flee, foreign life insurance and accident
insurance companies took out of Kan
sas 100000 in premiums over aud
above what was paid back in the way
of losses"
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14
From TIE ggapsiOe.

It is curious how costly free things
are.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

The saloon that opened in Topeka a
few days ago is said to have broken a
drought of Is 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.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

Drying potatoes is a new wrinkle,
that is being successfully tried out in
California. The tubers are pared aud
dried in the same manner as apples,
and are said to keep in this manner
for an indefinite time.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

A large house newly papered for
rent.-B. I. BEoWn.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

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 narrow one"
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

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 II;
George W. G. .ck, the niulh; L, D. Lew
elling, tue eleventh, and E, N. MOrri /,
the twelfth.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

The newspaper men aud politicians
of Kansas, both much maligued, ca "a
get grain of satisfaction out of the
knowledge that among the 1000 cou-
victs ia 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. Ii
pays to know how to cover ones tracks
we'll.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-05-14

The Kansas cat that was taken by IFS
owner to an Indiana town 600 miles
away from its former home stood it
ju-t three week and then pulled out
for The ~uoioNer state, reaching lis
destination -uIy fooisOre but III
otherwise good condition and happy
Once a Kau-an always a Kau,an.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25
That Terrible Summer Girl

Inc summer girl Is not half so serious
business as platonic affair, though
her varieties excuses and fritterings
slowly bereave men of any notion of
steadfast affection and rational enjoy
ment. She fastens like a parasite on the
tender college youth and. adores his
fresh, young manliness. She leads him
a Jig in the dance of his feelings, too
wary to accept more than bonbons, and
ready to hold him in leash as brother
when he runs to sentiment. One or two
such experiences teach him in turn, as
he grows older, the art of f1irtat ious
fencing and of breaking off in the mid
die of declaration. At the end of a
season his vanity has not been hurt by
refusal and her conscience consoles her
for not having brought him to the point.
When he has re-establiShed his good
opinion of himself, he finds he has lost
his zest for lengthy marriage, thinks
less of girls and more of his mother, and
settles down as bachelor ready again
for any test of his emotions which will
not eliminate in the fixity of feeling
moralize over the harm these expe-
rienced summer girls infiict upon ideals
Of honor and loyalty if they themselves
were not so capriciously bewitching, and
from an economic point of view so much
less expensive than wives. That they
injure their sex does not disturb their
futility. Their reign is brief and they
care not that it's injuries are lasting II
they have got as much out of 1t as they
could.-North American Review.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25
Toads Valuable to Gardeners

Some time ago it seemed only an act
of justice to take issue with the agricul-
ture department, which, in it's inventory
of the value Of crows, included their
propensity to destroy toadS. No doubt
strict balance of accounts between the
good and evil that make up the crows
character and record would demon
strate that birds right to exist and per-
form its allotted functions. But din
ing off toads is not to it's credit, and so
far as it INDUCES in that luxury it is
doing society an injury. The value Of
the toads, statistically estimated, is
however, fresh informal ton, furnished in
bulletin No. 46, just issued by the Hatch
experiment station of the state college
at Amherst Mr.. Kirkland, assistant
entomologist of the gypsy moth COM
mission, has given considerable atten-
ton to the toad, and he finds that in
sects constitute II per cent of its food.
AS proof of it's healthy and useful ap-
petite he states that he found in the
stomach of a single toad fifty-fve army
worms, in another sixty five gypsy moth
worms and in a third thirty-seven tent
caterpillars. He also instances an ex-
pertinent where in three hours time q
toad had consumed between thirty and
thirty-five full grown celery worms. He
estimates from what he has observed
that in the months of May, June and
July a toad would devour 1912 ants, 220S
cutworms, 1910 myrapods,, 220S sour
bugs, 1868 weevils and 1868 carabids. OF
these 1886 are injurious insects and 1868
are beneficial insects. The carabid
beetles are themselves insect destroyers
and the toad made a mistake in modest.
ing them, but allowing for that and
transposing and uniting on the basis of
gardeners and tobacco. growers figures,
the toad is credited with saving approx
mately 500 in that time. He boards him.
self and works for nothing and he de-
serves to be cherished and protected as
carefully as the best of the birds.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25
Melon Sales in Georgia

"a man would hardly imagine tina
negroes used to crowd around the front
of that elegant church and sell water
melons on Sunday" said H. T. Powell,
the well-known banker. He referred to
Mulberry street Methodist church, one
of the finest church buildings in Macon.
But it's a fact" continued Mr.. Powell
I'm not an old MAINLAND everybody
in the crowd looked with admiration at
his tall, erect figure-"but can remem-
Der those scenes as we'll as if they were
yesterday.
"It was before the war, when all the
slave owners allowed their industrious
slaves an acre or so of land on which 20
raise watermelons or anything they
chose. The negroes were given every
Saturday afternoon to tend their patch
es, and on Sundays were allowed to hitch
mule to wagon and take their melons
and other produce around to churches,
camp meetings or elsewhere and sell
them. 1t was a very common thing to
see man stop at negroes watermelon
pile and select melon, pay for and put
it into his buggy and drive on home after
church; and, indeed, children frequent
ly dubbed in and bought melons from
the slaves and ate them during the time
between Sunday school and preaching.
"In those days masters took great in
terest in the industry and enterprise OF
their slaves, and did everything they
could to encourage them. NOBODY ever
thought of Directing to or interfering
with the negroes in their Sunday traf-
fic."-Macon Telegraph.