The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-02-12

And tEle hearts perish IL the tina
We bisteFlisst need EN-.
But never sit We down and say
There's nothing left but sorrow,
We walk the wilderness today,
The promised land tomorrow.
The birds of song are silent nov,
There are no flowers blooming,
Yet life is In the frozen bOugh,
and freedoms spring is coming
and freedoms tides comes up slowly,
Though We may strand in sorrow,
And our good bark, aground to-day,
Shall float again tomorrow.
Gerald Massey.
.Grom the aeaagsioe.
The trouble with this world is that
we build from the past and not on the
future.
A preacher may best the devil at the
altar rail, but the devil more than gets
even in the choir.
The curfew that GoodlaGd needs is
one that will get the people out of bed
and breakfast started before nine or
ten o'clock,
COnressman Blue, the spectacular,
dress parade colonel, busted himself
one day last week in having a widows
pension cut down.
An epidemic of scandalous actions is
reported to have broken out at Smith
Centre, Kensington and Phillipsburg.
Goodland will quarantine.
A GOodland woman who has invOlun-
tairly acquired mediumistic powers
wants to get rid of them. She thinks
this world furnishes enough trouble
without borrowing from the next.
The Phiilipsburg man who has mas
tered the BARRIERS trade has now taken
an apprenticeship at dentistry. His
bloodthirsty cravings will probably
next lead him to the slaughter house.
A Colorado Springs highWayman
tried to hold up a Goodland man the
other night, and now the Goodland
man is wearing a neR gold watch and
has a frst-class six-shooter to sell. It
pays to be honest.
A Clay Center farmer has raised an
interesting question and one that may
be heard from hereafter. He says that
a farmers crop is his income. If, there
fore, it is unconstitutional to tax in
comes, it is demonstrations to tax the
farmers crop.
To make hens lay, whether they want
to or not, see that they are comfortably
housed, and fed corn at night, wheat
bran, with little salt in it, moistened,
at night, or whole wheat, OF soaked oats
instead of Bran, and all the green stuff
they can get. Hens treated thus will
lay, for they just can't help it.
Topeka is the largest discussing
agency for pension money in the United
States, the amount paid out through
the agency the last quarterly disburse-
ment being s3,875,OOO. Philadelphia is
the next largest with a pay roll of ST.
975,0O0. Topeka, however, is soon to
lose the agency, it being ordered re-
moved to St. Louis September 1.
The Kneipp cure stories have revived
RECOLLECTION of an old pioneer who went
to his last sleep mora than a decade
ago. It is said Of him that his remedy
for cold feet-a remedy he did not hest
tate to apply to himself or recommend
to his friends-was to take off his shoes
and stockings and walk ia the snow.
At a recent meeting of German
agFarians Bismarck is reported to have
said "Husbandry is the first born
but it is not the most favored trade,
because farmers cannot live in the
towns, and consequently they have
not much influence in making the
laws. We must stand shoulder to
shoulder against the drones who
govern us and produce nothing but
laws"
Valentines of all descriptions are or
the market. Buy your wife the incest
one you can flud and send it to bel
through the mail. She will appreciate
it and it won't cost you much. 1t viii
remind her Of the days when you were
more attentive to her than your arr
now and of the other tender missivel
sent by you in days agone through
Cupid's msil-the days before sht
made the mistake of her life and mar
ried you or any other man.
Some men seem to have a mania fol
attending public sales and buying VI
old machinery and plug horses because
they Sgo cheap" As q rule these thing
belong to the dearest and most expen
sive class Of property that a man-eyei
cheap man-can buy or own. Tel
dollars may seem a low price to pay TO
3 dilapidatsd horse; while the same sun
may seem a large priCe to pay for
thrifty calf, yet exactly the reverse ma,
be true; for while the thrifty calf is
sourcs Of constant satisfaction and il
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