The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-02-26

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o, where beside, come dreams so soothing
As now from out our brows are smoothing
The lines of caTe7
Fancy in dreams her flight is Ringing,
In sweet low tones joybells seem ringing,
A psalm Of peace night winds are singing
At home, sweet home.
nj. E. j., in Century.
,Ft0m the G4apsioe.
Goodland's worst gossip is man.
Honest is a lost virtue in a poker
game,
The element Of uncertainty is the
main charm Of life.
People are starving in Louisiana and
corn is rotting in Kansas.
We must often consider not what
the wise will think, but what the fool
ish will say.
OF all ordinary things, the worst is a
stingy pie that is long on crust and
short on filing.
In so far as Kansas is a prohibition
state Leavenworth modestly shows up
only 105 saloons.
The snow storm put a temporary
check upon the marble epidemic that
was raging last week.
The only real holidays nowadays
seem to be Fourth Of July, Thsnksgiv
ing, Christmas and New Years.
A week from the coming Sunday is
the first Sunday in Lent. Easter, this
year, falls on the 18th of April.
A sign posted in a Wisconsin mill
reads: "The saws are runniDg-no use
to touch them to convince yourself"
Atchison schOolbOYs have developed
habits of getting drunk and going to
school, and there's the dickens to pay.
One reason why the world gains
knowledge so slowly, is that every
child must find out for itself that fire
is hot.
Henry Heitfeld, the new United
States senator from Idaho, was farm
hand in Nemaha county, Kansas, up
to 1882.
Benjamin Harrison is the only living
ex-president of the United States; and
Levi P. Morton the only living ex-vice-
president
The trouble with lots of preachers
is that they are too quick to hear the
"call" to preach and too slow to hear
the summons to quit.
Colby had a narrow escape from fire
last week, caused by small boys trying
to smoke broom brush. Cigarettes are
less dangerous to property.
& Cbnrr1ay, oOuuFv, F,uv,o,. eEorEo5 "a,
stock ten years ago with one COW
Since then he has sold % head of the
increase and has 26 head left.
It may interest the coursing set to
know that the Waterloo cup was won
atFormby, Eng, last Friday by Gallant
Fiye-by- Tricks was the runner ny.
K. 3. WilloocksOn Of Oakley, has sent
in his resignation as member of the
state board of charities. The governor
has not yet announced his successor.
The Atcbison Globe man, who has
probably been there, rises to remark
that promising mine will as surely
ruin man in time as promising
horse.
Seventy-five dollars is what certain
Goodlsnd boy mas invested in dime
novels the past year. II is fortunate
for the Indian that be is principally al
killed of.
If those New York preachers dom
soon let up on the bible there won't bt
enough of it left to provide a variety
of texts. Their profession will then b.
gone.
After hundreds of towns have wen
to the trouble and expense of enactinl
acurfew law the courts step in anC
declare it unlawful Courts are gettin,
cute.
A Kansas judge has decided tina
Jackpot" is good word. There may bt
some question on that point, but it il
generally conceded that it is a gooC
thing.-Ex.
Out in Colorado the use of tObace,