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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
The Feminine Observer.


We always criticise; others find fault.
How can there be time for every.
thing when so much of it is wasted?
1t is wonderful how few persons have
serUples about stealing photographs.
We are always satisfied with so much
less in ourselves than in anyone else.
Hickey and rickety are synonymous
Judging by the effect Of this insidious
drink
Many a man has paid more to have q
fan mended than the fan originally
cost
A woman's way is to get the best of
an argument, and then cry as though
her heart would break because she has
done so.
The bicycle girl thinks love an end
less chain of delight, while the golf girl
talks only of the way it links two souls
in unison.
There is one great joy about not
owning any jewelry. You do not have
to lie awake nights fearing the bur-
glars will get in and steal it.-Phila-
delphia Times
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10

the senate is the treaty-ratifying body,
whereas, all bills making apprOpri-
atoms must originate in the house.
What could the honorable gentlemen
do? Vote the appropriation, Of course,
In .deferance the sentiment Of the CO.
ordinate branch Of the government,
or cripple and embarrass the admins
tratiOn in the aIl-importsnt matter Of
the treaty concluding the war. The
most any On-cOnCurring member Of
the minority could do was to decline
to vote. That Mr.. Botkin did so de-
cline TO vote, if he was present, is q
proof that be had scTuples at the
time as to the terms of the treaty.
Neither Of the two can be reasonably
blamed for their vote, and their sub
sequent opposition to the policy Of
the administration is in no wise in
consistent Payment of Spain is one
thing, treatment Of the Filipinos is
another. Judge BOtkin's assault is
plastered with the usual gush and slush
Of republican TRADES against honest
men who differ with them on the Phil
ippine question. The favorite epithets
are cOpperhesd, traitor, etc. The peO-
pie have not forgotten the Judge Bot
kin legislative investigation; that he
was arraigned for drunkenness and
Judicial wrong doing on the bench;
that he was mixed up in the Stephens
cOunty-seat war, and that the suspicion
existed that he was criminaIly cogniz-
ant Of the plot to assasinate Sam Wood.
He is own cousin to Hon. J. D. Botkin,
but is Of different political faith, and a
man Of decidedly different moral quail
tiles. Thee. Botkin's career has been
notorious; his cousins, honorable.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
ONE DAY.

Oh, heart Of mine, through all these perfect
days,
Whistler Of white Decsmbers OF green Mays,
There runs q dark thought like a creeping
snake,
Or like black thread, which By some mistake
Life has strung the pearls Of happy years:
A thought which borders all my joy With tears.
Some day, some day, OF you, or alone,
Must look upon the scenes We two have known.
Must tread the self-same paths We two have
trOd,
And CRY IN vain to one who is with God,
To lean dowu from the Silent Realms and say,
Il love you In the old fam liar way.
Some day-and each day, beautous though it be
Brings closer that dread hour for you OF me,
Fleet-fOOted Joy who hurries time along,
Is yet a secret foe who does Us wrong.
Speeding Us gaily, though he well doth know
OF yonder pathway where but one may 80.
Ay, one viii go. To go is sweet, wis
Yet God must needs invent some special bliss
To make His Paradise seem very dear
To one who goes and leaves the other here.
To sever souls so bound b. love and time,
For any one but God. would be a crime.
Yet Death viii entertain his own, think.
To one who stays, life gives the gall to drink.
To one who stays, or Be it you or me,
There waits the Garden Of Gethsemane.
o dark, inevitable and awful day,
When one Of rs must 50 and one must stay!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, In the Pail Mall Ma
eazfne.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
THE OLD SOLDIER AND COMMISSIONERS
EVANS

The National Tribune has half a col
umn editorial on Pension Commits
sioner Evans and the G. Ar. 1t ap-
pears that the national encampment
at Philadelphia passed resolutions
cOndemning the pension commissioner
for his arbitrary and severe rulings, in
fact, gave him a scathing.
Evans, in an interview, said that this
action was not the sentiment Of a ma
jOrity but of few individuals, pension
attorneys and a few others, but that
the majority of the @. a. r. approved
Of his administration Of the depart
ment. The Tribune takes Issue with
him and declares that the action taken
represented the majority sentiment.
and that the resolutions condemning
him were unanimously adopted. In
other words, the editor gives him the
lie.
1t Is a well-known fact, to those who
have been cOnversant with the matter.
that the old soldiers were opposed to
his appointment, and they have not
ceased to protest against his being re-
tanned in that Office. But Mr.. McKin-
ley has persistently turned the deaf
ear to their entreaties and has stub
0ornly refused to replace him with an
other man more acceptable to the G
A. r. organization.
The reason, Of course, that their re-
quest has been denied is that the mon
led interests Of the country demanded
his appointment with q view Of re-
trenchment in that department, and
all the appeals Of the old men who
served their country in its hour of
peril go for naUght when money inter
ests makes q demand on Mr.. Mckinley.
He is q veteran Of the war himself, but
first, last and all the time he is the
president Of the money power. The
old men tOttering on the verge Of the
grave may resolve in national encamp-
ment all they please, it viii do them no
good.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10

"calI" to speak, and like a Methodist
minister, I have responded.
a few of US. got together in my Of
fee at Springfield yesterday and elect
ed ourselves sympathetic visitors to
this convention. We have no repubi-
can party in Springfield. I foresee per-
turbations that will tax the wisest Of
men to keep American citizens from
enduring their hands in the blood of
Of their brothers.
'Then he drew a picture Of slavery,
and delivered the most terrible inyec-
tive upon that institution L ever heard.
I remember he said at the close: Come
what will, you may count on Abraham
Lincoln to the bitter end
81 do not pretend to remember more.
When the speech was finished found
myself standing on the top of the table
shouting and yelling like one possessed.
I had no notes. Ny fellow-reporters
were in the same fix. The speech was
not reported and never can be. There
were but two shorthand reporters in
Illinois at that time. I went back 20
Chicago and hired one Of them for the
Tribune. He was Bob Hit, since bet
ter known as the Hon. Robert Hit,
congressman from Illinois, and long
chairman of the committee on foreign
affairs"
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
A PoBu1ar rradltion a. to Mules.

The popular tradition that no mule
ever died a natural death is based
largely on fact. Mules are drowned;
they fall from bridges, they are ex-
ploded By dynamite, and they die in
battle as did the gallant creatures at
Matanzas, but they seldom expire
peacefully in lots or in their own stab
les surrounded by home comforts Of
fodder and a straw bed. In Arkansas
it is the common belief that when
mules have done their appointed work
they dry up and blow away.-Ssvsn-
nah Press.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
Committing a Double Folly.

Combination Of capital are the out
groWths Of the protective tariff, &C
cOrding to Mark Hanna He is the
first republican Of his kind to acknowI-
edge that the tariff is the parent Of the
trusts. Many more progressive and
broader minded republicans have re-
cOgnized that the trusts gain an i'm
mense benefit benefit from the tariff
and they have declared themselves in
favor Of abOlishing tariffs whenever
they protect trusts. But Mr. Hanna is
the only man in the country who has
the temerity to commit the double folly
Of defending trusts because they are
the creation Of the tariff and Of prais-
ing protection because it has built up
the trUsts.-Ksnsas City Star.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10

Sir Alfred Miner, British high CON-
missioner for South Africa, four days
before the BOer uItimatum, said to
James MeltenO, member of the Cape
legislature and leader of the Dutch
majority in the assembly: 81 am de-
termined to break the dominion of
Afrikanderdom in South Africa.
Here is the secret Of the whole matter
laid bare regarding the British-Boer
war. 1t was a wantOn, deliberate and
meditated war against a small free
republic to seize the country because
Of the rich gold and diamond mines
found there. The old story of empire
against humanity, greed against justice,
and the dollar against the man is being
rendered in smoke and blood upon the
stage Of action in South Africa.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10

its payment has been anticipated BY
debts contracted to be paid after pen
sion day. at all events it is quickly
in the hands Of the doctor, the drug
zist, the grocer, the dry goods meF-
chant, the butcher, the baker, the
house owner.
The whole town at once gets imme-
date and direct benefit from every dol
lar which passes from hand to hand
after it leaves the pensioners and
within a short time every dollar may
pay 800 Of Indebtedness. The doctor,
the druggist, the butcher, the grocer,
the baker, the HORSEPOWER pay one
another with it, and finally the meT-
chant gathers up all the dollars paid
the pensioners in his neighbOrhOOd,
and sends them to New York to pay
his bills, and from there they are start
ed out again to move the crops.
The money mganates complain Of
this and are to a man against the pol
icy Of liberal pensions to the old sold
isrs, and grOwl about the immense sum
paid out annually In pensions. The
principal reason is, that these quarter
" pension payments partially thwsrt
their efforts to control the money vol
ume and thereby fix the price Of all
farm products. Garfield said that any
power that could control the amount
Of money in circulation was master Of
all industry and commerce.
The official estimate, for October /,
made the circulation per capita s25.45.
at least half Of this is stagnant in
banks and other places Of permanent
deposit where it is Of only negative
benefit. OF the remaining SO OF s13
per capita, the pension payments keep
81 or one-sixth of the whole, in con-
slant, healthful circulation. 1t is this
constant, regular circulation which
has helped beyond description TO make
the present prosperity solid and stable
and prevent any Interference with it by
intrigaers and architects Of Black
Fridays.
The official estimate of the amount
of money sin circulation" in the hands
of the people, October 1, 1899, was ST.
94S, 7O3,1 86.
Therefore, nearly one-third Of the
entire money stock of the country is
now lying idle and unprOductive in the
treasury, at a time when there is the
most urgent need of money with which
to move the abundant crops of the in
terror At a time when the largest
harvest that this country has ever
seen calls loudly for an unusual am
cunt Of money to carry it to market,
nearly one dollar out of every three Of
our whole stock of money is lying in
ert, unavailable, and, for the purposes
of the hour, practically worthless, in
the strong boxes of the government.
IF we add to this the great reserves
which the law compels the banks to
hold, and the thousand other ways in
which money is kept in cold storage,
so to speak, we are astOnished at the
smallness of the remainder upon which
must be done the enormous business
Of this fall and winter.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
JUDGE BoTKIVs ROORRACK

Judge TheO. BOtkin, Of Hutchinson,
came out IN windy article in the
Topeka Capital this week, roasting
the two Jerrys- Simpson and
Jerry BOtkin-because Of their votes
IN the house Of representatives on the
appropriation OF 100000 to pay to
Spain according to the terms Of the
treaty Of Paris. Jerry Simpson voted
AYE" but Jerry Botkin was recorded
as mot voting" on the passage Of the
Dill making the appropriation Now
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10

The battleship Kesrsarge on her Off
cial speed trial over the Cape Ann
course September . averaged 1854
knots an hour. On the outward run of
90 knots she averaged 1872 knots, with
smooth sea and wind abeam. On the
return she averaged 1857 knots against
a head wind. The contract require
ment was Is knots. 1t is to the credit
Of the Kearssrge that her relative
speed, with 500 less horse power, and
$50 tons greater displacement, was ap-
prOximately equal to that Of the Iowa,
although the latter on her trial made
HOP for an average.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10

Wireless telegraphy is likely to be
the subject of litigation. Prof. Amos
E. DOIbear, Of Tufts college, declares
that he is the discOverer of wireless
telegraphy and he proposes taking
steps to prevent MarcOni from infring-
ing on his rights. Prof. DOlbear is
prepared to show that he holds and
controls the United States patent on
the whole art of wireless telegraphy
and wireless telephony. His patent
was granted in 1876. According to
Prof. DoIbear's statement he was send
ing messages for a distance of a mile
and a half without the use of a wire
when Marconi was only eight years old.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
Rlche.t Farmer In the world.

David Rankin, of TarkiO, No, who is
said to be the richest farmer in the
world, made his beginning with no
other capital than a horse. This he
sold for So, invested the money in
calves, and bought an SO-acre farm. He
is now, at the age Of "a, tall, athletic
and rawboned, with gray hair and beard
and keen blue eyes. He owns 1900
acres Of land, worth from $50 to 800
an acre.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
AN AEGLo-AHERIcAH AGREEHEBT.


According to the New York World
although there is no Anglo-American
treaty, yet there is an aRreemement
amounting to the force Of a common
law marriage, minus ceremony and GER
tiicate, to stand by England. The de-
partment Of state has leaked little.
This government will stand by Great
Britain to prevent any Intervention Of
European powers in the war with the
Transvaal republic, this in return for
a similar service rendered by England
in the Spanish war.
This is not all The United States
will demand athe open door" to our
trade in China, and, If necessary, take
part in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of China,
even to the grabbing of territory, coal
ing station, etc. These things taken
in connection with our Philippine pol
icy shows how fast we are drifting in
the direction of Imperialism. These
things cannot be whistled down the
wind by calling those who oppose the
policy of Mr.. Mckinley traitors and
cOpperheads. England stood by US in
a just war, it is admitted. But shall
we uphold her in an unjust one as a
recOmpense? We are already caught
in the meshes of the net Of European
complications, the very thing that all
former presidents have steered clear
of and Washington, Jefferson and
Monroe opposed.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
MONEY TO MOVE THF

y
of the United States treas n
terview said: There is Of
more subsidiary coin to :"
Every one knows this, anC Y
department should supp d
by coming silver. In L. "
the secretary of the treas1 d
the increase Of national .aoe =
ton to facilitate the mo ;.
According to the late >
ports there was piled up )
ury, in monies Of all kind. %
and an effort has been meut E.
duce this enormous surplus. Among
the measures attempted to relieve
this plethora, and afford relief to the
business situation, was anticipating
the payment of the January interest
to the bOndholders, which would put
some 81, OOO, 600 into the hands of Wall
street But bOndhOlders, with their
customary insistence upon the last
penny, refused to make any reduction
for having their interest sooner, and
the scheme fell through.
The grave situation sharply accentu-
ates the immense usefulness Of pen
sion payments In promoting the pros
Perity Of the country. It is not merely
that they diminish the congestion in
the treasury by periodical returns to
the people Of their money, but that
they make an eveness of distribution
over the whole country, and a whole
some impetus to circulation, such as
characterizes no other form of govern
ment expenditures.
For example, if the bondhOIders had
been paid the S27, 100000 it would not
have brought anything like the relief
to the business situation that the same
amount paid in pensions would have
done.
The receivers would have generally
locked it up in their vaults, and waited
for opportunities to lend it to advan-
tage. 1t would have been weeks, DOS
sIbly months, before a large portion Of
1t would have gotten away from them.
Much would have been actually hoard
ed, and not thrown into circulation
until misfortune, sickness or death
called for it. When it came out it
would have done so in the neiQhbor-
hood Of the cOngested money centers
where its effect would be merIy like
that Of adding water to the ocean.
Contrast this with the amount of
s35,OO0,0OO paid out every three months
for pensions. This goes at once to
96T,213 different men and women, scat
tered over the whole country, in tens
Of thousands Of different places. There
are very few Of the 1900 towns, cities.
villages, hsmlets and other places
named in the United States postal
guide, which do not receive a share of
this Each man or woman gets from
SIS TO SIG, the average being $50.
Not for q week is this money hoard
ed. Not for a day is there doubt or
debate what to do with it. Probably
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10

When Thomas 7. Crittenden was
governor Of Missouri he achieved a
wide reputation for the persistency
and success with which he pursued the
members of the notorious James gang
to their ruin. Since the dispersion Of
these highwaymen the state of the
"Big Muddy" has been free from this
form of crime. Crittenden, after hav-
ing served as consul general in Next
co, has settled down to the practice Of
law. During his term as chief execu-
tive of his state he had a cOlored hos
tier who was much in awe Of his en-
plOyer. The man was apologize over
trifies, but when the governors favor
tie horse died one night the case seem
ed to be beyond the mans power Of
palliatiOn. He wandered about the
stable yard for a long time, lost in
thought. Then going to Crittenden's
presence he said: "Guv'nor, that yere
black horse, Pluto, amt a gOin' to live
berry long" "What makes you say
that, Benz" asked the governor, in sur
prise. "Case he am dead. "-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10

Infant mortality is something fright
full Nearly One-quarter die before they
reach one year, One-third before they
are I've, and One-half before they are Is.
The timely use Of Whites Cream Yer
mifuge would save q majority OF these
precious lives Price 25o--W. Ennis.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
a Good Idea.

A new experiment in paternalism Is
the opening Of three free employment
Offices in Chicago, in accordance with
the provisions Of a law enacted by the
last legislature of Illinois. Under the
new law the state undertakes to find
places for the unemployed through the
agency Of public Offices, where those
seeking employment may register their
applications, together with speeifica-
tiOns regarding the character of work
they are qualified to perform, and
where employers Of labor also file in
formation regarding vacancies and the
kind Of help they went. The entire ex-
pense Of maintaining these agencies is
borne by the state.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10
personally Conducted EEcursiOBs

To all points east via Great Rock
Island Route. Leave GOodland every
Saturday Pullman Tourist Car rates
$3.50 to Chicago, g to Buffalo and $50
to Boston. Reserve your accOmmOda-
tiOns early. Get full particulars OF
agent, or write E W. Thompson, assist
ant general passenger and ticket agent,
Topeka, Kan
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10

Abraham LincOIn's UnrepOrted Speech.
Joseph Medill, late editor of the Chi
cagO Tribune, was one Of the Illinois
men who were greatly responsible for
the nomination of Abraham Lincoln
for president. In fact, it was Mr.. Medill
who really organized the "bOOm" for
Lincoln. He had, of course, many rem
iniseences Of the great president, and
not the least interesting Of these was
that of the first eloquent speech that
Lincoln made. It is told in this way
by a contributor to the Saturday Even
ing Post:
In May, 1856, the first republican
state convention was held at Bloom
ington, Ill, and Mr.. MediII was there
as a reporter and delegate. Mr.. Lin
coin came also, and by chance deliver
ed what Mr.. Medi1 termed "the most
eloquent speech Of his life"
"After a full ticket had been nomi-
mated, said Mr.. MediIl. "there came
season Of speeeh-making. Among the
speakers was ". @. Lovejoy, and when
he finished a cry went up for Lincoln
The convention was held in a church
and Lincoln sat in the back part Of the
meeting-plsce. He got up as his name
was called, and came forward with a
girane-lope-he never walked straight
like other men-and stood in front Of
the pulpit. After he had spoken 3 few
sentences the delegates shouted to him
to get into the pulpit. He did so, and
there finished his speech.
at is the regret of my life that this
speech Of Lincoln's was not preserved.
It was easily his greatest, and very like
" it was the first Of the series Of events
which made him president I have
often tried to reproduce it from men,
ory. Once, at the request Of the late
Thorndyke Rice, Of the North Ameri-
can Review, attempted to reduce my
reeoIlectiOns to paper, but failed I
had TO give it up. viii tell you how
the speech came to be lost. Lincoln,
after he had mounted the pulpit, be-
gan something like this:
E" Gentlemen Of the convention: L
I am not here as a delegate; have no
credentials, and might be called an in
terlopsr. But you have given me q
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-11-10

We are showing the correct styles
and making the prices. OF this there
viii be no question in your mind when
you look. Q. N. MILLIsACK.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-11-03

SHOES -PEOPLE-All sorts of
shoes for all sorts of people except
bad shoes for foolish people and
freak shoes for fadish people. Peo-
pie of moderate means require good
honest shoes, and people OF wealth
as a rule want dollars worth for
every dollar expended. | sell shoes
on business principles, buy intelli-
gently, exact only moderate pro-
fit, give quick service, good goods
and moderate prices, When in
need Of shoes and hose come to see
me.
1929 A. S. DELAMAR.
2l0 n. Broad Street.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-11-03

Our little boy was afflicted with
rheumatism in his knee; and at
times unable to put his foot on the
floor We tried in vain, everything
we could hear of that we thought
would help him, We almost gave
up In despair when some one ad-
yUsed us to try Chamberlain's Pain
Balm We did so, and the first bot
tie gave so much relief that we got
a second one, and TO our surprise, Il
cured him sound and WE'LL T.
BAYS Pastor Christian Church, Ne
odesha, Kan, For sale by Smith
Drug Co.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-11-03

Cotton futures closed yesterday
for January deliveries at 722 and
opened this morning one point high
er and climbed up to 727 by II
o'clock and huctuated by losing a
point, and then regaining. Seveal
Texarkana men closed out their
holdings at a total profit of $4,000.
Since the above, the market took an
upward tendency closing 10 points
higher. We heard a gentleman
say that Ben Foreman got his wal
let strings gathered around sSme
So, 600, today