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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-08-11

BlOtches and exeresences which 50
often annoy people, are simply efforts
of nature to throw of impediments to
the proper performance Of her duties
Herbine viii aid and assist nature in
her work, and ensure a skin clear and
beautiful, entirely free from all impeT-
fectiOns. Price Gov. Ennis.
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TO InfantiIe Deafhs-

George, the nine-mOnth's-old boy Of
Mr. and Mrs. William Dimmitt Of Good
land, died Sunday, August 6, Of cholera
infantum- Interment took place Mon
day in the GOodland cemetery.
The 1S-month's-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs Ben Canaga Of Grant township,
died Tuesday Of cholera infantum.
Interment took place Wednesday.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-08-11

Thursday night, August 3, a good
shower fell at GoOdIand- The rain was
not as heavy in some sections Of the
county. At KanoradO the precipita-
ton vas the heaviest Of the season
fully two inches Of water fell. Nearly
al the western part Of the county
received a good soaking.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-08-11
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
. b. "a. BroWn for insurance.

See .. 4. brOWQ Tor insurance.
Top buggy for sale.-J. V. Seeley.
City property for sale.-T. P. Leonard.
Buy your coal of Wheatley at SCOTS
old stand.
See Thos. P. Leonard for all kinds of
insurance.
Go to Hargraves' for groceries, -four,
feed and b6iled hay.
H F. WheatIey keeps all kinds Of
coal at SCOTS old stand.
Read the Wizards ad this Beek-it
is Of special Importance.
Coal of the best quality and at the
lowest price at the Scott yard.
Lennox, Canon City and hard coal at
the Scott yard. b. F. Wheatley.
We write deeds and mortgages
ThOs. P. Leonard, Notary Public.
Wanted-10,OOO bushels barley; Will
pay cash market price. II. T. Wheatley.
Three John Does were fined in police
court Tuesday for a slight disturbance.
] They all paid their fines.
Billiards. Snow Liniment gives in
slant relief in cases Of bleeding, burns,
bruises, scalds, cuts, etc. Price 25c and
/ Sow. Ennis.
AdOlph Fledelius has bought the
/ frame building next to the GoOdland
City Bank. He will occupy it with his
shoe shop.
A couple Of pages Of the News were
Z printed on TIE REPUBLICS press yes
| terday. The News press suffered a bad
/ break Wednesday afternoon, which dis
/ abled the machine until repairs can be
! secured.
Where the digestion is good, and the
/ general powers Of the system in a heal
\ thy state, worms can find no habitatiOn
\ in the human body. Whites Cream
Vermifuge not only destroys every
worm, but corrects all arrangements
of the digestive organs. Price 25o.-W.
Ennis.
Five hundred large watermeIons
we're received at the depot Monday and
I we're turned over to several Of the
GOOdland stores. The melons came
from Oklahoma and retailed from .
to 40 cents each.
The Rock Island playing cards are
the slickest you ever handled. One
pack viii be sent by mail on receipt OF
ID cents IN stamps. A money order or
draft for 80 cents or same in stamps
viii secure four packs They viii be
sent by express, charges prepaid Ad-
dress John Sebastian, general Passen-
ger agent, Chicago, Rock Island & Pse-
ifie railway, Chicago
No one knows the UNDESIRABLE torture
the peculiar and agOnizing pain, caused
by piles, unless they have suffered
from them. Many believe them incur
able. This is q mistake. Proper treat
ment viii cure them. Tabler's Buckeye
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-08-11
60 Annonneement.

The Rev. Albert Watkins, archdeacon
Of western Kansas, viii hold divine
services in the Episcopal mission house
Sunday, August Is. Morning, IL o'clock;
evening, 40. Everybody welcome.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-08-11

Ihave a number Of quarter sections
Of land which viii rent free Of charge
provided cultivated land is subsOiled
and put in small grain this fall.-M
Robinson.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-08-11

If you want to sell your land write
to Thos. P. Leonard, GoOdland, Kan.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-08-11

No one knows the unbearable torture.
the peculiar and agOnizing pain, caused
By piles, unless they have suffered
from them. Many believe them incur
able. This is q mistake. Proper treat
ment viii cure them. Tabler's Buckeye
Pile Ointment IS an infallible cure.
Price SOC IN bottle; tubes T5c.-W-Enns,
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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS.
If Sincerely Made They Are Help to
Right Character. Although
Sometimes Broken.

New Years resolutions are so often
made the target for cheap jokes by
cheap critics as to create the impress
sion that such resolutions are never
kept and never ought to be made. The
criticism is un lust, its logic is false,
its effect pernicious. a recent preacher
brought out the true idea in a sermon
upon Peters pledge of devotion to his
master, even though all others should
desert Him. Simon did not yield to
temptation because of his earnest as
surance, but in spite of it. 1t had been
said that hell was paved with good res
olutions. If that was true it was GER
tainly the best thing about that place.
We must resolve before we do. Right
resolutions sincerely made are help to
right character, even if by distress of
opposing forces some of them are not
kept. Peters faith did not finally fail,
and very likely he had more faith and
more strength because he failed once
and so learned his weak point. 1t is a
good thing, then, with the thoughtful-
ness belonging to the outlook OF new
year, to desire and decide and declare
that we will live truer, nobler lives.
Making the resolve, not lightly or
boastfully, but seriously and expecting
the Divine help, we shall succeed in part
if not in full. He whom we call Mas
ter and Lord is praying for us that our
faith fail not. The man who resolved
and failed and tried again became
strong man. What he wrote to his
brethren in the first century was doubt
less an echo of his own experience, and
it will be fulfilled even 10 the TWEEN
tieth century: after we have sus
fered awhile, God will make you per-
feet, stablish, strengthen, settle you."-
CnnprepationnliSt
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bag of oats for his horse, and had
come up through the side lane and
taken the liberty to put the animal
in our barn to eat his oats, while he
himself ran in to see how we all Jared
this inclement day, etc, etc. / slid
out while he was thus discoursing and
rushed to the parlor with a very for
lorn hope of finding Il stray stick or
two left over there, making a fire
and getting him into the parlor while
we finished the dinner. The hope died
as ! poked my head into the arctic des
olation of our best room. 1t was on
the east side, where the spiteful wind
had been battering at it all night,
searching out hundred crevices
about windows and door to hurl the
fine, powdery snow through. There
were drifts, varying in size, on the pi-
ano, on the chairs, and Il dainty white
powdering all over the carpet, which
the wind had puffed in under the door.
You could fairly feel the gale whisll
ing about your ears. There wasn't
a scrap of wood nor n chip in the
wood box. Relinquishing a wild idea
VI 'lOpllIlS up al IJ'tIIOI SItilI vi TWO
to make a fire of, | scooted back to
the sitting-room chilled to the bone.
Dora, putting as bold a face upon
the situation as possible, was bringing
ir dishes from the dining-room and
setting the table right under the eyes
of the minister, who was chatting
away as serenely as if he hadn't
driven us all frantic by his ill-timed
call Aunt Laura had levied on her
cellar goodies and produced preserved
ounces, apple jelly, picked peaches
and chow-chow, so the dinner wasn't
so frightful. The only thing / was
ashamed of was the corn cakes; they
were so big and clumsy, and Dora had
crumbled the edges in turning them.
But that good man seemed to think
we had n banquet, and even the corn
cakes didn't go begging so far as he
was concerned.
We all made merry over our predic-
amcnt as we told him how it hap
pened, and he jolled about it, too. but
shook his head little. and said it
oughtn't to go on that way. He pro-
ceeded upon his errand soon after din
ner, and we went about our work with
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Breakfast was ready when we got ii
safely under cover, ard notwithstand-
ing our impending doom, we fell upon
the ham and fried potatoes and pam
cakes, and enjoyed our meal immensely.
Girls" said auntie, when the last
potato and the last crimpy brown bat
ter-cake had vanished, Il don't want
TO dampen your spirits, but there isn't
chip left, and how we're. going to
cook dinner | don't see"
"Nctt," said Dora (who was just three
months older than y, wen cook
dinner by the fireplace
Dora | said, you're gifted. That's
what we will, and imagine were our
own great-grandmothers and great
aunts-how lovely!"
''WeU, you'll have to help, miss, and /
doubt if YOU think it so lovely before
YOU get through" returned Dora.
you'll be baked beautiful brown"
We took an inventory of our stores to
see what there was we could cook by
the fireplace.
"There's a sparerib, for one thing"
announced Dora. ''We'll hang it up by
a string in front of the fire"
potatoes we can boil by hanging the
kettleon the hook and chain said Aunt
Laura.
And the sweet potatoes we can roast
in the ashes,' | added.
"And bake corn in a skillet in the hot
GOALS" finished Dora.
"Goody," said l, that's fine enough
dinner for blizzardy day like this. Of
course, nobody'n come
But somebody did come, as they usu-
ally do when you think they won't;
and who of all persons but Rev. kyrus
Melton! Dora fairly squirmed when
Aunt Laura brought him right into the
sitting-room, for, of course, she
couldn't take him anywhere else, unless
she wanted TO freeze him. SO in he
came. smiling placidly, and there was
the rib cooking in front of the fire with
d skillet set under to catch the gravy,
and there was Dora with her face like
a hollyhock, turning a great hoecake
in another skillet, and there was i
prodding in the ashes with long fork
to dig out the sweet potatoes! Not that
it mattered much about me; but some
folks We're beginning to observe that
Rev. Cyrus was trifle more attentive
to Dora than the fact of her being one
of his flock warranted, and / knew that
in her eyes he was about as near state
of perfection as a mortal man needed
to be.
He was just riding out, he eX-
planned, to see old Mrs. Hankins, who
was sick, and had been delayed lit
tie by the blizzard and been on the
road quite awhile; he had brought
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| was left small orphan, in Uncle
Johns time, and he and Aunt Laura
had not made an atom of difference
between Dora and mo in their love
and care. But now it had been so long
since / had heard from Frank |
couldn't help being afraid he had
frozen to death or been buried in
snowslide. And this dreadful rainy
day l couldn't even have the satisfac-
ton of going or sending to town for
the mail, if there should possibly be
any news.
Dora and / had an unwritten law
that the more downcast we felt the
jollier we should force ourselves to be.
To-day | think we degenerated into
Stiffness in our efforts to be cheer
full. But a lot of smaller troubles
followed each other so persistently-
such as the refusal of the cook stove
to draw, the falling of the light bread
in consequence, "a slip in the mud on
Dora's part, etc, etc.-that when, to
cap the climax that evening, our be-
loved fireplace smoked sulllily and re-
lentlessly, we felt that we might as
well wind up the year by going to bed
at eight o'clock.
When we We're all snugglcd down
and the lights We're out | could have
cried just ont of low spirits, but /
wouldn't. | knew God could see far
ther ahead than we could, and / put
everything into His hands and went
to sleep.
! slept so soundly that | was greet
ed the next morning by savory,
sagey scent of frying sausages com
ing up the little back stairs before |
fairly got back from the slumber
world. Dora was down in the kitchen
singing Lightly Row" over the bis
cults, and looking as fresh as peach
with her rosy cheeks and clear gra
eyes. And the stove was drawins,
beautifully And Aunt Laura came
down without speck of neuralgia
and feeling as spry as a girl, to finish
breakfast, while Dora and went forth
to do the milking. And behold! the
sopping rain had turned into a love-
iy, soft snow in the night not a bliz-
zardy snow like the one before le
rain, that blew in everywhere, but a
gentle, fine, thick powder. 1t lad
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what spirits we might. 1t wasn't more
than two hours after he left that
Uncle Jink, a dilapidated old colored
man, appeared with "A yoke of steers
which he left in the lane while he
| came plodding through the snow to
| the house.
"Heerd y'alI was out o wood" he
grinncd. so | lowed I'd come an
snake up few logs m split fer de
/ f'place N whack up some fer de
cook n stove"
ITS very kind of you, indeed" said
Aunt Laura, for we are in great need
of wood-only I'm afraid l can't pay
YOU for it to-day, Uncle"
"Dass all right-dass all right" in
terrupted Uncle Jink; don't y'all
boddah bout dat-dass all right" and
he scuifed away, leaving us a little
mystified, for it was not quite like
Uncle Jink to be so Indifferent about
compensation for his good deeds.
"Of course Mr.. Melton went and told
him to come. and either paid him or
agreed to if we didn't" eXpounded
Dora, and looked as if she were ready
to fall in a heap.
1T was very good of him if he did,"
said Aunt Laura.
"Good-yes; but who wants to be an
object of charity" groaned Dora, ''es-
pecially--"
"Oh well. I don't suppose he'll
preach about it next Sunday" | said,
consolingly; but Dora wouldn't cheer
up very much. Still, it was very com
Portable to have plenty of wood, and
| felt grateful to the good man for
instigating Uncle Jink to come to our
assistance.
OF all the 3G5 days of that year the
three hundred and siXty-tffth was the
most dismal at Maple Knoll. 1t opened
with drizzling, soaking rain. much
more depressing than the blizzard
from which it evolutcd: the kind that
dampens your spirits in spite of all
the philosophy you can bring to bear
against it. The sky was Il dismal gray
waste without a slit of light. Aunt
Laura had raclting neuralgia in her
face. Dora had been dreaming about
charity and wood all night. AS for
me, | had a little trouble of my own
which popped up just now more ag-
gressively than ever. i never had but
one lover U never wanted but one),
and he was poor young man who
had gone to the frozen Alaskan re-
gions with the avowed intention of
making his fortune and coming back
to share it with me, rebuild the old
house into a stately mansion and take
care of Aunt Laura and Dora, which
was quite proper; for, you see, [ had
been gathered into the family when
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the very morning after you had told Marie,
her dearest friend that we were to be mar
rled in a month";
'Humph, that girl would cry about any
thing; I've known her to cry when the vii
lain in the play was killed-as if villain
could expect anything else in the last act.
But as soon as | saw Dick that morning |
knew that he knew it. Why, his neclltie
had slipped around under one ear and his
voice, as he wished Inc happy New Year,
was sad that | felt guilty, though my
conscience told me that | had not encour-
aged him"
You've forgotten how you used to praise
the shape of his head"
AS If that meant anything! a girl only
praises the shape of mans head when
she cannot find anything else to fatter him
about. lit means no more than it does
when she tells small man that he re-
sembles Napoleon. But when | remem
bered that you had once gone down on tha
floor i'll your new trousers to pick up Dora'i
handkerchief | knew that [ had been cruelty
deceived SO when you reproached me
about Dick, /"
Il remember how badly felt when she
replied to my New Years greeting with tha
remark that happiness for her was over for
ever. And before | could comfort her Mis-
Marie came in and | could only go sadl
away without telling her that | should
ways be brother to her"
And poor Dick, | asked him if ther
was anything l could do for him; he r.
piled: Yes, but just then the maid cam
in with a note for him, and he said he mus
go at once-I think he wished to be alon,
with his sorrow. Then you came in, and,
instead of sharing my pity for him, you
accused me of flirting with him!"
"I-er-don't remember that. But wasn't
it odd that before | left you forever Miss
Marie should come in and tell us that Dora
and Dick were engaged! I've often won
dered how it happened that they decided
to console each other"
And so have |. Why, here is Marie no
perhaps she can explain. Sit down, Mari,
do. Tom and l are just going over old
times. Do you remember last New Year
day. and"
Indeed | do. I've just been to see Don
and she was talking about it. She and
Dick quarrelcd last New Years Eve about
the date of their marriage, and almost
parted forever They think you both must
have guessed it. | remember that Tor
was in the parlor with Dora when | RAJ
in on New Years morning to tell her OF
your engagement. She had been on the
point of asking him to help her to make W
with Dick. And when she told me about it
wrote him a note telling him that | be
lieved she would forgive him if he came
once. That note found him at your house
Irene, where he had gone to ask your
as peacemaker. Odd. wasn't it?"
ELISA ARMSTRONt
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+ WERE always
getting ut o f
wood at Maple
Knoll.
1t was the big
fireplace in the
sitting-room that
ate up all the fuel
we could get. l
never saw such an
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21

tura non saltat nature never made a
break OF pause. 1t shows no chasms any
where in its majestic course.
Man, though, for his convenience or pleas.
ure, or profit, establishes times and sea-
sons. Thus he says the first day of Jan
uary shall be termed the beginning of a
New Year, The Romans, with an acute
poetic sense that pervaded all their
work, elected TO have the dawn of the year
show in March-the first spring month,
when nature kisses new life into everything
and robes the earth in garments of many
colors.
Man must have his pauses and starting
points. 1t Is not so much a question of
sentiment as Of necessity that dates and
seasons be fixed. The success of business
life depends upon it, and a nation with
out chronology is people without his
tory. Each year must hold its own events,
nor may one trench upon the other.
Leaving this line of suggestion, one is
led to the thought that these year posts of
mans time offer opportunity for reflection
upon what has been and what may be. Each
New Year day tells not only of the new
birth, but also of the year that is sepul-
tured. Here are presented in brave con.
trast life and death. As the old passes out.
the new comes in. So with man and all
other animate things. "The king is dead;
live the king"
So one lesson after another may be
learned, if one be but willing pupil. What
the memories of the just dead year? What
the sins, the errors, the foilies? What
the good one did, and what progress in the
knowledge that is lasting? An! the year is
gone, gone to one and all of US; but the
impression remains. These years one by one
are character builders, each adding to the
other until the mortal changes to the i'm
mortal
Looking backward, what is the reckon
ing? Whatever most of good, or of i'll, the
New Year is at hand. Let the accounting
be just, that one may be ADLER to meet
justly and rghteously the things that are
before. One should recall the errors of
the past, not that he may mourn over them
but that he may gain strength for future
struggles.
Oneneed not give the whole of New Years
day to the forming of good resolutions Alas!
there be many who do vow overmuch at
such times. The hallway of the New Year,
like that of hell, is paved with good inten-
tions. One may resolve and resolve again,
and swear Justify in confirmation of such
purpose; yet all unavaiingly, because of the
frailty of his being He acts the better part
who reflects and is not rash in promises.
Not the same to all is the history of the
past year; and not two shall find the New
ear the same in experience. But each
year is for all, and has in abundance riches
of good for every one. The year just closed
was lavish in gifts; the new offers plenty as
great 1t is but TO look for i. feariessly and
the searcher will be rewarded
The old was and is not. The new is here
with its portents. A warm heart for the
year just dead, and glad hand for the one
that is newly born.
WILLIAM ROSSER COBBE.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
Unsuitable monster.

Unsuitable monster. Yet we couldn't,
make up our minds to close it up and
put up a stove instead, because of its
radiant cheerfulness. How jolly it was,
just when the first touch of a winters
twilight stole on, to pile fresh hickory
logs on the old andirons and watch thei
flames dash up the chimney's throat
and light the whole room with a mellow
crimson flame.
But the wood! OF course, we three
women couldn't very well go out and
chop and haul it, and our funds did
not always warrant hiring large quanti-
ties laid in, besides which the neigh
boring help we could get was not very
dependable OH at all times.
Maple Knoll was a lovely place, but
didn't bring in much revenue, worked,
as we were obliged to have it done, by
any Tom, Dick or Harry we could pick
up; and the old house was picturesque
but lealy as a sieve. Still, we man
aged very well about everything else,
but for fuel we were obliged to depend
on getting a load hauled now and then
when some neighbor had the time and
inclination to undertake it.
December though it was, we had had
streak of regular Indian-summery
weather--a mild atmosphere inter
woven with a soft smollness. Our stove
wood had run out, and the neighbors
had all been too busy hauling cordwood
to attend to our needs. Our chip yard
was in good condition, however, and
we had been levying on it for cooking
purposes, using what little wood we
had for the fireplace, as we didn't need
much, and had gone jogging along in
an easy, grasshoppery way, as if the
pleasant weather We're going to last all
winter.
We woke up the morning of December
30 to find the world nearly lost in a
most beautiful blizzard of whirling
snow. Not only was the outward world
white desolation, but there were lit
tie drifts all over the inside of the
house.
Dora" | shouted, bouncing out of
bed and landing with one foot in a
snow bank, "how many chips did we
bring in last night?"
with" Dora answered, with the calm
ness of despair, as she shoolr little puff
of snow out of her shoe. | hoped out
of my drift and rushed to the window.
meantime, let's go down and make
a fire and get good warm-up if we
do perish afterward"
'We'd better save the sitting-room
wood until after breakfast" counseled
Dora, "and just have a fire in the cook
stove till then, and eat in the kitchen"
Sure" said |, "that'll be a lark
In spite of the dismal outlook we had
a cheerful fire and a cozy kitchen when
Aunt Laura came down, and then while
she began to prepare breakfast Dora
and / did ourselves up like Laplanders
aba plunged out into the blizzard to
fec and milk the cows, after which we
braI~d the winters blast long enough
to Transport my treasure stump to the
house, which we did partly by logging
and partly by rolling it over AID over.