The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-06-08
FROM THE wAYsIDE.

SiXty-tWO young women and 10 young
men we're graduated from the various
schools Of the University Of Kansas on
June 6.
There is only one thing meaner than
the person who will not apologize for a
wrong, and that is the person who viii
not accept an apology.
Perhaps the prOhibitiOnists meant
to suggest a horrible example in words
when they presented Swallow and
WOOlley as their presidential ticket.
A party Of 80 Kansas boys, students
Of the State university, will leave Law
renee this week for q trip to the Paris
exposition. They expect to make their
expenses by selling stereOscOpiC views
during the journey.
A Scranton pa court is asked to
grant the claim Of one Isaac SidebOt-
tom against the estate Of the late John
Shafer for entertaining the old man
playing checkers" during a great part
Of three years.
A bronze tablet costing 800 was
placed in the chapel Of the State uni
versity at Lawrence on Decoration day
as q memorial to Lieut.. Alfred @. Afford,
company b, Twentieth Kansas, who was
killed at CaIOOcan on February Z, 1899.
1t was purchased by the friends of
Lieut.. Afford and presented to the
University to perpetuate the memory
of the first son Of the Institution to die
on the field of battle.
Senator HOar, it seems, is an inveteT-
! ate punster. On a recent occasion he
met former colleague in the corridor
Of the capitol and as they approached
the entrance to the senate chamber
Mr.. HOar mOtiOned to his companion
to pass in first. aAfter you" said the
/ ex-senator, drawing back politely. "NO,
/ indeed" retOrted Mr.. HOar; the KS
always 60 before the wise"
Thirty-eight years ago Augustus
/ Bliss Of Warwick, Mass, quit cutting
/ brush on his fathers farm, hung his
scythe on a pine tree and went of to
enlist in the Union army for the Civil
war. He never returned, and the
scythe has never been taken down
I from the tree on which be hung it. 1t
has become imbedded In the growing
wood, and now it is fixture.
The republican writer's are a little
grOggy just now, but they will, perhaps,
do better a little better later on in the
campaign, says the st. Louis POst-Dis-
patch. The leading editorial writer of
the PittsbUrg Chronicle Telegraph has
an article on the probability of the
nomination Of a genuine democratic
presidential ticket at st. Louis. 1t
ought to be known even IN PittsbUrg
that the democratic national conven-
ton is to be held in Kansas City.
George Foster Robinson, who saved
the life Of Secretary Of State Seward,
when Lewis Payne. a member Of the
Booth gang, attempted to assassinate
him at the same time that Booth shot
Lincoln, is still living in Pomona, Cal
He was serving as q guard in the sick
chamber of Seward when Payne, who
had OverpOWered Stewards son, broke
into the room. Robinson received the
thanks Of congress and was promoted
from the rank Of private to that of
major.
The real humanitarian has appeared
with his offer Of a war device. It is a
cOncOctiOn for putting armies to sleep.
&c is to be fired in shells of any size.
The shell explOdes, but not to kill. 1t
is Of a material that viii do little dam
age with its flying pieces, but exploding
IL releases q powerful sOpOrific, which,
perfOrce, will compel the enemy to
surrender to sleep. Before he wakes
be can be handcuffed and the rest will
be detail of transportation.
The best yarn up to date of the re-
cent eclipse Of the sun comes from
GAINESVILLE, Ga. Early this morning
MAY 81 q hen belonging TO a veraeious
citizen Of GAINESVILLE arose and made
her customary daily contribution to
the larder Of the family. The hen was
UnaCquainted with eclipses and when
it began to grow dark went to rOOst.
Upon the temperance Of the sun, the
hen, refreshed by her brief rest, again
few to her nest. Then she deposited
another egg, and passed the remainder
Of the day in peace.
Bent Murdoch recently became
"sOre" at Topeka. The following para
graph shows how meanness viii break /
out: Topeka society is not so swell. /
Forty years ago, when we were carry /
ing bod In that embryo city, the dad /
dies Of some Of the SWEETEST people Of /
the present generation we're digging 4
cellars, carrying bod, hauling saW-logs, !
making brick and the like, while the /
mothers we're taking in washing, run
ming boarding houses, shooting bis
cults in taTsrns and working out. To-
peka society is all right, If it didn't put
on 50 many airs"
When the Rev. DR.. J. T. Ward was
president Of Western Maryland col
lege some Of the students stole the
mOllRsses cans from the kitchen and
poured streams Of the tEeacle down the
5anisters that led from the sky parlor
to the basement. DR.. Ward got up very
early the next morning, and as he
went down the steps he gathered a
handful Of the molasses- The faculty
sat IN solemn session, but not an inl1l-
ing could they ind as to the identity
81 the miscreants. Suddenly the
1um0r Of the thing broke upon the
doctor, and he said Gentlemen. 4 /
nay as vel confess, i had q hand IN it,
THE REPUsII0 one year one dollar