People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — The Samc in Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

The Samc in Rensselaer.

Goodlaml Herald. One of the deep, dark mysteries gnawing at the heart of every country community is that associated with the class of individuals who rush to the depot every time a train is due. Goodland has its full quota of this kind of freaks, and they never allow a train to pass trough town with-' out gaping at it from the depot platform. Go to Cue depot any day to take a train and you will laid there a crowd large enough to make up a respectable political rally. We have often seen these crowds fill tip the seats at the depot while the passengers stood up and inhaled the smoke from their “cabbage leaves,’’ or were forced to walk the platform until the train arrived. Year in and year out, rain or shine, these same mugs are presented to travelers through Goodland, and, after the arrival of the train the procession that starts up town looks like a fourth of July parade. Why these people go to the trains, no man can guess. They apparently never want to use a train. Every railroad station ought to be provided with a bogardus kicker that would unjoint the neck of a chronic depot loafer on sight, and give us a new background at the business end of the town.