The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-19
sUNFLoWER SKINNER.

sam Wood is in the Farmers Alliance.
Who is the Alliances chaperone?
1t is advisable that the Farmers ALI
ance make thorough knowledge of poker
an item of eligibility.
Sumner county has curiosity in the
shape of jury of twelve men with not a
single Methodist among them.
Beloit has the only feminine dentist in
the state, but she is just as liable to get a
hold OF the wrong tooth as man.
1t is little singular that thetow whose
paper is alone supporting Farmer Funston
| also produces fine marble for tombstones.
The Atchison Globe thinks Senator In
gals is all right; he brought his family
back in time to be included in the census.
Farmer Funston hes till the nones of
August to be in the trying pan of Second
| district journalism. He will not come out
UNDERGONE.
! The fact that Newton original package
dealers name is Withersoon has led to an
investigation of his packages and the full
| ness thereof
Undoubtedly when Senator ingalls, next
visits Emporia he will keep his hand on
his original package pocket when he enters
| the Emporia Republican office.
| Mrs. Kendall, the actress, tells an Eng
| lish journal that she is captivated with the
American women. And Mrs. Kendall
didn't get as far as Kansas, either.
The Y. P. S. c.. Z. convention at st Louis
snubbed Kansas. 1t did not give the Sun
! flower state one appointment, and Kansas
is pretty good Y. P. S. c. E. state.
ri Hicks, the prophet who predicted a
drouth of seven years, to commence this
month, must have tainted when he heard
of that rain in Kansas Monday night.
Tuesday afternoon Charles Hood, editor
of the Wellington Monitor, mid fragrant
flowers, rustling silks and happy hearts,
was wed to one of Kentucky's.' fair" Min
ma Lea.
Eugene Ware has probably lost sight of
his congressional boom. The Potomac
anyway, might Tot awake the muse for
Mr.. Ware half so quick as the mud turtles
of the Marmaton.
Garfield county is without drug store
and has but one physician. Now the
question is, what does this physician do
when he wants to lay the blame on the
prescription clerk?
The Leavenworth metropolitan police
commissioners decided to retain Police
man Mathews on the force, in spite of the
protest of the eX-uniOn soldiers, who de-
clare that he was an inhuman confederate
guard at Andersonville.
1t is announced that the Champion has
secured for its vacant editorial chair the
services of j. L. Howe, of LAGRANGE, Mo,
who will arrive this week. 1t does seem a
little hard that the Champion had to go to
Missouri to get man to fight ingalls,.
George Martin says: J. .. Brinkerhoff is
a splendid example of a man climbing up
a ladder from the bottom rung to the top
in his chosen line of business. We have
known him all these years, and he will be
the same man as general manager of the !
Union Pacific system he was as a brake /!
man on the old Kansas Pacific.
The Kansas man on the Chicago Post |
has been talking again. This time he |
says: Thirteen years ago this month there |
stopped at the Grand Pacific hotel mar
ried couple from Kansas. With the cou- |
pie was child of whom the mother was |
so fond that she was not content until she |
had induced the proprietor, John B. Drake, |
to kiss it, d duty which the well known |
host performed with his usual thorough
ness and dispatch. Next June the same
couple returned, bringing another baby. |
and once more the host was called upon to
imprint a chaste salute upon the second
infants ruby lips, and once more he COM
piled. The next year the same event re-
CURED, and since then not a June has
passed without being marked in the same
manner, until now the family numbers
fifteen. The visit was made yesterday.
Mr. Drake, who would believe that some
thing unlucky would happen did the fam
lily fail to arrive and he be called upon to
bless another addition, had been waiting
to perform his duty. He was busily en-
gagged at the time knock was heard at
his Office door, but he answered, and in
stepped the mother with a proud smile,
in her arms the newcomer
''Have you seen my last baby, Mr.. Drake?"
she asked. NO" replied Mr.. Drake,
whose mind was wandering among tho
intricacieS of accounts. NO. | have not
seen your last child, madam, and, more
over, l never expect to-" But before the
blush had died from the mothers checks
the busy proprietor had kissed the chubby
infant held out to him, chucked it under
the chin, and sweet peace smiled again.