The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-26
sUNFLoWER SIMMER.

July 4.
Farmer J. r. Burton, of Abilene, is re
ported to have said that his wheat has
tassled out.
Very probably there is too much politics
in the Haskell institute, and too much
Massachusetts, besides.
Harrison Kelley may 60 back to congress
but he will not write any more prohibition
speeches on the back of petitions.
Kansas is ever hopeful. Step up to q
Kansan and remark the depressing heat
and he will tell you that it is splendid corn
weather.
Facetious policeman Ito sick prohibi
tionist): Come along there, my original
PACKAGE" Sick prohibitionist: who's
or'sh'nal pashage:' g long; I'm flowing
bowl"
Dan Anthony thinks it is little hard
to consort with Democrats. Such an ex-
preston as this shows best in what weak
condition the Republicanism of the editor
of the Times is in.
An Atchison judge has decided that a
bottle taken from case is not an original
package. According to such logic case
taken from the car it is shipped in is not
an original package So on, adj infinitum.
Leavenworth politicians threatens to
roast G. w. Click should he be nominated
for governor. The house of Leavenworth
Democrats is divided against itself, but it
will not fall. There isn't any place for it
to fall to.
a picnic is a horrible thing at its best,
but since the practice of congressional
candidates of haranging the Farmers
Alliance on these occasions has been ini-
tiated it must be set down as the cruelist
pastime extant.
The Arkansas City Traveller kicks against
our normal schools 1T costs the state
of Kansas thousands of dollars every year
to educate school teachers who never
teach" The Travellers talk is not all
! flummery, either.
Church Howe, the new editor of the
| Champion, has been running a saw mill for
some years back. By the time the Cham
! piOn decides to let up on Senator ingalls,,
Mr. Howe will have somewhat increased
| his knowledge of the treatment of buzz
saws.
| The Kansas delegation doesn't seem to
| be endangering any limbs in advocating
Original package legislation and mean
time the prohibitionists go right along
getting their liquor without one cent of
their money reaching the municipal
treasures
Yesterday Mr.. Conger said in the house
that Sin every paper which had advo-
Gated free coinage, the footprints of the
silver bullion owner or his agent would be
found" We feel it our duty in our valu
alton of human life to notify Mr.. Conger
that Kansas is not summer resort this
summer, particularly for the Michigan
congressman.
Lincoln remained in Atchison until the
next day about noon and the committee
appointed to entertain him. upon going
xown TO the hotel next morning after
breakfast, found him in the bar room by a
red hot box stove, engaged in telling jokes
and yarns and stories to crowd of over
land stage drivers and other rough char
acters of the frontier, who received his
variations with the most bOisteriOus and
inextinguishable laughter He exhibited
there, as always, an extraordinary facility
for forming personal relations with all
classes of men. Think of him sitting
there with one rubber shoe on and the
other unbuckled on his knee for probably
half an hour. the carriage waiting outside
to take him about the town, while he en-
tanned the crowd with his ineXhaustible
fun amid bursts of uproarious laughter
If Ingalls, childhood was characterized
by unusual diffidence, he got bravely over
it, and at very early age began to dis
play pugnacious disposition, which grew
upon him steadily, says j. NJ. StOdart.
Many anecdotes illustrating this DISPOSE
ton have found their way into print, such
as that wherein he is described as having
delivered a scathing review of the faculty
of the college upon his graduation, taking
as his subject Mummy Life" and treating
it in such manner as to horrify his
mother. who had come to see him gradu-
ate. The college professors had revised
his oratOry, cutting the heart out Of it. In
speaking it he put in all they had left out
and added his respects to them. They de-
bated for some time as to whether they
should not withhold his diploma from
him, but his Grafton was full of wit, and,
though it cut very deeply, great part of
it was true. He got his diploma and in
1884 Williams college honored itself by
comforting the degree of Ii. d. upon him.
Senator ingalls, is possessed of a vast
fund of anecdote gathered from his own
experience and observation and as con-
versationalst he is without a rival in the
senate. His account of his first interview
with Abraham Lincoln is deeply interest
ing He said: The next day which was
the day of the execution of old John
Brown in Virginia, the I'd of December,
1859, l think, he came to Atchison, where
l then lived and still live, and was re
ceived by committee of citizens. He
stopped at the Massasoit house and was
announced for a speech in the evening at
the Methodist church. 1t was bitter
cold winters day, and he made 2 speech of
extraordinary power in which he antici
pated very largely the line of argument
he employed a few months later in his cele-
brated speech in Cooper institute in New
York, and made profound impression
upon the people who were assembled to
hear him, although his reputation at that
time had only been derived from knowl
edge that had preceded him Of his
debate with Stephen a. Douglas in 1858.
Abiding to the threats of the south TO
secede, Lincoln declared that any attempt
at secession would be treason; and none
who heard him can forget the impressive
majesty of his appearance as he drew
himself up and leaned forward with
his arms extended until they seem to reach
across the small auditorium, said, IF they
attempt to put their threats into execu-
ton we viii hang them as they have
hanged old John Brown today One OF
the leading border ruffians declared that it
was the most powerful presentation of
Republican doctrine that he had ever
heard.