The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-08
sUNFLowER sILHoUETTEs.

C.Wood Davis is the most popular writer
of cereal stories IN the west.
OF course PETERS beard is very long, but
it is nothing compared to his tongue.
Calamity" comes from Latin word
which means injury to crops, and conse-
quent distress.
Probably the worst shocked person in
Kansas over Mr.. Lease'e swearing episode
was Mr.. Diggs.
Senator Plumb talks as though he knew
Kansas was going to have big crops in the
summer of 1894
j. R. Burton attended the recent Repub-
lican convention at Topeka with three
trunks of clothing
The Kansas farmer eats too much pie.
1t is all well enough to work against the
middleman but he mustn't hurt the inner
man.
Charlie Scott learned just enough of the
Italian language to be able to brag to the
dagoes abou5what beautiful skies we have
here in Kansas.
The last legislature when it broke up
the public schools of cities of the first class
in Kansas were legislating against the
classes-A B c classes.
The Atchison Champion is continually
upbraiding George T. Anthony for his
frigidity The Champions idea seems to
be to make Mr. Anthony hot.
Apple-tree contests are the latest Kansas
social success. Everybody has shake at
the tree and the man who brings down the
most apples carries off the prize.
Colonel Tomlinson was seized with YER
tigo at Hutchinson. Hutchinson is a
great place for salt, but it never expected
to be called upon by Democratic conven-
tion for the smelling kind.
Kansas for versatility. Senator Plumb
one day tells his audience that they are
Gods people and the favored of the earth,
and the next day PETER comes along and
calls them ''slaves and paupers.
The great seal of Kansas has a man
plowing in the background. If the de-
signer had been anything of a prophet he
would have had this man with his hands
in his pockets and bowling with all his
might.
His reputation for strict abstemious
habits serves Colonel Tomlinson excellent
" in the Hutchinson vertigo incident.
There is many another Democrat in Kan
sas who could not have had that accident
unsullied.
1t was at one of these Alliance meetings
where certain individuals in the audience
are called upon to address the meeting. a
well dressed man arose in his place and
gave vent to some heart-rending sentences
''They talk about the Alliance disrupt
ing" he cried; ''they talk about us going
back to the Republican party and all that
warn you, one and all. call upon you,
fellow citizens, TO remember the penury
and want the reign of the Republican
party has brought us to-" Here he paused
and wiped his face with a silk handker-
chief and placed his foot fitted in a Sc
hand-sewed shoe, on his chair. Haven't
we seen the bread taken from our chill
drens' mouths?' he went on. Haven't
we gone in rags while the Republican
demagogues laughed in their sleeves? Oh,
brothersl' he called passionately, "slavesl
wretchesl arise in your might, strike
and''-
Here the speaker suddenly disappeared
in the crowd. He seemed to have dropped
to the floor Everybody in the hall be-
came excited. The men at some distance
pressed forward to see what had
happened. Had he tainted? Nobody could
tell Was he subject to fits? Never heard
that he was. Heart disase2 Probably.
No, it wasn't heart disease, people near
him could see him still moving. Was he
crazy9 The excitement was becoming in
tense. Nobody could give any informa-
ton. One man wanted the crowd to give
way so that he could get air. One old
Republican declared that it was a vista
ton of divine wrath for talking that way.
But they were all wrong. Pretty soon
the speaker regained his feet, rather red in
the face, but smiling. Seeing the general
look of inquiry on the faces about him, he
said: ''Oh, it's nothing. just dropped
my diamond shirt stud"