The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-23
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| SUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES.
The sun and the rain have been putting
a head on the wheat.
Kansas has recently set the whole nation
agog, besides filing it with demagogues.
| Kansas is herself again. The frogs are
doing most of the croaking and the mule.
most of the kicking.
The wheat fields in Kansas were neve
more golden, but there is still the same
old howl for more silver.
What little affection Benson possessed
for other people seems to have forsaker
him and he is left to hang on his own neck
| In 1862 the farmers of Kansas did not
get into their corn with plows until July,
but the crop in the fall was something
enormous.
II see little change in this tour" said &
e-begone tramp, who had just got in
yesterday, and felt hopelessly In the pockets
Of his pantaloons.
The recent rains in Kansas makes the
announcement of picnic come thi:
wise. If it rains on Monday, Wednesday;
and if on Wednesday, Saturday.
Undoubtedly Jerry Simpson, in the eyes
of the Alliance is good deal less of man
than he used to bess and in the eyes OF the
world good deal more of dude.
Rightmire says the Alliance is a soulless
concern. The trouble with Rightmire is
that he has been Invested of his Importance
and he is himself not concernless soul.
The Kansas man who used to go back to
his wife's folks every winter, failed them
last fall He was elected TO the county
offices and the legislature by the Alliance.
G. c. Clemens, a Topeka lawyer, is
writing book to prove that Jesus Christ
was an anarchist If Christ was an an
archist, how far down does Judas Iscariot
go?
A man has been expelled from Kansas
Alliance because ne quoted in mis- speech
Man wants but little here before" He
had forgotten that the Alliance wants the
earth.
There is consolation in the fact that the
absence of all the weight of whiskers on
PETERS under jaw will enable him to keep
his mouth shut with less eXertion than
hitherto.
The father of Ed. Howe, the novelist.
lives on one of the best pieces Of land in
Oklahoma and has just won contest on
it. The old man has no use for his tai
ented son.
o. H, Bentley will deliver the Fourth of
July address at the penitentiary, taking
the place of Judge Brewer, who has de-
livered every address at that place for
seventeen years past.
;nt- ~ far
great faith in c. Wood Davis two dollar
bushel wheat prediction, came in town
yesterday and ordered an iron safe with a
Yale time lock attachment.
Every town in Kansas this summer will
have two Fourth of July's-a Republican
one and an Alliance one. There will be
two orators and they will both have direct
ly contrary opinions OF liberty.
Jerry Simpson says that no millionaire
will be nominated for the presidency by
the Alliance. In his crack at ex-senator
Ingalls,, Jerry Simpson affects delicacy
of wit that sometimes renders his meaning
quite obscure.
The following is the evolution Of an item
in Kansas weekly: "A glorious RAIN:
Second week; another rain" Third;
"Still raining" Fourth; Nothing but
clouds, clouds" Fifth; "Well then rain.
never stopr' Sixth; Thank heaven, the
sun is out again"
Mrs. Lease, by way of introduction, told
an audience at Burlington day before yes
terday, that she supposed great many
people came to see her. just like they
would to see Jumbo" for curiosity's
sake. The crowd didn't fully appreciate
the smile until she proceeded with her
roar
When Jerry Simpson arrived at Medi-
cine Lodge large crowd had congregated
to welcome him. The prevailing conjec-
ture was has he changed or will he be the
same old fellow. The train pulled in and
stopped. Jerry, radiant in tailor-made
Stetson hat and patent leather
shoes. stepped lightly on the platform.
His whilom friends, abashed at the change
crowded back. Too fine for them.
Friends" said Jerry, land fellow citi-
zens, have came back" and half dozen
of his old associates who had loved him in
his ungrammatical days, fell overjoyed on
his neck.
"John," said the farmer to his hired
man, as he shaded his eyes with his hand
and looked sincerely at the threatening
heavens, III be gol derned if it don't look
like it was going to rain again tonight,
and that makes three nights hand run
ming" Yes, said the friedman. the
wheat is dead-ripe and we ought to be cut
ting it today" That WANT what was
on, said the old man, if it don't
rain, we'll pile the children in the wagon,
John, and go over to that there Alliance
picnic"