The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-29
sUNFLowER snHoUErTEs.
BashOre, the Alliance judge Of Prs

Bashore, the Alliance judge Of Pratt,
was admitted to the bar this week
The daughter Of Chief Justice Horton,
Miss Carrie, is to be married next Wednes-
day.
The last vestige of the pioneer epoch in
Kansas is passing away. You see fewer
buffalo robes in use every winter.
Mr.. Spooner who recently gave s9l 600 to
| the state university will always be remem-
bered. sort of a souvenir Spoonsr.
The individual who drives the public
conveyance to and from the depots in a
Sumner county town is known as "Omni-
bus Bill"
Kansas is always on mettle, Last month
the talk was all about the free coinage OF
silver; this month it is all about bi-chlo-
ride of gold.
The quid is said to have disappeared al
most entirely from the British navy. UP
to thirty years ago most men at sea chew
ed tobacco.
The rumor that John Davis has written
and memorized his maiden speech for con-
gress is really paying the old mans mem
DRY quite compliment
The whole of Kansas will no doubt after
the evening session of congress, give the
five Alliance congressman warm wei
come home. 1t will relieve the state OF
great strain.
Jay Gould was once as poor as the poor
est calamity bowler He spent very little
of his time, however, IN worrying
and kicking at the people who had money,
and now be is plutocrat.
There are some points Of similarity
between A. G. Stacy and Bismarck. They
both claim they know a good many star
chamber secrets that would startle the
people, if they were of mind to tell them,
which they never are.
Expressions wax and wane. An old
saying, and one purely American, that is
now all but obsolete is your Johnny
Hancock" which was synonym for sig
nature. Men used to say PUT your
Johnny Hancock to this" John Hancock
was the first man to sign the Declaration
of Independence, which he did IN large,
bold hand.
Jinks-"I see that man, Jones, who
killed his wife is out of the penitentiary.
Nobody will hire him and he is almost at
the starving point"
Binks:-''Too bad. Why don't he turn
rainmaker ?"
Jinks:-"Turn rainmaker? How sog
Binks:-"Well, you see, he will always
be sure of being under a cloud"
An analysis of the voting in Kansas
shows that out of 425 county officers elect
ed in the state the Alliance party secured
about 100. The Democrats elected twelve
and the Republicans the rest. The ALI
ance elected it's entire ticket in less than a
dozen of the Ice counties. The Alliance
congressman from Kansas not only lost
their home counties, but suffered defeat in
the townships and precincts in which they
live.
A man met a former friend in western
Kansas county recently peddling soap.
"Well, / declare" he said, show do yon
come to be doing thisY'
'"Not for my health" was the laconic
reply.
swell for what else. You're not bank.
ruptf"
Not by long shot"
"Quit the law business suppose"
Wrong again. Pm still lawyer"
"What you peddling soap for, then2"
Cant you guess"
mo"
"Well, its this way. I've got client
who is charged with murder. 1t would
take three or four weeks indoors nosing
among law books to work up our side and
then we might lose. Besides / believe he
is guilty. peddle soap. Carelessly bring
up this murder case. Acquaint my man
with all the facts. Don't miss man in
the county. Trial called. Impossible to
impanel jury. Only defense can call for
change Of venue. Every man in the county
knows all about the case. Prisoner is dis
missed No hunting for law-points and
presidents. Nice drives in the open air;
diversion; study of character; sure success.
Great scheme, don't you think? The soap5
Oh, trade it for meals. Blackstone is not
in it.
Jim Lane was the greatest orator Kan
sas OF any western state ever saw. His
magnetism before an audience was cleo
tricai. He had sharp, bright, little eyes
and an eccentric habit of shaking his in
dex finger at his hearers, sometime fully
minute before word was uttered. He
would also shut his eyes tight on occasion
and open them with wonderful effect. He
once killed man man nam ed Gains Jen-
kins in dispute over a well and itinjured
him with the people. He attempted TO
make stump speech afterwards, but the
angry audience would not have it. Every
few minutes the cry would so up from the
concourse, what about the killing OF
Caius Jenkins" Lane paid no attention
to this for some time, but at last he
paused. There was full one minute of
awful stiffness. Lane had his eyes closed.
They opened, then, with lachrymal glis-
ten on each ball; his voice was softened to
a mournful fute-like tremoio. YES" be
faltered. Il did kill jenkins. And oh,
who can tell the pangs, the heartaches,
the sleepless nights, the contrite con-
science, the soul agony of my hfeI" And
SO on in the same vein. The audience was
the women wept; strong men
swallowed Jumps in their throats Jim
Lone, with the influence of the only true
magic in the world, the personality of
genius, had in less than three minutes |
turned a bowling mob Of opponents into a |
fearful band who would have fought for |
him with the insane fervor Of religious !
fanatics.