The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-15
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The dry fall is said to have made Kansas
sweet potatoes "the finest on earth"

The dry fall is said to have made Kansas
sweet potatoes 1.-THE finest on earth"
Last year the Alliance was boasted as
honest" Next year it will be non est.
Peddlers who sell from door TO door say
that Monday is always the poorest cay OF
the week.
The Peoples party editor has paved the
way for Reputation, and now his delln-
quent subscribers refuse to pay up.
A Butler county youth astonished his
teacher last week by insisting that the
present was in the future. He was think
ing Of Christmas.
There is a good deal of unfairness in
newspaper justice. Mrs. Lease has quiet
ed down, and not one Republican paper
has complimented her.
The presidents message in the house of
representatives exhausted four reading
clerks. and there was subdued murmur
of derision from the Kansas corner.
1t has just been discovered that Crisp's
election was another slap at resubmlssion.
He refused to touch the Accent wine when
he was a guest of the LeaYenworth Ban
danna club.
W Z al hAOW hHdG PO"ctANA
habit is, and is it at all improbable that
before the session is over Jerry Simpson
will get his jack knife out AMI carve his
name on his desk?
OF all the rest. is not PETERS delusion
the very worst when he thinks that by
giving and working with the Republicans
and as Republican he can be returned to
the senate in six years?
"Only Farmers Daughter" is being
pat OH the boards in an amateur way at
Abilene. The plot is somewhat revised.
The heroine makes her appearance at the
end of the first scene resplendent IN Ola
monds and sealskin cloak.
J. c. Hebbard, Jerry Simpsons private
secretary, so far as genius and character
istics are concerned, is far superior to the
congressman. Hebbard is an organism oil
symbolisms and figures. Had he been
born and reared in Boston, Hebbard
would have written book on higher trlg,
onometry or a cosmopolitan deduction OF
the totality of astronomical trauscenden-
talism and would have become famous.
Two tramps were eating lunch by a
country roadside. "Jim," said one, "do
Won know that can tell a farmers poll
tics by the way he sits in the wagon seat'
If he sits plumb in the middle, he is an
Alliance man and selfish; if he sits on one
side, he is Republican, hearty and good
natured, just as much as TO say jump In,
plenty of room; riding's better'n walking
any day"
"You don't believe that stuff you're
talking" spoke Jim deprecatingiy.
"Of course do. I amt tramped all
over Kansas for nothing. Now you just
watch that hill over yonder, and the first
wagon that comes along Pll prove it to
you"
They waited. Presently numbering
wagon ratified into sight. However, there
was no man in the seat, but hard-faced'
pinched and wizened woman sitting
straight ND in the center of the high seat
and fifty feet or SO behind bent. broken,
looking man, in his bare feet, driving a
COW.
"Now I'd like to know how you can tell
his politics?" sneered Jim. us he ALI
ance or Republican,"
"He amt neither; but I'll ask him. Hey
there! where you bound for!"
"Oklahomy," said the man pulling up
the COW. "We're from Arkansaw.
"What's your politics."
"I.or! me?" gasped the man, II amt got
none. But the old woman's Democrat
a regular dyed-in-the-wool-rip
tariff-deformer"
The man moved on; and as the tramp
took another cold biscuit he remarked; y
never knew that wagon-seat scheme tc
fail"