The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-08
sUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES.

This year it was the vox populi, not the
howl populi.
switch engine at Parsons is using a
patent smoke consumer.
The city election at Geuda Springs,
Tuesday, makes three of the city fathers
women.
Kansas is to have two Thanksgiving
days this month. The first came last
Wednesday,
Bashore, the Alliance judge of King
man, Pratt and Kiowa counties is coun-
try school teacher and holds third grade
certificate.
"Dern an Alliance COW anyway
"Why Alliance COW. my SOM"
Cant you see. pa? She's kicked the
bucket"
1t is given out authoritatively that Gov
erner Humphrey will go through the
formality of an election with Ben Clover
for congress next year.
The Kansas man who eats his Christ
mas dinner in his shirtsleeves and the
front door open is preparing his annual
eulogy on the climate.
At Gladys, small postoffice in Sedg-
wick county, the postofice has been dis
continued. The store room it occupied
was needed to store corn.
Major Israel 3. Donaldson, who was
United States marshal in Kansas during
the wild days of the pro-slavery conflict, is
still living in San Marcos, Tex, at the age
of 95
The election of two judges and a few
minor county officers about the state,
would seem to license the female Alliance
organ, The Farmers Wife, to publish
hen.
There is no telling what number the
Republican majority would have reached
had Brigadier General Polk not left the
state but fulfilled his six other engage
ments.
The three party arrangement in politics
in Kansas greatly facilitates the work of
persuading the major portion of the popu-
lation that they were not cut out to hold
office.
Bishop Perkins, the eX-congressman,
lacked discretion just so much that he
should have waited until after the last
election before he announced his perma-
nent removal to Washington.
The school teacher. as before, came out
ahead in the few Alliance districts that
were victorious. The Alliance has made
it an immsterial change in Kansas from
the pedagogue to the demagogue.
At noon, the day after the election, a
boy went up on the roof of the Atchison
Champion building and started to put up
a flag. He had the stars upside down and
some one in the crowd called his attention
to it. Never mind" yelled another fell
low, "that's the kind of Republican
Luther Challis is"
Two Alliance politicians had decided to
stop for dinner at a farm house and the
man who was old in the business headed
his horse for bleak house on the top of
hill why" said his inexperienced com
panion, why do you go to that house?
There is beautiful farm in the valley
yonder Why not stop there? am sure
we would get a better dinner than here "
Young man." said the old man, Il have
been in this business for some time and l
know thing or two. The lowland far
mer in Kansas is a Republican always;
the upland farmer is our strength"
The travelling comedy company band
was playing on the principal corner of
Kansas town. A large crowd of men had
gathered and instead of listening with
rapture to the rendition, there was man
ifest displeasure, and an occasional drop
ping off of men who returned with brick
bats concealed under their coats. The
leader of the band noticed this and became
uneasy Finally one man in the crowd
could stand it no longer and hit the tuba
horn fair in the bell. There would be no.
telling what would have happened, had
not a tall stranger went over from the
angry crowd to where the leader stood and
beckoned him to stop the music. Which
done, he said: "What be that piece you
are playing"
"That," said the leader in a peTplexed
way. that is C Miserere.
"Who writ it?" the stranger questioned
bluntly.
Verdi"
'verdi, pondered the tall man. "where
might he live' In Topeka"
"Of course not. He lives in Italy"
"Ain't Kansas, then"
"Of course not; he is a composer-writes
music"
The tall man was stumped and hung his
head.
whats the matter with that crowd'"
asked the leader of the band, taking his
turn at interrogations- Don't they like
the way we play?"
1T amt that" said the tall man, sit
amt that exactly. The fact is, Mister.
that this here town is rip-snorting old
Republican bulwark and the boys have
Just licked the Alliance, body and
breeches.'
But what has that got to do with it."
"Why man, it's that dern calamity
music You better not play 1t. This here
town is down on calamity OF all sorts, and
that there Verdis tune is powerful sor-
rowtul ike Give the boys Yankee
Doodle or something cheerful This town,
mister. is Republican from away back and
won't stand sny calamity music, even II a
Dago writ it. Strike up lively now.
And they did.