The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-16
suNFLoWER sILHoUETTEs.

SUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES.
The Alliance will soon be represented at
West Point. John Davis has the appoint
ment of cadet.
When a man wins his spurs in politics,
it is only matter of time, until he will
feel the other end of the boot.
United States can knock the stuffing out
of Europe in time of war and furnish her
with bread-stuff in the time of peace.
The strawberries in Kansas this year are
as big as the apples last, and this year
apples as big as last years pumpkins.
The persistency with which Jerry Simp-
son remains out of the state shows that he
knows we are short of harvest hands.
Occasionally you can find a farmer in
| Kansas who is such strict Prohibitionist
that he is afraid TO let his granaries get
full
Senator Plumb will speak to the editors
at Clay Center a week from next Thurs
day, but he will omit any mention of Wa
terloo.
1t is not exactly understood why Attor-
ney General Ives wants to help the ''young
crowd" He has declared the board of
| PUBIC WORKS 1nVallQ.
If the Alliance should get an extra ses-
sion of the Legislature, they would proba-
| bly, take steps to impeach the senate for
not convlcting Botkin
Ingalls, sells cherries off his place at
Atchison. 1t remains for the Alliance to
recognize the Scriptural injunction. by
| their fruits, We shall know them"
Only four counties have responded with
contributions to the worlds fair fund. 1t
is quite probable that even Sam Wood
would not accept the treasurership of it.
The Eldorado Republican has column
editorial this week with three leads be-
tween each line. The black bass of the
Walnut must have had bad week of it.
| The Alliance editor of the Leavenworth
Times fizzled out. The meanest things he
| could write wouldn't hurt a gnat and Dan
Anthony wouldn't have him around the
shop
The Alliance legislature seems to have
fixed it so that all the new offices they
created We're so circumscribed that Re-
publican governor can not do the appoint
ing.
A Missouri man now claims that Jesse
JdlD6S Is uOO uedu anu IL Is quite likely
that the Kansas man who knows that the
Benders are still living is skulking in the
distance.
At the request of Levi Bowker, a farmer
in Cowley county, who recently died, two
of his sons prepared him for burial, and all
of them, six in number, acted as pail
bearers.
The only difference in PETERS speeches,
night after night, is that he is compelled
to knock off a thousand or so of his mine
million mortgaged homes" every twenty
four hours.
The chance of an extra session will be
seized upon eagerly by the Alliance mem
bers of the house Their supply of lead
pencils and stamps furnished by the state
is getting low.
The Clay Center convention OF editors
will take trip to the Rocky mountains,
in the face of the fact that cup Of coffee
costs ten cents in Colorado and g ham
sandwich fifteen.
If the crop prospects and the s2-per-
bushel prediction are both fulfilled, the
next grumble from the agricultural dis
tricts will be in regard to the inadequacies
of our banking system.
Frank Doster is said TO have changed
into very rabid anarchist. II he fails TO
get into the senate next time, it will be in
teresting to know what degree of chaotic
temperament be can descend 10.
Professor Garfield knew what he was
about when he decided 10 move to Ne
braska There are several hundred less
people in Nebraska who are candidates for
the L. 5. senate than in Kansas,
The Atchison Globe says that while
John J. Ingalls, is resting at his home II
Atchison, lie makes 1900 a month with
MS peu. Ingalls, IS always writing and
writing, but where do his articles appear;
Ed. Howe believes that there should be
no foudliug between an engaged coupi
before marriage except tie one Kiss sealing
the engagement before the parents He has
most OF the married people with him IN
this, but none Of the single.
Charles Scott. editor Of the lola Register,
will sail for Europe June q, and will be
gone three months. His sister. Miss Eftle
Scott. who graduated from the Kansas
university this year, will have charge of
the Register during her brothers absence
The Cloud county Alliaacs has read the
third party out OF the Alliance. II adopt
ed resolutions deploring tie fact that,
whereas the south vas no: represented Il
the convention, the object OF the third
party was 10 disrupt the Republican party
for the purpose OF strengthening the
Democratic.
PETER hasa plan. All the Alliance con
gressmen are overcrowded With pension
business and be proposes 70 lay the matter
before TIE kansas congressman and ask
them to pay SO per month aud 60 II
necessary toward raising a fund wita
which 20 employ ny son 20 attend 20 al o
this business We can easily Afford 20 pay /
this snail sam TO have this great burden |
taken from cur shoulders, says .as versa /
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