The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-19
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Judge Mckay has supreme contempt
for higher courts.
The grasshoppers have turned back.
They probably ran across some Kansas
poultry statistics.
They have lots of good eatables at ALI
ance picnics, but, more's the pity, the
tongue they get is not picked
A Kansas editor has put the precaution-
airy sign on his door, No ears of corn less
than sixteen inches in length will be
noticed"
Mrs. Lease put on a disguise the other
day, assumed a soprano voice and slipped
down town and enjoyed good drink of
lemonade.
1t is not Judge Mckay who is to blame.
1t is the Alliances fault. 1t did not full
fill its part of the bargain. It didn't elect
Rightmire chief justice
The biographers are particularly tact
turn about PETERS boyhood. The horri-
bic truth has probably struck them that
he never was little shaver"
Kansas is to elect a congressman-at-
large. The state has one congressman at
large just at present, but. unfortunately,
there is no law to rope him in.
Jerry Simpsons theory is that the farm
ers of Kansas to succeed must fail. 1t
will be remembered what beautiful fail
ure Jerry had been up to his advent last
year.
A man out in western Kansas who in
tended to send up a rain producing bal
loon had to call on the citizens of the place
to buy him pair Of rubber boots so that
Re could get out Of the country.
A Mason is one of the candidates for the
Alliance nomination for judge over in
Butler county. 1t Is said for him that
while he knows nothing of Blackstone, he
is superior judge OF white rock.
Mirages on the Kansas prairies are a
very common sight, but the most Elusive
one at present Is that in Cloud comfy.
where ninety-three Alliance men expect
to receive the nominations for eight offices
Kingman is as big town as Medicine
Lodge We do not know who is the city
marshal of Kingman, but he stands
chance Of riding through Georgia in
special car by this time next year and hay
ing people fall head over heels over one
another to see him.
Revivals are now springing up all over
western Kansas. For some summers past
it has been difficult to find preacher
with enough cheek to admonish the set
tiers to cast their bread upon the water"
when there hadn't been drop OF rain for
three months and they had to drive forty
miles for drinking water.
81 don't want to fiatter you,' said an
Alliance orator the other evening who had
unconcealed gaping of his audience, but
I must say that have never before seen a
single body of men with better preserved
teeth than the gentlemen assembled have"
Yesterday a farmer and his Wits were
sitting on a wagon seat eating their din
ner, while the horses were munching their
feed in the back end Of the wagon. The
two had evidently been wrangling about
and there was cessation for
the moment which showed that the vic
tory was yet unwon on either side. Final
~ the woman SHE'D into the ring with:
''And so you Think free coinage is the
thing do your"
You're woman" said the man con-
"Pd like to know what you
know about it."
"Well, l just know this much, and you
can put it in your pipe and smoke 1t. Now,
look here. John. Cheap money means
high prices, don't it?"
The man assented.
You would get more money for your
grain, Of course, wouldn't you? AID
would pay more for my dresses, too, |
wouldn't L? OF course I would. Now, |
you allow me $50 year for dresses. don't |
you? get four dresses out of that. If |
We had free coinage could only get two. |
Now, don't say if money was cheaper you
would give me more. 1 know you. When
t comes to giving somebody else cash
dollars dollar to you. Maybe you farm
ITS will get free coinage, but US women
ire the biggest fools in the world if we |
lon't prevent it. Do you hear?"
But he had slipped down from his seat
md joined group Of Alliance men on the
corner.