The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-21
suNFLOWER sILHoUETTEs.

The Republican ticket in Ohio is sugar
coated.
The Kansas farmer is looking up. Tx
aiming the roasting ears.
John J. Ingalls, goes to Great Britain
next month. 1t is not the first time that
ingalls, has sailed into" Great Britain.
There are lots and lots of Alliance poll
ticians who wouldn't be alive today If Gig
arettes had been in vogue forty years ago.
There is only one recourse for the man
whom the state supreme court decides
against. That is to appeal to Judge Nc
Kay.
The Alliance will never get much of a
foothold in Colorado. The high altitude
Of the mountains out there is said to make
people short-winded.
Peaches in Kansas are rotting on the
ground at 90 cents a bushel, and people
are shipping in peach brandy from Mis-
souri, at 50 gallon.
One of the wheel-horses of a Sedgwick
county Alliance whose orchard is borne
down with fruit, yesterday bought box
of canned peaches at a grocery store.
1t has come to such pass that the ALI
taken up to defray his expenses doesn't
succeed in raising anything but smile.
One difference between the old and
young crowd is that the young crowd is
usually beaten at the nominating conven-
ton while the old crowd is laid out at the
election.
Tim Mccarthy announces that he will
| bring mandamus proceedings against any
state or county official who employs a
young man in position that an old sol
der can fill.
An exchange says that the sight of PEI
| fer and Simpson in the south is enough to
make angels weep. This is probably what
! is the matter. We have been having so
much rain of late.
| 1t has at last been discovered why so
many of the able bodied lusty legislators
last winter were afraid to antagoniZe Ell
der. The fear was that the speaker would
give a tooth for tooth" and Elders are
all false.
John Brumbaugh is going to debate
with Mrs Lease at Concordia tomorrow.
It is understood that Mr.. Brumbaugh is
| in receipt of line of warning from Mrs.
|
! what he does.
One Sumner county farmer doesn't wait
| for the Alliance to legislate against the
railroads to get the better of them. He
stacks his poor hay near Jay Gould's rail
road where the sparks from the engine will
set fire to it.
Dunkin of Pumpkin was so drunken
when he made his Fourth of July speech
at Baxter Springs that he remarked to his
audience before he began his speech that
he had never seen such an aggregation OF
/ twins before in all his born days.
Who is the old farmer with the timid
step and the diffident air, who starts al
every little sound and hesitates as he
walks? And why do all the rest of the
| farmers shun him and the children point
| him out curiously and the women avoid
him? Why is he the object of so much
| quiet derisions Is lie an ex-convict, ar
outlaw or a misers oh, no; he is none OF
these. He is a very good old man, But
he is a Republican farmer.
A man rushed hurriedly into one of the
big hotels of Atlanta and asked the clerk
if Jerry Simpson was there.
II am not sure" said the clerk ''is he q
rather tall, stopped shouldered man"
Eyes, that's him." said the inquirer.
Stands around and picks his noseP
Eyes"
"Gulps when he takes drink"
"Yes."
"Smacks his lips when he tastes his
vines
"Yes."
'Picks his teeth with his fork"
"Yes," says the man, that's sure him. .
BLOWS his nose on the napkin and
cleans his ears with the nut pick?"
Yes, that's Jerry"
well, " said the clerk, YOU'LL find hin
in the dining room alone. The rest of the
guests are waiting until be gets through
|
Better Than Growing Alliances