The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-26
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IL the Alllance drops IL, IL Will De SnuD-
| treasury.
Everything in Kansas politics is
| thoroughly alive Even the certainties are
no longer dead ones.
This time next year, old Ben Clover will
sit down on his pillow handle and pinch
himself to see if he isn't dreaming.
Senator PETER and John Davis are
against fusion Glover, Simpson and Otis
are for it and Baker is non-committal
at is quite clear" cried the preacher.
"Of course it is" said a lazy listener, rous
ing himself, sit is always clear in sunny
Kansas"
Barnum's circus is going to strike Kansas
this summer. 1t might be good scheme
to run off few sub-treasury dollars for
the emergency.
81 guess this will, said Senator PETER,
as he wrote down all the ciphers on the
right Of the figure ''1'' there was room for.
in one of his trillion dollar loan measures,
Fill the BILL"
1t was George Washington who said In
times of peace, prepare for war''-but it
was our own ingalls, who went him one
better by joining the army when the laurel
branch had thirty years growth on it.
Senator Plumb had not touched drop
of liquor for six months at the time of his
death One day at Emporia, he sWore off
and turning around to Major Hood said,
''The way to quit is to quit" And he did.
An exchange that has seen David Ben
nett Hills picture but does not know that
he is unmarried, remarks that from Sem
ator Hills portrait we should judge Mrs.
Hill to be woman built on much the
same plan as Mrs. Lease"
An Abilene prophet, Kropff, says you
can laugh at him, but there will abso-
lutely be no corn raised in Kansas this
year Mr.. Kropff means what he says,
and the Kansas farmer will be careful and
enlarge MS cribs at least one-fourth.
Il have sown my oats" said the jolly
old Kansas farmer, put in my corn,
dropped my potatoes, sown my millet, and
now,' as he presented his wife with new
dress, his girl with an organ and his boy
gun, Il will scatter few seeds of kind |
ness"
LET me off this time" said a debtor
yesterday, ''and Twill pay yon next week"
Cant do it, said the other, Il am an !
anti-optionist." "Anti-optionist? / don't |
see what that's got to do with my paying !
debt to you?" ''You don't, eh? Well, |
Pm against dealing in futures"
There are few men in Kansas, though |
not many, who would rather stay at home !
and breathe the fresh air of the fowery |
green prairie, than to go to Washington and |
live in a hotel in IL room so small that you |
have to step outside every time you want |
to take your watch out to see what time |
it is
a public assembly that doesn't have a |
Kansas orator to address it, nowadays; |
doesn't amount to much Last week |
George Peck addressed the Loyal Legion
in Denver; yesterday George Anthony
fired the Transmississippi congress at
New Orleans, and we have 'steen states
men in St. Louis.
Pending the G.. A r. encampment in
that town, the Atchison militia-men who
went to meet Pap Price in 1864 are try
ing to create the impression that they
were under fire. They declare that Joe
Wade had finger shot off and tell this
incident to encourage the theory that they
were in a battle. John NJ. Price, who is
now talked Of for governor was lying be-
hind log to escape the rain of bullets
when Captain Sam Hollister came along.
Get out of that" Captain HOLSTER
yelled. Why" asked Price. Because,
that's an officers. log"
The farmers complain of lack of farm
hands Some are offering SD month for
capable employees.
Senator PETERS wife's maiden name was
Barber.
The 2SS joke has reached Kansas from
the east and is going the rounds. Two
persons meet in dark alley, and one says;
Say did you hear that story, today,
about 2SS?'
NO" answered the other, excitedly,
what is it,"
ooh. it's too gross, too gross entirely"
replied his companion in a mournful voice.
Tell away" resumed the first, land I'll
Try to stand it. If l must hear such dread
-ul things. l must"
"Well!' exclaimed his friend, ga is one
gross, and 2SS is two gross, isn't it?"
A meteor shot across the sky, like a
lash of lightning-a thud-a moan-a
dark form stealing away in the
all was silent.