The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
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pect that she is human. The poem i
headed ''Some Secular Queries"
AT the corner of my street
There is one,
Whom almost daily meet
She's nun.
And for many long day
have wanted nerve to say;
May walk along your way
Little nun:
''With you I'd be glad to chat,
Little nun.
Bout the weather and all that
Just for fun
And should you remove your mask.
would probably ask.
How you like your lonely task,
Little nun.
Il am curious to know,
Little nun,
What you think about the row
You've begun
Do you ever sit and muse
On the earthly joys You lose?
Do you ever have the blues
Little nun?
II suspect that you are human,
Little nun;
And my guess is, that as woman
You've been won.
Does he ever haunt your dreams,
Till his old time shadow seems
Near you in the monday dreams,
Little nun!
'And you love him anyhow,
Little nun?
Come, be honest with me now,
We've begun.
Don't you tell me you have not
An unconsecrated spot;
Do not say you have forgot
Little nun.
"For the Lord who made your mother
Little nun.
Uses one plan and no other
To work on.
In the corner where you Keep
Woman's fancies, don't you peep,
When you think the Lords asleep,
Little nun"
Too much of this soft water is hard on
the farmer.
The Alliance will drop its "secret" mon
key business. The caucuses are no longer
held secretly.
Little drops of water, falling fast and
thick, make the wheat crop certain, and
Kansas wallet thick.
Oratory runs in the Anthony family.
George T. Anthony's most illustrious an
cestor, Mark, was great talker.
The short hour movement is catching
on. Even the sun is working only about
ten minutes day in this locality.
George I. Anthony was in the artillery
service in the war and swabbed an old
out with wet sponge.
There is suspicion that the sun still
rises and sets in Kansas every day, but no
body has visible knowledge of the fact.
For no other man in Kansas does defeat
mean so much this fall as it does for Jerry
Simpson. Defeat means for him the mar
of Medicine Lodge and oblivion.
Attornry General Ives is said to be pain
fully sensitive about newspaper COM
ments. Anti-fusion editorials in Demo
cratic and Alliance papers probably bother
him most.
John Davis is mad. During one Of his
three hour sentences in the house, the
other day, the other members seized the
opportunity at one of bis semicolons and
adjourned.
Jacob Stotler is figuring for the Fort
Scott Monitor and will make it a superior
paper if he gets it. He is the originator
Of the 'local item" as it fourishes today
n Kansas,
eff this thing keeps up" said the Kan
sas man as another cloud burst and the
stream went out of its banks, 'all our
Kansas fish will be drowned. They amt
used to so much water"
Kansas is wonderful state Six months
,go ingalls, was "downed for good" To
lay he is at the head again. 1t is our soil.
The little green weed on the field today
will be fourteen-foot sunf1ower by July.
How much of the earth's surface is
yater?' asked the school teacher.
"Two-thirds, num-" answered the small
Kansas boy as he looked disconsolately at
he drenching drops outside, land it's still
aiming"
The Germans have organized. They
;laim to have so, 600 voters in the state of
Kansas. 1t is said that the big men at
Washington have for many years been
Lfraid of racial lines being drawn in our
politics. 1t looks like it was coming, and
Kansas can be counted upon to take the
lead in everything. Restricted
immigration might be supposed to result
rom this, but the native Americans will
ind themselves in minority on the vote.
A new novel of love and passion contains
his beautiful passage: And then the
Wind, finding its struggles to penetrate
oscars luxuriant whiskers all in vain,
led away, and sweet calm settled over
he sunlit meadows"
First weather bureau man: Lets take
vacation"
Second weather bureau man: Cali right.
'rophesy rain every day for four weeks,
ock up the shop, and come along"
THOSE TEXAS CATTLE.