The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-17
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wando sufferers
Ed Howe says boys idea of liberty is
to first eat the pie and then ask his mother
if he can have it.
The little town of Mulyane has dra-
matte company who call themselves the
''Timorous Ten"
The Crawford county system of holding
primaries is said to be highly superior to
the Shawnee county system.
A Wichita girl who has been off to
Boston said the other night: Il just
laughed and laughed and remembering
that she was in the west) LATED"
The general condition of politics in Kan
sas gives rise TO the belief that if the peo-
pie of Texas will look northward towards
sunset they will see an aurora borealis.
The chairman of the national Republi-
can convention at Minneapolis is likely to
be John j. Ingalls,. This is said to be all
he wants for few years, but he wants
this.
1t is claimed that old man Funston's boy
Fred is better man to hustle Offices than
his dad. The young man got himself a
government job paying S125 month with
out the old mans knowledge.
Senator ingalls, at Chicago: "My own
state will return to the fold The present
program i'll Kansas is to give the electoral
vote to the Democrats, and the state offices
to the Alliance. IL will fall"
Broderick has introduced resolution
setting aside place in the statuary hall
of the national capitol for life size statue
of the late Senator Plumb, which the citi-
liens of Kansas will present at some fu-
ture time.
Just my luck" said the man with the
strong cigar, ''here l refused to run for
coroner in my county last fall. and cy-
clone has inst swept over it, knocked ten
houses into smithereens and killed ten
people"
John Anderson, who is returning from
Egypt, is too sick to return and will resign
his position. Mexico and Egypt belong to
Kansas. and President Harrison will prob
ably make the acquaintance of several
more Kansans.
A Canadian girl from Montreal who is
visiting in Wichita made the remark in a
crowd the other day that at home they
wore snow-shoes nearly all winter and a
sunny Kansas miss asked her if they
melted when she went il % the house.
Kansas, oh Kansas! Most of the fnan-
cial measures are introduced by youcr on
gressional sons; the agricultural interests
in them have d sole champion. And
now up hobs Jerry Simpson and
dictates to the government the
way the navy should be runl
"Tildy," said the old Kansas farmer,
''Pm all played out tonight; been a work
ing hard in the field all day, and here I've
got to set down and write my weekly
paper to the Alliance Tidings."
whats you subject this week, John?"
sits The Empirical Disintegration of
Social Monads, and my head nigh busts
when 1 think of it"
Jerry Simpson is sailor, and when the
naval questions come up he would spon-
taneousIy burst if he didn't get to talk
little. Hear him talk to congress; "A dry
dock and navy yard are one and the same
thing, because a dry dock is part of the
equipment for building ships. And when
this dry dock is provided gentlemen will
come in on another appropriation bill and
say this dry dock is part of grand scheme
which must be carried out and completed
by the navy department. that it is neces-
sary to have arsenals, etc, to go along
with this dry dock to protect it. And then
we shall have large appropriations asked
for the erection of fort to protect the
arsenal We shall be told that the dry
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part of the same system and must go to-
gether. This is but the entering wedge to
a vast expenditure in that direction"
Once upon time, a man unframed in
politics or public ways was put up by his
friends as a candidate for chief magistrate
of his province.
But this man was very new to the bust
ness and as blind man could not see his
way.
And the primaries in his own county
were held and the contest waxed very
warm, and the candidate was wrought up
in spirit. And when it was an
nounced that he had won he was glad and
rejoiced in his heart, saying, Now 1 am
chief"
But his friends shook their heads and
said nay.
And the county convention was held,
and the fight was long and fierce, and the
candidate again was heavy with fear of
defeat. But at the end they came to him
You are victorious. And the
who did not know politics and
public ways, rejoiced again, asking Am
not now chief?"
But the friends demurred and said:
"There is yet contest"
''AlasP' cried the candidate. "Have I
not fought two battles already and am
not yet chief? Must I fight third?" But
his friends braced him up, and the state
was held. There was bitter
fight, such as the unframed man had
never known before. He was in much
and when his friends came TO
announce the result he was Frustrated
with the strain and feeble.
But he revived. crying, "At lastl At
lasti / am chief at lastp'
But bis friends said nay, and encour-
aged him, saying; "Only one more battle,
only one more contest" And the man
arose and fought. 1t was the greatest bat
tie of his life. and he battled like a lion.
At last the eyentful day came, and the
candidate stood in trembling for the re-
suit of all his bitter battles. And his
friends came to him rejoicing to tell him
Of his victory. They tried to awaken him.
but without avail The strain had been
too great-he was dead.