The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-09
Along the Kansas Nile.

| There IS a new expression IN Kansas:
| Pyramid dog" 1t means dog that barks
| eternally.
| 1t is not canard that the Populists will
| throw the type-setting machines out of the
| state printers Office.
! The last old soldier of the civil war OF
1s6o-64. it is estimated. will die in 1915. And
he will die in Kansas. sure.
| A western Kansas paper charges that
| PETER has retreated into the bosky under
growth of his own whiskers.
Jerre Botkin, congressman-st-large from
| Kansas has two brothers who are in the
secret service OF the Santa Fe railroad.
When a Kansas man wants TO make the
most cutting remark about a new congress
man he says ''he will do no harm at least. -
Sophia Mckay is the Topeka correspon-
dent to the Anthony Weekly Bulletin So
phia manages with hard work TO get up
half column a week.
Ed Howe doesn't like the looks of Mrs.
John Sherman. He says she looks like the
crossest woman in the world. He also says
that John Sherman has cowed look.
There is grave fear ali over the state
among the Republicans that Mckinley is
forgetting Kansas. But he hasn't He
hasn't got down to the Kansas style OF pie
yet.
John J. ingalls, now says that poverty and
liberty cannot exist together Many Pop
ulst has said the same thing. The differ
ence is that ingalls, utterance is the result
of thought.
Twenty one years ago the editor Of the
Journal in Coffeyyille received letter
which everybody in town examined. II
vas the first typewriter letter ever seen
in Coffeyville.
An eastern paper suggests that the Kan
sas Populists should pass law making
farmers discard reapers and use Old fash
tened cradles in order 10 give the unemploy
ed something 20 do.
Mrs. c. H. Greer. the mother OF the Greer
toys OF Oklahoma and Kansas and the
wife OF the first Kansas territorial superta-
tendent Of public instructions, died IN Win
field last Thursday.
The eastern papers are saying absolute
~ nothing about Senator Harris. Freaks
were an advertisement and benefit to Pop
ulism after all. Wien Populism acts senSi-
bic I; Is forgotten
There are hundreds of oil soldiers in the
we're offended al the election CT az Exon
federate 70 the serate b. TIE Popgllsts.
This IS the fact % the business
The fact that Mrs. Harris wears dia-
monds Is hurting Senator Hsszis among
the rural PopuI!sts. To one Who has not
studied the rural Pop the idea o; heir hat
red OF diamonds seems ezssgeraUoa- IL
* no.
TIE old politicians of Kansas are vsry
faithful 20 their past fr.eu5x- Thousands
Of secrets are hsld By PopuBsts Nao rece.v-
81 them as Republicans As taey are uss-
ally implicated themselves thsy Do not se-
serve TOO much praise for iseir present
Eeticence-
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