The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-26
Along the Kansas Nile.

Along the Kansas Nile
The Popul;s,." said man yesterday.
as the human sand-bu-r. He is harder
10 &c; I'D Of than he is 10 GET
TIE light of Hu:chinson's eye just at
present is Miss BEEN There IS no DISPOSE
ton Of re part OF the town to cas-; he,
out.
II We are 20 have a typical Kansas politi-
clan as one OF the statues IN the national
capitol, the agure ought TO have one eye
closed cuIningly.
The idea OF anti In Kansas Is woefuily
over-ione. Az old coiored man On the
stree; yesterday claimed he was for the
initiative and aniirendsm.
Cy. Leland. pension agent. has Just ia
ken one Of the civil service Democrats
clerks n MS ONCE and dropped him into
the ebon abysm OF yawaing oblivion
We viii now have a selection by the
band" announced the leader of the Kan
sas literary society, "a selection entitled.
A High TemperatUred Occasion II the An
cient City. this Post Meridian"
IN Hsrpers Monthly Frank Stockton is
running a story called: The Great Rock
o. Sariis." Il IS a lie. very Inferior
lie. one that no special correspondent 10
New York paper in Kansas would be
guilty Of.
Cy. Leland is al interesting and a6mira-
bic figure in Kansas because he has. by
his whole conduct. notified the horde OF
political wolves tina, re IS not 10 De tram
pied down and out. as all prominent Kan
sas leaders have been before him. He has
served notice that he VIII remain in poll
80 r,-x - TO- -, ,..fEf
just tina; long.
There is no chance for poetry IN Kan
sas. \ farmers boy sat on the back-porcA
making up some poetry. as follows. soft
through the moon-drugged night. through
scented zephyrs fa.ntins in the peFfumed
light. there came cry OF 'B.l. have You
stopped the pigs YETI" II was his father,
and the boy arose 10 his full he!shsh and
cussed.
NO" said the Populst who was asked
to speak. Il have nothing 10 say. Provi-
dence is responsible for the good times. of
course. but as Providence saved the Union
and gave the Republican party credit, gave
US tariff laws under which We prospered
and gave the Republican party credit. and
forced England to pay the Alabama claim
and gave the Republican party credit. gen
tlemen. I Will not speak. Providence IS
our enemy and 1 amt going 20 give her
any credit for the good times
He was well dressed and he walked into
the loan office and nodded gloomily as he
took a seat and spoke 20 the money-lender:
Mr.. Brown. / haven't mortgage on my
farm. have 1? No? Are you sure OF that?
No interest 20 pay. next month? No? Are
you certain? II ! want 10. can I abuse
the property without hearing from you?
1 can? You're not fooling. are you? Well.
/ don't owe you cent? Is that right
You say II is clear. absolutely clear? Il
is my farm? Thank you he walked out
and up the street and finally stopped and
said: 1T looks like il was so. But
doubt II. Leastwise II it's a dream. its a
gol-durn fine dream"
Two men had boarded for three years at
a Chicago hotel and had become good
friends. Last week one said 10 the other:
We'll. don't you wish you was back In
Kentucky Just now" Look here" said
the man addressed, II have lied to you.
l didn't come from Kentucky. I came from
a state that was ridden with Popuism.
and l hated TO be guyed. But the Repub-
lcans are on top and I'm proud 10 say
that I came from Kansas. l think IL IL
just as good a state as yours. Ohio"
Come off, cried the other fellow. Are
you really from Kansas" Sure" !
We'll" said the second man. Now It's /
out, III confess myself amt from Ohio. I
l used to live at Salina myself"
a Kansas farmer had a vel. II the I
old kind with a wheel on frame with a /
bucket al each end OF the rope so that when 1
one bucket was going down another was .
coming up. He lived at a point in the 4
road where a great many farmers stopped I
TO water their horses. One Friday evening /
he set to work ard was out early the next i
morning 10 see the fun. One OF mis- neigh I
bors came along and began to draw water 4
Suddeny ne stopped. turned about jump I
ed into his wagon and drove on The owner I
of the well rolled or a bench IN sheer 1
JOY, laughing til n cried. Another farmer I
came along and began 10 draw water. Sud I
denly he dropped the rope and climbed INTO /
his wagon with curse and wen. on NUT (
ter;ng 10 himself Six more farmers al
acted in tae same way. Finally the ninth I
farmer came along. drew water. chuckisI .
4 bit. watered his horses and drove away
Laughing. The ninth farmer was "A Repub-
lican. All the others were Popuiis;s The
old farmer had painted on one bucket
Silver OF the other wheat