The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-01
If Easop Came TO Kansas.

| sunf1ower. watched a beautiful girl whG
frequently passed his way and Eel, in Low,
with her. Finally he chung 10 her on.
day and tunneled through 20 her ieg Ono,
there he thought Of the misery he woult
cause her. II he biz her. 90 he RETAINED
and in the midst Of volupt.ors abundance
starved TO death and the beautiful CIR
| never knew the chigger existed. Moral
| Make yourself felt. il you would be recog
nized.
A man who was n love with a lovely wo-
man. was Tilted by her. and believing she
vas the only woman on earth. went on and
filed himself up with Kansas joint whisky
A little way down the road he me. a snake
and started back IN alarm. thinking be had
EN-. But the snake said: You do no.
think I am real. yet am snake. You
co not think your false sweetheart real
but she is woman And the man s
mind was eased and he went away happy
Moral: Love IS as intoxica ting as joint
whisky.
A flea on dogs back tanc.ed he was a:
the head Of the animal kingdom. He hop
ped around and gave orders 10 The other
fieas. and so became unbearabie. One day
very popular and the community arose
and demanded that he should not be drown
80. The flea told the other fieas that his
own popularity had saved The dogs NE
and became dsctatorial. and believed him.
self above living on a dogs back He
started out for himself and soon starved
TO death. Moral: When you are elected
to office by party voters. do not think you
won on your personal popularity.
All the spiders Of Southern Kansas held
a big meeting. and divided into two fac
tons. One faction claimed tina, a big
drove of flies was coming up from Texas.
and the other faction claimed tina, nothing
of the sort would take place. Finally one
faction began 10 biuld their webs so GER
tain were they that the drove of files was
coming. The other faction r.diculed them
for while and finally caught the fever and
wove webs. too. At last the drove Of
files came and some of the scoffers got
more than all the rest. They then con-
fessed that they had hoped all along that
the drove Of flies would not come, although
it enriched them. Moral: The wave of
prosperity will in many cases be felt the
most by those who. from party prejudices,
hcpe II will not come.
A fool jack rabbit thought he was the
fastest thing earth. To give his sense of
pride rein. he one day set out across the
country at his greatest speed In a race
with the sun. The sun shortly afterward
disappeared in a bank of clouds and 10 this
DAY the rabbit maintains that the sun saw
he was going TO be beaten and quit the
race. Moral: Lots OF people with whom
You think you are in rivalry know absolute
~ nothing about It.
a Kansas bat had very small baby bat,
which was very much afraid Of daylight,
and lived next door to a baby sparrow
winch was very much afraid of the night
So at their request the Creator turned night
into day and day into night and both baby
sparrow and baby bat were satisfied
Moral: 1t takes mighty little 10 quiet
foolish fears
A mockng-bird and a frog entered into
a singing contest and so certain of victory
was the mocking bird that he permitted
the frog TO chose the judges. These judges
decided in favor of the frog, of course,
which so swelied him up that he sang all
the time and bored everybody and the
judges set upon him and killed him. Moral:
II is dangerous thing to compliment a
musician.
A cat was placed IN a bag by his owner
and carried many miles and dumped out in
A wilderness. A few hours after his re-
turn home, the owner notified the house
hold that the cat had came back and
burst out laughing, which so
numiliated the cat that ne left and never
lid come back. The household mourne1
because they had, in trying a foolish ex-
periment, lost very valuable pet, and the
house was taken by the mice. Moral:
II you abuse a friend that friends enemies
Vii punish you.
A Kansas bee hung in honeysuckle e
ign reading: This Is my busy day" And
LII his friends came 10 see him and kept
him from wording declaring: 'Of course
le doesn't mean me- Moral: Never call
IN an editor on Saturday.