The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-22
Along the Kansas Nile.

According to Schenk's theory, If a boy
is desired the mother must abstain entire
ly from sugar.
The Ieedy administration is talking of
starting a state paper. The business man
ager will be a Populist and some Demo-
crat the editor.
The different ministers of Florence are
hot and say they are thinking of inviting
l. Guy Martin back. The citizens drove
Martin out of the town.
The chances are that the letters 'r" and
co. and "e' and Oh are glittering con-
stantIy in Fred. Funston's brain, al
though not exactly in that order.
At Arkansas City a man who bought an
iron beadstead has decided to attach the
bed to the steam radiator and run the
steam through the frame of the bed.
The Simpson crowd in Harper county
have Judge Mckay on the run and Judge
Mckay is only coming in contact with
the earth in the most altitudinous spots.
At Arkansas City lay figure in a show
window was dressed in a night-gown and
some man came along and write with
chalk on the window: She has seen bet
ter days"
The Republican papers in the Seventh
district are calling attention to the fact
that that panic of Jerry Simpsons only
has six months left in which to arrive
within a year.
During a campaign in Topeka, John
Briedenthal confesses, he called up Cy.
Leland by telephone and palmed himself
off as the editor of the Capital and got
Leland to tell him all the political secrets
of the campaign.
One of the peculiarities of Kansas
ie hot r1rha q
seems to have an uncomfortable desire to
go TO a meeting of the Salvation Army
and tell about it. This happens at least
once a week in Kansas.
1t is to be hoped that Kansas will never
again boom 10 that extent that in boom
editions of papers photographs of pri-
yate residences will be printed with the
whole family, in every case, gathered
gracefully together on the front porch.
A Newton woman Wednesday night
found on her doorstep a fHe baby boy,
with a note reading: Il know you to be
a kind-hearted woman. Please keep him
and name him Emerald" And the Irish
people in Newton naturally feel under
suspicion.
Larry E. Deger, now Of Texas, former
ly mayor of Dodge City, is at present Wis
iting that city. after an absence of eleven
years. Deger was the man who started
in on the mighty task of cleaning out
Dodge City, and unlike Parkhurst, and
his crowd, did it, when he was in hourly
danger of assassination.
Atchison Globe: IAN Atchison man IS
dying, and though his wife hasn't had
| her clothes of long enough to sleep for
four weeks. the doctors ascribe his death
| TO her neglect. The woman has been up
| day and night, but her entire time is ia
| ken up in answering the door and talk
| ing to friends who call to inquire how the
| sick man is. It IS impossible TO leave
| q visitor. and the woman has had TO rush
| into the sick room and dash hot cloth
| on his head and pour little nOurishment
| into his mouth between times in enter
| tanning company. II is unfortunate, OF
| course. but it will always be said Of the
| woman that she is true lady; never once
| has she failed 10 beg a caller to please
| don't go yet though she has heard her
| husband begging piteously for her all the
| while"