The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-10
Along the Kansas Nile,

| Coburn's withdrawal is supposed to
| strengthen John Seaton's boom, giving
/ him the support of Wyandotte county.
t Coburn has withdrawn from the race
| for governor. Sooner or later all the can
didates Will see that Stanley has cinch.
Mr.. Coburn says: 81 do not wish to
/ be governor" He also says that if COVER
pOr he would want all the laws on the
statute books enforced.
From the beautiful weather that has
prevailed since February 2. it is plain that
the grounding is suffering from the need
OF a pair of spectacIes.
The Patrons of Husbandry, Kansas
farmers organization, held during the
grasshOpper year that the past was a re-
suit of the wholesale killing of small
birds.
Mr.. Pigg, a hotel man at Topeka. has
just been horse-whipped by colored wo-
man. But Mr.. Pigg can think of the spe-
clal session Of biscuit-eaters coming and
console himself
Charles L. Brown of Arkansas City has
notified Leedy that he is against a special
session of the legislature. Brown is the
first member of the legislature to express
d desire to keep away from Topeka.
Governor Leedy VIII get the legislature
together and that legislature will pass
the railroad bill he dictates. There is
no set Of men so inimical to bosses in
other parties and so servile to bosses in
their own party as the Populists.
In a newspaper fight at Topeka it has
come out that Major Hood OF Emporia
holds q mortgage on the Topeka State
Journal. BY tho Republicans the jour
nal is accused Of being 4 Populist paper
hrr4 D.
lists with being Republican paper with
Populist Procliviues-
Moral-The next day the man went to
the publisher of his paper and said:
Here, sir, is the pay for your paper,
and when next years subscription is due
you can depend on me to pay it prompt
". In dream I stood in the position OF
an editor last night. and I know how it
feels TO have ones honestly earned money
scattered all over the country in small
amounts"
Ingalls, popularity in Kansas becomes
less and less every year. but the memory
OF his wonderful voice and pen seems TO
grow IN teh east. This is from the Wash
ington Post, from the most prominent
part of It's editorial page: We reproduce
here a short poem by Hon. J. J. Ingalls,.
II was written some years ago for Truth
ana IlDl21Llel n iLla- very Interesting
periodical. but in response TO quite wide
spread demand. IS well as for our own
qualification ard that OF the general pub
lie, we transfer It to these columns:
OPPORTUNITY.
&c Master Of human desJinies an J.
Fame love and fortune on ny footsteps !
wait,
Cities and fields I walk: l penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Howell and MARI and palace-soon Or late (
7 knock unhIdden once al every gate
II sleeping wake-i1 feasting, rise before 4
] tu.u away. X Is the hour OF fate,
And they vho follow me reach every state 4
8lorJaIs desire and conquer every Zoe
save death: but those who doubt o. hest /
tate,
Condemned 20 failure. peuury ard woe.
SEEK me in vain and 1selessiy implore. 1
1 answer not ard return 10 more
IL is philosophy IN rhyme-frGth. in- 4
SpiratiOE. ard incentive II uetricsl ar
ran Eenent-aud framed IN thLt iGsmitsble /
literary grace which beauties his every
thought. ny ingalls, has few equals In /
force. felicity. ard versatility. either IS
q writer OF a speaker. His utterauceS al
ways command respectful attention HIS
serious Efforts invariably appeal 10 The
intellectual admiration Of his fellow
men"