The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-19
Along the Kansas Nile,

| There is no scorn equal to silence. The
shears give the most effective cut when
| they shut up"
Speaker Osborne is said to be a Burton
man to the bone. The United States sena-
tor matter is expected to come up.
Piece of stray Kansas philosophy snatch
| ed from between a personal regarding
| John Smith and a patent medicine reader:
Spanish has been taught at the Kan
sas university for years. but as a result
of the war; the classes in it this year are
| larger than ever before.
| Many of the farmers in Summer county
| believe that the reason their wheat hasn'v
come up to the notch is because the seed
has run out. They will replenish with a
new kind.
man in the penitentiary has some
| independence. after all. The Oxford Reg
| lister had one subscriber in the peniten-
| tiary The paper said something about
/ him he didn't like and he indignantly
stopped his subscription.
At Abilene it is said the ministers and
| the joint-keepers have signed a protocol,
the ministers no longer to fight the
joints, the jointists TO keep quiet and not
sell to habitual drunkards. 1t will be
a wonderful sight TO see a toint-keeper
trying to determine when q man is ha-
bitual drunkard
The storm center politically IN Kan
sas is becoming the Third congressional
district The First and Second districts
are passe and effete; the Seventh district
with a bellyfull Is dormant. The Third
has a keen appetite. is vigorous and grow
ing and will do to keep your eye upon.
The postmaster at Garden City makes
the following appeal: Admiral Dewey
has been directed to make requisition
for a million boxes of United States soap
for the Philippines. and the money yet
due at the postoffice for box rent is need
ed to help pay the bill"
A Kansas minister wants this made q
morning prayer all over the state:
Men whom the lust for office can not kill,
Men whom the spoils Of Office viii not buy,
Men who have opinions and a vii,
Men who have honor. men who VIII not lie.
God give US men.
New England is getting 10 be as wild
a dreamer as Kansas used 10 be. Chris
tan Science IN its most wid-eyed form
IS found in Boston In Boston. too, IS a
very fine paper called "Our Dun1 AMI
mails" the champion Of beasts the world
over. and doing much good. Put The
other day It sent up this rocket sounding
so much Ike the prophesies prevalent IN
Kansas seven years ago: IF the-e were
no birds, men could not I've on the eart1
and birds are decreasing IN this country
Lyman Cox OF Ewell. Sumner county.
was married and the young men and wo-
men felt so good over Il that they decided
10 celebrate. They took an iron wheel
from Jsrboe's blacksmith shop. the iron
wheel OF a traction engine, plugged the
hole IL the hub at one end. ret the wheel
on the ground, poured IN = hat gallon
Of powder. plugged the other end and
fixed a fuse and touched her OF Hat
an hour later Nj Jarboe was going
around With a bread-basket, collecting his
blacksmith shop. Pieces q the wheel
we're picked up a mile away The wheel
weighed 20 pounds before the explosion
The largest fragment found sfterwa-e
weighed four pounds
4 Tennessee editor running the Ca8bo-u
Progress refuses % make a trade after
this fashion. a nan out IN Kansas
wants 70 swap me eighty acres = MS
bjlzzar d-blasted land for cur pratt shop
even up. Il wOud - q duru good deal for
The Kansas man but tough bargain f1r
your Uncie Ben. Honor bright gentlemen.
~ wouldn't exchange TIRE Progress plant
ard it, home On Paradise Alley. Cor a
whole section il kansas No Yher- On
this globe does The sun shine brighter.
the grass grow EreeueT. crystal brooks
ripple Il sweeter cadence OF tae gentle
mountain breezes Eaft 2 more 6ellvlous
aroma % the uos1Ts,s. ClsEborn COUNTY
x a good country 20 lire ard Gle 81. =
anywhere II East Tennessee. yoE are haf
say 70 heaven. bus Kansas seu sou
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