The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-12
Along the Kansas Nile,

One Of Funston's fayorite authors IS
| Kipling.
There are indications that Emporia's
cases of smallpox viii turn out 10 be
measles.
Noble Prentis' history of Kansas has
been adopted by the Kansas text book
commission.
1t is said that Mrs. Lease at present
charges only fifteen cents admission 10
/ her lectures.
Fred Funston would like something po-
litical, but he doesn't think the bosses
would let him have anything.
! Some Of the people of Topeka. when
asked TO contribute 10 a fund 10 buy
| Fred Funston a sword. whacked up 5
! cents.
Ed Howe says: When women engage
a nurse 10 watch a sick person. they
appoint one of the family TO watch the
| nurse
Kansas is to turn herself loose when
the Twentieth returns and many man
Will welcome the heroes of Ehe Bag-Bag
| with a jag-jag.
There is some satisfaction to all writers
in the fact that when ingalls, is bound
down 10 writing a letter a week. his
stuff deteriorates.
| 1t is said that the Great Western Stove
company of Leavenworth will join a
stove trust which viii be formed at Gin
cinnati this week.
Charles NJ. Sheldon, the Topeka minis
| ter, is becoming famous in London, where
during the last month his books have
| had heavy sale.
| A large number Of people are protest.
! ing against the proposed pardon of En-
NETT Dalton, the outlaw. Among those
protesting is Lyman [. Humphrey.
| If Ed Little is suffering keen mental
| agony from being snubbed he is only
meeting fitting reconpense for his RI
| diculous case Of pneumatic conceit
| 1t falls TO the lot of Kansan occa-
siOnally to have these two consecutive
thoughts in a period Of three seconds:
| % II wonder if it is a cyclone" ~ at
was
Spencer. coil oil inspector. was appoint
ed in spite of the gang. The gang is now
| finding that he is incompetent, corrupt
and general nuisance, and demands that
| he be fired.
| Congressman Charles Curtis says that
he is not trying to dictate to the other
| Kansas congressman whom they shall
| support for speaker. Curtis says he in
clines to Sherman.
Topeka is at last fighting Kansas City
| But it is too late Topeka Will continue
to buy her silks and satins at Kansas
| City and her needles and pins at home
for all time to come. She became a runt
by her own folly.
Sedgwick Paragraph: The last lecture
Fred Funston delivered in Kansas was
at Halstead where he was met at the
Eepot by procession consisting of Ed
Bookwalter. one disinterested citizen and
a VellOU doc would ha diffarant NOW
A Newton attorney says that if he were
governor he would permit the sentence
of death to be carried out against the
men under than sentence in the peniten-
tiary. His name is not given, and the
chances are that he will never be COVER
nor.
Fred Funston should plunge into poll
tics. No fame is stable that is not stimu-
lated by denial and antagonism and ridi-
cuie, which political fame, while SEEM
ingly suffering from, really thrives upon.
Funston must get into politics or his fame
will be yawned to death.
Funston's nature is attuned to one f.
bre-the genius Of initiative. He didn't
do much in Cuba but it was an unusual
stroke of courage to go down there, when
he could have remained at home COM
Portable and happy. His subsequent ca
reer depended on this Cuban trip.
H. C. Burson of Sedgwick writes from
Manila his feelings tho first night he
was under fire: 81 shall never forget the
nervous strain I endured this terrible
night 1t was Ike some horrible night
mare. 1 want TO say right here that any
person who claims to have had no appre-
hension as TO personal safety on going
into action for the first time, is either
liar or an idiot