The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-21
Along the Kansas Nile.

Abilene people are pitching their Bell
| telephones out into the street for home
company.
Judge Frank L. Martin of Hutchinson
has run mis- congressional boom into a
switch and pulled out for delegate 10 the
national convention.
Frank Montgomery: A Butler county
woman says her boy can't plow a straight
furrow, is too lazy to run a rabbit, can't
play marbles skate, or spin a top, can't
sing or do figures in mis- head; and she
thinks he ought to be an editor or a
preacher.
Former Lieutenant Governor Harvey
has announced that he will not be can
didate against John Brendenthal for gov
ernOr unless he happens TO see a chance
to beat Breidenthal. At present he is out
of the road to let the Breidenthal boom
60 by.
The recent smallpox scare furnishes a
mighty easy method for successful COM
petition In a number Of Kansas coun-
ties the merchants in the smaller towns
are making very dull times for their larg-
er neighbors by an occasional mention Of
how smallpox is said to be raging at the
county seat.
Carrie Matteson. a 17-year-old girl at
Abilene. fell while getting into a cart
Monday Her foot caught in the bottom
stats some way and the horse ran. drag
ging her head and shoulders on the
ground through corn fields and burr
patches for mile she died in few
minutes after the horse was caught.
At Arkansas City Saturday night the
manager of a theater company boozed up
and In the last act Of the play stood be-
hind the scenes and pitched silver dollars
to the actors out on the stage. If Ar
kansas City Will just let Kanaas editors
know what particular brand causes a
man 20 loosen up like that the delinquent
subscriber evil will be speedily abolished.
How viii Dell Valentine explain this:
A Kansas City paper reports that two
Clay Center men went down 70 Kansas
City and by way OF doing the town thor
! oughly went to a theate- The play
was .'VirRinius." and though that play
has been standard for several years the
Gay Center men EFT before & was half
oyer That's a mighty rotten play" one
o. them remarked as they left the room.
4 didn't laugh twice the whole time"
Now some hungry enemy VIII be mean
enough 10 c0nstrus this from John J In
gals 10 be tu the nature q q masked
Apology for his own career: 'Crrtfs does
rhing= and gets things He does nor make
great speeches thoueA as good as any q
great speeches seldom Do Tnuch less.
Sumner did not. nor ConkiinE. nor any
- tie blazing. gallery flling orators then
~ since The workers as a rule ara &.
TIE takers. Those who get Bits passed.
and rersiers allowed. ard places for the
boFs an strong COMMITTEES assign merits
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raeuts are ire industrious. reliable. level
headed hustle-s Ike Curtis"
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