The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-10

Striving their best
To work or play?
DO they ever stop
Long enough 10 think
That whirling top
VIII finally sink?
Do they never wonder
From day to day,
What they live for,
Anyway?
GEORGE d. PHILLIPS.
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Here is a riddle so old that it is new:
What's that which all love more than life.
Fear more than death or mortal strife2
/ That which contcnted men desire,
The poor possess, the rich require?
The miser spends. the spendthrift saves,
And all men carry to their graves?
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When the dispatches say an unsuccess-
full attempt was made to launch the
Langley airship. they simply waste space.
The word unsuccessful is not necessary.
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WOMEN'S clubs may now discuss how
far the eXigencies of politics justify Miss
Ruth Bryans rather quiet wedding.
JUST BECAUSE her father is the
GREAT CONIMONER,' must she fore
go the prerogatives so dear to the femi-
nine heart?
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Newspaper people, said the American
journalist about forty years ago, are pro-
verbally temperate as well as virtuous.
We believe, however. one of the craft did
get slightly tight" few weeks ago.
and the following is a specimen of his
broadsheet as it appeared the next day:
Yesterday morning at p. m. small
man named Jones or Brown or Smith,
with heel in the hole of his trousers.
committed arsenic by swallowing a dose
of suicide. Verdicate TO the jury that the
deceased came to the facts in accordance
six small wives to lament his untimely
loss.
What does division of labor mean in
quired one day laborer of another as they
were at work on the pavement
Division of labor" said the other
means you heaves the hammer and
brings it down upon the stones with all
your might, and l stands by to cry out,
'Ugh,"
Isl. III
Obituary poems and eulogies generally
are not in it with the following on the
death OF young lady. which is clipped
from an exchange: She had an amiable
temper and was uncommonly fond OF ice
cream and other delicacies."
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This one has whiskers: In old stage
coach days an elderly gentleman listened
patiently for several hours 10 a running
conversation between two lady passen-
gers. One of them finally asked him in
a kindly manner if their conversation
didn't make his head ache. "Oh no,
ma am" he replied, Il have been mar
ried twenty--eight years
Ia. Ii
He was from Kansas, but not from
Wichita. He had money and some years
ago went to Europe. Upon his return he
boosted of the social honors he had won.
Il called on Queen Victoria at Windsor.
he related "and would have been in
vited to dinner, but it was washing
day"
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That thin ice story from Lawrence is
pretty thin.
If the Mohammedans get up a row with
the Christians. they will learn the differ
ence between Mussulmans and muscle
men, remarked the office punster yes
terday.
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when a taxpayer reflects that
Wichita is a half-million dollar city he
will not be surprised that this is
billion-dollar country. said Farmer
Georgevitch DoolittIe as he conned the
county treasurers figures on assessments.
valuations and per cents for taxable pur-
poses.
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Prof Langley has great faith in his
aerodrome. but his flying machine is yet
an experiment. An aerodrome is a flying
machine which has been graduated. and
Prof. Langleys airship is only q fresh
man.
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Winfield BARRIERS have agreed upon
uniform price FOR their work. II will cost
S to shave a dead man. lie ought TO
pay it, because he escapes the razor's
pull.
It is an old saying among card players
holding bad hands that they have seen
it run this way a long time and then
get worse" That is the way the Wall
Street bull fese.
That Chandler. @ T. barber whose
wife hid the currency in the oven OF the
stove. had his dough cooked all right
enough.
oil. 'ol-
BY the way, speaking Of ither and
nither. an IHshman was once asked
whether the word neither should be pro-
nounced neither or nither. lie replied.
It's nayther-'
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They may say what they please. but
--ajah Hogs are worth three times
IS much dead as they are alive. and
dead uea amt worth cent.
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There IS no answer To the riddle ia the
north part Of this column. That is the
answer is nothing
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Sir Thomas Upton may he q nice man
and a md old sport. but 1t looks like
vindictiveness when he merges his pack
ing plant and joins the trust re xiii
make II cost <he A-nc Fican people a
pretty penny 70 keep that cup,
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John D Rockefeller in prayer meeting
az Cleveland this week told how much
he enjoys his religion. he certainly lets
his lighs shine.
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Friday mornings dispatches stale hat
the Standard on company has advanced
the price OF oil for q third time Presi-
cago. may now plan another extension OF
his school-RocSefeller viii have . sgrpius
n donste.
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The hottest shot given Cham sserialn =
thar handed him by Sir 0nfred I-aBrfer
whe IN defense OF the former cosezfa.
secretary. said that CEzFzsserlain vas
sisap3y ARGUING. NOT TELLING
FACTS
Carnival Echo. The Ensa horses n the
Wichita races did rot Kin any tsg money.
hsst they wcn soug<. They hurried the
other horses Ike thunder 20 tsss them.