The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-18
THE PIkER's LAMENT.

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| LET me tell you." d-r-a-w-l-e-d Farmer
! Doolittle. ssmen are no better than cattle.
and some of those corn-fed steers of Fred
| Dold's behave better than good many
men,
The LYNCHING of a man in Montana
for feeding sheep is understood to be
what Roosevelt referred to when he re-
marked that THE DISEASE GROWS
| WITH NURSING.
Miles. Ex-GENERAL and pro tenn
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. didn' I
| take the ninety-nnile ride Just TO work
nm his appetite 1t will be remembered
| that he said he believed Oklahoma would
| become a state before the next presiden-
| tial election
The Pikers held a meeting last night
and voted unanimously with the exception
of four-ninths of the members present
that the Eagle shall publish, at the ex-
pense of the society. the telephone num-
bers where never a kind answer Is given
or civil hello emitted. Anyone not
member of the society who is not too
proud to become a PIKER IL compelled
to az the point of a gun, may send In
such numbers as he she or 1t may know
from past. present or future experience
is not fit to use the wires for other than
political purposes. The purpose OF this
great movement on the part OF the
PIKERS can readily be seen. 1t is TO
save central from any unpleasant
.iesses.
The FOLLOWING, neatly written
with charcoal on a piece Of beautifully
tinted brown paper. was received at
O'Clock yesterday by the Eagle. mes
|. senger on foot having fetched it in all
haste from the Dehomey Islands:
DEAR EAGLE:-WILL YOU PLEASE
DEFINE THE WORD PIKER?
Piker is derived from the name of the
great explorer who spent his time hunting
peaks a man with good mental peek.
therefore. may properly be designated as
a piker.
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One number played by Sanford's band
Yesterday was. THE Darkies' Patrol
Lansing Warden Jewett wasn't the
composer, however.
PAYDAY AT THE MORGUE.
THE DOCTORS FIRST VISIT
All! NE. yes, life is short, at best.
So. live it now, lest Times beouest
May rob thy heart of happiness,
May give thee one sweet pleasure less,
Look into eyes CT brown or blue.
Drink deep of the Joy they give to you,
he Cd
That the wage of sin, of sin is death.
HIS SECOND CALL.
Drink of the cup. it's nectar thrills,
Drown We the goblet that beauty fills.
Up to the brim the red wine siows
Drink to the dress. and then. who knows?
Who reck's of the folly, woe or crime,
From mans estate TO the culprit's slime,
Beauty and sin In the same sweet breath,
But the wage at last-at last is death
THE THIRD AND LAST VISIT.
Carrot or mansion, it's one-the same,
Fate deals to ALL in LIES great game.
Unerring, just-the count Is true,
Unchanged as Time-at Heavens blue,
Pallid at last. upon thy bier.
Availeth not love better tear,
For Truth, tits true the good book seth
That the wage of BIN. at last, is death.
MONNIE MOORE LATHAM
Il
Mrs Dumont Smith says that 1T Is
within her memory when gentleman
woui- have considered himself unworthy
the name TO have walked or driven even
with his wife smoking a cigar. And
now he is that low fallen that he will so
down the street smoking one himself.
&
Sunday, Kate Clyde classified women.
She ought to be able to get job in the
Sultan's harem.
:-(--'
For some TIME a MAN HAS BEEN
able TO wear a dirty shirt under BIG
NECn-TIE, but not until two weeks ago
did some one invent the rlohair auto
coat with cowl. which saves woman
from combing her hair but once week.
Joseph Pulitzer should get his new
school of Journalism taken in under the
school law. il he really wants
a good attendance.
Her parents ought to have known bet
ter. The idea of letting Ellen keileher
start across the continent alone, and she
only 20 years old.
Miles is AVENGED. Certain officials
ar Washington have been censured by a
Texas G. a. r. post
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A Wichita woman was waiting for car
on North Topeka avenue, when an old !
lady came along and said: Are ye |
xaitin' for a carr" Yes" replied Tie !
Wichita woman, land il seems ike it will !
never come" To which the old lady said: |
We'll. you ought to 1--we in my town. We |
never have TO wait for cars up at Hutch i
inson." And the Wichita woman, who |
has never been to Hutchinson. but learn
cd the truth from her husband. now won |
ders how some old ladies' can be so /
wicked.
WEE COIN TO MAKE UP NOW"
a little girl in the sixth block OF North /
Enporia avenue told her friend. Hes /
quit playing with the darkies-'
The Associated Press should take one /
or two OF its correspondents away from 1
Oyster Bay. for some things happen IN
which President Roosevelt doesn't par
;icipase A mob wrecked the jail at l
Fredonia. Kan. a week ago. and came
Dff one man short
A unotorist married the wife of an actor
in London the ether day. and a res
cyclon,cter viii have TO BE invented II
the public wishes 20 keep track OF them
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