The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-03
THE PiKERs' LAMENT.
AT EVENING TIME.

No little sticky finger prints upon the
window pane.
Upon the polished casing, or upon the
paper, plain.
There is no bowl, with spoon beside, left
on a parlor chair.
Oh, no. the house is very neat, and quiet
everywhere;
No fingers now that bleed and bleed, no
fearful faces sweet.
No voice comes shouting home from
school along the dusty street;
There are no trousers worn out now most
dreadful at the knee.
No bag of marbles telling tales to eyes
most sure TO see,
No tangled curls, no ribbons lost, 10 but
tons of and gone;
No stubby fingers trying hard to sew
more buttons on;
The cookies now grow musty. stale. no.
body cares for pies;
Cold silence reigns about the house-the
mothers heart knows why,
For some have grown TO mans estate and
some are with the dead.
Now two old folks are left alone, Times
SHOW upon their heads.
Two old folks with sad, dimming eyes.
with lettering footsteps slow.
Who sit alone at evening time and talk
of long ago.
MAMIE MOORE LATHAM.
5 IS
For a genteel way OF suiciding, fasting
is strongly recommended.
=! :!
In all seriousness" asks DR.. Brownies
Pratt, will Turkey come high this fall?'
Kentucky women have more rights
than Kentucky men. says an exchange.
IN. 49,
..t&j-(&)..
HERE'S a BETTING PROPOSITION
that is better than a Spanish cock-on-the
fence affair: Which will be the first, that
railroad from Hudson Bay 10 Argentine
or the railroad from Paris to New York
without change of cars.
a venerable dame of los years died in
the territory last week and not a paper
has yet told how much longer she might
have lived if she hadn't etc, etc, etc.
-()-()-
Alabama whites must have hard feel
ings against the colored man when a rep
resentative will ask the state to cut off
an appropriation for school in his own
town. IT has been UNDERSTOOD in
Piker circles that the PARAMOUNT duty
of a representative is TO get an appropria-
-l--l-
A new railroad has just entered the
town of Sparks in/Oklahoma- EVERY
NAN IS HIS OWN PUNSTER.
III.
DON'T STOP YOUR CARRIAGE IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. It's a
sign that you are from a town where the
grass occupies the same position.
-:-:-.-.-
]. P .Morgan's case is getting pretty
desperate. Think of having to drive into
an excavation to get your name in the
New York American.
:-(-)-'
The Wichita street car line is certainly
making wonderful progress. Judging
from the looks OF the streets where there
are tracks, the street commissioner has
given up trying 10 keep up with it.
xxx
When Morgan goes way up yonder in
the Clouds" maybe he can manage to
squeeze more water out of them during
August.
The government should quit. making
thousand dollar bihs. They're HOODOOS.
Sayeth DR.. Burton: 'fComitas is a virtue
between -rusucity and scurrility, two ex-
--tremes, as-affa buuX Is -hetYeen fiattery
and contention, ii must not exceed; but
be still accompanied with that inno-
cency, quae nenini nocet injuriae obla-
tionem abhorrens, hurts no man, abhors
all offer of injury
-.-.-.-
A WOMAN appeared at n railroad
ticket office yesterday to make arrange
ments for a trip to California. She also
wanted to visit Yellowstone Park and the
CLERK had to he sent 10 the hospital for
nervous prostration when she asked him
HOW MANY DAYS she would be on the
sea in getting to the National Park.