The Wichita Daily Eagle

Along the Kansas Nile.

The last census doesn't say anything about it but there are 432 teal ducks in Kansas and 13,000 men with guns hunting them.

At a banquet in Honolulu the other night Senator Burton proposed a toast to Queen Liluokalani who was present.

While North Kansas Baldwin set afloat over 500 messages in the Arctic ocean. Unfortunately the polar bears can't read.

The foliage in Kansas has suffered so much at the hands of the poetesses this year that the leaves are finally beginning to turn.

How Kansas politics has changed. Here it is away over in October and up to date no one has stolen anybody's campaign thunder.

It is announced that Joe Bristow will come from Washington this month and enter the campaign in the interest of Chester I. Long.

The feeling prevails in Kansas that as the hour for the opening of Congress approaches both Beveridge and Bailey are practicing up on the punching bag.

Among a large number of bedraggled and unhappy rural mail carriers, 1902 will be remembered as the year when the equinox came, took off its things and stayed.

It is doubtful if any one of Baldwin's party, as Baldwin claims, was chased by a polar bear. Bear in mind that in a man alone on an ice field the imagination is liable to work overtime.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun doesn't see another boquet at Roosevelt shot from some Kansas with an outcurve. Senator Harris is the latest campaign speaker to laud the president.

Warden Jewett of the penitentiary has purchased $50,000 worth of Yucatan sisal. This sisal cost nine cents a pound, and the purchase means that the binding twine product will not be any cheaper next year.

The apple trees in this part of Kansas are giving a heavier yield this fall than ever before, bringing to mind the fortunate circumstance that the anti-oleomargarine bill neglected to include apple butter.

There is a 'hold your corn' movement on in Kansas right now caused by the rain. It has stopped corn-husking, and when the skies clear up it will take the corn same time to dry out for the market.

"The Protective Tariff is the mother of trusts" Insisted a Wichita Democrat yesterday. "And so far as I can observe mother and child are doing well, and it's up to Mark Hanna to set up the cigars."

Topeka is smooth in a good many ways, but the town's smoothest piece of work came the other day when the appointment of a Santa Fe master mechanic was worked into the Associated Press dispatches.

After studying the Madrid dispatch relating that the Queen of Spain has been secretly married to the Master of the Horse, the editor of the Mulvane Record has come to the conclusion that it means she has run off with the hired man.

"Our friends here," said the minister over the remains of the statesman, "is beyond the pale of human cares, worries and problems. He has gone to that bourne where the vexations of the tariff concern him not, nor the system of coinage interests him, and the strike and the coal famine are forgotten."

A couple of enterprising farmers near Oneida plowed up their roadside and sewed the land to millet. The roadsides are now clothed in living green and form a bright contrast with neglected ones in the same neighborhood. The millet keeps the weeds down and several loads of hay will more than pay the bill.

A man and woman appeared in Wellington Thursday to be married but were turned down. The man had been divorced in Oklahoma only two months ago and the Kansas Probate Judge refused to perform the ceremony. It is said that the Oklahoma and Kansas divorce laws are alike, and in Kansas a man or woman can not be married until six months have elapsed after divorce.

According to the Kansas City Star, persons who know, or think they know, say Kansas will feed 500,000 steers this winter; that they will cost about eight cents a pound, and that the average weight when put into feed lots will be 1,000 pounds. In other words, the Kansas farmers will soon have a million dollars worth of steers, eating a million bushels of corn every day.