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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAI SATURDAY EVEXING, JUXE 16, 1900.
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
BY FRAXR P-MAC LENNN.
VOLl'MK XXVII.
No. 144
Official Paper of the City of TopeBa.
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Chorus of vice presidential candidates:
You take it."
It is j.ersistently announced that
Chitrman Hanna has no candidate for
the vice presidency, but may be nobody
ha taken a peep up his sleeve.
Washington Post: Representative
Miller, of Kansas, wants a war hero for
the second place on the Philadelphia
ticket. How would Gen. Fred Funston
Strike Mr. Miller.
There will be no necessity for de
parting from the two-thirds rule in the
Democratic national convention. Mr.
Bryan already has about three-fourths
of the delegates instructed for him.
The matter of the L'nited States'
claim against Turkey has passed the
note stage and our Mr. Griscom now
calls in person and demands payment.
Eo far the results have been the same.
The frequency and disastrous results
of tenement house fires in New York
might reasonably be expected to arouse
the people of that city to importance vf
taking some action looking to their
prevention but they don't.
When the American army gets
through with China we may be ready
to have it go right on to Turkey. There
Is no knowing what may happen now
that the United States has become a
world power.
Federal office holders appear to be
Retting the "cold shoulder" all around,
at the hands of the Republican national
committee. Pension Commissioner
Kvans' crowd will stay out of the con
vention along with the Wimberley
crowd from Louisiana. Perhaps it
would be different if there were other
candidates for the presidential nomina
tion. J. West Goodwin, editor of the Se
dalia Bazoo, has Just celebrated his
golden anniversary as a newspaper
man, by issuing a circular setting forth
a few facts concerning his career, which
begun on the Democratic Union, Water
town, N. Y., under the late John Had
dock, 50 years ago. Col. Goodwin is a
veteran of the civil war. "If I had my
life to go over again," says the colonel,
"I would still be a printer. I am to
day as proud of my craft as I was at
the end of the first week's service at
Watertown."
Admiral Dewey is entitled to the sym
pathy of the American people. It is
clear from his own statement that he
was imposed upon. Knowing nothing
of politics or political methods he was
made to believe that the people were
wild for a chance to vte for him for
president. Time and a closer associa
tion with the people has shown him
that he was deceived, and he says so.
There should be nothing but contempt
for the men who did this thing. If
their names should ever be made pub
lic, probably it will be found that they
were persons who were endeavoring to
defeat the nomination of Bryan, and
placed an honorable citizen in a ridicu
lous light to serve their'own ends.
Abilene Reflector: The cattle paper
of Kansas is likely to be handled by
Kansas money during the next year.
At the last meeting of the State Bank
ers' association a resolution was adopt
ed that bank3 wishing to loan money
on cattle paper should report to the
secretary and that those which needed
money should make application. He
told of the workings of the plan. Ap
plications were made to loan through
the association $411,500 and to borrow
$131. S00. Applications were all filed and
recorded with all the circumstances of
security, time, interest, etc The amount
of money loaned is not known but it
was probably $t0.000 to $70,000. The plan
has been elaborated and perfected and
it is believed that these figures will be
many times multiplied in 1900-01.
ELECTORAL VOTE OF 1896.
As the contestants for the presidential
nominations will shortly be named and
be the same who led the two parties in
IXI'6. comparison of the votes received
then is of interest now.
In the electoral college there are 44"
Votes; 1224 are necessary to a choice. In
the presidential vote in 1S96 McKinley
received ITT I electoral votes and Bryan
176. McKinley received over Bryan 95
electoral votes.
McKinley carried the following states
in the electoral college:
California 8 New Jersey 10
Connecticut 6 New York 31
Delaware ".North Dakota ... 3
Illinois 24 Ohio , 23
Indiana 15 Oregon 4
Iowa 13 Pennsylvania .... 32
Kentucky 12 Khouo Island .... 4
Jlilim- ii Vermont 4
.Maryland 8 West Virginia ... 6
Massachusetts .... 15Wisconsln 12
M irhiLCH n 34, .
Minnesota ( Total for Mc-
N w Hampshire... 4 Kinley 271
l.ryan carried the following states:
A la iMitn
11 'Nebraska
Arkansas .,
iilit'irnia
Colorado ...
Florida ....
Georgia ...
Idaho
Kansas ....
Kentucky ,
Ivoulsiana .
Mississippi
Missouri ...
K Nevada 3
1 North Carolina .. 11
4 South Carolina .. 9
4 South Dakota 4
13 Tennessee 12
3 Texas 15
lo 1'iah 3
1 j Virginia 12
H ashlngton 4
(Wyoming 3
17 1
3j Total forBryan.lTS
THE FIXERS FIXED.
The polities of the country Is con
trolled by a few men. Whether the
part)- is Republican, Populist or Demo
cratic: the dominant forces are never
formidable so far as numbers are con
cern ;d. The Populists established a
rule of paying no attention to the fix
ers, but as the party grew in years the
same plans wei'e followed as those that
have obtained and still obtain with the
older political organizations.
The people dislike a boss, but there
are bosses everywhere. Occasionally
one is marked and falls, but the rank
and file of the bosses go their ways un
molested and secure in the plaudit3 of
the throng, not to say gang.
This condition extends to the states
and. counties. A state convention
meets and the delegates mechanically
carry out a chosen programme so far
as the managers of the convention are
concerned. It is fixed beforehand and
the occasions are extremely rare when
the plan3 are overturned.
A great national convention will meet
In Philadelphia next weeK. The man
who will be chairman of the conven
tion was apprised of the fact long ago
and had ample time to prepare his ad
dress. The chairman of the committee
on resolutions was named and all the
important wheels in the machinery of
the convention have been adjusted and
put in motion. The grist is ground.
The delegates will meet and mechani
cally carry out the programme. Some
of them may imagine that It is the
voice of the? great people speaking
through them. The speech is cut and
dried.
The Democrats will meet in na
tional convention next month, and al
ready the ruling spirit in that conven
tion has been practically selected. It
is safe to say that nearly the entire
list !nas been agreed upon and the ac
tion will be duly ratified by the con
vention when it assembles.
Occasionally things happen spon
taneously at party conventions, but not
often. The national conventions, this
year especially, are formal in the ex
treme. The " fixers" look after the de
tails, but the fixers themselves have
been fixed.
POPULAR VOTE OF 1896.
The following table shows by states,
the vote given in 1S5G to McKinley and
to Bryan, candidates for president then;
candidates for president now:
States. McKinl
Bryan.
331.21"
110.10!
144. KO
lil.2'W
5',.74l
1U.K15
32.213
Hi. 232
13.1'.'2
4i;.7o.:
3' .5.771
223.741
171.X10
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Oeorsla
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana.
Iowa '.
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts ..
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missou"i
Montara
Ni brassa.
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina .
North Dakota ..
Ohio
Greg. in
Pennsylvania ...
Rhode Island ...
South Carolina .
South Dakota ...
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont .....
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia ..
Wiseon.-in
Wyoming
Total
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7,'S7
512
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WHY THEY ARE SLOW.
A Philadelphia paper recently con
tained m article on proper exercise. It
was wr. tten for the masses by one of
the upper ten and advised for all, what
the few can afford.
The article started off very nicely by
saying that the business man should
arise at 7 o'clock and perhaps take a
brisk walk through his garden before
eating a breakfast of eggs and coffee.
Requirements: a garden. After his
morning meal he should walk leisurely
for at least a mile through the country.
Requirements: time and country. Then
either riile or drive to the ofTics, arriv
ing ther? at 10 o'clock. Then what is
important to the average breadwinner
is treated by one word, "business." That
is a snail matter. People who take this
course ot' treatment are expected to fall
heir to a few millions and not take the
time to make them. Then as the whistle
sounded at noon the man was to walk
briskly, no other way but briskly, to his
club. Take a half hour's exercise with
weights or dumbbell and eat a light
dinner. After dinner talk politics. Not
religion out politics. Then again "busi
ness" gels an hour or so and at 3 o'clock
he is to go to his other clubj don a golf
suit and repair to the links. The means
recommended is a horseless carriage;
but if that is not handy a spanking
team of bays will do or a bicycle. Then
golf till li : 30. Nine holes is the number.
After that the Golf club house. A
plunge in the swimming pool. Require
ments: club and swimming pool. Then
a short game of water polo and a
thorough rubdown. All very nice. Then
a hearty supper of the best of steaks
and a few dainty morsels. After sup
per he Is to play 200 points of 14-inch
balk line billiards "to strengthen the
muscles of the back." So far no reason
for a weak back or a month back for
that matter, has been given, but he
must have a weak back in order to play
the biiliards suggested. It all sounds
nice and four hundred like. That same
man mltrht come to Kansas and go to
work in the harvest fields, get better
exercise than he would playing billiards
and be t.llowed days wages besides, but
he couldn't come down to his business
at 10 o'clock in an automobile. The rival
who walked, took a street car, or a
Kansas Joe Patchen, arriving at 7 or
even 8, would have .left him little busi
ness that was open for engagement.
Lord Roberts has again surrounded
the Boer .army in his front and again
It has slipped away. On this occasion
the British commander expresses
thankfulness-that his losses were less
than 100 men.
THE BEAR AND THE MIKADO
Just now the Russian bear is moving
a vast army of men and fleets of ships
towards China with a view, no doubt,
of gobbling up a large portion of the
flowery kingdom. What is there to pre
vent the consummation of the czar's
plans to enlarge his territory? Not
China, surely. A weak nation from a
defensive point with a small standing
army and practically no navy, the
country of Li Hung Chang would prove
an easy mark for the armies of Russia.
Great Britain has her hands full just
now with the Boers. The United States
has the Philippine war and the "open
door" pledge to prevent a movement
in that direction. France is the czar's
ally and Germany has so little interests
in the far east that Emperor William
will hardly make a move.
Then the sole country to call a halt
must be Japan, which has more at
stake than a question of trade.
If Russia takes possession of cer
tain portions of the Chinese possessions
it will mean a life and death struggle
for the Japanese in the near future.
Their position in the east is vastly
similar to that of England In Europe.
They maintain their power by the
strength of their navy. But the Jap
anese, unlike the British, are poor and
unable to build monster war vessels
to terrorize their neighbors. But Japan
has done fairly well in this respect, and
the mikado has 155 gunboats of heavy
standard fighting variety and a stand
ing army of 402,274 men.
To oppose them Russia has a fleet
of 400 war vessels and a standing army
of 1,000.000 which could be quickly in
creased to ten times the amount if
necessary.
But Japan will strike quickly if at all,
ar.d therein lies her advantage.
Many of Russia's vessels are located
in the Black sea where for the present
they are tied by the Paris treaty.
Other Russian ships are far up the
Baltic ar.d to get them on the scene
of action would require months of
time.
And thi3 is why Japan grows restless.
Once let Russia get her powerful army
on the Japanese islands and the king
dom ot the mikado would disappear like
a dream.
But will Japan sit idly by and wait?
Toe Japanese are a shrewd and war
lite race and will watch the czar's
movements like a hawk. Some terrific
sea contests may be expected if the
clash between these two nations is not
averted. While th'o rresent critical
situation lasts in China Russia may
remain on her good behavior, but some
one will have to pay in the end for this
i'oi bearance. Will it be Japan?
MILLION DOLLARS DAILY
The people of the United States are
paying a million dollars a day for trop
ical products used in manufacturing or
food and drink, and must of which are
produced in greater or less degree or
can be readily produced in the islands
which have come into closer relation
ship with the United States through t'ie
events of the past two years. The
April Summary of Commerce and
Finance, which has just been issued by
the treasury bureau of statistics, shows
that in the ten months ending with
April our imports of tropical products
have been over $300,000,000 in value,
thus averaging fully a million dollars
a day and indicating that for the full
year they will reach $365,000,000.
India rubber, fibers, raw silk, cotton,
guns, cabinet woods, indigo, ivory, dye
woods and certain lines of chemicals
make up the share of this vast sum
which the manufacturers of the United
States take and require in constantly
increasing quantities. The Importation
of raw materials for use in manufac
turing has increased steadily and now
forms more than one-thirel of our total
imports, and the large proportion of
this comes from the tropics. Of india
rubber alone the imports of the ten
months amount to more than $27,000,000;
of fibers, to $20.000, W0; of unmanufac
tured silk, $40,000,000; of cotton, over
$7,000,000: of gums, more than $5,000,000,
while cabinet woods, dyewoods, indigo
and ivory also aggregate several mil
lions. Of the constantly increasing propor
tion of imports of foodstuffs, sugar of
course is first and oi that, the propor
tion which comes from the tropics, is
vastly greater in the past year than in
immediately preceding years, the Dutch
Kast Indies, which lie just alongside of
the Philippines being now our largest
single source of supply for sugar. For
the ten months the importations of
sugar are more than SO million dollars;
those of coffee nearly 50 millions; tea,
nearly 10 millions; tobacco, 16 millions;
tropical fruits and nuts, 15 millions;
cocoa and chocolate, 5 millions and such
other articles as spices, rice, olive oil,
etc., add several millions to the total.
WAYSIDE GARBAGE.
While the city of Topeka is spending
thousands of dollars for the improve
ment of the streets, paving, curbing and
grading and the park commissioners
are pushing their work, it would not be
out of order for the road overseers of
Shawnee county to take a hand in the
general march of progress and look af
ter the roads, in their respective dis
tricts. The surroundings of a city, no matter
what the size may be, are often an In
dication, to strangers at least, of what
may be expected within the corporate
limits. One of the most flagrant
abuses now practiced in this county
is the method cf dumping trash and
other similar materials along the pub
lic highways.
Drive out of the city of Topeka on
any street and before a reasonable dis
tance is traveled, piled high by the side
of the road will be found old cans, trash,
offal and other unsanitary materials
which mar the beauty of the road and
endanger the health of the inhabitants.
When people drive off the pavements
to escape the dust and heat they find
cool air and inviting breezes on country
roads near town but their pleasure is
qualified when those exhilarating
breezes bring the offensive odors from
the wayside.
, This work is the direct result of the
shiftlessness of men who strive to make
a living at this kind of work. They
start out and around the first corner
where no one sees them they unload
and return to town. This is repeated
time and again until the sides of the
roads near town are in a deplorable
condition. It has been held that such
work as this comes within the class of
obstructions, in the eye of the Jaw, for
which there are sufficient penalties, im
prisonment and fines. An example
would stop the practice. A suggestion
that such action be taken by the proper
authorities should be sufficient. Of the
natural roads In Kansas nothing new
can be said; they are far better than
can be found in other states. They
should not be made dumping grounds.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.
Bud Littleton, the town lazy man,
broke his record this morning on Com
mercial street: he went to sleep stand
ing. An Atchison woman who has not
been outside of the city limits for
twenty years won a silver, grip tag at
a recent card party.
Every father, ambitious to give his
children "advantages" he did not
enjoy, spends one-third he earns on
golf outfits and music lessons.
Public opinion gives a man the right
to do only as his wife likes, and gives
her the right to do as she pleases, pro
vided there is no othef man in it-
When a woman says, in excuse for
her flowerless garden, that she doesn't
understand the care of flowers," It
means that she doesn't want the work.
If you are not eligible In having a
wedding with a long list of attendants
to phew your importance, you still
have ore way left: a big list of pall
beareres at your funeral.
Because married people don't hold
hands is no sign of love gi'own cold. It
requires their four hands to earn the
living, wash dishes, clean and sew, and
neither has a spare hand to hold.
It is one of the unfortunate phases
of life that hymn books contain croon
ing airs that put people to sleep, and
the sc.:;s sung by the girl next door,
late at night, are the kind that keep
peojde awake.
When a rich man marries a poor girl,
she likes to give the impression that,
though only a wild flower gathered
v.rder a wayside hedge, she puts to dis
advantage all the hothouse plants that
now surround her.
The money spent in buying a golf
outfit is not entirely wasted. The golf
sticks are of the right size for stirring
clothes in the wash boiler in tne davs
to come, and the sack to carry them in
will be just right for clothespin bag.
or a slipper holder, when the rage is
over.
A recent sensation was spoiled In
Atchisoin by the discovery that the
story was on the wrong man. It was
told to the women on the streets,
.who declared. "Oh. how sorry," "Poor
thing, it will kill her," "I always said
he was a brute." etc. But he wasn t a
brute, for it was some other man. Still,
when the story was told on the Atchi
son man, no one declared it couldn't, be
true: no one said he was too good to
do such a horrible thing. People seem
to be always orepared to believe the
worst about you.
. POINTED PARAGRAPH 3
From the Chicago News.
Wise is the man who knows he
irnorant.
Kxperience
teacher.
must be a high school
It's surprising
stories are.
how thin some tall
Even a weak woman can put up
a pretty strong talk.
A river bed is apt to be well supplied
with springs.
Shiftless people are never the ones
who worry about it.
The man who suspects his neighbors
is not above suspicion.
Fault is one of the things frequently
found where it is not.
Qoeer, isn't it, that water always
freezes with the slippery side up!
There would be a greater demand for
"free" things if they didn't cost so j
much.
The great wall of China is said to
be the largest piece of porcelain in the
world.
It was an Irishman who told his
sweetheart that he couldn't sleep for
dreaming of her.
A chronic loafer fills a place In so
ciety correspondence to that occupied by
a weed in the vegetable kingdom. -
If you do a man a favor and then
refuse to do him another it will make
him twice as angry as if you refused
the first.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Friendship ends when poker begins.
Are doctors' incomes ill-gotten gains?
The tennis court sometimes leads to
the altar.
Ten mills make one cent, but the race
for wealth is not a mill race.
The rhymester who writes doggerel is
evidently not inspired by the muse.
Hot weather would be much more
bearable if there were fewer thermome
ters. When one girl doesn't speak to an
other girl, and wants to cut her, she
just looks daggers.
It's a wise man who anticipates the
seasons. In hot weather it's well to
have a coaled cellar.
While there may be sermons in stones,
it stands to reason that they would be
hard to digest. '
De Tanque "Guzzler is very loud in
his tastes." O'Soaque "Yes; he even
goes in for the cup that cheers."
Of course, women jump at conclu
sions. That's the reason they always
turn to the last chapter of a novel.
Eve may have had her own troubles,
but she never got paralysis cf the wrist
from holding up a dragging skirt.
No, Maude, dear, we have not heard
that it is contrary to the postal regula
tions to send bathing suits through the
mails.
The small hours of the morning seem
the longest to the fellow who has missed
his last car and has to walk home.
"Why so serious?" asked the wife of
the professional humorist. "I am just
thinking how I can pay the butcher's
bill," he replied. "That is surely food
for thought," she remarkeci. And yet
there are people who claim that a w ife
is not a scree of inspiration.
BOOK NOTES.
"Bishop Pendle," by Fergus Hume, '
author of "The Mystery of a Hansom
Cab." etc. Price. $1.25. Published by
Rand. McNally & Co., Chicago.-
In this book "Bishop Pendle" there
is a welcome and broadening out as to
the cast of characters, representing an
unusually wide range of typical men
and women. These are not laboriously
described by the author but are made to
reveal themselves in action and speech
in a way that has, for the reader, all
the charm of personal intercourse with
living people. Some of them seem to
have had no exact prototypes in pre
ceding fiction. Such are Doctor Gra
ham, the man with the scar, "the Mosk
family," and last but not least a de
tective, who is very uniaue in both
character and in methods. The story
is rich in the essential elements of
worthy fiction in characterization, ex
citing adventure, suggestions cf the
marvelous, wit, humor, and pathos,
and contains just enough of the tragedy
to make it good reading.
"Discoverers and Explorers," by Ed
ward R. Shaw, dean of the school of
pedagogy, New, York university. Price,
35 cents. Published by the America-n
Book Co., New Y'ork and Chicago.
Tn this book i3 found one of the most
attractive little books for supplemen
tary reading which has been recently
published. It should be read by the
young pupil after he has gained by
observation and inference a general
knowledge of the locality in which he
lives, and will prove excellent for col
lateral work in connection with the
more advanced geography. The vari
ous discoveries are in turn described,
and he gradually grasps a true concep
tion of the world as it is. In this way
history as well as gography is
taught the pupil and he is suddenly
brought to know that there is a larger
world which has hitherto been un
known to. him. The different adven
tures are told in a simple and most
interesting way, and cannot fail to "in
terest the child.
"The Bible and its Interpreter," by
Rev. P. IT. Casey, professor of dog
matic theology in Woodstock college.
Price, cloth, 5t) cents; paper, 25 cents.
Published by John Jas. - McVey Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
This little book or treatise is in
tended to be a popular presentation of
the question of questions between
Catholics and Protestants. The writer
has avoided technicalities and distinc
tions that would of necessity find place
in a work purely theological. His aim
has been to present the matter in a
plain, simple way, but at the same
time to give his readers the substance
of Catholic teaching on this important
question. Protestants who read thi3
little work are reminded that the
phrase "Catholic church" is employed
in the same sense in which it was un
derstood in the days of old. and even
of the reformers, for in the time of
St. Augustine the Catholic church was
the one undivided church diffused over
the earth. The book is a very valuable
work upon this subject.
, The'demand in Great Britain and her
colonies fr James Lane Allen's new
novel. "The Reign of Law. a Tale of
the Ken.turky Hemp Fields," has been
so great that the final date for publi
cation by Macmillans has been fixed
for July 5. The book would have been
published two week3 earlier but for
the difficulty in getting the necessarily
large editions ready for simultaneous
publication at such distant points.
The wide popularity of Henry Wal
lace's "Letters to the Farm Boy" has
led to its complete revision by the au
thor and the publication of a third edi
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ART IHJANSAS.
Glimpse of a Famous Collection
of Paintings.
Owned by Brinton W. Wood-
ward, of Lawrence.
THE WORK OF YEARS.
Hare Been Selected in Galleries
of the World.
What One May See in the Bryn
wood Gallery.
Few people know that one of the finest
collections of pictures in the west is own
ed in Kansas and forms part of the In
terior decoration of a comfortable, but
modest home In the little citv of Law
rence. The pictures are the property of
Mr. B. W. Woodward and have been gath
ered from every corner of the world in
which rrt flourishes.
In the galk-ry at Brynwood one may
enjoy the soft evening glow of a sunset
by Inness cr the rich mellow light of a
night scene by Thaulow. A Holland ma
rine by Meselag and a landscape by the
famous Austrian, Jettel, eiivide the inter
est. Here and there little canvases bv
well known painters fill nooks on the
wall. It is a singularly restful experience
to sit for a while in the Brynwood gal
lery. That the person who colleoted the
pictures is a lover of peaceful scenes
snatched from nature in its quiet moods is
evident. There is nothing of the rugged
or stirring in this Kansas collection.
There is an absence of battle scenes, no
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Mr. Brinton W. Woodward of Lawrence.
pictures drawn from the experiences of
tumultuous mob are to be seen and no al
legorical undraped figures. A person is
better for a visit to Brynwood.
The following story of the founding of
the Brynwood collection was written by
Prof. Frank O. Marvin of the State Uni
versity and was published in the Agora in
l:6:
"Nearly 25 years ago a prosperous Kan
sas merchant who had grown up with the
country and had passed through 'the
raid' found himself In Philadelphia on
one of his annual trips for replenishing
his stock. Passing along Chestnut street
one evening his ear caught the persua
sive tones of an auctioneer's voice, and
yielding to the impulse he entered and
became a part of the crowd at a picture
sale.
"This was a new experience with
enough of novelty in it to hold him for a
time, with attention divided among the
paintings, the crowd and the seller, yet
with no thought of becoming a partici
pant. At last there was put up a marine
view that under a flood of illumination,
disclosed a line of tall, rough cliff's against
whose base the heavy and dark undulat
ing water broke into lightness and white
ness, a skv that was cool and gray above,
but all aflame below near the setting sun.
with the rich color caught up and re
peated in a broad band by- the tips of
the waves, and a disabled ship in the turf
beating against the rocks with dark spars
and rigging athwart the glowing west. To
his eve this was the most beautiful pic
ture he had ever seen. As his desire to
possess it became irresistible, he became
an active bidder and finally its purchaser
without stopping to eunsider reasons or
consequences.
"Then came serious questions. With
little money In his pocket, no way to reach
any at that time of night, no acquaint
ance to vovich for him. how could he pay?
Would cash be demanded that night? How
would he dare to teli his friends that he
had paid so much for a mere picture?
What had he bought, a good picture or a
daub? Who was this artist? As to art
matters he was ignorant and knew that
he could form no just judgments. The
sale closed for the night and the mer
chant, having arranged to meet his obli
gation on the morrow, retired to his ho
tel to be disturbed throuirh the night with
alternate visions of lovely color dancing
from wave top to wave top, and ef a
steady going, sedate merchant, pirouetting
in the motley garments of a fool. In the
morning a call on a business acquaint
ance gave opportunity for inquiry.
'Who is thisi James Hamilton and what
is his reputation as an artist?'
" 'Oh. Hamilton: he is a Philadelphian
and so popular and prolific that nearlv
every house in the city holds ene of hi-?
canvas's; next to Edward Moran. who is
his pupil, he is perhaps our best Ameri
can marine painter?' Ioubt was immed
iately changed to satisfaction.
"This was the beginning of the Bryn
wood collection of pictures, and the Ham
ilton still hangs on the wall, by- no means
disfi-raoed bv its associates."
Mr. Woodward's labors to build up an
art collection of a high class have been
methodical. He has traveled much nnd
has had much leisure since he has retired
from active business and has always had
his eves open for pictures. If he found
something that pleased him he bought it
and the price was a secondary considera
tion or no consiileration at all. Like the
true artist who loves art for art s sake
the Kansas connoisseur never thin.-cs y
the mor.ev valua cf the works which he
has gathered and no one ever heard him
allude to the price of a painting. The
uncouth and curious visitor who innocent
ly inquires the cost of a picture m the
lirvnwood collection is met with a polite
The picture gallery is lighted by sky
lights arfd the pictures undergo a transi
tion under the changing effects of the at
mosphere as the sun passes from horizon
to 'horizon. The skies on the canvases
lieht up the forest depths are intensified
or the surface of the sea glistens with
glorious sunlight.
At one end of the gallery hangs the
most pretentious picture in the collection.
It is a marine by Hendrik Willem Mes
dag and was painted In the soft hunt of
a Holland day when the fishermen are
busv with their boats. The pic ture is one
from the Holland section of the World'9
fair and It was chosen for the qualities
of rest and color which Mr. Woodward
loves so well.
Directly opposite the Mesdag marine Is
a canvas labelled "End of Autumn in the
Campine." The author is C. Van Leem
putten. The artist is a Belgian and his
picture shows a flock of sheep moving
down a narrow road under the guidance
of a shepherdess. The animals are living,
moving creatures. No detail has been
omitted and each thread of wool seems to
stand out distinctly while the sheep them
selves appear ready to walk out of the
canvas. Here again Mr. Woodward's
taste for the peaceful manifests it-self.
Nothing could be more satisfying to the
weary mind than to gaze on this simple
Belgian scene which marks the close of
an autumn day. This is also one of the
pictures chosen from the World's Fair
gallery.
"The Vidette" a Russian production, by
Wywiorski. shows a soldier in the soli
tude of a falling camp fire standing near
his horse.
"A Street by Moonlight."' by Thaulow,
shows one of those queer conceptions
which attract one rather by the master
ful handling of the night effect than any
thing else.
One of the best landscapes in the col
lection is a French painting by Lambinet
which has the simple title, "Summer in
P'rance." The simplicitv of the scene Is
such that one almost wonders why his
eyes are attracted to the picture. He for
gets the wonderful handling of the sub
ject, he sees the flood of light in the sky
and the soft grass on the surface of the
landscape and he is transported to scenes
beyemd the sea, but he does not think of
the picture.
One of the recent acquisitions is a can
vas by George Inness, the prince of Amer
ican landscapists. It Is called "Sunset at
the Ford," and is one of the most pleas
ing color studies in the collection. Any
one who has watched a Kansas sky at
sunset, when the light is gilding the sum
mer clouds might have a conception of
this work. The failing light is reflected
from the stream In which two horses have
been stopped by a plowman to quench,
their thirst. The picture was secured from
the Altman collection in New York City.
Inness painted this picture when at the
zenith of his success in 1S.S6. In 1S94 he
broke down and died.
Just below the Inness landscape hangs
"Her Love Story," by W. Verplank Bir
nev, who is one of the promising young
American figure painters. The canvas is
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the interior of a luxurious home in the
middle of which on a hassock rests the
prettily poised figure of a young girl.
Around her is strewn the letters, the con
tents of which she is communicating to
a young lady friend.
Near this hangs another sunset effect,
by Bruce Crane, in tints of rich orange,
green and gold.
Edward Meran. of New York, is the
author of a midocean scene, with a vessel
plowing its way through the waves.
Moran has been rated as the leading ma
rine painter of America, and well de
serves the title.
The last acquisition to the Brynwood
collection comes from the studio of E.
Irving Couse. of New York City. Mr.
Couse is a tonalist and represents the
poetry of a scene in low tones of color. A
group of lambs in this landscape eiccu
pies the center of the picture, but does
not detract from the harmonious effect.
There are about 75, canvases in the- Bryn
wood gallery. Every picture in the col
lection is interesting, seime are better
than others, but there are few that would
be passed by with a single glance. The
gallery is an honor to Kansas and a mon
ument to a man who has found recrea
tion among the productions ef artists of
all nations. No one can visit Brynwood
and net leave with a. sense that his horizon
has been broadened and his sen.se of ap
preciation for the beautiful deepened.
L. L. K.
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