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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1900.
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
BY FRANK P. MAC tSNXAX.
VOLUME XXVII
. .... No. 246
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Uncle Adlai is proving to be some
thing of a spellbinder himself.
Having shown Buller how to do it,
"Hobs' will now leave him to complete
the- job. . .
Fittsburg(h), newspapers. shouH
get together. Some epell H with an h
and some don't.
As South Dakota goes, so goes the
Union; at least that is the way the cam
paign managers appear to look at it. .
Sir Thomas Lipton has acquired all
the visible pork in the United Stales,
and now he is after the America's cup.
The people- seem determined not to
permit politics to disturb their enjoy
ment of this beautiful Indian summer
weather.
Mr. Gage and Herr Schurz have been
crowded out of the letter writing arena
by Mr. Meiklejohn- and Mr. Bryan, the
two gentlemen from Nebraska-
Senator Depew says the Republican
party is trying to put the dollar within
reach of the man. This is said to be
true of both parties in Indiana.
Presidential Candidate Barker thinks
Mr. Bryan cannot win unless he can
carry New York and Illinois and con
cludes, that this is not wholly impossi
ble. '
Writers of newspaper headlines who
have tried to get Roosevelt's name in
the top line and failed, will appreciate
the announcement that it is too long
for the official ballot.
Indiana can promise Governor Roose
velt decent treatment at any rate. In
dianapolis News.
But this was written before the Ft.
AVayne incident took place.
A subscriber writes to an eastern news
paper asking if a Roman Catholic is
eligible to the presidency. Let one try
it and the other churches wouldn't do
a thing to him.
The good judgment of the Democratic
senate which refused to confirm Presi
dent Cleveland's appointment of Wheel
er H. Peckham to the supreme bench,
foas been confirmed. The gentleman in
question has come out for McKinley .
New York World: If that state is
test governed which is governed least,
-New York is at present the best gov
erned state in the union. It has neither
governor, lieutenant governor nor even
private secretary.
President McKinley has not been par
tial in his distribution of good crops.
He has treated Democrats and Republi
cars alike. The cotton crop of the south
is an excellent one and Florida has a
bumper yield of oranges.
Everybody reads the State Journal.
Republican managers appear to be plac
ing a large amount of faith in Senator
Stewart. The venerable gentleman, it
will be remembered, had a hard time
carrying- the state for himself.
Mr. Cleveland continues to resist all
attempts to draw him into a discussion
of political questions. The most that
he has been induced to say is that he
has not changed his financial views.
Neither has Bourke Cockran, David Hill
or Senator Gorman.
There are not cars enough to handle
the country's big crop, and even when
they get to the seaboard there are not
enough ships to carry the grain and cot
ton abroad. The only way to relieve a
congestion of this nature is to elect
Bryan. Within two years there would
be plenty of cars. Cincinnati Commer
cial Tribune.
Here is a plain declaration that the
success or failing of crops in the United
States is under the control.of the presi
dent. THE 1904 EXPOSITION".
Directors of the proposed Kansas ex
position, communicating w ith the mem
bers cf the committee in charge of the
preliminaries, send in flattering reports
concerning the outlook for this event.
It is an encouraging feature of the
work in the hands of the committees,
th.t the directors are reporting the fact
that nominees for the legislature in all
parties are pledging themselves to vote
for appropriations for1 this exposition, in
the event they are elected to serve the
state in the house or senate.
The practical unanimity with which
people are taking hold of the proposed
exposition indicates that the prospects
are very bright. The sale of stock is
progressing and the officers receive from
all parts of the state letters of encour
agement and offers of supiport.
Wichita would have appreciated the
exposition but since Topeka has secured
the location of it. the men in Wichita,
have gladly united with those who sup
ported the capital city to make the ex
position here a success, and are working
as diligently as they would if the loca
tion had been given to Wichita. This
fact is very pleasing to the officers of
the association who report the excellent
work being done now in Sedgwick
count-.
IT DOES NOT PAY.
Leavenworth had a very unfortunate
ending to the Apple Carnival. The dis
orderly element was uppermost, and the
fighting and rowdyism which began a
noon, reached a disgraceful stage by
ten o'clock at night. Fights were in
numerable, women were insulted, and
scenes were enacted that reminded people
of Kansas City. The Leavenworth Times
says the management should bt
ashamed of the parade, and that the
carnival was disgraceful. Atchison
Globe.
This is the natural result of truckling
to the Criminal and disorderly element.
As soon as that class is given to under
stand that the authorities wink at the
practices by which they thrive Ihey be
come bold and do not attempt to dis
guise theii' contempt for the citizen who
would attend to his own business and
who does not believe in violence.
Every city in Kansas will eventually fihd
out that it is not necessary to encourage
lawlessness in order to make a public
festival ok celebration a success. All the
talk about visitors expecting and want
ing that kind of a condition is rot.
Such a procedure is not only a mistake
but is an outrage upon the visitors .who
are invited to be present and enjoy
themselves, appreciate the benefits of
doing business in the city, and incidental
ly, spending their money.
The Kansas City festivities this year
were a shining example of this condition.
Sharpers were allowed to ply their" avo
cations on Main street and the guileless
visitor was inveigled into dens w here he
was fleeced of all he had. The thugs and
gamblers were encouraged by the city
authorities and they knew that what
ever they did would be overlooked.
It will be strange, indeed, if the plan
followed will help Leavenworth or Kan
sas City. It is only reasonable to sup
pose that people who have been imposed
upon and robbed will not cherish fond
memories of the cities which are respon
sible for the outrages. The result can
be but disadvantageous to any city
which" encourages the lawlessness and
winks at the discomfiture of the visitors
who are brought there under the erron
eous belief that they are to be enter
tained. The city which will suppress rowdyism
and will drive the outlaws from its lim
its will find that honesty pays in ad
ministering public affairs at all times.
EVERY DAY MAY BE SUNDAY.
In some school readers of a decade or
two ago the children read a story of a
poor swain who received a tantamount
refusal when he asked her father for
th hand of his love in marriage. The
old gentleman replied that she should
be his when three Sundays came in a
week, and chuckled at his own diplo
mancy. Continuing in a fanciful way,
the tale brings, two old ship captains
to the home of this shrewd parent on
a certain Sunday. Both have just re
turned from voyages around the world,
sailed in opposite directions. These
three worthies, being mixed in their
reckonings, have a weighty argument.
Somewhere in the antipodes the west
going sailor lost a day, so he said the
next day would be Sunday. But the
other sailor averred that the preceding
day had been the' Sabbath. And, of
course, pater familias maintained that
all three of them were even then breath
ing: the air of the holy day. Therefore,
the young lover, who had his ears glued
to the conversation, although he had but
one thought uppermost in his mind and
one desire in his heart, put in his claim
for his bride on the ground that three
Sundays had occurred in a week, and
carried her off with the paternal bless
ing. Now in Jerusalem the people really
have three Sundays In a week. The
Mohammedans observe Friday, the
Hebrews Saturday, and the Christians
Sunday. If each sect should send rep
resentatives around the "world in oppo
site directions, behold the possibilities.
On their return they would have a com
bination of nine Sundays; but, because
they overlap, only a net gain of two
would be recorded. Thursday and Mon
day would be taken out of the secular
list. Hence, if there were only one
more sect, the entire week could be
filled. If another sect will arise and
take Tuesday for its day of worship, by
the same globe-trotting method both
remaining days, and the grand total
would be twelve Sundays in a week of
seven days, with Saturday three times
Sunday, Sunday twice Sunday, and
Monday twice Sunday.
The above computations are for the
benefit of the Sons of Rest. The grand
total would not be too many for some
of those who pin their faith on the
words of the song-writer w-ho- wrote
"Every Day will be Sunday By and By."
With all these possibilities the Zionist
movement should succeed, if it divides
its cohorts and approaches Palestine
from opposite directions. With such
alluring prospects for days of rest, a
large number of recruits could be se
cured for a crusade from Topeka. judg
ing from the ' congested condition of
some street corners these bright days,
with its able-bodied individuals blink
ing at the "men wanted" signs, and the
influx of hobo mendicants that have
made their appearance in droves in the
last few days, since the first frost
struck town.
q) .tojDEj X-taAg; :satujx otBjjng
makes to the development of the intel
ligence of the whole people, every means
to the end of correct public judgment
Upon the vital questions of popular gov
ernment, constitute the asset of modern
journalism, and the newspaper that an
swers the proper ideal of conservator of
public opinion is not only a legitimate
part of our system of common educa
tion but a real public beneficence.
The late Thomas G. Shearman before
departing this life, fired a parting shot
at the silver men by inserting a clause
In his will to the effect that "the word
dollars, wherever the same has been
used in this will, it is to be construed
as meaning dollars in gold coin of the
United States of America."
I am completely disheartened.
Tonight I entered the narlor suddenly
and I found my husband lying on one
of my lovely new" sofa cushions.
How impossible it is for a woman to
make a home in the true sense when
she is marrid to such an insensate man!
-Sometimes I feel that I should be glad
to die. Detroit Journal.
VACATION" IS OVER.
tWritten for the State Journal.
When the summer days are over
And you've hied yourself "to hum,"
And are btiy earning money
For your next vacation "bum"
When the working hours seem longer
As the days reverse the rule:
And ttie stifling heat of summer
Is displaced with autumn's cool.
Then you shiver in your shirtwaist
And are sorry that you're poor.
For you've squandered all your savings
And you haven't any more.
Then you feel the old reluctance
Against working ev'ry day;
You would lead a life of leisure
It you only hail your way.
But you've spent your hard-earned dollars
For two weeks of solid fun.
So take your old familiar seat
And turn the grindstone on.
FLORENCE KIMBALL.
THE INDIAN SUMMER.
Written for the State Journal.
When pastures green lie in between
The lields of a winter's sowing,
When rows of corn in early morn
Are stirred by soft winds blowing:
When stacks of gold, like mines do hold,
The wealth of summer's toiling;
When rivers gleam and all the scene
The painter's brush is foiling.
It's golden fall so bright to all.
An Indian summer in Kansas.
When soft twilight of coming night.
O'er the landscape's gently creeping,
The evening star is seen afar.
And others so faintly peeping
Through tree tops high, against the sky.
With the moon are softly flirting;
The startled hare, from grassy lair.
The base of the hill is skirting,
Then quiet reigns and all proclaims
The Indian summer of Kansas.
PHIL EASTMAN.
DANGER IN FOOTBALL VICTORY
The palm of victory in Missouri val
ley football has been' handed around un
til it has come to Topeka. The sons of
Ichabod Washburn have sent the K. XT.
eleven down in humiliating defeat and
should the victorious team not win an
other game this season Washburn can
point for years to come to the team of
1900 in the strength of that one game.
But with the team she has Washburn
stands an excellent chance to end the
season with an enviable record. Athletics
at Washburn have received a stimulus.
This year's baseball team closed the sea
son with a good string of victories, one
against K. U. But there is danger of
over-confidence as a result of the K. U.
game. The baseball team of last season
after defeating several strong clubs was
imbued with the idea that it could de
feat any nine and allowed one of the
weakest teams in the state to score a
victory.
But Washburn has the future to look
after. With the exception of the state
universities the teams of the colleges. of
Missouri and. Kansas have .suffered af
ter a season of marked success. In 1892
the Marmaduke Military academy in
Missouri put a football team into the
field that easily defeated the college
teams of the state and played the Mis
souri University Tigers a tie game. That
was the end of winning football teams
for Marmaduke, a small school. The
next season found half a dozen of her
star players at M. U. and others at the
larger colleges. In 1893 Baker universi
ty at Baldwin, Kan., put into the field
a team which was certainly one of the
strongest that ever played in the west
and defeated both the Kansas and Mis
souri university teams. But that was '
the end of football at Baker. Missouri
came to the front in 1895 with her "In
vincibles," which won everything but
for the past three years M. U. has not
Scored against Kansas. Last year K. U,
put the strongest team into the field
that ever represented the -university.
But the university has suffered as with
all the rest and this year has a team
that is deplorably weak. The "presi
dents' "agreement is given as the cause.
Last year K. U. had Yost for coach but
could not retain him at Leland Stanford
university saw his worth and being a
much larger and wealthier institution
secured his services at a handsome con
sideration. Iowa and Nebraska univer
sities have had teams in the game in
past years that carried off the honors
with little or no, opposition and then the
'varsities had to be content in seasons
to come with teams of questionable
worth.
Will the result be the same with
Washburn will her star players and
her competent coach be gobbled up next
season by other teams, leaving Wash
burn weak and with only the memory
of past greatness?
It Happened in a Drug1 Store.
"One day last winter a lady came to my
drug store and asked for a brand of cough
medicine that I did not have in stock,"
ways Mr. C. R. Grandin, the popular drug
gist of Ontario, N. Y. "She was disap
pointed and wanted to know what cough
preparation I could recommend. I said
to her that I could freelv recommend
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and that
she could take a bottle of the remedy and
after giving it a fair trial if she did not
find it worth the money to bring back
the bottle and I would refund the price
paid. In the course of a day or two the
lady came back in company with a friend
in need of a cough medicine and advised
her to buy a bottle of Chamberlain's
CouRh Remedy. I consider that a very
good recommendation for the remedy." It
js for sale by all druggists.
AT MOORE'S
The New
Art Statuary
in our north window
we are told is very
attractive and very
reasonable in price.
Inspection will convince you.
t
MOORE BOOK
and
STATIONERY CO.,
603 Kansas Ave.
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HfrMMM'"'"'
"WITH HOOPS OF STEEL"
A Xovel by a Former Kansan
Florence Finch Kelly.
A Bright and Entertaining Story of
Southern New Mexico and Its
Picturesque Life.
This is the last new novel of adven
ture in days when novelists sack the
corners of our solar system for heroes
and adventures, and seize upon every
event from the celebration of Christmas
200,000 B. C. to the building of the tower
of Babel, and the screwing together of a
Broadway skyscraper. But in this last
story the scene is not laid far away in
time end place. It is not in times we
call prehistoric; nor in the hour of
Philip the Crafty of Spain, or of politic
Henry of Navarre, or of bluff Harry
VIII. of England. Nor is it in some
imaginary kingdom in the center of
Europe, nor in inner Africa, nor upon
the rectangular ditches of the red plan
et Mars. Its entourage is not in ancient
feudalism, or ancestral glory. or the
machinations of imaginary folks whose
heads do grow beneath their shoulders.
It is far from, all this. The author has
chosen simply, and in our own land.
Here we have a town in southern New
Mexico for the scene, and for the char
acters the devil-may-care, powder-burning,
hot-headed Spanish and American
children of nature found in that home
of the mesquite.
You will see at once that there are
none of the jousts or tournaments, none
of the wars of extension and revenge
and destruction, the detailing of .which
forms a great part of many of our late
novels. If there are jousts they are
those of the cowboys over some sweet
water spring. If there are wars of ex
tension they are those for the gobbling
up of lands by a cattle company; and if
of revenge, well, we all sympathize
with the border rioting the small breed
ers have waged against the great cattle
breeding corporations or trusts.
This beok has the same values in ad
venture that one finds in mediaeval
story. Precisely the same. But in
stead of earls and counts we have
judges and colonels; instead of the vil
lainous Italian or Turk, we have the
stealthy Mexican, and instead of faith
ful henchmen who fight for the lord's
advantage to their own death, we have
the picturesque vaqueros.
In choosing such a subject for her new
novel Mrs. Kelly has taken one almost
untouched, and one moreover In which
at present she will have few competi
tors. Few who have a pen facile like the
pen that wrote this book, have knowl
edge of this land of the "tomorrow" and
experience with its people. The authors
of books treating that locality and peo
ple have commonly gained their plenary
inspiration from a distorted fancy.
But with Mrs. Kelly it is different. She
has lived in the region and studied her
neighbors, and, in addition to this, she
has all the time had in mind a different
point of view, a different Criticism of
life from that of her neighbors, a differ
ent standard by which she measured
events and peoples.
The hero of this story "With Hoops of
Steel" is not one man, I should say, but
three, and three which must have liv
ing originals. Down there in New Mex
ico we should doubtless find them.
These men's strange mixture of blood
will not seem unnatural, or forced, to
those who know the southwest and the
infiltration of races constantly going on
in these regions. The author's descrip
tion of this tripleTbodied hero is much
better quoted than described. Here it
is:
"They were all three of nearly the same
age, they were all Texan born and bred,
and for many years had been the closest
of friends. Each one stood six feet and
some inches in his stockings, and their
great stature, brnad should ri, deep el es s
and sinewy figures marked them for no
tice, even in the southwest, the land of
tat!, well muscled men.
"Thomson Tuttle was the tallest and by
far the heaviest of the three a great
blonde giant, w-ith the round, frank, sin
cere face of an overgrown school boy,
glowing with the red tan which fair skins
take on in the hot, dry air of the south
west. From this red expanse a pair of
serious blue eyes looked out, while a short
tawny mustache covered his lip, and
auburn hair curled in close rings over his
head. It was never necessary for Thom
son Tuttle to do any swearing, for the
colors that dwelt in his face kept up a
constant profanity. There was a strain
of. German blood in him his mother had
come from Germany in her childhood
which showed in his impassive counten
ance and in the open serious directness
of his mental habit.
"EUborn was the handsome one of
the three friends. He was straight, slen
der, long of limb, clean of muscle, and
remarkably Quick and graceful in his
movements. His regular features were
clear-cut, and his dancing eyes were
bright and black and keen. His sweep
ing black mustache curled up at the ends
in a wide curve that shaded a dimple in
each cheek. He was as proud of the
fact that both of his maternal grand
parents had been born In Ireland as he
was that he himself was 8 native of
Texas. The vigorous Celtic strain, that
in the clash of nationalities can always
hold its own against any blood with
which it mingles, had dowered him well
with Celtic characteristics. A trace of
the brogue still lingered in his speech,
along with the slurred r's and the soft
drawl of his southern tongue, while his
spontaneous rebellion under restraint nnd
his briliiant disregard of his behavi jr
were as truly Celtic as was the honey
sweet persuasiveness with which he could
convince his friends that whatever he had
done had been exactly right and the only
thing possible. He was all Irish that
wasn't Texan, and all Texan that -wasn't
Irish, and everybody he knew he either
loved or hated, and was ready according
to his feelings either to do anything for,
or to 'do up' on a moment's notice,
"Emerson Mead's stronger and more
sober intelligence harked back to New
England, whence his mother had come in
her bridal days, and although the Puri
tan characteristics shdwed less plainly in
his nature than she wished, having been
much warmed ar.d mellowed by their
transplantation to southern soil, no Puri
tan of them all could have outdone th s
tall Texan in dogged adherence to what
he believed to be his i-ights. His mother
had kept faith with the land of her na
tivity, and as part of her worship from
afar at the shrine of its great sage hid
given his name to her only son. By vir
tue of his stronger character and beter
poised Intel igenee, Emerson Mead l ad al
ways been the leader of the three
friends."
It would be impossible to tell here of
the difficulties and hair-breadth escapes;
these three fine fellows live together
with entire honor, fealty and affection.
Some of their adventures are full of risk,
and others again full of humor. I think
that among the humorous parts the cut
ting off of the queue of a Chinaman is
the funniest, or rather not the act it
self, but some of the results of that ef
frontery and daring. A brt of the fun
appears in the scene of the trial for
damages.
"Ellhorn returned to Las Plumas for
his own trial, the result of which was
that he was fond guilty of assault and
battery upon the Chinese and fined five
hundred dollars". The moment sentence
was pronounced upon him he strode ti
the judge's desk and laid down his check
for the amount of his fine. Then he
straightened up, thrust his hands in his
pockets and exclaimed:
" 'Now, I want that pig tail!' .
" 'You are fined five doil-irs fr con
tempt of court,' said the judge, frowning
"With Hoops of Steel." bv Flereice
F'nch Kelly, illustrated by Dan Smith,
pub ished by the Bowen-Merrill Company,
Indianapolis, Price, $1.5.
at the tall Texan, who looked very much
in earnest. ,
" "All right. Judge! Here you are!' sail
Nick cheerfullv. as he put a gold piece
down beside the check. "Now. I want that
Chinv pig tall! It's mine! I've paid bg
for It! It's cost me five hundred and five
dollars, and no end of trouble, and it be
longs to me.'
" 'You are fined ten dollars for contempt
of court.' the judge said, severely, biting
his lips behind his whiskers.
" "Here you are, judge'.' and Nick spun
a ten dollar gold piece on the desk. "I
want that scalp as a memento of this
affair, and to remind me not to mix my
drinks again. I've paid for it. a whole
heap mor n it's worth, and I demand my
fropertv." 'That scalp's mine, and
mean" to have What I've paid for. if I
have to sue vour blamed old court till the
dav of judgment!' And he went at once
and filed a suit against the district for
the recovery of the queue."
This queue appears as a sort of mascot
at opportune moments throughout the
rest of the tale. It serves Emerson as a
life-preserver and finally on the last
page helps the small brother of the he
roine to play horse on the morning of
that wedding without which a story is
no story.
The idiom of this book "With Hoops
of Steel" is notable. The author is es
pecially happy in reproducing the ver
nacular of the country she writes of.
The speech of the characters rings with
the mother-wit and honest individuality,
which, as a rule, enliven western ex
pression. They have the picturesque de
scriptive to a degree, and the pointed
terse speech of the plains and canyons.
Such talk is commonly at war with set
trite expression and makes its inde
per ience known by all sorts of riotous
acts against the conventional usage of
nouns, verbs and adjectives. But it is
strong, and full of honest blood, inven
tive resource and humor. In this it be
speaks the character of the people who
use it.
Besides this flavor of local speech
there is reproduction too of another
characteristic of the southwest that in
evitably strikes as odd an outsider who
chances to be there. There are social
lines in the community of course. Wher
ever women are, social lines are, and
there were women in Las Plumas, But
the odd part of it is that the social lines
are drawn after the political division of
the town. Indeed social conventions
await political party lines. The follow
ing is one of the instances where the
author touches the fact:
"On Saturday of the first week in Oc
tober Judge Harlin received a private dis
patch from Santa Fe, saying that the su
preme court had decided the shrievalty
contest in favor of Joe Davis, the Demo
cratic candidate. At once ' the threat
ened storm -began to break. By noon
Main street was again divided into two
opposing camps. Every rifie, revolver and
shotgun in the town that was not carried
on some man's person, was put within
easy reach of ready hands. Shops and
offices, stores and gardens were des-rted.
and men hurried to the center of the
town, where they drifted along the side
walk or stood in doorways . in excited
groups, each side anxiously and angrily
on the alert for some open act of hostil
ity from the other. The Republicans sai 1
they had not received official notice of
the decision of the court, and that they
would not surrender the office until it
should reach them. The Democrats de
manded that it should be given up at once
and accused the other side of secreting
the court order with the intention cf hold
ing the office through Emerson Mead's
trial. Mead's case was the first on the
docket.
"Men who were next door neighbors, or
friends of long standing, passed each
other with scowls or averted faces, if they
were members of the opposing parties.
Mrs. John Daniels was planning to give
a swell breakfast to a dozen chosen
friends early the next week, the first ap
pearance of that form of entertainment
in Las Plumas society, and she was de
lightedly pluming herself over the tnl
the function would be sure to create and
the envious admiration her fren
would feel because she had introduced
something new. She had talked the mat
ter over with her dearest friend, Mrs.
Judge Harlin, whom she had sworn to
secrecy, and she was on her way to the
postoffice to mail her invitations when
she saw the threatened storm was break
ing. Her glance, swept up Main street on
one side and down on the other, and she
turned about and hurried home to sub
stitute in her list of guests for those
whose sympathies were Democratic, oth
ers whose masculine affiliations were Re
publican." The drinking habit of the people one
wishes were different. But again any
one with knowledge of the life of that
region will see that the author is dis
tinctly within facts in allowing her
characters unblushing mixtures, and
unhesitating use of them.
As I said above, the plot of this story
of adventure is quite impossible to re
late. It is filled with startling turns and
most unexpected contingencies and per
ils. There is in the midst of it, and
serving as a directive force, a love
story, or rather love stories, for there
are two or more which run through the
book and give it sentiment of the sweet
er sort. The author shows a peculiar
felicity in the construction and evolution
of the intricate plot. It is one of those
rare stories that you can not foresee the
course of, and the end ahead as you
read.
I remember seeing some years ago a
newspaper squib to the effect that most
people you heard about wrote "of Kan
sas, "or "formerly of . Kansas" after
their names. Perhaps I should add that
this remark was in aKansas newspaper.
For this second novel by a former
Kansan which has come to my hand
within the last six months is this fair
Ciaim. The first you recall by Professor
Wickersham's "Enoch Willoughby,"
which has now passed through several
editions.
Mrs. Kelly used to IiVe in Kansas. She
was formerly a student at the state uni
versity. After her graduation she en
tered newspaper work in Boston, and
since that time she has written much
for publications of both the eastern and
western coast cities. She is now living
in Philadelphia where her husband is
editorial writer for the "North-American."
Mrs. Kelly is herself also an edi
torial contributor to the same paper.
This book "With Hoops of Steel" may
prove especially attractive to Kansans
both because it is by one who used to
live' in their midst and for whom they
have the kindest of Kansas feeling
that is to say the kindest feeling possi
ble in the world and also because the
book is in itself such a stirring and en
tertaining tale of adventure. Then there
is still another reason why It should in
terest Kansans it details a phase of life
not so remote from them that a Santa
Fe or a Pacific train may not carry them
within a few hours to the same weird
scenery, the same hearty people to the
same life made up in part of the nine
teer.th century and its amenities, and
in part of the days of our early free
booters and land grabbers whose law- of
right lay in their own trusted pistol and
carbine and musket.
A word should be added about the il
lustrations, which are six in number,
and by Mr. Dan Smith. The first thing
you think of when you see them is that
they are colored, and beautifully colored.
Instantly, too, you see they are we'l
drawn and well thought out. The artist
knows his country. The landscape, the
people, the cattle and horses are New
Mexican. The feeling of the country i3
in these colored plates notably in the
ride of the three horsemen, and in the
midnight stampede of the cattle through
the torrents of rain.
KATE STEPHENS.
New York, September 29, 1900.
"He called you a political boss."
"Yes" answered Mr. Rawkus. "I heard
him." '
"Weren't you indignant?"
"Not a bit. That fellow has been try
ing for seme time to make trouble, and
the sooner he realizes exactly who the
political bosses are the better it will be
for him." Washington Star.
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