The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-12
JULY MAGAZINES.
The Kansas Magazine.


! For nea rly two years past there has beeI
published at Topeka, Kansas, a monthly ma
gazine, in shape, size, style, typography anC
general get up" closely resembling the At
lantic Monthly, and certainly none behinC
that notable organ Of Athenian culture and
refinement in the attractivcness Gifts contents
! There may be less refinement and polish, bu
! there is certainly more freshness, vgOr and
/ force Doubtless your Boston transcenden
talst many find the Atlantic more TO his taste
but to the every day Western reader, who hai
no time for metaphysical retinements, and Z
whom intellectual yigor is valuable only ~
the handmade of physical force in subjUga
ting and building up, the Kansas Magazin,
is nutriment where the other is sedative.
The July No, opens with an article il
which, under the title of Fifty Days of His
/ tory" We have q magnificent sketch OF the
unparalleled maneWerings plots and counter
/ plots, and final thrilling climax which ended
| in the defeat and political downfall of Sena.
/ tor Pomeroy at Topeka last winter. The
writer, who conceals his name was evidently
behind the curtain, and seems familiar with
every minute fact. The secret Caucusing on
both sides, the machiayellian diplomacy OF
the leaders, the success of Pomcry in the eau.
cus-his naughty confidence-and then the
climax are sketched with a master hand
Amid scene of excitement never before
narallelcd in any dclibcrativc body assembled
in the United States, York placed upon the
Secrctarys desk a huge roll of greenbacks,
amounting in value 10 seven thousand dollars.
Checks which still wore the smile OF but a
moment before, blanchcd with deathly pal.
lor, and too full for uttcrance, the surging and
excited multitude in that crowded hall sat
dumb in the presence Of the appalling catas
trOphc. News of sudden calamity, involy-
ing loss OF fortune or of life; a city on fire ;
the rCmOrSclcss waves sweeping over another
buried Atlantic; a routed army, beaten, bleed.
ing and destroyed; the gloom of earthquake
shock or the cyclones dcsolation might have
produced the same effect, but nothing more
Great God! did ever money look SO cheap
and insight ticant beforeg In the midst OF
this awful silence, York continued his re.
marks and although ordinarily not above the
rank 81 the average speaker, for the one and
only llmc inAJs life he arose equal To- the OC-
casiun, and 18th words which had been
studied, proceeded in his dcnuncia,ion of
Pomeroy and his plea for Il commonwealth
which he alleged had long been outraged.
and concluded by limiting in no indirect WAY
that he had learned that other members had
been approached, and We're then LISTENING to'
him with Pomeroy's money in their pockets.
The Gentleman from Sand Greek" sketch.
Is character who Is daily met with in the
widest and most outofthcway and un.
thousands of New England's best brain and
muscle, hc had driflcd from the scenes of his
boyhood To this bnundlcsS Western ocean:
He had been back once, he said, and The
old collcgc-tOwn lay quictcr than ever, with
hOmclv spires and disCOriant bells, and IT,,
phaanX of dear old maids, Tilted years aru
by students long los; in the maAcS of Il larger
worlds than theirs. He described how changed
in after years seems the spot i'll which was
written and sung the ldyl Of the sChool-boy.
The yellow lampight shone upon his face a.
he spoke, and the rain fell in torrents ami
tickled down the paneS, and as looked up
on him / thought of the strangcncss ot the fact
that the inmate o! a dingy room and a quiet
world ten years ago, should appear again
anna scenes 50 inherent, ana wondered thu
i'm his comical garments he brought no smell
of wood yiolet>, and on his face no fiush OF
boyish debate He seemed older than he
ought - he SAT there, and if the world he
lived in had been different from the fuur,
of which We once had dreamed together
waited unit, BE- should tell oi il, and of him
self
There l. q mastery article on The "Osayc
Land Question - another on "Jury Trial- in
Criminal Gases - and We have racy sketches
stories, poetry &c, with Contributors Club,