The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-03
absent from her poetry. Hearken:

absent from her poetry. Hearken:
"within the woodland. when the leaves were
turning,
And, as we watched the western heavens
| burning.
You handed down Bitter-Sweet to me.
| A rose had never been gift In keeping
With faith which lives alike through JOY or
| pain,
Yet. when you smiled. through eyes that told
knew. although sublime. our faith was vain.
And this was why, with white face full of
| grievipg,
You road again the path with briars grown,
,h me! you bore away the sweet In leaving,
ID left me with the bitter there alone!"
lay my pen in the dust before one
who can write such poetry as that.
Let US hope that Miss Horner will be
mot at home" hereafter to all the Sc
ducive influences which would turn
her from the sphere for which che is
so enminently adapted.
whats In a name?".. Much, If it be
the name of a book. Many books
have gone down to oblivion simply be-
cause there was nothing attractive in
their names. Who can think Of q
name for a volume of verse more deli
cately suggestive than "Wild Rose
Petals?" If there are not one thous.
and volumes of this book sold, then I
shall always believe there is nothing
in a name. "Wild Rose Petals" is by
Miss Lydia NJ. Jackson. of Topeka.
The poems are few in number, but in
to them the author has put the charm
of a graceful, cultured personality.
The themes are not ambitious, but
they are in harmony with the auth
ors' experience in life, and.so more
satisfactory than the pretentious ven.
turing into unknown regions. We
quote a few lines from Ambitious
Nell"
"Oh little Nell, ambitious Nell,
it is not what its seeming,
To climb to flames enchanting height
| OF which you now are dreaming,
Could Md but go before you there
That yOu his steps might follow,
Could help You up the steep hillside
And through the marshy hollow.
Could carry you the waters O'er,-
But ali, that Is forbidden!
The prize You seek would then be his.
| Your destined path is hidden
SO none but you can trace it out,
And you must put asunder
The thorny bOughs, and lift the vines,
And, holding them, pass nnder,
Your feet will bleed, your hands be torn,
A dreary journey making,
And, after all, you'll sing your song
Because youf heart is breaking.'
TALES and Legends of Two Repub-
lies" is the title of book of poems by
Prof. B. w. Allsworth, of Richland.
Prof. Ellsworth has made a special
study of the Mexican language and
literature, and many of his poems are
translations of Mexican manuscripts.
have not been in the habit, for some
thirty years. of reading the Mexican
language. SO 1 cannot say how faith.
fully the TRANSACTIONS are made, but
certainly our dark tinted neighbors
are not entirely destitute of poetic fire
if any of the ideas found in this vol
ume originated with them. One of
the best poems is entitled:
TIE TEACHER.
How VISUAL shall " we e. add Id to ., earthly beauty"
by teaching man 1t is his duty
To smooth his neighbours way.
''To teach mankind the art of living
Is doing heavens will;
1t would be well if more were giving
To that their time and skill.
'Tis true, ifjudged by earthly measure,
They toll for little pay.
And very few their hours of leisure
lffaithful on the way.
When conscious that they know their mis-
sion
And do their labor right,
1t gives to life rich fruitiOn
And makes the dark seem Light
The angel smiled and said with laughter:
Pm going with a CROWN
A host Of angels started after,
And quickly followed down.
They placed the crown, with richest bless
ing,
Upon the teachers brow:
If she is onward, upward pressing,
She wears 1t, even now.
Many arr the eulogies which have
been pronounced upon Kansas. We
love to think of her as the paradise of
the world, the center of civilization,
the motive power behind the progress
sive spirit of our country which in.
sures our forward march. That we,
have anything in Kansas which will
not harmonic with these conceptions
We are Glow to believe. Yet, J. N.
Reynolds, of Atchison, a late inmate
Of our State penitentiary for violation
of the State postal lave, has put forth
book treating of our State peniten-
tiarv as "a Kansas He'll" The first
thing one notices about the book is
that is not nearly 80 sensational az the
the title would seem to indicate. The
second is that there are very few
chances given for the young or un,o-
phisticated reader to learn the ways of
crime by its perusal. If what the au-
thor says about the coal mines is true,
they ought to be severed at once from
all connection with our penitentiary.
His chapter on prisons in general con-
tains some valuable suggestions. The
book is of necessity local and ephermal
hnt il will douhtless soryo u Uood mr.