The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-08
STORM CENTER.
Topeka With the Sheldon
Paper and the Howe
Lay Sermons,
VIII Be the News Storm Center
of the Country Next Week.

With the State Journals announcement
that it will print a series of Lay Ser
mons by Ed Howe, showing that the
newspaper is the great agency for good
and an ally the clergy should more thor
oughly recognize, while the Rev. Mr.. Shell
don will conduct the Capital for week.
"as Jesus would-,' Kansas is at present
a place of great interest to all newspaper
readers.
A car load of newspaper men from all
the leading papers of the big eastern
cities, it is said, will arrive here Sun
day, to begin at once the work of writing
Kansas up and down for their millions
of readers. Besides writing innumerable
stories of Topeka and its people, they
will visit Fort Leavenworth, Fort Riley,
Atchison and other places of interest in
this state, including Beattie, the town
that is run entirely by women.
Ahead of these correspondents, how
ever, has arrived one whose name is
known all over the union. This is ellison
Willets, editor and author, and special
correspondent for a long list of leading
newspapers in this country and in Eur
ope.
Mr.. WilIets is making this trip for~the
Christian Herald, of New York, which
says it has the largest circulation of any
religious paper in the United States The
Christian Heralds editor is DIR. De Witt
Talmadge, and the paper is owned by DR..
Louis Klopsch. After the great newspa-
per week in Kansas, Willets will go to
the Transvaal, also in the interests of
the Christian Herald.
Mr. Willets is a New Yorker Though
still a very young man, he has published
several newspapers and magazines of his
own. notably: The Daily Herald, at
Yonkers, New York, a city equal in pop
ulation to Topeka; and Romance Maga-
zine. of New York. He was also one
year the editor of Current Literature.
OF this writer's books, two have had
a large sale in the United States and
England. His famous Cuban novel,
ssAnita, the Cuban Spy written on tbs
spot during the war, has had sale OF
over 100 00O copies. He is also the author
of: His Neighbor's Wife, a novel of
society; 1.-THE Loves of Twenty and One, .
a. collection of short stories; The
Triumph of Yankee Doodle narrative
of his personal experiences as war cor
respondent in Cuba and Spain; and THE
Rulers of the World at Home, written
for the Christian Herald, and just pub
lished.
Mr. Willets has Travelled four times up
and down and across Europe. his letters
from abroad appearing in many of the
great magazines. Only two weeks ago
he arrived from a trip to England, where
he wrote the British side of the Boer
question, for the Christian Herald, a
preliminary to the presentation Of the
Boer side, which he will write, when he
arrives in South Africa.
When representative of the State
Journal called upon Mr.. Willets at the
Throop, the first thing he said was: "One
of the brightest men you have here in
the west, is Ed Howe. He is certainly
a genius in his way. His Lay Sermons for
the Topeka State Journal will be a big
success, not only in this city, not only in
Kansas, but all over the country. People
: toll into
ested, and want all the issues of your
paper containing the sermons.
1.-The public likes this sort of thing, and
the State Journals enterprise in this, as
in other respects. makes it, in my mind,
one Of the best evening newspapers west
of Chica 60