The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-23

earnings in pigs From three in time
they increased to thirteen, the finest IN
the township Then her father, VINO
was always telling his wife that she
had no business sense anyway Dougnt
a patent right on which to make MS
fortune AS it has ever been in MS
tory, the churn-dasher patent rlght
gathered mould in the cellar after the
first, only and unsuccessful attempt 70
sell one to a. neighbOr. But the $loo
note came due, and there were grieYous
times in that household over Whele
to raise the money" BoWkers only
hope was to sell the pigs, but Mrs b.
vetoed it. Finally the suffering be
came so great. however, that Sardinia
went down to the sites, took last roma
look at her prize porkers, ana mace
the sacrifice. Her father came down
the lane, and she shouted Sell EN-,
Paw I'm Willin'-" Mrs Whitcomb'S
story was delightfully."- entertaining
IRONQUIIL READS A POEM
No one knew what Eugene Ware
would present for his part on the pro-
gramme. A new poem was expected
It was a romance" 1t started in w IS
consin and wound up in Bourbon
county. Kansas, if it had any start and
stop at all. Lovers loved so hard as
to bust up a town, and then disap-
peared as far as the rest of the argu-
N ent was concerned. They We're ex-
pected to be found, as the title sug-
gested "On the Shores of Yellow
Paint" but it turned out that Sam was
keeping a. saloon in Canada while she
was Mrs Smith out in the short grass
country And a wonderful individual
named Jones, who it had been ex-
pected would turn out to be the missing
Sam was the rhymester himself. The
several chapters were marked by all the
characteristic rhymes of 'IronqulIP' and
had the usual effect.
MR. WHITE READS A STORY.
Last on the programme was William
Allen White with his story "A Til
-, 0rfr,-
to be published in Scribner's. 1t is in
the prevailing political vein, one which
is stepping hard on the heels of the
historicals, and is a study in love, ideals
and hard realities, with a puff of poetic
mysticism as finale to shunt the NOR
al verdict.
oddities always result when love and
politics go to mixing. 1t was so in the
case of Henry Myton and Julia Fair
banks, the characters of Mr. Whites
story Myton was beaten in his district
when he essayed to go back to Wash
ington for his third term in congress
He spent all that summer regrettlng the
giving I'D of the pleasures of Washing
ton for the squalor of Pleasant Ridge
He fell in love with a Wellesley gradu-
ate who came into his life in these dark
days also. He regained ambition, but
the future looked the drear1er.
He went to Washington for e-short
term. While he was gone bitter sem
lature. Tt did not interest him one jot-
But when he heard his sweetheart
would be in the state capitol a GER
tain day, he was there ahead of her.
A senatorial candidate appealed to his
sure influence to have the deadlock
broken in that candidates favor
Myton abhored the type of politician
To break with him meant to lose 8.
denomination and regaining of his
prestige and hope of future two years
later. But Myton had pure woman
en- route to him on the brain. He
turned on the candidate not only re-
fused, but roasted him with curses,
declaring him entirely unfit to be sem
ator-
told her. She would give him sympathy
for his manhood's triumph over his am
into her thought She longed for that !
which he had sacrificed because he had
she said: Don't you think you could |
make it up with Fundamentally, of !
Myton's famous break with the party |
leader gave him boom Tor senator MIN
he stormed the fellow he had broken with |
to force him to give up. The fellow knew 1
ne ne was was b Bis ana ne e ddfor cone
sfderation. Myton gave his note for $50- |
a ss9 ne He Was elected senator.
NIyton gave up something to be senator |
inst saws If is the voice of the prairie 1
wind, and it haunts Myton. Hear it2 |
Whites story aroused the ire of college |
bred women when it was first read at IN
dianapolis. May Wright Sewan raised i
storm of feminine protest. topeka en- /
joyed the telling of the tale 1t did not 1
go in for the morale
There were other musical mum bers also Il
to fill out the program. Miss Nina THOMAS
sang Desire - An encore was demanded i
and given Miss Lumina Riddle sang the /
s'LOrelei-''
their evening with home and state au-
thors who address far larger audiences
41~77- rnd in
night. They We're pleased. and they said
so as they shook hands with the enter
tainers on going out
Berlin, May 23.-The official Prussian re-
port is that winter wheat is poor and |
summer wheat fairly good