The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-27


Ford. Alfred Henry Lewis, David Ora
ham Phillips. J. ". Fielder, Samuel
Hopkins Adams. 0. K Davis ana
Archer Huntington
1t is a curiosity in the book world
to find a Shakesperian play among
the best selling books. This, however,
seems to be the condition just at pres
ent. Julius Caesar" Is in healthy de-
mand at ali the shops owing to the
tremendous popular and critical success
of Richard ManheId's presentation of
the noble tragedy. He has made Shakes
peare's Julius Caesar" the triumph of
the year on Broadway. where only =
few seasons ago he was the subject of
that cartoon "A Stranger in New York
Two new, and no doubt unique, editions
Of Julius Caesar are under way. One
is to be called the Richard Mansfield
Edition and will embody the great &C
tors notes on the acting version. The
other is to be less ambitious from
scholarly standpoint. but will be highly
ornate in establishment from drawings
of Mansfield as Brutus in several scenes
and the remarkable crush of rioters
in the Forum. The booksellers deelars
that they are cleaned out of their paper
copies and are preparing large addition
al editions to cover the orders now COM
ing in from the cities which anticipate
visits from Richard Mansfield in Julius
Caesar at the end of his New York
run. Not bad for Shakespeare.
]. Fenimore Cooper himself could
have wanted nothing more romantic for
an incident in one of his novels, than
the meeting of Charles A Eastman, the
full blood Sioux author of Indian Boy
hood and his wife-then Miss Elaine
Goodale The thing, as it happened in
real life, was quite as adventurous as
anything Cooper's magination ever pro-
Miss Goodale was one of the "Slxy
Farm poets, Her fame has been
spread by her book of Apple Blossom
verses, and a great literary career had
been predicted for her Nevertheless,
she had deserted her literary career be-
cause. having become interested in the
Indians. she felt that the work of her
life lay among them. She roughed it
for some years in the Dakotas, as super
visor of the Indian schools and at
Christmas time, 1890. found herself at
the Pine Ridge agency, preparing to
spend her holidays there. With the
other young women at the post she was
helping decorate the little EpiscopaA
church of the agency for the Christmas
services, when the joyous preparations
were INTERRUPTED BY the Indian outbreak
and the battle of Wounded Knee. The
little church, half ready for the Christ
mas celebrat ton. was turned into a hos
pital, and into it with scores of wounded
Indians came DR.. Eastman. The young
Indian educator and poetess worked be-
side the swarthy native ministering to
his ps&ients and helping at operations.
The natural result followed this side by
side labor.. In a very few months after
their first meeting, DR.. Eastman and
Miss Goodale were married.
And the last chapter of the story Is
just as Cooper would have delighted to
make it. They are Ideally happy. Five
children have been born TO them-the
oldest, Dora, is eleven. and has all the
beauty OF her mother, and the youngest
is Just beginning TO toddle. There is
one hey. four years old, who bears the
IL t<4A4
means the successful one For him
the book Indian Boyhood' was written.
though it viii be some years yet before
he win be able to understand how Won
derful a life his father has lived.
The fact that Elaine Goodale's first
book Of verse sold some 10000 COPIES ia
less than two years, a most re1narka BILE
record. led her friends to believe that
she made a great mistake in devoting
her life to the Indians. Many of these
solicitous people became alarmed for
Miss Goodale's safety when she Was
chosen for supervisory work among the
/ Dakota Indians. Later they told the
story of her that she had all at once
dropped out of sight, had turned to the
life of the Indian. and was living d
strange life IN the tepees of the Sioux
dressed like them, and eating the same
food In a tepee so the story went, she
met her future husband. but this was
only one Of the false accounts of her
life then
a VIEW OIL nEF HOW II given Dy d
who recently visited her:
I found Mrs. Eastman sitting in a
cosy DarIor in front OF an open fire.
place. She is a woman noticeab BILE any
where for her beauty of face and form
In her arms she held a baby. her own
but the child had not inherited any of
the attraetiveness of the mother. It was
veritable old squaW miniature. 1t was
queer sight. this beautiful woman
holding the homely pappooSe, with Its
glittering eyes. every move and every
expression marking it as an Indian. II
seemed a changeling from the tepees,
but the mother croened to it as mothers
always have done, and the rnother love
was not dimmed. The loss of a career
in letters IS nothing to the gain of a life
of such devotion as this"
The oth44 day Mr.. Henry Harland
walked into the Office of a New York
publisher whom he had known years be-
/ fore, and exclaimed:
My word. but this is tremendous. Do
| you mean to tell me this is all your
! business and all these your people?
/ Why" he went on, the last time I was
( in your office remember You had one
room and two or three clerks, and then
/ the contrast of the situation seemed to
! set the author speeches. Mr.. Harland
had been away from this publishers
office for a dozen years. and had come
back to find him one of the leading men
/ in the business.
When the young writer lived in this
country. the same publisher had been
one Of his first customers. As Sydney
Buska'' Mr. Hariand wrote number OF
very excellent stories of the Jews. HIS
/ fathers house overlooked the best resi-
/ dences of the Jewish quarter in Beck
man Place in New York city. and the
young man spent much of his time in
the association Of his neighbors. It WIS
said at one time that Mr.. Harland owed
much Of his excellent stories to the fact
/ that he was in love with beautiful
I JeWess OF the quarter.
of late years he has lived so much IN
England that few recognize him as Z
native New Yorker.
In his last volume Of Observations,
Mr.. Doolev makes a few pertinent re-
marks about authors and publishers.
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