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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-04-18

The Bill Repeating War Taxes Signed.
Washington, April 14.-Presiden
Roosevelt has signed the bill repeal
ing the war revenue taxes. The pei
with which the bill was signed wal
presented to Representative Bar
tholdt, of Missouri.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-04-18
oarfi.,d and HART. Named.

Washington, April 1.-THE presi-
dent Friday appointed Joseph III. Har-
ris for postmaster at Kansas City.
Mo-, and James r. Garfield, of Ohio
to be civil service commissioner.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-04-18
Cot Wor.t of Cattle Deal.

Oklahoma City, Ok, April IA. d
Smith, a stockman, committed sui
eide by shooting. He left a letter il
which he stated that he had beer
defrauded in cattle deal and com
PEELED to bear the burden of feeding
1000 cattle out of his share of tn
profits.
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Not Vote Axainst.

Washington, April 1.-THE houst
of representatives in committee q
the whole unanimously adopted ths
bill pensioning the widow of Presi
dent Mckinley.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-04-18
Catholic Archb shop Appointed.

Washington, April 15.-The presi-
dent has appointed Catholic Archhish-
OPP Ryan, of Philadelphia, member of
the board of Indian commissioners.
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| This is some swimming and Zimmerman isle.
With melancholy peoples of the mist
All, ithaca. shall see thee more."
Again Athene appears him and strengthens his
heart She tells him that her promise has kept
that his foot is the soil Ithaca. The
melts away and Ulysses recognizes the landmarks
knows and loves we'll 1t is the very spot he
said farewell to Penelope twenty years before
Goddess. cannot for the great tears.
There: there! the very peak to which she climbed
Waving a-fareweu with helpless hands.
Oh verdure to the that's home,
oh light upon the land where
Oh dear, dear Earth, thou mother of me-
Art glad. glad in thy brown bosom; here
kiss and kiss thee; here fling me down
And roll and clasp and me with thee
But in his emotion Ulysses has not forgotten his
craft He is alone; there enemies in the palace. To
spy out the land and gain time plan his he
DISCUSSES himself a beggar The first Ithacan whom he
meets is Eumaeus old swineherd. of his faithful
servitors He is talking with covertly asking
for of Penelope when his Telemachus comes
running the swneherds hut pursued by armed
enemies and in danger of his life Pretending to beg
from them Ulysses ntercepts the pursuers who
sassns hired by the suitors and grappes with them
roughly that they fee in surprise and Then he
reveals himself to his and Eumaeus.
Father. come home?" says Telemachus, and falls
into his with:
Il feel that thou art he
l know it in every and drop of blood"
They plan the destruction of the suors and Ulysses
bids them o all but three of the spears
shields hanging on the palace wall:
That may snatch them when need is come"
The final scene is land in the hall of the palace
where again revery is in progress. Premius, the min
strcl, is singing:
Blest he who strikes Tyre
At the feast where princess quaf;
Higher mounts the mirth and higher
Louder and louder peals the laugh"
but he breaks off suddenly. declaring he a
vision darkne and blood The suffers mock him.
continuing their merrment when a ragged old
beggar appears the door, with great rudeness
pushes his the hall. The suors rise anger
and driving him roughly when of them, Ctes-
ppus interposes. and suggests that he make the
old man amuse the He asks dersigey if the
beggar once a king "A palace and great riches
had once, is the answer, and the assembled princes
laugh. The colloquy proceeds the amusement
of the unsuspecting suitors until Penelope from
the upper chambers. They remind her that the day
for her promised decision and the leading spirits
among them formally present their claims. Cesippus
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LITERARY NOTES.


Though Henry NJ Hyde. author of lone
Forty Two" has lived in Chicago long
enough to become familiar with a great
many little known sides of city life, h'
still retains a somewhat bucolic appear
ance. His Inability to make himself up
to look like city man is one OF tho
sorrows of his life. Nothing. they declare
makes him so angry as to be taken for
4 countTyman, or, as "One Forty Two"
would say. "a rube from the rhubarbs. !"
In proof they tell the story of Mr.. Hyde's
revenge upon Il couple of confidence men
who picked him up on Clark Street one
day as a man likely to invest in some
bogus bonds. Hyde accompanied them
to their room in downtown hotel
looked at the bonds, and pretended to be
greatly impressed. They We're offered to
him a a low rate, and he promptly agreed
to buy them. But his money was in his
room at another hotel, he declared. and
he would have TO go and get it. One Of
the confidence men accompanied him
They went together to a small hotel on
Dearborn Street where Mr.. Hyde was
known; and, leaving the shark down.
stairs in the hotel office, the angry author
went up a couple of flights on the ele-
vator, and then quickly descended by the
back stairs to the street. Hyde had done
night police on the Tribune" and knew
the powers that rule in the front Of
fee" at the city hall, which was only
two blocks away. He hurried over there
and told his troubles to Inspector Shea,
who promptly sent out four fly coppers,"
two going to the original hotel. where
they caught the man with the bogus
bonds, and the others to the Dearborn
Street house where they picked up thu
"con man" who was still waiting for the
appearance of the moneyed man from
Oshkosh.
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SPRING PUBLICATIONS.
In Old Florence.

THE Christening Of Ursula" by Clinton
Scollari, is a historical novel of FlOren-
tine life in the Middle Ages, and deals
with fierce and deadly feud between two
leading families, the Neri and the Uccelli,
to the latter of which the nero belongs.
1t opens in rather n sanguinary fashion,
the hero's father, brothers, and friends
being killed in the first chapter, while
he himself is chased like a cat over roofs
and down corridors, finally taking refuge
in the room of the heroine, ward of tho
Neri
Escaping thence he DISCUSSES himself as
a fresco painter and calmly walks into
the palace OF the Neri, with the inten-
tion of laying a carefully constructed
plan of vengeance for the death of his
family. In the course of the laying and
carrying out of this plan the romance is
begun and continued.
The heroine is a charming, lily-lik,
maiden the hero a resourceful and spir-
tied youth. and the minor characters are
well drawn The atmosphere OF the story
Throughout is that OF Italy in those me-
dieyal tim ; which are so full of life and
color as - be inevitably interesting to
lovers of nance. Boston: L. c. Page
& Coz
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urges wealth Eurymachus his wisdom and power and
Antinous his youth and ardent Still Pe-aope a
consent:
Splendid Antinous, tell thee this
That if my husband this moment CAM
In 5y that door yon beggar man,
So bowed worn, ragged and SO fallen,
Him would rather catch unto this heart
And hold his holy ruins in arms
Than touch thee in thy glory and thy strength"
At this UIysse s is overcome emotion and
up with
20 nobly spo KEN"
There is an uproar of surprise at his temerity.
ULYSSES finds opportunity whisper to Penelope
she should propose trial OF her suors-that
they shall string the great bow: of Ulysses
They try it, and fail Then the beggar springs up
grasps bow, strings it and holds it ready to shoot
His rags fall from him. revealing him in full armor
and in the gIcry OF manhood The cry goes up
Ulysses, Ulysses!" But without word he sends
an arrow through the heart OF Antinous. who falls
Teemachus Eurnaeus snatch down the shields and
spears The suitors make a rush, but they have
weapons and are driven back slaughter
When they have fallen fled Ulysses renders solemn
thanks to the gods who have helped him:
First Zeus and to Athene prase
Go all of you apart; even thou, my sen,
And leave with Penelope alone"
The curtain falls he folds his wife to his breast.
r. H TITHERINGTON.
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WHERE WOMEN SHAVE REGULARLY

at may not be generally known" said we'll known
New Orleans barber to Times Democrat reporter
but it is fact nevertheless there are a number
of In New Orleans shave just as regular as
the do.
Yes. there number of in this city who
have such heavy growth of beard they visit the
barber shops often the men. They are simply
forced to do it in order keep growth of beard
form marrhg the beauty of their faces.
Did notice the lady who passed along just now?
She going to the shop next She goes there
regularly and she there fer the purpose getting
a shave She has unusually heavy growth of whskers
for woman, ana doubt the habit of shaving has
tended to aggravate the situat ion is moth
ing for her to do but keep shaving. she has
become one of the regular patrons place next
door know number of instances of this New
Orleans, and the women who have been game enough
visit the barbe- shops should be congratulated
gameness and their good taste.
Why shou d allow her face wear a
rough look ON account Of short, stubby growth Of
Whiskers. any more than a should? No good
cuse could be offered for it. Really, it would be In
fnitely genteel and excusabe in the othss
sex. So say let the women shave"
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20 my mistressi


How thou and lie to noble men?
Princes. I have sped her, she
At night unravels what she wrought by day.
Yen wait long time if for this ye wait"
Thus driven to bay Penelope promises she will
choose of her sutors for her husband when the
which is shining above shall have waxed to the
full. To this the suitors agree. and troop the
market place. Penelope stays to deliver a striking
soliloquy:
Where art thou husband? Dost thou lie
Helpless with coral and swaying the sea sways?
Or dost thou live, and art with magic held
BY some strange a sea isle?
Thou knowest the long years I o quailed,
True a vson, steadfast a dream,
Indissolubly married TO remembrance
But l driven l faint at last,
Why must my beauty madden all these wolves?
Why have the gods thus guarded by first bloom?
Why am l fresh, why young If thee?
Come! Come, Ulysses, Burn back through the world,
Come take the broad seas in mighty leap,
And rush upon this bosom with a cry
Ere it's too late at the last. last nstant-come!'
The second scene is the distant island ogygia
where Ulysses and Calypso wandering together
along the shore Mr.. Phillips has endowed the ocean
witch with Of the magic attributes of Gree She
has cast her spell upon Ulysses who has forgotten his
home forgotten honor ambition, everything in the en-
chantment o. her love; but he lies dreaming the
beach. Hcrmes the messenger Zcus, appears Ca
ypso and warns her that II Ulysses shows desire 10
leave her island she let go and watt his sails
homeward Calypso perforce Ulysses
heart and finds that her spell is broken feels the
call OF home, family first, then clearly; and
at last lie speaks with wild burst:
All Cod that might see
Gaunt Ithaca stand up O the surge.
Yon dashed and streaming rocks and sobbng crags!
The screaming gull an5 the wild flying cloud!
To see far off the sroie my own hearth
To smell far out the glebe Of my farms,
To spring alive upon hcI p~ocipices,
And hurl the singing spear into the air;
To scoop the mountain torrent in my hand
And plunge into the midnight o her pines,''
This Is fine passage. II speaks the universal heart
Of the exile from home. The Englishman who wrote il
thinking. perhaps of absence from his own ma
tive landanother gaunt stands up out of the
surge.
Ulysses thus awakened cries to his comrades They
leave the nymphs, with whom they have been daIIyiDg
and run to him, calling to him to lead homeward
They spring into the ship push OFF, the wind fills
their sails and Calypso. heartbroken, BIDS them
forced farewell:
Il breathe breeze to wait thee over seal
Alb, could wait thee back again to me-"
The second act opens on gloomy barren shore 10
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the wind Above the landing place broken
cliffs, in which the a vast mouthed
Ulysses feels the of this threatening
and speaks in despair:
The gods lied to who
That should homes again"
Yet as he speaks there is divine presence before
him and Athene appears cheer She
promises that he shall Ithaca more warns
him that first he descend through the dark gate
in the cliffs before him into the very pit of hell.
ecstasy of terror Ulysses this fiery
his spirit. Bidding his comrades him. he steps
boldly the cavern.
The changes show the Ithacan chief with
Hermes to guide him, stepping down into lower
world All is darkness, and round him there is a
great whrl of half spirit forms. He hears faint
cries from wandering ghosts He the shapes
of the Fures and the spirits of mortals who per-
ished by their hands.
Ulysses asks the spirits who approach him It'd
ings his wife. but can learn nothing
length he recognizes the form his
the great Agamemnon commander of the Grccan hosts
Troy Agamemnon speaks, and what he says is of
fearful import:
Ulysses, fear thy wife! Fear to return.
Thy wife awaits thee
Coiled like snake to strike thee with fangs,"
Agamemnonons warning is an echo of his own fate
for he murdered by his false queen treacherous
CIytemnaestra the night of his return from Troy
Ulysses him lnerelluous horror but is COM
forted by another shade, the ghost own mother
Amcleia who tells him that his wife is true In a
passage which closely recalls re welI-known lines in
the sixth Aeneid, Anticeia speaks thus to
her
90 10 have thy head
Again upon this bosom! but alas!
but a shade and shadow that gIides"
Fighting his way upward the pit of hell. with
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IT HE production of a classical drama is event
pretty far removed from the present trend of
popular taste in things literary and theatrical
For this Stephen Phillips versiGed drama
of Ulysses which published last week by the
Macmillan Company is a work that deserves attention.
and its recent performance by Beerbohm Tree. his
London theatre a noteworthy event
Old in theme Mr.. Philips play is distinctly orIgi-
nal in form and treatment 1t does follow the
technical rules of the Greek stage down by the
great Athenian dramatists Aeschylus sophocles and
their feIIows-wtose plays allowed change of scene
and limited their a single day 1t pre-
free adaptation of the old Homeric legend of
the Odyssey in dignifed modern 1t consists
of prologue in rhymed and three each of
two scenes in blank verse. with songs prose
terspersed after the of Shakespeare.
For the prologue the curtain o the gods
assembled in their the summit of Mount Olym-
pus. Athene forward and a boon of Zeus
ruler of all
Father, whose oath in hollow he'll is heard
Whose act is lightning after thunder word;
boon. boon that / compassion find
For one, the most unhappy of mankind"
It is for Ulysses she pleads. On his return from
Troy. he has years wandering toll, vainy
rtrving to reach his home land Isle Ithaca
where his faithful wife, Penelope,
Poseidon, god Of the inerposes with protest
Ulysses has blinded mis- Poyphemus, the one-eyed
Cyclops whom the Ithacan chief in Sicily.
There is sharp quarrel between Poseidon Athene
which Zeus settles by saying that destiny Ulysses
is in the hands of power that gods and men
Fate:
1T is that power which rules as with rods
Lord above lords and God behind the GODS
Fate hath decreed Ulysses should abide
More tolls and ferccr than all beside;
Heavily homeward must he way
Through lure. through darkness, anguish and decay"
BGt Zeus promises that Ulysses shall reach his
home, though h pass through one trial on
the way.
The scene changes TO the palace Of Ulysses at
Ithaca Here company of strangers has gathered to
woo Penelope in her supposed wdowhood. Thinking
only Of Ulysses, she repels their advances
only her son. the lad Telemachus a few faithful
servors and she is powerless the intruders
away There is scene of revelry disorder the
suitors making with the handmaidens OF
the palace and mocking the protests Telemachus
and his old Euryceia. Then Penelope appears
To the opportunities of the sutors she replies:
"hh, srs, remember that but delay
To choose until have the loom
A shroud for old Laertes"
But treacherous handmaiden reveals the trick by
Rhioh Penelope has been gaining time;
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Liter atuTG

strenuously resisted an agitation whcl
might lead to war
/ Another argument was:
THAT Britain wanted the gold mines
| No possible accusation is more popular
or more widely believed upon the Con-
/ tinent and yet none could be more
ridiculous when it is examined. The
/ gold mines are private companies, with
shares held by private shareholders, Ger
man and French as well as British.
Whether the British or the Boer flag flew
over the country would not ALLEVIATE a
single share from any holder nor would
the wealth of Britain be in any way
greater"
And so on. The foregoing arguments
are the principal ones which have been
used here in America.
AS to the statements of Mr.. Stead that
atrocities of various kinds have been COM
mitted by British soldiers in South Africa.
Dr. Doyle boldly states that not one of
these stories can be substantiated. If
these go, 600 soldiers under Lord Roberts
are such fends, he asks, why have not
their acts been reported to the proper
military authorities? He quotes one
statement of the London journalist
which does seem rather ilimsy, considered
as logic. Mr.. Stead states that no Eng
lishman would allow his servant to re-
main all night on a common in company
with a score of these soldiers without con-
sidering that the girl had lost her char
acter. But this is not so very much OF
a statement. A score of henderson, Par
lament. or highly respectable sbopkeep-
ers, or clergymen might not be consider
ed exactly the proper company under
those conditions. Mr.. Stead argues that
the lack of restraint incident to military
life must lead to atrocities. The reply
to this seems to be that he does not
know much about military discipline; and
on this point DR.. Doyle endeayors to in
struct him. The latter very reasonably
asks, after giving some Boer testimony on
the subject (Which are we to believe,
our enemy on the field or the journalist in
London?"
On the whole. this is a manly, frank,
and conservative defence of the British
in the South African struggle. At the
end of it, DR.. Doyle appeals against tho
countries which have, as he declares, de-
liberately misjudged England, to the
judgment of the world. He says that the
cartoons and stories which have been cir
culated in Germany particularly have had
the effect of so changing British public
opinion that England would not now side
with Germany in any struggle. hc:sever
great the need of the latter might be. |
(New York: Mcclure. Phillips & Coz
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An Epicurean Novelist.

Some of the reviewers of THE Last OF
the Knickerbockers' have discovered in
Mr.. Viele the genius of an epicure, as we'll
as that of writer. The Billion DOL
lar Banquet is study in magnificence.
but the little luncheon which his hero
orders toward the end of the book is
something more
Anthony waved bill Of fare aside,
protesting that they were there for lunch
and not to go to market.
Perfectly replied the waiter. who
was person of discernment. In -at
case monsieur and madame will doubt
less begin with clear green turtle con-
somme in cups?'
of course said Anthony. What
them
That shall be followed, perhaps, by
an omelette demi souffle with clans.
which madame will find excellent. After
this will come partridge and salad,
which with some strawberries will be
quite enough. The wine will be demi
of Yquem, and little taste of something
with the coffee il desired
That is not a lunch. said Anthony,
in French, it is a sonnet
:" Merely an epigram, moDsieur,' re-
piled the waiter, modestly; it is only for
the dinner that one cries i'll poesy.'"
The Washington times., 1902-02-23

Mr.. Kenneth Brown, who in collabora-
tion with his brotherin-l law, H B. Boone,
wrote "Eastover Court House. in the
American novel series, is engaged on a
new novel. Mr.. Brown lives in Virginia,
and when he is not writing novels he is
raising thoroughbred hunters. "Inexpe-
rierce in novel writing" said Mr.. Brown.
hard as il may be for the reader, is not
as disastrous to an author as ineXpe-
rience in stock-raisins is to the amateur
breeder. 1t is very expensive work to
raise good hunters. Time and patience
and knowledge and money are all needed
in big quantities. And the disappoint
ments are so keen. Our first effort to
raise two hunters Is hands high only re-
suited in couple of little fellows of II
hands. We named them Adversely and
Calamity and now we use them for
polo ponies. They're capital polo ponies.
I assure you. but rather expensive for
our use" Mr.. Brown is at present Wis
iting New York.
The Washington times., 1902-02-23

1.-THE Colonials,' by Allen c. French, is
a novel of early American history, the
plot of which deals with the tangled mass
of events in the time just prior to the
Revolution. The hero is a Bostonian. the
heroine an English maiden carried Off by
the Indians and the two meet in Canada,
where they have many exciting adventures
in the course of escaping from the saw
ages. Some of the finest chapters in the
book deal with this perilous journey, and
there are not many narrower escapes in
romance than that of Alice and Frank
from a burning hut in the depth of the
Canadian forest, surrounded by half a
dozen savages.
The scene then shifts to Boston. where
the Boston Tea Party is graphically
described. Several historical characters
are brought in. and the language and
spirit OF the time are accurately repro
duced. The interest is about equally di
vided between love, intrigue, political
schemes. adventure, character drawing,
and the revolutionary war
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Southeastern Europe.

In The Nearer East" DR.. Hogarth, who
possesses unusual qualifications for this
task, describes southeastern Europe be-
low the Balkans, the islands east of Cor
fu and Crete, northeastern Africa, and
the larger portion Of western and south
western Asia. including Asia Minor, Per
sia, Arabia. Syria, etc. The region with
which he deals is not only rich in his
toric interest. but its geographical posi-
ton and relations have invested it with
marked Importance from both a natural
and economic point of view. The au-
thor's purpose of illustrating the causa-
tive influence of geographical conditions
upon man has an exceptional field in The
Nearer East" and the insight. breadth.
and interest of his survey will challenge
emphatic recognition. The book is pub
lished by the Appletons
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Companions in Sadness.

Mark Twains humor is not quite IN
derstood by the British workingman. An
drew Lang, in an English magazine ar
ticle, tells how he made this discovery.
1t seems that he had loaned a copy of
'Ivanhoe' to the workingman, who duly
returned it with the candid remark that
he hadn't read it through because there
were so many characters he couldn't re-
member them all. He then offered to
lend Mr.. Lang a book which he said he
was sure he would like. This proved to
be volume of alleged .'Wit and Humor,"
which. so far from amusing him, caused
Mr.. Lang to feel sad and discouraged.
Mr.. Lang in his turn, then read aloud TO
the swOrkingman what he considered a
very choice extract from one of Mark
Twains best books. But the workingman
smiled in wintry, perfunctory way, and
Mr. Lang knew that the man. whom he
pitied. pitied him. So they parted in mu
tuaI cOmmiseratiOn.