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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1904-05-22

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03
BowsER's OLD HOME.
He Revisfts His Birthplace to Put Up
a Tablet.

Mr. Bowser had been silent for a
quarter of an hour the other evening
as he and Mrs. Bowser sat on the front
steps of the house in the cleaning, when
he quietly said:
Mrs. Bowser, I want to speak to you
about something. You are no sentiment
talist. but perhaps for once in your life
you can sympathize with my feelings
TN try my best to-" she replied, as
she wondered whether it was guinea
hens or fire-eScapeS this time.
Il was born in the country and lived
there Until I was fifteen years DID," he
the dear old home. There are the creek,
the hill, the pond, the orchard and
meadows, the dear old house itself.
can close my eyes and bring everything
up as plain as day. Sometimes I can
see myself. a barefooted, hatless boy,
cantering DER the fields again.
Yes one never forgets the happy
days of childhood sighed Mrs. Bow
ser.
And here's the point. have not re-
visited the dear. old place in the last
twenty years. 1t is within a days jour
ney and just now business is slack and
I've been thinking of taking the trip. 1
7 don't want to die before seeing the
old place again.
and I hope you won't. If you feel
like going, why not go? 1 am fully in
accord with the sentiment
That's good of you. That's spoken
like a true wife. I was afraid you'd be-
gin to sneer and ask me if l expected to
meet the same hogs and hens of twenty
years ago. The place was sold on a
mortgage, and I didn't know but what
you'd twit me about that BY George,
but I'll get up and take the eight
o'clock train tomorrow morning.
You can as well as not
I've had the feeling for the last
month that must go back he unused,
land know 1 snail feel better for graf
flying it. There1l be some changes, of
course, but it will be the dear old place
after ALL Yes, sir, 1 will go on the ear
ly train, and I'll just have time tonight
to letter a board to take along and put
up
What sort of a board?''
Something in the nature of a tab
to nail upon the house
for the benefit of the public at large.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03

be swiftly checked. One of the present
time is divorce This is endangerfng our
social state because 1t is destroying hun
dreds and thousands of families. 1t is
one of our gravest dangers and puts us to
shame. One cause is animalism. An
other cause is individualism run to ex-
IRENE. Hasty marriages often result in
divorce. Lax laws and want of uniform
ity in the laws of the various states are
another cause. Divorces are permitted
for too many causes. 1t is not easy to
speak too strongly of this evil, and it is
gratifying that the church is doing some
thing to bring about better condition of
affairs. The state also is directing its at
tention to the great evil, and more strin-
gent laws are being enacted. However,
much more ought to be done, for it is
necessary to arouse public sentiment and
seek to curb this evil tendency in our ma
tional life. The next danger is the saloon.
Still another danger to our national well
fare is corporate greed: The growth of
corporations is something wonderful in
America. No thoughtful person doubts
that aggregations of wealth and power
in corporate bodies are a. necessity. The
difference is, however, that such bodies
become too greedy and grasping and that
men as agents and officers of corpora
lions often do things that they would
not do as individuals. 1t has been well
said that corporations have no souls. No
student of economic development would
destroy corporate bodies, but it is becom-
ing palmer every day that these must be
carefully regulated by law and held
strictly responsible.-Rev. David G. Wylie,
Presbyterian, New York
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back after twenty years to have look
at the old place.
"Well, look and be burned, but do it
from the outside of the fence. I'm not
buyin' gold bricks as much as l was.
What you got there?''
Mr.. Bowser was mad, but he exhib-
tied his tablet and asked leave to nail
it up.
$50 your name is Bowser?'
Yes"
And your dad owned this farm?''
HE did"
Then all I kin say is that he was a
blamed old Stick-in-the-mud who didn'
know good land from bad. and that you
kin nail up no sign-board on my house.
I'm down on the hull Bowser family,
and if my bulldogs and hired man hap
pen to come out here, you'll want to
git a hump on you. Yes, durn the
jest simply spilled this land, and I've
had to take the curse of it,
Mr.. Bowser departed, throwing his
tablet among the hazel bushes at the
roadside. He wanted to kill at least
six men and wreck a whole town, but
he held on to himself until he got home.
He arrived at 10 o'clock p. m. to find
Mrs. BowSer and the cat on the steps
looking for him.
Two tramps had just entered the gate
to ask for charity. and as they stood at
the foot of the steps a human cyclone
rushed into the open gate and picked
them up and wrecked their happy lives
for seventeen days to come, and then
passed into the house and upstairs
without a word.
Mr.. Bowser's childhood recolIections
were no more.-(Copyright 1904, by t.
c. McClure.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03

very long .bOok-'oh. come on and put ii
Our Junior came out nobly,'' said Miss
MACEDONIAN She was rather my special
secretary ana roomed here in the cot
spiration she was only second to Huldah
herself; for after long. hard day, she
what I vainly supposed to be a little
well-earned rest, and inquire: Didn't you
say you wanted ed to give me shat that chapter
dinnerl I'm ready now Ashamed-just
plain ashamed-to show less devotion than
she displayed. 1 would, with secret re-
luetanee. start into the chapter Once in,
warmth and Inspiration. As the hands
crept round the dial. verging up toward
midnight, I would say to my companion:
We really must stop this, This as too
bad. We should both be in bed And she
would answer cheerfully: Yes, expect
you ought to have your rest But don't
how Aunt HuIdaf' gets them out of it
In such a spirit of good will the book was
carried through 1t has always seemed to
Us like child which was so good and do
it never received anything but love and
tenderness and good will.
fishers. the Bobbs-Merrin company, and
because of certain plans of the authors
cision as possible. Within a week of the
day that 'Huldah' left Chattanooga they
gram was filled with an enthusiasm
which has not seemed to grow less with
time.
land so the children in 'HuIdah' are
drawn from little folks in the west!" the
The authors Of "Huldah" looked at
each other and smiled, Finally Mrs.
could hardly say that. Childhood is a
country in which one is a citizen but
once. All essays at delineating children
must be biographical. or Autobiography
calm other words, you draw from your
childish remembranceS of yourself, or of
the children that you knew as a Child
knows them"
ures in The Last Word under the name
Of Darlington West, be anywhere identi-
led in 'Huldah?' was the next insinuaI-
ing query.
This made Miss MacGowan laugh. and
brought the suggestion that readers of
both books should attempt to see whether
he same personality may be found in
Little Alabama of the Wagon Tire
House. and the girl who went to New |
York to succeed in Journalism"
Taking it altogether" said one Of the |
lutnors, there is no book which we have |
light than in 'Huldah.' 1t Is not more a
than most of our work. for /
wen that which has single signatures has |
I; indeed it was not intended to be sign
ID with our name at all. The suggestion /
vas that il should come out with a /
'seudonym; We had other plans which I
hould put the names of both sisters upon
his book Yet, here again. .Huldah'
made her demands, she seemed |
o expect to be acknowsl nlg,;s
nd. one book of ours being withdrawn
rom a publishing house which was finan-
tally embarrassed, and another being
leld back for serial publication, it be-
he pennant-we only hope she may car
y it we'll" L
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03
GhostIY Islands.

Among the red dots on the map
denoting the empire upon which the
sun never sets is a group of islands
to the south of Australia, bearing the
name of the Royal Company islands.
British admiralty charts as a group
of four or five specks. the exact po-
sition being latitude 1920 south, lon
gitude 143 east. In aliases they have
the red line beneath them, which is
usually taken to mean that the British
flag has been hoiSted there. Now the
admiralty has issued a notice to mari
ners, headed Royal Company islands
Of" The original re-
port of their discovery cannot be
traced. nor have they apparently bean
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03

The houses of Washington, Lincoln,
Grant and others are thus marked.
1 don't claim to be such a great man,
but I've been heard of a few times.
and it may interest the present and
future generations to know where l
was born and passed my childhood
days. I'll get right at the tablet now,
and you can go to bed any time you
WISH
1t was almost midnight before he
finished his work, and Mrs. BowSer
did not see the board until next morn
ing. when she got up two hours ahead
of time to see that he had an early
breakfast The tablet read:
Here
Was born and reared
The Well-Known Mr.. BowSer,
Whose LaborS
In the Cause of Humanity
Has Made His Name Household
Word.
Please Remove Your Hat
Mrs. Bowser was still surveying the
tablet when Mr.. Bowser came down
stairs and said:
'I would have addeo several things
to it, but 1 didn't want to give people
the impression that L was the only
pebble on the beach. They will read
this and guess the resi- 1 think the
idea of putting up a tablet was a
good one. Don't feel bad because
wives are never referred to in tab
let's"
The only cloud appearing on the
domestic horizon before Mr.. Bowser
departed rose from the fact that the
cook had to hurry the breakfast and
the coffee was not up to the standard.
He was vexed and disappointed, but
contented himself with saying:
Cook, 1 am about 70 revisit the
scenes of my childhood, and you
should have gotten up fifteen min
utes earlier. Never disappoint one
whose mind is full of tender recollec-
tons of by-gone days. That is all.
Let this lesson sink deep into your
soul, and should you drop any more
coal on the cellar stairs 1 may be
obliged to hold a more extended con-
versation with you"
Mr. Bowser got away all right, with
his board under his arm and Mrs. Bow
ser and the cat on the front steps to see
him off, and there was a lump in his
throat and tears in his eyes as he took
the street car. Only one incident MARI
ed the journey of 20 miles,. He wanted
to let some one know that he was bound
to the scenes of his childhood. and the
only one handy was a fat man who
dealt in pork and beef by the barrel. He
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03

"All right in a way, Mr.. Bowser.
Towser, Howser or whatever it is, but
| your name will have been forgotten a
hundred years hence when mine will
still be spoken of in every land. Pork
and beef, sir, takes the trick
Mr.. Bowser reached the dear old
home at last. From afar off he noticed
that the chimneys and the roof needed
repairs, and that the barn had bumped
itself up in the middle. AS he came
nearer he found the fences lopsided, the
smokehouse in ruins and his choice pear
tree as dead as q doornail
Twenty years had paSed and the
house had not been painted nor the
broken glass in the windows repaired
and the squeals and grunts from the
hog-pen proved that strangers occupied
it.
He had halted at the gate to look
around him and wonder what mad be-
come of the pinks, pineys and holly
hocks-where the grape arbOr had van
ished to-where the grand old walnut
tree of other days was, when a red
faced farmer smoking a clay pipe came
sauntering out to say:
Don't you know there's law agin
tramps in this country"
Sir replied Mr.. Bowser. made hot
all over at once, IF you would drink
less whisky you might possibly tell
the difference between a tramp and
gentleman"
mo sass, now
'And don't insult me. In that house
I was born. Here 1 passed my child
hood and boyhood days. 1 have come
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03

had no sentiment or sympathy. 1t was
his opinion that Mr.. Bowser had better
taken basket on his arm and gone
off after huckleberries. When shown
the tablet no feeling of awe crept over
him. On the contrary, he uttered a
"humphi" and followed it with the
words:
This will be a good thing for the
farmers hired man to throw snowbalIs
at in the winter. Let me tell you, sIr.
Towser-"
''BowSer, sir
Let me tell you. Mr.. Bowser, that
If you want to be really great-if you
want to acquire a name that won't
rub off and that will go down the aisles
of time with a coating of grease to
keep off the verdigris, you should go
into beef and pork by the barrel. Never
sell less than three barrels, and stick
out for carload lots whenever posi-
BILE. That tablet is all right in a way,
Mr.. Howser-''
'BowSer, Sir-BowSer."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03

tall. high-stooped dwelling. built in the
| older fashion. substantial and comforta-
house of Richard Watson Glider, editor of
the Century, and nearer still, stands May
| or McClellan's red-brick Washington
Square home. and not far from that the
| home of Ernest Peixotto, the artist The
neighborhood is quiet and picturesque.
]. ]. Bell, whose Wee Macereeeor''
made him famous. has abandoned the lit
| tie Scottish boy and has written a now
story of which the heroine is an attrac-
n 1lTe ybo1 ing woman; The HaTpeTs viii
& Co. on the first of September Jess
| Is Scottish lassie who mafries a good
than of his business. In consequences,
the garden blooms and the business fades
feminine tact she brings about certain
changes which surprise great many peo-
pie
The latest issue of Everybody's Maya
T Tlne contains ms an article on M Theodore
chestra- His interesting personality
comes n out clearly early in this artieIe and also
relates how she and Mr.. Thomas built
Our Mountain Garden near Bethlehem
acres of rock-strewn hillside and convert
ed it into a charming summer home, the
gardening operations consisting chiefly in
helping nature to appear at her best. Mrs
Ihomas says that her book is really
it with our own four hands,
The September Red Book contains one
of the most attractive selections of short
fiction to be found anywhere. The table
of contents includes a noteworthy array
the best magazines, and the artistic feat
ures of story illustration and portraits of
who have furnished stories 70 this mum num-
George Horton. Rex z. Beach, Annette
Kittredge, Emily Ruth Calvin. Catherine
Louise Lee. Harry Irving Greene Fred
erick Walworth, Horace Buker and Fred
erick Smith.
The Bookman OF Melbourne records that
Under the Rose" the love story by
Australia. 1t has been well received in
London also. The London Morning Post
Athenaeum speaks Of it as lively eel. enter
tanning and vigorous" new novel by
for next month by the publishers. Har
Mr.. Isham's first book. ''The stroiiers,"
is understood to deal with i'Biack Friday
and the exciting times of the Corner in
Characters.
VIII Carleton. author of the famous
over the Hill to the Poor House" and
ing In oahs stage Coach a among e the Green
mountains when he fell into literary
conversation with a prosperous FARMER,
who evidently resided in one of the
towns along the road. In the course of
the farmer. who had no sus-
picion of the authors identity, quoted
from Mr.. Cartoons poems to illustrate
that's from Carleton" said the poet. |
land I never have been in the habit Of |
half he said" The farmer eyed
him a moment somewhat contemptuouSly. !
We'll stranger" he retorted. slowly, Il
don't know you. nor do 1 want TO be un-
civil. but If you ever know half as much |
as Will Carleton does you'n know twice |
as much you do now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03
- CES ~
- IN -
NIacmiIIan,s Fan List.

The Macmillan company's autumn an
nouncement list, just out this week, con-
tains accounts of the chief books which
that firm will publish between now and
Christmas, including the following books
Of special interest: Jack London's first
long novel. The Sea-Wolf.'' which has
been the most widely read and discussed
serial OF the year; Mr. Marion Crawford S
new novel of modern Rome and Sicily,
whose title is taken from the well-known
biblical quotation beginning. ''Whosoever
Shall Offend" Miss Gwendolen Overton' s
new novel. Captains of the World the
first OF series of unconnected studies CT
modern American life and conditions; Mr..
Robert Herrick's story about the archi-
tect who tried to escape The Common
Lot of mankind and to enjoy the special
privileges of wealth: "Sabrina Warham,"
by Mr. Laurence Housman, the author of
An English Woman's Love Letters"
Traitor and Loyalist,' a stirring block
ade-runner story by Mr.. Henry K. Web
ster; Mr.. James Barnes account of The
objectionable War" between England and
the United States some years hence; and
other new novels by William Stearns Da-
Wis, Ouida, Mark Lee Luther, Upton Sim
clair, FOxcroft Davis and DR.. John Will
liams Streeter. who wrote THE Fat of
the Land. as well as volume of short
stories of the American stage, entitled
Players and VaEabonds," by Miss Vio-
la ROSeborO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03
The Latest Stamp Act.

the man who seemed to be in a hurry,
stepping up to the stamp window. The
postofffce clerk laid before him a sheet
of the new Worlds fair stamps, with
them.
do you think I want handbiIls?" ir-
ritably asked the man, picking up the
sheet and frowning at 1t. when I buy
a postage stamp 1 don't want one big
enough to wrap around the letter."
well, SIR said the clerk, you
know
Yes, 1 know it's the custom to get
out a special stamp every time there's
a big exposition held, but I don't see
the necessity of trying to make the
stamp as big as the exposition. There
ought to be a reasonable limit to every
thing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03

Butt
''I heard a man say the other day
that he saved time by just sticking the
letter on the stamp, instead of trying
TO stick the stamp on the letter. 1t looks
to me like an unfair thing for the
government to go into competition with
the manufacture of porous plasters."
Certainly, but
Its a precious piece of nonsense be-
sides. You put one of those big stamps
on a letter and just as likely as not
you make it overweight. Then you've
got to buy another stamp to pay the
postage on the postage stamp. That's
one of Uncle Sans little confidence
games. If everybody would refuse to
take them
will you let me get a word in edge
wise2" asked the clerk.
Certainly. I'm not hindering you.
What is it?'
81 was trying to say that you don't
have to buy any of those new stamps.
We have plenty of the old ones on
hand."-Youth's Companion.
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seen by passing vessels. However. on
dark nights vessels sailing in their
supposed neighborhood have set a
course to clear them, and the lookout
has watched for breakers ahead"
Certain matters have come to the no.
tice of the admiralty. which has led it
to expunge the islands from the
charts, the most convincing testimony
being that of the captain of the Ma
tatua, which passed over their alleged
position in 1900. Thus it is that the
copper chart plate on which the is
lands are engraved will be filed and
ghostly natives of the phantom Royal
Company islands once enjoyed the
privileges of being under British pro-
tection.-Portland Oregonian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.

a new novel by David Graham Phillips
entitled .'The Plum Tree. or the COMES :
sion of a Politician" Mr.. Phillips is the
and 'sThe Master Rogue" i' :
Mr.. F. Marion Crawford is spending the
dispatched. to his publishers the manu-
script of his new novel, "'Whosoever Shall
modern Rome and Sicily.
Rosalind Richards. the daughter of Mrs.
Laura E Richards, and granddaughter
of Julia Ward Howe. is the author Of
The Nursery Fire. a collection of short
stories Tor young children which Little,
Brown & CO. will bring out in the fall.
A new novel by another Maine author
will be published by Little. Brown & Co.
in the fall. Linnie Sarah Harris has
gy, which has for its heroine young
woman with marvellous voice
A prominent New York art critic says
OF Degas portrait, "A Woman in Black
collection at Fenway court, Boston: 1T
Is a wonderful portrait. one of the really
ton OF this portrait appears in the cur
rent tSeptember) number of the Century.
a third large English edition of e Phil
lips Oppenheim's ingenious novel of Lon
don life. Anna, the Adventures" has
just been printed to supply the increasing
demand of this popular book abroad. A
fourth American edition was brought out
by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, some
time since and it continues to be one of
the best selling books of the day.
A new book by Mrs. Ruth McEnery
Stuart. The Rivers Children is in
preparation for issue early in autumn
This is to be illustrated by Harry c. Ed
wards. Fanny Y. Cory has Just made the
picture for an illustrated edition of Son
ny. by Mrs Stuart. This is probably
Mrs Stuart's most popular book 1t was
printed for the thirteenth time in Feb
ruary last.
Mark Twain has leased a house in New
hork for several years, in one of its old
historic neighborhoods- 1t is situated on
lower Fifth avenue, two blocks from
Washington square, region rich in