The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-07-29
a Streak Of Yellow, by Matt Rose.

Not every one realizes how much the
son of minister has to put up with.
Not only is the old proverb about preach
ers' sons and deacons' daughters thrown
at them but there are other times in the
bosom of the ministerial family when
the scriptural injunction relative to
sparing the rod and spelling the child
is too literally followed out for the COM
fort of the youth referred to above
Even the deacon's daughter will be
found in real life to have some few
trials quite peculiar to her own niche in
society's structure. In A Streak of Vel
low all this comes out. The hero of the
story is the seventh son of a hard shell
Baptist preacheg. All the other sons
except one younger than he, the eighth
on the family roster-have been practi-
cally driven from home by the stern
severity Of the ministerial head of the
family who has been for many years
the pastor of church in a little New
York village. Like many other very
much alive boys he gets into trouble
more frequently than he wishes he did
after each successive scrape is account
ed for, and after while he makes up
his boyish mind that nearly every scrape
for which he is whipped has to do with
the color of yellow about it. These try
ing escapades come often and the yellow
is uniformly in evidence, hence the
title and its peculiar appropriateness
the story becomes so far as the boy is
concerned veritable Streak of Yellow
The deacon's daughter, is not forgotten
in the story. She is the means of work
ing out reformation in the preachers
family, the church, and the entire vii
lage in an interesting, tactful way, and
in little love story of her own.
Eventually the streak of yellow seems
to pale, and the hero who in turn with
his elder brothers had been driven from
home just as his father was about to be
convinced of the errors of the fiogging
ways, becomes wealthy in the west after
many exciting experiences, and returns
to his home to meet his fathers family,
his old friend the deacon's daughter who
wrought the reformation in the village,
and incidentally to assert his claim on
another deacons daughter who had
grown up under the influence of the
more pleasant times brought about by
their older friend, the heroine of the
story who by this time is herself the
mother of new little "deacon's daugh-
ter" The story ends very prettily and
is doubtless as realistic an account of
the lives of many ministers sons as
could be found anywhere. There may
be reason for this for the author is
the son of a Baptist minister himself
and while he doubtless does not draw on
his own experiences for the stories of
the floggings which his hero received
on every slight provocation, yet his ex-
perience has doubtless enabled him to
write with especial sympathy of the
other trials
The author is Mr.. Henry M. Rose,
well known over the entire state as a
well informed and exceptionally capa-
bic politician, who has won laurels as
secretary to Senator Burrows of this
state, and at present occupies the re-
sponsible position of chief clerk in
the United States senate The book is
published by The Neale Publishing Co.,
431 Eleventh ST., Washington, D. c.,
from whom it may be secured at the
price of $3.50.