Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-16
IN GLORIOUS KANSAS
PROSE POET OF THE CORN BELT
BURSTS INTO SONG.
Postmaster General Cortelyou Receives
Flowery Missive From the
Sunny Trans Missouri State.

The following letter has been received at
the Post Office Department from a Kansas
enthusiast In behalf of the appointment of
two young men as carriers I'm the rural free
delivery service:
"A blaze of sunshine is nursing the buds
and giving courage to everything that lives
in Kansas today. The birds are singing in
the and talking to one another OF
love. The pigeons are rehearsing those
springtime capers by which they win their
mates. and those fowls of Shanghai an
cestry, that have played such noble part
in the prosperity of Kansas. are CLOSING
their feathers for a season that may again
inspire the muse of Coburn to give us an
other roetic volume the Kansas hen.
The cows, forgetful and forgiriug of the
beef trust have their noses buried deep in
the luxuriant alfalfa, where dwell poten-
TALLY many dollar for the refrigerator car
outfit and many a healthy corpuscle for the
blood of the American workman-God bless
him.
THE man with the. hoe Is busy in his
garden. bent on proving that the seeds sent
him by our congressman are the choicest
selections of the Scotch genius of the very
Honorable Secretary OF Agriculture and the
very perfection of the experimentation of
government; the man with the hammer Is
knocking on nothing but nails and the
MUSIC ne makes SDuTuS SWettet III Tue pitlh
of the little wife who has aspired to a
little nest of her own than the tones that
come bounding and thrilling from the
magic technique of Paderewsk or from the
silvery throat of Susanna Adams; the men
of law and of commerce and of science and
of politics are all happy and contented, ana
the efforts of none are unyielding of reward
save the devil and the doctors.
In Pretty Deep.
Under the genial sunshine of this sunny
and sunfiowered state the microbes that
established homesteads in the seductive re-
gions of the corporal person who Is now
writing to you while at Washington are
fast returning to their wives folk. and
every time turn my face to that smiling
orb which leads and guides our planetary
system to the constellation Of Andromeda I
sneeze them away by the million. In the
history of evictions my success Is I'M
eoualed the brave Oyama never drove his
enemy from fntrenehments as l have done
"Ah, what fortune it Is to be Kansas
man. But 1t is not Of the climatic glory OF
Kansas that set Out: to write ana nope
you will pardon me for having allowed my
enthusiasm to lead me into byways. IL
is of Kansas patriotism that would speak.
I'm the matter of public service the noble
Roosevelt has set a pace that mas exclleo
in Kansas a desire for emulaoon tnat pal
words to describe. The fever for serving
the government dehes the capacity OF am
bition flowing eastward from Kansas 70
serve the country that Will prove dangerous
unless it meets a wave of opportunity now-
irg westward from Washington. In the
absence Of our congressman today 4 nave
had two splendid volunteers for work with
your Uncle Samuel One OF them Is Jazz Jazz
seeks an humble share in the glory OF the
He does not want to go
to st. James or st. Petersburg, nor to the
Philippines, nor. to Panama to pun ms
weight of the burden OF national service.
He is too good a KanBan for that - anu
its charming environs have more attrac-
lions for him than the ivy-mantied towers
of London, the mosques and minarets OF the
Muscoyite capital. the cathedral domes or
Manila OF the palm shades OF the istnmus.
He deems It better to carry the man over
4 rural route bordering the Little Arkansas
river and more romantic to steal an occa-
sional kiss from one of the rustic corn-fed
maids of bleeding Kansas than TO dine on
the viands of royalty or find glory In SWIM
ming the Bad Bag, or dying by the yell
low fever route for his country.
A Bucahc Applicant.
.vrhe other gentleman is Henry - OF
Henry does not want to roam He
seeks not to serve indoors among the Pill
Jared and domed and columned ediiices OF
Washington. He Is used TO being sum-
moned to work by the clarion notes OF the
cock and would be out OF place
among the 9-o'clock risers OF the national
capital He neither drinks whisky nor
plays penny-ante. He has never worn
dress suit or an opera hat. He Is piain'
homespun man, who loves the fresh air anu
the green fields and the sunshine and flow
ers, and the lady he loves Is the GODDESS
~ sirn,e rural coutentment He, too. wants
mail rural route, ana
If Won could once see the various manlfes-
tations of the generosity of smiling nature
In that section of the corn belt you "ouio
not blame him. -.
"Neither of these gentlemen knew ought
of the impotence Of a congressman peiore
a civil service commission. They rightly
estimate our representative IN Congress ~ ~
be great man. but when they hold him TO
he omnipotent 1 grieye for their innocence
and envy them, too. In vague. dreary
sort of way the good people or kansas
have knowledge of the civil service COM
mission. but they do not suspect its ley
nature. 1t would take them a long time TO
really understand that the said commission
ia not eager to be guided by the WISDOM OF
a county commissioner. member OF the
legislature or congressman In the mat
ter of appointments, or that IN It's opinion
a mana dreary bookworm-who does not
know how to come In out or the ram; save
ton. is better qualified to conduct rural
route than one who is able to curry
horse or in a pinch. help patron-farmer
to stack hay or spray his pigs. or preach
an uplifting and helpful sermon at the
rural chapel while the regular pastor II
away on his vacation.
IT do not ask you to take up this matter
In an official sense, but II you can In any
way help these two gentlemen to show the
what they can do. and how
well they can do 1t, you will oblige me.
At any rate, / win appreciate IT II You
will tell me whether vacancies exist and
how near they are to the top of the eligible
list Very truly yours.