The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12

than 80 years old, Mr.. Patterson has
had a wide and varied career. While
still attending Yale college he at va
rious times was a cowboy in Old
Mexico and Wyoming, and a CORE
spondent in China during the Boxer
war.
Upon graduating from Yale in 1901,
| Mr.. Patterson became a reporter on
| the Chicago Tribune, then assistant
Sunday editor. When 23 years old
| he was elected to the Illinois legis-
lature, being the youngest member
of that body. At the expiration of
his term in the legislature he took
charge of the editorial page of the
| Chicago Tribune, but when Edward
| F. Dunno was nominated for mayor
| of Chicago on the municipal owner
ship platform. Mr.. Patterson found
| himself unable to agree with his fam
| lily as to the editorial policy of the
Tribune. and therefore severed his
| connection with that paper. Upon
| DUNES election as mayor he APP
| pointed Patterson commissioner of
! public works, in which position he
did most effective work, devoting
| great deal of time in endeavoring to
| enforce the laws which had been, and
were being, ignored by the public
service corporations. Finding, how
| ever, that his hands were more OF
| less tied by politics, he resigned the
| commissionership and announced his
| conversion to Socialism. A little later
he became first editor of the Chicago
| Daily Socialist.
Mr.. Patterson. it is understood. is
| engaged in writing two plays, and
! negotiations for their production have
already been entered into with a
prominent New York manager.
"A Little Brother of the Rich" is
put out in handsome form by the
publishers, Reilly & Britton. of Chi
| cago. The cover design in gold and
cream, on blue cloth, is strikingly eff
fective, and the illustrations are ex-
! cellent. Particularly attractive is the
frontispiece in colors, after a paint
ing by Mrs. Hazel Martyr Trudeau, a
popular young society woman and
artist of Chicago.
There will be special interest in
Helen r. Martins new novel, 1.-The
| Revolt of Anne Boyle" as it is an
nounced that this delineator of Penn
| sylvania Dutch life and character has
! departed entirely from the field of
her earlier successes. The charac-
ters are of the college and church
circles of a small Pennsylvania town;
| and the narrative is first, last and all
the time a love story.
Frederic s. Isham, author of 1.-THE
Lady of the Mount" and other Amer
lean novels, in a letter from the far
east, calls attention to one of the old
est of the many odd Chinese guilds"
Everyone knows of the celestial beg
! CARS guild-as close a corporation as
the one-legged society of France-but
! few people have heard of the lock-
pickers guild, a smaller and more Sc
! lect association of choice and skilful
spirits If there is a lock to be
picked, member of this last-named
guild is employed; perhaps it hap
| pens to be the lock of somebody's
front door. In this event, if the thief
employing the lock-picker is caught,
Il ~ L L.
nese law holds the member of the
guild exempt from punishment. The
latter was merely plying his trade;
the thief alone was culpably occupy
ing himself. speaking of guilds and
"onIy the other day an article in a
Tientsin newspaper referred to a for
eigner who had his lumber yard
burned by a beggar he had refused
| longer to support. The foreigner ac-
not prosecute. fearing further to an
tagonize the beggars' guild"
Mr. Charles Frederick Holder has
| written many books, but his latest
work, "Big Game at Sea-" published
by the Outing Publishing company, is
without doubt the most extraordinary
recital of big game fishing ever given
to the public in any land. Mr.. Holder
is the pioneer in this sport, and its
literature. He demonstrates that a
tuna, the fish that has killed many
fishermen by jerking them overheard
on hand lines, can be caught with rod
and reel He relates how one of
his captures towed him over twelve
miles, and this is but one of scores
of exciting adventures in this volume
of the experience of the author on
the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of
Mexico. If one desires to read about
strenuous sport. here it is.
The valuable biography, Richard
Mansfield: The Man and the Actor,
by Paul Wilstach, which is one of the
most important books of the fall, will
be brought out in November by the