The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-07

certain writer's have endeavOred 10
throw a halo Of glory around the san
culinary doings of that coterie Of border
ruffisns who terrorized Kansas and Mis-
sCuri just previous 10 and during the
I civil war. holding Qusntr.N especially up
. TO be the high-minded champion or an
( oppressed people. with motives rendered
stronger by his personal wrongs. such
. is not the case. says Mr. ConuelIey and,
/ according 10 his recital Of that per-
s0nage's motives and actions, he was
the blOodiest, most treaCherOUs. and
most conscience hardened ruffian thar
/ ever escaped hanging. for even the pres
eut writer cannot gainsay the fact that
lie received his death wound in open
battle. The writer has gone 20 consider
able labor Of research 20 Ulearth the
truth in regard 10 those terrible epi-
sodes that earned for Kansas the title
of bloody" and the book is quite inter-
esting II the reader IS not too timid 70
peruse the circumstances attendant upon
a period when men seemed 10 be so con
science dinmed as 10 be able calmly 70
shoot other men down for the mere
pleasure of the achievement-The Torch
Press, Cedar Rapids. Iowa
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Says Peter Newell. OF January. in his
new Calendar CHarper's) for 1910:
Resolutions are for sale
In old Januarys shop;
New or threadbare. fresh or stale,
or revamped from last years crop.
Habits. whims. and sins galore
May be checked outside the door"
New York Society on Parade" is to
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brought out by the Harpers IN February.
The author is Ralph Pulitzer, son OF
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vations of society promises to be divert
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on the outside Of society or on tina In n
not yet possible to say.