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The Virtuous Editor . . . . . _Collier's Weekly_
This Dismal Age . . . . . . . _Popular Magazine_
Boost Things
The Adventurer . . . . . . . . _Popular Magazine_
They All Come Back
Home Builders
Failure and Success
The Open Road . . . . . . . . _Popular Magazine_
The Millionaires
Little Mistakes . . . . . . . _System Magazine_
Easy Morality
The Critic . . . . . . . . . . _Harper's Weekly_
The Old Timer . . . . . . . . _Popular Magazine_
The Bright Face . . . . . . . _The Butler Way_
Ladies and Gents
Autumn Joys
The Land of Bores . . . . . . _Smart Set Magazine_
Skilled Labor
An Editorial Soliloquy . . . . _Newspaperdom_
Youthful Grievances
Sunday
John Barleycorn . . . . . . . _Collier's Weekly_
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The Brief Visit

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Umpire . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

The Gloomy Fan

The Buccaneers

The Sleeper Wakes

The Conqueror

The Old Timer

MORNING IN KANSAS

There are lands beyond the ocean which are gray beneath their years,
where a hundred generations learned to sow and reap and spin; where the
sons of Shem and Japhet wet the furrow with their tears--and the
noontide is departed, and the night is closing in.

Long ago the shadows lengthened in the lands across the sea, and the
dusk is now enshrouding regions nearer home, alas! There are long
deserted homesteads in this country of the free--but it's morning here
in Kansas, and the dew is on the grass.

It is morning here in Kansas, and the breakfast bell is rung! We are
not yet fairly started on the work we mean to do; we have all the day
before us, for the morning is but young, and there's hope in every
zephyr, and the skies are bright and blue.

It is morning here in Kansas, and the dew is on the sod; as the
builders of an empire it is ours to do our best; with our hands at work
in Kansas, and our faith and trust in God, we shall not be counted idle
when the sun sinks in the West.

EDITORIAL INFLUENCE

It is a solemn thing, to think when you sit down to splatter ink, that
what you write, in prose or verse, may be a blessing or a curse. The
gems of thought that you impart may upward guide some mind and heart;
some youth may read your Smoking Stuff, and say: "That logic's good
enough; the pa