institution's own tobacco leaf and broom corn. And the Governor has conceived an idea that it is not right to make money out of crime, so his scheme is to divide proceeds, from $75,000 to $100,000 anually, among the unfortunate wives and families of the prisoners.

The Guaranty Bank Act, which went through the last legislature but one, guarantees to bank depositors a security they never had before. Eight hundred state banks, with more than $800,000,000 in deposits, comply with it, not because they are compelled to do so, but because they would not now have depositors otherwise. Under the management of J. N. Dooley, State Bank Commissioner, the new idea is to put up a certain percentage of the total deposits in public bonds, the interest going to the banks as though in the vaults. These bonds may be sold in case of necessity to recoup the possible loss to depositors. The Governor, in the wind-up of the fight for this bill, went himself before the senate, argued and labored, and got the bill passed. An information bureau to advise prospective investors in the proper worth of stocks and bonds saved the people of Kansas more than $1,000,000 the last year.

Governor Stubbs cleaned out the state grain department. The delinquent officers were not only impeached but criminal proceedings were instituted against them, and civil suits to recover shortages. The force of the grain department was reduced; the padded pay-roll was purged of straw men. The year before Governor Stubbs came in, the expenditures exceeded receipts by $26,000; in his first year of office, they exceeded by $11.

The Governor modestly attributes the success of these changes to the men he has chosen; yet not too modestly he reiterates that he knows a man for a job when he sees him.

Here is part of his platform:

We declare for the following policies;

(A) To submit to the people in the election of 1912 a constitutional amendment giving the people the power to recall officers of city, county, and state governments, whom they believe to be derelict or unfaithful, under procedure similar to that now granted to cities

of the first class adopting the commission form of government, and to give the recall promptly to the people upon every officer under legislative authority.

(B) To submit to the people of Kansas a constitutional amendment in 1912 giving them the right to initiate legislation and to vote upon certain legislative enactments, with a 5 per cent. petition for a referendum vote.

The main issue during the last campaign was the public utilities law:

In campaign speeches, Stubbs takes off his coat and goes after his subject in his shirt sleeves. His manner on the stump is not that of a conventional after-dinner speaker nor is his language that of a grammarian. grammarian. He has no idea of what dramatic ability means. His speech and his manner are homely, but both are unforgetable.

"I've been Governor now for four years; almost four years - not quite. I told you I would do what was right. If I haven't, kick me out now, and put in the other fellow."

That is the way he says it. He is the most popular speaker in Kansas with the possible exception of oratorical Victor Murdock. His sincerity carries.

Stubbs knows little of parliamentary usage and cares less. He was chairman of the Republican convention in Wichita once when some one made a motion that was quickly seconded. "Alright," bellowed Stubbs. "All in favor-just a minute, just a minute," he interpolated to someone on the side who was clamoring for remarks, "All in favor, aye. All opposed, no. The ayes have it. Now what is it you want over there?"

During the state convention in which was fought the bitter fight against Curtis, he was chairman. For four years Curtis had been jibing and jeering at Stubbs from afar, for he knew Stubbs only casually. It was Curtis's last stand. In the convention he represented the forlorn hope, but he is a finished parliamentarian, and he played off his tactics and sparred for Stubbs; he knew Curtis had only agility position. This was fake fighting to Stubbs; he knew Curtis had only agility and adroitness against his own bull strength. He waited till Curtis made some inconsequential motion, then he

the leader of the whipped political machine, he stood stock still. Both men grinned, but Mulvane turned out and gave Stubbs the right of way.

George Gould had experience of his stubbornness when Stubbs wanted the murderous Central Branch tracks of the Missouri Pacific in Kansas set in order. Stubbs sent a telegram to Gould saying that he would put the railroad in the hands of a receiver unless the tracks were fixed. Vice-President Clark of the road appeared in Topeka with a retinue, took up quarters in the State House and asked what was wanted of them. "Fix the tracks," said the Governor. Clark sparred, and Stubbs took the train to New York and invited Gould to come to see him at his room in the Waldorf. He didn't propose going to see Gould. The railroad president came. "We must have a stenographer take down what we say," said Stubbs. "No," said Gould. "Yes," said Stubbs, and the stenographer appeared. Gould balked at Stubbs's demand that he should tell what the underwriting of the Missouri Pacific's $28,000,000 loan would cost, so that the loan could go back into the property. "Yes" - "No" "Yes" it went again. Stubbs won.

The Governor's sense of fair play showed itself during the coal strike in southwestern Kansas when 35,000 miners were on strike for higher pay. The coal operators wanted to import some Alabama Negroes to take the place of the strikers and asked that the state militia be sent to the mining camps. Stubbs refused the request on the ground that it was for the purpose of forcing the miners to accept terms. At the same time he told the miners that if they caused any trouble to property he would send the militia after them. The result was that though the strike continued five months, not one blow was struck. Both sides equally feared and respected the Governor. So Kansas hails the controversial fighter who went into the 1905 convention jeered at for a fool. They now know what he is. He has become the most prominent figure in his state, and when he feels that he has done all there that he can do, let the larger territory beyond watch out!

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HE Grand Cañon of the Colorado, the Yellowstone and Yosemite Parks, and the Big Trees are well known by name and by pictures, and an increasing number of Americans are gaining the understanding which comes comes with actually seeing these wonders of nature. But few people even know of the other nine parks, some of which contain scenery as inspiring and unusual as that of the Yellowstone or the Yosemite. The average acquaintance does not include a person who knows anything of the sixty-three living glaciers and the countless snow clad peaks of the Glacier National Park, the top of the continent in Montana, from which the waters run into the Arctic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific. Mt. Rainier, the great volcanic mountain between Seattle and Tacoma, is well known from a distance. but even the name of Crater Lake, nestled in the centre of that great Mt. Mazama which caved in, is almost unheard. Yet there are few natural phenomena more worth seeing. The General Grant and Sequoia National Parks in California preserve perhaps the oldest living things in the world the big trees; and the Mesa Verde Park in Arizona holds the earliest traces of human life in this country, the ruins of the homes of the cliff dwellers.

These cliff dwellings were in ruins three hundred years ago when the Spaniards first saw them; but they still retain many evi

dences of a well developed art of livingthe masonry of their houses shows that they had engineering skill; their pottery gives proof of an advanced artistic taste; and the remains upon the mesas above their dwellings show that they tilled the soil successfully. Few more picturesque rides can be found than those that lead up the narrow trails to these cliff homes. The principal ruin is the Cliff Palace, 300 feet long, that contains 200 living rooms and many larger assembly rooms that were used for tribal councils and for religious ceremonies. The park contains at least 375 cliff houses.

But the care of the parks has been neglected by the Government as their true worth (with perhaps the three exceptions noticed above) has been unappreciated by the public. For the last forty years parks have been created and maintained by acts of Congress without much of any system. But the twelve existing parks, with their nearly five million acres, the forty-one national monuments, and such proposed reservations as the Park of Living Volcanoes in Hawaii, are important enough now to merit more attention from the Government as well as from the public.

In this Hawaiian park, for example, are the wonderful active volcano of Kilauea, with its seething caldron 1,000 feet in diameter; Mauna Loa, that towers 13,675 feet to its crest where is the still active crater of Mokuaweoweo; Mauna Kea, 200 feet higher; and the extinct Haleakala,