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...trouble with the neighbors over a bunch of cats. Now the fact is that it was William Redwood Smith who was having trouble with his neighbors over the cats. He is a former justice of the supreme court but left that tribunal to become an attorney for The Atchison Topeka &, Santa Fe Railway Company. He never was attorney-general. I was attorney-general and then went on the supreme court. Mrs. Smith and I do possess three boys but we never could afford any cats...
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TIME apologizes for confusing cat-owning onetime Justice William Redwood Smith with non-cat-owning Justice William Amos Smith. The application by William Redwood Smith for a restraining order to prevent the city of Topeka from enforcing an ordinance limiting the number of cats per citizen to two is on the docket of the Shawnee County District Court, has not yet been acted upon...
What The Fool is to the stage, to an even greater degree a novel called In His Steps has been to literature. Written in 1896 by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon, Congregational minister of Topeka, Kans., In His Steps tells of a preacher who not only tried to live as Christ would have lived in modern times but succeeded in starting a great movement among laymen who pledged themselves to do likewise. Translated in 21 languages, published under 47 different foreign imprints, In His Steps has sold more than 25,000,000 copies, sometimes trailing only the Bible as a bestseller...
...Author Sheldon emulated his book by editing Senator Arthur Capper's Topeka Daily Capital for a week as he believed Jesus would have done. So much in demand were copies that mats were rushed to Chicago, New York and London. Now 66, tall and genial, Author Sheldon has retired from the pulpit, is a doughty warrior for Prohibition, and a contributing editor to the Christian Herald (of which he was editor-in-chief from 1920 to 1925). He has written some 33 books, but his fame still rests upon In His Steps. It might be supposed that his wealth...