Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — GOT EGGS FOR BALLOTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOT EGGS FOR BALLOTS.

Rider Haggard Roughly Treated During His Parliamentary Canvass. Among those who have suffered the misfortune of being on the unpopular side in the recent parliamentary elec-

tions in England is the author of those once popular romances, “King Solomon’s Mines” and the wonderful "She." Mr. Haggard stood for election in East Norfolk and his canvass was attended with various lively and exciting incidents which perhaps may serve him rfs the warp if not the woof for some future romance of real life, since they filled to serve his political purposes. He saved his head from being broken by some of his belligerent opponents in the canvass only to have it badly fractured in a political sense when they got at him at the polls. If this sudden and calamitous ending to his political aspirations has the result of turning Mr. Haggard's energies into literary channels again the reading public may gain more by his defeat than the House of Commons lost. Mr. Haggard has not been much in evidence lately in a literary sense, but the qualities manifested in the production of such remarkable stories as “King Solomon’s Mines” and “Jess” surely justify the belief that we have not heard the last of this versatile and powerful writer. Mr. Haggard is still a young man, only 39 last March, and is therefore good for many more years of work, as life usually goes. It is worth noting in this connection that Mr. Haggard’s first book was of a political character. It related to events In South Africa and appeared In 1882. It had no better success than the writer himself has had in politics recently.

H. RIDER HAGGARD.