A ten-year-old girl has been “rescued” from her Kiowa captors. Kidd with what is perhaps his life’s last great challenge. There is nothing in this article about survivors. The latest from the New York Herald Tribune states that the polar exploration ship Hansa is reported by a whaler as being crushed in sunk in the pack ice in its attempt to reach the North Pole sunk at seventy degrees north latitude off Greenland. He turned his head to search the crowd of faces turned up to him. Let us have no vaporings or girlish shrieks. He bent slightly forward over the lectern. The Fifteenth Amendment, he read, which has just been signed between the several states February 3 rd, 1870, allows the vote to all men qualified to vote without regard to race or color or previous condition of servitude.

There was a hard rain outside and it was noisy but he had a good strong voice.

So he had arrived in Wichita Falls on February 26 th and tacked up his posters and put on his reading clothes in the stable. He rode a very good horse and was concerned that someone might try to take the horse from him but so far so good. He had been at one time a printer but the war had taken his press and everything else, the economy of the Confederacy had fallen apart even before the surrender and so he now made his living in this drifting from one town to another in North Texas with his newspapers and journals in a waterproof portfolio and his coat collar turned up against the weather. Still he stayed his rounds, even during the cold spring rains.

He had been born in 1798 and the third war of his lifetime had ended five years ago and he hoped never to see another but now the news of the world aged him more than time itself. Jiles’ paints her gentleman newsreader as remote from the world of his audiences, saddened by the passage of time, impatient with the impatience of intolerance.Ĭaptain Kidd laid out the Boston Morning Journal on the lectern and began to read from the article on the Fifteenth Amendment. Kidd seems content to live life this way while waiting for his daughters to move back home to Texas. In Paulette Jiles’ 2016 National Book Award-nominated News of the World, this gentleman is now roaming Texas reading periodicals and papers to audiences so starved for news of the outside world they will pay a nickel a piece to hear it proclaimed.Ĭapt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd has endured wars, a wife, the loss of her, two daughters, and has traveled the roads and byways of his native South.

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