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- 'tfff tfajgrrft THE JSOHFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOUHNALPKTDAY ; , APUII17 ,1908. Hie Norfolk Weekly News-Journal The Now * . KutMiUihed. 1SI1. Tha Journal. ISatitbllHhert. 1871. E MUSE PUBLIB'HINQ COMPANY W. N. HUHK N. A. HUHR Prmtlilonl Hocrotury _ _ ' " jjyery TCfilnjr Ti inqll pert y gnr.j'Oo" Kn tared nt the pOBtoinco a.Norfolk. . N l > . . an Hpcoiul pjaHB mutter. _ TulBphonoHHdlfnrlnl Dopnrtmenl No. 22. IlUBlno n Oltlcf nnd Jnl > No. II 22. , If ft man can't innho good nt the bottom ho can't make good nt the top. Under present conditions Hnytl \vouhl bo nu Ideal place to send thu unnrchlBtH. Why not ? The great reformer Thomas W. Law > son Is no moro. Ho IB Just an ordl nary stock gambler ngaln. No eclipse of the aim this ycnr. NovortlicloHH Bovornl "Jnvorlto sons" nro ( jnlto sure to bo eclipsed. Tlio Goulda and Vawlorbllts are of forlng their floating ocean palaces for sale nt a small part of their original cost. This la very good evidence thnt they were hard hit by the panic. Hearst and Watson are mentioned us a very likely populist ticket. Why not put the brains at the head of the llcket nnd the inonoy at the tall In stead of reversing It. And now Wizard Burhnnk has done ( , o well In making seedless apples , some one Is hoping thnt ho will bo nfolo to turn out rainless Sundays. Governor Wilson of Kentucky thinks of calling nn extrn session of the leg- islnturc. Tlie troubles of some states' , like those of some people , never cease. Many of the towns and cities of the United States boast of fine streets , but the best of them make poor educa tional Institutions for the boys of the country. There nre a good many In this old world who like to hear Henry Wntter- son preach against hnte , then pour vials of wrath and condemnation on anyone who falls to agree with him. The stntement thnt the emperor of Gormnny is a courageous man can no longer be doubted. While he was In London recently he bought some new hats for his wife without consulting her. The presidential candidates this year will all be subjected to a new nnd trying ordeal , that of being "fentured" In moving pictures by the amusement men who deal In this class of attrac tions. Now there Is talk of buying lower California from Mexico. It's attraction is the fine natural harbor of Mag- delena Bay which would be of great value to the United States for a naval station. The bnlloonlsts promise that this will be a good year for flying , the pol iticians are sure that It will be a great year for running , the immigration bu reau thinks It will be a great year for moving , while the nuto owners expect to go some. With 173 military nnd semi-military schools In the United States In which 60,000 cadet soldiers are training , there seems every * reason to believe that the military spirit will be kept up to a high standard and the effi ciency of tutnrmy maintained. Much evil has been done by permit ting the railroads to ride rough shod over legislatures and courts and people ple , but It will only make a bad mat ter worse to turn the tables and try to nm rough shod over the railroads. What is needed is an ndmlnlstrntion of sane justice which shall not run to either extreme. Judging by the expressions of Euro peans in regard to the successfuljour- ney of the battleships they expected boilers to burst , engines to break down , other machinery to collapse , pome ships to be left by the wayside and others to be towed Into Magdalena bay In n crippled condition. That Isn't the kind of ships Uncle Sam invests his millions in. James Benton Connelly , who made the cruise from Hampton Roads with Admiral Evans' fleet as fnr as Mag- delena Bay as the special representa tive of President Roosevelt , rather sustains the criticism of Reuterdahl concerning the battleships. He says that our navy can Uo greatly Improved in construction. He Inclines to the opinion that our naval architects lack creative genius , and says "Swivel chair artists In the navy department are hardly any different from politicians In any other department. " The thief who recently stole one- fourth of a grain of radium from a Glasgow laboratory is worse off than before. He cannot sell It because any. one who knew the value of It would at once suspect his right to its pos > session since the whereabouts of the world's Infinitesimal amount of radium la well known. He can not put the bit of metal In his pocket as it would promptly burn through clothing and flesh. He cannot gaze upon the speck unless elaborate precautions are taken without blinding himself. It Is very evident that the last estate of thnt thief IB worse than the first Tlio fiction thnt n man must not. seek the presidency In still maintain- ' ed. There IB not ti candidate In th6 Held. Messrs. Taft , Bryan , JohnsOn nnd the seat are merely Btnndlng round with their hands In their pock ets to show their willingness to servo their country If the demand should bo. prcuslng. It Is becoming moro and more ap parent that no scheme of general edu cation will develop individual students according to the special talents or gifts they may possess. After the foundation of their education has been gained In the grades there should bo Buch u course of study ndopted ns will best lit the pupil for the vocation In life which ho or she has most apti tude for. The Philadelphia city council auth orizes the floating of a $10,000,000 loan and Mayor Rnyburn has adver tised for bids. This will glvo funds to carry on Improvements which will furnish employment to several thous and unemployed men In the "City of Brotherly Love. " No wiser thing can bo done by any municipality than to furnish work on public Improvements In times when laborers are compelled to lie idle. It has been suggested thnt The News Is more strongly In favor of paving than It would be If It owned real estnte on Norfolk avenue within the proposed paving district. The News never Intends to urge upon some oie | else anything that it will not do Itself , nnd If the city will make Its paving district to extend from the river to Seventh street on Norfolk avenue Including North Fourth street from Norfolk avenue to Braasch av- eiiue. The News will voluntarily stand nn assessment of just double the cost of paving In front of The News building and the Auditorium , a street frontage of eighty-two feet , and will consider It a privilege to be al lowed to do this. Wo are satisfied that besides benefiting the town as n whole , the investment In paving will more than add its cost to the vnluo of the property. The city may take the additional money nnd put It Into pav ing intersections or do what It pleases with it. We are sincere In believing that paving Is the most important measure before the people of Norfolk nt this time nnd we In no wise desiree o shirk any of the responsibility or nxes incident to promoting the best nterests of the town. ONE THING OR TWENTY. There nre n great many factors hlch enter into the problem of sue- ess , and men are constantly trying to hid them all so thnt they mny reach he Eldorado of their hopes. But In his , ns In so ninny other things , we lecome confused and so make life un- iccessarily complicated and miss the ioal of our dream because we fail o see that the road to it is a very simple and direct one. Our civilization is so full of varied kinds of life and calls upon our en ergies in so many directions that here is need of a great deal more purpose and directness of life than .here has ever been before. It is a question" of doing one thing or twenty and the most of us really have the dea that In doing the twenty we are achieving the most. There never wns a time when there wns such a multl tude of organizations for the further ng of so many schemes , each of them good In themselves , as there is now. The fact of It is we are organized to denth. It Is as true now , If success Is to be attained , as it was in the days of the great apostle , that there must be a singleness of aim. "This one thing I do , " said Paul. That one thing was to preach the gospel and he was so absorbed and possessed by his mission that he made one of the greatest successes of any man who ever lived. There are a good many good things in the world , but it is given to most men to know only a few , and there must be a choice of paths. It is a nice thing to know a great deal about the world , but this should be incidental to the pursuit of some one vocation which should be assiduously cultivated. In the many attractions of the hour , in the things and ideas which fascinate in so many directions , if success is to be attain ed , the great secret Is to learn how to turn a deaf ear to the most of them and pay our attention only to a few. The man who succeeds must bo the man who not only believes in himself but Is fascinated by some one line of activity and Is willing to be wooed and won by It. REMEDIES FOR VIOLENCE. The last sixty dnys have witnessed a sudden and notable flaming up of that spirit of anarchism in this coun try which -threatens not only Indiv idual lives but If allowed to gather headway might defy the very power of the government Itself. The killing of the innocent priest at Denver was an atrocity that amaz ed and horrified the whole nation ; the attack on Chief Shippey at Chicago was even more startling and now the still more recent bomb outrage in New York/whlch had It been -success ful would have exceeded In disaster the haymnrkot squnro tragedy in Chicago years ngo , further Intensifies the apprehension of the people and calls attention to the awful possibil ities of nn anarchistic crusade. While there la little to bo gnlned In the contemplation of its terrors , there s n strenuous demand that the Amer ican people look this question square In the fnco nnd meet it in the best possible prnctlcnl way. And thnt wny Is a very clear one. The thrower must bo dealt with. How ? Along two distinct nnd widely divergent lines , both of which have In view only the good of society nnd the welfare of government Itself. There are two lines to bo followed because there arc two classes of dis turbers to bo reached. The first ele ment Is made up of those who are too stupid , brutal or vicious to be within the palo of reason. They must bo dealt with ns any other maniacs and the laws ngnlnst crime , conspir acy and abuse of free speech must be strictly enforced. There Is ns well oven ntnong people who hold these strangely untenable and undemocratic ideas , these who are not bad at heart. They have come from countries where they have known nothing but the darkness of despotism and bondage nnd the very thoughts of freedom its light and its privileges Is too strong for them to use rightly. These people are teach able and they need the strongest , sanest and best agencies set nfoot to guide nnd help them. In the big cities , the kindly social settlements , the many philanthropic agencies , the newspapers printed in foreign lang uages these nnd multifarious organ izations , churches , lodges and unions , can hero find a mighty work. Some must be punished. The many must be redeemed. It Is a vast problem needing a great people with noblest Impulses and a willingness to serve to solve It. IS OPPORTUNITY WANT'NG ? One of the stock arguments which Mr. Bryan includes In almost every speech he makes Is that young men have no longer any opportunity to succeed in life because the present conditions of our Industrial and social system prohibit It. To use a phrase of his , "monopoly Is closing the door of opportunity to your boy and my boy. " Plausible as this may seem , the facts do not sustain Mr. Bryan's condition. In this matter , as in many others , Mr. Bryan has a wonderful capacity for making assertions. He is as long on hcories and fancies as he is short > u facts. Notwithstanding the chang- id conditions which every one must 'ecognize ' do prevail today In the business world , there never was a Ime In the history of the nation with iuch great opportunities for men with brains to succeed as there Is at the present. It is true that the oppor- unity which existed a generation ago or every man to go into business for himself on a small capital and to plod n a small way , has passed. But strongly as those days appeal to our magination , in reality did the great majority of men make any large suc cess under that system of doing bus- ness ? The capital of the country has admittedly found its way into great channels of industry and everything s now done , if it is to be made a success , in a great way. But while t Is easy to rail at corporations and combinations they offer to hundreds of men most magnificent opportunities in business directions which the world affords. It is true that there are thousands of unemployed men , but it is because they are either unskilled or shiftless. It Is true that the high places are not to be permanently filled by men of ordinary attainments. This the young man should understand , but ho should also understand that the world is waiting as never before for men of great ability to do things In a thous and different lines and along many avenues of life there Is an increasing demand for men of capacity. More over , this is the era of young men. Never before was the young man so eagerly sought and was such a prem ium put upon his services. Neither is he sought because of his wealth or social position. This cuts no ice whatever. What the great business Interests of the country want are re sults and the one question they ask of any man who offers his services is "Can he deliver the goods ? " The great positions are open to the poor boys of the country nnd they are by the thousands making good , but the supply Is no where near equal to the demand. The great agencies like Hapgood's which make a business of employing men for others , will tell you that they have numerous J5.000 Jobs. The great problem is to get $5,000 men to fill them. Much as we may deplore corporation In some aspects , It must be admitted by every candid observer that they have given as n result of their gigan tic and tremendous output of business employment to hundreds of skilled laborers at salaries that would not to Investigate the problem more def initely. Take the United States Steel Corporation for example. It is a well known fact that its executive force Is almost exclusively made up of poor boys. Almost without exception , the men who nro at the head of these great departments commanding princely salaries have known what It Is to bo poor in the genuine exper ts to be poor In the genuine experience of the boy who struggles without pull and without any special favor. They enter the departments with an eye to business , with a willingness to work , with a patient persistence , nnd under the direction of nble , nlcrt , trained men they themselves have be come the masters of the situation. And yet these men nre so few In numbers compared to the real needs for the carrying on of this business nnd oth ers slmlllnr to It , that Andrew Car- neglo has established In Plttsburg the largest technical institute In the world with the soul aim of supplying train ed men for these different positions. In this Institute the poor boy has all the chances of the son of the wealth iest man In the country. Slmlllnr in stltutions nre springing up all over the land nnd there Is going out nn urgent demnnd that young men train their hnnds , their eyes nnd their brains In such a manner nstto deal with the prnctlcnl affairs of commer cial nnd industrial life. The Steel company Is not alone. Regardless of the fnct that public criticism has ex hnusted Itself on much that the Stand nrd Oil company hns done , hero is another great corporation , whatever Its other sins may be , thnt hns been conspiclous In giving splendid re wards to the M'ting ' men viic bave done their work well. Perhaps no other corporation In the country values Its salaried men more highly and gives them more substantial recogni tion than Mr. Rockefeller's company. It Is In the larger corporations where favoritism counts for less than It does anywhere else. It is here that the strictest business principles pre vail. Men are not hired by these great business institutions becnuse they belong to the family. HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE. There is nn Intense restlessness among the people and there is n con stant demand that the government provide woik for unemployed. This is especially true when times are a little slack in the factory towns , but what Is needed more than anything else in the American situation today is a truer prospective of what life means and what It should bring. The ountry is growing in population as ivell as wealth but in some respects he growth is of a smaller character. t Is unquestionably true thnt there s an Immense amount of wealth with- n the limits of the United States and hat the per capita of values Is great- T than anywhere else. But Is lam- mtnbly true also that that wealth Is very largely In the hands of n few rather than the many. What is need ed is a better distribution , so thnt more people can enjoy the blessings ivhich a competency brings rather ban that the many should be surfeit- 'd with the misfortunes of luxury. The tendency of the age Is such that It only serves to increase these nuintura ] conditions. The minds of he people are diseased with a mnnin for living In groups. It Is because of this that the-great cities are more and more becoming Immense centers of population , while the country dis tricts are being left to neglect. At the present rate of Increase New York may have a population of seven mil lions by 1920 and Chicago , it is pre dicted , within fifty years will have ten millions of people. The contrast with this statement Is found when a view of the farming districts of the country is taken. It is moro notice able in the eastern states where abandoned farms by the thousands are noted only a few miles distant from the great cities , but it is also true that in the Mississippi Valley and the new er west there Is no such proportionate growth and settlement on lands as there Is in the cities. The people have gone , not money mad , but city mad. They crowd Into great apart ment houses and Into tenement bouses and would rather be Inconvenienced , suffering from lack of sunshine and fresh air , than to live more isolated lives In independence and comfort. It is a mistaken notion. What is the remedy ? There was never in the history of this country such an oppor tunity for men to get comfortable homes and lands to till as there Is today. Never was the government doing so much to provide homes , Irrigation , forestry and other depart ments are spending millions to provide conditions such as previous genera tlons have known nothing about. The trouble Is with the people themselves , They have a wrong conception of life , They want to live on Easy street , lg noring the conditions which make foi an Independent livelihood. They need to have more of that initiative which the pioneers possessed who settled these flourishing states of the greal central west. Speaking of these the New York Independent says : "The men who first settled on these farms had to walk or drive ox teams bun dreds of miles. They had to flghl Indians , wolves and bears. The earlj settlers in Kansas and Nebraska hnc to live in houses cut froyi the sod There were no shade trees and no fruit The drouth and grass hoppers destroy edi their crops year after year. Tbej saw no one outside the family foi weeks at a time. If they had any thing to , t nt moro than corn bread and potato they thought themselves lucky. Wo do not pity these pioneers of the plains , wo ndmlro them. In Bplto of their privations , they lived hcnlthy nnd hnppy lives nnd founded churches , HchoolB nnd colleges. " Nebraska offers today Just na great oppoitunlttes for other thousands of ' families ns It hns In the past. FarmIng - Ing has become , .not the dreary exist ence of former dnys , but In Its stead one of the most attractive occupa tions on the face of the earth. In thin splendid Elkhorn valley , In which Nor folk Is situated , and the lands stretch-1 Ing fnr to the westward , Is nn area' ' fertile nnd full of possibilities In which there nre thousands of ncres still wnitlng for the husbnndmnn's cure. The men who occupjlug the flourishing farms in this region nre no longer shut off from their neigh bors. Better roads , good railroad com munication , telephones , rural free de livery , the dally newspaper all these bring the farmer In close contact with the world every hour of the day. He Is the real king of < orica. Ills number should bo multiplied many times. Never were farm products so eagerly sought for at high prices as they nro at the present time. It Is a mistake and n most serious one for thousands of people to cling to city life wlthnll Its privations when there nre such possibilities for health and comfoit nnd Independence on the farm The people not only in the slum dis tricts , but thousands of them who are struggling for a mere existence under the shadow of the grent sky scrapers of some metropolis , need something of the initiative nnd energy possessed by the men who have made these srent western stntes bud and blossom as the rose by their earnest endeavors nnd by their willingness to suffer some of the privation ! ; of life that 'they might become strong. Those pri vations no longer exist. Nebraska cor dially invites thousands of these people ple to share in the splendid prosperity of its citizens and heie obtain for themselves an independent foot hold on a soil as fertile ns nny out of doors where they can live and breathe the spirit of independence under God's sunshine amongst the best possible conditions. Here are homes amongst a free , Intelligent thrifty people await ing men if they will only take them. There are prizes here to be had for the asking. They are not for the In different ; they are not for the lazy ; they are not for the uninitiative , but for the men who are willing to work , who have pluck and brain and brawn. The chances on the splendid farm lands of Nebraska nre incomparable to any which the over crowded dis tricts of the great cities have to offer. It would be well for the country's future if this could be realized by thousands. Fortunately more and more are realizing it and Nebraska nnds its sister states nre receiving more of the young vigorous of the country week by week , who by their endeavors will gain homes for them selves and help to maintain the most prosperous common wealth of the nation. AROUND TOWN. Can't the weather man take a joke ? Take it all back : This is not the time to shed. A fire can't start early enough in the morning to get ahead of the Nor folk fire department. President Roosevelt vetoed that dam bill. But for the matter of thnt , he's vetoed a good many of that kind. What's In a name ? It was Ward's "Smoke House" that caught fire and got smoked up Wednesday morning. "There is hardly a word In The News , advertisements and all , that I don't read every single night , " said a Norfolk man. "I begin at 7 o'clock and there isn't a line in the paper that escapes me. " Clear the track for Easter clothes. The big fish stories and radishes are a-sproutlng. This kind of weather is enough to make any man forget all his troubles. The Iceman to bat ! It's getting about the time of year to shed. Every day this week Is the rabbit's busy day. Here's where the coal bill gets a black eye. There are women In Norfolk who can tell you which Easters were rainy and which were not , for the past twenty years. One little five-year-old boy said the other day to his mother , who had been sick for seven weeks : "Just think , mother , I got out of having my toenails - nails trimmed and my ears 'skittled' for seven times. " It almost shakes one's faith In hu man nature when a curly headed , blue eyed boy like Julius Hulff , three times city clerk nnd ex-secretary of the Madison County Sunday School asso ciation , et cetera , et cetera , will delib erately drop poetry and resort to fic tion to vent his spleen. Take that story about the misspelling ( of 'P. J. 'Fuesler's tidme 'tra the city ' ballots , T J. D. Sturgeon , Mayor-Elect of Norfolk S i \ J 1) Sturgeon , mnyor elect of Nor- oik will on the seventh of next Aug- ist have been a resident of this city 'or ' twenty years. As the new mnyor s fifty-four years old the most active mrt of his life has been spent in Nor- oik. This year Mr Sturgeon was elected nayor by the largest majority over given a candidate for that olllce In Norfolk. A year ngo he ran for the same office ngnlnst the same man and vas defeated in every ward In town. Sturgeon's life has been marked by nnny of those ups nnd downs but up or down it can be snid for him that he ins always had a smile nnd a boost The way he accepted defeat Inst year uid then took off his coat nnd worked he harder In the public movements In which he wns Interested explains no ! only the man's character nnd disposl- ion but also what success ho may lave achieved nt nny time. Mr. Sturgeon started in life with 10 capital but his energy. Norfolk ins before this found opportunities to itlllxe that energy. Sturgeon is n inrd worker. When he hns met rc- erses he hns smiled a little nnd kept on working. The mayor-elect IK n hoosler. He vas born on December 21 , 1853 , on n 'arm four miles from Lognnsport , Ind When he wns four years old his pa rents moved by wagon to Polk county , owa. He never had a look-in for a college education. He went to n country school when n boy nnd he went bnre- 'ooted ' to school most of the time. So lid the other kids over in Polk county n this fashion lie got a common coun try school education. Sturgeon has virtually supported limself since he was eleven years old. Us first work was of course on his ather's farm. The first money ho ever earned cnme when he wns eleven years old. He herded cattle for a 'nrmer for forty cents n day. Later le worked out on n farm for $13 a month. Sturgeon grew to manhood In Polk county near Vandalla not far from Des Molnes. He married when he was twenty-one and stuck to farming until lie was twenty-nine years old. By nn accident he was thrown in company with a man selling sowing machines about this time. AH a re sult in 1882 he went to Griiinell , lown , and arranged to work by the month for J. W. Hulxlnger. For three nnd a half years he worked out of Monte- > ! uma selling sewing machines and organs. Mr. Hulzlnger Is n frequent visitor which he claims wns the fault of the secretary of the republican city con vention. Nice story that , and n nice place to lay the blame for his own mistake , but unfortunately for the truthfulness of the fabrication the name of Mr. Fueslcr was not certified to the city clerk by the secretary of the city convention , for the reason that the name of Mr. Fuesler , as nom inee for councilman from the Third ward , could only be certified by the secretary of the Third ward caucus. The secretary of the city convention not only was not secretary of the Third ward caucus but he does -not even live In the Third ward. Watch the details a little closer , Julius , the next time you resort to falsehood. There Is not a man in Norfolk who would not be benefited by a Y. M. C. A. building , with all its accessories. The gymnasium alone , where Norfolk men could go for dally exercise , would keep up every man's "form" and would make for health and muscles and long life. The plunge bath in connection , which would afford swim ming the year round , would ho a fea ture that every man and every boy could enjoy and profit by. Norfolk needs just such an Institution. It would make Norfolk a better place to live In , and anything that makes the city a better place to live in is worth while. It would act as a magnet In Inducing many retired business men to permanently locate In Norfolk. It would make for clean athletics and lots of them. It would mean baseball nnd football anil tennis and field day sports features in man-building that most other cities this size In the state already possess , and of which Norfolh Is sadly lacking. Half the money has been raised. It Is Important that UK other half be raised. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. We don't suppose there ever Was i milliner or 'dressmakerwho did nol to Norfolk. Ho haa nn art and novoltv business In Don Molncs nnd ho tnu- els through this territory In the Inter est of this business. After traveling for the Singer Man ufacturing company for n year or so Mr Sturgeon came to Norfolk In 1888 to take chnrgo of the olllco nnd the local business of the Slngor companv. In 1S)2 ! ) ho entered buslnosB for himself - self In a few years ho became prottv \\Ulo ] > known ns "Sturgeon , the piano mnn " He llnnlly adopted the phi-nan n a sort of n Irado murk. Ho carried on his business over n big tcrrltmy iml has mndo his hoiiso well known in north Nebraska. Ho IK president f * hni Is now I ho "Sturgeon Music 'onipnny. ' " Because of IIB ! energy and push Sturgeon hns always mmlo good us a trnvelliiK mnn. Ilnok In 1893 ho won free trip to the world's fair for soil ing more goods for a certain hnuso than nny other traveling representa tive during n given | > orlod. Ho has been a ptomlnent worker In the Unit ed Commercial Travelers. On two oc casions he has been selected to repre sent the locnl council nt the atnto meetings nnd at this lime Is one of the delegates to represent the Norfolk council nt the stnto convention In this city next month. So when the grand council of the U. C. T. Is welcomed in Norfolk It will find the mnyor of the town ns one of Its delegates. With : i U. C. T. mnn ns major Norfolk will be able to give n true ringing wel come to thnt big bunch of representa tive commercial travelers who nre so vitally concerned In the welfare of the stnte and whose good will counts for more possibly than Hint of nny other single class of men. Mr. Sturgeon also belongs to the Odd Fellows , the A. O. IT. w. nr.d the Woodmen of the World. He has been twice n candidate for mayor of Norfolk , never for nny other ofilce. Last spring when the repub licanpnity wns looking around for an available candidate to head the party ticket Mr. Sturgeon wns prevailed on to accept the nomination. He accept ed the nomination ns n sincere com pliment ns it always should be accept ed. He started n vigorous campaign. He was beaten nt the polls. Ho wns beaten badly. He did not like It. No mnn would. But he became more of a booster than ever. He went Into public movements with more vim than before. Today Sturgeon IK secretary of the Norfolk Commercial club. Ho is clialriuan-of the finance committee of the trade promoters' association. He wns the prime mover In the "ex change day" project. The time came around this'spring for the republicans to present n cnn- didnto for another battle of the votes. Sturgeon was willing to make the race again , ire felt that ho could do bet ter the second time. He did. He was swept into office with a mnjority that set n new record In Norfolk. And the man who lost every ward In Norfolk In 1907 carried every one of the same four wards In 1908 by larger mnjori- tk'i thnn were polled against him the yenr 1'ff < re. So Sturgeon is mnyor of Norfolk , the thirteenth mnn to be elected ( n thnt office. Twelve men have served before him. Herman Gerecke , the first mnyor , wns elected the first time back In 1880. Norfolk as n munici pality hns advanced steadily since thnt time , sometimes slowly , some times with perceptible progress. There Is much still to be done nnd there will bo much still to be done when Stur geon gives way to another mnyor but the mnyor-elcct will enter his office next Mny determined to do nil he can to show some substantial advance ment when his term of service is up. accuse other milliners and dressmak ers of copying her styles. Two sisters living in Atchison quar reled many years ago. One of them recently said : "We had a fuss thirty years ago. Let me see : what did we fuss about ? " There Is nothing brave In taking one's medicine "like a man. " The say ing should be changed to taking it like a woman. It is the women who can take medicine without making a face. Every man Imagines that fortunes may be easily made in some other part of the world. Every field1 looks green In the distance ; It Is not until ho reaches It that a mnn sees that stumps nnd bad places are aa numer ous as In the field he left. The dogs of North Atchison , partic ularly In that section north of Division street and east of Fifth , have been holding a fathers' congress every night this week. Last night the noise was simply disgraceful. At least a hun dred fights were pulled off among the fathers , and there was barking , and snarling , and all the other dog noises. Dozens of people were unable to sleep. One wise man states a proposition. Another wise man says the proposi tion is foolish. Whnt Is the truth ? Ilnlf the time we don't know whether we are right or wrong although all the time trying to do right. Wo have noticed that when a small boy goes into a store , he always leaves a boy on the outside , and when detained , he will go to the door two or three times nnd call out : "All right Bill ; in just a minute. " You will , often see a girl going down town W alone to do an errand , but you will never see a boy alone. He will start put alone aad wind tip with' four or five 'boys and a dog. "