THE NOHFOLKWEEKLY YNUWS JOURNAL : FRIDAY. AUGUST 21 1UUS
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No. II 22.
Anil now como the strenuous day *
for the poor liny fovcr victim.
Mr. Tnft deserves the confidence of
tlio people. The New York Sun nnd
the World nrc both against him.
John W. Ontos Is expending n cool
million dollars In the construction of
the finest golf links In the world.
John Mitchell hns n level hend when
ho ndvlscs union Inbor to keep out
of politics. Ho Is n much wiser lender
than Gompers.
If Bryan nnswcrs nil the things oth
ers have snld thnt ho hns promised
to. ho will he pretty busy from now
till nfter election nnd probably longer.
Wllllo Smith , son n n millionaire of
Mncon , Georgln , hns gone bnrefootcd
nil his llfo on nccount of some whim
of his father's. Dnd evidently refused
to foot the Dill.
With their rnllronds nnd their
wives slipping nwny one by one , the
Goulds are not what they were when
the wizard ancestor was wrecking the
Erie. Is It In the line of ordinary
retribution ?
It must hnve been n bitter dose for
George Gould to let Hnrrlmnn in on
one of his ronds. But life brings
bard moments into the lives of most
men whether rich or poor.
The new regime In Turkey seems
to bo progressing in nn astonishingly
peaceful manner. The young Turks
nre in full power and are showing re
markable moderation of spirit and ef
ficiency of action.
If all the orders which have been
plnced with the understanding that
they nre to be cancelled in case of
Brynn's election could bo reckoned
up , the total would amount to hun
dreds of millions.
The mnn who lays in his winter
supply of coal now will not only be
assuring himself against suffering , but
will be getting his coal cheaper and
will bo doing his share to avert a
shortage next winter.
These nro vacation dnys when men
who nro wise get rest from business
cares nnd worries nnd obtain a new
grip on life. Men , like machines , to
be highly efficient must have .seasons
of rest nnd quiet.
The opinion is gaining strength in
this country thnt Cnstro is too clever
I.
. a politician to be wnstlng his time in
South America. His genius seems to
bo of n suitable order to rank him
high in Tammany Hall circles.
A mnn from Dakotn wns run over
by n freight train consisting of the
locomotive nnd twenty-three cars. He
was in the hospital for a few dnys
and is now entirely recovered. What
is the use of getting in front of a
train if you are built like that ?
The observatory which hns just
been dedlcnted to Nantucket , the birth
place of the famous astronomer , Mnrin
Mitchell , is ns fitting a memorial as
could well have been built for this
beloved woman. It contains her telescope -
scope nnd library nnd will be used by
summer classes.
The "poke bonnet" in vogue In
grandmother's time hns reappeared nt
summer resorts. The "poke" protects
the fair face of the wearer from tan
nnd freckles which nro no longer fash
lonnblc , while the "curtain" protects
the neck from sunburn. The general
effect is snld to be ns pleasing ns
grandfather found it.
ConI burning locomotives no longer
draw trains into the Grand Central
station in New York through the long
Park avenue tunnel. Electric loco
motives are now used and make travel
much safer and pleasanter. It will
take yenrs to displncc steam locomo
tives for train service by electric mo
tors , but it will surely come.
Aerial nnvlgators are having
troubles nnd dangers enough to con
tend with without the added risk of
being shot. Yet a balloonist narrowly
cscnped death from the bullets of n
innlicious rllle recently. The judge
made nn example of the man in the
hope thnt the news of his sontt > ncu
would spread and serve as n protec
tion to other neronnuts.
The government is seeking to get ex
pert advice from abroad ns to ways
nnd menus of preventing disnsters in
our mines. The number killed In the
mines of this country Is four times
grenter per thousand workmen thnu
the number who lose their lives In
European mining districts. The gov
ernment , through the state department ,
has arranged with England , Germany
and Belgulm to have the heads of
their ' mining departments come to
this country to spend a couple of
Months In conference with our inln-
ng authorities. It Is expected these
Euiopenn experts will arrive the Int
er part of this month and thnt HOIHO
inictlcal ptogrcss will be made toward
rendering the lot of the mine workers
n safer one.
Optimism Is at the bottom of any
prosperous nnd healthy life. It Is the
msls of national progress. When n
mnn or n nation begins to lose confi
dence in their ultimate success degen
eracy begins. The best forces in
Amiiricnn life today are those which ,
recognizing present evils , are full of
will nnd purpose nnd expectation of
overcoming them.
"The Orover Cleveland Nntonal
Forest" Is the name which President
Roosevelt has given to the Yellow
Pine nnd Sugnr pine timber reserve
of San Jnclnto. It Is situated on the
north fork of Snn Jnclnto river , 7,000
feet nbovo the sea level. It is a fit
ting memorial to a mnn who did much
for the preservation of the forests of
nls state and nation.
Dryan accuses the Republicans of
Imitating vnot only the Democratic
platform but their campaign methods.
Inasmuch ns the Republican platform
was three weeks old before the Demo
crats held their convention , they
must have remarkable foresight to
bn able to imitate it. A party so un-
udunlly gifted in looking into the fu
ture is almost sure of the national
success It deserves.
Thnt Sir Thomns Liplon is possessed
of unusual persistence Is evidenced
by the fact thnt he is anxious to make
another trial for the American cup.
He hns won twenty-four of the twenty-
seven contests In which ho hns en
tered his new racing yacht "Shnm-
rock" in home waters and is hoping to
receive a challenge from the New
York yacht club. "To carry the Amer
ican cup to England is the ambition
of my life , " said Sir Thomas.
The steel trade has so far recov
ered Its normnl business that nt pres
ent the bookings of new orders nre
up to three-fourths of the entire en-
pncity of the plnnts. The Improved
conditions of the trnde was due to a
revival of business nnd demand in all
lines. And the Improvement is a
fact , not a theory. The business world
does not buy steel for pollticnl ef
fect.
When it comes to making talking
a permanent business , Mr. Bryan is a
success. Running for the presidency ,
either In fact or In fnncy , Is only a
quadrennial diversion. Why not en
joy the honor of the occasion with
him. His defeat does not worry him
in the least. He takes it as a matter
of "course. Republicans should be
equally philosophical In the expecta
tion of Tnft's election.
The ngrlculturnl problem for Amer
ica to solve , as her population nnd
expenses incrense , is the old one of
making two blades of grass or grain
grow where one grew before , in other
words to double or greatly Increase
the productiveness of the soil. The
the larger the yield the less trouble is
expended in its reaping and less is
needed for the sowing and cultivation.
Hence the saving nnd advnntnge Is
double.
The recent election in Cuba was
conducted in a very orderly ninnner
without riot or evidence of fraud. The
conservative party showed unex
pected strength. President Roosevelt
sent congratulations to Governor Ma
goon on the orderly election and to
the people for the Indication of their
capacity for self government and ex
pressed his satisfnction nt the serious
nnd responsible way in wtin.li they
were preparing for the assumption of
their full duties ns nn independent
republic.
Business usually falls below the
average during n presidential cam
pnlgn pending the decision of what
the country's policy will be for the
next four years. But this year seems
to be nn exception. Since the nomina
tions were made thce hns been a
marked revival of bin.aass. This can
mean but one thing that business
men have discounted the results of
the election nnd nre so satisfied thnt
Tnft will be elected nnd Republicnn
policies continued thnt they do not
hesltnto to Invest money In existing
enterprises or stnrt new ventures.
Chns. W. Post of Battle Creek ,
Mich. , went to that place to regain lost
health at the famous sanitarium. Ho
stayed after health had been found to
establish one of the multitude of
health food manufactures which his
energetic nnd persistent ndvertlsing
hns succeeded in developing in so re
mnrknble n way that ho has become
multl-mlllionalro and one of the
great captains of Industry. Ho is
snld to spend $50,000 n month In ad
vertlslng his products. Success In
such business ventures turns on sales
manship. Mr. Post is a great sales
man and a hypnotic advertiser.
The New York Independent In &
very humorously written article se
verely scores Representative Hobson
In the following language : "We refer
wo more thnn refer we point to ,
we Inculpate , cite nnd arraign Rich/
ird Pearson Hobnon as a public nuis
ance who fails to be n mennce to pub
lic pence solely becnuso tlic sensible
American people , stnrtled nt ilrst by
Ills positive assurances of whnt he
'knows , ' will not take him seriously.
Ho hns been going over the country
preaching an unholyy wnr , slandering
a peaceable nation , swinging Bellonn's
torch nnd mouthing the abuses of
Shlmel or Thersltcs. He Is n public
nuisance nnd n national disgrace. "
The difference between Mr. Bryan
and Mr. Tnft is n very marked one
It Is the difference between the
tested nnd the untested. Mr. Tnft
has been doing while Mr. Brynn hns
been talking. Mr. Tnft Is a man of
known ability to perform while Mr.
Bryan Is a man of promises only. One
hns known no dcfent , the other hns
known no success. As n worker In
the world's ' grent undertakings , Mr.
Taft Is known , Mr. Bryan unknown.
Of the 18,110 deaths in Mlnncsotn
In 190G , 1,930 were from consumption.
When it is remembered thnt this is
the record one out of every ten in
one of the healthiest of the northwest
ern stntes , Is It nny wonder that mil
lions of dollars and the best medical
skill of the country is being enlisted
to stay the ravages of the great
white plague ? It is cheering to know
that intelligent progress is being made
In this direction.
The Republican party has a half
century record of unexampled achieve
ment in the Interest of the great body
of the people. It has as a presidential
candidate a man of unimpeachable in
tegrity and a capacity for doing things
for the public weal which has been
tried and not found wanting. The
great thinking mass of intelligent ,
thoughtful Americans are not going
to exchange this party achievement
for a party of mere promises nor this
tested leader for ono who , however
brilliant , is utterly inexperienced ns
a statesman.
Shades of Esopus ! ' Alton B. Pnrker
Is talking for Bryan. But there Is
no need for alarm. As a vote getter
Alton is the dismal failure of his
generation. It does seem a pity , how
ever , to bring him out into the lime
light again nfter these years of quiet
rest and respectful obscurity. It's not
such an easy thing after all to be
a democrat unless like David Bennett
Hill you go to Europe in cnmpalgn
years when Brynn runs. In that case
the remedy Is worse thnn the disense
ns it means separation from home
and friends for at least six months
every fourth year for another gener
ation. Mr. Brynn comes from a long
lived family. The New York jurist
evidently sensed this nnd took the pre
ferable horn of the dllemn. It's hnrd
lines Just the same.
The Outlook 1n a recent Issue pub
lishes a list of twenty great fires which
have occurred In the cities of the
world since 1835. These flrse de
stroyed from $10,000,000 to 350,000-
000 worth of property in each of the
twenty cities. So many destructive
fires have occurred in the United
States that It Is coming near desenr-
Ing the unpleasant name given to it
by old world nations of the land of
fires. A large proportion of these
fires are preventable and merely re
sult from carelessness in construc
tion of buildings or in the care of
them. The United States has lost
In nn nverage for the past five years
$251,000,000 n yenr. We burn up
every five years more than enough to
run the government n yenr. Even the
Americnn people cnnnot nfford thnt.
General Blume of the kaiser's army
has issued n document which ought
to give jingoes and fire-enters who
nre constantly sighting war clouds
something of a really serious nature
to reflect upon. This bulletin declares
thnt the next European wnr is bound
to be a terrible orgy of blood ; thnt
each of the powers Involved would
lose 900,000 men in killed and
wounded If the conflict lasted as long
as the Russo-Japanese war ; thnt in
Germany's case the cost in treasure
would amount to $1,500,000,000 n
yenr for wnr expenses while the loss
in business and paralysis of indus
tries would be far more. What this
experienced general says is un
doubtedly as true ns it Is terrible to
contemplnte , and the existence of such
deadly war paraphernalia should make
nil nations sane and careful in their
diplomtic and international dealings.
TO IMPROVE FARM LIFE.
President Roosevelt has Appointed
a commission composed of Prof. L. H.
Bailey of the New York college of
agriculture at Ithlca ; Henry Wallace
of Wallace's Farmer , DCS Molnes , la. ,
Kenyon L. Butterfleld , president of
the Massachusetts agricultural col
lege ; Gifford Plnchot of the United
States forest service ; and Walter H.
Page , editor of the World's Work , to
act as a committee of Investigation
on country life. The president be
lieves that the prosperity nnd perma
nency of the nation depends upon the
tillers of the soil and while American
farmers are more prosperous than
ever before , it Is still true that the
social and economic Institutions of the
country districts nre not keeping' '
pace with the development of the nn-1
tlon ns n whole. In ninny places I
care Is not taken to make farm >
houses nnd outbuildings sanitary nnd
V'rent mortality uspi < clnU.\ among
children results. It Is of vital Import
ance thnt the children on the farms
io given the best possible prepara
tion for work In their own homes nnd
that everything possible be done to
nako the homes happy , bright , nt-
tractive plnce.8 ; so that American boys
ind girls will not leave their farm
homes nt the earliest opportunity nnd
rush to the towns nnd cities where in
the majority of cases they work harder
nnd for far less compensation 'than '
might be theirs If they stayed nt
home nnd helped In developing nil
the possibilities of the farm on which
they were born. It is to be hoped thnt
some prnctlcnl good to the millions
who live on the farms of America may
result In this movement of the go\-
ernment to exnlt farm life.
IF ROOSEVELT WERE HERE.
Senator C. A. Randall of Newman
Grove is Indirectly arguing thnt he-
should be sent to the Nebraska state
senate for the balance of his llfo by
the people of the Eleventh dlstrlc
he people of the Eleventh senatorial
illstlrct.
To vote foi him at the coming Re
publican primary will be to endorse
this ambition.
Senator Randall's most ardent part
isan friends will admit that R. Y.
Appleby , Stanton county's candidate
for the Republican nomination. Is n
good mnn for the senntorshlp , a broad-
guaged , capable mnn nnd successful
fnrmer. All who hnve spoken have
expressed a genuine regard * for Mr.
Appleby as n man of honor < and in
tegrity , a manof brains and one who
would make a conscientious senator.
No word of censure has been uttered
agntnst R. Y . Applebv from any
source. The Stanton county central
committee has endorsed him and has
commended him to the confidence of
the Republicans of the district. It is
admitted by Mr. Randall's friends
that R. Y. Appleby is as well qualified
for the sennte as any other man in
the district "excepting for the one
fact that MrRnndall has made a
record and hns had the experience of
a session" to strengthen him. "
Now if it Is true , as Mr. Randall
contends , that his "record" and his
"experience" In the senate two yeare
ago placed him head and shoulders
above any other man in the district
for senator this year ; If It bo true
that Mr. Randnll's "record" and his
"experience" during one session hnve
made him indispensable as the toga-
wearer from these four counties and
have disqualified all other Republi
cans in the district from entering into
competition with this one man for
the place ; then , if that be true , It is
apparent right ) now that each time
Mr. Rnndnll goes to the sennte he will
ndd to his "record" and his "experi
ence" and thus , becoming a better
and better statesman every two years ,
he will flnnlly succeed in putting
himself so very far in advance of all
other Republicans in this district that
there will be no possibility of ever
sending anybody else down to Lincoln
to represent Madison , Pierce , Stanton
and Wayne counties In the senate
chamber. Superior to all other re
publicans today , by virtue of one
session's "record" and "experience , "
what chance would there be for any
would-be intruder after Mr. Randall
had doubled that "record" and "exper
ience" in n second term ?
If Senntqr Rnndnll is the only man
In the district today cnpnble of rep
resenting the Eleventh district , what
hope is there that the next two years
will produce his equal ? What chance
that n mnn capable of filling his
shoes will develop within the next
four years ? Or what chnnco that any
other man could fill the bill so long
is Senator Randall lives ?
Perhaps Senator Randall might as
sure us that he only wants ono more
term , or two , or three as the case
may be. But then Stanton county
men of integrity say he assured them
this year , before Stanton county pre
sented its candidate , that he would
not even ask for a renoKiinatlon thl ?
yenr , nml then thnt "spontaneous up
rising of the people" cnme nlong nnd
just forced Senator Rnndnll to Iny
down his bank work nnd take off his
cent in order to save the Eleventh
district's reputation at Lincoln.
- And so what would avail his prom
ise now as to the future ? What con
trol would he be able to exercise
over a popular uprising which might
demand him to sacrifice self Interest
and allow thnt toga to he thrown over
his shoulders year nfter yenr for llfo9
Popular uprisings are rnthor In
definite commodities. They nre
harder to gunge thnn the distance In
a mountain region. But speaking of
popular uprisings , there was on real
sure-enough popular uprising this
year for President Roosevelt. It was
no fake. People really did demand
that he accept another term. He had
only one elective term. But the presi
dent doesn't take much stock in the
theory that there is "only one man"
who can serve the people In any pub
lic office. Mr. Roosevelt doesn't think
that the men qualified even to occupy
the whlto house are limited to one.
If there over was a time In the his
tory of the United States when pop
ular uprising seemed 'to demand that
a man make n race for another term
In office , that time was last spring
and Theodore Roosevelt was that
man.
man.Mr.
Mr. Roosevelt had "made a record "
Ho hnd gnlned valuable "experience. "
But Theodore Roosevelt' word1 In
politics Is ns good : i his bond. Ho
hnd snld ho wouldn't accept another
nomination nnd ho kept II'M ' word.
More thnn thnt , Mr. Roosevelt em-
phiislzed the fnct that there nro It.
America nn abundance of able men
who could creditably nnd otllclontly
serve In nny office In the land. Ho
emphasized the fnct t > "U the mnn
"who 1ms made a record" or "gained
experience" in nn > given olllco Is not
Indispensable to that office ; that there
other men men who have made rec
ords , ip other lines of activity to
servo as n basis for fnlth In them
who \ire , under certain conditions ,
even more desirable for the office
thnn the man who has served his
time nnd hnd his share of distinction
In that line.
President Roosevelt believes in ad
hering to a just and righteous pre
cedent. There is a precedent , estab
lished by George Washington , thnt
no president shnll serve more thnn
two terms. And in spite of the "pop-
ulnr uprising" thnt cnmc to him , de
manding that he make another race ,
President Roosevelt lived up to that
precedent faithfully and emphatically.
Is there nny question as to what
President Roosevelt would say , If he
lived In Newman Grove , Neb. , and If
he had been given one term as sena
tor from the Eleventh district ? There
is In the Eleventh senatorial district
of Nebraska a precedent thnt the sen-
atorship shall be given one year to
Madison county , the next time to
Stanton , the next time to Pierce and
the next time to Wayne. Thnt rota
tion plan wns adopted by the me.i
who pioneered in this frontier. It was
based upon fair play and "the squnre
deal. " The Republicnn pnrty of this
district hns faithfully adhered to
thnt precedent , because it was the
only fair way of distributing sena
torial representation among four coun
ties equally entitled to senatorial rep
resentation. And Is there any doubt
in anybody's mind as to what Theo
dore Roosevelt would have done this
year , if he lived at Newman Grove
and if , having served this district in
the senate last session , he were called
upon by a "spontaneous popular up
rising" to violate a time-honored pre
cedent which had never yet been
broken , pnd to make an effort to get
back into an office which In nil fair
ness , owing to geography , ought to
rotnte from one county to nnother ,
just ns It always has done before ?
President Roosevelt declined to
make1 another race for the greater *
office in the world , because precedent
decreed that it was another man's
turn.
turn.But
But Presdent Roosevelt does not
live at Newman Grove.
AROUND TOWN.
"Bill Hnywnrd" is a thoroughly
good fellow.
Here's hoping O'Neill will have
better luck.
How much fruit have you "put up"
this year , Madame ?
If you hnve rubbers , prepnre to
wear them nt racing time.
Nobody ever accused Bob Anpleby
of breaking n prom'so.
Mr. Bryan , in accordance with his
custom of twelve vears , has accepted.
Everybody likes to see an old fash
ioned balloon go up , with a man In
it.
The principal trouble w"ns that those
pacing horses weren't trained to
swim.
The theatrical season will open aus
piciously in Norfolk September 1
with "The Royal Chef. "
The primal y election nnd "The
Roynl Chef , " taken together , will make
September 1 n big day in Norfolk.
There nre nbout 1,800 school child
ren In Norfolk getting ready ro be oa
George N. Beels of Norfolk \ nn <
nounced as a candidate at the coming
primary election for the republican
nomination as representative from tht
district of MadlEon county.
New Supjrintendent Was a Foot Ball Star * J
A College Debater and an Honor Student
F. M. Hunter.
Fred M Hunkr , Norfolk's new city
superintendent who this * veek entered
tn his work ns the executive head of
the city schools , was prominent while
nt the state unlvrnlty as nn athlete ,
ns nn interstte debater , ns a lender In
student politics and r.b n student. Thnt
a man , and especially n young mnn ,
should be sufficiently v Ml rounded
to excel In the fields of debate , ath
letics , politics nnd study argues well
for his future. .Vo young mnn hns
rnnde a better Mnrt In school woik
In Nebraska than the new superin
tendent who follows 13. .1 , Bodwell.
This summer M" . Hunter wns prin
cipal of the Mnto julor normnl
school nt Alma , tl' < > home by the way
of A E. Shnllcnberger one of hc
candidates fo : the fusion nomination
for governor.tThls appointment car-
lied with It considerable . 'ecognitlon
In the educational world.
Mr. Hunter comes of German lln-
tage. His father wns a farmer nnd
later a hardware deiler In town.
It wns in the common schools of
Kansas and nt the high school nnd
business college nt Blue Rapids , Kan. ,
Hint the iit'W superintendent received
his secondary education. His first
teaching experience was gnlned In the
itiral schools of Marshall county ,
Why Johnny Dumper Is Haying at Newport *
I His Pa Died and His Ma Married Again
' * M < * * M
Ni , vport , Neb. , Aug. 15. To the
Editor of The News : Its bin raining
so steady since I got back from chau-
tnuqun that us hay-gang fellers hasn't
had a chanct to work cuny so I
thought that while I wasn't doing
nothing I might ns well write nnd
tell you how I came to leave my hap
py home and go sheep hoarding and
haying.
You see it was this way : Pa did of
beet appoplexy , so the doctors sed ,
bret on by overindulgents in alchol-
ick stlnuilnshun. Thnt's too big n
cartridge for my cnllber , but I sup
pose pn was warning me about going
the same way when he told me before
he dide , to be sure and let whiskey
nlone.
I decided right there I'd let the
whole business alone. F'nn fellers
down to Ewlng trido to make me
drink beer onct last winter. They
sed it was good for me and would
make me fat. When I wudent take
enny they all got holt of mo and lade
me on i table and put a funnel In my
mouth and pored two glasses of beer
in. I had to swaller it or choke to
deth , but just as soon as they let me
go I ran my finger down mv throtc
and tin owed the stuff up agen. You
bet they can't get ahead of Johnny
by enny such tncktlcks.
Ma foil awful bad nbout pa dicing ,
although he left her five thousand
dollars Insurance , moro'n he'd over
ghe her when living. You see pa
belonged to four of five lodges and ma
got insurance from nearly all of
them , and they all past ressolnshuns
that "Whereas our all-wise hevenly
Father has seen fit to remove from
our midst our deer bruthor Dumper ,
uppoplexy , etc. " that removed pa.
The minister that preeched pa's fu
neral was a widdower with three boys
and he seemed awful sorry for ma In
her bereevcment. Ma'd never hnd
mor'n five dollars at a time before in
her life and so she wauled the mln-
hnnd bright nnd early August 31 , in
order to take the back seat.
At such times ns these , paving
would make all the difference down
town between a village and a city.
Two weeks from Monday five-year-
old hojs and girls all over Nebraska
will begin learning their primary les
sons Two weeks from Tuesday pol
iticians all over Nebraska will he-
gin tearing their primary lessons.
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.
Doing beats wishing but it is' '
harder.
When a married woman reads a
love story , the hero as she mentally
pictures him doesn't bear the slightest
resemblance to her husband.
When the rioting begins over the
property of the Standard Oil com
pany we speak for the big black team
driven to the Atchlson delivery wagon.
When two sisters are together , and
and one is married and the other not.
Kan. , and In the ONeto , Kan. , schools ,
whcro he was principal for two yearn.
Spending four years at the Unlvoi-
city of Nebraska. Mr. Hunter , who In
addition In participating In many
HphoreH of college activity earned hla
way through school , grndunted with
V. H degree. For two yeius ho wns
dhector of the night school of the
Lincoln Y M. C. A. nnd for a yenr
nnd n half \\ns tenchor of mathe
matics nnd conch of nthlotlcs In the
Lincoln high school.
Hunter WIIH guard on the university
football eleven during ( ho years of
t'onch Booth when the big school nt H
Lincoln established n reputation In 1
the west which It IH just beginning to
'igaln approach under the direction of
"ouch Cole. Hunter wns not only n
'tn" "N" man but ho was success-
'ul as a conch with the Lincoln high
'chool players , who ns I ho nthlotlc
world knows have niado wmio great
ecordfl In recent years. A
In the first semester of his senior
year Ir school Mr. Hunter was elected
president of his class. Later In the
spring ho wns named ns the class or- '
ntor , On the dobatlng platform Mr. I
Hunter made n considerable college
reputation , representing the Unlver- 4
nlty of Nubraska on several Important i
inter-Htnto debates. |
In his class Mr. Hunter wns one of j
the very few men who secured the
coveted scholarship honors of win- f \
nlng the P. B. K. pin. \
Before coming to Norfolk ns city
supcr'ntcndent Mr. Hunter has boon I
superintendent at Ashland and nt (
Fairmont. He was nn Instructor In (
the Valentino state junior normal for |
t\\o sessions nnd during the present (
.summer wns principal of the normnl '
nt Almn.
In 1907 Mr. Hunter wns mnrrled to ;
Miss Emma Schrieber , a member of
Jhe clnss of 190G from the state uni
versity , who nlso won P. n. 1C. hon
ors nt the university.
In picking a superintendent last
spring the Norfolk school board hnd
many capable men to pick from. They
chose Mr. Hunter ns n worthy successor
ser to Mr. Bodwell nnd re prepared
to give him every possiblecoopera
tion. V i
ister to advise her about her five
thousand because he'd had so much
experience handling big bunches. Ma
ustcr get so lonesome too nfter pa v
wns gone nnd nobody but me around A
for compny , that she wns glad to have
the minister come nnd advise with
her.
He uster pat me on the bed nnd sny ,
" \Vell Johnny , hnvc you been n good
little boy today ? " And when I'd say
"Yes , sir ! " he'd sie , and say ho wish
his little boys had suinone io brine
them up as good as me. An inn got
feeling bad too because the mln'ster's '
poor little boys didn't have enny
mother to glde them , and one day
nbout three nuinths nfte pa dlde she
took me on her lap and told me I
was going to have three little brothers - I
ers and a new pa as soon as enuf * -
time had past so it wuldent look ns
if she's bin In too big a hurry. She
sed she always uanted to do inlshun-
ary work but she cudcnt while poor
deer pa was alive and now she had
a chanct to take those poor mother-
les boys to riise and Mio nnd the min
ister both believed It was her dooty
to do It. I got ma' ' rile away for I
new what ineen little cusses the min-
I'-'er's kids were ennyway , and I told
ma Id ruthor see her go to China or
to Venezuela and do mlshunary work
among the worst heathen on earth
thnn to try and raise them boys. And
I told her that I was going to stick
by the'pa of my youth even If ho
wasn't as good and plus as this new
pa she wanted to give me ; I didn't
want enny second-handed pn nor such
a job-lot of hruthe.d. Ma crldo nbout
It nnd the minister coaxt mo but I
just stuck by pa and wudent be
neether wheedled nor coaxt and told
them if they wns going to hitch up
thnt kind of a team I was going to
walk. And that is why I am haying
up In . .ewport when the wether is
good. Yours truly ) l . j
Jenny Dumper. ' '
It Is easy to pick out the Spin : She
has a look as If she had misplaced
something and was trying to recall
where she had it last.
When a girl goes to slay with an
other girl all night , nnd Is whnt Is
cnlled "finicky , " she tnkcs hei night
dress , her towel , her wash rag , tooth
brush , comb , manicure set. complexion
wash nnd the Lord only knows whnt
else beside. All n boy tnkes Is his
hnt.
You often hcnr thnt people nrc eo
living nre so variable. There are only
two kinds of people and %
, every ordln- J , <
ary observer knows all of them thor
oughly. There has not been a new
thing In human nature In thousands
of years.
Lysander John Appleton is a Dem
ocrat of the kind who takes Demo
cracy very seriously and somehow we
feel that ho will regard as Important v
the circumstances that when Bryan's
name waa mentioned at Denver the
applause lasted an hour and seventeen
minutes.
