THE NORFOLK WKEKLY NEWS-JOUKNAL. FRIDAY. OCTOHBR 14 , 1910.
The Norfolk Weekly Nows-Joutrcl ,
Van IMUWH , Established 1881.
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TelephonesEditorial : Department
No. 22. Business Office and Job llooins
No. II 22.
The people llnnlly Huttlo till ques-
tlotiH of government oven In Portu
gal.
Nicaragua liiiHii't hail a revolution
for ROinu weeks. Arc thu people all
dead ?
Seine people arc always away from
homo when a good opportunity Is
knocking.
President Taft Is being pretty thor
oughly endorsed by most of the state
conventions.
Dealers In footwear report , aftei
looking Secretary Balllngor over , thai
hides are firm to strong.
How fortunate for Long Island thai
It did not have Its census taken be
fore the automobile races.
One of the greatest lessons a nmi
can learn Is not to do what ho likes
but to like what one does.
A magazine writer asks "Is It rlgh
to make money. " Well , not If the federal
oral authorities catch you at It.
Wo shall not believe that Dr. Cool
has been In London until they flm
where he burled a brass tube will
records.
Mayor Gaynor roasts the yellov
newspapers , but they won't worr ;
provided their cash is safe In the de
posit box.
The conservation of resources move
ment falls In Nevada , with all the gam
biers skipping out of Heno on accoun
of the new law.
The monorail may prove to be a per
fectly safe method of travel , but wha
would happen if some one put a mono
log on the track ?
About now the householder regard
the furnace about as gloomily as tin
turkey looks at the chopping blocl
along In October.
Denmark has more money In sav
Ings banks than any other nation ii
the world. Doesn't look like anythini
rotten in Denmark.
A London manager Is paying Saral
Bernhardt $5,000 a week for a inusii
hall turn and making money out o
the bargain at that.
Dr. Cook has turned up in London
they say. If so he will find more icsi
dents of the stave of Missouri then
than on his last visit.
Hadellfto college girls are to pin ;
baseball , which finally disposes of tin
Idea that women are incapable of tin
classical education.
The real reason for the high priei
of rubber overshoes is unquestionabl ;
the Increase of demand caused by th' '
frequency of the gum shoe campaign.
Many members of congress are be
Ing placed in the unemployed class
but we would remind them that ther
Is a constant demand for farm help.
Mrs. O. A. Turner of Baltimore los
A $40,000 necklace returning froi :
Switzerland. If she had said it wa
worth $7.99 , she might have got 1
back.
It was a benefit to the Los Angele
Times to be dynamited as a matter c
advertising. The only people who su
fer are the families of murdered en
ployes.
The drug habit has grown to alarn
ing proportions in England. What wa
once the vice of the few has becom
the practice of the many.
It speaks well for the United State
that even while building the Panam
canal It can obtain money at a lov
er rate of interest than any othc
country can command.
Electing a democratic congress till
fall , with a republican president sti
In ofllce , would bo like hitching tw
horses to a load , each trying to pu
it in the opposite direction.
County Attorney James Nichols , r
publican candidate for re-election 1
Madison county , was nominated wltl
out oppf ltlon in his own party , whlc
speaks well of his record.
Everyone must admit that the las
congress accomplished a big amoui
of work , but some people seem t
think it should bo reorganized as
democratic debating society.
A farmer has discovered that
costs as much to feed a rooster t
It does to pasture a cow. At the prk
of butter , it would seem that the co
had the argument in her favor.
A Boston pastor approves of tl
hobble Bklrt , as ho Hkes variety.
certainly Is getting monotonous for
women to be beating us regularly In
the nice of life , so let them bo hob
bled by nil moans.
Hepubllcan extravagance Is one of
the strong democratic arguments , but
' 'lie Congicsslonnl Record will show
hat the democrats were equally for
ward with their votes for thu old Hag
mil an appropriation.
The old proverb that "Hlches tniu
\\lngn and fly away" will be very liter-
illy fulfilled If that New York million-
lire carries out his proposal to give
the army and navy a fleet of 1,000
leroplanes.
Eugene V. Debs makes the asser
tion that if the people owned the rail
roads a ticket crossing the continent
could be bought for a dollar. At this
rate a man who had $11.24 in his Jeans
could take quite a trip.
Half a dozen years ago it was com
monly remarked that no politician
would dare to attack the Illegal doings
of the trusts. Now a systematic cam
paign against law breaking has been
carried on , and republicans have done
every bit of It.
The determining factor In the elec
tion of a congress Is the question of
the full dinner pall. The voter cares
nothing about libraries of political
economy when he remembers how the
ham sandwiches rattled around In the
emptiness of 1893-90.
The democrats seem to think that
they know some way by which the
laboring man can pay European prices
for everything he has to buy , and get
American prices for his labor , the only
commodity he has to sell , but the two
things don't go together.
North Carolina lawyers are making
a desperate search for the heirs to a
fortune of $1,500,000. Undoubtedly
there are plenty of people In the state
who would willingly qualify as heirs
if they just understood the situation.
Irish home nilers who arrived in
this country Sunday , were hopeful of
success. Ireland had national exist
ence beginning 1,480 years ago , but as
respects self-government , It has about
as much power as American men under -
der 21 years of age.
An awful accusation has been hurl'
ed at Theophilo Braga , the new presi
dent of the republic of Portugal. lie
is accused of being a "poet , writer and
college professor. " What on earth Is
the world coming to when such a type
of man as that takes the place of a
king ?
The democrats of Massachusetts are
up and coming. They showed such
signs of real life at their recent state
convention that they actually enjoyed
a riot. No one was killed. The leaders -
ers were aware that the party still
needs all the votes It has and then
some.
The last time the democrats built
a tariff , their president and favorite
leader called their architecture by
such kinds words as "perfidy and dis-
honor. " Will they be any better able
now to show themselves anything
more than journeymen carpenters ?
The history of the democratic party
has been a long story of flirting witli
unsound finance. In the old days II
was state banks , in the ' 70s It was
flat money , in the ' 90s it was an at
tempt to dilute the honest dollar witl :
silver , and in 190S it was the guaran
ty of bank deposits. To what kite-like
vagary will they become the tail next'
In some ways It is better to be
president of a railroad than presldem
of the United States. The Boston < S
Maine railroad has announced thai
it will pay its retired president a pen
sion of $10,000 a year. This is more
than the nation does for its ex-presl
dents.
Dr. Wilson's first name is Thomas
so we have learned since the search
light of the New Jersey campaigi
was thrown upon him , but it wai
probably wise for the learned matte
to drop this commonplace cognomen
T. Woodrow Wilson might have provec
a serious handicap.
The old phrase "by hook or crook' '
Is said to have come from the cnston
of certain manors where the tenant :
are authorized to take "flre-bote" b ;
o hook or crook that Is as much of tin
II underwood ns may bo cut with a creel
and as much loose timber ns may bi
collected from the boughs with a hook
A commissioner of weights am
measures makes the statement tha
the people of a great city are cheat
ed to the amount of $30,000,000 a yea
by short weights and measures Indl
cates that from the view point of lion
lt esty many tradesmen , If weighed ii
0 their own scales , would bo founi
wanting.
n
The day when the silver-tongued or
ator can hold his audience spollboum
Is past. Causes are espoused o
spurned in homes instead of publl
n. i halls. The newspaper is more powei
ful than the platform. People thlnl
less of the leader than the justice o
, o his cause. Facts are what the men o
It today want , not beautifully roundoi
sentences. Truth Is demanding recog
nition.
Turkey Is short on finances and Is
anxious to gain the permission of the
European powers to an Increase In
the customs duties. It has been grant
ed by all but Germany , and since the
caller's kingdom has succeeded In
oiling the Turks a fleet of out-of-date
innboats nt a very good price , the
lormnn consent Is practically grant-
d.
In 1900 Birmingham , Ala. , had a
lopulatlon of 38,000. In 1910 It has
32,085. This phenomenal growth In
'iio ' decade Is made plain In one word ,
nanufacturlng. Birmingham Is n
great center for the manufacture of
ron and steel. This has attracted
other kindred Industries who have
built near the Iron and steel plants ,
t only serves to strengthen the well
mown law that If a city would grow
t must manufacture.
It Is very evident that the United
States has very little idea of what
t is capable of producing. When one
reads that Denmark , a little patch
of swamps and sand dunes that could
be hidden in one corner of one of our
great states , furnished England alone
with 2,072,200 hundred weight of bacon -
con , It reminds us that we Americans
should get busy and try to make twc
pigs grow where one has grown be
fore.
Mayor Emll Seidel of Milwaukee is
known as the socialist mayor , and
the admirable features of his admlnls
tration are credited to socialism. As o
matter of fact there lias been littk
of a definitely socialistic character ir
the mayor's official acts. They wit
ness not so much to Mr. Seidel's so
clallstic soundness as to the saneness
of his civic convictions ana his good
sense as a man.
William Mclntosh of Emerlck pre
jlnct would prove a most valuable
noinber of the Madison county boarr
of commissioners. He is a substantial
progressive farmer of up-to-date bus !
ness ideas , an appreciation of the
value of good roads and yet a con
servatism which would take care o !
the best interests of the taxpayers
It Is a business proposition to eleci
William Mclntosh county commission
er.
William Mclntosh , republican noml
nee for commissioner of Madison coun
ty , is a substantial farmer held In the
lilghest esteem by those who have
lived near him for years in the west
ern part of the county. Mr. Mclntosl
would bo a credit to the county ane
lie would prove a conscientious am
conservative official , with the inter
ests of the taxpayers at heart. His
e-lection would mean a more equitable
llstribution of commissioners , , as
there are now two In the immediate
vicinity of Madison , with none in the
west portion of the county.
The pension list will not be as large
again and the amount paid is bount
to decrease with the rapid passing
away of the civil war veterans. The
sum paid in 1805 for pension was $8 ,
525,153 , while in 1909 it has increase !
to ? 101,973,000. Tills Is the high water
tor mark. While there were without
question frauds in this great list o :
pensioners , It will always be to the
credit of a free people that they se
kindly remembered the brave mei
who by their heroism saved the re
public to us one and undivided as
a priceless heritage.
It is said that the art of remember
ing is going into decline in these day :
when people read so many daily pa
pers and light literature which the :
make no effort to remember. A gooi
memory is a great help to success ii
any business or profession. The mos
successful politician is usually tin
one who best remembers the mei
whom ho meets. Writers , speakers
lawyers , doctors and merchants dc
pond largely upon their menforles fo
their advancement. A good memor ;
in these days of competition is llkol ;
to be the factor which turns the scali
toward success.
WHAT IS COUNTY OPTION ?
The News has been asked to explaii
what county option means. Count ;
option is that system of liquor traffi
icgulatlon which enlarges the uni
from the present village or city , t
an entire county. Under the count ;
option plan , each county votes whc
ther the entire county shall be we
or dry and each town in the count ;
must abide by the decision of a mn
jority of the voters of the county
The plan contemplates having th
question brought up not oftener thai
once every two years.
COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.
Mayor Friday's attitude rogardlni
The commission form of government
will find a welcome with many Noi
folk business men and taxpayers , wh
will join the mayor In hoping thn
the coming session of the leglslatur
will pass a law permitting cities o
this size to adopt such a system a
government.
The commission form of goverr
mont contemplates the election of
few men , three for example , to hav
charge of the city's business affaire
They are elected by all the voters
without regard to wards. They are
paid enough to permit them to devote
tliu necessary time to thu work.
Pity the foreigner ! How Is he to
1'iiow wheie he Is nt or who's It ? Ono
ol them when shown a picture of
the- Atlantic squadron said : "What"
Hock of ships. " He was told that a
Hock of shlpa was called a fleet , and
that a licet of sheep was called a
Hock. He was further informed that
j n Hock of girls Is called a bevy , and
' a bevy of wolves Is called a pack , and
a pack of thieves Is called a gang , and
a gang of angels Is called n host , and
a host of porpoises Is called a shoal ,
and a shoal of buffaloes Is called a
hcid , and a herd of children Is called
a troop , and a troop of partridges Is
called a covey , and n covey of beau
ties Is called n galaxy , and n galaxy
of rufllans is called n horde , and a
horde of rubbish Is called a heap , and
a heap of oxen Is called a drove , and
{ a drove of blackguards Is called n
j mob , and a mob of whales Is called
a bchool , and a school of worshippers
is called a congregation , and a con
gregation of engineers is called a
corps , and a corps of robbers is call
ed a band , and a band of locusts Is
called a swarm and a swarm of people
ple Is called a crowd.
The next Trans-Mississippi con
gress Is to meet at San Antonio , Tex. ,
on November 22. Delegates are now
j being appointed to this commercial
i congress by the governors of states
and mayors of cities lying between
the Mississippi and the Pacific ocean.
, I Every question of Interest to this
' great section will be discussed , but
I among the most Important Is that
of transportation. There is a growIng -
. Ing demand for cheaper transports-
. ' tion. In fact if the agriculturalist is
i' ' to receive fair remuneration for his
toll and the people get farm produce
for anything like reasonable prices ,
the rates of transportation must be
lowered. It is expected that the open-
i ; Ing of the Panama canal will lead
[ ' to great development of the trans-Mis
sissippi country. If the western
. states take favorable Individual action -
tion toward promoting the deep waterway
. way movements so that sufficient water -
; ter for transportation can be depended -
_ ' ed on , It will mean that they will
\ share directly in the Increased com
mercial prosperity brought about by
the opening of the canal. Much in
terest is felt in their action on this
matter at the coming congress.
LATTA DISOWNS HIS PARTIES.
Mr. Latta , the demo-populist nomi
nee for congress in the Third dis
trict of Nebraska , is apparently
ashamed of both the parties which
named him as their candidate. He Is
making his campaign on a card that
reads thus :
"J. P. Latta , Candidate for no-
election. "
He refuses to classify himself as
a democrat or a populist. Apparently
he thinks It would injure his chances.
Quite evidently Mr. Latta regards the
democratic and the populist parties
as handicaps to him in this race.
b' ' TRIED AND FOUND WANTING.
[ I In the national campaign of 1908 ,
I when Mr. Latta was elected as a mem
ber of congress , a studied effort was
. made to Impress upon the voters the
, ' necessity of sending to congress a
, I man who would specially represent
( the fanners and common people of
this great agricultural district. The
_ ' claim was made that there were no
. | farmers in congress and that they
should have a representative there to
look specially after their Interests.
A strenuous effort was Indulged in to
, convince the voters that Candidate
'
_ i Latta was n farmer , pure and simple ,
, J and In full sympathy with their wants
I and those of the whole people. Let-
t ! ters written upon letter heads upon
I1 which he was depicted at work as n
, j farmer and stock raiser , thereby draw-
, i ing a strong inference that farming
was his sole occupation , were sent
broadcast over the district. Ho could
stand this during the campaign , but
soon after election , when he first
reached Washington , his farmer title
was suddenly cast to the four winds ,
On his first appearance in the house
of representatives the card ho pro
scntcd bore the inscription , " .lames
P. Latta , President First National
Bank , Tekamah , Neb. " Did ho sn
soon forget he made his campaign as
a farmer ? Was ho ashamed of the
occupation , or did he think his title
as bank president more honorable ? Ir
his remarks upon the postal savings
bank law , printed In the congresslon
al Record of June 20 , 1910 , ho makes
the statement , "I am a practical bank <
er of more than thirty-three years' ex
perlence , " but not a word In those re
marks to his farm life nor to the
benefit to bo derived by the common
people from the passage of the postal
savings bank law. Ills persistent op
position to the passage of that law
earned him the title "Banker" In lieu
of that of farmer and stock raiser.
Ills opposition to the postal savings
bank law ought to bo sufficient ren
son for any fair-minded person retlr
ing him from congress.
During the last session measures ol
vast importance came before congress
for its consideration. Wo ask a care
ful consideration of Banker Latta's
record upon some of the most import
ant of those measures.
The postal savings bank law , which
became n law June 25 , 1910 The na
tional democratic platform upon which
Mr. Lntta was elected , as well as the
republican platform of the sumo year ,
pledgedtheir parties to the passage
of this law. When the te > st came requiring -
quiring Hanker Latta to choose be
tween the common people and the
special Interests ho promptly arniyoil
himself on the sldo of thu banks and
worked and voted against the pas
sage of the bill ( Cong. Record , June
9 , page 7,957) ) . Mr. Hitchcock and
Mr. McGulre , both democrats , mum
hers from Nebraska , voted for the
passage of the bill. Did the fact that
Mr. Latta wa.s a banker and person
ally interested in deposits have any
Influence upon his vote upon this tin
portant bill ?
1 The railroad hill , creating n courl
of commerce and enlarging the powers
ors of the Interstate commerce com
I mission , which became a law June
I 18 , 1910 , Is a measure of far-rcachlnt
importance to every person Interested
in freight rates and one In which cacl
farmer and shipper was directly con
corned. Yet Hanker Latta saw hi ;
way clear to align himself with UK
railroads and voted against this bll
( Cong. Record , June 10 , page 6,255) ) .
He failed to vote on the resolutloi
ordering nn Investigation of the sugai
trust ( Cong. Record , April 14. pag (
4,809) ) .
Ho moved and voted to strike on
of the agricultural appropriation bll
the item of $18,250 for the propaga
tion and experimental growing of treoi
on the sandy land of Nebraska. Thh
was the only Item in the bill for hii
state and was saved only by the ef
forts of the other members of congress
gross trom Nebraska ( Cong. Record
February 1 , page 1,301) ) .
He voted to fclll the resolution o
Mr. Henry ( a democrat ) , charglni
Speaker Cannon with violating tin
rules of the house ( Cong. Record. Ap
rll IS , page 5,038) ) .
He failed to secure a single iten
of appropriation for his district.
December 14th ho was granted !
leave of absence for ten days on ac
count of important business ( Cong. Re
cord , December 14th ) .
February Sth he was granted leave
of absence on account of importan
business ( Cong. Record , page 2,141) ) .
He missed and failed to respond t <
twenty-four out of a total of ninety
seven roll calls during the session.
AROUND TOWN.
Look out. There's a bank robber.
There's a hobble skirt in Norfolk.
How do these March winds striki
you ?
That's some harvest moon , believe
us.
Where's your money Cubs or Ath
letics ?
The Manuel training system lias hac
a setback.
The enterprising aviator is the on <
who keeps up on things.
Is Brnden going to have a chanci
to come across with that ten ?
Why should shoulders soldier on :
man at this time of year ?
This is the open season on banl
robbers in Madison county.
Why do the women have any Ilini
at all to the amount of hair the :
wear ?
Bank robbers are more plentifu
than ducks and just about as har <
to land.
Here's a suggestion to the pavin )
contractors : Put on a night shift
You're welcome.
An Italian brand ot weather pre
vailed in Norfolk during that pavin !
riot , all right.
The only starter Sunday In the Chi
cago-New York air race will be tin
nephew of a Norfolk woman. Ge
there , Ely !
One Norfolk woman will allow he
husband to smoke a pipe in the house
but she does draw the line on cam
paign cigars.
A Norfolk man likes the crust o
the pie better than any other part , am
always insists upon eating the cms
left by his wife.
If the boy king of Portugal hai
been up-to-date lie would have cried
"An airship ! An airship ! My klnj ;
dom for an airship ! "
A reporter on The News , wheneve
he makes a note on scratch pape
about "Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so , " write
It "So-and-so & % . "
Necktie bills are high for the mai
with a rough beard on his chin. Tin
beard scratches the neckties to pieces
So In some ways a woman is lucky in
be a woman.
There Is one sensation that defic
description at the hands of nn ordl
nary typewriter. That's the sonsatloi
that creeps through a golf lover'i
blood wncn ho sits at the window am
watches other golflsts whiz llnkswan
nutomoblllstlcnlly , realizing the whili
that he has a shoulder which Is a tral
tor to him.
For the benefit of those who seen
to have misunderstood , just becausi
one asks -whether your wife will le
you smoke a pipe in the house , doesn *
mean that one's self isn't allowed tha
privilege. In fact , In this Instance ,
onu's self IS allowed to ntuoltu a pipe
In the house , and to clean a plpo In
thu house , too.
Mr. Qulgley , one of the Lincoln trade
boosters , In a little speech In Norfolk
last night , said Lincoln was entitled to
her fair share of northern Nebraska' *
trade and money. North Nebraska ad
mits Lincoln Is entitled to a fair share
of her money , but Is It purely coinci
dent that at about the same time the
Lincoln trade boosters start this way ,
two north Nebraska banks should be
dynamited ?
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.
WP lenrneil years ago not to bo Im
pressed with Big Tales.
An Ate-hlson man is such a Sis that
he carries a powder rag in his purse.
We sometimes think no one is tryIng -
Ing very hard to please the real se
vere critics.
Boys believe that unless they spit
every time they see a caterplller , they
will have typhoid fever.
Ever see two women meet at a re
ception or millinery opening , and en
gage in a smiling match ?
Some people are never satisfied un
less they are maintaining a nuisance ,
and quarreling with the neighbors
about "their rights. "
A Texas man says the Globe is
unfair with Glfford Plnchot. We know
it ; no newspaper can dislike a man
and be fair with him.
In Missouri when a man has so
much money he doesn't work much ,
people sny , when asked what he does ,
"He plays with jack knives. "
When a man Is grumbling , he says
"It happens that way every time , " al
though the wrong ho is grumbling
about may be the first.
"About the only new thing that
happens to this town , " says the Coolidge -
idge Enterprise , "is to have a new
damage suit filed against It. "
"You needn't worry about my not
being punished for my sins , " a man
&ald to his pastor ; "indeed , I some
times think I get more than is justly
coining to me. "
The Town Bad Man said today : "I
have been mean , as all the world
knows , but I never induced a woman
to get ready to marry me and then
failed to show up. "
The next time you quit work to act
on the committee for nothing , look
over your children's teeth , and see
If they do not need fixing more than
the public needs your service.
An old fashioned argument against
woman's suffrage Is that the women
cannot qualify as soldiers in time of
war. But we notice the women con-
tlnno to kill a good many men.
Actors are pretty apt to judge a
town by the way it patronizes his
show. But there is a good deal
of that sort of selfishness in the opin
ions of others than actors.
This would be a wise world If the
average youth weio as persistent in
acquiring the other fine points of an
education as lie is in learning to like
tobacco.
It Is only fair to the men to say
that there are more good husbands
in the world than there are husbands
who pay attention to chorus girls and
actresses.
No man ever invented anything as
intricate ns the bung hole in a bar
rel without pausing to figure what he
would do with an income like Thomas
A. Edison's.
Every father helps his son at least
to the extent of boarding him several
years when he is not productive , and
sending him to school. But not every
son helps his father.
There has been considerable curi
osity concerning the gasoline engine
that has been installed in a shed just
outside of Mrs. Lysander John Apple-
ton's door , and n Globe reporter was
detailed today to find out what It
was for. The scheme is a good one.
Every member of the family having
broken off his , or her , nails in getting
Mrs. Appleton's dress to meet in the
back , the gasoline engine has been
installed for the purpose of drawing
her corset strings tight. It draws her
straight-front so tight that her waists
meet in the back without trouble , and
hooking becomes easy.
It is related that once upon a time
Daysey Mayme Appleton attended a
musical entertainment in which there
were five fiddlers who had to give
their instruments the usual amount of
preliminary attention before playing.
The cm tain had gone up , and the five
men tuned , and adjusted their strings
and adjusted them again. "Isn't that
beautiful ? " said Daysey Maymo wear
ing the rapt , far-away expression she
had read about in books. "That Is the
Ungarische Lustsplol from Bela , and I
just love It. " Then the men , having
adjusted their strings to suit them ,
struck up "My Bonnie Lies Over the
Ocean. " But Daysey Maymo was not
crushed. She thinks they played two
pieces and that the first was so much
finer.
GAYNOR DOES NOT WANT IT.
The Nomination for the Presidency
Has no Charms.
New York , Oct. 12. That Mayor
Gaynor has no ambition to bo presi
dent Is the Inference gained from a
letter. The letter was written to
James Crcolmun and In It the mayor
said It was too Into for him to begin
slim g his course for any political
purpose and declared that ho IIHH no
consideration nt all for his political
future. ,
The date- ( September 25) ) of the letter -
tor to Mr. Creolmnn IH prior to the
dateof the < mayor's letters to John A.
Dlx , the-n states chairman , but now
nominee for governor , and Mr. Crocl-
iiian , which absolutely settled that
Mayor Gaynor was not a candidate for
the- nomination for governor and
uouId not take the nomination should
It be tendered him.
The reference to the presidency
glows out of the fact that Henry Wat-
terson of the Loiilsvlllo Courier-Jour
nal wrote Mr. freelmnn n letter stat
ing "that Mayor Gnyuor wan the
htiongest man the democrats could
nominate for president , and Mr. Crcol-
man Inclosed thin letter In OHO ho
wioto to the mayor. The letter of
September 25 Is In reply to this com
munication.
Following Is the text of the let
ter :
Dear Mr. Croelmnn : Your note ,
with Mr. Watterson'H. IK at hand. Mr.
Dlx and Mr. Mack have been here , and
I have told them finally and postlvoly
that 1 am not a candidate for governor
and cannot be made a candidate. I
do not Intend to abandon the city.
They say that It seems certain that
the con volition will nominate me. o\en
though 1 am not a candidate. That
does not seem probable and I hope It
does not occur , for In my present
Ktato of health It would weigh heavily
on me.
I am now wnrn with anxiety , the'
shock 1 received baa proved more per
manent than I had supposed possible
and my voice comes back only slowly.
I am not cut lain that I can even bear
the strain of the mayoralty again.
Although my mind is made up , I do
not perceive any moral quest Ion In
the case. I am under no obligation
whatever to remain as mayor. I cer
tainly had no such compact with those
who opposed me and voted against
me ; It takes two sides to make a
compact ; nor had I any with those
who nominated and elected me ; and ,
If I had , they would have n right
to release me.
As fe > r myself , or my political fu
ture , I shall not consider that nt all.
Mr. Watterson Is in error in supposing
that I have1 the presidency In my mind.
Never ! And it is too late for me to
begin shaping my course for any ambi
tious purposes.
And when a man has gone down
Into the Valley of Shadow and look
ed the specter Death In the face and
said to it , "I am ready. " nothing In
tills world looks very large to him ,
as I can assure you.
You will have a hard time reading
this letter , as my shoulder and collar
bone are s'lll disabled , owing to the
Injured neck muscles which support
them.
QUEEN MARY AS THE RULER.
"I Must Ask " Is
May , Becoming Court
Byword In London.
London , Oct. J2. "I must ask May , "
that Is , Queen Mary is becoming a
byword in court circles. It Is King
George's invariable reply when he is
asked for instructions on any point
from arrangements for a shooting par
ty to the settlement of an important
ministerial question.
When King Edward's clothes and
uniforms were to bo disposed of King
George was asked what should be
done with them. Naturally , it was
1 resumed that ho would have some
scheme in mind. Ho answered , as us
ual. "I must ask May. "
When Queen Mary was approached
on the subject she suggested that
Queen Alexandra bo Invited to give
advice. Alexandra desired to keep
King Edward's field marshal's uniform
and orders. Then she made out a
list of persons to whom she desired
that certain small souvenirs should be
given. What was left has been placed
In a special room In Buckingham pal
ace. Ministers of state bow to her.
The cabinet ministers have become
accustomed now when discussing mat
ters of state to deal chlelly with
Queen Mary , even when the king Is
present. They have lormed very de
cided opinions concerning her ability
and insight and also of her knowledge
of precedents governing the relation
of the crown to ministerial matters.
Although her affiliations have been
conservative and anti-liberal , her ad
vice to the king Is always strictly
constitutional and given with admir
ably assumed deference to the king's
responsibility.
Nlobrara News.
Nlobrnra , Neb. , Oct. 13. Special to
The News : The Nlobrara Shakespeare
club has reorganized on n new basis.
Messrs. C. W. Demel , E. A. Houston ,
Misses Maude Marshall and Inez
Vlelo , a committee appointed to draft
a constitution and by-laws , made their
report at the last meeting. Serving
of lunches at the regular Monday
night meeting is prohibited. The an
nual membership fee has been raised
to 50 cents. Program committee as pro
vided by the constitution was elected.
Their duties are to outline the read
ing , prepare the special programs and
assign meeting places and leaders.
Mrs. George W. Chambers and Misses
Nelson and Draper wll1 servo on this
committee for the first half-year.
Much Interest Is being manifested , and
although a successful organization In
the past , greater results are antici
pated under the new regime.
The teachers and pupils of the Nlo-
brura schools are preparing a pro
gram to bo given In the 55. C. B. J. op
era house In November. The proceeds
will purchase pictures and library
books.
Thomas Darnall , attorney lor mo
Nebraska anti-saloon league , discuss
ed county option In the opera house
last night.
Roller skating at the rink located
In the Laird building , has become a
popular recreation with the younger
BOt ,
