The
Omaha
Bee
LLUSTRATED
NUMBER 283.
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NOVEMBER 13," WO 4.
Gossip and Stories
About
Prominent People
Tact of tbe Csar.
f CHARLES S. CRAMP, the shlp-
I I builder, tells an Interesting story
LN" J of th tur'i tact and good na
km
ture.
When the autocrat of all th
Russia made up his mind to have a war
hip built In the United .States he sent
word through the Russian ambaisador at
Washington that he would like to see Mr.
Crirop. W.thln two week Mr. Cramp was
In St. Petonburg. He wag shown Into the
presence of the rxar one morning when
Nicholas tai surrounded by various gov
ernment ministers and grand dukes. Not
wishing te "butt In" the moment he was
announced Mr. Cramp went to the other
end of the council chamber and took a
chslr to 8 wait the czar's pleasure. He was
rot sufficiently versed In court etiquette to
know that It wss not the proper thing for
Mm to be seated while the monarch re
mained standing. In fact. It never oc
curred to hlra that he was the only person
In the room seated.
Attracted by the stares of his ministers
the csar noticed the Incident. He promptly
crossed the room and took a chair beside
the American shipbuilder. Then everybody
else who wanted to sit down did so.
"To what school do you belong, Mr.
Cramp?" asked the czar, when the con
versation drifted to naval architecture.
"To tho Cramp school, your highness.
We founded our own school," was the
reply. ..
The .czar was pleased. Mr. -Cramp re
turned to the United States with orders for
two warships, j
Presence of Mind.
On one occasion a great public dinner
wss given to Isaac Hull by the town of
Boston, mid he wss asked to sit for his pic
ture to Gilbert Stuart, the celebrated artist,
who was a great braggart. When Hull
visited his studio Stuart took great delight
in entertaining him with anecdotes of his
r.ngllsh success, stories of the marquis of
This and the baroness of That, which
showed how elegant was the society to
which he had been accustomed. Unfor
tunately, In the midst of this grandeur,
Mrs. Stuart, who did not know that there
was a sitter, came In with her apron on
Rnd her head tied u with some handker
chief, from the kitchen, and cried out:
"Did you mean to have that leg of mutton
boiled or roasted?" To which Stuart re
plied, with great presence of mind, "Ask
your mistress."
The Last Volume.
While the crown prlnoe of Germany was
a student at the gymnasium at Heidelberg
he lost heavily one evening at cards and on
applying to his royal father for reimburse
ment he received the required amount of
banknotes bound together like a book.
I.ateT, after another disastrous - game, he
wrote the emperor: "I have finished, the In
teresting book' yiii Vent" me 'and am Im
patiently awaiting the .second, volume.". In
answer te this the emperor sent another
book of banknotes, similar to the first, ex
cept that on the cover he had Inscribed,
"Volume second ' and last.'" ' The 'crown
prince took the hint, and Indulged In no
games of chance.
Tom Tma-srart'a Postscript.
Some years ago "Tom" Taggart of the
democratic) national committee had oc
casion to write to an aotlve political worker
In a distant part of ' Indiana,' giving him
timely directions concerning the, campaign
then In progress, relates the Saturday
Evening Post. Mr. Taggart' typewriter'
was absent, so he penned his letter in per
son, though well aware that his' chlrog-'
raphy belongs to the Horace artel y. school.
He wrote carefully on this occasion, how
ever, It being a very Important communi
cation, and thought there would be no dif
ficulty. A week later his ''correspondent
was In Indianapolis and called.
"Did you get my letter? Could you read
It?" was Mr. Taggart's greeting.,.
"I got It all right," replied the man, "and
didn't have any trouble with any of It ex
cept the postscript. That stuck me- Showed
It to everybody in town same result; they
all read the letter, but fell down on tho
postscript." . . ,
' The man drew the letter from his pocket
and handed It to Mr. Taggart, who gave It
one quick glance.
"Great guns," gasped Tom; "the post
script says, Don't let anybody ass this
letter." "
Costly Judicial Robe.
Ersklne, appointed lord chancellor of Eng
Und, wan offered at a low price the ofB-i
clal robes of tho retiring lord, but said:'
"No! It should not be said that I had
adopted the abandoned habits of my 'prede
cessor." The witticism -wa ready mads to
the hand of the new chancellor of the ex
chequer, Austen Chamberlain, when the
retiring one, Mr. Ritchie, offered him the
regalia at a reduction, but the young man
took no advantage .of It, getting himself a
nsw outfit to make all preceding one look
like fifteen, or, at moat, thirty cents. With
Eraklne's happy phrase embroidered around
its hem It would have been still more gor
geously ornamented, going better with the
Chamberlain monocle than the $3,000 worth
of bullion with which it Is said to be
adorned.
Jaatleo Harlan's Ham or.
Justice Harlan has a Queer humor of hla
own. He Is a member of the faculty of the
Columbia Law school and a night or two
ago was talking at the school with Judge
Peele of the district court of crimes. "I
wish. Mr. Justice," said Judge Peele.
"that you would have your clerk send mo
copies of some of the recent decisions of
the supreme court." "All light," Justice
Harlan replied. Then he asked abruptly:
"Do you want those cases In which I ren
dered dissenting opinions?" "I assume
soma of the cases come under that head,"
said Judge Peele. "You frequently dissent,
you know." "I shall not send them."
snorted Justice Harlan. "I shall "not be
responsible for the dlsseinatlon of such
law as appears In those majority opinions
to which I have dissented."
Too Mich Hair.
' Rlchnrd Le Oslllenne spends muoh of his
time tn New York. He effects a decidedly
I'oetlcal fashion la hair, which calls for a
sparing use of the shear. Near his lod
gings Is a aerman barber'a ahop, where
he frequently drops la to have his shoes
polished, but never for tonsortal attention,
much to the disgust of the proprleter, who
Is powessed o( ths true barber balr-de-etroylug
Instinct The other dsy as the
poet left, aftei one of his usual visits, a
customer beard the barber say to the boy:
"6ee here. Krlta. dor next time dot shentle
man comes In to got hla ahlue I wants yevi
to say somethings to him about dot shame
less hair he got. Doan get fresh and make
some offenses shust hint delicate. Say,
'Boss, you looks like a shackasses wld dot
hair; Thy dean you git him cut already?'
Senator Morgan's EclaJr.
Senator Morgan of Alabama, while at
dessert one evening In a hotel at Hot
Springs, Va., experienced considerable dif
ficulty In separating from the plate passed
him by the colored waiter what he thought
was a chocolate eclair. It stuck fast, so
Senator Morgan pushed his fork quite un
der It and tried repeatedly to pry it up.
Suddenly he became aware that hie
friends at the table were convulsed with
laughter, which much mystified him. But
his surprise was even greater when the
waiter quietly remarked:
"Pardon me. Senator, but that's my
thumb."
Drawing the Line.
During the trial of the postal graftira
R. 3. Wynne was violently attacked In
court by the attorney general of Maryland,
who said that the assistant postmaster gen
eral was a "high roller," who lived on can
vasback duck and green peas. The presi
dent, who read the, speech, asked Wynne
what he was going to do about the asser
tion regarding his epicurean diet. "I have
concluded," gravely answered Wynne, "to
cut out the peas."
Ducal Grafters.
According to a story recently told In St.
Petersburg even grand dukes are among;
the grafter In the czar's domain. Just oft
the Newskl Prospekt in the capital a me
morial church la being erected on the spot
where Alexander II was assassinated.
There seems te be small prospeots of Its be
ing .finished. Several hundreds of thousands
of rubles are yearly devoted to Its com
pletion. No progress Is visible. Tear after
year the scaffolding! are as before. Not
long sgo a British traveler Inquired from
a Cossack offlcer of the guards as to the
mystery.' The officer smiled and explained
that the funds passed through the hands ,
. of a grand duke an uncle of the present
czar who drove down now and then to
see how 'things were going, but the offlcer
shrugged his shoulders and laughed. Just
what a grand duke would do, was the lm
. plication, .
Conldn't Hurt Tillman.
In Columbia, 8. C Senator Tillman la
not so' popular' as he la In other parts of
the Palmetto atate, reports tho New York
Timer A few days ago a young Colum
bian entered, the.' outer office of the city's
leading dentist'.- Corning out to meet his
patient, the dentist whispered excitedly.
"Whom do you s'pose I've got Inside
heref Old one-eyed Ben Tillman I And If
I don't make hlra squeal nobody can. .-I
VonJI do a thing Jo him oh,, my!" And .
the dentist surgeon brandished his forceps
gleefully and returned to the pleasure of
torturing the senator.
Next day the same young man came
again.
"Well, did you succeed In making Till
man yell?" he asked. .. . .
The dentist shook his head sadly.
"No," he replied in a disappointed tone. '
"I couldn't make him flinch. He didn't
make a sound; and, d'ye know, when he
got out of the chair he turned to me with
a smile and said:
" 'Say, doctor. I didn't know before that
.you ran a palnlesi dental shop."
- Heeded a Change of Scenery.
W. H. Crane, the actor, was feeling
somewhat run down the other day and
he consulted his physician as to the cause.
"I don't knew who her the doctor had
ever, been te see my show or not," said
'Mr. Crane. . "Anyway, It seemed to mo like
an Insinuation when on prescribing for
my trouble he said alrflyi
" 'Nothing much the matter with you.
old man. All you need la a change of
scenery .' "
. Cured of Chronle Kicks.
An Incident that greatly amused Thomas
Taggart occurred at the French Lick
Spring hotel, situated on property of which
the democratlo national chairman Is part
ownsr. Among tho steady patrons of tho
hotel was a chronlo kicker. Nothing In ths
accommodations suited him. The clinato
made hlra suffer agonies and the society
and general surroundings bored hint to tho
last degree. He was not backward In mak
ing his grievances public
The manager resolved to check the com
plaining or get rid of the guest. The next
time the man told him a tale of woe the
wily landlord sympathized with him.
"You do suffer greatly," he said as ho
turned away, "but think how much worse
It. Is for me than for you. I have to stay
right her and endure It. Tou oaa go
whenever you please."
The man did not go, but ho never com
plained In the manager hearing again.
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A Personal favor.
0n of the most picturesque figures of
the New York bar was the late Thomas
Nolan, a lawyer, whose witty retorts fur
nished subjects for merriment at many a
lawyers' gathering. Now, Nolan was at
one time counsel for a poor widow who
was suing a construction compsny for the
death of her husbsnd. The esse had been
placed upon; the day calendar, but had
been frequently postponed, and Mrs. Mo
rtality by the time she had made her fifth
call wss In. an exceedingly disturbed frame
Of mind, consequently the tones of Nolan's
rich brogue were more than usually fervid
as he fought against ths sixth adjourn
ment. -"I am sorry," said Justloe Dugro, "but
your opponent has shown me good cause
for the edjournment, Mr. Nolan, and the
esse will, therefore, go over until tomor
row." "Very, well sor." said the barrister,
sweetly, "but might I ask wan personal
favor of this eoort?"
"Certainly, air. with pleasure."
"Will your honor kindly sthep down to
my office and Just tell Mrs. Morlarlty that
you have adjourned the case?"
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A Whlanered Shot.
On one occasion Joseph Chamberlain was
Invited to Liverpool to make a speech. It
wss to be great celebration. The mayor,
who was to preside (' the meeting, had
arranged a fine dinner for the giieet of
honor. A distinguished assembly sur
rounded the table and at ths right of the
host sat Mr. Chamberlain. For a couple
of hours the, company chatted over their
food and finally the coffee was served. It
was at this Juncture that the mayor leaned
over and whispered to Mr. Chamberlain:
"Your excellency, shall we let the crowd
enjoy Itself a while longer or had better
have your speech?" -
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m .-.i...i.'...H. ..m it Ington Times. . ; refused.,., .. . ttum'.
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monks. To get' the full flavor,' he said. It
should not fee swallowed at once, but sipped ,
slowly. Pat caught up the tiny glass,
looked at It for a moment, and then sipped
the cordial as directed. When he had fin
ished, Pat placed the glsss on the table '
as a look of satisfaction came ever bis
features.
"And what do you think of benedlotlno?"
asked the good priest.
"God bless the holy monks that mads
that stuff, but to the dlvvll with the fellow
who Invented the gloss," answered Pat.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Pfo Ood In Washington.
This story, told by a Tennessee congress
man, the relater says, taught him a lesson
he will never forget:
"When I came to Washington I shame
fully confess that I deviated from the
'straight and narrow path.' My wife and
children Joined me here and at our room
ing place, I managed to find that It was
not convenient to hold a little service of
prayer before retiring af night, a thing
which was never neglected at home. My
good wife prodded me several times about
this neglect, but It seemed hard to get
down to the practices and habits of home.
When Joseph
HEN Joseph W, Folk was In
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Omaha week before last be snt
(or The Bee's photographer In
his room at the hotel long
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enough to have the accompanying pho
tograph taken. This portrait, there
fore, represents him as he Is today,
when he Is one of the foremost men In
public view.
Mr. Folk's substantial majority as the
democratic candidate for governor In
Missouri contrasted with the republican
majority given by that state to the
Roosevelt presidential electors, . has
miule him more talked about than ever.
In fact, he Is already being talked about
as a possible successor In the democratlq
leadership In the nation at large.
As one critic says: . "Folk's triumph
In his own state, in the face of an un
expected Roosevelt landslide, seems to
put him In a peculiar position of promi
nence. He comes from si border state
and yet Is a western man, which the
democracy will probably Insist upon
after their bitter experience with a
coterie of New Yorkers, who misman
aged Parker's campaign so successfully
and who led Mint gentleman into such a
series of spectacular follies. It Is urged,
too, that Folk's reform ideas would maka
him acceptable to the socialists nnd to
the mdlcal democrats and also to the
militant populists, and that he, If any
man could, would unite the eastern and
western democracy."
At any rate, it is safe to keep an ey
upon Folk for the next four years. Mr. .
Folk's visit to Omaha was in the Interest
of the democratic campaign, and while)
his speech sems to have made ho notice
able impression on the election returns.
Folk himself extended the circle of his
friends and laid the foundation for a
Folk cult ameng the democrats In thU
city and state.
B. BENJAMIN ANDREWS, CHANCELLOR UNIVERSITT OF
Tales Both Grim and Gay
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year-ota cni.u wm iuuuu cuiarjcu iu (
Why are you praying, dear?' asked mother. ,
'Oh, ttamma.' cams the reply.
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Objections to Trousers.
One of "Joe" Blackburn's friends tells a
story which date back to the time when
that distinguished gentleman was rather a
dandy In the fashion of a forgotton period.
He ordernd a pair of trousers from his
tailor a.ii he expressly stipulated that they
were to be skm tight The trousers came
home, and the senator tried them on. He
went right to the tailor and opened fire
on him,
"What In the Kentucky-synonyms-for-
places-not on-the-map do you mean by
sending me ' trousers like that?" he
shouted.
"Why, you said to make ' them ' skin
tight," said the tailor.
"Skin tight," yelled the senator. 'Tes
by this- and-by-that, I said akin tight. I
wanted them merely skin tight. I can 'sit
down in my skin and I can't In these."
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Th Portrait So Like Him.
Bishop Olmsted of Denver Is Interested
In a number of charities, and obtains many
generoua contributions on their behalf from
rich Episcopalians.
There la In Denver, however, a million-
W. Folk Was in Omaha
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II AS JUST SEEN ELECTED GOVERNOR OF MISSOURI.
of State Universities
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poor, but to organized charity, for some
strange reason,, he heartily objects. The
Recently the millionaire had his portrait
painted by, Henri. Bishop Olmsted met him
the other day, and said: '
"I saw this morning your admirable per-
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said the millionaire, smiling. . '' '
"No," said Bishop Olmsted, "I saw there
was no use It was so like you." Denver
post,
Wlthout Alternative.
Senator Lindsay of Kentucky ha a story
of a Judge in that state who. by reason of the Wesleyan academy. Wllbraham, Mass.; "elves that if they -had I. with all other peo
hlsownlll temper, found, considerable dif- Powers institute, Bernardston. Maas.. and Cne quest?e. In net DeUevSn th
Acuity in controlling individuals In the
court room. On one occasion there was un-
usual disorder. At laat the Judge could
stand It no longer. "It Is Impossible to al- .
low this nerslstent contempt of court." ex-
claimed his honer, "and I shall be forced to years ana then became the president of
go to the extreme length of taking the one Denlson university, in Ohio, which plac
step that will stop It!" h ootl resigned to take charge of a de
There followed a long silence tn the court pwtment In Newton Theologloal instltu
Finally one of the leading counsel arose, t,on- In 1882 went to Europe and studied
and without the suspicion of a smile, aakedt
"If It please your honor, on what date
will your resignation take effect?" Satur-
day Evening Post.
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Latest High Honors
Given
Dr. E. B. Andrews
HANCKI.IOR B. BENJAMIN AN- but I have completed my rounds here and
DREW8 of the University of have sold nearly everybody. If you want
Nebraska, who hns recently been ms to obey the slcn now, I will do so. Re
elected president of the Associa- fore I go, however, may I not know wit
tlon of State Universities. Is a whom I have the honor of speaking? No
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great, big. broad-minded, dignified gentle,
man. He possesses a brain capable of pro'
mulgating good, strong, wholesomo thought
snd a big. strong body capable of putting
. Into action any thought he might con
ceive. His dignity Is not of that char
acter which operntes ns a "crust" to repel
people, though it cannot be said that a
man has been found In the state who would
slap the chancellor on .the back and call
him a "good fellow." The chancellor has
a charming personality and the happy
fnculty of making everyone Vho comes
Into his presence feel perfectly at ease,
yet at the same time one who has. prob
ably associated with him more Intimately
than any man in the state has said that
"we have not yet learned to know the
chancellor.'' But this man Is one of those
Nebraskans who will never feel that they
know Dr. Andrews until they can call him
"Ben" and he can answer with a "Hello,
Bill."
Andrews as a Huntsman.
Chancellor Andrews has only been In this
state of easy ways a: short time and If
he continues to grow In the love and ad
miration of tho people In the future as ha
has In the past there Is hope yet that he
will become a member of the story-telling
congregation that meets nightly and a
membership card in which entitles the
possessor to all the honor and glory that
"a good fellow" carries with It. This hope
Is founded In the fact that a man has
uern iounU wno ens a somewnai numor- rect a statsment that seme paped alleges
ous story about the chancellor. The man he h maae, whether It ruffles him or not
In the cose Is Thomas Benton, former state to be misquoted his most Intimate friends
auditor. His story Li this: here ,av they do not know. the crUncellor
Some time ago the chancellor went to never discusses what Is said of him. Ap-
, Benton and borrowed his gun. ". Just parently he does not care. Since coming to
want to see If I have forgotten the knack Nebraska the chancellor has got his foot
,-of shooting." the chancellor is quoted as,n ,t Ume ne ha, opened his mouth
saying. "When I was a . boy I could hit )n punnc. in m he was an advocate of
most anything I shot at, and I believe I frM 8iver end, of course, when he came to
can do It jet." Nebraska he was hailed with delight by all
.-- The gun was loaded for deer, bear or the democratic and populist papers for that
mountain Hon. and away went the ohan-,
eel lor with It to South Dakota. Ho was
gone a week. ' ' ,
"Well, sir, I found that hunting was Just
as natural to me as It was In the old days.
I found I could shoot Just as weil and Just
as straight and my enthusiasm was Just
as Intense," he said to' Mr. Benton upon
returning tho gun. "I didnt get a shot the
first day, but the " second I got a pretty
fair, chance and as soon as I. threw the srun
Yo my shoulder I knew that I was still :
" master of the art. I took careful aim and
let co. It tumed over, and during the
..morning I cot a -second one."
After congratulating him
marksmanship Mr. Benton innocently in-
quired ',
Was it a buck or doer
The chancellor Just as innocently an-
a prairie dog, and I killed two
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HU BsriyTralnlag.
"Chancellor Andrews' was born tn Hlns-
daie N , ,n htgtnablg hl,
career followed In the footsteps of his
father and grandfather, becoming a Bap-,
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tlst minister. Before beginning on his
ministerial work he served through the
late war, enlisting- at the ago of 17 year
as a private, was wounded In front of
Petersburg, Va., and was mustered out at
the Close of the war a lieutenant. The
foundation for his learning was laid In
.crown university, irom wnicn no was
graduated In 1870. Four years later he wa
graduated from Newton Theological Instl-
ana was oraainea a Baptist min-
He graced tho ministry for two
hastory and political economy at Berlin
Munich, having already been appointed
professor of hlBtory and political economy
In Brown university. Later he filled the anything Ilk that He Is a positive char
chair of political economy and" finance in acter and he ha strong opinions. But h
Cornell university, and In 1839 was elected has tender feelings and he grants to every
president of Brown ' university, filling the living man the right t an opinion. He Is
ohalr of moral and lntelleotual philosophy, what President Roosevelt would call a
Three years later President Harrison ap- nan out for a "square deal."
' pointed him a member of the International Th' was exemplified recently when th
monetary conference at Brussels. In 189S
Chancellor Andrews was elected superin
tendent of schools of Chicago, from which
place he came to Nebraska as the head of
the university tn 1900. In that same year
he was elected a member of the corpora
tion of Brown university, tho institution
which he served so long.
Author of Many Books.
Chancellor Andrew has contributed much
to the literary world, among his principal
works being "Brief Institutes of Constitu
tional ' History, English snd American,"
1886; "Brief Institutes of General History,"
1S87; "Institutes of PJconomlcs," 1889;. "The
Duty of a Public Spirit," 1892; Droysen's
"Outlines of Principles of History," trans
lation ltt3; "Wealth and Moral Law." 1WM;
"An Honest Dollar, with Seven Other Es
says on Bimetallism," 1894; "History of the
United States," two volumes, 1891; "His
tory of the United States In the Last Quar
ter Century," two volumes, WW; the same
tn 1903 In one volume brought down to that
time, and "The Problem of Cosmology,"
1891.
Andrews and the Book Agent.
Dr. Andreas Is an authority In history
and economics and sn author of note. He
recently figured In a humorous Incident Il
lustrating the quick repartee bred by ex.
prlence In a veteran book agent. Not
withstanding the glaring protrusion at the
entrance of the main university building of
the usual placard. "No canvassers, ped
dlers or solicitors allowed," ths unabashed
book msn had boldly entered the learned
halls and by cleverly utilising the Inter
missions between lectures had managed to
secure sn audience with each Instructor In
the building In most Instances With suo
cepsful result. After having practically
finished his visit he had pushed his way
Into the erecutlve office, where he greeted
the occupant with effualve cordiality. '
it you see that sign as you came
ted Dr. Andrews,, somewhat
sharply.
"What
sign? I saw no sign,'
"V hy. Hid tlgn prohibiting solicitors nnd
canvassers from entering the building.
"Win there such a sign?" queried the
visitor. "Well, I am sorry I didn't notice
It, tor I should certainly have observed it.
one else has ventured to tell me I am not
wanted In the building."
"I am ths chancellor," quietly responded
Dr. Andrews.
"You are the chancellor!" exclaimed the
astonished book agent But then, quickly
regaining his composure, "Not Chancellor
Andrews? Not Dr. EX Benjamin Andrews?
Well, well, I never would have thought It,
Dr. B. Benjamin Andrews! Why, you
know, I canvassed for one of your books,
your history of the United States, and, I
told everyone I sold what a great scholar
you were and what a fine fellow you were.
I sold" lots of those books. But I never
would have thought It that the author of
that book should one day tell me I must
not sell books In the same building with
him. It s really too bad!"
And the story Is that the reminiscent
book agent had an order from Dr. Andrew
before he closed hla day's labor.
And just as Chancellor Andrews Inclines
to a liberal Interpretation of the constitu
tion, so have a number of newspapers In
clined to a llberaf Interpretation of what
the chancellor has had to say In his pubtlo
utterances. In fact, there Is not a man in
the United States probably who has been
misquoted more than the present head of
the Nebraska State university. The aeople
of the world csn get no estimate of his
character by the statements attributed to
him by the public press. Some say this Is
the fault of the chancellor, for seldom If
tver do(,, , tvtT 8top ,ong enou, to eor.
reason. As early as 1897 Chancellor At
drews told Governor Altgeld that silver fta
a political Issue was dead, but for some
reason this Was not given publicity In Ne
braska. Last year ths chancellor made a
talk to the students at the university and
his statements were sent broadcast as a re
pudiation of his former views on the silver
question. Before the story got to Nsw
Tork and "fean Francisco the chancellor
was auoted as making a violent attack on
Mr. Bryan and . all his associates. Ever
since that speech was made he has besn
the subject of constant abuse by the demo-
pop papers of tho state.
Posftlon on- t'raa . gll-ror.
The fsct of the matter Is Chancellor
drews did not repudiate hi former view
on the silver question. . He said In sub
stanoo what ho published In -hi history of
th United States. After, discussing; some
of the causes of the defeat of Mr.. Bryan
that statement was: ,
A deeper cause th decisive one If any
Ingle circumstance may be pronounced
such was the fact that Mr. Bryan primar
ily and then mainly owing- to his strong
Influence, also his party, misjudged th
jfm,ntl1 ?'n ?' J11'? !
mand for monetary reform. The conjuno-
tlon of a-ood times with Increase In the
volume of hard money made possible by
ine worm s nuge output or. goia, migni .
have been Justly taken as vindicating the
quantitative tneory oi money vaiue, pros-
perlty being precisely the result which the
silver people or ikw propnestea as certain
In esse the stock of hard money were
amplified. Bimetalista ceuld solace them-
would ever be gold enougn to stay tne rail
of prices their main anJ "ntlal I reason
SU loood fortune. It might have beVS
held, had remove the silver question rrom
nA T.ande K back to Cdeml
political economy.
Stands for a Sqaare Deal.
The venom that has been injected - Into
articles In demo-pop paper conoernlng
Chancellor Andrews ha no doubt created
the Impression where he is not personally
known that he "wears herns and carries a
bowle knife." The chancellor doesn't do
Order of Eagle held a carnival here.. Stu
dents to the number of WO or 100 undertook
to tear up the streets enclosed by the oar
nival company, and to attend to other little
details of the entertainment that had not
been put down on the program. The re
sult was a grand and glorious fight, In
which' there was occasion for much -"gen- .
tlemanly advancement." Th police war
lined up with the carnival orowd and when
the smoke of battle cleared away about
twenty students ware In the hands of phy
sicians and the remainder had been ln
glorlously routed. Tho carnival people lost
not a man.
Th next morning student to th number
of 800 or 700 met on the university campus,
burned red fire, gave blood curdling yell
and made Incendiary speeches of wha,t they
Intended to do that night. They followed
this up by getting out circulars announ
cing a boycott of the show because It waa
not decent While all this was going on
Chancellor Andrews was also busy tele
phoning this message to the chief of police:
"If your force Is not large enough to
cope with the students I would Ilk t
take a hand in the gama If you Will send
. m a star and tell me where to report for
duty I will be on hand tonight and take
part In the fight"
Interest In Athletlas.
The chancellor's stand on all occasions
for a "square deal" has endeared him to
the students of the university, but among
the students It Is a question whether th
chancellor Is an advocate of foot ball and
whether right down deep in his heart he
loves ths team. For the benefit of these
students who are undecided this little con
versation is repeated: i
"We were all pretty much worked up
over here yesterday over the foot bill
game," remarked the chanc llor to one who
had announced that he hud been unable
lo find anyone In the executive office the
day before. "I went over myself for a llttl
while, but I didn't stay long. The fact is."
and the chancellor droppod Into the ap
proved vernacular, "I butted Into the gam
at th wrong time. Iowa was outplaying
our boys. I got out as fust as I could and
heard ths score later at my office where I
was doing the best I could to oonoentrat
my mind on some work. The game wa
too close for in to watch with pleasure."
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