The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-26
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{. W. HOWE AT. LINCOLN
Editor OF the Atchison Globe Gives
His Around the World Lecture.

Lincoln. Neb.. Feb. 2s.-The State
Journal saws:
The formal OPENING of the thirty
sixth annual session of the Nebraska.
State Press asso citation last night took
the form OF an illustrated lecture on
MY Trip Around the World" by d.
w. Howe. editor Of the Atchison
Globe, at the First Baptist church.
The speaker was introduced with a
rev appreciative words by President
Richmond of the ASSOCIATION. AS Mr..
Howe rose to speak he was given q.
marked as Mrs. II. M. Bushnell
stepped forward to the rostrum and
handed him a beautiful floral Offering
from the Lincoln woman's club in ap-
probation of the wit and wisdom the
ladies had enjoyed from his pen.
After this pleasant welcome Mr..
Howe began in a conversational tone
to tell how one goes around the world.
He carried his hearers with him rap
idly on the entire journey, pausine
now and then for some OF the best
anecdotes he had heard, and slowing
up In number of places where he
thought a little description would be
interesting to his hearers. His lee
ture repeated very little of the matter
in the notes he had written while
on the trip, but covered the same
journey doubly enjoyable to those
who had followed him in the printed
page: Mr.. Howe was much praised
by the editors after the session. for
they had enjoyed the charm Of his
simple narrative. and felt that they
had gained much information as well
as pleasure from his recital.
Mr.. Howe will make only a short
visit to Lincoln. He arrived at 5:45
last evening, travelling from Table
Rock in company with Mr.. Bryan,
who was returning home after his
trip into. Kansas and Missouri. Mr..
Howe was in great demand after he
reached the Lindell. Friends and adj
mfrers crowded around him. and he
had much less time to give them than
he desired. DR.. Wilkinsons collection
Of postal cards interested him, as
well as the Doctors description OF his
own journey over the same ground,
taken about year after Mr.. Howe.
John E. UT came down from Omaha
old days, when Utt was general pas
senger and ticket agent of the Atcht-
son & Nebraska Railroad company,
and induced Mr.. Howe and his
brother to move the Little Globe"
from Falls City to Atchison.
Mr.. UT and the other railroad
men were good friends of ours in
those days. said Mr. Howe. IT am
satisfied now that they used to change
their forms every now and then,
whenever they thought we were hard
up, just to give us a little more job
work"
Mr.. Howe stopped over a few hours
here three or four years ago, but be-
fore that had not been in Lincoln
for twenty-five years. To his regret
and the regret of everybody else con-
cerned he will return on the first Mis-
souri, Pacific train this morning. You
know how it is yourself" he said to
a group Of newspaper men. II am
just an old reporter. and must be
back at my work. II I am not doing
my regular stunt things don't seem
just right to me-
Next Friday night Mr. Howe will
deliver his lecture before the students
of the University OF Kansas. He is
not able to accept calls from g. dis
lance, and only runs out now and
then when he can do 50 without
breaking in on his work too much. He
does not like the job of lecturing, but
accepts few invitations whenever
he is satisfied that he can do anybody
a little good by going. The scale of
charges usually amuses the people
who seek his services. If he consents
to go at all, he makes charge of
a dollar or five dollars, or 50, and
pays his own expenses. The expenses
Of Mr.. Higley,~ however, he does al
low the local committee to pay.