Iditarod pioneer., 1916-12-02

wave that was heard as far east as Cork. She had limb like a concert grand piano, and she had been wearing black stockings that were not what they had been repre- sented. I noticed while at Coney island that a great many people had been wearing hose that crock in hot weather.
 But l must not run on in this way or you will think l am base man, whereas I do not claim to be anything more than poor and friendless umpire.
 With kindest regards to all my Mime apolis friends, and especially those who abide under your own roof, 1 will sub scribe myself, yours for health,
 In letter dated October 26, 1888, and signed Edgar w. Nye," he wrote:
 'I am gradually losing what reputation I used to have as correspondent, and l look forward to the future with horror. Do you know of good, rapid typewriter, with deep and dewy eyes, who will work cheap for the sake of having heap of fun and being thrown among highly literary set?
 We are toleraDly well, ana, aside from little murmur now and then from my self al is serene In the last four days I have knocked out $525 worth of copy. This will show you that l am not idle, and that the slender wheat crop this year IS not interfering with my business.
 "Riley and have $20,000 worth of busi- ness booked at same rates, and l own the show this year, having hired MT. R. l will write my regular Sunday letter while away, which now, by being duplca cated yields $225 per week.
 "We own a schloss on Staten island now, where the kids gambol OCT the green hills and gaze out across the rlp-snortlng sea. It stands on eleven lots, is forty minutes from Broadway, and stands on a hill overlooking the harbor, the Narrows Coney island, New York, Brooklyn, the bridge and the statue-all free. l have 8 pass on the ferry and go to the office when l feel like it, which IS on salary days and to get my mail.
 Still miss the bully old bounding West where with less money had more fun"
 In reference to his life as q public speaker Nye wrote from New York February P, 1891;
 Tonight I have to give an address or lecture in the course with MT. Depew, Mir Dougherty and Thomas A. Edison. 1 don't know how I will entertain the people at the Broadway theater, but the audience is the corker of the course. Depew IS al right, but young, you must remember.
 T shall take my family to Skyland Springs, N G. in March for year, to get some raw northwest winds out of their bronchi How is bronchl? Shall give sixty lectures in March and April at bigger prices than Riley and l got together. He is also doing tip top, so alIs we'll that ends vel"
 About year before Nye died a friend in a Western town who had a desire to write humorous story of the place wrote Nye asking for advice and encouragement. The reply of Nye follows:
 My Dear Sir You are another of sew eral millions who have tried to inveige me into writing to you ln the hope that you will get my autograph to display in store windows as holiday attraction, and Knowing only too we'll that my name in any store window IS a sure guarantee that the proprietor will be in position to dodge his creditors and the poorhouse, 1 take great pleasure in being some benefit to the town, where you, no doubt, are trying to induce the public to appoint you to the lucrative position of special officer without pay The idea you suggest of writing up your town in humorous sense is a good one-if you can run faster than the other fellow. But l will give you little kindly advice and send your wife and family few flowers to lay on your casket-lf the other fellow runs faster than you.
 "Frst-Begin to make fun of yourself, and then gradually fun of everybody else. It is risk, but if you are young and good sprinter the comic history of your city will be handed down to posterity The secret of writing up any town is contained in the number of lies you can work of on your neighbors and enemies Give your conscience to some needy person and then pitch in and let the town do the rest-and they wi lose no time in doing it.
 Hoping that your fellow citizens will allow you to remain unmolested in your city, ard that you will be brave and bold to the bitter end, I remain, with fears for your future welfare,
 CIVILIAN ME"