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About The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1901)
I i 1r I i f r i i k A j i 1 I 1 Thcflopfolk fleuas Madison with Its streets Hlitcd by lilno nro lights nnd 15 112 cnndli power incandesccnts in sotting ft pace tlmt should shame Norfolk into hnving u bettor Unlit service on tho public thor oughfares A bright Matlstlcian Iihr figured out thot a college bred wopian enn throw n baso ball only per runt ns fur nH u college iniiiii but enn jump UVi per cent nH fnr The bitter wah determined when n mouse was Ioohu iu tho room Tho Vordigro Citlon lmH opoiud tho campaign in Knox county by presenting tho nnmo of George W Miuimlura of thnt vlllogo for tho position of sheriff Tho Citizen evidently holloves lirnily in tho ndago that tho early bird guts the worm Tho hot editorials iu thiH weeks inane of Bryans Commoner caused tho niiill cur in whioh they won being sent to ontoh flro yostorduy near Wuvcrly Bo twoen I ft nud 20 sacks of tho Commonur wore destroyed There wuh no OBpocinl damn go done Tho orrntio Carrio Nation ban decided to quit joint smashing and become the editor of a paper to bo published iu tho interest of tho colored rnco and temper unco It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to keop track of what Mrs Nation ingoing to do next The ambition to go south iu winter has been decidedly chilled Hiuoethe City of Mexico wnR visited by a snow Htorm a fow days ngo It wuh the first storm of tho kind in thnt locality for GO years but if ono is to be snowed upon oven every holfjcontnry ho hnd bettor re main in Nebraska whoro ho becomes uccustomod to that sort of thing It is to bo hoped that tho Omaha police are on the right track and that iu theur rest of Oullnhau they have captured one of tho Oudnhy kidunppors nud thnt the others will soon bo npprohoudud There nbould lie no mincing matters in tho conrtB when tho guilty partios nro found but tho puuishmout should be adequate to tho crime A bill is before tho legislature intro duced by ex Governor Crouuso provid ing that tho property owned by tho state and known as tho governors mansion bo sold at publio auction Now that Nebraska is through provid ing for pop governors it is proposod to lot the exooutivo rent his own house ThiB would seem hardly a fnlr deal and tho bill will probably be killed If tho city council finds itsolf uuablo to induce tho building of a better class of sidownllcs why would it not bo well to Mrs Natiou them A Topokn judge decides that she has violated no law in her career of joint smashing nud that in her crusade sho is siuipiy abating a publio uuiBauce There would bo no diflloulty what over iu proving to the satisfaction of any judge that many of the Norfolk sidewalks are a publio nuis ance The Omaha commercial club is still discussing tho building of a trolly sys tem betwoou Omaha and Fremont Such a Bervice between those two towns would be a oonveinenco to the people aloug tho lino but it would prove dis astrous to the business interests of Fro inont as much trade whioh rightly be longs to Fremout would evidoutly go to tho metropolis if quiof cheap trans portation facilities wore afforded Now the announcement comes that Pat Crowe the alleged kiduupor is iu hiding ou a desert island in the Missouri -river within sight of the dome of tho court houBe in Omaha where he is guarded by a faithful baud of followers and a whole arsoual of death dealing equipment which tho police of Omaha doro not go against for fear of boing blown into nuother world Evidently some ono has been indulging in a pipe dream preceded by an overindulgence in mince pie and the reading of a yellow covered dime novel Sinoo the success whioh attended the Cudahy affair the kidnaping habit like the grip has become quito prevalent Its latest point to appear was at Hunt ington Ind where two young men notified a banker to leave 500 at a lonely spot by the dark of the moon uu der penalty of losing his life Unlike Mr Oudahy the baukor failed to re pond to the demand but notified the police who were at the appointed place and promptly slapped the youug men into jail All which was quite tho cor rect solution of the cose The banker is to be commended for refusing to be held up A few of the natural accompaniments of the newly discovered saline injection treatment for lengthening and strength ening life are being disclosed A Vienna phyeioian now claims that a mixture of parafine and vaseline injected under the skin will fatten thin people This is a couditiou that can well be do Bired by a considerable number of poo pie and especially by the dashing young and handsome ballet girls of 50 or GO summers who will be under no slty of using thoco frightful pads in the tho future to innku their stage uppoor nneo endurable The anxious public now awaits an injection Hint will make lvy people anxious to work mid ninny others tn fuel the Hold of injection ox perimentists in pruoticnlly illimitable Tne Illinois house of representatives has memorialized congress to amend tho constitution so as Jto make United Sfntes senators elective by direct vote of tho peoplo If n fow other states were to puss through tho throes of a contest such as is now on in Lincoln they would nil soon bo glud to hnvo United StutPB srnntors elected by tho people direct Such n method would not only save expenso but it would provent much of tho hnrd feeling within tho ranks of tins dominant party that is engendered through the present stylo of choosing sonatorH Tho idea that tho people nro not enpnble of limiting their own selec tions is n rello of nristoerncy that should bo dispensed with in theeo days of on lightened citizenship Not foryeiirs has thtro been such a demand fnr Northeastern Nebraska real estate us at tho present time Lund seekers nro coming into thiH section every day from eastern states nud the southern part of Nebraska hunting for homes They hnvo at Inst become convinced that Northeastern Nebraska is tho best portion of tho state nud now many want a piece of it Asa matter of faot tho soil of this section is very similar to thnt of Iowa which is conceded to bo the best agricultural state in tho union While tho soil is probably fully ns pro ductive tho prices of land are not nearly so high ns yet but thoy will be before monymorojyoarsj Onorenl estate ngont in Norfolk Btatcs that he lins sold 2000 acres of laud since the first of January and is in constant rcoeipt of inqnirioB for more It will not be long before prices will bo decidedly advanced and those who contemplate owning a piece of North Nebraska real estate should purchase at ouco Tho Iowa City Republican rolnteB nu oxperienco with which every newspnpor man is familiaras follows The editor of a papor printed in a thriving little town only a few milos from Iowa City wns usked tho other day to publish an article roasting a citizen Certainly ho said to tho caller what shall I Bay llo was furnished with an outline of what was wanted nnd wrote ou aiticle that was a scorcher Thats splendid exclaimed tho friend delighted when tho article was rend to him that is right thatll make his old hair crinkle All right said tho oditorlotsseo what are your initials Good heavens said the citizen you nro not going to sign my name to that Why not uskod tho editor I wouldnt havoany ono know I had anything to do with that for the world I caut afford to got into a scrap with my neighbors The editor smiled benevolently nud said Why should I mix up in a scrap that does not concern m Why should you expect mo to assume the blame for tho publica tion of an article to which you are afraid to sign your namo Tho man stopped the papor aud went away mad 7 The intimation which comes from H C Payne n member of tho national ex ecutive committee that republicans out Bide tho state ore watching the senator ial contest at Liuooln as anxiously as those of tho state iu the hope to seo ir amicablyf bottled is one that should cause members of tho legislature to do n little reflecting While outside repub licans no doubt are anxious to see the election of two United States seimtnrH from Nebraska the result of the con teat means much more to this state than it possibly can to anyone else The time of the session is rapidly slipping away aud yet the controversy seems no noarer a settlement now than it did the first of January If the present dead lock should continue and the legislature adjourn without reaching an election it would be a serious matter for the re publican party of Nebraska it would probably mean the loss of the state at the next election with the consequent Bonding of two populist senators to tho United States senate two years hence The campaign last fall was fought largely on the issue of the senatorships and the majority was placed iu the leg islature primarily for the purpose of haviug Nebraska represented in the United States Benate by renuDlipanR This duty tho party of the state has a right to expect tho members nf the leg islature o perform aud should they return to their constituents at the end of tho session with tho deadlock un broken every one of them should be buried 6o deep that they will nover be neuru oi pojuicauy ogam They must get together andlthrow their support to two men even though those men are not the personal choice of each and every mem oer of the legislature The republican party is a far greater insti tution than the individual members and they must subserve their personal dislikes to the good of that party if need be Failure to elect would bring disaster upon the party in this state from which it would not recover for years aud this is more of o sacrifice than will be tolerated to please M or 40 leg islators who do not happen to look at things from the same standpoint tnkeu by 80 or 40 other members of that august body It is time to do business uf THE NORFOLK NEWS FRIDAY MARCH lJDOl Inti oimo Home Institutions The practice of sending away from homu to buy goods is becoming nlto got her too prevalent and the worst of it is it is growing This not only applies to Norfolk but to other western towns and unless tho people see tho pernicious effects of suoh a course tho result cannot bo othorwlso than disas trous to many western communities Tho tendency of tho times is to contra lto trade and nil lines of business but whllo this will build up tho cities it will prove tho low nf nil of the smaller towns Not long agon traveling man for a branch of a certain press manufactory visited thin office and in speaking of this feature of human nature said thnt recently n printer in his town wanted to purohaso two presses of a given clzo mado by tho company for which his house is agent Now tho company fixes tho sale prico of its presses loss than which no ngont is allowed to sell under penalty of losing his agency but the company allows the agent to pay freight on the goods to his own distrib uting house thus giving tho agent tho ndvuutago of freight rates iu his terr tory Tho printer figured with this house some time nud filially paid his faro to a town 1100 miles distant pur chased tho presses at identically tho same prico that had becu quoted him by his neighbor but paid iu addition tho freight on the mnchines the transaction costing him iu the neighborhood of 25 more than if he had walked over 10 an other Ktreet nt home nud bought tho presses The presses were exnetly what he would have got at home because the manufacturer turns out only one grade of machines But he bought them away from home nud prevented his neighbor from mnkiug a commission on tho sale To illustrate this point closer home The Niwj knows of a case where a man wout to Omaha to purchase furniture aud ourpets and when ho had the goods in his house he found that he had paid practically the freight and his expenses to Omaha more than he could have bought for at home On some articles the Omaha houso hud given him a lower price than tho homo dealer had offered but ou others ho hnd paid more so that ou tho whole bill he would have done jnst ns well if he hnd left his money nt home besides saving freight time aud expenso of his trip Of course the home merchaut would hnvo mnde a profit on the bill else ho could not maintain his establishment If the customer had bought from his home merchant he would have hnd some one to stand be hind the articles sold and make them good if anything wore wrong The above is cited only as ou instance of this practice Tin News knows of other similar transactions and the Btrange feature about itis that business men of town indulge in it quite as much as those not dopoudent upon tho support of their neighbors It is not the intent of this article to call names or to throw out insinuations whereby nnyoue enn be located although we could do simply to cnll nttention of people to the fnct that they are doing the community a great injustice which will surely react upon themselves when they send away from home to buy goods When Norfolk people want meat we have good markets to supply them when wo want dry goods groceries shoes clothing wall paper drugs merchant tailoring coal flour furniture pianos organs jewelry liquors yes some people buy whisky away from home and have it shipped in by express in gallon jugs let us buy them of homo dealers The home dealers pay for rent taxes electric lights coal aud the aroci ana oue tniugs which enter into the maintenance of n business besides they contribute to the support of public enterprises churches and good society The foreign houses ure not interested in this community and do none of these things and the money paid them is taken out of locul circulation never to return in auy form whereas in nine cases out of ton all the profits made by home dealers are kept in circulation either in paying the expenses of their business or in improvements wLicb benefit the town Another instance of the sending away habit which is somewhat personal oc curred last December when the agent of a printing office in a certain town of the Btato oanvassed the merchants of Norfolk for job printing It woujd naturally be supposed merohants being auxious to keep trade at home that he a so but 1 election business would have been given the marble heart by evory business man he canvassed Did he We venture the assertion that tho profits on the work he took out of Norfolk would have paid the wages of a printer in this or either of the other Norfolk oflloeB for two months It is true he made cut prices on his work but as is usually the cose his oustomers only reoeived what they paid for and a similar character of cheap work could have been done in Norfolk at the same prices To follow this cose farther if the printer whose wages went to an other town had been given the work in Norfolk he would have Bpeutthe money amoug home merchants aud it would have been kept in circulation here As it is it has gone to be expended amoug the merchaut6 i f another town The whole practice is pernicious aud can result in nothing but retarding the business growth of the town To be very frank about this matter we believe the business men of Norfolk ure much to blame for the condition here for the reason that thoy hnvo set the oxnmplo of sending away for their purchases and if thoy cannot show enough confi dence in their neighbors to purchnso of them what thoy require in lines outside their own thon thoy must not expect the general publio to buy of thorn It is not so much a mattor of cost ns it is habit and a very poor habit it is Lot evory ono patronize homo institu tions whether tho purchase Ikj largo or small and see how quickly tho effect will be noticed in tho trade of Norfolk More IlTslilcntH tlinn Kings Tho St Tamos Gazette of Loudon has been counting up the diflerent sorts of governments which ore in tho world and seems to be startled at tho groat number of republics which it finds There are ovor sixty rulers in the world it says aud it is surprising to find that tho presidents outnumber the kings There are twenty four presi dents aud only twenty kings But tho balauco is more than made stiaight by tho emperors czirs sultans mikados rajahs khedives ameers and othjr potentates king ThiB is indeed a surprising revelation to a monarchist to whom the designation president is rather unfamiliar says the St Louis Globe Democrat But tho threat iucrcaso in tho number of presidents has taken place since the foundation of the United Statos govern ment nud has been cnused by it The executives of sovoral of the old thirteen states were called presidents but out side of this couutry the title was not often hoard previous to the inaugura tion of George Washington France has had three republics since that date inoludiug tho present government Central and South America broke away from Spain within a little over of a century from the time that Wash ington took office and nearly all of it adopted republican governments From the Rio Grande down to Cape Horn there was a continuous string of repub lics except in tho case of Portugal6 old dependency of Brazil Moreover tho republics are likely to gam at the expense of the monarchies The only independent monarchy iu the western hemisphere was abolished in 1 881 by the overthrow of Dom Pedros ompiro of Brazil A reduction in the number of the republics however took place in 1900 by the subversion of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Australia Btands a chance to add to the number of the republics at an early date for even the slight tie which biuds that regiou to the British empire is likely to be sundered before many more years pass There was a president in Spain a little over a quarter of a century ago and there may be one again at an early1 day In any case the future is on the side of the republics The presidents ore bound to gain on the kings The legislators should at least know by this time thnt the people want an Now is tho time to elect jjow that Oregon has broken the ice ou the seuatorical deadlock question Nebraska and Delaware should not hesi tate to follow suit Now that they are to go into the sen after oil how long will it be until some enterprising yankee will wnnt to squeeze the air for the oil it coutains The evidence is that improvements on the railroads are to be continued with out interruption this season and will be more exteusivo than heretofore The capital city is threatened with a small pox epidemic Why would it not be a good scheme to quarantine the legislature until it elects those United Statos senators New Yorks new chief of police takes his nourishment through a tube and there are those who might raise the point as to whether or not he is violat ing the slot machine law It is sometimes disastrous to im personate even Pat Crowe Down at Superior a justice of the peace fined a fuuuy traveling man namod Griswold ff for registering under the name of the famous kidnaper An Illinois lover has a very original idea of disposing of a rival Instead of shooting him he impersonates a ghost aud scares him into a frenzy Perhaps the shooting would be less cruel but his origiuality caunot be ignored Buttwo western states Nebraska and Wyoming are to be officially repre sented at the inauguration ceremonies of President MoKinley Their delega tions will see to it however thnt the great west is not totally ignored A revision of the mother-in-law joke is due A Paris young woman has sued for a divorce because her husband seems to love her mother better than her The husband says he will marry his mother-in-law if the proceedings re sult successfully A West Virginia gas well named after W J Bryan is spouting gas at tho of rate of 50000000 feet a day uuder au estimuted pressure of 4000 pouudB to the square inch It is burning in a toroh 200 feet high aud shakes the earth for miles around With all of Mr Bryans command of the natural article ho enn nover hopo to rival his illustri ous namesake especia ly regarding the abundance of light produced A faithful Omaha husband insisted on accompanylug his wife to tho small pox post Iioubo and stayed witli her for three woeltH without contracting the disease although he hnd nover hnd it Ho wns the right kind of menl and it waB per fectly proper for the disease to pass him by It is about time for the democratic party to reassemble that splendid nerve of which it has always been so proud and propnro to assort tho election of a democratic president in 1K4 There is nothing liko beginning early and keep ing it up until every hope is goue Arbor day is Btill some time in but it would bo well to perfect your plans for tho observance of tho day by arranging to plant more trees this spring than ever before Make your town and country homes pleasant by increasing the number of shade and fruit trees as rapidly as possible A writer iu tho Sioux City Tribune says A man in Sioux Falls wont to see the Jossey company play Sapho night before last aud then went into the country and shot himself Wonder why Thats easy He hod a bad taste in his mouth or gizzard or some where that he tried to puncture With tho price of hogs hovering around the 5 mark it will take some thing more than the philosophy of a Bryan to convince the farmers that they made a grave mistake in letting well enough alone Iu fact it seems as though the well enough was being a third improved upon with each passing dny The city campaign is not opening with the interest that should character ize an event of Buch moment to the country But then perhaps the ward politicians have not yet arisen to the needs of the time and will make things sufficiently hot to satisfy the most ex aotiug before the campaign closes Nebraska has splendid prospects for big growth aud development this spring and Bummer In Norfolk the building prospects aud other improvements have not been so marked for years It is a season of growth and expansion aud all the pessimists and coutractionists can not keep Nebraska from benefiting Fusion has been effectually killed iu Kansas so far at least as the opportun ity goes for one candidate to get his name on the ballot in a dozen or two places by being named by that many political parties The Kansas house in sists that hereafter the name of a candi date shall appear but once on the ballot A Superior man believes that he has solved the problem of perpetual motion He is not the first aud there will be others after he is goue The perpetual motion of the brains and tongues of the fellows who think they enn make power from nothing is probably as near the realization of their dream as they cun approach And now the lynch spirit has invaded Indiana The mob was unique in that it killed the victim by shootinp then hung and finally burned him If they had allowed the first punishment to answer they might have been considered more human and the negro would pos sibly have beeu just us thoroughly punished Another rich gold discovery is said to have been made and this time it is on the Samoan islands The world will probably witness the spectacle of the ad venturous gold seeker moving from the ice bound regions of Alaska to the torrid temperature of tho Samoan islands oud probably live through the change from one extreme to the other King Edwards reign is not to be char acterized by the simplicity thnt pre vailed during the late qunens regime Already extensive improvements and alterations to the royal residences are planned and Edward proposes to reign in the pomp and luxury that character ized him as prince This does not nieau that his reign will be more satisfactory to the poor people ot England who get small share of the luxury than was that of his mother Divorces nre becoming more frequent easier to obtain and the reasons more numerous and trivial One court re cently decided that a man need not sup port a wife who smokes cigarettes and another decided that a wife need not be tied to a man who smokes the little oof fin nails The future marriage c Utract will probably be drawn so that these little side luxuries to wedded bliss are thoroughly understood before the mar riage is performed Senator Haiiua has again urged upon the Nebarska legislators the necessity of making a choice of candidates and electing them A recent telegram from him was in substance as follows In the interest of harmony aud the election two senators iu Nebraska every sacrifice should be made by the candi dates Two new men Bhould be taken up nud urged for the positiou No candidate has any right to promise patronage in return for Bupportv The senator in common with a large num ber of republicans both state and no tional is probably fearful that the splendid victory scored by Nebraska republicanism last fall will bo sadly im paired by the stubborn nud unseemly contest now on boforetne legislature oud tho choice of no senators The calamity enn mill must bo nvoided A Maryland woman almost killed an insolent tramp whom eho had fed but refused to glvo hot coffeo She tried to escapo and ho followed her into the house whereupon sho beat him ovortho hend with a broom Btick until ho was iusousiblo and thon rolled him out the back door where he lny for two hours and was gobbled up by the police With n few of that kind of worn n in every town Borne features of tho tramp nuisance would be speedily eradicated May her tribe increase California husbandmen are to bo re lieved of tho grasshopper pest by the turning loose of a species of fly whose partioular object of hatred or ippotite is tho grasshopper and it is presumed that they will make short work of the destructive insects If there is such a ly the farmers of Nebraska and other states would be doiug a wise thing by also introducing them While this state is not seriously nfflinted with the hoppers there are enough to do consider able damage during the growing season Patronize home institutions or eke look to your foreign markets to build up your home town and community It is not possible for the home merchant to live prosper improve and expand to the benefit of the town and country while his money is being sent to the support of the foreign institutions The foreign merchant takes your money cheerfully and as cheerfully applies a per cent of it to the betterment of the community in which he lives Your benefit from the transaction as a member of the com munity is nil There nre few cranks who have at tained a certain degree of notoriety who have not at some point in their meteoric career tuken a turn at journalism or editing a paper and Mrs Nation iB simply following the natural bent of the craft in her Peoria experiment When the point in reached that there is a burn ing desire to sieze a pen and dash off several seething columns of hot and heavy editorials they should be able to tell by the several examples passed be fore that the end of their career is in sight The ambition should be fought to the last ditch if they desire to main tain a position as respectable cranks None of them have yet succeeded in dis locating the earths axis by their editor ial endeavors H H III John H Mitchell Chosen Succeed McBride to ON FIFTY THIED BALLOT Wins the Senatorial Ituttle ou Last Day of SJFHRlon With Aid of DeiuocraUDratn atio Climax to Long Contest JJa Served Three Timet Ik fore Sulem Or Feb 25 John H Mitchell was elected United States senator at lli30 a in Sunday to biicceed George W McBride vboe term expires on March 4 next His election wus ac complished by a combination of 35 Re publicans with 11 Democrats making 4 votes a majority of the legislature The result was reached on the 25th bal lot of the day and the 53d of the ses sion The first deserter from the Corbett ranks was Ilemlnwny of Lane On the previous roll call Mitchell hnd had 34 votes und Corbett 30 When his name was reached Ilemlnwny in the last roll call without explanation re sponded J II Mitchell The call proceeded to the end and Mitchell nnd Corbett were then exactly tied having 35 votes each Then McQueeno of Lane arose and with n brief speech ehnngpd to Mitchell putting him In tho lend Nine others changed to Mitchell giving him 45 votes within one of the gonl There was a brief wait and then the name of Mattoon of Douglnss repented with great ve hemence came from many parts of the hall nnd n crowd of the Douglnss coun ty mnns friends got nround him and tnlked to him excitedly He seemed to bo successfully withstanding them nnd soon there arose cries of dead lock adjourn adjourn Mattoon flnnlly yielded nnd changed his vote to Mitchell This wns all thnt was needed nnd tho crowd knew it Pnn demonlum reigned for many seconds nnd the chair mnde little effort to check It Mr Mitchell hns served three full terms in tho United States sennte from Oregon having bppn elected the first time In 1873 whpn H W Corbett was his chief opponent Mm Nation Tire or Jail Life Topekn Feb 25 Mrs Cnrrlc Nation tiring of jail life has written Judgo Hazen a letter demanding her release I wnnt you to quit your fooling she writes and let me out of here If you cause me to miss my engagements I wont feel like a ministering ungel unto you It Ik time for you to recover your self before tho devil your master makes a clean sweep with you into hell You know you nre persecuting one of OodH children who loves you for Jesus bale Let me out that I muy go about my buslueis of suviug such devils ns you li