I i m Vtt M I 1 i I It i s I The j4ortf oik J4cuas March enmo In liko a lamb but was ovhloiitly very lionllko just under tho hido Anyway tho lamb liko not loan disappeared early In thogamo Spring is tho boat timo lo clean up and all business and residence lots tdiould ho put in first class ooudlllon this year Mako Norfolk a oloan town Perhaps Pat Orowo doon not foar an Omaha mob if ho gavo hlmsolf up fio luuuh as tho attention ho would ho llkoly to rooolvo at tho hands of Omaha women lmportors stato tlmt there is now a greatordoniaud for silks than over bo f oro Of cOnrso Pooplo can hotter afford nuoh luxuries than over before Tlioso are good republican limes Door bullots are not tho only things Kngllsh troops have to foar in South Africa It is said that since tho war opened thoro have boon 10000 oases of typhoid fever in tho British army of whioh 5000 havo proved fatal Tho Fremont Tribune suggosts that if tho king doofnt want to ltoop Lnuroatn Anstln ho might sond him to this coun try whoro ho will Hurt ready employ mont at writing poetry for tho comlo valentines Piorro and Mltcholl aro about to en gage in a fight regarding tho removal of tho capital of South Dakota Oouuty Boat contests will probably bo considered of very minor iraportauco whon tliis light is on in good shapo This is tlio beginning of tho buiy floason for tho impertinent littln tack and tho man who walks tho floor or tho person who owns a bloyolo will lie from timo to time romiudod of its presence in its own peculiarly Improssivo manner A bill introduced in tho Kansas legis lature permitting womou to voto for presidential electors has been killed Aftor seeing Carrio slashing around tho legislators probably doom that any more lioerties for women would bo dangerous A number of exchanges aro still Bond ing papors addressed to both tho Nicws uud tho Journal As the Journal has boon consolidated with tho weekly edi tion of tho Nitws those papors that aro Bonding two exchanges may as well stop ono copy A Grand Island citizon thinks that an economical way to provido for a pub lic library in that city would bo by building an addition to tho city hall His idea has many points to recommend it and such a proposition might woll bo considered hero It is annouucod that lloeowator has about decided to pull out of tho senator ial raco for tho purposo of helping to break tho deadlock Until ho makes this nuuouncomout himself howovo r it may bo as well to oontiuuo to figure him a factor in tho contest Aftor tho first of next July tho people will again realio how it will seem to do businoss without licking a revouuo stamp ovory timo a transaction is mado Tho cost was not greater than tho an noynuco but tho two oombiuod to mako considerable iucouveiuouco to tho busi ness man A man in New York cot drunk and stole a 0 foot python from a uiurouui They must soil peculiar whisky in Now York It is qulto common to hoar of a drunken man endeavoring to got rid of all kinds of snakes bat seldom do you hear of ono putting himself at somo incouvouionco to appropriate ouo In Saturdays joint ballot at Lincoln Judgo N D Jackson of Neligh received five votes for United States senator thus making about as good a showing as somoof tho candidates who havo boon iu tho raco through 34 oousecutivo joint ballots Thoro is nothing tho matter with Jackson and ho would bo an honor to tho position aud tho state if ho were elected A Michigan papor wants to reform tho United States seuato It has a stupen dous proposition to coutoud with When you find n man bo low that ho knows bettor than anyouo that ho noeds reforming tho job is easy but when a person is found who occupies a high place and thinks his littlo vices au honor to himsolf aud his constituents you might better pass tho job up Representative Murray has a bill bo fore tho legislature fixing a license tax of 300 besides cost of issuing license upon all persons or firms in this state who manufacture or sell cigarettes or cigarette paper Tho indications are that the bill will become a law as it certainly should Then the businoss of selling coffin nails to young boys will go into n rapid deolino Wyoming is one of tho few states where women aro allowed the freodom of tho ballot and yet that stato has heretofore been disgraced by open gam bling houses iu every town and hamlet Now however the legislature has passed a law prohibiting gambling within the state and it should bo rig idly enforced It is a disagrooablo thought that ono of tho states that allows woinuii to vote should ho ono of tlio most corrupt In soino of tho vices Tho St Louis llobolomocrat bo coinos sarcastic concerning tho loglsla turn of that state when it savs Tho TagalH in tho legislature of this stato ltavo an opportunity now to pass a rcsol ulioit ngalnst tho oxpanslvo cosmoioll tnnlsm of tho Missouri mulo Tho leg islature might also draw tho oirolo of hourltonlsin around tho zinc mines for foar tho metal might bo of service to forolRii armies A Ohinoio wall around MinHnnrl would uroatly delight tho bourbon heart A TonnosHoo papor says tlio laws passed to koop that stato democratic aro driving from tho stato a suflleeut numbor of oltlzons with their capital to always koop us in povorty and igno ranco Nebraska was suffering from tho same causo and a numbor of counties lost many pooplo but now since tho state has boou plifcod in tho republican column tlio tide has tnruod and thoro is a groat influx of pooplo and capital That politics do mako a dltToronco with conditions lias boon freoly exemplified sinco last Novombor and tho ohaugo is just beginning to bo felt Au English trado papor warns tho Woloh tin plato manufacturers that thoy may shortly find Amorioan faoturors oompotlug in this trado as in othors in Groat Britian It was but n fow yoars ago that Mr Bryan and othor freo traders mado all sorts of fun of tho republican aasortion that Amoricn could mako its own tin plato and now tho very homo of tho industry is throatonod with invasion by tho Amoricaus But then domooratio prophecies and promises aro way below par Tho EtiBtor bonnet is booming up on tho horizon and tho millions of womou aro nronarod to nrostrato thomsolvcs fore it in deep and profound admiration It nppoars to bo about as largo flowery delicate and withal as useless a contrap tion as it is possiblo to coucoivo of from tlio avorairo males standpoint his idea of a hat being that It shouid bo a pro tection from tho elomouts first aud as becoming as possiblo afterward Tho womans idea is to havo tho hat to tho taste regardless of any othor considera tions Tho destruction of tho Nobraska poui toutiarv vestordav is olaimed not to bo suoh a calamity as at first appoared Tho prison lias long been considered ont of dateaud now tlio ncod of providing a more modern place for dotaiuing eouvicts has bocomo a necessity Governor Diot rich favors abandoning tho present loca tion entirely and establishing a prison farm whore convicts will bo employed iu agriculture as woll as manufacturing Tho suggestion has points of merit and will bo given sorious consideration by tho legislature Whilo it is all right from an ordinary humanitarian standpoint to deplore any more publio executions in China it is a question if tho olomonoy of tho powors will bo appreciated providing they do cldo that furthor bloodBhod is not re quired It must bo romomborod that tho Ohiueso aro a people who havo beon moat severely punished for vory trivial oftlonsos against their government and it is a question whothor olomonoy will bo accepted in tho spirit it is offered or if it might not moan to thorn that their ofiouso against tho powers was very un important Tho Sioux City Journal says Pres ident MoKluley should romomber what a hit King Edward mado with his throe- stlok innugnral address Ho should have romomborod nothing of the kind If he hod imitated Edward ovou in point of brevity ovory fusion sheet in tho country big aud little would riso and in ono voico exolaim Whatd I toll you Behold tho mouarohy It will not do to imitato anything good bad or in different that originated in Englaud unless it is desired to furnish positlvo proof to tho fusiouists that the spirit of empire is hero The Murray bill providiug that this stato shall prosout to tho new battleship Nobraska a library has many recom mendations in its favor It has beou quite customary for states to present battloships with a silver tea service that is always more ornamontal thau utoful as far as all on board tho vessol aro concerned Nebraska should do something original and a libtary from tho state of tho least illiteracy would be highly appropriate A library is some thing that could be used every day with pleasure and profit by every person aboard the vessel and it would seem that such a gift wonld be vastly more appropriato thau a tea service The base ballists have adopted a rule which gives the umpire power to remove from the grounds any player guilty of using improper language to another player captain manager or spectator If the popularity of tho national game is to be preservod it will require several stringent rules of this character rigidly enforced There has in the past been too much vulgar language used ou the diamond under the belief that it was smart and becoming If the base Dall managers want a good class of patrons THE NORFOLK NEWS FRfDAY MARCH 8 1901 iho game shonld bo so conducted that such a class will not bo lusultod by at tending Governor Dlotrlch has thrown a stato mont Into tho sonatorlal situation that in all probability will tond to break tho deadlock beforo tho adjournment of tho legislature This Is what ho says If tlio legislature should ndjourn without eleotiug I will call it in extraordinary session and koop tho legislature at work until tholr terms expire I beliovo tho pooplo demand this and I for ono will novor shirk my duty that Booms so oloar to mu The prospect that tho legisla ture may bo con vonod in oxtra session and that session contiuuod until a result is reached will probably tond to hasten mattors Thoso who know Govornor Dietrich aro well awaro that ho will do just as ho Bays Tho St Louis Olobo Domocrnt saya o man of that city is tho latest applicant for an Indian Territory wifo Ho as sumes to bo truo tho fiction that tho government stands ready to glvo every white man who will tako ono of the Ohorokoo Crook Choctaw or Chicka saw hollos 10000 aud a farm Tho cre dulity of tho nowly frood nogro who ac cepted tho wild story that ovory ox slavo wan to rocolvo forty acres aud amnio is paralleled by that of white men of education who boo nothing surprising in this romance of matrimonial prizes in tho Indian Territory Having read tho iuducomout to intermarriage of American men and Indian girls tho St Louis man writes to Seorotary Hitch cock am willing to odor myself if not too lato I sincoroly hope that I may bo givon tho preference ovor somo forolgucr I am a born aud bred Ken tuokian fairly woll educated refined onorgetio aud industrious and can give the best of roforoncosas to my character I havo novor boon married Should this proposition still be opou I have a cousin about tho samo ago who is also willing to avail hlmsolf of this opportunity It is a mania with certain peoplo to buy of foreign institutions not that they got any hotter or cheaper materials not that thoy aro bottor satisfied but they seem to tako delight iu getting tholr monoy so far beyond their reach that thoy will never bco it again Strango as it may seem there are merchants yos merchants who with their families mako it a point to pur chaso everything possiblo out of their own lino from foreign firms and then sit around and kick because trade is fall ing oil and that thoy dont receive just treatment from their townspeople To kill off n towns trade aud provide for its ultimate dooay the butcher should buy his clothos out of town the baker should go away to buy his jewelry the olothior should sond away for his f ur nitnre the doctor should go to somo distant city to purchase his buggy the lawyer should not call on his homo printer for stationery To practice this sort of thing in nny degree will injure tho town and persistent and constant practice will kill it effectively and onghly It wont pay to arguo with the farmer to do the right thing by tho morchants of tho town as long as tho morohants refuse to do what is right among themselves Deplores Ierislntbmi President MoKinley paid his respocts to tho pessimists the alarmists the littlo Americans and others whoso wails of woo and distress have never served inadvanoing tho interests of the country and whose only effect has been to retard tho wheels of progress and discourage enterprise The presidents opinion of their usefulness is that of a large num ber of citizens In his inaugural ad dross ho says Distrust of tho capacity integrity and high purposes of the American people will not be au inspiring themo for future political contests Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings aro worse than nseless These only becloud they do not help to point the way of safety and honor Hope maketh not ashamod The prophots of evil wore not the bnildora of the republic nor in its crises since have they served it Tho faith of tho fathers was a mighty force iu its croatlon and tho faith of their descendants has wrought progress aud furnished its dofondors They aro obstructionists who despair and who would destroy confidence in tho ability of our peoplo to solvo wisely uud for civilization the mighty probloms resting upon thorn The American people en trenched iu freedom at home take their love for it wherever they go and they reject as mistaken and unworthy the doctrine that we loso our own liberties by seouriug the enduring foundation of liberty to others Our institutions will not deteriorate by extension and our sense of justice will not abate under tropio suns in distant seas This opinion is one deserving consid eration It contrasts the spirit of tho father with those who claim to bo their ouly true followers Imagine George Washington Abraham Lincoln and other prominent statesmen doing their work with fear aud trembling with tho opiuion that the freedom their country might give would prove rather serfdom and yet Bryan and his followers would have the American people believe that such would be the result The country will never desire such leadership as long as the people retain a reasonable degree of patriotism and discretion Tho Stanton Uogistor Issnod as a soml weekly is now boiug Anyway tlio small pox germs in tho peuitontiary aro probably thoroughly destroyod Now tLnt Emperor MoKinley ha been duly inaugurated will his first movo bo to deport Mr Bryan or sup probs tho Commoner British convicts are not allowed to look Into a mirror during tholr incarcer ation There must bo vory fow womon couvlots in tlmt country Tho Commoner seems to bo ovou couiniouor than Mr Bryan might wish It is so common that it receives vory littlo attention ovon from contempora ries Au Englishman namod hts sou His mothor must have to start right after breakfast to call him to dinner to prevent his be ing late At a glovo contest in Louisville tho roforoo had to wipe tho blood Jfrom tho floor with a mop Tho Tildon contest could not havo been very scientific ufter all Tho planting and preservation of forests is of almost equal importance with tho question of irrigation Plenty of forest trees will bo a great Btop toward the prevention of drouth Beaver City is ailliotod with a num ber of youths whoso ignorance must positively hurt it is so dense The Tribune says that ono of them describes a fig as a hunk o molasses with millot soed in it Is this week to bo another of tedious unimportant ballots in tho legislature for United States senator Tho people hope for somo sort of chango and should havo it The selection of two senators would be tho propor caper Tho Sioux City Tribune says Ne braska wants Iowa to board a batch of its homeless prisoners for n fow months iu the stato peniteutiary As a rule Iowa is too hospitable a stato to enjoy entertaining visitors iu this fashion Au Omaha man has discovered that a bod is not nearly as safo a place to de posit money as a regularly authorized bonking institution Fire recontly de stroyed his homo aud with it 1S5 in cash which he had concealed in a mat tress These rummago sales aro sometimes dangerous affairs The Inter Ocean tells of a Chicago lady who took her hat off to fix her hair and a clerk promptly piokod it up and sold it for 50 cents It was a marvelous and expensive creation too Tho Detroit Free Press thinks that tho inaugural parade furnished conclu sivo evidence that the spirit of empire is not yet upon us Instead of chaining Chairman Jones to his chariot wheel Chairman Hanna invited him to ride beside him Mrs Nation Wrecks a Saloon Mrs Nation iu Jail Mrs Nation Released Those headlines repeated indefinitely furnish tho history from day to day of tho Kansas wwoker The monotony varies occasionally but in slight dogree Congressman Fitzgorold thinks this country should cripple Great Britain in her South African campaign by refus ing to sell hor mules This would be a serious calamity and Britain would un doubtedly proceed to patronize some other country The next movo that may be expeoted from the railroads desirous of scouring tho most direct route between New York and San Fraucisoo will be the con struct ion of a tunnel across the conti nent to overcome the natural curve of tho earths surface Tho republican administration has whittled another chunk off the na tional debt aud almost any fusion ex change will inform you that the war is not yet over An administration that will pay debts in time of war beats one that makes debts in time of peace Andrew Carnegie has given 200000 to Seattle Washington for a pnblio library building Tacoma tho same state re ceived 50000 of the millionaires monoy for a liko purpose Why he should completely ignoro Norfolk in his jump to tho west has not been explained Lato statistics from Germany are to the effect thut there are 1GG men for every 100 jobs They should try some MoKinley prosperity For the past fow years excopt in times of usual depres sion on account of season there have boon about 1G0 jobs to each 100 men in this country The state populint committee still lacks about 3500 of enough to meet the expenses of the last campaign The Council Bluffs Nonpareil thinks the people of the state should show their ap preciation of the fact that the party didnt win by contributing the amount in voluntary subscriptions In view of the fact that the spirit of empire is upon us it might be priato to speak of a Fourth of July colo bratlon Novortholes Norfolk could probably interest a largo numbor of tho subjects of tho ompcror should she decido toglvoonoof her old timo colobratious this summer It is Norfolks turn Somo of tho learned professors aro now predicting that gold will bocomo so plentiful that tho country will bo forced to tho silvor standard as silver will bo tho more precious motal Mr Brjau should allow tho professors to continue to mako nil suoh forecasts and not ondangcr what small reputation as a prophotho has loft Tho Dakota City Eaglo is of tho opin ion that tho timo may somotimo arrivo wheu tlio ingouius yankoo will provido a means whereby a criminal may bo sonteucod to a contury or two in hell Until that timo tho paper thinks that death or imprisonment for llfo will have to answer as a punishment for kid naplng Homesookors from the east aro con tinuing to arrive in Nebraska and tho prospects are that tho opening of spring will witness nu unusual demand for real estato Settlors are attracted by the wonderful prospects tho beautiful cllmato aud the low prices of lands There is plenty of room for Nebraska to grow and all who will assist iu her development are gladly welcomed to the state MuBio hath charmB to soothe the savage breast aud also to stay a panic if a report from Louisville Ky is to bo believed A fire was discovered in one of tho thoatrcs in that city and tho chorus girls began singing a popular song while tho firemen extinguished the blaze with slight damage to the theatre and no thought of a panic al though tho follow in the gallery yelled fire I several times Tho defendants in the Zahn murdor case aro drawing some pretty severe sentences and getting them with a promptness that should bo satisfactory to tho most precise stickler for early and severe punishment Those who were iuclined to favor mob law early in tho proceedings aro uudoubtedly willing to concede that tho law and its regularly established courts were very competent to take care of tho cases Tho numbor of explosions caused by persons looking for a gas leak with a lighted match do not seem to diminish in auy degree whatever and reports of deaths or accidents of this sort are of almost daily occurrence It would seem that people as uniformly intelligent as the Americans wonld soon come into the universal knowledge that hunting gas leaks or powder with matches is a dangerous proceeding What can President MoKinley mean by hoping that the people of the coun try will support him in his duties to preserve protect ana aerena tne con stitution of the United States when it has been said repeatedly by the fusion ists that the constitution was to be over thrown the people lose their liberties and an empire prevail He must delight in making these prophets without honor in their own country or anywhere else The peoplo of Deadwood are planning a big carnival next July iu com memoration of the twenty fifth anni versary of the settlement of the Black Hills There is no other town on earth just like Deadwood with its residences built ono above another on the side of the mountain reaping the benefit of the vast riobes of the northern Hills and it may be set down as a sure thing that if her people attempt a carnival it will be a hummer It is going to cost the government something to comply with the anti-canteen law passed at the solicitation of those who considered that a reform was necessary The government will be compelled to purohase outright sup pliosjamountiug to about 000000 a year that had been provided through the pro fits of the canteen and saloon keepers on the outside of the reservation will put these profits down in their pockets and give in return oheaper and more impure stuff than had been dispensed through the canteen The Omaha board of education is disoussing tho question Are Pnblio Sohool Courses too Hard This is a question which should be con sidered generally Of late years a course in tho publio and high Gchools Booms to have been mado a contest be tween knowledgo and health with the latter usually the loser Somo years ago a scholar was thought to be doing very well if ho graduated by the timo he became of age Now a pupil is not considered at all precocious if he com pletes tho high school course in his 15th to 18th year Whether they have learned as permanently as formerly is another question It seems that tho whole thought of the student and some times of tho teaoher is directed toward graduating regardless of consequenoes Many pupils aro compolled to Btudy overtime to keep up with thoir classes aud tho work is undoubtedly too hard in numerous instances Either the course anouia do maao easier or more time should be given in which to com plete it is tho opinion of a great many peoplo who regard the health of the children ahead of the learning they may acquire MAN AND WIFE INSANE Ilntli Ionc Their MlmM and nio Kecelved nt the Nonfolk Ifospltnl at tho Same Time Throo now patients wore received yes terday at tho Norfolk hospital for tho insano nud ore to bo givon tho troatmont necessary to cure their enfeebled minds Two of them aro man and wifo re ceived from tho west part of tho state whoro for years thoy had made a hopo loss strugglo for oxbtenco ondoavoring to gather from tho sandy soil where thoy wore located sufficient material to koop body nud soul togothor Thoir homo was in a sod shanty or dug out and fow can realize what trials thoy must havo oxporioucod This is tho second caso of the kind that ban come to tho attention of tho hospital authorities and tho fact is emphasized that thoso who abandoned their sand hill farms as soon as thoy discovered tho utter uselessness of en deavoring to oultivate the soil displayed tho part of good sonso Theso liko many othors probably in vested thoir all in the land at a timo when thore was a general movement to ward the west and when shrewd spec ulators were working overtime to inter est peoplo in a section of country which thoy knew to bo worthless without ir rigation for agricultural purposes A few there are who secured a considerable quantity of this land nt its truo worth and have made money by putting it in rangos aud stocking up with cattle But tho farmer who has endeavored to cultivate tho land and thus mako a living must inevitably meet with failure if not loss of mind and perhaps lifo it Belf This couple having invested thoir all in this sand hill property and it being their only homo felt compelled to make their living by tilling the soil It can roadily bo imagined that often this couple has suffered for bare necessities of life while the grind the hopes de ferred prospeots blasted lack of clothing and perhaps oven fuel might well bo calculated to enfeeble a strong mind and brim discouragement and disease Both were uudoubtedly enfeebled by the hardships experienced aud when tho mind of one gavo way tho natural result would bo that the other who had en countered the samo difficulties and whose mind was in close affinity with thatjof the partner should give way and both be received at tho hospital at the same time and under practically the same conditions Edward Moikham probably had met with some such instance as this before he wrote The Man With the Hoe But it by no means follows that this is the general condition of farmers in Ne braska It is tho condition of the few who made a mistake in locating on the sand hills of the western counties but there are thousands who own good fertile farms and ore not only making a good liviDg but creating creditable bank accounts It is these exceptions that excite pity but there are few similar casoB which is reason for thankfulness on the part of all Perhaps in the course of timo this couple may again regain their mental faculties but if they do and return to the monotonous grind for existence they have experienced for years it would be but a question of time until their ail ment became permanent NJ Davlrt Dend Nelson J Davis who has for several years beon a sufferer from asthma and kindred ailments died yesterday after noon shortly after 3 oclock at his homo at tho corner of Main and First streets The funeral will be held tomorrow at 1 30 oclock from the house with Rev G H Main in charge Interment will take place in Prospect Hill cemetery The deceased was born in Pennsyl vania GO years ago last 4th of July From there he moved to New York and in 1884 moved totkis statolocating onja farm noar Neligh In 1891 ho moved to Norfolk and engaged in the hotel busi ness conducting the Atlantic house He afterwards assumed control of the Clifton hotel at the Junotion aud thon tho Queen City hotel inVerges build ing While conducting tho Queon City house his health failed and he became seriously ill since which time ho has never eujoyea goon neaitn He gavo up the hotel business and for somo time has been conducting a boarding house at the corner of Main nnd First streets He leaves four children ono daughter and three sons all of whom reside in New York besides he leaves two step daughters Mrs S F Dunn and Mrs M P Suiter both of this city Mrs Davis survives him The afflicted family has tho sincere sympathy of a large circle of friends and acquaintances 11st List of letters remaining uncallod for at tho postoffice March 4 1901 Sadie BoBely Fred Davis Egyptian Remedy Co Mrs Wm Hauford M E Malloy John Morris Isaao Resuok R H Roberts Harvey M Smith Lin sey Taylor Norfolk Boning Club If not called for in 10 days will be sent to tho dead letter office Parties calling for any of the above pleaso say advertised P F Sprkciieu P M For 30 days from this date will give ono 7 double roll room of paper with every 500 purchase at Tru mans Wall Paper Store