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About The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1901)
O Oonnjht JW by Jlairtrn CiirrvtA o o o o o o WUKIIH MY DAT HANOB rise approached It He brought back the report that the boy was having a severe nttack but that Brown was proving himself a good nurse He had cleared awny the underbrush about the cabin eo that the boyu mother could see It from an up stairs window and be hung out one flag when the patient wns better and two when he wa8 worse or was supposed to be though he never got out the second flag At last the crisis wns past and the boy began slowly to Improve But It took a long while nnd It wns many days before the doctor was Justified in making arrangements to remove the two In quarantine One day be said Ml ll Hi i oooooooooooooooooooooooooo o 9 alonnnnonoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOlO o o o o o I o o o o o o WHERE MY HRT oooooooooooooooo r No Wheres your home Whore my lint hangs He moved nway toward the linrn nnd tlic woman returned to tlie house When the husband nnd the other men enme in nt supper time the strnn per was asleep on the hay At bedtime he wns still bleeping henvlly nnd they did not disturb him ltut in the morn ing early as It was they met him com ing up the rocky pnth from the direc tion of the creek where he had mnde n much needeil toilet Uogcrs the form er rendlly struck n bnrgnln with him nnd nfter brenkfnfst he went awny to the harvest field with the others lie proved Oil industrious workman and ntnld not only through the wheat cut ting but during the stacking of the grain nnd while the other fall work went on after the other hands had gone and only the farmer and his son a lad of home 18 remained He had Mild that his name wns Brown Once ho was nwny nt Hnwks Landing for three days and on his return slept lu the barn for the best part of 114 hours It was the old enemy October had come nnd the long wind ing ravines when looked down upon from the bluff edges had become like valleys of fire with the red of the ma ple nnd the sumac nnd the glorious flaming yellow of the trembling pop lars The thrashing of the wheat wns going on everywhere From before the nun rose In the morning until darkness came there floated from the fields the low monotonous hum of the thrashing machines nnd nt night the sky glowed with reflections of the burning straw Macks One dny somewhat earlier perhaps in the latter pnrt of Septem ber n small stenmboat bound north hnd momentarily thrust her nose inio the slate colored sands of the HaWks Landing levee The gangplank had been hastily lowered and something carried down and left on the long wind row of driftwood Then the steamer backed off and with a cloud of black smoke pouring from her chimneys plowed away up the river The some thing left ou the bank of bark nnd chips was a sick man lie was carried to a neighboring barroom to await the return of the only doctor from a visit to the country When he came two hours Inter he said the man was near unto death with the smallpox This was the start small enough but soon the disease appeared here nnd there in the neighborhood and began to fpread especially among the thrashing machine crews One dny the oldest Rogers boy who had been nway down the river a few miles with a machine came home corn plaining that he was 111 The doctor took but a moment to decide that he was suffering from the dreaded dis ease Then kindly but firmly the doc tor said that he must be taken away o as not to endanger the rest of the family and suggested an isolated wood choppers cabin n half mile away on the other side of the conlee And some one will have to be found to take care of him went on the doc tor His mother started to speak to pay that she would go when Brown got up from his chair nnd took the sick boys hand at the same time saying Ill go if Its agreeble to all con cerned Ive had It five years ago down at Natchez In 20 minutes the doctor and the pa tient and the nurse rode away across 1he gulch and up the narrow trail to the cabin Many anxious dnyB followed for the Rogers family The doctor went every inornlng to visit the cabin but no one BY HAYDEN CARRUTH HANGS oooooooooooooooooooio o oooooooooo The hot last of July sun poured down upon the dusty road nlotig the nnrrow coulee which led back among the bluffs and up to the prairie stretching away to the west And at this time despite the metropolitan pretensions of Hawks Landing with Its twoscore of Missis sippi steamboats a day this prairie except for a narrow fringe along the bluff edge was unbroken by the plow of the settler for Minnesota was still a territory and the civil wnr wns n decade or more In the future Ip the narrow trail and through the titlfliug dust a man was tolling He LtemaS tffiWix UK LOOKED 110UOII KVEN IN THAT WILD NKIOIIDOHHOOD looked rough even in that wild neigh borhood and Impressed the beholder nt first sight as being middle aged though closer inspection gave the idea of few er years He carried n dilapidated black satchel evidently nearly empty slung over his shoulder on a bit of pine slab apparently a piece of driftwood but still fresh from some up river saw mill His coat was suspended on the end of this stick beyond the valise He wore a rather wide leather belt and his trousers were thrust In his boots from the top of one of which projected the handle of a dirk knife n utensil much affected by the stenmboat men nnd raftsmen of the time and region ostensibly for table and other uses of domestic pence but really for employ ment in public brawls when the linnd of these worthy citizens wns turned against their brother men Every thing in fact Indicated that the man plodding onward was a river mnn on his way to the harvest fields of the cul tivated strip It was late in the afternoon when he reached the first house still a little be low the level ol the prairie He turned up the steep Incline which led from the road nnd dragged himself almost stag gered toward the house At the door he dropped his coat and bng sat down on the lower step nnd rested his head In his hands Some one was moving about Inside the house but he made no effort to open communication By and by a woman thin and per haps 50 years of age came to the door with a dish pnu In her hands She started slightly as she saw the figure before her but only slightly for fig ures of the chnracter were too com mon Well what do you want she said rather sharply He looked up and for a moment seemed to be pulling his wits together Then he said simply Work Well we want another man but he needs to be right smart Can you bind your station V Yes tomorrow You dont pear as If you could to day She looked at him a moment as he sat with his head bowed Then she ndded Have you been drinking He looked up julckly and for the first time gazed squarely In her eyes Yes he said Thought so was the womans comment Well rest up and when my husband comes down from the field hell talk with you The man rose nnd looked toward the barn Ill just go out and camp on the hay he said Then he added quickly as he drew a very blnck brier pipe from his pocket and laid It on the Btep Ill leave that here Youd better leave your bottle here too said the woman The man started slightly then drew an empty flask from hla pocket looked at It a moment nnd turned and threw It down tho rocky gulch If youd done that before you emptied It youd a been better off tnld the woman He made no reply You look more Intelligent than most of these fellers that come along went on the woman candidly Dont you know better Yes Then why dont you stop I cant Sposen you try If you Btny here well do what we can to help you The man looked at her his manner showing nice surprise than anything else I never had much help he said elowly But It wouldnt do any good It doesnt rontter anyhow It must to some one returned the woman Ilavent you got friends THK NORFOLK NEWS FIUDAY MARCH 22 1001 Brown tomorrow Im going to take you both back Ilavent told the boys folks yet been use 1 want to surpilse them Ill be up about 10 oclock When the next moinlng the doctor drove tip the coulee he noticed how bare the ticcH weie becoming Only the few cedars and spruces and the little red oaks for up on tin bluff sides relieved the nakedness of the Fcone The brook bounded down the gulch foaming over the rocks and crossing the road In a noisy Impetuous wny It was chilly nnd as ho got foi ther up the coulee he met n few Hakes of snow swirling down on the north west wind Bad day lo bring my patient down he muttered but Its time he was at home Guess the family will give him a warm reception- and Brown too lie turned off the main road to follow tho path to the cabin Standing In the shelter of a rock was Brown 1 was Just waiting for you doe said the man Reckon Ill go along TKLL Tlir I OLKS OOOnilY down to the Landing I spose Its been long enough so that If 1 was going to have that there t mnllpox 1 would linve It nlnt It V Yes but you Mild you had had it anyhow Didnt you Brown scratched a match on the rock deliberately and lit his pipe Ive been thinking It over doc he said slowly ami Ive come to the con clusion that it was something elbe 1 had yellow fever I believe Tell the OvcrliiilnlKoiKT In Coffee Coffee Is a powerful Irritant of the cerebro spinal nervous system Re cent tests have shown that It Increases mental and bodily waste rather than retards It as has been claimed Cof fee poisoning is sometimes mistaken for the troubles engendered by the use of alcohol In both cases the stomach and nervous system are the sufferers Caffelc and alcoholic gastritis are nenrly Identical as to their symptoms The use of coffee by childien has In several cases caused an arrest of de velopment Cases have been reported of delirium tremens brought on by the excessive use of coffee It Is related In a foreign medical Journal that n mnn In the absence of his wife un dertook to make his own coffee Not knowing the correct proportions for use he took about one quarter of a pound of fresh roasted coffee for two cups Two hours afterward he com plained of vertigo headache and nt flrst trembling of the legs only which soon became general followed by sev eral other distressing symptoms some of which continued a day or two longer By a busy physician It Is stated that at least two thirds of his practice comes from the excessive use of codec The excessive use of ten and coffee as well as the use of alcoholic liquors often almost wholly obliterates the senso of taste Health Culture American folks goodby And lie stnrted downi the road But where are you going called the doctor Where Oh anywhere Just go inggoing home But Wheres that Home Oh where my hat hangs When Rogers renched the Landing three hours later determined to find him and carry him home he wns told that the man he sought had taken pas sage on a down river steamboat This Information came first hand from the man who had helped him up the gang plank The Hill and be Title There Is nn amusing English defini tion of gentleman It Is A mnn who wearB a silk hat and if he has no other title Insists upon having Esq added to his name when letters are addressed to him The west end Londoner of social pretensions accepts this definition in practice Rummer nnd wiuter In rain or shine he wears a high Bilk hat in the streets of London and carries it Into the drawing room when he pays nn afternoon call It Is only when he takes a train for the provinces or for tho continent that he ventures to use more comfortable headgear He also expects to have the distinc tion of esquire when a letter Is ad dressed to him and 1b highly offended If he finds on the envelope the prefix Mr As a mnttcr of fact the num ber of English gentlemen who are le gally entitled to the mediaeval honors of esquire Is luBlgnlficnnt It Is a self assumed title which signifies noth ing that Is substantial In rank or priv ilege Iu common use in London esquire simply means that the person so ad dresbed does not choose to be associ ated with tradesmen nnd ordinary working people and that he Is a gen tlemnn who Invarlnbb wears a till hut Youths Companion Dremlful Diict rlulntr The Wife Dont you think our daugh ters voice improved The Husband I dout know It mny be that as we crow older our hearing be comes less acute PbUadeluMa Nertk DOES HE OWN THE FISH We are asked If a fanner has not n better right to the fish lu the river which runs through his form than tho man who lives down the rher In Rome town This will have to be answered from a legal and not from an ethical standpoint The law of the country holds that he has only an equal right to the Huh lu the stream with his towu brother down the river The law broadly recognition the rights of the general public lu all streams of run ning water and meandered lnkes Though the fish mny be lu the river the bed of which he owns he still does not own the water or the llsh In it and Is Just as strictly bound by the lawH governing the season and method of taking the llsh as though he lived somewhere else lie has a common right with all others living tributary to the stream to the use of the water and must neither divert Its How or In jure Its quality to the detriment of Ills neighbors down stream A pond which Ih formed by the spring over flow of n river and which at all other times Is entirely Isolated from the stream Is lu the same category as the flowing river and though such pond be full of llsh left there by the overllow the owner of the pond possesses no ex clusive right to or ownership In such llsh If a man should sink a flowing well and thereby create a llsh pond which he stocked up with llsh he then becomes the absolute owner of such pond and all that It may contain ami the public i -quires no rights whatever thereto Owning such pond and Its flsh he may further catch them and kill them whenever he wants to re gardless of close or open seasons The right to cner upon a mans laud In pursuit of llsh lu u stream varies In different states In some states where a man has stocked the stream he can bar out the public but he cannot dam or obstruct the stream so ns to prevent the run of such llsh to other portions of the Ht renin not controlled by him In most btates the right to walk up a stream or run a boat thereon nnd catch the fUh therein Is allowed the common law of trespass not applying KCONOMICAI PUOdlHICHH Eastern formers develop an agricul tural virtue from sheer force of cir cumstances which could It find a foot hold among those of the west would do much to add to the prosperity of the western man We refer to the prac tice of ccoi uny lu the matter of little things the looking after the small of the farm and the avoid ance of minor wastes An eastern farmer once said that the wastes of a Aostorn farm would easily constitute he profits of an eastern one When land Is cheap and labor high much of this western waste Is absolutely un avoidable Then the soli was so rich and productive that the very excess if crops naturally fostered u wasteful method of caring for them Thus the straw was burned In the Held and the cornstnlks left to rot while hay was put up In poor Icalcy ricks with a go devil because this way required but a minimum of hand labor Fifteen nnd M cent corn makes men careless in the matter of feeding It when one man and team will raise lfiOO bushels of It with 45 days work But as the value of the western farm Increases the eastern virtue of saving can b applied to the management of the western farm with much advantage In fact It must be so applied If even the good western form Is to be mnde profitable We notice n marked Im provement along tills line during tne past few years There Is but little machinery now left to winter In the field barns are taking the place of old sheds for stock nnd the storage of the crops wet spots are being drained nnd wnsto corners of the forms being util ized more of the products of the form nre bplng converted into finished prod ucts on the farm nnd year by yenr western wnstes become less and less noticeable DOBS THIS RAINFALL CHANGE We are asked whether with the re moval of the timber of the country and the cultivation of tho soil tho average ralufnll of a given territory shrinks No It does not The rainfall will of course vnry from year to year as It has always done but the average precipitation will remain the same It Is true that with the removal of the timber and tho cultivation of the soil drought periods probably become more marked this being cnuscd by the more rapid removal of tho water from ti surface Into the artificial ditches and waterways and nlso by tho greater amount evaporated from the soil I growing crops These two agencies account for the drying out of the largu areas of wet lands all through the west The rainfall of the Mississippi valley comeH not from moisture evap orated from the soli of tho valley It self but almost wholly from tho wa ter pumped up by the sun from the gulf of Mexico This being the case it follows that so long as the gulf re mains and the sun keeps at work there can be no visible change In the ralnfnd of the valley Itself The lesson which needs to be learned under the changed conditions 1 how best to conserve the rainfall for that undergoes no change It hns nlways been that laws passed by the several states for the protection of game and other birds have been held In general contempt No lawp have been bo difficult of enforcement and none so little rcgnrded It Is of special Interest then to note that tho general government Is about to tako a hand In this good work and that at last our game and song birds will be under the protection of national laws which will be executed by United States marshals and federal courts an authority which the people hold In pro found respect Congressman Iicey of Iowa Is entitled to the thanks of all lovers of bird life for hi efforts la se curing tbl legislation Mlinte III thrlMeiilnir At llaiiisbury Manor Ktigliind their once resided a poulterers family of the name of Duck The third son waH lo be chilstened and the mother wanted the name to be William Just before stalling to IiiiicIi the nuise ran up stairs to the father who was laid up with gout to ell him they were off What be going to call tin nurse Missus siijn Its to be William was the reply William be Mowed Mild the Invalid Call mi plain Bill lu accordance with these laconic lustruc tloiis the nurse gave the name of Plain bill to the clergyman and the Infant was christened accoidlngly In an even funnier wa Is the queer Phiistlan name of Mr Ono I Ichlner of rccUhain ai tinted for When his parents and sponsors tirrhed at the church his name had not been settled upon and when the clergy man said Name this child one of the friends said John and another said Oh no inclining not John and as no one else spoke the clergyman thought that was to be his name and baptized him Ono The full account of the baptism Is contained In Blaucks History of Cauiberwell A clergymans son oucIich for the following My father was baptizing a boy of 0 ears of age The names giv en were Benjamin Joseph After the ceremony he said to the boj You have two very good names and you ought to be a good boy How did you come by then Please sir said the boy we was twins and the other died Knj For llliu You understand of course pursued the lawyer what Is meant by a pre ponderance of evidence Yes sir replied the man whom lie was examining with reference to his qualifications as a Juror Lei me have your Idea of It If you please I understand It 1 tell you Well what Is It Why anybody can understand that I would like to have your definition of It I know what It Is all right When I tell you I know what a tiling is 1 know It Thats all there Is about that Well what was the question I asked you You ought to know what that was If youve forgot your own questions dont try to get me to remember them for you I dont want to hear any more of that kind of talk Interposed the court Answer the questions addressed to you by the counsel Judge I did lie asked me if I knew what It was and I said I did Are you sure you understand what Is meant by the term preponderance of evidence Of course I am Judge Well let us hear your Idea of it Its evidence previously pondered Chicago Tribune No Time In AVnte Im a business man he wild brusquely and Ive no time to waste 1 want to marry your daughter fan I have her I The merchant gasped You seem to be in n good deal of a hurry he suggested I I am leplled the suitor As I told you I am a business man I made up my mind that I wanted a wife nnd 1 started out to get one Ive secured the refusal of two girls tills morning but my option expires lu il hours and If I cant have your daughter I want lo close with one of them before Its too late Do I get her No Good Theres nothing like having n clear understanding One of the oth ers lives In the next block and the other Is half a mile away Ill take the nearest save a good ten mlnntes of valuable time nnd get back to my desk In time to look over the late mail Thore6 no use letting the minor affairs of life encroach on ones business Good day eir Chicago Tost Vucalnn Ilnln Apropos of the wonderful ancient ruins In Yucatan Bald a New Orleans college professor there Is one very fortunate circumstance which has pro tected them almost entirely from po liatlon by the Indians It Ih currently believed by the natives all through that part of the country thnl the ruins are haunted and that devils will carry awny anybody who attempts to molest them This superstition hns been en couraged by explorers nnd Is n better fcafeguard than n picket of soldiers A Gem of London llnmor Well goodby Mr Green It was so nice of you to come It does father such n lot of good to have some one to talk to I was delighted to come Miss Brown but Im afraid Im not much of a conversationalist My dear Mr Green dont let that trouble you Fathers Ideal listener Is an absolute Idiot with no conversation whatever nud I know he has enjoyed himself tremendously tonight I Lon don Punch Didnt Know Dorr In discussing the want of compre hension of one branch of art for anoth er Mr Sutherland Edwards 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