J i ft- 0 r ThcNonfolkHes The paramount lsut to tho Nebraska fuslonlsts nt the pn vnt timo npn ar to be 1 Clem Dfim r An octopus is well npronted year by the fanner with tho crop ran brine nil othor octopuses to terms A strike in n luxury thot ennnot Ixs afforded in days of hord times and de pression and but few core to enjoy one In days of prosperity Norfolk will bloom with hospitality I nnd good times during her Harvest Homo Festival No person In North Nebraska can alTord to not participate The Mislsippl mob that hanged two negro women who had been charged with n crime is undoubtedly brutal enough to tar and fen titer or horsewhip n baby The calamity waller in Nebraska is again in the minority The people are not even worrving about tho downfall of the republio and the erection of an empire t Tho free and unlimited coinage of words should stop Fifty years ago there were but 7000 words in the Eng lish language beginniug with tho letter A uow there are 00000 Tho prohibitionists will meet in Unto convention at Lincoln on Wednesday September 1 to reassert their loyalty to cold water ond insit thnt it is the only drink for their fellowmen Anyway Governor Savage appears to be paying little attention to tho criti cism regarding Hartleys parolo Per hnps ho is thoroughly convinced thut the card up his sleeve is a suro winner A nice crop of feed cnu be raised yet 1laut cane turnips rutnbags cow pens millet and there will be no lack of food for horses and cattle during the winter This rnin will start inch crops uicely In tho death of Dowager Empress Frederick mother of Emperor William of Germany nnd sister of King Edward VII of England Europe is again called upou to mourn the loss of one of her most promluont royal ladies Tho farmers of Nobraska marketed Burplus products last year to tho amount of 110005301 This yenr tliey will not have so much to market but what they have will not bo far from equalling it in vnlue Staud up for Nebraskn Then thero aro tho Maryland demo crats also who fail to consider free silver at 11 to 1 the paramouut issue It begins to look as though Mr Bryan would either havo to join tho rumps or uccept a new and pnramounter jiseuo Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has decided to make a personal study oi crop conditions in tho corn belt and has arrived in Nebraska for that purpose The rain of today will uot admit of his forming an altogether unfavorable opinion of Nebraska Kansas olso appeals to Secretary Wil Fori to change liis opinion about the tnrn bolt showing thatthot semi arid nnd uncertain state has produced d iring the past five years according to t io secretarys own report bread stuffs ti the value of 378133347 Nebraska hog raisers marketed 27SS 524 head of the animals at a value oi 37045070 leading iu value tho other products and the Fremont Tribune wants the Nebraska hog crowned em peror Ho is pretty big people but thero are already enough hogs ou thrones The value of products exported from Nebraska by the farmers of the state last year was more than 125000000 or f 124 for every man woman and child in the state It is little wonder that eonio of the people have splendid bank accounts and that there are many who are fully convinced that there is pros pority in the land The New York Journal of Commerce has been doing some figuring on the out look for the farmer this year as com pared with last year and has reached the conclusion that corn wheat and oats this year will be worth 17000000 more than last year Lnst year there was a big crop at a fair price and the Journal figures that this year thero will be a fair crop at a big price Hero Hobson has evidently reformed jVt Madison Wis after an address on the American navy several bold bad women endeavored to impress oscnlatory carresses on his lips but it is positively btated that he successfully side stepped their efforts and has again demonstrated that he is a hero by evading threatened dangers Richmond would undoubtedly be justified in carrying a torpedo boat for his protection Iowa democrats eyes are caEt toward Cedar Rapids where they hope to see a merry row at the republican state con vention They will be disappointed un less all precedent fails The Iowa re publicans have a reputation for adjust ing differences and overriding diffi culties in a wny that ia astonishing and dUconcertlng to the opposition The t nudtdato named nt Cedar Ropids be J hi- nest governor of Iowa A Harvest Homo Festival in ft local- ity whero there is no harvest might I well le deemed out of plnce but Nor this folk i in the center of u territory whero He n crop of smoll grain has been horvested his nnd tho porn harvest nromises well It is one of the localities in the corn belt thnt coh afford to celebrate and the meeting tomorrow night should bo en thusiastic and definite Everyone in terested should make it a point to be i present Dr Koch the tuberculous expert has recently ndvnnced two theories regnrd ing the disense thnt the people will bo glad to have proven true One is that the disease is not communicated from cattle to men and tho other that it is not hereditary If true this leaves but ouo important invthod of communicat ing tho disease and tha is through the germs in the sputum of consumptives nnd this can be much more readily guarded against than though is were hereditary and coamuuicablo from cattle Tho doctors theory should at onco bo proven right or wrong in the interest of the human family Under tho head John R Hays not Concerned tho Omaha Bee of yester day retracts its statement that ho had any connection with tho Auditorium drawing with the following explana tion As tho statement was inado by an oilicer of the government who was supposed to be fully cognizant of the condition of affairs it wos used without question nnd tho unme of Mr Hays was among thosn mentioned to the ro porter It go8 on to say that Mr Hayes nnmo was not used in connec tion withTifo matter except as explained by Tin Nrws Tho oilicer mentioned made a deplorable mistake nnd should in the future exercise greater discretion in the information he conveys to the publio Tho partial loss of the op this year would pay a largo part of the expense of constructing an irrigation and reservoir system Tho country between the Rocky mountains and the Missouri river 19 too well drained the land being ut eucIi a slopo that the surplus water moves off too rapidly and there should be ways of holding it back and in re serve for tho Bummer months Tho Trndo Exhibit sayB If it wns possiblo to dot tho country with lakes nnd reser voirs tho air would be filled with moist ure arising from the surface of the water increasing the liability to rain while at tho souio timo tho water could bo drawn direct from theso storage res ervoirs for Irrigation purposes or let out into tho streams thnt might be run ning drj to bo drawn out lower down for the same purpose Auothcr thing regarding which should bo called to Wlsbns attention is that state has held first second Nebraska Secretary while the third and fourth places as ft Corn producing state tho time is coming when she will stay at first place Tho development of Ne braskn has but fairly begun Then are the thousands of acres in the state that will grow com which have never been touched by the plow whereas Iowa Indiaun and Illinois ore pretty thoroughly cultivated When there fore theso idle Nebraska lands are brought up to their producing capacity it does not require an extreme optimist to believe that the state will head the list of corn producing states ot least nine years out of ten Nebrnska is in tho corn belt and determined to stay there iu spite of an occasional partial failure It would be difficult to tell tho politics of the average democratic paper at pres ent All they have license to do is to attack the republican administration at frequent intervals and even this be comes monotonous As far as public questions are coucerned they ore await ing a definite straw to determine which way the wind is blowing The result in Ohio has proven that Brynnisrn hasnt a mortal cinch on the party and they ore not so anxious to diet on crow that they deem it necessary to form any radical opinion either wny It is prob ably tho sensible stand to take and when the time comes they can swiug around to the majority without auy recent articles to proclaim an npparent incon sistency Some of the little rags con tinue to blaze away without any thought that thoy may be huWcreet but the real leaders are laying very low If the state is to refuse to keep the families of its employes at its institu tions It might not be a bad plau to pro vide rentable homes nearby whero an official or employe could maintain his family No doubt the privilege of keep lug families at the institutions has beeu woefully abused in the past but it iB just as certain that a person who is re quired to devote almost his entire time to the Bervice of the state should not be entirely separated from his family as though ho were the menuest inmate Many of the institutions are at a con siderable distance from desirable resi dence property and if an officer or em ploye is to be allowed to visit his fam ily at all a considerable part of his time would be consumed in journeying back and forth whereas if his family lived nearby he might spend his spore mo- T1IK NORFOLK NEWS FRIDAY AlOrST 9 1901 raents at home without inconveniencing pood grounds for the belief Tester anyone or impairing his efficiency to days Omnha papers contain a the stntf tional nrtiee connecting tho mimes of Tho efforts of tho sugar trust to Xork lplo with the proposed draw of rival np of he Norfolk Auditorium alleging poo a in the beet sugar try is mooting with merited antagonism thnt the nre hkely 0 e cnlled nP wherever the beet industry has obtained ore the United States court to answer a foot hold and the trust will fnd that t0 the chnrKe of proper se of the the beet industry has many friends with mnils nD1 lt is Md thnt a Clilcngo piper whom it will hnve to reckon before it is hsd ftU nricle alleging thnt they were permitted to manipulate affairs to Its drey nntler arrest As a matter of liking In the west the trust is cutting fnct he nrticles in question ore mainly prices in the cost tho magnates assert lesnndtissuch constitute nu extreme li that the sugar producers want the im port duty on raw sugar abolished and a duty of half a cent on refined sugar maintained and as a third weapon the and their movement in favor of free raw sugar and a duty on the refined article would bo a distinct advantnge they being able to require the difference between the freo raw sugar nnd the duty on refined from consumers Noth ing would bo of greater ndvantago to tho trust than this and nothing would hurfc the beet sugar industry that both produces nnd refines more The trust will not find tho supporters of the beet sugar industry inactive and the Ameri can people will uot allow a homo indus try to be crushed if they enn prevent it Those who hnve seen the heroes of the wnr hurled from high positions in tho esteem of their countrymen aro brought to wonder if all ore lacking in the requirements of heroes if they really did nothing de serving of praise or if the jealousy of their comrades and fellow citizens might not be the real cause of their un doing For months the unme of Dewey was iu everyones mouth or until he re turned home and gave evidence that he was an ordinary mortal as well ns a hero Then Roosevelts enemies questioned his prowess tho effort was made to prove Hobson undeserving of praise nnd it was sought to discredit Fred Fun ston tho hero of two bravo deeds and tho Schley Sampson controversy has gone so far that a court of inquiry is de mnnded to settle tho differences nrising In fact not a man has done anything to distinguish himself but that someone is ready to sep forward and question his motives or otherwiso discredit his action People are beginning to believe that the United States does not deserve heroic service thnt the country does not honor her brnvo as they are honored in other countries and that a soldier or sailor shows tho best judgement who re mains a uoueuity and does not risk life or fortune by some deed of reckless dar ing in his countrys service It doeB seem that these men hnve uot been gen erously treated but tho time will un doubtedly come when their deeds of valour will shine brighter than over when their enemies will be silenced and when they will receive full credit for their notion is In the Corn Hell Now that Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is making a personal inspection of the condition of the com belt it is to be hoped ho will revise tho opinion he has recently expressed that Nebraska is outsido of the corn belt Up to this year the com belt area wos presumed to cover the states of Illinois Iowa Missouri Indiana Kansas and Ne braska Secretary Wilson insists that the true com belt is comprised in the states of Iowa Illinois and Missouri while Nebraska and KauBas are classed with the semi arid states During the past five years the rank in the order of production of corn of the six states that havo been mentioned was as follows ORDER OK PRODUCTION OF COUN 1800 lbl7 1SDS 1599 1900 Iowa 1 3 1 2 Nebraska 2 18 1 Illinois 3 2 2 1 Kansas 4 5 5 3 Missouri 5 4 4 5 Indiana 0 0 0 0 It will be noted that Nebraska 1 3 o 5 4 G has within the five years ranked first one year second one year third two years and fourth one year The only states that have outranked Nebraska in the com yield ore Iowa oud Illinois while Kansas Missouri and Indiana have fallen below The com crop for 1900 In the leading states is as follows yield of coun 1900 Bushels Iowa 305659918 Illinois 204170220 Nebraska 21043u001 Missouri 160710404 Kansas 103870030 Indiana 153200600 With this exhibit before him Secre tary Wilson can hardly close his eyes to the fact that Nebraska is entitled to n high ploce among tho corn producing states It is safe to assert that Nebraska will continue to hold its place as the second or third corn producing state even In this bo called drouth year Onlv Illinois and Iowa have any prom ise of outclassing Nebraska iu corn oat put of 1901 If Nebraska is not in the corn belt it will have to have a new class made for it Omaha Bee Sensational JournalUm Several Norfolk citizens now believe that the qualifications for a reporter of a city daily are about a ton of gall and sensation to a grain of truth and dis cretion and they certainly have very on xne nrst name mentioned is tnnt oi Hon John R Hays who for the first time has learned that his name was ever used in connection with the scheme trust is issuing 15000000 ndditi6nal mennonetj nnu me lutn tnnt no is io ue capital stock with which to operato in I ntel is simply preposterous and Porto Rico and Cuba Tho trust is not could only be evolved from tho fertile Imagination of a sensational reporter or a producer of sugar but onlv a refiner smallbraiued gossip The other names mentioned were those of his partner Judge Powers und Dr Bear who if the cose 1b understood by the writer are no more amendable to the United States postal laws than any other Norfolk citizen or tho citi zen of nny other city in the state for the scheme The two latter gentlemens names were used with those of other Norfolk citizens as a committee to super vise the drawing if one was held As none hos yet taken place they have not even supervised a drawing much less put tho mails to an improper use The only connection Mr Hays name had with tho scheme was for the identi fication of Mr Powers one of the com mittee members it being said that he was tho senior member of the firm of Powers Hays The reporter has simply made o mountain of a mole hill and he and others concerned should be convicted of slander if not by the lows at least by the public The pa pers may be innocent of nny attempted wrong and n prompt retraction is the least that could be expected The person who mailed the circulars and received the replies is ns believed the only one even liable to arrest and no case has been proven against him nor should there be in nil fairness in view of the mouy similar schemes that have been conducted throughout the country apparently without the protest of the postal authorities It is doubtful if the postal authorities or the court officials are in any way re spoLSble for furnishing nu iutimntion for the formntiou of such articles as the dailies contained but if fiey should have been so indiscreet they are entitled to their share of censure One Wiiii Enough That illu triou astronomer Profess or Simon Ncvcomb In an article on Science and the Government in The North American Review gives an amusing Instance of the Ignorance even of the most prominent politicians re garding the work of the greatest scien tists - It is said that some 0 years ngo tho British academy had printed a few cop ies of an Important work for protonta ticn to some foiciguers who fiom their prominence In the scientific world were best entitled to be honored with the gift Professor Airy the astronomer royal was requested to make a selec tion of the names A few days after he had sent In his list he was informed by the secretary of the admiralty that my lords were struck by the number of unknown names included and that they wished to make an Inquiry on the subject Airy nsked the secretary for some specifications as to the names re ferred to Well as an example said the sec retary here Is the name of Professor C F Gauss of Gottlngen Who Is he Gauss Is one of the greatest math ematicians of the age and stands among the two or three most eminent masters In physical astronomy now liv ing Who else do you wish to know nbout No one else That will do replied the secretary The niood on the Knife For the last ten years said a cu rio dealer in the Old Quarter a broad bladed dagger with an Imitation bronze handle has been lying among a lot of odds and ends In that comer showcase I dont know where it came from but I probably got It when buying some collection At nny rate the other day while looking over my dead stock It occurred to me It might be burnished up nnd used ns a paper knife I took It out scraped the handle a little to se what It was made of and then laid It on my desk to attend to a customer When I picked It up again I was as tounded to find the blade dripping with blood It scorns a childish thing to tell but the Incident was so grewsome and apparently Inexplicable that It set me trembling like a leaf In a moment however my common sense came to the rescue and what proved to be the correct explanation Hashed Into my mind It was n trick dagger for use either on the stage or In some secret society mummery nnd the hilt contained a bidden reservoir for artificial blood In scraping the side I had pressed a spring which opened a little valve and out came the gore still fluid after all theso years I afterward found that tho top unscrewed for replenishing the supply New Orleans Times-Democrat M itnul Sympathy Collector Im sorry Mr Slowpay but your tailor has put his account ngalnst you into my hands for collec tion Mr Slowpay He has eh Do you work on a commission basis Collector Yes sir Mr Slowpay Then Im sorry for rou Chicago News COMMENT ON SPECIAL What State Exchanges Say of Harvest Home Edition Laurel Advocate- The Norfolk News issued a fine descriptive nnd illus trated special edition last Saturday Albion News The Norfolk News got out a splendid souvenir illustrated edition lnst Snturday that is a credit to that enterprising publication Battle Creek Republican The Nor folk News put out o creditable supple ment containing sketches and pictures of prominent places and prominent men in Madison county Saturday Newcastle Times The Norfolk News came out last Saturday with a souvenir embellished edition that was very creditable to the publishers and one that the city of Norfolk may well be proud of Wisner Chronicle The Norfolk Daily News issued a Midsummer oud Harvest Home souvenir edition of Mad ison county this week that is a credit to the publisher W N Huse and its compiler H S Livingstone Stanton Register The Norfolk News got out a special edition last Sat urday thnt is one of the best that has been printed in the Elkhorn volley for years Editor Hubo certninly makes a success of his special editions Wiuside Tribune The Norfolk News came out with n glowing writeup of Madison county in its last Saturdays edition Tho most of the pictures dis played in the writeup were taken by Roy II Johnson formerly of Winside Dakota County Record The Nor folk Daily News issued a very credit able Midsummer and Harvest Home souvenir of Madison county this week It is illustrated with half tones and is a very nice piece of typographical work Wayne Herald The Norfolk Daily News on Saturday issued a Midsummer and Harvest Home souvenir edition that is a beauty typographically and is writ ten in a highly entertaining manner It is a credit to its promoters and Editor Huse Scribner News This office is in re ceipt of a copy of the Midsummer and Harvest Home souvenir edition of Mad ison county published by the Norfolk Daily News It is one of the best pub lications of its character ever issued in this part of the state Lynch Journal The Norfolk Daily News of Saturday last came out with the neatest and fiuest writeup of Madi son county that it has ever been our pleasure to see WThen the News un dertakes a job it is generally finished in the finest way possible Wayne Democrat The Norfolk News got out a remarkable edition last Saturday lt was a 30 page paper con taining a comprehensive story of Madi son county her towns and people nnd their wonderful progress The News is an expert ot the special edition busineS Madison County Reporter The Nor folk Daily News on Saturday July 20 issued a Midsummer nnd Harvest Home souvenir edition of Madison county The edition was published in book form and it gave a complete his toricol and biographical sketch of Madi son county Cuming County Democrat We are in receipt of a copy of the Norfolk Daily News being a Midsummer and Harvest Home souvenir edition of Mad ison county It is a volume of twenty six pages and is one of the nicest edi tions of this character ever produced in Nebraska Meadow Grove Press The Norfolk Daily News came out last week with a very neat illustrated Midsummer Souve nir edition of MadiBou county Editor Huse and H S Livingstone who as sisted him deserve much credic for the neat and attractive manner in which it was gotten up Humphrey Democrat This office Is Inreceipt of a copy of the souvenir edi tion of the Norfolk Daily News which was issued last Saturday Tho paper represents a magnificent effort on the part of the publisher Mr Huse and it shows up Norfolk and Madison county in an excellent manner Lyons Sun The Norfolk News is out with a handsome and comprehen sive Midsummer oud Harvest Home souvenir edition of Madison county It contains much valuable information concerning Nebraska in general and Madison county in particular and is a c edit to the publisher of the News Amsworth Star Journal The Daily News of Norfolk last baturday is a neat edition of the paper in magazine form illustrative of the advantages of the town and county It was called the Midsummer and Harvest Souvenir Edition of Madison County and is very creditable to both paper and people Carollludex The Norfolk Daily News issued a special edition on Satur day lost that was one of finest ever printed in the state and reflects credit on the enterprising publisher It con sisted of 24 pages of well written de scriptive matter beautifully illustrated and was a moaei oi typographical ex cellence Wayne Republican The Norflok News on last Saturday issued a splen did illustrated edition of the towns of Madison county lt was a 26 page paper put up in book shape and wna well written and excollently printed on good book paper W N Uuse proprietor of The News is an up-to-date progressive publisher Pierce Call The Norfolk News of last Saturday bloomed out into a 32 page poper with every page filled with good live interesting reading and n gem in the nrt preservative The paper wob a Midsummer edition of Norfolk and Madison county and contained n largo number of half tones of business houses residences and prominent citizens of tho towns of that county It certainly was a hummer Hooper Sentinel Tho Norfolk Daily News has just issued a handsome Midsummer Souvenir edition of Modi fou county and Norfolk in particular It is embellished with several cuts show ing a number of the many beautiful buildings of the Sugar City and its pro gressive citizens It is well filled with much historical biographical and de scriptive data and will prove valuable ob a reference Wisner Free Press The Norfolk News issued a Midsummer Harvest HomejSouvenir editiouofMadlson coun ty last week The Issue bears the por traits of uumerouspromlnentmen of the countybuildlngs and publio and private institutions The mammoth beet BUgar factory at Norfolk is illustrated on tho front page Exhaustive writeups his torical biographical oud statistical of the various towns and tho county in general are given Gordon Journal The Saturday edi tion the Norfolk News was a hummer Besides containing writeups of the state county and towns of the county offi cials business men leading institutions and industries it was profusely illus trated with half tone cuts It was just such a souvenir as the true Nebraskan would be proud to mail to his friends back east The News is a true expon ent of the interests of Norfolk Madison county and the great state of Nebraska St Paul Republican Undaunted by the drouth Editor Huse last week is sued a twenty eight page souvenir edi tion of his excellent paper the Norfolk News It was lavishly illustrated with pictures of leading Mudison county men and public buildings and was in every way a delight for the eye and u feast for the brain The paper was far and away above the average souvenir edition both in appenrnncs and value of contents Editor Huso deserves congratulations upon his achievement Stanton Picket In addition to its regular doily issue the Norfolk News last Saturday presented its readers with a handsome ouvnir edition of 20 pagesj containing a history of Nebraska ond Madison county in particular with nu merous haudsomD illustrations of differ ent institutions of the city of Norfolk and surrounding towns Its one fault was incompleteness caused no doubt by a failure of many business men to appreciate the value of such an enter prise to the town and indirectly to each citizen Fullerton News Journal A fine il lustrated iudustrinl souvenir number of the Norfolk Daily News gives a clear showing of the fields of labor in which energetic Nebraskans are engaged Much space is given to the educational institutions the pride of the country The beet sugar industry yet in its in fancy is comprehensively written up and illustrated This paper is worthy of caretul inspection by those who wish to learn how much may be accomplished by the enterprising inhabitants of any Nebraska town Neligh Yeoman The Norfolk News of July 20 is one of the finest illustrated editions ever gotten out in the state It has fine illustrations of buildings of interest pictures and biographies of county officials and leading business and professional men and interesting de scriptive articles of Madison county ond its several towns The beet sugar in dustry is awarded and justly too con siderable space and we note with pleas ure the space devoted to education Su perintendent Crum has iunpgurated some new methods in connection with the county schools These are fully 6et forth in this issue and the good results placed before the publio Altogether this is one of the most valuable special editions that has ever come under our notice The University of Nebraska Lincoln July 24 W N Huse Publisher Nor folk Daily News Norfolk Nebr Dear Sir Permit me to congratulate you upon your souvenir edition of Mad ison county It is certainly a striking example of enterprise of your very pros perous locality I wos especially inter ested in the sugar beet industry and your description of the schools The kind words in regard to the state university wo all greatly appreciate Thanking you for the copy I am Very truly yours H G Shedd University Publisher Low Rates to Buffalo Pan American The Nickle Plata road selling tickets at exceptionally low rates to Buffalo and return good for 10 15 and 30 days For particulars and Pan American folder of buildings and grounds write John Y Colahan gen eral agent 111 Adams street Chicago City ticket office 111 Adams Btreet When the plate is furnished The News will supply engraved cards at 75 cents for 60 or 100 for 100 7 y V 3R f IS