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About The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1903)
THE NORFOLK NEWS : FRIDAY , JULY 81 , l < )03. ) This Is the Hoawm when tlio Ice man becomes olio of tliu most Inde pendent pcoplo living. If you wouldn't euro to bo Iho Ice jnnn , ) io\v would you like to bo nplolor i\t n nldo show ? Tlio llroinon have undoubtedly lind a good tlmo , mill It Is certain tlmt tlio nmjnrlty of tlio people of Norfolk liuvo appreciated tliolr visit. It Is perhaps iBourco of satisfac tion not to bo prcnt , when II Is popular to cut open ( lie bodies of tlio Btvat and toll tbo peolo | wlmt tboy flnd Inside. Tboy slioiild at least bavo n latcb Btrlng tlmt hangs outside on Hint door to Manchuria. Tbls would prevent - vent sonio of tbo trouble that bus been occasioned. Tbo Interest ( if tbo public Is very llUoly to soon turn from Home and center In tbo orient , wbero war clouds are gathering tbat tbreaten to burst at almost any momuut. Tbo tournament Interrupted tlio .Rrowtb of Norfolk as far as tbo building operatloiiH wore concerned for a few days but It In at It again now more vigorously tban over. If tbo funny men keep at It tboy will lead people to bellovo tbat tbo Kansas farmers really do resort to extreme measures to not help In carIng - Ing for tbelr Immense crops of grain. Tbo tumbling of stocks In Wall street lias tbus far bad no other ef fect ( ban bringing ridicule upon tlio Jlnnnelors wbo are among tlio losers. Tbo business world lias not felt oven n sllgbt tremor. 1'orlmps tlioso wbo bavo believed tbat tboro would bo no corn crop ow ing to tbo lateness of tbo season , will now bo willing to take It back for tbo tlmo being. Tbo prospects for tbo corn barvcst are excellent. Utah Is one of tbo four states In which there has not been a lynching slnco 18S5 and the only western Htato. Surely the state of tbo Mor mons has some credit coming. If a person Is not able , for busi ness or other reasons , to go on a Bummer outing , It does not In any manner make him endure bis environ ment more cheerfully to read the announcements of summer resorts. 1 Milwaukee desires to entertain the coming national democratic conven tion and 1ms placed Its bid early. Milwaukee no doubo considers that tbo llroworks taking place about tbat tlmo will further contribute toward making her famous. When they get through uncovering tbo rottenness In Missouri's olllclal circles , It Is apparent tbat there will bo but few of them left without a stain on their character. Tlio gath ering In of "driftwood" appears to bavo been a very popular employment down there. There is something satisfactory coming from tbo fact that John M. Thurston fell Into tbo sea at Coney Island the people who honored him nt one tlmo bavo learned that bo is still alive , and must bo prospering it lie can afford to go to Coney Island , oven to fall into tbo sea. Two persons wore seriously wound ed at Jackson , Ky. as the result of a shooting scrape over a poker game. When Jackson fails to keep before tbo people with its disastrous pistols duels it will be tlmo to send missionaries to the Fiji Islands to civilize the other heathen. The warm and dry weather has come to Nebraska when it was most needed and tbo corn is bumping .along nt that well known Nebraska gait that promises a bumper barvcs. Now Is the tlmo to buy a Nebraska farm and help the oldest inhabitants stand up for the best state in tbo union. General Miles evidently forgot to consider that horseback riding was the president's favorite stunt and that bo bad at bis command some of tbo finest animals in tbo country , so tbat it was not a serious matter for him to plan and take a ride that would at least average up well with tbo general's. It will bo no trouble to find a man for second place when tbo proper tlmo comes. Ordinarily it may not bo a largo honor to bo elected vice president and bold that offlce but to make tbo race with President Roosevelt velt and bold tbo oillco under bis coming administration will bo an honor canal to the best ol them. The one drawback to a firemen's tournament as well as other racing meets , Is tbat all the teams entered could not be winners , and tbo losing teams cannot somehow manage to feel as cheerful over the outcome as the winners. But to make them all jwln would rob the meet of Its rivalry , and therefore Its Interest , HO ( hero you are. Katilorn people wbo spend much money In traveling around to nee. things that are 'beautiful are In formed that from this time on until frost Nebraska furnishes about the most beautiful scenery and country that they could care to look upon. It would repay them to take a trip out to lireallio the energizing air and see the country. Statistics show that Pennsylvania produced 8,511,101 pounds of stool In 1002 , while In 1800 , tbo year In wblcb Mr. Bryan first made an appearance above tbo national political horizon , tbo production was loss tban half that , or In exact Ilguros,3iir , : , ri29tons. Perhaps tbo occasion of this In creased production was Mr. Bryan's appearance and then again It may bavo boon because bo was prevented from remaining after bobadappeared. Today Is tbo anniversary of tbo capture of tbo daring confederate leader , Oonoral John Morgan , who was taken just forty years ago. Morgan created more of a stir and fear In some quartern than had the ontlro confederate army and bis capture was a great relief to tlio people of Kentucky , Ohio and Indiana. Major George W. line , with a small com pany of cavalry , has recently been credited with tbo capture of tbo raider. Dodge county , tbat a few years ago had two of the strongest and best populist papers In the state now has no sheets representing that party. Tboy bavo gone the way of numerous other publications of Hko faith throughout the state and bavo left a hole In tbo political situation like a person leaven who places his linger In a mill pond and withdraws It. Populism does not appear to bo able to withstand republican prosperity , oven as well as pure and undolllcd democracy. Nebraska as a farming state Is at tracting favorable attention from eastern people and many of them arc preparing to get rid of their high priced and more or loss run down farms and como to Nebraska to take some of tbo cheap and fertile lands tbat this state has In such abundance. The drouthy conditions In the Now England states will undoubtedly bo a factor In causing a movement to ward the west and Ncbraslra may ox- poet to benefit to a considerable do- grco from this. Perhaps those who know all about running a newspaper bavo never tried It when a firemen's tour nament or other Important event Is on and there is an extra amount of work in the oillco , while each and every employe thinks that it should bo an occasion for him to have a good time , and to cap the climax to endeavor to Install a now system in tbo oillco coincident with the event. If you can stand such a test It will bo granted tbat you know all about running a newspaper. Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw wife of tbo secretary of tbo treasury , may not bo exactly loyal to her sex , but she certainly has a vein of humor In her make up. According to an eastern paper a young man of humorous bent ono day exclaimed in her presence : "What could be moro dreadful for a wife after mendlngherhusband'scoat , to mm in ono ol tno pocitets a love letter from another woman ? " "For tunately , " said Mrs. Shaw , "that could never happen. Tbo woman would llml the letter first and then she would not mend tbo coat. " Tariff revision is a growing Idea among the democrats to tbo exclus ion of tbo old free trade argument and that for a tariff for revenue only. They undoubtedly hope to catch a largo number of republicans on the scheme as they did when tboy sprung the deal for free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 1C to 1 , but many of them have grown wise and fall to see In tariff revision anything different from what tbo democrats boon attempting to foist on tbo country for a number of years and succeeded magnificently nndor Grover's last administration. Nebraska Is developing something of a reputation herself , in tbo wheat raising lino. In 1SDO the yield of wheat in the state was but 10,000,000 bushels , while it Is estimated tbat the yield for this harvest will not bo less than 80,000,000. An Increase of SOO per cent in thirteen years Is n gratifying showing and Indicates what Nebraska soil Is capable of accom plishing under development. This development , by the way , Is yet In Its Infancy , and there arc thousands of acres waiting to glvo up a yield toward tbo feeding of the world. It Is none to eflrly to take up some of the land bargains offered and share in the profits Incident thereto. Just now the scientific world Is in tensely interested In tbo discovery of n now metal radium which Is said to give off light and heat without losing quantity or quality. R is said to have boon found of fnoKtlmainit value In curative powers , especially for hllndnoMH ; but now comes a scion- ti , ; ' who claims that It Imn harmful propoit ! H. That It will produce a running Here In tbo llesb , and tbat mice shut In a box containing It quickly succumb. Porbaps many of tbo stories told about It and phe nomenon attributed to It are fakes , but It Is certainly a wonderful mineral If but a portion told of It IB true and Its development will bo watched with Interest both by scientists and people ple wbo know nothing of science. Tbo season Is almost hero when tbo politicians will begin to lay awake nights wondering If they have sulllclont Inducements In sight to at tract tbo farmers from their fields to attend tbo party conventions and cast their ballots. Tbls year , as In many others that arc past , numerous agri culturists will find It moro to tbelr profit , If not to tbolr liking to remain by tbo crops and permit those who have moro tlmo at tbelr disposal to look after politics. Next year It Is believed that It will bo different. Farmers bavo found that they bavo bad many and Increasing advantages under a republican administration and It Is a matter of general belief that all of them will take tbo tlmo necessary from tbelr work to get to the polls and endorse the administra tion of President Roosevelt. Tboro are a largo number of people ple who will agree with Col. Bryan that "tho democratic party Is rich In principles. " It has principles galore for every occasion and some of the as conlllctlng as can bo. In 1892 Its principle was for free trade. In 189(5 ( It wanted the free and un limited coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1 without tbo aid or consent of any nation on earth , and In 1900 It wanted the people to take a stand against Imperialism when there was none and militarism that bad not been thought of. Any party as pro- Jlllc of principles as this certainly Is deserving of all the credit accruing. But when It Is summed down to a right fine point it will bo found tbat all tbo principles of the party point in the saino direction and that Is opposition to anything that the re publican party favors. Even though tbo cardinals do issue a Joint note to tbo powers protesting against the loss of temporal power on the part of the pope , It Is not believed tbat many of tbo great nations will unlto with 'them In restoring such power. The church and the state cannot bo united in this modern ago as tboy wore In the past. Modern people recognize tbat too much trouble resulted from such a combina tion to care to again give it a trial. They do not care whether It Is the Catholics , or Methodists or Presby terians wbo would attempt to secure control of national and state affairs , they will have none of It anil this Is particularly true of this nation. Tbo churches will bo encouraged and no attempt will bo made to prevent them from growing and prospering , but tbo people of all denominations will Insist on their right to a say as to how the country shall bo governed. It is far better as it is. From this time on will bo a strenu ous season for the game wardens who try to enforce the laws against the destruction of game blards. It Is re ported this early from sections of tbo state that hunters are out after the young chickens that are barely feathered out. The little birds make a temptingly savory dish , but it Is almost a crime to shoot them as tbolr undeveloped wings and Inborn fearlessness makes them an easy prey for the leaden missiles of the con scienceless hunter. They are In creasing In numbers and If the pro tective laws are rigidly enforced for another season or two there would again be game worth while on the prairies of Nebraska. Ono hunter can do more to decimate the number of birds at this season of the year than a dozen could accomplish after It be comes lawful to bunt them , and In the Interest of tbo other eleven this ono hunter should bo suppressed. Almost every paper recently brings news of ono or moro negro lynchlngs , race wars or other conflicts between the two races , and tbo trouble is not confined entirely to the south , either. It Is a condition of affairs that maybe bo calculated to cause the most thoughtless person to stop and won der where it will end. Up to this time , while some of the reports are of white men lynching negro women , there have been no reports of negroes lynching white men , but it is not im probable that this will como in tlmo. Certainly tbo negroes bavo as good right to lynch criminal whlto men as the whlto men have to murder criminal negroes , and It may bo ex pected that they will retaliate In kind In the not far distant future. It la to be hoped , however , that the whlto men will bo brought to their senses before the tlmo comes , and that all , whlto anil black , will bo given the privilege of fair and Impartial trials. Perhaps ono of the mistakes of Mr. Bryan In attempting to bold his pop ularity has been bin neglect of the horseback route to public favor. Grover Cleveland has at least never resorted to rough words and Insulting phrasoii In speaking of tbo "now" de mocracy. Ills criticisms have been dignified and results are proving tbat bis opinions bavo been about correct. There nro vast numbers of republi cans who will bopo that the Cleve land democrats will not succeed In reorganizing the party. The Bryan party ban been "easy" and there Is no tolling what might develop through another reorganization. It Is getting pretty close to home for Omaha to Indulge In a m'ad dog scare and It Is to bo hoped that the excitement Incident thereto will not bo contagious. There nro too many dogs In Norfolk to bo healthy should rabies break out among them. An exchange confers this title on a distinguished citizen : "Missouri Pacific Section Foreman Worthen. " With a few Ds , Ls , and other alpha betical suffixes , ono might readily take It to refer to a distinguished eastern professor or scientist. There are n whole lot of events that are worse and moro unsatisfact ory to all concerned tban a firemen's tournament. The people of Norfolk are glad the boys came to liven tbo old town up a bit , and hope they may como again. A Dodge county farmer defended himself from becoming n victim ol a hold-up scheme on the part of a couple of strangers by Having a shot gun bandy and knowing bow to use it. With moro of that sort of farmers In the country there would naturally bo fewer hold-up men. General Miles should not assume that because tbo people of the coun try have honored and will honor one rough rider that they are In a mood to honor every rough rider wbo comes along. Then , too , It Is differ ent from riding right Into the heart of the country's enemy and riding just merely because you want to. It Is stated that tbo punishment be ing meted out to the financiers In Wall street is because of too much water In tbo stocks. It has been a year of excessive moisture in Nebraska and Wall street may have felt tbo results from that , but no punishment has yet been dealt out to the man who Invested In Nebraska property. Forty thousand soldiers of the re bellion are passing away each year and In another decade the man who will take part In parades and other events for the old soldiers will be past seventy years of ago. Many of them are already past that age , and only those who joined the army at a tender ago are what might be called young old men. Kansas , tbat a few days ago was In the throes of a terrific flood caus ing loss of life and property , Is now possessed by hot winds tlmt threaten tbo crops which wore not drowned out. That Is a change of weather conditions so radical as oven to astonish the Nebraska weather man who Is up to somewhat similar tricks himself , occasionally. It Is probable that there will be at least ono tradition dispensed with In connection with the pope's office If tbat ring cannot be found. In this latter ago of the world a small cir cumstance like that will not bo per mitted to Interrupt the proceedings of as great an organization as tbo Roman Catholic church has become. Mr. Morgan Is probably willing to concede that though ho does not like tbo anti-trust position of tbo adminis tration ho might bo rendered perfect ly harmless In producing a panic to its discredit. It is also evident tbat however strong a man may become In the financial world bo Is never too strong to assume a dictatorship , as some other financier or combination of financiers may readily cause his overthrow. An exchange tbat devotes consid erable attention to fashions says tbat " the handkerchief waist Is another pleasing novelty. " It has been real ized for some tlmo tbat fashionable women were attempting to make al most any scrap of goods answer fern n waist , but It was never believed that they would make a handkerchief do , and perhaps ono of these Inch square , filmy articles tbat have boon popular , nt tbat. It Is safe to say that not one man In a hundred who raises corn knows 'all the uses to which this valuable cereal Is put. A professor of tire agricultural college at Ames , Iowa , Is authority for the statement that US different manufactured 'products are made from corn , and when bo says different manufactured products , ho docs not mean different brands of corn meal and starch , but products that nro entirely dissimilar. Ono of tbo recent manufactures from corn Is rubber. It Is wonderful product and Its Importance Is growing constantly through Yankee Ingenuity , until few realize In wlmt form of manufactured product a bushel of corn may bo re turned to thorn. Norwegian authorities nro con siderably alarmed because so many of the people of that country appear to favor America for n homo. Last year 28.000 Norwegians left their native land , the majority of thorn coming to America. While this num ber of people Is not enormously largo , when It Is considered that the country has but 2,000,000 Inhabitants some reason for the apprehension of the authorities may bo understood. It Is now announced by Editor Tib bies and Chairman DoFranco tbat tbo coming meeting of reformers at Den ver Is not for tbo purpose of organiz ing a now political party , but to rally the populists of tbo country , and par ticularly the west , around tbo flag. Tbo principal object of the meeting as outlined Is for the faithful to brace their foot to withstand the suction tbat would make them Grover Cleveland - land democrats nt tbo next national convention of that party and provide a soft spot to fall In If the tlo that now binds them to democracy Is severed In this manner. It Is hoped to form a basis for a third political party that will wear , at least until they have something worth again fusing with for the democrats or other party. Whatever tbo result of tbo conference It will bo watched with some Interest by tlio politicians of the country as indicating the di rection of the polltlclal breeze. The Fremont Tribune proves an alibi for that place and attempts to reflect on Norfolk when tbo alibi Nebraska City must shoulder the whole load. There Is ono difference , however , between this city and Fre mont , and that Is that Norfolk has plans under consideration for resur recting Its "electric mule. " The Trib une says : "Clippings from tbo Mil waukee Sentinel yesterday fluttered In on the elitor like snowflakes on Christ mas day. The clippings were all alike. They told of a traveling man who visited Fremont nnl at the lepot took a street car that was hauled by a lone mule which , In the absence of a driver , the traveling man was obliged to agitate into action. Wo dislike very much to spoil so good a story , but our love of the Eternal Truth compels it. If any traveling man from Milwaukee thinks he bad any such experience in Fremont bo was , mani festly , filled with Milwaukee famous. If he bad such an experience In Ne braska it was probably at Norfolk or Nebraska City , where mule motors are in use. Fremont can prove an alibi for it pulled up its-street rail way tracks a few years ago , after its electric mule died. " HOW FRATERNITY BINDS. Some people are given to wonder at tbo bold fraternity has upon men who are affiliated with secret organ izations. Some of the ignorant and superstitious attribute this power of holding men together to tbo evil one , whom they believe to bo worshipped In the secret meetings , or the fear that is taught to the members to pre vent them from divulg'ng tbo secrets Those fully informed know that it is a bond of brotberhool , frequently moro notable than that of the family cir cle , which binds men ono to tbo other in n firm and lasting fraternal association. A remarkable evidence of this fra ternity is furnished from Now Jersey where , in a hospital at Plainfield , Wil son S. Frederick is struggling back from the jaws of death. Mr. Fred erick Is a Mason. On tbo evening of January 27 , last , he was caught in a wreck , pinned down under a heap of splintered wood and iron and the skin slowly roasted from half his body by hot steam. His sad plight was discovered by Dr. Pittls of the hospital force , a friend and fellow Mason , who worked heroically to res cue him from his perilous situation and succeeded , but considered that ho had brought him forth only to dlo , because it had been held by physl- clans and scientists tbat a person losing more than a third of his skin was doomed to die , regardless of what might be attempted , and Mr. Frederick bad lost at least half of his natural covering. His doctor was not to bo influenced by this belief , however , and while understanding tlmt the work would bo arduous and demand many sacrifices , determined to make the best effort in his power to save bis helpless and suffering brother. Skin-grafting was tbo ono hope hcd ! out , and the doctor at once presented the matter to the master mason of the ledge to which ho and tbo patient be longed. The officer presented It , In turn , to the ledge at the next meeting , when was exhibited a touching and altogether noble spirit of unselfish fraternity , the members , ns ono man , offering their " services and agreeing to submit" the operation of remov ing from twontyto _ thirty pieces of skin irom thelr portions."Ono bun- r Mother's Ear A H'ORO lit MOTMftt'O MAPI WHKft HUHaiNQ AH INFANT , AHO IN THIS tttOHTIIB THAT COMB OgFOHg'THAT r/M.1 , SCOTT'S EMULSION BUPPUfB THB fXTRA ItTRfHOTH AHO MOURIBHMtHT SO NBCiaBARY fOH THt MltALTH Of DOTH MOTHEfl AHO CHILD. Send ( or free umple. SCOTT ft HOWNK , Chemliti , ij 1'eatl Slrect , New Yotk. joe. and # 1.001 all dnigguU. dred and six men offered themselves to the surgeon's knife and when Frederick emerges from the hospital one-half of the skin of bis frame will bo from the bodies of others a cuticle patchwork of over 3,000 pieces- given by men living miles apart who traveled without pay or profit to testlfly under tbo knlfo their sense of true fraternity. TH SCOLD'S BRIDLE. Drutnl Panlnliinmt to Which Women' Were Once Subjected. The bmnk , or scold's bridle , or gos- sip's bridle , was neither more nor less than a muzz ! . It was In general use In Great Britain from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , and In Scot land ns well women were muzzled for certain offenses , some nt Iciist of them more Imnglnnry than real. The Instru ment of torture , even n dog's leather muzzle , is uncomfortable ; how much more the scold's muzzle ? It consisted , according to a high authority , Mr. W. Jcwltt , of n kind of crown or frame work of Iron , which was locked upon the bend , nnd it was armed In front with n gag , n plate or n sbnrp cutting knife or point , wblcb was placed in tins- poor woman's mouth so us to prevent her moving bur tongue , or It wns so placed that if she did move it or at tempt to speak it was cut In a most frightful manner. With this cage up on her bead and with the gag firmly pressed nnd locked aguIiHt ] her tongue the mtscmblc creature , whose sole of fending perhaps was that she raised her voice In defense of her social rights against a brutal nnd besotted husband or bad spoken honest truth of some one high In otllco In her town , was pa A raded through the streets , led by a chain by the band of a bellman , tbo bendle or the constable or cbnincd to the pillory , the whipping post or mar ket cross , to bo subjected to every con ceivable Insult and degradation , with out even the power left her of asking for mercy or of promising amendment for the future , and when the punish ment wns over she wns turned out from the town ball or the place where- the brutnl punishment bad been In flicted , maimed , disfigured , bleeding , faint and degraded , to be the subject of comment nnd Jeering among her neighbors nnd to be reviled by her pcrx Bccutors. Fireside Magazine. AVJiy Men Eat Too Much. Eating is the greatest of nil our standard amusements. A great num ber of people obviously eat n great deal moro than they need , nnd it Is en tirely credible that n large proportion of the moderate enters might thrive ns well and look ns handsome nnd work ns hard and live ns long on n very much restricted diet. But would the Joy of life continue unimpaired for them ? The native born might raise- plenty of children if they could sub sist for 11 cents a day , but would they think life was worth living on 11 cents worth of food n day ? No , they wouldn't. That is one thing that alls them. Harper's. Stop'ioa Votliiw For Daniel. A funny story Is told about nn old time doctor who , writing a letter , ask ed a judge , "Judge , isn't e-q-u-i the way to spell equinouiical ? " "Yes , I think it is , " said the Judge , "but here's Webster's Dictionary. It can EOOII toll you. " He tried to find tbo word , but gave it up at length , and exclaimed , "Well , sir , I've always been a Daniel Webster man , but any man wbo will write as big a dictionary as this nnd not put in as common a word as cqulnomlcnl cnn't get my vote for anything here after. " Stniniiia Jic-fiJiMl. The one Indispensable quality of suc cess In these days of tremendous com petition Is stniuina. The young ninn wbo lucks that will never pet far. lie will soon be forced out of the race and sidetracked. Those wbo have possess ed It have conquered innumerable dlf. flcultles. Success. I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for thirty years , ft is elegant for a hair dressing and for keeping the hair from splitting at the ends. " J.A.GruenenfelderGrantforkIlI. Hair-splitting splits friendships. If the hair splitting is done on your own head , it loses friends for you , for every hair of your head is a friend. Ayer's Hair Vigor in advance will prevent the splitting. 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