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THE NOHFOLK NI3WS : FRIDAY , SEPTEMUKH 22 , 11)05. ) THENORFOLK NEWS W. N , lll'Si : , TiililUlirr. DAILY. ( Knlnlillnlio.l 18R7 ] Kvory ilny except Hunilny. Hy onr- rlor per weeU , 1ft conln , Hy Norfolk iMntoillco delivery , jtor your , $ .oo. ny tnnlt on nirnl rouion nnil outMiln of Norfolk , JUT ycur.J3.00. \VKUKi.V NIS\Vf < -M1HNA1. . The Now * . ICntHlillnhoil. 1881. The Journal. KMnlillNlieil , 1877. Every Krliluy. liy mull ror your , ll.BO. Kntereil nl tlio poMoillcn nt Norfolk. Nolt. , n nei'oml cliixN nmttor. Telephone * : Killtorlnl nepnrtmont , No 22. IIUKlneim Ollloo nnil Jot ) Uooinx. No. II 22. Even the cotton crop IH In danger of going republican tills your. Pennsylvania IH lighting for pure water. Tlmt hcatH IlKlitltiK f < r whlH- hy by scvornl laps. Seventy-five per cent , of tlio school teachers of tlio United States belong to tlio foinlnlno gender. Nevada linil n ronl llvo railroad wreck yesterday. It IH tliuo Hint No- vniln liiul something lively. lluilynril Kipling IH nn nntlior , not n newspaper num. Tlmt IH proved by the statement that he IIUH grown weal thy. Another "hitch" IH reported In the work on the 1'nnnnm canal. So far there seems to bo nioro hltchoH than ditches. In the first place , young Mr. llopow never toolc that money from the Eqult- nblo. In the Hccond place , ho IIHH pnt It back. Henry Wattnrson thinks of running for governor of Kentucky. "And how can man die better than facing fear ful odds. " Nebraska Is the envy of her sister states nil over the union. 1'nmporlty IB universal but wo are getting even inoro than the average. The greatest value of a summer va cation IB In learning after It IB over the superiority of homo comforts above any other place on earth. It la strange that people never com plain of the high prices of the things they have to Boll. They bear tip brave ly until It's the other fellow's turn. And now potltlonH are pouring In upon the president to save Niagara. Roosevelt Is getting to bo a court of last appeal In all cases that seem dcs- penito. Omaha's rapid growth as a financial center Is Indicated by a gain of 310 per cent. In bank deposits and over GOO per cent. In bank clearings In the past twenty years. A Chicago professor makes the world just as If they hadn't done It ever since Adam ate the apple , Bless his stars ! where has the poor old bachelor been all his life ? Alabama la carrying on a great cam paign for Immigration and Is getting the Immigrants. Alabama Is on the right track. Whatever Is worth hav ing Is worth going after. The .lapaneso envoys gave 10.000 to ho divided among the charitable Institutions of New Hampshire. Ne braska wouldn't object to having n peace conference within her borders. In his work as the world's peace maker , President Hoosevolt promises to bo the promoter of a prosperity such as America , In all Its previous wonderful development , has never seen. Two years ago on the 8th of October , Russia promised to finally evacuate Manchuria. When date arrives again next month , It Is qulto probable that the tardily kept promise will have boon fulfilled. The Baltimore American thinks It Is well that Mr. Fairbanks Is doing all the talking possible now , as when con gress meets ho will bo restricted to a few well worn and parliamentary ex1 presslons. According to a bulletin of the fed eral census bureau the commercial value of the railroad property In the United States Is $11,241,852,000. This does not Include the value of Pullman cars or private cars. Former Minister Wu Ting Fang de nles that lie Is responsible for the Chi nese boycott , but Wn was always nn- nlyzlng American customs and we suspect ho Is trying his Chinese boy cott on the American plan. Extensive preparations are under way for the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth. Who says Ameri cans do not honor their great men who have entered the beyond ? Mr. Derge , the last democratic can didate for governor , made his cam paign on the very anti-pass principle which Is now a part of the republican platform The result of Hint campaign did not dcmoiiHtrato to any serloim ex- lent that tlio people of Nebraska were all allamc over the question. If the cities and towns of the ecu- ral and western Rtatcn were as care ful of their sanitary condltloiiH an tho' ' miullH'rn cities are compelled to be to novont yellow fever , they might es cape the ravages of typhoid fevor. Santiago. Chile , IH to have a system if rullroadH throughout the county. I'owiiH and villages which have been so Isolated as to greatly Hiiffor for ransporlatlon facilities , will now have i nlmiico for far greater prosperity. India IIIIH three and ono-thlrd times n n much foiclgn trade as .Inpiin ; three tlmt'H an much as China : caHlly beatIng - Ing Italy and Australia and Helglum. itnd mil-passing the foreign trade of the KtiHHliin empire by 25 pnr cent. Siberia IUIH been so little exploited that few riMill/o Its vast area. The whole of Europe except HusHla could be dropped Into It and thuro would still be room for It to contain another twice the size of Germany. Automobile statistics show that there are about filt.OOO motor cars In use In IhlH country , the OrHt cost of which agrognted $70,000.000. The amount spent In repairs on disabled oncupantH of these vehicles IH not men tioned. A history of the sturdy old Knicker becker family from which Thcodoro Itoosevelt has descended , containing the nanicH of 1(500 ( of bin ancestors. hi'H recently been published. It IH a story of a Htrong race devoted to Iho public welfare. Ontrlcli farming ban become a roc- ogul/.ed success In southern Califor nia where there are qulto a number j engaged In raising this monarch of the j bird world. There Is ono farm near 1x > s Angeles which has 2,000 ostrich es. Knob spring n rich crop of os trich plumes Is gathered. It Is said of the Georgia normal and Industrial college that In Its compara tively short existence fully a thousand of Itn students , graduates and under graduates , have earned their own liv ing by the practice of the Industrial arts that they learned In the Institu tion , while more than 90 per cent , have followed for a livelihood the business they learned In the Institution. , T. J. Illll has given the farmers along his line of railroad considerable valuable advice. Ho urges the need of their doing better and inoro Inten sive farming that we may bo able to feed the multitudes along the sea bor ders In the orient. Incidentally , of course. J. J. would like to transport the Increased products of the western farms to their destination across the Pacific for a reasonable compensa tion. The criticism of peace terms which Is going on In both countries Is but natural , and should not bo taken too seriously by other countries. Japan might have hold out for better terms and possibly have secured some In demnity , but when the whole story Is written In the calmness of historic re view , It will bo seen that Japan won what she fought for and future devel opments will show that her secrlflces In war were not In vain. The republican state central com mittee will meet In Lincoln on Thurs day to consider plans for the cam paign.At that time n secretary will bo named and the position will prob ably fall to A. B. Allen , who served acceptably as secretary last year. At this meeting the headquarters of the committee will bo selected. They will go either to Omaha or Lincoln , and j j ' the probabilities are It will bo Lincoln. ' At the meeting of The Hague con fercnco which has been called to con- , slder the model arbitration treaty j ! which was presented by Hon. Richard Rartholdt of Missouri , It Is hoped thatj j another long step toward the tlme I when all national differences will be Bottled by arbitration , will bo taken. ' In the Interparliamentary union which met recently at Brussels the United States took a particularly conspicuous and creditable part and our position Is greatly strengthened among the world powers by means of these re cent services to the cause of Interna tional arbitration. America has within Its borders an uncrowned king. He Is W. L. D. Cary , an Oakland , Cal. , millionaire , and he enjoys the distinction of being owner and ruler of nn Island over which ho j has solo Jurisdiction. It lies off the south end of the Isle of Man and Is called the Calf of Man. The island kingdom contains 000 acres and the loyal subjects number twenty-one. The Island lies In British waters but Great Britain has no Jurisdiction over It , as many generations ago the king of England conferred It upon an an cestor of the present owner In recogni tion of his bravery In battle , It Is In habited by the name race of people as the larger Inland of which Hall Calne has written BO vividly. It IH to bo hoped that Mr. Palmer's successor as public printer will bo nblo to run the government printing olllco morn economically. Today It pays the highest prlco for the shortcut hours and ( hose who work long hours for low wages foot the hills , but the public printer IH not the only ono to blame. CongrcHH mitlmrl7.cn the pub lication of tons of matter that finds Its way only Into the congressional li brary and Iho waste basket. The cost of the government printing IH IncroiiH- Ing at a most alarming rato. But the relief. If It comes , must come from congress. Now that a number of the state of- llcnrs have returned their passes to the railroads , In pursuance of the re publican platform , speculation IIIIH be gun as to the added expense that will bo entailed upon the tax payers by paying faro of the state ofllcors when they travel on olllclal biiHlncss. Esti mates an low as $10.000 a year have been made while others place the add ed cost to the Htato as high as $80,000 a year. It IB probable that neither llguro Is correct. AH no appropriation wan made by the last IcglHlnturo to meet this expense , It Is said that Governor ornor Mickey IB seriously considering the advisability of calling nn extra HcHslon of the IcglHlnturo. Ho Is quot cd an saying that he fears that the biiHlncss of the Htato will be neglected If the passes are returned and no pro vision IH made for the railroad faro of the olIlcerH who travel. The late John W. McKay , who spent most of his life delving In that hole In the ground In Nevada , that he might acqulro wealth for his family to dwell In palaccH In London and other for- clgn cltleH , loft a son and heir who now owns ono of the magnificent es tales on the HhoreH of Long Island. HlH wife , Mrs. Clarence McKay. Is at present a much talked of woman In the smart set of Gotham. It Is Indeed a refreshing spectacle to see one ol the "four hundred" who possesses the Independence to bo herself , and to do something worth while with a portion of the vast wealth at her command. Mrs. McKay Is doing a splendid work among the school children In the vll lago which her estate overlooks ant1 Is displaying a liberal generosity In public matters. She Is herself a clever writer and Interested In literary pee plo. This Instance only shows how wonderful a transformation mluht bo wrought If the majority of the ver > rich would give not only of their money but a small portion of tbol I line and personal Interest to the 1m proving of public Institutions and to take an unselfish part In local politics Sanitary sewerage Is a matter tha every resident of Norfolk Is Interested od In and It Is n question that shouh be given thoughtful study. Nearly tb whole of the present season water ha stood either on the surface or ver. near to the surface of the ground In the greater part of town , and It Is n condition that Is especially dangerou from a health standpoint. The whole town Is filled with cess pools which are discharging Into this surface wnt- ter , and every person who drinks wa ter from Individual wells Is In constant danger of typhoid fever or diphthe ria. Those who use the city water rest In fancied security from this dan ger , but suppose the time conies when the surface water will find Its way Into the deep city wells , then such nn epidemic will sweep through the city as has never been experienced In Nor folk. The matter Is not yet properly before the people for discussion and will not bo until Mr. Rosownter sub , mits amended plans to carry the sew erage to the Elkhorn river several j miles from the city , but It Is some- , 'thing that citizens should be thinking of so that they may be prepared to act Intelligently when the council asks them to vote on the proposition. It is probably that before an election Is called for the purpose of deciding whether wo will have sewerage or not , several public meetings will be called at which the plans and speclfl- cations may bo explained and thor oughly understood. FRIEND OF THE SQUIRREL. Fox squirrels are becoming quite common among the trees In town and they are a little animal that many enJoy - Joy having around their premises. There Is no other squirrel In this sec tion of the stnto than the fox , and it Is harmless so far as the destruction of crops Is concerned. The red squir > rel Is destructive but there Is none In Nebraska except along the Missouri 1 river In the northern part of the state. The fox squirrel should not bo killed. Not only Is tboro a law against killing any kind of squirrel in the state , but I the natural impulses of man should bo to protect the little animal which , seems to enjoy llfo so much In the trees and lawns. The last legislature was a friend of the squirrel and In Its behalf enacted a law declaring that I the hunting and killing of squirrels was a misdemeanor and provided a penalty therefor. The law reads as follows : "Bo It enacted by the legislature of ho State of Nebraska : "Section 1 Killing squirrels That ny person who shall pursue , take , vound , kill or have In possession oth- r than by ownership legally acquired ny red , fox or gray squirrels Hhall bo coined guilty of a mlHdemcnnor and pen conviction ( hereof shall be lined n the sum of flvo dollarH for each of- cnsc. It shall bo the duty of the amo warden of this Htate to enforce ho provisions of this act. "Approved March 110. lOOri. " An experienced educator of national opiitntlon recently gave It an his -pinion - that the public school systems n the slates of the upper Mississippi alley had overtaken Massachusetts , vhlch so long held the prestige In cd- callonal matters , and had outstripped Vow York. The Bame thing can bo aid of the stnto universities of these iaino central western states. Not nany years ago , to be recognized as a enl college man , one must bo grad inted from ono of half a dozen of the old eastern colleges. Now state mil orsltles of these newer states have reached a perfection of equipment and i degree of excellence In the make up > f their faculties which Is Inferior to i very few of the great colleges of ho cast. A certain dignity Is accord' ; d to such venerable Institutions ns Yale , Harvard , Princeton and Colum ila , but It in now more In the name linn In any other superiority. The crude , uncultured west Is a thing ol ho past. The entrance requirements the University of Nebraska are as Igh as those required by eastern schoolH and a spirit of earnestness xlsts that Is too often lacking In old er Institutions. It Is perhaps natural that a man who ins devoted twenty years of his llfo : o the accomplishment of a pet scheme and failed , should feel somewhat ag grieved when ho sees some ono else put forward a plan that Is likely to win and bring the result that the iwcnty-year man has been aiming at all the time. But as It Is results that the people want , they are not much Interested In the quibbling of pnrtl sans over the details of the plan. For years Norfolk has aspired to become a town of wholesale houses , and for years an effort has been made to so euro an In-rato that would Justify the establishment of such houses here The trouble has been that those who have agitated the question have beer on the wrong track , they have never succeeded and never will until the Interstate torstate commerce commission gives a decision which will reverse their for mer opinion In the Norfolk case. Hav Ing signally lost In every effort pu forth , It would seem 'that common de cency would Influence those who hnv worked their scheme out to a failure to at least keep quiet until It Is fount whether the other plan , which has fo Its object Identically the same result that of establishing wholesale house In Norfolk can be accomplished , an If It Is It would bo well not to do to much roaring until the new plan ha been given n fair test. The dog 1 the manger policy Is n poor one 1 this world of progress and enterprise WHERE WILL THE STORE LAND What , with the catalogue house am the rural route , is going to become o the retail store In the small town And what , after that , of the town , 1 self ? On ono single day last week n Stnnton one banker alone wrote seve drafts for ono catalogue mall orde house In Chicago , the sum of the seve drafts being more than $400. Thl week the shoes and the blankets am i the coffee that those seven drafts paid | for , came to the Stanton postotllcc ! and were delivered nt seven farm j houses In Stanton county. The seven [ , farmers who sent the drafts , sitting | comfortably in their kitchens nt home with their feet in the ovens during nil of the wet , disagreeable weather , are now drinking the coffee and wrapping up at night In the blankets which came nil the way from Chicago to their very doors. The merchant prince In Chicago who received the seven drafts has oeen able by means of the $400 to buy n I few more sowing machines for his I store than he had before , and to J change the figures a little In his bank [ account. The merchants of Stanton , who In days gone by would have received the money Into their own cash registers , will have to cut down the next orders they glvo to the traveling men maybe - ' be shave off a few pounds of coffee , a few pairs of blankets or a few yards of dressgoods and this year their children will go to school with now shoes not quite so often , There Is nothing peculiar or unique about Stanton In this regard. Stanton merely affords the opportune example. There are ten thousand Stantons scat- I tered all over Nebraska and Iowa and South Dakota and Missouri and In every ono of those ten thousand towns , there Is a bank clerk writing out those seven drafts every single day that goes by , there are seven en- elopes sent through the local post- Ill co In n catalogue mail-order house omowhero and there are seven farm- rs' names on packages or freight box- s that come Into town the next week. If It were a local condition In Stun- on , there would ho no particular cause or alarm ; It would bo understood that hero was something wrong with the norchnnts In that particular town , lut the same condition Is found to ixlnt hero nnil there and everywhere and It IH right that a wave of alarm should sweep over the whole rural ills- rlct of this great middle west. There s reason to nsk , "What Is going to become - como of the retail store in the small own ? " It IB not a matter for legislators or ourts ; It Is a matter of business nethods. There Is no law and can 10 none against the merchant-prince oiling coffee and baby-shoes ; there can io no legislation ngnlnst the rallroadH carrying the freight or the packages if mall. It IH even questionable If the mrcols-post law , backed by that mer- bant , prince and by the farmers who invo rural mall IIOXCH at their doors , an bo voted down In congress. The problem , therefore , resolves It- Helf Into ono of Inducing the farmer o walk Into the store of his homo own and planking his cash down on he counter for blankets , or , In rainy weather , Bending a mail-order Into the ocnl merchant Instead of the mam moth far-away catalogue house. There Is a reason why those seven 'armors In ono day last week bought Irafts and sent them to Chicago from Nebraska. Either they get their blan tots cheaper , or they think they get .heir blankets cheaper. The country merchant snyB and ho mcks up his argument with actual > rlcos that are marked on his goods : hnt ho sells as cheaply as the cata ogue house. That fact established , t Is evident that the reason for the mail-order business Is the mistaken Idea In the mind of the farmer about Its economy. The problem , therefore , is to persuade the farmer convince lilm beyond a doubt that what the merchant says Is so , Is so. Perhaps , before starting In any def inite line of action towards wiping out the demand for bnnkdrafts , It may be well to study the means by which the merchant-prince has convinced the thousands and thousands and thous ands of men and women In the great agricultural west that It Is to their In t crest to send their hard earned dollars lars to him when they want to bu > things that nro new. There Is one thing that has brought nil of this mall-order business about A great big catalogue , with pictures and well-written descriptions nm prices in bold faced type , have accom pllshed wonders. That catalogue which Is merely a great big bunch o Individual advertisements for halrplm and pianos has done It all. And just ns effective pictures am descriptions and prices in bold facet type will have to ho used by the rurn merchant before he can get again th trade that has gone away. More than that , he has n better means of accom pllshing the end than his far-awa competitor. If you want your little ones strong healthy and robust , give them Hollls tor's Rocky Mountain Tea. A tonl for the whole family. The children' friend. 35 cents , tea or tablets. The Kiesau Drug Co. You will need to prepare your sys tern for the coming cold weather , go your organs to work like clock work Holllster's Rocky Mountain Tea takei this month will do the business. 3 cents , tea or tablets. The Kiesau Drug Co. A tonic that makes sick people wel , Drives out nil Impurities that collec i in your system. A family tonic for th sick and alllicted. Hollister's Rock. _ Mountain Tea. 35 cents , tea 01 tab lets. The Kiesau Drug Co ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. ! We say no duck Is as good to ea ! as a chicken. How extravagant some people ar when buying on other people's ac count. An Atchlson man has married a great Invalid , but It Is safe to say tha i she will bury him. Ono of the greatest calamities to be fall an old fashioned family Is when the prlco of soup bone goes up. Bill Bowen was today trying on an other man's hat. "Why , " Mr. Bowei said , "that's an awful big lint ; it's the same slue I wear. " An Atchlson man says ho has no ticed that when a young man from n country town goes to a city and mar rles a girl , he does not marry well. I his wife has not blondlned her hair she has a good deal of gold In he teeth. The funny lithographs nro appear Ing In the windows. A Into ono rep resents a penitent man kissing the hem of a woman's garment. How pen Itent the guilty men are , In litho graphs' and bow Impudent In rea life ! DOOMED TO DIE BY ROPE , HE COULD NOT DROWN. HE FELL IN WHILE DRINKING A Big Black Horse Belonging to Emit Spooring , Which Hnd Been Tied tea a Tree Near the Northfork , Fell Headlong In and Was Strangled. i i-'roin Tlinr iliiv' H.'IH ' I A horse doomed to be hanged will lover drown. That this unique fact Is a fact even nero of a fact than the old proverb ibout a man was proven In Norfolk nt G o'clock last night when a big ilack horse , name and ago unknown but the property of Emll Spooring , undo a desperate effort to drown him self In the swollen current of the Morthfork nnd was strangled to death by the rope around his neck , upon which the owner Emll pulled with all its might until the hanging was com plete. The equine tragedy occurred after the big black , tempted by the gurg ling stream nnd suffering from a thirst of long standing , had made his way to : ho very brink of the swollen river nnd then , leaning over to bury his nose In the current , lost his balance on the In- caving shore and plunged , headlong , into the dark depths of the river. The animal dropped Into the river just below - low the city waterworks station. Ho ! iad been tied to a tree by means of a rope while his master built a new- barn , nnd It was Just before the C o'clock whistle released him from his day's bondage that the old black trot ter wont to his death In the water which he longed to drink Into his stomach. His eyes were , bigger than Ills stomach nnd he mixed up his In tentions , by turning Into the water In stead of turning the water Into him self. % Emll Drew on the Rope. Emll was near nt hand. Ho had been working on the new barn for Paul Luebke and was just locking his tools Into his chest for the night when , glancing sideways , he found with his eyes the closing scene of the melo drama which was about to make him walk home. Emll saw , tumbling Into the river , head and feet whirling In- the air , his big , black driver. He saw. tumbling Into the river his Investment of a goodly number of dollars and his motor from homo to barn-building. And so he ran ran as fast as his legs could carry him and threw his weight upon the rope that connected the tree with the pretty-nearly-drowning horse. And then Emll drew In on the line drew like a sailor in a storm , and the noose about the neck of his favorite tightened with the draw. The old black gasped a dying gasp , to let Emll know that he would either drown or hang , with the chances 10 to 7 In fa vor of hanging , If the rope kept on working over time. But Emil didn't cut the rope to give his pet a chance to swim he sim ply kept on pulling hard and strang ling. And finally the mission of the hnng-ropo was done the old black harness-being turned his toes to the sinking sun and dropped his head Into his watery grave. Later he was drawn out. but he was a dead one when they finally saved him. Battle Creek. Mr. Robert Schinkus of this place and Miss Althea Setzkorn of Hadar were married Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. J. Hoffman , In the German Lutheran church. The young couple are favorably known In this locality and will go to housekeeping on the groom's farm near the Yellow banks. The groom Is the youngest son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Aug. Schinkus nnd a native of Battle Creek. Dandy Gardels returned Tuesday from the Black Hills , where he has been working In the timbers eight months. E. H. Lulkart , wife and baby , and his father-in-law , Henry Hogrefe of Stella , Neb. , were visiting here Sun day nt the Herm. Hogrefo home. John Mozer departed Monday for Indian Territory for a visit with his brother Fred , who left here about a year ago. Miss Emma Boyer and Geo. Doering returned Saturday from a four weeks' Visit With relatives in Porri' rnnntv Mo. " Postmaster F. H. L. Willis returned Sunday from an extended visit to the Pacific coast , where ho met a lot of Battle Creek and Norfolk people. Rev. O. Egleston returned Tuesday from Albion , where ho had been at tending the Methodist district confer ence. Mr. Eggleston will soon leave for Boone , Boone county , where ho has been assigned for the coming year Mrs. J. R. Gardels has been visiting at the ReJnhold Reimers homo In Pierce. Peter Fitch and family came down from Marriman. Cherry county , on Saturday , for an extended visit with relatives. George Berry boarded the passenger Saturday night for Casper , Wyoming. MR. PILGER DOES WELL. Unless Ether Pneumonia Sets In , He Will Recover. Dr. Pllgor received a message from Omaha yesterday stating that his father - ther , A p. PiKer | > | B doing remarkably well. He was in especially good condl- tlon yesterday morning and unless ether pneumonia sets In hla recovery - ' Is assured. r