THE NOHKOLK NEWS : FU1DA.Y , JUNK 1 , 1900 , The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal The Now * . UMntillMioil , 1RSI Tito Journal , HNtnlillHhiMl , 1S77 THE HUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY \V. N. JhtnK N. A. limn Proililrnt S Tc\cr.v Friday Hy ninll per your , $1 & 0. nt the lumtfilllro ill Norfolk Neb , n _ _ . _ TolcphnnoH ! Killlnrlnl Dtiiwrlmont , No 22 UllHlllUHH Olllt'O MIHl Jill ) ItOUIIlH , No H 22 , _ _ _ Tlio groundhog 1ms scon lila Hluulow ( oilny. Tlioro IB n law In Nebraska which prohibits bull playing , horse racing nntl other micli pnBtlino on Moinorlnl day. The ilny IB u funeral tiny , nnil III\R boon sot npnrt for mourning rn- thor tlnin for pleasure. Over In Vienna a patient IIIIB boon given n Judgment of $7COO damages for Injuries received ilurliiR an X-ray experiment. This mlRht bo of HOIIIO Intoroat to Center , Nub. , where , In ills- trlct court , a similar case came up not long ago. Rogardlcfes of the merits of the de pot matter , the illsflolvhiR of the In junction by JuilRO Uoyd yesterday af ternoon has miulo n savliiK to Madison county anil ban merely put thn cano Into the supreme court , where It prob- nbly would linvo finally gone anyway. The unlqno baseball game planned for the raising of funils for a Norfolk public library , ought to draw a good gallery and It Is to bo hoped that the challenge Issued by the Mast block players will bo accented. It Is it com- memlablo effort In a worthy caiiHO. In Massachusetts the position of lieutenant governor Is a stopping stone to the seat of governor nnd the man who worthily servos his apprenticeship as lieutenant governor Invariably gets the nomination for the higher olllco. That would bo a mighty good Idea for Nebraska to work out. In the pant there have boon times when the non tenant governor became governor by accident , and the wtato lived to see the day that that condition was regret - grot tod. Now that It Is learned that the dig ging of the canal which Is to drain the woat end of Norfolk , will cost Madison county but a nominal sum , and that the expense of the digging will bo taxed up against the property owners who are to bo benefited In the end , the people living throughout the coun ty will need to have no alarm over the situation. And It la further learned that the llrst estimates of the cost were wildly exaggerated , and that the ditch will not bo nearly so expensive as had been believed. The ditch will nave the taxpayers of both the city of Norfolk and the county of Madison many hundreds of dollars each year on ronalra. The Russian czar made professions of wanting to do the square thing to ward his people , lint ho failed to como up with the goods. The premier'- } speech , In which ho said that there could bo nothing that had been asked by the lower house , was like throwIng - Ing a red rag In the face of a bull , and trouble that has boon brewing for many moons over there may very easily bo expected as a re sult. There Is no race of people on earth which , after having been whipped Into line and downtrodden as the Russian peasants have , will not eventually revolt. Russia has stood as the most cruel and brutal of all the world's governments In her treatment of the peasantry and It now looks as though the revenge for all of the terms that have been served by Innocent'per sons in Siberia , might como at last. The loss of the military post at Port Nlobrnra will bo felt by the whole of northern Nebraska , nnd especially by the Third district , which is n grain- raising section. This post has been the means of using hundreds of thou sands of dollars' worth of the food products of the Third district of Ne braska for many , many years. And yet , for all wo have ( In name ) a con gressional representative at Washing ton , this fort Is to bo abandoned with out so ranch as n gun being fired by that same , In an effort to hold the post. Perhaps ho hasn't the ammunition that is required to fire guns In congress. There wns a chance for Mr. McCarthy , who has now had four years of expe rience and who ought to bo by this time able to find his way around the capltol building , to do something for his constituents. But then , who ever hoard of McCarthy , In all of his four years , doing anything for his constitu ents but forgetting them ? HAVE TO BE SHOWN. McCarthy has made just as good a record in congress as any other man could make In the same length of tlrno. It Is just as easy to make a four-year-old mule in a mlnnto as it Is to make a leader In congress In one or two terms. McCarthy has worked hard and has accomplished a good deal. Ho now has four years of train Ing and experience behind him and Is Just that much better qualified for the olllco than a now and unexperienced man would be. Ponder Republic. It will be a hard matter to convince the Third Nebraska voters that J. F. Boyd or W. W. Young , either one , could not , In a month at congress , make more of a showing and take a more prominent part In at least ono bit of Important legislation than Mr. McCarthy hn taken during his entire career at Washington. APOLOGIES DON'T "GO , The leaders In congress are men who have been there a lifetime , yet Home newspapers oxpoet a congress man from the Third Nebraska district to become hpoaker of the house during hlH first term of olllco. Ponder Repub lic. Wo doubt If the most ardent admir ers of Mr. McCarthy will contend that Undo Joe Cannon or William Jen nings Ilryan or Tom Reed or William MoKlnloy spent their first four years In congress without ono single time taking a prominent part In some Im portant bit of legislation. MEMORIAL DAY. Once again this nation will do hon or to the soldier dead who fought and gave their lives for the stars and stripes , nnd all that they stand for. Tomorrow , as Memorial day , will bo observed by this nation that has been preserved by that bloody war , and America will bow Its head In tribute to the boys who rcBpondod to the country's call for volunteers and who , slnco taking up arms , have boon laid. In tholr graves. It Is lltllng that ono day out of each year should bo set nsldo In which to recall the crimson years of strife that stain the pages of this union's history , In order that the generations that have grown up slnco those times of can nons' boom , and the generations that are yet to como , may rolled upon the deeds of valor and the loyalty and the sacrifices of their forefathers of Abra ham Lincoln's day. To those who know of the civil war only what they have learned In the histories that have boon written , there IB little reall/.ntIon of what that strug gle between brothers of the north and Kouth meant , or of Its vast effect upon every community and almost every homo from Pacific to Atlantic , until they HOO the old soldiers in tholr aging blue uniforms marching through the streets and hoar the life and drum piercing the air of every hamlet In the nation today. To the cast and the west and the north and the south , this country Is dotted with millions and millions of cities and towns , and there Is not ono to bo found on the map In which there is not still n scat tering of the veterans who shouldered guns and wont following after Grant and Sherman nnd the rest of those great gcnoiuln when the war broke out. And thus , by the token of those who still remain to march each Memorial day to the cemeteries on the sldohllls of the towns of America , may bo reck oned the untold numbers of loyal cit izens who joined the ranks of the fight ing regiments and never came homo from the smoking battle fields , nnd of those , too , who did como homo but who have responded to the last roll call slnco the ending of that warfare's season. Hut perhaps today , for all there are still with us many nnd many a vet eran who shall still continue on this earth for n score of years to come , the most Impressive feature of these animal Memorial days Is the fact that the ranks are growing perceptibly thin ner nnd thinner , nnd ( ho fact that every time the old flag , unfurled from the staff that Is carried by a blue- coated veteran , Is borne up to Pros pect Hill , It goes to do honor to de parted comrades who , the year before , had boon hero to help from the marchIng - Ing squad. It Is a notable feature , too , that with each succeeding year the gait of those who remain to carry flowers to the last resting place of the com rades , becomes appreciably feebler and feebler. Uut for all the diminishing of those veteran ranks , from year to year , the Interest and the glory that Is paid to them by the surviving generations of this American race loses not ono Iota , a fact noteworthy In its Indication that the memory of the deeds of those fight ers shall bo perpetuated In the hearts of this country , for years and years after those soldiers and their grand sons have boon laid beneath the sod. And this , In the eternal fitness of things , will bo justifiable. The union soldiers who fought nnd won In that awful war that drew a line between the two halves of this country for the tlmo being , but which later welded all parts together again as never could have boon done with defeat , have earned a fnmo that may ring down the halls of Time. Theirs was the feat of soldering to gether , that it might bo perpetuated , ono of the great nations of the world today. They bought that victory with their blood , but the fruit of their win ning lives on In unending life , so that the end attained justified the price those bravo men paid. It was the sac rificing of the individual for the snko of the society of future generations , a sacrifice In spirit Intensified a mil lion-fold by the loss of tens and hun dreds of thousands of lives , and to do honor to those fallen fighters , many of whom were burled In trenches and whose bodies have never known graves that were marked , is the mis of Memorial day , set apart for tomorrow. Umg llvo the memory of those sol diers dead I CONGRESS NOT A KINDERGARTEN Congressman J. J. McCarthy ( a statesman from Ponca , Dlxon county , Nob. , who has been for three years past , Is' at the present time , will Inev itably bo until next year and would like to bo for many yenrB yet to como , representative In congress from the Third district of Nebraska ) In nam ing the reasons why ho believes ho Is entitled to bo returned for the third tlmo to the halls of legislation In Washington nt the expense of the people ple of this district , gives the fact that ho has not yet had much of an oppor- tunity to do anything for his constitu ents and Insists that ho bo sent back again so that ho may tnko another kin- ilergarten course , preparatory to ono ilny rendering a service to his conn trymcn and thus accomplishing things for hlB district that are constantly beIng - Ing accomplished by other congress men for their districts , nnd which the republicans who sent him there the first tlmo know all too well ho has failed to do In his Initial four years. Mr. McCarthy takes the attitude that ho has been abused by the people of the Third district who scorn to have expected that ho ought to have Identi fied himself with some purpose , good or bad , down at Washington , and , with half Injured pride nnd a half apologetic tone of voice , ho begs just another two years' chance in Washington so that ho may get otnrtcd trotting In the class of real law makers. While wo must agrco with Mr. Mc Carthy In so far as ho Insists that ho has not done anything yet to speak of , yet wo are forced to take Issue with him on the point that It Is neces sary for a congressman to bo in Wash ington for a half dozen years before ho can get down to business. And wo must Insist that If a representative , after four years of experience- con gress , nnd with the advantage of belonging - longing to the majority party , has failed to make good , It Is nn unmis takable sign that ho can never become the real thing , though ho ho sent to Washington for generations to come. Wo do not want to discourage Mr. McCarthy In his ambitions to become a statesman , but heartily believe that after a man has spent two terms In congress , under favorable conditions , ho ought to have positively identified himself with some ono principle at least nnd to have done something to ward pushing at least , that ono princi ple along. Hut so far as wo have boon able to learn , Mr. McCarthy of Ponca has as yet failed to connect himself In any slightest degree with any mea sure , good or bad , that has como up before the American public during his term of luxury at the Third district's expense. Unlike Buster Brown , Mr. McCarthy has not even so much , so far as wo can learn , as resolved to do anything worth while , to say nothing of doing It. And so for this reason , If there were no other , the people of the Third dis trict of Nebraska as a whole , and the republicans of this district In partic ular , have a right to demand that Mr. McCarthy , having boon given a fair chance and having failed to accept his opportunities , now stop down and out and allow some other man to got into the harness for the sake of this dis trict's rights. And , although Mr. McCarthy and his friends Insist that four years Is not long enough for a man to have gotten n start toward accomplishing things In congress , wo wish to turn back the pages of history for a few years at the most , and to call up be fore the minds of the people of the Third district of Nebraska the records of two men who went from Madison county under unfavorable circum stances and either one of whom did , almost every day of his life at Wash ington , more than Mr. McCarthy has done during his entire two terms of service. And we believe that wo be tray no loyalty to republicanism when wo select for this contrast as two men who did things , a representative and a United States senator who were chosen from the ranks of our political opponents. Indeed , with such records as these men have made , belonging to the minority party In congress , there Is all the more reason why a repub lican from this district should have succeeded eminently as well. Let us glance at the record of the late John S. Robinson of Madison , who went into congress as a minority mem ber and who , despite that handicap , did things. Ono of the biggest mea sures with which Mr. Robinson be came associated was that which had to do with the code of laws and the form of government that were adopted for Alaska. Mr. Robinson was largely the author of the code of Alaskan laws and ho became recognized all over this country $ is a representative who stood for something In that connection that was worth while. And again , in spite of the fact that most of his time wns occupied with that gigantic task , ho found time to Introduce Into the house of represen tatives and to push the passage by that body of the bill appropriating money with which to construct the Norfolk public building the hand somest public building for n city of this nlzo known In America. And boHldoB these things , Mr. Rob inson secured many pensions and was conspicuous In the principal debates of the house of representatives all through his term , So much for ono man who did things under far less auspicious circumstanc es than have been known to Mr. Me- Cnrthv. These things were accom plished by Mr. Robinson not because ho was a democrat , but In splto of that fact. And then lot us glance at the rec ord of another Individual from Madi son county who did things all of the tlmo while ho was In Washington , for ils constituents. In spite of the fact hat ho belonged to the minority wing , ho soon made his name known and demonstrated clearly that It Is pos sible for the right sort of legislator to stand for some sort of principle , and to push hard enough to accomplish his desired ends. This Is former Unit ed States Senator William V. Allen , who lives In Madison today. During his term In the United States senate , Senator Allen was by his early advocacy of Cuban liberty largely In strumental , according to Senator Gor man and others , In bringing about the war between Spain and the United States by which the Cuban republic wns established. Ho secured the rebuilding of the In dian bridge between Nlobrarn and the Ponca reservation across the Nlobrarn. He secured more than 1,000 pensions for old soldiers In Nebraska. Ho secured the passage of a great many bills to quiet the title of settlers to their lands. Ho forced Collls P. Huntlngton to reconstruct the Central Pacific rail way. way.He He had secured n favorable report , when ho retired from the senate of a bill to convert old Ft. Omaha into an Indian training school. Ho secured the opening to public settlement of the old military reserva tion of Ft. McPherson nnd Ft. Sheri dan. dan.Ho Ho saved the life of Major-General Rovera of the Cuban army from death by drum-head court martial by the Spanish troops by securing the pass age of a resolution in the senate con demning It , which wns Immediately ca bled to Madrid , Spain. Ho secured frco lumber throughout the United States on the tariff net of 1891 , by which the consumer could buy lumber for $ M a thousand which now costs him from $28 to $ I0 ! a thou sand. Ho secured seed grain during the drouth for the Snnteo Indians and $10- 000 extra money for them. Ho secured free barbed wire on the tariff act of IS ! ) I which was subse quently lost by a combination of re publicans and Cleveland democrats. Ho secured the establishment of the Mackenzie nt Sheridan , Wyoming , and the removal of old Ft. Custcr. Ho Introduced and had favorably re ported for $750,000 a bill to constiuct a public building at Lincoln. He compelled the now Union Pacific railroad to pay $12,000,000 more than it llrst bin for tlio Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific railways. He secured htc establishment of the trans-Mississippi and International ex position at Omaha In 1808. He secured the establishment at Omaha of the present Indian ware house , at which supplies for western Indians are being purchased. Ho secured the establishment nnd holding of the Indian congress at Oma ha , in connection with the exposition , in 1898. Ho secured a settlement of , i lawsuit with Attorney General Harmon Involv ing 196,000 acres of Burlington lieu land in Nebraska , by which those lands were saved to actual settlers and tholr titles thereto quieted. Many of these lands llo In the Third congres sional district. By securing n charter for Captain Talbot to maintain a pontoon bridge over the Missouri river at Sioux City , ho secured the construction of the present commutations bridge at that place. He defeated a bill to issue govern ment bonds for $4,500,000 for the Dis trict of Columbia. He secured the passage of a bill In the senate to construct the public building at Blair. He secured the passage of a bill , to resurvey Grant , Hooker and other western counties. Ho secured an appropriation of $75- 000 to put In the backet work on the Nebraska side of the Missouri river at South Sioux City , and $25.000 addi tional spent on the Nebraska side above Sioux City. He secured the purchase by the gov ernment of the grounds for public buildings at Norfolk and Hastings , and Introduced and secured the passage of the bill making appropriations for the construction of public buildings at those places. Ho secured the passage of a law which provided that naval and army cadets taken Into the academics at Annapolis oiul West Point must , by actual physical residence , have lived for two consecutive years preceding tholr entrance to the academies , In the district from which they are ap pointed. This was to do away with an abuse practiced for the snko of landing sons of army officers and none others , If possible , in the academies. We are not discussing these things that were accomplished by Senator Allen. They stand for themselves In the minds of the people of the Third district , democratic nnd republican. They are actual testimonials to the fact that a real lawmaker and a true statesman does not need a life time of preparation in Washington before ho begins to do things. Tlio records of these two Madison county , men , regardless of their po litical parties , show that at the end of two terms In congress , Mr. McCarthy should have distinguished himself In some way by becoming strongly Iden titled as for or against some prominent public measure. So far as wo can figure it out , Mr. McCarthy has done little In Washing ton nsldo from allowing the govern ment to carry out Its rural route ex tension nnd drawing his $5,000 per year. FOR AN ALCOHOL FACTORY. The suggestion that Norfolk bo made nn alcohol manufacturing center , un der the provisions of the denatured al cohol bill that has just been made n law and which takes from alcohol to bo used In the arts and manufactures the Internal revenue tax , ought to be worthy of Investigation by Norfolk business interests , Inasmuch as there Is today owned by this city an aban doned sugar factory In which there arc now boilers nnd around which thcro are ninny acres of fertile land to bo used. used.With With the tax taken off of alcohol which Is to bo used in the manufac tures nnd the arts , the plant could , it Is said , bo made a success here as well as anywhere. It Is done in Europe and there is said to bo no reason why it could not bo done hero. Local cap ital would probably Invest In such an Industry , If someone who know how to run the plant nnd manage the in stitution could bo found , nnd it might Ije the means of rehabilitating a plant that has lain idle for some little time and which , by Its Idleness , has cost Norfolk many dollars. It has been pretty well demonstrat ed that no sugar factory Is going to go back Into the abandoned buildings hero nnd try to make a success of the Industry where ono firm has failed. It Is true that Norfollj fanners already know all about beets , and that this is an advantageous feature over starting nn industry that would require new knowledge along some other line , but it is also true that the farmers of this section of the state can make money too easily off of other crops , in which there Is not so much very hard labor. Beets arc for the country that will raise nothing else. They are for the land that has to bo Irrigated , and wnlcli will then produce as good a beet as any acres. But land that will produce corn and wheat and other such crops , will not permanently , as was demonstrated in Norfolk , be given over to the raising of beets at the rate that cnn bo paid for the roots. And whore the factory overpays , in order to secure the boots , such results as that in the factory down at Leavitt are found , that plant now being In the hands of a receiver. It looks now as though the packing plant that had , a while back , been suggested for Norfolk's deserted build ings , would not materialize , nnd oth er sorts of industries that have boon suggested have not shown signs of growing out of their Infant stage. And so It Is about tlmo for Norfolk to be gin to look for something new with which to start again the wheels of manufacturing in this city. And the denatured alcohol bill opens an oppor tunity. It might bo that this could not be made to pay , but it looks as though it surely ought to be worth the Inves tigation of the business men who own stock In the old sugar factory. McCarthyphobla. Wayne Herald. The Ponder Repub lic , whose editor officiates as school superintendent of Thurston county , Is so ardent and hysterical in his sup port of Congressman McCarthy that he makes charges that are not even based on respectable suspicion , against newspapers that have questioned the propriety of renomlnatlng that gentle man. The Republic man alleges In substance that such papers are not supporting McCarthy because they are grafters and haven't been paid to sup port him. It Is likely the Republican man the grateful Fldus Achates of one who ( the Ponder Times-claimed ) loaned Influence In satisfying the ed itor's itch for the county superinten- dency could not think of a more stun ning nnd convincing argument in be half of the congressman than to shriek "graft , " making the statement with as much bold effrontery as though It were backed by some suggestion of truth. In addition ho pats himself on the head In a self-congratulatory manner nnd proclaims the tremendously fear less and amazingly just way In which he handles political aspirants. We like to see such a journalistic orb flicker with gratitude , but he should make n bigger effort to present argu ments that can bo bolstered up with a few facts. There Is one thing that you can bank on. The present day young women are keener , brighter , and better lookIng - Ing and more self-reliant and loss de pendent. They all take Holllster's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents , tea or tablets. The Klesau Drug Co. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Wo all admire an old girl who holds her ago. The average wish Is about as valu able as * ho check of a bankrupt. Anotncr choice piece of fiction is the reputed salary of baseball players. Some men change positions as often as some women change hired girls. When you get In the habit of work , or the habit of loafing , It Is hard to re cover from It. You have probably observed that hailstorms are always worse about four miles away. A man who Is bald hcndod , is sensi tive , but ho Is not as sensitive as n man who has fits. It would require a careful search to find anything paying smaller returns for the time Invested than fishing. There probably Isn't much romance" loft In the game after a man begins to refer to his wife as "old woman. " Some men's Idea of perseverance Is to see how long they can cherish 111 feeling for some real or fancied griev ance. When n woman holds out a letter tea a mall carrier It Is always with the address down. Does she imagine ho won't read It ? A country boy believes that n good job in town Is a good thing ; but don't forget that there Is a lot of hard work t connected with a good job In town. Another Instance wherein the Joy of giving exceeds the pleasure of receiv ing , is that of sending Invitations to- high school commencement exorcises. The average dweller In an Island town gets about as much sense and satisfaction from a sea story as a wo man derives from the baseball news. Wo refuse to take any part In the discussion , but people are very tired hearing school teachers , Judges and congressmen complaining of low sal aries. An Atchlson young man had been going with n girl a long time , and stopped. "Why did you stop going : with her ? " a friend asked. "I had to , " ho replied , "or I would have married her. " A woman writes from Colorado : "t notice In reading the Vacation Notes that the English drink soda and whis ky. I tried ordinary kitchen soda and didn't like It very well. Is that the right kind ? " ' sB If you aio in the habit of annoying your neighbors , by harboring a bawlIng - \ Ing cow , a barking dog , or a piano player or singing child , ever occur to you that the neighbors will hate you ? And some tlmo you may need the friendship of the neighbors. "You greatly admire that woman , " a friend said to an Atchlson man ; "why don't you marry her ? " "Be cause , " the man replied , "there is a great deal of difference between a sweetheart and a wife. A sweetheart always pleases you ; a wife some times. " The women will never get over be ing Indignant because widows "han dle" men so easily , and marry with so little difficulty. Widows "handle" men because they know them. A wo man who has passed through a siege with ono man , knows other men pretty well , and if a man fools around her much , she will land him as a husband. If she wants him. When chasing the butterfly of love liness there Is ono thing to keep in mind and that is , chase the right kind V beautifulness that comes by taking \ Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents , tea or tablets. Tne Klesau Drug Co. MUSIC FOR LIBRARY FUND Proceeds of Three Piano Recitals of Mrs. Beds , Donated. Mrs. George Beels announces three piano recitals which are to be given within two weeks , In the Methodist church. The proceeds of all three en tertainments will go towards the fund which is now being raised In Norfolk for the purpose of building a new li brary. This will be the tenth com mencement of the Norfolk Inter-state branch of the Western Conservatory of Music. The first night , Tuesday , June 5 , will be given over entirely to the little folks and the program of music rendered will be especially In teresting to little people. On Friday , June 8 , will bo a recital of Interme diate and advanced pupils , and on Tuesday , Juno 12 , will be the com mencement exercises for graduates who have completed the entire course. The baccalaureate sermon for this class will be delivered by Rev. J. F. Poucher Sunday morning , Juno 10 , In the Methodist church. A complexion fair men like to seer So girls take this advice , Don't hesitate to think it o'er , Drink Rocky Mountain Tea. The Klesau Drug Co. Letter List. List of letters remaining uncalled for at the postofllce at Norfolk , Neb. , May 29 , 190G : Mr. Wm. Gorman , Mr. Chas , Patterson - son , Miss Jennlo Winkle. / If not called for In fifteen days will be sent to the dead letter office. Parties calling for any of the above please say "advertised. " John R. Hays , P. M. MRS. GEORGE F. BOYD DEAD. After Illness of T.hree Weeks. Wife of County Attorney Succumbs. Oakdalo , Nob. , May 29. Special to The News : Mrs. George F. Boyd , wife of County Attorney Boyd , died at their residence In Oakdale Monday night of typhoid fever , after an Illness of three weeks.