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THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOURNAL ; 1'RIDAY ' FEBRUARY 23. 19US. rht Norfolk Weekly News-Journal The Mows. Kstnblliihcd. 1881. TjieJournal , lOatahllBheJ. 1871. THE HU8E PUBLISHING COMPANY W. N. HUKK N. A. UUHK I'riwlilnnt _ Hwriilnrjr Hivery l rlTTuy. Tiy"miifTpcr your , TT-Tiu. Entered nl tlio itiiHtnlllco nl Norfolk , ti. . nn mionml plana mutter. Telephones 1-Mlttirlal Department , No. 22. IIilHlnuuu onico mill Jul ) Ilooino. Nn. II 22. FRHIGHT SI3IIVIC13 UI3STOU130. Annauiicoinc'iit of tlio restoration of tlio dully freight ncrvlco between Nor folk nntl Columbus on tlio Union Pa- clflo railroad ciuno aH a tnattor of HatlHfactlon to Norfolk business men nnd to Tlio NOWH. Tlio speedy restora tion of the dally train Is something of an Indication of tlio prosltlgo which Norfolk business men have with that railroad , through the amount of busi ness emanating through these business m on. When It was announced that the train service would bo cut In two , The NOWB suggested to the Norfolk Com mercial club , through the secretary , that a vehement protest should bo made at once against reducing the Bcrvlco. The Commercial club took the matter up Immediately with the state railway commission nnd a day later the Union Pacific telegraphed that the dally train had been restored. The quick restoration Is something of a feather In Norfolk's cap and It Is certainly cause for satisfaction nil the way around. JUDO13 WILLIAMS' EXPERIENCE. Northern Nebraska will come before the republicans of Nebraska at the coming state primary election with a candidate for renoinlnntlon as a mem ber of the now state railway commis sion. Judge .1. A. Williams of Pierce county , who Is now serving his first term on tlio commission , and who has earned the confidence of the state of Nebraska , will be presented for re- nomination and re-election , and there is every reason to believe that his candidacy will be successful. There nro many reasons why Judge Williams should bo renomlnated and re-elected. In the first place be has served well the people of the state during his llrst term. And in the second end place , the experience which he lias gained during bis llrst term is a valuable asset for the state so far as future railway commission service Is concerned. All of the knowledge necessary In the administration of the affairs of a state railway commission , which haste to do with the thousands of deeply complicated and intricate problems of public service corporations and their rates , can not be obtained in a day or a year. It is therefore highly Im portant that the experience gained during his first term belongs to the state , though it is embodied In him as the state's agent. It is therefore of Importance that the state make use of this asset in future commission af fairs , by continuing Judge Williams in ofllce. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. One hundred and seventy-six years ago Saturday a baby boy was born In the United States. And it Is highly significant that Ills birthday today , n century nnd two-thirds away , Is loyal' ly and Impressively celebrated by the American continent. Flags continue to wave above nil this nation on Feb runry 22 of each passing year. Every year on that date the ninety millions of people join In paying tribute to the memory of that American. Banks close , governmental offices that car close , shut down for the day , and the stars and stripes are flown out to the breeze to do their share In emphasis Ing the Influence that still Is felt In every nook and corner of the Unltet States as a result of that birth. That baby boy became known as "the father of his country. " He was the principal factor in the founding o ! a great government. He was a mar of high character and Integrity as wel as great good Judgment and courage a man In every way fitted to remalt la the honored niche which he has occupied in the life of America fron those days to these. The great feature for congratulatloi In the tribute that continues to b < paid to George Washington even a this late date , lies In the genuine pa triotism which It brings out. Without patriotism no governmen can endure. And there can be n < doubt of the patriotism of American ! when , 17C years from the date of tin birth of the first president , havlnf been preserved throughout nil tin ages of the career of the United Statei regardless of other paramount matteri of thought In the people's minds , tin memory of that man Is still cherlshei by all of the people. A NICE STORY-BUT UNTRUE. It Is reported that W. N. Huso Is lay Ing plans to become Norfolk's post master at the end of John R. Hays second term. It Is reported by sonn of his friends ( ? ) that the icason W N. Huso aspires to go to the natlona convention from the Third district li to give him a "pull" with the nex president to land the postmastershlp The two re-ports , reaching this ofllci at about the sami unu , make a nlct llttlo story , but for the sake of Keep Ing history straight it must be statci that It Is not true. why W. N. Huso should not bo a can didate for the postmnstcrshlp In Nor folk than any other republican who liaa given conscientious support to the party for nearly thirty years , the last twenty of which have been spent in Norfolk , but the facts are ho Is not today nor never will be n candidate for any salaried political oillco within the gift of the party. Never but once was ho touched with nn Itching to hold ofllco , and that was the postolllco before - fore John R. Hays was appointed , riila matter , however , was amicably adjusted between Mr. Hays and Mr. Huso nnd the former received his ap pointment with the hearty support of the latter. Mr. Huso will not bo the successor of Mr. Hays nor will ho bo a candidate for the place. Ho expects to hnvo a job the remainder of natural llfo In developing The NOWB. Ho always feels It a compliment when ho Is selected to go to a conven tion to represent Madison county In the councils of the party ho supports , nnd ho will take It as a greater com pllment If ho Is selected to represent the Third district In the national con ventlon which will nomlnato the next president of the United States. To bo a delegate to a convention , how ever , Is nil ho has over asked of the party and all ho expects to ask. Others may have the offices that bring eruolu ments and ho will gladly help them got them. THE FRENCH IN MOROCCO. Instead of getting out of trouble , by every move which Is made In Morocco France seems to bo worse off than before. The disaffected tribes who have revolted against the sultan under the leadership of Moulal Hnfld are constantly Increasing in strength nnd power. The French government re fused to recognize this pretender nnd In retaliation he declared a holy war against all foreigners In the vicinity of the French posts. This has made1 he conditions in Morocco very exas- icratlng and embarrassing for the Drench. In order to stamp out this war with ho Moors "the French organized a campaign Into the interior of the country. But -when they came to con- end with the Moors they found the ) ivere up against It greatly to their own liscomflture and they were obligee o retreat and seek reinforcements. Of course , it Is the purpose of the French to bring these savage and tur inlent tribes to terms and every civ lized nation will certainly hope for their speedy success. Meantime It is already evident that the occupation of Morocco is an experience for the French and they may well wish they were out of It. On general principles these half civ lix.ed , decrepit and barbarous peoples along the coast of northern Africa liave run their race. In the Interes of a better humanity they must be taught to respect modern Ideas of In ternational equity and Individual re sponslblllty. If they are to live Ihey must awaken to this fact even by the stern arbitrament of the French sword. If not , they must make way for others who will. It Is the Inexorable law of the cen turies that the price of continued In fluence for nations or for men is to keep in the van of progress and help push on the great forces which make constantly for enterprise , brotherhood and liberty. Savagery must give way to civiliza tion , brutality to gentleness , sloth to Industry or the Moorish tribes join that Innumerable caravan of peoples and nations which are forgotten and abhorred the sooner the better. OWNING A HOME. One of the most unfortunale condl- lions of life which oblaln especially in Ihe great cities of this country to day Is Ihe large number of people who live In houses which belong lo some one else. It is a very popular thing . to occupy a "flat , " If convenience and comfort are sought. Besides the more well to do , who live Ihus , there are thousands more who live in tcnemcnls , Nolhlng can bo more discouraging and tempt to dissipate thrifl and self respect than this manner of living , re gardless of how many modern con veniences It may bring. There is tremendous value in the ownership of a home. It has been well . said "there is no man so valuable as the located man. " The possession of a spol of land nnd a dwelling which s "this is ours , " is a testimonial of per sonal confidence In the future and an earnest desire of self determination tc make the most of life. Homo and the ownership of it stlui ulntes endeavor in n thousand and one ways , which will never be felt where one lives under a roof owned by some one else and causes that spirit of In- illative which Is one of the most vnl uablo asserts of life to grow and develop. When a man owns a homo ho feels as if ho had something which helps him to measure up to other men. It gives him something definite to care for nnd In the beautifying of It and Its upbuilding ho adds n largo amount of juy to the struggle for oxlbtcnco. That man is a bolter father nnd bus band who can fce-1 that ono llttlo spot of earth is his by the Jletlnct right of possession , than ho otherwise could be. The children born in such a home grow up with a love nnd a veneration or It ; they nro happier and more con scious of the fact that Individual oxer- Ion nnd endeavor In n very practical sense means something. The owning of a home counts large- y for good citizenship. It compels a nan to care for the Interests of his city nnd his ward and good roads , side walks , parks , boulevards , schools , churches and economy In public mat ters and the development of his local ly become great and Important ques tions to him. It makes him an ally of good government. It Is n matter that history makes note of. The most prosperous and progressive nations of the earth nro Ihoso which arc the most thickly populated with homo owners and home builders. The people so situated are the most contented and the most peace ably Inclined toward the world at largo. The love and the deslro for homo is universal. Every young man should make it the ono object of his llfo to get together the amount suf ficient to build a homo of his very can grow up with the sense that their can grow up with the sense hot their father's home Is a llttlo the best spot on earth. Norfolk rejoices In that it is a city of beautiful homes homes where the evidences of love and hope and thrift behooves every man to own his home behoves every man to own his home and one of the keynotes of the con tinued growth of a town lies in mak ing it easy for men of small means to acquire them. Norfolk has many needs , but they will one by one betaken taken care of , If men build up beau tiful homes of their own. WORLD-HERALD SILENCE. Audible silence from the Omaha World-Herald. Has the World-Herald lost its power as ruler of the democratic party In Nebraska ? And will it apologize for the column upon column of vicious abuse which it heaped upon the repub licans of Stanton county for doing just what the democrats of Madison coun ty have done ? Or will It remain con slstent , at least , and open up with a rapid-fire gun upon the members of Its own party in Madison county ? Clearly the World-Herald Is In a hole. From prolonged and abusive at tack upon some of the republicans of Nebraska It Is suddenly brought Into the defensive. For what was such a horrid crime In republicans ought surely to be viewed with even more horror in the democratic camp. Will the World-Herald be true to its prln ciplcs or will it put on gum shoes and side-step the whole question. And at that , how much weight cai be attached to the caustic remarks of a democratic paper In attacking re publicans and remaining silent as a clam regarding democrats , when botl have committed the same great crime according to the World-Herald's own doctrine ? Certain republican county commit tees selected delegates to the state and congressional conventions with out going through the formality of prl mary caucuses and county conven tlons. A terrific howl went up from the "reform" lungs of the pre-eminently pure World-Herald. It held up Its hands in holy horror. To think o such criminal assault upon the pee pul ! Apparently the World-Herald though at the time that It could successfully boss Its own party In every county o the state , and thus back up Its how with the purest kind of primaries al along the democratic party. The Madison county democratl committee met in Madison this week They decided that the central com mllteemcn should go out through the county and pick whom they saw fit , a delegates to the congressional ant state conventions. Down In Otoe county , where th democratic party is splH into two fac tions , the central committee picked every delegate to both conventions without thought of a primary. And the esteemed World-Heral never whimpered. The World-Herald has apparently lost Its influence in its own party. Standing on a high pedestal of re form , pointing Its finger from on year's end to another at the "disgrace ful crimes" of the republican party Its eyes were too full of tears eve republican guilt to allow It to see th similar sins of its own flock. How consistent is the "reform work of the purified World-Herald ? How fair Is It to yell Itself hears over republican acts which are copie by Its own people , and remain slleu over the democratic crimes ? What kind of a double-deck game 1 the World-Herald trying to play , an > way ? Appears like It was trying t deal oft both the top and bottom o the pack , to suit the player. "YELLOW JOURNALISM. " An elaborate article In the Amei lean magazine for March deals wit "tho psychology of the yellow press. The article very justly takes to tasl the "yellow" Journals of America fo breaking down tlio confidence of th public in the printed word by thel continued practice of printing "news which Is pure fiction for the sake o creating n shock But while the "yol losv" prcis of the country Is cntllle to nil of the censure that Is given 1 u that article , the writer might also ave gone , and not unjustly , into the psychology of the yellow magazine" s well. "Yellow Journalism" Is defined as hat typo of Journalism which prints page after page of sensational matter very day , whether the stories bo true or false , for the sake of creating a ensatlon upon the popular mind and hits get the paper widely read. The 'yellow" Journal will as readily Invent stuff with which lo fill Us columns as It will sock the truth. In fact , It Is more often the untrue than the true hat It does print. The harm done by this practice is ho fact that the renders of this highly sensational mntlcr base their Judg- nent upon llfo on altogether wrong foundallons day after day. U Is llttlo wonder as a result that they got alto gether warped viewpoints and that .hoy do altogether crazy things. Fortunately for the country towns , the "yellow journal" peril Is confined mostly to the cities. And bo it said to the credit of the newspapers of the smaller towns and cities that the In tegrity of the country press has never yet been tainted. Newspapers In the small cities , where everybody knows everybody , are compelled by circum stances , oven If they desired to do otherwise , to adhere strictly to the truth. A newspaper In n small town that did not adhere to the truth could not survive. On the other hand the metropolitan papers which are un scrupulous can print their sensational fiction day after day without ever be ing discovered. And even the rnelro- politan papers which are anxious to print only the truth , are put to great pains and expense to verify the stories which they dish up to the public on such short notice. A few weeks ago , for Instance , Thaw was acquitted. A Norfolk man who was In New York City at the time bought a noon paper. In great headlines it declared that the jury had once again disagreed and that Thaw would be tried a third time. Not until C o'clock that night did this man learn the real truth. In sharp contrast to that Incident was the fact that people In Norfolk and throughout northern Nebraska , through The News , knew at 3 o'clock the truth of the mat ter that Thaw was acquitted. The country newspapers cling scrup ulously to the truth. They will go to any limit to get the real truth. They are bound by their small communities , even though disinclined , to print only what is believed , in good faith , * to be true. true.And And that is why the country news paper today wields the real Influence in great affairs. The people believe In the country journal where , on the other hand , the yellow papers of the city have set up a disbelief that han dicaps all the metropolitan press. But the American magazine article makes one point which Is not well taken. It states that people have come to doubt the dally press and to bellevo only in the monthly. This , of course , looks well from the monthly magazine viewpoint. But the time has not come , nor will It , when the monthly maga zine can take the place of the daily newspaper In this strenuous country. The people of America today get their knowledge of the world's affairs through the dally newspapers. They form their opinions upon the news printed In the dailies. And they get mostly the truth In the dally papers. The proportion of "yellow" papers , papers which are as ready to print fiction as truth , is , after all , very , very small. There arc only a few of them In the United States. And Mr. Hearst is the publisher of practically all of them. They are doing harm. There Is no question but that they are Immoral , They print page after page of unread able scandal. They wallow in the mire of unclean criminal stuff. Their pages arc not fit to be taken into the homes 5 and read by the little girls as well as the parents. The greatest harm they do is in the cities among the newly ar rived foreigners jus.t learning to read , and among the poor people who can't afford to buy the higher class and higher priced papers. It is among these people that the "yellow" papers arouse criminal and animal Instincts , It is by pandering to the baser in stlncts of these people that the "yel low" press gets Its circulation. But it is by no means an uplifting factoi In civilization. And after one has turned over the yellow dally newspaper , one naturally conies to the yellow magazine. Many of the popular magazines of the day are steeped In yellow. Few of them are not talnled. Most of them have been guilty of doing just what this American magazine article charge against the daily press exaggerating crime and hate and fear nnd other emotions until the public gets an alto gether wrong viewpoint. These mag azines for two years have been en gaged In muckraking nnd agitating on such a tremendous scale that most of the people of the country have come lo bellevo that there is nothing in all the business fabric of this nation ex cept rottenness nnd stealing nnd cor ruption and stealing and graft. As a matter of fact the counlry'a morals wore never on BO high a plane as they nro today. These magazines have been giving a wrong viewpoint by their very exaggeration. By their exagge ration they have misrepresented the truth and thus have been as guilty i\s the yellowest dallies in spreading false Ight. There Is teem for improvement turning the sensational yellow dallies. There Is also room for vast Improve ment among the choap-sknto yellow magazines that sot themselves up as tlio holiest agents In civilization. AROUND TOWN. 'Rah for Tnft. Watch the Y. M. C. A. clock. Norfolk nvcnuo ought to bo paved. Next Saturday Is the day that Fob runry leaps. Bettor save your coal money for next summer's Ice. The presidential campaign for 1908 has started in Norfolk. Spring is at hand. Marbles and baseball have broken out. The ducks nnd robins ought to have brought along their overcoats. The Ice that should have been stored up this winter , Is running away. People have to take this kind of weather Into consideration. It cuts Ice. Not wishing her any bad luck , but isn't It a shame Dame Winter couldn't ' get the grip ? Who'll be the first fellow In swim ming ? You know what they used to say about the last one in. He Is a lucky dog who has two dress shirts for use In Norfolk the week be fore Lent. One hundred nnd seventy-six years aio a baby boy was born. The rest Is history. The county attorney will be busy next week. On the one hand ho has the Boche murder trial to attend to and on the other hand he has a car buncle on his foot. One thing the Bochc trial already has brought out : Pretly nearly every body in this part of the globe reads The Norfolk Daily News. Nebraska City Press : At a recenl "leap year" dance given by the so ciety girls of Norfolk , one clever young woman made her escort pay for the ticket. This should be a subject for congress to look into. Nebraska City Press : Norfolk girls had a snap a few days ago thai doesn't come once in a lifetime. Two hundred and fifty young men ( mostly unmarried ) came to Norfolk all in a heap. We ought never to hear anoth er complaint from Norfolk girls again Did you ever get half way across Norfolk avenue just In time to become a target for 40,000 spots of mud shot your way by a pair of big white horses stamping toward you ? If you did you'd favor paving. More than that you'd be a fit subject for the tailor and the barber and the hatter , all three. A young unmarried reporter on The News , who is not even supposed to be engaged , went to the telephone last night when It rang , to hear this poured Into his ear : "Aren't you coming home pretty soon ? " The reporter fled In dismay and , on the way , notl fled the real victim of his predlcamenl It proved Iwo things. In the firs place It demonstrated that a healtl resort Is a lonesome place. In Ihe second place It proved that the spirit of western Nebraska astonishes the nallves down In easy-going Missouri William Colfax of Bassctt went down to Excelsior Springs ten days before Christmas to help nurse a sick friend He was dreadfully lonesome. His loneliness overcame to such an extent thai , after having stood pat as a bach elor for these many , many years , he surrendered to one of the guests n his hotel. Last week he brought a bride back to Bassctt. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Nothing is wonderful when you get used to il. If you want nn ofllce , quallficalion is Ihe lasl thing to think of. It Is said there never was a real .boy who dldn'l like cocoanul pie , or who ever gel enough of cream puffs. What has become of the old-fash loned boy who offered lo fight n small er boy on his knees , and tie one ham behind him ? Man learns from experience , after all ; when Ihe oldesl girl In Ihe family Is given a musical education , tlio othei girls are not. Where you hear of ono man who has succeeded as a kicker , you will hear of a thousand who have succeeded as gentlemen. Whenever n reporter asks a mm for nn Item , nnd the man says gruffly "I don't know a thing ; my wife knows It all , " the reporter knows at once that there has been a family jnr am the wlfo has been lolling her husband A Few Things. When people visit each other nown days , they don't sit down , talk , ex change experiences , and renew their old ilmo friendship They give lunch eons , 01 dinners , teas , parties ant dances in honor of their guest from morning until night. They keep a guest hopping from the time she comes until slio goes away. NINE-HOUH DAY FOR OPERATORS NEXT WEEK. MAY SHUT UP NIGHT OFFICES Some Railroad Men Claim thnt the New Law Will Eventually Force the Use of Telephones In Service , Doing Away With Men. Preparations arc being made lo ob serve Iho new federal nlno-hour day aw for lolegrnph operators In norlhcrn Nebraska nnd southern South Dakota. March the law becomes effcctlvo. It Is not nt nil Improbable , It Is said that Home of the night operators on the lines of this region may bo taken off to supply the day men who will bo needed under the new order of things. Some railroad men predict that the new law will evenlunlly force Iho use of lelephones In the service , under which nrrangcmenl Ihoy say n num ber of station men would be done away with. THURSDAY TIDINGS. The D. W. C. club will meet with Miss Lottie Schiukd.bcrg Thursday evening. James Ilnrvk' , ninety-four years old and a resident of Dcdgo county since 18C9 , is dead. President John Krnntz cf Iho Nor folk branch of Iho anll-luirso thief as sociation has called a meeting of the association to bo held nt the city hall al 2 o'clock next Saturdny. The contract for finishing Fied John son's new house on Keonlgsteln av enue , west of Twelfth , has been award ed to Chas. Richardson , who took It away from three other bidders. Tickets for Diirno's entertainment , a number of the high school leclure coiirbe , may be reserved nt the busi ness ofllce of The News beginning Fri day morning. The magician appears al Ihe Audllorlum Saturday night and the indications point to a heavy sale of tickets. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Burnham gave the second of the voiles of dinners at their home on Norfolk avenue Wednes day evening. After a splendid menu had been served and the gentlemen bad been propeily "smoked , " games of five hundred occupied the evening until a late hour. Leo Hlghl and Will I light of In terior , S. D. , are In Norfolk packing up a carload of supplies and belong ings which they had In Norfolk and which they are now going to ship to Interior , having decided to make their homes permanently on their South Da kota homesteads. There are now about fifteen Norfolk families living In Ihe vicinity of Inlerlor. The Norfolk colony is said'to like Iho country and a number expect to live there after they hav3 "proved up" on their home steads. Gordon Journal : Last Saturday afternoon Sheriff Beckwlth called on E. C. Swigert , J. C. Jordan and The Fair and served notice to appear be fore Judge Edmunds court to answer for a vlolalion of the Pure Food laws. It seems thai when Ihe inspeclor was here a shorl lime ago ho found a few pounds of buller In Iho refrigerators of each of the above thai had a wax wrapper on Ihem , and were not mark ed with the exact weight of the pack age. The dealers here did not have an Idea thai II was necessary lo weigh each of Ihe packages of buller or that they were violating the laws by sell ing or holding it in stock. Valentine Republican : The litlle son of A. Haley and wlfa , of Sparks , came near being burned lo dealh lasl Friday afternoon. Mr. Haley was busy invoicing the stock of goods which he was preparing to lurn over to his successor P. F. Simmons , and the child was playing In a dry goods box which was used as a play house. The little fellow lighted a candle which sel fire lo himself and before rescued was quile seriously burned in Ihe stomach and one knee. Had It not been for tfie timely assistance of C. F. Gallon the child would have per ished In the flames. We are Inform ed that Mr. Callen was severely burn ed about the hands while rescuing the child from the flames. Messrs. Hoffman and Mayer of the Commercial club directois have been named by the club to appear before the clly council wllh Ihe rrpresenla- live of the Armour comnany In an ef fort to adjust the mailer of the com pany changing the location of Its Nor folk building. When the mailer came before Ihe club Ihe dlreclors hesllalcd to take any action because they were anxious to avoid trespassing on what they consider the jurisdiction of the city council. The solution of Ihe mai ler was Ihe appointment of a commit tee to lie present at the council meet ing. The Armour company wishes to move its produce receiving building from the vicinity of the Northwestern city station to North Seventh strcel , where 11 proposes to erect a now build ing about forty feet square. Some protest has been raised by property owners. SprlngvleHeiald : About noon Saturday as Ray Carr , son of J. F. CHIT , was driving homo from the school house , where ho had been Ink ing chairs for the rnlertnlnincnt. with a spirited team hitched to a wlde-lired wagon , he was thrown out near Ihe lumber yard and Ihe wheels passed over him. He was standing no In front with his back to the wind , which was driving n snow flurry before It , when the wagon struck n bump which unbal anced Mr. Carr and throw him under the front wheel He caught at the doublc-treo but his hold failed and the wheel passed diagonally across hlu body. The hind wheel caught his head and passed over it , cutting a gash over the loft eye nnd bruising the Imclf of the head against the ground. Ho Is n plucky youngster nnd got up nnd ran after the team , which ran down lo the IIOIIHO and \VIIH caught. Ho looks UKo a battle-scarred veteran but fools pretty ty well though very sere , and Is able to bo around nnd wanted to go to school Monday morning. o Hosklns Drlefs. Washington's birthday will bo ap propriately observed by the village school on the afternoon of the 28lh Mrs. R. 1C. Tumplln WIIH suddenly called lo Lorolto. Nub. , by tlio Illness of her father. I ) . E , DauKhrcttoo Mrs. Brown and children of Hurting ton , Neb. , vlsltod with her sinter , Mrs Rnrgo , n few days lust week. Mrs. lloeiko of Meadow Grove Un ited over Sunday with her parents Mr. nnd Mrs. W.Mir. . The Hosklns string band will glvo u masquerade ball on the eve of the 21)th ) nt Wotzllch'H hull. Aug. Dock Is preparing to mou > Into the property recently purchased from CluiH. Ohlund. Miss Ida Fuerz will leave for Lin coin In a few days for a stay of some length. v-- Tlio boys of the wrestling club nro - doing some vigorous practicing. NOT MUCH WORK IN SIGHT. Railroad Contractor Snys Few Jobs Are Being Figured On. A railroad contractor discussing the outlook for new work , Hiiys very fiw now jobs are being figured on and that the prospects for a busy season nro not bright. Still , ho says. If a contractor gets woik at n roabonalilt * figure this season bo stands a bettor chance to make money on It than lit did hiHt year. Labor will not Inso scarce and the wage scale will h < > lower , while there \\lll bo no Iniiui r walls for material. Material , hea \ - , can now be delivered promptly , a con dition that illil not obtain last RIMSUII HE DIDN'T FIND ANY DUCKS. One Hunter Says There Were No Game Birds Near Hosklns. Hospital for Insane , Norfolk , Fi i > 20. Editor News : In reference ' > your article In The Norfolk Dally News of the 25th , stating thai the liny but loins between HoskliiH and Norfolk were alive with ducks , I must say that on Feb. 21 and 25 1 hunted those * grounds wlthoul seeing a sign of a duck. My objecl in slating this Is to prc vent the Norfolk hunters from malt , ing a fruitless journey. A. B. Colles A section man arriving In Norfolk Fob. 21 said there were thousand" of ducks on the meadows between N"i folk nnd Hoskins. It Is this slatenn ill that Mr. Colles refers to. It Is polite for a man to ask tlio worn on in the house If smoking is offen m to thorn , before he lights his cigar It is polite for the woman to sav Nn. whether It is offensive or not. It Is al ways polite for a man to have his own way , and for the women to look as though Ills way is tholr's. Ilon'n Till * f Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO. , Toledo , O. We , the undersigned , have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years , and be llevo him perfectly honorable In all business transactions nnd financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDINO , KINNAN & MARVIN , Wholesale Druggists , Toledo , O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Intern ally , acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the Bystem. Testimonials menials sent free. Price 75c , per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. 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