THE OKFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOUKNALtPKIDAUMAY In .I .IS. ' .
The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal
The NOXVH. UntntilUhod , 1881.
Tim Journal , Batalllnhed , 1877.
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For making ninny laws the Okla-
lioiiiu li'ilHlatiiro ; takes the lend.
They hnvo passed a law prohibiting
] ) luyliir ( poker with any member of the
legislature. Evidently Oklahoma leg-
iHlatora know tliclr own weakness.
In IIvo yeats Count Ilonl spent $3-
000.000 of Ills wife's forttino ami went
$5,000,000 In debt. Ami yoL with this
ox per I unco behind her Anna Gould is
about to marry another worthless
French iioblomnn.
The spliit of progress Ims at last
struck Jerusalem. And unbllovablo
HH the statement seems , there have
been two hundred new buildings com-
plotcd In that deadest of all dead
cltlcH , during the last few months.
And now the announcement Is made
that a binall presidential boom has
been launched for Chas. A. Towno of
New York , formerly of Minnesota *
Theio's one thing to bo depended upon
about Charles ho'll not shy at It.
The Chicago Tribune says "Connecti
cut democracy Is willing to be a sister
to Mr. IJryan , but requests him to take
bin arm away. " Mr. Bryan Is becom
ing anxious lest too many of the other
elates follow Connecticut's example.
The American hen Is rising to her
opportunities when she cackles lustily
over every newly Inld egg. What a
chorus It would bo If they could all
bo heard together. There arc 11,000-
000 cackles each day over New York
city's supply.
A ship from Bermuda brought In
0,000 Easter lilies for the festal day ,
nnd aboard the same craft bearing
nil this beauty and fragrance was
Mark Twain. It is to be hoped that
popular1 with travelers and Is a profit
able business.
There was a brilliant display of yel
low In the reception given to the llect
at San Francisco. But as It was made
by the Immense quantity of oranges
given to the snllor boys it was not
coiibidered In bad taste. In fact , the
boys thought they tasted good.
If the Denver convention decides to
let Mr. Bryan try the race once more ,
It should In all fairness extract from
him a promlbe that ho will never do It
again. Something is due to the rising
generation who have been taught that
they , too , might bo president some
day.
The American government is mak
ing a decided Improvement In Its dip
lomatic service by sending trained ,
experienced men to the foreign capi
tal instead of rewarding campaign
workers with a cousularshlp which
they were utterly unable to fill
acceptably.
Scientific men say that the North
Polo Is moving toward Asia and that
in consequence North America Is be
coming warmer and Siberia colder.
Wonder if the old pole left orders to
have mall forwarded to its new loca
tion so it will know when Walter
Wellmnn is coming.
Sixty Japanese merchants have
started on a tour of the world In
search of commercial and Industrial
Ideas. The little brown men are not
eJow and it Is to bo hoped that what
they see and learn will Impress them
with the conviction that peace is most t
profitable to the commercial interests
of the Island Empire.
M. Escofller , a French cook , has
spent several months in this country
learning how to feed the great army
of American tourists who annually
visit France. M. Escoffler said the
Americans were the best fed people In
the world. They get good food and It
is well cooked. This Is quite a con
cession for a Frenchman to make.
Seattle's school board Is determin
ed to keep the schools of that city at
the head of the procession. Its latest
Innovation Is to provide for a tour of
observation through Europe of four
of the most advanced teachers of the
Seattle system. Teachers throughout
the United States will hope that this
means of broadening their Ideas will
become nationally popular.
It seems a pity that the custom of
financing presidential candidates like
public service corporations or promis
ing actors has become fixed In this
country. It was not so In the cnrly
days of the republic. It Is ono of the
prices wo pay for Increased national
wealth and the progress or Industrial
civilization. Since Mark Hnnna took
charge of McKlnloy's campaign every
candidate has been backed by money
from some source.
The highest dam in the world Is beIng -
Ing constructed on the Shoshone river ,
Wyoming , It will bo three hundred
and fifteen feet above bed rock , form
ing a reservoir sufficient to Irrigate
llfi.000,000 acres , of which ninety per
cent Is government land.
A two million dollar dry dock , capable
of receiving the largest warship ,
IH to bo located at Pearl Harbor , Hon
olulu , which It In said will bo made ono
of ( lie Uncut naval stations In the
world. Uncle Sam by the very posi
tion ho hii8 in the 1'aclllc , Is ono of
the great world powers and pioposim
to not only recognize It , but llvo up
to his reputation.
Tim price of meat IH exhorhltantly
high and may go higher. The retailer
.vH It to the wholesaler , and the
\\lmlenalor Is too far away to admit
or deny. The meat packer may have
a hand In manipulating prices to their
own advantage , but no one can con
sider the prices which grain Is com
manding and not realize that cheap
meat Is out of the question. Mean
while , the farmers are selling their
cattle and hogs at fancy prices and
putting their money In the banks. The
farmer is enjoying his inning just
now.
A new idea In the line of effort to
suppress the carrying of deadly weapons
pens has been advanced by a member
of the city council of Cleveland , Ohio.
He has introduced an ordinance pro
hibiting the display of revolves , mur
derous looking knives and other weapons
pens In store windows or conspicuous
places on the giound that this would
have a tendency to check the desire
to purchase and cairy. such weapons.
There Is no doubt that untold numbers
of crimes arise from carrying con
cealed weapons which might never be
committed it the liistiument of death
were not ready to the hand. If the
weapon could be eliminated the grand
Jury would have less to do.
AN IMPRACTICABLE PROJECT.
The revived talk about making anew
now state out of the northern portions
of Minnesota , Wisconsin and Michigan
shows how wise were those old framers -
ers of the constitution , who seem to
have provided against all the follies
that they could have been expected to
foresee. They at least made this Im
practicable ; since no new state can
bo formed out of existing states or
parts of states without the consent of
all the states concerned as well as of
congress. As the consent of the states
concerned in this Instance cannot be
obtained , the scheme can end la noth
ing but talk , and Is a waste of ener
gies that might bo better employed.
It Is fortunate that this Is so ; since
the plan , if it could bo carried through ,
would ultimately re-act with most force
on the communities that now propose
It. These are the lake cities of the
three states and the inhabitants and
owners of the mining districts. The
cities are troubled by a lot of problems
such as grain inspection laws and rail
road laws which arc different In the
several states but all have to be ap
plied to business that Is Identical. The
remedy for that , of course , Is such
an agreement In the laws as rational
peoi > le ought to bo able to bring about
without any great trouble. But the
real incentive Is that the taxation laid
upon the mines brings in a handsome
revenue ; and the people of those sec
tions think it would bo a good thing
to keep that themselves instead of
having it go to the support of the
whole state.
If they were to look a little way
ahead they would see the folly of this.
It is as certain as any future event
can be that the Iron supplies of the
Lake region will be exhausted In from
forty to fifty years These are not
veins of metal , extending to unknown
depths as in Pennsylvania and Ohio ,
but surface deposits , mined from open
pits and of ascertained extent. They
will be gone In Just so long , at the
present rate of consumption. After
j that has happened , this new state , If
It existed , would be shorn of power
and Importance and shrink like Ne
vada. Of course it would have a big
commerce , but that Is about all. The
Idea of such a state is unwise , and
fortunately wholly Impracticable.
THE CITY'S OFFICIAL PAPER.
In selecting The Dally News as
the official paper for the city of Nor
folk , the council has paid a compli
ment to this newspaper which is ap
preciated and has performed a public
service to which the people of Norfolk
are entitled.
Official papers are created for the
purpose of carrying to the public and
to the taxpayers reports of the pro
ceedings and the action of the official
bodies elected by the people to do the
public work. It Is of prime Import
ance that the official paper should be
a paper that reaches the greatest
number of people interested In the
ofllclnl proceedings. It IB the plain
duty of the city council to buy with
the city money the best possible ser
vice that can be had for the public
at Inrge.
In making The Daily News the of
ficial paper for Norfolk the city connell -
ell has performed Its conscientious
duty and Its plain duty in many re
spects. In the first place It Is con
ceded by all that there Is only ono
newspaper In Norfolk which reaches
the Norfolk public nt large. It Is
further conceded that The News , with
nine carrier boys to servo Its city
subscribers , reaches practically every
home In Norfolk. Therefore In select
ing The News as the city ofllclal
paper , the council has shown first of
ill that it Is anxious to keep the tax
payers of Norfolk , in whose Interest
the council Is working , posted con
stantly and In detail as to just what
icl Inn Is taken on every proposition
arising It can not be charged that
this administration or this council Is
( r.\lng to hide Its action by keeping
Its proceedings out of the ono paper
that readies the people of the com
munity.
In another respect the council , by
selecting The News as the city olll-
elal organ , has shown that It desires
lo serve the people of this city In the
best possible manner. The council
will meet on Tuesday evenings. By
selecting The News as the olllclal
medium , the council has taken steps
to Inform the public of its acts In the
quickest possible manner and on the
.lay following the council meetings the
people of Norfolk will know exactly
and fully Just what their city council
lias done.
In this matter the council has used
the same conscientious business Judg
ment that guides their own private
business affairs. Business wisdom
directs , without any argument , that
the man who wishes to reach the
people of Norfolk and vicinity today
concentrates his publicity In The
News , realizing that this Is the only
medium thiough which the public can
be reached and that it pays to buy
the best In publicity , just as in every
other commodity. It should bo berne
in mind , too , in connection with this
selection of The News as the city of-
llcial paper , that this service in The
Dally News will cost the city not one
penny more than the expense would
have been had the council selected a
less widely circulated medium.
Norfolk today has the largest and
best dally newspaper published In any
city of this size In the world. It Is
apparent that the city council , as the
public generally , takes considerable
personal pride In the fact that Nor
folk Is alive enough and progressive
enough to maintain a dally newspaper
of this calibre.
WHAT WILL , HE DO ?
There Is nothing In this world which
Is so absorbingly Interesting as the
biographical element in human life.
It Is not unwholesome , that looking
toward the future the people should
bo intensely interested in what Mr.
Roosevelt will do when he becomes
an ex-president. There are some rea
sons why this should have more than
unusual Interest In Mr. Roosevelt's
case. Ife will be the youngest man
that the country has ever had who ,
after having served seven years , as
the chief executive of the nation ,
leaves the white house to take his
place in the ranks of the people once
more as a private citizen. For next
March Theodore Roosevelt will be
Just fifty years of age. Not only Is
he in the prime of life , but he has a
physical constitution that is most mar
velous in Its power and excellence , a
personality which Is the most pro
nounced of any man In public life on
this continent , a record of great
achievements , and with these a very
comfortable fortune.
Added to all this , in some respects
Mr. Roosevelt has beea particularly
near to the people. Ho Is a man In
terested In all sides of life and be
cause he has shown this Interest In
a thousand different ways he has be
come acquainted with the people and
he with them to an extraordinary de
gree. He has been such a combina
tion of the scholar and the rough
rider , the man of affairs and the liter-
ateur of high Ideals and Intense prac
ticality. Interested In a most stren
uous manner equally over the regula
tion of great business Interests , so
that the giants might not take up the
whole sidewalk to the exclusion of
the many who only asked their share ;
in the commencement at Harvard ; In
a baseball game at Princeton ; or in
a bear hunt In Louisiana. These
things have made him , by his broad
humanity , the most interesting char
acter in public affairs that America
has seen In this generation.
The interest of the people in his
future is altogether and wholly a very
kindly one. There Is little doubt that
ho will go abroad for a season be
fore he takes up any further serious
work. Ho may take a trip as a sight
seer and visitor , but Is far more prob
able that he will take his guns and
his dogs and a few friends along with
him and seek the recesses of South
Africa or some other unknown and
new country In search of big game.
Such a trip would satisfy his restless
spirit of adventure.
Moreover , there are several other
reasons why the president is quite
likely to take a rest following his
withdrawal from the white house.
The Indications all point to the nom
ination nnd election of William H.
Taft as his successor. Should Mr.
Roosevelt remain In Washington , or
close to it , ho would bo under the
charge of dominating the Taft admin
istration. This would be embarrass
ing both to him and to the man he
so highly regnrds. Mr. Roosevelt is
reiiorted to have said a few days ago ,
"If William Taft Is nominated and
elected president , which would bo
very gratifying , It would niako Im
possible any criticism if I were abroad
to the effect that I was dictating to
him nnd being followed , or that I dic
tated nnd had been turned down In
my suggestions. "
Of course , such a trip even If It wn
quite extended , would only cover a
short period. Following this , the ex
president's career Is full of pOBsllilll
tlo.H. It la safe to say , however , Pint
Theodore Roosevelt , whether a pn
\ntc citizen or In olilclal position \uili
his strenuous eharacti rlstles will c. . n
tlimo to occupy a largo place in tin
public mind for many years to eoim
CAN CLEAN OFF THE DUSK
Different epochs in the life of the
nation demand entirely different tjpen
of men , If they aie to be met success
fully and worthily. There is no ques
lion in the mind of any thoughtful citi
zen but what within the last ten jears
there has been an increasing need of a
man at the head of affairs an president
of this nation who possessed Indomlt
able courage , Intense earnestness , un
questioned hoimsty and an unlllnchlng
determination to change the current of
national l"e BO that democracy might
mean more to the many and the oppor
tunities in business , in social and poli
tical life might be more evenly distri
buted than they have been. When ,
seven years ago , William McKInley
was stricken down by the hand of the
assassin , he was suceeded by Theodore
Roosevelt. The history of Mr. Reese
velt's administration has been one con
tinuous battling for the overthrow of
industrial inequalities nnd injustice
and has resulted in clarifying the vi
sion of men so that the whole nation
is aroused as never before to the high
purpose of pro\idlng every man with
i square deal and a fair fighting chance
ns far as the laws of the country can
so do. It must be conceded by all
that Prebident Roosevelt has been a
wonderful factor In the moral upliftIng -
Ing of the nation. Ills methods have
not always been the wisest , his temper.
has not always been the most admlr-1
able and his lack of self poise Is a
matter of sincere regret even to the
thousands who uphold the spirit and
Intent of his policies.
At the present time , the nation finds
Itself confronted by a large number of
new and Important questions. They
are of tremendous Importance ; they
are freighted with the gravest concern ,
and the manner in which they arc to
bo considered and dealt with involves
the question of their success.
We have been and are still going
through an epoch of great social and
political disturbance. Not only the
president , but the whole nation , has
been strenuous to such a degree that
it has worn upon the nerves even of
the honest business forces of the
country. What Is wanted now Is not
any giving up of the Roosevelt ideas ,
any surrender of really Important 10-
forms which he has stood for , but a
more kind and patient way of dealing
with them. We want , in a word , to
supplant and supercede a period of
suspicion and agitation by one of op
timism and development The forces
of destruction must give way to those
of construction. The iconoclasts
should give way to the upbullder.
It Is because the nation desires a
man of affairs , a man of largo brain ,
warm heart , great capacity for work
a self poise and a judicial temperament
that more and more the people have
become agreed that William H. Taft Is
best suited to bo the successor of Theo
dore Roosevelt. There can be no question - '
tion about his allegiance to all that is i
valuable in the Roosevelt policies. Ho' '
Is admittedly Roosevelt's superior as a
constructive statesman. And It is the
man who can do things that Is now
emphatically needed.
William Allen White in the May
American closes a very brilliant article
about the great war secretary in these.
words : "The times demand , not a !
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man bearing promises of new things ,
but a man who can finish the things
begun. Such a man Is Taft , a hewer
of wood , who has no ambition to link
his name with new measures , but who ,
with a steady hand , and a heart al
ways kind and a mind always gener
ously Just can clean off the desk. He
knows the desk is cluttered up. Ho
knows that It may take six or eight
years to get down to the mahogany
under the things now pending. But
the American people know that some
way this must be done before this na
tion can go further. And hence , In
the Mississippi valley nt least , there
Is a belief that the man who can make
the Hepburn railroad law as much a
part of our common life as the postal
regulations , who can grind the rough
edges off the Sherman law through
the courts , who can finish the canal ,
and deal with Cuba kindly , honestly ,
and firmly , who can lead the brown
men of the Islands further Into the
light , Is this big , hard working , soft
hearted , fair minded , unselfish man ,
Taft. He can clean off the desk. "
AROUND TOWN.
It's Chief Peters.
Decorate. This is U. C. T. week.
A boy never grows too old to like to
feed the elephants.
Buy a ticket to tonight's concert
whether you can go or not It's for
the Y. M. C A. fund.
The Elks and the U. C. T.'s will
play ono of the hottest ball games
Members of Norfolk s New Official Family
Mayor J. D. Sturgeon. City Clerk Ed Harter city Treasurer Chris Anderson
Julius Degncr , President of Council Councilman S. W. Garvin Councilman Dan C.a\cn
Councilman E. B. Kauffman Councilman Pat Dolan Couicilmon C. J. Hibben.
Councilman H. Winter Councilman P. J. Fuesler City Engineer Salmon
that will turn money into the Y M. C.
A. fund.
Every year the slack wire feats get
a little bit better.
The chances are that "daughter" has
already read the book which is being
carefully hid from her.
The circus still carries "the annex ,
the after-show , the funny concert In
which the leading vaudeville artists of
America" take part.
The Plntte Isn't the only Nebraska
stream that produces oratory. The
two contestants from the Elkhorn val
ley one fiom Stanton , one from Oak-
dale took two first prices In the state
contest held In Norfolk.
ATCHI8ON GLOBE SIGHTS.
The most natural man In a play Is
the vllllan.
Women are so busy In the spring
that they forget all about their rights.
When the weather is nice , some people
ple spend half their time talking about
it.
Mont people's Idea of a good convcr-
satlonallbt is one who knows how to
listen.
There are too many people In the
world who use their nest eggs to make
cake of.
Of the men , only preachers seem to
bo comfortable when they are in dry
goods stores.
You can flatter a man by telling
him that you know him to be a man
who is not easily flattered.
Though people are too modest to
admit It , every man IB his own hero ,
and every women her own heroine.
*
The chip a man carries on his
shoulder becomes as large as a wood
pile when the quarrel Is with his wife.
We wonder what people think news
paper reporters are for. Every man
who gives a reporter an item adds
that it is not for publication.
Why is It that chickens hatched
late in the winter are called spring
chickens , and anions produced early
In the spring are called winter onions ?
"That girl pretty , " said ono woman
contemptuously of another this morn-
Ing. "Why , eho has the same expres
sion on her face as a clock that has
stopped. "
An Atchlson child stands very high
In the respect of her playmates. When
they get to boasting she silences them
by saying there have been three fu-
neralb in her family in less than a
year.
When a woman goes away to make
a three weeks visit , the probabilities
are that she will stay six. A man will
btart out to btay six and be back at
the end of a week. Men do not en
joy visiting and they are such rtst-
less cieatures that no one enjoys hav
ing them for visitors.
The worst looking woman at the
average wedding is the bride. Brides
always look palo and wan , from over
work , overworry and we never saw
a bride whose clothes fit her , al
though she has done nothing but wor
ry about them for months. If veils
over look well on brides , we have
never seen a bride who used one to
good advantage.
Trial of Army Deserter.
Col. E. B. Savage of Omaha , a
United States army ofllcor , was in ]
Norfolk last night In connection with
the arrest here of F. H. Median , n
young army deserter , omo months
ago. Median's trial will bo held in
a short time and the purpose of the
army ofllcer's visit hero was to se
cure the testimony of Chief of Police
Klynn. Median has a tendency to be
simple minded and when arrested in
Norfolk was on his way to Washing
ton to get transferred to the Infantry
because ho said there was too much
"hell" in the cavalry
