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PicHldenl. Secretary.
Kvory l-'ililuy. lly mall PIT year. $1.50.
Entered al the iioHtulllcv at Norfolk ,
Noll. , as second HUSH matter.
" Toloplionos : "EflTfoflaT "Department
No , 22. lliiHlnosH Olllco mill Job Rooms
No. II 21 ! . _ _ _
Cuba IK calling for farmers. Cuba
lookH boiler than Canada , especially In
wlnlor.
Once It was dmrlty tlial covered a
multitude of slim. Now HH Insanity or
the niiwrlUon law.
Governor Hughes belongs In tlio
llooHovolt class. HlH animal message
contained 50,000 wordH.
Dirt IH Hying In Panama and nmd IH
llylMK In I ho Unltod Status from the
muck rakor'H ItiHtriitnentH.
TIllman'H pitchfork Is no longer the
fearsome weapon ho once llourlshod.
It wouldn't acaro a mouse.
Why not bo forehanded and buy
presents for next Christmas now while
the bargain sulos are on ?
John H. Rockefeller has followed
literally the advice of the pool , "Build
a llttlo fence of trusts around today. "
What If the Standard Oil company
should decide to pay Its line to the
government , as It did to the state of
Texas In silver dollars ?
Senator Tlllman says ho Is now prepared -
pared i'von for the knlfo of the as
sassin. Are wo to understand that the
senator is wearing a sheet iron undershirt -
shirt ?
Senator Tlllman makes a most im
possible distinction when he says that
ho never opposed the education of the
negro but has opposed the effort to uplift -
lift him.
A sarcastic lecturer said recentlj
that "Club women are talking too
much. " What does the lecturer Im
aglnc to bo the purpose and mission of
women's clubs ?
It Is undoubtedly true that some of
the congressmen who voted to raise
President Elect Taft's salary to $100-
000 a year , think it's worth $50.000
Just to have a change.
The Ladles Homo Journal now gets
$5,000 per page and the Saturday Even
Ing 1'oat ? ! ! ,000 per page for advertis
Ing. And It's good Investment , If kept
up persistently , at that.
It has been widely suggested that
the congressional record should adc
n yellow supplement for its spoiling
department which Is out growing the
rest of the publication.
The man who Is struggling agalns
adverse fate with a heavy load of In
( lobtodnoss doesn't take much stocl
in the assertions of Andrew Carnegie
and John D. that wealth is a curse.
Apparently the people of Wlsconsli
have enough confidence In Stephonsoi
to realize that a lot of charges niade
in a political light are made for selflsl
reasons and without foundation ii
fact.
Ground hog day Is hero and fur
nlshes another point of Interest fo
weather prophets to enlarge upon. 1
is an old fashioned supeislltlon , bu
nevertheless wo all hoped it would b
a cloudy day.
The anti-Jap agitation In Californi
lias not yet come to an end. .Xe\
kindling was added to the llame In th
resolution to ask congress to demaiu
the recall of the Japanese consul genera
nt San Francisco because ho Intel
fcred In California state legislation.
Without doubt a tunnel under Ber
Ing Strait will within the next score
of years make a continuous railroad
Journey from American cities to any
city of Continental Europe possible.
The enterprise has been under confederation -
federation for some years.
The Russians are buying great
quantities of harvesting machinery
from the United States. It is to bo
hoped that they will have use for It all
In securing great crops this year. Har
vesters ought to bo a far better In
vestment for a nation than battle-
ships.
January 25 , the many admirers of
John Hum's celebrated the I50th an
niversary of his birth with appropriate
exorcises In many of the larger ceil'
ters and wherever any number o (
Scots could gather , rfc'uch bagpipes ,
Scotch melodies and Scottish dance ?
prevailed.
Senator Root was nominated and
elected by common consent because ol
his peculiar and unquestioned fitness
lor the position. When more senators
are elected for these reasons and In
this manner , the dignity and power ol
the United States senate will DC
greatly enhanced.
Franco has named a great battleship
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ill' UOb tu - .nuw > - <
f the Droadnnught clans the Voltaire ,
nil IH planning to i.nniii i < yet more
owerful Moating forl-X'Si the Hugo ,
f the ships provij as mighty and over-
oworlng an the minds of the men
whoso namoH they bear , they will In-
eed be drondnaughts.
Representative Hobson has decided
o cultivate severe self control and turn
he whole J aaeso war over to the
California legislature. Mr. Hobson ovl-
lently thinks they would come In for
nest of the fuss anyway and so might
is well take It all and relieve him of
uiy responsibility
Holt county Democrats luivo qunr-
olotl. The Holt County Democrat ,
inlillslied by 13. S. Eves at O'Neill ,
comes forth with a full page attack
ipon Arthur Mullen , claiming that
Mullen has come to think he's the
vholi ! show In Holt county Democracy ,
Mr. Mullen has not yet replied.
Walter Wollman , who by the way Is
noio or less of a hot air artist , says
there Is a rumor that the president Is
to be Impeached. Such a thing might
jccur , but It will bo a long time after
Mr. Wollman has secured the North
Pole and planted it in his back yard.
Since the beginning of actual work
on the Panama Canal May , 1901 , there
have been 59,000,000 cubic yards of
the earth's surface removed. Of this
Incomprehensible pile of 39,000,000
yards are credited to 1908. It Is pos
sible to estimate the excavation part
of the work very closely now.
The Republic's water tight compart
ments wore all that kept her from
sinking as soon as she was rammed ,
and wireless messages brought res
cuers without delay. Modern Inven
tions are greatly diminishing danger
to life In ocean travel and constantly
adding to Its comforts and luxuries.
Colonel James Guffey , Mr. Bryan's
most pronounced enemy In his own
party , Is once more a member of the
Democratic national committee , hav
ing been unanimously chosen to fill
the vacancy caused by the death ol
James Kerr. Mr. Brynn was personal
ly responsible for his defeat and Mr ,
Kerr's election.
The Boston Journal says the city ad >
ministration Is determined to remove
the snow from the streets If It takes
all summer. There Is hope that even
In the frigid atmosphere of classic
Uoston that the city's snow shovelen
will have reinforcements from Old
Sol about May 1 , that will assist In
removing the beautiful.
Such Is the affection felt In the sen
ate for the Hon. Jeff Davis of Kansas
that when he obtained the lloor am
started oi ) a two hour attack upon the
trusts , money power and everything
In general , all but eight members left
their seats and galleries and news
paper posts were desterted. Must have
been an enjoyable occasion for Jeff
Missouri , Texas and Iowa have hills
before their legislatures providing for
the taxation of bachelors. The bills
should certainly become laws , and I
two-thirds of the legislators wore
women they undoubtedly would. How
ever , even If taxed for their single
blessedness , they might decide It was
cheaper than buying "Merry Widow
hats. "
America cannot class Its public roac
system among Its boasted cnllghtcnet
Institutions ; Certainly n system o
public highways that wastes $ . ,00,000 ,
000 to the agricultural classes eacl
year belongs in the dark ages. It is
time for the United States to abandoi
the business theory that counts the
cost of good roads without taking ac
count of the loss occasioned by bat
roads.
A receiver for a Now York railway
company is trying to put n new con
structlon on certain legal connections
He assumes that lawyers who try
cases on a contingent fee are In part
nership with their clients , and there
fore jointly liable for the debts of th
partnership. If this constructloi
should be accepted It is not likely tha
many attorneys would try cases on
contingent fee. It would suddenly los
Its charm.
THE STORM AND THE QUAIL.
All of the shooting that could b
done , In the normal course of events
by Nebraska sportsmen , could no
make the Inroad upon the qunll famil
that this week's blizzard has made.
Those acquainted with the sltua
tion declare that hundreds and hui
drcds of quail must have died froi
the effects of the storm , both bccaus
they are unable to scratch throng
the snow for food and because , hud
dled up under the storm , they become
coated with Ice and succumb.
The first assistant secretary of state
under the Taft administration wilt be
Bookman Wlnthrop , who Is of the
eighth generation In direct descent
from John Wlnthrop , first colonial
governor of Massachusetts , and
seventh from the second John Win
throp , governor of Connecticut. Be
sides having so much pedigree that no
American can discount It , and a bank
account which leaves nothing to be
desired , Mr. Wlndrop comes to hU
position with ability and education of :
a high order and a record of public |
service well performed which augurs
well for the futuie.
John It. Hlnn < 4. the wireless tolo-
tapli operator of the 111 fated Ropub-
c Is receiving the well earned pralso
f the1 civilized world , for his steadfast
dhoionco to duty and heroic action
n danger. He kept his nerve and sent
Is call for help and afterward mess-
SOH guiding the rescuers to them , nu
ll his machine was Hooded and he
ould do no 111010. He stood by his
aptaln and mate till the ship was
Inking and the rescue of those bravo
non was , for a time , despaired ol.
TUBERCULAR MILK.
Dr. Young , in his address before the
V'oman's club , verified what The News
ins been contending for several years ,
hat every city should have a dairy In-
pector whose duty Ithould bo to
examine all milk sold , for tuberculosis ,
mil thus save the state many citizens
vho unquestionably contract this dead-
y disease through milk each year.
Epidemics at Lincoln and Hastings
nsiino asylums proved to have been
luo to tubercular milk cows at thosf
nstitutlons.
After contemplating the experience
hat railroad officials and employes
nust have gone through Thursday
light near Nellgh , in clearing the
vret'kngo from the effects of the
) llzzard's freak that blow a car out
of a moving train and off the track ,
> no can but agree with Lindsay Donl-
son when , In the February American
nagnzlno , ho describes the railroading
lone out of Norfolk as "railroading as
s railroading. " Few men are called
ipon to go through the hardships
that those railroad men must have ex-
lerlonccd from Into at night until 5
o'clock next morning , with the Ice and
snow raging around them.
Within the last ton years Italy has
) ocn developing very rapidly along
commercial lines and a great part of
the products which she shipped
ibroad were raised In the earthquake
section. The disaster is certain there
fore , to affect the national finances
seriously and indirectly It may have
an Influence on European politics.
Italy has suffered more than would
iave been possible In a disastrous war
and it will be many years before she
can hope to recover. It is doubtful
.f the wrecked cities are ever rebuilt.
They surely will not be on the present
sites.
THE TEXAS ORANGE BELT.
A good many people have boon lured
iwny to the sunny clime of Texas dur
ing the past few months , lured there
to raise oranges ami onions. Millions
in it , according to the advertisements.
Telegraphic dispatches tell of ser
ious Injury not only to this year's
orange crop bu * to the trees them
selves. Which means the loss of many
a fortune.
There are always Rct-rlch-qulck
scheme * that will talce the coin of the
anxious , but the sure , steady , middle
west , with unfailing crops and the best
kind of climate from the viewpoint of
health , ought to be good enough for
anybody.
In our national life It Is not true as
we sometimes think and say that the
democracy of the nation is one entire
ly good , true and beautiful set of men ,
struggling for the common good
against the aristocracy , composed of
another bad , sellfish and willfully cor
rupt set of men. The struggle be
tween democracy and aristocracy in
America Is In every man's heart and Is
controlled largely by each man's en
vironment. Many n poor laborer who
c.Ies : , "Down with the aristocrat ! "
would be one if he could possibly gain
the wealth by any means ; while the
heart of many a man of great wealth
Is full of the spirit of brotherly love
and a genuine Interest In humanity.
TO FIX THE BLAME.
Attorneys for both the White Star
line and the Lloyd-Itnllano , the latter
the owner of the Florida , which ran
down the Republic , arc preparing for
a battle In the courts to fix responsi
bility for the accident. Litigation , in
volving approximately two million
dollars , probably will be threshed out ,
which vessel was to blame for the
disaster will be settled first by a court
of Inquiry.
If the Florida was to blame the
Republic's owners may libel It to the
value of the boat and the passenger
and freight receipts. This holds true ,
also , In the event of the Republic be
ing found nt fault. But the Lloyd-
Itallano line may recover only tho' '
amount which the Florida was dam
aged.
As there Is no law governing loss of
life on the high sea , It Is doubtful If
any suits will be brought by passen
gers. According to stipulation on the
back of each ticket the passengers
may recover only ? 100 each on their
baggage , although many lost n far
greater amount. The total loss on
bnggago and personal effects Is var
iously estimated at from 1175,000 to a
quarter million dollars.
The opinion of Captain Thomas Fen-
Ion of the whaleback steamer , City of
Everett , that ho could have towed
the steamer Republic Into n place
where it could have been beached If
Captain Sealby had accepted his offer
to help has boon communicated to the
nlllcui-H of the While Slur line. Vice
President Franklin of that line said
that the matter would bo taken up with
the general subject of the collision.
The Information concerning the City
of livei oil's offer of help was soul by
Captain Fenlon fiom Philadelphia to
O. L. llnlloiibock , manager of the ma
rine depaituiont of the Standard Oil
company , In whoso service the whale-
back Is employed. Captain Fonlon's
statoivent was to the effect that ho
was In communication with the Re
public al G o'clock Saturday morn
ing , ( he day of the collision. Captain
Fonlon lidded that he olleied to take
off the passengers and baggage from
the Republic , hut that Captain Sealby
declined the often Captain Fonlon ad
ded Hint ho could have beached the
Republic on the shore of Martha's
Vineyard.
M. COQUELIN.
The death of M. Coquelin Is an In
calculable loss to the French stage.
Only a few days ago M. Rostand , who
recently has been giving the llnlshlng
touches to "The Chanticleer , " arrived
In Paris from Ciimbo and ho was
ready to begin the rehearsals of the
play in which M. Coquelin , who had
the leading role , was expected to du
plicate his famous success obtained In
M. Rostand's "Cyrano Do Borgorac. "
M. Coquelin recited gaily long passages -
| sages of "The Chanticleer" to some of
his friends , but he succumbed suddenly -
! denly nt midnight to an acute attack
of embolism , from which ho long had
been a sufferer.
The death of Coquelin , the elder ,
takes from the stage the man who for
nearly twenty years has been recog
nized as the world's foremost come
dian and possibly its greatest actor.
For at least that long Coquelin had en
joyed an exclusive reputation In
France which made him possibly n
I greater atlraction than even Bern-
I hardt. In England his repute , oven
In the face of national pride , was at
, least equal to that of Irving. Though
he visited America twice , Coquelin
failed to gather the popular reputation
other nations gave him.
M. Coquelin was born in Boulogne
In 1841 , the son of a poor baker , lie
was given , however , an exceptional
education for his station. Though
trained as the oldest son to succeed
his father as baker , Coquelin early
manifested a talent for the stage and
was admitted to the Paris conserva
toire at eighteen years. He soon be
came the most brilliant pupil. The
following year ho made his debut
CoquelIn's life on the stage was al
most at once crowned with success ,
He soon appeared in the Comedic
Francalso , with which he was later
connected for many years.
Coquelln's greatest characteristic
was his natural versatility. His
repertoire was greater and more
varied oven than Irvlng's and ho was
the one modern actor who always
adapted himself to the character and
never vice versa. One of his most
popular successes was Cyrano de
Bergerac.
AROUND TOWN.
It's Burgomeister Julius Degner.
Won't bo long till strawberries
come again.
Have you swept the snow off the
front door ?
The groundhog slipped and got his
nose wet.
We can't sleep nights , thinking of
that robin at Clearwntpr.
We had a few days of chilly weather ,
but our orange trees didn't freeze.
Why didn't Norfolk give Taft a
plcklo dinner when he was here last
fall ?
According to the Associated Press
Saturday , many towns In the .country
were still ice-olatcd.
Ed Hartor has struck the part 01
town that always gives the blues to
every census enumerator.
Always behind the west , New York
got both the blizzard and the cold
wave two days after Norfolk.
The man at Norfolk who lost thlr
teen blooded chickens In the storm
has ground to be superstitious.
There wore a good many Ice met
In town for about three hours. Am
most of them were sick of the ice
business , too.
We're glad that robin got out of the
country nllve. Ho struck out for a
cold clime , though , even In heading to
ward Alabama.
No wonder there was weather al
night long ; the weather flag on toj
of The News building , by mistake
waved In the breeze all night.
There was llttlo chivalry about the
recent storm. The "Wyoming Girl' . ' am
"sheath gown" as represented on tlu
billboards have been badly blowi
about.
Little boys who borrowed the famllj
shovel to dig up angle worms las
summer and who then forgot to brinf ,
It home , arc just now gelling into
Irouble.
A man at Atchlson , Kan. , was vorj
much disappointed after buying a
ticket for "The Prince of Peace , " when
Mr. Brynn came out and began to
lecture. He admitted It was his own
fault , but said ho thought It was "Tho
'rlnce of Pllsen , " ho was going to
ee.
"Nobody gets any change on a day
Ike this , " said the cabman In the
storm. And It's a cinch the cabman
s entitled to all ho gets In that kind
> f a situation.
"I've got to go all over this end of
own and I haven I got a single order
or over twenty cents , " said a grocery
lollveryman. during the blizzard
'liuisday afternoon.
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.
Of what avail If a man works U
save his country , ami ruins himself ?
Nearly every man says of his dog- .
'His father cost a thousand dollars. '
You in rely KOO an old man who IH
iroud.
So many people are having oper-
UloiiB performed that wo have an Idea
> no of the questions Saint Peter will
isk will bo , "Are you all hero ? "
When n bachelor In rather aged , poo-
tie say of him : "It'smy opinion that
lo's a widower. Look him up , and
you'll Hud he has a lot of children
somewhere. "
A farmer who has tried for years to
catch wolves , without success , said to-
lay : "I sometimes think that the
wolves kill enough rabbJt to offset
the harm they do. "
A sensible man thoroughly despises
i compliment. H always precedes a
request for a favor , and Is the old
hackneyed way of getting a man in
condition to work him.
A man said lo the editor of The
Globe today : "The Globe had an
tern balled up last night. It said that
i woman left town yesterday who
leally left a week ago. " "I can toll
von a story worse than that. " the edi
tor replied ; "we lately announced the
death of a man as occurlng recently
which really occurred six years ago. "
The average house is run pretty
well without a safety pin In it until
the first baby appears , and after that
safety pins are used for everything ,
even for the man's clothes.
Atchlson street car motormen are
"amous for politeness. A lady en
tered a car today , and , as the motorman -
man opened the door for her , he said :
'Allow me , " as they say on the stage.
When a mother goes to a neighbor's
to make a call , she is followed at ten-
minute Intervals by every child she
has until they are all with her , when
it is time for the procession to start
liome again.
"There are two things I remark
about Atchlson , when reading fV'ho
Globe , " said an out-of-town man to
day ; "Dr. Finney in connection with
babies , and Fred Barrel in connection
with salt mackerel. "
In Atchtson , girls making their first
appearance in society are called
"young" uns , " but over in Topeka
they are- called "debutantes" which
makes them proud , and much harder
to get along with.
When a man has a scheme In which
he wishes you to Invest , he usually
makes his figures , and then triumph
antly announces : "Bui cut the figures
in two ; cut them square in two , and
still you make money. " But even after
the figures are cut in two there is
something wrong with the scheme.
We once knew an old fashioned
farmer , who when ho went to town ,
usually accumulated a jag , and took ! theme
home with him. And when he reached
home his old fashioned wife used to
take off his shoes and stockings , and
soak his feet in mustard water , to
draw out whatever was disturbing him
in his head.
Municipal Accounting.
Lincoln Trade Review : Mayor
Schuff of Grand Island proposes some
legislation that will interest cities of
the class of his homo city In particular
and possibly the smaller cities as well.
What Mayor Schuff would like to see
is a law passed creating a municipal
accountant to work much the same as
county treasurers' examiners or bank
examiners. His Idea Is that many
cities have their accounts in different
departments conducted In a careless
manner , without uniformity and with
little check. It Is not so much a ques
tion of dishonesty In accounts or losses
direct , as the loss of time on the part
of officials and the unsatisfactory con
dition of a municipality not knowing
in all departments just how matters
stand on short notice , without special
examination. With no direct way of
checking up city accounts there is a
laxity and Indifference that often leads
to expense and trouble. Mayor Schuff
believes that the uniformity that
would como In the Keeping of books
In the different cities , from having the
records alike In cities , modeled after
one simple and direct plan such as an
examiner would suggest and require ,
would alone be n saving far above the
cost to any city. His pioposltlon car
ried out ns generally outlined In this
article , would be to have an examiner
created by state law. under proper
bond and regulation , who should bo at
the call of the different cities whenever -
over they wished or at fixed times , to
have the accounts of their city
checked up. The accountant would
bo paid by the Individual cities for the
time employed al each at such per
diem as the law might fix upon. The
law would require a man of experience
and ability who would bo responsible
to the department of state vested with
j ?
I JOHNNY DUMPER KNOWS WHY |
I RUTH LEAVITT LEFT LEAVITT |
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Lincoln , Neb. . Jan. ; iO.--To the Edi
tor of The News : Sa > . sh ! do
you know what made Ruth Lonvltt
leave Leavltt , and Ille for a devorco ?
I dlilent (111 ( 1 luck this job pozlng fern
n artist , but I'll bet I know now. It
alnt onny non-sport like the papers
sod , fur Ihoy's Just lots of wlminen
bus husbands that are non-sporty and
they wudent lake n devorco If they
cud get ten dollars a week allymony
to boot.
Mr. Leavltt is a artist and I've
leatnt sumthhig about arltlsts that I'll
tell you If you wont tell onnybody. I'll
just betchor If a lot of Norfolk wlm-
men's * husbands were a artist they'd
got uii on their ear ( as Pa ustor say )
too.
But furst I must ( ell you about poz
lng. Jeomlnny cracky bill 1 was
sprized ! I ( hot It wild be a snap but
I found out It was the hardest wiirk 1
over did. If eiiny boy that reads the
News thinks Its a eezy job to po/.e
just let him take a broom or siimth-
Ing If he hasont got a son ! and see
how long he can stand perfecktly still
a holding that son ! up In the air In his
rite hand and a holding to the mast
of a ship with the uther , and a looking
bravo all't the same time.
I lasted just sixteen mlnnlls the
fiirst time and then I had to rest and
rub my arm. By resting and rubbing
and pozlng and resting and rubbing
and posing again I managed to get 'ft '
three ours the furst day. That was
only sixty cents and I expected to got
nt leest a dollar sixty wurtli of pozlng.
The artist sod that was a excep-
Hhnnally hard ro/.o to hold a son ! up
i all the time and be wild raze my sal-
| lory to twenty-live an our. That
j wasent so bad and now 1'vo got uster
It I can pozo for nearly half an our
| and yesterday I got in a dollar and
ten cents worth.
After I get dun pozing he lots me
rome around the stewdlo and look at
plcktures and busts and things and I
can watch the plckture of mo as "tho
boy stood on the burning dock" as It
grows from day to day. When he
gets It dun ho ses he'll have it foto-
grafed and give me one for myself. Gee ,
but I'll look swell In sailor togs stand
ing on the dock son ! in hand "whence
all but me have fled ! "
He's got a lot of pickturcs and
statutes that he calls "studdles In
need and semy-nood. " ast him which
was the nooder , need or somy-nood
and ho sod need was nooder than
semy-nood , but I don't see how cnny-
body cud be much nooder than semy-
nood.
I ast him if them plcktures of wlm-
men was first taken In a dark room by
Hash-lite fotografy and then painted
from the fotografs , and he sod of
coarse not , they was painted from life
1 told him bo's Just jollying mo , that
nobody wild poze that way. But hosed
sod that was ded rite , and that every
artist that tended art-school had to
draw from nood-llfe.
Then ho ses , "See hero Johnny , you
havcnt the proper artlstlck tempor-
ment. "
I sed my tempormont was proporer
than onny artist's that wud draw plck
tures from nood-llfo.
the power of his appointment. At the
present time , with no such an official
examiner , when any city chocks up , it
is generally with a local man , who gets
the job tluough local officials and local
Influences , and the work when com
pleted Is not satisfactory. No general
system of good bookkeeping is secured
and checking which might be of great
value to the city Is put off year after
year because there is no legal exam
iner al command. There are many
strong arguments In favor of Mayor
Schuff's plan and none that can be
successfully raised against it.
THE CONVENTION CITY.
Norfolk Described In Connection With
Commercial Club Convention.
The Lincoln Trade Review , the of
ficial organ of Lincoln business cir
cles , In its issue of last week describes
Norfolk as the next convention city of
the association of commercial clubs as
follows :
The fifth annual convention of the
commercial clubs of Nebraska will beheld
held In the city of Norfolk on the 17th
and 18th of March. On Friday even
ing of last week President Busline ! !
and Secretary Bnochler of the state
association mot with the officers and
directors of the Norfolk club and ar
ranged the dates and preliminaries
for the convention. Work on the
| program Is now under way and spe
cial effort will be made to make the
convention in interest and attendance
hold to Iho high mark achieved In
previous meetings. President Kil-
Han and Secretary Sturgeon of the
I Norfolk club have plans under way
that will put their club In position
to earo for the convention In proper
' shape and their club is already send-
j Ins ; to Hie clubs In the state the Invita
tion anil first of a series of circulars
i of information regarding the conven
tion. The officers of the state as
sociation will send out the program
so soon as It Is completed and It Is
not too early for every club In the
state to get interested and make ar
rangements to be represented.
The city of Norfolk Is well located
for this convention. As the melropo-
Us of northeast Nebraska it Is a
railroad center of Importance and Is
located In one of the most prosperous
sections of the slate. Railroad fa
cilities for going and coming are ex
cellent and hotel facilities ample.
Three lines of railway center In Nor
folk. The main and branch lines of
the Northwestern , the Columbus line
of tlio Unloa Pacific and the Chicago ,
Hut ho enl > lafod and ses "You
don't get the true arllstick spirit ,
Sonny. In art nothing Is either
proper or Improper , but things nro
either natural or unnatural. Now the
things that you think proper are often
unnatural and Iho things that you
seem lo think Impioper are often Iho
truest to life. "
I nod 1 dldent know If they was Into
to life or not but I new It wasont proper
lo leove ouch plcktures out where
evoryboddy that cum In the stowdlo
cud see thorn , and I as ! him If ho
dldenl cover them up when ho had
lady callers.
He ses "Why no , Johnny , of coarse
not. Trite art IK needier maskiillno
nor feminine It Is nowlor. Can't I
get Into your bed what 1 moon ? It N
the beauty of outline In wlnimen and
the strength of outline In men that
the artist admires and seeks to pour-
tray. And we must go back to Nature
lo llnd reel art. Men and wlmmon ns
they are dress ! loday are not arllstick.
When a woman sits for her portrait
Hie true artist sees In his minds eye
ns It wore , not the fussy eronshuns of
Innrtlsllck dressmakers with which
she is adorned but the reel woman an
Nature made her and as he trans-
furs this consepsliun of his mind's
ejo lo Iho canvass he works in the
goun she winos us well as he can seas
as not to spoil his artist Ids crcashun
of the Natural. Does It porkolato ,
Johnny ? "
"Well I see what you'io hitting at"
ses I , but I'll just belcher If the So-
slety wlinnien that emus hero to get
their port rales tuck new you had a
Xrny In your eye so you cud see 'om
as you say the true artist does , I'U
botcher there wiidont lie monny por-
Irates tuck. "
He sed" the old Greeks uster bo
grate artists and that their old statulo
called Venus de Mylow had never been
beet only her arms got broke off In
the Hood that drowml them all but
Noah and Shorn Ham and Jay foot , and
that art critiks had never bin able to
doslde wether she was combing her
hair or just looking at herself In a
hand mirror.
1 ast him if his wife was a artist too
and he sed he had an nllnnytoo bill no
wife. He sed true artists all had
aflnnytocs but If they were wlzo they
dldent marry becaws marriage do-
stroyd the glanimur of the allnnytee.
Now I don't exacktly just know
what "glanimur of the aflnnyteo" Is
but I'll Just botcher Its got more to \
do with sum devorco cases than "non-
sport" has.
The artist I'm pozlng for wants mete
to studdy art and he soz he'll help me ,
and I've just a noshun to try it becawn
you don't have to know how to spell
to be a artist , and he so/ that grate
artists make all kinds of monye , and
sum of then like MikkloAnjolow and
Whlssler make names for themselves
that will last thru all the ages.
I ast how monny thousands a year
ho made and se sed he was back six
weeks on his bord-hlll but ho was goIng -
Ing to bo rich sum day.
I bleeve It wud be lots of fun to he
a artist.
Yours ,
Johnny Dumper.
St. Paul , Minneapolis & Omaha road.
A large number of clubs In that ter
ritory will find Norfolk most advan
tageous lor the mooting and clubs
from over the state will find no dim-
culty in making good train connec
tions from every diiectlon reaching
that city.
Norfolk Is a city of 5,000 people
situated on the Elkhorn river in Madi
son county. H Is 131 ! miles irom Lin
coln and practically the same illntnnpn
from Omaha. As a railroad center.
It not only has Its throe lines of road ,
but it Is the division headquarters for
Northwestern , with extensive termin
als and supply yards and with the of-
flees of the superintendent and othei
officials. Large numbers of railway
employes have their homes there and
it Is the initial point on the North
western for its line to Bonosteel and
Ihe now territory in South Dakota
recently opened for settlers through
the extinguishment of Indian titles on
reservations. The city Is an Important
business point for a largo territory.
This is strongly Illustrated In Its
banks and banking business , the city
having three national banks , two of
which are United states depository
banks. The capital and surplus of
these banks Is $287,000 , and the com
bined deposits of the banks la $1.389-
000. Norfolk is the banking and finan
cial center for n largo territory and In
this line It Is one of the Influential
cities In the state. The Importance
of Norfolk as a business center was
recognized by the government and
It Is one of the cities in the stale for
regular sessions of the United States
court for the district of Nebraska. Two
years ago the government completed
the government bulldlir ' In that city
which Is a handsome and commodious
structure.
The city of Noifolk is gradually
reaching out and developing a Job
bing business In a number of lines.
Located as It is with Its main line and
branch lines of railway It Is already
well equipped for a distributing busi
ness. The city has a splendid water
power on the Elkhorn river and It
has one of the large mills of the state
that Is widely known and extensively
advertised. In public Improvements
the city Is modern and
up-to-date , the
city owning Its own water plant and
having exceptionally good and cheap
llfihtlng service from a private com
pany. In The Norfolk Dally News It
has a dally paper receiving the after
noon Associated Press dispatches , a
paper that circulates through out
northeast Nebraska and which has ono
of the best equipped plants In the
state and a paper always Influential
for its city.