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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21
MADISON COUNTY VALUES
REPORT OF STATISTICS BY STATE
BUREAU OF LABOR.
Value Of the Crops, Stock, and the
Amount Of Bank Deposits, Showing
Very Good Per Capita Wealth in
the County-Good Farm Land.

The bulletin of the state bureau of
labor. recently issued by Burrett Bush,
deputy commissioner Of labor and Don
c. Despair, chief clerk, which deals
with the resources OF Nebraska, has
the following to say regarding Madi-
son county:
Madison county forms part of one
of the most beautiful prairie regions
in the state. The surface consists Of
upland valleys, bluffs and bottom land;
about 80 per cent is tillable and the
remainder generally affords good pas.
turage. The soil is a dark, sandy
loan. with clay and sand subsoil.
Brick OF a superior quality Is manu-
factured at different places in the
county. The Elkhorn river the North
fork, and Union, Shell, Battle, Deer,
Dry and Buffalo creeks furnish good
| drainage. Many cattle and hogs are
marketed every year, and dairying
and mixed farming are extensively fol-
! lowed. The cereals all do we'll and a
large area is devoted to the culture OF
sugar beets, Numerous artificial
/ groves and many orchards are attrac-
| tive features of the advancement made
in this section. There are five flour
ing and grist mills and three brick
| yards.
The total number of acres under
cultivation is 3O4, 1876, and the average
value of the land in the county is
$3.50. The yield of the principal
crops in 1903 was as follows; Wheat,
236,S2O; corn, 2,7S9,952; oats, 2,234,-
1873; rye, 10G,l47; the total value OF
these crops being S2,379, ,122, a per
capita value of $l4O14 Madison
county ranged third in the production
OF oats in 1908. The value of live
stock in 1904 was $2,2S1,225. The
bank deposits in 1903 amounted to
$l,623, 10000, a per capita of $95.66."
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21
Warnerville.

Ed. Creamer made a business trip
to Omaha last week, returning Sun.
day.
Fred Woodruff and family OF Grip
pie Creek. Cot. are visiting George
Wheeler.
Or, and Mrs II. O. Munson of Bat
tie Creek We're the guests of the doc
tors parents Wednesday.
Rev. Mr., Peters of Norfolk is hold,
ing revival services at the Werner.
Vile school house every evening this
week.
Fred Terry sold a carload of fat cat,
tie aud fine bunch of hogs to George
d. Butterfield OF Norfolk Saturday.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21

teach but that is not to my liking. |
want a life of activity, with plenty OF
outside work | shall sell pianos un.
til can establish myself"
Many former university students In
Norfolk well remember Clarke, who
entered the university five years ago
next September lie Is good looking,
clean cut and wears dark glasses,
The man who reads to him leads him
about on all occasions and he Is n ia
millar sight ON the campus or In H.
hrary halls at Lincoln.
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saeealaureate Sermon.

Rev. J. +, Poucher of the Methodist
church has been invited by the class
OF 1905, Norfolk high school, to preach
the class sermon on the evening of the
last Sunday in May.
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Distressing Accident.

As Mrs. +. l.. EstabroOk was work
ing in the yard yesterday, the branch
of plum tree that had been bent
down, sprung up and struck her in
the eye, cutting a cash In the eye ball
The injury is painful and may prove
serious to her eyesght.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21
Letter List.

List Of letters remaining uncalled
for at the postoffice at Norfolk, Neb,
April IS, 1905.
Miss Lulu Condor, Mr.. Alfred Cobb
2, Mr.. Chas. Carr, Martin Gerrits, Mr..
G. l.. Krause, Mrs. Jennie Reed.
II 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. NJ.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21
Monoqram Deslans.

New. original designs in monograms
for correspondence stationery. Very
late and artistic. Sample sketches
will be made without charge, for the
approval OF exacting persons who de-
sire this sort OF work. THE NEWS.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21
Married Thirty Years.

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. NJ. Gaylord celebrat-
ed their thirtieth wedding anniversary
by entertaining company of neigh
bors and friends at their home on
Philip avenue at a 5 o'clock dinner
last evening, Music and other enter
tainment was provided for the guests.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21
SNOW IN THE MIDDLE OF APRIL
Like an April Shower, But Too Cold
to Rain Today.

10 NAM Ioudy.
Snow In the middle of April came
upon this section OF the world today
when. at 1890 o'clock this morning
large flakes began falling. The snow
was like an April shower in it's brev-
ity and was of no serious consequence
1t was too cold to rain and as a re-
suit the shower that had been prom
ised, turned into crystals. The mer.
curry was below freezing point.
Later during the day the snow in
creased and was falling in huge Quan.
titles throughout the afternoon,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21
THREATENED 10 KILL HER
WEST POINT YOUNG MAN PLEADS
GUILTY TO CHARGE.
ASSAULTED WOMAN ON STREET
WiIfred Scott. Good Looking Young
Farmer, Today Pleaded Guilty to
the Charge of Assault and Using
Threatening Language.


Wilfred Scott, young man from
West Point, Neb who is not bad look.
ing, pleaded guilty in Judge Hayes
court this morning to assaulting and
threatening to kill Mrs. Helen Peter
son if she refused to do as he ordered.
He was fined $40 and costs and was
Jailed for ten days upon failure to pay
the fine.
Scott was arrested last night on
South Fourth street when he ap-
preached Mrs. Peterson, after having
followed her, and caught her in his
arms. According to. her story today,
he grabbed her and, holding his fist
over her face, threatened to kill her.
He had followed her for several nights,
and upon one occasion she had tainted
while running from him.
Scott has been working on a farm
near Norfolk.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21

II you want help-men or women
get them easily with a little want ad
in The News.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21
Likes Football.

Clarke Is an enthusiastic sports
man Every football. basket ball or
base ball game finds him among the
rooters He understands the games
and is able 10 discuss the abilities OF
the players. \ friend tells him the
plays as they are made He sits as
GREATNESS as hardened fans at the
crisis OF the contest
He is an excellent talker and has
command OF language, being remark
ably quick to see and take advantage
Of the mistakes OF adyersaries in de
bate, There is no hint OF selfcon.
sciousness in his manner when be,
fore an audience, and il is dificult "a
remember when listening to him that
he cannot see the effect OF his words
MANY persons eNaggerate the diff
ficulties experienced by the blind. he
says. There is a big world left fol
MS to explore, and science and hu
manity have brought within the reach
OF even the partly educated blind much
OF the treasures of literature and life
! write with my right hand and read
with my left, but | also employ my
right 10 90 ahead and spy out the
country.
1T is just as you use your eyes
You go along reading with and picl
up what is left by the. other. As soor
as ] graduate / am going into busi
ness. | have a good ear for music
they tell me, and play psssably well
| have had several opportunities tC
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21
ROBBERS SHOOT WOMAN.
Secure $500 From Bank and Shoot
Bankers wife In Neck

Choruhus. Ind, April -. - six un-
known robbers today robbed the pri.
vatc bank of Oscar Candy a. Co., of
$500. Mrs. Candy wife of the bank.
or, was shot In the neck by one of
the robbers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21

Telephone your want ads to The
News office. number %.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-21
ROAD NEAR STANTON.

Meet Here to Arrange
Repairs,
A meeting OF commissioners OF Mad
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09
4 Dress Made of Postage Stamps.

An American lady wore ball dress
at a ball in Bermuda recently in which
10000 stamps were used. Years were
spent in the collection, and the dress
was covered with stamps of all ma.
tons. An eagle made entirely with
brown Columbian stamps was the GEN.
tire of the breast. Suspended from the
talois was globe made of very old
blue revenue stamps. On either side
of the globe was an American flag.
the stripes of blue and red stamps. A
collection of foreign stamps was past
ed on the back OF the bodice in the
form of shield. A large picture hat,
covered with red and blue stamps,
n mask and very pretty fan COW
cred entirely with pink. completed the
costume.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09
SOUND ADVICE FOR MEN.
rs Homan's Side of It-Converse of
the Proposition That the Wife
Sho Id Not Burden Husband
With Household Duties.

Beginning away back with st. Paul,
who admonished the women to keep 81
lent in the churches, the so-called
weaker sex have been exhorted, adj
vised and ridiculed; and long list
of conduct of the negative sort mapped
out beginning with DON'T, and an
equally lengthy array of the positive
sort, starting with DO.
And all this sage advice applies in
turn to maid and wife, debutante and
dowager.
Now what's sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander. Why not some
advice to men?
Are you one OF those men who con-
tinually leave their personal belong
ings, their hats, canes. coats or slippers,
wherever they've happened last to use
them?
Do you smoke your cigar in the par
Tor and let the ashes fall wheresoe'er
they will, and that. too, after the regu-
lar Friday cleaning? And you en-
deavor to placate your wife with that
superior sophistry about cigar ashes
keeping out moths.
Do you bury yourself in the morn.
ing paper, even reading while eating,
while your wife sits silent at the head
of tn table? Do you exclaim, or
chuckle, or swear softly at the latest
news, without sharing your informa'
tion with her?
Do you compliment the little wo-
man when you are enjoying one OF
your good dinners. or do you find fault
il the morning coffee is just the least
bit below standard, though the pre-.
vious twenty-five mornings you have
drunk the amber liquid Of SURPRISING
excellence?
Do you notice the new gown that
has cost her days Of thought and eff
fort? Or do you say "iou women
spend whole lot Of unnecessary
thought and time upon Clothes" and
then take your new top-coat back to
the tailor the sixth time because lit
doesn't set just right?"
Do you surprise your wife occa-
sionally by getting seats at the theatre
and giving her surprise party OF
two? Or do you say Jaw, so to the
matinee IL you want to see the show
I'll so to the ball game?
Do you tell her OF your plans, your
work, your perplexi.ies? Do you
share with her your hopes and fears
DO you let her know of the real life
you lead so many hours each day?
Or do you turn her questions with @
brief Women know nothing ABOUT
business. 1t will only worry YOU?
Do you sometimes take her in your
arms and say Little woman, you arc
a-gond- Mife=a- real help-meet.n2 DC
you ever tell her the things YOU did in
the sweetheart days? Or Go you lei
it go, thinking "She knows that any
way"
The woman's field Of labor big man
is narrow and circumscribed. II is
bounded, ordinarily, by the walls OF
the house and the needs of the chill
dren. This is her province and she
glories in it. But know that she
| also longs for contact with the big
world, for the mental stimulus that
comes from daily association with men
and affairs, for the Joy Of recognized
compensation for services rendered.
Because she is your wife. because
she has entered into the domestic life
these things are denied her.
Can't you be generous to the little
woman? Can't you welcome her into
your larger life? Can't you make heI
your real comrade-your true help
meet?
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09

by the Chinese and presumably intro
dueed into this country by them. II
consists in taking a bag of gold del
lars and shaking them violently about
for hours at a time, the result being
that they are taken out badly worn and
with small deposit Of gold at the bot
tom of the sack.
The government also has in its pos
session numerous counterfeits of for
eign currency, principally Italian. Ger
man and Austrian, though there is
soma English and French. The gov
eminent holds that it is as great a
crime to falsify or counterfeit foreign
obligations as it is to counterfeit our
own.
One of the features Of this curious
collection is the number of advertise
ments so closely resembling money or
stamps that the government officers de
termined to take charge Of them.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09
THE MERGANSER WILD DUCK.

toll from the finny tribes. Cold has
no terrors for these tough creatures
and they swim as nimbly In the icy
rivers of the north as in the waters
of the caribbean. They "dive at
fash" and are as difficult to kill as
the water witch" ITSELF
Only the most guileless housekeeper
will look at any saw-billed duck In
market-the serrated mandibles indi-
eating that the organ Is used as fish
chopper, and fish food never makes
good game meat.
The drake Is a gorgeous but vain end
selfish bird and Immediately deserts
the .neighborhood when the six to
twelve creamy buff eggs are being
Matched. All the domestic duties then
fall upon the devoted mother. 81 once
padded after a BROOD" says Chamber
lain in the Nature Library, land
though several times they were almost
within reach Of my landing net, they
eluded every effort to capture them
Throughout the chase the mother KEEP
close to the young birds. and severa
times swan across the bow OF the ca
noe In her efforts to draw my atten
ton from the brood and to offer her
self as q sacrifice for their escape.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09

mesnes are at Ni,lefranche sur Mere,
near Nice They are called the Col du
Cairo, and the Passable. Both have
been enlarged some few years ago,
notably the Passable, to which has
been added the whole of the western
side of Cape Ferrat. In this portion
of the newly acquired property small
port has been constructed for the
Kings yacht.
Lady Henry Somerset, who is well
| known in this country from her great
work in the interest Of the temperance
movement, has a woman fUUtman, a
| female butler, and women in charge OF
| her stables.
Members of relgning families,
princes as well as princesses Of the
blood, have to obtain permission from
the sovereign before they can leave
the country. They are always expect
cd to notify the monarch when they
intend to absent themselves from the
town or city where the court happens
to be in residence at the time.
The late King Hunbert of Italy on
one occasion called his niece, Duchess
Helen Of Aosta. to severe account for
! having left Italy to visit her mother
in France without previously obtaining
| his sanction.
This rule, which Viceroy Lord CurZon
also introduced in India, caused almost
open rebellion among a number of the
more powerful maharaiahs and gaek-
wars OF the empire, who on number
of occasions disregarded the Viceroy's
rule and left the empire net only with
out his sanction but against his strict
est instructions.
The wealth of some of the Russian
churches In costly gems, jewelry and
precious stones is proverbial. Some
churches in the United States, notwith-
standing they are not supported by the
government, as they are in Russia and
lother countries. are gradually acquir-
ing rare paintings, statuary, stained
glass windows and costly vestments.
For instance, the most costly mitre in
, the United States, mitre which rep
rescnts $4,000 worth Of jewels and
precious stones, is worn by Bishop
Horstmann OF the Cleveland diocese OF
!, the Roman Catholic Church. Most OF
these jewels were presented to the
. church by Mr.. Gordon, who also donat.
cd to the city Of Cleveland his magnif.
cent Gordon Park Mr.. Gordon was
a father of Mrs. Daisy Hanna, wife
|, Of Dan. Hanna, son Of the late Senator
Hanna. VAN CALAVA.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09
A SINGULAR COMBINATION.
RIDER HIGG4RD. WEIRD FICTION
WRITER; MODEL FARMER AND
POLITICAL ECONOMIST.
Makes Official Report on Salvation
Army Colonization Work. Would
Direct the Waste Forces OF Be-
neyolence."

I'll. Rider Haggard is q man of gen.
an. At one time, he is writing such
im.,oSSible creations as "She' ana
"King Solomon'S Mines" calling INTO
play a most vivid Imagination ana
settings, in weird aud unreal Color
tngs: at another time. he Is actiNeiy
superintending the work on his mag
nificcnt 2OO-acre English farm; next
he is studying over some new lmagin-
alive creation, wandering about us
home, and not speaking TO the mem
hers of his family for n week at q
dine; and again he is making an eco.
uomic study, under government
commission, Of the social conditions
of the poor in America. In short
Interview with him, as he passed
through Washington this year, on his
way west, | found that he possesscu
eminently practical bard sense, WINE
the Imaginative streak OF his charac-
ter did not manifest itself IN the
least, and l see now, that be mas
aust made his report to the British
, Secretary of State for the Colonies,
on his inspection of the three land
settlements, which have been estab-
hshed in California, Colorado and
Ohio respectively, by the American
branch Of the Salvation Army.
Colonization Work of Salvation Army
} At these three points the Salvation
Army has established rural settle
ments, taking worthy poor from the
pvercrowded cities, furnishing them
with small tracts of land, sufficient
moi 10 get n start and make homes
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09

One of the most beautiful Of wild
ducks, with its dark, glossy green head,
rich, salmon colored breast and strong
ly marked wings, its voracious fish
eating habits make the Merganser use
less for food and thus an object but
little troubled by sportsmen. A large
number of local names such as the goo
sander, the shelldrake, saw-bill, diving
goose, the weaser, have attached them
selves to this large, handsome swim
mer that studiously avoids man, even
though no sportsman would trouble
him, and that eludes pursuit by the
most remarkable feats Of diving and
swimming. Eating Is the chief object
in life for the Merganser. who fire.
quently swallows a fish so large that
1t can not descend into the stomach,
but must remain partially In the dis
tended throat until digested, piece
meal. But this process is SO rapid as
to always leave the bird with q vora.
cious appetite and drive 1t to desper.
ate rashness to secure its prey.
Swift currents with deep pools where
the fish hide and foaming cataracts
where they leap are the delight Of the
Merganser, whose marvellous diving and
swimming enable them to take heav.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09

IL,
FOR themselves, repayment Tor the
cost of which is provided at low rates
Of interest. ,.,s -.
Mr.. IIaccard expresses himself as
Axtremely we'll satisfied with the re-
nults seen at the Fort Romle settle
mont in California, and the Fort
Hmity settlement in Colorado. me
Ohio settlement he leaves out of con-
sideratlon, as it Is principally devoted
10 the redemption Of inebriates, ana
The CARRYING out of agricultural expert
ments. At both Forts Romie and
Amity. he found the settlers healthy,
hannv, hopeful and almost without
execution doing well. beginning in
nearly every case with nothing, i'll the
course of about four years at Fort Ro-
mic, he found these settlers worth
about $1,000 per head, above all their
debts and liabilities to the Salvation
! Army and others, and at Fort Amlty,
IN average of over $l,0Uo Il mead,
which he thinks is more than they
could have possibly accumulated dur
ing the same period as day laborers on
the land or III tie cities.
Reason For Wide Encourag cment.
1t is true that, although the set
Tiers themselves are. doing well the
Salvation Army, fer the reason that
unexpected difficulties in the OPEN
ing III If the land were encountered,
was called upon TO pay some $4,000
for It's cvnerirncn. N!r. lIaggard de-
clarcs, ho, ever. tl:at under all the cir
cumstanccS. and in the face of the
principles demonstrated, and the sue
cess won in every other direction, this
experience has been very cheaply
bought.
"Frrthor," he says. II cannot see
any cause to fear n repetition of that
loss in the future application of these
principles. 1t is therefore totally in
accurate to say, as has been done
widely in press summaries of my re-
port, that these settlements are fnan-
cially a failure"
Would systematic Philanthropy.
Mr.. uaggard proposes a scheme,
l. e." to combine judicious use of
the public credit, with that of what
have called, the waste forces of be-
nevolence,' and by means of these
two levers, TO lift some of the mass OF
human misery, which demonstrates
itself in the great cities of civilization
to new level Of plenty and content
ment."
He believes that IL settlements are
carried out on these lines, and espec
Tally If they are located upon goot
land, which has cost the controlling
authorities little or nothing, thers
should be, as is indicated by the tn
pies furnished in this report. no loss
OUT even a considerable gain.
G. NJ
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09
ancient AduIferafi00s.

Adulteration laws appear to have
been quite as necessary In the good
old days as in the sophisticated
Twentieth Century. Even the adul-
iteration Of feather beds and holsters
had to be provided against. October
IA. 1895, is the date of statute pro-
hibiting the sale In English fairs or
markets of these articles, or Of pill
lows, except they be stuffed with one
manner of feathers" It expressly
denounced the use of such unlawful
and corrupt stuffs" as "scalded
feathers, or fen-down." The last sub
stance is the same as cotton grass, and
was evidently in great demand as q
fraudulent substitute in bed.stuffing
In the Eighteenth Century, again, we
lind complaints Of people who bought
fen-down at halfpenny a pound, and
sold 1t among feathers at sixpencos
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-11-09
DESTROYING THE QUEER
LARGE SUNS OF CAPTURED
COUNTERFEITS BURNED UP
AND MELTED BIZ THE
GOVERNMENT.
Coin, Stamps. and Other limitations
Accumulate in Uncle Sans Strong
Box in Large Quantities.-Valuable
Counterfeiting Machinery.

The periodical destruction Of coun-
terfeit currency, spurious coin, post
age stamps, revenue stamps and other
eontrabaAd material captured from
coInterfeiters by the secret service.
has been ordered by the Secretary OF
the Treasury. The accumulation of this
stuff in the treasury is larger than
usual. Three clerks in the cash room
of the treasury have been delegated
q committee to see that this queer
money is done away with.
Every two or three years so much
counterfeit money and counterfeiting
tools and implements accumulate In the
office of Chief Wilkie, of the secret serv-
ice. that 1t is necessary to destroy 1t.
The chief notifies the Secretary OF the
Treasury. who issues an order which
sends the coin to the assay office, where
all the silver and gold is melted or re-
duced from the mass, run into ingots,