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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

Washington delegation of republican
and by electing a repub-
lican United States senator.
AROUND TOWN.
Don't take cold.
Will 1t ever stop raining?
How Is your rheumatism?
Two weeks from today it will all
be over.
How is your cornfield standing this
wet weather?
Are you wearing low shoes YETI
No? Not yet?
Wouldn't you hate to be down In
the gutter" today?
That man Herrick certainly acts.
queer, to say the least.
Norfolk has much to be thankful
for. Rain isn't as bad as snow.
1t is worse to get your feet wet"
than to get "cold feet" sometimes.
One man says that it is an insult to
Nature to be sick on a day like this.
Did you see that fellow on the
street Saturday wearing a straw hat?
A man was killed once for saying,
on day like this: SIS it wet enough
for your"
There is nothing meaner than per-
son who will slash up bicycle tires just
to be ornery.
Web feet would be handy on a day
like this-if any kind of feet could
ever be handy.
How would you like to be horse
thief and have all these north Nebras-
ka towns plotting against you?
SIS there water in your cellar?" has
superseded Are there bats in your
belfry?" as the question of the day.
People living in the west end Of
Norfolk now have the hope that they
can come out of the ark. The flood ie
over.
1t required patience to wait for the .
new wing at the hospital. 1t required
patients to get it started in the first
place.
There is no more difficult thing on
earth than to get up on this kind of
morning. If you don't believe it,,
try it.
Man grumbles because he hopes to
get something for nothing. But you
can't get something for nothing in
this world.
Why not issue an injunction aaginst
the hens of north Nebraska for form
ing a combination to regulate the sup
ply of eggs, in restraint of trade?
There are lot of young men this
year who will cast votes for the first
time. Some there are who will cast
their last. Tine moves on slowly, but
surely.
Don't you wish, when you see q
hunter headed for a days shooting,
that you could go along with him and
get away from things and breathe il
the fresh air for a day?
Norfolk will be the center of the
universe next week. Mr.. Bryan will
be in and out of here frequently dur
ing three days. He comes not in JEFF
fersonan style but in a special train
of his own, like a king of old. Next
to Walker Whiteside, he is apt to
draw the largest house of any actor
here this season.
The new cutters ought to be bridged
at the street crossings, because in
| time of running water pedestrians are
obliged to step across a fairly wide
current, and because the step up is
| too violent for ordinary weather.
| West Point has solved this same prob
lem by sort of gang plank made OF
wood.
ATCHIsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.
Every man is poacher.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

1t required patience to wait for the
new wing at the hospital. 1t required
patients to get it started in the first
place.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

When married woman hears about
women who are working on salaries
she is liable to say: well, earn ALI
| get"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

Norfolk will be the center of the
universe next week. Mr.. Bryan will
be in and out of here frequently dur
ing three days. He comes not in JEFF
fersonian style, but in a special train
of his own, like king of old. Next
to Walker Whiteside, he is apt to
draw the largest house of any actor
here this season.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

Why not issue an injunction aaginst
the hens of north Nebraska for form
ing combination to regulate the sup
ply of eggs, in restraint of trade?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

We have observed that the better
the family, the less fuss there is made
over the announcement of wedding
in it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26
AROUND TOWN.

Don't take cold.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

There are lot of young men this
year who will cast votes for the first
time. Some there are who will cast
their last. Tine moves on slowly, but
surely.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

Every time we walk up the street
we see some man who arouses our GU
riOsity as to how he makes a living.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

There is no more difficult thing on
earth than to get up on this kind Of
a morning. If you don't believe it,
try it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

Man grumbles because he hopes to
get something for nothing. But you
can't get something for nothing in
this world.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

Don't you wish, when you see a
hunter headed for a days shooting,
that you could go along with him and
get away from things and breathe III
the fresh air for a day?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

Stanton Pickett: Personally we dc
not believe that the pass issue is all
paramount in this campaign. We be
lieve there are other issues of more
vital importance to the American peo
pie. But if it were the only issue
would either candidate, under the cir
cumstances, have any material edge
over the other? Judge Boyd says he
has never viewed the pass as a bride
but since the people have come to sc
view it and the republican convention
has declared against it he has returned
his pass and pledges himself not to use
them again. Judge Graves while view
ing the pass as a bride and not using
one in person did accept them fol
members of his family, but won't dc
it again. Has the kettle any right t
call the pot black?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

Bloomfield Monitor Everyone who
knows Judge Boyd knows that in rem
dering up his passes his purpose was
not for political effect, but to be In
true harmony with the party Of his
district and the convention which
nominated him. Everyone knows who
knows Judge Boyd that when he goes
down to Washington to represent
these people that it will be with the
determination to stand squarely on
every plank in the platform OF the con
vention which nominated him both in
letter and spirit and to aid in uphold
ing the policies of the President by
his vote and his voice.
Judge Graves stands on platform
strenuously opposed to the policies OF
the president. Which one is the most
trustworthy as your representative ir
congress? 1t seems to us the PROPOSE
ton is easy. 1t seems to us that nc
good republican who knows Judge
Boyd has the slightest excuse to sup
port his opponent. The one represents
every policy Of his party, the Other
everything opposed to it.
Judge Graves and his friends should
dig up another issue than the pass
proposition. That bubble has beer
effectively punctured
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-10-26

When a woman sews on Sunday
old fashioned women say: Every
day in the week is the same to her."
and then they sigh.
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
Success of the Wire Gun.

Two shots from the Brown siX-inch
wire gun attained a muzzle velocity of
3.410 feet second-the greatest
velocity ever obtained from any gun
of equal caliber-at the Government
proving grounds at Sandy Hook on
Saturday. Fourteen rounds in all were
fired. under the supervision of Col.
Charles s. Smith, u. S. A. Up to date
80 rounds have been fred at the prov
ing grounds from the Brown gun.
The test was q continuation OF those
that have been going on for weeks. and
the performance of Saturday will cause
the liveliest interest in the artillery
branch of the service. The two shots
that attained the velocity referred to
were characterized by the officers who
witnessed the test as having attained
"by all odds the greatest velocity ever
obtained from any gun of the caliber
and length Of the Brown gun" The
Brown gun uses prOjectile that
weighs 100 pounds. and is propelled by
72h pounds of smokeless powder.
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
THE ONE ACCIDENT CAME.
ut Never Happens to n Shooter bu
Once" Said Jimmie O'IIare.
(KanSas City Starr

(kanSaS City Starr
When Jimmie OHare was blown
into fragments at Chelsea one day last
week by the explosion of a wagonload
OF nitroglycerine a prophecy was full
filled that was first made more than 20
years ago and was reiterated times
without number in every oil district In
the country. For Jimmie had worke ed
in every district in the country where
the chug Of the oil drill has been heard
and in his life he handled enough ex-
plosiVes to have destroyed Port Arthur
several times. Daily he lived in close
association with hundreds of gallons
or n1troglycerine, and it was a comm on
sight in the oil country to see him rat
Ting over the hills on the seat Of q
wagon loaded with the deadly ex-
plOSive.
HE will get it some day." the boys
in the Pennsylvania oil fields began
saying more than 20 years ago. and
have repeated it everywhere Jimmie
went.
But all these years Jimmie laughed
at the prophecies and, laughing, would
load up his wagon and rattle out into
the country to shoot we'll, taking with
him from 100 to 200 quarts of nitro
glycerine. But the trite adage of the
pitcher tells the story of Jimmie's end
AS is usually the case in such accidents
nobody knows or ever will know how
1t happened. There was an explosion
that shook the country for miles
around. and when an investigation was
made there was little to be found ex-
cept a wide, deep hole in the ground.
The man who was killed often told
of incidents that illustrated the freak
ishneSs of the explosive he handled
and 1t may have been some freak that
cost him his life. Jimmie used to tell
of the runaway in the streets Of Brad
q
slycerine wagon the whole length of a
street, the cans richochetting around
like billiard balls. and no explosion &C.
Cured. Then of another case which
occurred in the old days. when the
glycerine box was located right over the
springs of the wagon. There was a
leaky can and three drops falling on
the springs caused the loss Of two lives
He told of still another case where 2
shooter on spree hurled bottles OF
glycerine against rock. All of the
bottles broke, but not one exploded
He would close with his story of that
singular occurrence which took place
in Chanute last Spring. when a glycer-
inc magazine caught fire and was ell
tirely burned without exploding. And
then he would say: IT'S the friction
man, it's the friction. and that's what
Pm always looking out for
Maybe Jimmie forgot the friction for
once.
Jimmie had certain rules he observed
when handling nitroglycerine. One day
while discussing explosives he said:
"A man had better quit this business
when he loses his nerve. 1t is just like
handling a nettle. Take hold Of 1t and
take hold strong. A nervous or panicky
fellow had better stay away from
glycerine. because something will hap
pen. and it never happens to a shooter
but once"
Jimmie was known to nearly every
oil man in New York. Pennsylvania. In
diana, Ohio, Kansas and California.
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
LINCOLN'S CARELESSNESS.
His Hat His FavOritc Receptacle f0
Letters and Papers.
(February Century.

When Lincoln was Postmaster OF
New Salem he used to tuck the letters
inside his hat and deliver them when
ever he happened to meet the persons
to whom they We're addressed. AS this
is a fair example of his business SyS-
tenn, 1T may readily be imagined that
the office Of Stuart & Lincoln was not
model establishment. where there was
a place for everything and everything
in it's place And it was not. Indeed,
as managing clerk the junior partner
would have been a hopeless failure, and
as an attorney, in the technical sense
Of the term. he would never have dis
tinguished himself. He disliked every
thing connected with the drudgery of
legal routine. hated drawing the dec
laratiOnS and pleas, despised the arti-
fatalities and refinements which were
even then beginning to creep into the
pleadings. and disregarded forms When
ever it was possible to do SO.
There was nothing mechanical, pre-
else or methodical about the man. and
in all those housewifely virtues which
characterized the careful, orderly, ex-
act solicitor he was utterly deficient.
He never knew where his papers were,
and apparently the only attempt he
ever made to better the disorder was to
write on one Of his bundles Of papers
which Uttered his desk. when you
can't find 1t anywhere else. look in
this" But that was long after the firm
of Stuart & Lincoln had dissolved, and
even then we find him explaining to a
correspondent that he had placed his
letter inside an old hat and had thus
neglected answering it, which shows he
had not wholly outgrown the habit of
his post-otfice days. Indeed, his hat
continued to be his favorite receptacle
for papers as long as he lived, and he
never acquired any sense Of order.
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
HUNTING BIG GAME.
Calling the Bull Moose With n Dirch-
3BnrIx Trumpet.
ernest Thompson Seton. in February
- ScribnerS)

9Bnrk Trumpet.
ernest Thompson Seton. in February
- Scribner's.)
The moose-cafling hunter Is one who
with birch-bark trumpet initiates the
below of the COW moose and tempts
the bull forth into plain view for an
easy shot. =
Though the least sportsmanlike. 1t is
the most effectual way of getting bull
be practiced only for fortnight or so
at the beginning OF the season. and in
exactly the right weather and surround
ings
Dead calm Is essential. If there be
wind from the moose to you, he cannot
hear your call: If 1t be from you to the
moose he smells you and flies to far
regions In q calm the call can be
heard for miles, so far. indeed. that
even II the moose came directly and
quickly he might be an hour or more
in getting to your stand. I once called
from hill at sunset, and learned later
that my friends four miles away heard
me distinctly, and therefore a moose.
with his keen hearing, might have
heard 1t five or six miles off.
The experienced hunter begins very
low. as there is always possibility Of
bull lurking in some near thicket. and
calls not more than once in 10 minutes
some think every 20 minutes often
enough: It Is probably too fast once
the response has come. The bulls an
| swer is deep. long grunt. varied by the
| swapping Of branches as he plunges
forward through the woods, but stop
ping at times to thrash some bush In
his course.
It is. indeed. one Of the most impress
sive sights In no animal world when at
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

Steel rails not only wear faster, but
break more often on bridges than in
ordinary track.
The ocean contains about 2.139 grains
OF salt and other solids per gallon, and
the Dead Sea about 1900 grains per
gallon.
There were four non-refillable bot
ties patented last week, the patentees
being J. M. Dunkie, G.. L. E. Wolf, ].
NJ. Gambon and w. III. Garnett.
The celIuloid wind screens of auto
mobiles give great risk of fire. Very
fine copper gauze is said to have proven
a satisfactory substitute. being easily
seen through and n-inflammable,
while it does not crack like celIuloid.
Glass bricks. a German product, are
translucent but not transparent, and
possess the advantages OF being acid
proof and Of harbOring no disease
germs.
The greatest depth at which gold has
as yet been excavated from the earth is
4200 feet (about three fourths of Il
mile), at the New Chums Mine, Aus
tralia.
The Altoona shops of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad have been ordered to
turn out 100 special box cars designed
for the shipment Of automobiles, In
anticipation Of a big boom In this trade
next spring
If odors were solid particles they
would tend to form nuclei Of cloudy
condensation in supersaturated air.
DR.. John Aftkin has tested musk and
% other odorous substances without
finding such nuclei and he concludes
that odors are gaseous and that smell
has gas as its fundamental basis.
The highest kite ascent was lately
made at Lindenberg. Prussia. 21.10O
feet being reached, with six attached
kites and 10000 yards Of wire. The tenn
perature fell from Al degrees at the
surface to Is degrees below zero: the
winds miles at surface-was Sc
miles an hour at highest point.
Ones hair. II never cut. would fur
nish record Of his health during life.
This is the interesting discovery of
Matsura. japanese psychologist. who
shows that the hair-like the finger
nails-grows smaller In disease and
that the duration Of the malady NAV
be estimated from the length of the
thinner section Of the hairs The varia-
lions are most striking In the coarse
haired races Of psopls.
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
RA1siNG GAME CHICKENS.
Secret Handed Down by Generations Of
Breeders In the south.

The raising Of game chickens for the
poultry show and for the pit are two
distinctly different industries. The
former requires only a good knowledge
of poultryf breeding. while the latter in
wolves as well q number of finer points
which are known only to a few who
have been long and closely connected
with the work.f
These secrets have in many cases
been handed down from generation to
generations carefully guarded. Every
breeder of fgarde chickens in the South
feels that snhe success Of his birds is
largely dependent upon these secrets,
and they are without doubt largely re-
sponsible for the success of birds raised
by Southern breeders. A few facts con-
corning game birds and their raising
for the pit, secured from Virginia
planter will be of general interest.
This gentleman says his ancestors
brought their original stock of game
chickens to this country, and their de-
scendants have been raising them ever
since. He is confident that this par
ticular strain of birds can hold their
own with the best the country AFFORDS.
This is not all idle talk, for his birds
have won fights in the principal cities
of the country.
First of all. the birds have been
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
Measuring Ocean Depths.

For measuring the depth of the ocean
a new device has been invented which
depends upon the consistency of the ve-
,city of sound in a medium like water
1t consists Of a transmitter Of sound
waves, a receiver and some sort of q
chronograph for recording time. The
waves being reflected from the bottom
the depth will, of course, be equal to
one-half that indicated by the distance
travelled by sound waves in water dur
ing the period of time elapsing between
the sending of the signal and its re-
turn. A period of four seconds, for in
stance, represents a depth of 2.640
yards, or one and half miles 1t is
obvious that without extremely sensi-
tive measurements of time the device
would be of value only i'm very deep
water, for a depth of 80 feet would
cause the sound wave to be reflected in
1-66 second.
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
DR.. Shoop S Rheumatic | abIets
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THE PROVISIONING OF THE MOD.
ERE ARMY IN THE FIELD. by
Col Henry G. Sharpe. Published by
the Franklin Hudson Publishing Co.
Kansas City, Mo.
Inc author or this work. of the high
est value to all officers of the Army. is
, Assistant Commissary-Gencral u. ). A.,
and has embodied in a small compass
vast amount Of much-needed and
exact knowledge in regard TO the great
est of problems connected with an
| army-that Of feeding it. The author
| has combined with his own long ex-
perience an unusual amount of research
and study of all the authorities who
| have written in other languages con-
corning the provisioning Of European
armies. This work represents the
cream of all their conclusions and
science The feeding of any body of
| men. little or big, is always of the first
consequence. Anything else can be far
better neglected than this. The prob
lem Is how to furnish them sufficient
food with the greatest certainty and ex-
penditure of the least labor. There is
only SO much strength available for the
commander of troops, and whatever
has to be expended in obtaining sup
plies is that much subtracted from thu
fighting force
PUCKETT'S POEMS. BY DR.. J. Lynn
vile Pickett Published by the
Christian Indicator Publishing Co.
Kokomo, Ind.
Comrade Pickett, who writes grace
best productions into this handsome lit
tie pamphlet. They are full OF hus.
handy and fraternal affection.
Magazines.
The January issue Of Sports AfieId is
rare good one-opening with a spir-
tied article on Rabbit Shooting that
no sportsman can afford to miss. Other
excellent papers are: Grab Fishing on
the Pacific Coast 1.-The Medium OF
Rattlesnake Gulch" Ia California
story. 1.-THE Joy of the Ski" "Hatchie
Coon-the Southwest's Happy Hunting
Ground"
The special features OF the Ameri-
can Monthly Review of Reviews for
February are, 1.-The South's Amazing
Progress" by Richard II. Edmonds:
1.-The Development of Our Gulf Ports
by r. W. Woolley; "How Galveston Sc
cured Protection Against the Sea- by
w. Watson Davis, and THE Growth OF
Southwest Texas"
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
Work Worlds Busy Brains in Discovering, nventng and
Creating.
Amendments.


The Commissioner of Patents an
nounces the following rule with regard
To amendments:
Rule 73. In every amendment the
exact word or words to be stricken out
OF inserted in the application must be
specified and the precise point indi-
Gated where the erasure or insertion is
to be made. All such amendments
must be on sheets of paper separate
from the papers previously filed, and
written on but one side of the paper.
Erasures. additions. Insertions, or mutt
latons of the papers and records must
not be made by the applicant"
Work Of the Patent Office.
For the week ended Jan. % the Pat
ent Office issued 514 patents seven de-
signs, 169 trademarks, 10 labels four
prints and two reissues, making a
total of us, of which AIS patents and
1S9 trademarks. etc. went to citizens
of the United States and 43 patents and
three trademarks to those of foreign
countries.
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
Paired.
(LippincOtt'S. Sd

(LippincOttS.)
Said Mr.. c.: I'm those days l was a
Republican, and my friend R.. who was
the most penurious man in New Eng
land, was a Democrat. One day he said
to me. &C.. have your committee beer
after your
Not yet I replied.
"'Well. mine have been after me
and they wanted me to subscribe $500
and / told them / would said he.
Il looked at him in amazement
Then he added: Yes, l told them the
Republicans would expect $500 from
you. and l was going to pair off! So
mind you stick to that arrangement II
will be all the same to both parties. and
it won't cost either of US a cent
The National tribune., 1906-02-08
Date of LincOln'a Election.

Comrade Thomas A. Banks, Co. L,
10th Ohio, and Corporal, Co. b, I'd
Ohio H. A. Saybrook. ILL.,, says he be-
lleves The National Tribune is the best
paper published, adding that he has
been q subscriber lever since 1t was
born" He says Comrade H. r. Craw-
ford. QuartermaSter-Ser SD Pa,
is mistaken when he says President
Lincoln was elected on the first Tues
day in November, 1864. Comrade
Banks declares the records show that
Mr.. Lincoln was elected on November
8. 1864. He says: Our drummer boy
composed song which began:
"'On the 8th of November In "a,
We will elect old Abe for four years
more.'"