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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14
sHAw's ELASTIC CURRENCY.


Secretary Shaw has come forth with
form of elastic currency that is all
his own. He will deposit $10000,000
in various banks of the large cities,
half of the loan to be returned Janu-
airy 20 and half on February l. He
discusses money stringency from a
viewpoint that can not be sympathized
with by the west. Nebraska bankers
recently took action just opposed to
the loan which is to be made by the
secretary of the treasury, when they
voted solidly against the proposed cur
rency reform.
Secretary Shaw says, speaking of
his plan:
There is no occasion for alarm, but
believe there is occasion for relief.
This have decided to grant in the
following manner:
81 will deposit $10.000O00 in exist
ing depositaries in the cities desgnat-
ed below, to be secured by bonds &C.
ceptable for savings bank Investment
under the laws of New York and Mas
sachusetts, taken at 80 per cent. of
their value, these deposits to be re.
turned onehalf on the goth of January
and the remainder on the LIST of Febru-
airy. | will also buy $10,000,0 900 of the
bonds of 1907 at the following prices:
Registered bonds, eX-interest, at 101
and coupon bonds at 1902. In the event
that the bonds purchased are now held
as security Of the character above in
Dictated will be accepted in lieu there
of. Not more than $1O00,000 worth,
however, will be purchased from any
single institution under these condi-
tons. The deposits will be made as
follows:
New York and New Orleans, ST.
100000 each; Boston, Philadelphia
Baltimore, Chicago and st. Louis, ST.
100000 each; Cincinnati, Louisville,
Atlanta and Memphis, 100000 each"
The following explanation of the
alleged situation will not particularly
appeal to the western farmers, be-
cause they have enough money of their
own to get along on:
From the best information l can
get think the following describes the
situation fairly well:
Our blessings are the real cause of
the actual stringency in money recog-
nized everywhere. An Unexpectedly
large crop and industrial activity have
| caused an unprecedented demand for
money. The world is everywhere pros
porous and money is in great demand
throughout Europe as well as in the
United States. We never had such a
volume of credits, and they are based
on an unequaled volume of assets.
ing that staple by the train load, The
cotton planter, unlike the western
| farmers, demands actual cash and
carries it home in his pocket. The
western farmer is paid in checks,
which he deposits in the bank to his
credit, and therefore does not absorb
actual money as does the cotton plant
err. This money should be returned to
the banks when the planter settles
with his merchant soon after the first
of January, but between now and then
the cotton consuming country as well
as the cotton producing country is
short of money.
New England has sent millions to
the south and the manufacturers of
cotton throughout the south have eX-
hausted the capacity of local banks
and are trying to borrow elsewhere.
BRYAN AND OWNERSHIP,
The announcement made by Mr..
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14
THE STORER AFFAIR.

President Roosevelt will have the
country's sympathy in the Storer mix.
up. The president, it appears from the
vatican's semi-ofIicial statement that
several persons appeared before the
pope representing to come from the
head of the American government, did
lot abuse his position in connection
With the appointment of cardinal.
President Roosevelt will generally be
elieved when he says that he refused
D NEEDLE in the matter and that he
emoved the Storers because Mrs.
Horer was too much interested in af-
IRIS that were outside the official
npacity of herself and husband.
nPresident Roosevelt has been sub
niSted by the Storers to violation of
" unwritten law of fair play, which
$ that no private letter shall be
Wished without the consent and
sowledge of the writer President
w,sevelt had been a friend to the
,'ers, both politically and personal
no, For this reason, in his communi-
oldon to the Storers, he blended the
theonal with the official, which was
serVnder that he now appreciates. 1t
Tell enough always to keep bust
enteseparated from personal relations
Weasharp line.
tt Roosevelt has been ruffled by
terta
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14
FRIDAY DECEMBER 1905

this breach OF confidence to no incon.
siderable degree. He has given out
words that fairly sizzle in his retort
to the Storers. He lost patience, and
none will blame him. There come
moments when human patience snaps,
for II is possible TO egg on" the most
deliberate of men to a point of danger.
The Storcrs, not the president, have
suffered from this attack on their part
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

They are telling with humiliation Of
an Atchison woman who went east to
visit such wealthy family that a
maid was appointed to wait on her
personally. The second day the Atchi-
son woman had become so chummy
with the maid that she had her spend
the afternoon visiting with her in her
room, and on theithird day the Atchi-
son woman appeared to go riding with
her hostess wearing a fur wrap and
hat she had borrowed from the maid.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14
CONVENTIONS FOR NORFOLK.

CON NENllONS FUN Nohr oiAN'
The efforts of the Madison county
commissioners to Madison county and
Norfolk, are along the right line and
will meet with the hearty cooperation,
In interest at least, Of this section.
1t is line along which the Norfolk
Commercial club ought to have been
working for some time past and would,
no doubt, with an active head.
Secretary Hanson of the Fremont
club pointed out to Norfolk the value
of state conventions, especially con-
ventions of hard-headed, thinking men.
County commissioners are specially
qualified as guests because they are
shrewd business men, picked in their
several communities by virtue of their
good business Judgment. They would
readily see the good points of the city
they visit, and would go home and talk
about those good points. 1t is good
advertising, cheaply gained.
There are many other state conven-
lions which could be secured for Nor
folk during the year, and they are all
worth while. The Commercial club
has funds and If the president were to
outline a campaign of this sort, many
such assemblies could no doubt be
gained.
This is one of the many reasons
why Norfolk should own good active
Commercial club.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14
NoRFoLk'S PASSING PIONEERS.

The funeral of Mrs. Welhelmina
Buetow, one of the pioneers of Nor
folk, who came to this section forty
years ago with the very first colony,
was attended by very large number
of friends at the home west of the
city, and at st. Paul's church north Of
the city, Sunday afternoon.
In the shadow of Wisconsin pines,
In the stiffness, after wars alarms
Resounded family, farther seeming,
A sturdy few, whose homely lines
We're cast far from clashing arms,
Of newer homes, were often dreaming.
Strange stories told of western plains.
Unclaimed their thoughts like fairy
tales
OF old world gnomos and German
mountains.
They turned to cash, their forest
gains;
They braved the clustering prairie
gales,
And shifting streams from sandy foun-
tainS.
With towering grass in waving ranks,
Strange beasts upon the rolling hills,
The stiffness song bird ne'er has brok-
en-,
The Elkhorn rivers grass grown
banks,
No airy fancies, stubborn wills
Marked every word in that day spok-
en-.
A well-built city long has stood
Where hay-roofed shacks once shell
tered those
Who in those days were cultivating
The little groves Of cottonwood,
And caused to blossom as the rose,
The land that had so long been wait
ing.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14
SACRED CHRISTMAS TIME.

christmas rhymes,
Christmas times,
christmas chlmes'
All tne borrowed customs from be-
yond the sea
are rising
surprising,
Disgusting
themselves In Yankeeland where
once the free
AND brave
would wave
away one TUES Ihey Valnly sought to
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Sunday is great day for the girls
who work down town. They can
crowd more into the day than the av-
erage woman can get into a whole
week. An Atchison girl who works
down town did her own washing yes
terday; set and baked bread got din
ner; spent the afternoon in embroider-
ing and the evening in reading the
new magazines.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

A little boy visiting in Norfolk the
other day, from California, and who
had never seen snow, was amazed
when furry of flakes appeared.
Grandma" he cried. THE snow is
downing"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Encircled by the sentinel trees in
bend of the Elkhorn is a rise of
ground upon which, screened from the
railroad by grove, stand the farm
buildings just as they stood nineteen
years ago, when fifteen-year-old boy,
in felt boots and a halloween cap, was
picking up cobs, which the hogs, ac-
commidating creatures, had shelled
/ out of their wrapping of grain.
The vision that had all day been be-
tween John and his 'fggers" at school
still danced before his eyes in the
snow. 1t was no black-eyed Susan nor
blue-eyed Bessie, but Cady hat and
patent leather shoes of a spruce young
man whose manner had made it a
pleasure for the youths father to pass
over $1O5 as part payment for bind
err that had stood out by the granary
for couple of winters.
After the chores and supper were
over the "kid" bundled himself up and
| fioundered through the snow, alternate
layers of annie Rooney and "The
Flowers That Bloom in the Spring"
freezing to the struggling down on his
weather-beaten face, till it shone like
Moses in the wilderness, but when he
reached his thresher neighbours, he
got the job of tanking for him the next
fall.
And that was his first encounter
with the busy outside world. Soon
John was in the shops in Minneapolis,
then in some knitting establishment,
but the microbe of electrical science
had fastened upon him, and now after
carrying a half dozen trunks of knit
goods over the country for years, he
will at almost every stopping place.
unless his apartment is in the sky
parlor in the summertime or in the
shed room in the winter, spend every
moment his business will allow with
miniature electrical laboratory, that
travels everywhere with him in an
innocent looking grip, and he may one
day tell the world where electricity
comes from and maybe what it is and
then true progress in the worlds his.
tory will begin.
In passing the old farm house, he is
usually recognized by the mother and
young brothers, so a greeting is ex-
changed far oftener than he can stop
to visit
John is only one kind of travelling
man. Some of the others another time
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Certain knights or Norfolk" hav-
ing been criticised by the "Faire La
dyes" for emitting the said faire la
dyes from sundry entertainments, the
knights last Saturday eve refrained
from mingling in quiet party and
comforted themselves with the thought
that now all would be fair sailing but
to their dismay, they found the faire
ladyes had taken reproof into their
owns hands by going enmasse to the
said festivities. The Holy Sabbath
day was largely given up to negotia-
tions, embassies and secluded confer
ences. At times it seemed the irrec-
oncilables would raise the ensign of
revolt. But diplomacy worthy of a
Macchiavelli prevented a cessation of
amicable relations and now, though
the situation is somewhat strained it
is believed by those most conversant
with affairs, that a crisis has been
averted.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Some men hate to do right because
they think they are doing 1t for the
Lord That is where they are fooled.
A man should do right for his own
sake because doing right pays better
than doing wrong. For his own sake,
no man can afford intemperance, dis
honesty or idleness.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14
ATcHlsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

Implying the wrong bottle has filled
many an untimely grave.
When popular woman is not pref
ty her friends say she is interesting
looking"
Few magnifying glasses are power
full enough to enable man to see his
own faults.
A woman may be an angel or
devil; and being an angel is easier
than being a devil.
You may have noticed that the more
an ofiiceholder talks about resigning
the tighter he clings to his job.
There is more meat and more flavor
to the turkey won at a rattle than on
the bird bought over a counter.
The Methodists and Presbyterians
call the Rev. F. S. White, rector of
Trinity church, Father White"
Heavy SHOWS are so rare in Kansas
that sleighs lead almost as secluded
an existence as a married mans dress
suit.
When a man complains that the
town he lives in is hot bed of gossip,
you may depend upon it he is doing
something to be talked about,
In an old-fashioned country town,
the men who played horseshoe in the
summer are deeply engrossed in
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Christmas rudely interferes with hui
man comfort. One man in Norfolk the
other day asked his wife to give him
buckwheat cakes for breakfast. "I'm
too busy with Christmas things to stop
now" she said after Christmas I'll
do it,"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14
BRYAN AND OWNERSHIP.

The announcement made by Mr..
of O'Neill in Norfolk that
a convention of government owner
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

How would you like to be a boy
again, with prospects of getting a real
steam engine that would run, for
Christmas?
Most boys have wondered whether
Mark Twain's tom Sawyer" ever
grew up and got married The puzzle
is solved. Mrs. Tom Sawyer" whose
home is in Iowa, passed through Nor
folk last week to visit friends in New
man Grove.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14
checkers when cold weather comes.

The chronic croak has to draw
straws with the chronic brag as to
which is the more unpopular.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14
AROUND TOWN.

You never know how a law suit is
coming out until the verdict is rem.
dered.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

School boys enjoyed the visit of
Norfolk teachers to Omaha, very
much.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

The Ice box has lost its appetite
but the furnace has a good stomach
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Once more Norfolks luck kept of
the snow storm.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Dispatches from Ironton, Mo-, are to
the effect that ]. R. Burton's health is
steadily improving since he was con-
fined in Jail. There is suggestion in
this: Why couldn't Jail sentence be
good for every man who drinks to ex-
cess, and whose indulgences are all
beyond the limit that is good for him?
cines, and sending him the round of
health resorts, why not send him to
Jail?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

The Norfolk bar has taken Madison
by storm this week.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

1t requires nerve for a Mere Man to
make a housekeeping suggestion to
women, but we will risk it: Next sum-
mer put up your own sweet corn.
Sweet corn canned at home is much
better than the factory corn And it
is cheaper; you can buy roasting ears
at five cents dozen and put up corn
cheaper than you can buy 1t at the
grocery stores. And it Is very much
better, and cleaner.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Eggs are so high that the public can
hardly reach them, though standing
on tip-toe.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

At the present price of eggs, bar
bers ought to raise their rates on an
egg shampoo.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

and take what's left" is the Christmas
shopping cry of 1906.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

The millennium is approaching. Young
women are beginning to assume re-
sponsibility over the furnaces At a
party in Norfolk the other day young
lady, right in the middle of a hand at
whist called to her father, some Ia
hles away, and asked if he had attend
cd 10 The air check again.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

You pay your money and take your
choice" has hidden it's head at a mot
TO this year. you pay your money
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Norfolk today can almost hear the
sleighbells of Santa Claus as they jim
gle toward this town-center of the
universe at Christmas time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Few magnifying glasses are power
full enough to enable man to see his
own faults.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

You may have noticed that the more
an oficeholder talks about resigninl
the tighter he clings to his job.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

A woman may be an angel or {
devil; and being an angel is easier
than being a devil.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

When a popular woman is not pref
ty, her friends say she is interesting
looking"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Emptying the wrong bottle has filled
many an untimely grave.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

There is more meat and more flavor
to the turkey won at rattle than on
the bird bought over a counter.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

The Methodists and Presbyterian
call the Rev. F. S. White, rector o
Trinity church, Father White"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-14

Heavy SHOWS are so rare in Kansas
that sleighs lead almost as secluded
an existence as a married mans dress
suit.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-01

"I.ook out" said the Turner. com
pressing his nostrIls with forclnGer
and thumb. There's sIsunk cabbage
growing there"
They hastened past the skunk cab
bage patch, and finally. when II was
possible to breathe freely, The fnrmer
suil:
skunk cnbbaEes nrc not the only
foul mnieliiug plants. StapelIas smell SO
much like carrlon tlIat bluehOttle flies
often Iny thcr'csgs on them. niatalsIng
the thicl flcsly flowers for dead birds
or dCcomposed KITTENS,
'.,I'lte rafIlcsla OF sSulnatra smells SO
strong that 1t Is always epyeloped "a y
buzzing cloud If tiies. It y z GIANT
fower. {, Ynrdln diameter, and Its ot!or'
makes you thuh of glue factories gar
hagc converting plants and fertilizer
works
.1'lIe t'uctt;s rT'Hhelfaorn md the Pc
DARN foftid. IRE fr5I1ieal flowers of 50
terrible smcll Tint the former Kills
ali OTHER Grnwtlls Within ten yards Of
IL. ana tl,e iattef with one Win, gives y
human l:,illg a,headuche."
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-01
~ 800 courl $50.

Put some isinElitss 10 soak in warm
water for twenty-four hours. then evap.
crate nearly nh of tile water by gentle
heat Add n little spirits of wine TO
the remainder and when 1t has dis
solved strain it through a piece Of
coarse linen. The strained mass should
be stir jelly when cool. Fasten the
edges OF piece OF clean silk to a
wooden frame by means OF thclSs or
thread, running the thread through the
silk with n needle, over the frame and
through the silk again, and so on until
securely fastened. Melt the Jelly and
apply 1t to the silk with clean hair
brush, spreading 1t thInly and evenly
over the entire surface. Allow this
coat to dry thoroughly, then give It a
second coating in the same manner.
When the whole thing has become quito
dry apply three cents of balsan of
Peru. This court plaster VIII he found
very plnble and will not break.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-01
Lo.t 10 rernuI.Itc.

There arc people who make boast
Of their t!midity. AMI Mrs. StHplcton
IS among The number.
II was born so" she announced with
plaintive pride to II comparative strnn-
ger one day II eIherit 1t from my
mother. She was afraid of almost all
lE.iaa!s. She never Travelled. and she
was in absolute terror OF thunder
showers and OF high winds and Of
nail storms
Dear moi said the listener, trying
70 be properly sympathetic. How lit
tie 81. oytacut she must lave had!"
"Shc was just like me in tempcrl-
mont" said the timld one pensively
Sic G!.5n't mind her suTerlngs SO
nEch II they were only understood,
Gnl she didn't conceal them.
Vow. a.n IN uDlect fear OF spiders,
md do YOU know ut a place / visited
oue SIMMER u great spider was crawl
ingsup nay skirt. aud one of my frie;.dy
toni; it or and fung It away withou;
saying one word to me. II lada't
happened to turn quickly 1 should
never have known there had been
spider near mel As / told her when
from my Mysteries, shoulG
have thought she would have l5noy1n
better. MS she was well aware that
spiders always make me faint. Eut
think she'll never do such a thing
lGnin!''
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-01
Must. veraialr ..I.rol-I-.a n, nae. Slaaic.

AIusts. Versus ''I'ro=E-a EIaInc'' Music.
Were trfyfality the only sin OF pro
gramme music we might leave It.
without further ado, to the gradual
oblivion which ovcrtaGes the jejlinc III
art, but unfortunately programme lnu-
Sic not merely bores the music lover;
it does him a positive injury. which
criticism ought. so far MS it can, to
mitigate. BY Its false emphasis 1t dis
tract; attention from what music can
do Supremacy to what 1t can only botcis
and Dmlglc, brings true masterpieces
into discredilt with hearers not sensI-
tive or disciplined enough to appre-
ciate them aud plunges the simple into
n hopeless aesthetic dIIagmire Pitia-
bic is the Frequency OF such questions
on the lips OF aspiring students. as
Fought 1. when / listen to music, TO
have in mind "A series OF pictures or
story:" 10 judge by the ninutencss
OF its detail, the art which, beyond ali
others. Is great by virtue OF Indefinite
suggestion and inspires by. appealing
to faculties FAR below the level of In
telIectuaI consciousness is to be sadly
duped.-DanieI Gregory Mason in At
lantIc
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-01
Notice Of transfer

Notice is hereby given that the
following named person has nteo
his application and petition Tor
transfer Of license to sell at retall
Epirituous wines, liquors ale, beer
and drinks Of like nature IN the
CITY of Clarksbprg, for the residue 1nc
Of the year beginning May Isl, l9oo:
Nm CHAEL b. SHERIDAE, trans
fer Of license Of Lloyd Duff: Met
ropolitan Hotel, Hornor buIIdlng'
1926 West Pike street. Clarks-
burg, West Virginia;
And notice IS also hereby given
that the said application and Petl-
ION for transfer aforesaid Will Ds
heard by the Council OF the City OF
CIarksburg, at a regular session 20
81 held on the 10Th day Of October
Given under my hand tbs the
SSH day Of September, 1qoG:
WILL II. COLE,
B clerk Of the City of clarEzburg.
szSsept8ot,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-01
origin OF me olympic c:alne..

Each tribe wished for itself the cred
It of having established the festival
which drew 10 Olympia the strength.
beauty and intelligence Of all Greece.
Some claimed TINT Zeus established the
festival to commemorate his success
IN the contest with Cronus for the SOW
ereignty OF heaven, a myth which
seems TO point TO Pelnsgic origin of
tile games. The Acliaeans coveted the
honor for their hero Atreus and Strabo
for the EtolIans More widely credited
was the belief fhat the games were es-
tnbIished by the Cretan Hercules. who
III play challenged his brothers TO run
Il race and to crown the victor with a
branch of Wild olive To the interest
of the Dorians was the myth of Apollo
outrunnfng Hermes and Ares. But
such myths do not necessarily imply
remote antiquity for the events to
which they give poetic coIoring. 1t
Is more to the point that Homer de
scr!bcs several Of the contests. repre-.
sentel afterwarl in the great national
games. aud that some OF them may
even be found in Egyptian wall paint
lngs Of the second and third nIilIcnni-
ums before Christ