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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

ing and that he read every thing that
Mark Twain wrote. Twain said he
could return the compliment, and
winkod Mt the reporters who burst out
In hearty laughter. Then Mark Twain
said that his scheme OF life was to
smoke all day and do no work. After
that he said he tried to run the ship
all right on the way over but 1t ar
rived without his assistance. That
ended the conversation.
And American papers paid for col
umn OF the stun by cable-a striking
Illustration OF our desire to laugh. even
though we have to work hard to find
anything to laugh at.
The same sort of cable tolls were
paid when Mark Twain visited the
king, Saturday, and about the same
sort of dope came over the sea.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28
PAVING is PARAMOUNT.

Norfolk will receive with regret the
announcement that the paving of Nor
folk avenue, which was petitioned for
last summer and which was announc-
ed as an assured fact. will not. ma.
terialize. If there is any public i'm
provement which Norfolk sorely needs
at this time for many reasons 1t is
the paving of the main street Of the
city In the business portion OF the
town. And every EFFORT OF the city
as whole ought To be turned toward
the achievement of this end before
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

to the fact that It undermines mems
confidence in one another, so that they
cannot do business together. The
evil of lie to the man that tells Il is
something deeper and more subtle
than this. 1t is due to the fact that
he has got momentary considerations
out of proportion to eternal ones;
physical and intellectual ambitions
out of proportion to the demands Of
character"
In closing his appeal President Had
ley spoke to Yale graduates of the
truthful instincts that they had in
herited from their parents. He spoke
of the successes which many of them
hoped to make and would make in
business and politics. But all sue
cess, he said, Is small compared with
the success of preserving honor and
integrity. Here were his closing
words
But beg you to count each one of
these things as small compared with
the importance Of extending those
standards of honor which you have
received from those who have gone
before until they shall have become
a part Of yourselves and an influence
which shall mark you as true leaders
and helpers to your fellows"
And President Hadley is right. He
Is proved to be in the right when
from President Washington down
great men have considered truthful
ness as the one highest ideal to be
constantly striven for.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28
GOOD CITIZENSHIP THE GOAL.

The children of today are tomor-
rows men and women. The commu-
nity's future citizenship depends upon
the training of little folk of the pres
ent. The only method of securing
good citizenship is to begin with the
children and to inculcate into their
characters while those characters are
forming sense of right and wrong
and conscience that will choose the
right. When a mother will saturate
her home and pour into the ears of
her little children. the foulest of pro-
family and when she will lose her tenn
per and violently whip them in fits of
insane anger, 1t is hardly to be Won
dered at that those children will grow
up into degenerate and altogether I'M
desirable citizens. In order to guard
against this type of bad citizenship,
society has provided laws which allow
the courts to take away from unwhole-
some homes the wards that are being
trained into human weeds.
At Bassett a few weeks ago moth
er was murdered in cold blood by her
eleven-year-old son because she had
failed in her duty as a mother.
1t seems hard at times to overcome
the sentimental tragedy of separating
a mother from her clinging offspring,
but good citizenship is the end de-
sired in the rearing of children and
If parents fail in their duty as char
acter builders, society must take the
job for its own self protection.
1t is a good thing now and then to
emphasize the duty of the world to-
ward the little world growing up, and
Madison county will hope that Judge
Bates solution may work out to q
happy end.
Madison county had case this
week before the county court In which
a mother was called to show cause
why her children should not be taker
from her. She admitted her profan
ity and she admitted that she pun
ished the children when angry. Neigh
bors testified against her method o
bringing up little people, The woman
pleaded and promised better Treatment
: in the future. On this condition, bu
| with the sheriff and his wife In author
: ity over them as probation officers
! the mother was permitted to TAX,
her children back home. II she re
! forms and keeps her promise. she ma!
J bring those children up. II she fail
: and continues to train them into ,
} type Of character that can not worl
for good. she will lose them In thi
wav Judge Bates may have solved thu
} problem OF keeping a home togethe
: and making three good citizens grow
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28
THE PUBLIC'S RIGHTS.

President Small or the telegraphers'
union announced that he would ap-
peal to President Roosevelt and his
cabinet to aid in settling the present
telegraphers' strike, on the ground
that the transaction of business of
national Importance is being inter
fered with because OF the strike
When it Is considered that President
Small and his strikers have directly
caused the interference with business
and the congestion of Geographic
messages, by abandoning their keys,
the statement from him that he would
appeal for aid has something of eff
frontery that the public in general
will resent.
stake between the telegraph operators
and the employing companies, the
fact remains that the strikers in de-
sorting their instruments have done
an injustice, not so much to their en-
ployers as to the public.
President Small issued a statement
the other day glorying in the strike
situation. He joyfully declared that
the strike had been so successful that
wires were tied up on the coast as
effectually as at the time of the San
Francisco earthquake. Such paralysis
of telegraph wires becomes at once
a public calamity and the public has
a right to demand better treatment.
With thousands of messages piled up
undelivered in offices affected by the
strike, there is no telling how much
financial loss may have been sus-
tained how many messages from
deathbeds unreceived.
There ought to be a peaceable way
of settling the wage dispute and labor
controversy between employers and
employees. The public ought not be
made to suffer because operators and
employers fail to agree.
The operators demand twenty-five
percent increase and they demand
that they be treated as union. The
companies refuse to pay the twenty
five percent increase and to treat the
men excepting as individuals The
questions at stake are matters of bust
ness differences in opinion, caused by
different viewpoints. There ought to
be ways of adjustment without injur
ing the public. The public's welfare
is of prime Importance and should be
first attended to. The injury to the
public is another instance of the In
justice OF strikes as affecting society
at large. 1t is unfair for the operators
to work injury upon the general pub
lie for the sake of bringing pressure
to bear upon the employers. 1t 1!
equally unfair for employers to sub
ject their men to unfair treatment, ex
pecting public sentiment to work will
them in unfairness. Without regart
to the merits of either side of tn,
controversy, the adjustment shoul,
come In peace and the public shoult
not be ground between upper an,
, neither milestone.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28


few other Offices ought to be looked
after.
Everybody is looking at the fringe
OF tall grass and weeds along Norfolk
streets.
Before she gets married a girl ought
to learn that to accept gift is not to
except 1t.
Norfolk avenue, after rainy spell,
Is the muddiest road in the county.
Paving would help some.
Fremont Herald: The little town of
Albion boasts of library of 1000 vol.
umes, and this means great thing
for such a city.
1t gets so that experts can spot
each bit Of gossip and tell you in just
what particular part of town 1t must
have originated.
The Fourth Of July year ago killed
15S persons and injured 5,308.
Fremont Hill doesn't seem to re-
gard the Yankton & Southwestern
project as an uphill job
The days are getting shorter and
1t will soon be hustling the Nebraska
farmer to get his milking finished be.
fore shutdown.
Frostbitten fingers should be rubbed
in snow or very cold water.
Boys are urged not to skate on the
Northfork, no matter how deep the
ice may freeze.
If the Tilden girl should win the
watch, would 1t be Waterbury?
Valentine Is having more than its
share of tragedies.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

other Improvement matters are taken
up.
The paving of Norfolk avenue was
desired by majority of the resident
property owners of Norfolk avenue
lots. They made manifest their de-
sire in n petition to the city council
last fall. The public generally be-
lieved that this was step that Nor
folk should take without fail. Having
hoped that the plan would be carried
out, the announcement that there is
no hope for this year OF least, will
cause keen disappointment.
If 1t is possible for Norfolk to be-
come city of more than 5000 by
taking in additions, and If 1t is pos
sible for additions to be taken in
under the law, the city should take
steps at the first possible moment to
adopt this plan, in order that the paw
ing may be delayed no longer than
possible.
Small towns out through the north
west congratulated Norfolk when 1t
was announced to certainty last
fall that paving was assured. There
is not little of humility cast upon
Norfolk as result of the later an
nouncement at this time that the paw
ing ordinance recently passed was in
vain. And haste should be made in
taking steps to bring us up to the
mark that was previously set for the
city's progress as a result Of petition
and ordinance.
A paved Norfolk avenue would not
only help to dress up the city. 1t
would as well increase the value of
every foot of property along the line
Of pavement.
Visitors in Norfolk fail to realize the
energy and possibilities that are here
because of first impressions gained
through roads that are ragged and at
times very, very muddy. The city
has already voiced it's sentiment that
a little paving money would be we'll
spent, and that 1t would make a vast
difference in the towns tone, to say
nothing of the saving in horses that
have to draw heavy loads through the
mire.
Before taking up any other public
improvement which will cost public
money, Norfolk ought to work out to
successful end this paving move
ment. 1t is good policy for a COM
munity as for an individual business
institution, to take up one thing at
time and finish that before switch
ing off to other plans. The prelimin-
airy work toward paving has all been
done. The sentiment has been found
to be favorable to the plan. The bust
ness men and public in Norfolk believe
that paving is the paramount issue
in Norfolk until Norfolk avenue, from
the bridge to Seventh street, is COW
cred with a coating Of brick.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

where there would have been three
bad, by bringing to mothers mind
her own responsibility.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28
THE LIAR A PEST OF SOCIETY.

George Washington said honesty
was the best policy. A good many
men have repeated the axiom since
the first presidents speech. Expert
ence in business and in public Office
has told the story even more clearly.
The federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan, was this week replenished by
the addition of Banker King from
Scotland, S. D., who went to join the
colony of nineteen other banker-pris-
oners there. Apparently George was
right. A famous university head once
told his class of graduates that it
wasn't always necessary to speak, but
that when they did speak they ought
to tell the truth. President Arthur
T. Hadley of Yale in his baccalau-
reate sermon to graduates this year
gave the same advice. And his mes
sage was one of weight.
President Hadley took "The Liar"
for his theme and treated him as the
pest Of society, an unclean being with
whom no person wants to deal. He
spoke of the selfish ends which prompt
liars to speak untruth. The liar be-
lieves that he is gaining by his act of
prevarcation and he is willing to vio-
late tho rules of business integrity
for a momentarv gain. The integrity
of the spoken word is a necessity
among a people which desires to get
its business efficiently and straight
forwardly done, he said. 1t is impos-
sible to get the complex needs of mod
ern life and the complex forces of So
clety ruled unless the business men
and the political leaders keep their
word to one another. Thereafter any
man who is found to be physically I'M
truthful Is first distrusted and then
cast out, just as completely as we dis
trust and cast out the man who is
physically unclean.
"The reason is nearly the same in
the two cases." said President Had
ley. ut is a measure of self-protec-
ton on the part of society. And the
reason is so obvious and so impera-
tive that 1t is only weak or foolish
man who shuts his eyes to 1t and per.
sists in a course of conduct which
must remit either in peril to society
or in ostracisrt to himself
"But Just as there are a great many
people who in their personal relations
are content to wash their hands and
let their heart go, so there are an
equally large number who in their
public relations are content to be
physically truthful and stop short OF
being morally so. They avoid specific
forms of deceit They do not avoid
the philosophy of life of which deceit
In some form is necessary conse
quence.
THE evii Of y lie to society is due
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

An early morning tragedy occurred
in Norfolk. The man who was MUIR
dered had asked the wrong fellow if
it was hot enough for him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

When you meet man who shows
that he thinks he is as good as anyone,
you may depend upon it that he is
inferior to most people.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Don't complain. We were all cuss-
ing the weather man a few weeks ago
because he didn't send just this brand.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

You will observe that the man who
believes in ghosts always fears them
too much to pilot you to where you can
get good look at one.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Nothing looks worse than a weedy
street unless it is two weedy streets
And one weedy street is too weedy.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

After all, isn't the most aggravating
kind Of friend to have the one who
edges up little on you all the time?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

When a woman marries well, those
who dislike her account for it by re-
peating with much emphasis, "Well,
some men always were FOOLS"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

How many young women did you
count, in the moonlight, with the pic
lures of black coat sleeves drawn
across the backs of white shirt waists Z?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Norfolk streets have seldom looked
so ragged along the edges as they do
this summer.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.

The owner of false teeth usually
takes better care of them than a per-
son who has the homegrown variety.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Before she gets married girl ought
to learn that to accept gift is not to
except 1t.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Secretary Taft returned to Wash
ington Saturday afternoon. He said
the trip out here had been pretty siren
uous. He failed to mention in his in
terview with the Associated Press the
Norfolk band.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Everybody is looking at the fringe
of tall grass and weeds along Norfolk
streets.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

If you have friend, for heavens
sake appreciate him. Friends are
mighty rare. The rarest blessing is
friend who really admires you.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28


and helpers to your fellows"
And President Hadley is right. He
IS proved to be in the right when
rom President Washington down
great men have considered truthful
ness as the one highest ideal to be
striven for.
AROUND TOWN.
The Fourth of July comes next
week.
Norfolk ought to have its weeds
shaved.
Norfolk avenue is paved with good
Intentions.
1t appeared to be great moon for
he spoon.
The Fourth of July deathlist will
soon be due.
A Norfolk woman has mania for
ants.
An ordinance cuts no weeds without
he aid of blade.
The next public improvement need
ed ii Norfolk is the paving Of Norfolk
avenue.
Norfolk streets have seldom looked
so ragged along the edges as they do
his summer.
Nothing looks worse than a weedy
street unless it is two weedy streets.
And one weedy street is too weedy.
Don't complain. We were all cuss-
ing the weather man few weeks ago
because he didn't send just this brand.
An early morning tragedy occurred
in Norfolk. The man who was MUIR
dered had asked the wrong fellow if
it was hot enough for him.
How many young women did you
count, in the moonlight, with the pic
lures of black coat sleeves drawn
across the backs of white shirt waists?
Secretary Taft returned to Wash
ington Saturday afternoon. He said
the trip out here had been pretty siren
uous. He failed to mention in his in
terview with the Associated Press the
Norfolk band.
Give the weather man his due.
Every moustache has a beginning.
A bad beginning is usually a bad
ending.
The small boy is commencing to
blow his head off.
What's the matter with Norfolk for
a summer resort?
Don't you envy the boy who can go
swimming every day in the week this
kind of weather?
The weather man said it would rain
and turn cold. Pretty wise old wealth
err man, after all.
Nine times out of ten a man who
takes new styles of fireworks home to
his small son, insists on shooting the
things himself, lin order that the son
may not be injured"
Robert Lee Dunn, the writer who
accompanied Secretary Taft through
Norfolk last week, has the leading
story in this months Success. He
tells of travels with Roosevelt and
gives many illustrations. Mr.. Dunn
is said to be the best known campaign
photographer in the United States.
Let's pave.
Cut 'em out.
Now the weeds.
A watch and a piano.
Chop 'em down. Do 1t now.
4 man !r known by the weeds that
aren't mown.
II doesn't require a microscope tC
discover weeds along Norfolk streets
Norfolk needs paving above al
things; particularly above Norfolk av
enue.
Two candidates for Madison county
Offices have hepn announced in News
columns. They're both for the same
Office. To make things exciting, 6
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

The next public improvement need
ed III Norfolk is the paving of Norfolk
avenue.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Heaven will not suit the girls unless
the nectar and ambrosia are served at
a soda fountain with straws, red
cherry and Veronique waters as trim
mings.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

The small boy is commencing t.
blow his head off.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

few other Offices ought to be looked
after.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

An ordinance cuts no weeds without
the aid of a blade.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

What's the matter with Norfolk for
a summer resort?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

A bad beginning is usually a bad
ending.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Norfolk avenue, after rainy spell,
Is the muddiest road in the county.
Paving would help some.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

A Norfolk woman has a mania for
numbering ants.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

The average man has just enough
conceit to think he is the bell cow"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Give the weather man his due.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Every moustache has beginning.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

A good many people try to admin
lister forgiveness and punishment at
the same time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28
AROUND TOWN.

The Fourth of July deathlist will
soon be due.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

A boy never catches fish so small
he isn't proud to be seen carrying it
up the street.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Fremont Herald: The little town Of
Albion boasts of library of 1000 vol
umes, and this means a great thing
for such city.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

Don't you envy the boy who can go
swimming every day in the week this
kind of weather?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28


A good many people try to admin
lister forgiveness and punishment at
the same time.
A boy never catches fish so small
he isn't proud to be seen carrying it
up the street.
The rest of the world doesn't grieve
as much as it should when an expert
makes a blunder.
1t is one sign of small town, and a
dead one, if an elocutionist can draw
a good house.
Put the most uncomfortable seats in
a house in the reserved" section, and
a few people who think it is a sign of
poor breeding to sit in seats that are
not reserved, will pay more to sit in
them.
About all some men get for their
efforts to be dignified is a reputation
of having the swell head.
When fit is coming to man, the
sooner he has it the sooner it will be
over, and out of the way.
The thoughtless person has the ad-
vantage of the thoughtful one who
never has happy thought.
An Atchison woman always arranges
her work so she will have enough to
keep her good and busy when her hus-
band is at home, so he can see what a
slave she Is.
Nothing looks quite so cheap as a
cheap satchel.
An amateur gardeners tools usually
If woman misses her train, she is
convinced the conductor is no gentle
man.
When a woman who lives In a little
town is "dressy," she is very very
dressy.
Love may brighten the eye, as the
poet says, but 1t also has tendency
to disarrange the hair.
The Grafton in the morning Is the
only Fourth Of July noise which a boy
thinks should be suppressed.
One of the surprises In the life of
boy is to learn how people love him
when he gets dangerously sick.
Speaking of perfect self-coArol:
There is the young man who can wear
loud" shoes without looking at his
| feet.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

If the Tilden girl should win the
watch, would 1t be Waterbury?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-06-28

The rest of the world doesn't grieve
as much as it should when an expert
makes a blunder.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-26
TIGERS DEFEATED IN
 FAST PLAYED CAME Jimmie Cook Knocked Out by Pitched Ball Before
 the Game. WEST ENDS VICTORIOUS Munson Makes a Long Throw Home in the Second
 Inning. st
WEST ENDS VICTORIOUS

Special to the Journal and Courier.)
 Bridgeport, Aug. 25.--Before crowd of 2,2Oo people this afternoon the West Ends defeated the Tigers of New Ha- ven by a score of 2 to 1. The game was one of the fastest here this year neither side scoring up to the sixth inning when Griffin made the New Ha- ven team's only tally In their. half of the inning the West Ends made run and another in the seventh.
 Before the game Jimmie Cook was hit in the head by thrown ball and knocked senseless. Ittwas twenty min utes before he was revived. After a safe hit in the early part of the game Munson ran to first and falling over the first baseman became unconscieus for fifteen minutes. Another New Ha- ven casualty happened to the pitcher, Gauggells, whose first finger was knocked cut of joint by aslot liner.
 New Haven pulled outtof bad hole in the second inning when with three men on bases a long drive to right field was caught by Munson and thrown to Griffin making "a pretty dou- ble play and retiring the West Ends The score: