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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04
THE OWNERSHIP LEAGUE.

The government ownership club
meeting was held in Omaha for the
purpose of starting a national move
ment While the meeting was, sup
posed to be non-partisan in character,
there were only a few democrats and
one republican on hand. The balance
were populsts. When the meeting
began there were forty-three present,
but later in the evening the crowd
grew to seventy-six. In accordance
with Mr.. Harrington's letter to The
News, the candidacy of Mr., Bryan was
not launched and his name but cas-
ually mentioned once during the even
ing.
Mr.. Harrington called the meeting
! to order, declared that he was not
there to make speech and then gave
a two hours discourse during the
course Of which he got away from the
avowed object of the meeting, How
to Get Control of the Railroads" and
told "Whv the Railroads Should be
Taken Over by the Government" A
number of others followed along the
same line until Secretary Edgar How
ard interrupted and succeeded in get
| ting back to the real issue.
One democrat present is reported to
have said that this league would try
to run the railroads by attempting to
arrange little details years before they
had any scheme for getting the rail.
roads to run. John G. Maher of Lin
coin is reported to have said that two
thirds of the democrats of Nebraska
will oppose a government ownership
plank in the state platform.
Northern Nebraskans were appar
entity the main spring of the meeting
as Mr.. Harrington was made president
Mr.. Green of Creighton treasurer, Har
ry Bronze, formerly of Norfolk and
now of Omaha, vice president, and
Edgar Howard secretary.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04
NORFOLK,S NEW YEAR.

Norfolk starts the new year in bet
ter shape for growth and prosperity
than ever before. Never before die
this city face the new year with not q
vacant building on Norfolk avenue
from First street to Sixth. New indus
tries are starting and more are tc
come The city has sewer system
in progress of construction and paving
for Norfolk avenue has been asked FOR
by property owners along the thor
oughfare. On every hand there is con
fidence in Norfolk's opportunity. with
action, Norfolk will enjoy tho happi
est new year in her history.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04
WAGES HAVE A LIMIT

Wages are increasing. Labor is de
'manding higher pay and shorter hours
The country is called prosperous
Times ought to be happy, theoretically
But there are limits. AS something
always happens to prevent the tallest
trees from touching the sky, so some,
thing happens to check the wage rise
as other rises. That thing will happen
in all lines of industry eventually as il
is happening now in the gold mine dis
trict of the Black Hills.
The miners union has called foI
shorter hours and the same pay pei
day that they have been receiving
Strikes have been demanded in case
the concession be refused by the mine
operators.
The miners dare not disobey the
union demand to strike. AS a result
many of the smaller mines of the
Black Hills are going to shut down
The operators have been paying the
limit-just as much as they dared t.
pay. Their miners were satisfied anC
would not demand the increase OF thei
own accord. But they have beer
called upon to strike, and strike the!
must. They rather keep on working
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

port, the duty of the government to
protect the people against financial
panlcs and apparently also to save for
oign money markets from these evils
by depositing treasury balances in
United States national banks on con.
dition that the banks i'm turn promptly
deposit an equal amount abroad.
This conception of the United
States government as a benevolent
dospot at home and through It's treas.
ury as the suppressor of financial dis
turbance i'm Europe, is both novel and
humorous. II is paradox which
might have occurred to another Shaw
whose name is much before the public
just now and who takes himself quite
as seriously as Mr.. Shaw, secretary of
the treasury.
"The report, after describing the
method by which the secretary assist
ed and indeed, obliged the leading ma.
tional banks to import large amount
Of gold says this operation has at
| least demonstrated that the United
States is in a position more effectually
to influence international financial
conditions than is any other country
| If for influence we substitute dis,
turb' in the sentence just quoted most
people would, we think, agree with it,
but any economically active country
can disturb international financial con.
dtions to some extent and it's doing
so is nothing to be proud Of The feat
has been performed by other countries
of much less economic force than the
United States.
at is indeed surprising that a man
of Secretary Shaw's shrewdness and
experience should have been misled
into thinking that the world, or even
the United States, can be protected
against financial panics by official
guidance. Such views of the duties
and possibilities of the post of secre.
tary of the treasury confirm us more
than ever in the belief that the sooner
the United States treasury goes out
of the banking business, the better
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04
THE BLOCK SYSTEM.

Another deathly railroad accident,
starting out the new year with some
thirty killed and as many more moan
ing with wounds, will tend to intensity
the eagerness of congress to provide
for some system of safety appliances
in guarding trains from such accidents.
Frightful accidents have proven that
the block system needs Improvement
or reinforcement as 1t is employed on
some railroads. 1t appears thus far
that railway employees have failed to
do their duty in connection with the
blocks, and thus have plunged their
trains into death traps.
Human life is being too lightly con.
sidered in the United States, and the
cost of effective safety appliances toe
seriously contemplated by many of the
railroads.
1t is cause for congratulation here
in Nebraska, and particularly on this
division of the Northwestern, that
such horrors as occur In the railway
world are foreign to this atmosphere
and are known only as they come over
the wires in news dispatches.
If eastern railroads would take a
little more consideration to safety
they might get down to the clean rec
ord that is enjoyed in this section
But since they refuse to pay proper
heed, 1t becomes the duty of congress
to take hand in the affair.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

The Fremont Commercial club has
adopted plan which might well be
followed by Norfolk That organiza
ton issues blue Book" containing
write-ups of the city and It's industries
giving all advantages of the location
etc, These books are handed to rail
road passengers travelling through the
city. 1t Is wonderfully effective ad
vertisement 1t could well be done
here in Norfolk for tho good of the
city.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04
rIIn COMING YEAR.

Norfolk faces even n more prosper.
GUS and constructive year in the sea.
son to come than was that which has
lust been closed. There Is every rCa-
son to hope aud believe that twelve
months from now there will be more
of achievement to chronicle for the
city than there is now for the season
just passed.
Norfolk has sugar factory build
ing that has been empty and idle for
some time. There is going to be new
life In that shell and new energy in
those boilers during the coming year.
A new railroad has been promised
for Norfolk from Yanlton to the Gulf
of Mexico, and many people In Nor
folk believe that the project Is being
launched seriously this time. Survey
ing will begin, II was announced, on
the coming Friday, and 1t is said that
land Is being bought near Yankton
with money, for the route.
Trip county northwest of the Rose
bud reservation, will probably be
thrown open to settlement, which will
mean extended opportunity for Nor
folk as a distributing center,
Norfolk avenue, 1t is promised, will
be paved. The new sewer system will
be completed.
There is an era of growth ahead for
Norfolk during the year to come.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04


along public lines than has been known
before I'm the community during the
same length of time. Credit belongs
in various places, but the result all
comes to the benefit OF Norfolk.
A new sewer system, for which
bonds Of $4,000 were voted last
spring, is now being built for Norfolk.
This step has demonstrated to outsid
ers that Norfolk has confidence. in its
own future. and 1t will be great benefit
to the city In many ways. The lives
saved each year by the direct cause OF
this now sewer will unquestionably be
material IN number The general
health will be greater. The city will
pride to its citizens. 1t was step
that must have been taken some day
and the sooner it was begun, the bet
ter. The voting of the bonds has put
the matter in such shape that the PEG.
pie to come into the city in later years
will help pay the cost, as 1t Is proper
they should. The sewer will be one
factor in making Norfolk more desir-
able as place to live in and will
therefore be one factor in inducing
people to make their homes here. That
being true, 1t will partially pay for
itself for II will bring people here who
will later help contribute toward its
freight. 1t is hoped that the drainage
of cellars and streets will be perfect
under the new sewer system and, in
case it proves inadequate, it will be
but small matter to add perfect
drainage by digging ditch down along
the Northfork, as outlined by the en-
gincer
Norfolk during the past year has
begun an experiment in gravel road
ways and there Is promise that per
fectly good and permanent thorough
fare from here to the Junction, where
it is badly needed, will result. The
roads today, rough and hard and al.
most impossible serve as horrible ex-
amples in favor of the better built
highways.
New industries have been estab-
lished in Norfolk during the past year,
which will add much to the city's com
mercial interests.
More neonle live In Norfolk today
than ever did before More business
houses are occupied than ever were
before. In fact there is not an avail
able vacant building on Norfolk av-
enue in the business section.
Norfolk's volume of business has
been increased, and there is still OPP
portunity for much more to be done
during the coming years.
The gulch situation in the west end
of the city has been taken care of.
Streets have been built up, cement
cutters constructed, and miles of new
permanent walks put down. A move
ment to pave Norfolk avenue has been
begun and has succeeded to such an
extent that paving is promised for next
spring.
1t has been year of substantial
building in Norfolk Foundation
stones have been laid. 1t has been a
year to bring out confidence of Nor
folk people in the city's future growth.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

ut the old hours and the old pay In.
stead the mines viii shut down.
A few of the largcs mines of the
country, with the hcogily paying prop
critics and the money behind them, can
stand the increase, The result will be
u concentration of labor In the larger
mines, and abandonment of the small
or ones.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04
THE ROSEBUD AND TRIP COUNTY

No wonder the government Is anX-
ious to open Trip county, S. d., to
settlement. The Rosebud reservation
opened in Gregory county has proven
such a garden spot that all eyes are
turned Rosebudward today. Settlers
who have braved the Inconvenience
of pioneer life have built up such pres
tige on that new land that money is
wringing its hands for a chance to get
In there for investment. 1t is now
given as much confidence and recogni
tion as land that has been worked for
score of years. The Rosebud has
blossomed out into the full fledged
rose, and because of its reputation ev'
erywhere the Trip county prospect is
being watched with intense interest
all over the country,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04
AROUND TOWN.

Happy New Year!
This is the day to break 'em.
Well, the day to resolve has arrived.
Plunge baths have been turned back
into skating Kinks once more.
Snow for the shoemen has come at
last.
Here's hoping that the new packing
plant will grind up swine.
Norfolk commercial travellers would
be live wires in the Norfolk CONNER
cial club.
If you're still aching, resolve to cut
out the Christmas overfeed next win
ter.
If you would increase your business
for 1907, resolve right now to use more
advertising space.
Here's a chance to resolve that
there'll be no more holidays for lit
tie while at least.
Well Dents, we hate to visit you but
we're always glad to have you visit
Norfolk.
But what if somebody in these north
east Nebraska towns should have the
toothache during the day?
Most people swore they wouldn't
wear rubbers, and then meekly put
them on Wednesday morning.
Now that Cans has knocked out Her
man, what are we sports going to tall,
about and bet our shillings on?
These dentists are the best fellows
on earth, but for some reason or other
few people enjoy them during business
hours.
When YOU wish people "A Happy
New Year" do you realize that, II
you're in earnest about it, you will
have TO follow up that wish with &C
ton all through the twelvemonth? II
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04
THE PAST YEAR IN NORFOLK.

Norfolk has done much during the
vast year for which the city should be
congratulated. 1t has been a twelve
month of perhaps greater progress
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

Conductors on Nebraska trains have
got their eyes full OF passes during the
past few days Everybody's making
the best of the last chance.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

1t may have been happy new year
for some but the newspaper editors
bade goodbye to their mileage books
Monday night at IL with tears in their
ewes.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

A Norfolk commercial traveller who
wears wig, went to a con-
cert the other night without 1t and
took cold.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

The spirit of New Year and Christ
mas greetings is all for the other fell
low-self is forgotten. Il wish you
merry Christmas and happy new
year." the greeting goes-and so it
should A little correspondence school
course in the "follow-up system" keep
ing the same spirit going all through
the year, would reduce the wishes to
more exact science and, like scien-
tific advertising results.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

There are two annual events in Nor
folk that the whole town bears in
mind. They are the annual ball of
the railway trainmen and the annual
ball of the Eagles. One comes Christ
mas night and the other on New Years
eve.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

Norfolk drummers and railroad boys
who come in from late trains at night
and leave in the early mornings, would
sleep better when they go to bed and
would feel better leaving town. if they
were saved the annoyance of STUN
bling over dark streets. All night
lights, they say, would relieve the sit
uation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

The whole town of Norfolk ought to
get in on these dental meetings and
have all bad teeth repaired in one af-
ternoon.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

Norfolk telephone wires burned on
Tuesday with this query:
Hello. Is this 1902"
mo, this is No."
"The calendar says it's 1907"
w:$-&-??!!-!!%- ?-*!"
A mob has been formed and any
drastic action may be expected.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

When YOU wish people "A Happy
New Year." do you realize that, if
you're in earnest about it, you will
have to follow up that wish with ac-
ton all through the twelvemonth? 1t
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

is environment that makes people hap
py or unhappy. You can make some
body's new year happy one, if you're
in earnest but 1t will take more than
the expressed wish on the first day of
January.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

These dentists are the best fellows
on earth, but for some reason or other
few people enjoy them during business
hours.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04

Now that Cans has knocked out Her
man, what are we sports going to talk
about and bet our shillings on?
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1907-03-09
What Is Happiness!

Happiness is the greatest paradox in
nature. 1t can grow in any soil. live
under any conditions 1t defies enyi-
ronment 1t comes from within. 1t Is
the revelation Of the depths OF the In
ner life as light and heat proclaim the
sun from which they radiate. Happi.
ness consists not of having. but of be-
ing: not of possessing. but of enjoying.
1t is the warm glow of a heart at peace
within itself. A martyr at the stake
may have happiness that a king on his
throne might envy. Man is the creator
of his own happiness 1t is the aroma
of a life lived in harmony with high
ideals. For what q man has he may
be dependent on others; what he Is
rests with him alone. What he obtains
In life is but acquisition; what he at
tains is growth. Happiness Is the soufs
joy in the possession Of the Intangible.
William George Jordan.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1907-03-09
DIR. JAMES II. HYsLoP.

messages from individuals ION the
other side" who thus communicate
with their friends or relatives on this
side OF the mysterious gulf. Mrs.
Piper herself, IT is OF interest to know,
does not believe that these messages
come from the dead. She holds that
they are due to telepathy thought
transference-though she advances this
as a mere opinion. She claims no sci
entiic explanation.
DIR. Hyslop asserts that recently Mrs.
Piper wrote messages which I'M
mistakably came from the late DIR.
Hodgson. In these communications
the spirit Of the departed psychical re-
seacher is said to have discussed with
DR.. Hyslop the publication Of a COM
plete report of the Piper revelations in
the past and the reorganization or the
Society For Psychical Research, 10Th
Of which topics had been discussed by
the two men prior to the death OF DR..
Hodgson. which occurred about four
teen months ago.
These Piper revelations, 1t is said,
Ill several thousand pages. They com
prise communications ~purporting to
come from various persons who have
died. DIR. Hyslop believes that they
advance Indisputable evidence OF the
continued existence of the individual.
with individual consciousness and
memory, after the process OF physical
dissolution through which all persons
must pass. DR.. Edward A. Spitzka.
demonstration Of anatomy in Columbia
university and an alienlst of some diE-
finction. takes issue with DIR. Hyslcp
end states his ideas on the subject In
fnis manner.
@Stories Of communication with tbs
departed originate with either Of two
classes-frauds or the hypnotically Ia
sane and dreamers. The police should
deal with the former. while the latter,
by common consent. belong to the care
Of the ~alienist."
Rev. DIR. Minot j. Savage, for many
years a prominent Unitarian minister
IN Boston and New York and a CO.
worker with Drs. Hodgson and Hyslop
in psychical research. was committed
recently to a sanitarium In Ohio.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1907-03-09
o Captain, Ny Captain!

D captain. my captain, our fearful trip is
done.
The ship has weathered every rack. the
prize we sought Is won.
The port is near. the bells l hear. the peo-
pie all exulting.
While follow eyes the steady keel, the
vessel grim and daring.
But. o heart. heart. hearti
o the bleeding drops Of red.
Where on the deck my captain lies.
Fallen cold and dead!
o captain. my captain. rise up and hear
the bells.
Rise up-for you the flag is flung. for you
the bugle trilis.
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths.
for you. the shores a~-crowding,
For you they call. the swaying mass.
their eager faces turningi
Here. captain. dear father.
This arm beneath your head,
II is some dream that on the deck
You've fallen cold and dead.
My captain does not answer; his lips are
pale and still;
Ny father does not feel my arm; he has
nor pulse nor will.
The ship Is anchored safe and sound. its
voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip the victor ship comes
in with object won.
Exult, o shores. and ring. o bells.
But l with mournful tread
Walk the deck my captain lies
Fallen cold and dead!
Walt Whitman.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1907-03-09

Washington recently published By
Doubleday. Page & Co. The letters
were written by Washington to bis
secretary and other persons, chiefly,
however, 10 Mr.. Lear.
As to the miniature portrait, Ms.
Eyre says In her Introduction TO the
book. The setting is Of gold. bordere3
BIZ a narrow band Of blue enamel.
edged on each side by seed pearls.
Tobias Lear was held in very biga
esteem by General Washington. 80
these letters show. Lear WIS quito >
young man when he became secretary
to Washington. He served through
washingt0n's eight years In the pres
ideney and remained with his chief UNI
til the latter's death at Mount Vernon.
The first wife OF Tobias Lear was
Mary Long Of Portsmouth. y. H., his
W birthplace. After her death he
married Fanny Washington, a niece Of
the general. After the death of his
second wife he again married into the
illustrious family. his bride bejn. Fran
ces cambridge Henley
Come Of the letters to Lear published
In the volume mentioned ere now own
"a by w. X. Bixby. a st. Louis NIL
lionaire, who possesses a highly val
liable collection Of original manu-
scripts Of great men, including some OF
the famous poems of Robert Burns.
Mr.. Bixby's collection embraces many
Washington manuscripts.
Mrs. Eyre has in her possession, be
sides the miniature here reproduced. a
unique quilt made by Mrs. Washing
toms own hands, which was used on
George Washington's bed. The min
iature has at the back a lock OF Wash
ington's hair.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1907-03-09
SENATORIAL BEE BUYING
Reno Correspondent Sends Ont story
That will Amuse Old Neyadans

That will Amuse Old Neyadans
A Reno, Nevada. dispasch 10 the Sac
ramento Bee says Attorney SArdis sum
merheld Of Reno last Thursday resign
ed as counsel for the Southern Pacinc
Company in Nevada. together with bis
law partner. Judge Carrier. II is stated
that il is Summerheld's first move to-
ward seeking the Republican nomina-
ton for United States Senator at the
next election. Summerfeld is q very
wealthy man. and has been attorney
for the Southern Pacific Company for
the past IL years. The fact that be
has been attorney for the railroad has
always defeated him in his attempts 10
be elected to a political Office. and If he
should attempt to become United States
Senator while still in the employ Of the
Southern Pacific Company, he would
undoubtedly be defeated Summer
field has given out the information on
several occasions that he intended to be
a candidate for the United States Sen
ate at the next election