davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
WILL NOT BECOME BURDENS.

Commenting upon the nervousness
of members of the Austrian reichstag
who have asked the government what
IL proposes to do about an alleged
quarter of a million people who 1t Is
said will return from the United States
to the single province of Galicia dur
ing the coming winter, and who 1t Is
feared by the Austrians will only have
money enough to pay their passage
and be destitute when they reach their
old homes, the Chicago Tribune says:
mo reply has been made to these
anxious inquiries by the ministers.
Probably that is because they do not
know but the danger is greatly exag-
gerated. They cannot tell how many
people are coming back, and whether
they will be burden on the commun-
ity or will be able to take care OF
themselves.
presumably there is no cause for
alarm in Galicia or any other part of
Europe. The number of Europeans
returning to their old homes at this
season is unprecedentedly large, but
the immigration has been equally so.
So many have come that there have
been loud complaints here and there
in Europe of scarcity of labor The
Swedish government set to work ser
iously to persuade American Swedes
| to go back to Sweden. Now In Italy
as well as in Austria the fear Is that
there will be too much labor because
of the exodus from the United States
Substantially all the people who
are now recrossing the Atlantic have
had work since they got here. They
have lived economically and have saw
ed money. Some of them have sent
their savings home. The postmaster
general says that a little over $72,
100000 was sent to Europe in money
orders during the last fiscal year, about
half of it going to Italy, Austria-Hun
gary, and Russia. Most of the people
now returning to Europe ought to be
able to get through the winter on the
money they have already sent over OF
are taking with them.
There does not seem to be sub
stantial basis for the assumption thai
tens of thousands of poverty stricken
men are now on their way from the
United States to Europe to add to the
cares and burdens of the rulers ant
taxpayers of that continent. Some o.
those who are going back may be
destitute, but the great majority have
money enough to excite the admira
ton or envy Of the stay-at-homt
fellows"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

miles so that there will be no demand
for free transportation, feature that
Is of considerable cost In most cases
where the central school is operated.
The school board pays good wages
and as n result has n good corps OF
teachers. Prof. Ben f. Robinson will
be superintendent of the schools and
next Monday the school will commence
under the new system. A good course
of study has been arranged and the
work well graded so there is every
reason to believe the experiment will
be success. This Is the first trial
of the central school In north Ne
braska and school men will watch its
progress with great deal OF interest.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
THE CONSUMPTIVE

The Omaha Daily News publishes
an article on the treatment Of con-
sumption that is well worth preserv.
alton. The article follows:
With the maze of cures" of all sorts
offered the suffer of consumption
there is no wonder that the charities
of the country that are interested In
doing something of real benefit, get
little chance to apply their efforts be-
fore it is too late.
The average person with consump-
ton is full of hope throughout his
usually long period of decline and
he is, therefore forever grasping at
the straws held out to him by the
quacks and charlatans.
In his desperate effort to get well
he spends all his own laid up money
and draws heavily upon the resources
of relatives and friends.
In the hope that some unnecessary
misery and much money may be saved
to persons afflicted with this disease,
charitable organizations in other cities
are offering advice in which is EN-.
bodied the wisdom of the greatest
authorities on the prevention and cure
of consumption.
So sensible is this advice that The
Daily News produces it herewith in
the hope that it may do some good:
If you have consumption: That the
treatment is % fresh air, (2) rest (3)
food. Medicine will help, but it is
not so important. Therefore, the cure
is principally in your own hands.
l. Fresh air: Don't live in rooms
where there is no fresh air.
Don't work in rooms where there
is no fresh air.
Don't sleep in rooms where there
is no fresh air
Take all the fresh air into your
lungs that you can by deep breathing
Stay out of doors all you can.
Don't be afraid of cold air.
Remember that sunshine kills the
germs.
Sleep with at least one window open
in your room.
| 2. Rest: Go to bed early, sleeping
at least eight hours.
If you have to work, rest all you can
while at home.
Don't worry. Worrying is not rest
full, but harmful.
g. Food: Eat all the good, plain
nourihing food that you can, principal
ly eggs and milk.
Drink plenty of pure water.
If you suspect that you are losing
appetite and weight, coughing, feeling
tired all the time, go at once to your
family physician. Don't spend your
time and money on patent medicine
or the so-called consumption cures.
Be hopeful and cheerful. You car
be cured if you begin early enough.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
A TOUGH PROPOSITION.

The Kansas City Journal gives an
Illustration of the kind of propositions
a Missouri Judge some times goes up
against. The case is one in which a
preacher, who is good deal of
stickler for the doctrine as it is re-
corded, refuses to pay a subscription
of $4,000 to the Christian college Of
Columbia, Mo-, because the college
teaches that Jonah was a nature fakir
and refuses to swallow the Jonah
story. The preacher, who is side
stepping the subscription, contends
that the college must teach the Bible
as it finds it.
Solomon, the wisest Of monarchs,
the most ingenious of judges and the
most married of men, had merely to
decide which of two women was the
mother of child. Later judges have
divided children between their parents,
but Solomon was the first to propose
the division of one child. Yet Solomon
luSu iSoI So"PoA w
with the task of the Missouri judge
who must decide whether or not Jonah
was swallowed by the whale. On the
decision the disposition of $4,000 de-
ponds.
1t might strike the average lay law
yer that the statute Of limitations had
run against the evidence of eye wit
nesses in the Jonah case. Just how
the judge is going to gather the ma
terial upon which to base his decision
is matter not uninteresting in itself.
1t would be rather difficult to secure
the attendance of Jonah himself,
| though about every third Democrat
you meet on the streets would tell you
that Mr.. Bryan is certainly a lineal
descendant. The whale is probably
somewhere in the vicinage of Mr. Nc
Ginty at the bottom of the sea, and for
divers reasons can hardly be produced
This only adds to the teasing knotti
ness of the question. The decision will
be awaited with interest.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

disposition returned the instant the
banquet hosts alarmed at his non.
arrival telephoned to inquire what
had happened. At that moment the
secretary did not tell just what had
happened. He said he had been un.
avoidably delayed.
If it hadn't been formal banquet,
the chances are the secretary would
have gone without eating for he said
in Norfolk last summer that he Is
like a bear and can live off his fat II
he has to-
But this was a dinner Of state and,
trousers or no trousers, the appoint
ment had to be kept.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
CONTIGUOUS URGENT MESSAGE

COhl EL1oU . OnHCA>i
Secretary Cortelyou asks for an
elastic currency. He makes no recon-
mendations, but merely announces that
elasticity is the need of the nation.
And he goes further to the extent OF
declaring that prompt action is de-
manded.
But that is not going far enough TO
solve the problem. 1t is not explicit
enough to bring out of congress any
definite results.
There has been a pretty general talk
around Washington of the need OF a
more elastic currency. The east has
felt that in the fall, when the west
wanted its money, there should be
some elastic means of sending out
something else than the original money
while the real money went on playing
with this and that speculation.
Elasticity has been a problem in
currency for many centuries. II mas
never been solved yet. 1t is not likely
that Mr.. Cortelyou's urgent message
will bring about the result at this
time, just ahead of presidential
election.
Many plans have ben presented. Ow'
ing to differences of opinion there
would be a difficult time in getting
down to business on any one plan.
The plan to guarantee deposits Is
not going to meet with favor at the
hands of bankers who desire that Q
bank shall earn its reputation and be
made to stand on its own legs, rather
than that all national banks may give
a depositor the same security and thai
recklessness could be INDUCED in by
one bank at the expense OF all others
Mr.. Cortelyou is perhaps wise IN
offering no more of a recommendation
than that elasticity is needed. For II
is easier to find fault with any de
finite plan offered. than to solve the
problem.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

gymnasium is self evident fact. A
good gymnasium. like library and a
bath tub, is a vital feature of modern
civilization and progress.
Norfolk has in prospect for the com
ing few months the securing of y
NJ. C. A. building with all of It's desir-
able equipment. That the dream may
matenaize is just now the hope OF
those who have interested themselves
in the matter, and the more the sub
ject is being discussed, the more en-
thusiasm is there being developed In
favor of the project.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
HAS THE WORLD GONE WRONG ?

HAS THE WORLD GONE WRONG
Last Thursday was not only day
of startling events in Norfolk but 1t
seemed to be a day when crime ran
riot all over the country, as portrayed
by the columns of the newspapers.
This condition of affairs induced
soliloquizins mood on the part OF the
editor of the Lincoln Journal, who
moralizes as follows:
READERS of Thursdays news as re-
viewed in Fridays newspapers may be
excused for harboring a momentary
feeling of dismay. Deeds OF violence
and less bloody forms of wickedness
had the run of the columns. A spec
tacular multiple wounding and muir
der in the Massachusetts state house;
a terrifying murder and suicide In
Nebraska town; bank robbery in
Kansas; the arrest of California par
ent for selling his daughter into slav-
cry; the wounding of seven persons by
a cocaine crazed negro in Arkansas;
the imminent hanging of three Ameri'
can desperadoes in Mexico; embezzle-
ment by an American consul in China;
suicide of an actress in Baltimore;
troops sent to Goldfield to prevent
strike violence; these were few of
the more prominent matters OF news.
There was some mention of more
hopeful matters. The lid" is to go on
in New York. A rebate scheme was
nipped by the interstate commerce
commission. The Mauretania broke
the east going New York-Liverpool
ocean record. But these were less
prominent.
"Is the world going to the dogs? If
one thinks of the news as a report of
the worlds doings he might easily
conclude so. Fortunately this is the
wrong view. What is news? "A new
or uncommon and more or less sur
prising thing; a new or unexpected
event or occurrence is a definition by
one of the authoritative dictionaries.
The regular order of events is then not
news. at is no news for the weak and
poor to be a prey to the strong and
RICH" wrote an Englishman century
ago. In the past two or three years
the oppression of the poor by the rich
has been news, as the patronage of the
muckrakers denotes. Some have
thought the prevalence of that sort OF
news a bad omen. AS If for thing
to be so unusual as to be news were
worse than for it to be the usual
hence no news.
"All this does not make it pleasant
to see murder and arson and burglary
as prominent articles Of news. Those
things are unpleasant because they re-
mind us how far we are from being
as good as we ought to be. But SC
long as these things are told as news
we may be treasured by the knowledge
that crime is still exceptional. Dis
tasteful as it may be to know that
it occurs in even exceptional cases, ii
is essential to know where wrong
exists in order to right it."
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

dent had made no new announcement.
In that interview senators were quoted
as saying that 1t had been definitely
determined that Roosevelt would stick
to his word and not become a candi-
date. But this is hardly necessary,
since the presidents best friends be-
lieve that he meant what he said,
anyway.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

1t is frequently remarked that every
young lady who marries in Atchison
is beautiful and accomplished" or a
society belle" This is a delicate way
the people have of limiting that the
newspapers are not reliable. But will
some of the DIRECTORS tell what else
the newspaper could say? They could
not very well refer to the brides as
ugly invalids, or masses of face pow
der and cosmetics. No reporter with
regard for his personal safety would
care to say that the bride spoilt val
liable collection of dress goods with
her miserable figure or that her teeth
looked as though they were in need
of scrub. We know that a little
conceit and ability to drum "Silvery
Waves" is frequently referred to as
musical culture, and familiarity of the
light fiction of the day is an accom-
plishment, but, so far as weddings are
concerned, we are not prepared to
change the old rule in reporting them.
We value our life too highly.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
TOO MUCH MURDER,

The taking of human life has be-
come altogether to commonplace in the
United States of late and it is not at
all improbable that the people OF the
country, are themselves, to blame.
So much has the public been wink
ing at murder of late, excusing highly
atrocious crimes on the basis of what
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

One man in Norfolk debated for a
while and then decided that it would
be more of a distinction to be able to
say that he had never seen Uncle
Toms Cabin" than to see it; so he
STAYED away.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

There is one woman in Norfolk who
has every Christmas present bought,
wrapped up and ready to give two
weeks from next Wednesday.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Grand Island Independent: One of
the longest and most bitter and gen.
orally painful newspaper fights that
ever took place in Nebraska promises
to have been terminated last week
when Editor Sprecker of the Schuyler
Free Lance and Attorney Wertz, in
terested in the Schuyled Sun gathered
together their respective collection of
judgements, libel suits, awards Of
damages still held up in the courts,
traded 'em and finally wiped off the
state, Editor Sprecker agreeing not
to refer to any past act of Wertz for
i've years. The future Is not tiled up"
but evidently Mr.. Wertz is in hope
that he can so conduct himself in the
next five years as to give the other
no reason for current criticism and
that by the end of five years Mr..
Sprecker will have so fixedly formed
the habit of letting his opponent alone
that he will have forgotten all about
the old troubles.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Possibly you are often a bore to po-
lite people when you do not show 1t.
If you will hand a fried lemon,
If you will hand a friend lemon,
When some men try to do better, 1t
is generally remarked that they do
not try very hard
One of the funniest things in this
world is to see a woman who isn't
used to it, make change.
When you talk foolishness, you not
only waste your time, but you waste
the time of the other man.
Some dogs are as cross as some
men; whistle to some dogs, and they
pay no attention to you.
The average woman isn't satisfied
with telling a polite lie; she insists
upon her husband agreeing with her.
Girls do not think other girls true
friends unless they take sides in their
quarrels to the extent Of making faces
at the enemy.
Favorite saying Of women: You
haven't been around to hear our new
preacher"
What a difference it makes when
you feel good! Why not devote lit
tie attention TO feeling good? That is,
why not eat and drink with q little
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
AROUND TOWN.

It's almost too exciting to have
Uncle Tom and Santa Claus strike
town within a fortnight of each other.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

When the world never hears how
mean a husband man is, It praises
his wife "for keeping her troubles to
herself"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
OVER NORTHWEST PRAIRIeS

Bonesteel News: While in Sioux
City recently United States Senator
Gamble who was on his way to Wash
ington to attend the opening of con-
gress, was interviewed by a reporter
and stated that the opening of Tripp
county would in all probability occur
about the first of October next year.
Wayne Herald: Sholes is to make
an experiment of the central school
system that in several communities
has been put into practice with good
results. Three school districts, No.
80, 67 and 76 comprising sixteen Sec
tons are within the boundries of the
new central school district. This new
district voted $4,000 bonds and erect
ed a fine modern four room school
building in Sholes. The new build
ing is very much on the same plan of
the school building at Winside except
that it is of frame instead of brick.
There is ninety-five or hundred
pupils within the new district and the
fartherest distance any of them will
be from the school is two and a half
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The relatives OF deaf person al
ways make this kindly remark; that
he can hear anything It isn't intended
he should hear.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

A girl loves to read letter as she
walks along n street, particularly II
1t is in a bold handwriting that looks
like A Mans.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Possibly you are often bore to po-
lite people when you do not show it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
ATcHIsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

A husband made good by nagging,
is a slave and liable to run off.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

care? Such course will pay big
dividends.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Some women just naturally know
how to use dry goods and we imagine
they do not work any harder than
those who think, and think, and
think, and look slouchy. In the same
way, some men can do thing easily,
while others can't That's about all
there is in luck; a man born with
poor taste and little sense, is "un-
lucky" while a man born with abili-
ty, and a little common sense, is
lucky"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The modern kind of a bandit is
worse than the old: In olden times a
man rode up to a house on a bold
black charger and, picking up a
maiden rode off with her. In these
days, woman in sweet, gentle voice
gets the girl over the telephone, and
steals her by Offering her more wages.
The modern kind of a bandit Is an
object Of greater hatred than the old
kind ever was.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Because a girl Of sixteen laughs at
a mans joke, he should not imagine
he is a great wit; girl OF sixteen
laughs because she is sixteen.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Lincoln Star: Chief Game Warden
George l.. Carter has returned from
Cherry county, having completed the
construction of the branch fish hatch
cries at Red Deer lake and on the Min
nachaduza river near Valentine. The
water from the lake was piped into
several natural ponds near Red Deer
lake and these are all ready for the
bass spawn with which they will be
stocked this winter. The eggs for the
trout hatchers at Valentine will be
stripped and shipped by express to
the hatchers. The hatcheries were
constructed at an expense of less than
half of the appropriation of $4,000.
Mr.. Carter superintendent the building
of the dams and bitches himself Red
Deer lake is now frozen hard.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

If you will hand a fried lemon,
If you will hand a friend lemon,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

When some men try to do better, 1
is generally remarked that they d.
not try very hard.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
OVER NORTHWEST PRAlRlEs.

Naper Enterprise: Old sport"
Louis Jensen's faithful companion and
watchdog, has at last passed away,
being assisted into dog heaven by the
merciful hand of Henry Tienken last
Sunday forenoon. Sport was the con-
slant companion OF the Jensen family
for many years, and In sunshine and
sorrow was always at least the one
friend who could be depended upon.
When Mr.. Jensen moved to town,
Sport became one OF the best known
characters on the street, always mind
ing his own business, and keeping
careful track of his master. But with
increasing age he acquired rheuma-
tism and failing memory, and 1t was
known for long time that death
would be merciful relief. Mr.. Jen.
sen could not mourn for any friend
more sincerely than he does Sport
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Beemer Times: There has been
considerable space used in some OF
the daily papers telling of the won
derful work of the new corn-husking
machines put on the market this fall.
This paper copied some of the articles
as items of general information. But
now we hear different reports. Chas.
Grunke and one of his brothers
bought one of the machines and. after
giving it a thorough test, Charles re-
ports to us that the machine is no
good, They have laid it aside and are
husking their corn in the old fash
Toned way. We doubt not but that the
time will come when these machines
will work successfully, but until that
time comes it is very foolish for the
farmers to buy them outright unless
good guarantee is given that in case
the machine does not do what Is
claimed for it, it may be returned.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Recently at the theatre we saw a
young husband come in without his
wife. We have been contending for
liberty for husbands for many years,
but really, it looked tough to see that
husband come in without his wife.
Two widows were talking of the
great blows they had suffered. 1.-THE
greatest blow in my life," said one
with a far-away look in her eyes, was
the death of my husband just a week
after he had had his salary raised"
And the other, knowing Of no blow
that could be greater, had nothing to
say.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

II you are idle, your excuse for call.
ing on a busy man is 81 will not take
up much of his time" But the busy
man will have other callers during the
day.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

If nature didn't intend girl to take
to frills, ruffles and curls, it is carl
cature of fashion when she attempts
it. An Atchison girl was built on the
straight, simple and uncurled lines,
but she is trying to make herself over,
and is wearing marcelled hair, curls,
waves, etc. Sometimes these waves
hang on to her left ear, and sometimes
on the right ear, but they are never
in the right place. 1t isn't in her to
be frizzed, and she might as well ad-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

One of the funniest things in this
world is to see a woman who ism
used to it, make change.