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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Life may be compared to travelling
on a railroad train and running the
risk of accidents. But if there are
no accidents, you finally reach the
station where you get off
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Every man has at some time in his
coins, but had his career interrupted
by his wife who used to get at them
when she needed money.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT.

The following proposed amendment to
the constitution of the State of Me-
bra;ka, as hereinafter set forth in full,
of Nebraska, to be voted upon at the
general election to be held Tuesday, NO
vember 3rd, A. d. 1908:
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Once in ten times, chance will send
you a buyer or a tenant. The rest of
the time you must depend upon classi.
fed advertising.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Seeds, Including snake and other
cucumber, prehistoric and other corn,
both sweet and field, pencilaria,
squash, melon, mammoth sunhower,
and hundreds of other seeds, cent
and up per packet, (also seed in bulk)
direct from grower to planter. Garden
Guide and descriptive price list free.
Address II. M. Gardner, seed grower,
Marengo Nebraska.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Foley's Kidney Remedy IL core any
case of kidney or bladder trouble that
is not beyond the reach of medicine.
Co.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

TdTHtU IUHS, IIS6T 7, pVdHIOII I.
Bases stolen, Pilger, Larson,
Schwartz, Montgomery; Stanton,
Saunders. Bases on balls, off
Schwartz 2, off Hartman 2. Hit by
pitched balls, by Schwartz 4. Struck
out, by Schwartz 6, by Hartman 10.
Passed balls, Hopper 2. Time of
game 1920. Umpire, Norton Howe.
The score:
Pilger .....O 90 0 2 % 1 %
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

a JOINT RESOLUTION to amend Sec.
lions two ca, four "a, five Cd, six CO.
and thirteen G3) of Article six co OF
Nh slL lL.ll L 81 o.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21
FIRST Day RACES
WERE A SUCCESS
TlLDEN AND KANSAS HORSES
WON FIRST MONEY.
BIG CROWD AT SEASON OPENING

With No Trace OF Rain Yet in Sight
the Norfolk Races, the First Meet
Of the Season, Opened spioiousIy
Thursday.
Kansas and Tilden divide honors in
the first day races at the Norfolk
track, DR.. Riber, a Kansas trotter,
taking honors in the 2;35 class while
Bessie Billion, owned by the Osborns
of Tilden and driven by Gown, swept
everything before her IN the fast
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21

Norfolk, Rain Soaked With the Rest
of North Nebraska, Gives Up Last
Two Days of the Races, Ball Games,
Balloons and ALL
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21
A First Day Success.

And what of the first day of the
Norfolk races? Several hundred Nor
folk people rubbing shoulders with
many of their friends from neighbor-
ing towns in north Nebaska, watch
ing the track circled dozen times
by fleet well matched horses, keep
ing an eye on rafting fast ball
game enjoying the cool air and the
snap and ginger that is always in
evidence at the seasons first races,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-21
HEADQUARTERS.

Article 3. The headquarters ant
principal place of business of thi
Company shall be at Norfolk, Ne
braska.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
Food VoIue of Milk.

The food value of milk is brough
out forcibly in a recent pamphlet writ
ten by Prof. j. b. Linsey of the
Massachusetts college of agriculture
and published by the state board O.
agriculture.
Milk of average quality at market
prices furnishes more food for the
money than do more expensive kinds
of meat, such as beef, mutton and
pork, and is much cheaper than such
special foods as eggs or oysters, o
most vegetables and fruits. Only
breakfast foods. etc, are cheaper
suorces of energy han milk. A glance
at Prof. Linsey's table shows that
milk at &c a quart furnishes the
same amount of protein as round beef
at 16c or roast pork at 12c. That
is to say a dollars worth of either
of these foods contain an equal
amount of protein. Even where milk
is sold as high as 10c per quart, o
dollar will buy as much protein when
spent for milk as if spent for lamb
chops at 25c per pound, sirloin beef
at soc, or eggs at 36c per dozen.
Prof. Linsey think that milk should
occupy a larger place in daily diet
than is ordinarily given. In expert
ments at the Maine state college it
was found that when the students
were allowed free use of milk the
extra milk consumed replaced the
other animal food to a nearly cor.
responding extent, and the milk diet
was not only less costly than the
meat, but was fully as satisfactory
When skimmilk is used the food value
is obtained at an even less cost, dc
pend very much on the cream, anC
since the value as a food does no
at the price at which it is valued il
most country districts, about One-ha.l
cent a quart, it is one of the yer!
cheapest foods, and can be used It
advantage in place of water in cook
ing adding greatly to the value OF tho
foods with which it is mixed. Hard.
any food returns SO much of its foo
value, because there is no loss i.
cooking and no waste. 1t is a pala,-
able, easily digested, and accordin
to Prof. Linsey, is entitled to be cias
ed among the most economical EunC'
foods.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
DIDN'T WANT TO WASTE TIME.
coiored Fisherman Most Satisfied
When the Bites Were Few.

Riding across the country one day,
DR.. Blank noticed an old negro who
had been for quite a while perched
motionless Upon a little bridge, fish
ing silently from the stream beneath.
For some time he watched him from
a distance, but finally, overcome by
the old fellows unmoved patience. he
rode up and accosted him.
Hello, Wash! What are you doing
up tbere?"
"Fishin', sah," came the reply.
Not getting many, are your"
mo, sab"
"Well, 1t seems to me you'd get
tired fishing so long without a bite"
II doesn't want no bite. cap'n."
"Well, that's funny. Why don't you
want a bite, Wash?"
Hits this-a-way, cap'n: when | gifts
a lots O. bites, hit takes all meh time
to git the fish off'n meh line, an I
doesn't have no time fob fshin."-
Success Magazine.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

ra's fleet was smashed, and the men
said now was the time to demonstrate
whether balloons would be serviceable
in case of war, and told me to take
a bundle of matted milk advertise
ments, and imagine it was a dynamite
bomb, and see if I could land it on
the deck of a big white battleship. ]
took a good aim and let the bundle go
and it struck ON the deck just in front
of a cross looking old man in a white
uniform, and scattered all over the
deck and the sailors and marines came
up o deck in a wild stampede, and
threw the matted milk advertisements
overheard, and as we sailed on there
was an explosion of red hot language
from the cross looking man in the
white uniform, and the boss balloon
man said: THAT is a good shot, Bub,
for you landed that bundle of alleged
dynamite square on the deck of Ad-
miral Bob Evans flagship. Didn't you
hear him swear?" and then we went
on, and the man in the white uniform
was shaking his fists and his mouth
was working overtime, but we could.
emitting, but we knew he was going
some, for before we got out of hearing
the bugles were sounding on more
than a dozen battleships, the men
came up from below and took positions
in the rigging and everywhere, and all
was alive with action, and the boss bal.
loon man said the fleet was preparing
for it's trip around the horn, to San
Francisco, and then l told the bal
loon man that he couldn't land me a
minute too quick, because l was go
ing to join that fleet and go with Bob
Evans, if 1 never did another thing in
my life.
The inspiration came to me up
there in the rarefied air, and I was as
sure l was going around the horn as
though l was already or n of the
ships.
We sailed along part of the day
and the gas began to give out, and
l had to throw yer ballast, and open
cans of food, and bottles of stuff to
drink, and I made some good shots
with the sand bags and the bottles.
Once I hit right in front of a brake
man on a freight train with a bottle
of soda water, and again l hit an
oyster schooner with a sand bag and
must have chuckled at least a barrel
of oysters. The gas kept escaping,
and presently we came down in a
field in Delaware, after l had hit a
chief of police in Wilmington with a
bottle Of beer. which is a crime in a
prohibition country, and after we
landed the police arrested the two
balloon men. and tied up the balloon.
They paid me $50 for my services,
and l took a train for Fortress Mon
roe to join the fleet. and left the two
balloon men on the way to a whip
ping post.
copyright. 1908. by W. G. Chapman.l
Copyright in Great Brittany
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
Rural Free Delivery.

The value of the rural free delivery
mail service to the farmer can hardly
be estimated. Not many years ago
the farmer was entirely dependen;
upon the little country postofice, gel
ting his mail two or three times per
week, but owing to the act that he
generally had to go from a mile TO
three miles to the p~ostoffice he some
times got his mail only once a week.
Now conditions are vastly changed.
Through the efficiency of the rural
mail service the farmers mail is de-
ivered at his very door to his own
private box every day in the week,
with the affairs of the world and can
read his daily paper if he wishes and
keep thoroughly posted.
Besides these advantages, the rural
free delivery service enables the
farmer to make purchases by mai:
and to obtain through the daily serv-
ice many advantages that he neve
possessed before.
Postmaster General Meyer, IN
speaking of the advantages of the
rural mail service recently said:
The history of the rural delivery
is an interesting one, and it should
be understood by our people for the
reason that there is a leeiing pre-
valent in many parts or the country
that this service is an extravaganza
and unnecessary drain upon the de
partment.. However, let us look at
the results accomplished in the last
ten years. The first rural route was
established in the fall OF 1896. Fiji
teen thousand dollars vas expended
during that fiscal year, the postal
deficit being $11,500, 900. For the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1907, the
expenditures for rural delivery were
$27, 100000 and the estimated postal
deficit showed a decrease as compared
with 1897 of about 81 800, 000, the total
being about $1,000, 900.
This is an undoubted evidence to
my mind that, while the expense in
cured in connection with the rurai
free delivery is enormous, yet it has
increased the receipts and the bene-
fits to people cannot be measured
in dollars and cents. The isolation
which existed in many parts of the
country has been overcome; the peo-
pie are in daily communication with
their friends in the rest of the world;
the daily papers and magazines come
to the door of every farmhouse on
the rural routes and enlightenment
and information are being spread
broadcast throughout the land
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
Handling Sheep For Profit.

If sheep are not kept constantly In
good condition the quality of the wool
is affected.
You connot fatten sheep profitably
while they are fattening parasites.
Dry soil is one of the first requisites
for sheep farming
Scab, foot rot and liver trouble and
catarrh are all induced by lack OF
thrift. Lack of thrift is induced by
lack of care and lack of feed.
To make the most out of sheep they
must be kept for a series of years.
Some years they will return a much
better profit than in others, but it is
hard to sell out and buy at the right
time.
Because sheep will make better use
of a poor pasture than any other stock,
do not try to raise them on n that
is absolutely bare.
Keep the sheep off frozen rape. A
very small quantity may MOI injuro
them, but n amount will do them no
good.
Good wool, as well as good mutton,
depends largely upon the quality of
the feed. Succulent food makes the
best wool, %cleanest, brightest, softest
and strongest.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
PUTTING 1T UP TO BILLIE.
Logical Reason Why He Should Be
the One to Ask Favor.

The wagons of the greatest show
on earth" passed up the avenue at
daybreak. Their incessant rumble
soon awakened ~ten-year-old Billie and
his ~five-year-old brother, Robert. Their
mother feigned sleep as the two white
robed figures crept past her bed into
the hall, on the way to investigate.
Robert struggled manfully with the
unaccustomed task of putting on his
clothes. Wait for me, Billie" his
mother heard him beg. You'll get
ahead of me-"
Get mother to help you" counseled
Billie, who was having troubles of his
own.
Mother started to the rescue, and
then paused as she heard the voice
of her younger, guarded but anxious
and insistent:
You ask her, Billie. You've known
her longer than l have."-Everybody's
Magazine.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
Ten Years Hence.
IN were discussing

Three young men were discussing
that awful thing called the future.
"TT be content" said one, eff, IN
ten years from now, l have $1,000
0OO."
"Fiddlesticks!" exclaimed the sec
ond, you want too much. If l have
one hundred thousand ten years from
10Y III be happy"
The third was a solemn, Snowman
nered youth, seldom aroused to ex-
element. Now, however, he aban-
doned his recumbent posture on a bed
and sat upright.
Fellows" he drawled, well all be
lucky, if, ten years from now, we have
the price of a square meal"
Which entirely broke up the serious
nature of the discussion.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
WANTED TO KNOW
The Truth About ~Grape-Nuts Food.

1t doesn't matter so much what you
hear about a thing, it's what you know
that counts. And correct knowledge
is most likely to come from personal
experience.
About a year ago." writes a N. Y.
man, Il was bothered by indigestion,
especially during the forenoon. 1 tried
several remedies without any perman-
emit Improvement.
MY breakfast usually consisted of
oatmeal, steak or chops, bread, coffee
and some fruit.
Hearing so much about Grape-Nuts,
[ concluded to give it a trial and find
out If all l had heard of it was true.
$50 l began with Grape-Nuts and
cream. 2 soft boiled eggs, toast, a cup
Of Postum and some fruit. Before the
end of the first week I was rid of the
acidity of the stomach and felt much
relieved.
"By the end of the second week all
traces of indigestion had disappeared
and ! was in first rate health once
more. Before beginning this course of
diet, I eve had any appetite for
lunch, but now I a enjoy a hearty
meal at noon time" There's a Rea-
son."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to Well
ville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
Interest.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

1t, but along towards evening we
passed over a town in Tennessee or
Kentucky, where there was a race
track, and races going on, and just as
We got owe it l said to the boss bal
loon man: Just watch me break up
that show" and l pitched overheard a
whole mess of advertisements of diff
ferent things we carried. and two bun
dies hit the grand stand, and explod-
ed, and about a million circulars ad-
vertising pills and breakfast food
struck the track, and of all the STAN
pedes you ever say that was the worst,
horses running away, riders fell off,
carriages tipped over, and the people
in the grand stand falling over them
selves, and as we sailed along none
of us seemed to care two whoops
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
HE
THE POPULACE

When our balloon left st. Louis, and
got up in the air SO far that the earth
looked like a piece of rag carpet, with
popcorn scattered owe it, which were
villages, and l realized that If anything
busted, we would be dropping for
hours before we struck a church steep
lie, and would be so dead when we hit
the ground, and stiff and cold, that
we would be driven down in the mud
l looked at the two fool men in the
basket with me, who didn't e to
care what became of them, as though
they were unhappily married or had
money in a shaky bank, l began to
choke up, and the tears came to my
eyes, and I took a long breath of thin
air, and tainted dead away.
When / tainted we were being driven
south, and when l came to, with a
smell of ammonia on my hair, we were
down within a mile of the earth, and
the men gave me some hot tea out of
a patent bottle, and pretty soon l be-
gan to enjoy myself and wonder If !
could hit a mess of negroes picking
cotton in a field, with a sand bag.
When you are up in the air so far
that q policeman cannot reach you,
you feel loose enough to insult men
that would knock YOU block off if you
should give them any lip when you
were OF the ground.
We came down a half a mile more,
and l asked the boss man if | might
throw a sand bag at the negroes, and
he said l might throw a bundle of ad-
vertisements for liver pills at them, so
l yelled: Hello, you black rabbits"
and when the negroes looked up and
saw the balloon, they turned pale, and
dropped on their knees, and l guess
they began to pray, and l didn't mean
to interfere with their devotions, so |
threw a bottle of ginger ale at a mule
hitched to a wagon near them, and
when the bottle struck the mule on
the head and exploded and the ginger
ale began to squirt all over the colored
population, the mule ran one way with
the wagon, and the negroes ran for
the cane brakes. The boss man in the
balloon complimented me on being a
good shot, and said had many char
acteristics of a true %balloonist, and
probably before we got to the end of
the trip l would get SO l could hit a
church steeple with a bag of ballast,
and break up a Sunday school in the
basement. He said that being up in
the rarefied air made a man feel as
though he would like to commit muir
der, and l found out that was so, for
the next town we passed over when
all the people were out in the main
street, and the balloon man told me
to throw over a bag of sand, SO we
could go up higher, instead of trying
to throw the bag into a field, where
there was nobody to be hurt or fright
ened, do you know, I SHE'D that bag
at a fountain in the public square and
laughed like a crazy person
when the water splashed all over
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
What Shall 20.

This is the question many of tx
Toys will be asking themselves hefor.
long. And, boys, let US urge that yoi
decide early what work YOU intend L
make your life work. BY watch.n
your interest in things about you, YOU
will soon learn where your tastes an,
talents lie.
If you would rather watch the prog
ress of the farm crops and help il
their cultivation than anything else
then decide to be a general farmer
Ii you love the animal on the fam
if you spend your best hours teaching
and caring for them, then your choic;
should be stock farming. If you en-
JOY work in the shop, making anC
fashioning things with your tools, ther
you show a talent for the carpenters
art, or you could plan to take up the
work of more skilled trades, such as
cabinet maker, or some work of thi
kind in factories where all the best
grades OF work are done.
If an engine or other machinery at
tracts your attention, then be an en-
gineer or machinest. There are trades
and professions for all, if the boys
will only early learn just what they
are fitted for. 1t is an injustice tc
ones self to try to do that which
does not meet our desires n tastes
If your parents insist upon choosing
a profession for you without regard
for your own pleasure in the matter
try to persuade them that it would be
impossible for you to make a success
of something not to your liking and
that for which you are not intended.
Many a man has worked his way
through the world with the greatest
difficulty because he was working at
that for which he was not suited. II
we are to follow the advice, Love
your work and find pleasure in t" we
must do hat which is possible for us
to loye.-Farmer's Guide.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

the crowd, and the fountain
was smashed to pieces, and
the pirates in the balloon compliment
ed me, and yet, when those men were
at home, on the ground, they are
Christian gentlemen, they told me, so
1 made up my mind that if %ballooning
became a fashionable pastime, those
who participated in it would become
murderers, and the people on tbs
ground would shoot at a %balloonist on
sight.
We went up so high that we were
out of sight of people on the ground,
so you couldn't pick out any particu.
lar person to hit with a bundle of
pickle advertisements. SO you had to
shoot into a flock, and run chances OF
winging somebody. so I did not enjoy
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

n the canned food, and threw a
blanket over me, and l slept all night,
sailing over the states, the balloon
moving SO still there was no sound at
all.
woke up once or twice and
listened for a street car, or some noise
to put me to sleep again, and found
myself wishing there was a fire, SO a
fire department would go changing by,
making a noise that would be welcome
in the terrible stiffness.
l dreamed the awfulest dreams, and
thought l saw pa, in another balloon,
with a rawhide in his hand, chasing
me, and the great bear In the heavens
seemed to be getting up on his. hind
legs, with his meath open, ready to
hug me to his hairy chest.
1t was a terrible night, and at day.
light the boss man woke me up and !
looked over the side of the basket and
We were going across a piece of water
where there were battle ships lined up
like they we're at Santiago, when Ceve-
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

more for the results than a hired girl
who starts a fire with kerosene.
1t came on dark after a while, and
all we had to do was to look at the
stars and the moon, and it seemed to
me that the stars were as big as To-
connective headlights, and that you
could see into them, and on several
of the largest stars I was sure l could
see people moving, and the moon
seemed SO nea that you could catch
the smile of the man in the moon, and
see him wink at you.
The two men had to remain awake
all night. but after awhile / said I
guessed l would have my berth made
up. and the boss man handed me a
shredded wheat biscuit for a pillow,
and laid me down by the sand bags
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16

Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest wom-
an in the world, now comes forward
to lay the blame for the hard times
ON women. She says that we live too
fast and that Americans are a nation
of spendthrifts. Her excursion into
fashionable life, though apparently
brief, seems to have made her very
pessimistic. 1t is to be hoped she is
not going to join the ranks of the dis
gruntled millionaires who are writing
Of the dreadful goings-on in society.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
The AIIurements of the City.

Mrs. Perkins and her daughter
Mandy from the country were in the
city one day, and as they walked
along together they came to a win
dow in which was displayed a variety
Of women's apparel. Mandy glanced
~wistfully at the different articles Of
clothing and started into the store.
But a sign in the window which read:
Clothing One-Half OF During This
Sale" caught Mrs. Perkins eye. She
seized her daughter by the arm, hur-
ried her along down the street, and
exclaimed in a loud voice: wy,
lands sake, Mandy, that amt no de-
cent place fer a girl to go!"-Judge's
Library.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
FARMER AND :
PLANTER

Optimism.
A little looking for the light,
That's sunshine;
A little patience through the night,
That's sunshine;
A little bowling of she will,
A little resting on the hill,
A little standing very still,
That's sunshine.
A little smiling through the tears,
That's sunshine;
A little faith behind the fears,
That's sunshine;
A little folding Of the hand,
A little yielding of demand,
A little grace to understand,
That's sunshine.
Stuart Maclean.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-10-16
Rival Diqnities.

An Englishman, fond of Boosting
Of his ancestry, took d coin from his
pocket and, pointing to the head en-
graved on it, said: MY great-great-
grandfather was made a lord by the
shilling"
What a coincidence" said his
Yankee companion, who at once pro-
duced another coin. MY great-great-
grandfather was made an angel by the
Indian whose picture you see on this
cent."-Ladies' Home Journal.