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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The Christmas stamp idea which is
being tried by the Red Cross in this
country was borrowed from Den.
mark. Their purpose is to raise
funds to continue the crusade against
the white plague in the United States.
There is to be an issue of Christmas
stamps apportioned to each state and
to be obtained at Red Cross headquar-
ters. The stamp for this year was de-
signed by Howard Pyle and bears a
holly wreath and the greeting Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year" 1t
costs but one cent and serves the dou,
BILE purpose of bearing a message of
good will and aiding in public cru
SADIE against dread disease.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

An interesting experiment was
tried last year at Yale. The board in
charge Of the Sheffield Scientific
school arranged short courses for the
benefit of the mechanics of New
Haven. Evening courses were offered
in practical mechanics, practical cleo
tricity, steam and steam en-
gines, mechanical drawing and ma
chine design. SO many applications
for admission to these classes were
received that it was impossible to take
care of them all. The results of last
years experiment were so satisfactory
that the plan is to be worked on a
much larger scale this winter. Such
an idea might be carried out on a
small scale in every town having a
manual training department in it's
public schools and by its aid some
young men who have no trade and are
obliged to work as unskilled laborers,
might gain the rudiments of trade.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04
NEW SIDE TO TARIFF PROBLEM

NE w oll'N ~ AMT IhobLEM.
The fact that Andrew Carnegie,
head of the steel trust, should advo-
cate the taking off of the tariff on
steel seemed singular at the first in
slant because it conceded with the
views of the so-called tariff reformers
who were aiming at Carnegie's bust
ness. But new light is thrown upon
the situation in a letter written by
Alfred o. Grezier to Chairman Payne
Of the ways and means committee,
pointing out that removal of the
tariff on steel would enable the forma-
ton of an international trust which
could import it's products from other
countries without duty, getting the
advantage of cheap foreign labor
prices, and still controlling the situa.
ton. Prices could be boosted and
wages lowered at will. This view of
the question, coming from a man
whose integrity of purpose can not
be questioned, promises to turn some
attention to the possibilities of the
situation before the tariff is taken
off Mr.. Carnegie's products.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Lord Roberts has thrown war
scare over England by warning the
government that an invasion by Ger
many would find the British Isles poor
ly prepared to repel attack. Making
due allowance for jingoism, there is
no denying that there is a great deal
Of concern about the future of inter
national peace in Europe, Asia and
America. The war spirit is abroad in
the world.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04
THE KAIsER's HUMILIATION.

Not since the mob enforced it's will
upon Louis XVI. at the beginning of
the French revolution more than a
century ago has the world witnessed
anything like the scene presented in
Germany during the past week. Not
for more than a hundred years has
any monarch had to drink of a cup so
bitter. And it is all the more sensa-
tional in that the victim selected is,
with the exception of Russias car,
the most arbitrary, self willed and i'm.
perious ruler in any civilized country
of the world.
The great events of history come
without warning, They are prepared
by the slow fermentation of ideas and
the slow crystalization of opinion
among the people, exactly as the blast
of the mine must be pre- ceded by days
or weeks of tiresome drilling and by
the slow sputtering of the lighted
fuse. For many years the people of
Germany have been rebellious against
their governmental system, They
with the most liberty-loving blood OF
the world in their veins, have been
practically without constitutional
rights. The reichstag has been but an
empty show; and whenever the EN-
peror chose to swing his mailed fist
all went down before it, The growth
of socialism, the growing violence OF
debate, the necessity of putting in
effect unusual penalties against those
who showed disrespect to the EN-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04
Roosevelt is certainly going to

Roosevelt is certainly going to be
kept busy. The correspondents have
him contributing editorials for the
Outlook, killing lions in Africa, writ.
ing of his travels in Scribner's, max
ing addresses and delivering lectures
in London and France and striving for
Depew's place in the United States
senate, all in the next two years,
What other stunts he will do as a
pastime in the same period is not fore
told.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Clark University some time ago Of
fered $4,000 for the capture of real
ghost. Now the Metropolitan PSYCHE
cal society has offered an equal sum
for a ghost that can count twenty.
Now if there is real, live, ghost who
wants to earn $4,000 all he has to do
is to display himself and undergo the
simple tests prescribed. 1t is cheering
to know that ghosts have a market
value.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Edward Markham, poet and social
list, says If he were a national Santa
Claus with power to bestow any gift
he desired, he would give to the
United States a system organized by
the state to provide work at living
wages for all voorhees, men and wo-
men. Julia Ward Howe would give a
more active national conscience.
Tom l.. Johnson would give the peo-
pie Henry Georges single tax. Rev.
Anna Shaw would give American wo-
men the ballot. Clara Morris, actress
and writer, would give a great navy.
Brand Whitlock, mayor of Toledo,
would give economic liberty. Many
other well-known people have an
nounced what would be their ideal
Christmas gifts to the nation and as
one reads them over he is impressed
that most of them would be very help
full to humanity, and hopes time if
not Santa Claus will bring them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

A Boston clergyman has taken an
advanced position regarding his du.
ties as a Christian minister in per.
forming marriage ceremonies. He re-
fuses to marry persons having in
durable diseases, or men who have
lars a week If more ministers would
take similar stand there would be
fewer paupers and less suffering.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Down in Georgia the peach grow
ers are organizing to get a price for
their fruit that will return them a
living profit. Up north the people are
organizing to get the twenty-five cents
to pay for dozen of the product. It's
long way between grower and con-
sumner and there must be a rake-off
at every station.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

misery and bring greater numbers to
cruel deaths. Despite their nearly
S0O,000,00O of numbers, they would be
no match for the soldiers of Great
Britain, but the slaughter which
would take place before they were
convinced of their helpessness would
be terrible. The English are there to
stay and 1t is to be hoped that the PEG.
pie of India for their own good will
make no revolt
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The experiments in aerial naviga-
ton are costing dear both in lives
and money as all experimental pro-
jects do. Yet men will continue
these risky adventures and there
will be no lack of men ready to test
the aerial crafts which are completed
from time to time. No scientific ex-
pertinent has ever been delayed by
human cowardice.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Whether the use of cement as a
substitute for wood will advance fast
enough to relieve the threatened dis
tress from exhaustion of our ptimber
supply, is not yet proved, but it would
be difficult to estimate what the ad-
ditional drain on the lumber supply
would have been during the past few
years if the use of cement became
general.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04
THAT DAKOTA DIVORCE LAW

No more will South Dakota

NO more VIII South Dakota
Hold the record for divorces
OF those who stop amidstream
For the fun of sw apping horses.
And the one who Sc eks a change
Or in the fields of free-love browses,
VIII have to curb his passion
For the spice of C hange of spouses.
No way Wen have of settling
Our matrimonial squalls
And calmly end by threatening ,
To "go right to Sioux Falls!"
The six months term of residence
Is gone for aye, fear,
And Wen have to now give evidence
We've lived there for year.
Then let us start a protest
Let us raise an awful roar,
That we cannot get remarked
Twice year, as heretofore
They're depriving us of freedom,
Those fell voters in their might,
They are trampling under foot
Our semi-annual marriage-rite.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

President Roosevelt will take with
him on his African trip biologists and
prnithologists and this is evidence
enough, apart from his refusal to ac-
cept special privileges in shooting
that his purpose is not slaughter, but
pleasure in the pursuit of science.
Evidently the president means to
know more thoroughly than ever be-
fore the habits and instincts which
govern the denisons of the forest. He
will be able to nail the nature fakirs
with more precision than ever.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The United States government has
at last succeeded in putting an octo-
accomplished by the big government
dredge Cumberland. While at work
with her giant suction pump in the
Savannah river a live octopus was
drawn up into the vessel. Unfor-
tunately it died before any fine could
be collected.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The old fashioned wooden bridge
ford has been replaced by a beauti-
full granite structure which no one
across the Connecticut river at Hart
can see without gaining an impress
sion of its strength and permanence
which is restful and uplifting. 1t IS
the largest stone bridge in the world
Both the Carlsbruck across the
Moldau at Prague and the Waterloo
bridge over the Thames at London
are longer, but they do not approach
the eighty-two feet width of the Hart
ford structure. One by one the old
land marks are being replaced by
more useful as we'll as more substan
tial and artistic structures.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The decision of the supreme court
in the case of Berea college has set
tied the status of white and black
pupils before the law. The interest
in this decision which holds that Sc
gregation of the races is constitu-
tional, is widespread and many laws
are affected by it. 1t will help to
solve some of the vexing race prob.
lens.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

A Philadelphia Judge has decided
that a wife has a right to go through
her husbands pockets while he is
asleep. But if that judge has the
remotest idea of justice to the hus-
bands he will make ruling that wo-
men shall their pockets where their
husbands can find them
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

No less than a hundred complete
cabinets have been furnished Mr.
Taft by able and disinterested news
papers, but the fraternity may yet
ind that Mr.. Taft is something of a
cabinet maker himself
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

There is no need of getting nervous,
there will be no trouble over the i'm
petuous kaisers interview. Crowned
heads are not taken so seriously in
state matter as they were once, and
war is not a good thing for business
on either side of the water.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

That expense list of Mrs Howard
Goulds may have an effect on the
number of marriages. She showed
that a woman could get along quite
we'll on $4,000 a year, but not every
young man finds this a simple propo-
sition.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Emma Goldmans man Friday"
otherwise known as DR., Reitman
made so bold as to visit the military
reservation at Fort Smelling and to
distribute his inflammable documents
among Uncle Sans soldiers. But be-
fore the dispenser of anarchism knew
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The statement from the state ne.
partment that there is no friction
with Japan may be justified by the
fact that the laps have seen our bat
tleships But we must have the open
door in Manchuria and the integrity
of China must not bedisintegrated
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The Nabobs of the East Indies have
relegated their bejeweled elephants
to their stables and are speeding
around their domains in Yankee au-
tomobiles. Some of these copper
colored dignataries own a number of
machines and run them beyond speed
limit, too. The elephants still come
handy in case of break downs.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

General Corbin rises to remark that
zone fool woman can make more trou-
BILE in an army post than all the men"
II the woman were there alone, Gen.
eral, she would make very little
trouble. It's the old story. Adam COM
planned that the woman tempted him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Mrs. Lantry celebrated her fiftieth
birthday on the race course, but it is
freely predicted that if Mrs. Lantry
sticks to the race horses until her
sixtieth birthday she will celebrate
that in the poor house.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

noted astronomer advances the
theory that the bright rays emanating
from some of the so-called lunar
craters are caused by salt efferves-
cence. This confirms the theory that
the man in the moon Is not so very
fresh after all.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

In quantitythe United States has
had crops superior to that of 1908, but
when quality and prices are taken into
consideration this years crop, all
around, surpasses any previously har.
vested by the argriculturists of the
United States.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The crop this year is worth bill
lion dollars more than the crop Of
1896. If the rural districts are not
getting an uplift it certainly is not
the fault of the prices on farm pro-
ducts.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

n There is danger of Senator Elkins
not being returned to the senate, but
that doesn't worry the senator as
much as the danger that the Duke of
Abruzzi will not return to marry his
daughter after the trosseau is all pre-
pared on a queenly scale.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Senator Elkins is having the roots
of his family tree unearthed. If he
can produce an ancestor with a long
enough title and bad enough record
he may be esteemed fitting father
in-lawfor the Duke of Abruzzi, after
all
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Is something entirely new. 1t sounds
even more fatal than brain storm"
but II 1t means that the respectable
citizens OF San Francisco are ION to
Abe's job" and mean to cut short his
career as a CRATER, its the correct
term.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Thirty-three leading trade papers
take an optimistic view of next years
business prospects. If the country can
be preserved from war or other wide
spread disaster, the future certainly
looks bright
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Both parties having declared for
separate statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico in their national plat.
forms of this year, 1t will be in order
for congress in the coming short ses-
sion to pass the necessary enabling
act.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Christmas Is coming on apace. Re
member those good resolutions of last
year to do your shopping early this
year. You have only short time to
make good.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The value of farm products, farm
animals, dairy and poultry, vegetable
and fruits in the United States the
past year aggregated more than S.
OOO,OOO,OOO Surely this is great
country with wonderful resources.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

That new subway under Washing
about four miles long and cost $780,
100000. 1t is considered a master
piece of engineering
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The heartless antiquarian who has
dug up evidence that primeval man
liked oysters lays a ruthless hand on
the myth that their popularity had its
origin in the output of Oyster Bay,
not far from Sycamore Hill.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Not satisfied with carrying off our
heiresses 1t is reported that Russian
prince is about to marry an American
singer. They are bound to have our
talent, too it seems.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Foraker's latest explanation of his
dealings with Standard Oil and his
refusal to efface himself give promise
of pretty triangular fight when the
Ohio legislature tackles the job Of
electing a senator to succeed the Fire
alarm statesmen, whose time is nearly
up.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

If Mr.. Carnegie has not exhausted
his fund devoted to the promotion of
peace and harmony, he might wisely
invest in peace temple in Tennessee.
1t is sadly needed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

A new two cent postage stamp
bearing the portrait of Washington
in profile from the Houdon statue
will be issued this month and later
those of higher denomination will APP
pear.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

There is prospect of a combina.
fion between the paper trust and the
tobacco trust. What unlimited cigar
cites such a combination would result
in.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

what was happening he was being
forcibly escorted off the reservation
by a squad of men with fixed bayo.
nets. or course this makes martyrs
of the avangels Of anarchy.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The poor Kentuckians may be
forced to go dry by conditions
whether they choose to turn prohibit
tionists or not. Fifteen thousand
barrels of whiskey burned at Boards
town, just as a cold dreary winter is
about to settle down upon them.
What will the Colonies do?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

To add to the dangers of the hunt
ers it's no uncommon thing for women
to take out licenses and join in the
search for game.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Mrs. Nat Goodwin, number four,
states that she will not leave the
stage. She is probably wise to keep
in training for future contingencies.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

There is some reason why men
should talk about the weather; they
have nothing else to talk about, but
With women it is different. They are
not restricted to the weather, having
always for a subject of conversation
the scandalous manner in which their
hair is coming out.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Great Britain believes that serious
trouble is imminent in India. There
seems to be no hope in the lives of
the poor. starved, pestilence swept
people of India, 1t is not surprising
that they should attempt a revolt
against English rule, but 1t is pitiful
because 1t will only add to their
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

A Chicago judge has decided that
baby carriages mustha We lighted
lamps if they are to perambulate the
public ways at night. Probably this
ruling will decrease the number of
fatalities caused by overspeeding
baby carriages.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

1t is quite generally accepted that
the aeroplane will not replace the coal
wagon or the ice cart, but then it may
find other spheres of usefulness.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Every interest Is hurryIng before
the tariff committee and demanding
to be heard except the farmer who
represents the greatest of all interests.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

The Kaiser has most appropriately
conferred upon Count Zeppelin the
Order of the Black Eagle in recogni.
ton of his ability as a high flyer.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

According to the report of the Ag-
ricultural department this is the
eighth successive year of bountiful
crops. Let us hope that we are to
have a double seven fat years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Garry Nation is about to visit Scot
land but she has announced her in.
tention of leaving her Ratchet behind,
the killed bartenders of old Scotland
need not tremble.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

There has been no objection raised
20 the Thanksgiving proclamation on
the ground of its being unconstitu.
ional
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

II is strange paradox that as
man settles down in life he raises
in his own estimation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Prices falkland they talk loud
when you want a pound of butter or
n dozen of eggs.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

You cannot legislate virtue into peo-
pie. There is no man ever any better
than he wants to be-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

II cost s5,O0O,OO0 to transmit the
news in the night of the presidential
election, but 1t was worth 1t this year.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

To own the four youngest looking
grandparents in the state ought to be
worth something.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Lincoln Journal Governor Shell
don has been busy with the case of
w. A. Buchlin, notary public of
Brown county, who is charged with
taking acknowledgements when the
parties were not before him. A COM
plant has been filed asking the gov
ernor to revoke his commission. The
friends of Mr., Buchlin say the com
plant was inspired by spite and that
the Irregularities complained of were
afterwards ratified by the parties
whose names are mentioned in the
acknowledgement.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

How some women can even pretend
to be proud of their husbands is a
mystery to other women.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

What a great and glorious thing it
would be if some enterprising man
would get busy and corner the trou.
BILE market
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Do they have to be a certain age
before they can get Christmas pres
ents off the Sunday school tree?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

AS man grows old, he often re-
fleets that his greatest happiness and
content came to him through sensi.
BILE women, instead of pretty ones.
But there is no use telling it to his
,on.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

After a man has been married a
year he doesn't get brain flag from
thinking of his wife when she is spend.
ing a few weeks in the country.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04

Every doctor in a small town thinks
he would have become world-famous
had he located in city.