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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27
THE STAR sPANGLED BANNER

THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER.
There is no question but what the
American people have an intense love
of freedom and are willing, when &C.
casion calls for them, to show a BRAY
cry which commands the admiration
of the world, in its defense. But there
are some evidences of a daily enthus-
iastic regard for the little things
which in other countries give evidence
of the peoples appreciation of what
they approve, which are here deplor-
ably lacking.
The writer remembers some years
ago attending a great national con-
vention. A candidate for the high
Office of president of the United States
was to be nominated by this splendid
body, representing the intelligence
and the wisdom of a great political
party. From all parts of the nation
were gathered men whose names were
household words in the current poll
teal history. He sat in the gallery at
the beginning of one of the sessions
of this great body and close beside
him sat young Englishman who was
watching the proceedings with great
interest. Such men as Thomas B..
Reed, William Mckinley, Allison,
Wolcott of Colorado, Cullom of Illinois
and host of other statesmen walked
down the aisles Of the convention hall
and took their places with their state
delegations or on the stage. Some OF
these men were recognized and
slight cheer from the assembled thous-
ands which thronged the edifice was
given. Turning to the young English
man the writer asked him how this
impressed him and how it compared
with the great political gatherings in
England. His answer was a great
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Senator Kittredge and Senator
Gamble of South Dakota had a lively
tilt in the senate Tuesday. 1t all
arose over a little land bill. Early in
the session Gamble introduced a bill
to create new land district in the
extreme northwestern corner of South
Dakota. While Kittredge was at home
looking after his fences, Gamble
brought up the bill. Senator Kean of
New Jersey, at the instance of Sen
ator Kittredge met in the morning to
discuss the new bill. Kittredge sug-
gested that part of North Dakota
be added. The two senators were to
have conferred with the North Dakota
senators later. But before this con.
ference took place, Gamble brought
up the bill. Kittredge was sent for
and charged bad faith. He objected
and again the bill went over. 1t is
said that the only proposition these
two senators have agreed on for years
was the fact that Kittredge blocked
the bill. Kittredge has now started
home, feeling confident that he will
succeed himself in the senate, al
though Governor Crawford is hard
after his toga.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27
WHAT OF OUR FUTURE?

There is nothing more interesting
than to watch the growth of strong
stalwart youth as he comes to man.
hood possessed of courage, of latent
and undeveloped strength and I'M
known resources. 1t is no wonder that
President Garfield said that he al
ways felt like taking off his hat when
ever he met live American boy. But
there is a parallel to this feeling about
the boy in the life of a strong I'M
developed nation whose future is
largely ahead of it. And that is why
we ourselves contemplate our position
as nation in the world with amaze
ment and query as to its ultimate re-
lative position among the nations of
the world.
There are facts and figures at the
present time which make this problem
of unusual and increasing interest.
The three great countries of the world
are Great Britain, Germany and the
United States. The total wealth of
the United States is $107104, 211, 917
and the per capita is $1,31Ol1 which
is $435 per capita more than that of
England and 1858 per capita more
than that of Germany.
Some figures, which men who love
to reveal in statistics have lately made
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

The millionaire who signs with re-
greet that he is not child again free
from care and woe of every kind, is
too apt to forget that the boy around
the corner who had the scarlet fever
last year and the humps this year
feels equally bad that he isn't a man
with plenty of money. The boy is
inclined to feel that the world is
rather sad one because when he Is
sick there isn't much fun and when
he's we'll he has to go to school.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27
MINNESOTA RATE CASE.

| If calm elaboration and thorough
investigation had been factors in the
making of reduced passenger rate
laws enacted by many state legisla-
lures year ago, it Is probable that
the legislation accomplished might
have stood up under the test Of the
courts. AS it Is, the decision of the
| United States supreme court in the
Minnesota case fails to permanently
establish the twocent fare laws in
the several states.
Minnesota and North Carolina courts
decided that the passenger rate laws
were unconstitutional because too low /;
therefore confiscatory. The supreme
court of the United States declares the
laws unconstitutional because the
penalties for violating the low rate
laws would be confiscatory And so
the whole rate work of the various
state legislatures gets a setback.
Some declare it is a movement toward
greater Capitalization, in that the fed.
eral courts can knock out a state rail.
road law But there really doesn't
seem to be any ground for that belief
other than that regulation by various
states, in all their various ways, can
never produce the same even and uni
form effect that could be produced by
| q sipp1p fpdpra1 otinp
This newspaper said when the leg.
islatures were at work making rate
laws, that if the lawmakers really
wanted to give something permanent
to the public in the way of reduced
rates, the hit-or-miss plan would have
to be Abandoned and legislation would
have to be based upon a genuine in,
vestigation into conditions. Without
investigating, no state legislature is
qualified to say that a rate should be
cut to two cents, or that the reduction
should stop at two cents. If that is
the process, we might as well have
made one-cent rates or half-cent
rates. This paper pointed out at the
time that without logical and sound
knowledge of conditions as a basis OF
rate reduction, no rate reduction
law would stand the test of the courts
If legislators had wanted to bring per.
manent and unquestioned relief to the
people, they would have gone deeply
into the matter of rates and then, in
sane way, would have established
rates that no court could find to oe
unreasonable.
But state legislators went wild
They allowed their best judgment to
run away with their passion and in
order to sting the railroads they made
laws that can't stick in the courts
Governor Hughes of New York vetoed
the two-cent bill passed by the New
York legislature, because it was not
backed up by investigation. The Wis.
consin state commission did investi,
gate for eleven months and then its
report was thrown over the transom
by a legislature eager to get into the
bandwagon and careless as to per,
manence of the law they made.
The Minnesota decision has not
taken any lawmaking power from the
state. 1t has merely said to the state
that if its laws are to hold they must
be based upon known conditions and
they must be properly balanced.
PROGRESSIVE POLICIES.
II ]. d. Sturgeon, republican can
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

in public assembly, upon the street.
that an American should instinctycly
uncover his head and listen In reycr-
ent silence whenever by voice or by
instrument are heard the strains Of
The Star Spangled Banner" II will
the better ut us for the emergencies
should they ever come that call for
sacrifice on the field OF battle In de.
Tense OF that same flag.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27
THE UNEMPLOYED,

In various parts of the country there
is a growing list of men who are un'
employed. Many corporations and
railroads are curtailing their expenses
and releasing more or less men, but
nevertheless there is no general cess
alton of business either in the store
the factory or the farm.
There is a story going about that
General Coxey who in 1898 led sew
eral thousands of men from the cen
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

While Japan is paying her war debt
and getting her revenue into working
order by excessive taxation of her
people, China sees her opportunity
and is devoting her commercial ability
and looking after her own national
and international interests. No one
knows whether Japan is preparing to
strike at China, Russia or America
but her intense naval activity and the
fact that all her arsenals are running
day and night leads the world to sup
pose that they are preparing a hot
time for some one before many years
shall pass.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

1t would seem to the casual observer
that if Emma Goldman could be made
obedient to the command served upon
her not to talk, that the country would
soon be rid of one more menace to
society. Such talk as Emma INDUCES
in would surely result fatally if it
were pent up any considerable length
of time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Some disciple of Reuterdahl trying
to disccredit the craftsmanship of the
American navy, says that only one
and one-half per cent of the shots
fired at Santiago were effective. If
this small proportion could accomplish
what they did, what would have been
the result had a large part of the
shots hit the mark?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

President Roosevelt at the recent
mothers congress told the women
there that mothers were of far more
value to the nation than soldiers. We
could have told them that ourselves,
nevertheless It's just as we'll that the
president remind us occasionally that
a good many things that are very
trite are very true.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27
THE NORFOLK WEEKLY JOURNAL FRIDAY MARCH 81 1908

the old one This will involve an ex.
pense OF many thousand dollars and
will make the approaching Tndepen.
dence Day have more than usual in.
terest. both at home and abroad. Let
us hope this interest will find other
and better forms OF expression than
the burning of powder.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

The Filipinos have certainly caught
the American spirit. The first bill
passed by the Filipino assembly was
an appropriation of nearly one million
dollars for the erection of public
school buildings.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

The addition of Oklahoma's star on
the blue field of "Old Glory" necessi-
tates an entire Encouragement for the
accommodation of the forty-sixth bril-
liant. This revision will be made July
4 of the present year and where
ever the flag floats officially one OF
the new flags must be substituted for
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

There's one thing the "twenty-years-
ago" man on The News wants to look
out for: Every time he prints an
item stating that twenty years ago
Mrs. So-and-So," he is indirectly tell
ing the present age of that young wo-
man-and we all know what girls
think about having their ages told.
This is only friendly tip to the t, y.
a. man.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

The president is said to be inter
ested in Esperanto, but it is not
thought that he will attempt to es-
tablish it as the national language
during the remainder of his term. His
spelling reform was somewhat dis
couraging, you remember.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

According to the figures presented
by various statistlcians the total
wealth Of the United States is $1O7,-
1O2,211,917 and the per capita wealth
is $1,31O.11, which is $435 per capita
more than that of England and 1858
per capita more than that of Germany.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Hetty Green says hse would rather
have her daughter marry a good live
newspaper man than any duke on
earth, but how the newspaper man Is
to be pitied who undertakes the Job
with Hetty as a mother.in.law.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Booker T. Washington states that
the negro population Of Georgia pays
taxes on more than $1s,0OO,O0O worth
of property. This does not make a
large per capita, but taken in the
aggregate it indicates a prosperous
condition of the race.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Senator Knox mentally measures up
among the very best among the presi-
dental possibilities, but physically
he is the lightweight of them all. He
only weighs 119 pounds.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

It isn't a common sight nowadays
TO see human beings walk on their
hands, but there was a pretty lively
BLACK Hand" run In New York this
week
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Mr.. Shaw Of Iowa says he has au-
thorlzed no one to use his name in
connection with the presidency. Real
ly Mr.. Shaw need not worry over it.
Nobody else is.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Some one has said that socialists
are willing to divide the things OF
this earth because most OF them have
nothing to divide.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Overcoats that were carried home
perspiring men, came down town
Thursday morning on the shvering
backs of the self-same humans
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Here's n jolt for the pessimlst: A
lecture in town Monday night on
sociological question drew bigger
house than n wrestling match Tuesday
night.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

How can any one OF the cars
ministers reveal important naval Sc
crets when Russia has no navy?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

That's what there is In n name:
Jack Downs went down.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

A woman does not spend all her
time in buying things; she spends
part of it in taking things back.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Never in our life have we seen a
woman take off her jacket without
dropping her handkerchief.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

An old-fashioned woman never says
a man had a relapse; she calls it a
setback"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Sprinkle. sprinkle, little wagon,
How we wonder where you have
been.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

What's in name? A wrestler
named Downs appears in Norfolk to-
night.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

It's time to be thinking up that new
April fool gag.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

If this keeps up there won't be any
ice famine The very water wagon
could be used for an ice wagon.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

No man can be all his neighbor
thinks he ought to be unless he is
ashamed of himself all the time
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

There is some comfort in the re-
Election that some men are honest as
naturally as others are dead beats.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Many persons would be bright If
they were not too lazy to scour OFF the
rust.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Some men seem to labor under the
their rights unless they fight for them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27
ATcHIsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

People who Overlook" the ads, in
their reading are cultivating the habit
of "unselfshness" in it's absurd sense.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Whenever | think of a man that |
like particularly well, | remember that
hardly know him. Parsons Irvine
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

The people you don't like are al
ways going your way.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

When a man fights in his mind, he
always comes out victorious.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

What chance has the spring poet.
anyway?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27
AROUND TOWN.

March winds bring Easter bonnets.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

When you see a man who has the
same opinions he had early in life, it
is a sign he is a fool and cannot
learn.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

An Atchison man says his prayers
in French and swears in German
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

There is at least this much in
name it is the only distinguishing
difference between number of
breakfast foods.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Straw hats will have to wait.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

1t must be sad to be an old maid:
particularly these days, and have no
man to come home and growl all
evening about hard times.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

A pretty girl is visiting town, and
the young men are crazy over her.
There are dozen better looking girls
in Atchison, but the young fellows
see them every day, and don't appre-
ciate them You find pretty girls
everywhere; they are as common as
ugly men.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Two old timers were telling today
what good times they used to have in
Atchison. "They are here yet" a
young fellow said, "if you go out and
look for them"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Entered at the postofice at Norfolk.
Nnh. as second class matter.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

When people see a man out riding
with two girls, they always wonder
which of the two girls he would have
preferred to leave at home, They look
so uncomfortable and crowded that no
one will believe that it was his choice
to take them both at once.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

The change from a pretty baby into
an ugly repulsive man, with which all
are familiar, is only a slight change
compared with what Cupid undergoes
in the eyes of all who have had much
acquaintance with him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

Why do people wait until a man is
sick, and can't eat, to send him good
things? When he is well, and would
like something good, no neighbor
comes in with fancy jellies, old wines,
and things like that. Things are very
unfair.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-03-27

The News Established, 1884.
The Journal, Established. 1877.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
A Photouranhx Hint.

With a fixed focus camera the en-
deavor should be to get the principal
objects in a good light and at such a
distance from the camera that they
will be nicely rendered without the
necessity Of stopping down the lens.
The distance will take care of itself.
and the foreground, too, unless there be
any very prominent feature in it, when
the picture is likely to suffer by I'M
slightly diffusion or a want of sharp
ness.
With ordinary good fortune as re-
CARDS weather and subjects, the anna
teur photographer who proceeds with
intelligence can bring back a collection
of excellent pictures, even though she
has eve used a camera before. and
the pleasure to be derived by looking
from time to time to these reminis-
cences of some weeks at a delightful
country or seaside resort will be such
that she will not readily go away in
the future without an instrument which
so readily records the chief incidents
of a holiday.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
A GRAIN OF MUSK.
Perfume Diffuses Odor For Years
Without Losing Weight.

Wonderful stories are told of the
number of years that some of the old
Egyptian perfumes last, but We need
not go to Egypt to find a thing like
that. We have 1t here in the common
perfume, musk, says Chicago News.
1t is said that a grain of 1t will diffuse
an oder through a room for twenty
years, and you know, perhaps, that all
perfumes give off their dor by send
ing their particles through the air
that is to say, by giving off all the
time little parts of their W sub
stance. How small, then, must these
particles of musk be when after a
continuous diffusion of them for twen-
ty years the original grain has suffered
no diminution of weight.
But you can find an Illustration of
this wonderful divisibility of matter
nearer home. Ask a scientist about a
drop of blood that falls from your cut
finger, and he will tell you that 1t is
a drop of liquid in which are floating
a million red globules and that these
give 1t its color. And these million
globules may be divided into smaller
globules still. Finally, take the famil-
lar illustration of the thread spun by
the spider. 1t is so fine that $4,000
miles Of it would weigh only eight
ounces, and yet it is made up of a
thousand flaments.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
Discovery of a Planet.

The glory of discovering the big
planet belongs to two men. An astron
omer i'll Cambridge and another in
Paris, each quite ignorant of what the
other was doing, applied themselves to
the task simultaneously. Each indie
pendently declared that If the laws
of motion and g%ravitation were true
there must be at a certain spot in the
heavens a certain mass of matter hith
erto unknown to astronomers. The
presence of such a mass of matter in
such a place would account, they said.
for the disturbances that had been no
ticed In the movements of Uranus
When the telescope was turned to the
point indicated the planet which we
now know as Neptune was discovered
This brilliant piece of work was done
by Leverrier and Adams on the 23d
day of September. 1916.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
SAVING Work.
it. Dragl'


In the home of one oma where
single beds are In general use the
spreads are made of honeycomb ma
terial bought by the yard and hem
med. They are easy to wash and re-
quire M ironing. In the same home
cream white madras is used for bed
room window draperies because of its
good wearing qualities. 1t comes out
of the wash with flying colors. She
trims them with ball fringe and does
not have them wrung very dry and
wrung by hand, of course, as the
wringer would 1atten the little balls.
She uses small rugs all through her
house save the dining room, because
they can be taken outdoors every week
by the one maid of the establishment.
Another woman saves work by hav-
ing her luncheon brought to her sit
ting room on a tray, and another, be-
longing to a family that seems doomed
to perpetual mourning attire, supplies
her maid with very light cotton dresses
in white and black because there is
already too much gloom in the house.