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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Norfolk can not afford to lose such
men as A. J. Durland, who is under
stood to have been contemplating, dur
ing his western trip, plans to leave
this city for the Pacific coast. One of
the progressive, live, constructive
citizens of the community and a man
who has done very great deal for
Norfolk, Mr.. Durland is of a type of
citizen to be greatly valued by the
city and to be kept here if any pos.
sible persuasion can be brought to
bear. For more than twenty years A.
j. Durland has been an important fac,
tor in the upbuilding OF Norfolk. He
laid out and developed one of the best
residence portions OF the city. He
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

If John Milton could express his
appreciation for the many fine things
that have been said about him by
American newspapers on the three
hundredth anniversary of his birthday,
he would no doubt give the United
States a big boost,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

On the beautiful library of Column
bus, Ohio, this message is craven;
my Treasures are Within" The
passer by who is tempted 20 pass the
building with an admiring glance at
the artistic lines of the architecture
is reminded by this message of the
high purpose of the structure which
is to enfold a soul-the books.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

to Norfolk. He has been literally pub
lie spirited and eminently progressive.
The News hopes, as It knows Norfolk
does, that Mr. Durland may yet de.
termine to remain permanently here
and continue to make his home in the
city that he has helped so materially
TO build.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Biologists differ as to the age of
Niagara Falls. One thinks it is about
1000 years old, and another 100000
years old, After all, biologists are
Just about as good guessers as other
people,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

The Commoner announces that Mr..
Bryan will continue in his chosen life
work-the study of the science of gov
eminent. Now if Mr.. Bryan will be
content with the study and let the
practice alone, all will be well.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Why not let the little folks enjoy the
harmless idea of Santa Claus annual
visits as long as they can? The happy
myth will become transparent soon
enough
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

John Burroughs in his new book on
Literary Values" says many thought
full things. Among them this; IAN
enduring fame is of slow growth. The
man of the moment is rarely the man
of the sternities. If your name is mp
on all mems tongues today some other
name is likely to be there tomorrow"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

General William Booth has just had
an operation performed on his eyes
and it is hoped that he will fully re-
cover his eyesight, General Booths
sight may have failed him hut his in
sight, stirred by heart impulses, con-
tinues undated He is one of the
grand old men of the century Few
men OF any age have ever had more
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Lord Roberts wants an army of one
million men in England to guard
against German invasion. Is there
room in England for so large an
army?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

1t is astonishing what poor memoir
les such men as Rockefeller, Archbold
and Hartman have. Other people,
however, have no trouble in remem-
bering.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

An enthusiastic prohibitionist has
discovered that the Prince of Wales
is a teetotaler, but he didn't catch the
water habit from his father, King
Edward.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

]. Pierpont Morgan has a wonderful
collection of books valued at 100000
900. They are said to include all the
books that nobody ever reads.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Germany Is Americas principal
competitor in the expectation of loco
motives ard Italy is her principal Gus
toner.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

At all events Mr.. Pulitzer has the
satisfaction of knowing that there are
two sides to the expense account at
tached to libel suit
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Fortunately the controversy con
corning the Panama canal doesn t
hinder the men who are working down
there from making the dirt fly.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Everybody wants to get the most
possible happiness out of life. An
exchange very aptly gives this advice
which it will be we'll to follow: IF
you want to go to Joyville take the
Smiling high-road past Gladstone
creek. Keep to the right all the way,
If YOU meet young woman with a
basket, carry it for her When you
meet a man say 'howdy.' If you stub
your toe whistle. If it rains, Groom a
song If you are cold, run little and
think of something that will make
your heart glow. If the way is long,
recall how you trudged every Sunday
up to your best girls house and
never tired. If a dog banks at you,
don't throw a stone at him. Snap
your fingers and say good doggie,
If you feel like crying, laugh instead,
If you can do all this, you'll get to
Joyville all right-and it's about the
only way you will ever get there"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

The policy of the administration
to put doctors in command of hospi-
tai ships is not working very salts
factorily.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

The Indian who recently purchased
an automobile and eloped with a
charming young woman has certainly
become thoroughly Americanized.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

The house has not decided to prose
cute President Roosevelt for libellng
the government.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Pat Groves success as an evangel-
ist may lead to course in kidnap-
ping at theological seminaries.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

The latest modification of the
admonition to shop early is to shop
often.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

The United States imports 10000
900 pounds of tea annually. JUST
about pound for each inhabitant.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

The man who remains bachelor
on January /, gives evidence of haY-
ing learned to say "no" in his early
youth.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Santa Claus and General Prosperity
are said to be twins. They are certain
ly couple OF hummers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Miss Clara A. Grace, a young Eng,
lish woman, holds the record for the
fastest round trip ever made between
New York and London. Miss Grace
made the trip from London to New
York and back in a little more than
twelve days, but she spent only
twenty-four minutes in transacting the
important business which called her
to New York. She called up the part
les she wished to meet in New York
by wireless while out at sea and the
business was transacted while riding
in an automobile from the pier of the
steamer from which she had Just
landed to the pier of the outgoing
steamer which bore her back to Lon
don, That is what an American girI
would call going some
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

A good story is told on a Norfolk
man who formerly graced a northern
Nebraska district court bench and
who once served as attorney general
in the state. The name is withheld.
The judge was advised to wear union
suits, but objected Finally he was in
duced to go into a store to investigate
Il never wore union suits" he said.
once you do, you'll never wear any
thing else" said the salesman. The
judge turned white and, declaring that
if such was the case he wouldn't think
of wearing them, hastily made his get.
away
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25
The Norfolk Weekly News journal

Once more American troops are
planning to evacuate Cuba.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Your friends will remember what
you didn't give them Christmas
good deal longer than they will re-
member what they got.
The man who keeps Christmas
list may be regarded as an ideal man
by the women, but other men regard
him as the real Sissy with curls.
A great deal of fun is made of the
ia nily album. But there is nothing
more interesting. Most families make
a mistake in not keeping a more com
plete collection of photographs.
When an old fashioned woman
wants to say that anyone who wishes
to can get married, she uses this eX-
pression: mo matter how crooked
the pot you can find a lid"
What has become of the tender
hearted woman who furnished a roost-
ing place for the flies by Siicing her
apples and hanging them up on
strings from the ceiling to dry?
We like woman who looks at her
husbands bunch of office KEYS with
awe, and who thinks that financial
battles are fought and won behind
the door of his office that is marked
private"
1t is said that if you swallow a sin
gle seed in eating a watermelon you
will have fits. There is nothing in it..
We will bet that a boy can eat all the
seeds in Il Watermelon in addition to
the rind and vine, and never mind it..
When you go into a house between
now and Christmas and find a cross,
tired looking woman viciously putting
her needle in and out of a dainty
piece of work you may know that the
joyous Christmas tide is at hand and
the stormy faced woman is working
on her Christmas presents.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25
ATcHIsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

Popular men are as Jealous of each
other as popular girls.
Every man believes his friends
make a wailing place of him.
AS a rule, the climate doesn't make
much difference, if your digestion is
good.
No use talking; on dull rainy Sun
day, when hack drives up to a neigh
boris, it is a diversion.
A number of Atchison children met
Saturday and organized a society for
the training of step parents,
A man can be married or divorced,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE 1T?

How would you like to be rich
Like Morgan, Mr. Morgan,
To be able to burn
What other folks earn,
Like Morgan Mr.. Morgan!
To jauntily drop economys bars,
To ride in magnificent private cars,
And twiddle your long fve-dollar cigars,
Like Morgan, Mr.. Morgan?
How would you like to stop pancs,
Like Morgan, Mr. Morgan!
Preyentable panics
OF money mechanics
Like Morgan, Mr.. Morgan?
He has at his beck such millions of plunks,
If he says Thumbs up then industry jumps,
If he says Thumbs down." were all in the dumps,
This semi-omnipOtent Morgan!
How would you like a forgotten,
Like John d. Rockefeller
The grand old man
OF the coal oil
Great John d. Rockefeller!
His memory is trained till it shifts the shade
The ruin he wrought by his kerosene raid
And he only remembers the friends that he made,
Shrewd John ID. Rockefeller
How would you like to control
Like old Weyerhaeuser,
All available trees
From the lakes to the seas?
That numbering Weyerhaeuser!
With owning our lumber he'll not be content,
For the numbering interests certainly bent
On boosting the prices of Portland
To help poor Weyerhaeuser,
How would you like to change
The cursed industrial system
Which forces
To grab all he
If he would not himself be the victim?
We've listened to so-called solutions galore;
We're far from agreement before
All hail to the savior who brings to door
An equabe, workable system!
RICHARD f. MARV
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25
get, and quit talking about him.

During every dry spell the thought
occurs to us that II we could rain,
and everybody wanted us to, we'd
do It,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

humanity-and few men have ever
more worthily obeyed the vision.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

When there are ten girls at the
depot, it means that one is going away
and nine have come down to see her
off
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Norfolk is this winter, for the first
time, experiencing the comfortable
feeling of satisfaction which comes
from knowledge that, even if there is
no ice crop, we'll be taken care of.
There's an artificial ice plant in the
town that does away with the neces-
sity of freezing weather, and if the
weather man cares to, he is at liberty
to turn on the spring sap at any old
time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

A man can be married or divorced
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

It's pretty race-that vote-game
And there's one good feature abou
it--nobOdy will lose.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

The Madison Star-Mail issued a
corking Christmas edition with color
ed cover.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

When woman gets a Christmas
present in advance with the admoni,
ton not to open it, she's sure to do
that very thing.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

There's no more Christmas shop
ping. It's Christmas buying from this
time henceforth.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

How would you like to be woman
and spend seven days preceding
Christmas, ten hours a day, baking
cookies for your homecoming family?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Notice how much longer the days
are becoming?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

There are times when all theories
fail
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

Your friends will remember what
you didn't give them Christmas a
good deal longer than they will re-
member what they got.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

RICHARD F, HARDWOOD.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25
Only one more.

How would you like to be the mail
man?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-25

The man who keeps a Christmas
list may be regarded as an ideal man
by the women, but other men regard
him as the real Sissy with curls.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-14

Mr.. Stewart died thirty-one years
ago. leaving no children. His widow
died ten years later The magnificent
marble mansion in which he lived on
Fifth avenue. New York, has been
razed and replaced by commercial
structure Eleven years ago his sue
cessors in the great store on Broad
way assigned, and the Stewart store
building is now Wanamaker estab-
lishment. Even the body of Stewart
was stolen from its vault in New York,
and there is still dispute as TO wheth-
er it ever was recovered. The Stew
art name and business and fortune all
have disappeared, but his fame lives.
A. L. Stewart was a Scotch-lrish-
man. born in Ireland and educated at
Dublin university. He was classical
scholar, devoted to books in his early
life and with no idea of entering trade.
When he came to America, at the age
of twenty, in 1923, he became teacher
in New York Two years later he re-
turned to Ireland to claim legacy of
about $1,000. and upon the advice of
/, a friend in New York he bought in
Dublin a stock of laces and other
goods, which he brought back to Amer
lea with him. He opened q small shop.
advertised his wares and sold the
goods at an enormous profit. This sue
cess revolutionized Stewart. He de-
voted his life TO trade
At the outset Stewart made up his
mind as to his course in business. He
determined to be perfectly honest, new
er to misrepresent bi goods, always
to watch every noe. and corner of his
| business and to add more customers
by pleasing those he got. 1t was his
boast in old age that in all his career
he never permitted a willful misrepre-
sentation to be made in his store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-14
WHATS IN A NAME2

The full title of King Chulalongkorn
of Siam: Most high, illustrfous, in
vincible and powerful monarch, crown
ed with 191 golden crowns, each adorn-
ed with nine species of precious gems;
greatest, purest and most divine mas
ter of immortal souls. who sees all
things; sovereign emperor, under the
shadow of whose wings lies the rich
and incompatible kingdom of Siam:
king to whom is subject the most
fruitful Of all lands liz by the sun:
greatest of lords whose palace is of
fine gold and geIns7 divine master OF
the golden thrones and of the white
and red elephants, sovereign god of
the nine kinds of gods, king who is
like unto the sun at its zenith and
like the fun moon. king whose glance
is more dazzling than the orb Of the
morning king Who is above all en-
perors, uaonarchs and potentates of
the universe from the rising to the
setting SUM-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-14
Some Other Wainwrishts.

After the war Wainwright held sew
eral high posts in the naval service,
including the superintendency of the
Naval academy at Annapolis. where his
own son Richard, the youth to whom
the secretary of the navy alluded in
his brief address, was 4 cadet Young
Wainwright is now a lieutenant in the
navy. He is the third Richard Vain
wright in direct line in naval service
The father of the officer who is to
command the battleship fleet was
Commodore Richard Wainwright. COM
mander of Admiral Farragut's flagship.
the Hartford. Commodore Wainwright
died in 1862. His war record was high
iy creditable. His young son Richard
was box in Washington. TWO years
after the comnodore'a death President
Lincoln appointed the son to a cadet
/ ship in the Naval academy. Captain
( Wainwright has been in the service
forty-three years.
/ In person the future commander OF
the great fleet is tall and spare. of the
rawboned type. In his casual con-
versation he is not 50 picturesque per-
haps as is Fighting Bob who has
made several national notices in mo-
Inents of enthusiasm which do not
look well in large type unless expur-
cation is resorted TO, which spoils the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-14
AesENTMlNDEo CELEBRITIES.

Not only was the late Canon Mac
Coll, the English divine, one of Mr.
GladstoEe's closest friends, but there
was a great similarity between his
characteristics and those of the Grand
Old Man" Both men, for instance.
were apt to be totally oblivious of
everything else when talking on a sub
ject which excited their feelings 1t
will be long while before the house
of commons forgets the ludicrous spec
tacle of Mr.. Gladstone trying to bal
his head while putting a question to
the speaker. Equally funny was an in
cident which occurred at a big coun-
try house with all the guests at lunch
con, and Canon MacColl speaking with
unquenchable enthusiasm on the Bull
garian atrocities. A plate of stewed
fruit was before him, and a magnifi-
cent fiunky stood beside with sugar
and cream on a salver The cream had
clotted, and when the canon, still
speaking. turned the jug over his plate
nothing came out. Unconsciously he
continued to hold it more and more
upside down. while the guests watched
him, fascinated Did he jerk the jag
in his enthusiasm or was it only force
of gravity that told2 Suddenly ear
came the cream In one mighty splash
| all over fruit and cloth and canon.
And the unforgettable sight was the
splendid flunky struggling net to
!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-14
Captain Richard Wainwright, 1t
Is Understood In Naval Circles,
Will Succeed Rear Admiral
Evans as Fleet Commander.

Newport mounted as armament q few
six FOUNDER guns. The torpedo boat
destroyers carried fourteen Founders
and torpedo tubes, capable of sinking
a fret class battleship. But this was
not all During a considerable part of
the fight Lieutenant Commander Vain
wright's pleasure craft was under the
fire of the powerful armored cruiser
Vizcaya, of 1000 tons displacement, and
the heavy guns of MORO castle.
A Memorable Fourth.
Those of us who celebrated the
Fourth of July. 1898. by reading the
newspaper dispatches telling of the
destruction of the Spanish fleet off
Santiago harbor the day before may
recall enthusiastic mention of Lieu
tenant Commander Wainwrights feat.
If we followed the succeeding news
paper reports we received the full
story. 1t was a story difficult to be
/ lieve, almost prcpoSterous. and yet it
was undeniably true. 1t supplied the
aimsy stuff of which romances are
made, and yet in this instance it was
fact, not fiction.
For the earlier chapters in this fact
romance of American history let US go
back four and q half months prior to
the naval battle of Santiago on the
night of Feb. >. 1889 the American
battleship Maine, peacefully anchored
in the harbor of Havana, was blown
up and totally destroyed. causing the
death of 26G members of her crew.
/ For several years the Cuban patriots
had been at war with Spain, trying to
drive the ancient tyrant from the is
land. There had been more or less
talk of American Intervention in the
matter Chronic disturbance through
out a large island lying 50 close to our
shores furnished occasion for tho be
lief that the United States might in
tcrvcne But there was no actual
threat of such Interference. The
Maine was visiting Havana harbor
upon q peaceful mission BY some
mysterious agency the battleship was
destroyed.
Second in command of the Maine
was Richard Wainwright, executive
officer under Captain Sigsbee Last to
leave the sunken wreck was Vain
wright, who worked heroically in sue
corug the wounded and recovering the
=. bodies of the dead. For weeks after
the disaster Wainwright made his
headquarters on q small government
vessel in the harbor, going daily'to the
twisted hulk of the Maine. taking out
corpses of victims and seellins evidence
upon which to base a finding as to
what caused the explosion Vain
wright refused to go ashore in Ha-
vana. When asked his reason he re-
piled that he preferred to wait unit
he could go ashore at the head of q
landing party in armed conflict witt
Spain.
Lieutenant Commander Wainwright
firmly believed that the Maine wa:
destroyed by a conspiracy of Spanish
} army or navy officers, though the find
ing of the court of inquiry was aeces-
sarily indefinite. His duties in con
nection with the Maine ended. Vain