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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07
MARYLAND FOR CLERK.

Now that the time approaches when
Madison county must select new Of
ficers for several positions, The News
wishes to place before the republicans
of the county, for consideration at the
forthcoming primaries, the name of s.
r. Mcfarland, the present deputy
county clerk, in connection with the
candidacy for county clerk.
Mr.. Mcfarland, better known
throughout Madison ounty as Sam"
is eminently fitted for the county
clerkship and is prominently the
logical man for the place at this time
He is just finishing a four year term
as deputy in the office of County Clerk
George Richardson, and is thus
peculiarly prepared to take charge of
that important office when the present
clerks term of office expires next fall.
Sam Mcfarland was born in Indiana
and moved to Stanton county, Ne
braska, when six years of age. He
lived there until he was twenty-three,
part of the time on farm and part of
the time in town. He moved to Dodge
county in 1891 and published the
Dodge Advertiser for three years. In
1894 he came to Norfolk and for ten
years held a position in the office of
H. e. Hardy. He was elected city
clerk of Norfolk in 1900 and was re-
elected four times, demonstrating his
marked capacity in that line of work.
He was then selected by County Clerk
Richardson as his deputy and has
served faithfully and efficiently in that
office for four years.
No man so well fitted for the county
clerkship could be found at this time,
and Mr.. Mcfarland should be nomin-
ated unanimously by the republicans
of the county.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07
TAFT MAY VETO 1T

1t is now suggested from Washing
ton that President Taft may veto the
tariff bill in case the schedules ar.
ranged do not comply, in his judg-
ment, with the pledges made by the
republican party to the voters last
fall.
Congress is finding Taft puzzle.
He says little. and minds his own
business. He allows congress to do
the work of enacting legislation, as
provided by the constitution. He is
believer in upholding the constitu.
ton as it was designed.
But the hint has come from some
quarters that the tariff bill may be
vetoed, if it doesn't suit the presi-
dent after once it is drawn up.
Taft smiles and is apparently good
natured; but behind that smile con.
gress is finding a riddle that is hard
to solve-and man hard to work"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

In this paper, means two things-in
the first place Il shows the tremendous
power Of display advertising, and in
the second place 1t shows that the
want ads get results.
The News want columns have been
built from nothing up to four columns,
merely through the fact that the want
columns have been talked about and
advertised and exploited In other
columns of the paper. The News has
kept everlastingly at II, in advertising
the value of the want column. Never
dey goes by but That some place In
this paper the value of the want ads
Is brought out in as clear-cut man.
ner as can be designed. Big display
advertisements have been used, and
with excellent results.
Nothing but Daily News advertising
has built the want columns And ad.
vertising that will build want columns
will build business for the grocer, the
meat market, the dry goods merchant.
that Norfolk never in its life has been
so prosperous, and that never were
prospects for this city so promising as
now, are borne out strikingly by the
publication of, the three bank state.
ments for business at the close of
Wednesday, April %. These state.
ments show the high water mark in
all three of the banks of the city in
point of deposits. Never was so
much money deposited in Norfolk
banks as right now.
The total footings of the banks of
the city go over the two million dollar
mark and the total deposits are above
a million and half.
The highest total of deposits pre-
ceeding this time was in August, 1907,
Just prior to the panic of October, 1907.
The present condition shows that Nor.
folk is in better condition today than
1t ever was before the furry.
The statements Just published
should give more confidence than ever
to people who have faith in Norfolk.
and should result in general feast
of optimism.
On top of the bank statements, the
fact that more houses are being built
than ever before, and that local real
estate is active, augurs well for Nor
folks future.
There is nothing the matter with
Norfolk's pulse.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

In welcoming the second annual ma
tional peace congress in Chicago, Rev.
DR.. Eugene Bartlett said: Large
have been the expenditures. but we
expect you to do your work faithfully
that the achievements of this gather
ing will be UNNECESSARILY greater than
its expenditures. This congress must
be more than a spasmodic expression
of protest against war and a resolu-
ton that disarmament would be de-
sirable II should inauguarte a still
more effective campaign of the people
in the interests of permanent world
wide peace. The burdens of war are
borne by the common people and in
the end the verdict of war or peace
must rest with the rank and file of
the people"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07
THE MURPHY CHARGES.

Congressman Murphy's attack upon
two federal judges because OF rulings
made by them in the Missouri maxi
mum freight rate law ana passenger
rate law, was discredited right at the
outset by tne disclaimer from Cover
nor Hadley of Missouri, who has been
at the head of the states forces in the
case involved. Governor Hadley want
ed to beat the railroads If he could,
but he at least had enough regard for
the dignity of the federal judges who
had heard the case. not to cast accuse.
lions upon them for the simple reason
that all of his contentious were not
upheld in their opinions.
Congress would make a pretty spec.
tacle If it were to investigate every
judge who rendered an opinion con.
trary to the belief of some member
Of the lower house.
Investigations are all right where
facts Justify them, but congress that
would investigate" without any more
justification than given by Congress
man Murphy, would bear pretty close
watching, itself
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

petition for saloon license at In.
man, when the demonstrators showed
that the petition did not contain the
names of majority of the free hold.
ers of lnman
Winside Tribune: Two incidents
have happened In Belden recently that
may bring a visit from n government
secret service man In search of mint.
special car has been chartered to at.
tend the SeatCle exposition and the
Methodist preacher has purchased an
automobile
Stanton Picket: For the first time
since his terrible accident last fall,
j. w. Eads was able to walk up town
saturday evening. Although still com.
PEELED to use crutch and cane, his
limbs are rapidly growing stronger
and he hopes soon to be able to
move about without aid.
Two former Stanton citizens met
tragic deaths. John Stevens. a former
Stanton young man, committed suicide
at Grand Island by drinking carbolic
acid. A love affair had been crossed.
In Omaha John Blust, age sixty-cight.
formerly of Stanton county, took car.
bolic acid, supposedly by mistake. He
was sick and had several bottles of
medicine.
Bernard Doyle, an ONeill BOY, is
wearing broken jaw in cast as the
result of being hit in the Jaw by a
piece OF brick from Sling shot"
which another O'Neil lad was throw.
ing. That the old fashioned Sling
shot" In dangerous is proven by the
fact that young Doyle's jaw was
broken. that five teeth were torn out
and that part of the jaw bone was also
carried away. The boy was taken to
an Omaha hospital.
ONeill Frontier Sheriff Hall ar.
rived home Tuesday from an official
visit into the White river county of
South Dakota, where he went to look
up some clues relative to the Hugh
ONeill horse stealing affair. He was
accompanied by Sheriff Sutton of
Garfield county. Mr.. Hall says he
learned some things that leads to the
conclusion that there is an organized
band of horse thieves operating in
Nebraska and South Dakota.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07
A LATE SPRING.

The late spring has been depressing
in its effects upon business generally
but there has been a healthy season
in this territory for all that. And
there is an underlying belief that with
the first warm days viii come an
activity such as has seldom been seen
at this time of year.
A year ago tomorrow we had a
severe snow storm, with temperature
down to % degrees above zero; so
that there is little cause for discour-
agement, when comparisons are
drawn. And last year the cold snap
came after buds on fruit trees had
come forth, only to be ruined. The
lateness of the season this year has
kept the buds back so that there is
now no danger of killing frosts and a
fruit crop seems assured.
There is satisfaction in noting, too,
that even though the spring has been
late, this territory has thus far es.
capped the deadly tornadoes which
ragged in many portions OF the United
States.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

Many of our most prominent uni.
versities have within very few years
chosen hew presidents Hadley of
Yale, Butler of Columbia, Wilson of
Princeton, James of Illinois, Alderman
of Virginia. Van Hise of Wisconsin.
Garfield of Williams, Houston of
Washington Tin st. LOUIS, Mezes of
Texas. Mitchell of South Carolina,
Lowell of Harvard. Michigan and
Minnesota are seeking presidents to
succeed DR.. Angel and DR.. Northrup
who have served long terms, built up
great institutions and have reached
the age of retirement. Two types of
old time college presidents have gone
utterly out of fashion-the preacher
and the politician. The scholar in gov.
eminent and economics seems now to
be the dominant type. But the most
important quality demanded is leader
ship of men. The group of men named
are remarkable band of leaders and
1t would be hard to overestimate their
influence on the nation.
Americans eat four million bushels
of peanuts every year. It's no wonder
there are a good many peanut politi-
clans.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07
NoRFoLK's PULSE is ALL RIGHT

NORFOLK'S PULSE is ALL RIGHT.
The frequent assertion of The News
the clothier or any other merchant or
business enterprise that can stand pub
LEFTY.
The want columns have delivered
the goods" so to speak, or they never
could have grown, no matter how
much we talked about them. Any ad-
vertised article, to meet success, must
FULFILL claims made for it.
The News want ads have come to-
day to be an exchange center through
which all of Norfolk, northern Ne
braska and southern South Dakota
come together to chat and to trade
and to buy and sell and rent.
And the want columns are going
to grow still further.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07
TO HANG MANY TURKS

A dispatch received in London from
Constantinople says that in an inter-
view Enver Bey, one of the leaders
of the Young Turks, declared that they
mad proofs that massacre of all
Turks suspected of liberalism had
been projected in Constantinople and
was only prevented by General
Schefket's Fastening the occupation
of the capital Enver said he now
feared that Abdul Hamid would be.
come the center of new riots. He be-
1eved that as result of the court
martial there would be an additional
hundred executions and as many more
sentenced to Imprisonment at hard
labor. The executions are to be in
public in various portions of the city,
and began Monday when thirteen men
were executed. The Young Turks say
it was necessary to show a salutary
example. The former sultan, Enyer
Bey asserted, had already been punish
ed and would not be put on trial.
The treasurers of the palace of
Yildiz are being inventoried by par
liamentary committee, Abdul Hamid
thirty years ago took the open billy
pastures and gradually transformed
them into gardens, among which he
constructed pavilions for himself. his
wives, his children and the palace
favorites. He gathered there an i'm
mense variety of objects of art and
luxury, services of silver and gold.
French and oriental carpets, Greek
sculptures taken from the museums
OF Constantinople, presents from most
OF the sovereigns of Europe and gifts
from wealthy subjects. Within the
walls of the palace artificial lakes are
are geological garden with a special
ly fine collection of CRATES, various
breeds of camels and rare birds and
an automobile course. The art OBJ
Jects from the museums will be re-
turned. The furniture, rugs and
jewels will be distributed to the other
palaces, the new sultan, Mehmed w,
taking the choice of these for the
Dolmabagtsche palace, which he is at
present occupying. A particular safe
is being made for the boards of cash
which Abdul is reported to always to
have had on hand He also has great
sums invested abroad. None, how
ever. has been found as yet, although
the former sultan must have had at
least few hunderd thousand pounds
in the domestic treasury.
Sultan Mehmed has kept himself
somewhat in retirement ever since he
replaced his brother on the throne. |
He drove out to his country home and
was warmly cheered. Large crowds
had gathered to watch his return to
the palace and the sultan was given
an ovation which seemed to please
him greatly.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

America pays out annually $780,
100000 more to punish crime than is
devoted to every branch of church
work-Sunday school, educational and
humanitarian work. This is an age of
laws and yet the most lawless age in
history. The peril of America today is
a lack of PARENTAL control, care and
culture of children, which careless
ness has become criminal. Heredity
and environment breed criminals;
poorhouses and prisons confirm them
and parents are altogether and always
responsible. The cost and cause of
crime is clear but it can never be
figured out what man or woman is
worth. The one only cure is the jul
venile court law, father to the father
less, and industrial schools, mother
love to the motherless." So says DR..
A. S. Orne, the father of the juvenile
courts, after many years experience in
the work of saving children
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07
OVER NORTHWEST PRAIRIEs.

Winside may secure a gas lighting
plant.
Work has started on Plainview's
new 100000 school building.
An anti-horse thief association is
being organized at Atkinson.
L. z. Evans of Monowi will be prin.
cipal of the Dallas, S. D., schools next
year.
G. A. Gregory has been named as
principal of the junior normal at
Valentine.
The government townsite of Gould
in Trip county will be known here.
after as Eose,and. Gail Hamilton is
the first postmaster.
The board of directors of the Wis
ner live stock show have set the dates
for the annua! live stock show for
September IA, IS and 16.
The Chadrou Commercial club has
a new state nor nal committee consist
Ing OF the officers OF the club, l.. N.
Costley, p. H. Blanchard and Ben
Loewenthal
w. B. Backus, a former Boonesteel
attorney, is now located at Colome
and is prominently mentioned as a
candidate for states attorney for
Trip county.
The Clearwater Odd Fellows cele-
bration Of the Nineteenth anniversary
OF the lodge Monday was attended by
about 200 visiting members from
Neigh, Oakes, Tilden, Meadow
Grow, Elgin. Royal, Orchard and Ew-
ing
c. P. Uhl, appearing before the Holt
county commissioner withdrew his
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

The raising of the street crossings,
which has just begun, will be greeted
with joy by every Norfolk citizen, and
with double ecstasy by those who have,
during the muddy weather, stepped
into three inches of slush in trying to
get across the street. The tendency
in the past has been altogether too
much to get crossings below the level
of the street. And the activity in
elevating them will be unanimously
appreciated.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07


parts of the city and was one of the
fist Norfolk avenue property owners
tc sign the paving petitipn. Mr. Welsh
as jeen Northwestern engineer
since 1894. He has been in the railroad
service since 1886. He has lived in Nor
folk ince 1898. He has three boys and a
sister for each.
Mr.. MatraI wear ago severed a
abroad connection of twenty-five
years with the Nor'h Western company
N Norfolk. He had reen in continuous
all Dad service FOR thirty-seven years.
He was local agent for score of years.
Mr.. Matrau is S"ctor in the Elk
horn Building and Savings association,
of which he was one OF the founders
He has alw"ys been treasurer OF the
Railroad Hall association. Mr.. Matrau
Is now actively engaged in the coal
and ice business. in the former as a
of the firm of Matrau &
Willie, in the latter as a stakeholder
and officer in the Pure Ice company.
Mr. Matrau won distinction in the
civil war as the youngest captain in |
the northern armies He has been at |
the head of the Loyal Legion in Ne
braska.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07
Two Citizens Who Begin Three Year
Terms on Schools Board Monday

Next Monday evening the Norfolk
board of education meets to organize
for the coming year. At the same time
John Welsh takes the place of Thomas
Shiveley on the board There is no
other change in the membership, H.
c. Matrau succeeding himself as a
result of the April election.
There are number of interesting
points about the two successful can
didates for the school board who were
elected month ago. Both are trus-
tees of the Catholic church of this
city, beth are credited with a score of
years In the Northwestern railroad
service, both are substantially inter-
ested in the city's welfare
While Mr.. Welsh is the newest mem
Der of the school board, Mr.. Matrau
in point of service is the oldest. Mr..
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

For the last seven years the average
of public gifts has been more than
$1OO,000,000 year. 1t is cause for
gratitude that the wealthy people of
the country desire to have their money
used for the uplift of humanity. But
1t is quite time that both the givers
and recipients of this huge benevolent
fund should make sure that it is being
used in the best and most efficient
way to further human progress. Spend
Ing the fortunes of hundreds of mil
lionaires on higher education, is like
wasting money on gliding the dome
OF building which has a rotten
foundation. 1t is to lay substantial
foundations in our civic life that will
raise the lowest up to cleanliness, de-
cency, thrift and efficiency that is far
more necessary than to give more edu-
cational facilities to those who already
have the knowledge which should en-
able them to acquire more by their
own efforts. Our money will surely
run out if we deal with results, not
causes, it we confine our attention to
cure and neglect prevention.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

which would make II difficult for a
public servant to dodge responsibility
for his official acts" He asked that
questions submitted before future
meetings agreeing to answer them,
mo matter how offensive the ques.
lions are"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07
ATcHIsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

Did one of your kin every pay you
a compliment?
There is nothing so good that you
cannot bite off too much
If man admits he can't shoot now
he says he was a particularly good
shot when boy.
The only help lazy Atchison man
has ever given his wife is to give her
the fish he catches.
When man admits that his wife is
good cook, he adds that all that she
knows he taught her.
The girl who has her photograph
taken profile never impresses us with
the beauty of her nose. We always
wonder if she had it taken that way
because she is one-eyed.
In their efforts to advance rapidly,
men make their greatest mistakes.
The man who travels the right road.
and does not travel it too fast, will
suddenly find himself at the destina-
tion he was longing for.
Topeka boasts of having two auto
mobiles of the variety described as
limousine, but not one Topeka man in
a hundred can pronounce the word.
They wait until one of the machines
passes, and then proudly say to visit
ors: I'VE have two like that"
You would not accept a lead dollar
simply because it was new and bright.
Its dull tone as it dropped on the
counter would prive it counterfeit,
and worthless, except as material
for bullets, sinkers and lead pipe. But
you probably accept a good many
other counterfeit articles, and even
welcome them. The theory which at
tracts the existing order, and attracts
because of its newness and novelty;
the new friends for which, perhaps,
you discard the old; the job which
promises large returns for little effort;
all these may be counterfeit and
worthless, yet how readily they are
accepted every day. Surely it is as
important that they be investigated as
that paltry dollar ring true. With
out becoming a skeptic, it is well not
to confine your efforts toward de-
Lecting counterfeits to the mere mat
ter of money.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

On the evening of April IS, San
Francisco was in an electric blaze of
glory and her people were jubilantly
celebrating the third anniversary of
the city's destruction by the fire which
followed the earthquake. Only three
years and yet greater, grander, bet
ter city has arisen than that which it
took three score years to build.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

There are at the present time about
225,O00 miles of electric cables lying
on the bottom of the sea. Each line
has cost on an average of about 81 900
per mile to make and lay. About
6,O00,00O messages are transmitted by
cable every year, The working speed
averages up to 100 words per minute.
Under present conditions a submarine
cable will last thirty or forty years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

A Harvard professor declares that
all children under twelve are natural
born liars. There is an old book which
goes further than that, telling of man
more distinguished than any Harvard
professor, who said that all men are
liars.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

A Cyclopedia of American Agricul-
ture has recently been published in
four volumes which, it is claimed tells
what to do on farm and how to do 1t.
II 1t is equal to all the emergencies
of farm life it will surely be great
blessing to the farmers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

Some heartless man has discovered
that If all the energy wasted by girls
in chewing gum were concentrated in
one power house it would run all the
machinery in the United States. A
clever woman retaliates by estimating
that If all the wind wasted by man in
sucking pipe stems and cigars were
concentrated it would sail all the
ships of the sea.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

Under the new constitution South
Africa becomes one British colony and
Cape Colony, Natal, the Transvaal and
the Orange Free State are brought
into as close relationship as Quebec
and Montreal, in spite of the fact that
only six years ago two sturdy and
stubborn races fought across two of
these provinces.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

William Travers Jerome, district
attorney of New York, radically de-
parted from his usual attitude toward
the public the other night, by stepping
before a large audience and declaring
that he wished to explain the conduct
OF his office, "to establish precedent
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

The slot machine" is going. In San
Francisco it is already a thing of
the past, thanks to few earnest
men and women. 1t is estimated that
over $12,OOO,0OO was worse than
thrown away in that one city by these
nefarious gambling devices.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

Sir Thomas Upton will make his
annual effort to win the American cup.
It's great pleasure to beat Sir
Thomas, ne accepts it gracefully and
like our own Bryan, is always ready to
try again.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-05-07

The easiest way to stop child labor
is to make 1t possible for parents to
support their families. The antichild-
labor people are working at the prob
lem from the wrong end.