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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

In our national life it is not true as
we sometimes think and say that the
democracy of the nation is one entire
ly good, true and beautiful set of men,
struggling for the common good
against the aristocracy, composed of
another bad, selfish and willfully cor.
rupt set of men. The struggle be,
tween democracy and aristocracy in
America is in every mans heart and is
controlled largely by each mans en-
yironment. Many a poor laborer who
C. les, Down with the aristocrat!"
would be one if he could possibly gain
the wealth by any means; while the
heart of many man of great wealth
is full of the spirit of brotherly love
and genuine interest in humanity.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05
THE TEXAS ORANGE BELT

A good many people have been lured
away to the sunny cline of Texas dur
ing the past few months, lured there
to raise oranges ana onions. Millions
in it, according to the advertisements
Telegraphic dispatches tell of ser.
ious injury not only to this years
orange crop bu+ to the trees them
selves. Which means the loss of many
a fortune.
There are always get-rich-quick
schemes that will take the coin of the
anxious, but the sure, steady, middle
west, with unfailing crops and the best
kind of climate from the viewpoint OF
health, ought to be good enough foI
anybody
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05
TuRERCILAR MILK.

DR. Young, in his address before the
Womans club verified what The News
has been contending for several years,
that every city should have dairy in.
spector whose duty it ;hould be to
examine all milk sold, for tuberculosis
and thus save the state many citizens
who unquestionably contract this dead
ly disease through milk each year.
Epdemics at Lincoln and Hastings
insane asylums proved to have been
due to tubercular milk COWS at those
institutions.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

the power of his appointment At the
present time, with no such an official
examiner, when any city checks up, it
is generally with local man, who gets
the job through local officials and local
influences, and the work when COM
pleted is not satisfactory. No general
system of good bookkeeping is secured
and checking which might be of great
value to the city is put off year after
year because there is no legal exam
iner at command There are many
strong arguments in favor of Mayor
Schuff's plan and none that can be
successfully raised against it,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

John X. Binns, the wireless tele-
graph operator of the i'll fated Repub-
lie is receiving the we'll earned praise
of the civilized world, for his steadfast
adherence to duty and heroic action
in danger He kept his nerve and sent
his call for help and afterward mess
ages guiding the rescuers to them, un,
til his machine was flooded and he
could do no more He stood by his
captain and mate till the ship was
sinking and the rescue of these brave
men was. for a time, despared OF.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05
America cannot class its public roat

America cannot class its public road
system among its boosted enlightened
Institutions. Certainly a system Of
public highways that wastes 100000,
600 to the agricultural classes each
year belongs in the dark ages. 1t is
time for the United States to abandon
the business theory that counts the
cost of good roads without taking ac
count of the loss occasioned by bad
roads.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

JOHNNY BUMPER KNOWS WHY
RUTH LEAVlTT LEFT LEAVlTT
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. %x*x*x*T

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 1910 the Edi.
tor of The News: Say, --sh! do
you know what made Ruth Leavitt
leave Leavitt and file for deyorcc?
dhent till tuck this job po2ing for
a artist, but I'll bet | know now. Il
amt emmy nOn.sport like the papers
scd, for they's just lots Of wimmCn
has husbands that are nOn-sporty and
they wudent take dCvorco If they
cud get ten dollars week allymony
to boot
Mr., Leavtt is artist and I'VE
learnt sumthing about artists that I'll
tell you if YOU wont tell ennybody I'll
just hetcher if lot of Norfolk win.
mems husbands were artist they'd
get up on their ear (as Pa ulster say
too.
But furst | must tell you about poz-
ing. Jeeminny cracky but | was
spri2ed! thot it wud be snap but
found out 1t was the hardest wurk |
ever did. If emmy boy that reads the
| News thinks its a ee2y job to poHe
just let him take a broom or sumth-
ing if he hasent got sord and see
how long he can stand PERFECTLY still
a holding that sord up in the air in his
rite hand and a holding to the mast
of a ship with the luther, and a looking
brave all't the same time.
lasted just sixteen minnits the
furst time and then had to rest and
rub my arm. BY resting and rubbing
! and po2ing and resting and rubbing
and posing again | managed to get IN
three ours the furst day. That was
at leest a dollar sixty wurth of pozing
The artist sed that was eXcep.
shunally hard rOze to hold sord up
all the time and he wud rae my sal.
/ lery to twenty-five an our. That
wasent so bad and now I've got ulster
it | can poze for nearly half an our
and yesterday | got in a dollar and
ten cents worth.
After | get dun pozing he lets me
rome around the stewdio and look at
can watch the pickture of me as 1.-The
boy stood on the burning deck" as it
grows from day to day. When he
gets it dun he SEES he'll have it toto
grated and give me one for myself Gee
but I'll look swell in sailor toys stand
ing on the deck sord in hand whence
all but me have fed"
He's got a lot of picktures and
statutes that he calls Studies in
mood and semy-nood." asst him which
was the nooder, mood or semy-nood
semy-noOd, but | don't see how emmy
body cud be much nooder than semy.
mood.
asst him if them picktures of vim.
men was first taken in a dark room by
| tlash-lite fotografy and then painted
from the fotografs, and he sed OF
coarse not, they was painted from life
| told him he's just jollying me, that
nobody wud poze that way But he
sed that was ded rite, and that every
artist that tended art-school had tC
draw from nood-lfe.
Then he ses, See here Johnny, you
haven't the proper artistick temper
ment."
| sed my temperament was properel
than emmy artists that wud draw pick
lures from nood-life.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

But he only lated and Sos You
don't get the true artistick spirit
Sonny. In art nothing is either
proper or improper, but things are
either natural or unnatural. Now the
things that YOU think proper are often
unnatural and the things that YOU
seem TO think improper are often the
trucst to life"
/ scd | didcnt know IL they was true
to life or not but lnew it wascnt proper
to lecvo such piCktures out where
everybody that cum in the stewdio
cud see them, and asst him If he
dident cover them up when he had
lady callers.
He SEES "Why no, johnny, of coarse
not True art Is ncethcr maskuline
nor feminine 1t Is newter. Can't |
get into your he'd what mccn? 1t !s
the beauty of outline in wimmen and
the strength of outline I'm men that
the artist admires and seeks to pour
tray. And we must go back to Nature
to find reel art. Men and wimmen rs
they are dresst today are not artistick
When a woman sits for her portrait
the true artist sees in his minds eye
as 1t were, not the fussy croashuns OF
inartistick dressmakers with which
she is adorned but the reel woman as
Nature made her and as he trans
furs this consepshun of his minds
eye to the canvass he works in the
goun she wares as well as he can so
as not to spoil his artistick creashun
of the Natural. Does it porkolate,
| johnny"
/ well | see what you're hitting at"
SEES |, but I'll just betcher if the So,
sioty wimmon that Gums here to get
their portrates tuck new you had
Xray in your eye so you cud see 'om
as you say the true artist does,- III
betcher there wudent be menny por-
tratcs tuck"
He sed the old Greeks ulster be
CRATE artists and that their old statute
called Venus de MylOw had never been
beet only her arms got broke off in
the flood that drownd them all but
Noah and Shem Ham and Jayfoot, and
that art critiks had never bin able to
beside wether she was combing her
hair or just looking at herself in
hand mirror.
| asst him if his wife was a artist too
and he sed he had an afinnytee but no
wife. He sed true artists all had
atinnytees but if they were wize they
dident marry becaws marriage de-
| stroyd the glammur of the afnnytee
| Now | don't exacktly just know
what "glammur Of the afinnytee" is
but I'll just betcher its got more to
do with sum devorce cases than mon
| sport" has.
The artist I'm pozing for wants me
to study art and he seq he'll help me,
and I've just noshun to try it becaws
| you don't have to know how to spell
to be a artist and he sez that CRATE
artists make all kinds of monye. and
sum of them like MikkleAnjelow and
! Whistler make names for themselves
that will last thru all the ages.
asst how menny thousands a year
he made and sc sed he was back six
weeks on his bordbill but he was GO
| ing to be rich sum day.
| bleeve it wud be lots of fun to be
a artist.
Yours.
TnbpnV nnpnpar
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

A receiver for New York railway
company is trying to put new con
struction on certain legal connections
He assumes that lawyers who try
cases on a contingent fee are in part
nership with their clients, and there
fore Jointly liable for the debts of the
partnership. If this construction
should be accepted it is not likely thai
many attorneys would try cases on {
contingent fee. 1t would suddenly los,
its charm.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Missouri, Texas and Iowa have bills
before their legislatures providing for
the taxation of bachelors. The bills
should certainly become laws, and II
two-thirds of the legislators were
women they undoubtedly would. How
ever, even If taxed for their single
blessedness, they might decide it was
cheaper than buying Merry Widow
hats"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

The Republics water tight compart-
ments were all that kept her from
sinking as soon as she was rammed,
and wireless messages brought res
cuers without delay. Modern inven.
tons are greatly diminishing danger
to life in ocean travel and constantly
adding to its comforts and Injuries.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Such is the affection felt in the SEN
ate for the Hon. Jeff Davis of Kansas,
that when he obtained the floor and
started on two hour attack upon the
trusts, money power and everything
in general, all but eight members left
their seats and galleries and news
paper posts were desterted. Must have
been an enjoyable occasion for Jeff
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05
THE STORM AND THE QUAIL.

All of the shooting that could be
done, in the normal course of events
by Nebraska sportsmen, could not
make the inroad upon the quail family
that this weeks blizzard has made
Those acquainted with the situa
ton declare that hundreds and hun
dreds of quail must have died from
the effects of the storm, both because
they are unable to scratch through
the snow for food and because, hud
died up under the storm, they become
coated with ice and succumb.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Walter Wellman, who by the way is
more or less of a hot air artist, says
there is a rumor that the president is
TO be impeached. Such thing might
occur, but it will be long time after
Mr.. Wellman has secured the North
Pole and planted it in his back yard,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

The Boston Journal says the city ad
ministration is determined to remove
the snow from the streets if it takes
all summer There is hope that even
in the frigid atmosphere of classic
Boston that the city's snow shovelers
will have reinforcements from Ole
Sol about May l, that will assist in
removing the beautiful.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Representative Hobson has decided
to cultivate severe self control and turn
the whole Japanese war over to the
California legislature. Mr.. Hobson evi.
IDENTITY thinks they would come in for
most of the fuss anyway and so might
as well take 1t all and relieve him OF
any responsibility
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

The Ladies Home Journal now gets
$4,000 per page and the Saturday Even
ing Post $4,000 per page for advertis-
ing And it's good investment, if kept
up persistently, at that.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

The man who is struggling against
adverse fate with heavy load of in
debtedness doesn't take much stock
In the assertions of Andrew Carnegie
and John d. that wealth is a curse.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

The anti-Jap agitation in California
has not yet come to an end. New
kindling was added to the flame in the
resolution to ask congress to demand
the recall of the Japanese consul general
at San Francisco because he inter.
fered in California state legislation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Colonel James Guffey, Mr.. Bryan's
most pronounced enemy in his own
party, is once more a member of the
Democratic national committee, hav.
ing been unanimously chosen to fill
the vacancy caused by the death OF
James Kerr. Mr.. Bryan was personal
ly responsible for his defeat and Mr.
Kerr's election.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Ground hog day is here and fur
nishes another point of interest for
weather prophets to enlarge upon. 1t
is an old fashioned superstition, but
nevertheless we all hoped it would be
q cloudy daY
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Of the Dreadnaught class the Voltaire,
and Is planning to lame b yet more
powerful floating fortress, the Hugo.
II the ships prove as mighty and over
towering as the minds of the men
whose names they bear, they will in.
deed be drcadnaughts.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Without doubt a tunnel under Ber-
ing Strait will within the next score
of years make a continuous railroad
Journey from American cities to any
city of Continental Europe possible
The enterprise has been under con,
sideration for some years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

January %, the many admirers of
John Burns celebrated the l5Oth an
niversary of his birth with appropriate
exercises in many of the larger cen,
tiers and wherever any number of
Scots could gather. Scotch bagpipes,
Scotch melodies and Scottish dances
prevailed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

1t has been wisely suggested that
the congressional record should add
n yellow supplement for its sporting
department which is out growing the
rest of the publication.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

The first assistant secretary of state
under the Taft administration will be
Beekman Winthrop, who is of the
eighth generation in direct descent
from John Winthrop, first colonial
governor of Massachusetts, and
seventh from the second John Win
throp, governor of Connecticut. Be
sides having so much pedigree that nc
American can discount it, and a bank
account which leaves nothing to be
desired, Mr.. Winthrop comes to his
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

1t is undoubtedly true that some OF
the congressman who voted to raise
President Elect Taft's salary to $780,
900 year, think it's worth $4,000
Just to have a change.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

A sarcastic lecturer said recently
that Club women are talking too
much" What does the lecturer i'm
agine to be the purpose and mission of
women's clubs?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Senator Tillman says he is now pre-
pared even for the knife of the as
sassin. Are we to understand that the
senator is wearing a sheet iron under
shirt?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Since the beginning of actual work
on the Panama Canal May, 1904. there
have been 100000 cubic yards OF
the earth's surface removed. OF this
incomprehensible pile of 100000
yards are credited to 1908. 1t is pos
sible to estimate the excavation part
of the work very closely now.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Holt county Democrats have quar-.
relied. The Holt County Democrat
published by t. S. Ewes at O'Neill
comes forth with a full page attack
upon Arthur Mullen, claiming that
Mullen has come to think he's the
whole show in Holt county Democracy
Mr.. Mullen has not yet replied.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Senator Tillman makes most I'M
possible distinction when he says that
he never opposed the education of the
negro but has opposed the effort to up
lift him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Apparently the people of Wisconsin
have enough confidence in Stephenson
to realize that lot of charges made
In a political fight are made for selfish
fact.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

What if the Standard Oil company
should decide to pay its fine to the
government, as it did to the state OF
TeXas-in silver dollars?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05
The Russians are buying grea

The Russians are buying great
quantities of harvesting machinery
from the United States. 1t is to be
hoped that they will have use for it al
in securing great crops this year. Har
vesters ought to be far better in
vestment for a nation than battle
ships.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Nobody gets any change on day
like this" said the cabman in the
storm. And it's a cinch the cabman
is entitled to all he gets in that kind
of a situation
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

"I've got to go all over this end of
town and haven got single order
for over twenty cents" said a grocery
dcliyeryman, during the blizzard
Thursday afternoon.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Senator Root was nominated and
elected by common consent because of
his peculiar and unquestioned fitness
for the position. When more senators
are elected for these reasons and in
this manner, the dignity and power of
the United States senate will oe
greatly enhanced.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

position with ability and education of
high order and a record of public
service well performed which augurs
well for the future.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

SO many people are having oper
ations performed that we have an idea
one of the questions Saint Peter will
ask will be, Are you all here?"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

why not be forehanded and buy
presents for next Christmas now while
the bargain sales are on?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

After contemplating the experience
that railroad officials and employees
must have gone through Thursday
night near Neigh IN clearing the
wreckage from the effects of the
billiards. freak that blew car out
of moving train and off the track,
one can but agree with Lindsay Deni-
son when, in the February American
magazine, he describes the railroading
done out of Norfolk as "railroading as
is railroading." Few men are called
upon to go through the hardships
that those railroad men must have eX.
perienced from late at night until
o'clock next morning, with the ice and
snow raging around them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

When a bachelor is rather aged, peo-
pie say of him; IT'S my opinion that
he's widower. Look him up and
you'll find he has lot of children
somewhere"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

John d. Rockefeller has followed
literally the advice of the poet, Build
a little fence of trusts around today
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Governor Hughes belongs in the
Roosevelt class. His annual message
contained $4,000 words.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05
ATcHlsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

OF what avail If man works Il
save his country and ruins himself?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Tillmans pitchfork is no longer the
fearsome weapon he once nourlshed
II wouldn't scare mouse.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

once 1t was charity that covered a
multitude of sins. Now its insanity or
the unwrttcn law.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Dirt is dying in Panama and mud Is
flying in the United States from the
muck raker's instruments.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

A farmer who has tried for years to
catch wolves, without success. said to-
day: Il sometimes think that the
wolves kill enough rabbits to Offset
the harm they do"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Within the last ten years Italy has
been developing very rapidly along
commercial lines and a great part of
the products which she shipped
abroad were raised in the earthquake
section. The disaster is certain there
fore, to affect the national finances
seriously and indirectly it may have
an influence on European politics.
Italy has suffered more than would
have been possible in a disastrous war
and it will be many years before she
can hope to recover. 1t is doubtful
if the wrecked cities are ever rebuilt.
They surely will not be on the present
sites.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Nearly every man says of his dog.
His father cost thousand dollars.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

You rarely see an old man who IS
proud.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05
NORFOLK WEI GLt NEWS JOUNAL Friday FEBRUARY 1909

Prince of Pilsen," he was going to
see.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

A man at Atchison, Kan, was very
much disappointed after buying a
ticket for The Prince of Peace" when
Mr.. Bryan came out and began TO
lecture. He admitted 1t was his own
fault, but said he thought 1t was 1.-THE
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

There were a good many ice men
in town for about three hours. And
most of them were sick of the ice
business. too.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

The man at Norfolk who lost thir
teen blooded chickens in the storm
has ground to be superstitious.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Little boys who borrowed the family
shovel to dig up angle worms last
summer and who then forgot to bring
it home, are just now getting into
trouble.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Always behind the west, New York
got both the blizzard and the cold
wave two days after Norfolk.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Why didn't Norfolk give Taft a
pickle dinner when he was here last
fall?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

According to the Associated Press
Saturday, many towns in the country
were still ice-olated
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

We can't sleep nights, thinking of
that robin at Clearwater.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

We had a few days of chilly weather
but our orange trees didn't freeze.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

We're glad that robin got out of the
country alive. He struck out for a
cold cline, though, even in heading to-.
ward Alabama.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

Ed Harter has struck the part of
town that always gives the blues to
every census enumeratOr.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

No wonder there was weather all
night long; the weather flag on top
of The News building, by mistake,
waved in the breeze all night.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

A sensible man thoroughly despises
a compliment. 1t always precedes a
request for a favor and is the old
hackneyed way of getting a man in
condition to work him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

The grounding slipped and got his
nose wet.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

There was little chivalry about the
recent storm. The Wyoming Girl" and
Sheath gown" as represented on the
billboards have been badly blown
about.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-02-05

France has named a great battleship