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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01
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III Ne'e' an p"Sseiiser e"siiieei'
MY name Is 'ohl McNaop'
We 'iu"en al eislne iol '"'''S year ;
And NV sneed is never SLOW.
I'm manifest when | am gaining time,
AS over the rails | go.
once IeSlsheu my company pace
And opened a general store;
Succeeded well in financial race,
Could have asked for nothing more;
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no w. hoo,, -, tho mood oooto
So here I am after thirty years,
As bIithe as that famous dav
| Joined the order of engineers
And started upon my way.
There's a fascination I cant explain,
You ever ride at the head OF tralh
On monster locomotive
Tho natural true-horn enoinaer
Has q sense much keener than sight
That gives him warning if dangers
near
The darkest stormiest night
7 we'll remember that awful rain
Of q nipbt that was nitchv black.
Fit to hurl the train from the track.
We were forging along an bour he.
hind
In the teeth Of the roaring rout
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Omaha, Neb,, Dec 25.-ro the Editor
of The News; DO YOU remember Sadie
from Newport? She's Paps girl that
was going to help me thru business
college and then | was going to turn
round and help her Well didcnt necn
emmy of her help cause Uncle Oscars
bin paying my bord.
SO the luther day sent Sadie pear
of mittens for Chrismus and asst her
when she was coming down to unroll
at the business college.
| got the longest letter | ever red
and she sent one of the mittens back
and told me to keep 1t to remember
her by and she'd keep the luther one
to remember me by.
She scd 1t was all over and that of
all sad stabs of Jung or pin the saddst
are these, 1t mite have been!
She SEES she's Engaged to be married
in the spring to a nice Teller named
Frank that went to work for Pap after
| left and that | mustont feel reckless
and throw myself into the Missoury
River (You just bet | wont, till the
water gets warmer, ennywayD
Frank is graduate of sum agrlcult.
ural college and he's got n lot of new
! ideas about farming and he's bin a
telling Pap how to make too blades of
grass grow where one grew before and
how to make too hogs put on as much
fat as one did before, and how he can
get more milk from too COWS than he
ulster get from one, and Pap thinks
Franks all rite and he's going to deed
one of his quarter seXshuns of land to
Sadie and four COWS to start on when
she marries Frank.
| don't care, Frank can have Sadie
and welcome to her if she don't know
I emmy more than to swaller all the stuff
he's bin telling her. I'll bet he's the
biggist buffer in Rock Co.
Sadie and me wasent Engaged emmy.
way, we just kind o. thought we'd like
to be. She's a good deal older'n me,
must be seventeen at lecst, and it's
time she was getting married Lots
of girls waits till theys too old
Ill going 10 fern 10 smoke ana De n
batcheller. Sadie don't like fellers
that smokes. SO whenever | was
tempted to try it | always thot of
Sadie and sed "No, | Inherited a to-
bacco hart from my Pa and | don't
dast to-" But now there don't no.
body care so | m going to lern to
smoke and have a good time like the
rest of the men. I've seen lots of mar
ried men that will leeve their wives
70 + good cigar emmy day. Some of
the famOuseSt men in the world have
bin batchellers, haven't they, Christie.
! pher Columbus, and Greenlief Whittier
and Grover Cleaveland got to be
| President before he got married and
after he got married he got detected
| And | saw i'm the paper that John L.
| Sullivan is trying to get unmarried
| And Whitcome Riley isent married
and | got copy of his "Old Sweet
| heart of Mine" for a Chrismus pres.
ent and I've bin reading about him
sitting smoking and letting his care
east her banker in the arbOr of a
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Late advice is to the startling effect
that Mr.. Bryan is to become chancel
lor of Texas University. Really, this
problem of what to do with eX-candi,
dates is much more serious than what
to do with ex-presidents. The eX
presidents gracefully subside to be
come regular contributors to the Sat
urday Evening Post, but the ex-candi
dates prove not so tractable.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

The day when the editor was a
mighty force because of his person
atty and when he was not obscured
by the business office seems to be
having a renaissance. With Bryan
handling the Commoner, Roosevelt
contributing to the Outlook and La
Toilette launching a weekly of his
own, the year 1909 promises some
fresh and vigorous reading, in the
editorial columns.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

The News suggestion that the COM
ing state legislature should abolish the
open season on prairie chickens in this
state for a period of years, and in
crease the open season on quail, is
meeting with favor throughout the
state. The prairie chicken is very
rapidly disappearing, owing to the pro-
tracted open season during which
hunters are allowed to bag this bird.
A continuous closed season for several
years is all that will save the prairie
chicken to Nebraska. Quail, on the
other hand, are never materially de-
creased by hunting, the hard winters
being alone able to thin their ranks.
In New England, where the quail has
been shot for almost a hundred years,
the bird is as numerous today as it
ever was. Sportsmen should be al
lowed to hunt quail legally more than
fifteen days. But the prairie chicken
should be protected by the most
stringent law, and that Immediately.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Some newspapers contend that the
suit brought for twenty-five thousand
dollars by a woman who was caught
in the ropes of an ascending balloon
and dangled by one foot for fifteen
minutes over the heads of a large
crowd of admiring spectators is ask
ing too much, but no woman would
call it more than a fair equivalent for
services rendered.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

And now the iconoclasts and histor.
ians who are fast taking all the 70,
nance out of the world have pulled
down another popular idol and shorn
another historical romance of its it,
lusion Cleopatra, so says an eminent
Italian historian, was neither beauti
full nor attractive and the truth of the
matter was that Antony wanted Egypt
and her treasures and not Egypts
queen. One by one our idols perish.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

casts the ballots" In spite of the fact
that the president of the federation Of
women's clubs in Pennsylvania, pro
tests against the hard work OF women
in their homes as degrading, 1t is
nevertheless in the hands of these
women in the homes who work as
other women work only for a higher
purpose, to determine the morals If
the country.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

The frequency of cases of ptomaine
poisoning all over the country shows
that the pure food law has not yet
effected a divorce between the prepar.
alton of food and commercial indiffer-
ence to the crime of making money
by man slaughter.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Governor Hughes, In an address to
the citizens of Troy, pointed to a
group of children and said: Fellow
citizens, we desire to conserve our
natural resources. These are our
natural resources. We pride ourselves
on the riches of our country in mine,
forest and field, but these boys and
girls are our true resources without
which all else fails.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Judge Hanford of Seattle objects 20
the selection of jurors whose minds
are so positively unbiased as to be
vacuous. In these days twelve men
who do not read newspapers, who
think that edition de luxe" is negro
dialect and that an accomplice is a
fancy drink, as happened in Chicago
the other day, are poorly qualified to
referee a dog fight The judge who
objected to the acceptance of such
jurors has adopted a sound sensible
policy.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

1t will be a great relief if the Pana-
ma canal is ever finished satisfactorily
and found to operate successfully. The
gloomy predictions of those French
engineers is disconcenting to say the
least. But then since the French tried
and failed perhaps it is too much to
expect that they should take an
optimistic view of the outcome.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Senator Knox's selection to the
place of premier Of the cabinet meets
with general approval Mr. Taft's
judgment is commended and 1t is con
coded that Mr.. Knox will make an
ideal head for a conservatively pro.
gressive cabinet.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Mayor Hubbard of Boston will ask
the legislature of Massachusetts to
pass a pension act for all civic SER
wants who have been with the city
twenty-five years or more, but as yet
no provision has been made for the
men who have spent twenty-five
years trying to get into Office and
never landed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

will be wrought in the boycott or in.
junction laws--or both.
The deplorable feature of the whole
affair is that the employer and en-
ploye should not be able to cooperate
instead of make war upon one an.
other Their interests, in the last
analysis are mutual.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01
Johnny Bumper.

Then away We'll go with a rush and
roar
And the clickety-click of the rails!
No wonder | love it more and more,
For the novelty never fails
Richard +. MarwOOd
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Champ Clark, who will be the
Democratic leader on the floor of con.
gress, is from Missouri Speaking of
he said it was brought about "by a
concatenetion of unusually unfortu-
nate circumstances" This is very
lucid and definite explanation of the
situation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

President Elect Taft Will deliver an
address before the University of
Pennsylvania on Washingtons birth
day as did his predecessors Mckinley
and Roosevelt.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Congress now plans to pull the soft
pedal in its answer to the presidents
rather caustic reference to that body
in his annual message, 1t evidently
doesn't care to be PuitZerized.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

have done 1t unto one of the least of
these. My brethren, ye have done II
unto Me" Each Christmas stamp,
with its red cross and its holly wreath,
carries, with its Merry Christmas"
that deeper message, too,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

With Venezuela in the throes of a
revolution and Brazil and the Argen-
tine Republic getting ready for a
cap, things begin to look interesting
I'm our sister republics to the south.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

1t seems to be the opinion of those
who best understand the situation
that the withdrawal of the United
States troops from Cuba will only
result in anarchy on the island. II
so Uncle Sans soldier boys will be
summoned back agan-this time to
stay
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

One of Secretary Hays wise say
ings was: who would succeed in
the world should be wise in the use
of his pronouns and utter the word
you twenty times where he once
uses the word T."
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Castro seems to be more popular
in Berlin than he Is in Caracas. Some
men are obliged to go a long ways
from home in order to get recognition
and then they rarely deserve it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Ike Marvel" is dead at eighty-four.
For more than half century Donald
Mitchell pleased and entertained a
large number of readers by his
dreams, reveries and practical sugges.
tions.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

The United States Steel corporation
has Just placed an order for sixty new
locomotives which is the largest sin
gle order given by it in the past two
years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Hartman says that in fifty years
the coal will be gone, Maybe he's got
a good sized bin, but we looked IN
ours last night and if it lasts fifty
days we shall consider ourselves
luckV
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

During the past few years great
changes have taken place in the meth
DDS of fishing with travis or drag nets
Small nets drawn by fishing boats
have given place to great machines
drawn by steamers, which scrape the
bottom of the sea and make a clean
sweep of everything including the
telegraphic cables. 1t has cost the
Commercial Gable company 100000
during the past three months to repair
the damage done by trawlers The
cable companies demand laws prohibit
ing trawling in the vicinity of theiI
cables and the fishermen complain
that the cables interfere with theil
work and damage their nets. SO the
fight is on between cable men anG
fishermen. 1t seems as though the
ocean was large enough to accomo
date both lines of business without
conflicting, but even the ocean seems
to be getting crowded.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

]. Pierpont Morgan owns several
hundred rare Bibles. Most of his visi-
tors like his cigars better than his
Bibles.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

The German kaiser offers five little
used castles at bargain counter
prices. Here is chance for j,
Pierpont to purchase and transplant
them stone for stone to America. We
are short of ruins of that caliber here
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

newed at the end Of the first term for
ten years. 1t may yet prove neces.
sary to save China from Japan
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

John ID. Archbold seems to have eX
Laustive knowledge on the trust bust
ing subject Why not make him at
torney general?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Congress in session is likely to be
a regular thing for an indefinite
length of time, When the present
short session closes the extra session
will convene. BY the time the extra
is fairly disposed of it will be time
for the regular long session.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

John l.. Sullivan has at last met his
match His wife says she is going
to fight that suit for divorce. John
might as we'll admit that he is licked.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

why should Bryan feel discouraged
He got 100000 more votes thar
Alton Is. Parker.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

This years farm products in the
United States are estimated to be
worth $75OO,OOO,OOO. Quite a bunch
of money, hey?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

The Irish potato gets n fresh boost
every day. 1t trots in the same class
with the butter and eggs.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

ability never amounts to much,
says a modern sage. "until it acquires
two more letters-s-t-ability
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Maine doesn't propose to take a
back seat in the progress of events.
During the recent hunting season six
teen men were shot for deer.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

A good many distinguished states
men now will be eXtinguished states
men after March 4.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Castro did not go to Europe for a
surgical operation but for a diplomatic
operation. He needed help along that
line.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

The British-Japanese alliance was
first formed for five years, for the i'm
mediate purpose of saving China from
absorption by Russia. 1t was re-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

An exchange patty puts a whole
sermon into this sentence, God never
goes into partnership with a loafer'
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Here's betting Washington, ID. c.,
will know the Rosebud is on earth
during the next few days.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Men are too apt to shape their re-
ligion instead of letting their religion
shape them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

BE sure YOU label 'em so that you
won't give EN- back to the original
givers next year.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01
INCREDULOUS JIMMY.

They usta tell us kids
That Santa Claws
Lived way up north
Among the Esquimaws,
And druv a lot of reindeers
To his sled
And when us kids
Was all of us in bed
He'd come down thru the stove-pipe
With his toys,
That is, if we'd been goody
Girls and boys.
Last year a Teddy.horse
Stood by my stockin',
That walks or trots or canters
When I'm rOckin'
| don't see how horse
The size of that
Went thru a hole so little
That our cat
Would hat to shoop and crawl
If she got thru
don't b'lieve he ever did!
Do you?
This year | just pretended
Is asleep
Till after Mama took
Her goodnight peep,
And then | sat right up
And chewed some gum
To keep awake and see
Old Santa come.
Well bimeby
Just after ten o'clock
| heard my Papa
Coming up the walk.
| watched him
From the window by my bed,
A carrying something
Looked just like a sled,
He went around as
Quiet as a mouse
And slipt in by the back-door
OF the house,
Then all was still again,
| chewed my gum
And watchedfor Santa
But he never come,
That kidding bout old Santa
Bringing toys
VIII do to tell to girls
And little boys
That never has peeked up
Into a chimney,
II wont go down with Jimmy,
Now by Jimmy!
r.. F. NJ.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Might as we'll get new check book
and start in.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Many a man will be convinced
when the bills come in, that his wife
needed the advice to shop early-and
late.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Could you find any fault with that
Christmas weather?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

A new slogan for reform of the ma
ton by its women might be Let me
cook the dinners and | care not who
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

The newspaper a man takes is very
much like the town in which he lives;
never satisfactory.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Women who want to marry should
keep the fact quiet; men hate hus
band hunter.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

That was some dance that the rail.
road boys had.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

II is said that hog cholera never af-
fects blind pigs.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

About the only heirloom most peo-
pie know anything about is the mort
gage.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Did you overload your stomach?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01
ATcHlSoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

A woman would rather see a bride S
outfit than attend the wedding.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

An AtchisOn woman, who was bap-
tized recently, did not get her nose
wet and made the preacher do it
again.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

The new heavyweight championship
looks like a case of black male. John,
son, the winner, is also said to belong
to the Black Hand society.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Christmas won't be here for a year
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01


much like the town in which he lives;
never satisfactory.
An Atchison woman, who was bap-
tiled recently, did not get her nose
wet and made the preacher do it
again.
There should be fewer warships
built in time of peace, and more
homes for old people neglected by
their kin.
Some mems system of reform close
ly resemble boys method of driv-
ing cattle: to "holler" as loudly as
possible.
When a wife hands her husband an
ash holder Christmas morning, she
expects him to accept with it her in
tentions of buying him Morris chair
if her money had held out
We should think a preacher would
enjoy his glad holiday season: The
sisters he meets on the street have
their hands so full of bundles that he
is relieved from shaking hands with
them.
An Atchison man was in Coolidge
recently to help get up an amateur
show, and met a number of women
who were interested. Let's ask
Bonny Lee to take part" suggested
one. mo don't" said another. eff
you do | won't" But she is so pref
ty." She isn't pretty at ALL" broke
in ten other women. And for two
hours this is the way the conversation
ran. The AtchisOn man was in
Coolidge two weeks and, when he
left this was all that had been agreed
on; They would give a show. The
time, the cast, etc, were still unset
tied as coffee without an egg.
It is well and good to make fun of
the love story, love of late being so
underdone in reality, and so oyerdone
in fiction as to be nauseating, but what
would a married woman do if there
We're no love stories? Her hair can't
be so skimp, her hands so hardened
by toll and her figure so bent with
work and woe that she doesn't become
In her imagination the heroine Of
every love story she reads, The love
made to her in the books is all she
gets, so don't interrupt her if she
stops cleaning the pantry shelves to
read every love story she finds in the
paper. She will wake up to tin pans
and reality when she reaches the end,
and that ia SOnn enough
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

The new heavyweight championship
looks like a case of black male. John
son. the winner, is also said to belong
to the Black Hand society.
The Chicago Tribune says Mr..
Bryan's New Years present to the
Republican party comes in the form
of a promise that he will continue
actively in the Democratic uarty Cor
twenty years more.
A Chicago man who once permitted
himself to be persuaded to back a
theatrical company was seated in his
Office one day when he received a tele
gram from the manager of the show,
says the Chicago Record-Hearld. The
troupe was somewhere in Missouri
and the telegram read thus: Train
wrecked this morning and all scenery
and baggage destroyed. No member
of company injured. What shall
do?" The answer sent back by the
Chicago man was as follows: TRY
another wreck and have the company
ride in the baggage car"
THE use of gold filling for teeth is
doomed" according to a salesman for
large dental supply house, quoted by
the Philadelphia Record. Most of
us can remember when nearly every
one carried about in his mouth more
or less precious metal" says this au-
thority. mo one was ashamed of
displaying cleaning yellow when he
smiled. We formerly sold thousands
of dollars worth of specially prepared
gold to dentists. But that is all
changed. The new porcelain filings
have been so far perfected that nearly
all dentists use them, to the almost
total exclusion of gold"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01
AROUND TOWN.

The year is growing old.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

There should be fewer warships
built in time of peace, and more
homes for old people neglected by
their kin.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

Some mems system of reform close
ly resemble boys method of driy-
ing cattle: to "holer" as loudly as
possible.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

This year | just pretended
Is asleep
Till after Mama took
Her goodnight peep,
And then | sat right up
And chewed some gum
To keep awake and see
Old Santa come.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-01

When a wife hands her husband an
ash holder Christmas morning, she
expects him to accept with it her in
tentions of buying him a Morris chair
if her money had held out.