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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

One branch of American business
activity supports an army six times
as large as that of the United States
and they travel all the time. The
men in this army outnumber our col
lege professors fifty times and the
clergymen three times. They use one
eighth of all the passenger mileage and
ship one-tifth of all the freight. Such
is the record of the knights of the
Grip" 1t would give the average man
insomnia to think of sleeping in three
different trains in one night or two
trains and a station or some other
equally disquieting combination, but
the commercial traveller has to accept
all these vicissitudes and remain an
optimist in good times or bad, if he
is to succeed. Each private in this
great army of three hundred and fifty
thousand travellers can hope to be-
come a general some day if he waits,
works and makes the most of his OPP
portunities. C. P. Huntington, Tiffany,
Jay Gould and many other well known
men of wealth were once commercial
travellers. In the main, America has
reason to be proud of her travelling
army.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

The development of muck raking as
an industry in the United States dur
ing the past few years has been a
great sensational success and undoubt.
eddy those engaged in the industry
have received liberal recompense, or
the industry would not have fiourished.
p. T. Barnum, the circus king, held as
his prime business maxim that the
American people liked to be hum
plugged and on this theory accumu-
lated a great fortune, but in following
out the same doctrine the muckraking
craft forgot one important feature in
the Barnum idea-they failed to
change their attractions every season
To this failure must be attributed the
lack of interest aroused in the public
mind by the latest revelations of the
scandal mongers The American PEG,
pie are learning to take these marvel.
GUS stories of graft with a grain of
allowance and hear the evidence before
pronouncing sentence.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

dom hear OF the baby having bank
account when II is twenty years old.
II costs parents great many thou.
sand dollars annually to make the dis.
covery that their children can never
learn to sing.
Before woman marries a man, she
expects him to pay her compliments.
after marriage she is satisfied IL he
pays her bills.
When young lovers plan for buying
the furniture for their house they cs-
innate hat the wedd'us presents W.T.
furnish half they need.
A man may feel guilty the first time
he fools his wife, but after that he
begins to think what smart man he
is to be able to do It.
No man need feel hurt If people say
he is not good looking A man isn't
expected to bc good looking. but you
bet it is expected of Il woman.
1t Is impossible for women to select
a topic of conversation to please the
men, so no wonder they have quit try.
ing.
If in the winter time a man happens
to so about the house few seconds
without any shoes on his feet, how his
wife sColds him!
The man who argues politics is bad
enough, but he ads to his offense If
he tells afterwards how he triumphcd
in the argument
When some men do wrong, people
gossip about it in whispers, but when
other people do wrong, the people talk
about it in yells
One of the greatest outrages in the
world is for a we'll behaved worthy
woman to be talked about" by
vicious untruthful people.
II makes no difference how much a
woman trusts her husband, she cX-
poets an explanation when he is called
TO the telephone by a woman's voice.
If we were a young man we would
not call on the girls: we have heard
so many girls say, in speaking of a
young man caller: Il thought he
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08
TO BEREAVED ITALY.

Thou sore distracted Italy
The whole World cries its sympathy
In thy sad hour of misery,
The greatest in all history!
We know our inability
TO grasp your great catastrophe,
Yet Italy, poor Italy,
Our hearts go out in sympathy!
But yesterday, the fairest spot
OF Earth was southern Italy;
There Nature gave so lavishly
Her wealth in wondrous luxury:
And travellers from every land
Had viewed thy beauteous scenery,
Had basked amid the sunshine
OF they noted hospitality.
Then sudden, like million blasts
OF mightiest artillery,
In desolate darkness ere the dawn,
Burst forth this dread calamity
A hundred thousand souls, and more
Hurled head-lOng to eternity,
Some other thousands doomed to roam,
To die in direst penury!
Today, a wilderness of woe,
A holocaust of tragedy,
Greets the sad eyes of those who go
To succor their extremity.
The depth of thine adversely
We cannot know, sad Italy!
Yet in thine hour of misery
The whole World cries in sympathy!
Richard +. MarwoOd.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Dickens fat boy Joe" which he
immortalized in Pickwick papers has
been beaten to a fragile" by Johnny
Webb of Atwood, Pennsylvania. He
is only three years old and weighs
10 pounds, is four feet tall and wears
a No. 7 hat. His parents are of ordin-
airy size but among his paternal an
cestors was a certain Thomas Webb
who tipped the scales at 500. The
widowed mother of this infant pom
derosity has been offered generous
sums by freak museums to exhibit
Johnny as a star attraction, but al
though in need of money, she turns a
deaf ear to such propositions and lives
in constant fear of her baby giant be-
ing kidnapped,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08
A NEEDED NEW YEARS RESO
LUTON.

OF great public questions
There's quite a congestion
Awaiting big honest Bill Taft:
The worst institution
Demanding solution
Is national prOneness to graft
The trusts need attention,
Our ships need subvention,
Our railroads need wise supervision
Our tariff needs mending
Our people need blending,
But graft needs the deepest incision
For graft seems to grow
In high places and low:
'Tis so common in everyday life,
We're inclined to indOrse
AS a matter of course
What is really matter for strife.
No state can endure
More wicked than pure,
Corruption must yield to the fray:
For reasons supernal
The right is eternal
And wckedness lasts but a day.
Now who is to blame
For our national shame,
But the man who will wink at chi,
canery!
He may not himself
BE a CRATER for pelf
But he's helping to rob the same
granary.
On this New Years day
Let every man say
Who is honest and noble at heart,
Il will help Mr.. Taft
To eliminate graft
I'll be one to at least do my part"
Richard +. Marwood.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Judge Taft and his party will sail
for Panama January 25. The armored
cruisers North Carolina and Montana
will carry the president-elect and his
engineers probably starting from the
port of Charleston. Their decision as
to the future of the canal will be
looked for eagerly by the American
people, who are extremely anxious to
have the great enterprise carried to
a successful finish.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Mayor Speer of Denver is one of the
strongest characters in political life
in the west He is called the Noun
tain Lion of the Rockies" If he should
ever come in conflict with the Tam
many Tiger, it is a question which
would come off victorious. Mayor
Speer besides being a born fighter is
born city builder. His present am
bition is to build great plaza in the
heart of Denver, after the manner Of
foreign cities, around which shall be
grouped the municipal buildings.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

All the cries of the forestry alarm
lists cannot deprive the children of
their Christmas trees and, indeed, the
protest has been out of proportion with
the damage done. The trees used are
to a large extent the prunings of the
forest and their removal is an i'm
provement rather than detriment to
the remainder of the trees. Many OF
the trees now used are raised in
nurseries, 1t may be necessary to
regulate the cutting of the trees for
this purpose but it is not likely that
the Christmas tree will ever be pro-
hibited in America.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

The Arkansas man who thinks gun
toting" could be eliminated by manu-
featuring pants minus he pistol
pocket, shows no appreciation of the
ingenuity of the Yankee. The southern
~ is quite as likely to have his pistol in
bis boot top as in his hip pocket and
in case man is sufficiently civilized
20 wear shoes, he is still clever enough
to find place to carry his revolver.
Try again, brother, peace pants"
would never succeed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Brother Charles p. Taft did a wise
and gracious thing when he withdrew
from the Ohio senatorial contest in
favor of Congressman Theodore Bur
ton. 1t might also be added that he
did a courageous thing inasmuch as
his wife, who carries by far the largest
bank account, pinned for political
honors. Mr.. Burton would be a worthy
successor to any senator Ohio has had
for many years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

More than 10000 persons besides
thousands of domestic animals annual.
ly die from snake bites in India. As
one thinks of this pestlence ridden,
famine stricken country, it is always
to picture it swept by calamity and in
the throcs of utter wretchedncss. It
seems as though not only earthly pow
ers were against these suffering hordes
but nature had also entered a con
spiracy against them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

An English boy began his business
career crying tarts and pies which he
had baked. This humble beginning
led to other enterprises until he owned
tramways in many Welsh towns, and
omnibus lines in Cardiff, Plymouth,
London, and other cities, When he
died at the age of seventy-three, Solo
mon Andrews, who never learned to
read or write, was worth S5,OOO,OOO,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

serve energy, money, ideas No mer-
chant is going to do more business in
1909 than he did in 1908 unless he
does more and better advertising
That's not guess work; its not non.
sense. It's merely one of the rules of
the game of business and you can't
win at any game unless you play &C.
cording to the rules
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

The world, at the beginning of the
year 1909, is a better world at almost
every point than ever before. The
age of reason has not dawned but we
have taken long strides away from
the aXioms of national seltishness. The
national conscience is less plastic to
selfish logic. In business affairs the
revival of civic righteousness more
than compensates for the jar of the
exposure of rascality.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Nova Scotia. He is still at work
directing large force Of men and
women, In the construction of expert
mental aeroplanes and air motors He
has devoted fifteen years of his life
and two thousand dollars of his great
wealth learning how to fly in heavier
than air machines.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08
ATcAIsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.
We all eat and talk too much.

We all eat and talk too much.
Half the marriage engagements are
the result of an effort on the part of
young men and women to kill time.
A man who says he has never voted
anything but the straight ticket, is
generally looked upon with suspicion
If a woman of forty marries a man
of fifty, people say she is eighteen, and
her husband is nearly seventy.
Nearly every baby starts out with a
bank account, because of the indulg-
ence of its grandparents. What be-
comes of that bank account? You sell
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08
GREGORY COUNTY SHOULD UNITE

biN-HoNl NolN SHOULD L INIT &c
Dispatches from Washington bring
suggestion of danger lest Gregory
county may lose the land office alto
gether as result of local differences.
Mitchell is going to make an effort to
retain, the office, hoping to do this
through the Gregory county town rival
ries over the plum.
The South Dakota congressional
delegation is said to be evenly divided
as between Gregory and Dallas, a
senator and a congressman favoring
each town. And the congressional
delegation is likely to stand pat.
The News would suggest that the
people of every town in Gregory coun-
ty get together on this one point and
let it be known to the entire congress
sional delegation that the point will be
insisted upon; That, whatever town
gets the land office, it must come
south of the White river and west of
the Missouri.
BY unanimously insisting upon this
point, the danger of losing the land Of
flee to Gregory county altogether, will
be overcome. And unless this point
is insisted upon by the people of Greg
DRY county, unitedly, there is grave
danger that the office will stay north
of the White and east of the Missouri
Gregory county people should insist
that the land office which will have
jurisdiction over Trip county lands,
be brought to Gregory county, where
it will be convenient for the settlers.
This suggestion is made in the in
terest of Gregory county as a whole
Whichever town wins, it should be
one of the towns in Gregory county.
And by strongly insisting upon this
point unitedly, the people of Gregory
county can bring this about.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

The man who would increase the
number of useless words which al
ready cucumber our dictionaries until
one is worn out trying to find out what
he wants, by Incorporating the word
Organic" which thinks would de-
scribe a certain kind of persistent
courage under defeat must consider
such a linguistic monument higher
honor than it appears to most people,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

President Shonts of the Cloverleaf
and other railroad systems states the
case well when he says: The trans
portation facilities of country are
and always have been, the true test of
the nations commercial development.
Rome was the greatest road builder in
the world in her day and the supreme
commercial power. Her highways,
which are still the wonder of modern
engineers, represented the most adj
vanced stage of the art of transporta-
ton as it was then known, and made
possible the development of her terri
tory What is true of Rome is also
true of America. 1t is only by the
development of the best systems of
transportation known TO the modern
United States has been developed as it
has been from ocean to ocean. Had
ii not been for the discovery of steam
as a motive power such progress could
not have been possible in hundreds of
years. But while great things have
been accomplished, there is still much
to do before America can be satisfied
with her highways. The wagon roads
of the country are far behind what
they should be. Country life would be
relieved of much of its dreariness if
the roadways could be perfected so
that to ride over them in carriage or
auto would be a pleasure instead of an
annoyance or a menace to life and
limb. Good roads have a most decided
effect on the trade of country towns.
which is often overlooked. Farmers
often choose a longer road to a larger
town because it is in better condition
and produce can be hauled there to
better advantage. Good roads, Let
this be the slogan of every farming dis
trict for the year 1909. The roads
around Norfolk, let it be remarked,
were ne yer better than right now.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

A bushe of corn brings three times
as much cash as in 1896, and its good
money, too. In a state that raises as
much corn as Nebraska, this means a
big increase in crop returns.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Mr. Bryan has kindly and generous
ly announced that he will make no at
tempt to influence the action of the
Nebraska legislation this session. How
magnanimous Mr.. Bryan is becoming
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Pittsburg officials under arrest are
tumbling over each other in their
haste to tell all they know and save
themselves by involving others but
the prosecution refuses their over
lures and assures them that they have
evidence enough to send every one
under arrest to prison and to convict
others.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Mrs Guinness was living and happy
at Pittsburg. Kan, the other day.
When she was next heard from she
was enjoying a headache in Topeka
Ia.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

The oldest house in the United
States was built by the Spaniards in
St. Augustine, Fla, over three hun
dred years ago. 1t has been repaired
many times, but most of the original
timbers still remain and are said to
be as StanCh as ever.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Internationalism is word well fitted
to the trend of our times. 1t proposes
to save by letting each nation grow
those products that are natural to its
part of the earth and with this to allow
greater freedom Of commerce. If we
had more trading ships we should
need less fighting ships.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Last year portion of the $50,000,-
600 which the state CT New York voted
for road building was expended in the
construction of $50 miles of good
roads. In this way the money is doing
double duty-making good roads and
giving paying employment to laborers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

city of Boston that property worth
$30,000,O0O has never been taxed. The
Boston Globe suggests publishing the
needs investigating also.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

She had scarce emerged from girl
hoods days
When she fell in love with the winning
ways
OF a man much older in worldly lore,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

The man who invented the gas
meter died in Detroit last week, but
alas, the meters are still doing bust
ness at the old stand. 1t is another
proof that THE evil men do, lives
after them"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Kangaroo is now being served in
New York to those who wish to test
this new delicacy. Several dozen of
these animals have already been
marketed in Gotham and several hun
dred more are on the way. They are
said to taste like small cub bear.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

To beat last years record" is the
hope of every hustling business man.
To accomplish more, to build up, to
win, to push the enterprise further
along toward the goal than ever before
are the motives which lmpel men
to struggle, to scheme, to use up re-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

One OF New York's latest evidences
of an Unsuitable desire to fly high when
they get skates on is a proposition to
have an ice skating rink on top of a
Fifth Avenue building one hundred
feet in the air.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08
A CALMER MESSAGE.

Today's special message from the
president to the house of representa-
tives will be received with more uni
versal approval by the country at large
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08
A cold snap-the plumbers.

Taft is going to cover all the danger
he goes to Panama, then to Texas.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

The fact that the new year comes
on Friday has encouraged the seers
to look into the future with the idea
of knocking 1t.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

When Uncle Sam has dug as many
canals as the New York editors have,
he will know lot more how it ought
to be done.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

The Chinese undertaken did not moan
much when the emperor died. The
funeral expenses were over $i00O,OOO
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

Sir Oliver Lodge has Invented an
instrument to dissipate fogs AS If
n sober fog wasn't bad enough.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

than some OF the other special mes.
sages. because there is more of calm
ness and less of the tiger.like frenzy
which has marked so many of those
documents of late.
In This message the president de-
tends his attitude that secret service
bureau should be maintained as a part
Di the department of justice, and takes
exception, quite calmly, to the state
ments of the house resolution that he
intended any personal attack or re-
Election in his recommendation for
secret service. He denies that he has
ever used the secret service for either
personal or political purposes and ad.
mits that such an abuse would be
very bad.
So many of the presidents messages
have contained such large proportions
oi bitter personal abuse that they have
excited sympathy for the objects Of
his attack; he has gone at this message
much more calmly and more logically.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

The big American fleet is likely to
be sent on a mission of mercy to aid
in the relief of the earthquake suffer
ers of Italy. 1t will be late, it is true,
but not too late to be welcome The
horrible devastation reaches over so
broad an area that it will require the
assistance of thousands and unlimited
supplies to relieve the suffering and
feed and clothe the destitute and
homeless. At the present time the
Straits of Messina are so changed by
the upheaval and so checked by
wreckage and debris that it is impos-
sible for the battleships which are al
ready gathered for the relief of the
sufferers to proceed to the devastated
cities How long it will take to re-
store them to a navigabe condition no
one can now tell. Should they prove
to be seriously blockaded it would be
great impeachment to commerce
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

THE YEAR AHEAD FOR NORFOLK.
In the letter sent to the Commercial
club by A. ]. Durland, who served dur
ing the past year as president, atten.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-01-08

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