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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
The Substitution.

1t is well known fact that both
Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir W. s.
Gilbert had horror Of the titles of
their operas becoming known until the
very night Of their performance. This
fear that they might be forestalled Gre
ated considerable confusion at the ini.
tial production of "Iolanthe; or The
Peer and the Peri" The opera was
rehearsed for weeks under the title
of "Perola." 1t was only at the dress
rehearsal that the company was in
structed to substitute the name 40
.lanthe" for that Of "Perola" wherever
It occurred in the text or lyrics. 1t
was no easy task to replace vocaiiy
and in the dialogue a name of three
syllables for one of four. Sullivan,
however, said (maybe aside to one or
two Of the actors who were nervous;
go ahead and sing the music. Gill
bert won't be In front" Gilbert never
attended the first night. $50 use any
name that you think of first II you
are ratified, No one In the audience
will be any wiser Boston Post
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
A Sad Case,

An Atchison man has lain In an un-
conscious state ever since 10 o'clock
last night Everything has been done
to arouse him today, but all efforts are
unavailing. His friends are greatly
alarmed. They fear he may never re-
gain consciousness. 1t seemed that
yesterday evening right after dinner
the man picked up his hat, put on his
overcoat and, although his wife was
sitting right in the room, she did not
say, where arc you going?" He
walked out of the house. At 10 O'clock
in the evening the man returned. He
walked into the room where his wife
sat and took off his hat and overcoat.
She smiled at him pleasantly and did
not say, "Where have you been?" The
man fell unconscious to the floor
Atchison Globe.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
Women Fighters Of Bio tiats.

Policemen are looking for number
Of women IN Los Angeles said to have
formed secret society for the pur-
pose Of the humiliation of the big
nat The receipt Of dozen or more
complaints from women regarding as
saults upon their headgear is respon,
sible for the activity of the police
Women who wear big hats are the
object Of attack The finer the hal
the more vicious the assault upon 1t
The women who make the attacks are
well dressed and apparently refined
and wealthy. They all wear small
hats and seem TO hold violent hatred
for the big straws and ultra felts. One
woman was elected from a Hollywood
car becnuse ~ her attack upon womer
passengers who wore big hats.
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Phone Consolidation Fails,

Madison, Neb., June Especial to
The News: The much hoped for con
solidation of the Independent and Mad
ison Bell Telephone companies failed
to materialize. The two committees
appointed to affect such consolidation
and draft articles of incorporation, af
ter much suffering and dissension
were wholly unable to get together
Whether the difficulties lay in the per
sonnet of the committees or the con
verging interests they represented is
not known. However, Madison's bust
ness interests require the consolida
ton and it is to be hoped that the
committees may be sufficiently public
spirited as to yield to certain temper
airy advantages and meet this demand
by compromising their differences.
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HIS VOCABULARY.
Il Was Real Literary, According to tho
Willy Stenoarapher.

Willy Stenographer.
The beautiful typewriter girl pulled
out her golden pompadour nervously,
says the Philadelphia Bulletin. my
speed II increase, Mr.. Meer-excuse
me, Wellington-my speed II increase
30 to 40 per cent every day."
Broker Wellington frowned. The
girl had taken his dictation slowly.
And in n stern, skeptical voice he said,
"How soT
Its your new vocabulary that puts
me out" she explained. II had Mr..
Meer's vocabulary very pat-'as per-
contents noted the same'-he only
used about 800 words" Her 1atter-
ing smile warmed the man like n sun
beam. But you, sir, have a real lit
erary style. Beg to submit our best
attention. slump 'bullish,' 'hypothe-
cate'-they're all new words to me,
and of course l can't rattle them of
very fast at first. But just you wait
say, till day after tomorrow. Then
you'll see."
"All business men have different vo-
cabularies that their stenographers
must get accustomed to, eh?" said the
broker.
Eyes, sir; some large, some small.
Again her smile flattered him. "Yours
is larger than most. should say II
was thirty or forty words larger. Real
literary, / call it."
Miss Hoskins, If there's-er-any
supplies you need oil you've got to do
is ASK" said the literary broker fatu.
OuSly
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Madison County Fair.

Madison, Neb., June Especial to
The News: The members OF the Mad.
ison County Fair association held n
meeting In the city hall yesterday az.
ternoon, there being present J. @.
Wakely. president; John Rynearson.
secretary, and w. II. Wycoff, treasur.
er, and others, The association at its
annual fair has long felt the need of
more and better stall space; So after
considerable discussion of ways and
means II was definitely decided to ex.
pend $1,000 for this purpose, which
should provide at least fifty new stalls.
Other needed improvements are con.
templated. No reasonable expense OF
care will be spared by the managers
to make the fair this fall the best in
the history of the association, and to
this end the largest possible induce
ment within their reach will be offered
to exhibitors of farm products. The
Madison Driving Association race meet
will be held in connection with the
fair on September % to "a. The pros
poets for the speed program are in.
deed flattering and indications are II
will be superior in every way to any
previous meet. John Rynearson of
this city, secretary of the North Ne.
braska Race circuit, says that the Sc.
ties of meets which open this season
at Norfolk and close at Stanton, prom.
Use to be record breaker.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
Worlds Fair In a Forest
Ideal Location and Merorous Features Of the AaskaYkon
Pacific Exposition to Be Held al SeattIe-The Show
That viii Be on Time and Open the
Door TO New World.

may well he pacific in double sense
and the thousand years Of peace may
reign upon these shores.
The Forthcoming exposition has In
spired the Chinook poet to sing. He
has one verse to each OF the words In
the hyphenated title, one to Alaska,
one to the Yukon. one to the Pacific
and one to the exposition. They are
perfectly good verses. that to the Pa.
cific being worthy Of quoting, The
"Chinook poet" Is not the first bard to
sing of the seas. Byron In magnifi-
cent apostrophe commanded the ocean
to roll on" and 1t has been rolling on
ever since. The late Algernon Charles
Swiuburne wrote of 1.-THE North Sea"
in numbers sufficiently grewsome to
send shivers down the spine of an ice
berg. In 1t he had death and the sea
"holding converse of desolate speech"
That would not apply to the Pacific.
however, for here life and the sea hold
converse Of jubilant speech.
did not mean to compare the "Chi-
nook poet" with Byron and Swinburne.
| merely meant to show that he had
precedents for lifting his voice In song
to the ocean. But perhaps he is one of
the poets who need no presidents, one
of those who sing because they have .
or because nobody stops them. Here is
what the Chinook poet does to the
Pacific:
Earth's grandest ocean. rolling unseen OF
men
For centurles-a nameless mystery!
Balboa from the heights of Darien
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Had to Bow 10 Custom.

The late King Oscar of Sweden was
the least conventional Of monarchs,
but he had to courtesy to custom new
ertheless. The king and NJ. BONNER,
the botanist, met as strangers while
out In search Of flowers near Stock.
holm. They were soon the best OF
friends, and BONNER suggested lunch
at his inn.
Come home with me instead" said
the other.
When the way led to the palace
gates BONNER hesitated.
I'm sorry" said his companion,
"but l happen to be the king of this
country, and this is the only place
where can entertain my friends"
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African Elephants.

In portions of Africa the natives be,
lieve when a herd Of elephants is
alarmed and runs away the bulls, II
necessary, pick up and carry on their
tusks the little ones which may not be
able to keep up with the herd. These
little ones when first born weigh not
more than 200 pounds and of course
might readily be carried, as stated.
We do not know that any white man
has ever seen this, but the natives in
Bist that II Is done.-Forest and Stream
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
YANKEE WIT.
Lincoln Said He Always Admired arr
Covstod II,

Coveted II.
Alban Jasper Conant, the artist, n
telling Of his experience In painting
portrait OF Lincoln said:
Yankee wit was mentioned at one
Of the sittlngs, and Lincoln said, That
Is something always admired and
coveted Some one said, why, you
certainly have the credit of possessing
It In large measure No said Lin
coin, not the genuine. don't remem-
Der that | ever got credit for 1t but
once Then he told how, hurrying
once through courtroom. he was or.
dered by the Judge to defend a prison.
err accused Of assault and battery. A
witness was just testifying that the
complainant had been fought all over
field On cross examination, said
Lincoln, I asked him, How large was
that ield-twenty acres?' mo" he
replied. "Ten acresq" mo" "were
there two acres?" l persisted. Eyes
just about two" he agreed. "And you
field?' pointing to the prisoner. "Yes
SIR" well, SIR" I said, did you ever
see fight before that turned out SO
little to the acre?" The witness nd.
mitted, with grin. that he had not
the judge smiled, and the jury snick.
cred. SO. saying that as this crop was
so poor 1t did not seem worth further
cultivation, submitted the case
Some Of my friends said 1t was Yam.
kee wit. but that was the only time
ever got credit for 1t. l wish l had
It. "-McClure's Magazine.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11

Saw far away a wrinkled sailless sea-
Ocean of peace, the worlds highway to
be.
What tongues the glory of thy reign shall
sing!
What prophet shall foretell thy destiny!
What honors may not future ages bring
To thee. everlasting oceanic king!
"The Show That Is on Time"
The popular name for the Alaska u-
kon-Pacific exposition Is the "A.-Y.-P."
In view of this fact, 1t is fortunate
they did not get the Yukon first. For
one thing, our friends the Japanese,
who are to have prominent part in
the show, might have thought that
some Of our Swedish Americans in the
northwest were trying to make merry
at the Jap name. Whatever its official
title may be, however. the affair will
be known as the Seattle exposition
Seattle has made 1t and is entitled to
the honor. One of the meritorious new
features of the enterprise is that 1t
eminent for cent, while the other
expositions have yelled for loans from
Uncle Sam or appropriations outright
Seattle is financing this affair herself
In one day she raised S650.000, or
S150000 more than the management
had called for. That Is the Seattle
style. During the past ten years it has
grown faster than any city of its size
on earth. With such town behind it
the exposition cannot be other than a
success.
Another grateful departure in the
A.-Y.-P is that It is going to open
actually on the opening day. Some
other expositions have opened when
they were half done and did not get
ready to appear properly In polite So
city till month or two later. Seattle
has advertised this as "the show that
will he ON time" That settles the
matter for Seattle makes good. When
President Taft presses the button on
June he will start the machinery in
completed plant. That is assured,
for II is practically completed now.
This house will be builded before the
date for the occupants TO move In. IL
will start right and depend on that
fact to help it finish right.
Still another improvement over past
expositions Is the fact that many
buildings are to be permanent. They
will be turned over to the State uni
versity. on whose campus the fair is
held. This saves a useless kyaste and
shows good business Judgment. One
Of these permanent buildings is that of
forestry. which Is to be made wholly Of
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
Eiahts With Editor.

Aurora, Neb., June 1.-THE decorum
and moral sense of Aurora were gross
ly shocked when Frederick Abbott, ed
itor of the Aurora Republican and a
regent of the state university, engaged
in personal encounter with Augustus
e. Siekman, chief secretary for the
United States of the Order of Royal
Highlanders. They called each other
names, then fought.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11

vancement, the progress of the world
done into tabloid.
1t is fitting that the latest of indus
trial festivals is to be held on the
shores of the Pacific and that 1t Is to
be not memorial of the past, but a
prophecy Of the future; not hung upon
yesterday. but on tomorrow. For 1t is
around the Pacific that the worlds
greatest civilization Is to form. That
has been apparent for fifty years. Dur
ing the last half century an awakening
of new life has touched all the lands
bordering the great ocean. Aroucd the
gigantic horseshoe from South Amer
though some world spirit had planned
It from behind the scenes. 1t freed the
Latin American republics, threw a
restless population into California, Ore
gon, Washington and British Column
bia, found a golden key for Alaska,
stirred even ice locked Siberia and
dead alive Korea. transformed Japan,
broke the slumber Of ages in China,
carried American enterprise into the
Philippines and applied the most adj
vanced theories of government to Aus
tralia and New Zealand. The same
magical breath of life blew upon the
island gardens of Hawaii Now comes
the climax of all this advancement In
the construction of the Panama canal.
To this new Pacific civilization the
United States Is the key. Through the
Fri nd hA Oh
dominates South and Central Amer
lea. Her spirit is more In western
Canada than that Of Britain. She
owns Alaska. II was she that awak-
ened japan and maintained the integ-
rity OF China. She controls Hawaii
and the Philippines. She has furnished
the model and the democratic spirit
for the governments In Australasia.
The New Pacific Empire.
The Alaska-Yukon-P Pacific exposition
at Seattle Is meant to symbolic all
this. 1t Is more than a mere fair: II
is the visible sign OF great idea, an
open door TO new world. 1t says TO
mankind: Here are the future high.
ways OF commerce. the coming theater
OF history. Here the east and the
west join hands to form the worlds
greatest civilization. The circle OF
progress is complete. 1t has passed
from east TO west about the earth to
reach its highest statement where the
ends meet" 1t is perhaps happy
omen that this new and greater civil.
cation Is to be called the Pacific. II
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ny JAnns A. npcnRroN.

NF exposltions there Is no end
Since our initial one at Phlla-
" delphia In 1875 we have held
them at Chicago, st. Louis, At
lanta, Omaha, Nashville, Buffalo. Port
land and Jamestown. We Americans
have the exposition habit. II is good
habit to have, since II indicates that
we are alive. These worlds fairs may
be described as the flowers on the
growth we blossom out, so to speak,
and invite mankind to come and see
us In our glory. Moreover, these fes-
tivals Of industry bring us together
and get us acquainted. They unity
our life. impart to us a common spirit
and stimulate us to n healthy emula-
ton. The pessimist who grumbles
that the era of expositions is over is
calamity waller and not prophet.
He needs an injection Of the serum Of
construction. He has failed to catch
the American spirit. The exposition
has n legitimate place In our life and
has come to stay. We are becoming
more and more nation of travellers
determined to see the world. These
fairs congregate the world for us in
one point and show 1t to us in minia-
ture. Instead Of requiring us to visit
distant lands, they bring the distant
lands to us. The mountain comes to
Mohammed. Expeditions furnish a
cosmopolitan viewpoint. universal
education. They are panoramas Of ad-
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The Umpire.

Who is It, reckless Of his fame
And deaf to yells of praise or blame.
Unmoved by glory or by shame.
Hands down decisions on the game?
His Jumps.
Who calmly stands where spinning
spheres.
Projected by the hand that steers
The low or high. curved. straight OF
queers,
Whiz past his body, face and ears
And calls them balls or strikes, while
cheers
From grand stand throngs or bleachers
jeers
Do not affect his hopes or fears?
His Jumps.
Who faces thousands every day
Ranged round the grounds in fierce array
All with a hot desire to Stay
When he decides a quick, close play
Not in accords nee with their way,
No matter what they want and say2
His Jumps.
Who wears the diamond like a king?
Who has the players on the string?
Who carries pennants in a sling?
Who simply runs the whole darn thing7
His Jumps.
w. ]. hampton in New York Times
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
CLUB TO LIVE ON FRUIT.
Society Called the Golden Age I,
Formed In London.

A new society club formed in Lon
don, called the Golden Age. has been
established to advocate ii fruitarian
system of living for philanthropic, hui
name and hygienic reasons. The club
S for men and women who are inter
.sted in the suffrage movement.
1t will be purely social, and bridge
and other games will furnish diver
sions. A medical leader in the move
ment affirms Il man should reach the
age of 1913 under the proposed diet.
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Continue Jack Shelton Hearing

Omaha, June THE preliminary
hearing of Jack Shelton, alias Gordon,
charged with being one of the four
men who held up and robbed the
Union Pacific train at Lane Cutoff
May %, before United States Commits
sioner Anderson, was today continued
for one week.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11

one-half inches wide, braided with
soutache. at $1.50 yard.
Parasols Of cretonne In the gayest of
Powered designs are among the new
things shown in the shops. They have
the fashionable long handles that are
so much worn this season.
Pique finished with hand embroider-
ed scallops makes fayorite material
for the little ones warm weather coat,
and the model seen In the cut is of
rose linen embroidered In white. 1t is
dainty and altogether charming in ef-
feet, and Il can be Numbered with
perfect ease and success.
JUDO CHOLLET.
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WHAT IS WORN.

Embroidered and Soutached Net Band.
May Be Bought by the Yard.
The demand for embroidered and
braided net as trimming has re-
suited in its being produced mt price
that makes 1t waste of time to copy
at home unless one has nothing else
to occupy leisure hours. Brussels net
two inches wide can be bought for "a
cents yard. aud filet net two and
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
German Prizes For OPERAS.

Publisher Curt OF Berlin. Germany,
offers two prizes of $4,000 and two
consolation prizes OF $500 for the best
operas and librettos. which must be in
German and sent In by May Is. 1910.
The winning works will be performed
at the Municipal theater. Hamburg
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
Chance For Aeronauts.

King Leopold of Belgium has offered
$1,000 prize for the best treatise on
aeronautics to be brought out this
year.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11
A plplomat.

Does he always speak the TRUTH
81 guess not. All his friends praise
bis Judgment Free Press.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11

If merchant cannot meet his com
petition in qualities and prices 1t will
not pay him to advertise.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-06-11

logs from the gigantic trees OF the
northwest Most Of the other build
ings are in the French renaissance
style. That of New York state Is a
fac-simile Of the home OF William II.
Seward at Auburn. There is also to
be a fine statue of Seward. the man
who purchased Alaska at time when
the wise blockheads Of the day grinned
and called II Stewards iceberg" Peo-
pie who look far ahead are always de-
rided by those superior worldlings who
cannot see an inch In front Of their
noses.
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Notice to Taxpayers.
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College Pre- careful ed-lafion
% girls and tse cultivation II the higher qualities of self
reliant W manhood. Kindergarten department Gases
lor e--al ROSS Afternoon study Hour desired.
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Proposals.

PROPOSALS. FOR CLOTHING--DEPOT QUARTER
Il masters once. 50 whitehall St, New York n r.
1909. Sealed proposals. In trlplicate.
be received here until O'Clock r. NJ. Sept 10. 1909
then opened. for manufacturing and delivering a
either New York. Philadelphia or Chicago DeD0ts
oft OuaTteTmaster's Department. az such
such quantities as may be required from time 20
time during fiscal year commencing July i.
and ending 1910 Khaki Coats Khaki Brooches
foot Khaki Brooches mounted and Khaki Caps.
reDensh lines OF sizes. The right is
10 reject or accept any all proposals. any part
VIII be given to articles Of domestic
manufacture Blanks for proposals and fun tnforma-
ton furnished upon application az this ONCE.
FuveIopes containing proposals TO 20 endorsed Pro-
posaIg for Clothing to DO opened sept 10. 1909
addressed Col. WM S. PATTEN. Depot Quarter
master
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