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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23
GILDER'S FINDS.

Nebraska is just now receiving com.
plimentary attention from the scien.
titic world through the finds of r. F.
Glider, the Omaha newspaper man
who dug up skeletons of prehistoric
beings year or so ago.
The current number of the Ameri-
can Anthropologist contains, among
other interesting features, paper by
Mr.. Glider concerning his exploration
covering eight months in ancient
house ruins in Sarpy and Douglas
counties. The article covers thirty.
three pages and is accompanied under
Mr.. elders title by highly scientific
report on the skeletal remains found
in the vicinity of the ruins, by DR.. Ales
Hrdlicka, the famous physical anthro-
pologist of the United States National
museum, to whom were sent six skulls
and portions of skeletons.
Mr.. elders article is printed on
heavy book paper, and the maps and
MISUNDERSTANDING and halftones
are of very high order of excel
lence. The halftones were made from
photographs taken by the official gov
ernnent photographers connected
with the museum. Upon receipt of
the objects reproduced in the article
by the museum a request was made
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Fashionable awful travesty which
has been responsible for the slaughter
of millions of harmless song birds-is
now demanding metallized horned
toads for hat ornaments and pins and
Texas Is supplying thousands of these
little insect destroyers to meet the
demand. The worst feature of this is
that the horned toads are metallized
while alive-the hot metal coating is
placed over their bodies and they are
burned to death. If there was ever
literally burning shame, this is the
one, and it is a disgrace to American
civilization that it is permitted.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23
MAY GET OIL HERE.

II it develops from the striking of
oil at Lincoln that there really Is oil
in any considerable quantity at the
state capital, those who have always
contended that there is oil in this ter
ritory will feel encouraged to spend a
little money in testing out the conten-
ton.
There are those who have for years
maintained that there is oil beneath
these prairies and at times 1t has even
seemed likely that wells would be dug
to test out the proposition.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

The man who wants work and is
willing to work, and has an ambition
to do his work well, will not long be
out of employment. There is always
place for the efficient man-but 1t
takes greater degree of skill to hold
a job than it used to. The methods of
doing business have been greatly i'm.
proved over what they were years ago.
The man who was considered fair
carpenter in pioneer days would, under
modern competition, be simply wood
butcher. There is always room at the
top, but this is an age of sky scrapers
and the top is much higher up than it
was in grandfather's days.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

q Swim" restful and contented with
our lot. This is the advice, given in
regard to those unfortunate possessors
Of too much money and too little pur.
pose, in the columns OF Life: Let us
permit them to go on. and ride, at
furious speed. In motors; to issue en-.
graved invitations; to answer little
notes and leave p, p. C.s: to bant and
lace and pinch their toes; to have their
hair CLOSED and dyed and occasion.
ally augmented; to see food placed be-
fore them and feel no appetite for It;
to employ a retinue of servants who
burn with a lust to leave them; to
have sentiments but no passions; to
swallow pates, pills and palpable fiat.
terry; to deny silly stories about them.
selves in the paper; to buy spurious
works of art at hair raising prices; to
lend money to friends-and so to lose
them; to make themselves agreeable
to bores because they have tasted
their truffes and terrapin; to have
large nurseries but no little children;
to be robbed and heeced by their ser
wants and beauty doctors and trades
people; to telephone to tedious pro.
cession of bachelors to fill a place at
dinner or an odd bed in the country;
to dispute about lawsuits, libels, taxes
and rates of interest; to be forced to
watch stockholders and musical com.
edies; to shoo defy and do battle with
black clouds of ennui to pay bills and
fiddlers and trifling visits; to sell tick.
cts for bazaars and piano recitals; to
offer cold cordials and tepid apologies;
to marry their daughters to scoundrels
of Europe; to change their dress and
demeanor and opinions from one days
end to another; to own houses In
town but never to live in them; to be
stood; to sign checks, receipts and
pledges; to store furniture, furs, Jew
els, securities and hangings and to be
vigilant about moths and fire and burg
lars and breakage and water and in
surance; to send more margin to their
brokers; to journey to Carlsbad and
there to drink liquid denominations; to
lose sight of their feet and friends and
youthful ideals; to find that their
hearts and natures have become hard;
to divorce the one and marry the 9th.
er; to grow fat and old and nervous
and full of rancour and rheumatism
and then, at last-shall we go on,
colonel, to the very end?"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23
THE TARIFF VAUDEVILLE.

The trouble with some of these IRE.
form" senators, such as Cummins of
Iowa, Is that they show the yellow
whenever self interest makes 1t policy
for them to forget the principles for
which they claim to stand.
The present vaudeville performance
at Washington, in which insurgent
senators are turning somersaults in
the air, serve both to amuse the coun.
try and to disgust onlookers who care
for consistency.
Some OF the insurgents who have
been yelling loudest about reducing
the tariff on the necessities of life, now
that the pruning knife is applied to
commodities from their own states,
begin to throw themselves down on
the floor, kick up their heels and
scream to the extent of their lungs
capacity.
Some of the senators from cattle
states, for example, who have been
standing all along for sweeping reduc.
lions in lumber and oil and coal-ar.
ticles produced in other states-and
who have contended that the necessi.
ties of life are costing too much, due
to excessive tariff-now demand that
the tariff on hides shall not be touched
because IL they are these self same
senators may not be allowed to return
to Washington.
1t begins to look more and more as
II the old epigram which people have
laughed at so many years-that the
tariff is local issue-is, after all, the
true story.
But for the sake of consistency and
for the sake of the principle for which
they claim to be fighting, the "insur.
gents" ought to have the backbone to
stand up for the ultimate consumer all
along the line of necessities and
should work for less expensive shoes
as much as for less expensive oil.
1t is little surprising. under such
topsy-turvey conditions as these. IL a
few weeks of work in congress shall,
after all, fail to bring about the most
equitable and the most judicious sort
Of tariff bill.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Fact is ever more wonderful than
fiction. 1t was not so many years ago
that Jules Verne wrote that fanciful
story in which he sent Phileas Fogg
around the world in eighty days.
Thousands read the book and looked
upon it as the champion flight of the
versatile Frenchman's mind Not so
long afterward Miss Nellie bly, actual.
ly made a trip circling the globe in
sixty-five days. And now by the new
railroads through Asia and the short
ening of ocean routes and the quicker
time across the United States one can
make trip around the world inside
of thirty days, all at cost in fare of
little more than 5000. Even a quar-.
ter of century ago he would have
been bold man who would have pre-.
dicted such rapid transit in this gen.
Grafton. 1t only shows that the entire
world is becoming remarkably close
neighbors-too close for the building
of Dreadnaughts and big navies. Con.
ditions are approaching which will
compel nations as well as individuals
to be friendly.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Adam Bede, the Duluth, Mimi, hui.
morist and ex-congressman, pays this
very beautiful and unique tribute to
one of the grand old men" who has
recently died. PERSONALLY to have
known and frequently to have shared
in public functions with so great and
good soul as Edward Everett Hale,
who at the age of eighty-six went to
heaven the other day, is one of the
sweetest memories and will long be
treasured. He always seemed a grand
old watch dog at the gates of glory.
His life was a century of prayer set
to music-one grand oratorio of uplift
and optimism. He loved his country
as few countries are worthy to be
loved, he trusted human nature be-
cause his own nature could be trusted,
and he gave his life to man because
the world offered nothing higher to
serve. He had prayed for the United
States senate several years. But one
day God said, What is the use?" and
the angels bore him home"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23
WE'RE GOING TO PAVE.

Prospects for the paving of Norfolk
avenue are better at this time than
they have ever been before, and the
prospects seem good for actual paving
early next spring.
With the creation of a sewer district
on Norfolk avenue, by virtue of which
the old and outgrown sewer now under
the street will be replaced with a mod.
ern sewer connecting with the new
main sewer system, the present city
administration has taken a long step
toward paving. AS soon as the sewer
is constructed the paving proposition
can be carried out.
Property owners are more than ever
enthusiastic over paving, realizing the
great need of such improvement for
the street and approaching the fact
that property values will increase
when paving comes.
Norfolk can never hope to be the
city it ought to be until paving has
started, and when paving starts, if the
history of other towns is repeated
here, the city will take a new lease on
life.
1t is confidently declared on all sides
that just as soon as paving starts, it
will spread to all parts of the city.
We're almost up to the starting
TnnnnCcnp l.
attracting much attention throughout
the country. It's features are quite
different from those of any other
state, as it prohibits both the sale and
the manufactura of liquor. No booze"
can be sold within four miles of a
school house, and that practically
wipes out the traffic. Everywhere
within the borders of the state there
is prompt compliance with the law,
except in Memphis. In that city the
saloons are still running and say they
will continue to do so until the consti.
tutionality of the new law is tested.
The law provides that after January
l, 1910, no liquors shall be manufac-
tured in the state. The wholesale
liquor dealers and brewers will also
make vigorous fight against the law.
The decision of the court will be
awaited with intense eagerness both
by the ''wets" and the "drys" as very
much depends upon it in the progress
of the contest now going on in many
states between the liquor and anti
liquor interests. 1t will by no means
settle the question, but it will greatly
hasten or delay the onward march of
prohibition which is sweeping over
the land.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

The move for better roads In the VI
cinity of Norfolk should awaken en-
thusiasm not only among business
men but among farmers. A sight of
the new roads around Omaha is
enough to instill one with ambition
for real roads. The work of the gov
eminent experts around Stuart, too, is
enough to set good example. No one
thing is more of value to the farming
community than good roads and the
movement to accomplish something
along this line should be given sup
port.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

A venerable citizen of Michigan at.
tributes his good health to the fact
that he has always eaten whatever he
wanted to eat and as much as he
cared for. He says he has never wor.
ried about his stomach and his stom.
ach has never worried him. They
have always been good friends and
got along very we'll with one another.
This statement is one of such excep.
tional common sense that it deserves
to be noted.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23
A PROSPEROUS SEASON AHEAD.

Never such growing weather for the
crops as during the past month and a
half, says the oldest inhabitant.
Corn and small grain could scarcely
be in better condition for a bumper
yield this fall in northern Nebraska
and southern South Dakota, and the
horn of plenty promises to fairly bulge
as a result.
Prosperity is even now getting ready
to perch upon the shoulder OF the new
northwest and business men in Nor.
folk and in all of the towns of the
surrounding country are optimistic.
The farmers prospects were never
brighter and the farmers success
means prosperity for the entire coun.
try.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

There is no vocabulary m literature
so inexhaustible as that employed by
the baseball fan. 1t is simply aston
ishing what wide range of telling
expressions there are in the language
of sport. The New York Sun gives a
hundred words that its sporting editor
uses in describing the making of a
base hit in game OF baseball, and adj
mits that even these far from exhaust
his barrel of explosives. When he
wants to say that "the batter drove a
hit" he can turn to any one of these
expressions: "Stung, logged, lined,
smote, soaked, smacked, spanked,
smeared, swatted, slammed, scorched,
knocked, crashed, dubbed. damned,
lunged, laced, burned. bored, fayed,
punched, pelted, pasted, pronged,
thumped, hammered. pounded, pun.
meled, walloped, banged, whacked,
whaled, splashed, spilled, slapped,
dumped, dinged, plunked, swung, sunk,
shot, swept, switched, pulled, percolat.
ed, brushed, landed, laid, whipped,
thrust, carved, carromed, careened,
uncorked, produced, discharged, put,
cut, emblazoned, elected, emptied, fes.
TONED picked, aimed, registered,
heaved, rolled, divulged, poured, siz.
zled, scratched, skinned, sandwiched,
slipped, bounced, glanced. fiicked
Tipped, bumped, peeled, crowded,
damned, trundled, picked, forced,
sailed, scared, lifted, lobbed, arched,
forked, popped, pushed, winged"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

An exchange observes very peril
nently that "a man usually spends his
SEVENTEEN birthday explaining that
he feels younger than he did thirty
years ago"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

II does not often fail to the lot of
man to be present at the unwilling of
his own statue, but such high honor
has come to Mistral, the poet of Pro-
vence, who was awarded the Nobel
prize for literature a few years ago.
1t is sometimes a good thing for men
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

The London suffragettes are about
to besiege King Edward in Bucking-
ham palace. Between the Dutch war
scare and the belligerent English wo-
men the monarch who is supposed to
rule the British empire will feel like
taking to the woods.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

There is just one way to get trade
go after it. Make yourself and your
goods known, felt and seen. Compel
people to come in and then on the
merit of your goods and your ability
to convince people of them, sell them.
The columns of this paper are open
to all legitimate advertising.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Whether Cinnamon are more or less
criminal than other people who come
to America may be debatable. But
there is one thing sure, they are quite
different and should be placed in
charge of our men and not of our
young women.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

to know the value their countrymen
place upon their work and character
before they leave this vale OF tears.
1t is OF little comfort to them after.
wards.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

The total cost of repairs to the fleet
of battleships which eruised around
the world, over and above what they
would have required had they stayed
at home, was about a million and a
half dollars. American citizens are
unanimous in pronouncing it money
well spent.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Down in North Carolina debating
society has decided that the earth Is
fat Some of the people who have
been flooded out living in more billy
country wish it was.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Queer what foolish things youths
are whose heads are turned by girls.
One young man has telephoned girl
in Norfolk at o'clock the past three
afternoons asking her to go some
where with him and each time she has
cut him off with the blunt assertion
that she'd be busy and didn't care to
go, anyhow. And the more she turns
the fellow down, the crazier he seems
to get.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

President Eliot's flve-foot shelf of
books may not suit your fancy, but
they will help him pay for his grocery
bills and make money for the publish
ers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Albert Gwynne Vanderbilt told a
Paris newspaper man 81 don't care
what any one says" 1t seems to run
In the Vanderbilt blood not to care for
the public, but the young mans grand
father expressed himself in more forci-
BILE, If less polite, English.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Rev. Mr. Grant, who has been ap-
pointed chaplain of the United States
senate to succeed Edward Everett
Hale, needs not to envy those who
have gone to darkest Africa as mis-
sionaries, His own field of labor is
among those who need enlightenment.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

A man down in Indiana jumped off
a bridge into the waters of the Wa
bash the other day and was drowned.
Poor fellow, his burdens were more
than he could stand. It is said that
he had four wives and that none Of
them would support him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

The Dayton (Ohio) Journal got a
scoop on it's contemporaries the other
day by printing sheet from an air
ship and distributing it among the PEG.
pie below. Most newspaper men will
prefer to stay on earth with theirs.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

A man in Pennsylvania Is sending
letters to his sweetheart by means of
carrier pigeons. He probably calls
her lovey-dovey
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23
DARIUS GREEN'S DREAM.

AS day follows day 1t becomes more
and more apparent that the dream Of
Darius Green with his flying machine
is to come true and that In the ysry
near future.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

The British suffragettes are trying
to show the fallacy of the old argu-
ment that women are not entitled to
the ballot because they cannot fight.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Francis w. Crowninshield In Life
gives this not overdrawn picture Of the
fashionables in New York and 1t
ought to make us all who have the
good fortune not TO be in that kind of
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Schools of journalism are getting to
be as plenty as fleas in Rome, but the
best school of journalism that has
ever yet been devised is country
printing Office.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

The manufacturers of motion pic
lures have agreed to eliminate from
their collection of Aims all films de
picting drunkenness, crime and vice
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23
FIG. x-wHEAT WELL STACKED.

the farm. Experiments at the Mime
sofa station showed an increase of so
per cent, or seven bushels to the acre,
In wheat following cultivated crops
over wheat grown continuously.
Dairying fits In very well with wheat
farming. especially in localities so far
north that corn cannot be successfully
grown as grain crop In such districts
the flint varieties can be raised for
silage and fodder The wheat follow
ing this corn will be freer from rust,
scab and weeds and will yield much
more The COWS will yield a good
profit for all the feed they consume.
and the work will be more evenly dis.
tributed throughout the year
When wheat Is grown to be sold to
the -four mills the price will depend
directly upon the quality To get the
best quality wheat should not be cut
until 1t is fully ripe. 1t should not be
allowed to stand too long after 1t is
ripe or 1t will shell out badly. Wheat
should be well shocked and capped.
If not well capped the bran will be-
come stained and cracked. injuring
'HS appear uuCt utu towering the price.
Stacking is more advisable than shock
thrashing since 1t means better quail.
ity and more fall blowing.
So much depends on the quality of
the grain and the quality is so depend.
ent on cultivation and harvesting that
1t behooves him who is after satisfac.
tory results to make close study OF
the situation. IT does not pay to cult.
yate wheat intelligently and harvest
II In manner that makes all previous
care and lnhOr OF little avail
Lightning Change.
The three-year-old boy on the side
seat in the street car turned suddenly
to look out OF the window, thereby
wlping his muddy shoes on the light
coiored trousers OF the middle aged
man sitting next to him.
Madam" exploded the man, SIS this
your nasty little
Here the boys pretty mother turned
her head and looked at him.
-"angel boyT" he finished with a
gasp.-Chicago Tribune.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

At the rate President Taft is join
ing secret societies 1t is evident that
ne proposes to keep his grip on
things.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

&c doesn't pay to cheat boy. Fiji
teen years ago a Norfolk man short
paid a boy here for thinning sugar
beets-the boy had thinned eighteen
rows and the man refused to pay for
but seventeen, at 10 cents a row. Now
that boy has grown up and he's going
to get even with that man several
times over, if it's the last thing he
ever does.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23
Making Money
On the Farm
Wheat Raising
BY G. Y. GREGORY.
Author Of Home Course In Modern
Agriculture"
Copyright 1903. by American Press
Association
Copyright 1909. by American Press
Association

~ NE Of the most important grain
crops grown I'm this country Is
w wheat. 1t is second In value
and acreage only to corn. Not.
withstandlng the great importance OF
the wheat crop but little attention has
been paid to improved methods Of cul-
ture. Wheat is largely looked upon as
an extensive crop. Most farms in the
wheat belt are large. This Is especial
ly true of the spring wheat belt In
northwestern United States and south.
ern Canada. 1t is no uncommon sight
there to see section or more in one
field. Wheat follows wheat year after
year. Little live stock is kept, and no
manure Is applied to the land. Under
this treatment the seemingly exhaust
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

We have never yet seen leg that
looked well in white stocking.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

1t isn't considered loyal to bet
against the home team.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

While Tennessee has gone dry"
Kansas has gone wet" and it's all
water, too-but with 1t lots Of damage.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

occasionally we meet a woman
these days who seems conscious of
wearing too much hair But, when a
woman thinks 1t is possible she has on
too much, she has on a terrible lot.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-23

Every boy believes that some day
he will be able to lift a half ton.