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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13
WHAT IS NEEDED.

The novelty of undertaking the Pan
anna canal project seems to have worn
off, at least for the present, and that
great project is now being allowed to
progress without the fortnightly scares
to the effect that it is doomed, foreor.
dained and predestined to be a com.
plete and gigantic failure, says the
Improvement Bulletin. Even the
wrecking of a set of gates in one of
the lock canals at Sault Ste. Marie
only caused a slight ripple of renewed
criticism of the lock canal for the Pan
ANA project, which soon died out, es.
pecially after the statements were Civ.
en- out of the arrangements in view for
obviating the repetition of any such
experience with the Panama canal.
From time to time, the reports are
given out of the work which is being
accomplished, and it is quite apparent
that the engineers and others in
charge, are doing we'll in the task that
about two-thirds completed, and a
good start is being made on laying
concrete work. While the excavation
work is showing something of a de.
crease in volume, as compared with
the same month year ago, the con.
crete work is gaining and the amount
ic in.
creasing. All this is gratifying and in.
dicates that the work is being taken
we'll In hand and bids fair to be carried
on with as much expedition as can be
expected, with all the difficulties which
have to be encountered.
The advance Of the work and the
increased assurance which the prog.
ress of the work gives of it's compile.
ton within the time expected, is also
serving to increase the general inter.
est in the revival of the use of internal
waterways, and also to a certain ex.
tent the revival of American shipping,
The use of internal waterways for
transporting freight Is something that
is generally agreed is feasible and the
only apparent reason for its not being
utilized is that no one has attempted
1t seriously. There is little river
traffic, mostly with boats of obsolete
pattern and serving more for local use
than otherwise. But for any real prac.
teal use of the rivers, the attempt can
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13
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hardly be said to have been made.
There is something needed all along
the line. The rivers themselves are
far from being in condition to be read
lily navigable, although they will be
found to be in better shape than might
be expected, as few experimental
trips have already disclosed. But
there are few and limited facilities for
handling freight. The docks at many
of the cities are OF the most primitive
character, and are hardly equipped
with anything more of a mechanical
line than block and tackle The APP.
proaches to the docks are often of un.
certain usage, so that hauling to and
from them with freight of bulk and
weight would be a difficult task All
concerned seem to take the attitude
that they will prepare when someone
else gets ready. There are no actual
projects for boat lines, at least none
that have passed beyond the prelimi.
nary stage, and none that are ready
TO talk business on handling freight
Nothing seems to have been done as
yet toward getting the landings into
disable shape.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13
REMEMBER JUDGE BARNES.

There is little question but that
Judge ]. B. Barnes will be renominat'
ed by the republicans of Nebraska at
the coming primary election, for SUI
preme Judge, and that he will be re-
elected to that high position by the
people of Nebraska There is every
reason why he should be renominated
and reelected and no reason why he
should not.
Judge Barnes has served one term
and has made a reputation for ability
and integrity which the people of
northern Nebraska his former home,
may be justly proud Of
the salary of a member of the supreme
court has been barely enough to cover
living expenses, but the new salary
law provides more nearly adequate
pay for the service required, for the
future. And in this feature alone II
Is only fair that Judge Barnes should
be reelected and allowed to receive
somewhere near just compensation for
at least one term in the Office.
But above and beyond that reason
the ability of Judge Barnes demands
that the people of Nebraska, for their
own best interests, re.elect him to a
position on the supreme bench. He is
without a superior in the state as an
able and fair-minded Judge, and it is
doubtful If there are any broader
gagged or more capable legal minds
anywhere in the west
Judge Barnes is one of the big mer
Of the country in the law. His de
cisions are absolutely impartial and
their integrity of purpose unques
toned.
Through long years of service or
the bench in Nebraska, both in dis
trict and supreme courts, Judge
Barnes has earned for himself a repu
tation enjoyed by few, and he SHOULD
be honored, as he unquestionably will
by second term on the Nebraska su
preme bench.
TIL people of Norfolk and the entir,
northern half of the state should b,
particularly active In support of Judge
Barnes and 1t is to be sincerely HOPED
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Perhaps the most distinguished tri.
umph which any woman has yet
gained in the United States is that of
Mrs. Ella F1agg Young who has re-
Gently been elected superintendent of
schools of Chicago over six male COM
petitors. She is the first woman to
be in supreme control of the schools
of any large city in this country. Mrs,
Young has taught for forty-seven years
in the different grades of the Chicago
schools, and the last few years has
been a professor in the department of
education in the Chicago university.
She is described as a woman GA years
of age, rather slight of figure, of me-
dunn height and, contrary to natural
expectation, decidedly womanly in
temperament, appearance and tastes.
She gets a salary of $4,000 a year
the largest paid to any worker in the
public schools of the country except
Superintendent Maxwell of New York
city, who receives the same amount.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

The people who want to change the
hours of working earlier so as to have
more daylight have had their brief in.
ming and no doubt enjoyed the oppo-
sition and criticism which their
scheme has aroused. Now comes an
other plan to change the existing cal.
endar. The bold man who starts this
agitation is Johnston-Dionstay Ayers
of San Francisco. He wants the world
to start January I, 1911, and substitute
for the present years Of twelve months
Of unequal length, year of thirteen
months of twenty-eight days each.
While this serves to bring Ayers into
notice, it offers no real advantages and
It is safe to say that humanity will
continue to learn the old rhyme that
keeps in mind the difference in the
lengths Of the months and men will
observe the same hours of work for
some time to come. These people
who are possessed with a craze to
smooth ont all the kinks and get time
and space down to exact mathematical
levels forget that variety is the very
thing that adds zest to life.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13
FURTHERING PEACE.

If Germany is expanding it's COM
mercial relations with wonderful ra.
pidity Great Britain is not asleep. 1t
Is significant fact-the most signii.
cant one of the times-that Germany,
Great Britain and the United States
the three greatest world powers, are
by trade relations more and more bind
ing the world together and bringing
international relations so close that
men must by necessity recognize more
and more the brotherhood of the race
We are so apt to view with alarm the
immense amounts spent for naval and
military ornaments that it is well to
turn to the other and more hopeful
side of the picture.
Within the last month a notable
event took place at Moscow. Docu
ments were signed whereby group
of London financiers secured control
of Russian bank combination having
no less than seventy branches through
out European and Asiatic Russia
What this means can hardly be com
pretended by the ordinary observes
but in truth it is a very important
move on the checker board of history
and great step ahead in assuring the
peace of the world. 1t breaks the
domination Of Germany in finance and
commerce in Russia and the east and
is further proof of the reality of the
Anglo Russian friendship which has
recently come about in place of the
old time antagonism.
1t shows that the cars visit tC
England is an evidence of the new or
der of things. 1t is true that the
great nations of the earth are putting
lot of money into policing" the
oceans with big and many war yes
sells, but it is equally true that Ger
many, as we'll as England and America
each keen for the upbuilding anC
development of market for the goods
of their people-all agree that the gen
eral welfare of the world demands {
peaceful rivalry and they are doins
what they can to promote it. The fed
Grafton of the nations seems less uto
plan and more probable as the years
hasten on
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

There is a universal feeling that the
country Is on the eve of an era of IN
eXampled prosperity. A Boston ex-
change expresses this feeling in this
comprehensive statement, giving the
reason for the faith which possesses
the people: Everything is ripe at
present for an era of unexampled pros
perity. The check that production re-
ceived two years ago served to bring
about a healthy balance between sup
ply and demand. All stocks went low;
conservative policy predominated.
Now the merchant and the consumer
alike are looking to the mills, and the
mills are working overtime to meet
the needs. The crops promise to be
bountiful; money for moving or mar
keting Of them is plentiful; numerous
and great undertakings, recognized
not only as legitimate but absolutely
necessary to the carrying on of the
country's business, are in readiness
for launching. Idle labor is not Sc
plentiful as to cheaper that which is
employed. Over and above these, a
feeling of confidence pervades the
land"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

About century ago Scotch Pres
byterian minister, Rev. Henry Dun
bank established a bank at Ruthwell,
Scotland, for the small savings of the
hard working people of that commu-
nifty. The first year the deposits in
the Ruthwell Savings bank amounted
to $50 pounds, and by the third year
this sum had grown to PAL pounds.
But the movement rapidly spread in
the hundred years that have come and
gone since that time until it has GOV.
cred England, continental Europe and
America. 1t is in the United States
that 1t has seen its greatest expansion.
At present the deposits of savings
banks in the United States aggregate
over $3.50, 100000 and those of for
eign countries about $4,000, 900, 900.
This is vast pile compared with the
$3.50 of the first year of the first say.
ings bank. 1t is a monument to the
lessons of economy and thrift taught
the people. A celebration of the cen.
tenary Of the Ruthwell Savings bank
will be observed in Scotland next year
1t is fitting that the beginnings of an
institution which has done so much to
help the people save their money
should be commemorated.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

The "kicker" in Spain has a hard
row to hoe At Barcelona they were
quite dissatisfied with the government
and said so. AS result 100 of the
citizens were backed UP against the
wall and shot. The American kicker
has many things to complain of, but
he is allowed to live and enjoy his
crouch. The golden age may not have
arrived anywhere just yet, but it is a
good deal closer by under the stars
and stripes here than 1t is in poor
wretcbed Spain, where neither king
nor court nor people can ever consider
living n real safe adventure.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13
ARE YOU PERFECTLY SANE2

Are you quite positive that You are
perfectly sane? Close your eyes and
strike the point of your nose with the
tip of your index finger. This is a
test applied by Now York magis.
trate the other day. The woman failed
TO strike her nose and was sent to the
asylum.
Now, if you have accomplished the
nose and finger test and are cocksure
Of your physical and mental fitness,
here are a few other stunts" simple
tests used by medical men, for You to
try:
: Close your eyes and make a quick
grab for the lobe of your ear. Can
you seize tor did you clutch your
hair, pinch your cheek, or miss en-.
tirely? Better cut out the smokes and
the drinks and tune up.
Stand with your heels and great toes
tight together and then close your
eyes. Can you stand up minute--or
do you feel dizzy or are you forced to
open your eyes to keep from falling?
That's bad-you'd better take a good
stiff walk every morning.
Stand with your feet together and
then raise one foot. Can you stand
that way for half minute with your
eyes closed? If you can't, you aren't
in fit condition and your nerves are
! frayed out. Take a vacation and
tune up.
Close your eyes, extend your arms
from the sides, and try to bring the
tips of your index fingers together in
front of you. Sounds easy, doesn't it?
Well, try it quickly half dozen times
and see how many times you miss.
| You'll not be so confident of yourself,
perhaps.
Now try little vocal exercise. Just
a sentence, Round and round the
rugged rock the ragged rascal ran
Look at it and then repeat it quickly
run right through it as if it were a
favorite bit of verse.
Or try this one: "How much wood
could a woodchuck chuck il a wood.
chuck could chuck wood" Or that old
familiar one, Peter Piper picked a
peck of picked peppers; a peck OF
picked peppers Peter Piper picked
Can you do them without stumbling
and suffering? If you can't the mus.
cles of your tongue are not responding
to your brain impulses as they should
Talk to your wife more at breakfast
time. It'll be good for both of you.
These simple tests are used by med
ical men to test the muscular co-ordi
nation. They are not necessarily used
to determine subjects sanity, though
sometimes they are indications OF
mental trouble. The tests sometimes
show symptoms of general paralysis
of the brain, Familiarity known as
brain storm But chiefly they are
used to show the condition of the
nervous system. In an insane person
muscular coordination usually is poor
and they cannot go through the tests
simple as they seem.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

that he may receive a vote from every
republican in this section of the state,
as he genuinely deserves.
There are three judges to be nom
mated and eight candidates have filed
for the places. The News has every
confidence in the ability and integrity
of Judge Cobbey of Beatrice and Judge
Sedgwick of York. and believes that
northern Nebraska will make no mis-
take in giving them solid support.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Mexicans have become aroused
against the Americans because of
their greater enterprise and successful
exploitation of Mexican resources and
jealous of President Diaz because Of
his friendlness to Americans. 1t is
this feeling of jealousy that is re-
sponsibe for the outbreaks and riots
of recent occurrence. Diaz has held
this turbulent spirit in check for many
years, and 1t is to be hoped that he
will not lose his grip on affairs, now.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Where hand planting Ia practlced
the rows should be opened with n
stirring pillow To n depth OF four to six
inches. The practice OF dropping the
tubers in n cultivator track and cover.
ing them lightly IL responsible for
many OF the low yields Potatoes
send up strong sprout that Is able
TO penetrate six inches Of soil easily,
and the roots need to be well down In
the moist earth After the tubers are
dropped the stirring plow may again
he brought into use to cover them, or
n disk cutlvator may be used. The
main thing IL to get them covered
deeply. After covering two or three
borrowings should be given TO level the
ground and kill any sprouting weeds.
The cut tubcrs should he dropped
from twelve to sixteen inches apart,
one In n place. The amount OF seed
to use per acre will depend on the
price. II seed potatoes are not too cX-
penslve 1t pays to be liberal with them.
Where medium sized potatoes are cut
into quarters and dropped every iif-
teen inches in rows three and onc-half
feet apart twelve to fifteen bushels
per acre will be needed
On western farms, where land il
cheap and labor scarce, potatoes are
often planted in rows both ways. This
can be readily done by running a
planter wire across the field and drop
ping Il piece Of potato AT each button
on the wire. The wire is moved at
each end as In planting corn. When
planted In this way half a tubcr in
stead Of quarter should be dropped
In place. Such a plan will not give
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Canadian statistics and newspapers
are filed with the numbers OF Amer
lean farmers who are taking land in
the Canadian northwest, and 1t is true
that thousands are going there annual.
ly, drawn by the alluring advertise.
ments of cheap and marvelously pro-
ductive lands. But the Canadian and
British statistics omit to tell how many
disguised Americans return to their
own country after experiencing a year
or two of disappointment in Canada,
but reports show that considerable
percentage of those who go to return
sadder and wiser men. They find the
land no more productive than what
they left in America. The climate is
more severe and, worst of all, they are
80 far from market that much that
they raise is of no value on this ac-
count. If the farmers who are anxious
to change their location would go
south instead of farther north they
would find in Texas and other south
ern states great tracts of cheap lands
which are wonderfully productive, in
mild and healthful climate and have
markets much nearer than those open
to Canadian farmers. If the farmers
of the Dakotas, Michigan and Wiscon'
sin were fully aware of the advantages
offered by the southern part of their
own country they would not be cross
ing the northern boundary Of their
own country.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Pity the arid cast. Drouth stricken
Pennsylvania is burning up for want
of rain while the Great American
Desert" which used to be painted on
the Pennsylvania biographies in tan
this region right here's reaping the
biggest crop anybody ever saw, with
an abundance of wet rain to help it
along.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

And now Harry and Evelyn Thaw
threaten to institute divorce proceed.
ings against one another. Is there
never to be an end to the exploiting OF
these two miserable, inconsequential
lives in the daily papers? Why should
We have to suffer a continuation OF
this wretched serial?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Governor Johnson not only believes
that westward the star of empire
takes it's course" but the star Of his
presidential aspiration is taking a
flight over the same course.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

One of the Norfolk fat women says
she wouldn't be so doggone mad if
this column had just called the bunch
plump" In that event she'd have
been glad to admit that it meant her
Now she says it didn't mean her at
all. Another one tried to get revenge
with brassy.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Immense iron beds have been dis.
covered In Brazil, estimated to include
twelve billion tons. With the iron ore
Of high grade scarcely touched in the
northwestern states and millions OF
tons more being found, the fear of an
iron famine should be somewhat re-
mote.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

The president was obliged to sus.
pend cabinet meeting to welcome a
noted suffragette from Norway. The
Taft smile was pleasure to meet,
but it is not necessary to say who had
the last word
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

The pen is mightier than the re.
volver. 1t saved mans life the other
day in New York. An angry woman
plunked a shot at him. The bullet
struck pen in his vest pocket and
glanced off, A pen is hard on the vest
pocket, but as man saver it is a sue
cess.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

The latest dispatches say BARGE.
Iona is quiet" The trouble is with
these European war clouds; they don't
stay put Even Spain can't seem to
furnish the sensational news depart.
ment a we'll sustained effort.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

With the tariff debate settled, con-
gress adjourned, and President Taft
settling down to golf at Beverly, the
pink section of the dailes will be the
only thing left to relieve the ennui of
the dog day season.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

from all forms of barbarism, not only
because they are barbaric, but be.
cause they are proving to be intol.
erably expensive"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Canada is planning to establish a
chain of forts armed with disappearing
guns along her seacoast. Are our Ca.
madam brethren growing suspicious, or
do they merely wish to keep up with
the procession in the. matter Of arma.
ments?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Treasury officials in Washington are
planning to redesign our paper money
because they say smaller sized bank
notes would be more convenient to
handle. The present bills are no in.
convenience to this department.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

1t Is certainly poor recommended
ton for petrol butter to have John D.
Rockefeller pay $4,000 for COW, Just
as the Standard Oil company had be.
gun to advertise their new butter. Ev.
identity John d. proposes to stick to
the COW at any expense.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

The ice bills are heavy now, but
take what comfort you can in the
thought that the coal bills will soon
be heavier.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Amherst college students boast of a
club whose members live on four and
n half cents a day. 1t is not popular
with the high rollers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

II is more and more apparent that
the correction of the worlds worst
evils is coming about through COM
bination OF moral and economic forces.
As an exchange says, "The thought of
the civilized world Is turning away
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

Galveston is looking upon her sea
wall these days and pronouncing 1t
good. 1t was tried and not found want
ing.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13
ATcHIsoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

Not one woman in hundred has a
nice looking back. She either needs a
hustle or nature gave her one too
large.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

The chautauquas are in full blast.
II oratory and lectures can make this
world good and wise it ought to be
booming in that direction.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-13

George-With the assurance OF vour
love could conquer the world. Grace
-Ihat VIII not be necessary. All you
have to do is to conquer papa.-Lon.
don Tit.