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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Secretary Root strongly urges the
granting of subsidies to help in build
ing up the merchant marine. What
ever Secretary Root advocates he
all the advantages and disadvantages.
That the United States is losing great
commercial prestige as well as profit
is unquestionable. Even South Amer
lea buys only twelve per cent of her
imports of the United States, because
the freight and passenger service from
North to South American ports is mis-
cradle. South American trade is
bound to increase tremendously as the
years go by, but unless the means of
transportation can be greatly improved
the United States will not get it. The
same thing holds true of our trade
with other countries. One can almost
circumnavigate the globe without see
ing ship bearing an American flag.
Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy,
Japan and other nations are now as
sisting their own lines by government
subsidies. Why should not our gov
eminent do the same? There has al
ways been a strong prejudice against
government subsidies. But the secre-
tary's speech will set a good many to
thinking.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24
NORFOLK GROWING RAPIDLY.

Though the past year has been a
great one in the way of building in
Norfolk, announcements that already
have been made give rise to the pre-
diction that the coming year will be
the greatest that the city has seen.
The announcements that three fine
buildings are planned for the Madison
avenue and Fourth street corner, fill
ing up that corner with four imposing
structures-the federal building, Y. NJ.
C. A. building, Masonic temple and
Ransom apartment house or hotel
gives birth to new enthusiasm. Add
to this the fact that one down town
corner is now being filled up with an
attractive 'building-the addition to
Beeler Bros. store; the Carnegie Ii
brary, which is being built the three
new buildings at the state insane
hospital in course of construction, and
the scores of dwellings tht have just
been finished and are now being built,
and it is readily seen that Norfolk
is moving along at pretty rapid
stride.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24
Several railroads are already testin

Several railroads are already testing
cross-ties made of concrete and it is
prophesied that they will displace the
wooden tie. Hollow concrete tele-
graph poles are beginning to supplant
those of spruce and cedar and the
fencepost of the future will be made,
not grown. The age of concrete is
surely dawning. But forestry is not to
be considered a useless art because Of
this superior substitute for the forest
pines. The land needs the forests and
there are numberless uses for wood
which cannot be satisfactorily substi-
tuted by cement.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

A beautiful Wedgewood china ser
vice made for Empress Catherine was
recently discovered in an obscure cor
ner in the vast winter palace in ST.
Petersburg, where it had lain hidden
for more than hundred years. The
knowledge of this find has melted
King Edward to order every. vault, at.
tic, nook and corner of the royal pal.
aces and castles of England to be
thoroughly searched for hidden treas.
ures. Already their search has been
rewarded by. the finding of some rare
and beautiful articles.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

During the high school entertain
ment in Nebraska town. the pupils
were given scene from Julius Gaze
in the opera house. Antony was just
unbosoming himself of some repressed
oratory over the body of Caesar, when
pup, probably in one of the boxes,
blew some pepper or snuff towards the
stage and the corpse sneezed violently.
The local paper says that the party
or parties who did this dastardly act
were known.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Mining for logs is becoming very
profitable industry since the price of
lumber has advanced so rapidly.
Four hundred miles of the Sabine
river which separates Louisiana from
Texas is found to be paved with yell
low pine and cypress logs which have
sunk deep during the last thirty years
on their way from forest to mill.
Since the work of rescuing the logs
in this river began, more than mil
lion feet of merchantable timber have
been raised from half mile of this
river bed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

A plant is being built in the south
to manufacture paper from cotton
stalks. If it succeeds it will prove a
great saving to our forests, which are
being so rapidly destroyed for wood
pulp. Incidentally another great bene-
fit would result in the checking Of the
ravages of the boll-weevil, which in
creases in the stalks after the cotton
is picked. The destruction of the
stalks in paper making would give the
new crop fresh start. Great interest
is felt all over the country in the sue
cess of this venture.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24
DIR. COOKS PLIGHT.

The official announcement by the
scientists of the University of Copen-
hagen, declaring that DR.. Cook has
failed to substantiate his claims that
he reached the north pole April 81,
1908, must be accepted as final by
the layman and by the world at large.
The north pole was discovered in
April, 1909, by Commander Peary. DR.,
Cook has turned out to be the boldest
fakir of modern times.
No set of scientists could have been
more anxious to find a verdict in fav'
or Dr. Cook than those at the Uni
versity of Copenhagen. The Danes
had received the explorer with open
arms and had set their approval upon
him before the king entertained the
arctic hunter at the palace. The Dan
ish scientific men announced early
that they believed DR.. Cook the true
discoverer of the pole and Denmark
had come almost to the point OF
adopting him as their own. The rest
of the world assailed the explorer fer
ociously, but the Danes stood pat up
on their faith in Cook until forced, by
critical examination of his alleged
data, to abandon him and to renounce
him to the people of the world as
fraud.
Perhaps the most charitable view
OF the situation is that suggested by
Cooks former counsel. Mr. Wack. who
hints that In reality DIR. Cooks mind
| Ia unbalanced and that this fraud thai
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24
THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS JOURNAL FRIDAY DECEMBER

has been perpetrated upon the pub.
lie has in fact been the worked out
dream of mad man. And perhaps
this is the rational view. 1t is hard
to conceive of how any sane man
could invent so spurious yarn and
then hope to make the people Of the
world accept it as true.
With the death blow dealt to DR..
Cook as the polar discoverer, vindi-
cation rests upon the brow of Com.
mander Peary whose attacks upon
Cook, at first deemed unwarranted by
the public, and who was none too gen.
tie from the first in declaring that
Cook was trying to hand the world a
gold brick. E.
And with this announcement from
Copenhagen, fades away the dramatic
coincidence, regarded at the time as
the most remarkable in the history of
the world, found in the fact that two
explorers should, within five days Of
each other. bring to civilization re.
ports of having found the pole.
DR.. Cooks plight is anything but
enviable now. He must die in dis
grace.
Perhaps the most disgusting feature
of the whole affair was his dash for
the lecture platform and his eagerness
to collect as many ill-gained dollars
as possible, through exploitation of
his fraudulent story.
There is satisfaction in the fact, as
it appears to be an established fact,
that the truth or falsity of such a
claim can really be got at by scien-
tific experts.
Instead of the stars and stripes be-
ing nailed to the pole, it is apparent
that Cook merely has been nailed to
the cross and another lie nailed by
the hammer of truth.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

FIG. xv,-GooD TIVE OF DAIRY COW
duced during the month. TO deter
mine the amount of fat In the milk a
sample should be taken from each Of
the six mlkings. Before taking the
samples the milk should be well mixed
by pouring from one dish to another
several times. The samples should be
proportional to the size of the milking.
In warm weather formaldehyde tab
let should be put in the milk 10 keep
II from spelling until II can be tested.
Most creamerymen are glad TO do test
Ing for their patrons, or you can do 1t
yourself with a small hand tester. A
four bottle tester. with equipment for
testing. can be bought for about IS.
Directions for testing will be given In
article 10,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Zelaya and other miserable NAL
contents and petty tyrants who have
been used to having their own way
in Central America will now sit up
and take notice that good-natured
Uncle Sam isn't going to tolerate such
brutality and lawlessness any longer.
Secretary Knox in his vigorous atti.
tude has commended himself as the
right man in the right place and
scores the first round in popular favor
for the Taft administration.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

A woman of nerve was Mrs. Alma
Dodson, a social leader and only wo-
man lawyer of Springfield, Mo. She
was informed by her physician that
she must submit to an operation that
would in all probability prove fatal.
She gave large party the day be-
fore the operation was held, meeting
her guests smilingly and cheerfully
leaving nothing undone that would
add to the pleasure of the many
guests, none of whom knew she was
to go on the operating table the next
day. She arranged everything select
ing the clothing she was to wear
after her death, arranged all her per
sonal affairs and went to the hospital
The operation caused her death. II
was a wonderful case of nerve, some
thing rare and unusual.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Efforts are being made to increase
the pay of rural carriers from 800
to 5000 and bills have been intro
duced into congress asking for this
higher compensation. The men who
travel over rough roads and are to
be found winter and summer, in sun
shine and storm, faithful in carrying
the messages and news to the people
in the country districts. deserve all
the recognition that they are likely
to get-and then some.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

There is moth og gained by dividing
the people of the United States into
classes and arraying one class against
the other. That there are classes nc
one can deny, while Rockefeller and
the laboring man dependent on his
days wages continue to live in the
same country. But there is no use
hating Mr.. Rockefeller when ten men
out of a dozen would take the same
advantage of conditions that Rockefel-
Ter did If the opportunity offered. The
trouble is with the system that per-
mits men of consuming greed to pay
themselves too literally at the expense
of the people. So long as there are
opportunities left for men to do big
services for society and to pay them
selves for the job. men are going to
embrace those opportunities and they
are not going to be backward about
their own pay envelopes. 1t does no
good to hate them for doing what most
men would in their place, the thing
to do is to take away the opportunity
to rob society at large by setting a
reasonable limit upon the greed of
those who are paying themselves too
literally for their services to the pub
lie.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Secretary Dickinson is preparing to
go Roosevelt one better in riding
and walking test for the officers Of
the army. Instead of making them
do a one-a-year stunt, for which they
can diet and train before hand and
work off some surplus fat, the Sec
rotary proposes to mete out a GER
tain number of miles riding or walking
each week so that fat and short-wind-
ed officers may not have a chance to
relapse into inertia again.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association.
VVYHEN properly carried on
NV dairying is one OF the most
w profitable branches of live
stock farming. The work Is
somewhat combining, but that is not a
serious objection as long as the profits
keep coming in. AS shown In article 3,
dairying removes less fertility from
the farm than any other branch of
live stock farming. Dairying is adapt
ed to many localities where general
farming cannot be carried on. Low.
waited can be profitably utilized ms
pasture for dairy cows. There is lit
tie danger of the dairy business being
overdone. AS population increases. the
demand for dairy products becomes
greater The dairy COW produces food
more economically than any other
class of farm animals.
In starting In the dairy business the
type of cow to select will depend
largely on conditions. For the gen.
eral farm. where dairying is more or
less of side issue, the dual purpose
cows have many advocates. They give
fair amount of milk and produce
calves that feed into satisfactory beef
animals. The worst trouble with dual
purpose cows is that they cannot be
bred true to type with any degree OF
certainty. Once in awhile an extra
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Oliver Wendell Holmes once said
that the most comfortable time in a
mans life was when he discovered
that he was mistaken in imagining
himself a genius and is just an ordi-
nary man. That he may no longer
need try to do great things and do
them poorly, but he can do ordinary
things and do them we'll, and thereby
he can fill his appointed niche in the
world.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

They do say, and no doubt it's true,
that the clerks in the stores would
be delighted to see you early in the
game and not on the very last day,
when everybody and the aunts, uncles,
and numerous small boy and all of
his sisters, are Johnnie and Jennie
on the spot. You hear us? This is
an appeal for early shopping for the
benefit of the clerks as we'll as your
self.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Remember it is more blessed to
give than receive. Also remember
when purchasing your Christmas pres
ents, that there are in our midst men,
women and children who should be
remembered and cared for. Not many
of them fortunately, but there are
a few cases of want, poverty and
distress that could be quickly relieved
by contributions of small amounts to
the Groesbeck Charity fund.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

One of the first things by which a
man is judged is his ability to keep
his expense from rising higher than
his income. IL he is unable to do this,
he is considered mentally and moral.
ly feeble and is certain to come TO
grief We do not know why the same
standard should not be applied to
nations; but there is not one of them
that could bear the test today.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

A gentleman has recently been de-
fined as "A man that's clean inside
and out; who neither looks up to the
rich nor down to the poor; who can
lose without squealing and who can
win without Dragging, who is con-
siderate of women, children and old
people; who is too brave to lie, too
generous to cheat, and who takes his
share of the world and let's other peo-
pie have theirs"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

During the past eighty years more
than three hundred of the islands of
the Pacific ocean have been evangel-
lied, In some of these islands not a
heather remains. Tie millennium is
surely drawing nearer, but Admiral
Evans predicts that the United States
will have some fierce conflicts before
that time of universal peace arrives.
His method of preparing for peace is
to keep right on building battleships.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

off without impalring the efficiency
of the government then congress has
been spending at least that sum an
nually too much. 1t is a large amount
of money, and II wisely spent would
do great things. 1t would complete
the Panama canal in few years and
then transform the country's water.
ways. Yet this vast sum Is being
carelessly wasted through false ideas
of national duty and of the func-
tons of credit We are passing
through an era of national extrava-
gance which the historian of the flu
ture will look back upon as time
of international madness for the same
conditions exist all over the world.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Something will have to be found to
take the place of chinchilla fur, as the
small South American rodents which
first wear it have been almost exter-
minated for their skins. For several
years past millions of skins have been
brought to this country annually, but
last year the supply had been so re-
duced that less than forty thousand
could be procured in spite of the fact
that the price has been doubled.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

A robust farmer, 35 years of age,
is learning his A, B, C's at the St.
Francis hospital, Wichita, Kans., the
nurse being his instructor. The pupil
is William c. Hard of Mount Hope,
who was struck on the head with a
heavy wrench. his skull being frac-
tured. The injury caused him to for
get everything and he is now, at the
age of 80, learning the alphabet.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

In an address to the students of
Yale university, Governor Hughes
urged to be fair with public men.
One of the great evils of American
life today is the readiness with which
evil stories about public men are be-
leved and spread. "a man who seeks
profit in the sales of calumnies is the
most despicable of human creatures, "
said the governor.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Missouri is offering prize for the
best state song. A committee has
been appointed by the governor to
have charge of the competition. 1t
is difficult matter to provide a sue
cessful song, in which words shall in
spire and music thrill. Great patri-
otto songs have usually been inspired
by some national crisis or stirring
event.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

The Russian photographer who aimed
to secure the Photographic panorama
OF the meeting of high officials with
his moving picture machine, and acct
dentally caught the assassination Of
Prince Ito on the railway platform at
Hardin, has a fortune waiting for him,
II he is permitted to exhibit them pub
licly.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

A new gun was recently made and
tested for the United States navy. 1t
is larger than any of its predeces-
sors. 1t is fifty-three feet long, has
fourteen inch bore. and weighs six
ty-three tons. Uncle Sam has to put
up five hundred dollars every time
his toy is fired, but since II is claimed
that 1t will penetrate eleven-ipch bat
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

A couple of Frenchmen have in
vented an apparatus that transmits
Iikenesses over telephone wires. 1t
is alleged that one can see as well
as hear each other over the tele-
phone.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

The next big problem which re-
preventative government everywhere
has to solve is how to prevent prac-
teal politics from resolving itself into
a plain choice of evils for the average
voter and for the whole community
affected. That is what it is today
in many or most cases where party
machinery is highly developed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Belgium now has a new lease of life
and an opportunity to again look the
world square in the face and gain
fits confidence. Death has kindly re-
leased her from an embargo of humili-
alton and dishonor.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Senator BourRe, chairman of the
committee on expenditures, proposes
to cut down the expenses of the gov
eminent one hundred million a year.
He says this can be done without
gripping any department of the gov
eminent or doing any public injury.
Think OF what this assertion implies.
II one hundred millions can be cut
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

The chicle forests of Yucatan are
threatened with destruction and the
future of chewing gum is in danger
Cannot nothing be done to avert this
dreadful calamity which threatens one
of the necessities of life?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24
Spread Eagle on POSTAGE Stamp.

For the first time in forty years the
postoffice department at Washington
Is considering postage stamps with an
other design than the display Of the
features of some national hero. The
dozen or more designs submitted for
the new twelve cent stamp for regis
tered letters show the spread eagle OF
the national coat Of arms with the
stars and stripes adjoining irs breast.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

In France the death rate now eX-
ceeds the birth rate by $4,000. Colonel
Roosevelt is to lecture in France on
his return from Africa and can be
depended upon to wake them up on
the question of race suicide"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

And now the heirs have begun quar-
reling over King Leopold's ill-gotten
wealth. The evil that a mean man
can do has a way of disturbing the
next generation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

The older some of these trust-kings
grow-the higher the prices on their
products. Michael Cudahy, the pack
err, recently celebrated his 6Sth birth
day-and look where meat has gone.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Major j. N. Adams of Buffalo has
given a tract of land 29S acres In
extent to be used as the site for a
municipal tuberculosis sanatorium. A
most splendid gift.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Even the flying machine inventors
cannot rise above the petty legal
squabbes in which common mortals
who walk the earth indulge in.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

King Leopold has passed away and
the world is the better for his hav-
ing left it. Prince Albert, who will
be his successor as ruler of the Bel
gians, is "a years old and is said
to be very popular with his people.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Five employees of the sugar trust
have been found guilty" 1t is the
"big ones" higher up that the people
would like to see punished.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

The first edition of Robinson Cru
soc" recently sold at auction for ST.
900. This is more than most of the
'seven best sellers" will bring as long
after first publication.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

A travelling man at Negaune, Mich,
found a $50 pearl in his dish of oys-
tiers. At that he says he isn't far
ahead of the game, as that is the
first time he ever found anything in
his soup and he has been experiment.
ing for years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

II is estimated that the black races
OF Africa number at least one hundred
and twenty million. They have some
great qualities. Their courage is
matchless. as was clearly shown at
Omdurman and Natal. II they can be
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

The time to advertise is when you
want business. The time to quit is
when you are ready to step aside
and give the other fellow a chance.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

The characteristic of our pioneering
century was transformers; but that
of the century ahead will be perma-
hence.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Long Island harvested bumper
cranberry crop this fall. The total
crop was about 1,165,000 bushels,
against 100000 bushels last year.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Major-General Leonard Wood will
be the successor of Major-General ].
Franklin Bell as chief of the STAFF OF
the army. 1t is great honor to come
to a man who at the beginning of the
Spanish-American war was only an
army surgeon.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

The Sons of the American Revslu-
ton can enlist a lot of recruits If
they will open their membership list
TO Central and South America.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

The auditor of Stark county, N.
D., is short on his accounts. Poker
did It, Here's one time where whiskey
gets off easy.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Make it point, Mr.. Farmer, to re-
member the man who brings you your
mail every day in the week, at Christ
mas time. The Lord knows the rural
carriers don't get any too much in
the way of pay.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

Well, fellows, we can't stop at the
Rome or Henshaw anymore.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

The campaign for the abolition OF
the public drinking cup is being waged
with greater force than ever.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-12-24

We don't believe much in good luck,
but we believe there is such thing as
bad luck.