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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The matter of Mr.. Cranes sudden
resignation as minister to China with.
out ever reaching his field of action
might better have been explained in
Its right light at the time, instead of
being attributed to personal indiscre.
ton. Those who know both sides of
the matter say that had John Hay
himself been secretary Of state he
could not have prevented the condi.
lions which made Mr.. Cranes sacri.
nee necessary. The truth is, much
as we may dislike to own it, that
the open door Is shut and if it is
ever opened 1t will probably have to
be forced open. Do we want to open
1t? That is the question.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The damage done by overfiows in
the Missouri river to Missouri farmers
alone in the past seven years have
amounted to $44,OO0,OO0. According
to the estimates of United States en-.
gineers less than one seventh of this
sum would be sufficient to rip-rap the
banks, build levees high enough to
keep the Missouri within it's banks
the year around, and also to estab-
fish six foot channel from Kansas
City to its mouth. 1t is poor economy
to save on public improvements which
are so greatly needed that loss
seven times greater than their cost
is sustained every few years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

England has produced new type
OF cruiser which it is believed will
fill long felt want in naval arma-
ment. The new cruisers are battle
ships in disguise as far as gun power
goes, but they are very speedy. The
lnyincible easily makes over twenty
five knots an hour and carries eight
great twelve inch guns. 1t has long
been a question which was the more
important speed without heavy guns
or heavy guns without speed. Now
the lnvincible comes to the front with
both. The next move for the Ameri-
can navy will be to sell our back
number battleships for old junk and
build Invincible cruisers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

An excellent movement is being ag
itated in the large cities to have the
retail stores close early on Christmas
eve, instead of requiring the worn
out clerks to wait on customers till
midnight. There is no real reason
why people cannot do their Christ
mas shopping before "the eleventh
hour" 1t is mere careless procras
tination. Turn over a new leaf this
season and do your holiday shopping
early,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The Illinois Federation of Women
has decided that it is up to women
to save the nation, to save mankind
to save civilization, to save the for.
ests, to save the coal, to save science,
poetry, art and the drama, to save
everything in sight or that may be
discovered later. The only thing they
fall to deem worth saving is the home.
1t seems rather a strange thing that
these worthy women should waste
so much energy and enthusiasm seek.
ing for missions outside the home
through which to redeem and elevate
the human race, when it is in the
homes and by the mothers that the
salvation of the race is won, after
all.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

New York has elected popular
man, in Judge Charles S. Whitman
for the Office of district attorney. He
conducted a campaign full of dash and
energy, and without descent to the
personal abuse that characterizes the
campaign for mayor. Had Mr.. Whit,
man run for mayor, as there was
talk of his doing, he would probably
have defeated Gaynor. But he is in
quite as important an Office as that
or mayor, and at the present time
the New Workers think he is the right
man in the right place.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The days when book learning was
not considered essential for farmers
are forever past During the past
eleven years the number of students
IN agricultural colleges has increased
from four thousand to more than four
times that number, and the farmers
who are too old to attend college
are eager students of the numerous
and excellent agricultural publica-
tions.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The National Geographic society
has awarded Commander Peary a gold
medal in recognition and honor of his
high achievement in being the first
man to prove that he has been at
the north pCie, and that, so far as
any records disclose, he was the man
who got there first. 1t will be OBJ
served that this gives an opportun-
ity and an invitation to DR.. Cook to
bring on his proofs. If he got there
first now is the time to prove it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Mrs. Hetty Green's son, Edward H
r. Green of Texas, has evidently in,
herited his mothers ability to make
money, but unlike his mother and like
the average son, he enjoys spending
1t also. He owns and manages an
extensive railroad system, is president
OF one bank and director in several
others, owns several cattle ranches
and cotton plantations, and incident.
ally sold 100000 worth of American
Beauty roses from his green house
which is said to have only one super.
Tor in the United States. Evidently
Mrs. Green has taught her son to
conserve all the natural resources he
possibly can.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Civilization is slowing advancing.
1t has reached the point where a pro-
test is being made against mems
smoking on the platforms of street
cars, in at least portion of the cities
of the land. In Chicago, where the
edict has gone forth that the fumes
of the weed must be banished from
the elevated roads, the smokers are
talking about enforcing his rights in
the courts. The Chicago Tribune pre-
diets that he will lose. Let us hope
so.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

1t seems impossible in this age of
brilliant lighted streets to realize that
less than two hundred years ago Lon.
don, the worlds greatest city, in a
most lawless age, was lighted only
by candles hung out here and there
to combat the Egyptian darkness with
its feeble rays. Bands of robbers
roamed the streets, and it is recorded
that when night was come no man
burst venture to walk in the streets"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

No one realizes and appreciates the
influence which the christian mission.
aries have exerted in our own and
other lands more fully than the men
of large business interests and a COM
prehensive knowledge of the worlds
progress. AS a most striking proof
OF this statement, John S. Kennedy.
who died very recently left $4,000
600 to the cause of missions of the
Presbyterian church. Astute finan.
ciers like Mr., Kennedy do not give
immense sums to causes which they
have not investigated, and 1t needs
scarcely any proof when the states.
men of China, who were so prejudiced
against foreigners and especially mis-.
sionaries until a very recent date.
frankly admit that the awakening of
China is due more to the American
missionary than any other agency.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Alabama passed a game law one
year ago prohibiting altogether the
shooting of female wild turkeys. Pre-.
viously these birds were hunted the
year around. The result of the en-.
forcement of this law has been a
great increase in the number of wild
turkeys, so that game wardens de-
clare that there is no reason why
every sportsman in the state should
not serve to his family wild turkey
gobbler for Christmas dinner. What
can be done in Alabama can be done
in other states. To be sure, some
states would have to import their first
birds and establish them on new
range, but 1t can be done and would
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

King Edward has recently cele-
brated his sixty-eighth birthday. He
has retained the prestige which his
mother gained for the throne of Eng.
land but while the kingship is re-
spected the lords have steadily slid
down hill. There is much question.
ing among the British people whether
the house of lords shall act any long,
er as branch of the legislature.
Naturally King Edward is much con.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

William Allen White, in the EN-
poria, Kansas, Gazette, discussing
white slavery and how to change so.
cial conditions, very pertinently says:
Laws can prevent woman and child
labor. Laws can prevent bad hous.
ing. Laws can fix the house labor
And we can make our laws if we will
But to help the reform we must re.
member to get out of the rocking
chairs. Buy nothing that you know
is made by sweat shop labor; buy
nothing that is made by child labor"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19
BRYAN WILLING.

Mr.. Bryan refuses to speak on the
senatorial situation. He dictates a
statement, however, in which he
makes It clear that he has never
said he would not be a candidate. "
This is as good as a declaration that
he will make the race, II he thinks
he has any chance to win.
Mr.. Bryan will find himself opposed
within the party by Mr.. Hitchcock
and Governor Shallenberger. And
when he gets outside his own party,
his race will end, as is indicated by
the recent returns in Nebraska.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Chief Kohler of Cleveland, after
years of experience, contends that
wholesale arrests for minor offenses
do more harm than good. They bring
disgrace, humiliation and suffering to
countless innocent persons in no way
responsible for the acts of thoughtless
or malitious offenders. Often times
the charges on which many of these
arrests are made are so trivial that
the prisoners are discharged with
out trial, but the family and friends
have suffered the humiliation just the
same.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

More than five thousand persons
are annually killed by locomotives
while walking on railroad tracks.
Very few of them have any business
on the tracks, but that does not seem
to lessen the number.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Germany thought that socialism had
received death blow in the emphatic
rebuff given its candidate in the last
election. But like Banquos ghost,
socialism will not down. The recent
general elections show astonishing
gains for the socialists. The German
people take this way of protesting
against the burden of naval and mil
itary taxation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The disbarring of |. J. Dunn of Oma.
ha, for contempt of court, and the sus.
pension from practice in the state
supreme court, should be approved
by the people of Nebraska. The in
tegrity of the courts must be main
tanned If the state is to be perpetual.
And when an attorney assumes to
criticise supreme court decision
because it happens to go against him,
thus casting reflection upon the highest
judicial body of the commonwealth,
1T is fit and proper that he should
be penalized, not only because of his
offense, but as striking example
which may stand for others and aid
in maintaining a proper respect for
the courts.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

On all of Commander Peary's eight
extended leaves of absence" since
he became a civil engineer in the
navy in 1881, he has drawn the sala
ry of an officer in the navy on leave
except one trip when he was direct,
ed to go without pay. So Uncle Sam
has paid something for his newly &C
quired flag pole.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

1t is not cold weather directly that
causes pneumonia, but because of the
cold people close up their houses and
breathe impure air which weakens the
system, so that it falls an easy victim
to the pneumonia germ. Keep your
windows open.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

by other cities, who are dissatisfied
with the results obtained under the
existing forms. Under the Boston
plan the mayor and aldermen are to
have small council, non.partisan
ticket and the recall
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The London Sketch states that be-
cause Of superior construction of the
larynx a woman can speak with less
fatigue than a man. She can literally
talk for hours without experiencing
great WEAKNESS of the vocal organs"
The Londoners have had recent and
indlsputable proof OF the truth of this
statement from the suffragettes.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Boston society has taken up two
English officers who fell off their
mounts at the recent horse show.
In this Boston is merely showing its
christian training. 1t is society's duty
to lift I'D the fallen.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

DR.. Josiah Strong reaches the root
OF many of the wrongs committed
against society when he says: "A so.
ciety in which the great majority are
living each for himself, naturally and
inevitably produces criminals. When
the time comes that many live to
serve as do the few today, children
VIII have very different training.
business will no longer be war but
Will be cooperative instead of com.
petitive, and there will be created a
totally different atmosphere in which
good impulses will thrive. Under such
conditions those whose selfishness
causes them to break through all re-
straints, moral and legal will become
fewer until crime reaches the van.
ishing point" When humanity's love
of service overcomes human selfish.
ness. mankind will find this planet
wonderfully pleasant place to live
in.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

A st. Louis girl married so-called
count recently, only to find his title
spurious. Many American girls have
married foreign titles only to discov.
er that the title was the only thing
that was honest and clean about the
wearer of it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

William Jennings Bryan will spend
five months in South America and
then 60 to Europe for year. In this
way he will gather up large number
of paramount issues and fresh ammu
milton for the next presidential cam.
paign,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

John d. says it is a blessed thing
to struggle. We will all struggle
cheerfully if we can realize on our
efforts as handsomely as John d. did
but this struggling a life time and
ending the struggle poorer than when
you began is not so blessed an ex.
perience.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

One of Chicago's elevated railroads
is trying to suppress smoking on the
trains. Let long suffering public
hope that they may succeed. A man
ought to be able to find enough op.
portunities to smoke elsewhere with.
out inflicting himself on a defense.
less public.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

A New York school teacher has
been fined $40 for spanking a pupil
with a single. In the good old days
she would have been discharged If
shs had failed to use the shingle.
How times do change!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Cleveland insists that 1t has learned
enough from Tom Johnson to be able
to dispense with a benevolent des-
potism.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

1t is the final decision of the de.
partment to complete a lock canal
at Panama with all possible speed,
and when the lock canal is completed
the work can go on without interior
ing with traffic in any way, and a sea
level canal on the straits of Panama
will be built.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Sir Thomas Upton says it is luck
TO be born poor. Perhaps, but Its
mighty hard luck to have to stay
poor.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19
THE FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10 1909

cerned over the lords and common
debate, as 1t appears to him to be
an indirect attack upon the monarchy
Itself.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

| Sto\ ", two tons,.....,.....,......... S2
| Oats
GRAIN, 90 bushels. .,.....,..'.....,..... u. q
straw, Ia tons. .,,.......,.,,,,........ AN
Total 80. "a
Whect-
Grain. 70 bushels. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. x6.b
straw. l NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. zbS
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1888
Timothy, tons. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ylU. "A
Potatoes, 800 BUSH" S...........,....... 1914
Fat cattle, lou pJdnds,............... i6b
Fat hogs, loo pounds. 3l2
MIX. lO,WO pounds. ..................... l0n
Butter. 500 pounds. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Is
This table shows at glance the
great economy, considered from fer
tility standpoint, OF marketing grain
In the form OF live stock. Adding fer
tilizing materials to the soil. however,
is only one OF the ways In which ma
nure Is beneficial. Ii helps to break
down the unavailable minerals Ii
adds humus, and this Is of kind that
mixes readily with the soil. Thus the
physical condition and water holding
capacity Of the soil are improved even
more than where clover Is used. In
stead of blowing under clover it can
be fed. The resulting manure will do
the soil almost as much good as the
clover would II turned under. Thus
both the feeding and fertiIizng values
are obtained from 1t. BY using II regular
rotation with clover and feeding all
hn nd ,f bn i,
on the farm the soil can be brought
up to II very high state of productivity
and kept there for an indefinite period
of time.
In an experiment at the Ohio expert
ment station where manure was ap-
piled every three years TO rotation
Of corn, wheat and clover at the rate
Of eight tons to the acre the average
increase in yield was 14.7 bushels Of
corn, S36 bushels of wheat and CSC
pounds of clover. The value of the
increased yields due to the eight tons
of manure was $1T.32, or $2.17 per ton
for the manure. This was for manure
that was obtained in the open yard.
Manure that had been tramped down
had value Of 1895 per ton in increas-
ed crop yields.
The results obtained on a little run
down farm in Pennsylvania strikingly
show what can be done with manure.
This farm was so badly exhausted
that 1t would produce scarcely any
thing. Dairying was introduced and
the manure applied to the land. After
a few years of such treatment and
without the addition Of any CONNER
cial fertilizers whatever the produc-
tivity of the farm was so greatly in
creased that an annual revenue of $500
to the acre was received from 1t.
The effect of manure continues for
a great many years after its applica-
ton. Experiments with MANFRED and
land have shown that the
yield in the MANFRED plots was con-
greater twenty years after
the last application of manure was
made.
Applying Manure.
The best results are obtained, how
ever. when manure is applied fire.
quently and in comparatively small
amounts. For the ordinary field
crops an application Of eight tons to
the acre is sufficient at one time. 10
get the required amount on each
acre and to get it applied evenly
'prender Is necessity. Manure spread
evenly over the ground Is much more
effective than that thrown about in
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Senator Aldrich is in a 100000
rubber company merger He surely
ought to have an elastic currency
for his new central bank.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Shovel the half of your walk lead
ing away from town, as well as that
leading to town. Think of the people
who have to pass your house.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

It has been proven to everyone's
satisfaction in the recent New York
City election that Tammany cannot
swing greater New York.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

President Taft has made it plain
during his tour that he is the presi-
dent of the democratic south as well
as the republican north.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Missouri offers $1,000 for state
song. 1t should be entitled, you IL
Have to Show Me-"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Only the farmers and other pluto
Gratis will be able to have turkey this
Thanksgiving.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Whenever we meet a polite man
we always resolve to be more like
him. A polite, modest man is a great
missionary
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

There's a pretty good indication as
to mems characters, found in the
promptness with which their side
walks are shoveled off after a snow.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19
Abdul Hamid, the ex.sultan, in tn

Abdul Hamid, the ex.sultan, in the
seclusion of his exile, is writing his
ing experience to recall them. If he
tells half he know, the six best sell
ers" will seek to hide their diminished
heads.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

My wife and stuck our feet in the
oven and ate breakfast off the stove
this morning" one man said.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Boston is trying some experiments
In new forms of municipal government
which will be watched with interest
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

II the house of lords should be
abolished in England, the militant suf'
fragettes will claim all the glory.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19
A Reproof.

Perent-Willie. my father used to
wnip me when | behaved as badly as
you are doing. Willie Well, hope
III never have to tell my little boy
that-Exchange.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

A book agent speaks as highly of
the book he sells as a reformer speaks
of the reform he represents.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Why couldn't they put runners on
the airship for snowy mornings?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

add new delight to the sportsman
OF the state as we'll as add to the
natural wealth of the states resources.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19
ATCHlSON GLOBE SIGHTS.

There is never much disposition to
kick about the other fellows taxes.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Have you ever noticed how sudden
ly useful man can die and how long
a worthless man holds out.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

There are some people in Norfolk
who are so lazy that their trait can
not be xplained in any other way ex.
cept on the theory that they have the
"hoCk worm"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The habit of looking at the best side
OF any event is worth far more than a
thousand pounds year.-Johnson.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The man who is In love with him
self rarely has a rival.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Well, Bright Eyes, you did come to
high shoes, didn't you?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Ben Davis, an Atchison young man,
moved to Kansas City three months
ago. But he is such liar that Atchi-
son people can't tell how he is getting
along.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The penalty OF lying Is to be liar
an awful penalty.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

A Norfolk man led the entire state
ticket in the recent Nebraska election.
Judge j. B. Barnes of this city was
high man. The votes were: Barnes.
93,5O2; Sedgwick, 92,S91; Fawcett,
92,6S1; Sullivan, 81 Jos; Dean, 9O,43S;
Good, 90,065.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

In the Lysander John Appleton
family the family fortune came from
Mr. Appleton; years ago, he was in
jured on the railroad, and, as he en-
ployed a big lawyer, he got a big ver-
dict,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The Nebraska state labor law was
violated at the Auditorium last night.
A babe but a few months old was one
of the characters in the play, "The
Heir to the Hoorah." And incident
ally, babe in arms" for once was
admitted.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Say, how'd you like to be the coal
man?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

The show company must have read
about the milk famine in Norfolk. AT
one point in the play Fisher sent a
telegram ordering six mich COWS
shipped to town at once.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

VVYHEREVER grain Is grown
wv continuously for number of
w years the soil decreases In
yielding power. IL the prac-
tice Is kept up the yields will finally
become so low as to be Improbable.
and the land Is said to be worn out.
The fact is 1t is not worn out any
more than sickle Is worn out when
1t becomes too dull to cut. Both the
sickle and the soil need certain
amount of treatment before they are
In shape to use again.
In the case Of the soil nature will
restore it to its original productivity
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19
Home Course
In Live Stock
Farming
M.-Live Stock Farming
and Soil Fertility.
By c. v. GREGORY,

Author of Home Course In Modern
Agriculture" Making Money on
the Farm" Etc.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

Storm boots are trump.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-11-19

No girl should allow a young man
to call on her oftener than three times
week, even though she is engaged
to him. Men get tired of the same
kind of pie If they have it too often.
A mans heart is cut out on the same
plan as his stomach, only smaller.