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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

territory. Its importance in this re-
spect has been remarkably increased
during the past few years by the eX.
pansion of this territory, through new
railroad extensions and land openings
And that expansion is going to keep
right on Offering more and more op-
portunities to Norfolk as the CONNER.
cial center of great field, if Nor.
folk will but take advantage of the
opportunities and, by securing fair
freight rates, allow wholesaling to be
compete with the more distant cities
now serving in that capacity, and
growing rapidly as result of the dis.
ordinations granted them by the rail.
roads as against Norfolk.
An equalization of freight rates, Civ.
ing Norfolk chance to compete even
on an equal footing with cities not
nearly so favorably located to serve
this territory as is Norfolk, ought to
llitdll lht b'SlhhlliE Va IL 6iNhNNl AN''
folk 1t ought to mean 10000 people
for Norfolk by 1915.
1t is stated on many sides that Nor.
folk is suffering from discrimination
in freight rates. The News suggests
that the Commercial club directors
might very opportunely raise a fund
among business men for employing lie.
gal assistance in assembling the data
in the case, and get the facts to the
interstate commerce commission for
adjustment, with all possible haste.
The securing of fairer freight rates
for Norfolk might very properly be
greeted as the greatest achievement
that any set of Commercial club of.
ficers had ever gained along the line
of building greater Norfolk.
And nows the opportune time to go
about it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.

One of the ecCentricities of Ameri-
can life is our celebration of the birth
day of the father of his country.
Whenever anyone undertakes to get
up a Washington celebration, the first
thing to be done is not to suggest
his mighty deeds in war and states
manship, but to decorate the room
with lot of paper hatchets, It's a
wonder they did not carve Ratchet
on the Washington monument Thus
the name and fame of our foremost
leader is linked indssolubly with that
of Mrs. Carrie Nation.
However, it would be a mistake to
assume that the mighty genius and
dauntless courage of the father of his
country is forgotten by all. However,
far his life may recede, the world will
not cease to yenerate the genius that
held together an army of undisciplined
patriots, so poorly equipped that they
looked like ragamuffins, and yet with
this seemingly hopeless force he over
come the greatest military power OF
his day. To do this It took both gu
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The redistribution OF population
works to increase prices from both
ends. 1t decreases supply and in
creases demand. The fewer people
there are at work on the farm, the
fewer food grains and food animals
will be raised. On the other hand, the
more people gather in cities the more
mouths there are to be fed by the
produce of the country. Should the
situation continue to be aggravated
from both ends in this way it would
require but few years to raise prices
to the famine notch.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The reason many boy leaves the
farm is because he wants spending
money that is his own, that he can
use independently and not he held
accountable to his father for every
cent The ordinary boy does not
look ahead and see the possibilities
the future has stored up for him in
the farm if he will only stay by it,
Let the boy on the farm have the pro-
ducts of some field or garden patch
or from chickens or turkeys and the
tie which binds him to the farm will
strengthen daily.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25
WORTHLESS SEED CORN.

The result of tests of Nebraska corn
now held by farmers, with the idea
of determining how much of it can
be used for seed corn, shows that the
grain in northern Nebraska is abso-
lutely worthless for seed, the thou
sands of News readers on the farms
are urged to take advantage of the
information thus gained.
To plant the corn that is being held,
as seed corn, will be to deliberately
bring upon this territory a crop fail
ure for 1910. To plant barren seed
would be to deliberately take steps
to keep the corn cribs empty next
fall.
It's matter too serious to be over
looked.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25
NOW FOR A GREATER NORFOLK.

NOW FOR A GREATER NORFOLK.
Now that paving is assured, Nor
folk may we'll turn its attention to
the next great need of the city-the
need of fair freight rates, as compared
with those cities which are now being
built up through wholesale business
from the territory which logically and
naturally is tributary to Norfolk.
Sioux City began fight for freight
rates a few weeks ago, and already
has the money raised for the campaign
and two men in Washington looking
I'D rates. Two freight rate hearings
are to be held in Omaha this week,
Omaha claiming that railroads are dis
eliminating against it in favor of Lin
coin.
There is no time to be lost in this
campaign for a greater Norfolk. And
there is no time like the present
to begin. With prospects of the
Northwestern extending from Dallas
in the spring, thus opening up still
more territory, and with prospects of
line across from Sioux City to Mo
brara to tap territory that ought to
be won for Norfolk in a wholesale
way, the time is ripe for immediate
action, and the longer it is delayed, the
more Norfolk will lose out.
The business men of the city are
ready to unite with solid front, The
News bellows, in this demand for the
city's rights. The Commercial club
directors, as the organized represent
| tatives Of the business men, thus have
an opportunity presented to them to
plan and carry out a movement which
ought to mean more for Norfolk just
at this time, with its territory so rap
idly expanding, than any step taken
! in Norfolk's interest for a great many
years. 1t would seem that the Com
mercial club directors would be justi'
fed in concentrating their energies
upon this one big goal.
Norfolk is geographically located as
the center OF q vast and prosperous
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25
NORFOLK IS GOING TO PAVE.

Norfolk is going to pave.
Enough property owners have sign
ed the petition to show an overwhelm-
ing sentiment locally in favor of this
improvement. Enough have signed to
make it possible to pave consider
able portion of Norfolk avenue. Some.
thing like 500 more feet of footage is
needed, however, to extend the paving
clear to Seventh street in Guiding the
railroad property.
If the Union Pacific would sign, that
would pretty nearly clinch the matter
without any others. There will be 9th
ers, though, and there seems no doubt
now but that enough will sign within
the next few days, counting those who
are depended upon to mail their sigma
lures, to insure the success of this
Norfolk's most needed improvement at
the present time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Lieutenant Shackleton has an
nounced his intention of heading an.
other expedition to search for the
south pole and Captain Robert Scott,
has been presented with 10000 pounds
by the British government to assist
in fitting out an expedition for the
antarctic regions. 1t looks as though
the competition for polar honors was
becoming so fierce that a new crop
of poles would have to be raised to
satisfy all the explorers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

FIG. XXNIII. PART OF THE VEAL CROP.
ter prices than they otherwise would.
In many parts of the country a good
local market can be obtained. though
usually local markets cannot afford to
buy high class animals. Selling to To-
cal buyers to advantage demands
close study Of market conditions
Selling Horses.
Many farmers make the mistake OF
marketing their horses too young. 1t
rarely pays to sell colt before it is
trained, \ little time spent during
the winter in training horse will add
considerably to his market value.
This training should begin even before
the colt is weaned, as he can be han
died more easily at that time. He
should he first taught to lead. then tn
obey the word end rein and later 10
pull, back and stand without tying.
AS finishing touch he should be
taught not 10 fear automobiles or cars.
After the colt is two years old he
will do enough work to pay for his
keep. 1t win generally be most profit
able to keep him until he is full grown
before selling him. The more flesh a
draft horse carries the better he viii
sell, The increased weight is worth at
least % cents pound, and the fat
will cover many defects.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

WHERE WE SHOULD BE PUT OFF
The American people are falling
over each other in honest endeavor to
answer the question satisfactorily,
why is the cost of living increasing"
There are many different answers
given. The most popular and prevail
ent one is that it is due to the tar
if.
However definitely this may seem
to furnish a solution in some instances
we are confronted by series of facts
which stubbornly compel us to admit
that we are lost in a fog of confused
statement when we content ourselves
with charging all high prices up to
the tariff or the trusts"
This is clearly shown when we rea-
lie that the articles which have ris-
en- in price most sharply-butter eggs,
wheat, hogs, cattle-are each and
every one of them products of the
farm not affected by the tariff and
not made by the trusts.
Then, again, students of current his
tory know that this era of rising
prices is in no ways confined to this
country, but is felt in England, Ger.
many, Russia and China at the same
time. 1t is world wide phenome
non.
The truth needs to be reiterated that
altogether too many people ere liv
ing in the great cities. There are
TOO many consumers and not enough
producers. However much your poll
tician and superficial observer may
hunt around for some other diagnosis
it is true now as it is true always
that you. cannot tamper with the ole
basic law of supply and demand with
out someone's paying toll for it.
There is need of a change if fail
equilibrium is to be restored. More
people need to be put off on the fer
tile lands of this great country OF
ours and become producers. If We
could change the current of individual
industry and send five million people
| who are now consumers in the city
to the farms where they would raist
wheat, chickens, butter and eggs, boil
they and the consumers left in the
| cities would be benefited. 1t would
mean lower prices, better food, ant
fairer distribution of the comfort:
of life.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25
A GREAT INDUSTRY.

In all the history manufacturing
in the United States nothing has
ever oqualled the marvellous growth
in the making of automobiles.
Ten years ago the manufacture of
automobiles in this country was praC-
tically unknown and as late as 1903
only seven short years ago, the num-
Der of cars was less than 1000. Last
year the output was $4,000 while the
estimate for the number of machines
to be placed on the market is l5O,-
900. Naluing these as worth on an
average of $4,000 piece the total
foots up to the magnificent figure of
$500 ,000, 900 an amount of money far
in excess of the original estimate of
the cost of the Panama canal.
At first, France took hold of the
automobile with zest that this COun.
try knew nothing about, but now the
demand is so urgent that the manu-
facturers cannot meet it and every.
where plants are being enlarged.
The growth of this country in real
wealth is demonstrated very clearly
by an industry which unknown ten
years ago calls for one third of bill.
lion dollars expenditure this year and
a future which is unlimited.
Who said the American people were
poor?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

While the meat trust is claiming
that the high prices are the result
of supply and demand, the state de-
partment is trying to force Germany
to take down its bars against American
meat products. This action suggests
that there is something artificial in
the prices of meat at home or that
through experts of meat, the packers
hope to maintain high prices at home.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

the Barnum and Bailey circus as well
as their own are reported to have
divided $1OO,OO0OO0 profits for the
season of 1909 This year the Adam
Forepaugh show will be added to the
Ringing combination, making it the
greatest circus combination in his
tory
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The Cairo, H., sheriff didn't help
to end the race war existing in that
community when he selected eight
negroes as deputy sheriffs and order
ed them to fire upon the white mob,
killing a former mayors son and
wounding four more. And it didn't
help any to allow the MORALLY wound
ed man to lie dying in the snow three
hours, when there might have been a
chance to save his life.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Professor Moore, chief of the wealth
err bureau, recently made the statement
that after careful investigation he
failed to find any foundation for the
claim of conservationists that the de-
struction of the timber produced a
change in climatic conditions This
is quite blow to the conservation
lists.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25
Experiments in wireless telephony

Experiments in wireless telephony
seem to be at a standstill. 1t is a
fascinating toy for the scientific men,
but the obstacles which stand in the
way of its general use and the nature
and expense of the apparatus remove
all probability of its being placed on
a commercial basis and brought into
practical use as has been done with
wireless telegraphy for long time to
come.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

or behind our screens to take the nour.
ishment necessary to sustain life, not
then as now to make eating the chief
end of man. Any tendency toward
wasteful extravaganza or gluttony is
to be condemned but it will be a sad
day when We become 50 ultra-ciyili2ed
that We hide in solitude like dog to
crunch bone.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

An Indian newspaper is now issued
at Muskogee, Okla. 1t is to be edited
by an Indian and every department
will be printed in some Indian Ian
guage. Can an old time aGmirer of
Coopers Indian stories recognize in
the present day Indian who cultivates
his farm and reads his newspaper
the direct descendants of those who
performed such thrilling deeds in the
pages of the Leather Stocking
Tales?"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Fifteen years ago grape fruit was
without commercial value and had
no place upon the American bill of
fare. Last year four million boxes
of grape fruit were consumed in the
United States.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

A New Jersey farmer has posted a
notice warning all aviators not to fly
theil machines over his property "un-
der penalty of imprisonment" The
aviators are surely up against hard
proposition if they are compelled to
first secure an aerial right of way.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Maine is becoming famous as po-
tato-growing state, and many farms
which had been abandoned as worn
out, have been restored by proper
cultivation and are producing good in
comes for their owners.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

man in Chicago who has written
book showing-or attempting to
show-the worthlessness of higher ed
ucation is millionaire. The college
presidents who are looking for men
who will help swell their endowment
fund are giving him wide berth.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

A prominent speaker at a Mckinley
day banquet in Cleveland. o., urged
republicans to Get into the middle
of the road and stand shoulder to
shoulder for the performance of the
party's pledges to the people under
the leadership of William H. Taft"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Germany borrowed $200000,000 last
June with which to increase the kai-
ser's navy. This is not sufficient and
an additional $12OOOO,OOO with which
to construct more Dreadnaughts. This
unwonted activity along naval lines
in Germany is exciting the British to
consider the proposition to borrow
money for more battleships. The pres
tige gained by nations which build
battleships with borrowed money, un'
less in actual warfare, is about as fit.
ting as that enjoyed by the man who
mortgages his home to buy an auto
mobile. Both the battleship and the
automobile are likely to be out of date
and consigned to the junk heap before
the debt is paid
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

These bloody battles in Nicaragua
are about as much out of order as
when the Children get to cutting each
other while playing authors.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Germany has a form of insurance
which guarantees company or EN-
ployer against strike losses, just as
insurance is furnished against fire,
loss of life and other disaster.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

William Jennings Bryan now is an
earnest advocate of county option.
1t certainly looks as If he had given
up all hopes Of again leading the
hosts of democracy to defeat
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

For supposedly porkless river and
harbor bill, S4O,OOO.OOO as reported
by the committee seems to be going
some.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The Knights Of the Grip report an
unusually good trade. This is evi.
denced not only by the large orders
received but by the number of tray
cling men on the road.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

President Taft's attitude in his pri-
vate life makes him one of the peo-
pie Nothing could make him more
popular. The public lays great stress,
perhaps more than it should on the
everyday man-to-man approachable-
ness of the nations chief executive.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

felt in February, as we revel in the
tropical uXuriance of the seed Cata-
logues, forgetting the spinding har.
vests of September.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Edward Payson Weston, the man
who has become famous as great
pedestrian, has become rich by very
successful stock ventures on Wall
street.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25
7 annina.

Johnny-Don't they use bark to tan
hides with, pa? Father-Yes. my son,
but II you ask any more questions this
evening you'll find that a slipper does
Just as we'll
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25
hTcHlSON GLOBE SIGHTS.

Some people like to make you blush!
Call for No. II on the telephone, and
the girl operator will correct you by
asking: Double one?"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

4 town whose property owners get
behind it, as Norfolk property owners
have in this paving matter, needn't
worry about its future. That's as
Sured.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The Tiber as well as the Seine is
on the rampage Hereafter they will
take the highest historical water mark
and then allow something for con
tingenCies.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Maine is planning to establish a
complete system Of continuous high.
ways throughout the state. 1t is a
good investment of state funds and
Maine is displaying excellent judg-
ment.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The French antarctic expedition
failed to bag the south pole. 1t looks
as if Uncle Samuel would get both
poles to set up as gate posts.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

DR.. Cooks successive appearances
are so many thousand miles apart,
that he must have the fairy seven
league boots. Perhaps these took him
to the pole.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Socialist riots again in Germany.
The strain of working few weeks
probably proved too much for the
long haired philosophers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The twelfth anniversary of the
Maine explosion is celebrated. Why
leave our sacred relics to decay and
rust in Cuba's front yard any longer?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Leslie NJ. Shaw doesn't have any
confidence in the Standard Oil crowd
Mr.. Shaw wants to be very careful
or he will become real popular.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The dirigible balloon men who pro-
pose to fly from Spain to New York
seem anxious to avoid the undertake
ers additions to high cost of living.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25
A Mean Comment.

The Man-She looks nice enough to
eat. The woman-M-yes: plain food
seems to appeal to some people.-Lon'
DON Illustrated Bits.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The trusts are blue over Tafts
speech. It's sad shock to them to
learn that the people made laws to
be obeyed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The principal service rendered by
Valentines day seems to be to help
the picture card dealers to work off
old stock.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

1t IS suggested that the government
station Peary at the north pole per-
manently to hold it against all future
discoveries.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Why ridicule the hereditary house
of lords in England, when William J.
Bryan has life lease of the demo
cratic nomination for the presidency?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

February 18th marked the twelfth
anniversary of the sinking of the bat.
tleship Maine in Havana harbor.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Eggs declined in Chicago from for
~ to twenty-seven cents. Would that
the beef kings could thus be coaXed
on their perch by few kind words
and sunshiny days!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Now an international race is on for
the south pole. Explorers should be
warned not to leave their records
under an Antarctic rock.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Many timid people, dreading the
coming contact with Halley's comet,
will get pneumonia on their anxious
lookout in the cool May nights.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

These airship contests are sure to
be high class exhibitions whatever
else may be said of them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

On every typewriter there is a bell
which rings and gives warning when
you are approaching the end of the
line. What a pity there is not bell
to give men warning in a thousand
other particulars,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Finland is electing a new diet. II
will find this good time to leave meat
out
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

1t is 20 below zero in Alaska, but
probably there are fewer colds than
in this country, where people go from
overheated houses into cold air.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Wasn't it something of Coinci-
dence that Bryan and Cook should
both strike Santiago at the same
time? The irony of fate had some
thing to do with it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

The Paris spring hats revive the
styles OF 1880. Let us hope it will
be 1890 beofre they appear again.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Cairo ILL.,, gets into the papers about
every four or five months, and it's al
ways the same sort of a story.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Nobody blames DR.. Cook for tryinL
TO lose himself and for denying lbs
identity for so long time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

We always rather like man who
has been to hell, and returned to give
notice to the other boys that it is a
good place to keep away from.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Considering the imminence of spring
house cleaning, DR.. Cook shows very
good judgment to remain in hiding.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

preme military genius and n superb
vision of the destiny that rules ma.
tions.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Association.
"HE business of the live stock
farmer is only partly done when
he has successfully prepared his
stuff for market. This Is es-
pccially true of the man who is rails
ing pure brcds. With him the diff
ference between failure and success
depends upon his skill in interesting
buyers in his stock. The best plan for
the man who is just learning the bust
ness is 10 start in on a small scale
buying only one or two females at
first The young stuff for the first
year can he most prOtitahy sold to
farmers. There is always good de
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-02-25

Many a dull day in the news line
has been saved by a dispatch from
Washington that the time for the
Yankton-Norfolk bridge across the
Missouri, had been extended.