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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23
A COMPLIMENT TO TAFT.

The meeting between President
Tart and former President Roosevelt
at New Haven, brought about at the
request of Roosevelt as a means of
giving him increased prestige in his
New York fight against the old guard,
was one of political significance in
many ways. 1t was the second time
the two men had met since Roosevelt
left and Taft entered the white house.
1t was the first time they had met
since Colonel Roosevelt had given
out statements at Oyster Bay reflect
ing upon the president and declaring
that the colonel might find it his pleas
ure to enter the race in 1912 for the
presidency. In that statement Roose-
welt had declared that Taft had sold
out to the old guard in New York
for the sake of the 1912 delegation"
and the president felt keenly this in
situation, proved to be untrue by the
presidents letter to Griscom outlin.
ing his attitude in detail as to the
New York fight. The old cordiality,
once so pronounced between these
two statesmen, was lacking and that
their relations can never again be
the same, was apparent.
The meeting was barren of results.
so far as it concerned any change of
attitude upon the part of the presi-
dent toward the New York fight. He
has felt that New York is not his
state and that any fight within the
party is for the party within that
state to fight out for itself. In his
letter a few days ago he made it
clear that republicans will all look
alike to him in the future, progress
sives" and regulars" and he could
not with consistency bring the power
of his great Office to mix up in a
squabble for control of the New York
state convention. The president has
made it clear that he is in sympathy
with movement looking toward pri-
mary nominations for congressman
and state legislators, but he is not
ready to admit the advisability of
doing away with the convention sys-
tenn on state officers. He understands
that both Governor Hughes and the
former president are in accord with
his views on this subject, and if re-
suits in certain instances in Nebras-
ka and Illinois may be taken as a
criterion, the president shows una
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

which they desire; he has shown the
benefit OF the protective tariff system
to the farmer, pointing out how idle
factories in 1893 meant Scent corn;
he has come to the defense of the
new Payne.Aldrich tariff law, under
which the governments revenues have
increased by millions of dollars. un.
der which our trade with the Philip
pines has increased "a percent and
which has been declared by no less
personages than President Taft and
former President Theodore Roose.
welt to be the best tariff law that has
yet been enacted; he has shown how
local interests conflict in the making
of tariff law so that no part of the
country ever can be completely salts.
fed with any tariff law; but he likes
the present one so much better than
that of the democrats in 1898 when
the country went to the poorhouse
that he sees wisdom in continuing the
republican party in power and giving
the president a chance to work out his
new tariff commission plan, which will
revise one schedule at time The
senator pointed out the great work
that the government under the present
administration is doing toward more
scientific farming. In this Senator
Burkett has played an important part
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23
HOW OLD is THE EARTH?
The Latest Guess of Scientists is Be-
tween SIS and 70 Million Years.

New York, Sept. 81. - Biologists
and physicists have differed for many
years in their estimates of the geo.
logical age of the earth. AS a rule
biologists have placed their estimates
at 800 million years, while the physi-
cists deduced, principally from Their
modynamic conditions, the compare
lively short age of 20 million or 80
million years. Prof. Frank Wiggles-
worth Clarke and George F. Becker
of the United States geological sur
vey, are the latest scientists to esti-
mate the age of the earth They say
its age is mot more than 70 million
nor below 50 million years."
This estimate has received official
sanction through it's publication by
the Smithsonian institution. Profess
sor Clarke presents his deductions
from a chemical standpoint and re-
views parts of the world. His thesis
On the subject is entitled "A Prelim.
mary Study of Chemical Denudation. !"
Mr.. Becker writes on the subject more
from the philosophers point of view
and the title of his paper is THE Age
of the Earth"
The reason why scientific men rare
ly have agreed as to the time our
planet has been in existence is be-
cause each man has drawn his deduc,
tons from facts obtained by research
work in his own particular scientific
branch of knOwIedpe
The more recent men have given
their opinion of the age of the earth
as follows: Lord Kelvin, in 1862. 20
million to 400 million years with a
probable 9S million years; Clarence
King and Carl Barus, in 1898 "a mil
lion years; Lord Kelvin, in 1897, re-
yised his figures from 20 million to 40
million years; De Lapperant, in 1890,
81 million to 80 million years; Charles
ID. Walcott, secretary of the Smith
sonian institution, in 1898, maximum
age, 20 million years; j. Jolly, in 1899.
age of the ocean, so million to 80 mil
lion years; w. J. Sollas, in 1909, age
of the ocean, so million to $50 million
years.
Some time ago Strut deduced from
the proportion of helium found in tho.
rum ores, lower limit of 24O million
years for the age of the earth. The
same physicist has recently attempted
to determine by direct experiment the
rate at which helium is generated in
thorianite and pitchblende. He found
that the quantity of helium produced
by 400 grams of thoranite in seven
weeks was certainly less than 2xlGxS
cubic centimeters. From this it fol.
lows that one gram of thorianite gen.
crates less than 3.7XlOX6 cubic cent?.
meters of helium a year. Hence at
least 24O million years must be al.
lowed for the accumulation of the
nine cubic centimeters of helium
which are actually found in each
gram of freshly mined thorianite. And
this would leave the question of the
earth's age as much of mystery as
ever.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

The funniest humor is the uninten-
tional kind, the best comedy that
which has never been rehearsed. For
instance, a chautauqua lecturer reach
ed his date at 100 and had to get his
supper, shave and dress before S:15.
He dressed in great haste and failed
to give the proper attention to his
suspender buttons. The result was
plainly visible to the audience as was
also a bit of his dress shirt. His lee
ture was serious, dignified and beauti-
full and so appealed to his audience,
that his ludicrous appearance passed
without comment until at its close
the manager announced that the next
number would be given in two weeks
by Dr. Robert Mcintyre, his celebrated
lecture on "Buttoned-Up People" And
the speaker never knew why the audi
ence received the announcement with
shrieks of laughter.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23
GOOD EARTH ROADS,
Cheaper Than Other Highways
and Easy to Build.
GOOD DRAINAGE A NECESSITY

IL Ia One OF the Principal Points In
Making q Good Dirt Rosdway-They
Are Preferred In Many Sections OF
the United States.
Long ago became convinced that IL
we were TO have good roads In our day
and generation we must seek some 9th
or methods If doing the work ana
some otner material than macndam.
For while stone roads have and per-
haps always will have an adaptation
for certain districts on account OF
the lack of facilities for good drain
age. which Is one of the principal
points in the construction Of earth
roads. or where the character OF the
soil is such that good earth roads can
not be made or for thOroughfarcs
where the travel is great and the waltz
alton high enough to stand the taxa
ton, the expense Is far too great 10
make them practicable for even
small proportion of all the roads.
1t must bc remembered that no mat
ter how good Il stone road IL construct
ed there is certain amount of wear
and tear each day and month and year
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23
From Good Roads Magazine. New York
A TYPICAL RURAL EARTH ROAD.

From Good Roads Magazine New York
TYPICAL RURAL EARTH ROAD.
The amount of this wear has been
found by experience to be from one
fourth to one-haIf inch Il year.
Others have figured it at only two
thirds of a cubic yard per year, 49,
We also have the experience Of city
valuation to tax cities have found ii
burdensome to keep up good paved or
macadamiZed streets.
Mind, | am not speaking against mac
adamized roads. They are, so far as
our knowledge Of roadmaking now
goes, the one thing for thoroughfares
or other places where the valuation
will afford them without burdensome
taxation. And many of such places
throughout the United States prefer
the well built dirt road. What we
want is good roads now, and the ques-
ton Is how to make them with what
money is available, and | think it Is
the wrong policy for a township that
has only from $1,000 to $4,000 a year
to spend on roads to lay it all out on
mile or two of stone road when by
the right methods good earth roads
could be kept up over the whole town.
ship with the same money or less
The solution Of this. | am convinced
is in learning how to make earth roads.
| believe that by proper methods Of
roadmaking the earth roads, especial
ly in places where the nature of the
soil and the facilities for good drain
age are favorable. can be made and
kept AS good as or better on the average
than the stone road and at but a frac-
ton Of the cost.
The nature Of the soil and the facili.
ties for drainage are so varied that it
Is impossible to lay down any one rule
or method Of roadmaking. At some
places nothing but macadam will do,
but there are many, many other places
where the earth roads can be made
equally good. In fact, In places where
the soil is just riGht-that Is, porous
enough to let the water through and
yet tenacious enough to pack and not
become dusty-and the drainage nat
urally good the earth road is the very
best that can he made. And most soils
will in large degree take on the quail
tiles necessary for good roadmaking
after good dro image is effected.-J. G..
Homsher in Good Roads Advocate
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23
CATTLE SHOW SEASON.

The county fairs are now at their
zenith of holiday making. The hea W
orators of boards of trade and cham
bers of commerce and state legisl la
lures, when pleading for subscriptions
and appropriations for these country
festivals, set them forth in solemn
and dignitied light as a people col
lege, bordering upon the weightie.5t
problems of agricultural science.
Perhaps they ought to be so. But
the man who knows the real country
knows that they perform many other
services besides displaying the latest
cattle and the wooliest sheep.
Country life at its best tends to
a dull routine. No one who has ever
seen a bunch of farmers wives and
daughters at a cattle show, but must
feel in sympathy with this high light
of color and jollity amid the grey
monotone of life on the back roads.
A festival like this, reuniting
friends from different villages, TEEN
ing with all types of human life, alive
with athletics and fakirs, spreading
jollity and comradeship about the
cross roads, has many values other
than the display of economic pro-
gTess.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23
BURKETTS SPEECHES.

Senator Burkett has made a num-
DER of noteworthy speeches in the
Third congressional district of Nebras-
ka this week. He has given utterance
to ideas which must command at once
the attention and the respect of the
people of this state. His addresses
have been clean cut and of so high a
calibre as to deserve not only state,
but national thought.
The senator has pointed out the
need of political parties in order that
the people may intelligently and effec.
tually put into action the policies
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23
THAT DYKE.

Apparently the protection of the
property of Norfolk business men
from the danger of overflow in the
Northfork is a matter of small con-
Germ to the city administration. Just
at present water in the Northfork is
being lowered at the milldam to put
in a concrete reinforcement, and it
has been previously pointed out that
this would be an ideal time for the
city to protect the business portion
of the town by concrete reinforcement
of the old and probably treacherous
earth dyke. But the city administra'
ton hasn't deemed this of sufficient
Importance to be given consideration
At the rate the paving job was got
under way, perhaps we may expect
action on the dyke by 1913.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23
CONDEMNS DEMOCRATIC AC

CONDEMNS DEMOCRATIC ACT.
r. L. Metcalfe, associate editor of
Bryan's Commoner and himself re-
Gently a candidate before the pri-
maries for democratic nomination for
the United States senate, has come
out against Dahlman, the democratic
nominee for governor, on the ground
that the republicans nominated Dahl
man.
Mr.. Metcalfe, one of the leading
democrats of the state, thus repudi-
ates the primary law as enacted by
the last democratic legislature and
signed by democratic governor. He
brands as a fraud the law which the
democrats gave us as an election re.
form method
Practically all of the democratic leg
islation save this has already been
declared void by the supreme court.
And now the leading democrats them.
selves condemn this one remaining
act as fraud.
What claim has the democratic par.
ty in Nebraska to further confidence
in a legislative way?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23
THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY.

In the Illinois primary election the
democrats who voted for Lorimer are
most all renominated and Lee O'Neil
Browne, recently acquitted of bribery
in connection with Lorimer's election,
is named again for the state legisla-
ture. Would the primary reformers
claim that this is vindication of the
primary as a nominating system? Is
1t probable that Browne could have
been nominated in a convention?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Kaiser Wilhelm is having thouble
with some of the progressive German
women of his empire, who not only
demand the vote but also insist that
military CONSUMPTION be extended to
them. The spirit of the English suf-
fragette is evidently contagious.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Years ago, Atchison people put all
their stories con" Colonel Everest,
well known lawyer. This is one told
on him. He had a client who was
guilty of murder, and Everest had no
hope of acQuittng him. Managing to
get a friend on the jury, he said to
him: Bill, hold out for manslaugh-
ter; never give in" The jury was out
two days, and finally brought in
verdict of manslaughter, and Colonel
Everest was much pleased. His
friend on the jury, meeting him later,
said; 81 had a terrible time bring
ing the others around to my way of
thinking, the other eleven insisted on
acquttal, but held out, as you told
me, and we finally Won"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Twenty students of Stamford uni
versity have agreed to subsist on
dried apples indefinitely to enable the
government experts to determine the
effect on their health. 1t is to be
hoped that they will indulge in water
sparingly if they wish to survive the
peculiar experiment.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

The state of Wisconsin and John
Dietz OF Cameron Dam fame are still
at war, and up to the present time
John is standing the siege in good
shape. The affair is without prece-
dent. 1t seems impossible that one
man should be able to stand off a
state for several years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Mr.. Gaynor seems to be booked to
run for governor of New York. No
man of his talents can be allowed to
keep on hiring the school marms and
running the road scraper for little
village like New York.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Considering the testimony that DR..
Crippens wife was poisoned, the doc
tor seems to have made good diagno-
sis in deciding that a sea voyage was
necessary for his health.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Several western governors marched
out of the conservation congress. No
modern politician is equipped for bat
tie until he is licensed chauffeur
for a conservation movement of his
own.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23
Use Of Drag on eraveIly Roads.

In soils full of loose stones or even
small bowlders the drag has done
good service, The loose stones are
drawn into a windrow down the cen.
ter OF the road, while the earth is de-
posted around the powders in such
way that the surface is leveled.
The loose stones in the center OF the
road should Of course be removed.
Where there is large proportion of
small stones or gravel the drag will
Keep down the inequalities In the sur
face.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Emperor William now has moved
into his fifty-irst palace, but until the
taxpayers of Germany wake up to his
restitution, he will have to sleep out
in the bush the other week.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

A Norfolk woman who recently
went east, took off her hair puffs on
the Pullman car, because it was so
hot. She laid the hair in the seat,
and while she was out of the seat for
moment the porter tossed the hair
out of the window. Moral: You
should give the porter tip about hair
puffs before you put 'em down.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Bob Evans has no use for airships
in time of war. An up to date Dread
naught on the ocean waves manned
by Uncle Sans sailor boys is good
enough for Fighting Bob.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Alaska has more gold than Californ-
ia and Colorado; more copper than
Montana and Arizona; more coal than
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio;
and more fish than all other American
waters combined. This is a country
we'll worth looking after. In this
opinion we are supported by Messrs.
Morgan and Guggenheim.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Young King Manuel of Portugal, not
long since made tour of Europe
seeking a royal wife, but found none
Now it is advertised abroad that the
poor boy king has scarcely a lease on
his throne which may account for
the shyness of the royal damsels.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Professor James spirit is said to be
talking, but it would seem as if it
would get the pictures hung and car
pets tackled down in the new tene.
ment before writing many letters
back here.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

An Atchison man keeps clean, but
hates the trouble, and says the JOY of
living will never be complete for nm
until someone invents capsule
which will give the bath.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

The Vermont republican majority
of 1908 was whitfield down nearly a
half Tuesday, but the little raindrops
were a more potent opponent than
such vestiges of the democratic party
as survive among the Green noun
tains.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Do you notice how the majority of
the aviators of year ago have given
up flying for construction work, thus
building up their own bank account
at the expense of the surgeons?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

The United States loses the princi-
pal point on the Newfoundland fisher
les case, but all the fish in dispute are
not worth what an hour or two of
war would cost had not arbitration
come in to settle such disputes.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

The man who buys an automobile
to keep up with the social swim, will
be down with the rest of the pikers
in year or two, as he sees the Got
roxes sailing by in their aeroplane.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

An Englishman carries off aviation
honors at the Harvard meet, but it
is doubtful if he could make first base
while home run was being captured
from over the right field fence.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

After reading through the New
foundland decision three times, we
are unable to tell whether Sunday
morning fish balls should be fried with
pork o. not.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

There is a prevailing impression
that some of these machines which
Uncle Sam put into his legislation fac
tory cost more than the hand work
which they displaced
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

The United States is trying to col
lect a little bill of six and a half mil
lions from Cuba. If Cuba owes us six
and one-half millions, how much is
our bill against the Philippines?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

We are confident that by October
people will be enough rested from
their vacations so that they can make
regular Office hours.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Don't tell us people pay no atten'
ton to gossip. Republicans wanting
more power, gossiped about those who
have It. And after the matter Is all
ironed out it will be found that the
gossip has cost the country nearly as
much as the warbreeding Panama
canal.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Very general regret is expressed all
throughout the west that the gov
eminent makes no provision for the
families of forest rangers who lose
their lives in fighting fire. A man
who fights fire is quite as necessary
to the protection of the public and
quite as courageous as the soldier
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Five out of twelve members of the
committee have voted Mr.. Ballinger
out, but he will hardly have to sleep
out of doors tonight until the whole
committee acts.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

John Moissant completed his Pari-
is-London airship trip in three weeks.
1t usually takes that long for one to
get up courage for the London fog.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Hearst wants to tie up with Roose-
welt, but it is doubtful if his life on
the bowery enables the yellow kid to
ride bucking broncho.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Just how does the Outlook get paid
for the Roosevelt tour, when Teddy
permits the dailies to scoop him regu-
larly on his speeches?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

Wisconsin has nominated a dead man
for attorney general. A little later it
will be discovered that many who
were nominated were dead ones.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

An old Scottish proverb says: gle
your tongue mair holidays then your
head" Many people would do well to
follow it more closely.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

After the colonel has the constitu
ton properly amended, We have few
still more difficult propositions for
him to tackle. One is the code of
laws regulating the wearing of dress
suits.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-23

A tipless hotel is making a big sue
cess in London. So it would every
where. Only few people like to pay
two prices for everything.