The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-12-30

see her husband on friendly terms
with man who is a notorious fiirt.
II may not do a poor man any good
! to abuse a rich man, but 1t cannot be
denied that it is mighty comforting,
Every man straightens up his
shoulders a dozen times day, fear
ing he is becoming stoop shouldered,
Show us man willing to begin at
the bottom, and we will show you a
man who will some day get to t"e
! top.
Unless you intend to become a
teacher, some people say you cannot
afford to go all the way through col.
| lege.
When you get through with your
work, for heavens sake go off and
rest; don't bother the man who is
still busy.
You may have heard of such a thing,
but did you ever know of anyone being
poisoned by eating toad stools" for
mushrooms?
Always remember that If a man
| knows where he can make dollar,
he will not tell you about it; he will
go after it himself
Nothing makes Atchison People
quite so mad as for New York or Chi.
cago people to visit the town, and
feel sorry for them.
Father doesn't care much for frills
of etiquet, and, if he is boss in his
own house, the fowl is carved before
it comes to the table.
A boy seems to learn just so much
in skating, and then stop; boys do
nothing on the ice now that boys did
not do thirty years ago.
The first time a farmer sends an or
der to Montgomery Ward & Co. he
does about his first smoke.
A man who is always going around
saying, 81 desire to be perfectly frank
with YOU" is finally shot, as the edi
tor of the Iconoclast says.
Men like to say, 81 told him if he
didn't get out, I'd throw him out" In
all of our experience, we never knew
of anyone being thrown out.
Ever hear of a drunkard who ad-
vised young men to follow his ex-
ample? We have never heard liquor
drinking defended by anyone.
You can pick up a boys school
book, and find instantly where he is
studying. Every page he has passed
over is full of marks and dirt.
I'm sorry ! didn't learn stenogra-
ply in the first place" said a woman
today; Il thought of that, but he coax
ed NE to try marriage instead
After a married woman's sister has
lived with her few years, the hus-
band begins to boss the sister-in-law
in the same way he bosses his wife.
Nothing makes me quite so mad as
for a man to ask me for an opinion,
and then do exactly the contrary of
what recommend Irvine.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson recently stat
ed in a magazine article that there
was no aristocratic blood in this coun-
try. OF course you know why he said
it; to attract attention. People of
poor blood like to believe they are as
good as anybody, But as matter of
fact. in this town, and in every other
town, you can find plenty of good
blood, and plenty of bad blood.
Heard by woman who went call
ing: A doctor had a very SICK patient
who should have gone to a warmer
climate to recover, but was too poor.
So the doctor has a sun painted on
Vic NtlllHS VI lht lOoii, anu
hoped to induce him to believe the sun
was real, and cure him by suggestion.
The patient seemed to be doing fine,
and the doctor was delighted with his
ruse. Suddenly one day the patient
dropped dead. The doctor was heart
broken; thought his scheme. had
failed. 1t had not; the patient died of
sunstroke.
Last winter | made a trip to the
West Indies. On the ship was an old
man who had tried it in Florida and
Honolulu, and California and, having
failed in those places, was on his way
to Porto Rico, where he believed a
fortune could be easily made, and
where conditions were perfect. | used
to go down into his room to visit him,
and look over his extensive assert
ment of literature, which consisted of
pamphlets from land and mining COM
panies. He was a worthless old fell
low, but he didn't know it, and was
bright in many ways, and ! liked to
toIIy IN hin, Ona dou ha said