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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

1t is proposed that the trouble with
Russia be referred to The Hague court,
but the judges might drop dead il
they got a case to decide.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Don't be discouraged, after Christ
mas is over there will be the annual
distribution of garden seeds by the
agricultural department.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

We have not much hope that the
shoe machinery trust can be dissolved,
but possibly it can be cut up into shoe
strings.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Now that the Stokes case is out OF
the way, the Twentieth Century girl
can allow her mother to see the news
papers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

People who receive new pocket
book Christmas are apt to be embar-
raised for some time to know what
to do with 1t.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

A want ad campaign will get you
acquainted with lot OF people who
want to buy homes-and the home you
want 10 sell would surely suit some OF
them
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Twenty.three years ago this Christ
mas Git was our first one in Norfolk
and it's the first Christmas we re.
member anything about we distinctly
recall crawling out Of bed in the grey
dawn of the early morning, running
barefooted tor did we wear the flannel
kind with feet in emp. running into
the dining room and finding, near the
baseburner, dark red train of real
cars and real locomotive-anda a ma
hogany colored square leather pocket
book. All of which goes to show how
things change. Every Christmas since
then has been hitting that pocketbook
and now we have TO pay real cash
money whenever we take ride on
that train.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

How many times did you go down
town to get something more, after you
had thought that everything was
bought?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Los Angeles has gone back to the
climate as subject OF conversation.
It's much the more profitable subject.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

The Turks and Italians have been
obliged to postpone their next en-
gagement till the grounds dry of.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Success in aviation depends not on
flying high or long, but in knowing
how to light.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

The man who resolves to do right
ought not to get left
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Some people can't seem to enjoy
their Happy New Year, until they get
the new resolutions safely buried.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Hello, here's that birthday. And this
is about the last one we care to have
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

If you shoveled early. you had to d.
it over again.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29
AROUND TOWN.
Merry Christmas!

The News is going to skip two is.
sues-tomorrow and the next day.
Here's hoping we all show up sober
the morning after.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

I'm always glad when Christmas is
over with. ! am never satisfied with
my Christmas conduct.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

entirely dependent on the one crop
OF cotton.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Probably We are all too indignant
when we dislike a thing.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

OF all the people | know anything
about, telephone girls are the most
polite and patient, although treated
more impatiently and unjustly thar
any other class. | recommend that
young men marry telephone girls.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

There were five columns of "soci
ETY." news in the paper the other day
and the society editor apologized be
cause she hadn't got more.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

BY the way have you got 'em all
packed and sent?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

It's the shortest day Of the year--il
more ways than one.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

There is no riddle in life that cannot
be solved by practicing the simple
virtues more patiently, that it may be
said of you after you are gone: How
patient he was in his sufferings!"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

I note that some of the women have
determined to obtain the right to vote
at the point of the bayonet, Let no
woman jab a bayonet into me; here.
by give notice that | surrender.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

We see in the paper something
about the packers pact. But we're not
surprised. We always supposed that's
what they did for living.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

| have noticed that my likes and
dislikes do not cause any great excite
ment. And how people struggle to get
away when | try to talk!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Christmas is only 364 days away
SO do your shopping early.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

The relatives of mean man, in
giving excuses for him, always say
the same thing: He's so nervous"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

That which we call nerve" has a
habit Of deserving all of us when the
occasion is Just right to use it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

The birthday has come and gone,
and we're twenty years older than we
were a year ago at this time, count
ing the bald head and all the rest.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Doesn't anybody do anything but
sew the week before Christmas.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Isn't it the luck, though, that il
would have to snow just as soon as II
found out about that hole in the sole
of our shoe? Now Wen have to buy
some rubbers and we'd hoped to save
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29
LED" HOWES PHILOSOPHY.
Copyright 1911 Geo Matthew Adams.

When a mother is indulgent with
her little son, he kicks her on the shin
when she mildly corrects him. Aren't
you little that way with your friends
who are good to you?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Notice how much longer the days
are getting?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

Still. If we can get the shoeman to
accept rubber money, it won't be SC
bad. And why isn't that good way
to solve this elastic currency problem
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

to have n big peace dinner in New
York next Saturday night Would
you call that piece.meal proposition Z?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

nau JnOuSnJ Jnal everything was
bought?
Doesn't anybody do anything but
sew the week before Christmas.
At the age of 20, no matter how cold
your feet get, you're perfectly willing
to suffer for the sake Of the Joy you
think you're getting out Of sleigh
ride. When you get 80 and bald
headed, you wouldn't take sleigh
ride if you were paid for it. At that,
though, sleighing hasn't been better
in twenty years.
But doesn't it beat the band how
these automobiles shoot around
July? There are eleven taxicabs in
Norfolk, and they scoot around
through the drifts as if they liked it.
Seeing the telegram about a Santa
Claus being fatally burned in school
house, somewhere in the east, the
other night, makes us reminiscent. 1t
nine and ten years ago, when we
played Santa Claus out at Carl
Reiches school, south of town. The
teacher was Norfolk girl, and that's
how it happened that We wore fur
coat and rope whiskers and sleighbells
on those two Christmas ewes. We
made speech and handed out Christ
mas presents just as If we'd been
doing it for centuries. And take it
from US, we got acquainted with some
people on those two festival occasions
that are among our best friends, to
this day. We wouldn't give up the
memory of those Santa Claus ex-
periences for good deal-not for
barrel Of gasoline.
We're glad, after all, that it only
comes once a year.
There's a kind of dull, grey dawn
Of the morning after" feeling about
it that we don't like.
No matter how many birthdays you
have, if you stay in the town where
you grew up, everybody always thinks
of you as still a boy in knee trousers.
Speaking of staying in town that
you grew up in, an actor in show
the other night put it this way: I'm
a little country town all the boys who
have it in them get out as soon as
they grow up-go into the cities and
become the biggest men there; only
the yaps stay at home" All of which
seemed rather personal.
It's wonderful how far little salve
will go. Every time anybody tells us
they read this column first it tickles
us all over, even though We know
darn well it isn't so.
Those cylinders are fixed.
But not paid for.
We see now where We'll never get
any shoes with holeless soles.
And we're trying to make the coal
last till after the first of the month
as another way of economizing.
We got a box of cigarettes for
Christmas with a label on them that
said: Here are some cigarettes that
father won't smoke" And that was
right.
Notice how much longer the days
are getting?
The birthday has come and gone,
and we're twenty years older than we
were wear ago NJ this time cOunt-
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

It's a trick most people have not to
take great interest in great many
others.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

We see by the paper they're going
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

At the age Of 20, no matter how cold
your feet get, you're perfectly willing
to suffer for the sake Of the Joy you
think you're getting out of a sleigh
ride. When you get 80 and bald
headed, you wouldn't take a sleigh
ride if you were paid for it. At that,
though, sleighing hasn't been better
in twenty years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

A piano was sent to Norfolk
woman for a present. Her husband
had to pay the drayage from the de-
pot to the house. Poor fellow" said
the woman who got the piano. Now
there was SYMPATHETIC wife, IL
ever there was one.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

We got box of cigarettes for
Christmas with label on them that
said: Here are some cigarettes that
father won't smoke" And that was
right
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

"Will turkeys become 'extinct?'" u
headline asks. We don't know what
that means, but we assume they're
talking about the cold storage kind.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29
Also. If you haven't shopped.

If you haven't shoveled, get bus
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

We're glad, after all, that it only
comes once year.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

There's a kind of dull, grey dawI
Of the morning after feeling abou
it that we don't like.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

No matter how many birthdays you
have, if you stay in the town where
you grew up, everybody always thinks
of you as still boy in knee trousers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

What has become of the old-fash-
Toned country horse that had it's tail
eaten off by the calves?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

But doesn't it beat the band how
these automobiles shoot around
through the snow, just as if 1t were
July? There are eleven taxicabs in
Norfolk, and they scoot around
through the drifts as if they liked it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

When ! was a boy, knew farm
hand named Henry Odds. When he
promised to appear at certain time,
and did not, the farmers said: well,
the creek must be up, or Henry Olds
would be here" Keep your appoint
ments, unless the creek is up, and you
cant get there.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

And we're trying to make the coal
last till after the first of the month
as another way of economizing.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

If no one else will do it, a man will
pet himself.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

and now we have to pay real cash
money whenever we take ride on
that train.
LED" HoWES PHILOSOPHY.
Copyright 1911; Geo Matthew Adams.)
When a mother is indulgent with
her little son, he kicks her on the shin
when she mildly cOrrects him. Aren't
you little that way with your friends
who are good to you?
There is no riddle in life that cannot
be solved by practicing the simple
virtues more patiently, that it may be
said of you after you are gone: How
patient he was in his sufferings!"
Probably We are all too indignant
when we dislike a thing.
I'm always glad when Christmas is
over with. ! am never satisfied with
my Christmas conduct.
OF all the people | know anything
about, telephone girls are the most
more impatiently and unjusty than
any other class. | recommend that
young men marry telephone girls.
! note that some of the women have
determined to obtain the right to vote
at the point of the bayonet. Let no
woman jab bayonet into me; | here
by give notice that | surrender
The relatives of a mean man, in
giving excuses for him, always say
the same thing: He's so nervous"
| have noticed that my likes and
dislkes do not cause any great excite
ment. And how people struggle to get
away when | try to talk!
That which we call nerve" has a
habit Of deserving all of us when the
occasion is just right to use it.
It's a trick most people have not to
take great interest in a great many
others.
When ] was boy, / knew a farm
hand named Henry Odds. When he
promised to appear at certain time,
and did not, the farmers said: well,
the creek must be up, or Henry Odds
would be here" Keep your appoint
ments. unless the creek is I'D. and Won
cant get there.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

A souvenir spoon is the ugly kind
that is Of no use, and which you give
to person you love or greatly ad
mire.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

You are always hearing of a mans
duty to his loved ones. But rarely hear
mans loved ones criticised for fail
ure to do their duty toward him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

It's wonderful how far little salve
will go. Every time anybody tells us
they read this column first it tickles
us all over, even though We know
darn well it isn't so.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

We see now where We'll never get
any shoes with holeless soles.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

What this town needs" a woman
writes, lis a stirring up in music.
What most country towns need is less
stirring up of it's music.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-12-29

There is certain word that will,
nine times out Of ten, cause a fight,
when one man hurls it at another. And
/ have noticed that it is not used
much.
The Washington times., 1911-08-02

Hammock'S Uses.
Maud-After all, a hammock is moth
ing but a net.
Jack-Right! Many a girl makes
good catch in one.
The Washington times., 1911-08-02

NEW YORK, Aug. with the OPEN
Ing the bears made a successful effort
to continue the weakness that developed
y" sterday-successful TO the extent Of
nearly a point on the leading rails when
the turn came, and on attempts to
cover and gather the profit the rebound
wiped out a large share of the net loss.
On the way down there was consider
able activity. On the way UP the mar
ket fell into its old ways, with dullness
the most noticeable feature.
There were some new features to the
situation. Cereals continue to advance,
and the stories of damage and OF large
crops are both questioned. rhe Govern
ment set its seal on the cotton crop,
confirming all previous bumper re-
ports. The condition Is given as S9.1
per cent as against 49, July /. and a
ten-year average at this time Of 7s.4.
Standard Oil shares dropped twenty
points. furnishing the sensational de-
cline Of the day, but SO few people are
interested in this high grade security
that 1t really had little effect on the
general list. The sales were made by
minor shareholders who have no desire
to make exchanges for the stocks Of
individual companies in the dissolution
of the corporation, according to law.
Some uneasiness was shown over the
possibilities of railroad employees
strike to enforce demands for further
increases in wages that tpe railroads
The Washington times., 1911-08-02
Bears Control Market Situation SeUere
WALL STREET STOCKS VERY SOFT,
WITH BEARS PRESSING FOR
THE ADVANTAGE.

in seif-protection cannot and win not
grant. They have been liberal and
amenable to arbitration IN the past, but
are now determined 10 make no further
concessions, AS a matter OF fact, shut
downs would Immediately follow strikes
in any shops, probably on threats OF
strikes.
The July output or new securities is
given as $129,912,O0O. as against *oo'Nl'Vo
a year ago, s n,
ers of Canadian Pacific stock, a railroad
not affected by the Interstate Com-
merce Commission.
Rates in the loan crowd are Y per
cent on Steel common, indicating a
fairly good shortage and per cent
ON other stocks. New orders placed
with the United States Steel Corpora
tion for the past week include 1900
tons Besscmer steel with the ILLINOIS
Steel Company, and 1850 to the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company
Brokers and commission houses are
still sending out their assurances that
conditions. fundamentally, are better.
Fundamentals are sound. ADMIT
tedly in that the big banks are carry,
ing the bulk of the securities, and
will have too, for the present at
least 1t will not be long now before
the Presidential campaign will be ad-
vanced as a reason for inactivity. pos
sibly the prosecution of the Steel cor
poration, on the developments which
the Stanley probers may yet uneartn
or a prosecution ordered by resolution
following the Stanley report
Outside of Standard OIL, Tennessee
Copper was the weakling, selling on
2% with y OF a point net recovery
The Washington times., 1911-08-02
Capital Planning to
Get Ad Men Here

| BOSTON, Aug. 2.-Washington must,
eventually. win in the contest for the
| convention Of the nations advertising
I experts. say the delegation from the
! National Capital who. ever since they
arrived to attend the sessions OF the
Associated Advertising Clubs, have
missed no opportunity of "whoop-
ing 1t up for their town.
Headed by John E. Shoemaker and
| Granville Hunt, the Washington men
are here in force-a score Of them. And
| while they are letting no opportunity
slip to urge the claims of Washington
| as a convention city, they are extremely
active, between sessions putting forth
the advantages of Washington as the
coming business center of the South.
The Southern Commercial Congress,
Ltoo, whose headquarters are located
in Washington. is being doomed by G..
| G. Dave, managing director. and the
ad congress will learn lots about the
wide commercial scope of the Southern
body.
Granville Hunt, Of the Chamber Of
Commerce, however, declared this
morning that the Washington party
would center its efforts toward getting
the convention for 1913, and little idea
is entertained that Washington will be
victorious in the fight for the conven-
ton of 1912.
J. f. Shoemaker and H. B. Hoffman
are the only ones registered so far from
the Washington Ad Club, the remainder
of the Washington visitors being made
up of members Of the Chamber of Com
| merCe and of Washington newspaper
men.
TIE sessions of the congress were be-
gun this morning. but little business
was undertaken today, after the address
of welcome had been made.
The clubs from the South are show
ing un we'll in enthusiasm, and in in
venting stunts" TO draw attention TO
their section, which in staid, hustling
Boston has always been looked upon as
rather sleepy.
way the Texans arrived. They literally
blew in, sending blasts from big. cUrled
cow-horns to herald their coming, and
saluting everything and everybody with
the "Who9p-eeeei OF 5ae piafaSi WiSi,s 1n1g n3g
Fred w McJunkins, one atdred as a
real cowpuncher, and the other as
prosperous ranchman.
They no sooner had struck the station
last night than the delegation formed a
narade and started around the town.
In the procession were no less than six
flags, Indicative of different crises in the
history of Texas. They were the Span
ish. French, Mexican. Texan, Confeder-
ate, and United States flags:
From the present outlook 1t seems
that the Texans will claim the next
convention, that Of 1912, for Dallas, for
| the Texas delegation alone has eighty
six votes, and they can count on a solid
Southwest vote, which would give them
| a total to start, Of 1856, and they need
only little over 300 votes to win.
The Washington times., 1911-08-02

: prise his friends and himself by making
good
Did you repay all this money you got
"Yes. did-paid him all of 1t. I
wanted to pay It before proceedings in
this case began, but was withheld from
doing so till after the Cook county
grand jury was in session"
On October 19, 1909, White wrote Sena-
tor Lorimer, asking II the Senator could
help him to a position. He wanted
something in the Secret Service OF in
vestigation department, he said. Lori
mer didn't even answer the letter.
Saw Lorimer.
Soon after this, however, White got
a letter from Brown. saying he had
talked to Lorimer in behalf of White.
and that Lorimer had promised to get
him a temporary place. BY September
he thought he would get back to WASH
ington, and then could get a perma-
nent position for White such as he
wanted. Once more Brown passed along
a bunch of good advice about keeping
expenses inside his income. and other
copybook adages.
Il had written Brown a letter." said
White, :1n which 1 said 1 held him
and Lorimer under no obligations, as
| had received as much for voting for
That letter has never been produced
in evidence" interrupted Judge Hanecy.
No. was never given a chance to
testify about It before" replied White
Didn't you keep a copy Of that let
ter?'
mo SIR"
And it has never been produced, and
you have never testified about 1t be-
fore?'
Never was given the chance to tes-
tify about It BEFORE" persisted White,
who stuck strongly to his story.
Next came. from the correspondence
files, a telegram from Brown to White
White. and directed the latter to re-
port to James L. Monaghan county
building, Chicago. at once, and go 70
work. A letter was also produced from
Brown to White: Go at once to Chi
cago," said Brown, land report to
Lorimer's secretary. He will take you
to Monaghan. Monaghan owns one of
the offices in the county building, and
will put you at work"
Thus, at last, the faithful White was
in the way of getting his" The pull
at the county building was to supply
temporary job until the pull at Wash
ington could produce something there.
But by this time White didn't want
the place. He had got all the data he
needed, and was prepared to open up
negotiations looking to thet sale of his
expose. So he wired to Brown, saying
he would not accept a temporary $75-a-
month position.
When Brown got this telegram, he
wrote a letter to White that was cal
White-and said II White really didn't
want the job, he would give 1t to a good
deserving young man in his (Brown'S
own county, who would be glad of II.