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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04
THE OPIUM TRADE.

When congress made law in 1909
by which anyone who imports smok-
ing opium can be fined, $4,000 and i'm
prisoned two years, many people had
the comfortable feeling that one curse
had been driven from our shores.
But the other day the New York
police, after poking around the ship
Roseric at Brooklyn wharf, found
1000 worth of opium hidden in the
hunks. Evidently there is work yet
to be done.
The Chinese government is going to
the bottom of the thing in its effort to
stop the cultivation of the variety OF
poppy that produces opium. This is
just as much Of proposition as II we
tried to close up every distillery and
brewery in the United States. There
is one poppy farm in Hong Kong alone
that yields 100000 a year net profit
We regard the Chinese race as un
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The ease with which eleven aero
planes crossed over from France and
landed at q stated point, thence pro.
ceeding to the outskirts of London and
repeating the landing exploit, shows
the great progress made in aviation
since the exploit was first achieved.
The problem of locomotion is fully
solved, and it Only remains to increase
the carrying capacity of the airship in
order to permit conclusive test of
the availability of the aeroplane in
warfare.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Nature bestowed water power most
lavishly upon Norway, and the inhab
itants of that country are only begin
ming to realize it's value. There are a
great number of lakes lying in deer
valleys, with contracted outlets, which
can easily be converted into reser
voirs, with much less expense than
usually attends such engineering en-
terprises. The result of this CHEAP
electric power will be to make electric
smelling of iron and steel an import
ant industry there.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Here is something that should be
borne in mind by everyone: There
is no such thing as hereditary tuber-
culosis. The remedy is simple and all
should know it. 1t is one of the most
easily durable of all the chronic infec.
tious diseases. You can cure con.
sumption by the unstinted use of fresh
air, twenty-four hours out of the TWEEN
ty-four, plenty of good food and plen'
ty of good water, inside and out. Chill.
dren should get all the fresh air pos
sible. They should sleep and play in
the open air.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04
NO "NORFOLK JUNCTION. ;

Norfolk will be disappointed at the
reply of the officers of the Northwest
ern railroad company, that they are
averse to changing the name of the
new depot from Norfolk Junction" to
Third Street" station.
There In no Norfolk Junction" to-
day. Years ago what had been Nor.
folk Junction" became part of Nor
folk proper and Norfolk Junction
ceased to exist. It's all one big Nor.
folk today.
Norfolk suffers from the ract that
the Northwestern railroad persists in
using this obsolete station name. Peo.
pie passing through on the main line
get an impression that Norfolk is a
town of perhaps 400 people, because
they believe that what they see from
the station is all there is to the city
II the station were called the Third
Street" station, travellers would know
at once that there was more to the
city than the one depot.
Norfolk people will think that the
Northwestern is straining a technical
ity as an excuse for not meeting the
city's wishes. 1t will look to Norfolk
| as if the Northwestern might very
easily keep up with changed condi
tions and, when a town actually be
comes part of another town and
changes its postoffice name, at least
paint over the sign on their depot tc
conform.
The United States government rec
ognizes no Norfolk Junction The
federal census and the postoffice maj
call only for one big Norfolk"
1t was only little thing that W,
asked for of the railroad in this re
gard, and there will be keen disap
pointment that upon even so small ;
point, the Northwestern was unwilling
to meet Norfolk half way.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Twenty-Five years ago the American
navy consisted to all intents and pur.
poses of the three protected cruisers
Chicago, Boston and Atlanta There
were some old wooden ships and some
monitors but they were good for moth
ing. The country was proud Of its
cruisers and sent them across the At
lantic to let Europe see that the Unit
ed States had navy. Next month
the most powerful fleet ever assem-
bled under the American flag will be
engaged in maneuvers in the vicinity
of Cape Cod bay. The Indiana, put IL
commission in 1895, was the only first
class battleship the navy had. There
will be twenty-one ships of that class
all of them its superiors and som,
with twice its displacement, gathered
off the Massachusetts coast few
weeks hence. There will also be al
armored cruiser division, the Atlantic
torpedo fleet of sixteen or seventeen
destroyers, and several submarines
There will be all told more than fift,
fighting craft in the fleet.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

worthy to walk our streets and inhabit
American homes, and yet they have
shown the temper of their national
life by absolutely stopping the cultva.
tion of the poppy In eleven out of eigh.
teen provinces.
The use of opium Is much more
harmful to the American temperament
than It ever was to the Chinese. pro.
ducing among us sort OF delirium
tremens. Oriental people who are
| disinclined to athletic exercises find
in its gentle and soporihc relaxation
substitute for normal diversions, and
sometimes among these phlegmatic
peoples the results are no worse than
those that follow the use of tobacco.
The quick witted Japs know the
true dangers of opium. The opium
committee of the Philippine commits
sion recently made the statement, that
you can get drunk every night in
Japan without losing caste but woe
betide If you become addicted to
opium, which the Japanese fear as
We fear the rattlesnake."
While the opium habit gains no
great hold in America outside of the
larger cities. 1t is seen in every town
in the United States In the persons OF
the victims of morphia, which is OBJ
tanned from opium. Says someone OF
this curse, "At first you seem enclosed
in silky film protecting you from
the rough contacts of life, but soon
you feel this veil tighten about you
and when you strive to rend it, you
find it is of STEEL"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Perhaps Mr.. Loeb is rather brusque,
possibly he has no more tact than a
bulldog, and maybe he lacks all the
suavity of the easy boss. But, certain
ly he gets results; certainly he does
not lack courage, and he is proving
that the apparently impossible is pos
sible. Before he came into Office, the
collections at New York's port for
fines, penalties and forfeitures for
evading the customs laws, averaged
about 100000 a year. But since 1909
they have not been less than $1,000,
600, and for the year just closed are
s2,O14,15s.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04
THE FARMERS VACATION.

1t is not so very long ago that the
ordinary farmer never took any reg.
ular holiday. In the older part of the
country you used to find host of men
in that business who had not slept out
side their homes for untold years.
Some of our farmers have now ac'
quired a familiarity with Pullman
cars and automobiles. But even they
rarely secure understudies that can fill
their places for any given week or
fortnight in the crisis of summer.
1t would be like Napoleon deserting
his troops at the turning point of
Waterloo. The fatal failure to cult
vate or harvest crop at psycholog-
ical moment may mean the throwing
away of the whole seasons work
Then comes the time when the cumu
lative results OF farmers past eX
perience count at their highest value
The cloud no bigger than a mans
hand, meaningless to his assistants
or his boys, to his eye trained to note
the slightest gradations in atmospher
ic change, may be the sure herald OF
the long expected rain.
But that does not mean that the
farmer gets no vacation. If he knows
his business, he gets away during the
winter for a sight of the big world in
the cities. And he returns with the
| feeling that life under the sun and
the stars is financially more profitable
and spiritually more blessed than sky
scrapers and soft. COAL
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04
The use of English in the world dur

The use of English in the world dur
ing the past hundred years has in
creased much more rapidly than that
of any other language. All the other
principal languages of Europe have
shown some growth, but the English
language, which at the beginning of
the nineteenth century was the Ian.
guage of but twenty millions, at the
end had increased in influence until it
had become the speech of 13O,OOO,OO0
How much this means to the CONNER
cial and intellectual progress of the
United States cannot be estimated.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Germany is causing more Of scare
among the English and the French
than Japan has here in the United
States. If reports are true of Ger.
many's intentions there is a great
deal more justification for fear of her
aggressions from her neighbors than
there is ground for apprehension in
this country of trouble with the little
brown people of the orient. How
ever, with all the trend there seems to
be among the different nations toward
peace, there never was a time when
they needed to be more carefully
watched. Their military armaments
are large and human nature still has
good deal Of the savage in it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

And now they are selling newspa-
pers in slot machines in New York
City and this method Of handling their
sale will probably extend to all the
big cities of the country in a short
time. 1t will mean that the next gen
Grafton will miss the cry of the
"newsies" which has heretofore been
one of the distinctive features of city
life. In ten years time the horse and
the newsboy will be practically elm
mated from the metropolitan centers
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The Fargo IN. d. Forum, which
has consistently opposed reciprocity
because OF its fear that the farmers
of the northwest might suffer, very
candidly admits that President Taft
has shown a commendable spirit in
promoting it and closes an article on
the subject by saying: Despite what.
ever personal views one may have of
the advantages or disadvantages of
the measure, one must concede that
Taft has shown broad craftsmanship.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

1t is purposed to spend 100000 in
advertising the attractions of New
York city as a summer resort. 1t is
particularly desired TO explode the
idea that it is hot and uncomfortable
in New York in July and August. We
believe in advertising, all newspapers
do, but 100000 is utterly inadequate
to convince dozen sane people that
New York is cool, quiet, haven oi
rest in the sultry months.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The Eastern Milliners association
has brought suit in federal court in
New York to defeat the state law
which forbids the sale, after the first
of this month, of any plumage, wheth'
er it be of American birds or those
imported from other climes. 1t is
claimed that the law is unconstitu
tional.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

He has acted for the whole United
States and his display of backbone has
been one of the most remarkable fea.
lures of the long fight for the measure.
The good or the evil of reciprocity
will rest with Taft and the republican
party. II it rebounds to the benefit OF
the nation Taft and his political organ
izatlon will be entitled to the credit
If it turns out disastrously, Taft and
the republicans will receive the
blame"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

A colossal figure of the Indian chief
Black Hawk, designed by dorado Taft
was unveiled recently on a bluff in
Oregon township, H., where 1t is to
stand forever overlooking the beauti
full country which he loved to roam In
life. 1t is of concrete, forty.eight feet
tall and was cast where It stands, q
notable triumph of modern sculptura
methods and a worthy memorial to 6
great red man.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

If President Taft can accomplish in
this term the adoption of treaty of
perpetual peace between this country
and England, an initial agreement for
reciprocal trade with Canada, and the
near completion of the Panama canal
he can well afford to be Indifferent tc
his own reelection.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The dragon flag of China was re-
Gently seen for the first time in an
American seaport. 1t was borne by
the powerful cruiser Hal Chi, which
represented the empire of China at
the coronation of King Edward, and
afterward paid a series of friendly
calls along the Atlantic coast of this
country.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The London Post has had vision,
or was it a nightmare? Anyway, they
have suddenly discovered in the thou
sands OF American settlers in western
Canada "a Yankee army in disguise" "
Just what that effectually disguised
army is doing, or going to do, the
Post has not revealed to the public as
yet. We await the revelation with
anxiety.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The trouble with the wool tariff is
that for years it has been manipulated
in such way as to discriminate
against one branch of the industry
and in favor of another. President
Taft has pronounced it indefensible
Now the question is, who knows how
to change this schedule so that the
people will receive any benefit from
it?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The prison farm is great success
in one Canadian province, where men
at liberty on honor make the soil yield
and live almost as free as their
brother. Is there any reason why the
system cannot be made a success by
cities? Instead of sending the Of
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The college professor who has ven.
tured the opinion that women will
rule the world twelve years from now
has caused numerous paragraphers to
declare that the said professor is
about twelve years behind the times,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Germany is bent on carving out an
ever in the eastern hemisphere dis
turbance appears, there will the Ger
man mailed fist be brandished. If the
world really wants peace, the first
requisite is permission to Germany to
pursue her purposes unopposed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The Australian premier welcomes
the revision of the Anglo-Japanese al
lance as guaranteeing freedom from
Japanese aggression for ten years in
stead of four. He intimates that dur.
ing that time the Australian govern
ment will greatly strengthen her mil.
itary status.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The English cabinet is considering
the appointment of 500 peers, in case
the house of lords rejects the action
of the commons on certain important
measures. Five hundred new lords
would depreciate the market Of titles
and American girls could buy them
cheaper.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Hoke Smith, the newly elected sen.
ator from Georgia, has had an unus.
ual career back of his unusual name.
He has been school teacher, lawyer,
newspaper man, a member Of Presi.
dent Cleveland's cabinet, the governor
of Georgia twice, and is frequently
mentioned as a possibility for the
democratic nomination for the presi
dency.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The editor Of the London Saturday
Review says he shivers every time he
reads an American newspaper. Some
one should at once start the furnace
fire with a lot of those dry English
journals.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Few inventors ever live to see an
idea revolutionize the world to the
extent that the telephone has. 1t must
have been extremely gratifying to DR..
Bell, in his worldwide trip, to see the
great impetus his genius has impaired
to commercial and social activity in
lands which have been slowest to
yield to new ideas.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

A woman's club has been organized
in the city of Mexico to work for the
political interests of women. The
right to vote and the right to get di
vorced and marry again are demand
ed. The club expects to have national
influence.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

London is to have a museum devot-
ed to the preservation and exhibition
of relics pertaining to the history of
that city from the earliest date of its
occupation by man. That time runs
back much farther than most readers
are aware.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The Kansas agricultural college has
graduated tifty-five domestic science
teachers. But what will they do with
the millions of girls who have always
refused to learn domestic science with
mother in the kitchen?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

George Washington's umbrella, CIV
en- to Mt. Vernon by ]. P. Morgan,
may be worth thousands of dollars,
but most of us would rather be seen
carrying the 81 article down town
than that historic treasure.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

That European war cloud, which for
long months has been having needed
rest, has been brushed up and brought
out to be looked at once more. This
time it's Germany that is to break the
peace and visit its wrath upon Eng
land and Germany.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The Danish government will spend
$3,00O,0OO this year encouraging the
practical application of scientific meth.
ods in agriculture. They ought to reap
good results from this expenditure.
The Danish people have always been
considered pretty good farmers in the
past
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The New York World proposes to
pension ex-presidents, although we
know of number of people who would
take the job without salary and pay a
bonus, too.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Another cheap skate has gone over
Niagara falls in barrel and come out
alive. 1t takes pretty foolish sort Of
a man who will risk his life in such a
reckless and uncalled for way simply
to get his name in the newspaper.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The Millinery Travelling Mems as
sociation has passed a resolution that
women shall wear small hats next
season. Why did they not vote to re-
quire Halley's comet to stay at home
nights while they were about it?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

When the fact that one mile of rail.
road requires about 270 tons of metal
is taken into consideration, one ceases
to wonder what becomes of all the
mountains of ore that are smelted.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

1t is announced that all the wires
between Washington and New York
will soon be buried in underground
conduits, except perhaps the wires by
which Wall street makes it's congress
sional puppets dance.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

There is no place on this wide earth
like the country for an ideal home. AS
Ingersoll once said, There you see
the rising and the setting sun, you
become acquainted with the stars and
clouds, and everything that has life is
your sworn friend"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Georgia people are to give President
Taft rabbit sausauge next time. In
view of the way Brer Rabbit used to
elude Brer Fox, Georgia would better
keep still until Brer Rabbit is safely
in the refrigerator.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The wirelesss tation at Coltano,
Italy. is to be completed ready for
use in October, after which direct
communication between this country
and Italy will be possible.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

An Oklahoma Indian says civilized
cooking" is gradually killing the red
men. If he also adopts the civilized
method of rapid eating, his end is
surely near.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

j. p. Morgan has been decorated
with the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle
by the kaiser, but j. p. won't dare
wear it into the stock exchange any
day when the bulls are feeling kinky
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The president of France is at the
present time without a cabinet and
things are moving along very nicely.
Perhaps the president of the United
States would get along better if he
would dismiss his.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The various rises and falls of Hoke
Smith of Georgia put to rout all the
cries derived from the prize ring re.
garding the difficulties Of coming
back" Hoke Smith has been up and
down oftener than Battling" Nelson,
though he is no lightweight.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Under the new publicity law passed
by the senate those who are candi-
dates for congress cannot spend more
than ten cents each on their constitu-
ents. This means either less cigars
or worse ones.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

1t appears that absolutely every fire
in Berlin is followed by severe investi'
cation and almost every one by pun.
ishment, ranging from fine large
enough to pay for turning out the fire
department for the careless to the
penalty for murder, where death has
resulted, for the criminal.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Even the river Jordan is to be COM
mercialized. The falls below the Lake
of Galilee are to be harnessed to sup
ply electricity to the larger towns of
Palestine.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Scotty, the Death Valley miner, who
spent a fortune in the east very quick.
ly a year or two ago, has picked up
another batch of coin and has hired a
special train to go east and get rid of
it. Some people have more luck find
ing money than they have brains.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

John Burroughs is the authority for
the statement that a man is happier
with seventy cents than he is with
7O,000,O00. Why not strike a fair av.
erage, John? That would suit most
of us better.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The international exposition at Tu
rim is expected to show that Italy has
progressed more rapidly than any
other European country in the last
fifty years.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Kansas farmers are using Indian
farmhands this summer from the
school at Topeka. 1t would be unfor
tunate if they used the hoe to dig uI
the hatchet with.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Chicago pays down its good money
for 100000 gallons Of beer on any
one of these hot days, although no
one was ever charged a cent for drink
ing out of Lake Michigan close by.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

New steel barges are plying from
ST. Louis to New Orleans, but If we
really wanted to get there, and did
not care for periods of meditation on
intervening sand banks, we should set
out to walk.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

About now the prudent citizen
lodges out of sight when he sees a
neighbor coming, fearful that the lat.
ter means to ask him to feed his cat
while he is away on vacation.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The man who attempts something
unusual and fails to make it go, is
pronounced impractical and visionary
but if he wins, he is accorded the in
sight Of genius,
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

An electrical teleprinting apparatus
enables the Berlin police to print no
tees in 200 stations in the city stimuli
taneously.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

st, Louis BARRIERS are refusing tips.
Next we expect the leopard will de-
eide that spots are not fashionable,
and the Ethiopian will conclude his
skin is OF color.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

America first" idea. II his memory Is
good, he should be able to describe
more railroad freight houses than any
man we know OF.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

Prisoners in the Rhode Island peni-
tentiary are to get Saturday half
holiday. They may have to create a
waiting list Of applicants for admis-
sion.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04

The production of silver was ma
terially increased in Arizona, Califor
nia New Mexico, Utah and Washing
ton last year.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-04
AROUND TOWN.

We were planning to take that
swimming trip with Sol in four pas
senger car, but now We'll have to get
whole train of cars, so many people
want to go along.