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The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21
COLD STORAGE MEN NIPPED.


Ordinarily the despised, rejected
and embattled consumer, looks and
feels just like those pictures in the
funny papers. There the common
people is represented as a knock
kneed and apologize midget, looking
up in fearful pathos at the big bellied
creatures labelled the trusts.
But even the Lilliputians once had
CULVER captive. Although the con-
sumner is an insignificant atom by his
lonesome, the combined power of his
passive resistance may become an av-
alanche.
When it was announced a few
weeks ago that the butter and egg
dealers would not make good on their
enormous deposits in cold storage, the
consumer began to- straighten up his
little back, and his wrinkled and tense
countenance began for once to show
symptoms of a grin.
This week it is wired from Chicago
that the butter and egg dealers of the
country have dropped $5O00,0OO to
$10,000,000 on their merry little game.
One can already see the consumer
shaking the rheumatism out of his
legs by dancing the can can about the
kitchen.
Over and over again men seem to
forget about the iron clad operation of
the laws of supply and demand. The
two inevitably tend to equalize. Skill
full spectators may capture some tri-
umph Oh modern science as a means
of forcing the man who buys against
the wall. But sooner or later new re.
sources are sure to open up and the
economies of the people to set at
naught these devices.
Since eggs nave been so high, the
trick of putting down dozens of hen
fruit in various preservative prepare.
tiops has become common in many
homes. Thus the cold storage men
have been fighting against the com.
petition of thousands on thousands of
thrifty housewives who laughed at
men who were investing thousands in
costly warehouses to force them to
pay high prices, when they had little
reservoir of their own serving quite as
effectively.
You may corner the butter and egg
supply for year or two, but not for
long. The farmers Of the country are
vast independent force. They have
been quick to see the chance for
money in dairy and poultry supplies
and to meet the need at prices under
those the cold storage men could af
ford. The latter must have learned a
useful lesson.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21
GOOD FORESTRY.

Fifty young men who have been
studying forestry under German ex-
perts arrived home the other day, in
charge of the Biltmore Forestry
school. It is pleasant to note that
such large groups Of young men are
learning some principles of tree cut
ting other than those prevalent among
sawmill owners and lumber kings.
Up to a few years ago our timber
wealth seemed inexhaustible. Old
men used to say, regarding even loca-
lions in the eastern states, that there
was as much timber as in their youth.
They neglected to add that the larger
share of the existing woodland con-
sisted of young growths instead Of the
majestic forest monarchs of the days
gone by. When it began to cost about
so percent more than formerly to buy
wooden material for house, it &C.
cured to the average man that the
lumber merchant was not the end of
the law on tree culture.
The present day use Of cement,
stucco and tiles for house construc-
ton shows how the shoe is beginning
to pinch.
We are beginning to approach the
conditions in Europe, where wood long
ago reached a prohibitive degree of
scarcity. AS all travellers know, you
can travel for days across the water
and not see wooden house. All over
France and some other countries, most
of the trees look like great feather
busters, with fluffy top of foliage,
but with the main trunk denuded of
branches, so great is the value of any
wood big enough for heating.
Our American lumbermen have
commonly had a preference for the
dollar they might get today by strip
ping off the entire woodland growth,
rather than the So they might get to.
morrow by saving the younger trees.
They raise the objection that saving
the younger trees requires so much
care as to create prohibitive expense.
They should figure, however, on the
advanced lumber cost, and on the pros
pective value even in ten to twenty
years hence of a growth left after
thinning out the merchantable timber.
In addition to that. beauty is an as
set. A mountainside SCARED and de-
faced by the relentless sweep of the
saw drives away the nature lover, the
homeseeker and the traveller.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

moves was opening fifty baseball dia-
monds in city parks and on land own.
ed by private individuals. Thus an i'm
mense amount of boy power which
otherwise would have tended to smash
things was turned into a wholesome
channel
Johnson did not make much OF a
success Of three cent fares. But he
was early in the field with the notion
that street car franchises are an as
set which cities can sell for good
money. To be sure so much has now
been said about this that every gran.
ger seems to think Rockefeller and
Morgan are bidding against each other
to run trolley line up through his
wood lot. But Johnson's work at least
demonstrated that fairly capitalized
railway in large city ought to sell
transportation for less than five cents.
In these days when so many men
are slipping the sugar sweets of for.
tune acquired by some other mans
toll, the American people have a
warm place in their hearts for a man
like Johnson, who began at 10 as an
errand boy, and got ahead by doing
things instead Of receiving the gifts
of life with passive hand. If such a
man has committed errors and fol.
lowed whimsical notions. he has at
least been true to that grand principle
which so many of us have forgotten,
to do with our might what our hands
find to do"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21
EASTER.

A fascinating hour of study could
be spent in delving into the dusty rec
ords to find the origins and meaning
of all the quaint and even grotesque
customs that cluster about this holt
day.
In the middle ages the poor were
Toasted in the churches, lovely GUS
tom, though at times one would judge
the ceremonies were somewhat as
when the "wets" carry a city for H.
cense.
There used to be dances, too, on
Easter day, the clergy told more or
less risky stories from the pulpits, and
the people saluted each other with an
Easter kiss.
The Easter egg was characteristic.
AS symbol of new life about to break
forth. it has certain appropriateness.
The custom goes back of the time of
Jesus, as the Jews used eggs at the
feast of the Passover, and the Per-
slams used to give each other colored
eggs at the New Year. In Scotland
the young people used to go hunting
for wild fowls eggs for Easter morn
ing breakfast, and the finders were
supposed to be lucky.
Many of the Easter customs come
from the worship of the Teutonic god
dess Ostare, who personified the east
In the minds of all primitive peoples,
the east had sacred character. In
Scotland at a comparatively recent
date, the practice of burying the peo-
pie with their feet to the east, charac-
teristic of many savage people, was
maintained.
Our modern Easter parade, as the
correct time to display the trophies of
the semi-annual bout with dressmak-
ers and milliners, has veneer OF pol
ish that the old time buffooneries of
course never acquired. Yet much of
it is still pagan. However, the fact
that one likes to have some new glad
clothes to wear, the satisfaction in
DOMINIC garments that are artistic in
color and design, does not prove that
one has no heart to the deeper har.
monies of the universe
Easter, to all who can see the real
things of life, is the daybreak that
scatters the shadows of fear and de,
spair and absorption in the mere
things of the flesh.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

West Virginia produces daily over
9O0,OO0,OO0 cubic feet of natural gas,
which sells, much of it outside the
state, for from 25 to So cents per thou.
sand cubic feet. 1t is being urged that
natural gas is a product that should
belong to the state and tax levied
on it for the public benefit. Even one
cent per thousand cubic feet would do
much toward building improved high
ways for the state. Every state has
natural products which should be used
to advance the public welfare instead
of being grabbed by some greedy cor
poration.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21
TAFT GETTING ACQUAINTED.

1t will not escape attention that Mr..
Taft is devoting much more time to
getting acquainted with the congress
men and the department activities.
Last year much more time was spent
in study Of the telegraph poles and
railroad ties on his long routes OF
travel.
There is a certain argument in IA
vor of presidential travels, in the fail
ure of Washington properly to reflect
the feeling of the country. The senti'
ment of the office holding class pro-
verbally misrepresents the sentiment
Of the great mass of the working peo'
pie OF the country, who are making
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

their living through productive occu.
pations.
At the same time the most econom-
ical manner for the president to use
In becoming familiar with the senti-
ment OF all sections of the country, is
to read the newspapers. He should
not confine himself to few journals
of the larger cities, which in their de-
votion to purely metropolitan inter
ests are the most provincial in the
whole newspaper field. Let him
glance over regularly, or have his Sec
retaries scan, a few leading journals
in each state, and he will know the
inner heart of the American people.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Champ Clark says that corn is the
coming crop in the south. He also
contends that il the south in civil war
days had known how to raise corn
the confederate states Of America
would be in existence today. The
south was starved into submission
Cotton was their only crop and they
could neither eat it nor sell it as in
other days to buy food. Now the Ar.
kansas bottoms are growing rice, the
Georgia uplands fruit, the Texas prai.
ries corn. A new era is dawning for
the south.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

A Chinese traveller in America
writes back to his friends that it is
impossible to civilize Americans-they
are beyond redemption. They eat
meat gluttonously and go for weeks
without tasting rice. They have no
dignity for they are seen walking with
women, and even sit at the table with
them. Poor Americans. 1t is a plain
duty for China to send missionaries
over here.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

A Chicago dressmaker predicts the
increasing popularity of the harem
skirt because it is the solution to the
problem of finding something entirely
comfortable and yet attractive to
wear. That's the trouble, it's alto
gether too attractive. When a woman
appears on the street in harem
skirt, she attracts such a crowd that
1t takes the policemen in large num-
bers to quell the mob.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21
ON THE RLEACHERS.

No one has yet petitioned congress,
so far as we are aware, that the an.
nual opening of the major league base
ball season, which took place this year
on Wednesday, should be made legal
holiday, Stranger propositions than
that, however, have come before our
law makers.
After clinging like human fly to
some outlying spar of a street car, and
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Work on the fertilization of the ca.
nal will begin on July by the same
men who did the excavating for the
canal. over 100000 have been APP
propriated for its fertilization. De-
lenses will be set up at each end of
the canal and all around the locks.
Five thousand troops will be kept
there in time of peace.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Now some of those cantankerous
congressman have made motion that
no longer shall anyone have the right
to print the encyclopaedia in the Con-
gressional Record as part of his
speechd.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

About $l5,OOO.0O0 were spent in the
organized fight against tuberculosis.
This was used in maintaining institu-
lions and in the educational crusade,
and does not include that spent In
private cure or in home care. Intelli-
gent organized work on such a scale
must show increasing good results.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Over 10000 rural delivery carriers
make daily round at an annual ex-
pense to the government of more than
$40,O00,000. 1t seems a strange thing
that they cannot be utilized to handle
parcels as well.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Wisconsin says her butchers must
tell what is in their sausage. The
next thing we hear will be an attempt
to make boarding house landladies tell
what their hash is composed of.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

There are sixty-six Young Mems
Christian associations organized
among the Sioux Indians. A full
blooded, educated Indian is the tray
cling secretary. The Indians give lib
orally to the support of the organiza-
ton and a substantial advancement
in morality and christian living is re-
sulting from their work.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Who won't feel sorry for the death
of Denman Thompson? His plays, un.
like other b'gosh dramas, sent you
away thinking of the manliness of the
characters rather than of their queer
clothes and awkward manners.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Diaz is going to give the Mexicans
a real election, so instead of letting
the president least one vote for the
entire nation, the untrammeled Mex,
leans will march up and do as their
farm and mine bosses tell them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

T. c. Dupont has offered to build
the longest and finest road in the
country through the state of Della.
ware-a broad boulevard the whole
length of the state to cost $4,000, 900.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Mr.. Taft tells the fighting Mexicans
to get away from the border. This is
like telling the small boy to send off
his July crackers out in the back lot
where no one can hear him.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Mr.. Bryan was disturbed because
he did not get his laundry bundle in
Indiana. If he were running for of.
flee dirty collars ought to be almost
as good a card as calloused hands.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

A Kansas City woman has recently
been robbed of sos, 900, and Memphis
has two million dollars to give Mr..
Bryan II he will settle there. There
mast be plenty of loose change lying
around in those sections or else adver.
Using rates for Tennessee and Mis-
souri, towns should be advanced.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Double tracks are to be laid by the
Central Pacific and Union Pacific rail.
roads over the whole distance to the
Pacific coast, making the first trans
continental double track line.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

desirable. tried serving hot luncheon
half an hour before service. 1t proved
n success as a drawing card. The sur
est route to mems hearts still leads
through the stomach.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

The government has experts looking
after the Indians eyes. If they are
to be educated in our schools, their
eye for the ball will have to be de-
veloped.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

The insurgents we're well treated on
congress committees, and 1t remains
to be seen if they can keep hollering
with their insides full of pie.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

We see by the paper that the Mex.
lean army routed the rebels. When
they get through down there, we'd
like to have them come up here and
rout cold in the head that we could
direct them to, II they're anxious for
more war;
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Lots of folks lie awake listening for
opportunity to knock, while opportun-
ity is quietly smoking a pipe in the
living room waiting for recognition.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

The president threw out the ball at
Washington's opening game, but he'd
find it easier to settle the Mexican
trouble than go down and take the
umpire's place.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

A Roman mirror, nearly 1000 years
old, made by attaching lead foil to
glass with balsam was recently dis
covered. 1t was as good as when first
made.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Congress is passing law for pub
licity of campaign contributions.
These sealed proposals for the job of
Office holding are getting unpopular.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

The Mexicans want a free ballot,
but as the man once said when his
daughters asked him for a chandelier,
they wouldn't play on it after they'd
got it."
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Japan is to build Immediately TWEEN
ty great merchant steamers for the
South and Central American trade.
This ought to serve as an outlet for
the pent up enthusiasm and energy of
the Japs, without waging war for a
while.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Senator Bailey insists that Justice
should prevail in the case of Senator
Lorimer and everything indicates that
Mr.. Lorimer fears that it will.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

You can't interest the modern boy
In any calling the returns of which
won't give him an automobile by the
time he Is 81.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Ebbets of Brooklyn says baseball is
yet in it's infancy. Judging by the
yelling in the bleachers, some one still
needs to walk the floor with it nights.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Those front page cartoons have
some friends, after all. Noting a crit
icism recently printed, a Clearwater
subscriber writes: 81 will say that
think they are all right. The one that
represented two boys out hunting rab-
bits, one with gun in hand, standing
near the end of hollow log, and the
smaller boy about midway of the log
pounding on the log with club to
chase bunny out, and bunny sticking
its head part way out of the log, re.
minded me more forcibly of the times
when / was boy and chased rabbits
in the winter than IL you had written
whole column in describing the
sport. And the one showing the, little
boy with a broad smile on his face
digging for fish bait, and then where
his mother called him back to take
care of his little sister-that is a true
representation Of one of the disap-
pointments of life. Perhaps such as
only little boy can feel. If you want
to drive a boy from home and the
farm, just deprive him of those inno-
cent recreations."
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

No wonder Taft stirred up trouble
for us with the Mexicans. Didn't he
wear a red necktie? And haven't the
Mexicans, trained in bull fights. learn
ed long ago what red means?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Congress is talking of making a
farmers free list" The small boy
long ago placed the farmers orchard
and melon patch in this category.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Now look here, Union Pacific, Nor
folk can take joke as well as any
body. You slipped one over on us
last year when you promised to start
that new depot by June 1, 1910 You
fooled us all right, and we give you
full credit for your cunning. But
enough's enough. Let's get down to
brass tacks and either begin building
or come out frankly and admit there's
no intention of replacing that filthy
old shack now serving as a depot,
with a new station.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

balmy days. but you begin to wonder,
after while, whether or not you're go.
ing to get anything else out of the
game besides hope.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

A bird in the hand isn't worth much
for catching insects.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

The United States patent office has
issued nearly million patents. The
first one was issued in July, 1880
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

The Furnace Golf season Is over
but the game still hangs on.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Day after tomorrow the hen will be-
gin getting credit again for what she
does. What makes such plagiarists of
the rabbits. ANYHOW?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

The Burlington road wants 1000
steel gondolas, showing how far-reach.
ing is the influence of Venetian life.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Here's hoping they won't get Hunter
away from us.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

And buying ice and coal on the self.
same day, isn't what it's cracked up
to be.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Man is such a conceited animal that
he never believes his steady wishes he
would go home SO she could get a
little sleep.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Some men put too much confidence
in a confidential secretary.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Farmers have become so prosperous
that there is no longer crying de-
mand for plow shoes.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

1t may be that some mean men OBJ
ject to the harem skirt because the
wind doesn't have any chance of get
ting action on it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

(There isn't any possible chance Of
the cold getting well before the end of
the war, that's a cinch)
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

The day on which the wife becomes
a regular ad-reader was a day OF even
better fortune than the one on which
the husband had a salary.raisei
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

After a cold has hung onto you for
three blooming weeks. you begin to
get pessimistic.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

No woman feels dressed up unless
she has on a fresh pair of hose.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

No matter if we don't know we like
to have people ask our opinion.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

We know what to SAY, but what to
DO has us jonahed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

BY the way, how many months ought
grass seed to take before you begin
to get something to show for your
money?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Many people work harder to land a
job than they do afterwards.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

1t is easy to believe a mans fish
stories when he gives you fish.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

Do you men find one hat in ten
that's comfortable?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

A white lie doesn't hold its color
very well.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

You probably expect too much from
labor-saving machinery.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-21

If you don't appreciate Daughters
efforts on the piano, she will get even
with you by telling you how much
you lack the Finer Sensibilities.