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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07
COLLEGE MEN IN BUSINESS.

The statistics OF any of our college
graduating classes show a remarkable
change as respects choice of business
and professions.
Take for instance, the Harvard class
of 1911. Here are the figures of stu
dents choosing the so-called learned
professions: Law, rs; medicine, "a;
ministry, s; teaching, 40; total, 159.
These are the total for business
callings; Business, 50; engineering,
46; banking, 22; manufacturing, %;
chemistry, 6; total, 1874
That is, the most famous American
university, once almost exclusively a
training school for the scholastic pro.
fessions, is turning out more business
than professional men today.
1t is felt by many people that it is a
mistake, as a business proposition, for
young man who is bent on COM
mercial career, to spend four years in
college. The recently published fig
ures of the Dartmouth college grad
yates Of the year 1900 do not support
that idea. The returns of that class
so far as available showed that they
are now averaging to earn $3.50 per
year.
And yet everyone Of us counts in
his personal acquaintance college men
who are grinding away at adding up
columns of figures or tending ribbon
counters, work for which six months
in a commercial school would have
given adequate preparation.
What is the mysterious influence of
the classic shades of college, assum.
ing due attention to work on the part
of the student, that has this power 70
enlarge the scope of mans life, even
from the coarse and feshly viewpoint
of business success?
1t would indeed be hard to analyze
! One great element must be the per
sonality of the college faculty. The
boy comes from secondary school
where methods of teaching are toe
often conventional and routine. He
finds the teachers repeating facts and
directing them how to do certain prob
lens, after rules found in books.
The typical college professor is q
more original worker. He is apt to
proceed as if no book on the subject
had ever been written, and as if pro
fessor and student were original ex
plorers in an untried and undiscov
cred field
This gives a student the habit OF
thinking out things for himself, anj
discovering and creating successes our
of situations where others see only
failure.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07
PLAYING BALL ON STREET.

Playing "catch" on the street in Nor
folk has been permitted by the police
without interference, but the time has
come when halt should be called. A
serious accident Friday evening, when
a Hoskins man driving an automobile
was struck in the face and seriously
wounded, ought TO be enough of q
warning to the authorities to put a
stop to the nuisance.
The streets were made for vehicles
and not for a baseball field. The dan
ger of throwing a ball back and forth
on principal business street, or any
other street, is obvious. Fridays ac,
cdent tells the story.
And what happened Friday will hap
pen again, unless the nuisance is done
away with. The next time the ball
may strike and kill. No person who
drives on the street is immune from
the danger and the next victim may be
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

bumptious youth, and We used to pro.
claim the truths of statecraft to a
waiting and awe struck world, much
as the college graduate Of today tells
how the earth would cease this dis.
tressing creaking on its axis II 1t
would but grease the bearings with
the wisdom of newly ledged alumni
AS the youth grows more modest
the farther away he gets from his col.
lege degree so America takes its place
in the sisterhood Of nations with less
aggressive self assertion. We believe
we have the best government in the
world, but we do not feel that 1t is
always good manners to be proclaim.
ing that fact in the ears Of our neigh
bors.
The new Fourth and its oratory will
look more to the future than to the
past. If it tells of the deathless deeds
of the patriots of old, 1t will be from
no feeling of self satisfaction but
merely to show the youth of today the
standard that is set for their far up.
hill climb.
The new Fourth will always be a
day for young hearts. What if the
fireworks do look a little pale to the
blase eyes of age, if they stir the
"Ahs" and Obs from the children,
! they make good. And first and fore.
most in the new Fourth must always
be manly athletics, for the first step
in patriotism is to place a sound nor.
NAL body at the service of your coun
try.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07
SUMNER IN TIE CHURCHES

To the prevailing sight of closed
church doors during hot weather with
the parsons mostly summering at cool
resorts, it is commonly remarked, and
with much force, that the devil never
takes vacation.
At the same time, when the young.
sters are driven up to Sunday school
right through the summer at a period
which the day schools recognize as
rest time, it takes a good many pic,
MICS and Christmas trees TO wipe out
inner resentment at conservative re-
ligious high brows.
When the small boy remarked that
I'VE have a very kind minister at our
church, who breaches short sermons
on hot Sundays" the old folks laugh
ed, but he had really hit on a profound
truth
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Smokers can now grow their own
pipes. The London Mirror states chat
Calabash seeds have recently arrived
in England for the first time, and the
importer claims that any one can grow
his own calabash in a few months, un.
der glass. They have to be baked in
an oven about three months before
they are ready for the tobacconist
Consequently those who SOW their cal
abash seeds now would not reap theii
pipes before Christmas.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07
FARM LIFE CHANGED.

In ten years the automobile has
revolutionized the world. 1t has cut
distances into fractions of their for
mer selves and created a new relation
ship among country towns and be
tween the farm and the town.
Booster" trade excursions, carry
ing the citizens of one town over a
great distance and permitting them tc
become better acquainted with theiI
neighboring communities, have come
to be quite commonplace spectacle in
this part of the west within the past
few months, and their popularity is
increasing.
With the arrival of the automobile
and good roads, farm life isn't the
drudge that once it was.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

If China succeeds in collecting that
six million dollar indemnity from Mex.
leo it will give the nations of the
earth to understand that she is dis.
tinctly in the arena and knowing her
rights, and hereafter proposes to main.
tain them-at least when a smaller
nation does her a wrong. The world
has made great deal Of talk about
civilizing China, but it is evident that
China has decided to reciprueate.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07
Two Fatal Mistakes.

Marie Antoinette, escaping from the
Tuileries, turned to the right instead OF
to the left after passing the inner arch
She lost her way, lost time and by this
means lost her own head and the head
of Louis XIV. SO the story of Carlyle
runs.
Queen Draga OF Servia meant to leave
Belgrade, but waited for a going away
gown, being anxious that as n fugitive
she should appear In becoming attire,
II was fatal delay.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07
SUNDAY SCHOOL QUESTIONS
Suggestive Queries on international
Sunday School Lessons.
JulY 9Th, 1911.

July 9Th, l911.
Copyright 1910, by Rev. T. =. LinscotL ID ID
The Suffering Servant OF Jehovah
lisa. lii:l3-liii:12.
Golden Textile Lord hath laid
or him the iuiQuity OF US all. lisa.
liii:6.
a. Verse 13-Who was the ser.
want of whom Isaiah speaks7
t2.) What is II to he u servant OF
God, and how does Jesus fulfil such a
position?
(3) In how many respects is Jesus
Exalted, extolled," and very high?"
a. Verses Observation-Disclosures
the Old Testament prophecies con.
cerning tho suffering Messiah was
there single person who was not
"astonished" at his crucifxion?
t6) Why were all the people OF
God including his apostles aston.
ished," and disappointed, at the cruel
lxion OF Jesus?
t6.) What has Jesus "Rprinkled" the
nations with?
a. What proportion OF the kings
or the presidents OF the nations look
to. and honor Jesus as the Saviour Of
the world?
(s) Verses liii:1-How many to day
believe this report" OF the suffering
son OF God7
(9.) Why have so many refused to
believe this "report?"
G0) What relation DO those whom
God has delivered from their sins and
their sorrowful fears, bear TO this re
port?"
G1) Verses 2-3-What would have
been the result 10 Gods cause, II the
worlds redeemer had belonged to a
kingly home instead OF a carpenters?
12) What would have been the DIFF.
ference In the results II Jesus had
been a great general, q legislator, or
merchant prince?
O3) What class OF men have de-
epsed and rejected Jesus?
I4) Did God want Jesus to be "a
man Of sorrows?"
G5) Verses 4.9-How has Jesus
borne our griets and sorrows?
'16) Did God plan TO have the Jews
reject Jesus and to cruelty him.?
Give your reasons.
G7) Could Jesus have borne our
Eriefs and saved our souls II the Jews
had accepted him?
lS.) When the prophet says I'VE
did esteem him stricken, smitten OF
God and afflicted" were the Jews or
others right or wrong in so thinking?
Q9) Was God at any time angry
with Jesus, or did he ever punish him?
(20.) In what way did Jesus bear
all the cruel insults and the physical
suffering inflicted on him by the
Jews, for our sakes?
(21.) Suppose the Jews had yielded
their hearts 20 the loving Invitation OF
Jesus, and had espouseo His cause as
His Apostles did, what would have
boon the probable result upon the sal
vstlon Of the worldf (This 10 one Of
the questions that may be answered
In writing by members Of the cIub.)
(22.) Why did the Jews bring about
the crucilxion OF Jesus?
l23) Verses 10-l2-What are some
OF the personal blessings which come
10 us through the death Of Jesus?
(24) What are some OF the national
blessings which we enjoy through the
death OF Jesus?
Lesson for Sunday, July 16th, 1911.
Manasseh's Wickedness and Peni.
| tence 2 ChrOn. YEIiii'1-2n
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

When the call to arms came fifty
years ago, large body of students
left the University of North Carolina
to join the confederate army. 1t was
a most pathetic scene when this spring
100 old men, the survivors Of that stu.
dent body, returned to their college
and received their long waited for
bachelor of arts degree.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The defeat of the Root amendment
to the Canadian reciprocity agreement
gives the country assurance that the
senate will act favorably on the agree
ment, as it was entered, without tack
ing on objectional riders.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Henry James got Harvard degree
and now they should give another to
the man who shall get up a guide book
by which one can understand Mr.
James writings.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Farming seems destined to become
one of the highest of the learned pro.
fessions instead of one specially de-
signed to furnish employment for the
men who didn't know enough to do
anything else, as it was once regarded.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Banker Morse is now trying to get
out of jail by habeas corpus writ, in
spite of the service he could do his
country by keeping calm and attend.
ing strictly to the creation of cane
seat chairs.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Whatever may be the justice of the
suit against the magazines under the
antitrust law, it is evident that the
government is making every effort to
have all business interests live up to
the law regardless who is hit.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Indianapolis and Buffalo have adopt.
ed municipal flags for city booming
purposes. This is not a bad idea. It
might be so used as to prove an in.
centive to civic patriotism.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The incident of 1900 voters being
disfranchised for five years for vote
selling in Ohio is still fresh in the
public mind. Probably not many have
thought to ask who bought their votes,
or what punishment was meted out to
the purchaser. But recent disclosures
supported by affidavits of the offend
ing voters seem to prove that Judge
Blair, who made this wholesale on.
slaught to purify the ballot is, him.
self, the guilty party. If the offense
charged were not so serious, this
would add a spice of comedy to the
melodrama, with Blair in each case in
the leading role.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

How those eleven Harvard bach.
elors of arts who are to become four
nalists" will feel when the city editor
asks them to walk three miles into
the suburbs and ask Mrs. Hardup
where she spends the weekend!
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

If all the energy devoted by Banker
Morse to getting out of Jail had been
previously devoted to keeping out, he
might still be ioyfully riding around
on his ice carts.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Forty-nine countries were represent.
ed at the recent meeting of the Inter.
national institute of agriculture at
Rome. 1t was voted to adopt the
American method of handling crop es-
Inmates, reports and conditions, which
are acknowledged to be more COM
plete and accurate than those OF any
other country.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Ex-senator Hopkins says Jackpot.
ting has always been common in the
Illinois legislature. Like the hotel
cloakroom man, legislators instead of
receiving salary will soon be paying
for the chance at the tips.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

A Kansas official says that drink is
being sold in that state which upon
being analyzed was found to contain
prune juice, jimpson weed logwood
and tobacco. That old question,
what's the matter with Kansas" has
been answered once for all.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Americans are the greatest fruit
eaters in the world. The importation
OF foreign fruits has grown phenom.
enally in the last generation. A gen.
Grafton ago the banana was rare
luxury. Last year 4O,OOO,OOO bunches
were brought into this country Dur.
ing the same time only a few hundred
thousand lunches were eaten in Eng.
land. The English take more kindly
to American apples, of which they eat
million barrels year.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Watch the boy who knows how to
stick to what he is doing till he has
accomplished it. That boy has fu-
ture. Tenacity of purpose is a charac-
teristic which will, alone, go far to
repair even the lack OF native ability.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

By a strange contradiction from
what would be expected, the author of
the much loved song Home Sweet
Home" was a poor and homeless bach
elor. who never knew the joys of home
life after he reached maturity.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Now that the coronation Is over,
King George must feel relieved TO be
able to put his tail coat in the closet,
and walk down to the Office in his
business suit.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The luxurious club rooms in the
annex to the senate are so complete
and satisfactory in every detail that
it is said the senators no longer pine
for the adjournment Of congress, but
are content to idle away their time
there indefinitely. Is there no way Of
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

From the way the story has been
coming out, many people feel that Col,
Roosevelt would have gotten as much
satisfaction out of a ham sandwich as
out Of dining with Senator Lorimer.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

In view of the headon locomotive
collision at the Indianapolis Fourth of
July celebration, Mr.. Taft would en-.
hance his popularity by confining his
speech to the historic words, Let her
go Gallagher"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The president talked to 100000 peo-
pie at Providence, r. l., almost as
many as would have turned out to see
a Newport Divorce so by with her
lap dog.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Although Canada was won from
the French by the English more than
a century and half ago, the French
residents of suburb of Montreal OBJ.
jected most strenuously to a recent at
tempt to place an English sign on the
postoffice. They gathered in the vii.
lage square and after a patriotic dem
onstration in which the songs of their
fathers were enthusiastically sung,
they placed a sign in the French Ian
guage upon the building. 1t takes a
long time to make an Englishman out
of a Frenchman.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Many college students are now get.
ting trips to Europe by feeding cattle
on the freight boats. This is much
preferable to serving course dinners to
the Smart Set as summer hotel wait
ters.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The Yale class of 90 brags of its 3O4
babies, but how many Of these bach
elors of arts can carry one of the kids
so as not to hurt its neck, without con-
stant coaching from their wives?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

John L. Sullivan is to retire from
the stage, but If he keeps on contrib.
uting his classic gems of English prose
to the newspapers, the cause of litera-
ture is still safe.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

AS the packers won't be tried until
November 20, too early to assure us
cheap filling for this summers picnic
sandwiches, some of us will have 10
keep on using lettuce leaves from the
kitchen garden.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The sagacious newly married couple
will carefully sweep up the rice Of
fered by attentive friends and offer it
to them in the form of rice pudding
at some future social function.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Not merely did the court sanction
the Southern and Union Pacific mer.
ger, but one gang of ruthless mOnop,
olists is allowed to operate the two
parallel lines of a double track rail
road
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Strange to say, the senators who
used to wear the sugar trust tag in
place Of boutonniere, have got TO
the point where they keep it inside
their coats.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

If Gov. Aldrich's information about
Ohio opposing Taft is no more au-
thentic than his wildcat dream about
Nebraska going for the pompadour kid
of Wisconsin, it needn't worry the
president a great deal.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

An eastern paper says the New
York Sun does not like Woodrow Will
son, VIII this contemporary kindly
mention any one the New York Sun
does like?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The absence of a coronation ode
from Alfred Austin caused comment
but if he can't get it printed elsewhere
we will take it at space rates.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

President Taft kissed baby on his
Fall River visit. After many hard
knocks, he is gradually learning the
elementary principles of statesman.
ship.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07
Leaps Down Fifteen Stories.

Chicago, July sc A. Wright, a
clerk, committed suicide today by
jumping from the fifteenth story of the
Masonic temple building to the court
below He was instantly killed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

package by aeroplane to the steamer
Olympic. How a red blooded baggage
handler would enjoy delivering trunks
in that manner.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The fat men are in convention in
Boston, and let us hope that bridges,
railroad trestles and steamship
wharves have been carefully inspect
ed
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07
air Marninn.

Go'ToX-Can you support my daugh
ter In the way she has been accus
toned 10 i've. young MANI Harduppe
We'll. it'll hc your fault u | can't
Philadelphn Record
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Admiral Togo is spending seventeen
days looking over our country, but we
don't believe it necessary yet to put
armor plate on the Hoboken ferry
boats.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

II the campaign in favor of safe and
sane Fourth of July celebrations is
kept up energetically, the fire engine
and the doctor will not play as i'm
portant parts as formerly in the days
festivities.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The queen naturally wept during
the coronation, as her carefully pre-
pared dinner must have got very cold
during an eight hours ceremony.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

with hundred thousand people to
pass through this city during the com.
ing land rush, it behoovcs Norfolk to
get busy and light her streets with
cluster lights from beginning to end
Now's the time.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The congressman are spending so
much time looking at the grandstand
that they forget all about the ball un-
til it gets tangled up with their feet.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

AS Envoy Hammond had to wear
knee breeches to the coronation, he
could ride up to the Abbey on BIZ
cycle instead of having to hire a hack.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The arbitration treaty with England
Is nearly ready, but the senate will
observe its rights to deposit chestnut
burrs beneath the British lions tail.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The harem skirts prove unpopular
at Atlantic City. They were too much
like the mantle Of charity in covering
up sins.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The government is after the alleged
magazine trust, and it proposes to
stop this restraint OF the trade in
muck rakes. iAHiH
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

This campaign against unnecessary
noises should take up the question of
Capt. Hobson and his views on the
war with Japan.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

American flies SO miles in II min.
utes;' italian flies 1l6 miles in an
hour in an automobile" Atwood flies
into New York City" Where the
deuce do all the flies come from, any
way? We keep swatting and swatting.
aIt still the air is full of em.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

'Bliggtns says he has one OF the
smartest and handsomest youngsters
In the country"
"Yes," replied Mr.. Growcher; "thats
what comes Of so many people think.
Ing 1t necessary TO tell a man that his
children talls after him. Washing.
ton Star
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07
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tAEi z

Some people favor substituting ice
cream for explosives July 4, and stom.
achache really seems more desirable
than lockjaw.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

A classified advertiser, who means
business" will get business. II he has
something to sell that is worth while,
he will advertise II in a confident and
convincing way-ald he will sell Il
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The summer resorts are filling up
and one must get his quarters ready
for the table walters, or be relegated
to the famine sufferers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Fourteen lumber trust men are pre-.
sented with indictments, which papers
it is now fashionable to frame and
hang along side of your college degree.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Mr.. Taft wants the senate to vote
on reciprocity, and after full line of
speeches has been mailed to every
voter, they may consent to do so.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The democrats are hurrying to get
their tariff bill into public document
form, before the tariff board has time
to see how it looks in the light of
business mems ledgers and working
mems wages.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Tacoma has found out that the men
who will accept Office under the recall
system are the men who ought to be
recalled.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

Mr. Carnegie might have TO put an
addition on his Libraries If he told all
he knew about United States Steel.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

The Rosebud got an inch of rain
Wednesday night, as we'll as the north
edge of Nebraska. Apparently not out
of the rain belt just yet.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-07-07

A Norfolk farmer, who has a colorcd
farmland said to the man: Pm CO.
ing to pay you on a sliding scale this
year. If the crops are good, III pay
you well; if they're poor, the wages
will be lower"
1--WE worked that way before" the
colored man said. "Once | worked
that way for a fellow and at the end
of the season ! owed him money"