Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

Text from Pages 1 - 54 of the 1890 volume:

Editors, Glass of ’90. GLENS M. SCOFIELD. A LIE 1. JOHNSON, LINN .� . SCOFIELD. CLASS MOTTO: Niim, Sink Labour.' GoMM NGEitviENT jUe,eK. BACCALAUREATE SERMON, BY REV. J. J. PARKER. SUNDAT EVENING, MAT as, CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. SUBJECT: “A BEAUTIFUL LIFE.” ( LASS DAY EXERCISES, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAI aSth ORARlATIMi EXERCISES, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY aq. Salutatory “ Thk Price ok oi k Hkkitaok.' A lie I. Johnson. Oration—“ Yocno America. Lynn M. Scofield. Valedictory—“ Pyramids.' (ilenu M. Scofield. Xo Class Honors. • -tHei-Milestone..- ■ VOLUME II. NORFOLK, NEB., MAY 29, 1890. NUMBER 1. NUMBER 7yyo. EAR ago the MiI.KSTOXk wan bom. ith a spirit of enterprise tliat has 1 ever lieen a characteristic of them, theclassof ’89 instituted this publication, to be the medium through which the alumni and the graduating class, each year, may express their feelings of fellowship, as well as to preserve the choicest literary productions of the Senior class. The class of '90 recognize the wisdom of their predecessors, and. not wishing to be less progressive than they, have endeavored to make “Number two” all that its founders intended it to be. To the business men of Norfolk who have contributed so liberally to the Milestone's advertising columns, making it possible for us to publish it. we extend our sincere thanks. 1Y our readers, we will say, patronize those whose advertisements appear in the Milestone. They are the representative business men of the city, ami are worthy of your patronage. Hoping that our successors may profit by our editorial experiences, and make the future issues of the Milestone still better, we are, cordially, The Class ok '90. Baccalaureate §ei?Mon. KKV. J. J. l’AHKKH. “A Tiling of Beauty is a Joy Forever.” A BEAUTIFUL LIFE. Let the Beauty of the Lord our tfod be ujam us.—Psalm 90-17. I il k i.ovk o b uuty is a uaiv rs.il s mi! im oil, a i I its realiz ttion. ( ■ sun. degree. is within the reach of us all. It does not depend on rank, wealth or genius; it is not a matter of dress, h' aring, or etiquette; no tailor e;m make a young man a gentleman, no dancing master can make a young woman a lady; and you may study books which, have been written to teach good manners until you are gray, and yet not come within a hundred miles of the ideal of beauty. A handsome person has as little to do with it, as elegant manners, or superb attire, it is an internal, rather than an external, quality: it belongs to disposition, character, and conduct. A beautiful life must be simple, consistent with itself: not zig-zag. but straight; it must conform to some standard and l e guided by some principle. Our mother has put into our nature the faculty of conscience to do this work: many things seek to usurp its functions, but there is no other guide so simple, direct, and authoritative. We are creatures of impulse; passiou pleads for indulgence; and the desire to please others exercises great power over us; in fact. Mr. Darwin thinks approbativeness is conscience, or at any rate the social instinct out of which conscience has developed. And many people evidently confound the two. In one of Sheridan's plays, a servant is asked: What! have you a conscience against lying? No, lie replies, but I have a TIIF. MILESTONE. i conscience against 1 � ir� y found out.” Reminding one of the mother who found her child playing on Sunday in front of tin house, and sharply rebuking him, said: “Why, don’t you know it is Sunday?” “fin and play in the hack ,ird ” “•Mother,” responded the child, “is it not Sunday in the hack ard too?” The fact is that conscience is a very different tiling from appro-hativness. Falstaff says: It is a blushing, shame-faced spirit that mutinies in man's bosom; it falls on one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing: every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself, and live without it.” There is a world of philosophy in that. Take warning by it. Do not mutilate your nature by killing conscience, nor pe mit love of ease, money, or the desire to please others over-ride its dictates. If you would have your character kept clean of duplicity and distortion, and your life lifted upabive dishonesty, falsehood, and cowardice, take conscience as your companion and guide, submit implicitly to its dictates, ami it will be the best friend you car. have in the world. Upside this element of integrity, a.beautiful life should be thorough, earnestness and whole-hearted ness should enter into it. We like things that look finished, and a suggestion of completeness, whether it be a landscape or a poem, a picture or an address. We all have a dash of artistic genius, which makes us impatient of slovenliness, and all work that is ill-done; and therefore we ought to aim to be at our best. It is not neccessary that we should l e artists in order to do the work of life, but it is neccessary that we lay all our resources under tribute, and put our immagination. our skill, our energy, and our wit into all we do, so that our work shall be the completest expression of our life. Only in this way can we develop our hiddt n powers, and do work that will benefit mankind. When Darwin, the great naturalist, left college, he spent six years in a voyage of exploration, gathering specimens of animals and plants, observing natural phenomena, and collecting information: twelve more years were spent in experimenting, collating and in the process of reduction l� efore he wrote his “Origin of Species.” Hut then it is one of the greatest books of the century, and has made its author famous. And then if we would make our lives ft TJ1K MILUSTOKU. lieauliful they must be useful. There is no uglier thing in life than selfishness, anil nothing which so spoils the Is'auty of a human soul. It is this which is the bane of all our good things, the thought ami the determination to have everything for ourselves, time, strength, skill, money and pleasure. It wasthis spirit that Jesus came to destroy, and to put within us another spirit, even his own spirit of generosity and love, which will make us willing to think and work and live and die for the good of others. Here is a lovely story told of what happened in a heathen country when Jesus was not known, and his gospel never preached; hut when this spirit of disinterested love dwelt, and made people kind—l eautifully kind, to each other. It was in one of the temples where men ignorantly prayeil to a t«od who they believed caused all the uneasiness of their life, sent blights on their corn, and plagues on their cattle, who witheld the rain and made people to die of thirst and famine. The idea of God was that he was angry and cruel, and His priests were like Him, standing in His temple with their kni es in their hands to slay lives to please Him. He might he made kind, they thought, and look down propitiously if they offered on the altar the life most dearly loved among the people. And so the King and Queen came to the temple, bringing their child, a beautiful maiden with them, and the priests stood ready for sacritice and prayers. The church and the land was full of plague-stricken-people, and the fields were all burned up, the streams dried and the earth a ruin. The curse of the mighty God was upon them, and must be appeased by sacrifice. So the priests turn to the King to ask him which he loves best; of that they willmake a sacrifice to their God. 'I hey will not let the King die; too much depends on him. but his wife or hi daughter, which he loves best. He says he loves his child the best, and so the priests seize his daughter; but while bringing her to the alter, the wife breaks in—“It is not true!” entreatingly putting her hands on the priest s arm. “He loves me the best,” she pleads, thankful that it is so, for she would save her child. The priest looked into the King's pale face to see if the Queen had said right. The King turns deadly pale. They see that the woman is right; it is the wife that he loves most. As she thrusts herself forward to lay herself down upon the altar, wretched to leave them both, yet glad to save her child; her child THE MILESTONE. springs forward, drugging at her clothes, and cries out, in agony: “No, mother, not you, hut me!” Then the King shouts: “No, let it he me: pray me! That was one of the world's grandest nights; each struggling to die for the other. And that is what is needed to cure the world's woe and wipe out its dreadful curse—a glorious rivalry of disinterested service. It is this which makes life beautiful. f LUMNi Corner. SALUTATORY FROM THE CLASS OF 89. T r YEAR lias passed since onr graduation ami again tin class t 9 • t l its friends through the classical columns of the Mm.kstonk. When wo left our nhnn mater twelve short months ago, never again ♦ � enter her pleasant halls as students ami fellow pupils, we left her only to enter an Older, and stricter school, the school of the World, to be disciplined by those hard, cruel master?, Time and Experience. Thus far they have deal with us but gently. Our paths have not lain widely divergent and the -iron rod” of duty has only kept us from straying into fields of idleness. We are still privileged to meet occasionally as a class to recall and enjoy Memory's pictures of the happy past. To pass once more through onr various experiences, sublime and ridiculous, to once more discuss the merits of onr Professor and agree nnuni imously that ours was the jollies class that ever graduated, and that our school and our teachers were the finest that ever existed. Perhaps, at least we hope so. you would like to know what has become of this remarkable class, what we have been doing or if anything wonderful has happened to any of us? To the first, we are all still living and enjoying most excellent health and spirits. To the second two only have gone abroad to continue their studies in higher schools, two more are teachers in the halls they so lately left, and the fifth is in her home nursing her “budding genius Strange to say nothing wonderful has happened to am of ns et. quite sure, however, that we will all be famous some day. The promise we made last year shall be faithfully kept and in the glorious years of manhood and womanhood to come we fully expect to do something grand and good and noble, something that shall send onr names pealing down the ages to come in a glad, resounding chime. To the class of '90, so soon to join the ranks of the yet youthful alumini, Til E MILESTONE. 11 we hid you u hearty welcome, to our society, our hiarts aud our greatness to come. You are few in number, fewer than we were few. but we are assured that what is lacked in quantity is amply made up in quality. You were our school-mates, you become co-laborers with us in the rugged field of life. May the battles be eiisy. may the marches be short and the rests long and refreshing. May the hopes that have been born during your school days strengthen as the days go by and the realization of them draw nearer. Wherever you may be. whatever may befall you. let the links which bound us in our youth strengthen, may new and brighter links be added, forming at last a glittering chain reaching to eternity. We cannot always be young and gay. We cannot expect it, for well we know by the lives among us, “that into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary,” but let us remember, dear friends and fellow pupils, that over and above all there is a power to guard and guide us, and the hope of a happy meeting that shall never know the sorrow and pain of a parting, to spur us on to duty. Again extending our heartiest wishes for success and happiness to teachers, friends and fellow pupils and thanking again the public for their kind attention to us, we greet you for the last time as the Class ok 89. 11 K class of '89 met at the home of Miss Kthel Keid dune 17, 1889. for the purpose of organizing a society in which til? class and all succeding classes graduating from the Norfolk High School, could feel a common interest, and which would still bind them as the years go by. to the friends and memories of a happy youth aud the joyous days of the past. All the members of the class were present save one. Ttuipirarv odie .-rs were elected and a committee instructed to draw up a constitution ami by-laws. Ktiikl I . Reil , Ida M. Battk. Edith Hays, Frederick W. Leavitt, Lilian Qkkkckk. ORGANIZATION OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE NORFOLK HIGH SCHOOL. 12 THE MILESTONE. The following Thursday the class again met with Miss Lilian (ierecke, for permanent organization, under the name of the ‘'Alumni Association of the Nofolk High School.” Fred Leavitt was elected president; Kdith Hays, vice-president; Lilian Gerecke, secretary and treasurer. The constitution drawn by the committee was read, revised and accepted. All classes graduating from the Norfolk High School are expected and heartily invited to become members of the Association upon their graduation, the former members reserving all rights to make the initiation a performance never to lx forgotten by the ‘‘new-comers.’ Of courae our membership is still very small, numbering only five. Upon the entrance of the ’90's, should they find the courage to join us, we become eight strong. As the years go by, may the list increase. May the blessings of the prosperity of the school, so richly showered upon us, continue to fall still more abundantly on the worthy heads that follow ns, and each year as the old members greet the new ones may they revive their love for alma mater and join in a rousing hurrah for old Norfolk High School. Ixmg may she live and prosper. FROM DOANE COLLEGE. Leak Friends ok the Milestone:--------- We gladly accept an opportunity to contribute something to Vol. II of the Milestone. The founders of this publication, who embarked upon their first journalistic enterprise with considerable trepidation, are most heartily glad to see it prosper and will ulways take a kind’y interest in this and every other effort of the alma mater, The class of 89 have been alumni hardly long enough to know just how it feels to be out of school. In fact, the feeling was so unpleasant that we must all needs return to our books for a little study, though not all of us are so fortunate as to study behind the desk. Perhaps a few observations on my home for the past year may be of inte rest on account of its being at a greater distance. Doan College, while unseetarian, is conducted upou distinctly Christian THE MIT E8T02JE. 13 principles and has always been a powerful agent for good. As an educational institution, it is acknowledged first in the state, its graduates taking higher rauk in the great eastern colleges. Ten professors and instructors of highest merit aud reputation compose the faculty. The curriculum provides facilities for thorough classical, scientific, normal and business courses, besides the conservatory of music and department of art. The college buildings ure three in number, Merrill Hall, Ladies’ Hall and lioswell Observatory. The library of 7,.'� 00 volumes and pamphlets, cabinet, labratory and armory are in Merrill Hall. We have three good literary societies, and society work is counted as equivalent in value to any one study. It seems to me that a literary society would be a valuable aid in the High School. There is no need of speaking at length of the sports, of base ball, foot ball and tennis, of the ladies’ gymnasium, the Light (iuards and many other things which give such a jolly aspect to college life. Although I may not be able to complete the course, I hope Norfolk High School will always be represented at “old Doane.’’ Crete, Neb., April 26. Fred W. Leavitt. Prize OratioH- By Miss Ai.ik I. Johnson, ‘JO. |Tlie fo,lowing Oration won the (� oM Mods in the North Nebraska Oratorical Contest, at Norfolk, December 27, i tl'.). J HEKO WORSHIP. ‘‘History is the biography of great m m. Arising ubjve the common tide ot events that have enlisted the myriad of multitudes of human hearts and hands, along the march of destiny have been unveiled massive monuments of men. Like great guide-posts along the line of progress, every era is marked by their presence. In every epoch to them the linger of history points as an index of their time. Janus-faced in their majesty, a twofold declaration is read upon their brow. Upon their front is-piece behold a name! A name that is revered. A name that has in its time, moved the whole spirit of a people. Hut while that majestic monument bears upon it the epitaph that commemorates a life glorious with renown, in symbolic duplicity it speaks to the passing generations tin sentiment of a people; the sentiment of its age. The people pause before it, and there see deeds ot valor, of sacrifice, of heroic devotion, love and philanthropy, and in the great patriotic heart of mankind a hero is produced to be worshipped. A hero, worshipped indeed by all succeeding peoples. It has been wisely said, ‘‘Heroism is the divine relation which at all times unites a great man to other men. 1 rulv great human links in all past ages have bound together the swaying masses of humanity, and borne them onward. “Hero worship is the underlying principle of progress. Scarce THE MILESTONE. 15 an ago rots by but some groat man characterizes its course anti regulates the pulse-beats of public sentiment. Buck in the early years after the Hoot!. when civilization was yet in its cradle, an organization was planted upon Assyria’s plains which soon grew and formed itself into empiric shape. History tells us that wild b� asts resisted progress at every step, even threatening the destruction of the empire, and became man’s deadliest foe. The chief of men. commanding the gratitude and allegiance of his fellows, the hero of their worship, was he who subjected the beasts of the field and forest. A man appeared, who, by slaying these wild and savage beasts became the benefactor of his rare. Upon the cycles of time, in monumental distinction characteristic of his day, the name of Nimrod,the mighty hunter, is iKirnotous. A hero truly in noble deeds. Greece too had her heroic age. Brave men were plenteous, but the customs of the Greeks were homely and simple. Art sprang up; sculpture and design assumed material shape; and poetry Mas born in the minds of wandering minstrels M'ho chanted their lays from place to place, till an old hard, a blind Homer, began to relate the brave, warfaring deeds of their forefathers. In him a hero of epic art arose. Homer's name is fresh upon the lips of men to this day, and even the dawn of eternity shall not bedim its lustre, for it is the soul of the world's best literature. Ours is a religious age; ours a religious people; our civilization based upon civil and religious law. But the shadow we have given a passing glance, shows that this philosophic nineteenth century is very different from the crude civilization of ancient days. Purely the original plan hears the marks of many succeeding architects. Upon our monument of men where first is seen the trace of enlightened conquest, a name is inscribed, Charlemagne! Charlemagne, the “Great hero of religious conquest who forged the mighty chain that linked succeeding ages in Christian civilization. Of his success and victories, history has told the tale to all. Of his goodness, the cause of Christ must tell. He was a man of war. His discipline was the hard, harsh role of battle. But his guiding star was one incessant prayer. His reign marks a period of forty-four years. On the day we celebrate the birth of the Havior of men, lie received the iron crown of the Western empire. That crown 16 THE MILESTONE. must be the crown of the christain empire today. Do the people of these countries worship him? Yes. Let church and state pay tribute to his glorious name. Let Christianity build him a monument, like mountains piled on mountains to the skies, while inscribed upon it in blazon characters, shall be the name of that religious hero of the world, Charlemagne! Shakespeare is worshipped as the greatest, the sublimest hero of poetry. His career of dramatic production is without parallel in the history of literature. His drama has been called the Mirror of life because no other man ever possessed immagination, humor, knowledge of human nature, and creative power as all these were united in him, the sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another; but the rock always continues in its place., l'he stream of time which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. To whom are we indebted for our present national condition? To thousands of brave patriotic. Americans. Hut to two in particular. lhe first, Washington. Is he a hero? Ia?t the immortal homage paid by all the sons of earth be the answer. God bless forever and ever, the father of our Country! Such characters never die. Hut, “as the sun setteth low, leaves a track of glory in the skies, so these glorious nam',s live and reign. There is another name written on America’s dome of fame, a name that we mention with pride unspeakable. But a few years since, our nation wept and mourned. A sable veil of grief hung across the hearthstone of our houses. Abraham Lincoln! Is his name written there? Ah, Yes! His life, his mission, his martyred end, need no telling. We worship him as a hero, sublime. He guided the ship of state through the long storm so dark, so fratricidal, so full of blood, until at last there dawned the sunrise of such an absolute national victory,” the triumph of the union, dispelling the darkness of the long night of slavery, and sent through the land the rays of peace and universal freedom. His unparalleled love for mankind, his great heart of gentle acts and kindness, his unguarded mercy toward those who suffered, his soul, his magnanimous character, make him a hero that not only we. but all nations must revere. Man, true it might seem, has inherited the birth-right to be a hero, THE MILESTONE 17 But who shall question that voice from tradition that proclaimed a woman’s name among the heroic figures of fame. Heroines there have been, whose names have been unfurled in the banners of history where greatest achievements mark their missions of glory. ‘ Eighty women fell wounded at Amiens” doing battle for their country. Were they not heroines? Hack in the fifteenth century, among the oakwoods of Lorraine, a lowly girl, though destined to bear the sword of France, was born. The legends said that the fairies of the black Forest hallowed her with holy inspiration. Cut while those legends sang of the fanciful, the prosaic declarations of war were heard in the distance. A hurried stop and history tells us of a proud and beloved city, the city of Orleans besieged by a host of English soldiery. She must hive succor or French glory must fall. Another step, and the crisis is reached. A mediator appears as by a Holy will. A Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans comes t the rescue and the crown of France, upon the white arms of a heroine, is boine to its throne. Lot all women worship such a mm ■ a character without a recorded stain; a spirit which always breathed the breath of Him who gave it; a heart so kind she always cared for the enemies slain and wept for pain after her own victories; a life that was a prayer to her God before whom she never faltered. Worship is hers, whose mission was a glorious tribute to a woman's name. Man by nature adores that in which he has great faith; pays homage to that which he lores and admires. Great leaders are always plentiful, but scarce a score there are whose names have passed through decisive crises of time, and gained unsullied positions on the portals of fame. Idols of wood and stone have b� en worshipped. Man’s disposition is to worship. But the truest, most intelligent and purest instincts of man have been taught a holier worship. A worship of the Hero of heroes, and King of kings. Ages ago the people who had waited for his coming worshipped Him. Worshipped Hint as the ‘‘sweet babe of Bethlehem” and as the Hero of the cross. “And now, listening with bated breath, we may hear his foosteps echoing down the ages, till today they bring to us the same blessings that then fell on the waiting people.” “The millions, the countless prayers and songs of praise that lift heavy laden hearts above sorrows of tins world,” are all the product of faith thk mij.kstonf. in this Hero. All that distinguishes us from the pagan world, all that makes us what we are and stimulates us in the task of making ourselves better than we are is Christian worship. The worship of Jesus Christ is the very fountain head of everything that is desirable and praiseworthy in our civilization, ami this civilization is the flower of time. Humanity has reached its noblest thrift, its highest altitude of excellence through the influence of the worship of this ilivine hero, Christ. JVIadison's First Glass. It is with pleasure that we greet the first class to graduate from the Madison High school. hist year, the first class ever graduated in the county went out from the Norfolk High school. This year there are two eloMes—Norfolk and Madison—aggregating just twice the number of last year's graduates. This plainly attests the progress of educational affairs in the county. May the good work go on. until every country, village, and town school in the county will have a systematic, graded course of study, and induce more young people to pursue it to completion. The motto of the ‘90V at Madison is, ‘‘Not how much, but how well.” The c.lass iscom(Kitkd entirely of young ladies, whose names are as follows: Delbert 1). Antisdel, Addie L. Hodges, Nellie M. Davis, Kittie A. Coope, 1‘hebe S. Wills, Maude M. Hodges, Kate C. Bohannon. The following is the program of their graduating exercises: Overture—“The Belle of the Village”—Bull ini, ... Orchestra. Invocation,.........................................Rev. J. L. St. Clair. Essay—“Influence of National Monuments,” - - - Nellie M. Davis. Music—“Hark the Distant Hills with Music,”—Jacob . - - (Quartette. Essay—“Patriotism,” ...... Delbert D. Antiatdel. Essay—“Roman and American Homes, - - • Kate C. Bohonnon. Music—“Song of Niagara.”—Op. Verdi, .... (Quartette. Essay—44 Westminister Abbey,” .... Maude M. Hodges. Oration—“Our Destiny,” .......................Kittie A. Coope. Music, -.............................................' Orchestra. Essay—“Power of Example, Phebe S. Wills. Valedictory—“Earth's Battlefields,” ... Addie L. Hodges Music—“Dam e Song,”.......................................0,,iir tte. Presentation of Diplomas. l r. F. A. Dong. Class Prophecy,....................................Lena Thompson. Overture—‘‘The Black Qtn eii,” Orchestra. Graduating Orations. THE PRICE OF OCR HERITAGE. SALUTATORY ORATION, CLASS 0? '90. Tiik index of tin: peopled universe points, in this age, to an era of wonder fully great institutions. The cycles of time have retorded with each rev olution, changes in governments, forms of religion, art and customs. 1 lie advance of age solidifies progress into more permanent and enduring organization. Good or evil, truth or error, the beautiful or the vulgar, may assume shape that must enlist the hard hand of an age to erase its structure. Hut notwithstanding the ve.dict of the more dyspeptic mind of man, the advance of time has 1� een a refiner of the institutions of all nations. Who would question in comparison the virtues represented in the Goddess of Liberty, anti the wild, frenzied lawlessness of those ancient Goths, who, it is said, sounded the tocsin of the first true principles of human liberty. Thrones once were chopped off by the headsman s axe, but now rulers may not fear such uncivil deposition. Art was great but not pure. Much of education was rooted in infamy. No stake, or torture rack is endured under the ban of religious freedom, but instead, the little child may join in the intelligent music of Christian progress. In short, now, in this very epoch of wonderful splendor and power, nations are vicing with each other in contest for the loftiest standard of civil achievement. The fori most nations of the world are at peace. Aspirations are civil, progress cultured and ideal. The phenomena of great accomplishment is majestic to behold. Hut what has it cost? Grasp in one thought the endless panorama of the past, the vicissitudes, crises of war, and fevered panic in state and national life, and then THE MILESTONE. 21 say, “What lias it cost?” Glorious institutions indeed we inherit today, but “What is the price of our heritage? From infancy to maturity the student of history traces those events which have characterized the growth of notions. The infant nation is bent and swayed in the storms of adversity till the matured tree bean the imprint of those distinct crises which have shaped its character. The price paid for the civilization of this day and and age must be deciphered on the decaying walls of many countries. No nation 1ms been literally independent, has builded by itself, builded for itself alone. All pay tribute to a motherland. Majestic England, our mother country, merits the homage of age. On her maritime isles, her feet have ever seemed planted on the solid rocks of the seas. Wealth, power, and character, most sublime and glorious crown her royal institutions. ltut recapitulate her history and estimate the cost. What have the forefathers of English ascendancy paid for the massive kingdom their children inherit ? Embryotic England, enveloping those ancient generations of wnrring races, is a period in itself where its buried powers must forever lie. Anglo-Saxon data gives us the first clear notes of true and familiar civilization. Then, in 1066, the thunderbolt of Norman invasion broke the chrysalis of Anglo-Saxon rule. The battle of Hastings, a milestone in English ascendancy, achieved the v ictory of William the First and his new era. The thirteenth century dawns; a dim light begins to shine; Magna Charta was bom. Magna Cliarta, the corner-stone to the great edifice of English liberty, to which all organized freedom to this day must pay sovereignty. Britain begins to be great. Planted as she is, guardian to the powers of the seas, her institutions grow strong, her treasury rich. But with more certainty, with the growth of the kingdom, her crises were ominous and mighty. A Cromwell led his armies in slaughter and sacrifice, until there was perpetuated a bloodstained throne with his “iron rule. A century and a half, and Wellington grasped the hydra-headed form of a most dangerous encroachment, and in the most glorious of all English victories, preserved the dignity of English dominion. Thus is outlined the greatest events of the world's civil development. What has it all cost? Let the institutions that crown England with imperial wealth and majesty repy, England, while men pay reverence to mighty THE MILESTONE. 22 things, they must revere thee, thou biue cinctured isle of England—not of today but this long while in the front of nations. Mothers of great kings, soldiers and poets. Round thee the sea flings His steel bright arm, and shields thee from guile. Again, in the great drama of the evolution of nations, France has ever been a figure, widely varied ’tis true, but always most important. Her drama has been played in many acts; her scenes shifted twixt brightest colored splendor. and deepest woe. Not constant and sublime, but gay and passionate. But her progress, though spasmodic, has ever been brilliant; she ever held high the achievements of art, and ideal development. Her history early becomes a romance; volumes must be to tell the story. Hut. true to the history of all countries, but few characters play the great acts. A war of races, a Ctesarian conquest, for years warring for place and existence, characterizes her chaotic infancy alike with that of every European power. Clovis formed a kingdom, 507, and, with the Franks he named it France. In .68, the next great act, a hero of christain war plunged his sword of conquest far and wide o'er the feudal powers next to his kingdom; Charlemagne conquered the empire, and with sword and heart, hand in hand, lie founded his dominions in civilization, in Christianization. Across a dark night of chaos, Henry of Navarre comes as a beacon light in the confusion of both religious and civil anarchy. In 1598 the Edict of Nantes reinstated Christian liberty. In lb4d Louis XIV declared “I am the state, and “thirty years” of awful and unscrupulous war characterized his most delusive an arrogant synonym, the “Golden Age. A revolution was the final crisis. The most wicked depravity reigned; a horde of petty stub's became rank in anarchy; but at orsiean hero comes to the rescue, A Napoleon ignites the great boulder of political feuds, and institutes the more pacific system of French Democracy. The cost of the French Republic of today cannot be approximated. Her millions of gravestones tell her tale of woe, and represent the cost of her present glory. Madame DeStael once said to a distinguished man. “You arc the advance guard ot the human race. You are the future of the world. lhut distinguished man was an American, and she was speaking of the American people. Ah, our national heritage! The elysium of the happy, the loyal. THE MILESTONE. 23 the free! The little hand of wearied mariners who stepped to a new l orn land o’er the century washed rock of an eastern shore is now a people of sixty-five millions. The little nucleus of thirteen colonies is now a brotherhood of forty-two states. True to history our forefathers fought a war for possession, whose foe was symbolized by the tomahawk, ami yell of savagery. But we were not our own. An iron rule held us beneath its sway. But, 1776, an old bellman rang out our independence. The inspiration was caught up by the l ople, and, through the most heroic war ever fought for God and country, they sustained their most righteous cause. In 1788 a constitution was adopted, cementing a brotherhood, the United States. But allied with our young institutions, and sanctioned by the government, were the elements of domestic strife. Slavery grew rank in the republic. In 1863, a proclamation was issued. Emancipation was its message, and its fulfillment forever stigmatized before the world, the curse of servitude; and in the American nation was instituted the most illustrious example of the universal liberties of man. Now, America is a great home, a fireside. Her people are the most magnanimous of the human universe. Education, music, art. culture are inmost virtues of the heart. We still are a nation of progression. But whence ooraeth this heritage? What has it all cost? The famed Pericles in Athenian supremacy, standing over the remains of his fellow men said, “The whole world is the sepulchreof illustrious men. Illustrious men. how fresh the memories of their names, where lives purchased an inheritance whose blessing shall live and reign forever. Tomorrow I see a procession; it goes toward yonder marble stones; 'tis our fathers, our mother.!, our brothers and sisters; they carry flowers in their hands; they stop and sing; we hear the notes of fife and drum; they strew their flowers o’er the graves; ah, soldiers are buried there! To them—heroes of our heritage—let the living forever pay their choicest benedictions. Our Warrens and McPhersons are buried there. There are thousands more with resting places unknown. No sculptured marble gives them names, but to them all We pay most hallowed tribute. “We’ll deck their tombs with flowers, The rarest ever seen, And with oar tears as showers, _ We’ll keep them fresh and green.’ But a new roll of national service has dawned full upon tis. The valor 24 THK MILESTONE. of the patriots who purchased our birthright, we never shall dishonor; but the war upon the invasion of evil and ignorance now is inaugurated in the American home. Industrious armies respond daily to the roll call of drill and development. “All in arms, All plumed like eetridges that wing the wind. Rater! like eagles having lately bather!; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May. Thirty millions of these young hearts, train under the most lieneficent educational generalship in the world. The evolution of the present out of the past bespeaks a forthcoming millennium. With an educational sentiment founded upon the deepest emotions of love and purity; with justice administered as never before; with public favor on the side of right and truth; with a guardianship of Christian truth and character; “Let us believe with all our hearts that out of the high-hearted dreams of wise and good men about our country, time, however invisibly and inscrutably, is, at this moment, slowly hewing the most colossal and resplendent result in History.” Alik I. Johnson. YoUtfG America. OUTIOI, CUSS 0? '90. J X 1492. a little band of adventurers set out across the dreaded and unknown A Atlantic. At their head was a man who claimed that the earth was round; and he was willing to risk his life to prove it. In his attempt to do so, he discovered a new world to which people flocked in quest of gold, and of religious and political liberty, until our fertile coast had a population of several millions. Later these people showed themselves truly American by asserting and establishing their independence and framing a government which has ever since been the marvel of the world. Since that time, under the invigorating influence of freedom, these people have continually advanced in wealth and numbers. The weakness of the infant nation has become the proud strength of a Great Republic. Patriotism, Freedom and Progress have made American citizenship a prouder title than ever Roman claimed, and the rising generation of every land envies the reputation for energy, patriotism, and intelligence which distinguishes Young America. Among the characteristics of the American l oy is his love of independence, so well shown at Lexington, Hunker Hill and Saratoga, and so well voiced by hundreds of patriot orators from that time till now. In every crisis of our history, it was Young America who responded with greatest eagerness to the call of his country. It was Young America who thronged the streets of Philadelphia and welcomed with lustiest shouts th1 first peal of old Independence Bell. And is it not Young America who celebrates the Fourth of July, and keeps alive the memory of the founders of our Republic? The American l� oy is no longer compelled to participate in bloody contests for the welfare of his land; the time of foreign oppression is happily 26 Til K MtliKSTONE. passed, but he still has enough to do to maintain the supremacy of our national reputation, to prepare himself for the intelligent discharge of his duties as a citizen; and his love of country is not cold and formal, but will stand the test of time. Benedict Arnold is as well known to American boys ns George Washington; and he is as thoroughly hated for his treason as Washington is loved for his patriotism. Show me the American boy who docs not reverence the Stars mid Stripes! As he beholds it floating in the breeze, its stars to him are real, its lines of white represent the heroic purity of his forefathers, and those of red are dyed with their patriot blood, shed in defense of a righteous cause. Should he be called upon, either to defend or assert his country’s rights, lie would yet hail the sword as a sacred weapon; for, if it has sometimes taken the form of a serpent and been gorged with the blood of the oppressor, it has more often been wrought into peaceful forms to assist the mechanic in his work or to deck the freeman’s brow. For truthfulness, Young America is also distinguished. In this respect, as in others, he follows the illustrious example of the Father of his country. Still, if we read the prominent papers or listen to the eloquence of campaign speakers, we arc led to think that some Americans have outgrown this natural tendency. When the farmer is told that the tariff makes high prices for grain and low prices for iron, and the iron manufacturer is told that it makes high prices for iron and low prices for grain, we cannot but wish that the Father of his Country had lived a couple of centuries longer, and given a few practical object lessons on his specialty in every community. In no respect, however, is the Young American more distinctly in advance of the boys of other nations than in inventive genius. What boy has not studied out the philosophy of a kite, made a battery, or spoiled his mother's knives trying to plate them; and what boy has not demanded a machine to bring in the coal, milk the cow, and do the churning? Few young Americans have not worked harder, twice over, building a machine to save him some little task than would have been necessary to do the work in the good old way. To these characteristics, however, we owe the development of this TilK MILRSTONK. country and its marvelous process in science, art, and in all that makes a nation great. e have gained an ever growing admiration from all nations. following each branch of industry from its small beginning to the magnitude which it may now possess, we are shown that the progress of the Isist, great as it lias been, is but preliminary to that which the future promises, when entrusted to the rising generation of genius. Underlying all vast industries, however, are the broad fields of individual industry, where a single person, depending only on his own skill and perseverance not only is able to create an industry, but also to devise a means for making it useful. In almost every case but little money capital is possessed at the beginning, but there is a better capital than mere money in the self reliant genius of the invincible American. Look over the whole list of nations and show me one in which a boy can start from so humble a position as a log cabin or the tow path and reach the highest office in the government, as did (airfield,— “Horn in a lovely western wild, And cradled on a cabin floor, He labored when a little obi Id, To keep the gannt wolf from the door.” Vet the place for greatest improvement is in our settlement of the social and political problems. Although we cannot expect such a revolution as Bellamy experienced when he opened his eyes to a new civilization in the twentieth century, we look forward to the time when the backbone of monopolies of every’ description shall be broken, when no one may live without work, und no one be obliged to labor without receiving the full value of his services. We look forward to the time when the noble maxim of our forefathers that “All men are created free and equal” shall be one of the practical principles ot life instead of merely a fine spun theory quoted by every demagogue orator. We long to see uncorrupted elections, and straightforward men in public ottice, obeying the dictates of an intelligent constituency. We shall welcome the day when public office shall, in reality, be a public trust, and when the politician who would secure his election by a series of juggling acts in which the people are deceived—when such men shall be retired very hastily to deserved positions of dishonor and disgrace. He who is false to the people 28 the milestone. he represents, or makes promises he has no intention of keeping or who attempts to prejudice a people by falsehood or incendiary utterances, is as much a traitor to his country’s best interests as was the contemptible Arnold. “Let us burn and destroy the idols of party worship; banish politics from the municipality and county, limiting it to questions affecting principles in the state and nation; place competency and integrity at ever)’ part of the public service. Let us adorn our courts with judges worthiest to wield the attributes of God; elect representatives that will reflect the majority of a free people, send to the senate statesmen whom history will immortalize and nations make their models, uphold them with a patriotism that will never tire, and guard them with a vigilance that will never sleep.” Let Young America be taught such principles as these from the cradle up, and our national fiber will ever grow stronger, our government better and more just, and our people happier and more prosperous. Lynn M. Scofield. Pyramids. VALEDICTORY ORATION, CLASS OF ’90. Build today then, strong and tture, With a firm and ample haw, And ascending and secure, Hindi tomorrow find its place. This simple stanza contains the rule according to which all th� great, stable pyramids of the world are erected; shaken throughout every liber by the muscular arm of labor, they stand, in after ages, imposing monuments of the energy expended ui on them. Thus it was with those great edifices which adorn the valley of the Nile. In the time of King Menea, these regions were made to echo for years and years with the stroke of chisel and hammer, but today standing guard over the ruins of many dynasties, loom up the world renowned pyramids of Kgypt, uncovered by the shifting sands of time, fitting memoirs of ancient genius. These were builded of rock to render them stable, but today then exist pyramids, composed, not of rock, but of great events, which may be call national pyramids. Observe the towering grandeur of that nation we are proud to call our mother country. England stands without a peer among the nations of the old world, attesting the strength of her foundations by the many centuries she has existed in spite of domestic violence and foreign wars. Ink every national monument, the English pyramid was not erected in a day. It is the result of ages of work and strife and seeming failures. The foundations were laid in the old Anglo-Saxon love of liberty, in the traditions and customs brought from their wild German home. The genius of Alfred the Great did much to bind the Saxon nations into one; his work was continued by the stong but arbitrary laws of William the Conqueror, and afterwards more effectually by the common interests of a united people. 30 THE MILESTONE. The age of Elizabeth stands out like a marble structure on a foundation of granite; the writings of Bacon, Spencer and Shakespeare and the spirit of industry and literary research, pervading the whole nation, gave to the period a lustre which is not bedimmed by the progress of four centuries. Glancing along up the succeeding steps, the names and events become more and more important. Here and there are great rents marking some struggle for popular rights, but the reforms which followed, fill those rents with lasting crystal, leaving the structure stronger than before; high upon the uppermost blocks shine the names of Bright and Davitt and Gladstone, of Newton, Tyndall, Darwin and Huxley. We read the story of the success of popular education and the wonderful development of commerce and manufactures. The names of Watt and Davy mark the time when men learned to bring the elements under control, yoking the sun to their chariots and building with the energy of ages passed. As a result of the strife of generations, the people of Britain stand high up.,n their national pyramid and scan an empire upon which, in the language of Edmund Burke, “the sun never sets. It remains for the art and wisdom and statesmanship of the present generation to carry out imperial federation and thus add the cap stone to the pyramid which shall enable it to withstand the storms of iiges to come Four centuries ag the little H et b siring the renowned Columbus, spread its sails to the gentle August breeze and glided from the rugged shores of the old world in quest of the spices of India. They found, instead, a new continent, and began the foundation of a national pyramid, which for rapidity of building and beauty of outline, is second to none the world has known The ambitious, the restless, the venturesome, the enterprising, the hardy of every nation were gradually to congregate on this new field of activity. The Mayflower landed its band of home-seekers on the rough coast of New England, the Virginia colony planted its little settlement at Jamestown, and here and there, along the coast, the work of subduing a continent was begun. Many were the privations of these pioneers of America. In the forest, thirsting for human blood, lurked myriads of savage foes, while in the THE MILESTONE. 31 council chamber sat the English governors as a reminder of burdensome taxes and unjust rule. What was the outcome of this state of affairs? Was it the submission of an oppressed people to an unpopular sovereign? No. The stream of opposition ran rapidly and angrily, bearing toward the final plunge into the Revolutionary War. The eloquent voices of Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry, crying aloud with the energy of despair, “Give me liberty or give me death,” touched the keynote of American patriotism. The people responded with a will, establishing the declaration of independence, and announcing to the world the birth of a new nation, between the Atlantic, anti the setting sun. From the time when the patriot minute guns sounded the death knell of oppression, from the time when the father of his country was inaugurated first president of the United States, the progress of our country has been the ever increasing marvel of the civilized world. Sheltered 'neuth the undulating folds of our national banner, science ami art and peaceful industry have expanded under the genial influence of the sun of liberty. The secrets of the universe have been revealed to the inquisitive eye of science. The domain of the mind has extended wider and wider, even the realms of the stars have been explored, and thousands of revolving suns descried majestically sweeping through space, all bound by the same great universal law. Thus has the pyramid of our nation been built up, until now we stand high, and, viewing our dominions round about, behold in every part the unmistakable effects of progress. We s e a land whose surrounding waters arc patrolled by ships of the latest do.iign. whose fertile fields are traversed in every direction by the flying railway frain, and who people are among the most enlightened of the globe. Thus are manifested unto us in the history of the past and the facts of the present, the existence and growth of the great structures of the world. Notwithstanding the prominence of these national pyramids, we are building, day by day, a far different edifice, our characters; and, as some one has said, ‘’the building of our character is our own labor, it is a thing of beauty, it is u thing of shame, as we ourselves make it, holding us responsible for its substantial erection.'' 32 THE MILESTONE. “For the structure that wo raise, Time, is with materials filled, Our todays and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. There are many agencies which influence the building of characters, prominent among which are the climate and country. We cannot expect to find in the Sandwich Islands as high a type of character as in North America. In this respect we are among those favorably situated we are in a land the climate of which invigorates the system, and the unlimited independence of which allows the full development of the intellect. Should we not therefore, lend all our energies to the work, and cause our characters to shine brighter and brighter, day by day, as we plod along the avenues of life? Do we not admire the untarnished character of Florence Nightingale, who, throwing aside all obligations to self, devoted herself to the nursing of the sick and needy soldiers on the fields before Sebastopol. It is said that every rope in the British navy contains a colored strand, which identities it wherever found, whether on the coast of China or Nor h America. So should be our characters, distinguished by some noble trait that will illuminate the whole of our work. One of the greatest and most powerful auxiliaries with which we unfavored is the education which is afforded by the excellent public schools found in every city, town and village throughout our beloved nation. One of the most favored is Norfolk where we have been fortunate enough to attend school for some time and where we have gained information which we hope to use to the honor of our city and the credit of ourselves. But what a change has now come over ns, we feel a strange sensation of sadness as we begin to realize the fact that we are about to depart from the happy scenes of our high school life. There are revived in our memories many fond recollections of days gone by. On this occasion, our final opportunity of showing our appreciation and gratitude for the many favors bestowed, we wish to extend to the citizens of Norfolk our sincere thanks for their generous patronage and kindly interest shown in our work. You have ever manifested an enterprise in school mat ters, a zeal in the cause of education. You have, by your efforts, obtained for this noble city a new high school building, which will have few, if any peer THE MILESTONE. 33 in the state; and although we do not expect to pursue our studies there, we shall always hold it in memory as a most fitting monument to the enterprise and prosperity of the citizens of this place. To the honorable Hoard of Education we tender our thanks and gratitude for the many encouragements which, through their influence, we have received. You have provided for us apparatus necessary for the successful pursuit of our work. While laboring in the interests of the Schools of Norfolk, may you ever enjoy the hearty co-operation of her citizens, and be rewarded with abundant success, As we depart from the s cenes of our school life, with its calamatius and pleasures, we shall still retain in memory our beloved instructors, by whose patience and zeal our little fleet has l eon kept afloat on the sea of improvement. You have been not only our instructors but our friends and sympathizers; as we leave your guardianship to seek other fields of lal� or we wish you t he best of success. To our schoolmates, with whom we have ever been closely associated, we bid an affectionate farewell. We have long been together sharing in common each other's triumphs and defeats, and, though we may have had at times slight differences, they have all l een forgotten. We have always been able to combine our forces when some difficult project was in view; as we withdraw our little force, may others fill our places so that all will move in as good accord as before. Classmates: We are leaving the bay; the ocean is before us; for a long period we have Wen closely associated as one under the protection of the Norfolk High School and the guardianship of its teachers. We meet here this evening to disolve our triumvirate, the bonds of which have Wen growing stronger day by day. In the past we have been able to mass our strength when an attack was to be made on some difficult problem in geometry, but now our little party separates, and, in the future, each will have to meet difficulties alone. As we abandon the posts we have held so long, may our paths diverge not too widely; and muy we ever W united by the fond recollections of the time we, have passed together. THE MILESTONE. :U Again we wish to bid our friends, schoolmates, the Board of and our instructors an affectionate farewell. “We BO, but with ns carry the love, the trust of yore, The faith that hinds onr hearts today, Shall bind them evermore. The memory of our common joy, Of joy that cannot die, Spans, like a bow, our parting Brief, And gilds our sad good bye.” Education Glenn M. Scofield. Chips from the Old Stone. The chips they Hy, now here, now there; striking pupils everywhere. A two foot rule—keep your feet dry. Learning by study must Ih won; 'Twa ne’er entailed from sire to son. —John (Jay. Why is a Freshman like a telesoope? Because he is easily drawn out, seen through, anti shut up. We have often heard of iced strawberries, but a new dish, iced thermometers, was served to the High School teachers during the winter. What fate imposes, men must needs abide; It Ijoots not to resist lioth wind and tide. —Shakespeare. Teacher—Correct the sentence, “the liquor which the man bought was drank.” Smart boy—“The man which bought the liquor was drunk.” Teacher: Define geometry. Senior: Geometry is a bewilderment of simplicitudes, or, a general supjtosition of dontedness for proving the ABCity of the impossible. THE MILESTONE. A sample free of translation by a Sophomore: ‘ I)ux femina facti, the fact is woman is a duck.” Tiny little letter, On a little card, Helps the anxious student, Answer questions hard. So the little ponies, Glanced at on the sly, .Make the naughty Freshmen Sophomores by and by. Literature is the immortality of speech. —Schlegle. Senior to Freshman: “I’m surprised to see you out. I Irurd you were killed with physical culture yesterday.” Freshman: “I was. I’m just walking around now to save funeral expenses.” “Mamma,” said little Johnny Fangle, What is the Holy See the paper here speaks about?” “It’s a long time since mama studied geography, Johnny, dear. Iaxtk it up in your atlas.” Minds that have nothing to confer, Find little to perceive. —Wordsworth. Two little boys were fishing the other day when one of them fell into the water. The other rushed up to a man standing near, exclaiming, “Save him, mister! He’s got the bait!” ’Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined. — Pope TIIK l I I.KKTON K :{7 Sweet 1m the tie thut. hinds. Tlit hearts of two boys dear. For wherever Charlie goes, lit finds Alfred is somewhere near. We have heard it said that a grapevine soon withers and dies if it has nothing to embrace. It is feared that a certain high-school boy has a strange tendency to he grapeviney. ♦ To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. - Tmblet. A teacher asked a bright little girl, “What country is opposite ns on the globe? “Don’t know was the answer. “Well, now, if 1 were to bore a hole through the earth, and you were to go in at this end, where would you come out? “Out of the hole, sir! replied the pupil with an air of triumph. ___________ Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. — Michael Angelo. Wanted! Dig reward offered! A fellow by the name of Nord-hausen. A Sophmore is desperate. To use her own elegant and expressive language she wants to “wring his neck. The gentleman will certainly relish the operation. The aforsaid lady who has lost so many nights sleep over H2 S2 07 may expect a package of dynamite from the city of Nord-hanson in Germany. City Poet—“What a very queer looking yellow weed that is.” Young Lady—“Yellow weed! Goodness me! This is the beautiful ‘golden rod’ that you raved about in your last poem. - Note: This chestnut lias been going the rounds, r.nd we reproduce it to be in style. Education is the cheap defense of nations. —Burke. TIIE MILESTONE A bright youth, undergoing examination a few days since for the prize shoes, found himself confronted with the question, “What is the distance from the earth to the sun?” Not having the exact number of miles with him lie wrote in reply: I am unable to state accurately, but don't believe the sun is near enough to interfere with a proper porfornianre of my duties if I get these shoes.” The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. —Emerson. Sand in sugar and beans for coffee is not a new thing in the opinion of one of our industrious latin scholars who translated, “j fereatore ea important quae a l effeminandoa aniinon, The merchants weaken the spirits which they import. imt’U STOKE MOO III', Norfolk’s PRESCRIPTION MAN. S. H. OVERHOLSER, Fine Papeteries a Specialty. Gift Books, Albums. Cards. Bank and Office Supplies. Legal Blanks and Blank Books. Type-writer Supplies. 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Shoe man ■ V. B. TILLOTSON. THE LEADIN' I’HOTOtiR ARHER tiiiurautoos you a £Ood Photo at a reasonable |� rire. The Finest of Large Work. (iallery Over A sinus' Sturt . Norfolk, Nebraska. lmni STORE MOORE-Telephone ION. Night Bell. 8741 NORFOLK, NEBRASKA. Capital. - - $50,000.00 Surplus, - - 14.000,00 Organized July 17, 1887. C. A. MAST. President. (’HAS. S. NR I DUE, Vice-President. GEO. T, ILES. Cashier. Accounts of Ranks, Rankers and Firms Respect fully Solicited. Exclusive Customers’ Vault and Safety Deposit Boxes. Drink WHIPPED CREAM SODA ai DRUG STORE MOORE’S. A full line of SEWING M VCD INKS and Sow in it Machine supplies at t.iu SINGER SEWING MACHINE OFFICE. Machines sold on Monlh' and Quarterly Payments. •I. I . STFRGKON. Manager. J, I,DURLAND, F. A. BRYANT. P’ II A It MAC 1ST. Drugs. Paints. Oils, Varnishes, Brushes. Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Soaps. Sponges. and Druggists’ Sundries. Prescript tons carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch. —Healers in Millinei'ij a Notion . Tin oldest established lirm in the city. Prices that speak for themselves. [Mc. L, (l|N SLK E E P., MILLINERY. W, H. H. HAGEY, M. D„ NORFOLK, NKB. Office and residence over Teal’s Furniture Store. N. hiLl§, KEKHORN VALLEY NORFOLK. NEBRASKA. NORFOLK. NEBRASKA. Everybody Takes a R for m:r ; stoke mookk’s, Train up a child in the way he should fro and when he is old he will huy his CLOTHING at T-ME. AWAKA” • Knowledge is Power. Inerease it hy pricing the immense stock at fHf ••WHDE AWAKlE.” Economy is Wealth.’’ lie sare and buy your goods at I ME WI.DEi AWIK1, ’ AND YOU WILL BECOME WEALTHY. REMEMBER B A. U M when yor ark bfyixg goops. The Leading House in the Citv FOR THE- Best Goods, the Lowest Prices. HONEST AND RELIABLE PRICES. nun; STOKE MOORE, “Rijrht Down There” «l llio Front! A. T. Birchanl. C. 8. Bridge. J. B, Scheipr. Bircljard, Bridge do. Proprietors of the A. J. JOHNSON, pajiMPjj jjjypjii, AND AUCTIONEER. MQMF OIL[K Thoroughly experienced in auctioneerin'; Fine Stock Sales. Sales and calls at a distance promptly attended to. Otfiie at Wells Fartro Building. NoKFor.K. - - Nkbraska. mi l M,l|LiL S, J- M- COUUAMER, Dealer in— GENERAL MERCHANDISE. NORFOLK. NEBRASKA. Loui? d. t|ittel adt, i.. m He Dealer in— Kxelnsive Dealer in KI 1) Vi ,pine GroeerieS. l ith, Shingles, Doors, Sash. Mouldings. and all kinds of Ihiilding Material. Ash Drove Lime. Domestic and Imported Cements. FRUIT CONFECTIONS. KKl'ti STORK MOOKE, Norfolk’ PRESCRIPTION SAN. I I. M. l . 0. . |acv ioouquty, WK ARK 13KTTKR PREPARED THAN KVKK KoR Our Line of Frames is Complete. Ink, Oil, Water Color and Crayons. MORRIS MAYER, IPiulquarterf! for Boots and Shoes and Gents’ Furnishing Goods. Agm.t for B.itterick Patton. . Stwk “f —DEAI.EH IN Israkto, r}Mm Jjnft Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods. Riverside eook stoves and nunfe our leaden . All kinds of Job Work done to order. Norfolk, Nebraska. 1 KUU STOKE MOORE, Norfolk’s PRESCRIPTION M AN. n. Dnrlmnl. Horace McBride. 1 I . Wigton. Ueo. L. Whhhairi. DU WD McBride, Heal Estate Insurance. Witjion i U'liiiliaiu, iTTORNEYS. Office ovr-r Viiridk St ,tic Batik. Farm Tjamls and Pity Properly fori sale or exchange. Money to loan Chattels or Real Estate. YW. [h!t- DEX-JER. NOHFOl.k STEAM LAUNDRY. All work done in the ' BEST MANNER. - Work from adjoining towns Solicited. N[apeg Liceij, Attorneys At Law Norfolk. - - Nkhrakka. J. B. Barnes. M. 1). Tyler. Baftieg TiJIei , LAVVVXELFJS. NORFOLK. - - NEBRASKA. El H. Trarv Nr Co., ”'■ « � - i ' ' 9 Dealers in ■jjjjiiliij ujjiJ jtaJfauuur£ The finest line of Wall Paper and Decorations, WINDOW SHADES Norfolk, And Fixtures in the city. Paper haug-Nkbraska. ing done on short notice.