The Plattsmouth Journal
I'UULISILKO WKKKLY AT
PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA.
U. A. IJATKS, I'UHLISItKK.
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braHka. as Mwoijiii-lass mutter.
It is a cold day when the repub
lican legislature of Nebraska done
anything of interest to the people
and the taxpayers. .The candidates
are long on promise:;, though, dur-
the campaign.
There is a minister in Platts
mouth, who, it is said, voted for
Root for state senator last fall be
cause he was "right" on the county
option bill. Wonder how he feel
now? Was the minister "right," or
did Root deceive him as to what he
considered to be the right side o
the question?
Tin-: way to keep children in
school is to make the school the
most valuable place to them. The
school must le made attractive. We
must change front and recognize
that the schoolroom is made for the
teacher. At present only the ap
purtenances of the teacher are
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placed in it, and whatever may be
done for the children is done only
because the teacher's interests can
best be served by such. The school
room must be made for children
As the business-room is made at
tractive and fixed up for customers,
and whatever is done for the sales
people is done only because thereby
the best interests of customers can
be cared for, so in the schoolroom
the interests of the children must
be consulted and those things done
for children which will make the
schooh oom, next to the home, the
most attractive place. And while
this is being done, the pupils have
a duty to perform also. In order
to make the schoolroom enticing to
the teacher, pupils can do much in
this direction by complying more
strictly to the laws adopted for the
government of the schoolroom.
And parents can assist in this mat
ter by refusing to side in with an
unruly son or daughter who has
been punished by the teacher
for some misdemeanor in the school
room. Playing With Death.
Railroads have spent millions of
dollars building block signal sys
tems and other safety contrivances
along their lines and thousands of
dollars advertising to the public
that these improvements render
travel over their lines absolutely
safe. The appliances work auto
matically, and undoubtedly are of
great benefit IF THEY ARE
HEEDED.
There is the point. In the last
analysis the safety of the passenger
rests with the man in the engine
cab and with those who give him
orders. The experience on an
Ohio railroad last Sunday night
would seem to indicate that of all
reckless gamblers some of the men
who handle the throttle are vol
untarily or otherwise the princes.
On this particular system are light
bearing towers. At night it is im
perative, according to published
rules, that no train pass a tower
which is dark. The absence of a
beacon is an absolute warning of
danger. Sunday night officials ex
tinguished the lights in one tower,
and waited. In the tw o hours they
kept watch they saw twenty-four
trains deliberately rushed into a
section of road plainly labeled
"danererous and perilous." Four
were passenger trains. One engin
eer stopped, inquired, and was com
plimented.
There is something rotten in such
a system. Either the engineers
are blind, and obviously incapable,
or they are criminally negligent,
and plainly unfic. Or and this is
said in a spirit of fairness to that
class of men who handle our loco
motives the engineers disregard
danger in obedience to strict orders
from superiors, who use the safety
signals to lure and bait the public,
and whose real purpose is to beat
the other fellow," cost what it may
in life, limb and treasure. What
ever the correct promise, there is
something rotten somewhere.
An Ohio man was sent to jail
because he had thirteen wives. A
jail sentence must have been quite
a relief to him.
How Mi'Cii happier this world of
ours would be if each would attend
to his own business. But then just
think how'many there would be out
of a job.
In discussing the county option
bill, the republicans made the point
that the democrats needed drink,
but from the vote one would con
elude that the democrats do not en
joy a monopoly of the drink habit
Ir all the bills that have been in
troduced in the legislature should
become laws, wouldn't we have
statute to contemplate? But they
will not all become laws. Yery
few of those that have merit will
ever reach third reading. Gener
ally they are not introduced to be
passed but to prevent others from
being passed.
Senator Tillman, despite the
concerted and continuous attempt
to belittle him before the people of
the United States by partisans of op
posite political faith, is yet one of
the most forceful and effective mem
bers of that body. His recent
speech upon Japauese exclusion and
executive meddling was so convinc
ing that he won over many repub
licans who were supposed to be un
der White House domination.
The war the Foraker and Aldrich
factions of the republican party
have begun upon President Roose
velt has been a pettifogging contest,
conducted on the methods of ward
politics, with the negro vote the
prize at stake. The one great prin
ciple involved, the power of the
president to drum any portion of
the army! out of the service, is the
one point on which the majority of
the republican senators have dodged
at every move in the game.
Agrocerymax in this city hap
pened around the Burlington depot
one day last week when a farmer was
unloading several boxes filled with
groceries which he had ordered from
one of the Chicago "bunko' ' houses.
The groceryman asked the farmer
the price of the articles pur
chased and then told him he could
sell them just as cheap. The farm
er then said: "Is that so? I take
the Plattsmouth Journal, but never
. m . t T
see your advertisement inerein;
and you don't publish your prices.
The Chicago stores advertise. I am
not a mind reader."
Th3 Farmer Was Right.
A story is told of a Nebraska
farmer who had a suit for damages
against a .Nebraska railroad, says
the Coffeyville (Kans.) Journal.
As the cause approached the day
for trial the farmer man casually
learned that the judge who would
preside over the trial carried an an
nual pass over the defendant rail
road's lines.
The information worried the soil
tiller. He thought about it by day
and cogitated over it by night. He
figured out that the annual pass
must be worth about $500 a year to
the judge. He had confidence in
the judge, but little in the railroad,
and he pondered the query! in his
mind, why the railroad gave the
judge $500 a year for nothing.
He finally concluded thatjthe rail
road must know what it was about,
and he sat down and wrote the
judge the following letter:
Dear Judge: I am told that you
carry an annual pass over the Bur
lington railroad. As near as I can
figure it, this pass is worth to you
about $500 a year. I don't believe
that this will influence you in favor
of the railroads and against me in
my case, but to be on equaljfooting
with the railroads, I enclose my
check for $500. I do not do this
to influence your decision in any
way. But if you return this check
please return the railroad pass. If
you keep the pass, keep the check."
The farmer did exactly the right
thing. The judge had as much
business with the checkjas with the
pass. Yet some politicians wonder
why the people are clamoring for
an anti-pass law.
THOUGHTFUL THINKS
II !'-. f rfi-dom to liim that wouM lead.
llfi--'s fri-wiiim to 1 1 i in that, wiull wril
Tin-re's none ever feareil tin" trutli lioul(l l'
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l.ut tlicy whom tin- truth would ImliiM.
lloliert Hum-
Oh, the lobby, the beautiful Xe
braska lobby is having full sway at
Lincoln now. Where are those re
formers who had so much to say
last fall about downing the lobby
ists' ' There is about three of them
from Cass county.
The women of Nebraska will have
to await some time yet to enjoy the
privilege of "mixing" with men
folks at the polls on election day.
The fact is, only about one woman
out of everv twenty-five desire to
exercise such a privilege, anyway
A spiritualistic medium says
Mars is angry because her signals
to the earth are being ignored. It
is up to Mars to remember that we
already have congress, Harry Thaw,
the Japanese situation, the Nebras-
kajlegislature and congested pros
perity on our hands.
Now that all are in the limelight,
what do you think of the man who
married Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's
mother? So far he has not been
drawn into the vortex of crime and
filth, but he married the woman
who gave her child into the keep
ing of of the prize libertine of
the century.
Beatrice Sun: Since Congress
man Pollard gained a little cheap
notoriety in attempting to put back
money which he had not earned,
Governor Sheldon, who comes from
the same neck-o' -the-woods, has
had himself sued to find out wheth
er or not he should accept house
rent free. We hope ouryoung gov
ernor will not appear in the role of
a four-flusher.
Artemas Ward used to have a fa
vorite character, the country editor,
who was always getting a dispatch
saying that the government was
about to take decisive steps to put
down the rebellion. That individ
ual was a good deal like the inter
state commerce commission. It is
about to do something to help the
country but it never does. It has
been investigating so long that it
has forgotten what its real duties
are.
We have just heard of the mean
est man that lives in Plattsmouth.
He asked a girl what she wanted
for a birthday present and suggest
ed gloves, but the young lady
thought something for her neck
would be nicer. On the evening of
her birthday anniversary he handed
her a small package neatly done up.
She nervously opened it in the pres
ence of another young lady and
found a bar of soap. Is it any
wonder that they now refuse to re
cognize each other as they pass by?
The modern wife is beginning to
astonish the modern husband. A
business man of this city went home
the other night at 3 a.m. He took
off his shoes on the front doorstep.
Then he unlocked the door and
went cautiously upstairs on tiptoe,
holding his breath. But light was
streaming through the keyhole of
the bedroom door. With a sigh he
paused. Then he opened the bed
room door and entered. His wife
stood by the bureau, fully dressed.
' 'I didn't expect you'd be sitting up
for me, my dear?" "I haven't
been," she said. "I just came in
myself."
Phoebe Cousins has abandoned
equal suffrage and has taken the
Washington City stump in favor of
the saloon. She and Congressman
Miller of Kansas, clashed when she
cited Kansas as a horrible example
of alleged prohibition. She charg
ed that behind every haystack in
Kansas could be found bottles with
the labels of local druggists upon
them. Miller denied it and offered
to prove that there were more stacks
of hay in his state than whisky bot
tles and offered to produce statistics I
on hay if she would do the same on
battles. Phoebe offered to accept
the proposition if Miller would put
up a forfeiture of $500 to be paid to
her when she proved her assertion
true. Thishe failed to do.
After congress has adjourned,
those senators can get out and fur
ther gratify their speech-making
tendencies among their constitu
ents.
The postofhee building has been
located on the corner of Fifth and
Yine streets. Many of our buiness
men seem to be very much dissatis
fied with the location.
An exchange, in speaking of the
anniversary of the lamented Lin
coln says: "Had he lived until to
day Abraham Lincoin would have
been 98 years old and a democrat."
The success of the 2-ceut fare bill
by the Missouri legislature has in
spired confidence among the advo
cates of cheaper rates in several
other states. But how about Ne
braska?
The most tiypical example of
American industrv just now is to
be observad at Washington, where
each separate congressman is trying
to get his bill passed, before ad
journment. f The house of representatives at
Lincoln passed a series of pream
bles and resolutions congratulating
a member whose wife had resently
had a baby. So long as the law
makers do nothing more detriment
al to the general welfare than that,
the public can stand it.
A Kansas woman has asked for a
divorce from her husband because
he hangs around home too much,
and another woman asks for a di
vorce because her husband works
up town all day and skips out a
soon as he swallows his supper.
There is as much difference in wo
men as there is in men, and there
are a great many mismatched pairs
in the world.
The president having failed in
reforming the spelling of the coun
try will tackle the figures upon our
silver coins. Of a truth the eagle
upon the silver coin is a hideous
caricature and much objection was
found against the government for
permitted an Englishman to design
it. It was argued that his natural
antipathy to the American eagle
would prevent his doing an artistic
job and the proof of the pudding is
in the eagle. When it was adopt
ed and stamped upon the coins a
disgusted American said it looked
or all the world like a buzzard just
after a heartv meal upon tumble-
bugs. So Roosevelt will call de
signs to improve it.
The conclusion at last reached
by President Eliot, of Harvard uni
versity, that, under certain condi
tions, separate schools should be
provided -for white and negro chil
dren should warn President Roose
velt to go slow in his efforts to mix
the white and Japanese races in the
schools of California. President
Eliot accepts as wise and proper the
Kentucky law which requires the
segregation of the races in the
schools, and goes so far as to say
that it would likely be necessary to
adopt a similar for Harvard if negro
students were attending the institu
tion in any considerable numbers.
But the same causes which make it
advisable to provide separate schools
for whites and negroes for in other
parts impel the whites of Cal
ifornia to desire separate schools for
the Japanese. If their desires are
overruled by any sort of diplamatic
arrangements made in Washington,
the trouble will be just beginning
to become acute, instead of be
ing quietly ended. The pesident
of the greatest of New England uni
versities rebukes the lack of eth
nological knowledge revealed by
the president of the United States.
Mr. Roosevelt will save himself
much unnecessary vexation if he
will consent now to learn in this
matter from the head of the famous
institution of which he is an alumnus.
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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw must
have worked over time having her
pictures taken.
The Rockefeller college' is be
coming almost as frequent as the
Carnegie library.
Missouri has a 2-cent fare rate,
Iowa has passed the same kind of a
law but how about Nebraska?
It has come to a show-down that
it will be necessary to have the
democratic or minority vote in the
legislature to pass republican plat
form pledges in case anything is
done. With the solid minority vote
it is feared there will not be enough
votes to accomplish a great amount
of good in this legislature.
The present legislature must
soon commence to do something in
the way of passing laws for the re
lief of the people of Nebraska or
they will go down in history as the
greatest do-nothing set of legisla
tors that ever assembled in the state
capitol . They seem to be kept busy
fighting shy cf all measures and
bills that would give their consti
tuents some relief. As we have
said before, keep your eye
them.
on
R. B. Schneider head of the el
evator trust and sponsor for Nor
ris Brown, is in Washington and
ventures the assertion that Mr.
Bryan is the strongest man that Vhe
democrats can nominate, but that
he will not be able to carry Ne
braska fnext presidential contest.
The question of who may or who
may not carry Nebraska next
depends to a great extent upon the
sins of commission and sins of omis
sion of the present legislature,
which the party in power will have
to answer for.
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Make
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baby.
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and Hypophosphites prepared so that it is
easily digested by little folks.
Consequently the baby that i3 fed on
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If congress would simply set
aside a sum of money to provide a
home for exploded political plug
gers instead of paying for junket
ing them over the state in the
form of a federal court, the people
would be as well pleased and there
would be no appreciable slump in
the supply of justice done up in
original packages. It would be
cheaper to build a wing on the or
phan's home for the benefit of the
fizzled politicians than to give the
dear people any more federal
courts.
Many indictments have been re
turned against metropolitian papers
for publishiug the evidence in the
Thaw case. The law against such
offenses seems to have been invoked
in country districts where morals
are never as lax as in the crowded
centers. But, without defending
the enterprise of catering to the
wishes of the great reading public
it would appear lacking in the
qualities of a news purveyor if a
great journal should refrain from
publishing the eidence. Up to
date not a single person has come
forward and admitted that he or
she has not read it, provided news
papers containing it were acces
sible. ManZan Pile Remedy put up In con
venient, collapsible tubes with nozzle
attchment so that the remedy may
be applied at the very seat of the trou
ble, thus relieving almost instantly
bleeding, itching or protruding piles.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money re
funded. Sold by Gering & Co. Dru
gist.
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and all run down. Burdock
Blood Bitters made me a well woman."
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