The Plattsmouth Journal
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)ir:is;t. it-, si-fuii'l:l;is!t matter.
IVM. for riattsmouth and thus
help yourself .
Tin: philanthropic coal men now
ive the benevolent ice men the
merry "ha, ha!"
How to kill a town: Kick, keep
on kicking, and don't quit it; one
pull one way and one another;
knife every man that disagrees with
you; refuse to unite in any scheme
for the lctterment of the city. This
will do the work.
Souk man who claims to have
watched it for a hundred years or
more, says there is always a peach
crop in the years ending in 6, 7 and
s. Conies regularly like the seven
year locusts. Therefore the peach
buds arc immune to frost this vear.
Xo business man has a vestige of
argument to put to the mail order
patron if he sends job printing away
from home papers. IS very time a
job of printing is sent away the
local paper is being injured. lous
iness men should be considerate and
follow the Golden Rule.
WmiorT any desire to dictate to
the weather man, as it is supposed
he knows his own business, we
would like to suggest that if it
makes no difference to him we
prefer that hereafter he will not per
mit "winter to linger in the lap'of
spring" so long at a time.
I:- you know lor hear of an item
f intvrcst in this community make
it a po?nt to see that it finds a place
in the Journal. Anything which
tends to better or brighten the news
."ervioe of a paper, makes it so much J
more valuable to the community,
and t!ie subscribers are the ones to
be benefited thereby. Remember
thi.
I):;; r will fly at Panama. The
cm -d commission has just adver-
tisc-i! for 10O more sideboards, sev-i
eral dozen demijohns, 500 rocking i
cu;i ; . . 1 'j (.lining tauies, kucu
eti t .1" !es and 500 soup spoons.
The s.v.ndal in connection with the
alleged building or digging of that
ditv-h has ceased to create startling
111 w . ..VHt J .IS. lintel .111
pris.-.
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"All eyes open!" Marse Henri j
Watierson has come back from ISu- j
rope and the little fishes are swim- j
ming in shallow water. He start
ed something at once by predicting
that Hughes would get the repub
lican nomination for the presidency
next year. This makes him solid
with Roosevelt, who has run Taft
about long enough, and who, by
way of easing oft Taft, had just
started a boom for Jimmie Garfield,
the packers' wind-break.
If anyone tells vou that the fruit
and berries are all killed in this sec
tion of country, don't be so rude as
to call him a liar, but tell him he is
badly mistaken . Apples and peach
es in the low lands are damaged to
some extent, but still there issome
thing like a fourth to three-fourths
of a crop of these fruits in tack.
Reports from several orchards on
the uplands indicate full crops of
all kinds of fruits. But we may
expect much of the frnit which now
appears to be all right to drop later.
That peace congress is ruining
the country. A church congrega
tion at Fortssmouth, Ohio, (Ports
mouth sounds peaceable) resorted
to fisticuffs over the right of an out
side minister to come in and hold
services for the faction which ob
jected to the regular pastor who re
fused to be deposed and ousted.
After many of the women had
screamed, run or fainted, and after
the men had fought and exchanged
epithets the dust settled enough to
show that the regular pastor held
the fort and the seceding faction
had withdrawn to hold another
"peace conference."
Tin: earthquakes in Central
America and the West Indias will
now cease- Secretary Taft has quit
those countries and is now in the
United States. After about two
weeks coaching and training, men
tally and physically, Roosevelt will
set him after I-'oraker, and then
Taft's fur will tly, as the president
knew it would when he arranged
the match.
ISvkn the republicans are get
ting dead tired of the rough riding
of the Oklahoma rough riders.
Quite a bunch of them will start
in the race for the republican
nomination for governor of the
new state in the hope of prevent
ing the present governor, Frank
Frantz, from being endorsed by the
convention for that office. They
realize that they have no hope of
electing the nominee but they can
not bear to see Frantz complinented
with the empty honor.
' ' Lok i ' B A kki ngtox must hang
unless the governor of Missouri
commutes his sentence. He has
exhausted every means of delay, ap
peal and review, and now he faces
the hangman's noose. The mur
der for which he was convicted was
particularly atrocious. lie lured a
friend who had befriended him to a
lonely spot, murdered him and took
from the body money and jewelry.
He claimed to be an ISnglish lord
and under the hallucination a Kan
sas City girl married him.
Both Carnegie and Rockefeller
could use their surplus millions in
no better way than by building rock
roads all oer the country. This
would be of real, practical use and
those who used the highways would
have good reason to remember them
with gratitude all their lives. WI13
wouldn't it be a good idea for some
one to call the attention of those
two magnates to such a suggestion?
It would be of infinitely more value
to the American people than the
manner in which they expend their
rat ui ties.
Thkrk was a "hot time" at the
special council meeting over the
application of Mrs. Giese for saloon
license. One Sig Polk appeared for
the remonstrators. The notice was
published in the Journal, and in re-
fc-ring to the notice, this great
" God and morality" representative
took the occasion to speak of this
paper sr.eeringly. It is said that
when lie opened the paper he did
so with rear and trembling lest he
might see some reference to his
connection with the notorious Kup-
l ka case in which he figured" so
prommentlv in favor of Polk.
Nebraska politics has been so
warm for the past seventeen years
that papers outside of Nebraska
have had difficulty in keeping track.
The Kansas City Journal, which is
near enough to know better, sas
Bryan was "defeated for re-election
to congress in the early 90's;"
and Brooklyn Kagle, which is as pro
vincial as most eastern papers, in
sists that "Bryan should carry Ne
braska before he is nominated a
third time." Mr. Bryan was never
defeated for re-election to congress,
and he carried Nebraska in 1896.
These are merely facts of history
and are cited to put the esteemed
Kansas City Journal and the esteem
ed Brooklyn Eagle right.
Here is the opinion the editor of
Harper's Weekly holds of President
Rroosevelt: "A ruler, not neces
sarily young in years, but boyish
in mind, in temperament, in impet
uosity, in love of excitement, in
notoriety, in heedless disregard of
considerations born of sobriety and
calmness: a daring leader but an
unsafe guide; a possessor of talents,
but not of knowledge; noisy, con
fused, contradictory, inconsistent,
illogical, irrational, yet so emphatic
and insistent in expression as in ef
fect to pose as a discoverer of all
truths, while, in fact, only an enun
ciator of the principles or fallacies
of others; maintaining each tenet,
uncompromising arrogance until
compelled to abandon it and then
shrouding retreat in impregnable
ambiguity; a constructive statesman
by profession, a destructive politi
cian in practice; in seeming a chiv
alric Orlando, and in fact a Bom
bastes F arioso."
It is charged that Mr. Roosevelt
is not a brave man, because he call
ed another man a liar when he was
barricaded by offlicial prominence.
U.nci.k J ok Cannon, Senator
Foraker, Fairbanks and others are
jumping "up in the air" as a result
of the administration working so
strenously for Taft.
Tin-: entire body of democratic
notional committeemen, save one,
IJ. 1$. Smalley of Vermont, have
declared themselves unanimously
for William J. Bryan as their choice
for the nominee for president.
A suit has been filed in the su
preme court asking for a man
damus to annul the governor's veto
of the $85,000 appropriation for the
Kearney normal. The suit is
brought in the name of J. F. Crock
er, and Judges Oldham, Sinclair
and I lamer are his attorneys.
Althol'c;ii President Roosevelt's
administration has been marked by
much high-handed dealing on the
part of the executive, the possibili
ties do not appear to have been ex
hausted. The president threatens
for political purposes to keep Okla
homa out of the union until the
next election.
The spectacle peddler must quit
business in Nebraska. A bill pass
ed by the state legislature has re
ceived the governor's signature and
with the emergency clause it has
already become a law fixes a maxi
mum fine of $100 and a maximum
punishment of three months in jail
for any person convicted of violat
ing any provisions of the law.
The city of Denver is making a
determined effort to secure one or
both national conventions to be
held next year. An expense fund
of 5200, 0')0 will be raised and an
auditorium built that will seat 6,000
people. We are for Omaha for the
next place for holding the conven
tion. They already have an audi
torium that will seat more people
than that proposed by the Denver
people. Let Mayor Dahlman get
a move 011 him and start the direc
tion of Nebraska's metrooolis.
It was Wenedll Phillips who as
serted that ' 'every great reform has
first found utterance in the groans
and tears of martyred patriotism."
However, it would be unfair to as
sume that the "groans" and
"tears" of some of the alleged re
formers of today are of the kind
that bring about the batterment of
their fellowmen. In fact, the "re
former" of our time is a person to
be looked upon with suspicion. The
man who prates his own virtue
from the housetops or in columns
of newspaper slush is hardly the
person to lead in the work of genu
ine reform.
The Kansas City Post says: ' 'An
Omaha widow was sued on a note
for $116 and pleaded that she had
discharged the debt by kissing the
creditor at his request and upon
agreement that this would cancel
the note. But the widow neglect
ed to obtain the note and the credi
tor, after after about four months
(it took about that length of time
to get the kiss out of his
mouth), brought suit and the court
deciced against the woman. Any
man who would welch on an agree
men like that is a plumb Omahog."
During the last congress a com
mission was appointed to modernize
some in a few of the post office de
partments. The commission an
nounces that one of the subjects to
be discussed will be a proposition
to place rural free delivery routes
under a contract system the same as
in olden days under the the star
route system. Our people are per
fectly satisfied with the present ser
vice and we believe a general re
sentment will arise from among
the people and patrons of rural
mail delivery when an attempt is
made to take away from them their
present efficient service. The farm
ers are now perfectly satisfied with
the service they are getting and
they will not stand for any move
ment that will destroy or give in
efficient rural mail service.
Thk dove emerged from the peace
conference badlydisfigured and sick
of the ring.
Thk unwritten law is not proving
as popular as that which has found
its way into the statutes.
Tin-: country is so prosperous
that the sign "Panics Made to Order
and Repaired" has been taken down
from Wall street.
Thk weather man should remind
Winter that it is highly improper to
sit in the lap of Spring, and also
pretty tough on spring gardens.
George Gould says that under
present conditions the railroads can
not borrow money. Well, they
have plenty of company in their
predicament.
President Roosevelt formally
opened the Jamestown Exposition
at Jamestown, Va., on Friday last.
The exposition commemorates the
300th anniversary of the founding
of that colony by the English, who
named the settlement in honor of
King James.
A daring southern paper, ven
turing to speak of mighty men, has
dubbed Senator Beveridge the ora
torical brain-storm of Indiana,"
and cuttingly intimated that "he is
the kind of a man who would run
all around the bases on a foul
strike." This last is a descriptive
gem particularly as the baseball
season gets under way.
John Temple Graves may not
have added to the gayety of nations
by his latest evidence of having
been badly bitten during the last
sultry season, but he has added ma
terially to the funniest sections of
the comic papers. It is well to now
recall that it was he who went
around lecturing upon "The Snol
lygoster in Politics," and the Jour
nal is not sure just what the accept
ed definition of that word is, but it
is not afraid to say that Graves is it
and has been "it" ever since he
coined the word.
The independent theatrical cir
cuit, of which the Shuberts were
the head, backed by capitalists in
the east, are about to effect a com
bine with the theatrical trust. The
preliminary papers for the organ
ization were drafted during the
week, and the war that was waged
by these two combinations will
likely be officially declared at an
end before the opening of the next
season. The new combination is
the result of the intervention of
Geo. B. Cox, the political boss of
Cincinnati, and certain wealthy
New Yorkers. Cox has $300,000
invested in the Shuberts's enter
prises. His desire for peace and
better economy in the administra
tion of the theatrical business led
him to induce several weathy New
York men to bring such influence
to bear upon the warring elements
as to force the combination.
The following is a prophesy of
lamented Lincoln: "Yes, we may
congratulate ourselves that the cruel
war is nearing a close. It has cost
a vast amount of treasure and blood.
The best blood of American youth
has been freely offered upon our
country's altar that the nation
might live. It has been indeed a
trying hour for the republic. But
I see in the near future a crisis ap
proaching which unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety
of my country. As a result of the
war. corporations have been en
throned and an era of corruptions in
high places will follow and the
money power of the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign b
working upon the people until all
wealth is aggregated into a few
hands and the republic is destroy
ed. I feel at this moment more
anxiet for the safety of my country
than ever before, even in the midst
of war. May God grant that my
suspicions may prove groundless."
Well has this prophecy proved true.
And could the noble and patriotic
Lincoln understand the manner in
which the republican party is drift
ing the government toward central
ization; he could not rest one mo
ment even in the silent tomb.
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Tho Kind You Havo Always
in uso for over IJO years,
and
All Counterfeits, Imitations ami ' Just-as-good " are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger tin; health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTOR1A
Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing- Syrups. It is l'lc'isant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverish ness. It cures Diarrhoea and "Wiiwi
Colic. It relieves Teething- Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Iiowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend.
CEftUH4E CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the
The KM You Have Always Bought
in Use For Over 30 Years.
All the yellowest papers are now
booming Taft for the republican
nomination for the presidency not
that they respect Taft so much but
that they fear Roosevelt the more.
The "Big Stick" is an actual and
potent menace to them and they
sneeze violently every time the
White House looks at a snuff-box.
Thk verv best towns are those in j
which all the business men are on
good terms with each other. When
one man can't sell an article he
should recommend the customer to
his neighbor in the hope that he can
make the sale. That keeps the
money in the town and by and by
the man who missed the first sale
will get some of it through another
channel. That is harmony in bus
iness affairs.
The lumber trust is now under
investigation by the Washington
authorities, and during the week it
has been stated that if sufficient!
evidence can be secured warranting
criminal prosecution, the necessary
steps in this direction will be taken.
A preliminary investigation of
prices has been concluded in Wash
ington and the bureau of corpora
tions is now sending agents to all
the principal lumbering distrtcts to
secure facts in the field. Xew Eng
land, the northwest, and the far
west, the south and the southwest
are to be included in the inquiry.
The activities of the Mississippi
YellowPine association particularly
are to be probed. The study of
prices as now made shows startling
and uniform advances in the cost of
practically all lumber in the last
ten years, and especially was there
a remarkable jump in 1906. A
mere glance at the quotations sug
gests that more than natural shrink
age of supply is the cause of the in
creases. It is furthermore well un
derstood in the. lumber business is
now controlled by a few centralized
or associated interests, representa
tives of which meet monthly to fix
prices.
Everyone knows that spring is the
season of the year when the system
needs cleansing Dade's Little Liver
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The Checking Account
For The Farmer
" Many farmers keep a
checking account with us
regularly because "it is a
great help and convenience
in their everyday business.
" With a checking account
you can tell exactly the to
tal amount of your receipts
and expenditures for each
month for the entire year.
'.When you sell your farm
prodhcts.depositthe money
in the Bank, subjeot to
check. The obligations you
have, can be cancelled by
check. When you make a
purchase, pay by check.
" We invite you to try this
svstem.
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The Bank of Cass County
Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
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'A OI'ENING SALK HAS
aroused the city. The bar
gains the Variety .Store oilers
are honest and on dependable mer
chandise the prices are without a par
allel. Our stock is now complete, hav
ing received the merchandise that was
delayed in transit. It will be a mutual
benefit should you make your pur
chases from us. We guarantee to save
you money on every purchase. Follow
in'? are some exceptional bargains of
fered: Oil opa'jue window shades '
feet long, each 25c: clothes pins 1c per
dozen; paper pins lc per paper; black
headed pins, lc per box; pearl buttons,
5c per dozen; parlor matches, each
match guaranteed a perfect lighter,
box of 200, lc; 12 boxes 10c; 2 spoo'.3
good thread 5c; Williams shaving soap
5c per cake; muslin from 5c to 12ic per
yard; lawns 5c up; pure silk taffeta
ribbon, Nos. 2-3-5 at 5c per yard; 7-'.'
at 8c: 12-16-22 at 10c; men's sock3
5c to 25c; ladies' hose 7i to 2.3c; child
ren's hose 5c to 25c; 1 dozen Hungarian
goat skin gloves, 25c per pair while
they last; No. 2 lamp chimney 5c each;
boys' knee pants 25c up; work shirts
25c up; ladies' underwear at lower
prices than they were ever offered for;
the well known Dazzler gas mantle at
10c each. Beautiful glassware 5c and
10c: granite ware at very low prices.
Our counters and windows are filled
with genuine bargains. Don't make
your purchase until you get our prices,
and have examined what we offer. We
pay highest market price for butter,
eggs and poultry.
THE VARIETY STORE
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