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6 The Plattsmouth Journal Published Semi-Weekly IV. A. 1 (ATlvS, Entered at the Postoflice at I'lattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter - $1.50 PER YEAR THOUGHT FOR TODAY. J Whoever will prosper in any line of life must save his own lime and do his own thinking. He must, .spend neither lime nor money which he has not earned. J David SI. a it Jordan. :o: Mareh is doing pretty well, thank you. -:o:- Texas is the largest state in the Union. Can you name the next two largest? :o: If you would acquire a reputa tion quickly, set yourself up for 'i weather prophet. :o: You an; now. living under a democratic national administra tion. Have you noticed the change? :o: As something worth while of his genius, Carnegie might de vise an ex-prcsidenlial scheme that will meet the situation in Mexico. :o: "It lakes money to make the mare go" also money to keep the roads in condition so the mare can go. Remember that as you go along. :o: By an overwhelming vote, I he Nebraska house of represent atives passed the hill to substitute electrocution for hanging as a means of inllicling the death penalty in Nebraska. :o: And now the postmasters are licking democratic postage stamps. After all, the stamps don't laste any worse by reason of the change, even if the post -piasters do feel worse. :o: If the head of I ho new nickel is that of an Osage Indian the per capita represented is $T,000 and not (he 1,3 10 of Americans in general. On I he oilier side of I he coin is a design indicating that the Caucasian may be gelling buf faloed. The senatorial fight in Illinois is still on, and from the present indications is liable to be on to the. end of I he legislative session. The republicans could possibly elect if the progressives and reg ulars could gel together, but it doesn't look as though they can possibly agree. :o: Now that Dr. Friedmann is here lo cure tuberculosis', the New York doctors are objecting to his methods. There is always petty jealousies and skepticisms to contend with. There is no use to lose faith in Dr. Friedmann un til he has at least been tried. :o: There was nothing seriously meant in Mr. Bryan's remarks to assistants in the secretary of uue a omce. nai ne said is simply misconstrued that's all The manner in which thev were construed made many of his friends wonder what was really meant. :o: . The matters of hiring "Farm Advisers" is agitating the public mind in a number of counties. Farm advisers can be found whit I ling drygoods boxes to pieces in most any town on sunny days. You can biro them if you will let them "advise," but you must do the work yourself. They arc all to lazy to raise a disturbance on good eoil. at Plattsmouth, Neb.: I'nl.lialiur IN ADVANCE The "swat-thc-fly" season is approaching. Let the clean-the-alley season come along with it. :o: The slate senate lias refused lo conlirin I he appointments of Governor Morrhead for the hoard of control-. What next? :o: The sufl's in the United Slates may mean well, even if their sisters in England an; raising "merry li 1!" Turkey lacks a navy and ability to borrow money. The combina tion abundantly explains why the sultan is willing to negotiate. :o: Democratic city convention ii ts at city hall at 7:3ft o'clock sharp loinorrow evening. Remem ber this. One trouble with Mexico seems lo be that there are too many patriots down there ready to fight for their country, or any other trifling excuse which ma offer. :o: Here's an instance where the times are having an unusually hard task trying to outdistance a man. A North Dakota farmer, at the age of 101, has just enrolled as a student in a corn school. :o. I'resideiit Wilson claims 13 as his lucky number, but is not go ing lo have any edge over I'latts mouth on that score. Just look at I he good things lined up for our city for 1!U3. :o: The Chirks seem to be greatly in evidence just now. Champ Clark is speaker of the house', and Senator Clark of Arkansas has just been selected president pro lem of the senate. :o: That W'oodrow Wilson will be tin- president in (be fullest sense of the lille is now readily noted and he has only been in office ten days, lie handles the reins of government like a man who knew what he was doing. :o: Seventeen slates have already endorsed the elect ion oT United Slales senators by direct vote of I lie people. The opinion prevails I hat I he required number of slates will have ratified the amendment within the present year and the amendment become a part of I be federal const ilnl ion. :o: Ion. A. M. Dockery, for sixteen years member of congress and four years governor of Missouri, has been appointed third assist ant postmaster general. The Journal editor has known Mr. Iiockery for over thirty years, and was one of his warmest sup. porters in every race lie made We have the greatest admiration for Mr. Dockery, both as a public olllcial and private citizen, and have always thought there was nothing too good for this noble man. He will prove faithful to Ihe trust reposed in him. Some men who opposed the election of Wilson because it would lower the price of every thing, aro now declaring that it looks like prices are going still higher. Sonic people are so de lermined lo take the risk of drowning that they won't take hold of a rope when it is thrown to them. They remind us of a fellow who was descending from a ten-story building by a rope. When about half way down be let go the rope and Cuino to the ground in a heap. Asked why be had let go his hold on the rope, he slated that he was afraid it would break. The indications point to a great many improvements in Piallsmoul h this seaon. Several new residences are already under contract, and there will be many improvements iu the business section of the city. If anythng, there will be more improvements made in 1!13 than there were in iti 12. Hurrah for I'lattsmouth, Ihe only big town in Cass county and one of the best in Nebraska! :o: There is not a tanner in Cass county who has ever visited Plal I snioul h and has ever viewed the old, dilapidated and unsani tary condition of the old shack called a jail, but who knows that Cass county has needed a new jail, ami has needed it a long lime. Then why not build it now, and not wait until we have paid out two or three thousand dollars lo other counties for keeping our prisoners? Look at the matter in Ihe proper light lake off your prejudicial eye-glasses and see wherin the proposition is a fair one. We can see no reason for the senate refusing to confirm Henry denies simply because it did not desire to conlirin the other two ippointees for the board of con trol. It may be a personal mat ter on the part of some of the senators as to (iregg and Grauf. We know nothing of the repub- it'un appointed, and having served iu the house with Grauf, and are not particularly stuck on him. We also served in Ihe house with Henry denies and always found him to he a man of busi ness and one who was alwavs found on the side of the people. ;o: One by one the slales have stif fened their laws against Ihe di vorce seekers from other states. For years Sioux Falls, S. D., was the mecca for those who wished quick relief from the marriage lie. When South Dakota length ened the required residence period. Nevada still offered Ihe (dd facilities and Reno enjoyed a prosperity equal to I hat of cities whose chief susteance is the tour ists of the country. Since Ne vada has now made a year's resi dence necessary as a prerequisite lo a decree for divorce, confusion reigns among the habitual di vorce seekers. South Dakota and Nevada were a little tardy in pul ling an end to what was fast be coming a disgrace lo their names, bul they have retrieved them selves in Ihe ees of the nation. :o: An exchange makes a logical appeal to the people of Nebraska not to invest their money in dis tant projects, just because some well-lubricated gentleman comes along and urge it. Promoters of every description are perpetually pursuing every man who has a dollar or who is thought likely to procure one. Those who come under the spell of these slick ones have frequent occasion lo chide themselves for the mistakes they have made in barkening to their siren songs. The exchange in question argues that grass looks so much greener at a distance than at your feet, which is a sad fact, for it is too often an optical illusion. It has for a long time been a favorite sport of Nc braskans to send their money out of the state to be invested in real estate, or mines, or coffee planta tions, or orange groves, or can ned moonbeams, or something equally as good, while they have overlooked the valuable stuff right at home, in the most fertile soil to be found on the footstool. The exchange closes thus: "The real estate pastures of Nebraska aro just as green as any others, and make safer investments than a bunch of lots sight-unseen in some Texas coast town which has not yet been taken off the blue print plat and placed on mother earth. The fields may look green er on some distant slope, but they are no greener than those at our feel." Plattsmouth is likely to tind it self too busy in other public mat ter.' I' engage in a iv.-lit spring campaign, especially when there is no need of it. -:o:- The "sifting committee" will now be in order iu the Nebraska legislature. We have long since come to'lhe conclusion that there is no use for such a procedure, if I lie members would attend to business from the beginning to Ihe end of the session. There will be many bills that perhaps should become laws that, will be consign ed lo Hie Haines. A sifting com mittee is never fair in their de liberations too much favoritism being displayed. :o: Frank Doud, a former citizen of Cass county, and who resided on the Chas. Cook farm, south of town, but is now living at Bloom ing ton, Neb., was bitterly opposed lo W. J. Bryan for the manner in which he pursued in the Haiti more convention, has taken off his hat lo the great ebraskan, and thinks be was perfectly right. Here's what he writes to the Blooming ton Advocate, and it is right to the point: "Take off your hats, democrats, and make your bow. Hon. William J. Bryan, gentlemen, the political general, who has won the greatest victory of modern history. Nelson at the battle of Copenhagen disobeyed orders and won a great, victory for England. Arnold at Saratoga dis obeyed his superior ollicers and won Ihe deciding battle of the revolution. History will honor Itryan's act at Iiallimore, as ex ample of moral courage, whose far-reaching effect will inlluenee the history of our country as much as the act, of Arnold. While we bitterly resented Itryan's re pudiating instructions at Ihe time, in the light of laler events, we acknowledge the wisdom and courage of Itryau and humbly apologize for our error." THOSE WIRE BINDERS. Siime of Hie evidence given in the llan e.-lcr iuvet igai ion will somewhat iisloni.-h Nebraska farmers, cspecialiv ! hat. w hich was introduced in prove that the twine binder was no improvement over the wire binder. The wire binder was so unpopular thai many farmers preferred Hie self raking machine and Ihe binder would have gone entirely out of existence if twine had not been introduced. When wheat was bound wild wire it made Ihe straw useless, as the wire got into the stomachs of the cattle and killed them, and with oats straw that was a decided loss, for all the farmers feed oats straw as il has considerable value for that pur pose. The farmers will laugh at that cricket story. When the fanners were sold hemp twine they were bothered with the crickets, but crickets do little or no damage when the bundles are bound with Manila twine. Several attempts were made lo so prepare the hemp twine that the rrickels would not attack it, but they wore all fail ores and no hemp twine has been on the market for a long time. The farmers will not forget the attempt made lo corner the Manila twine and charge them extortionate prices for il. That went so far that some states put in twine factories for the purpose of supplying farmers with twine at a reasonable price, and an at tempt was made once or twico by the farmers of this stale to eslab lish a twine factory at the peni lentiary, but they were always de feated by some powerful force that they could not exactly locate. If the rest of the defensive evi deuce of the Harvester trust is of Ihe same character as this story about the twine binders not being any improvement over the wiro binders, it will not have very much force with any man who knows anything about harvesting machinery. World-Herald. Josephus Daniels, the new sec retary of the navy, is an editor, which U eiy lilting. He's used to living on water. :o: which caniml be kept in safety at home unless we have a safe place to keep them. Every taxpayer should look at the mailer in a purely sensible light, and if they will do this, the Journal. does not fear the result of their good judgment. :o: The creal ion of a department of labor will increase the cabinet membership to ten. Although a wide range of duties are to be prescribed for the department, criticisms are comim.' from various sources that a depart ment combining that of labor and that of commerce into one should have been created. :o: While (here are so many fine legislative schemes beinsr nrn- - ' osed for enlarging the salaries f public ollicers, or for creating new positions for those who need the money, it, is refreshing to observe that a process is actually in operation to procure the serv ices of at least one deputy game warden in each county to look af ter the enforcement of Ihe came aws without pay. Lincoln Star. Di.il why a deputy game warden in ach county without salary, when there are several district wardens with good salaries? ft is a pre posterous proposition. Let the fellows who eel naid foe it do the work, or gel out and make wav for olhers who are w illing to earn their salaries. :o: Reports from Lincoln are lo the ITeel (hat county assessors for the first time will be compelled his year to return valuation ab stracts to the stale hoard of as sessment and equalization with separate listings made of the amount of properly owned by the telephone, telegraph and express companies. Heretofore the valuations of the three public utilities have been returned in blanket form without any regard to Ihe niiioifiit held by each. The step is taken, according lo Sec retary Henry Seymour of Hie state board, in order that Ihe various corporations may be listed for taxation purposes. Several bills now pending before, the legis lature contemplate the payment, of stale taxes on the amounts of properly owned by the express companies and if any of I hem be come a law it will be necessarv to know the valuation for assess ment purposes. :o: Easlern .newspapers say that never in American history has a cabinet officer received such wide spread public attention as that given lo the new secretary of stale, William J. Dryan. The Washington correspondent for the Chicago Record-Herald says that the popularity of James G. Blaine, pronounced as it was, was by no means to be compared with the popularity of Mr. Bryan, as shown upon every street corner upon every occasion. Nebraska is lo be given an opportunity to meet Mr. Dryan on the occasion of the birthday dinner to be ten dered him by the Lincoln Bryan club, on the evening of March 19. The dinner will be given in the big auditorium at Lincoln and the Lincoln club has issued a general invitation to everyone who cares lo participate. Officers of the club aro now in correspondence with prominent men in various sections of the country and they promise a toast list that will equal in interest that ever offer ed by the club at a Bryan birth day dinner. Tho names of the speakers will be published in due time. Applications for tickets for the banquet are already coming in and the indications are that the Bryan birthday reception and din ner will bo largely attended. Those desiring tickets may obtain them by writing to O. W. Meier, Lincoln. Neb. Price will be $1. BLAME THE MAYOR. The Journal does not desire lo di-i ourage anyone from becoming a candidate for the highest office in the gift of the city of Platt nnuilh, but il might be just as well right now to inform them what they may expect if the peo ple lake a notion to give them the job. An Illinois editor, who prob ably has served as mayor of his town, sums it up this way: If your hens refuse to lay, Blame the Mayor. If you fail to draw your pay, Blame the Mayor. If your false teeth, break in two, And your food you cannot ehevr, 1 Maine the Mayor. If your si reel is never paved, Blame the Mayor. If your soul is never saved. Blame the Mayor. If your collar's torn and split And up your shirt there is a slit, Blame (he Mayor. If the water main runs dry,. Blame the Mayor. If someone blacks your eye, Blame the Mayor. If your sewer is not laid And your faxes are no I paid, Blaine the Mayor. If the weeds grow on your lawn, Blame- the Mayor. If your summer's cash is gone, Blame the Mayor. . If you have no overcoat And old winter's got your goat. Blame the Mayor. If no coal is in your box, Blame the Mayor. If your kids catch chickenpox, Blame the Mayor. If your Jersey cow dries up And you lose your pointer imp, Blame Ihe Mayor. If your taxes are too big, Blame the Mayor. If your neighbors keep a pig, Blame the Mayor. IT Ihe street lamps do not light, If your crossing is a sight, Blame Ihe Mayor. If the trains too fast do speed, Blame the Mayor. If the ordinance they exceed, Blame the Mayor. If the engineers are lined And the trains are all behind, Blame the Mayor. If you're sore at all mankind, " Blame the Mayor. If your pants are patched behind, Blame the Mayor. If he doesn't trade with you Roast him till he's black and blue, Give him thunder, that's his due, Blame the Mayor. :o: Bernard Wurl has made such an efficient and faithful city clerk I hat his friends have increased to such an extent since the last election that no other man seems to be talked of for the place. That is Ihe way it should be with one who has tilled the bill as com petently as Bernard Wurl has. :o: Kill .... ii ..... i 4 -i uin i t'iuiniiK an rauroaus doing business in Missouri to in corporate under the laws of that stale was passed by the Missouri house of representatives. The purpose of the proposed law is to make it possible for persons to sue the railroads in the slate courts. Nothing wrong about that. A prominent, democratic poli tician named Alshuler, of Illinois, has declared in favor of making the ilh of July general election lay throughout the entire country, and make May 30th (Memorial day) primary election day in every state. We are not inclined to the belief that Mr. Alshuler'? suggestions will meet with a very favorable response from the peo ple generally. :o : It does look rather foolish at this distance that Cass county people would want court house re moval when one contemplates the splendid structure now standing in Plattsmouth, built at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars or such a matter. Tho voters of Cass county surely will not go on record as favoring the removal of the county seat to some othrr town, even though more centrally located, a removal which means the utter destruction of the pres ent building; for it will not b possible to remove the building with he seal of government. Nebraska City Press.