The Piattsmouth Journal
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
"Young man, lei (tie noble- !
J ness- of your mind impel yuii
-I- to its improvement. You
are loo strong1 to bede-I! Jud-v Cornish of the Lancaster
J fealed, save by yourself. Jjeounly dislriitt court has held the
.j. v. I. Howard. j ant i-gi!'l law uncoiist il ut hmal and
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H -M-H-I-H- I
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Where there is a will there is a
way, and frequently a few at
torneys. Forty-seven democratic sen
ators are pledged to vole for the
tariff bill. Good!
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II is too warm these days to
pet hot about it. Hut it is the
making; of the corn crop.
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A man who fears congress will
vide him out of his personal
liberty should hesitate to pet
ma rried.
We realize that life is a com
plex mailer, and it is about time
for chautaiupia orators to quit
repealing it.
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Speaking about the golden har
vest, (he best wanes are always
over in the next county. Same
way with fishing.
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I)own in southern Illinois they
lately prayed for rain, and got it.
Hut Doubtful Thomas suggests
that Yuma, Arizona, can't do it.
An Artie explorer says that 1,
000,000 square miles in the region
of the north pole have never been
visited. There is no occasion yet
for the Arctic Alexanders to weep,
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Safer and saner celebrations
appear to have been the general
rule this year. Result: Reduc
tion in the high cost of life and
limb, as well as properly loss by
lire.
Our people, and especially the
business class, should begin to
think about the T. J. Sokol Na
tional Tournament hero next
month. This means a large num
ber of strangers in Plattsmouth
for several days.
There will be no baud concert
tonight. It has been postponed to
Thursday night of next week. The
people will be sadly disappointed.
We would hate to tell why it was
postponed. It would certainly dis
gust many more than il has dis
appointed.
Ml HENRY PECK
at Plattsmcuth, Neb.:
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a!l I lie wliea
saved.
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in C.a-s
Tourists' rates aren't as cheap
is Kiev sound in the folder.
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it is in alid.
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Some men ride down town in
I lie morning on the water wagon
and then try to walk home at
night .
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Il would appear that everybody
out in California is getting fussy!
The postmaster at San Francisco
has held office for eleven years
and now refuses to give the olllce
over to his successor. We know
some postmasters who would do
the same tiling if there was any
use in it.
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They are si ill racketing over
Hie Nebraska (lily armory, and a
last grand effort will be made to
secure the needed 7,00(1 on the
referendum. II should prove a
signal failure, ami we hope il will.
The activity of some contentious
fellows should prove to the peo
ple of .Nebraska that it is purely
spile work and nothing less.
If some professed democrats
Ihinighl more of the future suc
cess of the parly than Ihey do of
holding olllce and being a demo
crat for selfish interests they
might be considered pretty fair
democrats. Hut men who are not
loyal to the party only when il
suits their selfish purposes cau
iiol be relied upon, and are al
ways looked upon with suspicion
by all reliable democrats.
That "whirlvv Inner of souls,
Hilly Sunday, has just recently
complete! one of his spectacular
campaign m Indiana, winch netted
him the sum of $10,500. The real
roligioiis work of the world is be
ing done by the rank and llle of
the Christian "ministry and those
lo whom they are worth 1,500 a
week, in contrast with example
appeal, whom their sober counsels
persuade, rather than by the fishy
"revivalists" of the Sam Jones
ami Hilly Sunday type. If the
mountebanks and fakirs can ac
complish real and lasting good,
they are entitled to all the credit
tine them. Hut it is extremely
doubtful if they are worth $1,500
a week, in contrast with other
ministers. ' And the sooner the
people of any community begin to
realize the fact that such "soul
savers" as Hilly Sunday are simp
ly out for the money there is in
it, the better.
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Some I'orn was blown (iin in
I he storm Sunday ii iu tit .
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The weather bureau hands out
nine hope for cooler weather the
balance of tlu' week. Thank the
Lord!
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The greatest ohjectf'm some
people have fo summer mornings
is that they get up too early for
t hem.
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II is growing popular now to
include among the bride's pres
ents a 11 y swatter and a package
of bed-biu powder.
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Funny old bird is the pelican;
his bill can hold more than his
belican. H can take in his beak
enough food for a week, but we
don't see how (he helicau.
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Some farmers have marketed
their wheat, and most of it tests
(5 2 pounds and averages from 35
to 40 bushels to the acre. There
are a few fields that will run over
45 bushels to the acre.
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Reports from Washington are
to the e fleet, that republican sen
ators are preparing to tight the
tariff. That is no surprise to
anyone. Republican senators
have to make some showing in
congress, and .just as well on the
tariff as anything else.
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The "book farmer" is a more
common article now than he was
a few years ago. The preserva
tion of the soil in an old settled
country is just as important as
the raising of a big crop. To
know the treatment soil must re
ceive one must read and learn
what others have demonstrated by
experiment and scientific re
search. Time was when the old
fanners made sport of the "book
farmers," but I he successful agri
culturists are all coming to it.
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The bull moose fellows are geU
ling out of the sinking ship. . Her')
is Medill MeCormick, who an
nounces that he has quit politics
ami is going into literature. Frank
Munsey has thrown up his hand;
George W. Perkins is trying to
explain how he formed the Inter-
national Harvester trust; Senators
Cummins of Iowa and La Follette
of Wisconsin are trying to round
up their followers so as to keep
their jobs; Roosevelt announces
that he is going to take a two
years' trip around the world; Taft
is out of politics entirely, and
thus it goes. It is just as well for
democrats to understand right
now that the republican party is
not dead, nor even sleeping. While
flushed with victory and with a
line prospect for a most success
ful national administration, it has
always been a fault with demo
crats to become too confident at
the wrong time. Next year the
democrats will have the fight of
I heir lives to retain control of
congress, and it is just as woll
for I hem to get ready for it. The
republicans are quietly reorganiz
ing all over the land.
AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS
l$e a booster, or keep your
niouth closed. It's fly time.
The Hies are on the increase.
Are ou doing your duty in svval
timr them?
I Is the war on weeds still going
on? It is in some parts of the
city, we know. Hut bow is it in
other parts?
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Neither is the automobile mak
ing as lunch headway putting the
horses out of business as the
prophets tin u red.
God bless the rain, the gentle
rain; it makes a man feel young
aaaiu. He feels like tossing up
his hat an feeling happy as a
democrat.
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That Missouri man who work
ed on his wife's head with a
hatchet was what the women call
"too demonstrative." Do your
Christmas shopping early.
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What do farmers think of this?
A Chicago paper says that, there
is such a big hay crop between
the Missouri river and the moun
tains that hay will sell at $2 per
ton at the stack.
II is announced that in dis
tributing its July semi-annual di
vidends, Wall street cut two hun
dred and sixty-two watermelons
the largest ever. And all under a
democratic administration.
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Saturday was about the dullest
vfek-eud shopping day that our
merchants have experienced in
many weeks. The busy season
with I lie farmers had everything
n Oo Willi tile slack lllisilless. :
It is hoped in the interest of j
those headed for heaven that a
journeyman angel can play a
harp without practicing. Which
is suggested by a neighboring
angel who pounds painful parox
isms from a feverisfl piano.
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Coi. Goelhals says the Panama
canal machinery will be too near
worn out by Hie lime the canal
is completed to be useful in river
improvement. Hut the knowledge
gained is the main thing and will
lead to other results on a like
scale.
A beef steer, when cleaned up
and ready for the butcher's block,
will weigh about 375 pounds.
Several men who are meal eaters,
agree that Ihey will consume
about a pound of meat a day on
an average, consequently Ihey
will eat a beef steer every year,
r.nd should every one of these
men live to be 80 years old, he
will have consumed eighty steers,
four carloads. Just think of it;
if this man should see eighty
steers in a pasture could he
realize that during his lifetime he
had eaten such a tremendous
amount of meal? Placing the
value of each steer at $00, he
has used up $1,800 of his earn
ings for meaf, to which must be
added what it has cost him for
all other kinds of food.
Labor day comes next in line
of holidavs.
Strength to the arm of the ap
ple growers of the southeastern
part of the state. They are to
wage a determined and thorough
war against practice of Nebraska
railroads ami Nebraska job
bers knocking the Nebraska apple
and giving the Idaho apple all the
best of it. They are going to show,
says ;i Lincoln cm-respondent,
that a Lincoln wholesale firm sold
Nebraska apples under the name
of New York apples and sought to
justify the high cost by asserting
lh;il the freight rale between here
and the east was so excessive.
Other "tricks of the trade" it is
promised tricks in shipping, rale
juggling, etc. will be exposed
and the apple men expect to show
one of the rankest cases of dis
criminat ion ever disclosed.
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Some democrats may think that
the republicn party is as badly
split up the back as they were a
year ago. Close observation has
convinced the writer that the two
factions are getting closer to
gether every day, and by the time
the election rolls around in 1914
one will not know that there was
ever any bitterness in the ranks
of either faction. Watch the ac
tions of the republicans in Hie
house and senate. F.ven La Fol-b-tte
is ready to go back to the
republican parly for the sake of
unity and victory. He would not
do a I hing to aid President Wilson
lo a successful termination of his
administration. lie don't want
Wood row Wilson to succeed, ami
it is the same way 'with every re
publican member of the house or
senate, no matter whether bull
mooser, standpatter or what not.
They are all working to one end
the success of the republican
party under its old name. Watch
ami you will see our predictions
are correct.
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j This is the season of the year
i when the average man or worn.
mi's thoughts lightly turns to a
vacation. Many well-to-do peo
ple can afford to take a trip, but
I here are many who take such
trips that are not able to do so,
but they go just the same, and
suffer when they return for many
things the money thus spent
would provide for them. The
editor is one who really needs a
vacation trip, 1ml never gets it,
because the necessary essential to
bring about such an event is not
within reaching distance. It is
those who simply go for a show,
not for any special benefit to
themselves, because they don't
need the outing near as much as
Ihey will need the money with
which to purchase their winter
clothing next fall. In this re
spect those who remain at home
.certainly display more wisdom
and feel just as much benefited
by doing1 so as those who spend
their savings for a whole year
just to be in "the swim" with
those who could buy them if Ihey
were black.
GETTYSBURG IN 1S63-1913.
Nearly every schoolboy knows
by heart the immortal words of
the speech delivered by Abraham
Lincoln, July 4, 18Gi, on the Get
tysburg battlefield. He was ad
dressing an assemblage gathered
to dedicate a part of the battle
field as a final resting place for
the thousands who had met death
there. "Hut, in a larger sense,"
he said, "we cannot dedicate, we
cannot consecrate, we cannot hal
low this ground. The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it far
above our poor power to add or
retreat. The world will little note
nor hmg remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what
they did here. It is for us, the
living, rather lo be dedicated to
the great task of remaining be
fore us," said Lincoln, "that from
these honored dead, we take in
creased devotion to that cause for
w hich they gav e I he full measure
of devotion that we here highly,
resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth
of freedom and that government
of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not perish from
the earth."
It was on the first anniversary
of the battle of Gettysburg that
Lincoln uttered that perfect trib
ute, rightly considered one of the '
world's greatest examples of
oratory.' Half a century has pass
ed over the heads of the men who
survived Pickett's gallant charge,
and a great army composed of
heroes of the civil war is encamp
ed on the blood-hallowed ground.
The men of the blue and the gray
who fought one another fifty
years ago were there in a great
demonstration of that fact that
the hope which Lincoln so
solemnly and feelingly voiced has
been fulfilled the union is one
and undivided. Where saber
flashed, where bullets tore, where
shells burst, where cheers and,
groans resounded, the men who
tried to'kill one another in 1863
clasped hands in comradeship in
1913, glad that they are brothers.
"There is no north! There is no
south I Hrolhers all!" Never
again will Gettysburg hold as
many old soldiers as were there
last week, the Blue and Gray
marching arm in arm. These
heroes of the north and south are
grateful for the opportunity to
meet again before they die, but'
the whole country should be
grateful for the spirit which was
responsible for this great reunion
and its object lesson.
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There seems to be a few fellows
who want an election this fall.
They may probaby have a little
election all their own, but it will
not get them any of the offices.
Even the democratic county cen
tral committee of Lancaster
county is clamoring for an elec
tion. :o:
A Hat He Creek, Mich., man is
72 years old and boasts that he
has never lost a tooth. Probably
keeps them in a bottle.
By Gross