THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1313.
v PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURIMAL.
PAGE 6.
PROLOGUE.
- Molly was the fairest and mer
riest of widows and the plump
est ! That too, too solid flesh
fas the causa of all the trouble.
Molly loved Alfred Bennett in
her girlhood days. Now he was
coming home a distinguished
diplomat and wanted to see Mol
ly in the same blue muslin dress
( waist measure twenty inches)
which she had worn at their ten
der parting years before. So
Molly had to grow slim as a
string bean in just three months.
And, as she had at least four
suitors, the melting process a
fairly complicated business
was often interrupted.
The gayr. irresistible Molly, all
sweetness and spice and every
thing nice, is a most- fetching
heroine, and the longer one knows
her the more one's admiration
grows. She has wit a-plenty and
a very keen sense of humor.
Furthermore, no one can tell
just what she will do next. To
rhapsodize, she is but wait, let
the witching Molly tell her own
story herself.
LEAF FIRST.
The Bachelor's Buttons.
Y
ES, I truly think that in all the
world there Is nothing so
dead as a younsr widow's de-
J ceased husband, and God
ought to give his wisest man-angel
special charge concerning looking after
her and the devil at the samty time.
They both need it. I don't know how
all this is going to end; and I wish my
mind wasn't in a kind of tingle. How
ever, I'll do the "best I can and not
hold myself at all responsible for my
self, and then who will there be to
blame?
There are a great many kinds of
pood feeling in this world, from radiant
Joy down to perfect bliss, but this
spring I have got an attack of just old
fashioned happiness that locks as if
it might become chronic.
I am so happy that I planted my
garden all crooked, my eyes upon the
clouds, with the birds sailing against
them, and when I became conscious I
found wicked, flaunting poppies sprout
ed right up against the sweet, modest
clover pinks, while the whole paper of
bachelor's buttons was sowed over
everything, which I immediately be
gan to dig right up again, blushing
furiously to myself over the trowel
and glad that I had caught myself be
fore they grew up to laugh Jn my face.
However, I got, that laugh" anyway,
and I might Just as well have left
them, for Billy ran to the gate and
called Dr. John to come in "and make
Molly stop digging up his buttons.
Killy claims everything in this garden,
and he thought they would grow up
Into the kind of buttons you pop out
of a gun.
"So you're digging up the bachelor
pops, Mrs. Molly?" the doctor asked as
he leaned over the gate. I went right
on digging without looking up at him.
I couldn't look up because I was blush
ing still worse. Sometimes I hate that
man. and if he wasn't Billy's father I
wouldn't neighbor with him as I do.
But somebody has to look after Billy.
I believe it will be a real relief to
write down how I feel about him in
his old book, and I shall do it when
ever I can't stand hiui any longer, and
if he gave the horrid, red leather thing
to me to make me miserable he can't
do it, not this spring! I wish I dared
burn it up and forget about it, but I
don't This record on the first page
is enough to reduce me to tears, and
1 wonder why it doesn't.
I weigh 1G0 pounds, down in black
and white, and it is a tragedy! I don't
believe that man at the grocery store
is so very reliable in his weights,
though he had a very pleasant smile
when he was weighing me. Still I had
better get some scales of iny own;
smiles are so deceptive.
I am five feet three Inches tall or
short, whichever way one looks at me.
1 thought I was taller, bv.t I suppose
1 will have to believe my own yard
stick. ,
But, as to my waist measure, I posi
tively refuse to write that down, even
if I "have promised Dr. .John a dozen
times over to. do it. while 1 only really
loft him to suppose I would. It is bad
enough to know that -your belt has to
be reduced to twenty-three Inches with
out putting down how much it meas
ures now In figures to insult yourself
with. No, I intend to have this for my
happy spring.
Yes. I. suppo5 it would have been
lots better for my happiness if I had
kept quiet about it all. but at the time
1 thought I had to advise with him
over the matter. Now I'm sorry I did.
That is one thing about beLag a widow
you are accustomed to advising with
a man, whether yca want to or net,
or ipor 'pr
By MARIA THOMPSON
DAVIESS
Copyright, 1912. by the Eobbs-MerrlH
Company
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and you can't get over the habit right
away. Toor Mr. Carter hasn't been
dead much over a year, and I must be
missing him most awfully, though Just
lately I can't remember not to forget
about him a rrea rtenl of the time.
Now If lie had been here horrors!
Still, that letter was enough to upset
anybody, and no wouder I ran right
across my garden through Billy's
hMlge hole and over Into Dr. John's
oSice to tell him about it, but I ought
not to hava been agitated enoi:gh to
let him tak the letter right out of my
hand and read it.
"So after ten years Al Bennett is
coming back to pop his bachelor's but
tons at you. Sirs. Molly?" ho said in
the deep drawling voice he always
uses when he makes fun of Billy aud
me and which never fails to make us
both mad. I didn't look at him direct
ly, but I felt his hand shake with the
letter in it.
"Not ten, only eight! He went when
I was seventeen," I answered with
dignity, wishing I dared be snappy at
him, though I never am.
"And after eight yeftrs he wants to
come back and find you squeezed into
a twenty inch waist, blue muslin rag
you wore at parting? No wonder Al
didn't succeed at bank clerking, but
had to make his hit at diplomacy and
the high arts. Some hit at that, to be
logationcd at St James. lie's such a
big gun that it is a pity ho had to re
turn to his native heath and find even
such a slight disappointment as a one
yard waist measure around his his"
"Oh, It's not it's not that much!"
I fairly gasped and I couldn't help the
tears coming into my eyes. I have
never said much about It, but nobody
knows how it hurts me to bo all this
fat Just writing it down in a book
mortifies me dreadfully. It's been com
ing on worse and worse every year
since I married. Foor Mr. Carter had
a very good appetite, and I don't know
why I should have felt that I had to
eat so much every day to keep him
company. I wasn't always so consid
erate of hini. Then he didn't want me
to dance any more because married
women "oughtn't or ride horseback ci
ther no amusement left but himself
and weekly prayer meetings, and and
I just couldn't help the tears coming
and dripping as I thought about it all
and that awful waist measure in
Inches.
"Stop crying this minute, Molly,
said Dr. John suddenly In the deep
voice he uses to Billy and me when
we are really sick or stump toed. "You
know I was only teasing you and I
won't stand for"
But I sobbed some more. I like him
when his eyes como out from under
"VVill you do just as 1 tell you?"
his bushy brows and are all tender and
full of sorry for us.
"I csn't Jclp it," I gulped In my
sleeve. ' "I did used to like Alfred Ben
nett My heart almost broke when he
went away. I used to be beautiful and
slim, iind now I feel as if my own fat
ghost has come to haunt me all my
life. I am so -ashamed! - If a woman
caa"tvcry over her own dead beauty,
what can she cry ever?" By this time
I was really crying. ,
Then what happened to me was that
Dr. John took me by the shoulders and
gave me one good shake .and then
made me look him right In the eyes
through the tears and alL
"Yon foolish child.! he said in the
deepest voice I almost ever heard him
use. "You are just a lovely, round,
luscious peach, but If you will be hai
pier to have Al-Bennett come and lind
you as slim as a string bean I can
show you how to do It "Will you do
just as I tell you?"
"Yes, I will," I sniffed in a comfort
ed voice. What woman wouldn't be
comforted by being called a "luscious
peach?" I looked out between my fin
gers to see what more ho was going
to say, but he had turned to a shelf
and taken down two books.
"Now," he said in his most business
like voice, as cool as a bucket of wa
ter fresh from the spring, "it Is no
trouble at all to take off your surplus
avoirdupois at the rate of two and a
half pounds a week if you fallow these
directions. As I take it. you'are about
twenty-five pouud3 over your normal
weight It will take over two months
to reduce you, and we will allow an
extra month for further beautifying,
so that when Mr. Bennett arrives he
will find the lady of his adoration In
proper trim to be adored. Yes, just
be still until I, copy these directions in
this little red leather blank book for
you, and every day I want you to keep
an exact record of the conditions of
which I 'make note. No. don't talk
while I make out these diet lists! I
wish you would go across the hall and
see if you don't think we ought to get
Billy a thinner set of night drawers.
It seems to me he must be too warm
In the ones he is wearing."
When he speaks to me in that tone
of voice I always do It And I reeded
Billy badly at that very moment I
took him out of his little cot by Dr.
John's big bed and sat down with him
In my arms over by the window
through which the early moon came
streaming. Billy is so little, little not
to have a- mother to rock him all the
times he needs it, that-1 take every
opportunity to give it to him I find
when he's unconscious and can't help
himself. Sho died before she ever
even saw him, and I've always tried to
do what I could to make it up to him.
Toor Mr. Carter said when Billy cut
his teeth that a neighbor's baby can be
worse than twins of your own. He
didn't like children, and tha baby's
crying disturbed him, so many a night
I walked Billy out in the garden until
daylight, while Mr. Carter and Dr.
John both slept Always his little,
warm, wilty body has comforted me
for the emptiness of not having a baby
of my own. And he's very congenial,
too, for he's slim and llowery, pink and
dimply, and as mannish as his father,
in funny little flashes.
"Git a stick to punch it, Molly." he
was murmuring in his sleep. Then 1
heard the doctor call mo and I had to
kiss him, put him Lack in his bed and
go across the hall.
Dr. John was standing by the table
with this horrid small book in his hand
and his mouth was set in a straight
line and his eyes were deep back un
der their brows. I hate him that way,
too, and I would like to get up so close
to him that he couldn't hit me or have
a door locked between us. It's strange
how the thought of taking a beating
from a man can make a woman's heart
jump. Mine jumped so it was hard to
look as meek as I felt best under the
circumstances, but I looked it out from
under my lashes cautiously.
"There you are," Mrs. Molly," he said
briskly as he handed me this book.
"Get weighed and measured and sized
up generally in the morning and follow
all the directions: also make every rec
ord I have noted so that I can have
the proper data to help you as you go
along or rather down. And if you will
be faithful about It to me, or, rather
Al, I think we can be sure of buttoning
that blue muslin dress without even
the aid of the buttonhook." His voice
had the "if you can" note In it that
always sets me off.
"Had. we better get the kiddie some
thinner night rigging?" he hastened to
ask as I was just about to explode
He knows the signs.
"Thank you, Dr. Moore! I hate the
very ground you walk on, and I'll at
tend to those night clothes myself to
morrow," I answered, and I sailed out
of that oCiee and down the path to
ward my own house beyond his hedge.
But I carried this book tight in my
hand, and I made up my mind that 1
woyld do it all if it killed me. I would
show . him I could be faithful to whom
I would decide later on. But I hadn't
read far into this book when I com
muted myself to myself like that!
Suffered Eczema Fifty Years
How Well.
Seen)?; a long tune' lo endure
the awful burning, itching-, smart
in, - frkin-ilisease known as "tet
ter" another name" for Eczema.
Seems good.lo realize, also, that
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P"!E!;T has proven a -perfect "cure.
Mrs! D. L. Kennedy writes: "I
cannot suflieienl ly express inj
thanks to you for your Dr. Hob
sou's Eczema Ointment. It htvs
cured my teller, which has troubl
ed me for over lifly years." All
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PLATTSMflUTH
FORTY YEARS
Items of Interest to Old and New
Residents of City Which Were
New Forty Years Ago.
KlstiT, the tailor, has removed
lo new quarters in the handsome
mums beneath Mrs. Whitcumb's
dressmaking- establishment, and
we are very happy lo learn thai
he is lull of business.
A party af ten Russians passed
through here," via Ihe B. & M.
railroad Tuesday, who had been
hunting laud fur a eolony in the
Republican valley.
The High sellout is fast ap
proaching completion. It is tin
intention of the city council to
make this a No. 1 preparatory
school in connect ion with our
university. The studies will be
graded that scholars fromlhe
High school will be ready to enter
the university al once on leaving
this school.
Married On the L'lst iust. by
T. J. Arnold. at his ovn resi
dence, Mr. D. R. Oise to Miss
I.eena Stull.
Mr. Jieanlsley, formerly of
the Lincoln Leader, 'railed on us
Wednesday, al.-o Mr. Ed Roggen.
Hoi h gentlemen are up on some
stale business regarding the
equalization of taxes. Long life
to them; good heads on their
shoulders.
Hon. J. II. Brown started for
Boulder Oily. Oolo., Wednesday
last, to be gone a couple of
months. Business and I lie benefit
of his health are the combined
otueels of his trip. We under
stand he al.-o intends to interest
himself somewhat in the further
ing1 of lite Orange movement.
Farmers are complaining of
their crops being light; but this
is nothing- new. If we remember
correctly, this has been the song
from the time the seed was sown.
We have had a splendid season
for crops, and if we an blessed
mill weather
i
bountiful harvest than has
for harvesting we .may expect.
move
been realized
years.
for the past IVdir
For mouths and weeks a
mysterious and peculiar excite
ment has been going on around
John Shannon's-' livery stables.
New, unique, antique and won-
deruil xelni'les were neing uany
hauled in and beiny hauled out;
covers put on and seals put in,
and paint daubed on and rubbed
off by Ihe curious watchers
Uanv smuiosod that John was go
ing into the show business; but
when after a while Nat Brown be
gan to keep buzzing about, folks
jegau to talk louder and wonder
harder. I was finally decided
that the government was about lo
invade .Mexico and retaliate on
Sanlanlee and Big Fool, andjiad
chartered an outfit in Plalts-moul-h.
After - that somebody
started (lie report that the B. &
M. R. R. were about to build a new
air line to the Atlantic ocean via
the (Julf of Mexico, aud Brown
was rigging up a surveying out
fit. Meanwhile' Brown smoked in
and smoked out and John looked
wise one minute and smiled the
next, but kepi a close tongue. In
the dead hour of midnight Ibis
immense cavalcade started out
from amongst us and in the dead
of night she returned. Now what
do you suppose was the matter?
The railmad officials and sonic
foreigners were going out on a
grand buffalo hunt. We supposed
extra ears wen ordered lo bring
the meat in. jiiule trains charter
ed lo carry Ihe hides and new oil
lank ears built lo convey the tal
low to IJoSton after being melted
out on (lie prairie. But In! Hie
cavalcade returned along with the
circus. Brown smoked in and
oul; John smiled again and no
man knowelb' where "them air
Buffalo hev gone ler," nor what
has become of the hunters.
' LaJ'er II. is understood that
after the buffalo train got out to
Salt creek they heard that the
Modoes were on t he war path
again, anil that stUledil. Most
of them had long hair.
Cap. L. I-. Bennett, one of
our oldest and most reliable
citizens, announces himself as a
candidate for county treasurer
Ibis fall. This is after the good
old-fashined way, and if the con
vention choose to nominate him,
or any number of men desire to
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TUXEDO IS A FACTOR IN THE
PROGRESS OF PLAnSMOUTH
In Plattsmouth, as in other v cities throughout the
United States, business men are discovering the helpful
inspiration of an occasional pipeful of Tuxedo smoked
in the office during the stress of work. This mild, sooth
ing tobacco affords just the necessary relaxion, from ner
vous and mental strain, that enables a man to do more
work and better work. Well known physicians recog
nize this helpful influence of Tuxedo.
You can join your Plattsmouth friends and neighbors
in smoking Tuxedo, no matter how often you have tried
1 to smoke a pipe and failed. Tuxedo is the oni tobacco
that cannot bite or irritate your throat, tongue or nose,
however sensitive they may be. The "Tuxedo Process"
of treating the mildest, ripest leaves of highest grade
Burley tobacco removes every trace of harshness and in
sures a deliciously mild, cool and fragrant smoke.
The endorsements of prominent Plattsmouth smokers
and thousands'of famous Americans in every walk of life
should convince you that Tuxedo is welFworth a trial.
Mr. Carl Fricke, Assistant Cashier of the
Plattsmouth State Bank, formerly City Treasur
er, and member of the Odd Fellows, Masons
and Knight Templars, is one of the many well
known men of Plattsmouth who endorse Tuxedo
as giving greater satisfaction in a pipe than any
other tobacco because of exceptional mildness.
Mr. Fricke says:
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Tve always felt like having my
tongue re-surfaced after a pipe.
But there is'nt a bit of bite in Tux
edo. It is so fragrant and pleasant
ly cool that a pipe has as
sumed a new place in my
scheme of things. I get
a world off satisfac-
Mr. CARL FRICKE,
Assistant Cashier of the Plattsmouth
g State Bank,
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vide for him, no one can say he is
a rinsr or clique candidate. There
he stands before the public and
you all know him; vole for him or
not as your judgment dictates.
Fifty-one carloads of wheal
came in from Ashland -find alona:
(lie railroad on Fridav niylil.
Kvery warehouse isi full, u-nd
sacks piled twelve fuel hili all
around the luemisos. If that is
not business, what is?
The Presbyterian Sabbath
school is in a more nourishing:
condition than it has been for
years. It is run alloycther by old
heads and consequently, it js run
successfully.
Win. " Sladelniann's building
down town where lie-used. to sell
cheap clothing, you know, is be
ing relit led for Mr. McGuire, who
moves his wholesale liquor store
into new quarters next week.
Three scouts, named re
spectively "Dashing Charlie,"
"Arapahoe Dick" and Capt. JJarl
lett, passed through Omaha last
week on their" way to join Fd
IJuntline's dramatic troupe in
New York. Buffalo Dill and Texas
Jack have left that troupe, infvnd
i n g to set "up one of their own,
and these men take their places.
Married At Ihe residence of
the bride's father, in Richardson
county, on the morning of the 7lh
inst., by the Rev. Mr. Lenska, Mr.
Alonzo Cunningham lo Miss Car
rie Howe. The happy couple took
the train for Plattsmouth, where
they expect to spend the honey
moon, if ihe boys will give "Lou"
any lime to devote lo such pur
suits. We wish I hem a long life,
oceans of happiness aud a gold
mine throwed in.
Win. Stadelmann, the great
clot hing -merchant of Plaits
mouth,, shipped a case of splen
diL apples of his.own raising lo
the Boston exhibition. If this
fruit does'not convin.ee the east
ern people that Nebraska is a
great fruit country, and our citi
zens industrious and enterprising
people, we shall think they are
dull of comprehension.
The members of the Cass
County Fair met at Ihe court
house on Saturday, the 23d, to
transact, some unfinished busi
ness. J. C. Cummins reported
that he had lorn down the old
stalls and should put up others
more commodious. One gentle
man secured tire privilege of ex
hibiting a well auger' more than
three feet in diameter fu actual
operation, promising to sink a
well 3d feel Jeep in 5 or 5 hours.
Mr. Russell promises to exhibit
his new and celebrated pump at
work in this well. The committee
on irocuriiis- a band lo play at.
the fair tnado their report, but no
action was taken on it. We learn
ed that Mr. Dubois was training
his celebrated llamillonian horses
with a view to showing their
speed at the fair. We also learn
ed that Mr. Jones was training a
mir iber of horses belonging lo
men in ayd around Weeping Wa
ter Falls, all of which will be
brought to the fair to prove their
speed. Ve, saw Mr. Madison on
Tviesdav last, and also his black
stallion, blacker than the raven's
wing, which -Mr. M. promises to
bring tu the fair. r
Our own bank here only closed
one day, on Saturday, and that,
owing to mere chance in paying
out a large quantity of currency
a few days before. On Monday
they were open again and doing
business all right. Tuesday The
deposits wore $20, 000 more than
the amount paid out, and already
our grain merchants and business
men are carrying on their busi
ness as of yore, and the smiling
faces of the bank oflicers inform
everybody that their bank is open
and bound to stay open in future
for all legitimate business trans
actions. The First National of
Plattsmouth is fine of the strong
est banks in the country.
Every Moment.
The human life being so short
we should never neglect a mom
ent. Fniperor Napoleon said:
"F.very moment lost gives an op
portunity for misfortune." For
a few moments only you may neg
lect the laws of nature, either by
intemperance in eating or drink
ing or by some other excess ami
punishment at once indisposi
tion, loss of appetite, weakness.
In such cases Trincr's American
Elixir of Hitter Wine will give you
a quick and decided relief hy
cleaning out the intestines and
strengthening them. This rem
edy is recommended in diseases
of the stomach and of the in
testines, especially when the pati
ent is const ipaled and sutTering
fromloss of appetite, headache
and weakness; At drug stores.
Jos. Triner, 1333-133'J S. Ashland
Ave., Chicago, III. For pains in
Ihe muscle and joints try once
Trincr's Liniment and you will
always keep it in your household.
If you need anything for har
vest call on Ed Donat. He will
treat you right.
A reporter for the Herald, in
company with a couple, of Plalts
mouth's fairest dau-ghlers, visited
Mr. Hesser's famous garden.
These gardens are a sample of
what can be raised in Nebraska.
He has OOxli feet of hoj-house
room all in use, and iV prepar
ing lo build more. He has three
tier of shelves. in the building,
filled with Ihe choicest varieties
of flowers, having expended $500
this spring for new varieties. He
sides flowers he has. vegetables
and fruit in' great abundance,
having set out 1,500 apple trees
this season, and intends, in a few
years, to be aide to ship fruit east.
One miht preach to the eastern
people through the .papers for
years that this is a great fruit
growing state, and they would
say: "Those fellows have sonic
corner lots they wish to dispose
of, and take this method lo pufT
them up." Hut we will prove to
them,' at no distant day, that' this
is nox "Sandy Desert."
Inter-County Tournament.
The dale for the big inter
eounly tournament has been set
for August 25, 20 and 27. Owing
to the condition of the courts in
this city it has been transferred
lo Weeping Water. This tourna
ment last year was a huge suc
cess and with the co-operation of
the tenuis players of Platts
inoiilh it ought lo repeat Ibis
year. Weeping- Water responded
nobly last year when -called upon
to help support the tournament.
It's up to us to help them, make
their tournament a success. Se
Mat I hew Herold about jour
entries.
The beauty and virtue of women
are buperior to th3 virtue and beauty of
men, but no ono van b0 beautiful hn
in tho throes of a deep-seated backinff
cough or cold. Nothing will briDg greater
relief than Alien' Cough Balsam. Sold for
over half a century. Endorsed by thoj
vrho use. it. 25c. . .0c. and & 1.00 Lottlc3.
A Few
Words
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J kbout
t V e n7;Jame" H- Dixon, Hector St.
Jad sud Hon. Cenon of Christ Ch.iret
Cathedral, Montreal, writes : "reruiit ma
to seort you a few I inn to strongly recom-
used it with satisfaction for thirty-nr
years. It id a prer aration wMch. deserves
fall public confluence."
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