THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1913.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
PAGE 7.
I
URGES THE USE OF
HOME GROWN SEED
Governor Morehead Offers Some
Timely Suggestions On the
Selection of Seed Corn
(idvt'rnor Morehead, in a proc
lamation issued yesterday, urges
N braska farmers to use seed
cni grown in this state and ad-
lhise who have a supply to
i
.-ae it for their neighbors whose
u I ' I nay have been cut short
t v the drouth that prevailed over
: . .niderable portion of the
-ate iliis year. Me says experi
i :. iits liave shown that seed corn
r.iwn in other states lias produe
, ,l a. -J bushels less per acre than
i ative grown seed, lie designates
tli.. week beginning September 22
seed corii week, and asks far
i i-ts to make a careful selection
(.;" eed corn. His proclamation is
a- follows:
The experiences of successful
fanners and the results of tests
piiide by experiment stations show7
conclusively that proper selection
and care of native grown seed
c. .in always results in seed of
rng germinating and high
yielding power.
It is especially important that
v..- should use care this year be
cause sections of our state have
I n visited by a severe drouth
which will leave some farmers
without r-'-ed. Inmost of these
. (ions, however, there are those
.!io can save sufficient seed for
: i!i of their neighbors. If they
fail to do so these neighbors will
I required to send away for
- d. A test made at the Nebras
ka . i iim'iit station shows that
.I from other states has aver
d 0.2 bu-hel- less per acre
than native irrown seed.
stalks of corn which have
withstood the severe conditions of
tli.
season and still produce ears
w great vitality. Seed from
-,vli -talks should be the very
I. -it. Nature has helped this year
in eliminating the weak plants,
f.'id we should use every effort to
our seed from the winners of
ih- battle of the survival of the
rt-t.
"If it is impossible to secure
-d in the immediate neighbor
Ifood the farmer should go no fur
ther from home Mian is absolutely
necessary. It is always better to
-.cure seed from the north than
fr--.hi the south. For these reas--:-
it is urged that the farmers
'! th- more favored sections of
i:- -tate carefully save a large
'" ollllt of set'd.
"Where it is impossible to se-
i n - good seed of this year's crop,
i' may be possible to locate snmi
f la-t year's corn. If the ger-
ii iiating power of old corn is
I. it will ordinarily give bet-
t-r r-sults than seed brought
from a distance.
"If these precautions are ob
served, it will not be necessary for
any Nebraska farrr m to go far
from borne for seed, and thu- the
!-Id of corn for next year wi'.l
t'ot be decreased :ecause of im
T"rte(j seed, but wiil be increased
I -cause of careful selection.
"Our experiment siation at Lin-
"In will be glad to send bulletins
i n 'Selection and Care of Seed
('rif to all inquiries.
"With these things in mind I
' r -re the early and careful selec
tion of eed corn and designate
I tie week beginning September 22,
1 ')'. as 'seed corn week.' Its gen-
ml observance will insure a suf
t i. :it amount of native grown
--. for our li)i l crop.
"Jiv-M under my hand and the
'.-. at seal of the state of Nebras
ka this the Oth dav of September,
"JOHN II. MORF.HEAD.
"fJovernor."
Mrs. C. II. Rist and children de
J arted last evening on No. 2 for
!-ndo?i. Iowa, where they will
'i-it Mrs. Rist's grandmotlier,
h is past 90 years of age.
The leanty ami virtue of womea
re superior to the virtue and beauty of
ien, but no one can be beautiful when
'n the throes of a deep-seated hacking
-ouRh or cold. Nothing will bring greater
relief than Allen's Cough Balsam.' Sold for
'er half a century. Endorsed by those
ho use it. 23c. jOc. and Ssl.QO bottles.
A Few
Words
about
Painkiller
The Rev. James n. Dixon, Rector Ft.
Jnoi-B and Hon. Canon of Chriot ChnrcH
I a:hw.ral, Montreal, write : "1'ertnit me
lo einil you a f,-w line to Btrongly r"Coin
nwnl 1'erkt LAyi9' Painkiller. I have
'Sd it with eatisfaction tor thirtj-fie
ea's. It i a preparation which deserves
lull public confidence."
Painkiller
Cramp
Diarrhoea
Bowel Complaint
IN PLATTSMOUTH
FORTYYEARS AGO
Items of Interest to Old and New
Residents or City Which Were
New Forty Years Ago.
Win. B. Swearingen of Beaver
county, Pennsylvania, one of the
most successful leathers of the
old "Keystone," commenced
school at Louisville on .Monday,
November 10. Louisville is for
tunate in securing the services
of Mr. S.
The farmers are just rushing
the wheat into this market. Cars
cannot be obtained fast enough
to ship it. It is estimated that
10,000 worth of wheat went out
of IMatlsmouth in two days last
week.
Major Bohanan of Lincoln
passed through our city Thurs
day last with a buffalo cow four
years old, and two elks, one four
and the other one year old. Mr.
B. has sold these animals to
some parties east, and delivers
them in Chicago, together with
as line a lot of beef cattle as we
ever saw. On the same train was
Mr. Tom Palmer, taking a couple
of line horses east for deliverv.
L. E. Cropsey, our new consul
to Chemnitz, showed his pleasant
and smiling face in the Herald
office last week, on the eve of his
departure for Europe. Mr. Crop
sey is a young man of lint part
and has been rapidly promoted
to a position of iulluence. We
think he will make a good consul.
and be a credit to our counlrv.
and we shall always feel proud
of him as a citizen of the young
state of Nebraska, more especial
ly if he shows in his new and im
portant position such finalities of
the head and heart as will elevate
him in the estimation of good
men, and eventually place him
a round higher in the ladder of
fame.
Mrs. Mary Schildknecht, wife
of Dr. Win. If. Schildkneeht.
whose death and funeral notice
appeared in the county papers of
Cass county. Nebraska, a few
weeks ago, was born in Henry
county", Indiana, in the year 1833,
and was reared ami educated in
and according to the rules of the
Society of Friends, of which her
narents were members. From
her childhood she won by her
amicable and gentle disposition
the esteem and affection of thoe
with wliom she was associated.
About the year IH5 5 she ex
perienced the new birth see
John, 3d chapter. 3d and 81 h
verses inclusive, and from thence
forth her Christian example ami
character were revealed so plain
ly that she gained the confidence
of all who knew her. About four
years ago she was sick nigh unto
death, and immediately after ral
lying somewhat she related to
her friends a remarkable vision
she had during her illness; which
may be summed in brief as fol
lows :
The scenes of this life were
fading from her sight, anil as she
was passing beyond the limits of
this world a beautiful scene
opened to her view her place of
rosi and upon approaching it
she was 'met by a glorious per
sonage, who spake to her. say
ing: "Behold thy place of rest!
but thou must yet remain for
awhile upon earth, after which
thou shall attain this rest." This
so inspired her anew that setting
her house in order, when the
hour of her departure came, she
was so fully prepared to go that
a smile lit up her countenance
which was manifested even after
she ceased to breathe. And truly
her end was peace.
C. J. Horning.
Thomas Jefferson Todd, one of
1 lie pioneers of Nebraska, one of
the pioneers of republicanism,
and one of the staunches! old
gentlemen in this part of the
country, anyway, has been to see
the Herald once more, and left us
some dollars better off.
fn the hurry oT other matters
we overlooked making any notice
of the return to our city of Mr.
Oilbert, formerly telegraph oper
ator at this place, and who is
now stationed at Fairfield, Iowa,
"fill" made a pleasant record
here and was much liked by all
the good people of Plattsmouth:
his welcome was correspondingly
warm on his return. He will be
hugely tickled when we inform
him that, somebody mistook him
for an Omaha barber.
Local News
From Tuesday's Daily.
James B. Tipton, the Platte
river bridge tender, came down
this afternoon to attend to some
trading with the merchants.
H. S. Villers of Tecumseb, Ne
braska, came in yesterday and
spent several hours here looking
after lejjral business matters.
Attorney C. E. Tellt of Weep
ing Water was in the city yester
day for a few hours looking after
some matters at the court house.
FUigene Sage and wife of May
wood. ,Neb.. are m Ho city for a
short visit with old friends, they
having resided here many years
ago.
Adam Kalfenberger ami wife of
near Oilar Creek came in this aft
ernoon on No. i to attend to
some business matters for a few
hours.
(Jeorge Oobelman returned this
afternoon on No. 21 from Wymore
and Lincoln, where he had been
isiling for a few days with
friends.
ieorge Becker departed this
morning on No. for Pekin. Il
linois, where he will visit for a
short visit with relatives in that
city and vicinity.
Miss Gertrude Porter, from
Kansas City, Missouri, is here
visiting her mother and father,
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Porter and
family, during her vacation.
Miss Marie Checkle, who has
been here for a few weeks visit
ing with her parents in this city,
departed on No. " this morning
for her home at Chicago.
Henry Becker and Earl Jenkins
were passengers this afternoon
for Omaha, where they will try
ami -cure additional cars for
use in their garage here.
William Tippens and wife were
passengers this morning on No.
15 for Lincoln, where they will
visit with relatives for a few
lays.
James W. Holmes and Ir. B. F.
Brendel of Murray came up this
morning in the car of Mr. Holmes
to meet some relatives whom the
doctor was expecting from In
diana. Leo Brissey and William Hich
ter were passengers this morning
for Burlington, Iowa, where they
will be employed at some car
penter work for the fall season.
County Superintendent Mary E.
Foster departed this morning for
I lie west end of the county, where
she will look after some school
matters for a short time.
Father Biggins of Manley re
turned home this morning, after
an over night visit here with his
friend. Father M. A. Shine, rector
of St. John's Catholic church.
Miss Margaret Mills, matron of
the Eastern Star orphan's home
in this city, was a passenger this
morning for Omaha, where she
will attend to some matters of
business for that institution.
Hon. Oeorge Leidigh of Ne
braska City came in yesterday
afternoon from Omaha to pay a
short call on his old friend. Dis
trict Judge Travis, and while in
the city paid the Journal olllce a
very pleasant call.
fieorge Lushinsky, foreman of
the Burlington paint, shop here,
accompanied by his wife, departed
Sunday afternoon for Toronto,
Canada, where he will attend the
convention of the master car
painters of the United Stales,
which is to meet in that city.
William Kyle, who has been
spending the summer vacation
with relatives in Oklahoma, Texas
and New Mexico, returned this
morning on No. ( and will resume
his studies in the public school
here.
W. II. Abbott of Cleveland,
Ohio, one of the members of the
Abbott-Eaton syndicate of Cleve
land, which owns the lighting
plant in this city, came in yester
day to look after the interests of
his company.
Mrs. James H. Rice of Murray,
accompanied by her son, Will, and
daughter. Miss Myrtle, and Miss
Ethel Dill, came up this morning
from their home and were pas
sengers on I he early Burlington
train for Omaha to visit for the
day.
Joseph Eischeid and wife of
Wymore came in yesterday after
noon for a short visit here with
relatives. Mr. Eischeid is at
present- boiler foreman for the
Wymore division of the Burling
ton, and his many friends here
were greatly pleased to meet him.
Mark Furlong returned last
evening from a. trip fo Colorado,
where he had been visiting with
relatives for the. past few weeks,
visiting with his brother, E. O.
Furlong,- at Steamboat Springs,
and with another brother at Den
ver. Mr. Furlong greatly enjoy
ed the trip and feels as fine as a
fiddle.
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THE
Melting
of Molly
By
MARIA THOMPSON
DAVIESS
Copyright, 1912, by the Botts
Merrill Company
T iafdbwn by tlbe long table by the
window and slowly prepared to enjoy
myself. I cut off four slices and but
tered them to an equal thickness and
then more 6lowly put a long silver
spoon Into the Jam. I even paused to
admire In Judy's mirror over the table
the effect of the cascade of lace that
fell across my arm and lost Itself In
the blue shimmer of old Rene's master
piece of a negligee, then deep down 1
burled the spoon in the purple sweet
ness. I had just lifted it high In the
air when out of the lilac scented dark
of the garden came a laugh.
"Why, Molly, Molly, Molly!" drawled
that miserable man doctor as he came
and leaned on the sill right close to
my elbow. The spoon crashed on the
table, and I turned and crashed Into
words.
"You are cruel, cruel, John Moore,
and I hate you worse than I ever did
before, if that Is possible. I'm hun
gry, hungry to death, and now you've
spoiled it all! Go away before I wet
this nice crisp bread and jam with
tears into a mush I'll have to eat with
a spoon. You don't know what it is to
want something sweet so bad you are
willing to steal it from yourself!" 1
fairly blazed my eyes down into his
and moved as far away from him as
the table would let me.
"Don't I, Molly?" he asked softly
After looking straight in my eyes for a
long minute that made me drop my
head until the blue bow I had tied on
.the end of my long plait almost got
Into the scattered jam. Even at such
a moment as that I felt how glad old
Rene would have been to have given
such a nice man as the doctor a treat
like that blue silk chef d'oeuvre of
hers. I was glad myself.
"Don't I, Peaches?" he asked again
In a still softer voice. Again I had
that sensation of being against some
thing warm and great and good like
your own mother's breast, and I don't
know how I controlled It enough not
to to
"Well, have some jam then." I man
aged to say with a little laugh as I
turned away and picked up the silver
spoon.
"Thank you, I will, all of It and the
bread and butter too," he answered.
In that detestable friendly tone of
voice as he drew himself up and sat
In the wloiow. "Hustle, Peaches, If
you are going to feed me, for I'm rav
enous. I haven't had any supper. You
have, so I don't mind taking it all
away from you every bit of It"
"Supper," I sniffed as I spread the
Jam on those lovely, lovely slices of
bread and thick butter that I had fixed
for my own self. ''That apple toast
combination tires me so now that 1
forget It If I can." As I handed him
the first 6llce of drippy luBdousness 1
turned my bead away. Ue thought it
was from the expression of that Jam,
but It was from his eyes.
"Slice up the whole loaf, Peaches,
and let's get on a Jam Jag! Come
with me Just this once and forget
forget" He didn't finish his sentence
and I'm glad. We neither of ns said
anything more as I fed him that whole
loaf. I found that the bite I took off
ofeach piece. I had, readjfqr him
when he finished with the one he had
in hand satisfied me as nothing I bad
ever eaten In all my life before had
done, while at the same time my nib
bles soothed his conscience about rob
bing me.
nis teeth are big and strong and
white and his Jaws work like ma
chinery. He is the strongest man 1
ever saw, and his gauntness is all
muscle. What Is that glow a woman
gets from feeding a hungry man whom
she likes with her own hands, and
why should I want to be certain that
he kissed the lace on my sleeve as it
brushed his face when I reached across
him to catch an inquisitive rose that
I saw peeping In the window right
at us?
LEAF SEVENTH.
Which?
HE juice of a lemon In two
glasses of cold water to be
drunk immediately on wak
ening!" Tage eleven! I've
handed myself that lemon every morn
ing now until I am sensitive with my
self about it If there was ever any
body "on the water wagon" it's I, and
I hare to sit on the front seat from
dawn to dusk to get in the gallon of
water I'm supposed to consume in that
time. Sometime I'm going to get mix
ed up and try to drink my bath If I
don't look out I dreamed night be
fore last that I was taking n bath in
a glass of ice cream soda water and
trying to hide from Dr. John behind
the dab of ice cream that seemed inade
quate for food or protection. I haven't
had even one glass for two months,
and I woke up in a cold perspiration of
embarrassment and raging hunger.
I don't know what I'm going to do
about this book and I've got myself
Into trouGle about 'writing things T
slde records In it He looked at me
this morning as coolly as If I was just
anybody and said:
"I would like to see that record now.
Mrs. Molly It seems to me you are
about as slim as you want to be. How
did you tip the scales last time you
weighed, and have you noticed any
trouble at all with your heart?"
"I weigh 134 pounds and I've got to
melt and freeze and starve off that
four," I answered, ignoring the heart
question and also the question of pro-
"Expand your chest.
ducing this book. Wonder what he
would do if I gave it to him to read
just as it is?
"How about the heart?" he persist
ed, and I may have imagined the smile
in his eyes, for his mouth was purely
professional. Anyway, I lowered my
lashes down on to my cheeks and an
swered extrinientally :
"Sometimes it hurts." Then a cy
clone happened to me.
"Come here to me a minute!" he
said quickly, and he turned me around
and put his head down between my
shoulders and held me so tight against
his ear that I could hardly breathe.
"Expand your chest three times and
breathe a deep as you can," he order
ed from against by back buttons. 1
expanded and breathed pretty quickly
at that
"Now told your breath as long as
yon can," he commanded, and it fitted
my mood exactly to do 60.
"Can't find anything," he said at
last letting me go and looking care
fully at my face. His eyes were all
anxiety, and I liked it . "When does
it hurt you and how?" lie asked anx
iously. "Moonlight nights and lonesomely,"
I answered before I could stop my
self, and what happened then was
worse than any cyclone. lie got white
for a minute and just looked at me as
if I was a bug stuck on a pin. theu
fave a short little laugh and turned to
the table.
"I didn't understand you were jok
ing," he eaid quietly.
That maddened me, and I would
bare done anything to make bira think
I was not the foolish thing he evident
ly had classified me as being. I snatch
ed at my mind and shook e; a mix
ture of truth and lies that fooled even
myself and gave them to him. looking
straight in his face. I would hare
cracked all the ten commandments to
save myself from his contempt
"I'm not Joking," I said Jerkily. "I
am lonesome. And worse than being
lonesome, I'm scared. I ought to have
stayed just the quiet relict of Mr. Car
ter and gone on to church meetings
with Aunt Adeline and let myself be
fat and respectable, but I haven't gt
the character. You thought I went to
town toTuy a mohumehtTand rdldnt
I bought enough clothes for two brides,
nd now I'm scared to wear 'em, and
I don't know what you'll think when
you see my bankbook. Everybody is
talking about me and that dinner par
ty Tuesday night, and Aunt Adeline
ays she can't live in a house of mourn
ing so desecrated any longer. She's
going back to the cottage. Aunt Bet
tie Tollard says that if I want to get
married I ought to do It to Wilson
Graves because of the seven children,
and then everybody would be so re
lieved that they are taken care of that
they would forget that Mr. Carter
hasn't been dead quite one year yet.
Mrs. Johnson says I ought to be de
clared a minor and put as a ward to
you. I can't help Judge Wade's send
ing me flowers and Tom's sitting on
my front steps night and day. I'm
not strong enough to carry him away
and murder him. I am perfectly mis
erable, and I'm"
"Now, that'll do. Molly; Just hush for
a half minute and let me talk to you,"
aid Dr. John as be took my hand in
mis and drew me near him. "No won
der your heart hurts If It has got all
that load of trouble on it and we'll
Just get a little of that 'scare' off. Yon
put yourself In my bands, and you are
to do Just as I tell you, and I say for
get it! Come with me while I make a
calL It is a' long drive, and I'm I'm
lonesome sometimes myself."
I saw the worst was over, and I
breathed freely again, but I had talked
so much truth in that fiction that I felt
just as I said I did. which Is a slightly
unnatural feeling for a woman. There
was nothing for it but to go with hiui.
and I wanted to most awfully.
To my d.viug day I'll never forget
that little house, way out on the Cane
R.UH Pike, tie. took jnt? to in his shabby
little car. Just two tiny rooms, Dut
they were clean and quiet, and a girl
with the sweetest face I ever saw lay
In the bed w ith her eyes bright with
pride and a tiny, tiny little bundle closo
beside her. The young farmer was red
with embarrassment and anxiety.
"She's all right today, but she wor
ries because she don't think I can tend
to the baby right," he said, and -he did
look helpless. "Her mother had to go
home for two days, but is coming to
morrow. I dasn't undress and wash
the youngster myself. It won't hurt
him to stay bundled up until granny
comes, will it Doc?"
"Not a bit." answered Dr. John in
his big comforting voice.
But I looked at the girl, and I under
stood her. She wanted that baby clean
and fresh even if it was Just five days
old, and I felt all of a sudden terribly
capable. I picked up the bundle and
went into . the other room with it,
where a kettle was boiling on the
stove and a large bucket by the door.
I found thiuss by just a glance from
her, and the hour I spent with that
small baby was one of the most de
licious of all my life. I never wa3 left
entirely to myself with one before, and
I did all I wanted to this one, guided
by Instinct and desire. He slept right
through and was the darlingest thing I
ever saw when I laid him back on tho
bed by her. I never looked In Dr.
John's direction once, though I felt
him all the time.
But on the way home I gave myself
the surprise of my life! Suddenly I
turned my face against his sleeve and
cried as I never had before. 1 felt
safe, for it is a cliff road and he had to
drive carefully. However, he manag
ed to press that one arm against my
cheek in a way that comforted me into
stopping when I saw we were near
town. I got out of the car at the gar
age and walked away through the gar
den homo without looking in his direc
tion at all. I never seem to be able to
look at him as I do at other people.
We hadn't spoken two words since we
had left the little house in the woods
with that happy faced girl In it. He bns
more sense than just a man.
It was almost dusk, and I stopped in
the garden a minute to pull tho dirt
closer around some of the bachelor's
buttons that had "popped" the ground
some weeks ago. Thinking about theui
made me regain my spirits, and I went
on in the house to be scolded for what
ever Aunt Adeline had thought up
while I was gone to do it to me about.
Judy told uie with her broadest grin
that she had gone down to her sister-in-law's
for supper, and I sat down on
the steps with a sigh of relief.
Some days are like tin cocoauut grat
ers that everybody uses to grate you
against, and this wus one for me. For
an hour I sat and grated my ownself
against Alfred's letter that had come iu
the morning. I realized that I would
Just have to come to some sort of de
cision about what 1 was going to do.
for he wrote that he was to sal' :a a
day or two. aud ships do travel "'J fast
these days.
LIoyJL bini nndalways have. ofthit.I
am sure. He offers me Ilie most won
derful life in the world, and no woman
could help being proud to accept it. I
m lonely, more lonely than I was even
trilling to confess to Dr. John. I can'S
& on living this way any longer. Rut
Chester has made me see that if I want
Alfred it will be now or never and
quick. I now know that she loves him,
and she ought to have her show if I
flon't want him. The way she idolizes
nd idealizes him is a marvel of wom
anly stupidity.
Borne women like to collect men's
hearts and hide them away from other
women on cold storage, and the help
less things can't help themselves.
I have contempt for that sort of
butcher, and I love Ruth!
It's my duty to look the matter ia
the face before I look in Alfred's and
decide. If not Alfred, what ttien?
First no husband. That's out of the
question! I'm not strong minded
enough to crank my own motorcar and
jtuTIy"- woman suffrage. Tprefer "to
suffer at the hands of some cruel man
and trust to beguiling him into doing
Just ns I say. 1 like men, can't help
it, and want one for my own. I don't
count poor Mr. Carter.
Second, if not Alfred, who? Judg
Wade is so delightful that I flutter at
the thought, but his mother is Aunt
Adeline's own best friend, and they
have ideas In common. She is so re
ligious that living with her would be
like haviug the sacrament for dally
bread. Still, living with him might
have adventures. 1 never saw such
eyes! The girl he wanted to marry
died of tuberculosis, and he wears a
locket with her in It yet. I'd like to
reward him for such faithfulness with
a nice husky wlfo to wear instead of
the locket But then. Alfred's been
faithful too! I look at Ruth Chester
and realize how faithful, and my heart
melts to biui in my breast My hips
have almost all melted away, too, so I
had better keep the heart cold enough
to handle If I want anything left at all
for him to come borne to.
(To be Continued)
Diarrhoea Quickly Cured.
"I was taken with diarrhoea and
Mr. Yorks, the merchant here,
persuaded me to try a bottle nf
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. After taking
one cloe of it I, was cured. It al
so cured Others that I gave it. to,"
writes M. E. Cebhart, Oriole, Pa.
That is not at all unusual. An
ordinary attack of diarrhoea can
almost invariably be cured by one
or two doses of this remedy. For
sale by all dealers.
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