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PLATTSMOUTH
SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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Published Sem l-W eekly at Plattsmouth. Nebr.
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THE WOES OF ROCKEFELLER
Poor old John 1). Rockefeller.
lie is like that Etruscan maiden
who agreed to open the pates of
her city to the Human soldiers if
they would give her the bracelets
they wore on their arms. Sim
executed her part of the contract,
and then the soldiers covered her
with so many bracelets that she
was crushed to death. For, in
addition to the braeclots, they
threw their shields at her. John
I. is possessed of immense
wealth, but lives in mortal terror.
The sword of Damocles is ever
held aboe his head. His house
n the Tarrjtown estate near
Ni w York is patroled by colored
uard, and he has the place now
titled tip with electric lights. On
the slightest noise he simply
presses a button by the side of his
bed. and red, white and blue lights
lla.-h all about the house. This
is a signal for all of the guards
tn report by pressing buttons
which are located on the outside
of the house. Fight men con-r-tanlly
patrol the premises, and
all of them are heavily armed. In
addition t that the grounds are
securely locked every night, and
no 4, ne is admitted even in the day
time without a rigid, inspection.
There may be people who would
enjoy this sort of living, but the
dinner of herbs, with freedom tj
eonie and go unquestioned, is
preferable to this sort of life, and
the trouble extends to his son,
John I.. jr. In vain John pro
tests that he has nothing to do
with the Colorado troubles. The
RokeffiIers loaneil the Goulds
some money on their slock in the
mines, and were obliged to take
the property, but they hold only a
minority of the stock. Now the I.
V. W. in-ist that Rockefeller
shall arbitrate the dispute, and
even Judge I.indsey of Denver
joins with them in making this
request. poor old John has
troubles enough of his own, with
out shouldering those of Colorado
mine owners. No wonder thai hn
is permalurely bald, ami says
plaintiely '"that there is rest be
ond tin' grave."
It looks like Carnegie may be
come a fact if he aims to pension
all w ho succeed.
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King George can sympathize
with Pharaoh wnen he was af
flicted with the. various plagues.
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This week it would be rather
diilicult to hi i4.1 a man bragging
that lie has noL yet "taken 'eni
off."
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Charley Jhyan never intended
to gel into the running for gov
ernor, lie has just gotten into
the way of talking through his
hat, that's all.
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An early forecast says it will
rain on the Fourth of July. Let
it rain. We don't care. Platts
mouth ain't going- to celebrate,
anyway, and the corn crop may
need the rain by that time.
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While the KIks of this city were
expecting" Governor Morehead
lo-re Saturday, he was enjoying
himself at the same time fishing
in the lakes near Ainsworth, with
a number of friends of that city.
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According to the .secretary of
stale the order in which the re
spective parties will appear upon
the November ballot, the demo
crats will have first place; bull
jnoosers. second; republicans,
tln'cd: ociaIt,-t, lourlh, and pro
hibitionists, fifth.
When it comes to borrowing
trouble every person has pretty
good credit.
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ou have all seen the corn
grow, but did you ever see it
hump itself like it is doing; now?
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Senator Cummins was an easy
winner in the republican pri
maries. 15ul he has not been elect
ed yet.
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The stories of the wheat crop
cause, gome anxiety as to whether
there will be room enough for
I lie .shocks.
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J. H. Kemp of Fullerlon is an
other candidate for governor on
the republican ticket, and has
tiled for the same.
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What Secretary Redlield says is
important, no doubt; but people
out this way are more interested
in green fields turning" to golden.
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It takes a sober man to drive
a:i automobile in safety. IUit it
seems there is a whole lot of peo
ple who have never learned this
fact yet.
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Secretary Lane's roseate pic
ture of the agricultural possibili
ties of of Alaska causes wonder
that there are only 222 farms in
the entire territory.
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Dr. Duncan McDowell an
nounces that a soul weights
three-fourths of an ounce. Hut
how does the doctor know that it
was an average soul?
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Ex-Covernor Shallenberger will
run for congress in the Fifth dis
trict. Mr. Shallenberger will give
that man Harlon a merry chase,
and don't you forget it.
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There are now four democratic;
cindidates in the Held for the
nomination for governor Gov
ernor Morehead, George W. Uerge,
John G. Maher and R. L. Metcalfe.
The republicans also have the
same number.
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Democrats of Franklin county
in their county convention seem
lo have launched the straw that
shows which way the wind blows.
There was nothing to it in Frank-j
lin county but Morehead. The
experts have not yet determined!
or at least proclaimed, whether
they were reactionaries, railroad
henchemen or brewers." Lin
coln Star.
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We believe in supporting; demo
crats for office, if they are true to
the cause of democracy, but we do
not believe in encouraging any
one who has the reputation of
bolting" nominations simply be
cause they do not do as such in
dividuals want them to do. The
democrats of Cass county are not
controlled by any man, or set of
men, and it is just as well for
them to understand this fact
right now.
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A year and three months lias
passed since Woodrow Wilson
was inaugurated president and
yet the republicans are holding
down the good paying positions
that properly belong to demo
crats. Some people are so cruel
as to say that "there is a hen on"
and the eggs will not be gathered
until after the adjournment of
congress, when the president will
be urged to make these appoint
ments during" the vacation. This
'.vill be done simply to give one of
the Loggerheads at Washington
the advantage over the other, and
further widen the fued.
HOT WEATHER ADVICE.
There is a bit of suggestion
poing the rounds of the press
which is so good that we reprint
it. The real secret of keeping
cool in hot weather is to think as
little about the weather as po
slide. Those who work in hot
offices arc no more uncomfort
able than thy ones who sit at
home under an electric fan am
moan, and the first people havt
the benefit of being able to cool
off by a shower and a change of
clothing at the end of the dav.
But the other advice is good.
Avoid meats, butter and heavy or
fat foods of all kinds. Eat soups,
fruits, vegetables, Ice cream, and
whatever you you eat, take only
one-nan as mucn as vou or-
linarily consume rn cold weather
Avoid beer and all other alco
holic drinks their first effect
may be cooling, but their sec
ondary effect is distinctly heat
ing. Drink liberally of water,
buttermilk, weak lea and clean
milk. Cool these drinks by
standing on ice; never put ice in-
o them. Wear as few clothes as
ihe law allows; have, them tight
and porous, clean and un-
larched. Wear loose clothing
and change underwear dailv.
void tight lacing and tight belt
ing. "Anything that retards cir-
ulalion of the blood is danger
ills in hot weather. Protect the
lead and spine from the sun.
Take a bath everyy day twice
i day is better give your pores
i chance to breathe. At least.
tike a bath just before going to
tied. You will sleep better ami
iwaken more refreshed and bet
ter able to withstand tomorrow's
leat. Body cleanliness is ex-
remely important.
Sleep in the open air, if pos
sible, and get at least eight hours'
est every night. Avoid strenu
us exercise under a hot sun.
)on't fuss or cuss about the heat
that only makes you hotter.
'urn the thermometer to the wall
and give the cold shoulder to the
iot weather fusser. Keep your
temper under control and shun
icated arguments. Even politics
hould be tabooed until "dog'
lays" are passed. Avoid crowded
daces, especially indoors. When
he cars are not crowded, take a
rolley ride into the country. As
often as you can, get out in the
pen air, on the green grass, tin
ier the sheltering trees. A little
'omtnon sense and a little seif-
lenial will save you a heap of
liscnmfort and perhaps serious
trouble in weather like Hie pres-
"iit.
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Justice is triumphing more here
ately at other places than in
theatrical performances. You
will notice thai Charley Becker,
the New York police lieutenant,
got his, although given a second
turn at the bat.
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To the famous pictures rep
resenting Washington crossing
he Delaware, Napoleon meeting
lis Waterloo, De 'Solo skirling
the Mississippi and Fuuslou
swimming the Dag-Uag will have
o be added that of Roosevelt
discovering the River of Doubt.
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Cass comity has a state candid
date. J. M. Teegarden of Weep
ing Water has filed for state
treasurer on the republican
ticket. Mr. Teegarden is a bank
er and just the kind of man to
make an efficient officer. He
sides, Jim is a rattling good fel
low. ;o:
The con lest between the four
democratic candidates for gov
ernor promises lo be very in
teresting, with the prospect of
Governor Morehead's nomination
more promising. R. L. Metcalfe's
entrance into the contest creates
no particular stir, but he will
control some votes, nevertheless,
and with the four of them in the
race, assures
primaries.
a big vole at the
Toby and Edgerton will find out
before the primary that they are
too small to go to congress.
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DeLoyd Thompson may find
looping the loops at an altitude
of one mile an easy way to make
a living, but it is a precarious
way to keep a-living.
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So far the miners' strike has
involved a loss of $12,000,000
and it has resulted in a lot o
lawsuits that arc likely lo cos
another twelve million.
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H. L. Metcalfe has at last filet
for governor on the democratic
ticket. 11 is hard to tell which
wants lo be governor the worst
Metcalfe or Sam McKelvie.
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Will Maupin has again launch
ed lumscir as a candidate lor
olhce. He is now a candidate for
railway commissioner on the
democratic ticket. Will Maupin
is a good lellow, and will make a
lively run. The Journal is with
him in this effort and we hope
he will be nominated.
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That illegitimate bantling, by
name, the Nebraska Republican,
still keep tiring away at Gov-
rnor Morehead, but its ulter
mces have about as much effect
upon the governor as a cur dog
larking at his heels. Such papers
ire started for the purpose of
lounding the footsteps of those
wiio are far above them in both
ibilily and character.
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The following from the Lincoln
Trade Review meets with the
Journal's approval, as it should
with everv voter: "The people of
the slate, as they understand this
luestion, will see that the wreck
ing of the university m the city
will not onlv involve the enorm-
uis loss accompanying it, but
that the placing of the university
ut on the farm will destroy the
farm itself so far as its useful
ness and development lor all out-
ide agricultural work, experi
mentation and development. It
nly needs information on this
pieslion to show the people of
this stale the unwarranted ex-
ravagance that would accompany
the removal of the university to
he farm. Under present financial
ondilions in tliis slate and under
the present rapid increase in
taxation, it is impossible to
reconcile the fact that the people
renerallv are willing to add two
r three millions unnecessary
mrden to what the people of this
slate must pay in order to ad
vance the loo chimerical proposi
tions which the few real renioval-
sts in this stale are behind."
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The more one looks at tin-
political situation in Nebraska,
he more he becomes convinced
that matters are pretty badly
jumbled up on both sides, and
from present indications it is
lard to conjecture the final wind-
up. It must ie generally eon-
ceded that the democrats are in
letter shape than Ihe republicans,
is it seems now mat uiey are
lopelessly divided unless they all
join in with the (moosers; pro
gressives. I his cannot ne suc-
cesslully carried out necause
there are too many republicans
who do not believe in discarding
the old name under which banner
thev have fought for nearly sixty
years. The principles oi me
lemocralic party are all right, if
ived up lo, but it would seem that
a person must coincide with one
certain faction or he is no demo
crat in their estimation, yet he
never bolted a democratic ticket,
while with others they cut and
lash with impunity, as though
hey had the right to do so, not
considering the rights to the
other fellows to do the same, un-
ess it was following in their wake.
The democrats can get together
and they can carry Nebraska, but
in nowise by the rule or ruin
policy of a few little whipper
snappers who know less about
politics than anything else.
TREATMENT OF VAGRANTS.
A dispalch from Fort Wayne
Ind., states that the chief o
police and a squad of five patrol
men arrested twenty-two vag
rants encamped at the outskirts
of that city, marked each man by
clipping; u iuiiow iiirou.un ins
hair with a pair of horse clip
pers and then ordered them out
of town, accelerating their de
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parture by paddling each with a
barrel stave. The vagrants wen
warned that if they were captur
ed before their hair grew ou
each would be given 100 days on
Ihe stone pile. No doubt the chie
of police took considerable pride
in reporting his heroic action to
tin? press and that he is still con
gratulating niniseii on ihe pic
turesque manner in which he
grappled with one of tin; most
serious problems of the police.
The episode differed from what
is taking place m numerous
communities of the country only
in the detail of hair-clipping and
in the use of the barrel slave.
The suspension of a sentence foi
a certain number of hours, dur
ing which the eulpil is gien tin
option of leaving town or submit
ting to the penalty, has become
a practice that is almost uni
versal. I!ut is it a solution of the
problem? Does il not simply pass
he responsibility on to some
dher community, one that must
earn of the character of the in
voluntary exile by experience?
Does it not i n 11 tot on intermediate
rural districts certain depreda-
ions, against which the inhabit
ing cannot guard, and for pun
ishment for which they have no
laudy machinery? In some in
dauces the exile is not a real
vagrant, either under the com
mon law or special statutory de
finition. In such cases is he not
made a wanderer on the face of
the earth from necessity, in
violation of every natural and
oust ilutioual right?
If the vagranls at Fort Wayne
were such lroiu choice. they
should have been sent to the rock
pile, as threatened m event they
returned. Looked at from the
elfish viewpoint of that city
tlone this would have been a bet-
er policy. When the news got
throad, by those mysteii'ms pro-
esses of the underworld, that a
slop in Fort Wayne would mean
stay of a hundred days at
trdoiis and unreuninerativc em
ployment, would not the vagrants
lave given the city a wide berth?
And if oilier cities and villages
should adopt a course of sending
confirmed vagrants to the rock
pile or, as is much belter, the
oad gang, would not vagrancy
ultimately become a pursuit loo
lisagreeable for anybodv to fol-
ow it long? lUn the "hours to
cave town" works little hard-
hip. The vagrant usually gets
o stay a day or so before he runs
foul of the authorities. And he
Iocs not mind a quick move.
l'hat is why he is a vagrant.
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Apparently the Nebraska wheat
crop js so far along that Ihe ele
ments couldn't kill it with a club.
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John W. Hamilton was nom
inated for governor by Ihe demo-
rals in Ihe fowa primary elec
tion Monday. A splendid man,
and popular throughout the slate.
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Secretary Redlield announces
hat Americans do not use scien
tific methods in the export trade.
ieihaps after the country's
curiosity is thoroughly aroused
Mr. Redlield will give some better
illustration of efficient and scien
tific methods. i
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"It is impossible lo ndmin-
lster law without the press.
said Charles Nagel, former sec
retary of commerce and labor, in
an address before the University
of Missouri recently. Continu
ing, Mr. Nagel said: "I have no
confidence in laws for the regula
tion of newspapers; the only real
regulation is public opinion."
Children Cry
Tito Kind You Have Always
in xt so for over SO years,
X7 ana
-fy--- sonal
K'&&Z&Z; Allow
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ' Just-as-good " are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment
What is CASTORIA
Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric. Drops and Soothing" Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys 'Worms
and allays Fcv irishness. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation
Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething' Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and llowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
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"Bears the
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The Kind Yon Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years
I K C CNTAUR C OM
THE FARMER.
Leslie's Weekly s;:s: "It is
tlir day of the farmer. Back to the
-oil!" is the crv uf the tired
business man. If, is m everyone s
-kki. Jin trolley line and tne
automobile are partly responsible
i- it. Suburban farms are all
!he rape, t he city man can reach
lis farm house now in an hour or
two though il be lifly miles or
mri away from his ollice, for the
railroads have entered keenly into
ompetitioii with the trolley and
he automobile, and low com
mutation rates to cultivate the
ubui banite.
The ery is "Hack to the farm
and to the simple life." It is a
catching fever. The drift of the
farmer b.v lo the ureal citv is
arlly offset, by lln loiifrinjr of the
nainfauued eily man for a breath
if the fresh air and a si.uht of the
preen fields and the wooded hills.
V silent revolution has been
wrought in farm values around
ill of our ureat cities by the de
mand for suburban homes. Farms
hat were worth a moderate sum
per acre are now laid out. as resi-
h'nlial plots worth as much for
single lot of a few hundred
quare jeei as tne acre was
worth. Farms farther away from
the cities are now valued as villa
iles and still farther away they
ire coveted as the homes of the
pen Neman farmer.
"lie is the farmer who loves to
fraze upon the cows that he never
milks, upon the pius that he never
kills, the chickens that he never
feeds and the sheep that he never
ips. But he sees to it that the
nred help tends lo these mat
ers and his pride is in the well
ept farm, the well bred cattle
and the well fed piss and fowls.
The horses he may drive or ride,
for the love at uood horse Uesh is
inseparable from the love of the
arm.
"It is Ihe d ay of the farmer, the
producer, the tiller of the soil,
the man behind the plow and the
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brain is busy in Hie great city, but
loves in the calm of the evening
to uo back to tne quiet enjoy
ment that nature gives with its
green fields, its buzzing- bees, its
cackling: hens, its hollyhocks and
honeysuckles."
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President Wilson made it plain
to the delegation of manufactur
ers from all sections of the Unit
ed States who called on him a
few days alio, that they were
wasting- their time and breath in
talking: to him about swerving;
one iola from the program of
anti-trust congress. The presi
dent listened patiently, or as
patiently as he could, but with
that linn lower jaw ready to snap
as soon as 'the spokesman had
concluded. He rdvised them that
it were far better to act soberly
and rationally now in putting:
such statutes on the books than
to await a time when more radi
cal elements might be in power
in congress.
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Hon. John Matles, jr., of Ne
braska ("ity, has made several
campaigns for office, one for lieu
tenant governor, and ran away
ahead of his ticket. He served
one term in the stale senate from
Otoe county. Mr. Mattes is a can
didate this year on the democratic
ticket, and will no doubt he nom
inated and elected.
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Fx-Governor Aldrich and his
cohorts will battle to a finish
against the nomination of Ross
Hammond for governor. Aldrich
has threatened lo enter the con
test, but since the filing' of Sen
ator Kemp of Fullerlon he has
consented lo drop out. It's just
as well that he did so, for Ne
braska has had plenty of Aldrich.
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It may be remarked that Teddy
put his river on the map as
readily as he put the tf. o. p. olT
of it. i - eri ' i
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