THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913.
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rLATTSMO UTfl SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAC
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Cbc plattsmouth journal
Published Bam l-W e k I y at Plattamouth. Nbr,
Entered at the Postofflce at PUttsmoutb, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
J Never fancy you could be J
J something if only you had a dif- 5
i- ferent lot and sphere assigned I
you. The very things you most
J deprecate, as fatal limitations J
or obstructions, are probably v
V what you most want. What you
I- call hindcrances, obstacles, dis- -l-J
couragements, are probably
V God's opportunities. Horace
-I- Bushnell.
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And the next day after is what don't
count.
:o:
And Plattsmouth is to have a ball
tournament next.
:o:
It takes a heap of warning notes to
destroy a torpedo boat.
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They will come to town on circus
day, and it didn't rain, either.
:o :
Executive ability is capacity to
draw pay for work somebody else is
doing.
:o:
Cut the weeds along the roads. The
law says this must be done by Aug
ust 15.
:o :
Street paving enhances the value of
property a great deal more than the
cost of paving.
:o:
Paris fashions are said to be as
absurd as ever, so no doubt they will
sell well this fall.
:o:
The largest crowd ever at the ball
park Sunday. Over six hundred peo
ple in attendance.
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No wonder the politicians are
gloomy about business, when there are
so few state elections this fall.
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The conviction of Judge Lindsey for
contempt of court will merely increase
his drawing power at chautauquas.
:o:
Despite its well known aversion to
entangling alliances, this country con
tinues to go in for matrimony quite
regularly.
Pacificists and jingoes continue to
stir up the bitterest of rows over the
tightly held principles of the former,
Feace is h 1.
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If the new potatoes seem pale and
Fallow perhaps it is because potato
bugs have not been as numerous as
usual this year.
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The fruit crop has been very watery
this season, and many have failed to
cut up small fruit, such as berries,
cherries, etc., on that account.
:o:
Should this country buy Belgium,
our first proposal would be to bring
n!l the Belgians to this country, where
they would be safe and happy forever-
more.
:o:
Billy Sunday's trust pardncr3 arc
arranging to accommodate large
crowds in Omaha. It i3 after the
money solely. Such religion don't
count with the Ruler on High.
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The women are preparing for th-;
duties of suffrage by reading tho
Paris fashion page, just as the men
long ago qualified for the same by
their study of the base ball news.
. :o:
That limp-covered volume carrie-
by some of our prominent citizens
which the pious old lady fondly im
rgines to be a bible, may perhaps be
merely the 1915 Automobile Blue
Book. , .
Prloet S1.50 Per Year In Advanoe
KAILKOAD TAXATION.
Objection of the state equalization
board to the alleged disparity be
tween railroad figures reported for
rate-making and tax purposes, re
spectively, emphasizes the antiquity
of the system under which the pro
ceeding is undertaken.
The system provides for an assess
ment on the basis of benefits derived.
Modern tax doctrine, subscribed to by
the ablest and most business-like tax
authorities in the country, insists that
the ability to pay should govern the
assessments. The latter system has
everything in its favor, while the
i present system has obstacles galore
to overcome.
In favor of the ability-to-pay plan
is its ease and accuracy of adminis
tration. By following it the tax au
thorities can make their assessments
in a simple manner, and on a definite,
accurate basis. There can be no dis
crimination. Every payment under it
can readily be adjudged sufficient
and yet at all times equitable from
the standpoint of the assessed cor
porations. In the case of the railroads, con
formity to this plan would mean a
gross earnings tax. Such a tax is
levied in many states at the present
time, and where it has supplanted
such a system as Nebraska possesses
there has been no demand for a re
turn to the old order. Tax officials,
the people for whom the tax is levied,
and the corporations against whom it
has been fixed unite in attesting its
efficacy and the satisfaction it gives.
Some day Nebraska will instill
business doctrine into its tax system,
and then state officials will find ad
ministration of the revenue laws a
pleasant duty, instead of an over
whelming burden. World-Herald.
We cannot make this town what it
ought to be unless we all work in
harmony to the same end. Pulling,
bickering and knocking will only drag
our house down over our heads, and
it is time we look the facts straight in
the face and turn over a new leaf for
the better. We can do much to im
prove our social and commercial con
ditions if we want to. Let's
unanimously resolve that we want to
and shoot straight ahead.
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President Wilson refused even to
appoint his own brother to a federal
position, while Mr. Bryan, ex-sec
retary of state, has been instrumental
in having the following relatives ap
pointed to various positions: W. J.
Bryan, jr., son; Mr. Bryan's son-in-
law, Ilargreaves; Mr. Bryan's son's
wife's brother, Berger; Mr. Bryan's
son-in-law's brother-in-law, Steim.
This is certainly nepotism with a
vengeance. Mr. Bryan did not favor
such a thing as this fifteen and twen
ty years ago. Now, the question
arises, what would he have done had
he ever been elected president?
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Men with mind3 for figures say that
about $28,000,000 worth of tomatoes
go into cans every year in the Unit
cd States and that perhaps twice as
many more are eaten raw and canned
by thrifty housewives. The little gar
den patch produces a large part of the
supply of this food that a century ago
was very little known to people as an
article of diet. The name "tomato"
seems to be of Aztec origin, given as
tomato by others, and still persists
in some few of the older Mexican town
names, such as Tomatlan, Tomatepec
etc., but the general consensus of
opinion among botanists seems to be
that the plant and its culture for edi
ble purposes originated in Peru, where
it snread to other sections of the
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Americas. , It is certain, at any rate:
that it was knovn and cultivated for
its fruit centuries before the Colamb
bian discovery.
The farmers are not feeling so blue
now.
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We have had
weather, anyhow
one weeK oi ury,
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Politics sometimes is just one bad
cigar after another.
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Let Mexico look on Haiti and see
what she's coming to.
. :o:
The Dove of Peace is about ready
to light in Mexico again.
:o:
All the others are "friends in tone,"
but they mean about the same as Vil
la's. :o:
But will Carranza pay any more at
tention to a round rcbin than to other
notes?
-:o:
Anything will do to gamble on,
even war stocks; but why is Wall
street?
:o:
Mules are the most persistent
kickers known, but what have they
gained by it?
:o:
The famine threatening Haiti is
probably due to a shortage in the wa
termelon crop.
:o: .
Villa has told this country to go to
h 1, and probably has taken posses
sion of California by this time.
:o:
The Tan-American confrees are
agreed as to what Mexico must do.
Now if they will make them do it.
:o:
Neither the kaiser, nor Carranza, I
nor Villa, nor the weather man was
responsible for the Eastland disaster.
But several greedy Americans were.
State Treasurer Hall, it would
seem, is trying to run the whole busi
ness around the state house. Reed,
Pool and Smith have to toe the mark
or h 1 is to pay. He hasn't tackled
Morehead yet.
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It is claimed that the crops raised
n the United States this summer
would load a freight train 7,000 miles
long. lne ordinary ireignt tram
often seems that long now to the
motorist who waits at the crossing.
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When a man wants to assume the
authority of dictator in a community
the people should sit down on him
pretty hard, says the Plattsmouth
Journal. We sometimes do that very
thing here in Lincoln, if anybody
happens to ask you, Colonel. Lincoln
Herald.
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An Iowa doctor advises young men
to marry the oldest girl in the family
because she has learned through wait
ing on the younger ones how to as
sume responsibilities. It is quite plain
that that doctor, remembering that he
must go home occasionally, knows
which sister he married.
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It is somewhat encouraging to note
that what wheat has been threshed
in Cass county is turning out much
better than really expected. The most
of it is yielding 25 to 35 bushels to the
acre. Considering all that the farm
ers have had to go through with thi3
rainy season, they probably think
themselves lucky a3 it is.
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If Dr. P. L. Hall makes up his mind
that he will accept the democratic
nomination for governor next year
there will be but little use for any
others to apply. Dr. Hall will make
an ideal candidate and no one man
has more friends in the state. True
to his party at all times and faithful
always to his party candidates.
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Speak a good word for the church.
It never speaks ill of you. It does
nothing to your detriment, and much
for your benefit. It is not your enemy,
and it is your friend. As a friend, it
is entitled to your respect, your con
sideration, your support. And more,
it is entitled to your presence it
ought to have your presence. What is
good for the church is good for you.
Keep it in mind speak a good word
remember your friend, and go your-
self. Welcome will greet you at the
door.
I ii7,i?cTc,TT'T.Tr,T' tv ATivrrnTTCivr:
The man who is starting in cn nn
' nHi-er-5incr ramnaiVn freoiipnt.lv faila
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to appreciate the necessity of persist
ence. He is more apt to pay for a
J few numbers and then quit for a
time. The general trend of advertis
ing opinion is that a smaller space
used regularly pays better. The re
sults of advertising come in one of
two ways. A buyer may have in mind
some particular purchase that it is de-
fsired to make at that time. The
newspaper is searched to see what
merchants are advertising in that line.
The most attractive offerings are
noted in the memory. The customer
visits those stores. While this is the
kind of thing that happens every day,
it is not the whole result or effect of
advertising by any means. The other
result is the creation of a general im
pression that a certain merchant is
enterprising and is using much effort
and intelligence to give good values.
That kind of advertising is cumula
tive, the oiftcome of driving a certain
idea into the public mind day after
day.
A woman may read advertisements
for many weeks and not buy anything
in a certain line, simply because she
is already supplied with these goods.
All at once she concludes that she
must make a purchase. Her mind re
verts to the notices of that kind of
goods she has been seeing in her news
paper. The man whose advertising
she has seen week after week or day
after day is the one that has made
the impression on her mind. Slight
impressions govern trade. It is next
to impossible for a man who does not
advertise to convey the idea that he
is an enterprising dealer. His towns
people will net push his business for
him, if he is too slow to push it for
himself. The only way to convince
people that you have values, is to tell
the public what you have and let them
judge. The newspaper will talk to
hundreds of people while you are ex
plaining things to one.
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The submarines may be eventually
known as the equalizer of the seas.
The state officials' kinsfolk must be
paid, whether Nebraska has any pub
lic schools or not.
:o:
There was one woman who had the
best man in the world for a husband,
and that was Eve.
:o:
The wheat , and corn crop in the
United States will be worth ?3,500,-
000,000. That's not so bad.
:o:
In barring from the civil service
married women who are separated
from their husbands, is the postoffice
department not putting a premium on
divorce ?
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A little over a year ago declarations
of war were flying through the air so
thick they bumped with each other,
and subsequent happenings indicate
the warring nations meant what they
said.
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What's the matter with the new city
hall we were to get so fast? We sup
posed that arrangements were already
perfected for the city hall and library
both. Have the knockers been getting
in their work to delay matters, be
cause they did not get a bite of the
cherry?
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Some of our high-up statesmen who
have been very busy getting all their
relatives lucrative positions with the
government, seem to have forgotten
those friends who have stood by them
in their efforts to elevate themselves
to positions of honor and trust, but
these deserted friends have not for
gotten this treatment, and they ain't
going to either.
That the United States buy Bel
gium, restore its government and
sovereignty, and then when suitable,
return it to its people, was a sug
gestion made by John Wannamakcr
in Philadelphia at a meeting of the
National Security league, of which he
. is president. He would pay a hundred
'; billion dollars for it, and would stop
exports to end the war and glorify the
I American flag.
Don't it beat the dickens? Two
; women have entered the list in Kan
sas for the United States senatorship
race in 1918.
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It is a question of taste with some
men whether they prefer single life
while they are young or after they
are divorced.
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After the introduction of . "round"
coiners for buildings, then the build
ing with wavy architectural lines.
Revolutionary eras revolutionize
everything.
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It isn't so much what happens at
night, as what might happen, is what
keeps people up late. And other im
portant truths become plainer as
time passes.
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Somebody has predicted that
Washington will be a dry city within
a year. It has always been contended
that the national capital should be
removed to St. Louis.
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Col. Roosevelt calls Col. Bryan a
milk and water statesman, but Col.
Bryan doesn't claim to be a statesman
and doesn't want to be. He prefers
being Prince of Peace.
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Really the heaviest strain put upon
America by the war is the necessity
of thinking up the new freak fashions
for men and women on this side of the
water. Let Paris do it.
In a recent Indiana fiddling contest,
"Hell on the Wabash" won over "Tur
key in the Straw," but the contest was
one-sided. Missouri's "They've Gotta
Quit Kickin' My Dog Around," made
no entry.
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An appeal to Mexico to quit fight
ing will be made, and a reasonable
time given for the several army lead
ers to reply. And if this appeal goes
unheeded then more severe measures
will be decided upon by the Pan
American nations.
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Perhaps agricultural implement
makers had better not unduly hasten
to invent an appliance to take the
place of the beer kegs used by farm
ers in dry states as third wheels for
binders on ground made boggy by con
tinued rains. Get that?
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We regret to learn that Hon. R. D.
Sutherland of Nelson, Neb., former
congressman from the Fifth district,
is in a hospital at Kansas City suffer
ing from a very severe case of acute
Bright's disease, without much hope of
recovery. The Journal sincerely hopes
for his recovery, as he is one of the
best men in the state, and one of its
ablest lawyers.
For Sale.
One good, all purpose work horso,
coming G years old, weight 1,300
pounds; also" one good young horse
coming three years old. Both horses
are in thek best of condition and are :
a bargain. James Mrasek.
Heavy, Impure blood makes a mud
dy, pimply complexion, headaches,
nausea, indigestion. This blood makes
you weak, pale and sickly. For pure
blood, sound digestion, use Burdock
Blood Bitters. $1.00 at all stores.
For Sale or Rent.
Four acres of ground with new 5
room house, basement and cellar, good
well, barn and outbuildings; plenty of
fruit for own use; one and a quarter
miles south of town, on Ch'cago ave
nue. Write or see Mrs. F. M. Hesse,
Plattsmouth, Neb. 8-9-lwk-d&w
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