MONDAY, JUJLY 10, 191G.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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SCBJCXIFTIO PRICKl PER VEAR IN ADVANCE
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
God Alimghty first planted a
J garden. Bacon. i
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Small - patches will raise immense
crops of wild oats.
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It never gets too hot or too cold to
wilt the society birds.
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Corn in growing so fast that it
fairly whistles "Yankee Doodle."
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Samson was the first man to bring
down the house, and it killed him.
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Terhaps you also know somc majo
who makes you mad just to look at
him
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"Strangler" Lewis ciui't wrestle,
anyway. He's proficient as a foot
racer. Is ambition' Tjpally a balloon? asks
a reader. It Visfcut it never carries a
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The time appears to have' arrived
when the machine gun" takes the place
of the typewriter.
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: Work on the new school building
will soon begin, and pushed right
through to completion.
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The rolling stone may not gather
any mos, but it reaches the bottom
of the hill in due time.
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All things some to those who get
tired of waiting and roll up their
sieves and go after them.
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Just how much longer are the mus
ical comedy producers going to stand
for the short skirt styles?
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Speaking in a general way, candi
dates for office are the most agree
able people you can meet just now.
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Most men are inclined to be more
jealous than a rooster. Why, of
course, all he's arc alike in that mat
ter. tot
There isn't very much going on,
which may explain why some men
regard a lodge initiation as entertain
ment. tot
This is the season of the year when
the pedigreed jackass and the un
pedigrced candidate have there pic
tures out for business.
We have been informed that the
Trice of limberger cheese has doubl
ed because the Germans are now us
ing it instead to drive the enemy out
of the trenches.
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It looks now as if there would be
no war with Mexico for a few months
at least. President Wilson does not
want war, if we can possibly get
long without it.
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There is a period in every young
woman's sweet life when she scratch
es out the size of her shoe, yet every
body but the poor girl lo.ves a woman
with a good understanding.
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Being optimistic, we believe that
one political party is no worse than
another political party. There are
exceptions, however, in men in either
party some want to do their best
for the common people, while others
do notlcare a continel for anybody
but themselves and the "graft there
is in it." President Wilson is a great
big exception grand, noble presi
dent, who wants to do his best for his
people, and with severe criticisms
stating him in the face he goes right
on in doing his duty, and in each andyour calendar pad.; carve it on your j
every instance he has always been desk; emblazon it over the door be
l-ight.
MAKING VOTES FOR WILSON
Is the republican party a great
party standing for great principles?
Despite its raising up of false pro
phets and sometimes defication of the
golden calf, we have though so. Cer
tainly it-was 'a great party. Certain
ly its rank and file represent much
of the strength of the country. Cer
tainly it professes great idols and
makes great promises.
Of its lapses from grace it has here
tofore never been possible to say that
the republican party was petty or
that it was unpatriotic. But sertainly
newspapers and prominent men who
presume to speak for the republican
party in America's present extrem
ities indulge in language both petty
and unpatriotic. President Woodrow
Wilson is deliberately engaging in
war witn Mexico as a political
scheme. Never hasone man sacrificed
so much to keep his country from
war as Woodrow Wilson. And dare
the men who have daily character
ized the policy that has kept the
peace as "spineless" now complain of
a position assumed with apparent
reluctance and in an extremity in
which any other course would have
deprived the country of prestige and
subjected it to insolent attack by an
anarchistic' horde J .Truly', at a terri
ble sacrifice Woodrow. Wijson might
have yielded to the temptations not
every ruler could have resisted, to
become an immortal war president.
With every utterance of this charge
the accusers are making votes for
Woodrow Wilson. The great Ameri
can people are fair; they are quick
to resent inconsistency and injustice.
We confess to "republican lean
ings, we conless that in our judg
ment the republican party never
adopted a better .platform or nomin
ated a better man, albeit we prefer
the democratic solution for the mer
chant marine problem. But as we
read these scurrilous sentiments as
cribing criminal motives to the presi
dent, our republican affiliations bring
us a sense of complicity in treason.
Mr. Hughes cannot be elected in
a campaign of malignity and scur
rility. He cannot be elected by
methods that show no consideration
for the worthy man with whom he
and his followers are in honest po
litical disagreement. People just
plain people who talk little and vote
regularly realize that the mistakes
of the president were made in a posi
tion fraught with such delicacy and
difficulty as has seldom confronted a
national executive. They will hesitate
to entrust the government, during the
continuance of that situation, to men
whose campaign methods suggest
lack of that sense of proportion and
justice indispensable to navigating
the intricacies of the blind and troub
led channel we are pursuing. La
Cross Tribune, Republican.
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Straw hats are very common now.
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"Home Coming.'
time.
Boom it all the
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It does not seem fair for our stand
ing army to have to stand everything
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When a man gets a taste of office
holding, evidently it is hard to pry
him loose.
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The business world is made up of
two classes of men; those who are
on time and those who have the best
reasons for being late. The man who
meets his engagements at 9:01 miss
es the chance that is there at 9:00.
The man who misses his train gives
u,c ItiKe UIuer w ine otner leuow.
The man who leaves the office at 5:59
misses the great opportunity that
comes at G:00. The opportunity al-
ways goes to the man who is on
time. Paste it in your hat; write it on
on time.
IT IS TIME TO QUIT?
With the flock of peace rumors
showing considerable increase, one
may at least consider what the end
of the war now would mean. Which
doesn't mean that the end of the
war is in sight now; we shall be
frankly surprise if it ends before
Christmas, and not surprised at all
if they are still fighting a year from
now. But there is no doubt that Ger
many, with her lines extended to
about the limit, would like to endit
now, and there is also a chance that
the allies might also see fit to end
it now, believing the German lines
impregnable, and the task of starving
Germany too long and hazadous to
undertake. That is not probable, for
France, which is hardest hit, does
n't want to quit, and Great Britain,
of all the great powers engaged, is
still practically untouched by war so
far as its territory is concerned. And
should it end now, whose would be
the gain? It is something like figur
ing out who in San Francisco profit
ed by the earthquake and fire which
devasted that city ten years ago. Ger
many admittedly has the best of the
war in Europe. She has taken prac
tically all of Belgium, a considerable
section of France, a small fraction
of Russia, and with her allies has
overrun Serbia. But, in the mean
time, she has lost greater area, being
all her colonies, and a coiner of Al
sace. Also, her foreign commerce has
been swept from the sea as complete
ly as if .Germany and German ships
had ceased to be. She might be will
ing to give back some of the territory
she has won in Europe to regain what
she has lost elsewhere. At least her
recent proposals aremucrf more con
servative than those voiced earlier in
the war, when she talked glibly of
going on to Paris, Petrograd and even
London. She might insist on retain-
ng Poland, and a sort of protectorate
over Belgium, and taking Serbia for
Austria, but in effect a settlement
now would leave the powers about
where they began. It would be, in the
arger scheme of things, a drawn
war. Which wouldn't be so bad for
us; in the delicate balance of power
in Europe, there is protection for our
shores. But, without some disarma
ment agreement, it would be rough
on Europe, and be only a truce for
further preparation for another war.
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CULTIVATING WEEDS. "
The destruction of weeds is the
main work of the farms, but some of
the scientists at the western experi
ment stations have found out that the
encouraging of weed growth may,
under some circumstances, prove to
be a very profitable way of farming.
Out in the sand hill district some of
the land cannot be cultivated at all on
account of the sandy soil and the way
the wind blows it about after the
original sod is broken. On that kind
of land nothing will grow but a cer
tain kind of weeds. If they are left
to flourish and the fire is kept out,
they will send their roots downward
a long way and hold the shifting soil.
Then alike, sweet clover or red clover
may be sown on top of the ground
amidst the weeds and a good stand
can be obtained. '
A recent bulletin, No. 15G, of The
Nebraska Experiment station, devot
ed wholly 'to the sand hill district of
the state, will be interesting reading
for any Nebraska farmer. It may be
that in the future that whole region
will become productive with the ex
ception of the actual sand dunes, and
even they may be made useful to
some extent in producing bull pine
and other trees. Potatoes and alfalfa
are the leading crops in the sand
hills, but many other things are
grown at a profit. World Herald.
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The modern day statesman is a
politician who can distinguish a band
wagon from a hearse.
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Evidently there was a sad minority
of fat men at the signing of the
Declaration of Independence. Othe-
wise the Fourth of July would have
heen the Fourth of January.
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"Boys are the Best Soldiers," says
a headline, doubtless calulated to
'punch up the girls, who, unless they
show a little spirit, are in danger of j
losing their standing as the world's
best fighting men.
'A successful fool never realizes it.
Like others of the criminal class,
Cupid shuns the light.
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' Unlike the new shoes, a mifh never
gets tight by being soaked in water.
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Too many men appear to keep their
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ipedia.
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Harman wants to stay in awful
bad. He will do anything to stay
in, too.
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An exchange shouts "dollar beef is
in sight," and here's hoping that ed
itor is the biggest liar on earth.
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People may be divided into two
classes those who like music and
those who are fond of rag time.
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The average life of a parrot is said
to be one hundred years, so we do
n't sec any use of waiting any long
er. :o:
We are informed that rubber was
introduced into the United States in
1810. This, however, does not in
clude that of the neck variety.
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Railroad officials expect guards
men enroute to the border to "sleep
sitting up." That is more than is ex
pected of regular partons of the Pull
man.
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Keep on booming "Home Coming"
week. Of course, it is some weeks off
yet, but nothing like booming it
every day in the week, and every min
ute in the day.
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When Carranza saw that Presi
dent Wilson meant business he began
to "draw in his horns;" especially
when he saw so many troops ensasscd
on the American bonier, he knew
what it meant.
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Among the Fourth's victims was a
10-year-old New Jersey boy, who lost
his life when a homemade cannon ex
ploded The perils of making one's
own artillery se'em to run about par
allel with those of picking one's own
mushrooms.
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For years we honestly believed a
ucker" was born every 'minute.
Since the Strcher-Lewis wrestling
match, and the number present to
witness the fake, we must admit the
theory is wrong. The estimate is en
tirely too low.
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Correspondence from the Texas
border: "If a hill in Texas seems a
mile away, it probably is three."
We've heard it before from persons
who had invested in Texas real
estate, only it was this way: "If the
farm the agent in a motor car shows
you seems five miles from town, it
probably is fifty."
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This sounds queer: There has been
turned back into the treasury at
Washington $03(5,971 saved during
the fiscal year in the purchase of
sites and on construction of public
buildings through the policy of limit-
ng expense to requirements oi a
community rather than using all of
any sum appropriated. Are congress
men losing out?
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It may be wrong to fish on Sunday,
but an old fisherman tells us that
ish bite just the same on Sunday as
on any other day, and they taste
just as nice, if not a little better,
than those caught on any other day.
It has been discovered that automo
bile fuel can uemade from sawdust.
Jut won't this discovery interfere
with the production of our delicious
breakfast food?
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There is no one that wants war
with Mexico, when it is possible to
have peace, except those fellows who
have interests in Mexico, and the fel-
ows who want Hughes elected, so
they can get a job at the pie counter.
Now who are the most patriotic and
deserving President Wilson, who
does not care to slaughter our young
men for the benefit of greed or those
fellows who want war with the single
thoucrht that war with Mexico will
help elect Hughes? But President
Wilson will do what he thinks best,
regardless of what his enemies would
have.
CALL FOR DEMOCRATIC
COUNTY CONVENTION
The Democrats of Cass County
are hereby called to meet in conven
tion in the City of Weeping Water
on Tuesday, July 18th, at 11 o'clock
a. m., for the purpose of selecting 20
f delegates to the State Convention to
f be held in the City of Hastings on
' m i t t - a -- . . t i
fil - csaay. July at OCIOCK nOOi.
and for the purpose of selecting a
County Central committee and for the
'transaction of such other business
as may properly come before the con
vention. The Primaries for" selecting dele
gates to County convention will be
held in the usual places of holding
Primaries in the respective wards
and precincts on Saturday, July 15,
at 8 o'clock p. m., the representation
in such convention will be br.sed on
the vote cast for Lieutcnent Governor
Pearson in 1914, and is as follows:
Tipton 12
Greenwood 8
Salt Creek 10
Elm wood 8
Stove Creek 10
South Bend 7
Weeping Water Precinct .... 5
Center , 10
Louisville 9
Avoca 9
Mt. Pleasant 8
Eight Mile Grove 13
Nehawka 8
Liberty 11
First Rock Bluff 10
Second Rock Bluff 0'
Plattsmouth Precinct 15
Weeping Water City
Firt Ward 4
Second Ward o
Third Ward 2
Plattsmouth City
First Ward 9
Second Ward 1G
Third Ward 17
Fourth Ward 8
Fifth Ward b
Total 224
In addition to selecting delegates
to the county convention the precinct
and ward primaries will nominate
one justice of the peace, one assessor,
r.nd one road overseer and certify
same to county clerk.
It is further recommended that no
proxies be allowed and that the dele
gates present from each of the re
spective wards and precincts be au
thorized to cast the full vote for the
delegation.
Dated this 10th day of. July, 191(3.
L. F. LANGHORST, Chairman
County Committee.
WERE GUIDED BY JUDGMENT
That Capt. Morey was left wounded
and alone in the desert while the
troopers who had been with him went
on, first thought seems something
like a desertion and very far from
heroic. Sentimentalists will say, or at
least they will feel, that there was
something wrong about the transac
tion that the men should have shar
ed the fate of Ahe helpless officer,
whatever it might be, 'and die with
him if they could not carry him to
safety. The situation, however, was
one that demanded sense, not sen
timentality. Doubtless it was consid
ered in all its bearings before the
separation took place, and the conclu
sion reached was that in the interests
of the captain, as well as the troop
ers with him, they should go on. They
had more than a chance of reaching
the American line, if not required to
carry a wounded man, and the one.
hope for him then visible was that
they should do this and send back a
stronger and well-equipped force to
his rescue. So the men were ordered
away, and they obeyed, first taking
such measurers, presumably, as they
could to make tolerable his lonely
waiting for relief. The course fol
lowed has the justification that its
results, in one way or another, was
the saving of all the lives concerned.
That is vastly better than would have
been a display of useless self-sacrifice
and devotion. Capt. Morey and his
troopers are all practical men all as
capable. of the heroic as men could
be but they are not of the sort that
indugle in "magnificent gestures" in
mere appreciation of such value.
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"Home Coming" is the slogan.
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It will continue "W.lson and Wis
dom."
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.re you doing your duty in swat
ting the flies.
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Besides the golf widows, the coun
try boasts of the movie widow.
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Don't swat the knockers. He may
not be adapted to any other vocation.
Children Cry
Tho Kind Yon Have Always
in use. for over SO years,
ana
fY'S ' sonal
'ZcLcZ Allow
All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Cluldrcn Experience against Experiment-
hat is CASTOR I A
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Irops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. Ifc
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys 'Worms
and allays Fevcrishness. For more 'than thirty years it
has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
marrliwa. it regulates tho Stomach and Howels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORS A ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
h Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always EJought
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK C I TV
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN
COUNTY CONVENTION
The Republicans of. Cass County-
are hereby called to meet in conven
tion in the City of Weeping Water
on Tuesday, July 18th, at 11 o'clock
a. m., for the purpose of selecting 20
delegates to the State Convention to
be held in the City of Lincoln on
Tuesday, July 2o, at 12 o'clock noon,
and for the purpose of selecting a
County Central committee and for the
tianscation of such other business
as may properly come before the con
vention. The Primaries will be held in the
usual places of holding Primaries in
the respective wards and pecincts on
Saturday, July 15, at 8 o'clock p. m.,
the representation in such convention
will be based on the vote cast for
presidential electors in 1012, and are
as follows:
Tipton 20
Greenwood 10
Salt Creek 9
Elmwcod 7
Stove Creek 20
South Bend 4
Weeping Water Precinct .... 8
Center G
Louisville 10
Avoca 12
Mt. Pleasant 8
Eight Mile Grove 10
"Nehawka 17
Liberty 16
First Rock Bluff 7
Second Rock Bluff 3
Plattsmouth Precinct 9
Weeping Water City
Fist Ward . 5
Second Ward 7
Third Ward 2
Plattsmouth City
First Ward 8
Second Ward 14
Third Ward 13
Fourth Ward 8
Fifth Ward G
Total 239
It is further recommended that no
proxies be allowed and that the dele
gates present from each of the re-
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TISTHE THING TO DO!
Do not let the Slimmer slip by without joining the vacation throng witi.
Europe out of the question, with industrial, financial and agriculturafprosper
ity throughout the land, you will find large numbers of pleasure-seeking Amer
icans wherever you go.
TO THE EAST: A complete scheme of lott excursion fares r. huu :
effect to all resort regions of the East-New England, Atlantic Coast, etc
diverse routes that embrace the historical and most beautiful sections. ' '
TO THE BLACK HILLS: Here is a Summer vacation rP,inn L : . .
creasing its patronage each year.
THE YELLOWSTONE PARK:
standard sleepers direct to Cody, the scenic and automobile gateway No to
of the park is complete that does not include this 90-mile automobile ionrnov
to COLORADO: Low daily rates
t :a ...1 fr u vunatinn Rotoo
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OraUO is lucai " .
tiful Estes Park, Colorado s
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UttiT ,
for Fletcher's
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Bought, and ivhicli Las been
has borno tho signature of
lias oeen maue tuiucr ins per-
supervision since its infanc y,
no one to deceive you in this.
1PANV, I
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spective wards and precincts be au
thorized to cast the full vote for the
delegation. An effort will be made
to have good speakers of state wide
reputation and every delegate is so
licited to be present.
Dated this 7th day of July, 191G.
E. WVCOOK, Chairman County
Committe.
O. E. LISTON, Secretary. '
FUNERAL OF MRS. T. S ED LOCK
Prom Friday's Dally.
The funeral of Mrs. Tom Sedlock
was held this morning at 10 o'clock
at the Holy Rosary church in the-
west part of the city, the requiem
mass being celebrated by Father
John Vleck, rector of -the church.
There Were a large number of the
old friends and neighbors of this es
timable lady present, to attend the
services and pay their last' tributes of
respect to . the departed. Following
the services at the church the body
was conveyed to the Catholic ceme
tery where the body was laid to its
last long rest.
A FINE NEW AUTOMOBILE
From Friday's Dalir.
Among those who are numbered
jmong the automobile owners of the
county is A. E. Todd residing north
west of the city who has just pur
chased a fine new Dodge car through
John F. Gxrder, the local agent. The
new car is a beauty and one that will
afford Mr. Todd and family a great
deal of pleasure in riding over the
country. This is another addition to
the rapidly growing list of auto ovn
ers in Cass county and Mr. Todd is
well pleased with his new machine
J. W. Holmes of Murray came un
this morning to visit for a short time
with relatives and friends in this
city.
Ralph Atwood and Frank Becker
of the Cedar Creek quarries were
here today for a few hours attending
the hearing of the insane case of Red-
mand Burke.
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Col.
; typical resort, is reached overnight. We hare low
tours everywhere Toil v . . ve low
us help you. yU bave in md.
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