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PLAITS MOUTH SEMI-WEEKXY jnrmNAC THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 191?. v Cbe plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLV AT PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA. r.ter.d.t Postofflceat PUttimouth. Neb.. econd-clas mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher CBICniPTIOX FRICEl I1.M PER TKAR IN ADVANCE SENATOR SnAFROTH'S BILL. ? THOUGHT FOR TODAY The law of worthy life is c A 1 1 1 m- law nf strife. luuuaiuciiiaiij " - It is only through labor and J V painful effort, by grim energy and resolute couarge that we I- move on to better things. . Roosevelt- "I rT..T Christmas nearing. :o: Only twelve more days. :o: l"e Roil Cross stamps on packages. :o: Hud colds are prevalent. :o: ' It hoks like a White Christmas. :o: Hunters will now keep on the go uniil the holidays. :o: The man who is not occasionally criticised is generally a dead one. :o: Santa Claus will now be holding the fvnter of the stage until after the holidays. :o : I your Christmas shopping a home, where the money you spend will do you the most good. . "Convince a woman aganst her Most married men know how that is. :o: Boosting a town doesn't consist en- tirely in emitting hot air. It implies putting in some money and doing things. :o: A quiet voice of approval and a gentle pat on the back has a wonder ful effect to make a horse serviceable. And it has the same effect on man. Senator Shafroth's bill abolishes the electoral college, but not the electoral vote. It therefore preserves the pro portional principle in the power of the states in choosing a president Under this bill the majority or plurality vote of the state would determine for what candidate the electoral vote would be cast, and no state giving an unusual majority, in size, for a candidate would by that fact itself have any more weight in determining the general re sult than now. We may expect that, before any change is made in our present method of election, bills will be introduced showing an approach to the subject from several points of view. The sug gestion that we keep the electoral col lege but choose its members by con- ressional districts, just, of course, as PUBLIC SALE :o: Propping up the walls of the state capitol building with telegraph poles is an old method of influencing public opinion. It is doing the' same in this instance, and will cause many to visit Lincoln during the session of the leg islature to see how the old hall looks "all braced up." . :o: The Flattsmouth Journal is highly elated because one lonely traveling fimJ & hosU,e majority in the senate. we do our representatives in the house, has often met with much approbation. This would more thoroughly, and some might say, more rationally distribute the elective power, for the electoral vote is apportioned to congressional representation, and by this method an incoming president would always be likely to have a majority or plurality of his own party in the house. Since two electors would be chosen at large, to correspond with the senators, there would not be quite the chance that there is now, that the president would The short ballot proposition will be up to the legislature to decide. Of course, it might prove a popular move. :o: The man who puts everything in his wife's name, isn't worrying his wife in the least. She knows she has got him and the money both solid. :o: If you want to do a charitable act, jiive someone a Christmas present who is not able to buy one, but who has sense enough to appreciate the gift. The idea of going to Omaha to buy your Christmas presents is all moon shine when you think you are getting better bargains than you can get from home merchants. You can't do it. :o: Remember the poor during your Christmas jov. There are a number of poor families in the city who will go without Christmas presents unless some who are able remember them. : o : Invitations by the geological survey have disclosed the fact that the sur face of the United States is being woi n away at the rate of about one ir.ch in every seven hundred and sixty years. That's a new one to worry about. :o: W. 11. Smith, state auditor, wants all state officers appointed by the gov ernor. Smith has been holding office now for nearly twelve years, and has been re-elected auditor, he don't care how his successor comes in. He wil not be a- candidate for a third term knowing full well that the democratic party does not believe in a third term :o: To see the kids gazing in the store windows at the Christmas boxes, and their smiling faces, reminds even us old fellows of the Christmases of long aero, and makes us wish we were a boy again. Those were happy days never to be forgotten. So we delight in seeing the children of today having a good time in the joyful Christmas time. :o: Omaha retail grocers have collected 7,000 signers to a petition to congress for an embargo on exports of food stuffs, and it is predicted that they will get from 25,000 to 35,000 more signers by December 15, but when it was proposed that a consumers' boy cott be established on expensive foods. or that a market house be opened these same grocers said "nix on it.' Who would think that so many Omaha i.i fall for that sort of "POIJil stuff? Evidently they are bom faster erection of a modern school building is not progressive. Nebraska City ress. We hate to be kidded, and till we cannot deny the allegation of for guch act a paper where they are putting up a ward school for the same amount as our high school building is to cost. man recently praised the appearance of 'that burg. Nebraska City-is so used to praise heaped upon it by strangers that it is no longer con sidered a good news item. And Platts- But it is not probable that the elec toral college will be abolished until the pVnver that it has of independent and unpledged action, when necessary. is otherwise placed. Should a presi- J I dent elect or a vice president-elect die hat will, by injunction, prevent the before thg date for forma, yoting fay the electors, then it would be their duty to fill the office as if no nom ination had been made. The occasion ion has never arisen, but it might arise, and even as it is nov there appears to be a strange gap strange because it has existed so long -:o: I in the plan for the succession of one Owing to the price of steel farm I president by another. Suppose that machinery is to be sharply advanced after the electors in all the states have the coming season. Self binders will met in their respective states and cost $15 more, mowers $5 to $7 more, I voted, and the vote has been trans- gang plows $15, barbed wire has gone! mitted or borne sealed and certified to up from $3.50 to $5 a hundred pounds. I the president of the senate, and the No wonder the farmers are opposed to houses in joint session have canvassed a food embargo to lower the price of the vote-and a certain candidate has food products. If a food embargo, been declared elected president sup then a steel embargo to keep down the pose that between that time and the cost of farm machinery. If an em- 4th of March following the president- bargo is to be laid on one thing then elect dies, what then do we do for a on practically everything to even president? Inauguration day comes things up, and no one is' in favor of and there is wobody to inaugurate. A that. So the chances are very much president can not hold over, for the against and embargoes being laid. The presidential term expires by positive government may have to take hold of I limitation. An out-going vice presi- the selling and distribution of neces- dent may succeed to the presidency sities of life, fuel, as well as food and but, according to the constitution, only clothing; if the speculators get too when the house of representatives, greedy for unreasonable profits, just when the duty, has constitutionally as the European countries have done. fallen uPon hs failed to elect a president. There seems to be no pro vision of constitution or law to meet such a contingency, but it is possible that, if the situation presented itself, present provision might be judicially construed in such a way as to save the country any serious embarrassment. WTorld-Herald. -:o: A WISE STENOGRAPHER. A girl stenographer in Norristown, Pa., decided that she was worth more than $12 a week. WTien she found she couldn't get a raise, she calmly quit. She quit not only her job, but the whole stenography business. She had a notion that there was more money in washing. And she wasn't afraid of soapsuds and hadn't any silly regard for class distinctions. She believed that a prosperous laundress was bet ter than an impecunious stenographer. So she began looking for washings to do. However, she conducted the quest with brains. And having got clothes to wash, she washed them with brains. As a result, she says she is making $68 a week, and isn't working very hard, either. 1 She does only fancy work fluffy, expensive garments, for wealthy peo pie. She gets the work, and she gets abnormally good pay for it, because she doesn't use anything that bleaches or eats the fabrics, and doesn't wear them out by hard rubbing. She's plan ning now to build a little laundry and take care of several times as much work. There's a valuable tip in this story for old-fashioned laundresses. Also for commercial laundries. Also far stenographers and members of other overprized and underpaid occupations Down in Kansas a court is trying to find out if a Kansas mule is really worth one thousand dollars. Now, if that were a Missouri mule there would be no question about it. The indications are good for the ice man, and the coal man, also! As I am leaving this part of the country, I will sell at public auction on the Philip Bachelor farm, four and one-half miles south of riattsmouth on the Rock Bluffs road, commencing at 1 o'clock sharp, on Wednesday, De cember 20th, the following articles: One black mare, 7 years old, weight 1,250. One bay mare, 11 years old, weight 1,000. One bay gelding, 10 years old, weight 1,250. One Red Polled heifer calf, ) months old. Two Duroc-Jersey brood sows and four shoats. One set 174 -inch work harness, in good repair. One set of carriage harness. une d'4-incn new luounc grain wagon. One extra double wagon box. One 6-foot Deering Ideal binder, with trucks. One Osborn side delivery rake. One John Deere disc. One David Bradley riding cultivator. One Peru 16-inch sulky plow. One 14-inch walking plow. One set l-inch work harness, in good repair. One set single buggy harness. One truck wagon and hay rack. One spring wagon. One buggy. One 5-foot Johnston mower. One John Deere hay loader. One New Century two-row culti vator. Two New Departure cultivators. One J. I. Case variable drop lister. Some household goods and various other articles too numerous to men tion. The following articles belonging to other parties will be offered: One good milk cow, 7 years old, fresh next month; one calf, weight 500 pounds; one good saddle. Terms All sums of $10 and under, cash in hand. Overv$10, a credit of nine months will be given,' purchaser giving not with approved security at 3 per cent. All property to be settled for before removal from premises. WILL 11. SIIOOP, Owner. W. R. Young, Auctioneer. C. G. Pricke, Clerk. SAULSBURY IS CHOSEN TO SUCCEED SENATOR CLARK Washington, Dec. 13. Senator Wil Iard Saulsbury of Delaware was the unanimous choice of the democratic senate caucus tonight for president pro tempore to succeed the late Sen ator Clark of Arkansas. He will be elected by the senate probably tomor row. Senator Saulsbury was ' elected to the senate in January, 1913. He has been for many years active in demo cratic national and state politics and is the Delaware member of the demo cratic national committee. In the last campaign he was chair man of the special committee in charge of the senatorial campaign, with headquarters in Chicago. PURCHASES A NEW FARM. Chris Parkening, one of the leading farmers in this section of the county has purchased a new farm for him self, having bought the Seybert place near Cullom consisting of 308 acres of fine farming land and is considered one of the best farms in that section of the county. Mr. Parkening has been one of the progressive farmers of the county and wjll make a splendid success of the new farm. FOR SALE Nearly new piano. Big, cut in price, cash or time. Write or phone at once. A. Hospe Co., 1513 Douglas St., Omaha, Neb. 12-1 l-2tw There is no cause for complaint on high prices of eating. Try -Wagner's 25c dinners and suppers. ; Our Next Excursion 1 TO CHASE countv Monday, December 18 DETTER CODE ALONG! 11 ROSE mm ABOLISHING STATE OFFICERS. Auditor Smith's proposition to abol ish the office of state printer and add it to his oflice and also do likewise with the state" and commissioner has the merit of being good, sound busi ness sense. If it is intended as back fire against the short ballot proposi tion, it will be effective, for if the movement to abolish executive offices at the state house once gets under way it won't stop at one or two of fices. It is quite likely that the people would vote to abolish offices if the result is to lessen expense, and they would cheerfully join the short ballot advances on the theory. Even though the issue four years hence was to abol ish only the land commissioner, there will be no stopping the reform once its good results are made manifest. If the people would stop and think it ever, they would not be long in duuli about the sound wisdom of the short ballot preposition. The main good would not come from lessening their own task of selecting competent men, but from better government. No one would champion a proposition to elect the president's cabinet. Well, the at torney general of the state corre sponds to the attorney general of the ' uition, the state treasury to the treas ury department, the land commission er to the interior department, and so on. Lincoln News. Ealldresa Gry for Fletcher's ?'r W' rvs tx hi w M m kj rm TI:e Kind You Have Always Boasht, and ivhic-Ii Las Ibcen in use far over ZiO yt ars, lias borne the signature of '7 - mid' lias l)OJn niatlo nntlcp lii-s mr AIlov7 no"oiie to deceive votiin tlii.5. All Counterfelts.'Jiaif ations and "Tust-as-jjood " are but IZxpx riiucnts Iuit ti iile with, and endanger tlie health of Infants and. Cliildi'cn Experience against IZxinirimcnt- Castovia is a, harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare orif 2re;s and Sonthinjr Symps. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, JIorpIiine nor otlier JKareolio Etibstanee. Its apre is its guarantee. It destroys Worms C7.d allays Feverishness. 1'or more than thirty years it 1::js been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, riatuli Key, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Ii::n!!n-a. It regulates the Stomach, and Bowels, assimilates the Food, jrivinjr healthy and natural sleep. Tiio Chilflreu's Panacea The .Mother's Friend, GENUSNE CASTOR 1 A ALWAYS ?Bears the Signature of ssxF(Ar nil inii-nrrifrrr--- :o:- SEVERAL ARTICLES FOR SALE. The ladies of St. Mary's Guild have a few choice gifts in needlework for the Christmas season left over from the Christmas shop that will make the most pleasing presents. These may bo secured at the Journal office. Call er.rlv to secure the choice of them. Is Use For Over 30 Years Ths Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Come early to the Junior Guild sale Saturday murr.injr at 10 o'clock, at the Warga iv Sluddice store. 12-14-tfd Wanted Junk. Iron, paper, mag azines, rags, metals. 50c per 100 lbs. paid for magazines. B. Hankinson, phone 503 or 434. ' 11-21-tfd. TOUR5?IG CAR $360.00 . , ,, . . RUNABOUT u n is: f) $345.00 ma 'ore! and Leave She Balance off Your il1or3y for tfoer Purposes! It is the biggest CAR BUY in the world by far the cheapest to operate, de preciates much less than any other car, always on the go, good roads or bad, and repairs kept in every city, town or hamlet. If you doubt it ask the owners. Come in and see our Winter Cars the Coupelet and the Sedan just the things for cold weather. i i . r iw! COUPELET $505 1 1 : 2 tf&. m&L, t M'-J -k rr"-. i si -azs-" j :;x r - -- f - z 4 II II 1 0 j 1 i. j 1 J R SEDAH $645 $22.05 frdrghfa'ddod to all prices. We carry a complete stock of Ford parts, automobile supplies, tires, tucles, chains and radiator covers. Bring your Fords to us for repairing and overhauling. AUTHORIZED Office Tel. No. 1. Shop Tel. No. 58 Datbmouth FORD DEALER i V 23 GHSJSSSSSS CIS ffi22SSS53 than one in a minutc.-Lincoln Star. Crookston (Minn.) Times. IC