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i J t-t.-ar--.TT -Tj THURSDAY, JANUARY t, P17. PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, PAGE 3. i I a a Ji t. I P w al ft I. th k ni s Oi a Oe plattsmoutb journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT FLATTSMOVTW, NEBRASKA. Eatered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher UBSCXIPTION PRICEl 9UM PER YEAR IN ADTANCB w a THOUGHT FOR TODAY. J It is well that men should be l- reminded that the very hum blest of them has the power to -J V fashion after a divine model J -I- that he may choose a great ! moral personality in equal parts J'of himself and the ideal. Mae- terlick. ' - 1 :o: Good-bye old year, pood-bye! :o: The new year dawned beautiful and bright. :o: If you turn over a new leaf, don't turn it back. :o: While you hear occasional com' plaints parents obey their children much better than they did forty years a go. :o: Leap Year is gone, an another op portunity lost to those old maids who have longed for man for lo, these many years. :o: The fellow who is always shouting "votes for women" should stop long enough to realize that "politics makes strange bedfellows." -:o:- According to a returned consul, the food shortage abroad is improving di gestion. Here is 'a health hint, but one whose appeal will doubtless be but coldly received. :o: Infantile paralysis has been blamed on cats, dogs, flees, rats, and now comes autos. Not much is get ting away from medical theory on the subject except the remedy. "Tell your wife the truth,'' says an eastern minister, "and trust to her divine nature to forgive." The trou ble is he has never seen our wife when our divine nature was on the warpath. :o: Sawdust alcohol may prove good fuel for automobiles, as the chemists claim, but safety would require in some instances, that the tanks be closed, so the chaffeurs couldn't draw any of it off. : :o: Governor Nevilie will have the hardest task of any governor that has occupied the gubernatorial chair in many years. He will have more to contend with. But then, he is young and can stand the strenueousness. -:o:- There will be at least a hundred bills introduced in the legislature that will never reach first base. This, how ever, is the case with every session. Anyway, it gets the introducer's name in the papers, and that is all the care lor. introducing bills is a nov elty with some, even if they do find the wate basket in short order. -:o:- Begin the New Year with a firrr determination of doing more for Plattsmouth in 11)17 than you did in 11)1''). We have one of the best towns in Nebraska, and why? Because ir the last five years we have been more united in doing for the old town than we have ever been. And that is wha tens, mere are already many im provements contemplated for 1917 among which is a new high schoo building. We hope to nee all opposi tion to the bonds withdrawn ere many weeks, and all "pull together" for the one improvement, that is destined to do more good in the way of benefit ing the community than any other enterprise possible. Good schools are the pride of any well regulated city. and before the snows of another win ter we hope to s.e a fine high schoo building loom up that will be a credi to Plattsmouth. This is one of thft Journal's soul desires for 1917. Now for the New Year! FARMING DOES NOT PAY. A recent statement of the census bureau is to the effect that instead of a movement "back to the land" the figures show there is an increasing tendency toward deserting1 the land and seeking the cities. The rural population is becoming less and the urban greater The true cause of this movment has never until lately been authoritatively stated. It is becausa farming does not pay. Landholding pays, but farmers who do the actual work on the farms receive less wages than any other calling. President George E. Vincent of the University' of Minnesota and president of the American Sociological society, told the exact truth when he said that "farm ing pays the average farmer less than day wages; that only increase in land values gives him a delusive sense of prospering from agriculture; that tenancy is increasingly disconcerting even in the best farming regions, such as Iowa and Illinois; that the rural population is increasingly foot loose and migratory, and that by reason of these conditions education, social life, political responsibility, moral stand ards and religious functions are being neglected alarmingly and under mined.' The farmers of Nebraska are rich and prosperous, but they did not make their wealth by farming. They be came rich through the rise in value of and. As long as they who till the soil get "less than the average wage, there will be no movement back to the land. The statement of President Vincent is in complete accord with a survey made of the southeastern coun ties of this state by the Nebraska State university. In its latest report it says: "If 5 per cent interest is allowed upon all capital invested by the operator, owned farms returned an average labor income of $203 and tenant farms an average of $806 to the operator." World-Herald. r :o : Welcome, 1917. May we all be hap- py. -tor- Be careful how you date your let ters. The trouble with most reformers is. they over-play themselves. :o: The legislature opens up for busi ness today. There will be but little contest for the speakership. :o: The New Year has arrived, and wo welcome it for better or worse, and may it prove prosperous and happy for everybody. :o: One-half the world may not know- how the other half lives, but with the present high prices of living, both sides are excused if they wonder how either half lives. :o: Personal happiness lies largely in the liberation of the higher nature. This freedom, this larger responsive ness, admits one into that magnetic and marvelous atmosphere in which are the hitherto undreamed of pos sibilities of beauty and joy. One has but to turn to the light andlive. To rise each morning in newness of life is to find in one's hands the power to shape conditions for the day. The law by which this may be done is as defi nite and as unerring as is the law of gravitation. Man is not only "the heir of the ages," he is the heir of all spiritual treasure and power. The hours lie before him like plastic clay before the sculptor, ready for the im press of his spiritual design. Let him stamp these hours with the force of high aspiration, noble energy, gener ous purpose. Let his live in serene dignity, unfaltering faith in the Di vine aid, in the rapture and the joy of the beauty of holiness! A NEW YEAR THOUGHT. "For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory" but as he said it he took from willing, working men the necessities of life, that he might gather gold and the glory he knew was greed; another took usury from the poor and the glory he knew was cunning; another surrendered his con science to his party and the glory he knew was folly. For thine is the kingdom " It came in lifefull notes, for I read its meaning in the campfires ' lighted by those who have broken the shackles of party pride; I felt its strength in the business methods of unpretending men who take their toll and give to every man his due. For thine is the kingdom " and it was a new, sweet song, for I saw it spring to life in the lovelight of the mother's eyes, in the laughter of the little child, in faithful friendships, in generous deeds. Then I threw open my own dear memory doors and saw go trooping through some with tears in their eyes but all with laughter in their hearts those who had brought happi ness to me. What a line of loving, living men and women and children they are! Some are in the Now; oth ers are in the Forever; but all are frequent visitors to this hall and never do they come but they bring am leave something of good. I knew then that the song I had heard was, in truth, a psalm of life; and as the last echo of the footfall of those I love had died away my lis tening heart received this New Yeai thought: Thine is the kingdom and the pow er and the glory," for all that is Thine is mine and mine is the kingdom of good, where the power of love brings the glory of God. Omaha Nebraskan. jo: The Swedish and other Scandinav ian peoples, who have been neutral throughout the great European war. are expressing their appreciation c. the good spirit and humanitarian motive which actuated President Wil son in sending his note to the powers at war. It seems that now the great est criticism of the president's act is coming from the English press, some of these papers attempting to be very sarcastic. Strange, is it not? Just a few months ago the German-American alliance in this country was assailing the president because as they claimed he was favoring England as against their mother country. Now the Eng lishman is hot under the collar and in effect reverses the charge made by ihe German-Alliance some months ago The truth of it is that President Wil son has tried to be perfectly fair with all of these warring nations and not one of them can justly criticise his official acts. :o: John Murtey, cherubic exponent of democracy and willing representative of Cass county, knows the state well and insists that establishment of a publicity bureau should be one of the. main considerations of the present session. John believes that Nebraska has a future more golden than Jerusa lem's because the climate and soil are both better here, and he wants the word to go so far around the world that Nebraska will pull business on it from as far away as Jerusalem. John may not talk much this session, bu when the publicity bill comes up he'l have a few words to say, we'll war rant. World-Herald. :o: Is it the proper thing to do to leave snow on the sidewalk until it melts and makes ice for old people to fall on? It seems to us that there is an ordinance compelling the cleaning of snow off the walks. If there is not, there should be.. -:o: A prominent cartoonist has drawn a series of pictures to demonstrato that an absent-minded man should not get married. It has always been oui impression that most married men prefer to be absent-minded. n A man in need may keep you broke but life without friends would be pretty tame. :o: It is a mighty poor brand of char ity that sticks to the fingers. "- - Holidays are over. Now down to business. -:o:- How's your pocketbook after the holidays? :o:- Many a "miss" is far better than many a "male." :o:- Before you complain, think what the poor have to endure. :o: When a man's wife gets her back up he gets a hump on himself. President Wilson, evidently, has his eye on that noble peace praise. Congress is having a hard time try ing to put the lid on the pork barrel. :o:- Maybe England and France don't want any peace until they are shot all to pieces. If you are so inclined, there is a thousand different ways of making a fool of yourself. -:o:- The time is past for resolving to do better, but remember, it is never too late to do good. :o: Only about three months till spring will be here. Come on, gentle spring, come a loaping, and ease up the coal bills. :o:- Our beauty doctor says that if girls would eat less momatoes and more onions they would be prettier and YCalthier, and no doubt, lovelier. When four girls earn $2,100 from the products of two acres of garden. the high cos,t of keeping alive is soft ened so the thud is scarcely audible for them. -:o:- Cordelia says she - has noticed by close observation, that because a young man is a good dancer, is no reason that he can earn a living foi a wife and a family of children. :o:- Latin Americans refuse to buy oui shirts because our shirt makers in sist in putting goods in the sleeves that ought to be added to the tails. Why not make it a Pan-Americar. protest? :o: Who said "Uncle Tom's Cabin" wa out of date? This is 'a show that never gets too old to capture the peo-? pie. The writer saw "Uncle Tom's Cabin" the first time in 1850, when he was but fourteen years old, traveling under canvas, and have seen it many times since. :o:- We would rather think that those who have been elected members of the Nebraska house and senate were about as well qualified to get up a prohibition law as fellows on the out side, who are clamoring to make a law to their notion, and having it in troduced, both in the house and sen ate at the same time. Men are elected to both branches, who we believe, are broad-minded enough to do their work without any interference from those who are not members of the legisla ture. It is a reflection upon the abil ity, honor and integrity of the mem bers of the legislature to have a lot of outsiders constitute themselves guardians over those who are elected to do the business of the state. :o: ; The St. Joseph Gazette hits the bull's-eye when it says: "British of ficials, editors, and scholars arc promptly announcing their opinion of the proposal of their enemies for peace. Nothing has yet been heard; however, from the soldiers in ths trenches. It would be interesting to know how they view the suggestion that the bloodshed be ended. Perhaps the London politicians, writers and students but voice the sentiments of the men who along the battle fronts are offering their lives for their na tion. It might not be unfair to make certain of the fact, however, rather than to merely take it for granted. There is a possibility, that, were the office holders, journalists and educa tors under constant shi-apnel fire, with small chances of getting away alive., they would give the entire problem of whether the war should be continued more careful consideration than they have yet accorded it." Local Mews From Tuesday's laily. Tom Keckler of the vicinity of Louisville, was in the city for a few hours today attending to some mat ters with the county commissioners. August krtcklcw of Mauley, road oversej." of tWuer precia t, was in the city toiay intending the meeting of the board of county ; commission ers. Attorn v William Deles-Dernier of Elmwood, one of the lest and whole souled gentlemen in the county, va? in the citv lo l"ing riftc:- a i -w mat ters in th-3 co';r ly court. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Leinbach of Hay Springs, Neb., who -ere here over New Year's visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Hassler and family, departed this morning for their home. R. S. McCleery of Weeping Water motored to this city this morning to attend the some important business matters and visit friends. While here Mr. McCleery gave this office a very pleasant call. Miss Alpha Peterson, who is teach ing in the commercial department of the Red Cloud High school and who has been here for the Christmas holi days, departed yesterday morning for Red Cloud to resume her school work. R. T. Propst and family of Ralston, visited with his parents over New Years. Returning home this morning j via the auto route. Mrs. Propst has been here for the past week visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Tay lor. Miss Gretehen Boeck of South Onia-J i, who has been visiting her Uncle; Henry Boeck and family in this city for the past week, returned home yes terday afternoon. Miss Boeck is one one the teachers in the South Omaha schools. P. B. Smith and wife and family of Bloomfield, Neb., who have been vis iting with their relatives and friends near Murray and Nehawku, during the holidays, departed this morning fcr their home. J. L. Smith of Ne- hi-wka, a brother, aeompanied them as far as Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. G. Minniear and sons. Irvin and Chester of the vicinity of Union, drove to this city today for a short visit with friends. They de parted for Lafayette, Ind.. this at'ter m on where they will make an extend ed visit with relatives. Mr, Minniear ard son were pleasant callers at this flice. John T. Porter, who is making his home at Nebraska City for the pres ent, was in the city and, as usual with our ohl friend, dropped in on the Journal force to enjoy a short visit that certainly was most pleasing. Mr. Porter recently returned from Minne sota and has not as yet decided on a permanent location, but hopes to in the near future. The firm of Peters & Richards, con tractors and builders passed out of existence yesterday when C. P. Rich ards withdrew from the firm and was succeeded by C. M. Parker, who will in the future be associated with Mr. J. W. Peters. The new firm will be greatly strengthened financially and will be in a position to continue the work of contracting. From Weihifsilay's aily. Attorney C. E. Tefft of Weeping Water was in the city for a few hours today looking after some matters at the court house. Henry Ofe was among those going to Omaha this morning to attend the sessions of the A. O. U. W. grand lodge in that city. F. W. Young of near Union was in the city today for a few hours visiting and attending to some trading with the merchants for a few hours. John II. Albert was among tho.:c going to Omaha this morning where he goes as a delegate to the grand lodge of the A. O. U. W. of Nebraska, in session there today. Frank P. Sheldon of Nehawka came up this morning from his home and departed on the Burlington train for Omaha where he will represent the Nehawka lodge at the grand lodge meeting. C. H. CoJb, of Central City, came down last evening to visit his son-in-law, E. P. Stewart, at the hospital in Omaha and with Mrs. Stewart in this city. He departed for his home this afternoon. C. E. Cook and son, Raymond, came in this morning from their farm home and departed on the early Burlington train for Omaha where they spent the day there looking v after some busi ness matters. A. H. Barnette and wife of Lynn Grove, la., who have been here vis iting at the home of Mrs. Barnette's parents, Mr." and Mrs. J. E. Tuey, during the holidays, departed this afternoon for their home. Mr. and Mrs. George P. Meisinger, of Cedar Creek drove to this city this morning and spent the day visiting friends and attending to some busi- Net Contents 15 Plaid Drachm' . . ,.,-.T.-.r " ri IJ CENT. 1 AYoctablcrrcpurntion&rAs- I s:ii!iialirctncFuod by Kegula ! , 1 n.,.i-.-lc r urn lin'4'r.c-M oraaa nnu uu r . ..7 - 4 vutvnnin$ Digestion iiivii-in i i - - . ; a'.ccrfuInessandRcst.Contains ! f wither Opium, Morphine nor ! Mineral. Not Xakco10 v" - - - 'J ji,.rkrlfc Sails AnisSfrtl ;--r.p,'r;.iuif IS. CzrbazttezoM ).',rm -AMnfulEcmedyfor ! Co:r;!ipaiicn and Diarrhoea. and rVvcrishncss and IossofSleei resulting ifccrcfj , rac-SiroHe Sliturcef. j "- r T. - ' Hi flECCSTACRCOMP.W- j . Ji::act Ccpy of Wrapper. ness matters. Mr. Meisinger gave .his oHiee a p'ei -ant call, jjt.-hn CI. Wnndet lich came up last evening from his home at Nehawka and visited here over night with his niends, who are legion in this city ;iid vicir.ity. departing this morning for Omaha to spend the day vt ihe A. O. U. W. meeting. Philip IVrnoU' o" the vicinity of ''euar ("reel., came dovn to this city "Xi iliC morning tr:.in and spent the day visiting f r.'endsf :vnd attending to s'!ne important business matters. Mr. Furnt.f'.' ju.-.t returned from Tut Ue. Okla., esterday. where he made : n extended visit with his sister, Mrs. George Miller and family and while in the city today called at this oflice and had the subscription of the Plattsmouth Journal going to Mr. George Miller in Oklahoma, extended I'or another year. Sl'FFEIilNd FIIOM GIMPPE. Jesse Ter! y, the barber, is suffering from a very severe attack of the grippe and is on the retired list today, being confined to his home by the an noying malady. The friends of Jesse are hopeful that he may soon recover and bo able to be up and around as usual. l)ilTcrtntKinds of Coughs. Colds lead to different kinds of coughs "dry cough," "winter cough," la grippe cough, bronchial cough, asthmatic cough, and racking, painful cough to raise choking phlegm. 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A number of the guests were home for vacation and 'such oc casions make the holidays seem doubly enjoyable. A dainty luncheon was served and at a late hour all de parted for home. SELLS CATTLE ON .MARKET. Albert Fielder of Stanton, who wa in the city over night visiting with his relatives and friends, brought to the South Omaha stock market two cars of fine cattle that brought $!.SK) per hundred. Mr. Fickler has been very successful since locating at Stanton and his friends in Old Cass county are very much pleased to learn of his good luck. John Meyer of Mason City, 111., ar rived this morning from his home and will spend a short time here visiting with his relatives in this section of Cass county, and also will look after the land interests of the late J. P. Becker and wife of Mason City. To feel strong, have good appetite and digestion, sleep soundly and enjoy life, use Burdock Blood Bitters, the family system tonic. Price ?1.00. . . . FOR SALE. 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