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THOUGHT FOR TODAY
4- Yhen tillage begins, other
arts follow. The farmers there-
fire are the founders of civiliza-
I turn. Daniel Webster. -
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Yii may be homely, but your owr
minor always holds out some hope for
Oil.
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Don't blame the other fellow foi:
thinking that you are wrong you
might be.
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The meml ers of the Nebraska leg
islature seem bent upon loading up
the statutes with a number of useless
and senseless laws.
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The approach of the British army
-n Bagdad will make the sultan of
T srkey, the real sick man of Europe
in every sense of the term.
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Time are more than 100,000 li-
een.-ed automohi'as in Nebraska. What
d. y.u thirk of that? More than any
other state of the same size in the
union.
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The farmers of Cass county are get
ting in the good roads movement with
both feet, and certainly will make it a
winner in this locality. It's a good
thing, keep on boosting.
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Tile state's metropolis seems to be
-n the verge of a moral house clean
ing that will close up the bright spots
in the underworld of that city as the
result of the activities of Rev. Savidge
and Sheritf Mike Clark, and the scene
in the half world of Omaha is de
st iii.d as a "deserted village."
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The prospects for a bi-partisan or
ganization of the nation! house of rep
resentatives looks very bright at pres
ent. All parties agree that if this is
carried out the grand old statesman.
Champ Clark, will once more preside
over that body in his accustomed fair
and unbiased manner.
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It is strongly hinted in a dispatch
from San Francisco that Joe Stecher
has about made up his mind to remove
to California in the near future. We
would hate to lose Joe, but we must
abide by ? his own will. We will hunt
up another to take his place. Good
wrestlers grow on trees in Nebraska.
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That was a slick scheme of Ger
many to get Japan and Mexico into
a compact for war against the United
States. With such a scheme revealed
it shows to what desperation Germany
is placed and solidifies more than
ever the Germans of this country for
America and against the fatherland.
The prosperous Germans of America,
and there are millions of them, while
lu-lurally possessing a warm feeling
for the land of their birth, are not
g irg to give up the pleasure?! of
their homes in this country, and re
lir.tlessly give up everything to be
whittled awav in war.
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Will Maupin, of the York Democrat,
wvs: "Seventy-six lulls aimed at the
revenues of the railroads, and seven
te n aimed at regulation of service,
have been introduced into the Ne
bi a.-ka "legislature. Yet some people
wonder why the railroads decline to
build extensions and invest huge sum
in betterments." Yet at every session
of iiie legislature there are generally
forty or fifty members present who
imagine that it will prove a popular
streak with them to introduce bills
that reflect upon the railroads. But
in both the house and senate there are
those who favor letting the railroads
alone. Hammering at the railroads
etritially is not destined to help mat
ters in Nebraska.
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PER YEAR IS AUTAKCK
INTER URBAN DEVELOPMENT.
The legislature is once more wres
tling with a bill to facilitate inter
uiban railway development in Ne
braska. Now as heretofore there is
a widespread demand for proper legis.
lation to accomplish that end.
The demand is well grounded. Ne
braska is a quarter of a century be
hind its sister commonwealths in elec-
l trie railroad building. If one legisla
ture after another continues to con
sider the problem listlessly and then
dismiss it as too difficult for solution.
Nebraska will be completely distanced
by the other states.
, We have reached a stage where the
building of interurban electric roads
is as important to the welfare of the
state as was the building of steam
railways thirty and forty years ago.
It is hardly less important than the
development of good wagon roads at
the present time. The two projects;
indeed, should go hand in hand.
States like Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio are criss-crossed fiom end to end
by electric railways. They have ha
much to do with the growth of cities,
with the improvement of rural life,
with bettered marketing conditions,
with the extension of truck farming,
with increased farm values. Over in
our sister state of Iowa the amazing
growth of Des Moines is largely at
tributed to the electric roads which
radiate from that capital in every di.
icction. And not only Des Moines but
all the smaller cities and towns which
the electrics reach have profited
greatly.
That electric railways are wanted
in Nebraska because they would con
tribute to Nebraska's growth and de
velopment and riches and social wel
fare all are agreed. Rut it must be
recognized that Nebraska will not ob
tain these railways until its laws are
so changed as to make it possible to
attract capital for that purpose. There
are so many ways in which capital can
be profitably invested in these flour
ishing times that it is not going to
take any risks in Nebraska if held
down rigidly to a cheese-paring basis.
It ought to be easily possible for tho
legislature to find a solution for the
problem. Nebraska has a railway
commission that can be charged with
the duty of seeing to it that while tho
new enterprise is liberally compen
sated it is not permitted to gouge the
public to make exorbitant profits. The
commission can be vested with th6
power to regulate stock and bond is
sues so as to make reasonable allow
ance for promotion and risks and yet
guard against speculative watering.
An interurban railway law that was
fair to the public and fair to the cor
poration would prove, in a very few
years, an enduring monument to the
progresuveness and intelligence of the
legislature that enacted it. World
Ilerald. :o:-
The Irish in the British parliament
are demanding a showdown on the
Home Rule question. They have dont
their part to save England and should
have local self-government for the
Emerald Isle.
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Don't be unhappy if you arc not able
to own an automobile. The man who
hoofs it several miles a day will live
considerably longer than the man who
rides all the time. '
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Motorcar manufacturers say they
are looking forward to a great year.
Furthermore, it is impossible-to find a
gasoline dealer who is down in the
mouth.
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It won't be long now till the legis
lature will adjourn. When their pay
stops, they are not going to stay much
longer, you can bet your sweet life on
that. The taxpayers are willing for
them to quit any time.
Lots of people talk charity who nev-'
er practice it.
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A good loser may be all right in
some respects, but he isn't much of a
comfort to his family
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There is no question about it Cer
many has risked war with the United
States for simply nothing.
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If the divorce law now before the
legislature becqmes a law a divorced
person cannot marry for two years.
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Every intelligent attempt to cut the
cost of living seems to end in a mess
of problems that nobody understands.
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A Pittsburgh dentist says onions
are great for preserving teeth. But
we would hate to patronize a dentist
who preserved his that way.
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Another surgeon has turned an im
becile boy into a normal youth, but
the need of the day is an operation
to cure plain everyday foolishness.
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They are telling us again that mis
tletoe is a fungus and a nuisance, and
we suppose it is when it is attached
to a tree instead of to a chandelier.
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It won't be long now 'till the base
ball season opens. Are you organized,
and ready for it, boys; and is the park
in good condition? Think of these
things before the season opens.
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A North Carolina man says that if
we are to have the 2Vi-cent piece,
which we need very much, the logical
name for it is "twofer," but that's
the name of a cigar.
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Many great men are suggesting
methods of avoiding future wars, but
few, if any, appear to have any sub
stantial suggestions for bringing
about peace during war.
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They say that the late Madame
Thebes of Paris possessed no secrets.
It is pretty hard to believe that. She
lived seventy-two years and no woman
can live so long on a diet of secrets.
Both political paities have decideo
that the endless methods of debate
and the red tape of senatorial rules
that has prevailed in the United States
senate for the past 100 years, wili
have to be abolished if the senate is to
do business.
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It looks like the insurance men were
going to get it in the neck before the
legislature adjourns. They evidently
need a little side step or two. There
must be something wrong with the
insurance companies when they are
able tq provide so many high-priced
lobbyists.
Another week has gone by, and Gov
ernor Neville has not recognized Cass
county by placing one of its citizens
on his staff. We would advise the
governor that he is pursuing the
wrong course to carry Cass county, in
case he is a candidate for re-election
two years hence.
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From the activity displayed in Mex
ico the government in power there
ec:ns to have succeeded in getting
next to the treasury of the central em
pires vitha view of making trouble
in our back yard. The Mexicans ought
to have profited by their experience in
1867 with foreign monarchs.
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Don't be in a hurry to bring out
your candidate for JJnited States sen
ator. The man who can win the demo
cratic nomination two years hence, is
Willis E. Reed, the present attorney
general, who has so faithfully served
the people of the state in that ca
pacity. And he can 'be elected.
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The broad prairies of Nebraska and
Iowa are filled with German farmers
who are as good citizens as ever
breathed the breath of life. They are
loyal to their adopted country and
have reared families here, and in their
declining years, with prosperity sur
rounding them, they are greatly in
hopes that nothing will occur to mar
the pleasure that they are justly en
titled to. That is not only the case in
Nebraska and Iowa, "but is the same
in every western and northwestern
state.
DISAPPEARING PARTY LINES.
Competitive axaminations to "guide
the president in making appointment
of postmasters will be conducted by
the govcjnment, it is announced, I
ginning April 1. Whether significance
attaches to the particular date desig
nated is not stated.
It is intended, probably, that th
result of the examination in any pai-
ticular case is to be accepted by the
president as an all-sufficient "guide."
Because, obviously, such a guide would
be far from sufficient. An applicani
for appointment as postmaster might
write a beautiful hand; he might be
a first-class speller; he might be up
in geography and mail routes and
arithmetic and all the arts and sci
ences; in addition to all this he might
pass gloriously such an examination
into his technical qualifications as th
ingenuity of the inquisitors could de
vise and yet, with it all, he might be
exceedingly poor timber for the job.
1 The postmasters of our larger cities
hold positions paralleling in import
ance and in difficulty those filled by
the captains of commerce and indus
tiy. They are high grade jobs calling
for high grade men of much more than
usual executive and organization and
administrative ability. How is a com
petitive examination to determine
what qualifications of will power.
strength of character, tact, personal-,
ity, initiative, faithfulness, persist-
ency, diligence and the like arc pos
sessed by the applicant who passes
ahead of his competitors? He might,
as a matter of fact, be sadly lacking
in all these and yet be able to turn in
very much the best? "examination pa
per." There have been, and are now
exceptionally successful railroad presi
dents,. bank executives, captains of in
dustry, merchant princes, who in al
most any kind of a competitive exam
ination that could be utilized would
show up vastly inferior to their pri-.
vate secretaries, or some of their
clerks or advisers or other subordi
nates. So it is safe to presume that ability
to pass an examination will not be the
controlling guide in the appointment
of postmasters under the new rule.
But that it is the intention of the
president to remove the postmaster
ships from the classification of polit
ical spoils is apparent. Hereafter, we
take it, it is not the best party man.
not the one who has worked the long
est and hardest for the good of the
cause who is to be chosen, but the
man who, after examination and upon
inquiry, appears the best qualified for
the job. Efficiency, and not party ex.
pediency or party gratitude at the
public expense, is to be the touchstone
of the "service. That this will make
for better service requires no demon
stration. The bank, or the railroad,
or the department store, that named
its heads of departments and import
ant employes on the basis of political
faith and service, would not long sur
vive. The government has been abb;
to do it and get away with it only be
cause the government is a law unto
itself, with a bottomless purse, and
enforced clientele and no creditors.
The new rule will have another im
portant effect. It will tend still fur
ther to weaken party cohesion and or
ganization. The postoflice, from Jack
schi's time, has been among the most
coveted rewards of the active par.
tisans and a powerful incentive to
service. With the loss of the incen
tive there will be still less induce
ment for the faithful old "party work
er" and the task of the campaign
manager will be made correspondingly
harder.,. But party organization has
been growing more and more debili
tated in recent years. Partisanship
itself -is at a low ebb. Party respon
sibility and the power and authority
of the party leaders have shrunken
and withered. One can see the effect
in our legislatures and congresses,
where there is no longer cither party
organization or accepted party leader
ship worthy the name. The effect is
observable t most of all, among the
people who make up the "parties.'
Eliminating a few venerated stock
phrases and a shibboleth or two, who
could tell, by the reading, a republican
platform in Nebraska, say, from a
democratic platform in Nebraska;
Who could distinguish in any vitai
way between a republican and a dem
ocratic speech ? How many who read
this can give the reason, in detail and
by contrast and distinction, for bein;
a democrat or republican? Who felt
anything but a languid interest when
a "bi-partisan organization" of lhj
house of representatives was recently
suggested? What, really, would be
the difference? What important rob
calls of recent years have not criss
crossed party lines? Isn't it a fact, in
Nebraska as in every other state, thai
there are many nominal republicans
who feel more at home when voting
democratic tickets, and conversely
many nominal democrats whose con
trolling alliances arc with their re
publican co-laborers?
The old-time hard and fast line be
tween the republican and democratic
parties has been broken. It has shift
ed as the muddy old Mizoo shifts, until
we will soon have to have commissions
like the Nebraska-Iowa boundary com
mission to determine the boundary.
And the commissions will have to give
it up as a bad job. World-Herald.
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LINCOLN IN 1917..
When Abraham Lincoln advised his
fellow countrymen to study the inci
dents of the war, not as wrongs to bt
revenged, but as philosophy to learn
wisdom from, he was preaching pre
cisely what he practiced. His. speech
es will be searched in vain for a sin
gle sentence which attacked tht
southerners with harsh, bitter, or in
temperate words. He not only felt
kindly toward them, but in thinkinj;
about them he was scrupulously con
siderate and fair. Because they had
by their own aggressive acts brought
this war on and because they wert
fighting for the perpetuity of legalized
human bondage, he was not temptc.
either to outlaw them or condemn
thorn to punishment. He foresaw th-j
futility of -drawing up an indictment
against'a people with the intention of.
making them suffer for their trans
gressions. Mr. Lincoln was, conse
quently, sharply criticized for vacilla
tion and hesitation, for allowing his
policy to be dictated by expediency
and for his refusal to cut all political
knots with the sword of a moral im
perative. But he knew better than his
cut ics. Thev were condemning h;m
for his most salutary quality. He wa
only seeking to grasp the situation a-
a whole, to keep all of its complicated
aspects in his mind at the same time,
and to arrange them in the order of
their relative importance. Surroundec
as he was by the passions and oh-ses-sions
of a desperate war, he never
budged from his ordinary practice of
patiently waiting until he possessed
all the available facts and then of ap.
plying to them the searchlight of cool.
disinterested and purposed thinking
The New Republic.
New arrivals in our Dress Goods
1 lepartment.
Self Striped Yoils.
Self Striped Organdies.
Satin Stripe Voils.
Satin Stripe Organdies.
Kobeco Stripe Pongees.
Plain Colored Yoils.
Tissues of all the latest Stripes and
Plaids.
We have a good line of wash fab
rics to offer at per yard 28c
Ask to see them.
We offer a small lot of ladies' shirt
waists, white, sizes :!8 to 4 1 at $1.25
One lot of ladies shirt waists, car
ried over we offer each 39c
One lot ladies shirt waists, car
ried over we offer, each 29c
We have have just received a nice
lot of bed spread to sell at each
$1.25 to $5.00
We offer a small lot of table linens
at prices before the advance.
Our new Curtain Swisses and W in
dow Drapes are in. They will be dis
played on Monday. .
We offer a good, lot of lorchon
laces at per yard - i--c
Also a good lot of embroideries at
per yard
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WELCOME NEWS
For Yellowstone Park Tourists!
Commencing this Summer ail tourists transportation within Yellow
store Park will be by automobile. The White ten-passenger cars that
were so serviceable during 19K'. over the Cody Scenic Iload will be used
throughout the I "ark.
Park tickets will cover a complete five-day tour, in and out the same
gateway, or in one gateway and out the other, whether via Cody, Gardiner
r Yellowstone. All Park tourists, whether patrons of the hotels or the
permanent camps, will be carried in automobiles. Touring the Yellowstone
Wonderland by automobile will, indeed, be a combination of elliciency and
luxury. Nothing in the travel world could be more scenic and satisfying
than touring Yellowstone by automobile in connection with the Cody scenic
route.
The Celebrated
JALOUX
COMMENCING APRIL 1ST.
Will make the season of 1917 as follows: On Mondays,
Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Adam Stoehr farm
miles west of Plattsmouth; on Thursdays, Fridays and Sat
urdaps at the George Kraeger farm, three miles west and
one-half mile south of Mynard. Jaloux is a beautiful black
Percheron, weighing 1950 lbs., foaled March 5, 1909.
Bred by M. Durand, Department of Orne. He is a good
foal gettcrk, standing seventy per cent breeding test.
JALOUX (Vi.'J-'D'J) was irporttd October, 1911, by E. J. Ilei.-el, Fre
mont, Io.vii, and is recorded by the Percheron Society of America No.
.T1870 Sire Duffon (;M72), by Artilleur (520:35-, by Regulator 2501' 7
(43-141), by Jules (-'J7987), by Villers 13169 (8081), by Mriard 5317 (l;jfM.
bv Brilliant 1271 (755), by Brilliant 1899 (756), by Coco III (771), by
Yieux Chaslin (71o), by Coco (7122), by Mignon (715), by Jean le Blanc
(739). Hani Favorite (47272), by Nectar 21994 (42505), by Buffalo
(34952). bv Lavator 11412 (14575), by Champeaux 6218 (2248), by lago
995 (768), 'by Utopia 780 (731), by Superior 454 (730), by Favori I (711,
b- Vieuv Chaslin (713), by Coco (712), by Mignon (715), bv Jean le 151am
(739). 2d Dam Malice (3o208), by Pvodrigues, 9220 (10626), by Vallian:
(101) by Prosper (839), by Decide (892), bv Vieux Pierre (894), by Cococ
(712), bv Mignon (715), by Jean le Blanc (739). 3d Dam Sophie (23566),
by Marquis S68 (744). by Superior 454 (730), by Favori I (711), by Vieux
Chaslin (713), by Coco (712J, by Mignon (715), by Jean le Blanc (739).
4th Dam Bijou belonging to M. Duval. ; , t
YERMS $15.00 to - insure colt to stand and suck.
Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be re
sponsible for any that may occur. If mare is sold or re-'
moved from county serviceo fee becomes due and payable
immediately.
MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1917.
Forjinfants and Children
Mothers Know Hist
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THC CCNTAUR COMPANY. NEW YOWK CITY.
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If it were not for the divorce courts i
a good many women would not be able
to enjoy husbands of the 1917 model.
This early news is given to (lie public that
li;-s bug waited for it. Illustrated publications
will later be furnished on request by the under
signed. R. W. CLEMENT. Ticket Agent
L. W. WAKELEY, General Passenger Agent.
Percheron Stallion
AUGUST KLEMM 'f
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