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The price of coal
Is in the air,
But in litis kind of weather
Wc don't care!
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The corn is popping.
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Hogs, $1S! Oh, what iv squeal!
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Kccent rains have done the work
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Corn dodgers assured for next win
ter. :o:
The patriot is the man of the
hour.
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The blacker has almost quit the
business.
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Keep the road drag moving oc
casionally. :o:
The man who talks about himself,
chooses a very poor subject.
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If you don't forgive others, don't
expect others to forgive you.
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Make-believe friends are wort'
los than nothing waste of time.
When most needed, they are desert?
crs.
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Hoover appears to be right onto
his job, and if let alone will come
out on top in this conservation busi
ness. :o:-
Kegent Haller must, go, and he
can't go any too quick to suit the
people of Nebraska. So get down
and out, Mr. Haller.
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Xow the scientists insist that po
tatoes, after all, have little nutritive
value. This should be imparted to
the potato buss.
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A big corn crop or wheat crop
will not make living any cheaper, as
long as the nefarious speculators are
allowed to control the prices.
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Nobody knows what this war will
cost, but to put the kaiser and the
other war lords where they will do
no more harm will be worth all it
can cost. Fremont Tribune.
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Some fellows have found out that
it is not popular to condemn th
government in this trying hour. Be-
fore snow falls these same fellows
will have to answer for their trea
sonable utterances.
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If the war leaves Bill Ilohenzol-
lern his crown and disrupts the so
cialist movement of Germany, Bil
will be pretty well satisfied, no mat
ter what the cost in lives. For sev
eral years prior to the opening i
hostilities, the kaiser's chief worr:
wan the steady growth of socialism
in his domain.
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There seems to be too much fa
voritism displayed in the selection
of officers for the Nebraska soldiers.
The "pull" in such instances is poor
business. The company officers
should be selected on account of
competency. Cass county has sent as
many soldiers as any other county
in the state, and is rewarded with
the insignificant position or one
second lieutenant.
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Chargcd with too strenuous talk,
even to the point where he cursci
the soldiery of the nation, a Mr
Golycr of this city was taken inU
police court one day this week and
lined $1 and costs, the trimming-,
swelling the amount -to better than
512. Talking too strenuously is set
ting to be a matter that needs at
tention in more places than one an(.
the time is at hand when to cay some
things moans that treason and tbr,
sjirit of Eeaedict Arnxsld is in. the
heart of tie person doing the talk
ins. Auburn Republican.
PER 'BAR lit . AOTAWCI
KEAVIS USES POOR JUDGMENT.
The speech of Congressman Reavia
at the reception the. other night was
typically characteristic of the man in
that he followed his usual custom
of mixing politics in anything and
everything affording an opportunity
to further the Ileavis interests. But
in this instance he used poor judg
ment in tempering his words to salve
the sore spots of whatever German
sympathizers there might be present,
and thereby gain or hold these votes
to himself. However, there were none
present, or so few at least as to be
a negative quantity, while there were
thousands of red-blooded, true-hearted
Americans on hand, and the man
ner these received the congressman's
semi-pro-German-American words,
could leave no room for doubt in that
individual's mind that those who are
supposed to feel the public pulse and
keep him informed on the direction
of the wind had grievously fallen
down on the job. v The purpose of
the meeting was to let the soldier
boys know the people realize what
they are fighting for and that t.iey
stand solidly behind them. America
s fighting for a principle, and re
gardless of the course of others of
her allies, the war so far as she. is
concerned, will never be over until
that principle is vindicated. Rich
ardson county Germans, with but few
unnameable exceptions, realize it
ml sending their sons, not to make
war on the German people, but for
the German people and on the Ger
man government and the principle's
of imperialism and militarism for
which it stands.
They realise, as many of the sub
jects of the kaiser are beginning to
realize, that in making war on ine
German government the United
States is in reality fighting the pri
mary battles in the impending revo
lution that is destined to free Ger
many of the curse of Hohenzollern
ism from which she has suffered and
for which she has bled for over three
years; and Congressman Reavis' pa
thetic attempt to placate their sup
posed sympathies, cast a reflection
upon their patriotism that was as
deeply resented by them as it was
later by the other speakers on the
program.
The incident only goes to prove
what we have already contended; our
congressman has an eye to the witid
ward, first, last, and all the time, and
he is one of the few public men we
know capable of using the solemn
and trying incidents of the hou. to
further his personal papularlty and
power. That this attempt- was a
grand fizzle was due to his misin
formed condition as to the state of
mind of his constituency. Had ne
been better informed we venture he
could, and undoubtedly would, have
chosen his words to conform to the
knowledge. If Mr. Reavis would
know the state of mind of the Ger
man people of Richardson county we
refer him to the extract of a speech
by Otto II. Kahn of New York, in
another column. It reflects as a mir
ror the thoughts of the great ma
jority of the people of German de
scent, and of German birth 1n this
country. Falls City News.
rot-
Colonel Roosevelt has three sons
in the army, and William H. Taft
has an only son in the army as a
private, while the Roosevelts hold
staff positions.
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We are considerably impressed
with the appearance ot our new su
perintendent of the city schools.
Prof. G. E. DeWolf. and believe he is
the man of the hour.
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It is not flat feet so much as t i
"cold feet" that causes many to want
to stay out of the army.
MUCH LOOT, NO PEACE.
General von M:ackensens advance
in Rumania, where ho is apparently
clearing out Moldayia, the only re
maining strip of Rumanian territory
left to Rumanian and Russian occu
pation, probably is the prelude to
another announcement of German
victory and another flashing of the
war map In the faces of the question
ing German people.
But how long can the military
masters of Germany defer explana
tion of the fact that the more square
miles of territory they conquer the
further they are from conquering a
peace?
The military autocracy swept Ger
many into war with promises of con
quest and with the assurance that
victorious armies would bring back
a peace to the' glory and safety of
the empire and people. German
armies overran Belgium, but brought
back no peace England came into
the war instead. Victorious mili
tarism blasted its way into France
almost to the gates of Paris. It
seized and held rich industrial areas
and cities, mines and fields, but peace,
was not part of its loot. Italy came
into the war instead. The Russians
were thrown back, Poland occupied
and Galicia reclaimed surely all
these square miles would mean peace
and glory? Rumania came into the
war instead.
Desperately the autocracy struck
out again with its last and most
formidable weapon. It hoisted the.
flag of piracy on the seas and turned
loose its U-boats to blockade and
starve England. But ' instead of
bringing peace these victories on the
sea brought the United States into
the war and completed the German
isolation. Militarism has roused the
world against it and the coveted
peace on which it has staked its ex
istence still eludes its grasp.
An explanation of this puzzle must
soon force its way into the German
mind. Militarism cannot subsist on
war maps. Conquering square miles
of teritory is not conquering the
opinion of the world, and it is the
opinion of the world, not nationali
ties alone, that is in arms against
kaiserism.
Not all of autocracy's spoils in ter
ritory, even if it could keep them,
would compensate it for the position
of isolation in which its crimes have
placed it. The further it carries its
arms against small nations, the more
relentless it presses down Belgiun,
Serbia and Rumania, the more con
solidated against it will world opin
ion become and the further will it
be from the peace of which it is so
desperately in need. The lesson
which militarism must learn is that
war and conquest do not pay.
The lesson which the German peo
ple must learn is that their present
guilty and tutocratic government
cannot bring them peace. Kansas
City Star.
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SECRET SERVICE WORK.
There has been much written and
said about the thoroughness of the
German spy system, but very little
mention has been made of how your
Uncle Samuel gets his inside infor
mation. The Washington correspondent for
the Chicago Post gives out the fol
lowing pertaining to Uncle Sam's
secret service system:
"The United States has one of the
biggest and most efficient secret po
lice systems in the world. It centers
in Washington. It is composed of:
"1. The bureau of investigation,
department of justice, headed by
Bruce Bielaski. In peace times this
organization hunted white slavers,
anti-drug law violators and other of
fenders. Now it hunts German spies
and pro-kaiserites.
"2. The secret service, headed by
Chief Flynn. Its main duties are to
catch counterfeiters for the treasury
department and to furnish the presi
dent a secret service squad.
"3. Secret police system f other
government departments -such as
postoSSce inspectors, to nab mail-law
violators-
"The army and nary have thai?
own means of getting information of
military value. The biggest job right
now is war work. The secret service
throws its tentacles in every direc
tion, feeling for-plotters against the
president. The bureau of investiga
tion musses disloyalist' schemes. The
army and navy sleuths dig into
enemy war plans. In their hunt for
anti-American agitators Uncle Sam's
secret police 'mingle, with crowds,
participate in mass meetings, use the
telephone. If a mob gathers, the
chances are a quiet gentleman with
a little badge in his pocket is among
those present.
"They incline an ear to the rav
ings of pro-Germans and by mysteri
ous methods become aware of what
America's foes are doing in Berlin
as well as in New York. Through
channels Sherlock Holmes could
never discover reports come regular
ly into Washington and orders go
out. Many kaiser boosters, although
they remain blissfully ignorant of it.
are watched by the government as a
cat watches a mouse. Their doings
and sayings are systematically chron
icled and filed away for reference in
Washington. Detailed reports come
in, dealing with actions of persons
thousand's of miles away in alien
lands, and right here at home, in
Chicago, New Orleans or Los Angeles.
If the kaiser says anything worth
while in his sleep, Washington has a
good chance of hearing it."
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PEACE WITH PIRACY.
Of all the deeds of cold-blooded
atrocity of which Germany has been
guilty in this war, is there one that
surpasses in calculated fiendishness
the deliberate drowning of the crew
of the steamship Belgian Prince?
What happened after the ship had
been torpedoed and the crew of forty-
four men had taken to the lifeboats
is briefly related in the official re
port of the state department:
The officers of the submarine asked
whether there were any gunners left
on board, and ordered the crew of
the Belgian Prince on the submarine.
The men of the submarine searched
them for weapons, threw away the
oars of the lifeboats and ordered the
crew to remove their life preservers.
The submarine proceeded for four
teen miles and then submerged,
drowning the crew, except William
Snell, colored, of Jacksonville, Fla..
the chief engineer and a Russian.
No more wanton crime ever stained
the annals of piracy, yet from day to
day the president is solemnly ex
horted to announce his peace terms
to a government that wages war in
this fashion upon unarmed men who
are helpless and in its power.
Societies are organized to protest
against the infliction of any penal
ties whatever upon such a govern
ment. Workingmen are urged to use
their influence to bring about an im
mediate peace, whatever the condi
tions may be. Honest Americans,
Frenchmen, Englishmen and Rus
sians are asked to sit in council with
the representatives of the German
government and bargain for terms.
Pacifists whose hatred of war has at
rophied all their moral sense are
pleading everywhere that a murder
ous and red-handed autocracy be al
lowed to go scot free provided it will
consent to suspend for the time be
ing its assault upon civilization.
Every peace movement originated
in this or any other country is a
movement to make peace with piracy
and give the pirates a new certificate
of character.
The German government today is
the German government that invaded
Belgium three years ago, that mas
sacred helpless populations, that
slaughtered the young and the aged
with equal discrimination, that dis
honored the women and burned the
homes and crushed humanity itself
under the heel of Prussianism. The
more it changes in its personnel the
more it remains the same thing, and
whoever talks peace with this mon
strosity of autocracy is a moral trai
tor to every human ideal or right
and justice. New -York, World.
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Truth is mighty mighty incon
venient for some people.
ROYAL COUSINS IN DIPLOMACY.
That is a most interesting dis
patch from Wilhelm II to President
Wilson made public today by Mr.
Gerard. It was of date of August 14,
1914. The German troops were well
into Belgium and the smoke of burn
ing villages and the cries of Jprtured
Belgians had begun to attract the
attention of the world. The kaiser
evidently thought his adventure
needed some explanation and so ad
dressed to the president a more or
less exculpatory dispatch.
It seems that he sent his brother,
Prince Henry the same prince who
a few years earlier' had been reputed
to fire the German heart in tlTe Unit
ed States to see his cousin George
V. in England. War was threaten
ing. It had in fact been determined
upon at the famous Potsdam confer
ence, though of that the kaiser gave
no hint. On the surface he was all
for peace at least with England.
His emissary returned from London
with the report that George V, had
said distinctly that "England would
ramain neutral if war broke out on
the Continent involving Germany
and France, Austria and Russia."
It was all very nice'hnd cousinly.
Nobody thought of consulting the
British government. Cousin George
with a twist of his royal head told
Cousin Henry to tell Cousin Wilhelm
that he might go on and have his
war, and do what he wanted with
France. England would keep hands
off. What was the grief and suffer
ing of a continental war among cous
ins! To be sure Sir Edward Grey,
getting wind of the affair, notified
the German ambassador that Eng
land would probably net allow
France to be crushed. But the im
perial mind of the kaiser could not
grasp the idea that a mere minister
would overrule the words of a king
and a cousin, and he appealed once
more to George. The answer, ingen
iously reported by Cousin Wilhelm,
was that "he had ordered his gov
ernment to use every possible influ
ence with his allies to refrain from
taking any provocative military
measures."
The spectacle of a British king of
German extraction telling the Ger
man kaiser that he had "ordered his
government" to act in accordance
with the latter's desires is likely
even at this late date to make Eng
lish political circles sit up and take
notice. But perhaps William does
not report George with strict fidelity.
Of course, nothing came of the
cousinly correspondence, which was
extended by Cousin Wilhelm to take
in Cousin Nick of Russia. The Brit
ish government, without troubling it
self with royal orders, and probably
largely ignorant of the royal corre
spondence, took up the diplomacy of
the situation. Lord Grey held out
an olive branch in the form of a
proposition for mediation, which, it
is said, the kaiser favored accepting.
How he could have done so, in view
of the decision of the Potsdam con
ference to which he was a party, is
difficult to see. However, the imme
diate proffer by Von Tirpitz, Falken
hayn and Von Moltke of their resig
nations, and the clatter of their
swords as they flung them at his
feet, forced him to abandon his pa
cific weakness.
The letter is an interesting story
of royal dabbling in secret diplo
macy. x
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Why should women wear overalls
while at work, when long aprons
will look better and serve the pur
pose better. No one-can blame s
woman for not wanting to don over-a-tts.
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' We are pleased to learn that ex
President Taft's health is improving.
Anyhow, the man who is so patriotic
as to send his only son to war, should
live to the end of this blood-thirsty
war.
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Any person who is devoted solely
to himself and works only in. his
own little corner, be he a profession
al, a merchant, a mechanic, or a
man-of-all-work. will onr or later
have his heart consumed by dry-rot.
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Local Sinews
(.'has. liyers, from Rock Bluffs, was
a passenger to Omaha this morning,
looking after some business matters.
Mr. Frank Severin and wife of
Omaha came in this morning and
.-. ill spend over Sunday , n the farm
of John Toman, near Union.
Mr. A. A. Wallinger, of near South
Bend, was a business visitor in the
city yesterday, looking after some
matters of business, returning home
iate last evening.
Holla Xoyes, Henry Sass and son,
John Sass, and one of Dr. Polk's
joys, eauie over last evening from
Louisville, and were looking after
some business matters in the county
seat, returning heme later in the
car of Mr. Xoyes.
Miss Mable Rhodes of Waterloo,
this state, who has been visiting at
the home of her brother, Mr. J. S.
Rhoades, for the past week, depart
ed for her home this morning.
Miss Inez llalmas, of Greenwood,
who has been visiting in the city
and west of town at the home of her
uncle, Feter Halmas, for the past
few days, returned home this morn
ing on the early train.
J. J. Lohnes, of southwest of My
uard. at the piace where the old
Eight Mile Grove store was formerly
situated, was a business visitor in
Plattsmouth today, driving in with
his ponies and buggy.
Mr. Frank Smith, former reporter
on this paper and who but shortly
joined the "Dandy Sixth," was an
over night visitor with friends here,
departing this morning for Xebraska
City, where he will visit at the lrorne
of hi;5 mother, Mrs. Claude Everett,
over Sunday, having to report at
headquarters at Omaha Monday noon.
P. K. Rufi'ner and wife departed
this morning for Omaha, where they
will spend Sunday camping at Carter
Lake with their son, Horace Ruffncr,
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George Bax, who for nearly twenty-five
years lived in Plattsmouth,
but who some twelve years since
moved to Lincoln, where he is now
engaged in the huckster and truck
gardening business, was a visitor
with his many friends and relatives
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Henry Lutz is suffer? 1.3 from a.
very sore eye, the resdl- of an in
jury received this morning while at
work in the steel car shops, when
the end of a rivet broke off the steel,
striking him and cutting a ash in
his eye just above the ball. The in
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