Tbe Plattsmooth Journal
ri'HLlSHKD WEEKLY AT
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
BY
GERMAIN E. TOWL
Plaits. 'Phone. 6. ttl. 'Phone, 220.
fcutrvd at tin postoftlee at l'lattsuioutli, Ne
lraka. as s.vond class luatU-r.
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1901.
A New York clown died this week
from softening of the brain, due to
the use of face paint. No one ever
heard of a woman suffering from soft
ening of the brain as a result of using
cosmetics. With the fair sex that af
fliction usually comes before and not
after taking.
When you run across a man in busi
ness who don't advertize in the news
papers of his town it is safe to make
up your mind that he is not worthy of
your patronage. He either is lacking
in education to make a wise merchant
or is too Feltish to deserve your support,
having no common interest in the wel
fare of the town in general, from
which he derives his livelihood.
The Blizzard can hardly understand
why such brilliant and able newspa
per men as Rush O and Whither oh
should be seeking public office! But
nature cuts strange capers sometimes.
And then another report comes that
Hush O is going to establish a demo
cratic paper. That's a good lick a
democratic paper and a republican of
fice! Col. Sellers is a back number.
Nebraska Bliizard.
Editor George L. Farley is among
the several republicans mentioned for
county superintendent to make the
race against W.C. Smith, the probable
democratic nominee. Mr. Farley is
probably as good a man as any
of the others of his party slat
ed for the place, but he has already
given out the impression that lie would
not accept the nominatiou even
though it should be tendered him
freely.
A trip through the county at this
time of year offers an experience
which affords pleasant recollectioiis
for many a day. With all vegetation
flowering in full luxuriance, the fields
rich with early summer's promise of
abundant crops, the air sweet with the
perfume of clover and ripening orch
ards, the fertile acres, the well kept
door yards, the heading winter wheat,
the prosperous looking farm buildings,
the farmers industriously working in
their fields, and the evidences of con
tentment in the homes, all combine to
form a general impression of Cass
county, favorable as it is lasting.
It is not generally known, but it is
a fact, nevertheless, that some of the
lamented passenger victims of the
land slide at Child's point some time
ago, received salve through the road
for injuries incurred. Asher Clark,
who was one of the passengers who
turned such active somersaults in the
coach next the engine when it went
skating off its trucks and out upon the
bank of clay, received one dollar as
the estimated value of his injuries.
Whether the payment was intended
to cover necessary expenses of wagon
hi re to Fort ( 'rook and the cost of a
ticket home, the affiant saith not.
The Plattsraouth Journal man, evi
dently full of Missouri river water and
rhetorical '"effulgence" thus jars loose
in his last issue. larenthetically the
Blizzard wishes to inform an anxious
public that not no person was injured
from his "blaze of light." "Last night
in a blaze of light, in the full reful
gence of oratorical declamation and
the splendor of eloquent periods, nu
merically the largest, in point of effi
ciency and merit one of the strongest
graduating classes ever sent forth
from the l'lattsmouth high school, ap
peared on the stage of the Parmele
theatre before a house packed from pit
to gallery with an audience of friends
and relatives, delivered its commence
ment program, received its justly de
served ovation, took its diplomas and
went forth to those who crowded about
to congratulate them as full fledged
graduates." Oh, Lord! Blizzard.
"The course of the administration
in this whole Philippine affair, as well
as in its treatment of the Cubans,"
said an old veteran of the civil war to
the writer, recently, "reminds me of a
story: When t was a boy, learning my
trade in an Iowa town, 'Elder' (and
afterwards Senator) Harlan, then the
state school superintendent, came to
the place and delivered a lecture on
education, to which I listened with
much interest, and his opening sent
ence, uttered In deep, measured tones,
so fastened itself on my mind that I
have never forgotten it. He said,
Man loves to contemplate upon
THE EXHIBITION ok row'EK.' And in
my judgment that weakness of human
nature has found a splendid illustra
tion in the insatiate greed that rules
the hour in the officialdom of our
country Unlay. Nothing but the love
of power could have induced the pres
ident and his advisors to overthrow
the time-honored principles estab
lished by the bloody battles of the rev
olution, and re-enunciated by Lincoln
and his hosts in the war for preserva
tion of the union. History, if notour
country, will condemn this war of
conquest, as J rant condemned the war
of 184G-7 with Mexico. If the love of
liberty and the equality of man should
ever be restored to our people it must
come by the overthrow of McKinley
ism and the greed for riches as the
ruling element in our national life. It
may cost rivers of blood to bring us
back to first principles."
COUNTY WILL APPEAL.
Tuesday last Judge Ben S. Baker
reversed the decision of the supreme
court of Nebraska and handed down
an authoritative dictum of Judge Ben
S. Baker in the case which, in effect,
is a suit of this county against Sarpy
county to collect payment for neces
sary repairs made by our commission
ers upon the north half of the bridge
over the I'latte at Louisville.
The bridge was badly in need of re
pairs. People on both sides of the
river clamored for its improvement.
Our commissioners repaired their half
of the structure with promptitude,
and finally despairing to move the au
thorities on the Sarpy side to take ac
tion, repaired that half as well, and
then in accordance with the statutes
of the state presented their bill for
the repair of that part of the bridge.
But the Sarpy county commissioners
refused to recognize the claim.
When suit to recover was brought
before Judge Baker he, ignoring the
express provision of the statute on the
joint liability of counties for the main
tenance of connecting bridges used in
common, decided that, inasmuch as
the bridge was not built under joint
contract Sarpy county is not liable for
the repairs of that half of the bridge
for which the statutes declare the
connecting county shall le held ac
countable. As to the responsibility of Sarpy
county, and as to their acceptance of
that responsibility in allowing the
bridge to lie built into Sarpy county,
and in the action of its road supervis
ors in building and keeping in repair
the approaches to the structure, the
supreme court nas shown itseir
fully satisfied in its action three years
ago in handing down a decision that
Cass county is responsible for its half
alone, and that Sarpy county must
bear the expense of maintaining the
north half of the bridge.
Judge Baker's queer decision will
result in the case being carried to the
supreme court for a re-hearing.
Contempt of Court.
Denver ministers, through express
ing too freely their opinionsof District
Judge Palmer,have gotten themselves
into the toils of the law. The judge
has cited them to appear for contempt
of court, language denunciatory of the
judge uttered from pulpit and through
the press offering the basis of the
charges against the three divines.
Whatever justification there may
have been for the use of the language
or the filing of the charge, the fact
stands out with glaring significance
that never before in the history of
this country have the courts been held
in a light bordering so closely on pop
ular contempt. It is a startling truth
that the people as a whole are learn
ing to fight shy of the courts on their
own account; that they view the de
liberations of the judiciary with sus
picion or derision more or less open,
that for the decisions of the highest
tribunals of the land they care not a
whit, regarding all courts high and
low as auction stalls where decisions
and decrees may be knocked down to
the highest bidder or the' strongest
puller, or doled out, like plunder of
power.to the dominant political party.
If the the court lindeth the court
held in contempt w here lies the fault?
The people have before them as recent
examples from the highest judicial
body in the land the Porto Bican de
cision and the Income Tax cases. The
old notion of the immortality and in
fallibility of the king is dead, and it
would seem that the once generally
accepted conception of the integrity
of judges and the impartial justice of
our courts is passing also.
The Greenwood News-Record was
wiped out by fire one night last w inter.
The cause of the disastrous conflagra
tion has always been more or less of a
mystery until W. C. Rouk innocently
explains it all in the last issue of the
Greenwood News, when he says: "I
sutiscribed for the News-Record but
received only a few copies of it when I
read an account of the misfortune of
the management through having the
plant destroyed by fire in an Omaha
daily." Another evidence of the
highly combustible properties of the
Omaha papers.
The Big Muddy has been encroach
ing on the bottom land in front of
Plattsmouth to some extent, during
the past week, and the indications
are favorable to high water very soon
as the streams of the Dakotas and
North Nebraska have been flooded
for a week. It Is feared that the man
who has fenced up the river lottom in
front of town for a cow pasture will
lose some money for a time on his
venture and Benfer will lie short on
his potato crop.
.Lay On, MacDuff.
That there is bound to le a lively
timejn the republican county conven
tion this fall, and that the session will
be filled as full of bitter warring
among factions as was ever seen even
in the days of the Chapman-Polk
struggle for supremacy, is already ap
parent from the way in which the
numerous would-be candidates are
whetting their knives and shaping
their plans of campaign.
Those who are now on the outside
are exhibiting not unreasonable signs
of soreness over the attitude and ap
parent determination of those inside
the court house to hold fast to every
thing in the shape of office that comes
along. "We are going to see one of
the worst splits the republican party
in this county has ever known if this
thing of third and fourth terms is not
properly sat upon," said, one of the
"outside" republican aspirants in con
versation the other day.
But what else can our discontented
brothers expect at the hands of a party
whose successful candidates, once in
power,manifest an overweening hank
ering for life tenure of office? So on
with the fight and lay on, Mac Duff.
A NEBRASKA MOSES.
One of the most interesting stories
told by Andy Taj lor has to do with
certain well known peculiaritiesof the
Platte, knowledge of which on the
part of the guide of the party was the
means of saving live men and: f00
head or cattle from a certain death by
thirst.
Taylor and several companions, in
the middle of a particularly dry Aug
ust some twenty years ago. were driv
ing a herd of ;"h cattle from O'Neil
across the arid plains toward a iint
south of the Platte. The party was
under the guidance of a cow In.y, who
was thoroughly familiar with that
part of the country. Water began to
grow scarce and scarcer as they pro
ceeded, until finally it was possible to
drive the cattle only at night. When
the party and the herd had gone al
most two days without a drop of water,
it was decided to make a forced drive
in the hope of reaching the Platte be
fore the stock should be exhausted, al
though grave fears were entertained
that they would find it dry as the sand
hills.
"Our only chance will then be to
find a low place and dig for water,"
announced the guide. The other men
in the party,at the thought of digging
a well to water "mm cattle, half-crazed
from thirst, thought the guide was
little less than a lunatic.
When they reached the river, sure
enough its bed was dry nothing more
tempting than an endless expanse
stretching away in a winding ribbon
of sun-baKed sand in the distance.inet
the anxious view of the parched and
famishing party. Pushing and hurry
ing the cattle on still more rapidly,
the little party, under the direction of
its cow boy leader, drove the fagged
animals down the bank until the low
est place was found, and there the
herd was rounded up and ly "milling"
them round and round, in a few min
utes the sand began to show moisture
under their feet, and in a little while
plenty of water came up through the
sand as if in streams. Cattle and men
fell to drinking, and before they had
finished a broad stream of water was
flowing down the river bed.
To the astonished and delighted
members of the party the feat seemed
a veritable miracle, like that recorded
in Holy Writ when Moses "struck the
rock and water burst forth," saving
from death by thirst the wandering
children of Israel in the desert of
Arabia.
To California la July.
Make up your mind to go to San
Francisco in July and you will go. It's
almost as sure as two and two make
four.
Another thing equally sure is that
you will never have a better opportun
ity of visiting California.
Rates have been reduced to a point
within the reach of almost all. For
example,the cost of a round trip tick
et from Omaha to San Francisco is
only as-i.V-less than one regular fare.
Corresponding rates from all other
Burlington Route stations.
The trip to California and the month
spent there will prove a holiday. sur
passing any in your experience. With
good judgment $100 will cover
every expense of the trip railroad
fare, sleepers,side trips and a month's
visit.
Write for a copy of the Burlington's
Epworth League folder gives full in
formation about the meeting, tickets,
stop-overs, etc.
J. Fkancis,
General Passenger Agent,
Omaha, Neb.
Flor de Aya, Red Axe, Acorns ask
for one of these brands when you want
a smoke, and learn for yourself that
the cigars of Ptak & Bajeck are equal
to any. .
Why not subscribe for the Journal
NOW? You need it for a dollar !
Amusements.
Apropos of the Re-Opening
of the Panne I e Thea
tre Season.
Under the direction of Jules Murry,
Lewis Morrison's Faust, which will
play here March 4, equipped with en
tirely new scenery and with the addi
tion of a novel effect used as a pro
logue, will take the road in September.
The cast of the play w ill be augmented
by vocalists who will render some
newly written choral music designed
as an accompaniment J to the new
first scene of the play. Armbruster
of Columbus and W. L. Seavey of New
York have provided a gauze and cloud
effect, which, painted on seventeen
separate drops, is gradually dispersed,
and to this is added a skillful arrange
ment of electrical effects which merge
into one pure w hite ray, resting on the
final picture w hich represents the arch
angel, surrounded by his host, listen
ing to Satan's plea, with an allegorical
representation of Paradise lieyond.
The scene lasts about eight minutes,
and is merely a prelude to Mephisto's
appearance on earth. Every device
and effect for the new prologue has
Ik-ami protected by patent and copy
right. Speaking of Jules Murry. recalls to
mind his pleasantly facetious telegram
to the scantily-attired guests of the
recently burned Baden Springs sum
mer resort hotel. The million dollar
hotel had one of the finest ballrooms
in the country, among its 800 rooms,
not one of which was preserved, the
entire struct ure being gutted. Curi
ously enough one room survives. It is
the ballroom, which is stored in New
York, with its massive ballustrade.
and overhanging musicians' gallery,
where the country orchestra made mu
sic while the guests tripped the light
fantastic. Itspreservation isdue to its
being a stage kill room used in the se
cond act of Lost River, Joseph Arthur's
pastoral melodrama. The ballroom epi
sodes are the most humorous of the en
tire play and its massive character
would justify the telegram credited to
J ules Murry, on reading the report that
wealthy guests were shivering in the
rain, with no attire saving their night
clothes during the destruction of their
summer resting place. The wire read:
"Sincere condolences. Have got your
ball room here. Shall I send it? Water
tight and in good condition."
You may as well expect to run a
steam engine without water as to find
an active, energetic man with a torpid
liver, and you may know that it is tor
pid when he does not relish his food.
or feels dull and languid after eating,
often has headache and sometimes diz
ziness. A tew doses of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets will re
store his liver to its normal functions,
renew his vitality, improve his diges
tion and make him feel like a new
man. Price, 2."e. All dsuggists.
Photos at Keedy's $1.2.3 and up.
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CHINA
Not Heathen China, but fine
Chinaware, Cut Glass and Sil
verware appropriate for wed
ding and birthday presents and
anniversary gifts.
Win the everlasting regard
of your relatives and friends by
dropping into
Snyder's
and selectingsomething from his
Varied
Assortment
of fine Wares in this line. .
Snyder & Co.,
Gbc 3cvclcr8,
Boeck Block, 6th & Haiti Sts.,
PLATTSMOUTH. j
c.h:a.o.s;
First and Best Fair of the Season.
All Attractions of High. Order.
Concert Music a Special Feature.
Grand 4th of July Celebration.
Genuine Mexican Bull Fights.
Everyone invited.
Reduced Kates from All Points.
Don't Fail to Come.
JULY 2 to 13.
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NO HUNTING .
ALLOWED
ON THESE GROUNDS.
That's a sign you often see on country Iplaces, but
you will never see it on this store.
We want you to hunt
Over the entire town, then como here and you will
decide that
Our Dru IJpe i5 Tore ?ompI?t?
And our prices lower than can be found elsewhere.
Seeds
See that they come from
The Nebraska Seed Co
OMAHA, NEBR.
Your Dealer Sells Them.
J03. FETZER
Spring and Summer Patterns I
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And goods just received ?
Latest Styles in Cutting ?
and Fitting.
WORK STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
HUDECEK
Rockwood Block
Bjanlv ox
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
IEsiic3. "U.p Capital ------- $50,000.
Office hours from U a. m. to 4 p. m.
Money to loan at current rates on approved security. Deposits received
on time certificates at the rate of 3 per cent per annum for six months, or
4 per cent for one year. Collections made and promptly remitted. Your
business, whether large or small, solicited.
Charles C. Parmele, President, J. M. Patterson, Yice President.
T. M. Patterson, Cashier.
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