The Plattsmouth Journal
I'L'IIMSIIKI' WKKKIA AT
PL-ATTCUOUTII. NEBRASKA.
is. a. iiatks, itum-siiki:.
r.ntT.:! at the pstof!l.i; :it I'latlsrnouth. Ne
braska, as ":ondrlas matter.
Don't write it r5 any more.
Ik you have "turned over a new
leaf" sec that it is not turned hack.
Hkkk's to 1906! And may all
those good resolutions stick to the
last day, the last hour and the very
last minute of the new year.
A vouxc; man named Songster
was recently married in Omaha.
The experience of a great many
men is that they forget to sing alout
a year after marriage, if there hap
Icns to lie a stout-lunged laly on
the place.
Kvr.K vtiiini; may come to him
who waits, 1'tit the fellow who
reaehes after it will get it first. The
city that i-. contented to wait, will
he waiting when other towns have
all tiie improvements, l'l ittsi:;ot:th
should Il'.ed.
Kyi.uy democrat in the .state of
Nebraska should now commence
the agitation of preeint organiza
tion. This is the way to effect a
complete ami thorough organization
and now is the proper time to start
the hall to rolling.
I oli.ow tip the study of the seed
corn question with good whole
some lectures on road making and
other institute work, and the farm
ers can have no ierson to blame
hut himself, if he does not have im
proved ideas of farming.
refuse to assist if asked to do so.
We speak for Cass county when we
say there is not one hut who will
give from 25 cents to Si, 00 to aid
in wresting Nebraska from the
clutches of those who are annually
increasing the state's indebted
ness, and thus shoving more taxes
upon the shoulders of the farmers.
If the democrats in every county of
the state will inaugurate a move
ment by which every individual
democrat can oe solicited to give
just what they feel able to subscribe,
thousands of dollars could thus be
raised. And in this manner a thor
ough organization at the same time
effected.
Thk.kk is nothing that stimulates
the determination to be better this
year, quite so much as to look back
on the follies of the past, especially
when you feel the "difference in
the morning" after Chrismas. But
it's the same old step a few days
later.
Thk Burlington seed corn special
that wound up its trip over the va
rious branches of the system here
last Saturday afternoon, done a
whole lot of good. The farmers
took a lot of interest in the lectures,
and a large audience greeted the
party in this city.
It is reported from Washington
that Senator Millard is Ixjseiged
with applications from men who
want to succeed Baxter, and yet
no selection has been made. There
is a great deal of the early-bird
:xystem worked in politics, but the
worm has not vet been caught.
It was hardly a fair question that
was propounded to Speaker Cannon
the other day when a correspondent
asked him if he believed the House
of Representatives is just as repre
sentative of the people as it used to
le in years gone bv. But Uncle
Joe was equal to the emergency,
and without mentioning the Reed
rules, promptly replied that th
I lor.sc is just as representative now
as it was when the country had only
ten millions of people. Herein is
w!k re Mr. Cannon, who has served
over thirty 3"eirs in that body,
knows better. In the present House
there are many members who rep
resent their constituencies by de
manding that the statehood question
lx; considered upon the merits of
the several applicants; they are
forthwith gagged and the final ac
tion of the House on that question
will be the reverse of representative.
Such gag rule was unknown in the
House even twenty years ago.
True Americanism.
Skcrktaky Shaw's appeal to
western bankers to have mercy on
Wall street has a strange and unfa
miliar sound. But as the greater
part of the wealth of the country is
created this side of the Alleghanies,
it is not so strange that we have of
late had a great deal of money to
lend to Wall street, and the finan
ciers in that alley ought to have
known that we would want it back.
Organization of the voters is
the work the Nebraska democracy
must expend thought and energy if
the state is reclaimed from the cor
poration party which now misgov
erns it. A strong organization is
the only thing that will accomplish
the much desired result. Now is
the time to begin the work upon
some plan that will secure success.
Kverv partv worker in the state
should lend himself strongly and
sincerely for the purpose. There
is essential harmony everywhere
throughout the state as to issues and
questions. With intelligence and
industry the democratic voting pop
ulation may be brought into sym
pathv and practical co-operation
-;tli tht tiartv nurnose. Nebraska
democracy confronts a test of party
character and capacity. Let every
individual upon whom the labor of
organization devolves go at it
promptly and energetically. We do
not have the official machine from
which to draw the necessary funds,
but we possess a membership of as
good and patriotic men as ever
breathed the breath of life the yeo
menry of the state who would not
President Roosevelt's disapproval
of the proposed collection of money
for a wedding present to his daugh
ter, is a proper rebuke to the spirit
of flunkeyism which unaccountably
possesses some of the people of
these United States.
From the proposition to shower
coin upon the president's daughter
it might be judged that some Amer
icans were of a very cheap order of
todies and enjoyed their conditions;
that we had a lot of barefooted peas
antry in this country who got a
certain emotional satisfaction from
being driven over by the wheels of
royalty's chariots.
There are two kinds of snobs, as
Thackeray effectively pointed out,
and the worst kind is the flunkey,
the negative snob. I le is the chump
who enjoys being patronized, and
who makes it possible for the ag
gressive snob to exist and flourish.
He enjoys being patronized so well
that if the other fellow doesn't vol
untarily notice him he fawns and
licks the other fellow's heels. He
is the sort who would gratefully
take a beating from those whom he
is pleased to regard as above him.
He likes to be kicked so well that he
will get in the other fellow's way.
He is habituated to humbleness, a
sickish thing to contemplate, the
cheapest genus of the homo family.
But he is commonly supposed to
have his being and abode elsewhere
than in this great, fee, democratic
countrv.
Mr. Roosevelt is not disposed to
encourage tue munKey. nis im
perialism doesn't by any means de
mand a throne. Princess Alice is a
Princess only in the sense that ev
ery other miss is in a country where
royalty is the right of every man
and woman. Hers is to be no royal
wedding beyond any other wedding.
Miss Alice is a plain case of Ameri
can girl. Her marriage is to be an
excellent, typical American mar
riage, without even the foreign fea
ture of a'titled bridegroom. livery
American can on this account re
joice and wish the happy couple
godspeed. It is a matter of real
pride when an eligible girl fmarries
a good American. The band
shorld play "Yankee Doodle" for
all it's worth. But Miss Alice, or
the president for her, doesn't pro
pose to put up with any mawkish
ness and maudlin patronizing from
unAmerican contributors of ten
cent pieces. The $800,000 pro
posed to be raised for a present
might well be expended in publish
ing and circulating copies of the
Declaration of Independence and
the Conttitution of the United
as
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The Hew Year.
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New Year, I look straight in your eyes,
Our ways and our interests blend;
You may be a foe in disguise,
But I shall believe you a friend.
We get what we give in our measure
We cannot give pain and get pleasure;
I give you good will and good cheer,
And you must return it, New Year.
We get what we give in this life,
Tho' often the giver indeed
Waits long upon doubting and strife
Kre proving the truth of his creed ;
But somewhere, some way, and forever,
Reward is the meed of endeavor;
And if I am really worth while,
New Year, you will give me your smile.
You hide in your mystical hand
No "luck" that I cannot control
If I trust my own courage and stand
On the Infinite strength of my soul.
Man hides in his brain and his spirit
A power that is godlike, or near it;
And he who has measured his force
Can govern events in their course.
You come with a crown on your brow,
New Year, without blemish or spot;
Yet'ou, and not I, sir, must bow,
For Time is the servant of Thought.
Whatever you bring me of trouble
Shall turn into good, and then double,
If my spirit looks up without fear
To tlie Source that you came from, New Year.
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States in certain parts of the
west.
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In the retirement of county of
ficials, W. B. Banning, who has
served his constituents so admir
ably and faithfully for the past
three years, steps out to make room
for his successor. The past year
Mr. Banning served as president of
the board, and all through his of
ficial career has demonstrated that
business capacity which should be
long to every member of the board.
The tax-payers of Cass county,
whose interests he has so faithfully
and diligently watched, regret his
retirement.
The new county officials go in
tomorrow, and the old ones step
down and out. May the new ones
prove as faithful and efficient as the
old ones.
Telephones on Trains.
The newest improvement to be in
troduced on the New York Central
line is a telephone, by which the con
ductor can talk from any part of the
train to the engineer in the cab. The
invention, which is as yet in the ex
perimental stage, has been tried with
some success, and it will now be in
stalled on most of the fast passenger
trains for further testing. Hereto
fore the whistle cord has been the
only means of communication between
the engineer and the conductor.
Indigestion Overcome.
Indigestion is easily cuercome by the
use of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, because
this remedy digests what you eat and
gives the stomach a rest allows it to
recuperate and grow strong again.
Kodol relieves Indigestion, Belching
of Gas, .Sour Stomach, Heart-Burn. etc.,
and enables the digestive organs to
transform all foods into the kind of
rich red blood that makes health and
strength. Sold by P. G. Fricke & Co.,
and Gering & Co.
C. A. Fawls, Lawyer,
bate and general practice,
f ice of Caunty Attorrjey.
Proof-
Acer's
Losing your hair? Coming
out by the combful? And
doing nothing? No sense in
that! Why don't you use
Ayers Hair Vigor and
Hair Vigor
promptly stop the falling?
Your hair will begin to grow,
too, and all dandruff will dis
appear. Could you reason
ably expect anything better?
- Arr' Hmlr Yifror 1 a great uccph with
me. Sly hair was falling out very badly, hut
the flair Vigor stopped it and now my Imir is
all right." Vf. C. LotiSDOjr. Lindsay. Cal.
f i.ot bottle. j. c. ate it co.,
AllTJgBijtS l"OI aBMJSSBBBBSBBi
Thin IHIair
A Real King in America.
What about these sons of the rich,
these princes of money aristocracy?
How much chance is there that one
of them will develop the genius of
the founder of his line, and instead
of squandering; millions will accu
mulate tens of millions; instead of
living in useless luxury on his in
come will prove himself a force in
the industrial and financial world,
a man able to fight and conquer like
his father or grandfather?
Extraordinary happenings are al
ways unexpected, yet once in a
century or so, like the advent of a
mighty conquerer or reformer, they
do come to pass. And if there
should arise in this land a man of
30 or 40 who, starting with two or
three billions owned or controlled
by him) should be great enough to
brush aside the trammels of indo
lence and temptation, great enough
to see that never in modern times
has there been offered to a man,
not even to Napoleon, so stupen
dous a chance as this to wield ab
solute despotic power, great enough
finally to use his two or three bil
lions to its full poteutialit3", then
well, there would surely be inter
esting history made in that man's
lifetime? We have had our iron
kings, railroad kings, copper kings,
sugar kings and others, but there
is one kind of king we have not
had yet. A real king? Yes, for
how long, pray, would this Repub
lic stand against the aggressions of
such a man, a great-minded despot
without conscience or bounds to his
ambition, one in comparison to
whom our Rockefellers and Came-
gies would seem like blundering
beginners? Already our million
aire magnates have begun to buy
our courts and Legislatures, to cor
rupt our cities, to debauch the pub
lic conscience; he would finish the
work and do it thoroughly, he
would make the laws, own the
newspapers, subsidize churches and
colleges, mould public opinion,
direct the machinery or justice,
control the industries, the banks,
the insurance companies, the con
ditions of labor, regulate supply
and demand, fix prices, absorb pro
fits, centralize everything, be
everything. Why not? Even as
things are, has the world any king
more powerful than J. P. Morgan
or John D. Rockefeller? Remem
ber how Europe cringed to Mr.
Morgan at his last visit, with
Emperors seeking his favor and
Princes waiting at his door. A
real king? Why, we practically
have two of themalreadv! Success.
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Annual Meeting of the Farmers' Mut
ual Insurance Company of Cass
County, Nebraska.
The annual meeting of the Farmers'
Mutual Tire and Live Stock Insur
ance company of Cass County will be
held at the Ileil school house in school
district number 88 in Cass County, Ne
braska on Saturday, Jan. 6,1906 at 1:30
P. M. for the purpose of electing of
ficers and transacting such other busi
ness as may regularly come before the
meeting. J. Pi Falter, Sec'y.
Tho Kind You Ilavo Always Bought, nntl which has been
in use for over 30 years, lias borao tho signature of
and has been mado under his ncr-
sonal supervision Hinco its infancy.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ' tTiiMt-as-jrood" urn but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger tho health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing' Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Fcvcrishness. It cures Diarrhwa and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho
Stomach and ISowcls, giving healthy aud natural bleep.
Tho Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
in Use For Over 30 Years.
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GUTHMAN BROS., PROPS.
PLATTSMOUTH,
NEBRASKA
RATES $1.00 PER DAY
First House West B. 6c M. Depot
We Solicit the Farmers Trade
and Guarantee Satisfaction.-
When in the City Give Us a Call
15he Perkins Hotel
Jacks and Stallions
COME AND SEE MY
Percfyeron, Belgiai) & German CoacI) Stallions
Both Imported and Homa-Brad. I will sell you ;i full lilcxidcd A rij-ri-iin-lircri Stal
lion as hlmhI as wert- ever jrrown In Kurop and In-ttcr and murr proliln- Im-i-drrs t
jwices from W0 to 1000. I have xrsH of all ujj-s. 2 to 7 y-urs oJi. from iujU to
in weight, all sound and iroud, and will. lx-sid-s paying for Un-riiM-1 ves in oik; m-hhoh.
put 500 in tbe owner's po-k:t. Many a Nebraska farmer lias rearl.cd tin; point
where lie has several tine brood mares and is alle to keep a nice stallion for his own
and his neighbors' use. I on't let the boys leave the farm; raise more horses and
mules, it pays better than anything you can do. Now is the time u raise trood
horses. Come to the Cedar Rapid Jack Farm and buy a U-tter stallion than you
lmve ever seen for fU0. 1 also have a larj;e assortment of
HOME-GROWN JACKS
and brinsr four Importations per year from Spain. Mules three months old are sell
ing nearly everywhere this season at S100 each.
W. L DeCLOW,
Cedar fjapids, la.
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Yellowstone, 4 " ... 4 00
Honey Dew, ' " ... 3 00
Big Horn, " ... 2 00
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