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TART CURB-STONE JOSHINGS
Culled, Clipped, Penciled and Prepared for
the Readers of the Journal.
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A barefaced lie seldom lives long
enough to taUe a crop or whiskers.
Don't fail To attend your ward and
precinct primaries Saturday evening.
It takes a wise man to look -before
tic leaps out of the frying pan into the
tire.
When it c irru-s t'i making angels of
men the minister in"t in it with the
doctors.
Hash is at the bottom of more
divorce suitsthan any other intluencc
in the world.
A man is old when girls don't mind
letting him see them in one of their
unbecoming hats.
In the case of w ise men and pins it
may he said that their heads keep
them from going too far.
Men might save more money if they
would permit women to teach them
the art of bargain hunting.
An old bachelor says that bossing is
not a woman's province. No married
man w ould dare say -such a thing.
It is only after some people are
planted under six feet of earth that
they cease to say '-I told you so."
It is the fol who sits down and cries
for the moon. The wise guy gets busy
and tries to appropriate the earth.
People who have children old
enough to send to school must send
them. The law will compel you to.
When a girl says she just hates a
certain marfshe is either in love with
him or else he isn't in love with her.
If we have a council to make our
laws we should live up to them. Some
people, however, delight in being
contrary.
What a woman seems to like to do
is to sew on something when a man is
around so she cannot tell him what it
is w hen he asks her.
The way to have a good town is for
every citizen to comply with the laws
i f the city government when it is
j :-t a.- easy to do so.
It ought to make a man feel very
happy not to have any money and be
aMe to think how many fool invest
ment he didn't go into.
When a young man proposes and is
accepted he seems to walk on air, but
shortly after marriage he discovers
that he can't live on wind alone.
A worried fath-er wants to know
what he shall do with his son who
shows signs of becoming a confirmed
liar. Make a politician of him.
When a girl wears white stockings
and gets them muddy she might as
well have a big mustache for all the
impression she can make on men.
A Nebraska City man was fined the
other day for snoring in church. Serves
him right. A snoring man in church
is a nuisance to those who want to
sleep.
If people do not conform with the
law in building sidewalks, they should
be made to do so let them be rich or
poor. The law should not discriminate
either one way or the other.
"Time is money." If it is, then
some 'lazy men's money is surely
counterfeit- If time is money, then
some men have more money than any
thing else, for they have all the time
there is going.
Some people in this old town are
still trying to attend to other people's
business. Well, poor fellows, they
have none of their own, and con
sequently have to do something.
A reporter on a country paper in
Missouri is putting on airs because he
has written up three baseball games
without saying the teams "crossed
bats." The opportunity is still open
for some other enterprising reporter
to win distinction by omiting all
reference to "wiggling the willow"'
and "fanning the atmosphere."
A young lady going down Main
street one night recently, with her
best fellow, hand in hand, she was
heard to remark. "John, do you love
me?" He made no reply, then she
said: "John, if you love me and don't
like to say so, just squeeze my hand."
We couldn't see whether he squeezed
her hand or not.
Since the opening of the public
schools the postmaster's troubles begin
to increase. The kids stop at the
postoftice going to and from school to
get mail, when they know there is
none for them. It is an unnecessary
annoyance. Once a day is enough
for these children to crowd into the
postoffice.
Get "Bit" Every Tirne.
We notice that in a certain town in
Cass county a retail dealer found that
a catalogue house had sold a quantity
of binding twine recently to a farmer
at one or two cents less per pound
than lie could afford to. He wasn't
satisfied to let it go that way, how
ever, and procuring some of the twine
received by the farmer measured it
up. He found that in a certain weight
the foreign twine fell feet short of
the twine he was selling. While the
catalogue house was seemingly selling
Its twine cheaper than the local deal
er, it was really getting more for the
same number of feet by usinga slightly
coarser grade. And that is the way
with everything you buy of the city
department stores if it is not short
in measurement it will fall short in
quality. Buy at home and get just
what you are paying for. This "sight
unseen" business will get you every
time you try it.
LOOKING BACKWARD
TWENTY-FOUR YEARS
LOVE AND SUICIDE.
Ycung Man at Louisville Hangs Himself Be
cause He Could Not Get the Girl
cf His Choice.
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S-rap lauuk.l
Correspondence of the Lincoln State
Democrat, of date, I'lattsmouth, Neb.,
June 10th, 1SS1:
"The little town of Louisville, in
this county, was shocked this morning
to rind, suspended from the limb of a
tree, the inanimate body of John Sul
livan. Coroner Gass of this place was
notified and went immediately to
Louisville to hold an inquest.
"The facts as your correspondent
gathers them are as follows: Sullivan
was at work in the stone quarry at
Cedar Creek, four miles east of Louis
ville. He had met a Miss Folden of
Louisville and fell madly in love: his
ardent attachment does not seem to
have been reciprocated by the young
lady: his attentions were assiduous
and his efforts to w in the object he so
earnestly coveted, w ere persistent, but
the young lady rejected his offer of
marriage.
Driven to desperation by his mad
and ardent love, and the repeated re
jection of his proposals of marriage,
the unfortunate young man resolved
on self-destruction.
"A heavy dose of laudanum was first
resorted to, but a prompt emetic only
postponed the end. Having thus fail
ed to get rid of a life to him a bur
den, by the use of laudanum, he secur
ed a rope used by the children for a
swing, firmly tied it to the limb of a
tree and, with one end around his
neck swung off into that land where,
"they are neither married nor given
in marriage." As if to be near the
spirit and body of her whom he loved,
he selected a tree within a dozen steps
of her whom he so dearly loved and
with whom he had only parted an hour
or so before the fatal noose launched
him into eternity.
"This morning, when the door of
Miss Folden's home was opened, a silk
handkerchief was found tied around
the door knob.
"Upon unrolling this handkerchief,
a beautiful ring was found and a note
addressed to Miss Folden. telling her
that the handkerchief was his and
that the ring was for her from him,
asking her to accept both handker
chief and ring as a token of his love
for her.
"The note further directed Miss
Folden to look toward the tree in the
morning, "where the swing is," for
there she would see his body, as he had
resolved to die that night for the love
which she seemed not to have reci
procated. The note, as your corres
pondent has learned, further request
ed that his body be kept until his
father, living in Newark, N. J. should
come after it."
Caught by Real Estate Swindle.
A Tecumseh correspondent says: "A
new swindle is being worked among
the farmers of this locality. A farmer
wi'l receive a letter asking him to list
his farm for sale with a company,
which company agrees to advertise the
farm for so many months. The farmer
signs an agreement to pay them" 50
cents an acre when they have fulfilled
their part of the contract. And here
is where the "rub" is. They don't
agree to sell the farm, as the farmer
finds to his sorrow, but simply to ad
vertise it. So there is nothing to do
but pay.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF WILL
An Interesting Lecture By Prof. O'Shea Be
fore the Teachers cf Lancaster County.
Among the many good things said at
the joint institute of the teachers of
the city or Lincoln and Lancaster
county yesterday, is the following
taken from the lecture of Prof. Shea,
on t he "development of the will,"
which the Journal thinks is worthy of
persual of every teacher in Cass coun
ty. I'rof. O'Shea said:
"At first the child cannot do delib
erately what he attempts to do. lie
has not learned the route of exact de
liberate action. If a six months old
child tries to put his hands on his
mother's face they are likely to fly in
all directions. Accidentally they may
come in contact w ith the face. Then
the child is pleased. He keeps striv
ing to repeat it and every time he can
doit a little more readily. Nature
teaches him to keep trying so that he
may learn how to do the thingexactly
when he wants to. After a time,
through repeated trials, just the right
movements occur when he wants to
perform an action. Then we call this
deliberate action.
Every art the child has to learn
must be gained in this way. We must
pass through the hit and miss stage.
Gradually the hits will predominate,
and finally the errors will disappear al
together; and then he will have mas
tered the art. When the child first
begins to write he makes many errors,
but if we give him freedom and guid
ance he w ill gradually develop just the
proper movements.
"In teaching a child an art, as writ-,
ing, we must seek to give him the
right motor experience. It is no ac
count to stand and talk to him. He
cannot translate our words into ac
tions. Take his hand and help him.
Repeat the proper movement a num
ber of times until he gets the feeling
of it: then let himjgo. You may have
to help him a little on several occa
sions, but very soon he will have the
thing himself. In all arts, then, the
good teacher will actually manipulate
the child's muscles and co-ordinate
them so as to help him hit upon the
right thing easily. Then she will have
him repeat this process until it is firm
ly fixed.
"Right along with this principle of
development is another of great im
portance. The child at first cannot
control his fundamental movements.
He is coarse, crude, awkward in what
he does, but as he develops he gets
himself in hand better: that is, he
gains control of his finer activities,
'lhe young child can with difficulty co
ordinate the tumb and fingers, but the
adult can do this very easily.
"in all education we must allow the
child to work first in a coarse, crude
way. We must not require him to use
fine, delicate instruments of any kind,
pens or pencils or needles.
"Method is simply an application of
the general principles relating to the
nature of the human mind and the
purpose of education to the manipula
tion of the various studies. In decid
ing how to present a study, the first
question which the teacher must ask,
is, how is the thing which this study
gives to be employed in the world out
side of the school? The pupil must
gain the experience which each study
is designated to afford him in the way
in which he will have that experience
in the great world outside. In spelling,
for instance, he will need to employ it
in communicating his thought in writ
ing. He must, then, in the school
learn spelling by writing words correct
ly. He must establish motor habits
for the commonest words, so that they
will accur without any deliberation on
his part. One who has to give his at
tention to the spelling is handicapped
in thinking. Require your pnpil to
write frequently and in different rela
tions the words he is going to employ
often in real life. This should be the
constant aim in teaching this subject.
"Then, when a pupil is learning a
new word the teacher must aid him to
master it in connection with similar
words that he has already learned.
"In writing, the aim should be to
have the pupils master it as a means
so that it may be employed automati
cally. "In reading, the beginning must be
made with the word because this is
psychologically simpler than the let
ter. You can get things so simple in
their structure that the mind cannot
discriminate them at all.
"In making out new words there is
a great opportunity for the teacher to
lead the pupil to use what he knows.
Whenever at all possible new words
must be interpreted in the light of
words which the pupil has learned.
"The tendency of the child to inter
pret the new word in terms of what he
knows explains many of his errors.
"Silent reading should be given a
prominent place so that the pupil may
get thought through the eye. The eye
should be made the prominent thing
in all reading."
Why Fit Themselves?
A dozen years of hard study is the
price a young man or woman must pay
f()ra chance to be hired as a school
teacher. And then, after all the
expensive preparation, comes a joband
a salary so shamefully small that the
mention of it ought to bring the blush
,of shame to the cheeks of fathers and
mothers In Nebraska. F.ven here in
Plattsmouth, in this city, where we
boast of our educational advantages,
we pay our school teachers no better
wages than we pay a common day
laborer. Is it not a shame? j
WARNING TO CONSIGNORS
The Game Warden Calls Attention to the
.' ' Law Relative to Game Shipments.
G. L. Carter, the chief game warden,
is sending out notices to the agents of
express companies calling attention to
the provisions of the game laws rela
tive to the shipment of game. It is
the duty of the express company, he
points out, to see that no illegal ship
ments are made, calling attention to
the joint liability of the agents and
the company. It is .unlawful to ship
game unless it is accompanied by the
owner. Carter advises the agents that
the maximum number of birds which
may be shipped cannot exceed 110,
which may include 10 geese, 50 ducks
and 50 other game birds, but during
September no person can have more
than 10 prairie chickens in his posses
sion. Carter calls attention to the neces
sity of protecting the birds from ex
termination, assuring the agents that
the birds are worth more to the com
panies because of "their benefit to the
agricultural interests of the state than
would be the proceeds from the ship
ments of them while they were being
exterminated by an army of market
hunters, and they do not want business
derived from the illegal shipment of
game.
"It is possible that unscrupulous
shippers may try to deceive you by
offering for shipment game marked as
butter, eggs, poultry, or many other
false labels, but not knowing the con
tents, does not relieve you or your
company from liability, and when
strangers or persons who are not your
regular shippers offer such shipments
you should satisfy yourself that they
do not contain contraband game. Our
law provides that all packages contain
ing fish or game must have placed on
the address side of the package the
name of the consignor, the destination
and a true invoice of the contents.
"Every person delivering to a com
mon carrier any game or fish without
being so marked is liable to a fine of
not less than $10.00 or more than $50.00,
and the common carrier accepting it
is liabie to a fine of not less than $25.00
or more than $100.00. t
Judge Holcomb Declines.
When asked concerning his candi
dacy for renomination, says the Lin
coln Journal, Judge Holcomb said:
"Under no circumstance can I be
come a candidate for re-election to the
office I am now rilling, and I expect to
retire to private life at the expiration
of my present term. Conditions affect
ing my health are such as to'render it
imperative that I pursue this course
and seek other fields of labor. I am
grateful beyond expression for the
support I have received in the past
from the people of the state, and for
the confidence manifested in my elec
tion to office of the highest honor and
trust. I hope in the future, in a
humble way, by my efforts, to con
tribute something to the cause of hon
est and efficient government in all its
branches."
While in the west Chief Justice Hol
comb improved but soon after return
ing home suffered another attack. He
hopes to be able to get out of the house
in a day or two.
Retarn From Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Halmes ar
rived at home Friday afternoon. They
are both looking remarkably w ell, and
seem to have enjoyed the trip splen
didly. Mr. and Mrs. Halmes have
been gone three months, and while
they enjoyed their trip and had a most
enjoyable visit among their friends in
the Fatherland, they seem more than
pleased that they are at home and
among their friends in America.
WANT TO GET INTO OMAHA
The Independent Telephone Projectors Say
What They Will Do for the Metropolis.
The World-Herald of Friday morning
says: "Tom l'armele, the well known
I'lattsmouth capitalist and president
of the I'lattsmouth telephone com
pany, and T. H. l'ollock, general
manager for that company, were in
South Omaha on business yesterday.
"Following the statement of A. I'..
Hunt of Omaha relative to the inten
tion to ask the Omaha council for a
franchise, Mr. l'armele said if one
were secured one of the first things to
be done would be the abolition of all
tolls between Omaha and South
Omaha.
"Mr. l'armele said further that if a
franchise were secured in Omaha an
enormous amount of money would also
be spent in South Omaha. Continuing,
Mr. l'armele said:
"If we get into Omaha it means we
get down to business, and, aside from
what we spend there, we will go to the
front in South Omaha. We will build
the finest building in this city as our
exchange and we will not do anything
by halves. It means a great deal to
get this matter settle 1 and get the
improvements started. This is what
we are anxious to do now."
Test Cigarette Law.
The anti-cigarette law enacted by
the last legislature will be tested in
Omaha. Judge W. D. Mel I ugh al
ready has taken steps to determine
the constitutionality of that law.
John Alpeson, whose place of business
is at M21 South Sixteenth street.
Omaha, has been selected, by mutual
consent, as the experimental defend
ant as it were. The proceeding is to
have Alpeson arrested, then released
on habeas corpus and then bring the
matter to argument. The former part
of the case has been instituted and it
will be argued today before Judge Day
of the Douglas county district court.
LEADS ALL ROADS TO DENVER
The Burlington Carries 25,000 People to
the National Encampment.
Although a little too early for the
exact figures on the amount of busi
ness hauled to Denver by the three
roads running from Omaha to the
Colorado capital, the estimates now
are about what they were before the
movement started, showing the per
fection to which railroads have or
ganized their forces for the handling
of immense crowds.
The Burlington hauled into Denver,
counting the eleven sections of No. 2
now enroute, eighty-five trains, with
an average of over :')0 passengers to
the train, making over 25,000 people
hauled by this road alone.
The Union Pacific has had no report
from the Kansas line, but at the passen
ger department the estimate of people
hauled into Denver at 25,000 people.
The Rock Island officials think that
during the last six days, during which
time the Grand Army of the Republic
ra es have been effective, that road
has moved 15,000 people into Denver.
The Union Pacific hauled many via
Cheyenne, these remaining over for
Frontier day, so that the record is not
complete.
No movement for years has so at
tracted the attention of the people of
the east and the traffic on all lines has
been phenomenal.
Burned to Death.
A special from WTeeping Water, un
der date of Saturday, September 9th,
says: "This morning about 5 o'clock,
Mrs. Riley Rector was starting a fire
in the cook stove and used kerosine to
hasten it. In some manner the oil
ignited and set her clothing on fire.
She was so badly burned that she died
about 10:30. Mr. Rector w as also bad
ly burned on the hands and face. The
kitchen was badly damaged by the fire
which was extinguished by the fire de
partment before it spread to other
parts of the building. The fire dam
age is about $100 fully covered by in
surance. It is thought that Mrs.
Rector mistook gasoline for coal oil."
K. C. Conductor Killed.
In a collision at Nebraska City Junc
tion Monday, in which a passen
ger train collided with the rear end of
a freight, caused the death of a con
ductor named "Buck" Newburg, who
had charge of the passenger train.
Newburg has been in the employ of
the K. C. road for a number of years
and was very popular in railroad cir
cles. We have been unable to geVT"
full particulars or the extent of dam
ages done.
SPECIAL TRAIN TO ELMWOOD
Arrangements are Being Perfected to
That End.
TRAINS TO START FROM PLATTSMOUTH
Only One Fare for the Round Trip and
Plenty of Room for All.
Arrangements are about completed
for a special train to carry the I'latts
mouth and the adjacent delegates and
friends to the Kim wood democratic
convention on Tuesday, September l'.t.
The train will leave here in the morn
ing and return the same evening.
Those delegates who desire to take
advantage of this rate will please write
the chairman of the county commit
tee how many from each precinct will
attend. This should be done as soon
as possible.
Tickets will be issued for just as
many as desire to attend. This will
also include the two Rock j;lul!s pre
cincts, Mt. Pleasant, Fight Mile Grove,
Liberty, Nehawka, Weeping Water,
etc., and the rate will l.e in proportion
to that from the start. By such ar
rangements the fare will be propor
tionately low to all, and besides as
many outsiders can attend asm desire.
Why We Don't Always Tell the Truth.
A newspaper man resolved to tell
the truth f r a whole week, regardless
of consequences. A marriage took
place that week and the editor com
mented thusly: "Miss Svlvia Simkins
and John Jenkins were married last
night at the Baptist church. The
bri le is a very homely, ordinary girl,
who doesn't know any more about
housekeeping than a rabbit, and never
helped her mother three days in her
life. The groom is an accomplished
loafer, who has been living off the old
folks all his life, and don't amount, to
shucks, nohow. We can see the finish
of this couple in the divorce court."
The editor who wrote the above is
still in the hospital. So you see tle-re
is no encouragement for an editor to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and
not hing but the truth.
That Dear Mother.
Young man if your mother is living,
love her and do your best to crown her
declining years with joy. You car
never know how much she has suffered
and sacri liced for your sake. The sil
ver threads came in Iter hair as she
knelt with bowed head by our cradle.
You can never know the agony of the
sleepless nights and anxious days she
held you as a babe at her breast and
prayed as only a mother can pray that
your life might be spared.
With that thankfulnessand joy the
poor heart overflowed when the crisis
passed and she praised God that her
boy was spared. How tenderly she
cared for you all through childhood,
sacrificing every pleasure that you
might have the advantages of her lim
ited means could provide. The old
dresses she used to wear, the trips
home she did not make, the weary
burdens she carried for your sake until
her shoulders began to droop as you
see them now. And how changed she
is in her appearance, but not a particle
is she changed in her love. We quote
this beautiful tribute from one whose
name we do not know:
"Time has scattered the snowy Hakes
on dear old mother's brow, plowed
deep furrows in her cheeks but is she
not sweet and beautiful now? The
lips that have kissed many a hot tear
from thy childish cheek are the sweet
est lips in all the world."
"Oh, yes, she is your dear old moth
er. Her sands of time are nearly run
out, but feeble as she is, she will go
farther and reach down lower for you
than any other on earth."
"You cannot walk into midnight
where she cannot see you; you cannot
enter a prison whose bars shall keep
her out: you can never mount a scaffold
too high for her to reach that she may
kiss and bless you. In evidence of her
deathless love, the world may despise
and forsake you when it leaves yod
by the wayside to die unnoticed, the
dear old mother will gather you up in
her feeble arms and carry you home
and tell you of your virtues until you
almost forget that your soul is disfig
ured by vices.
"Love her tenderly, and cheer her
declining years with true devotion."
Any humorist who thirsts for fame
st be a dry joker.
it isn't every man who is competent
to enjoy a competency.
