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TART CURB-STONE JOSHINGS
Ceiled, Clipped, Penciled and Prepared for
Ifie Readers of the Journal.
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Arid i k-;i-lHM w:iit.
S say, I he rmNtiit'
Hmw -r-li'tit "lust'-."
A woman is never too ol'l to marry
f she had nmey.
Our .success is often dir? to some
other fellow's failure.
Faint heart nr'er got mixed up in a
breach of promise suit.
How d: you like the democratic
ticket? Isn't it a dandy.
Wise is t tie man who is able to con
ceal what he doesn't know.
No man was ever made worse by be
ing married: no woman better.
Whichever way a lawsuit goes, it is
robbing Paul to pay the lawyer.
Hut few widows are half as gay and
giddy as they are supposed to be.
When the millennium arrives the
world will have no use for lawyers.
A mancan get fooled holding agirl's
hands as much as he can one in poker.
No married woman is ever as happy
as she thinks her husband thinks she
is.
A woman thinks tier clothes make
her and her husband knows they break
him.
A wise w ife knows that flattery is
the real key to her husband's pocket
book. Jf a woman is afraid of losing her
hair she should put it in' a safe deposit
vault
A girl who has her hand squeezed
gets very indicant to have anybody
1 i .king.
If a man takes a ride on a ferryboat
he speaks of having been away for the
summer.
Most of us would be out of debt if
we could only borrow enough money
to pay up.
Any gossip can say mean things, but
it takes a good cook to turn out a first
class roast.
Plattsmouth was very
fortunate
We didn't
during the recent rains
have a od.
Jt seems as it they coiiici (
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cures tor everything on earth
except
just being plain fools.
Whoever chooses his wife for the
way she looks on the .streets seldom
makes a serious mistake.
A man may be a hopeles idot, but
no woman will admit it after he has
proposed marriage to her.
Instead of old women and young
whiskey the average man prefers old
whiskey and young women.
Baseball is played on the diamond,
but there is no reason why it shouldn't
also be played on the square
A girl's idea of an interesting man is
one she can keep making love to her
when she tells him he mustn't,
It is awful easy to think what a lot
of money vou would give away to
charity when you haven't got it.
The fellow who runs down other
people irenerally manages to save a
lew words to sing his own praise.
When a politician says he has no
thing to say its a sale bet that ne is
loaded to the muzzel with infor
mantion.
There is a lot of fun in planning
things that never come off and so can
not disappoint you as to the results of
their coming off.
There was once a woman who could
actually starch a man's shirt in the
right place but she has been dead
several hundred years.
What engaged people like about not
seeing each other for ten hours is all
the letters they can write each other
in that time.
Says Journal Is 0. K.
A short, but very much to the point
letter, from an old resident of Cass
county, D. -S. Draper, now of Kansas
City Kan. Mr. Draper spent a few
days visiting his Cass county friends
about two years ago. at which time he
made the Journal oflice a pleasant call.
The follow ing speaks for itself as to
what he thinks of the Journal:
EniToi: Plattsmouth Joi'kxal.
Dear .Sir. Enclosed find 2.00 on
my subscription. 1 was a resident of
Cass county from 171 to l'.s an(i i
consider the Journal the best papr
ever published in the county and I
congratulate my old friendsand neigh
bors on having an organ that give
them the news and so ably supports
the interests or the people. .
Yours truly,
D. S. Dkatku.
The "Havana Tag," the best 5c cigar
on the market. Try one today and
you will buy one.
A BIG REAL ESTATE DEAL
I. Pearlman Trades His Two Store Build
ings on Main Street for 480
Acres cf Land.
For some time a trade has been
under consideration, but which lias
just materialized. I. Pearlman has
traded his two business blocks on
Main street for 40 acres of land in
Antelope county. Neb., situated ten
miles from Neligh, the county seat,
and six miles from Brunswick. The
trade was effected through J. P. Falter
and the consideration was $17,oo, the
land value, Mr. Pearlman putting in
his Plattsmouth property at yU.ooo.
He has been out to look over the ranch I
and says he is well pleased with the
quality of the land ami the general
surroundings.
Mr. Pearlman expects to close out
his furniture stock as soon as possible
regardless of cost, in order to gi veNpos
session of the property.
THE KIDS STILL SMOKE
Schoolboys Indulge in Cigarettes Oolir
ious of Prohibitory Laws.
The following from the Lincoln News
reads like a story that is heard daily
in this city. It says: "If you kids
want any cigarette papers, I can tell
you where you can each get a supply,
and they won't cost you a penny."
So said a lad apparently about fif
teen years old. addressing a crowd of
boys about his own age yesterday.
The lads had congregated on the post-
ortice square on their way to school
The boy tore the end oil; of an envelope
and showed a number of packs of the
papers to his friends. From the hip
pocket in the trousers of one member
of the crowd a package of smoking
tobacco was drawn. After each had
received a paper, the tobacco was
passed, and the rolling of the cigar
ettes began. .Shortly afterwards the
boys could be seen w ith difficulty, for
as they walked along the street pull
ing at their "coilin nails'' the smoke
almost hid them from view.
The boys were seemingly all under
the age of eighteen, but they rolled a
cigarette almost as quickly as a man
could have bitten the end off his cigar.
As they disappeared down the street,
they were heard telling each other of
their plans to enjoy themselves at
school.
A statute prohibits the sale of cigar
ettes to boys under the age of eighteen,
but it has never been enforced strictly.
It had been believed that the passage
of the Casebeer law would deprive the
youngsters of the source of supply.
The supplying of material for school
boys violates the old statute, but the
offense is a misdemeanor and extradi
table, so that there is likelihood, it is
said, of any action being taken.
ANTI-CIGARETTE LAW VOID
Such
is the Decision of Judge Day of
the District Court.
J udge Day Monday morning declared
the anti cigarette law unconstitution
al, insofar as it refers to the giving
away of cigarette papers or "makings,"
which is not covered in the title.
In rendering the decision Judge Day
went into a discussion of the law at
some length. He said there are so
many supreme court decisions bearing
on the point that only one subject can
be covered by any legislative act and
that the title must fully cover the
subject matter. In the title of the
act in question there is no mention of
the giving away or allowing the tak
ing of cigarette paper. This omission
the court held to be fatal in the case
at bar, where J ohn Alperson, a tobacco
dealer, was arrested by the police on
the charge of giving away cigarette
papers. Alperson's attornej", Judge
McIIugh, asked for a writ of habeas
corpus, which Judge Day grants. The
court ordered Alperson released from
custody.
Judge Day was careful to say that,
while the particular part cf the act
referred to is clearly unconstitutional,
there was no occasion to pass on the
validity of the balance of the act.
"It is true, how ever," said the court,
that if the other provisions were an
inducement for the passage of the act,
then the whole measure must fall."
Omaha Pee.
For sale 240 acres of land, 10 miles
south and west of Plattsmouth, and 3
miles from Murray: fairly good im-
nrnvpmcnts. (?all nn J. II. Thrn;hpr.
I Coates' block.
I Isaac N. Applcgate.
j Isaac N. Applegate, who died at his
home near Union Thursday, an ac
count of which appeared in these
columns, was born in Mason county,
Ky., March 17, 1:;2, and removed with
his parents to Brown county, Ohio,
when quite young and from there to
Fremont county, Iowa, where he
resided three years, and then he went
to Montgomery county, Iowa, where
he lived eleven years, and where he
was married to Miss Margaret Car
lisle on November 2.1, ls.Vi. He pur
chased his first land in Cass county in
1 but did not live on the place
until ISO, or even attempt toimprcve
it. His farm now consists of :;2oacies
of tine land. When they moved to
Cass county they began their pioneer
life in this comparatively new country.
Py energy and industry they secured
an abundance of prosperity. He is
survived by his wife and one sn.
LeRoy, who is better known as Lee.
He also has one sister, Mrs. Amanda
Foster, residing in Clearmont county,
Ohio, and one brother, M. Applegate,
whose home is in Montgomery county,
Iowa. He was a man who bore the
respect and confidence of all who
knew him.
The Journal regrets the sudden
death of Mr. Applegate, as he was a
staunch friend of this paper. The
last time we saw the old gentlemen
was in this office on the day of the
Woodmen picnic, and he seemed in
excellent spirits, and chatted very
freely and good humoredly.
MORE CHICKENS STOLEN
Thieves Get In Their Work Again Friday
Night.
This time they visit the home of
Mrs. C.Barron high school hill and
capture twenty-eight young Plymouth
Itock chicks. It is bad enough to
steal from those who are able to stand
such losses, but to take from a lady
who has to depend upon her own
labors for a living it is more than a
double crime.
From what Mrs. Parr stated to a
Journal reporter this morning she has
some idea who got the chickens, and
thinks of procuring a search warrant.
This chicken stealing is becoming of
almost nightly occurrence, and some
means should be established by w hich
the guilty ones could be detected and
then punished to the fullest extent of
the law.
In County Court.
The matter of Golden vs. Eggleston.
suit on foreign judgment for s.S-.j..
was tried and submitted to the court,
The case of Luft vs. Muster will be
tried today by jury. This is a matter
wherein Jacob Luft sues his daughter
Mrs. Muster to recover on a note
which he claims is past due. Mrs.
Muster claims that she was compelled
to sign the same by threats from her
father. This will be a very interest
ing case as there are many complica
tions between father and daughter.
In the first place Mr. Luft gave her
the property in which she and her hus
band reside, so it is claimed by Mr.
Luft. Of course Mr. Luft denies
the charge made by the daughter, and
claims that the daughter and her hus
band owe him borrowed money. It
seems to be one of these "family affair"
matters which had better been settled
outside the courts.
New Trial in Bridge Case.
Judge Wheeler on Friday ordered a
new trial in the celebrated Platts
mouth bridge case of the estate of
W. R. Webb against the Burlington
railroad.
This case was tried last spring and
the plaintiff was given $9,500 by the
jury. The amount sued for was $15
000. being for the death of Webb who
fell from the bridge and was killed.
It is down for trial for the coming
term and will be among the most
interesting cases to come up. Glen
wood (Iowa) Tribune.
Notice.
The annual meeting of "The Cass
County Farmers' Protective Associa
tion" will be held at Louisville, on
Saturday, October 1, at 2 o'clock p.
m., for the purpose of electing officers
for the ensuing year and transacting
such business as may come before the
meeting. All persons interested in
this association are requested to be
present. J. G. Mkisinei;. Sec.
Farm for Rent.
100 acre farm, 70 acres in cultivation
balance in pasture; well improved,
seven miles south of Plattsmouth on
Rock Creek." For further information
inquire at the farm.
THE BIG STORM
OF FRIDAY NIGHT
One of the Most Severe Experienced
Many Years.
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CONTINUOUS RAIN ALL NIGHT
The City Barely Escapes Another
tructive Flood.
Des-
MUCH DAMAGE DOSE IK THE COUNTRY
The storm which began last evening
about five o'clock, continued almost
incessantly throughout the entire
night. In the start the water de
scended in torrents and the business
men for the first half hour were very
uneasy on the Mood question, but
thanks to Him who guides such affairs
so far Plattsmouth has escaped any
such disastei, although in the vulgar
phrase sometimes used, we just "missed
it by the skin of the teeth." As it is,
a number of sidewalks were washed
out of place on the line in which most
of the waters rush down Main street.
The shops suffered some inconvenience
from water, and some of the employes
had to lay off today in consequence,
but no serious damage was done.
Barn Burns.
A large barn on the farm of Jacob
Vallery ( Prairie Jake as some know
him) was struck by lightning about 8
o'clock last evening and the building
destroyed. The barn was 40x00 and
contained several horses which were
gotten out. Among the articles burned
was a wheat binder, a nearly new corn
binder, a rubber tired road cart and
about 100 bushels of wheat. The re
port of the burning reached here about
it o'clock last night, but as Mr. Vallery
has one very large barn many thought
that was the one struck. It was the
oldest barn of the two, and was struck
by lightning about ten years ago,
while Mr. Vallery, Jake Hummel, Ed
Seiirler and two others were on the in
side: while they were all knocked
down lrom the shoclc, the barn was
not damaged to any great extent.
Mr. Vallery lives southwest of My
nard, and while the loss is quite severe
we understand he carries insurance in
the Platte Mutual.
The lightning Mashed and the thun
der roared during the entire night,
and Mr. Vallery was not the only
farmer in Cass county who lay asleep
with one eye open fearful of what the
next hour would bring forth.
Strikes Omaha.
Omaha received her share of the
storm, and in the language of the Bee
"It was a million-dollar rain marked
down to about two-six-bits."
Travel was greatly impeded by the
storm, although the trolley cars were
kept going back and forth on nearly
schedule time except for a short time.
Not many people ventured out, and
they were drenched in every instance,
for the wind and rain defied raincoat
and umbrella alike.
The unpaved streets suffered quite a
little from washouts. Excavations
for buildings were flooded, and quite a
little minor hurt was done in this
way. The telegraph lines to the east
of Omaha were seriously interrupted
at times by the lightning.
The roof of the building occupied by
the Dodge European hotel, Thirteenth
and Dodge streets, was almost entirely
blown off, and people occupying the
rooms of the hotel were compelled to
flee for their lives. The fire depart
ment was called, and the police put
up ropes around the building, as it is
feared the structure will collapse.
Large signs were blown down, the
court house was flooded and several
large buildings were struck by light
ning. Parties who arrived here on
this morning's trains say that it looked
bad for the metropolis for several
hours. But when the storm ceased
this morning the extent of the dam
ages was not as great as was expected.
Chief Fitzgerald Injured.
During the storm in Omaha, Joe
Fitzgerald, chief of police, who had
gone up to that city on the afternoon
train, was severely but not seriously
injured. lie bad backed himself up
against Pat Moran's saloon at Twelfth
and Douglas streets, to escape the
worst of the fury, when the plate
glass window was smashed in by the
wind. A heavy piece of glass struck
him on the top of the head, cutting a
I gash three inches long and completely
stunning him for a time. After the
I wound was patched up ho was accom
panied to a hotel where he remained
for several hours, returning home on
she paper train this morning. Joe
says there was a regular panic in and
around that vicinity of where lie was,
and for awhile it appeared as though
a cyclone had struck that section of
Omaha.
Other Casualties.
The Four-Mile creek was higher
than it was ever known to be, and the
bridge over the same on the Louisville
road was washed out.
Reports from various sections of the
county are to the effect that consider
able hail fell. In the Hennings neigh
borhood the leaves were cut from
many trees, but the com in each in
stance was unharmed.
Jt is rumored that quite a number
of small bridges were removed from
their settings by the sudden rising of
the small streams.
The heavy rain last night put the
Missouri Pacific road out of business
today. Between Julian and Paul 7."X)
feet of track was washed out at one
point.
RURAL ROUTE CARRIERS
A Growing Influence for Good
in the
Affairs of the Country.
Men went to the postotlice for their
own mail in Franklin's time, and went
often before the expected letter came.
-oi unni long alter j rankhn was
there free delivery, even in Phila
delphia, largest of American cities.
Rural delivery was not dreamed of,
not even in Franklin's broad philoso
phy. Our more than 200. ooo miles of
railroad mail routes and our nearly
700,000 miles of rural delivery routes
are things the production of which
Postmaster General' Franklin could
never have believed.
Thirty-three thousand mail carriers
daily riding a circuit of twenty miles
to deliver at the gates of farmers the
latest news of the world, along with
letters on which the ink is hardly dry,
is a proposition not so readily grasped
even in tin's age of big tilings in this
big country. But that was the num
ber of rural delivery routes in the
United States on September 1. Mis
souri had nearly 1,700 of them and
Illinois 2.'j')0, Kansas 1, ."On, Tennessee
and Texas about l,400 each. It will
not be long before the number of
routes is raised to 40.000, and the ser
vice will then still be in its infancy.
What stupendous proportions it will
take on when it shall cover all parts
of the country as completely as does
the rural mail delivery of GreatBritain
staggers imagination.
The standard for a rural delivery
route is 100 families, and that number
may be taken as an average, though
some routes have only eighty-five,
while the maximum runs to Io0. Thus
we have 3,:)00,000 families served by
the rural carriers, and counting five to
a family we have 50.100,000 people re
ceiving mail from the rural carriers.
That is seven or eight times as many
as there were in all the, colonies when
Franklin was postmaster general.
The rural mail route is a great pro
motor of good country roads. The
daily round of the carrier breaks the
monotony of lonely farm life and
brings the farmer and the town man
closer together in a way that is good
for both.
Cut Her Hand.
Mrs. S. M. Chapman had the mis
fortune to cut her right hand between
the thumb and forefinger Friday night
severing a small artery. The blood
flowed quite freely, notwithstanding
Dr. Cook was summoned as soon as
possible. It took several stitches to
close the wound, and while the cut is
pretty severe it is healing very nicely.
The Journal hopes it will not give her
much trouble.
Song of Autumn.
The melancholy days are come, the
saddest of the year, but punkin pies
will soon be ripe, and therefore I don't
kear. The rustling corn must hurry
up, the frost i on its track, and soon
we'll feel the chilling breeze, so says
the almanic. The frightened rabbit
scurries oil and hides down in the
stubble, for when he hears the sports
man's gun he knows there'll soon be
trouble. The wary quail has timid
grown and pipes her gentle warning,
the winds from misty dells begins to
chill us in the morning. The land is
lit with golden rod and there in purple
glory the regal asters lift their heads
and tell the wind their story. The
canned fruit has been put away and
packed down in the cellar; the good
old summer time is past, the year is
growing meller.
LOOKING BACKWARD
TWENTY-FOUR YEARS
Construction of the Missouri Pacific Rail
road at Louisville.
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Robertson's Hap
py Bridal Trip.
( l!y jx riiiKsl'.ii frinii .1 u.ltr.- It.unx y liUt.n l-
The Louisville correspondence of the
Daily I'lattsmouth Journal or date,
Iecember27th. 11:
"The construction engine of the Mis
souri I'acitic railroad now booms over
the new bridge at. this place. hauling
large quantities of ties, iron and
bridge material for the railroad in
Sarpy county.
"The well here for the Missouri I'a
citic caved in a few days ago, and the
contractors tilled up the "sliding
chasm" and commenced in a new place.
The well will be completed in a few
days. Jt is predicted t hat in a few
weeks at the farthest the construction
train will awaken the echoes in the
valley of Minneboohoo, and real estate
in Weeping Water will take another
boom.
"Owing to limited hotel and board
ing house accommodations, the Mis
souri Pacific railroad was compelled to
erect a large house for the accommo
dation of its employes.
"Louisville has eighty scholars en
rolled in her public school, with about
fifty more who are not attending, and
the school house only large enough to
accommodate about forty pupils.
"The matrimonial market mingled
eight hearts into four on the 22nd at
and near Louisville: and it is surmis
ed that ere the spring flowers bloom,
others will imitate the commingling
scheme.
"Our esteemed and valued friend,
Mr. Frank Fetzer, who was duly in
stalled a Benedict on the 22nd, lias set
tled down in married life in his new
and beautiful home on Walnut street.
"The young and some of the old
tripped the "light fantastic" at Mr.
(ssonkop's hall on the night of the 2;.
There is no sa'oon in Louisville yet
for two days. A quart ette or holiday
celebratists have immensely applaud
ed Christmas and nrosnective New-
Year's day: it is siinnos'-d that "Slo-
cum Water." vitalized by some of
Finch's venom, did the unhallowed
work. o arrests, oiiiccrsall absent.
"Mr. and Mrs. James M. Robertson
are now absent on a short bridal trip:
they will return in a week or two and
Mr. Robertson will immediately as
sume the management of W. II. J'..
Stout's extensive hoarding house.
"The unwarranted and brutal as
sault upon the editor of The Journal
by John B. Finch, is universally con
demned by the people of Louisville arid
surrounding country. Temperance
people say that Finch has injured the
cause of temperance by this wanton
act of law-breaking and his imitation
of the bully.
"Notwithstanding the immensity of
mud crop, the streets of Louisville are
daily lined with farmers' teams and
the storekeepers are. correspondingly
happy. One hundred per cent more
merchandise is now soid in Louisville
than ever before."
The Way to Do It.
No city of size and enterprise should
be without a committee, even if there
is but one on it, to see that "the
stranger within the gates" worthy it
be welcomed and shown the residence
and business attractions. The dispo
sition is too often "to take him in" to
his immediate sorrow and occasionally
lasting regret. Our citizens could
profitably employ some one of integ
rity, courtesy and good judgment to
get busy with the visitor here in the
right way.
Said to be Improving.
Later reports from Ernest K. Mc
Clain, the young man who was stabbed
last Friday in Minnesota, an occount
of which appeared in Monday's Jour
nal, is to the effect that the young
man is improving and in a fair way of
recovery. He received two stabs, one
in the stomach and one in the hip,
and it took three and live stitches to
close the wounds. As soon as he is
able he will return to his home in
Omaha.
Married at the Court House.
ICarly Friday morning Judge Travis
was called upon to unite in marriage
at his office Mr. Fred Myers, aged 37.
of Oswego, N. Y., and Mrs. Millard
Fraker, of Bellevue, Neb. After se
curing the proper credentials to double
up, the Judge soon made them hus
band and wife, and they took their de
parture as happy as two mating doves
in the early spring time.
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