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The Plattsmouth Journal l'i:UMHKl WKKKLY AT jlMTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA i: A. I'.ATIX lViiUsiiKi:. . I". t.-r. l :it llir )-.t.!:t.--.it Pl;itt.Iiiuth. Nf-tr;i-kt. us s'CiiiilrLiM m:itl r. A Missouri paper remarks that "Aunt Aim Ilaskins liril four doz en fresh eggs freeze on her one day list week." Which naturally causes an exchange to rise to the query. "Ibuvcold was Ann?" In an address at Jamestown, Kd itor Xoyes.of the Washington Star, said: "Theodore Roosevelt is a steam engine working always under high prcsure." True enough, but even though the engine has no safety valve there is no danger in the presure, considering the size of the whistle. Stinging amenities are occasion ally exchanged between America's prominent and influential news papers. This from the Nashville American is the latest: "Haywood calls Orchard 'the greatest liar of the twentieth century. ' 'Think what a resident was lost in Haywood- Boston Transcript. And think what a President was lost in Orch ard?" "Mk. Rooskvki.t spent Thursday looking over his hay crop and in specting his new barn." This iter.! of intelligence universally dissem inated puts the great metropolitan journals on a news level with their j small rural coinpetiors who chroni the barn-building atd fenc painting of the Ily Joneses and I thankful for a Riorous summer of peace if nothing more startling comes from Oyster Bay. From the sourcvafour strenuous and strig ent out, no :iew - is tcd vrably good i.ews. Onk could scarcely bhnne Mr. Br i-j for being opposed to a third term for President Roosevelt. He evidently wants to be a cine: r liini'.-It and realizes that he v. st ::; ! n show of election with ?. . R' is' v!t in the field against him . PI .;r-::muth Xews. If the editcr of our contemporary would stop his js il:n singing. leader of Sunday J w Onool a snort time r.e v';'d learn better than attempt to,ra mislead his readers by publishing i: :h rt a the above. Not that e do :ir,t Vliv.-e in church ar.d Sui.d.iv sch'j'.l work, because we I ll). b:it we do object to a ma: c. iug to be .di that is ko:;e.t and pure : in th.e above. Mr. Brvan is onnos-; ed to a third term for any president: he is opposed to a second term, but i would make one term sufficient for In his last address he anv man. mail th fact very prominent. Nebraska Citv News. j Philadelphia preacher has I just resigned after ripping his con gregation up the shirtwaist for wanting nothing but mollycoddling from the pulpit. His parishioners wanted his trousers always properly creased and his facial lines less harsh and forbidding. The minis ter took for his text, '"We Have Piped Unto You and Ye Have Not Danced: We Have Mourned Unto You and Ye Have Net Lamented," and he sailed into what he was pleas ed to call his church "a bridge whist coterie a pink tea party." After telling them that they wanted only such a pastor as was neutral and decorative, a ministry puncti lious, that tiptoes gently and gra ciously at 4 o'clock teas and smiles benignly at bridge whist tables a ministry whose pulpit utterances ha e quality of what is known by country people as "fox fire," a pale glimmer, the product of decayed wood, he resigned and quit. His analysis of the religion of his peo ple made two of the bridge-playing sisters tilt their Quaker noses into the staid air of the City of Brother ly Love and march out the door. Altogether it was the most exciting episode p'jHe'rofF in Philadelphia since Reformer Weaver was "caught with the goods". Prosperity and the Broken Rail. It is no unsubstantial vision which disturbs the masters of rail road transportation in this country when they observe the frequent leakage of rails under heavy trains and the multiplication of wrecks due to that cause. Indeed, safety of travel and trans portation is seriously menaced by the poor quality of many of the rails turned out by American foundreis. James J. Hill lays it alltotco much prosterity. The Dingley tariff gives the American mills a monopoly of the American market, and Mr. Hill says they are trying to make too much money. They are working too hard and trying to do too much. The old rails made when times Were slower and the tariff on rails, and all other things made of steel, was lower give much better service. The only remedy is to relieve the rail mills of some of their excessive work and give them time to make good rails iike they used to do. If the tariff on rails was reduced from $7 a ton to S3 or $4, the gov ernment would get more revenue from it, the roads could buy Knglish or German rails when not satisfied with the American article, and the American mills would still have the protection they can justly expect. The artificial prosperity of the Dingley tariff puts a premium on cheap and hasty work in other in dustries besides rail making. It com pels the American consumer to take what lie cat; get instead of getting what he wants; and it forces him to pay two prices for the products of the cheap and hasty work which j it encourages. In mentioning poor rails as a jU of too much prosperity Mr Hill gives only a sample of what is going on. With a better tariff we should have real prosperity, rails that wouldn't break and oar mon ey's worth in every purchase of a factory product. Nd Candidate Selected, j It is useless and suicidal to name! a presidential candidate more than a vearinadvaf.ee of the convention! at which he is to be first agreed ::p"n and nominated. A candidate tti run himst'f out of breath, like r :ce horse in too many false starts. '. putting one up to be criticised ... : shot at bv the enemy for a ear before the convention ihurv. kens him when the actual - "e c off. in:- - -'.own in the campaign V; Mr. Bryan was the rretd - r months and months jbeb. i'..- vein ion met, and of t.- rhusiasm for -him i m; - ::;c - burned the hearts of his :t most difficult - ! nrtisanship for ! friends who ! t0 J'tep one man up to fitter or eighteen 'noutns Ir. Bran mav or s: not be the Democrat president!; candidate in j 19 OS. That he is almo.-t i :d is not j to be questioned, but that u will be j either wise or expedient to name him as the standard-bearer would not now be admitted by th- distin guished Nebaskau himself. Kan sas Citv Post. Secretary Wilson's explaua ion of the recent rise in beef on the public's increased consumption of fine sirloin steaks is doubtless very plausible, but those of us who haven't been getting the choice cuts will regard it as a bum steer. Senator Tillman says that "Harriman should be in h lb" He would probably organize things upon the basis of water, extinguish the fires and unseat his satanic ma jesty. The American spirit pre vails wherever there is an inviting field. And now Henry Watterson dips in an oar to help make fun of the mimic war for the Roosevelt nom ination for the presidency: "The Chicago Inter-Ocean has discover ed that the Cannon boom is caus ing the Taft forces great alarm. And Mr. Taft had a stomach ache the other day four times as big as the Cannon." Let us hope that the administra tion will not touch off the Powder Trust before the glorious Fourth. The president has begun deny ing the statement of newspapers. If he permits the habit to grow on him the Ananias Club will have to make room for a large editorial department. Skckktaky or A;Ricrj rrKi: Wilson said in his Decoration day address that 72 per cent of our for eign exports come from the farm. To complete the statement he should have added that on this 72 per cent the farmers do not realize one cent of protection for the reason thaf they are exporters, not importers. If this truth once dawns on the minds of the farmers the protection wall will be razed to the ground. Thk Toledo Blade is not as en thusiastic over the girl graduate as itsnearneighbor andsays so: "Plant a college girl down in a kitchen, give her a cook book and set her to making any dish in the index and she'll succeed," remarks the Cleve land Leader. You can bet on it that she will succeed in getting out of the kitchen unless the windows are bar red and the doors fastened with a Vale lock. A woman philosopher announces that she lias solved the servant question. Here is her simple recipe: "Treat your servant as a member of the family; have her eat at the same table with ycu; take her to the theatre; introduce her to your guests ; make her one of yourselves . ' ' We will guarantee that a want ad in the Journal offering these induce ments will bring prompt returns. Tin: Columbus (O.) Press-Post has the whole Ananias club bested in defiance of and contempt for Nicholas Longworth's father-in-law: "Henry James' new book, the 'Prevaricator,' is announced for an early appearance. What if he should dedicate it to President Roosevelt?" Oyster Bay will now churn inself into a perfect fury and the waves of rough-riding indignation will pile mountain high on the tariff-bound coast. As predicted, RoosKvelt broke cut yesterday. This time it was in a letter to the public land conven tion at Denver and was read by Secretary Garfield during his de fence of the administration's land policy. He indirectly consigned whole regiments of men, mostly Republicans' who think him insin cere in square deal with settlers up on the public lands, to the Ananias class and lauds himself and "my policy" to the seventh heaven of stand pat righteousness. It is amusing to notice the antics of Republican politicians on the tariff issue. Those who are talking revision are very loath to say how much reform they favor and when Congress should act. They, all however revionists and standpatter, agree that nothing can be done by the Congress to meet next Decem ber and that any thought of tariff tinkering must be postponed until ufter after March 4th, 1909. This procrastination is an indication of how little real reform the people may expect at the hands of a Re publican Congress. "Why damn the railroads and praise the tariff?" asks the Boston Inter-Nation, which it also answers as follows: "Because the people have not yet asserted themselves. What luckless fate was it that turn ed the fury of the public against the railroads, while allowing the tariff to go sccot free? Could anything more clearly demonstrate the fickle ness of the people? And why this supineness of the president? I le at least has intelligence. Nearly a quarter of a century ago his eyes weie opened to the horrid injustice of the tariff. In the early days of his political activity he used to de clare his repugnance to the discrim inating tariff schedules; he even went so far as to publish broadcast that rather than condone the in iquities which he perceived, he would retire from public life. If there is one subject which he under stands better than the railroads, it is the tariff. Why then, does he sulk in his tent when the uestion of tariff revision raised? The laws enacted by the legisla ture will all be in force fter the first of next month. If you blow yourself up with gasoline out of a can that is not painted red after that time, you can make trouble for your grocer as soon as you come down. Postmasters will have a job on their hands after July 1. At that time they have to begin weighing all mail sent out, keeping each class separate and have to do this until Dec. 31 . Orders to this effect were recently received from the postal department. With a transcontinental line in this country, the Standard Oil Company virtually completes a cir cle of the earth with its own rail roads, which means owning the world with not merely one, but two, barbed-wire fences around it. When John D. Rockefeller vio lated the speed limit in his automo bile last week, he was arrested and fined just like any common million aire. It is a glorious tribute to the law, which is no respecter of pur ses, that it treats the poor million aire and the rich millionaire pre cisely th.e same. W. J. Bryan's daughter, Ruth, and Governor Sheldon's son. Law son, were each honored by having bab- elephants with John Robin son's show named for them. The children were taken to see the babies at the show in Lincoln last .Saturday afternoon, and then the little elephants were christened "Ruth" and "Lawson." Local surgeons in Kansas City are to remove a boy's tonsils on the theory that they cause his evil disposition. The ancient Romans believed that the seat of love was in the liver, but no stern parent ever caused the removal of this or gan of his daughter's anatomy as a means to prevent ah elopement. The Standard Oil is to have a rail way from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. It is already rumored that they have a string of federal judges from coast to coast and from Canada to Mexico. If both these rumors be true, then it is high time the governmental doxology was be ing sung. But you cannot believe everything you hear. Maybe they do not own the federal judges. Alarmists of the country inter preted the sudden departure of three American battlleships last Wednes day for Southern drill grounds as bearing on the Japanese question, that is causing some anxiet in offi cial circles just at present. It is intimated that the departure of the ships is reall- due to the recommen dations of the Navy Board for the mobilization of a big fleet on the Pacific Coast. When Uncle Sam purchased the Philippine Islands of Spain, he bought them subject to grief. The grief is coming, in fact, we have had it right along. The possession will probably lose us most of our commerce with Japan and China, in fact, with the entire east. Such things as cannot be purchased else where will be taken from the United States, but under protest. As the baseball season ad vances the excitement is growing intense down east. An umpire who decid ed a game against a New Haven club for the reason that the pitcher kept greasing the ball, thereby making it impossible to make a fair hit, was beaten to death, and the captain and pitcher of the other team were severely batted for trying to defend him. Under proper pro motion, baseball may be made as exciting as football. Thkre is now $1S5,000,000 of government money ' on deposit in national banks without interest The interest on this sum at 5 per cent, would be $9,250,000: and this amount measures the bonus, or sub sidy, which the federal government annually bestows upon the bankers as a class. True, it is a small sum in comparison with what it allows the tariff-sheltered trusts to steal from the people, but it is neverthe less an outrage and a swindle, per petrated to gain support for the party in power. itgn mm 'A : ! AcGelablcPrcparationrorAs f j siniilatiP.gtl'.crcodarulRcula- luig the 5 tcmaxha and Dowels of PrcTT-Oies Piestion.Chcerful-nessru-d r ".Contains neither Opium line nor Mineral. Not a.uicotic. r l tlx.S'nna - ': m?ifi -i'.'m SirJ - Ancifoct nemcdy forConstlpa on. Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea. Verms .Convulsions .Fever i sh i.ess end Loss of Sleep. Tr: l'::-:'' Signature cf NEV,r YOHK. Thk Cheyenne Indian who was refused an aiulien.ee at Oyster 15. iv after coining all the way from North DaKOta for the purpose of a pipe with the Apostle ot Peace will i hit the homeward trail with reflec-, tions tingWl by doubt When the uieai i-uiner iei:eges on iuc mu.u-i i t ... l .1. '. rt ffc,, nc.- ,.Kt1,(. tv-.t h.-. is not running to succeed himself liven so, a Cheyenne enn't voe .i EXACT COPY 07 VEAPFEB. v! anyhow. head. Thi.s c:.u.-e-l l:ii!!uc-ii:atior.s. and Mr. Waiter thought that he Lad fallen IT is rumored that Dan 1 1 anna ; ht.;r t the pleasant city of Greenwood son of Mark, twice divorced and j and pro-.-eded to reconstruct the govern again "on the carpet, " is to be mar- ment. and administered the "oaths," rinrl.u, A,v,x- mfnKt.-r, or averse to performing such ceremon- les it is given cut mat a rxuvatmn Armv officer will tie the knot ... . . . , i . , which is neither hard nor Gordiau. They do things differently in Ohio from any other place on earth and Pittsburg had best look to her sooty laurels. , .a, c A K3Ce fOr the Tram The woes of the suburbanite, especi ally that portion of it which is the mak ing of the early train into the city by some of our outlying resident?, who in a vain endeavor try to make the early morning train to the metropolis. This morning we witnessed a race, for the privilege of seeing the sights in the city on a rainy day. Two young women, im peded by the habiliments of the sex, raced down Main street within a few moments of the departure of the train. In their eager haste, the persperation stood out in great drops on their lovely brows, and their breath came in short, spasmodic gasps. All the way down Main street they were encouraged by the merry calls of the onlookers, who shouted, "Hurry, or you'll miss the train." And hurry they did, for they moved like a Kansas tornado running an hour and a half late and trying to make up the time. Allow us to say, dear reader, for the twenty-sixth time that earlv Burlington train leaves at seven o clock s harp. Bert Barber, cf ElUn, V. is., fay "I have only taken four doses of your Kidney and bladder Pills and they have dene for me more tharj any other medicine has riore I am stiil tafcn g the pibs as I w?.i,l a perfect, cure. Mr. Birher refers to DdWitfs kidney and bladder pills, which are un mju1 ed for backache, weak kidnevs. in U immation of the hladd r aud all urin ary troubles A weeks t rear merit for lor -z. Sulci hv. F. G Fricke & C N. C. DelesDernier of Nehawka. was j Farmers, mechanics, railroaders, la in the city today and paid this office a 1 borers rely on Ih Thomas's Ilclectric pleasant call, and made the printer j Oil. Takes the sting out of c uts, burr.s happy by a continuance of the paper : or bruises at once. Pain cannot stay which goes from this office. eg Scc ff i EizilFan etrenrjthens enfeebled A --cLh-irj hy i - era ?8 nerve fcrc It T-.r-v-r-hr, Ii-ihy with the necessary fat nd x:i:n-r. '-. c i fcr healthy growth. 3 Y71 M 1 1 i jo) 111 For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years M JUL TMC CCNTAUH (OlinMf, NtW 0 CITY. J BECAME TO GAY j j, y fo Think uvcr ms Hallucinations in Running; a Town j Tlx- H"tf! .Manspeake;- n-. o-ivu! :t new K();:r.c" th:-; morr.iiv' f ro::i (irtc::v.'iii(I. : in th ot v alter eisenmc-yor, who r;a.l the rrnslorUni.- t' get . c -e ol corn i.:;'.e down his i.et k, which would i not stav and earne ur and went ii.t hi: I that U threw them around .roir.i.ou.-dy on every hand. Uncle I. .). And: ,:.-, a man well advanced in rears, but of th i tVpe ti1Ht vA, n,;i,lC. Ar.-er.-a fa;r.o: j her hatl'.e field.-?, ar.d v.hom the vi maoe .1 f: ev.-a la;r.o'j in ; i . had ask to represent them as t! eir city ' marshal, asked YV"j-C'nn.ever r.'.t to j get so gay. Sir Walter said that v.o old I man could tell him what to tl-- ar.d. what r.ottoL. Then immediately was c-!- ; acted a reproduction of the buttle of I the sea of Jaj.-.u. with Sir Walter Weis,- enmever tal th . of PoU sf. en. sky ar.d a oard with the result ab.,vc recorded, bili of line and cost of S:7."" t" out at the county jail. 'Generally debilitated for car sick headaches, lacktd ambiti r Hud was worn out and. n run-dwm Burdock Blood Bitters made me a we'.! woman." -Mrs. ( has. Freit.y. Moos-.:;., O.r.n. Settle Question Thursday Will J. Stadiemar.:-. was in. the city over night, a guest of Mr. ar.d Mrs. T. E. Parmele. at their r.ew home. While here Mr. Stad.'eman said that the ap plication for h franchise, for the tele phone exchange, which he has asked of the city dads of Norfolk, will come up for its third reading and passage on r.ext Thursday. It is then that the people of that place will take a step in advancement or conclude to be and re main behind the times. In the matter of the equipment and the ability of the Nebraska telephone com;. any to furnish adequate service, we do not question, but from experience we know they do not do it. Not only has the Indepen dent telephone companies which have, during the last few years, occupied the telephone field, furnished better ser vice but tley have been instrumental in the lowering of the rates as well. In the matter in hand the city of Nor folk could do ri .thing better for her wel fare than to grant the franchi-e asked for by Mr. Stadieman. nor make a big ger mistake than by refusing the Fame. i where it is used. m- crea - lng their flesh and CAST A 8 a. 11. 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