The Plattsmoufh Journal -
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R. A. BATES,
Entered at the I'ostolfice at I'lattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-clas
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY,
.j.
Wisdom i.s knowing what
4 to do iifxl ; Skill is knowing
I how lo do it, and Virtue is
J doing it. David Starr Jor
4 dan.
V
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Statement No. 1 works like a
charm in Nebraska.
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California posters showing the
bonndries winter ought to he re
vised. ! :o:
The Commercial eluh banquet
lias been postponed lo Thursday,
February 0.
Our ice merchants are still en
gaged in putting up a fair quality
-of the article.
:o:
Tt will soon bo ground-hog day
February 2 I hen we will know
all about the matter.
, :o:
Don't kick about a lack of op
portunity; one is fairly sure of
market prices for the goods de
livered. :o:
Unlike the well known tariff,
derby, hats should be revised up
ward, even if it requires an extra
session,
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Kaster comes suspiciously early
this year. Probably trying to get
under the wire before the millin
ers' trust can get in I heir work.
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Boulh Omaha stands a good
show of gelling their poslofilco
back. There was no necessity for
ils suspension in Ihe first place.
:o:
The clamor for an inaugural
ball 1'rcsidenLelccl Wilson
doesn't seem lo heed. He says
"no," and lit; is of I hat sort that
means what be says.
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Senator Smith of Seward says
the express companies doing busi
ness in Nebraska ought lo pay an
occupation tax. Evidently Sen
ator Smith is no respecter of
porgon.
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The personal presentation of
Ihe goods will always be Ihe best
way to make a sale. There are
just as many traveling men on the
road today as ever, and then some;
so don't worry about the mail
order house, hut gel in personal
touch wilh your Irade. Omaha
Trade Kxhibit.
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A person who would 'steal
chickens from a newspaper man
is too mean to even go to h 1,
but that will surely be his destina
tion when he passes from earth.
We have lost seven in Ihe past two
weeks and we would givo a live
dollar note lo see Iho color of the
man's hair who swiped Ihem.
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Here is another method of
computing interest on any nuin-j
bcr of dollars al G per cent which
. appears simple. Multiply any
given number of dollars by the
number of days of interest de
sired, separate the right hand
figure, and divido ly six, tho re
sult is tho truo interest for such
sum for such uumber of days at
0 per cent. This rule is so simplo
and so true, according to all busi
ness uses, that every banker,
broker, merchant or clerk 6hould
post it up for reference. There
being no such thing a3 a fraction
in it, there is scarcely any liability
to error or mistake. By no other
arithmetical process can tho de
sired information bo obtained bv
so few figures.
Plattsmouth, Nebraska c
Publisher.
Almost any legislator can in
troduce resolutions.
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Have you had Ihe grippe yet? 'I
be in style you must have it.
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A bill has been introduced in
the legislature providing for the
registration of bloodhounds.
Some fellow member who perhaps
is fishing for a little notoriety,
thought this a good way to get it.
Some fellow has introduced a
bill in the legislature to protect
coons. Well, as they are thinning
out rapidly the residents along
the Missouri might favor a few
months' protection to coons as
well as 'possum.
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Says a satirical paragrapher:
"The best Wall street authorities
feel that the commercial fabric
will safely pass through the pres
ent crisis unless someone should
upset everything by inadvertently
mentioning the ten command
ments. :o:
At Los Angeles a woman 105
years of age was tho concurring
applicant for a licenso to wed, the
groom being 80 years old. The
dispatch did not relate that they
were married, though it was in
dicated that the sweet young thing
would live long enough to do so,
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Representative Lobeck is a true
believer in the Jacksonian man
ner of dishing out Ihe offices. In
his comment on Congressman
Stephens' primary plan of select
ing postmasters, said: "No elec
tion of postmasters for me. I am
willing lo assume the responsi
bility of any appointments I have
to make."
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The honest farmer i.s now given
opportunity prove his honesty,
which vaudeville jokers have
dared lo question. If stale eggs
or rancid butler should ever reach
an ultimate consumer by parcel
post, direct iron) tne nonest
iarmer ana wunout tne uuerven-
i Mil I II 1 1
lion oi me middleman, our nes.-
loved city tradition would get a
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In a proclamation of Head Con-
sul Talbot of Ihe Modern Wood-
men of America, announcement is
made of (he definite decision of
me execuiivc council, nt us meet-
ing al Rock Island, Illinois, to
suspend Ihe new rales adopted at
the last national convention, held
in Chicago, until after the meet
ing of the head camp in 11)14.
This means no further effort will
be made lo enforce Ihe new rale
Th
business of raising and dis-
trihuling farm products in this
country is literally al sixes and
sevens. It costs !?7 to distribute
$5 worth of goods. The depart1
ment of agriculture has proved
that out of every !5L1 which con-
. .
sumers pay for farm products, the
farmer gels (.nly ?t), while various
middlemen who come between Kind thoughts are as much an
farmer and consumer, gels $7. asset as honesty. A iwrrow-
:o: minded man is loo selfish to be
Neglected children, whoso par- kind. He kind to aged people, for
cuts aro proper guardans, but they will not bo here very long,
financially unable to provide a liv- So, also, be kind to the young for
ing for their offspring, can remain they will be here a longtime,
at homo and still have tho expense Your kindness will bo more ap
of their keep paid by county predated than your gold, because
boards, under tho provision of a
bill introduced by Senator Robert-
son of Holt county. Tho measure
is an amendment to tho statute rc-
latingr to tho matter of caring for
dependent and neglected children,
The stale charities association is
supporting the measure and will
endeavor lo secure its passage at
the present session.
I Bicsed is the man who is too
lazy to worry.
Funny how a woman who f.ms
a mouse can blulT a man.
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The Commercial club must
steer clear of personal scraps if
it would succeed as it should.
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A man who has not sense
enough to attend to his own busi
ness should be learned not lo tres
pass upon oilier people's rights..
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Here's hoping that Helen Gould
got as good a husband as the
world believes she deserves.
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If you wish to rise with the sun,
do not sit up too tote with the
daughter
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And there are other balls, be
sides the inaugural ball, that
could just as well be omilted.
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Don't forget the date of the
fiddlers' contest Tuesday, Feb
ruary 4th. Come an enjoy th-)
fun.
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President-elect Wilson will re
main governor of New Jersey un
til March 3, and the next day will
commence his duties as president
of the United States.
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There is a $50,000 deficiency at
the state penitentiary, created by
the Aldrich administration. Gov
ernor Morcheau asks an ap
propriation by the legislature to
liquidate the deficiency.
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The legislatures of South Da
kota, Idaho and a few olher
states, which have been slow in
adopting the Oregon pkm for the
election of United States senators,
are now in turmoil and deadlocks
over senatorial contests, with re
sultant expense running into the
thousands of dollars and pos
sibilities for corruption and
gcan(jaj
After looking into the mailer
carefully. the judge advocate gen
eral of Ihe army has decided that
goals may be purchased to eat the
tall grass on military posts as a
preventive of the breeding of mos
quitoes and of ('luggers also in
some slates. This seems an ex
cellent way of gelling t In; grass
cut where there was a disposition
() avoid the
fatigue of using a
lawn mower.
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p Qwrga 13. Ilalmcs, who has
bocn making an investigation for
n,0 government into the high cost
of living, declares that the man
complaining of high prices should
stop his grieving and buy at lower
prices. This would seem to bo
p0or comfort, but tho investigat
0r adds that it can bo done by co
operative buying and buying . in
larger bulk rather than in small
and fancy packages. Will tho
question now bo settled?
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There is no power on earth that
draws iikc ine power oi Kinnness.
Kind thoughts lead you to kindly
acts and kindly acls make life-
,m(J n-itMids for you. Many a man
thul has spoken kindly lo another
has been defended by the other,
although he may never llnd it out.
Kind thoughts are good for your
heallh. They may not cure
loolh-ache nor keep you from get-
ting fal, but Ihey givo you a good
rich feeling around the heart
it will never givo out. To a man
who has kindness in his heart,
everything looks good. In this
big, lonesomo world, both in tho
cities and in tho farm houses, can
bo found many hearts that aro
pining for kind words. If you
know of such people, go lo thorn
A seed of.kindness dropped thcro
will spring up a flower.
As Ions as a grafter promises
you more than you have a r'hl lo
expect there isn't miieh excuse for
gelling stung.
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A bill should be introduced in
the legislature to increase the size
of eggs, if (heir present price is
lo be continued.
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We are going to hear .1 lot
about the I arid' from now until
the time of its final revision, but
tln.t isn't positive evidence that
you will learn all about it; no one
has, as yet. i
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The free meat proposition of
the democratic congress sounds
good to the laboring people, who
have to have this luxury, high or
low. And it hits the right chord
with many others.
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There are several thankless
jobs in the broad field of human
endeavor, but the genllen;.in who
wants lo tell you a few unpleas
ant truths has the greatest
cinch on that line of work.
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The legislature is going slow
on appropriation bills. It looks
now as if considerable cutting
and slashing will be done. Money
should be appropriated for the
necessary expenses of the state
institutions, with no lips for the
ginflers.
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The representatives who at
tended the good roads conven
tion in Lincoln this week fully
realized Ihe ability and worth of
ex-Senator Itanntng, of this coun
ty, when they elected him presi
dent of I heir association. Mr.
Banning holds good in any posi
tion he may be placed.
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The state bank guaranty fund
i.s now $7C(),27r.5(, which insures
every depositor against loss in
case of a bank failure. Not a
bank has failed since the guaranty
fund was established. This money
is distributed among the hanks in
the stale so that no bank feels Ihe
lost of Ihe money if pays inlo the
fund.
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A physician's certificate as lo
Ihe fitness for marriage and pub-
ication of the proposed license
five days prior lo the ceremony
are made requisites to a legal
marriage by the terms of two bills
introduced in the lower house of
the Nebraska legislature. And a
)ill of this nature should be pass
ed by both branches without a dis
senting voice.
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Every business man in Plaits-
nioulh, and every other citizen
who has the best interests of our
city at heart, should attend the
Commercial club banquet on
Thursday evening, February 6.
Not only should Ihey attend this
banqeut, but on that night, if they
fail to do so before, be prepared
lo enroll their names as members
of the club. In this way you can
give aid anu encouragement to
those who have already accom
pli'.hed so much for our city in
the past, and desire to continue
Iho good work with ihe opening of
Ihe coming season
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Doubtless the inventor of the
pupcr towel was a champion of
sanitation and a friend of tho
paper trust. But there is room
for criticism as anyone will ad
mit who has finished his ablutions
by tho aid of blotting paper. Tho
paper towel absorbs the moisture,
but is too delicato also to bo used
for polishing off dirt of long
standing, and therefore will never
bo ropular in the homo where
small boys dwell, and wash with
as great economy of soap and
water as possible. It may do for
hotels and other places where one
doesn't expect the comforts of
homo, but it can never become
popular in a printing office where
a towel is expected to stand on its
own merits of continuous service.
It may mark tho onward inrch of
progress, but it doesn't fill r !.,ag
felt want.
Let harmony prevail and the
elub will thrive and prosper.
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Governor Mmehead proceeds
slowly but cautiously in his ap
pointments. And we believe be is
pursuing the proper course.
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Norfolk boasts of a girl with
the heart orf the right side of the
body. The hearts of all the;
Plallsinoulh girls are on the right
side.
All the new governors favor
good roads. The main trouble has
always been that so many of the
advocates are waiting for some
body else lo pay for them.
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Every democratic member of
the legislature is pledged to
economy. Then they should
"fire" amout half of the employees
of that body. In the clerical force,
at least.
Of all the rich women in the
country, Mrs. Helen Gould-Shep-ard
is best loved, because of her
many good deeds. And she found
a way to do them without wailing
for women's suffrage.
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When we look around and see
Hie senatorial deadlocks we get
a little idea of how progressive
Nebraska really is. It is, as we
have more than once pointed out,
foremost in that particular.
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A Massachusetts man who lived
lo be 87, credited his life-long
health to a habit of eating four
quarts of molasses a week. If it
was the genuine old-fashioned
inaplo syrup the system was not
so bad.
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It looks as though the twenty
day limit for introducing bills in
the legislature is by no means go
ing to cut down by one-half the
number formerly introduced when
the limit was fixed at forty days
4
There will be about an equal num.
ber of foolish bills to be chloro
formed or bludgeoned at the
last.
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The people of Nebraska have
their eyes upon the work in the
legislature. They are all in
terested in the expenditure of
money, and they aro directly op
posed to extravagant appropria
tions. Cut out grafting and al
low only what money is essential
ly needed to pay the legitimate
running expenses of the state in
stitutions. :o:
Platlsmoulh is one of the most
law-abiding cities of its size in
Nebraska, and- this paper is
pleased to note this fact. Of
course there are a few people in
every town who cannot get along
without endeavoring to create a
turmoil, but generally most of
that class are here today and there
homorrow. Such fellows can't run
the town, and they liud just as
well come to that conclusion first
as last.
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Running in several hundred
federal appointments on the eve
of going out of office is an indica
tion that President Taft would hog
all the good things for republicans
and have Ihe holders lo remain in
until Ihe close of President Wil
son's term of office. But it is not
probable the senate will permit
such a wholesale scoop, without a
protest and one that will make
Ihe senate ring in condemnation
of Taft's audacity.
For years J. S. Donahue, So.
Haven. Mich., a civil war captain,
as a light house keeper, averted
aw ful wrecks, but a queer fact is,
he might have been a wreck, him
self, if Electric Bitters had not
prevented. "They cured me of
kidney trouble and chills," he
writes, "after I had taken other
so-called cures for years, without
benefit, and they also improved my
sight. Now, at seventy, I am
feeling fine." For dyspepsia, in
digestion, all stomach, liver and
kidney troubles, they're without
equal. Try them. Only 50 cenls
at F. G. Fricke it Co.
Thomson, Dentltt, Wescott Blk.
CONVERTING SOULS.
Billy Sunday has opened a cam
paign in Columbus whereby he
hopes to snatch most of the resi
dents in the Ohio capital as
brands from the burning. Billy
frankly says that this is not done
without expense. Last year it
cost $C2i to convert one soul in
Indianapolis. In Boston they fell
much cheaper, since the beaneat-
ers fell to the game for $505 each.
New York was a little better; $545
was sufficient to rescue the sons
of old Knickerbocker from the
dutches of the devil. In Denver,
(banks to the powerful influence
of women, it cost only $455, but
in Chicago a man could be saved
for $iJ5. New Orleans, however,
did much belter than this. The
population there is largely French
and therefore emotional, and
Billy pulled them out of hell for
$78 a head, but in Alabama he did
the work for $75 a head. Billy,
however, says that fyis work is
much cheaper. He agrees to turn
them out for $2 a head, but ho
says the forces of hell are mak
ing more progress than the forces
of righteousness.
There are over C7.000,000 peo
ple in the United Stales who are
not chureh members. In Ohio
alone last year 200 churches were
deserted. The devil causes in
sanity and .there is one insane
product of the devil out of every
25!) people in Ohio, so that if tho
present rate is kept up everybody
will be insane in 200 years, and
will therefore go to the devil.
Then Billy moralizes. He says
the whole trouble is the twentieth
century method of getting people
into the church too cheap. "Most
any old hog with, a brand of re
spectability and three suits of
clothes can come rOoting into the
church, so low have we got the
bars nowadays." But when Billy
proposes to bring all these people
in for $2 a throw, what are we to
expect? It's Billy, perhaps, who'
is lowering the standard. When
it costs $500 for ordinary meth
ods and Billy agrees lo do it for
he is the man who is cutting
prices and reducing the task, con
sequently his argument defeats
itself. Salvation is- free. "Come
and buy wine and: milk without
money and without price." Billy's
attacks, therefore, upon the reg
ular methods are- not in good
last.
Persons troubled with partial
paralysis are often very much
benefited by massaging the affect
ed parts thoroughly when apply
ing Chamberlain's Liniment. This
Liniment also relieves rheumatic
pains. For sale by F. G. Fricke
& Co.
Bought and Sold
ON COMMISSION!
Insurance Placed in Best
Companies!
Farm Loans and Rental Agency
Virgil fvluliis -
ROBERT WILKINSON
DUNBAR
L.J. HALL
UNION
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