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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1913)
The Plattsmouth Journal Published Semi-Weskly at Plattsmouth, Neb.: I. V. I IATHH. I . I HI its t- Entered at the Postoflice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska 83 second-class matter $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE - . Tlit- si raw ha I, Is now in order. "Salvation is free." Not the Billy Sunday kind, however. ; :o: Corn is almost all in. Now watch for a record-breaking crop. The. government "frost" hasn't injured Rockefeller's "million" Ci'op up to date. :o: This is a great world, although less promising than it seems to a sweet girl grad. :o: It is the duty of every man to become familiar with the work ings of the tariff. :o: Jack Johnson is still lighting hut in the courts where he has to pay for the privilege. :o: School is out hut I he children should cheer up remember that September isn't far away. :o: The investigation of I In senala lobby is now up to the senate and house. Fire them bodily. It infill be a good idea o im port a few suffrage! I es and sic Ihem on the daring dandelions. The fly has evidently been read ing the swat articles in the news papers, for he has been lying low. :o: If you want to see a pretty sight just pass through the county in any direction and note the busy fanners. i j ' i :oi According to an Amorillo dis patch the 'hoppers in eastern New Mexico xceed lie Wolf Hopper's divorced wives in number. e. The wheat crop is heading out in some sections and it is predict ed that the harvest will be in full! blast before I he Fourth of July. The newly discovered Schau inasse comet is found to have no tail, which suggests that it might just as well not be a comet. :o: The ultimate consumer who thought President Wilson was just giving him "ho air" cam paign talk, is now highly praising him. :o: Luther McCarthy was playing it for big slakes. The twenly- ear-old prize lighter, who was penniless two years ago, left an estate of $(':,000. While (he dandelion is a great pest, it doesn't carry typhoid genus and try to set. jmi up at i a. m. :o : It is possible to learn anything by mail iiowduys. A Topeka, Kansas, woman even teaches the bible by mail. -:o: How much a man loves his city is indicated by the number of ash piles and tin cans that be permits in his back yard. :o: Nat (loodwin, who has just married his fifth wife, says it was for love this time. At that he loves to get married. After the experience of the last four years what a relief it is to have a president in the White house whom the sleek plausible lobbyists can neither deceive, in timidate, bamboozle, cajole nor scare. :o: A Princeton professor is in vest igoling the Philippines at the instance of President Wilson. What the Americans have done there for education ought to arouse the enthusiasm of any old leacher. :o: An exchange .-ays, "Fvangeli.-it ! Sunday's name ought t be Friday 'Hilly Friday." Wonder if (hat idea came from old Ilobinson Crusoe? ; :o: School i over. What to do with the buys is the next proposi 'lion. Don't let them loaf the ! streets. del I hem employment at something. Th. .Japanese an: keen in see ing a good business opportunity and that is why they will man age to be well represented at the San Francisco Panama exposi tion. :o: The only hope the protection ists have lo defeat the tariff bill is to purchase two or three demo crats to vote with tin1 republicans. Can they buy them? It is lo be hoped not. :o . When a man learns he can't accomplish anything on the peo pie by the excessive use of his mouth he thinks it is time to try legislation. That's why there are so many fool laws in this great slate of ours. :o: In the state of Washington, where women can vote, a law w go into effect June 14, compell ing lazy husbands to get busy. The husband who can work, has work offered him, but won't work, will be summoned to court and sentenced to hard labor at st.50 a day, the money to go to his wife. No, there is no law in Washington, or anywhere com pelling a wife to work. It certainly pays to advertise. A Palo Alio, California, man, whose bicycle was stolen, ad verlised for its return, offering the reward of a clean conscience for the thief. The next morning he found three bicycles on his lawn. :o: The young girl graduates of 1113, who will graduate in $5 sailor suits were considerate enough in Iheir economical pro clivities to leave something for their sisters in 1914. The latter can go Ihem one better by making their own gowns. :o ; What is being done about the Fourth of July celebration-? If some effort is not put forth by those who have the matter in hand soon there are other people who will take the matter up. Al ready other towns are boosting for their celebrations, and we should have begun the boosting proposition two weeks ago. :o : Iiecoralion da seems to bat been thoroughly observed throughout the country, more ex tensive, however, in the larger cities, because there are more of I he old veterans in those places lo It is lucky that, the resl of the' take an interest in the day's alphabet is not, idcuiillcd with as ' observance. But even in the many accidents as the first letter, larger cities the old soldiers are Aeroplanes and automobiles give rapidly passing over to I lie t ireat the list a grim start. Beyond. The discovery has been made thai direct election of United Stales senators has removed the power of state governors to fill senatorial vacancies when legis latures are not sitting. This privilege, unless restored through special legislation, will lapse. It ; has been made mandatory on gov ernors when vacancies occur in senatorial delegations, to order a special election, issue writs and open the pulls for direct popular voting to 1111 a vacancy. Without special authority from a legis lature a governor can in no case appoint. Here is something that is worthy of powdering over, and in some instances is very trite: If a man had a ti fly-dollar pup he would look after it carefully and not let it have the run of the town day and night,. But if he has a child it is different. They are turned loose at a tender age lo go where they will and do what they please. People wonder where the great army of tramps, deadheals, gamblers ami dis reputable women come from. They are germinated from the seed gathered in countless homes and sow n broadcast upon I ho streets of our cities and towns. There are thousands of children who are heading in that direct ion, who, as far as care is concerned, are not given equal showing with a valuable pup. , This is a free country, but ou won't enjoy it if you devote most of our tune to whetting a knife lor our enemies. mats one thing certain. :o: The Japs seem to base gotten in a good humor and have voted to go ahead with the Japanese ex hibit at the Panama Canal exposi tion, and have voted a big ap propriation for that purpose. :o: A Plattsmouth man, who has for years been trying to make others believe he is an angelic sort of personage is becoming known as a snake in the grass, and his former closest friends are finding him out. :o: II is most annoying to the high tariff lobbyists in Washington the way President Wilson insists on talking right out loud about I hem. They much prefer to have all discourse carried on in whispers, but that is not Wood row's style of speech. :o: The male part of a reunited young collide who had been in the habit of throwing missiles at his wife has agreed to hereafler count ten when he feels himself growing angry. Belter make it eleven. When eleven is counted an ordinary man can fight no more in the ring. But .this is an extraordinary case. :o: Decoration day passed oil' very quietly, but not as it was ap propriately observed fifteen years ago. Crowds of people came to Plaltsinoiilh to pay tribute to the dead soldiers. The old vets are rapidly passing away, and in a few years they will all have an- A good deliuation of a gentle man is "a man who has pride without vanity, courage without bravado, and who is in reality considerate hi (lie ieeiings on others." :o: The luxnranl pastures present the appearance of vast rolls of Jeiey butter. But this fact doesn't help the price of that article. The price still stays way up yonder. :o: That 821,00(1 thai Omaha has raised to secure Billy Sunday lo come there and pour forth a re hash of his Sam Jones slush, had better have been donated to the tornado sufferers. This would have been more in keeping with Ihe real Christian spiirt. :o: Postmaster (ieneral Burleson has ruled that women may com pete in examinations for fourth class postollices. Naturally there could be no consistent rule against such provision, since in many instances fourth-class post masters are postmistresses. :o:- At Jersey City, a lew days ago, twenty carloads of chickens were held up because dealers refused to buy them while Iheir (;raws were full of sand, put there by middlemen to add lo their weight and lake up "shrinkage." There are 2,0(10 chickens to the car and even an ounce of sand in each raw on twenty carloads, at the price of live poultry in New York, l takes a line market for sand, but a mighty unfavorable one for the ten commandments. :o: swered Ihe bi-tl roll cull. Why will conduct the exercises then? Or will Ihe peoplie continue lo pay tribute lo I lo terans of the civil war? :) Here is a little- spring tonic for the women folk:. tMr. F. Waugh, the famous Chicago- iserve speci alist, has stirred, vine a hornets' nest through an arti'de wherein he argues wife beating as a proper and wholesome discipline. lie writes: "When yom I'ttul your male, lake her; she is expecting it. When you have her, live for her; she demands- it. When she, awakens your jealousy. heat her. she needs it." :o: That community spirit is trie whole secret of. a booster' cam paign. Bet I he smallest cross roads hamlet gel the spirit, or let llie dwellers ui a rural com munity get together in that way and something will commence to happen right away. Houses will be painled, yard. kept up, roads improved and belter schools in sl ailed. The traveler who gels that way will note with interest what has been done, and will know at once thai he has hap pened on a community where Ihe right spirit prevails. The real booster spirit is as persistent as Banqun's ghost, liul, unlike it, is a mighty good thing to have in the neighborhood. The silk workers now on strike in Palersou are" not at all modest in Iheir demands. Haywood, who is organizing the strike, says: "We are going to get eight hours tin's year, and next year we are going lo strike ami demand six hours, and we'll gel thai, too." Of course. ;md then they'll want four hours, and then they'll demand thai Ihe slale support them with out work. Winy not? According lo he old Mosaic law, work is a curse, and the lex we have lo do Ihe belter. :o: Never allow yourself even to think of the possibility of being a failure. Stoutty assert that there is a place for you in the world, and that you are going to fill it like a man. Train yourself to expect great things of yourself. Never admit even by your man ner I hat you are destined to do little things all your life. If you practice and persistently hold the positive, producing, opulent thought, this mental attitude will some day make a place for you, and create that which you desire. Many a business man whose mind when in a superb condition is worth hundreds or dollars a day to him through his ignor ance of the laws of thought, cuts down his efficiency to a very small percentage of its possibili ties by allowing little enemies of achievement like doubt and fear and worry to cripple his menial processes. The recent, showers have given the weeds a wonderful oppor tunity and Ih.y are taking ad vantage of it. :o: Spring lime weather ha.sn'L made any great advancement yeU but the girl graduates and June brides are in evidence just (he same. :o: Senator Sisson of Mississippi took the calling down that Presi dent Wilson gave him just as though he deserved it, and we guess he did. :o: The ily has been a little slow in coming lo the front this spring, but it is well to have your swat ter ready as soon as he does put in his appearance. :o: Thai the tariff bill will be pass ed by the senate in practically the same shape as it came from the house and by the same vote, 44 to 30, by which the resolution for public hearings was defeated, is generally conceded. President Wilson has won the fight. :o: What a set-back 1.1m must have been lo advocates of this new baby culture science. The three "one-lhousand-per-cent-perfect" babies discovered among the hundreds recently submitted at the Perfect Baby contest held in New York City, were childern. born of foreigners, in the- East Side, whose parents don't know what the word "eugenics" means. :o: Omaha people as a whole have not yet been able lo determine whether they should be con gratulated or condoled with be cause Billy Sunday refused to come and accept their $21,000. Nor have the preachers and lay men who went to invite him fully satisfied themselves whether they were pleased or affronted. No body seems to know whom the joke is on. Lincoln Star. The San Francisco Post gives the story of the recall of Judge Weller, a police magistrate of that city, whose case has attract ed public attention. The judge outraged public sentiment by systematically insisting that rape is no greater crime than simply larceny. When these cases came up before him he repeatedly fixed a bail as low as $50, which the culprit forfeited and often fled. A flagrant outrage came before him. involving criminal assault upon a young unprotected girl. He lowered the bail of $1,000 to $30(1, and then the women of San Francisco took it up and formed a recall league. They were op posed by the bar association, who insisted that a judge is tov holy a personage to have his rulings questioned or his decisions inte-r-ferred with. Certain lwal in terests also eame to ih assist ance of the judge, but the women were no dismayed.. They or ganized Iheir forces, appealed to Ihe better instincts of the public and the result was that Judgn Weller was dismissed from office, as he deserved to be. MR. HENRY PECK AND HIS FAMILY AFFAIRS By Gross f rTrN -Of thj sre cwew ( kSKf oro.o " fN0' 1 t'N) -TMcoorfcA wM&Mti mop.,ht.- .bTHel pPe Jo &ajSo V o.UTT;J. iHGeATEJ!) 1