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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1913. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. PAGE 7. I URGES THE USE OF HOME GROWN SEED Governor Morehead Offers Some Timely Suggestions On the Selection of Seed Corn (idvt'rnor Morehead, in a proc lamation issued yesterday, urges N braska farmers to use seed cni grown in this state and ad- lhise who have a supply to i .-ae it for their neighbors whose u I ' I nay have been cut short t v the drouth that prevailed over : . .niderable portion of the -ate iliis year. Me says experi i :. iits liave shown that seed corn r.iwn in other states lias produe , ,l a. -J bushels less per acre than i ative grown seed, lie designates tli.. week beginning September 22 seed corii week, and asks far i i-ts to make a careful selection (.;" eed corn. His proclamation is a- follows: The experiences of successful fanners and the results of tests piiide by experiment stations show7 conclusively that proper selection and care of native grown seed c. .in always results in seed of rng germinating and high yielding power. It is especially important that v..- should use care this year be cause sections of our state have I n visited by a severe drouth which will leave some farmers without r-'-ed. Inmost of these . (ions, however, there are those .!io can save sufficient seed for : i!i of their neighbors. If they fail to do so these neighbors will I required to send away for - d. A test made at the Nebras ka . i iim'iit station shows that .I from other states has aver d 0.2 bu-hel- less per acre than native irrown seed. stalks of corn which have withstood the severe conditions of tli. season and still produce ears w great vitality. Seed from -,vli -talks should be the very I. -it. Nature has helped this year in eliminating the weak plants, f.'id we should use every effort to our seed from the winners of ih- battle of the survival of the rt-t. "If it is impossible to secure -d in the immediate neighbor Ifood the farmer should go no fur ther from home Mian is absolutely necessary. It is always better to -.cure seed from the north than fr--.hi the south. For these reas--:- it is urged that the farmers '! th- more favored sections of i:- -tate carefully save a large '" ollllt of set'd. "Where it is impossible to se- i n - good seed of this year's crop, i' may be possible to locate snmi f la-t year's corn. If the ger- ii iiating power of old corn is I. it will ordinarily give bet- t-r r-sults than seed brought from a distance. "If these precautions are ob served, it will not be necessary for any Nebraska farrr m to go far from borne for seed, and thu- the !-Id of corn for next year wi'.l t'ot be decreased :ecause of im T"rte(j seed, but wiil be increased I -cause of careful selection. "Our experiment siation at Lin- "In will be glad to send bulletins i n 'Selection and Care of Seed ('rif to all inquiries. "With these things in mind I ' r -re the early and careful selec tion of eed corn and designate I tie week beginning September 22, 1 ')'. as 'seed corn week.' Its gen- ml observance will insure a suf t i. :it amount of native grown --. for our li)i l crop. "Jiv-M under my hand and the '.-. at seal of the state of Nebras ka this the Oth dav of September, "JOHN II. MORF.HEAD. "fJovernor." Mrs. C. II. Rist and children de J arted last evening on No. 2 for !-ndo?i. Iowa, where they will 'i-it Mrs. Rist's grandmotlier, h is past 90 years of age. The leanty ami virtue of womea re superior to the virtue and beauty of ien, but no one can be beautiful when 'n the throes of a deep-seated hacking -ouRh or cold. Nothing will bring greater relief than Allen's Cough Balsam.' Sold for 'er half a century. Endorsed by those ho use it. 23c. jOc. and Ssl.QO bottles. A Few Words about Painkiller The Rev. James n. Dixon, Rector Ft. Jnoi-B and Hon. Canon of Chriot ChnrcH I a:hw.ral, Montreal, write : "1'ertnit me lo einil you a f,-w line to Btrongly r"Coin nwnl 1'erkt LAyi9' Painkiller. I have 'Sd it with eatisfaction tor thirtj-fie ea's. It i a preparation which deserves lull public confidence." Painkiller Cramp Diarrhoea Bowel Complaint IN PLATTSMOUTH FORTYYEARS AGO Items of Interest to Old and New Residents or City Which Were New Forty Years Ago. Win. B. Swearingen of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, one of the most successful leathers of the old "Keystone," commenced school at Louisville on .Monday, November 10. Louisville is for tunate in securing the services of Mr. S. The farmers are just rushing the wheat into this market. Cars cannot be obtained fast enough to ship it. It is estimated that 10,000 worth of wheat went out of IMatlsmouth in two days last week. Major Bohanan of Lincoln passed through our city Thurs day last with a buffalo cow four years old, and two elks, one four and the other one year old. Mr. B. has sold these animals to some parties east, and delivers them in Chicago, together with as line a lot of beef cattle as we ever saw. On the same train was Mr. Tom Palmer, taking a couple of line horses east for deliverv. L. E. Cropsey, our new consul to Chemnitz, showed his pleasant and smiling face in the Herald office last week, on the eve of his departure for Europe. Mr. Crop sey is a young man of lint part and has been rapidly promoted to a position of iulluence. We think he will make a good consul. and be a credit to our counlrv. and we shall always feel proud of him as a citizen of the young state of Nebraska, more especial ly if he shows in his new and im portant position such finalities of the head and heart as will elevate him in the estimation of good men, and eventually place him a round higher in the ladder of fame. Mrs. Mary Schildknecht, wife of Dr. Win. If. Schildkneeht. whose death and funeral notice appeared in the county papers of Cass county. Nebraska, a few weeks ago, was born in Henry county", Indiana, in the year 1833, and was reared ami educated in and according to the rules of the Society of Friends, of which her narents were members. From her childhood she won by her amicable and gentle disposition the esteem and affection of thoe with wliom she was associated. About the year IH5 5 she ex perienced the new birth see John, 3d chapter. 3d and 81 h verses inclusive, and from thence forth her Christian example ami character were revealed so plain ly that she gained the confidence of all who knew her. About four years ago she was sick nigh unto death, and immediately after ral lying somewhat she related to her friends a remarkable vision she had during her illness; which may be summed in brief as fol lows : The scenes of this life were fading from her sight, anil as she was passing beyond the limits of this world a beautiful scene opened to her view her place of rosi and upon approaching it she was 'met by a glorious per sonage, who spake to her. say ing: "Behold thy place of rest! but thou must yet remain for awhile upon earth, after which thou shall attain this rest." This so inspired her anew that setting her house in order, when the hour of her departure came, she was so fully prepared to go that a smile lit up her countenance which was manifested even after she ceased to breathe. And truly her end was peace. C. J. Horning. Thomas Jefferson Todd, one of 1 lie pioneers of Nebraska, one of the pioneers of republicanism, and one of the staunches! old gentlemen in this part of the country, anyway, has been to see the Herald once more, and left us some dollars better off. fn the hurry oT other matters we overlooked making any notice of the return to our city of Mr. Oilbert, formerly telegraph oper ator at this place, and who is now stationed at Fairfield, Iowa, "fill" made a pleasant record here and was much liked by all the good people of Plattsmouth: his welcome was correspondingly warm on his return. He will be hugely tickled when we inform him that, somebody mistook him for an Omaha barber. Local News From Tuesday's Daily. James B. Tipton, the Platte river bridge tender, came down this afternoon to attend to some trading with the merchants. H. S. Villers of Tecumseb, Ne braska, came in yesterday and spent several hours here looking after lejjral business matters. Attorney C. E. Tellt of Weep ing Water was in the city yester day for a few hours looking after some matters at the court house. FUigene Sage and wife of May wood. ,Neb.. are m Ho city for a short visit with old friends, they having resided here many years ago. Adam Kalfenberger ami wife of near Oilar Creek came in this aft ernoon on No. i to attend to some business matters for a few hours. (Jeorge Oobelman returned this afternoon on No. 21 from Wymore and Lincoln, where he had been isiling for a few days with friends. ieorge Becker departed this morning on No. for Pekin. Il linois, where he will visit for a short visit with relatives in that city and vicinity. Miss Gertrude Porter, from Kansas City, Missouri, is here visiting her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Porter and family, during her vacation. Miss Marie Checkle, who has been here for a few weeks visit ing with her parents in this city, departed on No. " this morning for her home at Chicago. Henry Becker and Earl Jenkins were passengers this afternoon for Omaha, where they will try ami -cure additional cars for use in their garage here. William Tippens and wife were passengers this morning on No. 15 for Lincoln, where they will visit with relatives for a few lays. James W. Holmes and Ir. B. F. Brendel of Murray came up this morning in the car of Mr. Holmes to meet some relatives whom the doctor was expecting from In diana. Leo Brissey and William Hich ter were passengers this morning for Burlington, Iowa, where they will be employed at some car penter work for the fall season. County Superintendent Mary E. Foster departed this morning for I lie west end of the county, where she will look after some school matters for a short time. Father Biggins of Manley re turned home this morning, after an over night visit here with his friend. Father M. A. Shine, rector of St. John's Catholic church. Miss Margaret Mills, matron of the Eastern Star orphan's home in this city, was a passenger this morning for Omaha, where she will attend to some matters of business for that institution. Hon. Oeorge Leidigh of Ne braska City came in yesterday afternoon from Omaha to pay a short call on his old friend. Dis trict Judge Travis, and while in the city paid the Journal olllce a very pleasant call. fieorge Lushinsky, foreman of the Burlington paint, shop here, accompanied by his wife, departed Sunday afternoon for Toronto, Canada, where he will attend the convention of the master car painters of the United Stales, which is to meet in that city. William Kyle, who has been spending the summer vacation with relatives in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico, returned this morning on No. ( and will resume his studies in the public school here. W. II. Abbott of Cleveland, Ohio, one of the members of the Abbott-Eaton syndicate of Cleve land, which owns the lighting plant in this city, came in yester day to look after the interests of his company. Mrs. James H. Rice of Murray, accompanied by her son, Will, and daughter. Miss Myrtle, and Miss Ethel Dill, came up this morning from their home and were pas sengers on I he early Burlington train for Omaha to visit for the day. Joseph Eischeid and wife of Wymore came in yesterday after noon for a short visit here with relatives. Mr. Eischeid is at present- boiler foreman for the Wymore division of the Burling ton, and his many friends here were greatly pleased to meet him. Mark Furlong returned last evening from a. trip fo Colorado, where he had been visiting with relatives for the. past few weeks, visiting with his brother, E. O. Furlong,- at Steamboat Springs, and with another brother at Den ver. Mr. Furlong greatly enjoy ed the trip and feels as fine as a fiddle. Subscribe for the Journal. THE Melting of Molly By MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS Copyright, 1912, by the Botts Merrill Company T iafdbwn by tlbe long table by the window and slowly prepared to enjoy myself. I cut off four slices and but tered them to an equal thickness and then more 6lowly put a long silver spoon Into the Jam. I even paused to admire In Judy's mirror over the table the effect of the cascade of lace that fell across my arm and lost Itself In the blue shimmer of old Rene's master piece of a negligee, then deep down 1 burled the spoon in the purple sweet ness. I had just lifted it high In the air when out of the lilac scented dark of the garden came a laugh. "Why, Molly, Molly, Molly!" drawled that miserable man doctor as he came and leaned on the sill right close to my elbow. The spoon crashed on the table, and I turned and crashed Into words. "You are cruel, cruel, John Moore, and I hate you worse than I ever did before, if that Is possible. I'm hun gry, hungry to death, and now you've spoiled it all! Go away before I wet this nice crisp bread and jam with tears into a mush I'll have to eat with a spoon. You don't know what it is to want something sweet so bad you are willing to steal it from yourself!" 1 fairly blazed my eyes down into his and moved as far away from him as the table would let me. "Don't I, Molly?" he asked softly After looking straight in my eyes for a long minute that made me drop my head until the blue bow I had tied on .the end of my long plait almost got Into the scattered jam. Even at such a moment as that I felt how glad old Rene would have been to have given such a nice man as the doctor a treat like that blue silk chef d'oeuvre of hers. I was glad myself. "Don't I, Peaches?" he asked again In a still softer voice. Again I had that sensation of being against some thing warm and great and good like your own mother's breast, and I don't know how I controlled It enough not to to "Well, have some jam then." I man aged to say with a little laugh as I turned away and picked up the silver spoon. "Thank you, I will, all of It and the bread and butter too," he answered. In that detestable friendly tone of voice as he drew himself up and sat In the wloiow. "Hustle, Peaches, If you are going to feed me, for I'm rav enous. I haven't had any supper. You have, so I don't mind taking it all away from you every bit of It" "Supper," I sniffed as I spread the Jam on those lovely, lovely slices of bread and thick butter that I had fixed for my own self. ''That apple toast combination tires me so now that 1 forget It If I can." As I handed him the first 6llce of drippy luBdousness 1 turned my bead away. Ue thought it was from the expression of that Jam, but It was from his eyes. "Slice up the whole loaf, Peaches, and let's get on a Jam Jag! Come with me Just this once and forget forget" He didn't finish his sentence and I'm glad. We neither of ns said anything more as I fed him that whole loaf. I found that the bite I took off ofeach piece. I had, readjfqr him when he finished with the one he had in hand satisfied me as nothing I bad ever eaten In all my life before had done, while at the same time my nib bles soothed his conscience about rob bing me. nis teeth are big and strong and white and his Jaws work like ma chinery. He is the strongest man 1 ever saw, and his gauntness is all muscle. What Is that glow a woman gets from feeding a hungry man whom she likes with her own hands, and why should I want to be certain that he kissed the lace on my sleeve as it brushed his face when I reached across him to catch an inquisitive rose that I saw peeping In the window right at us? LEAF SEVENTH. Which? HE juice of a lemon In two glasses of cold water to be drunk immediately on wak ening!" Tage eleven! I've handed myself that lemon every morn ing now until I am sensitive with my self about it If there was ever any body "on the water wagon" it's I, and I hare to sit on the front seat from dawn to dusk to get in the gallon of water I'm supposed to consume in that time. Sometime I'm going to get mix ed up and try to drink my bath If I don't look out I dreamed night be fore last that I was taking n bath in a glass of ice cream soda water and trying to hide from Dr. John behind the dab of ice cream that seemed inade quate for food or protection. I haven't had even one glass for two months, and I woke up in a cold perspiration of embarrassment and raging hunger. I don't know what I'm going to do about this book and I've got myself Into trouGle about 'writing things T slde records In it He looked at me this morning as coolly as If I was just anybody and said: "I would like to see that record now. Mrs. Molly It seems to me you are about as slim as you want to be. How did you tip the scales last time you weighed, and have you noticed any trouble at all with your heart?" "I weigh 134 pounds and I've got to melt and freeze and starve off that four," I answered, ignoring the heart question and also the question of pro- "Expand your chest. ducing this book. Wonder what he would do if I gave it to him to read just as it is? "How about the heart?" he persist ed, and I may have imagined the smile in his eyes, for his mouth was purely professional. Anyway, I lowered my lashes down on to my cheeks and an swered extrinientally : "Sometimes it hurts." Then a cy clone happened to me. "Come here to me a minute!" he said quickly, and he turned me around and put his head down between my shoulders and held me so tight against his ear that I could hardly breathe. "Expand your chest three times and breathe a deep as you can," he order ed from against by back buttons. 1 expanded and breathed pretty quickly at that "Now told your breath as long as yon can," he commanded, and it fitted my mood exactly to do 60. "Can't find anything," he said at last letting me go and looking care fully at my face. His eyes were all anxiety, and I liked it . "When does it hurt you and how?" lie asked anx iously. "Moonlight nights and lonesomely," I answered before I could stop my self, and what happened then was worse than any cyclone. lie got white for a minute and just looked at me as if I was a bug stuck on a pin. theu fave a short little laugh and turned to the table. "I didn't understand you were jok ing," he eaid quietly. That maddened me, and I would bare done anything to make bira think I was not the foolish thing he evident ly had classified me as being. I snatch ed at my mind and shook e; a mix ture of truth and lies that fooled even myself and gave them to him. looking straight in his face. I would hare cracked all the ten commandments to save myself from his contempt "I'm not Joking," I said Jerkily. "I am lonesome. And worse than being lonesome, I'm scared. I ought to have stayed just the quiet relict of Mr. Car ter and gone on to church meetings with Aunt Adeline and let myself be fat and respectable, but I haven't gt the character. You thought I went to town toTuy a mohumehtTand rdldnt I bought enough clothes for two brides, nd now I'm scared to wear 'em, and I don't know what you'll think when you see my bankbook. Everybody is talking about me and that dinner par ty Tuesday night, and Aunt Adeline ays she can't live in a house of mourn ing so desecrated any longer. She's going back to the cottage. Aunt Bet tie Tollard says that if I want to get married I ought to do It to Wilson Graves because of the seven children, and then everybody would be so re lieved that they are taken care of that they would forget that Mr. Carter hasn't been dead quite one year yet. Mrs. Johnson says I ought to be de clared a minor and put as a ward to you. I can't help Judge Wade's send ing me flowers and Tom's sitting on my front steps night and day. I'm not strong enough to carry him away and murder him. I am perfectly mis erable, and I'm" "Now, that'll do. Molly; Just hush for a half minute and let me talk to you," aid Dr. John as be took my hand in mis and drew me near him. "No won der your heart hurts If It has got all that load of trouble on it and we'll Just get a little of that 'scare' off. Yon put yourself In my bands, and you are to do Just as I tell you, and I say for get it! Come with me while I make a calL It is a' long drive, and I'm I'm lonesome sometimes myself." I saw the worst was over, and I breathed freely again, but I had talked so much truth in that fiction that I felt just as I said I did. which Is a slightly unnatural feeling for a woman. There was nothing for it but to go with hiui. and I wanted to most awfully. To my d.viug day I'll never forget that little house, way out on the Cane R.UH Pike, tie. took jnt? to in his shabby little car. Just two tiny rooms, Dut they were clean and quiet, and a girl with the sweetest face I ever saw lay In the bed w ith her eyes bright with pride and a tiny, tiny little bundle closo beside her. The young farmer was red with embarrassment and anxiety. "She's all right today, but she wor ries because she don't think I can tend to the baby right," he said, and -he did look helpless. "Her mother had to go home for two days, but is coming to morrow. I dasn't undress and wash the youngster myself. It won't hurt him to stay bundled up until granny comes, will it Doc?" "Not a bit." answered Dr. John in his big comforting voice. But I looked at the girl, and I under stood her. She wanted that baby clean and fresh even if it was Just five days old, and I felt all of a sudden terribly capable. I picked up the bundle and went into . the other room with it, where a kettle was boiling on the stove and a large bucket by the door. I found thiuss by just a glance from her, and the hour I spent with that small baby was one of the most de licious of all my life. I never wa3 left entirely to myself with one before, and I did all I wanted to this one, guided by Instinct and desire. He slept right through and was the darlingest thing I ever saw when I laid him back on tho bed by her. I never looked In Dr. John's direction once, though I felt him all the time. But on the way home I gave myself the surprise of my life! Suddenly I turned my face against his sleeve and cried as I never had before. 1 felt safe, for it is a cliff road and he had to drive carefully. However, he manag ed to press that one arm against my cheek in a way that comforted me into stopping when I saw we were near town. I got out of the car at the gar age and walked away through the gar den homo without looking in his direc tion at all. I never seem to be able to look at him as I do at other people. We hadn't spoken two words since we had left the little house in the woods with that happy faced girl In it. He bns more sense than just a man. It was almost dusk, and I stopped in the garden a minute to pull tho dirt closer around some of the bachelor's buttons that had "popped" the ground some weeks ago. Thinking about theui made me regain my spirits, and I went on in the house to be scolded for what ever Aunt Adeline had thought up while I was gone to do it to me about. Judy told uie with her broadest grin that she had gone down to her sister-in-law's for supper, and I sat down on the steps with a sigh of relief. Some days are like tin cocoauut grat ers that everybody uses to grate you against, and this wus one for me. For an hour I sat and grated my ownself against Alfred's letter that had come iu the morning. I realized that I would Just have to come to some sort of de cision about what 1 was going to do. for he wrote that he was to sal' :a a day or two. aud ships do travel "'J fast these days. LIoyJL bini nndalways have. ofthit.I am sure. He offers me Ilie most won derful life in the world, and no woman could help being proud to accept it. I m lonely, more lonely than I was even trilling to confess to Dr. John. I can'S & on living this way any longer. Rut Chester has made me see that if I want Alfred it will be now or never and quick. I now know that she loves him, and she ought to have her show if I flon't want him. The way she idolizes nd idealizes him is a marvel of wom anly stupidity. Borne women like to collect men's hearts and hide them away from other women on cold storage, and the help less things can't help themselves. I have contempt for that sort of butcher, and I love Ruth! It's my duty to look the matter ia the face before I look in Alfred's and decide. If not Alfred, what ttien? First no husband. That's out of the question! I'm not strong minded enough to crank my own motorcar and jtuTIy"- woman suffrage. Tprefer "to suffer at the hands of some cruel man and trust to beguiling him into doing Just ns I say. 1 like men, can't help it, and want one for my own. I don't count poor Mr. Carter. Second, if not Alfred, who? Judg Wade is so delightful that I flutter at the thought, but his mother is Aunt Adeline's own best friend, and they have ideas In common. She is so re ligious that living with her would be like haviug the sacrament for dally bread. Still, living with him might have adventures. 1 never saw such eyes! The girl he wanted to marry died of tuberculosis, and he wears a locket with her in It yet. I'd like to reward him for such faithfulness with a nice husky wlfo to wear instead of the locket But then. Alfred's been faithful too! I look at Ruth Chester and realize how faithful, and my heart melts to biui in my breast My hips have almost all melted away, too, so I had better keep the heart cold enough to handle If I want anything left at all for him to come borne to. (To be Continued) Diarrhoea Quickly Cured. "I was taken with diarrhoea and Mr. Yorks, the merchant here, persuaded me to try a bottle nf Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After taking one cloe of it I, was cured. It al so cured Others that I gave it. to," writes M. E. Cebhart, Oriole, Pa. That is not at all unusual. An ordinary attack of diarrhoea can almost invariably be cured by one or two doses of this remedy. For sale by all dealers. - t i i. i r lie