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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, OGTOBEK 23, 1013.
PAOC 4.
The Plattsmouth Journal
Published Semi-Weekly
I. -A.. BATESI Publisher
Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
It is only to llic finest
natures that age gives ftd- J
ded beauty and distinction;
for the most persistent self
has then worked its way to
the surface, having1 mod
ified the expression, and
to some extent the feat
ures, to its own likeness.
Malhilde Wind. !
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Now for the buskin' records to
set the corn crop right.
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The simple life is all right if
you have an income of about $5,
000 a year.
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When your appetite outgrows
your income, you experience the
cost of high living.
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Plattsiiiouth has no empty
houses and strangers who would
locate here can find no houses
to rent.
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A national law now prohibits
spring shooting of migratory
birds. It will be well to remem
ber this.
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.Soon the income tax. Remem
ber what happened to Ananias
when ite side-stepped this
proposition.
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The realm of politics is all
right for a pastime, but for
bread and butler,' the young man
had better take up some thing
else.
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A foodstuff resembling meat
has been produced by a French
scientist from the ;refuse of a
brewery. The real high cost of
living may yet be solved.
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An effort is to be made to have
1he national government pay the
state militia when on drill at
their own armories. As the drills
are for proficiencies, why not?
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It is astonishing the number
of schemes to "get rich quick"
brought through the mails each
day, even after so many have
been punished for using the
mails for that purpose.
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By the opening of next spring
there will be candidates galore
for governor, if they keep com
ing to the front as rapidly as
they have in the past few
months. It is entirely too early
to name the lucky man on the
democratic side, but we could do
so if we wanted to.
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Well, they have succeeded in
pelting Governor Sulzer's "goat,"
but he gave the Tammany chief
tains a good tussel for it, just
the same. Murphy has been
worse than impeached on several
occasions, and of the two, Gov
ernor Sulzer stands head and
shoulders above any of the Tam
many outfit. There is still an
other show for the governor, if
he appeals to the United Stales
court.
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We have made inquiries in re
gard to the several parties pro
posed as opponents to Hon John
A. Maguire for the nomination
for congress. We can find no
one who wants to oppose him
There is no truth in the assertion
that Governor Morehead would
be a candidate, and from what
we are able to learn, Congress
man Maguire will be renomin
ated without opposition.
at Plattsmouth, Neb.
Saturday was another big day
for the Plattsmouth merchants.
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Instances of actual embez
zlement and defalcation of city,
school or county officials have
been very rare in Nebraska in the
past ten years. Norfolk, how
ever, has the unpleasant experi
ence, it appears, its recent city
clerk having been arrested to
answer to the charge of "rasing'
warrants.
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"Farming by mail" is another
fad gotten up for advertising
purposes by certain institutions.
The only place that we can see
that the mails will help the
farming business is in the trans
mission of farm papers and other
periodicals wherein he can keep
up with the markets and other
happenings, also in sending
orders for seeds. Of course the
mail is a social convenience for
the farmer the same as for other
people.
Sheep men and cheap men
united in a howl against free
wool and direfully predicted that
sheep would sell for 1.00 and
wool for 10 cents. But now
comes the Boston News, publish
ed in the center of the woolen
manufacturing industry, andi
says that since the passage of
the tariff bill which puts wool on
the free list the stock of the
Woolen trust has advanced nine
and one-half points. Nobody is
scared about free wool except the
fellow who owns no sheep.
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It strikes us that some of these
Women's Clubs are a bit incon
sistent. All over the country
they 'are advocating drastic pure
food laws, some of them so dras
tic as to be almost prohibitory, as
are the latest from Lima, Ohio.
At the same time many of them
are trying to cut out the retail
ers altogether by "direct to con
sumer from producer" plans be
cause they complain of the "high
cost, of living." Don't these dear
ladies understand that they are
raising the cost of living by in
sisting on these drastic pure food
laws? Omaha Trade Exhibit.
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The SI. Louis Globe-Demo
crat, one of the most vicious
standpat papers in the wesl,
says there is war between Secre
tary Bryan and Senator Hitch
cock over the distribution of of
ficial patronage in Nebraska.
This may possibly be so, but we
trust it is not so bad as the
Globe-Democrat would have it.
Nothing pleases the republicans
so greatly as contentions in the
I democratic ranks, and the two
great leaders should not be par
ties to any such measures as
would tend to divide the party in
their own state, as it is bound to
do if one-half of what the Globe
Democrat says proves true.
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. One of the first acts done by
Richard L. Metcalfe in an ollieial
way as governor of Panama was
to grant a pardon to a man who
was serving a ten-year term in
prison for the killing of the man
who had invaded and broken up
his home. Wre are slrongly Q.f
the opinion that Mr. Metcalfe i?
entitled to the highest com
mendation for his action in this
case. There cannot as a rule be
any excuse offered for the taking
of human life, but under cir
cumstances of this kind there is
another law which intervenes
and which humanity is coming
more and more to recognize. It
is in effect the same law which
permils and authorizes the de
fense of the home against any
form of violent invasion.
That care should be exercised
in turning stock into the fodder
fields is again demonstrated by
the loss that is taking place
where extreme care is not being
used. How easily all of this loss
could be avoided if the fodder
had been cut and put away as it
should be. Farmers would not
only get several times the value
out of it as food product, but the
danger of loss would be entirely
eliminated. Stock is entirely too
scnpcft now to be lost in this
manner.
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There seems to be something
seriously wrong in the manage
ment of the stale fair, nearly
everybody says. And when mere
is so much talk in this respect
there must be some truth in the
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year. A lrienu oi me journal,
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who has watched the manage
ment of the state fair from its
incipiency, believes that, as a
stale institution it should Jo
placed under the board of control
the same as other state institu
tions. On looking the mailer
over seriously and carefully we;
have arrived at the same conclu-j
sion.
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Judge Travis was a man whose
friends were numbered by the
lundreds wherever known. The
writer has been closely associat
ed with him on many occasions.
While our acquaintance with
public men in a half dozen states
las been quite extensive, we have
never found one more honorable
in ousmess mauers aim one
whose opinions were so express-
d as to make him popular with
all with whom he came in con
tact. There is no one, outside
of his own family, that feels his
oss more keenly than the writer.
We always considered him a
true friend, and he was ever
eady to show his friendship by
t T 1
us acts. .oi oniy is juuge
Travis a loss to his bereaved
family, but his demise is deeply
felt by the people of Plattsmouth
and Cass county, where he has
so long been a useful and honor-
d citizen,' but by his numerous
friends in the Counties compos
ing his .judicial district, and in
fact, all over Nebraska will
deeply feel his loss. In Judge
Travis' passing, a noble, gener-ous-hearled
citizen has gone to
his reward, and the Journal's
heartfelt sympathy goes out to
the family who are left to mourn
the loss of a kind and affection
ate husband and loving father.
Peace to the noble man's ashes!
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In discussing the efTed of the
tariff on the catlle industry of
this country be sure of your
ground before crilizing it too
severely. It is an admitted fact
on all sides that there is a big
catlle shortage in this country,
which means less consumption
of beef and at a higher price than
if normal conditions prevailed.
The removal of the duty from
live stock and meals cannot work
a detriment to our cattle raisers
because the demand is largely in
excess of the supply at home. It
will require millions upon mil
lions of pounds of meat to supply
the home demand above what is
produced here. Under the Payne
Aldrich high tariff law over one
million pounds of dressed beef
was imported monthly at a cost
of one and one-half cents per
pound duty, and yet, it made
absolutely no impression on the
home cattle market. And we do
not believe the imports of dress
ed beef can ever reach the point
where they will in the least
interfere with the home catlle
raiser. The demand the world
over for meat is too great lo per
mit production to satisfy it. A
prominent packer made the
statement recently that in his
opinion porterhouse steaks will
soon cost a dollar. Direful things
were predicted in the event of
Wilson's election. But they
haven't happened. Direful things
, are predicted of the Underwood-
SCIENCE OF FIGURES.
If we keep on it will be only a
matter of time until the high
cost of living will fade away,
every original producer will gel
a big price for what he sells, and
every "ultimate consumer" will
buy his produce at prices "away
down yonder," and the domestic
economical millenium will be
full on. For instance, one scien
tific writer has discovered that
corn yes, common, everyday
corn is composed ol all tiie way
from 11 to 18 per cent water;
water that is absolutely value
less fo the product, and that in
the shipping of this cereal the
farmer who raises this corn and
the "ultimate consumer' who
eats it, have to pay millions of
dollars to the railroads for thej
transportation of this water; and j
yet it doesn't add an iota to the
nutriment qualify of the cereal.
The writer goes on to show that
it would lake a train of cars
stretching from Cincinnati to
New- York to transport this hid
den water, and that the price of
transportation runs up inlo the
ig round millions of dollars an
nually;- all of which goes inlo
the rapacious railroad owners'
pockets. Unfortunately the v.ril
er didn't give any plan how this
loss can be averted, but he is not
at all. slow in showing how the
railroads gained and the "ulfs"
paid the tiddler. Of course,
wheat, oats and rye are just as
full of surplus water as is corn.
while vegetables and fruit, will
"slack up" aTf the way from
twice lo Ihree times as much.
And suppose hs scienl iiicsli ip
had used watermelons for his il
lustration; his train carrying the
w ater surplus over and above I he
actual food to the "ultimate .con-
aimer" would have reached lo
the north star and half-way back.
Oh, my! but science and figures
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do WO IK wonuers wiien mv
tackle the high est of living
question. Don't- they?
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MEAT THAT IS CONDEMNED.
There are several -1 hings that
have an intluence on the cost of
living some of which are most
desirable, and of Ibis class is
meat inspection. This is brought
conspicuously (o mind in a re
port just issued by the national
agricultural department, cover
ing the seven years since the
government meat inspection
service became a part of the
policy lo safeguard the food sup
ply of the country. From this
report it appears that K77.000,
000 animals have been officially
inspected at places of slaughter
during these seven years, and
carcases lo the number of 1,100,
000 and 5,750,000 parts' of car
cases have been condemned as
unlit for human consumption.
All told, liS, 000, 000 pounds of
meat products have been con
demned as unlit for food. This
federal inspection is maintained
at 702 slaughtering and packing
establishments in 127 towns and
cilies. The inspection work re
quires a force of 2,500 veterinary
inspectors and assistants. How
much of this condemned meat
would have been consumed but
for the inspection it is, of course,
impossible to slate. Full prices
were paid for I he callle, sheep
and swine that furnished the
condemned meat, and this loss
was added to the cost of the rood
meals that were sold and con
sumed. Notwithstanding the in
creasing demand for meat in the
United States, eight billion
pounds were certified for export
during the seven years.
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Hundreds of thousands of
bushels of the finest apples are
rotting on the ground in south
ern Minnesota, and trees are
breaking down with the fruil,
and in Utah the finest of peaches
are selling for 25 to 35 cents a
bushel, ami there are millions of
people in this country who can
not even get a smell of an apple
or a peach.
FASHION
Enhanced by Gorgeous Brocades and
Furs, Woman's
So
Rich
FUR WAISTCOATS ARE LIKED
New York, October 20, 1013.
Undoubtedly fashions are be
coming more leniinine. .otwiiii-
slanding all reports to the cou-
trarv, the figure is more exten-
sivelv di-ancd this fall than for
several years past. Once more
womankind may be clothed in
mystery and romance a relief
from the all-revealing modes
which left nothing to the imagin
ation. Yards and yards of swathing
draperies, hold in place by
sashes, girdles and pendant cor
delieres, is the impression con
veyed noL alone by gowns, but. by
many of the suits as well. Separ
ate coats seem to grow more and
more voluminous, especially
when intended for dressy wear.
The waistcoat idea snows no evi
dence of waning popularity. We
have waislcoals in everything
jackets, cloaks, and even negli
gees show I hem in the most 'r
geous fabrics and eo!oriM.s. In
; loosely-draped evening wrap of
leather-colored vel et we noted
the other day a waistcoat of du-
velyne of the same shade, outlin
ed with a band of orange-rolored
fur. At the neck hung pendent a
heavy ornament of orange, black
and gold beads. Heavy beaded
ornaments have become, a very
Figure One.
Vest -Waist of Black-and-White
Brocade with Black Velvet
8kirt.
pronounced slyle feature. lhey
decorate everything from delicate
chiffon waists lo fur wraps and.
in their barbaric richness, can
Iribute a needed note of color to
many of Ihe simple garments.
lleavv necklaces of beads, grad
ual ing' in diamater from a!out a
fourth to live-eights of an inch,
are being worn by fashionable
women with morning and after
noon toilettes. The beads are
opaque, and show the deep pur
ple, blue, orange and green
.hniA.. of Hie latest dress labrics
cilice To very
dashing types
these necklaces are not unbeeom
shun them.
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DISTINCTLY
MORE FEMININE
Dress Was Never
as Now
The mil's had an upstanding frill
of black maline about three and
a half inches high. Below, a
frill of vivid green, cerise or
purple maline, ranging from
about six to eiuht inclies in
dentil, fell over shoulders and
chest. Drawn close about the
neck was a Land of fur or a twist
of ribbon, ending under the chin
in a long bearded cord and heavy
beaded tassel which huntr below
the waistline. Square-meshed
maline was used for the frills
and Ihe colors were in tinsel fin
ish. Odd and bizarre though they
were, they served lo emphasize
the vogue of the rulf which in
more conservative form finishes
many of the toilettes of the day.
A most becoming method of
dressing- the neck and one
which, we believe, is destined for
popularity, was seen at a recent
fashion exhibition. Afternoon
gowns which had a round-neck
finish showed posed at the center-beck
an indefinite butterfly
clrc in lace or lulle. This dain
ty Huff of filminess was attached
to the neckbands in several
places. II never extended farther
than the shoulder line, but serv
ed to fill in the gap just below
the coilfure, which has always a
tendency to give a more or b
'SS
incomplete appearance to
round -necked gown.
Upstanding frills of souk1
finish the majority of gown:
our first figure we show tin
the
sort
. In
frill
used on an extremely let chin
vest-waist of black and white vel- I
vet brocade. It is built above a
gracefully-draped skirt of black
hinon velvet, and completes an
effective costume for the after
noon visit or matinee. The hat is
a little, inverted, bowl-shaped af
fair of black velvet, wreathed
with v ari-colored silk llowers.
and edged with a frill of accordion-pleated
silk. A black vel
vet bridle is drawn under the
chin.
One sees many of (tie clever lit
tle vest -waists of brocaded satin
or velvet, and there is about them
an air of "chic" which makes a
quick and lasting appeal.
Another very extensive use of
(he gorgeous brocades is found
in Ihe lining of coals and man
tles. No pattern seems to be loo
bold or bizarre for this purpose
and no color too vivid. Black and
white, however, is a favored and
vorv effective li'iinsr. and usually
takes the form of striking black
figures on a white ground. Tlu
richness, and incidentally lh
costliness -of fur garments is
'considerably enhanced by this ex
travagance of lining
Furs continue to be appropri
ated for every possible and im
possible purpose. An interesting
use of furs is indicated in our
second illustration, which shows
a waistcoat and collar of gray
squirrel ornamenting a suit of di
agonal worsted in gray, black and
lavender. A fetching lillle hat,
brimless in front, and with back
brim rolled up, repeats the gray
fur, and displays over one ear a
large silk rose of lovely orange
yellow tone. The long velvet
scarf is also edged with fur.
The suit jacket is built upon
cutaway tunic lines, to which
fashion remains faithful despite
the bewildering array of new
models brought out this fall. A
little lal buttoning across the
waistcoat is a smart detail.
The skirt shows the caught -up
front drapery, which is exceed
ingly graceful developed in the
soft-seave worsted.
Though fancy fabrics are now
and then used, Ihe majority of
suits are in plain colored materi
al. Of dark blue one sees a great
deal, and of Russian green also.
Yellowish-red shades, ranging
through all the copper and nas
turtium tonalities, are conspic
uous in every assemblage of well
dressed women. Black is intro
duced into practically all smart
iiintif.j TTsnnllv it, annears in
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Figure Two.
Cutaway Tunic Suit showing
Novel Fur Waistcoat and
Collar.
ind we noted at a smart restau
rant receiillv a graceiui mu un
mistakably elderly lady wearing
hat which exhibited this novel
feature. Vastly becoming it was,
llached to small black velvet
hat with turned down brim. The
ostume which went with it was
if lustrous black satin draped
with eneiian lace, and sue wore
the daintiest of black satin sllp-
iers, repeating- the lace in tiny
oseltes.
REV. C. J. PETERSON
AND G. F. SWENSEN
From Tuesday's Daily.
Saturday morning ltev. (. J.
Peterson and C. F. Swenson ar
rived here from an. extensive
eastern trip I" make a short visit
with (Jus Johnson and family in
South Park. Rev. Peterson is a
brother of Mrs. Johnson and the
minister of a large Congrega
tional church in Fast Berkshire,
Vermont. Last year he loured
through the largest, countries of
Europe and is now touring the
United Stales. He is on his way
to Kansas City, where he goes as
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a delegate lo me couierence oi
his church, and represents some
fourteen different churches. Mr.
Peterson had not been here since,
1HD1, and he-declared that the
improvemenls in Plat t smoul h
were wonderful. Mr. Swenson is
a cousin of Mrs. Johnson and a
man of prominence in his home
at Rockford, Illinois, being vice
president, and superintendent, of
one of the largest furniture fac
tories there, namely the Scandia
Furniture company. They depart
ed this morning over the Burling
ton for Slromsburg, Nebraska,
where they will visit with F. M.
Toren and family. Mr. (Jus John
son, assistant foreman of the
freight car department of the
Burlington, accompanied them.
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THE BURLINGTON SHOPS
There were quite a number of
small accidents to Ihe ditl'erent
employes at I lie Burlington
shops yesterday I hat will in
capacitate a number of the tioys
from their labors. Frank Bat
man allowed some heavy limbers
lo fall on his hand, with the re-
ult. that his little linger on the
right hand was cut open in quite
had shape ami it required sev
eral stilches to close the wound.
Don York, who is employed in Ihe
ilaining mill, also was suffering
from a mashed linger, which re
quired the services of a physi-
ian to treat. Will Ofe of the
machine shop received an injury
to his right lillle linger - which
made it necessary to have the at
tention of a physician.
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