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PLATTSMOUTH SElCtl-WCEKUY JOURNAL.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1913
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The Plattsmouth Journal
Published Semi-Weekly
P. A. BATES, Fubllhcr
Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter
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LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT.
If this ultimatum so lately
hamk'il Huerta should prove a
bluff or work tliat way teaching
the treacherous dictator his
place, whic h is in" the discard, and
all without force of arms, it will
be regarded as a diplomatic
triumph, and make Wilson solid
with the plain people who can't
approve treason, even at lonj.
range. Hut should it mean war,
that would be different, and
vastly more serious. Even should
lluerta fail to resign, and elimin
ate Ceneral Hlainrucl and the rest
of his retinue, it might still be
possible and policy to avoid war.
There isn't a doubt about Ameri
ca whipping Mexico, should it
come to that, but we doubt that
principle demands it, or that the
going would compensate for the
loss. Mexico could not be prop
erly trounced without consider
able bloodshed; and part of that
blood would be American, which
had better be devoted to peace
ful pursuits. It sitll seems safer
and wiser to let the Mexican light
it out anions themselves, giving
the Constitutionalists a fair
chance by lifting the embargo on
arms and ammunition, and giv
ing them all the facilities for
working to a good advantage. The
Constitutionalists have said that
that is all they need to win, and
they are entitled to that. The
only drawback to suck a course
is that the victory of the present
rebels might ..-mean only the
shifting of the scenes, and the
beginning of another revolution.
Hut they might eventually get
enough if warfare ceased to be
more profitable than developing
their natural resources. It would;
take quite avvhiln, of course, but
patience has been our policy so
long in that direction that it
might not be a good plan to
change at this late hour.
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When the Journal fell into the
hands of the present owner
'twelve years ago Plattsmouth
was the refuge of one of the
worst political rings we ever con
fronted. We began war upon it,
and kept up the firing until the
ring was broken up and scatter
ed to the four winds. The people
will not put up with political
rings, not in Cass county, and
we hope the time may never come
that we will be called upon to
light another such ring. Cliques
and rings are unbearable with the
common people.
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If the majority of the people
are convinced that the country is
better off to have many small
towns and therefore prosperous
rural communities, as they are,
what is wrong with the proposi
tion to lax mail order houses?
The constitution of the United
Slates was adopted to protect the
American people from them
selves, and it may be we will have
to resort to national legislation
to prevent hellish people from
killing their own prosperity. At
any rate it opens an interesting
discussion. Omaha Trade Ex
hibit.
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Wlnic tne east is navmg a
blizzard with from eight to twen
ty inches of snow in Ohio and
West Virginia, Nebraska is still
in the enjoyment of the most
glorious Indian summer ever
gazed upon. Stand up for Ne
braska!
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A university course of study by
the correspondence method is
now open to the convicts in the
style penitentiary and a good
many of I he prisoners have avail
ed themselves of the privilege.
at Plattsmouth, Neb.:
"Get your J gow n to fit your
mind," says a fashion expert;
and so many women seem to have
open minds. Judging from the
trouble some of them have in
getting on street cars or in auto
mobiles they must also be very
narrow minded as well.
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A negro down in Missouri was
complaining the other day that
the high eost of living was grow
ing higher to such an extent he
would have to get married. Of
course lie wants a wife who
would be willing to take in wash
ing to keep him without work.
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The progressives of Nebraska
seem to have lost all love for
Senator N'orris since he went to
Massachusetts to help out Gard
ner, the standpat candidate for
governor, and who got badly left.
Norris thinks lie is some pump
kins since obtaining a six-year
lease on the senatorship. He, in
fact, is one, of those pumpkins
that is on all sides of the fence.
The people do not believe in
him.
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One hundred and ninety car
loads of live poultry were re
ceived in New York last week.
New York will have consumed, by
the close of the year, 6,000 cars
of live poultry during 1913. New
York alone also takes quite a few
cars of dressed poultry. With
this consumption in one city
alone, it is more easy to under
stand why a Hock of several hun
dred chickens is such a profit
able side line on the Nebraska
farm.
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Fifly years ago there was
ome excuse for bad roads, for
our country was poor. Now it
is rich, there is no excuse. A
good road is always to be desired,
and is a source of comfort and
convenience to every traveler.
Good loads attract population, as
well as good schools and
churches. Good roads improve
the value of property, so that it
said a farm lying live miles
from market connected by a bad
oad is of less value than an
equally good farm connected by
a good road. A larger load can
be drawn by one horse over a
good road than by two over a bad
one. Ciood roads encourage thy
greater exchange of products and
commodities between one seclioii
and another. Good roads are of
great value to railroads as feed
ers.
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Probably the best seed for next
year's planting will be the home
grown, carefully selected and
tested seed. Thousands of dol
lars have been wasted by farm
ers in the stale of Nebraska by
buying seed from a distance. It
may look better, may even take
prizes at some of the shows, but
when it is tested with carelully
selected native seed it does not
always give the yield. Tht; Lin
coln experiment station in bul
letin 1 2J reports tests of native
grown seed and seed not native
It was found that on an average
the native grown seed carefully
selected yielded six bushels more
per acre than carefully selected
seed brought from a distance. In
testing some prize sau pies se
cured from the National Corn
show it was found that carefully
selected native seed yielded nine
bushels per acre more than the
prize, corn.. With these facls in
mind" it-' would seein that v
should select home grown seed
even if it does not look so well
The stalks this year which have
produced seed in spite of the dry
weather should give high yield
ing strains. i
THE COST OF RELIGION.
We hear a great deai of com-
plaint nowadays about the high
cost of living, but wo have yet to
hear the first kick about the high
cost of religion. Wc noticed re
cently in a church paper, a com
parative statement of the salaries
paid to preachers and to ien in
other professions, and we can
now understand why we heard no
complaints about the cost of re
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ligion. Religion
UU13 11UI tU3t
the average man enough to maker,,t,uuc U1
about it. Possibly the average
111:111 does not rnnfrnct fop morn
than he can easily pay for, and
vvIipti hard limns lin 1 1 1 rinrh
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he applies the economy brakes
and cancels the order entirely,
And then acrain. tho average man
seems to consider religion a sort,
of Inxnrv instead of a neeessitv.
and xwhen.he gets hard-up he
naturally cuts off the luxuries
lirst, hanging on to his tobacco
and "soft" drinks till the I ast.
iiii. will nrohabiv prninin
why the average man has so lit-
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ue religion ne nas oniy wnai ue
nnv for lie rniiKl ?pl ninri if
he was willing to pay for it. Some
brother may bob up and take a
whirl at that handy old doctrine
which declares that salvation is
out money and without price, but
lhat sort of doctrine will not buy
In-ea.l :iuri imilpr for Mm nrenelier
nor 1111 his coal bin for the win-
ter. According to the statement
above referred to. the average
alaries of nreachers. outside of
the larger cities. Is in the neigh-
horhood of rnn ner war. And
most of the nreachers have fain,
ilies depending upon them, and ill
i exoecled thai Ihe whole ra.
boodle will be fed,
clothed,
educated and married off, on just
about what it costs to run a
healthy two-cylinder automobile,
nd a great manv things are de-
manded of the preacher that the
nvpMffd mnn rci9nn Thnlllie OKI leauers OI I1C reiUlIJI ICan I
preacher must be a man of cul-
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lure and education, a good dress -
er, a cheerful giver, and a
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generous entertainer. He must
christen the babies, bury the
lead, visit Ihe sick and pour oil
n troubled domestic seas. And
when he gets through with these
bores he must prepare a couple
f sermons for Sunday, and a
half dozen fifteen minutes talks
during the week. And the aver-
age preacher. according to
talis! ics, does this for just
about 'what a common laborer
gels for shoveling dirt out of a
"idler- m-mipher wlwi will fiotii
Ihe Lord's battles against such
lreadful odds as these, has a
darn sight more religion than
your humble servant ever expects
to have. And he possesses alining of their own time or
quality of religion that saints and
nnrrolj mirrlil u-,11, nopfnol npr.
'"r7'- n I ip ii I M nil J ' l, h i
nrielv wish for. He deserves
Lnnaf .wni.,, o,i nni,i n,i if nl
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had the distribution of nrizes on
the day of judgment, he should
be given lirst choice, and escort-
ed to the best seal in all the lem-
pie. To him, salvation should be
free indeed, and he should drink
lo his till from the fount of
heavenlv hlessimrs that noets so I
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church members who let the
preacher go hungry to bed. we
merer In reserve iiidirment until
a suitable place is prepared for
them. Old Nick may think of
something lhat will fill the bill.
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Many horses are dying in Mis
souri from poison caused from
eating the fodder while they are
being driven through the corn
field at co'rn gathering time,
Farmers can save their horses
by muzzling them so they cannot
..ni m.o fr..i.i..,. i.ii,. rn.....i.,a
1 j uu. Jiiliutl "11111 .UVIIUl nip
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corn. Manv Missouri -farmers
have lost valuable horses by this
imison. and ii behooves them to
be more careful in the future.
It is said that money will be
plentiful afler the passage of the
currency bill. So don't load uu
loo heavilv on it nn.;
Nine of ten banks that go
closed, throughout the country,
when pressure comes, arc not so
wnen pressure comes, arc not so
much the victims of really
victims of
wrong bear-cat Intentions as of
the impulsive,
get-rich-quick
stripe.
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'"Pity the poor
nosl masters,
and c-el vour Christmas nnckares
mailed early." is the substance of
an appeal sent out by the post-
master general. Yes, and your
naekasres will have a belter
fAl.A..AA . i 1 : l. . r nt : . c
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" Older to UlSSUaUe t"enaiOl
"X'd from attempting to dis
I cipiinc Representative uiass vi
t armis the laltcr's press agent
iurnisnes a timely story 01 now
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I Editor .lass tamed a Hon tamer
at Lynchburp, Va., a city that ap.
Pears to nave been rounded uy me
famous judge.
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An express company voluntari-
'y returned o cenis 10 a ;eurasha
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stale officer a few days ago. The
amount had been accidentally
iivorphfiroiwl nri1 u aa time ir I
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lUIlded. ,OW, Uiatsnewi I.ei
le Shm1 work continue. Small
favors are always thankfully re-
ceived. Some day there may be
larger ones.
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1,own Missouri they nuni
possums in automobiles. With
its passion for annexing ter-
'itory, Chicago ought to welcome
the i'h'a. This is a new kind of
sport. Missouri Is a great slale
and the people down there are
always inventing some new kind
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of sport, since the poker rooms
have been closed
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Governor Hiram Johnson of
California recently made a speech
i" Chicago to the Progressive
club in which he declared that the
progressives would rather FM
down to defeat fighting for prin-J
ciple than to surrender-to any of
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party who conuucieu me cam-
Pa'n 111 1912. "
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nec.ui election m i-musna
'"' November jb. Ihe way to
ox the fellows who have caused
a,l this trouble and expense, is to
re-elect Dr. J. I. Houston, the
removed mayor. It would learn
Ihe fellows who have been so
persistent in the matter, that the
commission form of government
is not simply for child's play.
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Almost everyone, at the pres -
cut time is talking about good
roads' The nersnii who does not
favor road improvement is not
safe in airing his views any-
vvnere. nui ine peopie. who are
really willing lo contribute some-
means to building and keeping
M h P Wi.llU are f S r 1K n 1 1 111 P TO 1 1 S . I
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flon a re s ni n n Atnirnire lias I
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recommended I). C. Morgan for
postmaster. Mr. Morgan has
been in the counly clerk's office
for eight years, first as deputy
and then chief, and has filled the
position very acceptably, and he
no doubt will do the same as
postmaster. The Journal extends
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willi the hope that he may prove
equally as competent as the pre?-
cut postmaster. -
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A very appropriate and excel-
lent article, of .which the Rev.
F. M. Drill iner, pastor of the M.
I'. Church, is the author, appear-
ed in yesterday's Journal.
The
Journal coincides with the rever
end gentleman in reference to the
publicity of viewing the remains
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of a deceased relative or friend
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after they have left their former
liniiin Wo believe if a friend of I
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l. ... . ill
I ine deceased uesires io view an
that is mortal of his deceased
friend, he should go to the form-
er home to do so, and not even
wait until removal to the church,
and much less the cemetery, we
think Hi-other Druliner's sug-
gestions are very timely and right
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to the ooint.
GOOD COUNTRY SCHOOLS.
One ot the present education
J fads now is a great concern for
the welfare of the country
schools. From the fuss made
you would be led to believe they
are institutions of educational
crime and the teachers are a lot
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of incompetents. While there
are always exceptions, the gen
eral rule is that, after a child has
spent a few years in a country
school and then enlers a city
school, he is a" few laps ahead in
I ho u-nrL- f hnl T'fkntlv m 1 1 In
something. Of course he may
be able to dance and do a good
many other things that do not
improve his menial slrenglh or
that will ultimately assist in his
making a living, but he has the
foundation laid solidly for re
ceiving a good education. And it
is also the general rule that, if a
country school teacher gets a
chance in the city school, she
makes good. Requirements of a
country school teacher are great
er than for a city school teacher.
In order to pass the country ex
amination she must dig. If she
does not dig she fails, and failure
means a cancellation or her
certmcaie. Whoever heard or a
city school teacher failing in ex
aminations? Returning to thej
country school boy and girl, their
minds are on that race. They
get the necessary amount of
exercise going to and from school
and doing chores as well as real
work at home. At night, instead
of attending picture shows, at
tending parties, or sparking, they
are at home going lo bed at
reasonable hours and getting up
in the mornings rested and
equipped for a day's work. Really
there are other things that are
more entitled to sympathy than
,h0 cmlutry schools, and it is
hoped the faddists will not de
stroy the great part they play in
making good men and women.
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The "kimos," as the "movies"
n r.. r-.nllo.l in 1'iiMiiin i nx i n 1 1 v I
Cermany, are blamed there for
the unprofitableness of the thea
trical business
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Mrs. Pankhurst
advises the
American women not to pursue
militant methods. All-she asks
L,f them is to contribute liberally
to the support of arson, assault
nn,j jreneral lawlessness in Fng-
hand.
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Sume men like the recall but
only for the other fellow. Hut it
Was a poor rule that won't work
both ways. A recall election
ie .it in Vi.l.r.ivk.i r.ilv in a
f(.w days, and then wc will know
all about il
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Many a man would yell hi
head off if his wife left her twen
ty-llv e-dollar sewing machine
mil ill Ihe vni-il in Hie rnin Mild allMhg Ullioil of Paris lias stripped
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kinds of weather. Yet this same
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fallow will leave va luab le rami
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machinery stand in the fields and
fence corners year after year and
then complain because he cannot
inake money farming.
Plattsmouth is as prosperous
as any city in the stale ior us
size. Here it is the middle of No-
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VPtiiliPr uil mi hs tliail IMUIII I
new buildings are in ine course
of construction, and many resi-
deuces are being overhauled,
while new additions
placed on others.
ll'e being
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The administration
currency j
measure that
leaders are at-
teninling lo enact into law at
Washington is designed !o dis-
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tribute a reserve oi cuuciuj an
over the country lo be used as a
check on any aiiempi mat may
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be made by wan sireei or oiuei -
money-centers to create a panic.
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i .r...;.. iln,. cl'irlnil in 1 tiflT I
yum us o.., ,. ...
when there was no justification
for it. If the present proposed
measure should accomplish the
end that is desired, it ought to
become a law wuuoui uiriuer
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delay. And we are hoping il win.
Anything to divest Wall Street of
ner unnatural power.
A gossip not only knows every
thing, but has a vivid imagina
hjon
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Too much has been said about
(he hopeful hen and not enough
I for the hopeful husband.
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Mrs. Pankhurst isn't "culling
much ice" in this country; nor is
she breaking up much furniture,
either.
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Judging from the complaints
of poultry buyers, "sand in th
is only figuratively desir.
auje
tor-
Senator Hitchcock hows lilll
signs of being whipped back onto
the reservation with the party
lash.
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If Ihe present price shall con
tinue Ihe price de resistance for
the Thanksgiving board will be
an egg.
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None are so blind as those who
don't want to see. Some of th'
rich claim they cannot see
through the income tax.
You are not entitled to much
ered.it for meaning well. Tin
man who brought tlx1 German
carp to this county meant well.
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If Ihe cost of liing is the chief
delerinient to marriage, why
should the wearer of a ?I7,oo
gown at a charity ball reeeie so
many proposals?
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"Relieved by Two Wies," say
a recent headline. Some men are
Plucky, while others devole
rreat energy to conincing and.
with only triflinjr succc
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When it is considered I bat '.mi
per cent or Ihe people are up
right and law-abiding and thai
there are only 2 per cent hell
raisers, the bars of decency are
Mwn a good deal.
cow swallowed S.'KO belong
ing lo a rainier living near -o
wala, Oklahoma. Which leaves
slill open the question as lo how
il 11,11 1,1 oemey jnun ie i
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choke a cow.
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Congress should have been a
little more explicit by providing a
suitable diagram of Ihe new in-
come lax law, instead of throw
ing the burden of interpretation
"P" the federal court
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'""Pany has located in Huenas
Ayies. Perhaps Argentine will
!i'm" 'U,,y
that intense rivalry
and compel il ion between packers
thai exists in this country.
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Poor old Jack Johnson bobs
up again. The international box-
him of his title of heavyweight
Lilinoiii.o. ..f llio roll,l 'in.l lllli
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Paris ring has barred nun iroin
engagements. Jack's vanity
been his downfall. If he had he
haved himself with half modesty
and sense he could have worn his
honors lo the end of time.
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Texas judge denounces the
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WOrklllU" Of tll 11 0V lilV Ml UlUl
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pension of sentence upon a con
victed
person when the jury
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recoiinneiiu.s u. rn-ini'f i iii-
jlldgc has not yet caught the
vision of the new idea, that il
often pays society better to give
a man another chance, than lo
close the door or hope upon mm
in the penitentiary.
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J. I). Slickle, a youth of I.os
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.vugeies, .uieiupie.i io m- muui
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Klsie Darling to the door, of her
nomine :iml llien snraveil lier fnri
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with ammonia with a toy pistol
The acid destroyed the sight of
the poor girl, and Slickle is now
under arrest. They ought to
senu uim io me F-minm..ij auu
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condemn mm to nam labor ior
life to teach the poor fool some
sense.
THE EARTH'S SUN.
Some day we are permitted l
see Ihe suil. We rimi'l e;;e p
Ihe earth. Above them i cold
and rheerle-s spare. Tb'n we
are dl-po.-d to be blue and dis
gruntled. Our nTitiior i spoiled,
and Ihe auto riile must ! . -1
poned. ami our whole little World
goes wrong. How many. b"v
ever, know or think what the sum
really is o us? Thar in sen
shine is i d's greatest Jil.-.-ing
lo Ibis earl'i, we know. hen we
contemplate that it etn.Is .
perhaiis millions nf other earths
and their inhabitants, lion we
begin lo stand in awe of the in
finite and f-rge n;r pelty gn-u. Ii
for Ihe little shadows that rr--
our own intinite.Miial Iis.
There are manv -un. and in
numerable specks like tin- earth
callered through the univer-...
What w; rail Ihe sim i. really.
says a u' al j.n taken from the
Literary iue. but a itkm.--I
unit amoi g the nullfti- a:l
millions and millions i.f other
suns which we call "stars" lo
calise of tbeir immeasurable dis
tance. .n- jf each of these
allended. as our is. by ei-ht or
nine planets, as in the i-a.. with
Ihe former suns Jupiter a:id
Saturn, the field ,.f J.o. 1 . 1 life
is immense, one miht almost
say iulinite. F.ven if adm.t
ouly a single planet to ea h star
as the seat of prsj,,. lif... tin.
Iie, would still le almost un
limited since the total number of
starts i estimated at t.iI
hundred million. It can scarce
ly be assorted that. nnin.'
a prodigio is number of mi'i. our
own is h only one privileged (
gather life about it.
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All surfs ,f things route out of
New York, the g..... as well a if
bad. There is .n much oi,mt..n
sense in a iiiovemenl for lh
abolition of nl''- Christ m.i
giving and a plea for inlelligeul
and thoughtful giving, stalled bv
Mrs. August Ilelmont and otfo-r
notables of Ihe nol fop. .1 j -. that
he movei lent to make it nation.
wide i commendabii . It strike,
against th.. giving by girls i,-i
lores and factories in Ihejr em
ployers, s often and erroneous!;
consideii'd compulsory. The gi.
iug is a hardship on the girls, and
quile frequently in"l appreciated
by Ihe employers. . of which
recalls the fad lhat employe. ,,f
an Alchi.son man once presenlcl
him wit'i a fancy little table.
which was placed beside his desk
in his private office while he was
Absent. "What Ihe devil is this?"
he roared upon his return after
Chri-finas, as he -lio.-, d aside.
The emp'ove to whom he direct-
ei in,- remark, expiaineo. .vn n!
could say was, "Thank you." hav
ing already showed his hand
Don't undergo hardships to give
Christmas present.
file conscience fund of I lie
Chicago, Milwaukee A. St. Paul
ailroad has been enriched I
cents bv a man who confes,,..
Itial he oe a ride some lime
ago and now wants o spiare u
for it. The a'ent at ddar
Rapids, who received the money.
forwarded if lo Ihe department.
It is a melancholy fact that t !!-.
people who wish to make restitu
tion are only small pilferers. You
never heard of a great rascal who
lole the whole load offering l
make restitution lo Ifie .oek
holdcrs. If this bad been a fa' t
the children of Jay Oould would
now be in the pijorhousc.
The Texans are becoming
somewhat disgusted v.ilh Ih--slowness
of Ihe administration m
the Mexican affairs, and the I.oue
Star governor says: "We will
protect our citieiis from Mi"
greasers." And Covernor CoL
tm i 1 1 is ritflit abnul it. too.
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The merry chae si ill o., on
in lUoody Mejco. with impunity,
and now Tela people on He
border are being hd down every
day. . .
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