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PLATTSWOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
THUHSDAY. KARCH 12. 1314.
Cbc piattsmouth journal
Published aml-Wkly at Plattmouth. Nbr,
Kniiva tt tto IXvavMlUse lUtMiumUi, NVtrV. m wvvMut-ct mU ntftiivrv
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R A. BATES, Publisher
8uborlptlon Prlot S1.SO Pr Ymmr In Adyino
THOUGHT FOR TODAY. -I
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! God Moss thee.
Willi blessings bevond hope
I or thought,
v Willi blessings which no
word can llnd.
Shakespeare.
-:-:-H-H-!-H-Z-I-l-H-f-K-
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The r.onunercial club should
ho ready for booming I hinurs
about Piattsmouth, Tho various
committees should bo orgauied
ami gotten in lino so they can
display thoir hustling it ies,
tiet a move on ou, gentlemen.
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A mothers' club has boon or
ganized at Aurora, and they have
started a crusade to tax unmar
ried men J?o each for the support
of homeless children. The ta is
not high enough to even make
the bachelors of Plattsinoulh
think about marr.ving.
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W. H. Hosier, chairman of the
Lancaster county democratic
committee, is now out for I'nilod
Stale marshal. There arc sev
eral other candidates, but some
one has whispered a word of
cheer into the ear of Hester, So
the olhor candidates- might just
as well slide out of the way.
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There is no doubt about tov
crnor Morehead's magnificent
lecord. He has been a close
student to I he best interests of
the people of Nebraska, lie has
demonstrated what lie could do
as governor in a business way.
Now lei's see what he can do for
the First district in congress.
His constituents would all know
he was there.
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The republicans are silenlly
organizing all over Nebraska,
while the democrats are still
quarreling over the division of
the national patronage. There
are a few democrats in the stale
who seem to think that the ad
ministration at Washington will
pull them through, no matter
what may occur, but it is always
jut such politicians that pet
beautifully left in the outcome.
The democratic party needs re
organization as much as the re
publican factions.
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It relieves the amenities of
political differences to note that
when a vapid sociologist of
Chicago assailed Speaker ('lark
for alleged unfairness as presid
ing ofiicor of the house. Rep
resentative. Mann, leader of the
republican side, and Represent
ative McDonald of Michigan, pro
gressive, as well as many others,
pot right up in congress and dis
proved the. slander. It is no
longer necessary to be a liar ami
a slanderer to be a partisan
politician. Lincoln Star.
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Our old friend IJowIhy certain
ly pours the hot soup into the
howlers, as follows: Some of
the hardshell howlers are nearly
wild over the advance last week
in the prices of fat steers, hogs
and sheep. They see tins fake
importation of beef, pork and
mull on which they have been
building- up as a great scare to
influence the farmer vote, dis
credited by market prices, and
iignin" shout for Coxey to or.
giini.e the hobos. Two or three
of the loudest yawpers are see
ing1 egg from China Hooding" our
markets and selling; for less than
bur own product. Nail this as
another fake to hejp restore the
trust combines to power again.
Wo douT need penny postage
in this country
What about the roads? dot
out your graders.
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Ouit prospecting" and go to
work and ou may llnd a gold
mine.
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The felh.vvs who want olllce
are right now feeling the public
pulse.
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The bigger the graft the more
people are "taken in" for their
money.
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A Plaltsmouth man, it. Is said,
is so lay he lets the wind Mow
his nose.
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Too bad thai a sclf-slarting
attachment can't be arranged by
some fellows in this town.
The "Low Cost of Living" show
will meet in Omaha April 10. Wo
hope they can show us the trick
it is done by.
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Penny postage is not going to
increase salaries of rural route
carriers, who are receiving little
enough pay now.
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What is the use of a man run
ning for ofllee whose own mind
suggests to him that he is not
the proper man for I ho place?
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While Texans celebrated In
dependence hay by rejoicing that
they were no longer under Mexi
can dominion, some doubtless
wished that they might have one
more tight with the "lireasers."
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A Spanish inventor by use of
I he ultra-violet ray has exploded
dynamite buried in the ground
half a mile distant. This might
be a good way to get at lluerta.
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The courts have decided thai
the man is the head of the fam
ily, but we will bet that there are
some men in Piattsmouth who
don't possess the nerve to men
tion the decision to their wives.
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The associated retailers of the
metropolis of Nebraska are to
give a "lower cost of living show"
early in April. Hut they very
wisely refrained from fixing the
dale of the event on the first day
of the month.
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As Hon. W. II. banning de
clines to run for governor, what's
the mailer with him coming to
the front for senator? His record
in that body is as bright as a new
silver dollar and he made for
himself a slate-wide reputation
as a gentleman of great ability.
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Candidates become numerous,
but (Jeorge W. Beige doesn't
seem to gVt scared. He sticks
right to text, and seems lo be
confident. Of course, his plat
form is a lillle loo extensive for
us, ami while it is an utter im
possibility to carry out his entire
platform, yet no one can deny
the fact that he would make a
good governor.
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Our dear old friend, N. M. Pet
tingill, of Memphis, Mo., and
judge of the circuit court, strikes
the right chord and with the
proper ring to it. "The real
town , booster," remarked Judge
Peftingill, as he warmed his
hands by the ofllce lire, "is not
tho strong-lunged, wind-jammer
who makes the most noise at a
Commercial club banquet. He
lives at the place where you llnd
I he snow off the sidewalk on your
way down town,"
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THE DCEF OUTLOOK,
Many people soem to ho as.
tonishod at tho failure of prices
of beef to doc lino They do not
take tho cattle condition suf-
lleicntly into consideration. Lot
us see. Statistics show that the
number vf cattle on farms am
ranges in tho Fnted States it)
creased from 0,000,000 in tSoT
to 08,000,000 in 1V00; but dur
ing tho last twelve years tho in
creased has diminished rapidly
and during the past four years
has shown an actual doorcase in
numbers. Tho number of cattle
has decreased but little; yet the
proportion of cattle to popula
lion was only 75 per cent in 10 to,
compared with 81 per cent in
1800. This decrease has boon
accentuated by tho rapid increase
in population. Now it is true
that tho value of mo cattle in
this country has increased $10,-
000,000 in eight years; yet the
decline in the number of cattle
in proportion to tho population
has reduced the export of meals
from $7 la7,000 to almost nog
ligihlc amount in the same
period. There we have the gen
eral fads that underlie tho beef
situation, and from them it is
impossible to draw any id her
conclusion than that the pros
pect for cheaper beef is not at all
encouraging". Prices may look
enticing to farmers and cattle
men; but it will take some ears,
under the most favorable condi
tions, to brood up tho cattle sup
ply to a point whore the growth
of population will not more than
overbalance the increase in the
number of cattle. The present
tendency to augment tho number
of dairy cows will operate in
some .measure to retard tho in
crease in the number of animals
available for beef. Some relief
has boon expected from importa
tions, especially of beef from
Argentina; but it has alroad
boon proved that tho Argentine
product can barely be brought
here and sold at a prolit in the
port cities and their near vi
cinity. Its quality, however, is
scarcely competitive with Ameri
can beef. Not so much as 5 per
cent of it is grain-fed. It is the
grass-fed product of the Argon
line plains and is necessarily in
ferior to our corn-fed beet, which
constitutes the great bulk of our
consumption and is fairly rated
among the very best in the world.
The inference from facts like
these is plain. Farmers who will
steadily increase, their supply of
meat cattle will not only add to
the fertility of their soil, but will
have, every year some beef cattle
to put on the market at reason
ably profitable prices. There is
nothing in farming in the United
States that is more certain than
lliis. To neglect to sei.e such a
situation would be to neglect xi
visible, papable opportunity.
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The Journal does not believe
there is any man in the city that
can fill the position of mayor
any belter than John P. Saltier.
He has always been alert to the
best interests of Piattsmouth.
There seems to be an almost
unanimous feeling in his interest
and that is a mighty good indica
tion that he has done his duty
most . satisfactorily.
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Our admiration for the Mexi
cans is not enthusiastic, but it
may be that some of tho Ameri
cans in Mexico strut too much
and almost invite trouble. Not
that we know anything 'at all
about Mexico, but we, are merely
judging from the manner in
which some of the Ameericans in
the United States strut.
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The indications are that peo
ple with incomes of $3,000 per
annum and over have been a lit
tle more careful in the matter of
filling out- the income tax blanks
Uncle Sam placed in their hands
than they usually were with the
local assessor. Dealing with
Uncle Sam is certainly a differ
ent proposition.
It will cost V'nclo Sam $Mt-
UU0C; to run tho postoOUv de
partment during the next ttsca
oar. So tho next time you pay
10 cents for a book of two dojten
2-cent stamps, don't begrudge
tho expenditure
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And now it is rumored thai
Metcalfe may bo given tho No
braska colleetorship, and stil
there are many compel out demo
erats who can till the position as
well or better than Metcalfe, am
Chris (irunlher is one of them.
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A professor in tho university
told his class last week that it
was about time for the fanner?
to begin thoir spring plowing
and then the bli..ard descended,
and the worst one of the entire
winter.
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Mr. Addison Wailo is not go
ing to be nominated for see
l clary of stale again without a
hard tussel. Civile Ha in aid is
after his goat, and if he don't got
it, we miss our guess. The voters
are not in favor of keeping a man
in olhYe a lifetime, and Addy has
been there long enough.
-rot-
Villa done a very serious piece
of work when ho done avvav with
William llcuton of F.l Paso, a
Scotch subject of Great Britain.
I'ho rebel general will have to
lay the penalty, if F.ngland has
any way of getting a hold of him.
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That speech of Senator Fall of
New Mexico in the I'nilod States
senate Monday was certainly an
eye-opener. IT what ho relates is
true, the people along the bonier
in this country should certainly
have protection. Hut if he simply
makes these statements because
10 is opposed to president. Wil
son's Mexican policy ami because
splendid opportunity presents
itself to do so, the republican
senator from New Mexico is en
tirely out of order.
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Canada reports a hundred
housand idle men. They are now-
kicking themselves because they
rejected the Taft reciprocity
reaty. They are also complain
ing of their tai i fT as the cause of
their high cost of living. The
act of the matter is, that most
civilized countries are governed
y the rich for the rich. As the
ev el of intelligence . rises higher
he masses are getting a clearer
insight into the common sense of
things that once appeared
Mysterious and beyond the com
mon man s ken.
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Certain beautiful maidens in
rgyle, III., have conspired to set
up standards in men below which
they will not wed. Strange to
say there is not an eugenic re-
luirement among them. The
candidate, to get a look-in, must:
1. He as kind to his wife as her
fathers and brothers were. 2. He
i useful worker and church moni
tor. 3. Not drink at all or smoke
o excess, i. He willing cheer
'ully to pay for wifey's Easier
hat, not grumble over the light
tills, not stay out late at night
and then come home with a lying,
musty excuse, or question her
explanations when home things
don't go to suit. 5. Kiss her
goodby in the morning not as if
he were doing a tiresome duly,
but soulfully, as if he meant it.
G. Share home responsibilities,
even to night-walking the floor
with baby; and 7. dive mother-in-law
as hearty a welcome as he
would to his own mother. Great
Scott, girls, how arc you going to
know all this in advance? You
can't trust what the candidates
will promise; for at that stage
all men are liars. And even in
this land. of easy divorce it might
prove embarrassing to have so
many trial marriages. Hut slop!
We have it. Choose widowers.
Take no chances on any male
biped who hasn't been through
the paces and establish a reputa
tion for form. You will find
plenty of them
Barkis.
as willing as
PUBLISHING GOOD NEWS.
A St. Louis elergvman and
St, Louis newspaper have recent-
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iy expresses ino vvisu inai goowi
actions might receive more pun-
tieity than bad ones. Tho w ih is
shared by many people, including
publishers, but reflection shows
tho plan is not altogether prao -
lieablo. lhore are two reasons
for this. One is that good ao -
nous are so general i m.m u wouiu
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ill.
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ifv iiiimissiimih, I'ujMriiiii, io
pumisii mom an. Hie other is
ah . .
mai accounts oi gooq aciions,
unless they are strikingly un-
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iiii.ii, ,ii not i. i t',iuuie ,n
counts or abnormally had actions.
A newspaper could not run a list
of all tho husbands who kisseed
thoir w ives after breakfast. The
list would bo too long and IhcyKtm.i. tioxernor M, .reload vwll
would grow monotonous. Hut the -
husband that blackens the eve of
his wife or smashes dishes oer
her head furnishes what the
world calls "news." Why an ac
count of a light in which some
one is fatally slabbed is more in
teresting than a verbatim report
of a praver mooting is a problem
for the psychologist to wrestle
with. Hut the publisher is con
fronted wilh the fact.
, newspaper oouhl mo run a
list of automobilists who have
run nobody down during the day.
but it can keep track of the ae-
idents. It cannot keep track of
tho thousands of ails of kind
ness performed every day, but it
can recite the striking acts of
cruelly. When a young woman
concludes to devote her life to
conversion of the heathen of
darkest Africa, the fact becomes
1 news item. Hut for some rea
son the story of her decision is
not as interest mi; as the account
f a woman who pours rat poison
into her husband's coffee. There
are certain heroic or ohilan
Ihropie acts that are of a char
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o,e, ,0 an.use u.Me.s. o.m-.csi.
lud sueh acts receive due alien-
lion front the newspapers. Mr.
Ford has won as much publicitv
y his profit-sharing plan for his
emplovos as be could have secur-
d by murdering his mothcr-in-avv.
The signal herosim and
self-sacrilico shown in the resume
of helpless people at sea have
teen given wide publicily and the
'thrills" in the reports show the
newspaper workers' joy
in
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uronicung- Mini gio, ,oUs oee.,.
Hut the fact remains that nor-
mal things do not make news,
The statesman who is merely
safe and sane from the very
nature of things does not attract
he attention drawn by the man
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driking things. The "freak" n,,t because it is President Wil
tills introduced in a legislature son, but becaues ho is right,
eceive many limes the publicity ;q;
riven bills that are sensible,
'ven as Ihe person who dresses
oudly or fanlasically attracts
more attention than the person
of modest lasles. Hy bearing in
mind these fads, which are root-
d in human nature, one may
save himself from forming hasty
pessimistic conclusions from the
ollection of world-wide news
served him before breakfast.
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Senator Harlling hints that he
may be a candidal' for re-elec-
lion. The republicans of Cass
ounly seem lo think the.y'are en-J
titled to the candidate for sena-
tor this year.
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Fred CSorder has been nomin-
aled for the. tenth time for mayor the harvest. Last year the farin
of Weeping Waler. Fred is all ers of Nebraska turned almost
wool and a yard wide when it failure into success by heeding
comes to administering good the advice of testing their seed
government. before planting. It should not be
. ,,. . neglected this year, and now is
The Iowa proposal that the the lime to get started before the
governor and chief justice of the actual time for beginning the
supreme court appoint all the spring work out in the field. A
rest of the stole o flic ers and all campaign by newspapers, rail
other judges was not suggested roads and agriculture colleges
by Alexander Hamilton, but by ami departments should not be
the followers in the principles necessary, but we all are liable
that Hamilton wanted adopted to become careless and take
over a hundred years ago. The things for granted if they look
American people are not ready all right on the surface, so Him
yet to turn the affairs of govern- annual reminder at this time of
nient over to' the few. the year is not out of place.
The eagerness of folk under
ago to get married contra!
aktnkingly with the reluctance of
their elders.
Hlair added one hundred metn-
h,ors t,, t;,o Commercial club
recently. And Hlair is only about
I hair n,o size of PlaMm uth.
j ;o
d:mi:i:e suit against a muni-
1 oipalily becaue it failed to pro
m..j a new v wedded Coun'e from
a charivari molt reveals me a
tonishing fact that the charivari
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exists elsewhere than in the
spelling book.
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-pi,,, r. tlows who want io.vei
noi. M.itehead to run again for
.-overiiot- n..l :.. Ii..l the nnr
knit, had just as well save their
h,,, u candidate for oongres in
llu, j.-irsl ditricl, where ho ha
Mixed for some ttiirl-tive vears
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Clifford Pinchot has proved by
olVering himelf for the en.it
in Penusyhanii that a citien o
one state may gel coniruoltt
residence in another and do 1110
anv thing he is willing to spem
his money for. That was Ihe way
San Franci.co millionaires rep
lesented Nevada in the senate fo
many years.
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(ioveruor Mot'ehead for eon
gres ami lion, vv . n. Itanium:
for senator. That would look
mighty good lo us. One of tlo
et governors tne slate over ha
and one of the best senators that
ever sat in the senate chamber
The governor would retbet credit
upon tho First district, while Mr
Hanuing has been tried in tho
enate and not found wanting.
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McKelvie is determined to go
his name on the ticket for uover
nor, 11 posii!e, altinmuli he 1
till lieutenant governor. II
(M,sn say hwU jj.j
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joau
. " 1 c " ' 1 t ill 1 l ' l 1 i (inn l 1 I'tltr
or bull moose perhap
h)0j,
We never heard of a man
o persistent in running for gov
ernor, .vtavfte he has something
up his sleeve.
President Wilson has won out
in his struggle to have Uncle Sam
retrace a few crooked slops
lak,.n um,op :i inis,ake.i impres-
sion, so far as the first stage of
prm-eedings js concerned.
'ihe committee did well and four
republican members of it aided
in ,L, cause, holding the intogritv
,,f the country as to its treaty
negotiations of higher value than
partinsanship. It is still a hard
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tignt, ii : the president will win
The senate ha., passed the
largest appropriations bill ever
to meet the approval of cither
house of congress, when it sent
Id conference the imslotlice
measure, carrying J?31 1 , SI2.0t7.
an increase of nearly .8 10,000
nVer the bill as it was reported by
t ti poslolllce committee. AH cf-
forts fo limit Ihe power of the
postmaster general to regulate
parcel post rales, zones or
weights were defeated.
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Wilh Ihe coming of March.
spring and seed time are not far
dislant. It will soon be time to
plant grain, and upon the care
and clliciency of the seed depends
in large measure the result of
MONTY TALKS.
Hill
uiidiv ,;,; Jj."'o ! r
I'.htim: th devil m P. its'.
and some pe pU s'.i'i r at th..
unuituvlfut of the f.-.vt that t!t-bible-
expro! s.i "'sile -rv
is worthy ,f hi hire." 11 u- vtr.
here come Will; It:'.," hie. L-M-wetwht
ohati'p.oii of I!p w..-. f.
Who expect to le.in l u M'1' 1
durimr the r.-xt . i-ht m. r.tli.
ha planned a oro-. of f.t.e
combats f.r which to i
anteed :L0O a r.u:;d. So.
f.r thirty minute- work. It w;l
thu be seen that it paj bt Ur
to serve the devil Cum to I.-:.',
him. The evan-eiit xork a
hard as the pu-ih-t. After
of his tltssje- Willi the d vil l'.:i!
has to be rubbe, down. p'.ld
otf and put l bed. Wfh the -a;i e
cure that the pugilit rce;vc.
and he work fop b - pa a: d
longer hour, of o..ure HiM
"out for the tu:r." but f.-r that
matter so is eveiv it .!;. e!e. A
long a tie pul i:p an attractive
show, pei ple will atte:;d. applaud
him and chip into hi bat when
he paes it around. They .i: 1
that Itill couldn't make a:y i:n
prciott in Pit tsleir-'. but it
seems lie did. ;Kd i enua--d i
plvimr his v., ...pel t!.ii :u,d
threshing out hi r-h--.t:
wloat.
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The "winter of i;r di-co-ib iit"
i gradually drawmu t- a cl
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Senator i;..re may b. Hind, b it
he put "I see"' l th.- t kl i!i !t:a
conspiracy.
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H all the devil's device f T
defeating Lent tlie t..:: eem
luot successful.
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Senator Stone ,f Miouri -uc
c edd the late Sei:ati p Itac a ,.f
t'ootgia as chairman of the sen
ate committee on fo;ei-n rela
tions. Now i Ihe
road grader
time lo get c
before .'ur
in earnest.
ut the
spring
The
work begins
roads are
tie,di::g attention
right now.
to:
Ami why should md the b reign
relations committee a lour
ing to Felix lMaz? lii sbr of
why and Imw he got ..i;t, of Mexico
should be interesting.
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liynamite, buried in the earth.
Can be exploded ,y Use of the
ultra-viob-t ia from a distance
of half a mile. In course .f time
a war will not last over a dav
or so.
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The man who left hi sweet
heart Twenty year ag fo a, -
cumulate a fortune an.! found t-r
married when he returned must
KlVe overlooked the spbndld
postal facilitic
this fountrv en-
joys.
It will have to be ad.iiilled that
the Mexicans are furnishm-- a
sure enough revolution. peon
are ruling in ontomol.jles v.mle
the wealthy ela.es cither walk
r hide out.
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Ceneral Felix Iia wants !
make it a three-handed revolu
tion in Mexico. am! :iet, llo
Fiiiled Stales to stand b him in
lis ell'oris. Hut Fuel,. Sam i pot.
Joing that kind of bu- ine
to t
While marrying for in,,M,.y
frequently deplored, there would
be more suuaw rn.-r. ir n..r..
were more s.puiws li.-din.-l to in-
ient the earth in
ecfioU al.'i-
merits Yi-f l
'Si-t there are rare or
casions when sens,, and .ii':
inent go hand in ham! :iu. i,.:i .v
i man has tnairied fop i io: ey
ind found th- tax f oo!!.-.-t in g
so -real that Hoy pref.-rred to
eturi! lo arduous tod. And wo n
n a!o have ,,,t th,-m .-! . i;!
i highly respectable manner only
fo learn lt.:ii u,..,- , 1 i ,1 ..
price too b.w. After which lire
rouble of Unt kind. gnu a
arge grm Cf satisfaction.