The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, August 10, 1914, Page PAGE 4, Image 4
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, AUOU8T 10, 1914. , PAGE 4. T,bz plattsmoutb foumal Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, N e b r. Entered at the Tostofflce at riattsmouth, Nebraska, as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Subscription Prloe; S1.50 Per Year In Advanoe i THOUGHT FOR TODAY A beautiful girl is one J- lu is pretty ami does not v J. know it. Selected. 4 mmmtmA ..?...;.. rI-'-!" I ::- Wheat is like the ague; it flares up eery other day. :o: President W ilson lias issued his proclamation uf neutrality. A little bare-laced lib often grow up to big ball-headed lie. :o: Never mind, boys, it will be all uer with some of you in about ten day. If flirtation is a co-educational institution this old town ought to be full of diplomas. :o: Many a man knows what he would do in the other fellow's place, but never reaches' the place. : o : Kind words are sometimes lost if she puts them in a letter and gives the letter to husband to Jiiaij. -:o:- lieat Britain has finally de clared war against Germany. Evidently the Fatherland will have .something doing. :o: While the czar will take com mand of his army, quite likely, there isn't much likelihood that he will pet in range .f the kaiser's artillery. :o: More trouble in Mexico. Villa lias virtually declared his in dependence from the Carranza go eminent. This means more lighting-, of course. :o: You have in all probability noticed that the fellow who does the hardest boosting: generally boosts for himself, and wants everybody else to do the same. :o: 'ot many slice) are raised around here, but the price of wool ha actually increased from 18 to L'-J cents a pound since the demo cratic tariff bill went into eHect putting wool on the free list. :o: It is reported that George Berge and his friends are preparing a .scathing article in reply to the. recent article by H. I,. Metcalfe in reference to Berge. It is danger ous for those living in glass houses to throw .-tones. Berne evidently lias something- up his slci-e that will cut to the quick. :o : The merchant who advertises is one who has faith in his goods. If a mercnant advertises a certain article, you may be sure that he will stand back of that article, for his business reputa tion is at .stake, hence it follows that a merchant would not ad erlise pour goods, for to do so would jeopardize bis standing-. :o: You are acquainted with the fellow wlio is constantly knocking aren't you. But did you ever see liim or hear of him doing- any thing' 1o belter the conditions he criticises? We haven't. The chronic knocker and every com munity has its share of them is a detriment to a neighborhood and the city, particularly when li'is criticism is directed toward the city. There are few things jjioiv discouraging; than to hear a person speak disparagingly of the city in-which tie lives. Now that Great Britain has turned the lions loose among the dogs of war, some roaring may be expected. :o: .'o one unless a subject of either of the nations now at war, and who has declared his inten lion to become an American citizen, can leave this country for the purpose of enlisting" in the army of the warring- countries. :o: The only way the demand of the girl members of the Bathing Suit-makers' Union for higher wages can no complied wiin is toy increasing prices. l ne amount of clolh in a suit has already been reduced to the minimum. :o: Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president, is so seriously ill that her life is despaired of. Every American citizen extends sym pathy to our noble president, with the sincere hope that she may yet recover. P. S. Since the foregoing-, Mrs. Wilson passed away last evening at 5 o'clock. :o: We have conversed with numerous traveling men in the past two weeks, and the most of them travel the slate over, and they seem to be of one opinion that Governor Morehead will be nominated by a large plurality. Some of these men have taken great pains to inquire as to the standing of the democratic candi dates, as well as the republican candidates. They say that in the central and western part of the state Senator Kemp of Fullerton will sweep the platter. :o : 'I was never before proud of a democratic administration, but to-day I am proud of the admin istration at Washington." said a prominent Omaha banker Mon day, lie was commenting on the steps being- taken by President Wilson, Secretary McAdoo ami a democratic congress to do what ever is necessary to safeguard American finances; to insure that will carry our goods, under our own flag, to foreign markets where the demand will be im mense: to furnish an abundance of currency to all sections of the country, and to make certain that American, business and a bound less American prosperity will not be endangered by the cataclasm threatening to engulf Europe World-Herald. :o: While complaining of hard times last, year and demanding that everything be reformed the American people participated in the following extravagances : We spent i?8, 100,000 for cigarettes; drank 70,000,000 gallons of whis ky, not counting the oceans of beer and other alcoholic bever ages; chewed :J5,000,000 worth or gum; ate -'JO, 000, 000 worth of candy, and drank enough "coke" to build several Chicago sky scrapers. :o: Dr. William Osier recently made the statement that DO per cent of the people have tubercu losis in some form, and Dr. Johu B. Murphy, the celebrated surgeon of Chicago, says Dr. Osier forgot to add the more important fact that 98 per cent of the 90 per cent recover. Dr. Murphy's, idea of a cancer cure is to:stop it be fore it begins. So many things which tend to cancer, he says, announce themselves months and months before the cancer ap pears that prevention is compar atively easy. They sowed, we reap. In the face of an impending world conflict the United States is today in a better position than any of the great powers of the world. Whence comes it that with the world trembling- with the threat of war, this country feels secure? inqquires the Chi cago Herald. Why is not the Uni ted States one of the reluctant nations that may be drawn into conflict that it would give almost anything" to avoid? It conies from the wise policy inaugurated at the beginning" of this govern ment. It comes from constant adherence to the spirit and the letter of the weighty counsel of George Washington that we hould have no "entangling alli ances with other nations. Ger many wants no war, but her al- ianee with Austria drags her into it. France wants no war, but the alliance with Russia may embroil her. England wants no war, but lite entente coruiale may bring her into conflict. The outstanding; fact of the Euro pean situation today is that lour great nations that do not want war may too dragged into it toy their alliances. The outstanding- fact of tin; American situa tion today is that we don't want war and there is no probability of our having- it. How different it would be if we had an offensive tnd defensive alliance with Eng- and! What possibility of being forced into a war with which we had no sympathy, a war begun on grounds whollv disproportioned o the tremendous consequences that may ensue! At limes, in our pride of progress, the wisdom of the fathers seems weak. We think of it as largely unsuited to the exigencies of a newer time. as tne product of men wan a necessarily narrower outlook than ours. Then a situation like the present one rises, a situation whose bisness is only matched y the bigness of the men who mticipated and provided against just such a contingency over a uiiHired years aero. w e re alize that a great principle has jeen handed down to us that is worth millions in men and bil ious in money. Seldom, it ever, las tne modern statesman as- ended the lofty peak of patriot ic vision which George Washing ton ascended when he gave Amer ica its wisest watchword "No entangling- alliances." :o:- The Journal office was invaded Wednesday afternoon by three emocratic candidates, consisting of our own candidate for slate senator, Hon. John Mattes, Will M. Maupin, candidate for railroad ommissioner, of Lincoln, and Ion. J. W. McKissick, of Beatrice, andidate for commissioner of public lands and buildings. They are all genial fellows and the pro per thing- can lie said that they are all well qualified for the posi tions to which they aspire, and opposed to university removal. :o: Doc Tennal, who ever he is, says a local newspaper is half a public utility and that some day editors may be selected by the people. Hardly half, Ualph. A newspaper is no more a public utility than is a grocery store or a meat market, a public utility enjoy some special favor from the public at large. A railroad has the right of eminent domain, and can cut through your farm or town lot if it wants to. Street railways, water, telephone and telegraph companies use the streets and therefore are deeply indebted to the people for the franchise enjoyed. A news paper, on the contrary, serves the public. It boosts the towir in which it is printed by locking the closet and keeping: the good foot forward. If people were to select Iheir editors we wouldn't have a job, and therefore rail at the suggestion. The state railway commission has reduced all class freight rates :o: If reason always ruled, pre dictions about the European dif ficulty would be safer. :o: - There are 32,913- automobiles assessed in Nebraska this year, compared with 29,5 i3 in 1913. :o: With the plunging- of Great Britain into the war the map of Europe grows blacker and blacker to: The German-Russian club of Lincoln, numbering several hun dred, has endorsed the candidacy of Malt Goring for congress. :o: Every republican candidate for congress is claiming" the nomina tion. Every one of them will be sadly disappointed but one. And that one? We say Matt Gering. :o: General Miles told a New York audience last Sunday, "Americans are fortunate to be m tins coun try, walled in by two great oceans. in a laud tilled wilh prosperity and peace. :o: In voting- at the primary for justice of the supreme court don't forget G. J. Hunt, a gentleman eminently well titled for tin; posi tion. He is considered one of the ablest lawyers in Nebraska. :o: Frederick A. Delano of CJii- cao has been appointed and has accepted a place on the federal reserve board. Mr. Delano is best uiown in the west as former gen- ral superintendent of the Bur ington railroad. :o: Candidates should not get too ontldent of the result of the pri mary, llemcnibcr there is many i slip in these primary elections, ind you must keep going- to keep our fences in good shape. This advice is free, but from one- that knows. :o; i ieorge Berge denies the allega tions made by It. E. Metcalfe in his recent effusion. Mr. Beige says he supported Metcalfe in every election he ran for office. For truth and veracity George Beige's reputation has never been questioned. :o: Governor Morehead is very busy now campaigning through out the state, and is making bush els of friends in every section. The best evidence of the standing of candidates for governor is de cidedly in favor oT the governor everywhere. :o: Discussion of the responsibility for war on this side of the water are futile, for it is something that nobody knows very much about. Journalists who undertake to fix the blame on the scant evidence at hand are taking- chances of doing great wrong and offending a great many readers. Lincoln Star. :o: Here is a little mailer of in terest for young people of mar riageable ege: One smile makes a flirtation, a flirtation makes two acquainted, two acquainted makes one kiss, one kiss makes several more, several more an engagement, an engagement makes two fools, two fools make a marriage, a marriage makes two mothers-in-law, and two nuith-ers-in-law make a. red hot time. :o:- Chris Grunther will be appoint ed revenue collector, but will Jim Dahlman be appointed postmaster at Omaha? He couldn't deliver the goods when, he promised to deliver the Douglas county dele gation over to Keinble for sec retary of the state committee, a.i he" promised Midget Allen ho would do. The Douglas county delegates were for Senator Hitch cock, and of course for Sprague of York, who was elected committee secretary at the late Columbus convention. METCALFE VS. BERQE. Personalities have thus far been avoided by the republicans in their discussion of gubernator ial candidates, or at least of their own gubernatorial candidates. Democrats have not been so for tunate in that respect, and there is some cause for apprehension that conditions in the democratic ranks will get worse instead of better, in spite of the fact that the democratic state convention in its platform declared with unmis takable emphasis that all three of the democratic candidates are good men and that members of the party are to be congratulated for the opportunity they enjoy of voting for anv one of the three. Some rare bitter things have been said by one of the demo cratic candidates and his friends about the other two, and a re sponse jjy lr. .uelealle lia.- aroused tne ire oi some ol .Mr. Beige's lieutenants, to the end that a response is promised. It will be forthcomfng shortly, so that mention of it is permissible here. Just now attention is being turned to the former bull mouse and evidences are -being sought of the wooing of "Met" by the bull moosers during" the progress oi the last national campaign. It is common knowledge thai along about the lirst of August two years ago .Mr. .Melcalle was vis ited in Lincoln by an agent of ome of the national leaders of the bull moose party and urged to take the editorship of a magazine that was to be esiamisneii as an organ oi me toosevelt parly, and his friends understood that he had accepted the offer and was about to quit the Commoner and go into the bull loose journalistic service. For some reason the negotiations failed, and instead Mr. Metcalfe later went to Washington and copped out one of the best jobs the new democratic administra tion had to bestow. It is also a matter of common knowledge that while Hie Ihird party convention was in session in Chicago, after it had been de termined that the Roosevelt re publicans would cut loose from the republican party and nomin ate a ticket of their own, a com mittee of prominent Roosevelt men went from this cily to Chi cago to secure the nomination of Mr. Metcalfe as vice-president on the ticket with Mr. Roosevelt. The imminence of Mr. Met calfe's turning- bull moosei is well known among his friends in Lin coln and possibly among- his enemies as well. In fact, at one time it was given out in Lincoln while the third parly convention was in session in Chicago, that Richard L. .Metcalfe was to be its vice-presidential nominee. Why the project to secure his nomin ation failed has never been re counted, but J. L. McDrien, then the accredited Roosevelt repre sentative in this stale, but now connected with the national edu cational bureau, could probably tell why, as he was the head of the Nebraska movement to secure Mr. Metcalfe's nomination. Some of the democrats are now hunting evidence of the immi nence of Mr. Metcalfe' accession to the bull moose parly, but evi dences that are any more tangi ble than rumor arc hard to se cure. And even if there were evidence, it would probably ac complish little, because whatever lack of fidelity Metcalfe may then have shown to the democratic parly has been cured and atoned for since, as the national admin lislration has put the seal of its approval upon his brand of dem ocracy in no uncertain way. Lin coln Star. :o: Then are 918,183 horses on Nebraska farms, according ,0 lifcures just compiled by the board of asricuclliire. Last year there were 917,7 13 -listed. vr v ALCOHOL 3 PEU CENT. ANSclaUe Preparation IbrAs simitatin Mod Millfegtia ting L'ic Sionmclis andBovcIsof Proroofcs Di3(ionJCIiernjI ness and Rsst.Contalns nciiiicr Opiuiu.Morphuic nor Mineral Pot Nad co tic. Ptzrpkui Seed" jti: Sr.tiit Sis:Srnl J'yrrnaf Ji.lurtu.iLfe&tia Arwfcct Rernedv for Consfira- nr.n . Snur Str.mnch Diarrhoea "Vcrr.is,CoiTTilsioTis.FcTrisb- ness andLoss OF SLEEP. rac Simile Signaturecf I ?iIE C'EXTAUn COMPAK2J NEW YOHK. X"4 M220 Guaranteed under tlic frootla jf'v. Exact Copy of Wrapper. .Viwrf- Hi PLATTSHOUTH FORTY YEARS AGO Items of Interest to Our Readers Gleaned from the Newspaper Files of Many Years Ago. Rev. J. M. Adair will deliver two sermons at Mt. Pleasant next Sunday niorninjr and evening, in the M. E. church there. Mrs. Hays, daughter of post master Marshall, left for Boston last week to complete a musical education. May she most fully and successfully succeed. Henry Xewham of "Wisconse,"' an old acquaintance of the Her ald's, bas been vi-dtinjr us lately and tal e a Herald home. Wo acknowledge wilh thanks the receipt of some very fine but ter from Mrs. Ben Drost. We know she never learned to make that at old Brownell. Mr., forest f eastern Iowa, piloted by his brother-in-law, Mr. Joe (.iilmour, made a short call upon the Herald. Very sorry we were not to receive him. Our honest, ellicient and good looking" postmaster, Captain Mar shall and wife, are east on a visit to pa and ma in Iowa. Thing seem lonesome 'round the P. O. without them and the "cuckoo" .-ings no more. Miss Lelia Simpson is at Coun cil Bluffs, and has a line class in music. We most sincerely hope Miss Lelia will have a grand suc cess in the profession she has chosen for herself, and in which she has already credit. gained so much The body uf an unknown man was found floating down the river Tuesday by some of the machine shop boys. They brought his body to shore ami the coroner's jury set on it. There was no means of identifying it so it was buried at the county's expense. A man by the name of Win. Williams was drowned in the Missouri on Friday. He was coming down on a raft from the upper country with a man named Poller, and when opposite the mouth of the Platte was drowned. The raft belonged to McGuiro & Curtis. Tuesday we visited Mr. Way man's new foundry, which he has about completed and ready for work. Everything looks in "per fect order and we have no doubt thai he will make his new invest ment pay handsomely. In fact, he has lots of work now engaged. In connection with this Way man has quite an extensive machine shop, where they make boilers, si earn pipes, smokestacks, en gines and almost anything you rant that any other establishment of like kind tunid out. it I I ft II IB I I jlhlal 1 1 1 i r- ------ " - - SCeaT . I r::q 15) JU For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years THE C(HTAUH COMPANY. NCW VON CITY Mr. Maxwell, an Iowa man, took a large surveying party from this place Monday. Fred Dorrington was of the party, also Johnny Marshall, Frank Skinner, two of the Sprague boys. Joe Fairfield and some others. They go to sur vey and subdivide the Otoe and other Indian reservations. Outrage at Eight Mile drove. A few evenings ago as Prof. Hawk ins, a blind lecturer, was examin ing a lady's head two young roughs came in and with much bluster look down a picture frame or something and hit Mr. Hawkins on the head with it, and then with considerable noise left the house. E. C Schmidt, a (Jernian. resid ing in Mt. Pleasant, committed an assault and battery on the person of J. Kainm, after using a pitch fork for awhile be was seized with tiie desire to terminate the melee with the aid of a shotgun, but the beloved Schmidt was not steady enough in nerve to shoot as straight as members of our shoot ing club, and Kainm was spared to his family. We are desired to announce that the smallpox has entirely disappeared from Louisville, and there is no possible danger in go ing there lo trade. Dr. Waterman is well and attending to his pati ents. Xoyes is kicking around as usual and "kalkulates" in make ."(, 000 on wheat this fall. All the rest of the good people of Louisville are on their taps and waiting for the results of harvest to develop themselves. Infection and Insect Bites Dangerous. Mosquitoes, Hies and other in sects, which breed quickly in garbage pails, ponds of stagnant water, barns, musty places, etc., are carriers of disease. Every time they bite you they inject poison into your system from which some dread disease may result. Get a bottle of Sloan's Liniment. It is antiseptic and a few drops will neutralize the in fection caused by insect bit us or rusty nails. Sloan's Liniment disinfects Cuts, Bruises and sores You cannot afford to be without. it in your home. Money back if not satisfied. Only L'Dc at your druggist. Editor L. J. Mayileld of the Louisville Courier came down this morning on No. i to look alter some matters at the court house. How's This? Wo offer On Hundred Dollars Upward for snj rase of Cstarra that cauuot lx; cured bf Hall satarrb Cure. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. We, tlie onderMirtied, have known V. J. rhi.ne, iv.r tm Ihki 13 VL-ur. and Im-i.cvc hint tKTfectljr bmiur.ble In all businesH trannuetlutf nd lltiaurlall? able to curry out anr ublitfutlon made by bis firm. w,tt ToI.-Uj. Olilo. Hall's Catarrh C'ire Is til;n Intpruall-.. aetlr.t directly upon tbe blood ul unicm surfaces tbf Klt lit. li-!!lno:l!:iH l-Mil in-H. ITU'V wttt- lr l-ottl". 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