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PAGE 4. PLATTS MOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1014. Cbe piattsmoutb journal Published Seml-Wookly at Plattemouth, Nebr. Entered at the Tostoffice at riattsmoutb. Nebraska, as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher Subscription Prioe; S1.50 Per Year In Advanoe There is no aDatenrent ' in the news from Europe. -:o:- AA.!. 4- THOUGHT FOR TODAY. Women are far nearer nature than men; so near indeed, that one suspects that the inventor of the su ji.Tlieial proprieties was not Mrs. drundy, but her hu-band. Edward Verrall Lucas. :o:- If yuu aren't a fault-mender you have no riyht to be a fault finder. :o : Traveling- in Europe is almost as dangerous now as in Yellow Park. :o: And you will also be asked to 'forget tlie war and remember the primaries. :o : Matt tiering is improving each 'shining hour." for his chances for 'congress. :o : Tin.' war news is so pretgres ve that it is dittieult to keep up with it editorially. One week from today then comes the "tug of war" with the ballots. :o: The railroads are showing commendable promptness in put ting the new freight rates in force. :o: Now is the psycological mom ent for Mr. Bryan to leap to the front and deliver his celebrated lecture entitled "The Prince of Peace." Hogs are soaring. iou pay from 3 to 5 cents more per pound for pork now. :o: Have you stopped to consider what the war in Europe will do to the Panama-Pacific exposition? :o: After all the United Stales may be compelled to eat its surplus of wheat because it has no merchant marines. :o: -:o: Everyone, apparently, concedes to (Jermany the distinction of the world's greatest army, but the sea is large and damp and some thing may happen there. :o: It is a hard matter to knock out Gumshoe Bill Stone in Mis souri. He has been renominated for United States senator by a large majority, lie is a friend of the common people. .o ; Only oik- iiinnr Sunday until the primary. The last Sunday i always the best to "get in your work," boys We know whereof we speak. :o: They say ligures won't lie, but we are a little suspicious of the statement that the European war is costing irfty-four million dollar.- a day. -:o: -:o:- The di-iat' gration of the ?o-eiali-.f mo finent in France and iermany .-hows that the Jove of cuniry is -tronger than po litical theories. :r : The people who growl about h i( weather are usually the same ones who kick because it is too dry to ripen the corn crop. :o : The discovery of a serum cure of bubonic plague is announced. If one would be immune to all disea.-es he mu-t become a walk ing drug store. :o: The people of Ihis country spend millions for cooling drinks in hot weather, but it is too much trouble to stop the horse to give liiru a drink at the watering trough. :o : The Metcalfe band wagon did not head the procession four years ago when Jim Dahlman was the democratic candidate for governor. Neither did he resist getting out and canvass ing the slate against the demo cratic standard-bearer. Met calfe, jf nominated, will be de feated worse, than Dahlman was. Mark that prediction, will you? :o: "Put it Hack" Porter, he who was at one time secretary of state, and who has been trying to "get in' ever since he was "put out." is now going over the stale in the interests of George Berge, said the other day that if Govern or Morehead was nominated he would be defeated at the Novem ber election, ami by democratic votes. Porter knows this is a false statement, and in making it he is nol helping George- Berge's ..'iiahce in the least. The rank and file of the democratic voters ar for Governor Morehead, be cause they know he is "safe and sane" on tverything that interests the lavp.-iyjrs of Nebraska. Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, was good to his employees when he divided up his profits with them. Be is good to the public when he brings automobiles down to the poor man's price. :o: The opportunity of the demo crats of Cass county is next Tues day. It is with them to nominate a ticket that can be elected in No vember, or nominate one that will partly or all be defeated. Which -hall it be? The democrats are the fellows to decide. :o: The competency of any of the candidates running for nomina tions in. Cass county is not to be questioned from any quarter. Any of them would conduct the business entrusted to them in office as frugally and sensibly as they would their own private business. All of them are hon est and faithful to a trust. : o : Honestly, democrats, do you think it would be good politics to defeat Governor Morehead at the primary? He has given the state one of the best administrations in the history of Nebraska, and it v.oubj prove suicidal to throw him overboard and place the party press in an unenviable position of explaining away such action of the party. :o: Some democrats insist that the defeat of the democratic party in Nebraska this year would be to discredit the admin istration of President Wilson. If this be so, then would it not be equally as discreditable to Gov ernor Morehead's administra tion to defeat him for a renomin ation for a second term? And, not only that, but would his de feat embarrass the balance of the democratic state ticket? Democrats should consider this before the primaries, Tuesday, August 18. :o: Americans can now appreciate more fully the wisdom and Ghris that spirit that have actuated President Wilson's efforts to maintain peace on the American continent. The United States might have made war upon Mex ico and found justification in the judgment of the world, but who among us that does not feel the keenest sense of pride in the fact that this country was big enough and wise enough to avoid a war with Mexico? All of which is due to the level-headness of our noble president, Woodrow Wilson. Chicago claims to be the clean est of the largest cities of the United States. Not so! Platls mouth is it. :o: While the other two candidates are mussing among themselves, and occasionally slurring the best governor Nebraska has ever had. Governor Morehead goes right on sawing wood, visiting various sections of the state, and making new friends wherever he goes, lnere is not the slightest doubt as to his re-nomination. :o: W. B. Price is making a strong campaign for the democratic nomination for congress, and from reports over the district he is liable to down the silent stales- man. Mr. Price is an able gentle man and will make a reputation in congress that will reflect credit upon the people of the First district. The children of the district will even know the name of their congressman, because they will all learn that Mr. Price is there. He will prove a moving spirit in that body and be a man among men. -:o:- All that was mortal of Mrs. Wilson, "the first lady of the land," was laid away in the silent tomb at her childhood home in Home, Georgia, Tuesday. The While house will not be the same to President Wilson any more. While it will comfort him to re ilect that the dear companion of his youth was spared to see her three daughters grow up into fine young women and to see her hus band chosen to the highest post of honor within the gift of man, he will vainly wish that he was back with her and the three girls at Seagirt, leading a life of care free companionship with each other. The fact that the presi dent has kept this sorrow to him self and has gone about his serious work without a murmur or a hint as to his domestic worry is striking evidence of his self resistant, his devotion to the public weal and his fine sense of propriety and responsibility. :o: Hon. John J. Guslin, present representative of Cass county, was in the city Monday evening and gave the Journal a very pleasant call, and we found him the same genial John Gustin. And, by the way, we owe Mr. Gus tin an apology, and right now is the proper time to make it. A few weeks since, in mentioning his filing for re-election, we stated that he was somewhat late in coming out and had waited too long for doing so, and intimated that he should not have done set. Mr. Gustin filled the bill two years ago as well as any man ever sent to the legislature from this county, and with the experience of one term will enable him to do much more good in the next ses sion. His many 'friends in the county have been very insistent in his coming out this time a great deal more so than they were two years ago simply because he has performed his duties faithfully, and they know he will do so again. It has been custom ary to re-elect a member of the legiNature where he has made himself acceptable to his con stituents, and the Journal feels free to say that Mr. Gustin has done this. , WOODROW WILSON. Sorrow's crown of sorrow is pressed down upon the brow of Woodrow Wilson. In the midst of a turmoil ol labors for the clamoring interests of his own country, for the salva tion of Europe, for the welfare of all humanity, he is called upon to suffer a loss the most irreparable, a grief the most poignant, that can come to man. The tender sympathy of all mankind will be with him as he stands by the bier of his wife and helpmate. It will abide with him as lie turns, iro.i; lis own desolation, to play what, part one man may in abating and avoiding the threatened desola tion of a world that looks Lo him a the brightest and most hope ful star in its firmament. President Wilson has the con solation of knowing that his wife vvent from him after his life and hers, had been crowned with the highest honors. He lias the con solation of knowing that, before she went, her's had been the woman's glory of standing by her husband's side while he was giv ing to his country and to the rate services that were priceless and that will enshrine his name in the hearls of good men and women throughout the ages. The wife and helpmeet could die with a smile upon her lips and sweet pride and a vast content within her heart. Ellen Louise Wilson did not die until she had been privileged to see her own country set high upon an eminence, with its light of hope and of example shining as a beacon to the sorrow-laden mil lions of countries lhat are op pressed with war. She did not die without knowing lhat it was thanks lo him, her husband, that the United States occupied this proud position. How doubly ghastly would the world seem today had President Wilson allowed this country to become involved in war with Mexico. What an opportunity would have been lost for the United Stales to stand before the na tion, in the hour of their direst calamity, as an example of what a real republic means; what gov ernment of the people by the peo ple and for the people means! What an opportunity would have been lost to point the contact between peoples whose relations with each other are governed by autocrats and autocratic cabinets and secret pacts and a people dedicated to friendly relations with all nations, entangling al liances with none! Where are the censorious critics of Woodrow Wilson s Mexican policies? What would be our national feeling of shame, of humiliation, oT regret for an opportunity forever lost, if the United Slates had today 200,000 men marching through blood and carnage in Mexico? What, if these critics could have had their way, would there be left for the race of man to take pride in and to hope for? Bleakness is on the brow of Woodrow Wilson, and cankering care eats at his heart. But, in his great loss, he is solaced by the knowledge of a great service rendered. Ami the prospect of a service greater still to come, the need for the summoning of all the splendid talents with which God has endorsed him that he may do battle for peace, for stability, for civilization itself, will serve as an anodyne to stay and strength en his soul as he turns from the grave of what he held most dear on earth. World-Herald. Local lews "'rora Tuesday's Dany. G. H. Shreve of Elmwood was hero today for a few hours looking at In some matters at the court house. Mrs. Kate Binlner and son, Leo, came in last evening from Oma ha, where they have been visiting for a short lime, and drove out to their home near Mynard. Miss Dora Yallery returned Sunday from a three week's visit at South Omaha where she was delightfully entertained at the Sheehy and Richardson homes. Her friend, Miss Alice Sheehy ac companied her home for a visit with the Yallery family, near My nard. " -x . 1 i vv . .v. iUimoru, assessor o siovc i-reek precinct, came over this morning from Elmwood to look after ome ninth rs in the county court for- a few hours. John Wuudeillch. of Nehavvka candidate for sheriff, was in lfi l ilv yesterday afternoon and to day looking after his interests and visiting his numerous friends. W. B. Porter was among the passengers this morning fo Omaha whore he was called lo look after some matters of busi ness for a few hours in that city. Tom Ruby, wife and children, and Mrs. (ieorge Benueii of Peoria, Illinois, were among the passengers this morning for Omaha, where Mrs. lienpen will take treatment at one of the hospitals for a time. Dr. !. If. Oilmore came up this morning from his home at Murray and departed on the early Burlington train for Omaha, where he was called on some pro fessional business. Mrs. Thomas Sullivan relumed home this morning on No. l from Chicago, where she has been spending several months at the home of her dauphler in that city. (I. W. Campbell and daughters, Mabel, (ieorgia and Tessa, of Bel grade, Neb., motored to this city and will spend two weeks in this vicinity visiting realtives and friends. Mr. Campbell having five, brother residing near this city. Mr. Campbell was a pleasant call er r.t this office. iL(cu,L a Phil ciVF" Promotes Di&5Scnkcrfui nessa:;; ncuccntainsnciaer i. . XAKCOTIC. w L in iiil For Infants and Children.' The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature I.- .4. - ... . :i If.:-!, Sr'J C: t!ud Simr Apcrfcct Remedy for Conspira tion , Sour Stotnach Diarrhoea "Voris,Cc:iMilsioiis.iCTrisIi- rtss anlLQSS orSLEZP. lux Centaur CompasT, NEV.T YORK. uarantecd untfcr the fromta ft. yr .. !n Af nh D E2ct Copy of Wrapper. T"' Iff LW, k" &VRJT. ii 1 UtruitM SG or uver hirty Years H t'i I'm H n THE CKKTAUR CO MM NT. NtW VOn CITY Roy Cele nKtored in yesterelay from his farm home south of this city for a few hours to look after some matters with the merchants. Mrs. J. M. Dunbar of Avoca and Mrs. J. M. Palmer of Nehawka came up yesterday afternoon for a short visit at the home of their brother, Sheriff C. D. Quinton and family, in this city. From Wednesdays Dailv. Henry Ilirz, sr., was in the city yesterday for a few hours looking afiei some matters of business with the' merchants. Paul Roberts of Cedar Creek came down tin's morning to spend a few hours here looking after some matters of business and to visit relatives. I). V. Foster of Union was at tending to business matters and visiting his daughter, County Su perintenelent Mary Foster, in this city this morning. Miss Edna Rhodes, of North Platte, who has been here visit ing at the Fred Mumm home for a few days, departed this morning for her home in the western city. Mrs. Frank Harnell aiul son nnd daughter or JNortn Piatw Nebraska, who have been lnr visiting at Ihe home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mumm, returned this morning to their home, going on the early Burlington train. ('.. F. ValU ry an erger returned Ihi No. G from Furnas county, Nebr., where I hey have been for several days bulking over land in that Ut ility. County Commissioner C. F. Heebuer eanie up yesterday after noon Horn hi;, liome near .Ne hawka to look after some matters with the countv board. Sam W'augli of Lincoln was in the city for a few hours yester day visiting with his friend, Kd win Fricke. returning to his home in the stale capitol on the after noon Burlington train. Ir. J. F. I'.rendel of Murray, was in the city today fr a few hours, enroufc to Omaha, where In' was called on some profes sional business. Mrs. William Hoferer and little daughter ef near Cfeighton, Ne braska, are here for a short visit at the home of Mrs. Will Rum mell, a sister of Mrs. lllloferer's, west of the city. Mr. Rummell has just returned from Creighton and his sister-in-law accom panied him home for a brief visit. Morgan Waybri-hl, who has been here for some weeks past visiting at the home of Judge and Mrs. Allen J. Beeson, departed this afternoon for his home at Los Angeles, California. The visit here' was greatly enjoyed by Mr. W-rybright and it was with 'ireuret iaat he returned to the coast. ili,:;;,:;:':; JUDGE G. J. HUNT OF BRIDGEPORT, NEBRASKA, VISITS OUR FAIR CITY D-jy your rancy stationery This morning Judge d. J. Hunt of Bridgeport, Neb., one of the candidates for the office of chief justice of the Nebraska supreme court at the coming- primaries, came in t visit our city for a few hours. The judge is one of the ablest jurists in Ihe western part of the state and has in his lo cality an immense popularity among his friends ami neighbors, lie is the only candidate freun the wetsern part of the slate that has no representative on the bench, and if Judge Hunt is selected for the position the peetple of Ne braska can rest assuried that they will have a man of unusual ability on the beach. He is just in his prime anil can bring tet the su preme court viger and force of his years ami be able to carry on the amount of work on the bench in a manner that will do justice lo the people ef the state. Mr. Hunt called at the Journal office while here and we can cheerfully .-tate that if it was within our power to nominate Judge Hunt would get en the non-partisan bal lot this fall as one of the candi dates, and if he is so selected the voters of the state will do them selves a great gooel by selecting him for the office of chief justice. :o: The Journal ads pay. v. -" r-v ci w r arm n I i&m M UaL I tSmi f& S wills " h ill md tern w u u w u U U z I ! KM PC- The Annual Picnic of Plattsmouth Aerie, No. 365, F. 0. E., will be held at Koukal's Grove, one mile West and one North of Plattsmouth, Neb., SlKilf- liliif 0 y Everybody Come Bring Your Family and a Basket Lunch and have a good time. Automobiles and Carryalls will convey Passengers to and from the Grounds. Fiinesi by Plattsmouth Orchestra n - r .