MONDAY, JANUARY 11. 1913.
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4- THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
Die when I may, I want it
said of me by those who know J
V best, that I always plucked a
J. thistle and planted a flower -J
when I thought a flower would -J
j- grow. Lincoln. I
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Modern dancing is mostly sitting
around and watching someone else
Co it.
:o:
The bread line is the big problem
lor the east. Here in Nebraska the
pie line is what bothers some fel
lows. :o:
Since revenue stamps are now at
tached to marriage licenses, an old
l.achelor in this old town says he can't
help but regard them as war docu
ments. :o:
An Ohio husband expressed his
reelings in a forcible manner by
thooting at his wife's portrait. Even
t that, he's only one lap ahead of
the man who beats his wife.
:o:
Maybe the young man does not be
lieve it, but a boss can generally tell
whether a man is capable of a bigger
job by watching the way he does the
i-maller things he's hired for.
:o:
There may be such a thing as
platonic love but did you ever hear
t.f these affairs in which a cross-eyed
girl got mixed up with a sprouting
moustache?. That's the platonic
love.
-:o:-
"Who for mayor?' This is a mat
ter that has been agitating the minds
of some citizens of Plattsmouth quite
reriously, but not one name has been
mentioned that meets the aproba
tion of any considerable number.
Did you ever notice it? The fellow
who claims to be a rock-ribbed demo
crat, and does the least for party
success, always gets the soft jobs.
That has ever been the trouble with
the democratic party they never re
ward the faithful.
:o:
It may not be so easy for "Old Joe
Cannon" to get into congress as he
thinks. He is liable to face a contest.
A grand jury at his home city, Dan
ville, Illinois, is being contemplated,
so it is said, to ascertain the truth of
alleged corruptions in the election.
"Old Joe" has found his way into
tongress many times, and it has al
ways been alleged that honesty has
not always prevailed.
:o:
While - Representative Gardner's
lesolution demanding a special in
quiry into the country's preparedness
for war, either offensive or defensive,
was defeated by the house committee
cn rules, the facts are apparently be
ing brought out by the house com
mittee on naval affairs. The people
take an interest in the revelations.
The public is neither pacific nor
jingoistic. It is patriotically Ameri
can and wants to know the exact
facts, where not incompatible with
the public good. There has been but
slight violation of propriety in the
inquiry so far. Representative Hob
s-on overstepped the line, perhaps,
when he asked his pointed question
of Secretary Daniel3 as to the strain
ed relations between this country and
Japan in May, 1313. Mr. Hobson must
have been actuated by personal pique
more than by patriotic concern when
he asked this question. He has been
ridiculed so much that it was but
Human in hjm to seize n opportunity
to demonstrate that he had not been
imagining vain things.
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THE LEGISLATURE.
The thirty-fourth session of the Ne
braska legislature opens auspiciously,
Both houses perfected their organi
zation expeditiously and without fric
tion; also which is doubly gratifying
without factionalism. The contest
over the speakership, which on many
a previous occasion has been a source
of much turmoil in Nebraska politics,
created scarcely a ripple of excite
ment. Such contention as there was
was friendly and good natured
throughout, and was based solely on
natural differences of opinion as to
the comparative availability of the
several candidates. There was no
factional division, and, what is even
more promising of good sense and
good work, there was no division along
'wet" and "dry" lines. Mr. Jackson,
the successful aspirant, is a man of
legislative experience, of high stand
ing, and with a reputation for cour
age, fairness and common sense. His
ictory carries with it 110 bitterness
and no regret for the losers, since
they must realize that the chance for
honest service and the distinction it
entails is quite as great on the floor
of the house as in the speaker's chair.
The legislature meets with partisan
as well as factional feeling at a low
ebb. And the less there is of both
as the session journeys on to its des
tined end the better it will be for the
members and for the state. There are
no radical differences along party
lines in Nebraska this winter so far
as concerns state problems and poli
cies. 10 inject partisanship would
be merely to roll the waters and les
sen the legislature's capacity for calm,
intelligent, judicious effort to serve
Nebraska.
There are a few qualities desirable
in legislators that it may not be amiss
to mention. P'irst and foremost is fi
delity to the pledges on which the can
didate was elected. Another is the
courage of his convictions. Another
is the disposition to do what the mem
ber believes to be fair and equitable,
regardless of the possible conse
quences to himself personally. And
the sum of all these is just plain, old
fashioned honesty, combined with
plain, old-fashioned patriotism. Add
to these a reasonable degree of intelli
gence and a willingness to work hard
and unselfishly, and any legislator so
endowed can end the session deserv
ing, even if he does not receive, the
plaudits of his constituents. He will
have, in any event, the approval of
his own conscience, which is beyond
price.
To the one hundred and thirty-
three members of the Nebraska legis
lature is intrusted a great and heavy
lesponsibility. As they discharge it
well or badly the state will profit or
suffer, not merely in the immediate
present, but for many years to come.
They are to act on important matters
presented in a time of no ordinary
stress and uncertainty; The situa
tion is one to call forth the best that
is in them. The World-Herald trusts
there is not a member but will re
member that he serves himself best
who serves his party best, and his
party best who best serves his state.
World-Herald.
-:o:-
I3y the time a man finds out who
are really his friends, he is lost.
:o:
Say something good about your
town. If you can't do this, say noth
ing. . :o : .
People who go through life expect
ing the "Lord to provide" are then
disappointed if He doesn't carry out
the dishes and wash them.
:o :
It is now reported that Teddy
Roosevelt has cut out coffee. Then
there will be no possibility of his
pgaia wanting the third cup.
Once an office-holder, always an of
fice-seeker.
:o:
What's the record for high jumps
is becoming great. .
:o :
Prohibitionists are fond of playing
the role of Banquo's ghost.
:o:
Many a good fiddler has been ruin
ed by becoming a violin player.
:o:
Man wants but little here below,
but he keeps right on wanting it.
:o:
So many people are always willing
to give sympathy and nothing else.
:o:
Will your New Year resolutions
outwear the children s Christmas
toys?
Now, what about "Ground Hog
day?" It isn't long off now Feb
ruary 2.
:o:
The suffragists threaten to become
militant before congress next week
ut 'em out!
-:o:
While safety may be the first policy
of the United Railways, economy
seems a close second.
:o:
The war may last a long time, but
it is not likely to outlive the Dr. Hyde
case at Kansas City.
:o:
And now they have it that Teddy
Roosevelt is to go on the stage. Some
how we had supposed he never was
really off of it.
:o:
There was a time when Ogder,
Utah, would have not dared to boast
of having the highest birth record in
the United States.
:o:
Our search of ancient history fails
o reveal where the jokesmith got the
otion that a bald head is essential
to a keen interest in legs.
:o:
The disappearance of the snow may
not add materially for the betterment
f the wheat crop, but other snows
will be very apt to follow.
:o:
The governor rightly opposes any
xtra pay for hangers-on about the
legislature. There has been too much
extra pay for an hour's work after
upper.
:o:
Governor Morehead's message is a
ery able state paper, and his recom
mendations are right to the point and
will result in much good if adhered to
by the senate and house.
:o:
If Governor Morehead has his way
bout it the appropriations will be
urtailed to about one-half of what
they were two years ago. And the
egislature should stay right with
im.
:o:
The Journal agrees with the Grand
sland Independent in the following:
"The Jefferson county farmers have
taken a high position in refusing to
L-ell horses for the European war. Ap
parently they go farther than to bab
ble peace in one breath and exhaust
the next in a grab for dollars to be j
made at the expense of human lives
and suffering. But can the commer
cial world be made to take cognizance
of the fact that every direct dealer is
also a direct participant in the con
tinuance of the war? Or, even if cog
nizance of the fact is taken, is the
commercial conscience of such fiber
as to control action? Mr. Clarence
Howard, president of the immense
steel concern in St. Louis, a former
Grand Island young man, has refused
a contract of $1,000,000 in war muni
tions. Are there enough Clarence
Howards in America? How general
is the reported sentiment of the Jef
ferson county farmers? It will not do
to underestimate the high, moral
grounds the Howards or the Jefferson
county farmers have taken, if head
way is to be made. Eut the commer
cial sense can probably be more effec
tively appealed to. The destruction
by ourselves, by means of such sales,
0 all these horses and other supplies,
will react upon ourselves we must
certainly share in their loss in the
future."
"BARBAROUS MEXICO.
lou may recall that some years
ago a certain magazine, having some
what exhausted the muckraking pos
sibilities of this land of the free
press, sent an able artist in that line
to Mexico with the result that the
Diaz dynasty came in for an awful
iianning. lne horrors tnerein set
forth ranged from control of the vot
ing machinery by machine guns in
stead of ward heelers, to plain and
fancy slavery in the fever swamps of
Gueatan and points south. That
writing person made a great case
against Mexico, and much of it we
have been based on facts, for all we
know to the contrary, but a know
ledge of the course of muckraking
warrants the belief that much of it
was made to order, exaggerated and
distorted to suit the occasion and
make the irate readers snort. WThat
is known for a fact is that the Madero
revolt followed, to be followed in turn
by a revolt of the younger Diaz, and
Huerta and Carranza and Villa and
others too numerous to mention, until
nanslaughter has become the favorite
pastime of a large proportion of the
populace. Business and industry are
r.11 shot to pieces, and natural re
sources are remaining steadfastly in
natural state for lack of foreign
capital to develop them. It is also
admittedly true that Mexico made its
greatest strides in business and de
velopment during the regime of
Porofrio Diaz, even if he did rul-2 :n
a rough way. There is some reason
to believe that that is the only way
that will work in Mexico, and even it
doesn't seem to work very well, now
that so many rival patriots have
sprung up. W men may not make the
muckraking magazine responsible for
Mexico's continuous performance, but
the widespread disturbance followed
so closely that there may have been a
connection. And certainly agitators
of one kind and another, foreign aril
domestic, have done more toward
making Mexico barbarous than did
Diaz during his long and prosperous
rule. Doubtless a majority of Medi
ans would like to swing back to
those days, but there doesn't seem to
be any way; Mexico has started some
thing it can't stop.
:o:
In looking over the bunch that has
hung around the state house this
week, one wonders why so many want
to hang around all winter for the
small stipend received. It is the soft,
easy chair and lour hours a day s
work that catches the most of them.
:o:
As we start out on the new year,
why not look on every act of our
brothers and friends as coming from
pure motives? Others may make
mistakes, we all do that. But it is
better to attribute the mistakes to a
misconception of the right than
charge wilful and malicious violation
of the proprieties. Why not try this
mode of procedure for a year and see
the results?
:o:
If the food inspector should happen
to visit some of the stores in this
town he would find egg3 that had
been in storage for at least six
months and not fit for use. The oTije
of state food inspector is perhaps all
right, but the trouble is they do not
come around often enough to keep
merchants from getting cureless in
taking in stale articles of food. Each
town should be inspected at least once
a month, and so should all the hotels.
:o:
In direct contrast to the reports
from other metropolises of the Unit
ed States, the business of Omaha
shows a gratifying condition for the
year just closed. Reflecting as it
does the general condition, throughout
the states of Nebraska, Iowa and the
Dakotas, the clearing through Omaha
should be especially pleasing. Figures
compiled by the bureau of publicity of
manufacturing and jobbing show a
gain in these two lines of business of
more than one million dollars. Manu
facturing shows a heavy increase
and the increase comes in those lines
which are especially Nebraska's. For
instance, the value of packing house
products increased more than seven
million dollars, due partly to the high
er prices prevailing.
The nresident of France predicts
that by the next New Year the wa
will be at an end. If the rate of Kill
ing is kept up during the present year
that reports make it for the past
four months, there may rot be
soldiers enough left to carry on the
war.
-:o:-
There were a few fellows taken
down a notch or two in the race for
speaker of the house of represent
atives, one in particular who had im
posed on his friends for years in the
way of borrowing money from all he
possibly could and never refunding it,
lie has done this so long and publicly
that the members had caught onto
him and turned him down good and
plenty.
:o:
WHY ALONG PARTY LINES?
lhe Nebraska state senate, by a
vote of 19 to 12 more than three to
two has adopted the joint resolution
offered by Senator Howell of Douglas
county memoralizing congress in fa
vor of the Hitchcock bill to stop the
trade in war munitions.
In adopting this resolution this
newspaper is persuaded that the state
senate has only done what the people
of Nebraska would do and do by a
more overwhelming majority if they
were given an opportunity to vote on
the question.
The sentiment in favor of the Unit
ed States following the example set
iy the neutral European nations, and
forbidding the trade in arms and am
munition, is growing rapidly.
But this newspaper does not believe
that sentiment is growing along party
lines. There is no more reason that
v. e can see why a republican should
oppose the principle of the Hitchcock
bill then a democrat. There is no
more reason why a democrat should
favor it than why a republican should.
Among the prominent Nebraska
men favoring the policy incorporated
in the Hitchcock bill are Senator Nor-
ris and former Senators Millard and
Brown, all republicans. Throughout
the state republicans are joining with
democrats in petitions to congress in
its behalf.
Why, then, was the division in the
state senate practically on party
lines?
Why did all the republican senators
but three vote against the adoption of
the Howell resolution, while all the
democrats' but two Senators Seal
and Robertson vote for it?
The World-Herald cannot answer
its own questions. Of one thi'ig,
however, it is persuaded; that Sen
ators Lahners, Randall and Spencer,
the three republicans who voted in the
affirmative, move truly represeme l
their constituents, republicans as well
as democrats, than did the ten repub
licans who voted in the negative.
We make bold to say that if the
senate of the state of Nebraska
realizes how high and how fast the
tide of public sentiment is mounting
in favor of this country stopping the
sale of arms and ammunition, just as
the neutral countries of Europe have
done, the vote for the Howell resolu
tion would have been all but una
nimous. World-Herald.
His Stomach Troubles Over.
Mr. Dyspeptic, would you not like
to feel that your stomach troubles
were over, that you could eat any
kind of food you desired without in
jury? That may .seem so unlikely
to you that you do not even hope for
an ending of your trouble, but permit
us to assure you that it is not alto
gether impossible. If others can be
cured permanently, and thousands
have been, why not you? John R.
Barker, of Battle Creek, Mich., is one
of them. He says, "I was troubled
with heartburn, indigestion and liver
complaint until I used Chamberlains
Tablets, then my trouble was over.
Sold by all dealers.
Genuine Fletcher's Castoria this
week only at 19c; Gering & Co., the
Spot Cash Family Druggists. Phone
3G.
C. W. Stoehr and Ed Tschirren came
in this morning from their farm
homes near this city and were pas
sengers for Omaha, where they ex
pect to visit a large f tock sale that is
to be held today at the South Omaha
market.
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M. Tritsch, refracting optician, at
Gering & Co.'s Wednesday and Sat
urday evenings. Examination free.
Ed. and Philip Recker and families
were here Saturday spending the day
with relatives and looking after some
matters of business with the mer
chants.
Frank Grauf of the vicinity of
Murray was among those in the city
Saturday afternoon for a few hours
attending to some trading with the
merchants.
F. J. Ilennings and wife drove in
Saturday from their farm home near
Cedar Creek to attend to the week
end shopping with the merchants for
r. few hours.
George M. Hild of near Mynard
was among those in the city Saturday
looking after some trading. Mr. Hild
will move to this city in a short time
to make his future home.
John Deck came in Saturday after
noon from his farm home some six
miles west of this city to look after
5-ome matters of business with the
merchants for a few hours.
C. E. Metzger came up from his
home at Mynard Saturday, to enjoy a
few hours' visit here with his friends
and to look after some matters of
business with the merchants.
John M. Meisinger and wife came
in this morning from their home near
this city and were among the pas
sengers for the metropolis on No. 15,
where they will spend the day look
ing after some matters of business.
Henry Born and Ed Tritsch, two of
the leading farmers residing near this
city, came in Saturday from their
homes and visited here for the day at
tending to some matters of business
with the merchants.
January Travel
One of the big events of Nebraska is the annual convention and ex
position of
ORGANIZED AGRICULTURE, LINCOLN,
JANUARY 18 to 23, 1915
This is . the convocation of the Agricultural, Horticultural, Live-stock,
Dairy, Floral, Good Iioads, and Home Economics Societies; it intercuts farm
ers, orchardists, live-stock men, business men and bankers.
The best Apple-show and Corn-show of the Middle-West
will be held during this period.
Over twenty-five associations interested in the development and improv
ment of Nebraska's agricultural, live-stock and dairy interests and allied
subjects will hold convenions that will interest everr
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and continues until the entire stock
is sold. Damaged by water and
smoke. After January 10th I will re
move to the room in the Perkins Hotel
Block. Mrs. O. P. Monroe.
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Palms and Oils.
Phone 36.
Gering & Co.
L. J. Hall
The Union Auctioneer
Union, Nebraska
All sale matters entrusted to ray care
will receive prompt and care
ful attention.
Farm and Stock Sales
a. Specialty!
Rates Reasonable!
TAddress or phone me at Union
for open dates.
AUCTIONEER
-Weeping Water, Neb.-
will take charge of your public
sale business. Farm sales a
specialty. Owners' interests
Are always guarded with the
best ability, and satisfaction
guaranteed. For open dates
telephone at my expense to
Weeping Water.
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