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PLATTSMO UTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
MONDAY, MARCH 29. 1913.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY. J
Who is the happiest of men? v
J. He who values the merits of
others,
J. And in their pleasure takes joy,
Even as to 'twere his own. J
.J. Gcethe.
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The legislature will quit business
April G. Good!
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Get ready to drag the
soon as possible.
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roads
as
A wise man talks of others.
The
fool babbles of himself.
:o:
The anarchists who have acquired
a farm in New Jersey have no inten
tion to work it.
:o:
In the matter of presidential can
didates, Illinois is now ready to show
samples for 191G.
:o :
Germany and Great Britain seem
to be determined to exhaust the
American supply of protests.
:o:
The religious organizations that
are praying for peace are at least
having as much success as the diplo
mats. :o:
Even if there is not a great deal go
ing on, there is enough so you needn't
tell your dreams in order o maintain
a conversation.
There are 1,500,000 automobiles in
use in this country, and one-half of
them are owned by farmers. What
do you think of that?
:o:
The name of the new comet Hel
lish ought to roll glibly off the
tongue of the convivial person offering
an excuse for staying up late.
:o:
The rural delivery service now em
braces about 43,000 routes, covering
1,000,000 miles of roads, and serving
approximately 20,000,000 persons.
:o:
Republican senators in the Ne
braska legislature, in caucus as
sembled, agreed not to support the
house bill for the election of supreme
judges by districts.
:o:
A number of English writers say
they have no time for fiction now that
the war is on, but a lot of them keep
right on writing fiction about the war,
just the same.
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The next big sporting event is the
Johnson-Wrillard fight, Sunday, April
4th. But even many of the admirers
of the sport regret that the event has
been fixed on Easter Sunday.
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The Schoolmasters' club of the
state has just voted again to keep out
State Superintendent A. O. Thomas.
We should think by this time that
Thomas had learned that the school
masters had no use for him. Thomas
possesses too much mouth.
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The present session of the legislature
is rapidly nearing the closing hour.
One winter intervenes between this
and the next session. There are no
doubt a few who do not want to be
returned, while there are quite a num
ber who could not get back if they
wanted to.
:o:
Another pioneer who once refused
to swap a yoke of oxen for the site of
the St. Louis court house is gone.
But Napoleon's record for bad judg
ment as to the possibilities of a grow
ing community is still unbroken. He
sold the whole Louisiana territory for
$15,000,000.
MIGHTY ROME ONCE MORE.
Prince von Buelow has been widely
described as Germany's ablest diplo
matist, and to him has been entrusted
the difficult task of keeping Italy out
of the war as an enemy of her part
ner in the Triple Alliance.
Even if German diplomacy were as
astute and resourceful as the English
or Russian the undertaking would be
one of formidable magnitude. When
all her neighbors have gone mad and
engaged in a battle royal, the out
come of which, she is assured, will be
rich territorial spoils for the victors,
it is asking a great deal to expect
Italy to maintain 'her sanity, her
moderation, and a strict respect for
the doctrine of meum and teum.
It is impossible to estimate to just
what extent the dispatches from Rome
and elsewhere bearing on the Italian
situation are inspired or colored. Dis
count them very liberally, however,
and still it is clear that the Allies
stand like llephisto at Italy's ear,
urging her to light that she may later
participate in the looting. Italy, in
turn, w;th a knife pressed ominously
close to the Austrian vitals, is de
manding rich territorial gifts as the
price of keeping the peace. Austria,
apparently is ready to yield some
thing, but by no means all that Italy
demands. And it is von Buelow's task
lo reconcile the Italian demands with
the Austrian oilers, so that Italy may
have her pound of flesh without
fighting for it.
The picture is not an inspiring one.
The Allies, of course, want Italy
seduced into war because they want
Italian soldiers to help them do the
fighting. They are willing to pay the
price. That is to say, they are willing
that choice morsels of Austrian ter
ritory shall go to Italy, rather than to
themselves, when the war is over, if
Italy will furnish a million badly need
ed units of cannon fodder. As for
Italy, it is cupidity that furnishes the
motive for war. She has no present
grievance against either of her late
allies that would prompt her to
entertain the thought of war for a
moment were Europe at peace. But
Europe is at war. The prospects, Italy
is led to believe, are that Germany
and Austria will be defeated, and lie
defenseless before their enemies.
Should Italy become one of those
enemies, she Viay hope to grab from
Austria rich territorial possessions
north and east, including choice ports
and harbors in the Adriatic. Other
wise Cervia will have them under a
Rusisan protectorate. And Austria
may even be allowed to retain an
Adriatic port or two, without which
she would be as landlocked as
Switzerland.
It is a great temptation, however
frankly sordid. Flesh and blood are
cheap. The Allies stand prepared to
furnish not merely the prize, but funds
to defray the expense of war. Dense
population and widespread poverty go
hand in hand in Italy. What would
100,000 lives be worth, or even twice
or thrice or five times that number, if
the Italian territory could be increased
nearly 20 per cent by taking in one
of the richest tracts of country in the
world? And the old familiar ex
cuse if Italy doesn't get it someone
else will.
"It is a momentous crisis for Italy,"
says the Boston Globe. "To fight
or not to fight. Urged by powerful
rations, the country is striving to sail
past dangers from all side. If Italy
fights, the nation may gain in terri
tory, but the Italians they will mere
ly le killed."
It is a momentous crisis not only
for Italy, but for the whole of
Europe. If there were no war crisis
there would be no Italian crisis. That
is to say, if the Allies were not sorely
in need of the million trained troops
Italy can put into the field therel
would be little likelihood of Italy go
ing to war. The motive for dragging
Italy in is stronger than that even
For Italy in all probability means
Greece and Rumania, and very pos
sibly Bulgaria, all of them helping the
Allies to crush first, and dismember
afterward, the two great empires of
Central Europe that stand back to
back, surrounded by enemies already
more powerful than they. With these
fresh and powerful aids brought to the
side of the Allies there will be little
danger from that favorite bugaboo of
war ,ihe possibility of Germany and
Austria effecting a separate peace
with Russia.
Not since the days of the imperia
Caesars, long- centuries ago, when
from Rome the world was ruled, has
the making of history and the fate of
nations depended so directly upon the
word that Rome shall speak. Perhaps
no action was ever taken by ancient
Rome so weighted with human destiny
as the action that modern Rome may
take or refuse to take tomorrow.
World-Herald.
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One of the beauties of Nebraska is
one day we have California weather
and the next day a close second to
Alaska.
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The patience and good naturerf the
American people is well illastrill by
the fact that there has not been a
single complaint because the Congres
sional Record has suspended publica
tion until next December.
:o:
I rather think now is the time for
the entire United States to be peace
able," said Vice President Marshall
the other day in a public address at
San Francisco. We stand right with
the vice president.
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Democrats are taking charge of the
Iostoffices in Nebraska now pretty
lively, since the compromise, but the
ther federal offices, such as revenue
collector and district attorney, still
remain in the possession of the re
publicans.
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A foreigner visiting in New York
thinks every, state should have a state
theater. They have with bi-ennial
performances, and farce comedy pre-
omrnating. Nebraska has one located
at Lincoln, but the season will soon
close for two years.
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A NEW FLAG.
The position of vice president of
the United States is going to be some
thing worth seeking one of these
days. For a long time he was simply
n heir apparent, a waiter at the gate,
to which he was seldom admitted,
and doomed at intervals to sit in sol
emn silence and listen to an eternity
of words from an unclotured senate.
But this is a world of progress, and
changes come to everything, although
at times the process of evolution is
as imperceptible as the movement of
the hour hand upon the clock. It is
only when the clock strikes that we
realize the motion, and it is so in the
ma'tter of the vice president's office.
hat clock has just struck and we
pause from our labors to observe the
sign of advancement.
A new distinction, a new honor and
new perogative have come to the
vice president. We discern a vessel
in the offing. It seems to be a war
ship of some character, and it carries
at its peak a strange flag, a coat of
arms upon a white field. We reach
for our flag book, but it discloses
nothing. We signal for information
and are told that it is the flag of the
vice president of the United States,
unfurled ibr the first time to the gaze
of .a wondering and admiring nation.
And now, whenever he saris the seas,
which we hope may be often, that
flag will wave above him, and observ
ers upon passing ships will note the
milky standard and will cry in tones
in whkh awe mingles with exultation
"It is the vice president. Hats off!"
When the next national conventions
are held there will be no hanging back
nor any No, thank you ma'ams when
the nominations for vice president are
in order. Indeed, somebody is likely
to b hurt in the rash.
Clean up your premises and prepare
for spring.
Hessian fly danger causes advanc
in wheat prices.
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A good remedy for that tired feel
ing is "more work."
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A grouch always imagine he is a
great diciplinarian.
:o:
A man with a snore is something
of a bore to his wife.
:o:
Now, just why does a conceited man
invariably walk alone?
:o:
Good morn, Greasers! . Who is the
president of Mexico today?
:o:
Remember that your opinion is not
likely to settle the controversy.
:o:
Laziness and indifference have much
to do with the high cost of living.
:o:
Railroad men are making a hard
fight for higher livestock rates.
r:o:
Let us hope there will be' no war
zone established around the advent of
spring.
:o:
Everybody Work for Platts-
mouth!" How would that be for a
slogan ?
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After the wedding bells have stop
ed ringing it don't take long before
the time comes to wring the dishrag.
:o:
Notwithstanding the Wisconsin
bjections to it, Vermont has gone
ahead and enacted an eugenic law.
Maybe the old maids got behind it in
V ermont.
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PERVERSION OF SENTIMENT.
There is always a great deal of
sentiment in play in connection with
legislative session. It not is always
healthy sentiment, for men play upon
it for evil ends and too often accom
plish thm.
There is an almost universal senti
ment in this state in favor of the
xaltation of the farmer and his call
ing, for the state owes so much to
them that nobody fails for a moment
lo recognize it. But designing and
cunning men utilize that commendable
mtiment for mighty disreputable
purposes.
A clamor is raised ostensibly in the
farmer's behalf, and out of it emer
ges a movement to create some new
ffice and install therein some new
flicer, usually the one who has pro
moted the clamor. Men are terrifieo.
nto support of that sort of schemes
because to oppose them would seem
to be defying popular sentiment and
nviting the wrath of the agricultural
classes.
Other movements are for placing
upon the shoulders of those engaged
in other industries burdens of taxes
that are advocated upon the pretense
fiat they will reduce the taxes of the
farming classes. Of course they never
do it, but the farmer is supposed to
believe that they doand be grateful
therefore, upon the presumption that
the farmer is always trying to get
n unfair advantage -of somebody.
Some things that happen in legis
lative halls indicate that few men arc
willing to proceed in legislation upon
the theory that farmers are fair and
honorable, and content to get equal
treatment with oher citizens whose
services are more or less essential to
the progress and prosperity of the
state. Seldom is a legislator found
who does not stand in terror of a sus
picion that he wants to treat the
farmer as he does everybody else.
It is in this that the universal senti
ment friendly to the farmer is per
verted and corrupted. Of course the
man who tills the soil is not the gor
nand he is too often painted to be.
When he is consulted in his proper
person it is found that he wants noth-
ng unfair, nothing unjust, nothing to
the prejudice of his fellow citizens.
Anyone who intimates otherwise slan
ders an industrial class that is par
ticularly zealous for the general good.
But there are plenty of them who do
it and get on somehow in politics by
doing it. Lincoln Star.
PRACTICAL PREACHING.
The religious press of the country
and the secular newspapers, too, are
full of discussion for and against the
methods of Rev. Billy Sunday. Min
istcrs are flocking to Philadelphia by
the hundreds to study his methods
Not many of them will care to adopt
the more eccentric features of the
Sunday ministry. uut mere are
phases of the Sunday method that
every clergyman will find worthy o
study. Some ministers shut them
selves up in their study and read books
on religion and philosophy. The books
are helpful, mentally stimulating. The
parson's mind is uplifted by their
broad outlook. He preaches the next
Sunday from what the philosophers
and theologians Jiave said to him
Now, such sermons are occasionally
needed for the broadening of the in
tellectual life. But they deal with
problems that bother the philosophers
and the theologians, but may never
have troubled the ordinary man am
woman. The people Celebrate abroad
the eloquence and intellectual powers
of their pastor. But little has been
said that has helped or inspired them
much. Other ministers spend more
time among their people. They learn
the doubts, troubles, difficulties and
problems with which their parishoners
are suffering. They observe human
nature closely. Their minds are full
of rpecific cases of people who have
found rest anV peace and help through
various experiences, iney try to com
municate this help to the members of
their congregation. Their sermons
may not be very scholarly. But they
nspire their hearers to renewed
courage and strength to fight life's
battles. Frobably right here is one
of several reasons for Billy Sunday's
marvelous success. He deals with
practical life, with the problems that
meet the average man and woman.
The average preacher, without imitat-
ng Billy Sunday's slang, can give his
sermons the quality of human in
terest that the Sunday sermons al
ways have.
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Waste is the poor relation of haste.
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Neutrality is a good thing as long
as it floats.
Fear of being found out i.-; among
the greatest influences for good.
:o:
Life insurance is big business to
some men and a last resort to others.
:o:
Psychology seems to have played
smash with the steel industry last
year. N
:o:
The university bill seems to have
met with smooth sailing through the
legislature.
:o:
Spring is rather tardy in getting in
her work. But it may be for the best
in the long run.
:o:
If a woman is popular among most
of her acqauintances, most of her ac
quaintances are men.
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It is also our political observation
that the receptive candidate doesn't
get much of a reception.
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Old hoary-headed Winter has linger
ed in the lap of spring, and we don't
care how soon summer comes.
Some of the girls should neglect
their piano practice long enough to
take a course of domestic science.
:o:
It is some relief to know that Presi
dent Wilson does not even think of
calling an extra session of congress.
:o :
A four-legged hen at Philadelphia
has just died from melancholia. It
seems that all kinds of chickens have
trouble.
:o:
A girl needn't bet that her steady
can bring home the bacon just because
he furnishes plenty of candy during
the engagement era.
:o:
It is a great inconvenience to
pedestrians to flush the streets in day
time It should be done after busi
ness hours, the same as it is done in
all up-to-date cities.
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AH things come to the other fel
ow if you sit down and wait.
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Cheap seed com is the highest-
priced when
you come to crib the
troii.
The merchant who never advertises
has been likened unLo the farmer who
:oks for a crop where no seed has
I cen sown.
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When a very eminent and respoct-
ible magazine begins to advertise,
'Nothing About the War," one almost
uspects that other people are getting
tiieJ of it, too.
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It is estimated that 1 per cent of
'lo contents of the oceans would cover
the land of the world to a depth of
H'O feet. Wouldn't it be awful if thev
11 should break loose at the same
time?
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A New York supreme justice has
uled -that in that state "the husband
s always entitled to the earnings of
is wife, as well as her services dur-
ng marriage, i'oor old behmd-the-
times New York! And if the men of
the state fail to change that sort of a
law, they arc heathens and usurpers,
that's all.
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Desiring to clean up our stock of Dry Goods and
Queensware, we are offering for the next two weeks a
special discount for cash on every article in the dry
joods and queensware departments.
CALICOS, GINGHAMS, AND OUTING FLAN
NELS IN THE LATE PATTERNS GO
IN THIS SALE.
A rare opportunity to secure the best muslins on
:he market at a low figure. We will close out our line
3.f underwear for men, women and children at a sacri- J
fice price. v
A FINE LNE OF CHINA AND GLASSWARE
OFFERED AT A DISCOUNT OF 10
PER CENT.
We are. here to make our home and want you to
come in and see these rare bargains and get acquainted.
THE BEST OF GROCERIES CAN BE
FOUND HERE AT ALL TIMES.
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For Infants and Children.
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THE OCMTAUH COMMIT. HXW TO CITT.
The hardest pair to beat is push and
pull.
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Your business might be worse olT.
Supposing you were engaged just now
ii the manufacture of morphine and
cocaine .
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Billy Sunday has turned down a
"call" from Paris, and it is just as
well, as America desires to be well
thought of in France.
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A lot of good people who sincerely
desire to do good spend so much good
time organizing to do good that they
cion't get time to do any good.
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Jam is one of the most important
articles in the diet of the British
roldier, notwithstanding the ridicule
to which it is subjected. It has three
and a half times the energy value of
butter. Its value lies in its richness
in sugar of which one-half its weight
consists in the minerals present in
the skins of fruit, in its laxative char
acter and its mechanical aid lo diges
tion. Besides it is toothsome and
gives relish to army diet that by its
mental effect goes far in the main
tenance of health. No better varient
could be found for a diet limited to
simple food.
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