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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAC
MONDAY, JUN'i: 7, 1913.
TZbz plattsmouth journal
Published Semi-Weakly et Plettemouth, Nebr.
Entered at the PostofSce at l'Uttsmoutb. Nebraska, as second-class mall matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
Bubtorlptlon Prloej S1.50 Per Year In Advanoe
And to help each other, in the pursuit
of this handsome rivalry to excel each I
other, in leading the world to perman
ent peace.
A WARNING TO MEXICO.
Spare tho rod and spoil the fishing,
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
I believe that the mind ciui be J
-l- profaned by the habit of at-
5 tending to trival things, so tl r.r J
I all our thought shall be tinged
-with trivality. Henry D. Thor- -
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Have you made up your mind as to
where you will celebrate?
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Are the people forgetting the Great
Natal Day? Or what is the matter
with them?
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Grafters always live pretty well,
and it has been discovered that it
takes ten able-bodied suckers to sup
port one grafter.
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The oldest woman in the country
died the other day. After a woman
gets to lie 100 years old she no longer
tries to keep her age a secret.
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Is base ball losing out in interest?
From reports in the metropolitan
journals it would seem that several
leagues talk of "throwing up the
sponge."
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An exchange says: "A rooster
crows because he hears another roost
er crow." Hut that is not an excuse
for the first rooster. Now, what
started the first rooster?
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Put for the spoiling of 40 per cent
in transportation, the egg crop of the
country would pay for the army and
navy and meet the pension bill. Don't
blame the hens for the shortage.
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lie is a diplomatic politician who
can make people forget his campaign
promises. Wait till a certain aspir
ant comes up again and see how
easily he is forgotten by some of his
former true friends.
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Manager Woods is not to be blamed
for shutting off the Main street lights.
He truly hated to do so, but the Ne
braska Lighting company and the city
council could not arrive at any agree
ment, anil contract time having ex
pired, the lights went off last night,
as should have been expected. Now,
what is to be done? But don't blame
the employes of the light company for
something they cannot help.
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An exchange says an unknown man
was found dead in the outskirts of a
small Kansas town recently. A re
volver and $100 in cash were found
on his person. The coroner held an
inquest and it took $75 to defray the
expenses and bury the body. The
police judge fined the corpse $25 for
carrying concealed weapons and con
fiscated the gun. The local editor who
published the obituary, got nothing.
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Ten years ago when the automobile
began to be a general and practical
reality, wc heard much about the
threatened disappearance of the
horse. Five years ago, when the auto
truck first asserted itself -broadly,
there was more of the same. But
what are the facts? The agricultural
department estimate is that there are
now close to 21,000,000 horses in the
United States, a greater number than
in any other year except 1910. Since
1S98 the number of horses on the
farms has increased 50 per cent in
the interval, while their aggregate
value, which reaches the huge sum of
$2,200,000,000, has increased over four
and one-half times. The value a head
has grown from 34 to about 110.
That there is room on this broad
earth for both" automobiles and
horses these statistics prove.
Another Great Wilson Policy.
"It is very surjirising to me, it is
even a source of mortification," said
President Wilson to the pan-American
Financial conference assembled in
Washington to promote closer rela
tions between the United States and
Ihe republics of Central and South
Americas, "that a conference like this
should have been so long delayedthat
it should never have occurred before.
that it should have required a crisis
of the world to show the Americas
how truly they were neighbors to one
another."
When one considers that it is al
most a century since the government
of the United States, then the organ
of expression of but a small though
determined nation of freedom, spoke
up to guaarntee to the Spanish colo
nies in these Americas a freedom such
as was enjoyed in the young republic,
and bade the aggressive old world
keep hands off, it is a wonder that
our relations with the Latin-Americas
have never been so close as the rela
tions existing between those ex
patriated colonies and the countries
of Europe.
There are reasons for it, however,
been our inefficient marine. The presi
who looks for then. One of them has
been our inefficient marine The presi
dent spoke of it to the visiting dele
gates, when he said:
"There is one thing that stands in
our way among others for you are
more conversant with the subject
than I am; the thing I have chiefly
in mind is the physical lack of means
of communication, the lack of
vehicles, the lack of ships, the lack of
established routes of trade."
And then he told them that if
private capital does not furnish these
means of communication there is
nothing to be dons but to have them
furnished by government, as he tried
to do at the last session of congress,
and he will certainly try to do at the
next session.
There is another reason. For many
years Americans of capital and in
fluence had looked upon these Latin
American countries and peoples as
legitimate fields for their sometimes
unscrupulous exploitation. The rec
ords of our government and our pub
lic men disclose many instances of op
pressive and unscrupulous exploita
tion and intrigue to the discomfiture
of the people of the neighboring re
publics. One of the chief aims of the presi
dent has been to show these naturally
suspicious and resentful people that
the United States docs not look upon
them as financial and commercial
prey. That has been the keynote of
the Wilson policy toward Mexico,
through which he gained the con
fidence of the leading South American
nations by invitirg them to consider
the landing of Uncle Sam's troops at
Vera Cruz. That was the purpose of
Wilson's declaration that never again
will Uncle Sam acquire a foot of
ground by conquest.
That has been the keynote of the
proposed treaty with Colombia, by
which it is proposed to pay that re
public for the wresting from it of the
land necessary for the building of the
Panama canal and the erection of the
lepublic of Panama. It has been a
manifest readiness to atone for the
"I-took-it" policy of Roosevelt.
And on this last occasion, at the
current conference, President Wilson
took pains to impress the delegates
that American intersts are mutual.
"There is only one way in which we
wish to take advantage of you," said
he, "and that is hy making better
goods, by doing the things that we
seek to do for each other better, if we
can, than you do them, and so spur
ring you on, if wo might, by so hand
some a jealouy ms that to excel us."
The president's declaration of at- In times of peace shake hands with
titude upon the Mexican situation is yourself.
There is great cordiality being ex- a piain warning to tne raciionai leau- :o
Dressed at this conference. It must ers of tha- distracted country that Abandon hope forever. You can
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lead to good. Ami when it does it j anarchy must cease and a stable gov- please everybody
will stand as one of the crowning ernment ot some sort be established. :o:
achievements of this administration. I Who shall constitute that government Always the hero of fiction lights a
Lincoln Star. is a matter of no concern to the Unit- cigarette. Never a stogie
:o: ed estates, nut it must contorm to tne :o
Woman's theory of business ethecs J provisions of the fundamental laws of War is an affliction, but it never
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is that her husband's stenographer I the republic, and must be of such accomplishes shiftlessness
shouldn't be better looking than his I character that the great powers of the
wife. I world can recognize it and deal with
o: it. lo any man, or any group ot
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No marr is as good as he ought to be
and few are as b:d as they seem.
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After reading our exchanges care
All that the women of Europe will men, who can unite the warring fac-
Lave to do now is to produce another tions, or, failing in that, bring to their
dw to suDDort the masses of the Mexican fully, we conclude there are two
shoot at the earliest possible moment, people in such strength as to ignore kinds of dances graceful and dis
o ; the factions, he promi:Jf:s the active graceful.
Is the reminder that the first elec- moral support of the United States
tion was in the Garden of Eden was But there must be no delay about it. hen a man comes to know how
intended as a slap at woman suf- "If," he says, "they cannot accom- ""le ne Knows He is beginning to
frage? The devil carried Eden bv the modate their differences and unite for make progress toward acquiring
woman's vote. this great purpose in a very short Knowledge.
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:o: time, tnis government win oe con-
It is about time for the ghosts of strained to decide what means should Astronomy is the slowest science.
the painted and scalping Indians of be employed by the United States in Mi- seldom has anything new to offer.
former days to come back to earth order to help Mexico save herself and nly two comets this year, and scrub
and preach humanity to the fighters I serve her people." ones at that
of EurODe. I TVmt J c tn cqv unices nrdor tr I .O l-
:o: I stored, and quickly restored, this gov
The Pan-American conference ernment will be compelled to take the
might have gracefully passed a few matter into its own hands. The presi
resolutions in honor of the memory (ient may not mean by that that
of James Gillespie Blaine, the Pan- physical intervention will be a con-
American pioneer.
Although the American bankers
have $3,000,000,000 to lend, it is prov
ing impossible for some of us to bor
row enough to go to the San Fra-
nicsco exposition.
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Women, as well as men, are threat
ened by the would-be dictators of
sequence, but everyone who knows the
Mexican character and is familiar
with the present chaotic condition of
Mexico realizes that nothing less will
accomplish definite and lasting re-
f.ult. Intervention is a word we do
not like. To interfere in the affairs of
our neighbor has never been our wi.ih,
although we have had ample and re
peated justification. The protection
lasnion wno are presuming to decree of our own interests has demanded it,
the doom of the shirt waist and racnnnc;K;i;v n ntn nHnrC hc
mallei tnr- it ar,,l ctHl wo h9vo ctnvPfl
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It is 10 to 1 that the scientist who
claims coal has twice as many heat
units as wood, never sawed wood, and
we'll bet on it.
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If fighting continues a year or two
longer, it would seem as if England
would at least wake up to the fact
that there is going to be a real war.
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The all-observing question in this
city just now is the street lights, and
the public interested are wondering
how long this condition of affairs is
to last. Let us have light!
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DISORDERLY HABITS.
There are several persistent habits
our hand. The futile episode of Vera on the part of the public, particularly
But who would be eligible to sit Cruz was not intervention. But now of manly young people, that tend to
on the Lusitania case at The Hague? ih(, io nf tho MPviran neonle keep towns looking disorderly, and are
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Every country except Germany and ,i,pin,pl... rrv ont to us ami action too much in evidence in Plattsmouth
which we would not take for our- The distribution of handbills and ad-
selves is succested on the broad vertismg sheets is otten done in a
its two allies has pronounced the
sinking a violation of civilized war
fare!
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Roosevelt won his libel case from
Barnes, but the jury was determined
to stick him for one-half the costs,
which would indicate that some of the
jury at least thought that there was
but little difference between them.
ground of humanity.
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Grand opera this .year, as far as
most cities are concerned, is more or
less down at the hul.
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Plattsmouth needs one hundred men
of intelligence and determination to
start, push and keep pushing a move
ment to develop both town and
country. We offer many opportunities
for advancement, if opportunity and
eeker can be brought face to face.
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We are in perfect accord with the
esolution that "all difficulties among
nations ought to be justly settled
without recourse to war." All private
individuals also ought to be law-abid
ing, kind and considerate, and we
ought not to be put to tbje expense
of maintaining police forces.
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Speaker Clark says the story that celebration and not merely for the dis-
he invited all of official Washington charge ot noise-making nreworKs. ah
to the wedding of his daughter and over the country plans are being laid
purposely omitted the name of Sec- for making it a great day for renewal
etary Bryan is all a lie. In the first of Podges of allegiance; for the read-
place, he did not invite all of official in of the Declaration of Independ
Wncliintrt aa , fence and for contemplation of subjects
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cabinet with his invitations. More- patriotic.
over, at the time the story was print
ed, he had not sent out any invitations.
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Hudson Maxim, the inventor of the
gun of that name, says: "Things have
Leen done in the present war of such
brutality as to shock the shades of old
Attila, and make the fossil part of fnst dut' of the morning is to sweep
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him (nrninliUrr9v A nA A ttilln's uul "'e, Uim 11 wie pc-.ioim
careless way by boys. They will throw
a bill on the porch of a house, where
the first puff of wind blows it into the
street. Many boys in delivering hand
bills will stuff them into the hands o
passers-by who have no interest n
them, and who throw tnem away
without looking at them. Ycung fel
lows working as store clerks arc
often careless in handling litter. The
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Children Cry for Fletcher's
TJio Kind You 3 lave Always Bonslit and which has hen
iu me ior over CO years, lias hornollio signature ot
-s lias been made under Ms por-
(f S&TJ?s' sonai supervision miic its infancy.
v'tzT- - CU44 Allow no ou to clcc-rive you in fiii a.
All dnmi erfoif s, Imitations ni:l 7iit-us-goi urti hut
i:xMriiiicT.ts that trillo with and ondangor tlio ln-ilth of
Infaiiij and CJIillclixii Hxiicricnec naiiiat Kipcrkuciit,
r. ICS fD
Casloria is a Iiarm7-rs snh.siirnfo for Cr.or Oil, T'aro
gori Drops nnl Soothing Sirups. 1 1 is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, 3Iorphino nor other .Narcotics
Bi;I)..t:iiirfi. 1
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lias
:i;re is its
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me.
,13.11. u. ic;. j c destroys norms
I 'or more than thirtv tcjitm it
las heen in constant use for tho relief of Constipation,
'iattilon-y V.iiul Colic, all Tectliinir Trouble ml
Diarrho-a. It regulates the stomac h nnd liowi 3s,
iniilates the; I'ood, jiiv inr healthy and natural bleep,
ilio C'Htircn's l'aiiaceu Tho 3Iother's 1'ricud
Bears the Signature of
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The Kind Yea Have Always Bought
In Uso For Over 30 Years
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irw VOWK, CITY,
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ELMWOOD.
Leaucr-Echo.
inhumanity extended even beyond his
grave, for those who buried him were
put to death so that the secret of his
burial place might never be known.
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The Fourth of July this year is to
be made a day for the complete
Americanization of all the peoples
of the United States. One suggestion
is that there be a general singing of
"The Star Spangled Banner" at noon
on Independence day, and that the
holiday be set apart for patriotic
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this task before the employer gets
around, they sometimes think they
can save live minutes oi tneir
precious time and energy by sweep
ing the refuse into the streets. This
newspaper has previously remarKeu
on the common habit of throwing
away on the streets the paper bags
in which fruit, candy, peanuts, etc
were purchased. Another slovenly and
offensive trick is the habit of tearing
up letters and scattering the scraps
over the walks. Someone has to pick
up these pieces bit by bit if the street
is ever to look clean. Probably the
only way to get at this uisroderly
spirit is in the long run through the
schools. Every school room ought to
have a regular lesson each spring, and
perhaps several times a year on the
public value of neatness. The chil
dren should be told that dirty streets
make the town less attractive to
strangers, make people less likely to
come here to live, that they depress
the value of real estate, and thus
work against the prosperity and com
fort of every family.
Eighth Grade Exercises June 11.
Here is a description of asphyxiat
ing gas, now being used in the Europ
ean war, by John Colton, an American
A town in Iowa had held a "settle- journalist: "It pulls men's mouths
p week." in which the merchants oflritrht around on the sides of their
the city organized a campaign to set faces. It sometimes dislocates men's
side a certain week for all who were jaws. They cannot speak and they
indebted to them to settle up their die in ghastly agony. It makes their
ills, says the Mantino Express. The eyes look as if they had been terribly The eighth grade exercises will be
dea worked very successfully, and by mauled in the ring. Not only do the held at Weeping water June j m
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means ui it me mercnants were anie eyeaas mm urows mm um, um, c.. Teed of the Division of
to pay thousands of dollars of local checks and the forehead turn black Rural E(iucation will deliver the ad-
indebtedness, thus lcnintr mnrb of also. Manv losft their sicrht utterly. Li rocs Tf will be alonsr the line of
the money in circulation right in town. The skin of the face within a day or rural education and all who are lit
he averatre merchant ran alwavs two after the iras has been breathed terested are coru a y mwi i - -
nd a ready use for the bills receiv- becomes ulcerous. It is 1,000 to 1 that
ble on his books, and in many in- any man who gets a good whiff of
stances some of the most dilatory in that stuff never recovers. Every day
paying their bills are the closs of peo- Foldiers are coming into the hospitals
pie against whom he does not like to gasping for breath and panting like
take harsh action, hut. who should doe-s on hlazincr summer days. It is
realize that their accounts should be heart-breaking,
paid up promptly. could believe it,
tend. It is especially urged that all
who took the examination be present,
whether they passed or not.
Eda Marquardt,
County Superintendent.
G-7-ltd-ltw
M. Tritsch. refracting optician, at
No civilized being Gering & fo.'s Wednesday ar.d Sat-
urdav evenings. Examination free.
Mrs. Harry Marshall, who h;i boon
taking treatment at a Lincoln ho.--
tal, returned home Monday.
Ilnrry Waltz lias been having quite
a tussel v. iih a severe- case of tonsoil-
tis. but is much improved at thi
writing.
Gertrude DclesDernier and children
of Palmer. Nob., arc visitintr at the
irme of Mr. and Mrs. Win. DelesDor-
r.ier this woe!:.
Mrs. Geo. A. Miller raid some of
the Miller children departed Thurs
day for Kansas Citv and Iiutlcr. Mo..
and Pilt.-byrg, Kas., o:i an extended
visit with lelatives and friend-;.
Mr. and M-s. John Munford of
Springlield, Neb., came Tuesday eve
ning to see their daughter, Mrs. Joe
Nccly, of Wyoming, who is critically
ill bene at ih-i Dr. Needy home.
Wm. Ilocttgcr arrived from Hooper
Wednesday, having completed another
successful year as principal of the
public school at that place. He will
sper.d several weeks visiting with his
parents before taking up his work
with the Prytt Lyceum Dureau this
summer.
J. J. Gustiu of near Murdock was
in town Tuesday. Mr. Gustin and
family are planning for their western
trip, which they will make with their
automobile. They expect to start
this Saturday, slopping over Sunday
at Grand Island to visit with rela
tives and friends.
Joe Neely and family of Lovell,
Wyo., arc here in the interest of Mrs.
Neely's health. They are huated at
the home of Mr. Neely's brother. Dr.
J. M. Neely, where the best of treat
ment and medical attention is avail
able. We understand Mrs. Neely is
suffering from a peculiar blood dis
ease, and is now in quite a critical
condition.
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Clements of
Eu;rcne, Ore., arrived the latter part
of last week to visit at the home of
P. I. Clements. Mr. Clements re
turned home Monday, while Mrs.
Clements remained for a prolonged
visit. These people are pioneers of
this section, Mr. Clements having
bioken the first prairie in the vicinity
oi" Kimwood.
PICNIC NEEDS.
V When preparing for a picnic J
or ouling, remember that the
V Journal office is the headquar-
J ters for picnic sets, paper
V plates, picnic cups, tablecloths J
l' and lunch cloths. Wc have the
'I individual paper tablecloths J
'I' .'xSl inches, as well as the in- l
J dividual lunch cloths. Come in
I and see them. Picnic sets at
V 10 cent.'; paper plate, o cents a J
V dozen, and cups, S in a package,
V 10 cents a package. -I-
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NOTICE!
1 aimers who ship cream direct may
leave their cream at our store. We
will deliver your cream to the depot
and return your empty cans, without
extra charge.
E. G. DOVEY & SON.
DR. D. I. REYNOLDS,
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
" Ofllcc, Coates' building.
Phone 208.
Office Hours 10:00 a. m. to P2:00.
2:00 p. m. to. 4:00.
Other Hours by Appointment.
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DO YOU WANT TO MAKE
A GOOD INVESTMENT
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We'll wager you d o.
TJien come to us and get
a can of our prepared
taint, enamel, etc., and
touch up tho. home
woodwork, chairs and the
like. Then measure re
sults with the cost and
you will find you maee a
proiitable investment.
mmnl
GOBEUAN,
I Hotol Riicy Block, Plattsmouth, Mcb. 2