MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1913.
PAGE. 4.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAC
Cbe plattsmouth journal
IM III.IMIKI) SKIII-WKKKLV AT 1'LATTSllOl'TII, MK11HASKA.
KutoreUai iVistoffice at riattsm.iuth. Neb., as second-class mail matter.
R. A. BATES, Publisher
M MX Itli'l ION I'ltU i:: ?!..-. I'Kll HIMl IN -tOVANCIJ
THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
I have a belief of my own,
and it comforts me: That by
desiring what is pood, even
when we don't quite know what
it is, and cannot do what we
would, we are part of a divine
power against evil widening
the skirts of right and making
the struggle with darkness nar
rower. George Eliot.
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First warm for a day, then it rains,
then cool.
:o:
Many are attending the state fair
this week.
:o:
Speaking of southern chivalry,
there is the Leo Frank case.
:o:
The man who has no regrets never
attempted anything at any time.
:o :
The fellow who is looking for a real
"sound" investment should buy a
phonograph.
:o:
The shoveling of coal into the base
ments reminds one that winter is
coming on apace.
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Scarcely anybody is satisfied with
the crumbs of comfort. They all want
the whole bakery.
:o:
Speakers at the meeting of the
Farmers' union in Lincoln woidd put
ban on war munitions.
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As if the world were not already
surfeited with horrors, the Wisconsin
legislature is still in session.
:o :
German air raiders continue to
frighten the people of England by
dropping a few bombs occasionally.
:o:
With the Arabic case cleared up.
Washington is now turning its atten
tion to the sinking of the Hesperian.
:o:
The wheat crop in this country is
now placed at 081,000,000 bushels, 00,
OOO.OOO rnore than last year's record
crop.
:o:
A dollar watch factory is now
manufacturing ammunition. A dollar
watch has always sounded like some
explosive thing.
:o:
President Wilson pitching and tho
pope catching on the all-star team,
arc all right, but who will fill out the
balance of the team?
:o:
There are people who really believe
they have dealt out terrible revenge
when they pass somebody cl-e on tho
street and won't speak to them.
:o :
A soft answer may sometimes turn
away wrath, but there arc other oc
casions when a p. clro club or other
deadly weapon comes in handy.
:o :
Sinc the placing of a Commercial
course in the Plattsmouth High school,
there is no necessity for anyone desir
ing a commercial education going
away from home to receive such bene
fits.
:o:
The attendance at the state fair this
year is much larger than ever before
over 40,000 in attendance Wednes
day, and nearly 50,000 attended
Thursday. The fair is a great suc
cess.
:o:
Mr. Bryan has another grandson
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Rich
ard Brown llargreaves in Washington
Tuesday. September 7. Mrs. liar-
heaves is the second daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. W. J. Eryan.
THE NEBRASKA PRESS.
Attention is called to the growing
excellence of Nebraska daily papers
published outside Omaha and Lin
coln by the absorption of the Hastings
Daily Republican by the Daily Trib
une. The Tribune has been making
noticeable progress in recent years.
Adam Breede, its publisher, is a real
newspaper man, he is so fortunate as
to have a newspaper location right in
the heart of the best newspaper ter
ritory in the state outside the larger
cities, and he is giving that territory
a paper that measures up to the best
standards. It is a daily paper credit
able not only to Hastings but to the
state, and, though one of the best of
its class it is not alone in its class.
In ' Nebraska City, Tlattsmouth,
Beatrice, Fremont, Columbus, Grand
Island, Kearney, Norfolk and other
Nebraska cities are daily papers de
serving to rank with Mr. Breede's
paper at Hastings. They are newsy,
progressive, well-supported, and are
edited by men trained in their pro
fession, able and fearless and of
strong character, who are making thj
press of Nebraska's "third cities" a
factor to be reckoned with in the up
building and education of the state.
Equally important and gratifying is
the noticeable steady improvement m
the weekly press. The country editors
of the state have passed the stage
when they were the target for the
jokesmiths. In scores of Nebraska
cities and towns are weekly papers
firmly established on a sound business
basis, edited by men with ideals,
active and public-spirited interest in
the welfare of their communities and
the state, that are helping immensely
to keep Nebraska at the front of the
procession. It isn't so long ago that
the country press of Nebraska com
pared unfavorably with that of Iowa
or Kansas, but the comparison is no
longer unfavorable. There are at
least a score of weeklies in Nebraska
today that can stand the comparison
with the best that Iowa or Kansas
can show, and there will be more as
rapidly as the people come to appre
ciate how much a good, well-sup
ported newspaper means to a city
and county; how much a strong coun
try press means to a state. Hastings
has no better asset, no other single
factor that does so much to build up
Hastings Jtnd attract attention to it
as does Adam Breede's Tribune. Nor
folk is better advertised by the Daily
News, with its largest circulation of
any daily published anywhere in the
country in a town of less than 10,000
than it could possibly be in any other
way. Earl Marvin's keen and trench
ant editorial paragraphs in the
Beatrice Sun do more to give the
visitor a favorable impression of
Beatrice than can the most flourishing
store or the most imposing building
in the city. And so it goes all along
the line, in every city and town where
a good newspaper is well supported.
The growing prosperity and excel
lence of the Nebraska press is not
only gratifying in itself, but it is a
tribute to the good sense of the towns
and communities whose loyal support
makes that excellence possible. The
town that boasts a bang-up newspaper
i3 pretty sure to be a bang-up town.
World-Herald.
:o:
School will begin next Monday for
sure. Most of the schools throughout
the state opened last Monday, the
legal date for opening schools in
towns of our sizes.
:o:-
Galveston is now considering
whether or not all buildings in that
city should be built of re-enforced con
crete or steel framework. No more
timber shacks are likely. Tornado
districts of the middle west may get
an object lesson, too.
Some people wouldn't know pros
perity when they see it.
:o:
There has never been a good word
to take the place of liar.
:o:
The shorter the skirts the brighter
colored the stockings. Why is that?
:o:
Public opinion is also apt to over
estimate its wisdom from time to time.
Many people afflicted with a cold
are anxious to pronounce it hay fever
to be in style.
:o:
And yet many women who are
proud of their figures can't do a sum
in simple division.
:o:
The devil is getting old, but a lot
of young devils are on the streets of
almost every town.
:o:
Dear friend, one can't eat
philosophy, and wouldn't it be a good
idea to go to work?
:o:
If daughter's "steady" increases the
light bill, it probably isn't his fault;
he isn't afraid of the dark.
:o:
The czar's taking charge of the
Russian armies has. not spread any
consternation in the German ranks.
:o:
Of course the other fellow has most
of the luck, but your good judgment
enables you., to keep in sight of his
achievements'.
The irresponsible critic is always
sobered by responsibility. Teddy did
not have any wars while he was presi
dent, thank the Lord.
: :o:
It is also feared the early frosts will
nip a number of presidential booms
which were planned early, but didn't
do very well on account of wet weath
er and a cool constituency.
:o:
The Journal would like to see the
light question settled, and there is no
use of trying to settle it to the satis
faction of everybody, because it can't
be done. Wre must have light, every
body knows that, so what is the use
of dilly-dallying longer?
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The concensus of opinion seems to
be that the departments of state gov
ernment which are dependent upon
fees for their continuance ought to
continue their operations, collect the
fees for their activities, pay their ex
penses out of them and turn the sur
plus into the state treasury, giving a
strict accounting of their custody.
That would prevent the necessity of h
special session and stop the contro
versy. Lincoln Star.
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W INTER IN PLATTSMOUTH.
This is next winter. Along about
Christmas, New Year's and sub
sequent days, like groundhog day and
Easter, we will be enjoying this sum
mer. Missing it now is hard on the
fellows who spent all they had on
palm beach suits, straw hats, low-cut
shoes and fancy socks, but if they will
be patient they can wear all of those
to a frazzle about the time they would
normally be wearing ear muffs, over
coats and overshoes. Mr. Moth Ball,
will have his innings next December
and January, when winter clothing is
put away until next July and August
when it will be needed. Paper-weight
underwear is a delusion and a snare
in Plattsmouth now. It is an acces
sory to malaria, chills, fever and ague,
congestive chills and wooden over
coats. What is needed for comfort is
heavy woolen underclothing, reinforc
ed by fine silk next-to-the-skin gar
ments. Coal dealers in Plattsmouth
are now in the midst of their harvest,
and fly swatting as an industry is no
good. Breakfast foods are not suf
ficient these cold morning; hot cakes
and syrup and other hot foods are the
things just now, just as they are in
the houses on "Greenland's icy moun
tains" and other cold countries. This
may be fall in some countries, but
here in Plattsmouth it fell several
weeks ago; it is still falling, and most
probably it will continue fall-ing, un
till it jolts the missing summer into
the place that winter has occupied in
this latitude since the year one.
PASSING OF PUBLIC LANDS.
A recent federal statement shows
there is still some hundreds of mil
lions of acres of public land (exact
figures bore one so) still open to entry
as homesteads and such like. Which
does not include other hundreds of
millions of acres in Alaska, a far
flung territory of considerable agri
cultural posibilities when the same are
developed. All of which is an im
posing area, and enough to interest
the city's maddening crowd in the
back-to-the-farm movement. But those
who wish to break the stubborn glebe
and engage in other forms of intensive
farming, should not build up false
hopes in their desire to make the
desert blossome like the well known
rose. By drainage and irrigation,
much of the waste places still remain
ing as part of the public domain, will
untimately come into fruition, and
better dry farming methods shall re
deem other areas as time passes, and
the country becomes more crowded
and harder to feed. Yet the fact re
mains that the time has pretty well
passed when the sturdy pioneer could
go forth with no greater capital than
an ox team, stake out a quarter sec
tion of fertile prairie, tickle its top
with a breaking plow, and be on his
way to affluence and automobiles.
In other words, all that is best of
the public land has passed into private
ownership, and the budding husband
man had better invest therein, or even
rent from grasping landlords, than
tackle such remnants as may be of the
trackless wilderness. There are ex
ceptions, of course, but that is a pret
ty good general rule. And many who
sigh for the soil wouldn't like it very
well on close acquaintance. The
growth of urban population has its
drawbacks, but it is a natural growth,
and not lacking in advantages. Some
time it may. swing too far, as popula
tion grows, and make feeding the
multitude too difficult, but that time
for this country is too remote for con
sideration, and the chances are you
might better stay in town, if you are
doing reasonably well there, and par
ticularly if your entrance to agrarian
pursuits depends on the government
giving you a homestead in the old and
generous way. The truth is the gov
ernment hasn't much to offer, despite
the imposing array of figures.
:o:
There is really not much difference.
There is about as much flapdoodle in
a stand-pat speech as there is in i
bull moose speech.
:o:
As one grows older, a new mouth
means growing older and bill collect
ors, which is a combination intended
to take joy out of life.
:o :
Being thoroughly tired out by their
summer's rest, some people are now
looking up an autumn resort where
they can go to recuperate.
:o:
The girls are reconciled to going to
school again by the fact that they
have new clothes, while the boys
would have no objection at all to se
curing work were it not that they have
to put on new suits.
:o:
In conceding pretty much every
thing Wilson demanded, doesn't it also
occur to you that Germany has also
admitted a good deal in one way and
another? Which you can intrcpet to
suit your own dashblanked views of
neutrality.
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Cass county may have a candidate
for governor next year in the person
of ex-Congressman E. M. Pollard. A
A special from Lincoln, under date of
September 8, says: "One more Candi
date for the republican nomination for
governor was sprung today when a
petition was circulated and numerous
ly signed around Agricultural hall at
the fair grounds asking Ernest M.
Pollard of Cass county to become a
candidate. It has been known for some
time that Mr. Pollard had been urged
to 'enter the race - and it is believed
that this move will cause him to an
nounce his candidacy. Mr. Pollard is
a successful farmer and is president
of the Apple Growers' association of
the state. He represented the First
congressional district three terms in
congress."
Good fortune is not a self-starter.
You have to do a heap of cranking and
lots of pushing.
:o:
Because a man howls for war is no
evidence that he is partial to the smeil
of gunpowder or the whiz of a bullet.
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One would think, also, that Mexico
had enough trouble at home without
going into Texas in search of a new
supply.
:o:
Cooler weather is also indicated by
the appearance of the whole family in
union suits prancing in review across
the magazine pages.
:o:
The attendance at the state fair
Thursday exceeded the highest ex
pectations, numbering 52,513 13,000
more than on Thursday last yeai.
:o:
The special train out of this city to
the state fair has not proved a paying
proposition to the Burlington. Too
many autos in this section of the
state.
:o:
In order to get a good attendance at
the governors' conference, they had to
write ex-governors also. Probably
next time it will be necessary to take
in candidates for governor and those
who have been "mentioned" for the
office.
-:o:-
No doubt a great majority of the
people of these United States will be
glad to know that the immortal Roose
velt is secluded in the Canadian wilds,
just at the time the embarrassing
Hesperian incident is being dis
cussed. -:o:-
It was nice of ex-President Taft
to commend the act of President Wil
son in Bringing Germany to time,
and to term it a brilliant piece of
diplomacy. Mr. Taft has in him
many of the elements of genuine
statesmanship and above all he is a
patriotic American citizen. We like
to see a really big man broad enough
to see something good in other men
not members of their own party.
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A PAIR OF CORKERS.
This, according to his interview in
the Bee, is what Billy Sunday thinks
of Mayor Dahlman:
"He's a fine fellow. Been mayor
for ten years. Straight as a die. Al
ways keeps his word. Hasn't got a
crooked hair in his head. Used to
be a cowboy." And the Bee reporter
tells us that Billy was "impetuous
and very earnest" in saying it. A
number of prominent Omahans active
in organizing the Billy Sunday cam
paign have been "impetuous and very
earnest," for a number of years, in
hurling the hardest words they could
think of at Omaha's long-suffering
mayor. It reminds us that it is a
funny old world, after all, when now
the professional excoriator they have
brought to town, one whose specialty
is hard words, has not a single brick
bat for Mr. Dahlman, but smothers
him in honey instead.
And the mayor keeps right up with
Billy. Their admiration is mutual.
This is what Mr. Dahlman has told
the readers of the World-Herald about
the noted revivalist:
"He's a corker, all right. He's
a big man, and he says things in a
big way. I think Billy Sunday is
going to do a great deal of good
in this town. He strikes me as a
man who is absolutely sincere and
I am satisfied that he means every
word he says. I'm glad I went,
and I'm going again. He's a
corker, all right."
They are a pair of corkers, Billy
and Jim, and we tender our felcita
tions to both of them. Though the
one preaches the gospel and the
other preaches democracy, the method
of their preaching is very much alike
and both have been successful in
reaching "the plain people" by talking
in a language that goes right home to
them. They are so much alike, in so
many ways, indeed, that it is no won
der they instinctively take to each
other as soon as they meet. It re
mains only for the mayor to hit the
sawdust train at the psychological
moment, as not a few of his Omaha
acquaintances fondly imagine he will,
and the picture will be complete
WTorld-Herald.
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and allays Feverish ness. For more than thirty years it
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Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles nnd
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genuine CASTOR! A always
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iBears the
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THE CI- NTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITV.
War talk has calmed down very
much of late.
:o:
The boys did not hurry in getting
up High school hill this morning.
:o:
A heap of people have lots of spare
time, but very little spare change.
:o :
Little Johnny has again taken up
the "R" problem of "readin', 'ritin
and 'rath mat ic."
:o:
Chocr up! The "R" months have
arrived and the oyster again adorns
the menu cards.
:o:
Now that the girls wear watches on
their ankles, we don't give a durn
about the town clock.
:o:
What a merry time we would all
have if we attempted to follow the ad
vice we give to others.
-:o:-
The Hastings Daily Tribune has
absorbed the Hastings Daily Repub
lican. In doing so the Tribune says:
"Hastings, like Grand Island and Fre
mont, is not a field for two daily
papers, but is a logical location for
the building up of one of the strong
est and largers papers in the west."
The united support to one daily paper
in Plattsmouth by the merchants and
business men generally, has enabled
the publisher of the Journal to give
the city a paper that will compare
with any daily paper in any city or
10,000 population. The merchants of
Plattsmouth feel like they ought to
and are supporting one good paper,
where they would not feel like sup
porting two, and they are unanimous
in asserting that "the Journal fills the
bill."
To the Farmers!
There is no better investment in sight right now than to buy Western
lands; buy them before values advance, due to the high prices of piodiuN
and the present cycle of productive years in Nebraska, Colorado and
Wyoming. , ,
In the Big Horn Basin and the North IMatut Valley, irrigated farms arc
being cut in two and offered for sale on favorable terms. All crops in tho -localities
are the heaviest on record. You can secure a Covernmnt irrigate-1
r t. 11 r ..lrf -i o-ift This vear's crop on thousands of
acres in Nebraska and Colorado equals in value the original price of the lanrt.
If you are not fixed to buy, even on easy terms, take a 320 acre Mondell
homestead in Wyoming, for mixed dairy.farming; crops of wheat and oats on
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these this year just like a settled country. Looh ovui , -
the Burlington lines; you can ride all day through crops and make your own
t..-fion ac frt what this condition means to the man
for FSet
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Bought, and v. Inch has hecn
nas borne the shvnainre vt
ami xias been made under Lis jmi
sonal supervision since its infancy.
no one to deceive von U 11 i
Signature of
One of the serious drawbacks to the
vast army of toilers is that too many
of them belong to the reserves.
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Perhaps motorcyclists title motor
cycles to drown their sorrows. There
seems to be no other good reason.
:o:
Hindenberg crippling the right wing
and the left wing of the Russians
makes one think he is after Turkey.
:o:
Ever so often the average man gets
discouraged and feels that a good
many long freight trains arc blocking
his path.
-:o.-
Thc stale fair this year will go down
in history as the biggest thing in an
agricultural way ever held west of the
Mississippi river.
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Speaking of sclf-starlcrs, as auto
agent will, there is the well known
Haitien revolution which needs no
crank at all to set it going.
It is very hard to make ccoimmic.i
in the expense of running a family
when you are trying to figure out if
you can afford an automobile.
:o:
After condemning the recklessness
of automcbilists, some people allow
their children to run out in the road
and dance up and down in front of
rapidly moving cars.
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It begins to look as though those
fool Mexicans were bound to have a
scrap, regardless of all the efforts of
decent life, anyway. Those border
brigands can doubtless be accommo
dated and when their generals stoop to
acts of raiding private property it i ;
time to give them what the deserve.
Buy Land Now!
who will get hold of land in these localities now. Write
me. I can help you. My services are free.
c n HOWARD IMMIGRATION ACT..
1 004 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb.
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