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J PAGE 4. TLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1913. Cbc plattsmoiitb journal PIHLISIIED SEMI'WUEKLY AT PLATTSMOl'TII, NEBRASKA. Entered at Postofflce at Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher SIIISCKIPTIO.N IMUtK: " i A A 4 " THOUGHT FOR TODAY. V I am primarily engaged to J myself to be a public servant J- to all men that there is a good J - will and intelligence at the J head of things, and even high- $ J er and yet higher leadings. Emerson. Oh, say, did you ever sec such mam moth pumpkins? :o: A prudent enemy is preferable to i.n indiscreet friend. :o: Temptation is simply an opportunity originating in a weak brain. :o: If you want to find out a woman's age, ask some other woman. :o: A great many of these golden op portunities prove to be only plated. :o: It is a mighty tmart man who can hold a political office and keep out of debt. Occasionally, a man with wheels in his head thinks he's the whole ma chine. :e: It is just as easy -with some to "soak" a man as it is to talk broth erly love. :o: It is about tim; the president and governor were issuing their Thanks giving proclamations. :o: The war censors are willing that the newspapers should print the news af ter its appears in school history books. :o: Secretary McAdoo seems to be favorably impressed with his step- mother-in-law. We don't blame him if the is as good as she looks. :o: Governor Morehead shot sixteen ducks the other day, and from tl.i? one would presume that he is as smc cessful a sportsman as he is a poli tician. :o: It looks as though the Panama canal will be ready for busines and furnish sure passage to our warships about the time the world concludes that it can get along without any more wars. :o: : Many apples are going to waste in Cass county for the want of pickers Some farmers are giving away applet to those who will com and pick thrvr.. There is no need of any persons doing v.ithout apples this winter on these terms. :o: Say, we would like to know what has become of Col. John G. Maher? John is really too young to diz a sud den death, and we don't believe he going to, either. For he is a fighter from away back, and will be found ?n the ring at the proper time. :o: Senator John Mattes called on Gov ernor Morehead the other day, but af. to the porport of their conversation we are not able to say. But we im agine the governoship had something to do with it. If Governor Morehead concludes not to be a candidate. Sen ator Mattes will be that is one thin,'; certain. :o: From the good words uttered by strangers who visit our city, we know hat Plattsmouth is in line as one of the cities that is noted far and wide as one of the wide-awake towns in the west. We are alive to the fact that Plattsmouth has improved more in the past five years thf.n any city of its di mensions in the state. VKAIt l. AHVAME THIS WONDER AGE. The other day a man spoke in Vir ginia, and his voice was heard in far away Hawaii. And it carried over that distance without visible means of r,v - roklpc nPfPrt to ""ri"" - - cover the thousands of miles of land and sea. It was a new application of the wonder of wireless, and the story was first paged and men marveled for a minute that this might be. Yet it Jitln'i- (tronfo flu f nmm ivhlfll TnicrVifr have stirred the world at an earlier - it unset the established order of war- fare, and through that the very sys tern was quite awhile ago Yet was the last century and this one which have een the great strides in science and invention. This is the real wonder age. The telegraph, telephone, wirless, aeroplane, typewriter, har vester, submarine, trolley car and many other marvels of ihe time came into being in the memory of men still living, some in very recent years, and the railroads, and the steamboats are comparatively new. Hence, it is easily demonstrated that this is the wonder age of all times, but the common be comes commonplace, and men no long er marvel long at this or that impos fible achievement. But what has been is at least pre paratory to what may be. Man's in genuity certainly hasn't approached its limit, as new inventions every day are evidence. Some of them, of course, are unimportant, and some correct in theory fail to amount to much in practice, but no one knows what day may see more really revolu tionary device. But this much is cer tain: so familiar has man become with wonders which were undreamed of a century ago, or even a decade, that he will accept the new creation as a mat ter of course, and nearly wonder in a little while how the world managed to get along without it for so many thou sand years. Still, if the childlike gift of wonder is passing, this is still a great age in which to live. So much has been done to contribute to our creature comfort that the average man now knows a life of luxury sur passing that of princes and potentates of old. That is just another wonder among the many of this somewhat glorious present. :o: A phool is a man who hears some thing cn the curbstone and then spreads it for the truth. :o: If you have more common sense than you had, this time last year you are making fair progress. :o: It is indeed no snap to be an American ambassador these days. Every one in Europe is representing from five to a dozen countries. :o: We may not be able to persuade the automobilists to stop at railroad crossings for their own safety, but they should reflect how disorderly it is to litter up the neighborhood with human limbs and automobile scraps. . :: You may not be able to stir a boy's ambition by telling him he might be come a banker or a manufacturer. But just try telling him that if he would fit himself for newspaper work he might get a chance to report the foot ball games. :o: Thanksgiving proclamations will oon be in order and the American people will have plenty to be thankful for. The day should be celebrated in a manner befitting the existing condi tions. Over in Europe, of course, they will not be able to eat turkey or fol low the usual mode of giving thanks. The monarchs are not yet ready to lay down their arms and restore peace and happiness to the people. I'EU A real sport never yells a "frame- up. The secret of success is one that no woman can tell. :o: Gold ships are convoyed. Passeng ers should make it a point to take pas sage on gold ships. :o : Sometimes it seems there is no ro mance in attending to one's own busi ness. At least there are some in this city who think so. :o: It is not unlikely that some day. not far distant, guns will be mounted that are capable of reaching aircraft from the ground and pulling them down. i - I '-O: Next vear wffl not only be the year for candidates to come around, but it 13 aiso ine year lor some lenows to 1 i . i o - Put themselves in position to be "in I nUenCed. i . .. :o:- I T iY 11 trVi ill li Kaon -wl i 1 about as much as possible I about as much as possible. If the English wish to show further disre- itar or h'm they might burn him effigy. -:o: It is. pretty near time that some congressional aspirants on the demo- cratic ticket were waking up. Kc - I Tiember tne early bird story will nave sometning to do with suedes?. It You want to be a candidate speak up boldly and bravely. :o:- DISCOVERING THE WEST. Large space is still given in the city and country press in the eastern states to the stories of those who ven- are stm on its soil. ltaly must hol l tured to explore the regions west of the mountain passes. Serbia is fight the Missouri river during the late ir ror its life. Great Britain must summer. I heir experiences were so puard arainst invasion. It is not startling that they can talk of nothing strange that there should be friction, else. They seem to think that they Xhe illness of Premier Asquith, how are original discoverers of the west- ever instead of making matters more ern side of North America. The rich .,,.to un tVir mer, who had a lodge in the Adiron- dacks, a cottage at Newport or Bar Harbor, an old castle among the Thou sand Islands, a hunting preserve in North Carolina, a model farm up Win chester way, a villa in Florida, a pri vate yacht landing at Long Island, a magnificent residence on upper Fifth Avenue, and who could never stay more than a few days at any one of their places during the year, felt the loss of Europe and some of them actually started out to see the "west." According" to the stories printed in the eastern papers they were as- tounued when crossing state lines, it was so different from passing from I f a. a- .l I country lo anom- er. They say: When you cross the boundaries j from one state to another state you I do not have to bribe the train hands to take your trunks off the train and pile them in a custom house, and then bribe a lot of frowsy, wishkered ban- dits to pass your baggage, and then bribe a couple cf porters to reload your baggage back upon the train; and then, in order to be on the safe side and to avoid complication, bribe everyone else in sight. Nothing of the sort occurs! The train crosses the state line without any excitement whatsoever. Unless there happens to be a station there it does not stop at all." ly urging people to buy and enrich They declared that "when one themselves, are frequently a sign that cpmes to a mountain, lake, canyon, someone has something he wants to geyser or other place of great natural se- beauty, you find no bad restaurants ' :;- :o: are scattered about; no booths for the Bulgaria is now almost in the same sale of souvenirs and postcards; no position that Belgium was in the early clamoring mendicants; no importuning stages of the war she is the fighting guides; no vociferous cab drivers; no trround for two big antagonists. Pity greedy custodians; no insatiable care- Poor Bulgaria. takers waiting to be tipped. You may . :o: go for days and days without being At present the Vicksburg Daily Citi pestered or mulcted, or cheated or of July 4, 1863, and the Ulster mistreated, or called hard names in County Gazette, containing the ac foreign languages. In their quaint, count of the death of George Wash crude unsophistication these people ington are neck and neck, with pres expect payment only for what they ses still running to supply the demand. deliver, and no more than fair pay- ment for that. It certainly is not in the least like Europe." It is probable that a great many books will be' written about these wonderful discoveries, and they will be "more reliable than the tales of the discovery of the River of Doubt. World-Herald. BRITISII CABINET CRISIS. The crisis in the British cabinet is matter more serious than the mer resignation of Sir Edward Carson a attorney general. While the English papers speak regretfully of his retire ment, that would not be a calamitous event by itself. Men have marvele. at his ever being made a member of the cabinet in the first place. Afte his "Ulster revolution" prison would have been a more natural place for him. But there are indications that there is much dissension in' the cabi net. The campaign in the Dardanel les, the handling of the Balkan situa tion, the prospects of conscription, the Anglo-French loan and the relief of i I r- i i e , eruia are subjects oi more or less animated controversy. Some of these were doubtless responsible for the re- I - a. j r tii t- iirement oi m. ueicasse as riencn minister of foreign affairs. The removal of Sir Ian Hamilton from command in the Dardanelles campaign does not mean abandon- I ment of that theater of the war. It might have a salutary effect on Greece inland Rumania to hint at abandonment, but Russia would not regard such de sertion kindly. It was to help Russia that the expensive and so far luck- I less venture was undertaken. Serbia lis in sore need. French and British troops are being hurried by rail and oy lorcea marenmg tnrougn ureece Italy is clamoring for aid in getting troops to Serbia. Each ally has its own conception of what is the most Important theater of the war. Russia wants the Turks, Germans and Aus- trians kept away from the Caucasus. France cannot forget that Germans The members may feel a greater obligation to subordinate their ner- sonal views because of the increasing serious situation. But the break will be merely postponed, for the differ ences are irreconcilable. :o:- Whcat and hogs fhow a decline in prices :o:- This is the only country now that can sell supplies on time. :o: Italy may hav-3 to soak its paint- ings to get a $25,000,000 credit. :o: If you would avoid a second lesson, heed the teachings of adversity. :o: The iitnev car mav eventuallv dis- appear, but not the jitney man. :o: More gold is arriving in New York City than the assay office employes can handle. :d. Mr. Marshall is wondering whether the president has promised his fiancee to drop "his only vice :o: Some people doubt the existence of a hereatter, but they will be sure to recognize the brand when they get there. " ? J, :o: These stock market tips benevolent- tor President Wilson proclaims Thurs day, November 25, as the day in which all those who area ble can eat turkev and return thanks, and those who are not can perhaps eat duck, rabbit, or any other old thing they can get hold of, and no doubt feel thankful they are lucky enough in doing that. Good-bye, Billy. Come again, when you need another stake. , :o: How far back is "the other day," pray tell us? :o: Some men can stand suspense bet ter than they can stand work. :o: A large majority of men have great deal more ambition than ability. :o: Coal smoke doth not an Indian sum mer make. Indian summer brings its own haze. Did it ever occur to you that the flimfiammers easiest mark is an old tiht-wad? :o: It now appears that Carranza is the man of the hour in Mexico. But how many hours : :o: The money given Billy Sunday would feed a whole lot of poor people in Omaha this winter. :o:- Just about the time a fellow cap tures the fr';.t of his labor he linus the darned banana is rotten . :c : The supreme court has declared against J. A. Lee in his libel suit against the Omaha Daily News. :o: The cllcge sophomores don't bother the freshman any more, as it takes all their time to hazo the professors. :o: What has become of the old-fashion- id boy who believed the laws of the and were suspended for Hallowe'en? :o: While the New Jersey suffragists were campaigning all the night before election, the antis seem to have gotten a good sleep so they could work at the polls election day. :o: A Kentucky suffragette ays when women have the ballot married men will not be allowed down town after lark. Will bachelors have to support the entire burden of night life? :o: In times past when the people of J CAiir f yr worn 1 nr L- t rr -f nv t Vi r con. ..w v wvwu J ..iv. www - auonai in pontics, uiey uirneu meir laces toward Kansas lor a Mary Yelling" Lease, a Carrie Nation or a J Sockless Jerry Simpson. About all we now have is an occasional 'stir-up" by Teddy. :o: FREE STATE FAIRS. There seems to be no dissent from the proclaimed fact that Kansas made a distinct success of her experiment in irivinir a state fair without charging admission at the gates. Agricultural , ,. ,. , , , , , ruuucauons an over uie lanu are iau'i - ing me success oi me experiment, ana Samuel E. Lux, president and manag- er of the fair, declares that it will bz less than ten years until every one of ir- u me Biai xuu iu u If that be true, doubtless managers of these great educational institutions are everywhere thinkinc out the nossi- bilities and prospects of this plan. Under the Kansas plan Shawnee county, in which the Kansas State fair is held at Topeka, levied a quarter of a mill tax, which raised a fund of S23,000, and the state contributed $5,000. This gae ?28,000 for use as nremiums. ine races are seu-susiam- ing, and in the cattle, horse, swine and poultry departments the stall rentals and exhibittors' permits paid the sal aries and expenses of the judges and superintendents and the departments. The other expenses of the free fair were taken care of by funds derived from concessions, and they yielded enough to enable the management to pay out $45,000 in prizes and stakes. Although Kansas encountered rainy weather for its fair, the toal attend ance reached more than 175,00. This is about 5,000 less than the total paid attendance at the Nebraska fair. If we were to take away the funds derived from the gate charge lor so large a crowd, it would leave our Ne- braska fair hopelessly bankrupt. Not even $23,00 contribution from theFIBT and THIRD Tuesdays of each county and $5,000 f rom the state would refill the gap. What they might lack of doing so would necessarily have to come out of (exhibitors and concession aires. Lincoln Star. CFiiidren Cry j a i wj jv Ij .ii i a r a m. a mm a a The Kind Yoir Hare Always Botight, and which has hern iu use ,for over SO years, lias homo the signature of 9 ad lias been mado under his per- CXy- sonal supervision since its infaney. r Allow no one to deceive you In this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-jrood " are hut Experiments that triile with and omlansrer fie health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiments What is CASTOR I A Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, lrops p.nd Soothing- Syrups. It is pleasant. Ifc contains neither Opium," Morphine nor otlicr Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms r.nd allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowel, assimilates the Food, giving- healthy and natural sleep. Tlie Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS ) Bears the n Use For The Kind You Have Always Bought IE CENTAUR GOMfANV. AUSTRALIANS ARE SAID TO LACK RESPECT Troops of British Dependency in Egypt Are Accused of Lack of Discipline. WOULD LIKE THEM SENT BACK r I CIO A I ent of the ..New Rotterdam Courant, a paper with pro-British tendencies writes from Cairo: "The Australian troops brought to Egypt are making far more trouble for the British authorities than all of the pro-Turkish Mohammedan na tives. The Australians are splendid soldiers, men of great physical strength and absolutely fearless, but their utter lack of discipline makes them undesirable, if not actually dan gerous. Their behavior is so bad that the English soldiers have been for bidden to associate with them. This may be accounted for by the fact that I many of them are descended from 1 . . , , , . , . I criminals who were deported to Aus traja whfin thig far.off continent was I still an English penal colony "The Australians have no respect for their officers, refuse to drill when tney d not "eel it, and spend q drink; and ca rous;n, jn the low sections of Cairo and the other cities in which they are stationed. Repeatedly they have started to plunder and they even burned down some of the disorderly houses that are frequented by them. Terrorize Natives. "The population is terrorized by the sntics of these undisciplined antipe dean soldiers and influential native circles have requested their removal from Egypt. Recently two battalions See Wyoming Now! At Harvest Time Si- lor yourself the bumper crops of t lie homesteaders. Meet thes! pt'ojilc on' llivir own places and hear of the opportunities that await you there. See iO bushels per acre wheat; see the alfalfa, pota toes, stiar beets and practically every farm product now. Din in" Ihe oast year more than a thousand families have found UOIIU,.. ju nis state along our lines. have a choice of a 320 acre Mondell and grs land, or an 80 acre government irrigated lann i m the Biir a (!uesliuU uitll you. This is better than a rented or mortgaged form amj j... a sure Way to gel ahead and own your home. Ask-about personally conducted excursians to this territory on that tells all if you are in for Fletcher's 1 to Signature of Over 30 Years IEW VOOK CITY. were sent to Gallipoli and this almost caused mutiny. Some of the men of the transferred batallions protested vehemently and started a riot when their objections were fruitless. Two full regiments were to be sent to Sedd-ul-Behr and Avi-Burnu, but this plan had to be given up, as more seri ous mutinies were feared. "The Australians will stay in Egypt as long as it suits them, but the British authorities will gladly accom modate them if they get tired of war and demand to be sent home." The newspaper states that the ar ticle was passed by the British censor with but one or two slight alterations. FIRE COMMISSIONER RIDGELL ON FIRE PREVENTION Shows How the People Can Save Money by Being More Careful. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 24. Citizens of the state can perform a patriotic duty, and at the same time prevent drairs upon their pocketbooks by giving the matter of fire prevention a little thought now and then. By so doing the saving can be driven up to from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 a year, in the opinion of Fire Commissioner Rigdell. In calling attention to the state Fri day, November 1, a day which will be observed in the schools of the 6tate, the fire commissioner says that two- thirds of the $2,000,000 annual fire loss in the state could be prevented. In making suggestions for observ ance of Fire day by citizens generally, the commissioner asks for the whole sale inspection of buildings and their suroundings, for the detection of waste or materials which aid the fire demon in his destruction. He sug gests .co-operative activity between city officials, women's clubs and all civic organizations There is room for you. You now homestead or good agricultural month. i nave reaay ior iree uisinnution literature about what Wyoming offers you, search of a home. Vrrile me. S. 93. HOWARD, IMMIGRATION AGENT, 10 4 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb. t t V .3 1 HI I i t i f I r . i - ii