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PAGE . PLATTSSIOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1916. AY. fu th su so m p Yi th M : A w er te al cl fi f c H it ii P tl 1 1 A 1 x;;:a . v.' turi. Itl ; IT-" A ..:t t'.U 1 i! i I 'Cbz plattsmoutb journal Pt nUSUKI) SEJII-WELKI.V AT I'LATTSMOI'TII, NEBRASKA. Entered at l'ostoiaceat X'lattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher BL'BSCHirTIOX PHICKt $1.50 I'KK YKAIl IX AUV1ME THOUGHT FOR TODAY- fr J Keep your recoic clean and if " f you are occasionally stupid the "j" J world will forgie you. 'I' :o: All join hands for another big boom in 191G. -:o:- Jump into the band wagon and all take a ride. :o: One advantage in being rich is you don't have to wear diamonds. :o: Another suggestion for th3 New Year: Do the best you can and don't worry. :o: No one can complain of the winter so far, but it is the ensuing winter months that we dread most. :o : Begin the new year right and nine time out of ten, with the proper ap plication, it will end that way. :o: They are shipping booze into Ten nessee in coffins. A great scheme. But the man who buys a coffin full of booze and drinks it is ready for the coffin as soon as empty. :o: There will be an awakening in this old town if some fellows don't watch out. Oar citizens are disposed to be liberal, but they are not going to stand everything. A word to the wise ought to be sufficient. :o : The primaries for the state and counties will be held the third Tues day in April, at which time a choice for president can also be voted for, unless there is something that occurs to interfere with the last proposition, and that isn't quite likely now. :o: Only a little over three months till the primary election and candidates are slow in coming to the front. We hear of two candidates for county judge, and the present efficient coun ty clerk will be a candidate for re election. :o: The stoik disappears and we look into the cradle and behold a male child. After running the gauntlet of measles, mumps and chicken pox he enters school. At the age of 10 he is a red-headed, freckled-faced boy and a terror of the neighborhood. At 12 he is an apprentice in a printing office. At 18 he has acquired two cases of long primer and an army press and is the editor of a newspaper. At 20 he is married. At 30 re is baldheaded, stcop shouldered and the father of a large family. At 35 he is a corpse in a cheap pine coffin ard his 500 delin quent subscribers file past his bier an 1 are heard to say, ' lie was a good fellow, but he couldn't save his money." :o: There are no better men than Dr. Hall in the state of Nebraska, or any other state, for that matter, and every reliable democrat would delight in voting for him for any posi tion he might want. Dr. Hall does not aspire to the governorship, ar.J he is wise in declining to run, to La stabbed in the back by those whom he has virtually made by giving them financial aid when they did not have it to help themselves. But ingrates are plentiful these days, and they come from those whom common demo crats have elected to positions of honor an I trust, and who have wielded the knife good and plenty when one of their ever faithful democrats whom they disliked, popped up for oft'.ce. They would rather support a weak kneed democrat than or.e always a Many cases of pneumonia, but few serious. Constant changeable weather causes much sickness. .' : Champ Clark is too chestnut raker. old to turn :o:- And sweet 1G is a leap year, too. Now's your opportunity, girls. :o : Take care of today and kt tomor row well, tomorrow takes care of to day again. :o: A greater army and navy is declar ed necessary to support the new pan American pact. :o: Pennsylvania railrcads in the last fiscal year killed 1,11)2 persons, most ly tresspassers. :o: The de facto government in Mexico, headed by Carranza, has been officially recognized by Germany. The republicans and democrats will cordially approve of the nomination of Sulzer by the prohibitionists of New York. .n:- Will Nebraska send Mr. Bryan to the St. Louis convention to break has instructions again? St. Louis Globe-' Democrat. Time will tell. :o : lontics are beginmng to move. lhe republicans of Cass county will meet in convention at Weeping Water Tues- ttn' Jfln arv 11 tn t -. I L- nvpr r-,nftfrc 'lucal- -to: We recall reading somewhere that a lower percentage of divorces. Ard Matthew Arnold shuddered at theoni;e morv- Nebraska has a larger per ... , , . mcnent school fund than Kansas, .American towns wnere nothing ever). happened or ever will happen. Com paring this sad situalion with that of English and other European towns, we can't materialize a shudder for the American towns. Now that it is positively known that the charming wife of President ! W ; ! .1, l 1 : : I clothes for her wedding trosseau, and that she did not go shopping in the European markets, will thev please let her wear her clothes in peace and give us all a chance to invoice our old rags for the coming blizzards. UK- It is intimated in the east that the administration is disposed to be a lit tle partial toward Kngland in dish- ing out favors. We don t believe it,; but should such a thing prove true, . we have no further use for President ' Wilson, whom this paper has lauded to V. -t.;-.. Tl. i" . l i.i i make this country, wr.ile hngland has endeavored to destroy it on several occasions. Vic Wibon of Stromsburg wants to run for railroad commissioner, if he can secure the demociatic nomination, which, in our opinion, is rather doubt ful, with so many good, capable demo crats who would like to be honored. Vic Wilson may be competent, and all that, but we never did admire his hypocritical manner of doing business in order to get a plume in his cap, in which effort he always missed the mark. That kind of man we can never support. :o : Some discusison is going on about who the republican candidate will be for president, but there is not much among the democrats on this subject. It will be Wilson. Some say Bryan is going to raise h 1 with Wilson. Bryan or no other man or set of men can do that. There may be a few democrats now who say they will not support Wilson, but not many, and for every democrat that he loses there will be two republicans come to the WHY KANSAS IS TOUTED. 'aitly because the prohibition propagandists everywhere have held Kansas up as their star performer, and partly because Kansas has gone systematically into the advertising game, the Sunflower state continues to shine in the columns of the eastern pi ess by comparison with Nebraska, though Nebraska is in every way the superior state. Will Maupin, one of the best equip ped Nebraska boosters, calls attention to a paragraph appearing recently in Collier's Weekly, as follows: tv,,... w i !!(! in K;ms wliid. provides that damage may be collected braska people, no doubt, will be de from the seller of intoxicating liquors Ceived. Thev will dream of Kansas when the buyer gets drunk and makes tn.i'l.lfv Has vour state ar.v such law? nd is it mere chance that Kansas has been called the most progressive state in the union?" To which Mr. Maupin, in the col umns of his paper, the York Demo- crat, replies that "Nebraska has such a law, anu a much more sti ingent one than the Kansas law. And the Nebraska law was on the statute books years before Kansas thought of enacting a similar one." Yet Kansas, the beiated arrival, gets all the glory, while Nebraska, whi.h in this as in numerous other way-" has been the pioneer of real progress and reform, is accorded not even the scant honor of favorable mention. For example, as Mr. Maupin re minds us, Nebraska began regulating her railroads before Kansas did, Ne braska adopted the Australian ballot ahead of Kansas. Nebraska began regulating the conditions surounding wage earners before Kansas did, Ne braska's law regulating the employ ment of women antedates that of Kan- sas by several vears. And warming up to his subject the indignant editor of the York Democrat goes on to say: "Or.ce more, spe;. progrsss N-b:-a.-ka t ype's Kansas in annual ;er - cap:ta p,.fK.Jct ion r furm Wealth, in , farm value rer ac re, in average valu j 'p-r farm; has a lov vr percentage c: jcont.ipe of juvenile offenders and de- !lir:qi'ents a lower percentage of pr is- ; oners m jaus ana penitentiaries, ar.u srenciS more per capita for education than Kansas, and has more student? per or.e thcu and of population in col leges and universities than Kansas. "Nor is this all, Nebraska has more per capita deposited in state, national i i -.u .1 j i ,,i ,; The democrats are somewhat slow deed, with two-thirds tlie population of Kansas, Nebraska has more money in their movements in both state and deposited in uanks th:in Kansas has. (homers nas more than or.ce reiterated (Jin ctnrm(.iir tnt Thw rwv finiT 1 j wealth of Nebraska is greater than 'that of Kansas and the farm mortgage (indebtedness of Nebraska is less per i e . l : . . . . l . . I lurm, per acie ....u, pei cajnua t..ai. mac or ivansas. These aie the facts. Yet daily through the years Kansas is touted for all those things that go to make a great and happy state, in all of which J Nebraska excels, and Nebraska is lit- J tie mentioned. It is a situation annoy-j tri v,!,,., npnili, :iuhnn:rh it in nQ wise affjcts thdr wll.beinK nor retards their steady progress. One aspect of this curious situation I j far to explain it. It is not the pro hibitionists alone who are forever ex tolling Kansas. Kansa? has been given over to other freaks and fads and follies to about all of them, indeed, that it heard of and could appropriate. In consequence eveiy faddist whose fad has met a cordial reception in Kansas has been holding Kansas up to the admiration of the world. Every promoter of a half-baked idea that was rejected by Nebiaska but hugged to the Kansas heart has turned up his nose at Nebraska, pointed exultingly to Kansas and exclaimed, '"Look how prosperous and enlightened and order ly Kansas is! It was my ism or my doxy that did it!" Truth is that Kansas ha3 gone foiv.ard in spite of the isms and doxies rather than be cause of them; that Nebraska has been forging slowly but surely ahead of Kansa3 for the reason that it has wisely rejected the crankisms that Xamas has experimented with; that Nebraska has advanced by the ration al process of taking up at once with round and salutary reform while re jecting ail that was dubious till its worth was proved, while K?nsas, vdovtlvr every idea m sirrht labelled "reform," whether sound or silly, has advanced in spite of the load because of the great natural advantages which in common with Nebraska, it enjoys. The time is approaching when the explanation of the fame of Nebraska will be brought right home to Nebras ka people. Nebraska is to be asked to adopt the Kansas prohibition policy Every advocate of prohibition will be walking the highways and byways of this state exclaiming how much more - fortunate and blessed than Nebraska Kansas is, because Nebraska has what At)e Martin cahs stationary saloons while those in Kansas are of the per- ambulatory type. And lots of Ne- aml Promise, and .Nebraska, to them, will seem drab colored and sordid all for its lack of prohibition! If any - 1, comes tQ thege deceiveJ mortals I j them .fc Js a m5stakethat Xebiaskaf in every essential respcct, I .va o M.a Vnn as the aforesaid deprived mortals will likelv think that the truth-teller is a wicked person in the pay of the brewers and distillers. World-Herald to: The New Year opens in good shape. Omaha's 1915 building operations will exceed $5,000,000, highest record. :o: Lnicagoans have started a move ment for a uniform postage stamp for all nations. :o When money talks, stop and ask it "why" the man who is his own boss enjoys but lew pay days r - Honesty is not an acquired virtue, but often enough of a policy, as Franklin's unethical maxim puts it. it is tiie time ot year wnen all som- nomounsts should tMke the precau tion of wearing heavy flannel night- row .is. :o : The navy rejects men with small I r . , ... no minimum-sized hat-band has been prescribed for head officials, as yet. :o: Don't make a mountain out of a molehill; make a molehill out of a mountain, or let George do it at Panama. county. This gives the impression lhat the t Iackg enthusiasm. o:- Albany Journal points a moral or moralizes on a point, viz: "London hag .Leag.ue for Marrvine Broken Heroes,' which may be new in Lon don, but the same organization has been doing an extensive business among American heiresses for years back." :o : The death of General Granville M. Dodge removes the last of the great generals of the civil war. The vet- erans are answering the last roll call very rapidly, and soon there will not be one of us left to l elate the story. Those who led the brave boys have all passed over the Great Beyond with the leath of General Dodge. :o: More miles of raiiroad property were placed in receivers' hands during 1015 than ever in the history of the country for one year, according to compilations of railroad statistics just published by the Railway Age Gazette. The figures also show that only 933 miles of new railroad were built last year, the ieast number of miles built in any one year for the last fifty years. :o: Al Ringling, the eldest of the Ring ling Brothers, the grfat circus people, died at his home in Baraboo, Wiscon sin, last Saturday night. The writer was personally acquainted with all the boys, but more so with the deceased, and in 1888 came very near going in the advance brigade as press man. There never were a more gentlemanly set of fellows in the show business, and that characteristic to a great ex tent is what brought to them the great success they so richly deserved. Peace to his ashes! THE LAST Or AN ARMY. A short time ago a banquet was given ii Washington to veterans of the Mexican war belonging to the Azted club. Only two of the charter mem bers were present, and they are the only survivors. Both are over 92 years cf age. They are Col. George J. Pott erf ield of Charlottesville, Ya., and Brig. Gen. Horatio G. Gibson, who is the oldest living graduate of West Point. The two were respectively elec ted president and vice president of the club, which is limited to men who served as officers in Mexico and their descendants. In all, only .'even Amer ican otlicers ol the -Mexican war are now living, and hardly enough of the enlisted men are left to form one regi ment. In the conflict, now sixty eight years in the pi st, the forces of the regular army were 42,500 strong, and those of the volunteers a little larger. Texas was first, Louisiana second, Missouri third, and Illinois fourth in the number of volunteers turnished. 1 he casualties seem strangely small, compared with those of the war r.ow in progress. In killed and mortally wounded the American loss was 1,557, and in wounded 3,2(8. The average daily casualty list in Europe is much larger than that of the Americans in the entire Mexican war. it happened that Illinois lost more volunteers from bullets in Mex co tnan anv other state, and its total was ninety-eight. The Mexican war ended thirteen vears oeiore me civil war uegun. .-is onlv l per cent or our soldiers in the Mexican campaigns are now livin it follows that thirteen years hence only 1 per cent of the soldiers of the civil war will survive. 1 hey are pass ing away now at the rate of 40,0lO a year. The number now on the pen sion roll is about SS0,0(). In Novem ber 2,.r,f.-" passed to their reward. Such are the ravages of time among the veterans, only a few hundred of whom will lemain by the year 1U2. Last year pension expenditures decreased $'D,O00,OUO. But there is a higher and truer standpoint from which to treat this subject than that of money. The soldiers who responded when the na tion was in danger performed a ser vice of incalculable value. Our coun try heads the list in peaceful prosper- ity and the elements of substantial vealth. As an example of the world it seems destined to stand first. If its patriotic manhood is of the fame fiber as that of the veterans of whom so many have been mustered out by the flight of time, all will be weii -:n :- It is now prophesied that the war will end in the spring. Whv not end it now, so the boys can be ready for their spring plowing. There wouid be some sense in that. THE SICK MAN, THOMAS RHODES, MUCH BETTER The sick man, Thomas Rhodes, who has been cared for at the county jail for the last few days is apparently getting better and has quieted elown and saw three machine fully 3,000 considerable since being taken there feet high flying in line from the north to be cared for. Those acquainted cast and turning just over the harbor with the young man stated that lie toward the northwest in which direc- has had these spells before, but none quite as bad as that which he was taken with here the last week. A num-lost ber of those acquainted with Mr. Rhodes have called on him since the news of his unfortunate condition was circulated through the country he is doing so well and trust that his and they are well pleased to learn that improvement may continue. The at tending physician has been able to eliminate all chances of pneumonia DOWN OX HIS BACK. "About two years apro I rot down on by back," writes Solomon Bequette, Flat River, Mo. "I pot a 50c box of Foley Kidney Pills and they straight ened rae rierht up. I reccommerd them to all who have kidney trouble." Rheumatic aches and pains, soreness ; and stiffness, sleep disturbing blad-, der trouble, yield quickly to Foley Kidney Pills. Sold everywhere. CHICHESTER S PILLS io (itnf-r. iiiiT oi yo fff lracgit. 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(Via Paris) Prince Andrew of Greece, brother of King Constantine, in an interview to day with the correspondent of the As sociated Press described the aerial I Lorn aurdment of the allied camp at Zeltenlik, on the outskirts of baloniki on December "0. "The bombardment and the reply of the fleets anchored in the roads of Sa- , lor.iki," said the prince, "was one of the most extraordinary sights I have lever seen. I was riding hack irom the morning's work with my regiment at about 10:30 when I was startled by a deafening explosion some 2u0 yards away. A great cloud of black smoke arose followed shortly by three more explosions at regular intervals. The former rocket like sound of a shell passing through the air, evidently fired by one of the warships in the harbor. "Naturally my first thought was that for some reason the fleet was bombarding Saloniki. Therefore I rode straight to the nearest British post which happened to be a hospital not far from the Greek camp Whv are you bombarding the city?' I asked the officers Saw Attacking Airmen. "Then for the first time I looked up tion they finally disappeared. "The bombs dropped with the great- precision, one after another, killing and wounding a number of the allies' i PHI NEBRASKA MILITARY ACADEMY Inc. The School That Understands Boys The next term of the Nebraska Military Academv begins January 4th, 1916. If you want w-' - ivotivauun di uiice. winy a limited number can be accommodated. For information address City Office Col R. D. Hayward, Phone B 3560 Brs. CyJach & fVlach, Tfia Dentists 1 The largest and host quipp I charge of all worU. Laoy at teiular fillinps just like looti. Instruments fa) U DR. E. R. TARRY - 240 aZ3 Mj! 323 For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the gnature of For Over Thirty Years TM CIKTAUII COUXNV, KIW Von CITY, soldiers, but not touching the city. Meanwhile the firing of the fleet grew thunderous. It was impossible to hear yourself think. In a short time it be came evident that the fire from the fleet was more dangerous than the bombs from the aeroplanes as some of the shells, aimed wild, whistled direct ly over the town, one narrowly miss ing Major Metaxas and a troop of Greek cavalry returning from exer cise. "Pieces of spent shells began to drop with frightful velocity, one even pierc ing two floors of a train station and burning itself into the ground ccller. The population not understanding what was happening were greatly ex cited. "Toward noon, a fourth aeroplane arrived, following exactly the same course as the others, though flying lower. The black maltese crosses were plainly visible on its wings. My wife and I watched its flight from the bal cony of our house. Saw Consuls Arrested. "Ruling home along King George street toward tea time, I was astound ed to see French soldiers and a dense 'crowd of onlookers surrounding the German consulate. Further along the street other consulates presented the same sight. The consuls were hustled through the crowd, taken to the head quarters of the French commander. General Sarrail. cross examined and then put aboard the battleship Patrie to the accompainment throughout of the stares and comments of curious crowds." Asked whet he.- he would return to Saloniki tlie prince replied: "Of course I shall. Why shouldn't I? Despite appearances Saloniki is still Greek." K $100 Reward, $100 The readi-rs of this pir 'HI b" j!im1 to learn that there Is at leant one ilreadi d dlweax thut srienee ha been able t. cure in all It taee, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh :'ur In the only nitlve rure m.w known to the nicd irxl fraternity. Catarrh tx-inK a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. 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