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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1916. PLATTSMOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. PAGE 1. Cbz plattsmoutb journal riHI.ISIIKO SKMMVKEKLV AT IM.VTTSSIOLTH, KUIIKASKA. Entered at Fostoffice at I'lattsmouth. Neb., as second-class mall matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION I'KICEi 10 THOUGHT FOR TODAY. Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that J. are truly worth leading were 1- but read. George Dawson. I Did you get a va.entine? If you did, you wouldn't say so. :o: A few bluebirds, the early harbing ers of spring, have made their appear ance. :u: Dyspepsia is something that seems to be helped very r.iuch by talking about it. :o: It always sounds learned to quote the bible. But people do not always quote it learnedly. :o: The old-fashioned man who did his thinking while whittling never com plained of brain fag. :o: Eefore condemning the whole world j end the people in it one should have his own liver examined. :o: Slnco Secretary Garrison could not have a continental army he elon't care a continental for office. :o : Double-crossing wo.i't pan out very satisfactory this year in politics. The people won't stand for it. :o: The fellow who is ?iways trying to make a good impies--ion all around, usually doesn't please anyone. We think it is all light for a man to love his enemies, provided he is reasonably kind to his friends. :o: Soap was not discovered as early as gunpowder; and you can realize that such is the fact, almost anywhere. tO.'- After a man has been married about ten years he quits wearing tight shoes. Here's at least one way mar ried life has a good effect upon him. to: Some fellows seem to think if there is no show for his first choice of of fices, try another. They are bound to nurse the public teat, one way or the other. :o: It is very easy to carry water on both shoulders in signing petitions, but it will not be so easy for the fel lows who do this kind of double cross ing. There'll be trouble brewing if it is found out. :o: In time every dam will break, but people build in fiood area upon the theory that it would not break in their time. But theories won't stop a flood that has started, or a navy on its way. Prepare! to: It is pointed out that whoever signs more than one petition for a nominee for the same office, i3 subject to a fine and imprisonment. Just now, when petitions are flying around thick and fast, it will be well to bear this law in mind, or you may get yourself in jail, or a heavy fine, and maybe both. Take warning before yoj innocently do something of this kinJ. :o: It should be constantly borne in mind by every Wilson democrat, that when the democrats of Lincoln were circulating a petition to have Presi dent Wilson's name placed upon the ticket as a candidate for president, Charley Bryan, who is making some pretense now of running for governor on the democratic ticket, refused to Ttition. but gave no satis M'l l"- I factory reason. If for no other cause he should be spotted for this ADVANCE LONG ARM OF UNCLE SAM. Every American citizen, whether he be alien born and naturalized, or whether he be native born, must feel a thi ill of pride at the part in the world events his count: y is being called upon to play. And as one who stands up on a lofty height and views conditions ! from afar there rises in his heart the fervent hope that the United States will become the world's greatest ai biter. Though not a prophet nor the son of a prophet, he can see through the dense and mirky gloom that now envelopes all we once held of civiliza tion as in a pei ilous pall, away out on the horizon dimly defined between earth and sky, a tiny gieam of the star of hope. And tnat star of hope rises upon the United States and thiows a radiant influence o'er all the world. The dispatches of yostcrday and to day affirm the splendid position which the United States has been called upen to assume in the world's politics. With cne mighty hand she has grasped im perious Britain by the throat and with the other she holds a check on Ger- manv. she is iriven a fraternal irreet- ir.g from Sweden, but that is only an incident. In the administration of her affairs, as they are intermingled with the politics of Eurotv, she has reached out a velvet hand, and it does not cover nor conceal a hand of mail. It is a friendly hand, but it has a sinewy grasp. It is reached out ai the ex pression of manly justice and with a magnificent and original interest. It is extended unabashed of fear or favor, flattery or frown but it has a giip, anil if emergencies arise that grip will be felt. It is the great, strong arm and hand of the western hemisphere, representing the might ind majesty of the United States . 1 I." .. 1 A. youngest ot tne wo: :u s nations, oui her sturdiest and best. Today it is raised i.s a warning, if not as a menace. It is the expression of a voice which says to Birtain: "Thus far shall thou go, but no farth er. And it says to uermany: in your enmadden rush be merciful, for we cf the Uniteel Slates are citizens of the world, and we have eyes, and ears, ana sympathetic nearts to wnicn . . i i every anguished cry appeals." And to the rest of the world the hanels of the United States are raised as benediction. :o: 'Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide," says the poet, and sometimes it comes oftener. ;) ; The republican papers are working awful hard for the nomination of Charley Bryan on the democratic tic ket. There is a cause for this, which every democrat can see the weak spot. tot A veil is probably the most in teresting thing in the world. No man is ever too prepossessed to stop and wonder whether the veil is there to conceal something that is there, or to make you think something is there that isn't. :o: The Ford Permanent Peace Tribun al held its first regular session in Stockholm last Friday, according to a cable dispatch to the American Press associations from th,o Ford publicity department, with th? mayor of that city presiding. to : Disposition of the British liner Ap- pam, brought into Hampton Roads by a German prize crew, has been decid ed upon by the United States and will be announced soon. Although there is no official confirmation, the indica tions arc that the sh; will be permit ted to remain in American waters as a prize of the Germans indefinitely, under the terms of the Prussian-American treaty. VKAH IN : Come on, boys, if you want in the 1 race. til Washington's Next Tuesday ls birthday. :: A healthy stomach has everything except judgment. :o: Dentists usually aie not as painful as they are painted. ;) : Love your neighbor as yourself, but if you can't, move to some other part of town. :o: Father Time sees a great many in cidents, but, fortunately, he has to see everything. Perhaps the British bachelors hang back from the firing line in order to console the British war widows. :o: That was a scorcher that Dick Met calfe paid to the Bryan political ring in last week's Omaha Ncbraskan, and every word was the truth. Mr. Met calfe knows the Bryan outfit and he is onto their dirty political tricks. The demand in certain quarters of Great Britain for reprisals on Ger- ! many on account of the Zepplin raids leads the Manchester Guardian to say editorially: "Leaving out of account jmg on in the world as the reauer oi all moral considerations, we can see, a New York newspaper. The mote a no real argument of expediency which would excuse us in stooping to the baseness which Germans have already reached." The Guardian recognizes that the demand is due to hot indigna tion, but its advocates, it says, after calmer reflection, will give up the idea that anything is to b-e gained by hap hazard murder of German civilians, although a few may persist in believ ing that reprisals will yield an ad vantage. The latter class argue as an analogy that the 'lies were forced to adopt the use of poisonous gas in warfare, but, says the Guardian, "we reluctantly followed the German ex ample because gas was a weapon of definite military advan'.age which since it was employed by them we could not afford to forego. But Zeppelin raids in England have no military import ance as everyone knows, nor would curs have any in Germany." tot A TEST WHETHER ADVERTISING PAYS. In talking recently with a man who has made a large success as an ad vertising salesman in another place, this question was asked him: "When a merchant says it does not pay to advertise, what do ycu tell him?" "I just ask him this," was the reply: 'What proportion of the population of this town has been inside your store during the past two months?" Very few merchants ever claim they have had 10 per cent of the population. Most of the non. advertisers woulel be glael to get 1 per cent. A lot of them probably get only a small frac tion of 1 per cent with any regularity. Then I say how are the rest of the people going to know about your goods? How can they tell whether it would be for their advantage to patronize you or not? If you have good values, or special bargains, how do they know about it? A great many ot them rarely or never pass your store. The great majority that pass give you only a glance. You are. not getting their business, having done nothing to interest them. "Then I go on," he continued, "to say there are just three ways to get some of this trade now slipping past them. They can send around solicitors from door to door, distribute circulars or hand bills, or atlvertise in newspapers. The newspaper notice is read careful ly where a solicitor is summarily turned down, and besides the adver tising is twenty times cheaper than canvassing. And hand bills are chucked into waste baskets, while newspapers are read. If you don't care to use any of these methods, I tell them, most of the people in this town will continue to pass you by, without knowing anything about your goods." These remarks fit here as well as in the town where they were made. A merchant must tell the pub lic about his goods in order to get trade. WHAT IS NEWS? A St. Louis man has been criticising the St- Ijuis PaPers severely because they do not come up to his standards in the publication of news. He seems to think that more attention should be paid to publishing news from distant points and confesses he must buy New York papers to get the kind of news he would read. This raises the question of, what is news? After long experi ence, it has been demonstrated that most value is attached in every com munity to news that pertains to peo ple and institutions of that community. Newspapers with an eve to winning success, will give the greatest amount! of space and attention to doings of the people in their own neighborhood. It is well to have something about big events at a distance, but what con cerns all of us most is what is g.dng on around us. The New York papers which the St. I.ouis man says he must buy to get the real thing in the news line are more provincial in some re- spe-ets than the rural weeklies. The New York editors see little that hap pens more than a few hum! red miles west of the Atlantic ceast. and ore reading tluse papers would hardly realize that there was anything but unexplored wastes after the Alieghany mountains have been crossed. The re j is no ore so ignorant of what is go-j newspaper considers the doing of the' people in its territory, the more inter ested in promoting the welfare of the community it serves. One editor in Massachusetts is credited with print ing the name of every person in his territory at least twice a year. The I ... ... man whose mire, is . on the doings of the people across the water that he can not have patience to know what his near neighbor is doing, is like unto the snob in society whose eye is al ways lifted to the one above him on the sojial scale. Alter all, the re..! stories of human interest, the items that make for a smile or asigh, car.v. from people at home, and it is to these i that will make his paper sell, an 1 give in the reputation of being r.ewsy. One interested in a greater field of news gathering so that he cannot take a:1, in terest in the eioings of his neighbors, is in a sad, sad way. It is a safe bet that the critic of the St. Louis news papers doesn't know the ptyple wiio live in the next house, and wouldn't be interested no matter wh.at happeneel there. :o: Are you one of those unfortunate cusses who can't express an honest opinion without knocking? :o: Cass county democrats started the campaign ball to rolling. Now let other counties fall into line. to : Spring, beautiful spring, brings the robins and roses and everything in cluding bluejays and dandelions. :o: Judge Sutton, republican, who wants to be governor, and who was elected to the district bench three times by the whisky, beer, rough-neck vote of Omaha, as he himself terms the Oma ha vote, is now suen a radical pro hibitionist that he is going up and down the state seeking whom he can devour somebody in joint tlebate on the temperance question. Mr. Sutton seems to be about as adept at fakery as Windy J. Bryan. He thinks pro hibition a popular wave on which to ride into the governor's office. But he will find that the people are not so easily fooled as he thinks. Lincoln Herald. :o: John Wunderlich is one of the best men in Cass county. Numerous demo cratic farmers have visited this office since John has filed for the re-nomination for sheriff on the democratic ticket; and each and every one of them declared that they were much pleased to know that Mr. Wunderlich had again filed for the nomination. They said that Mr. Wunderlich did not have a fair show two years ago, but. that the democrats are determined to see that he rccives fair treatment this time. There should not be the slight est opposition to his re-nomination, and with harmony prevailing in the democratic ranks, he can easily be elected this year. Don't worry, Bryan is not going to debate with Metcalfe. He knows bet ter. to : Nebraska clothiers don't intend to introeluce fancy clothing this year. Hard on dudes. :i : Accounts of the terrible ravages of the grippe should be taken with a grain of quinine. :o: Farm implement dealers are pre paring for an early spring trade by getting in scads of goods already. Society may be '"hollow," but some of the people in it are solid clear through. That's the kind to cultivate. :o : The democrats of Nebraska can get together, but it will i.ot be by the ac ceptance of Charley Bryan for gover nor. :o : John Wunderlich will be accepted almost unanimously as the democratic candidate for .-dierilF. There is no dis count on that. :m: Medical inspection may go so far at the public school? that a boy will know m;ae about his liver than com pound tiitci'est. :o: Vice President M.uhal! is willing to lun for re-electijp. and ought to be re-nominated. lie has made good in every walk of life, and is a splendid man. :o: It is very easy for some leaders of a party to disabuse the ecu "ider.ee the people had placed in them. But the "big-head" will ruin these fellows every time. Watch are! see them fall by the wayside in vl.e coming cam paign on their "rule or ruin" policies. :o : The United Stales, it was stated on highest oilicial authority, cannot pro test the announced sea policy of the central powers to sir-k armed mcr chanmen without warning. That this government, believing the Teutonic nations to be within their rights in this respect, shortly will issue r. warning to all its nationals not to travel on belligerent ships that carry guns of any kind, seemed certain. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS. Politics aligns men ;n many strange ways, which seemed aimost impos sible a little while ago. The colonel's boom may never get him anywhere, except on the first page, and then again it may. Certainly, his dearest foes must concede that it is making some progress. Senator Smoot has come out in favor of the pride of Oyster Cay; Senator Smcot who stuck to Tuft so firmly that the fat profes sor carried Utah in aa election where he couldn't carry much of anything else. Senator Penrose also seems to view the colonel in a hopeful light; this stalwart standpatter could easily reconcile himself to a third cup of coffee for the great i'atmal naturalist under existing circumstances, and if polities ever makes stranger bed fellows than that, it will have to go some and then some. But this is not the limit of the unusual line-up con fronting the country at the beginning of a presidential ca-.npaign. Bryan, who more than any other was re sponsible for the nomination of Wil son, is now oir the reservation, camp ing on the trail of his former chief, armed with a one-term plank, peace-at-any-priee, and great gobs of grape juice. There is e ven talk that the peerless one may lin up with his old foe, Champ Clark, if such a course ;cems likely to beat Wilson out of the nomination. Meanwhile, it is pleasant to note, Mr. Tai't seems to be very much himself, and hasn't been chang ed by the wind.-, of circumstance:;. He wants a real republican to head his party's ticket, and the world knows that Roosevelt isn t anything like that. And the woods are full of elark horses and favorite sons ana receptive candidates until you can't rest, if politics excites you greatly, a? it shouldn't. There is going to be much of it in the land the earning season, but good weather for crops will con tinue to be of more vital interest to the nation. Children Cry Tlio Kind You Have Always iu use for over SO years, 7 ami S rSJ-27-A-2 ' sonal i gonal iTyy. -iUte Allow All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are hut Experiments that trifle with and endanger the l; ::Kh cf Infants anil Children Experience against Experiments What is CA! Ctesloria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops ami Soothing; Syrups. It is pleasant. IS contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other 2,'arcoilcj i abstanoe. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Y.'or::; ; r.r.d allays reverishness. For more than thirty years is has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething- Troubles and liarrhoa. It regulates the Stomach and Iiowels, assimilates the Food, giving" healthy and natural bleep. The Children's Panacea The 3IotIier's Friend. GBNUINE C ASTORIA ALWAYS SI )Bears the sr. la Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUn COM The n.-ychologiat.s lire asseiting that rti n.s iki-eml on son'e other media .lu.n tho.-e known to us as the five if!!se.. The meet conclusive evidence in favor of thi.; iev is found in circumstances th:;t even the blind are i.bla to see dream;; as witness the expci iences leiorded ly Helen Keller, LMir.d Tom," the poet of 'Taradise Lost," and 'others. Hence the con clu. ion that ii-r, far as physical vision is concerned only does the optical nerve guide and Tit it the field of vision. It is contended that waking and dreaming differ in degree and form of manifestation only, not in principle and essence. Like waking consciousness, the dream reveals but loes not create. Th same world that surrounds the dreaming, only the viewpoints ami media of observations ;-ie changed. It is recalled that Harvey of the blood circulation fame recorded a dream in which a bumble bee tung him in his left thigh, on a place whore a couple of days later ap peared an ugly ulcer, and Malesherbs, the renowned French author, found himself attacked by a rowdy who stab bed him in his brea-t with a dagger on a spot where the following cvenin he felt the first attack of a severe pneumonia. Medical reports are heavy with similar cases, which have either .eceived unsatisfactory explanation or no explanation at all. :o: Have you told your congressman what you think of the subject of na tional preparedness? He eloesn't want to hear from you, of course, but it would be just as well to let him hear just the same. -:o: Of course your excessive modesty would prevent your answering the question, but we would really like to know the name of th-J smartest man in this community. We know several who would like to claim the prize. Fiank Ij. Rhodcn and wife drove up this morning from their home near Union and Mr. Rhoden departed on the early Burlington train for Omaha to have some dental work looked after, while Mrs. Rhoden will visit for the dav in this city. Miss Hazel Spires if Red Cloud, Ne braska, who has been here visiting at the homo of her aunt, Mrs. J. G. Claus and furnily, for a few weeks. Jepaited this mornirg for her home, and en route will visit at Hastings with her .sister, Miss Viola Spires, who departed from this c'ty a few days ago. urn TWiw FTl I? PR. E. R. TARRY 240 for Fletcher's Bought, and v. Licli lias been lias borno the signature of lias ueeil maao unuer per supervision since us i::far:rr. no one to deceive you i:i tl.r,. TORS A Signature of rr. RAN V. NEW YORK CITY I have decided to quit farming, and will therefore offer ail my personal property for sale at Public Auction. Sale will be held on the Peter llalrr.es farm, G miles northwest of I'latts mouth, and 9 miles northeast of Louisville, on WEDNESDAY, FEUKUARY 23, commencing at 10 o'clock, at which time I will offer the following prop erty to the highest bidder: One team bay mares, seven years old, weight 2,-100. One team brown mares, full sisters, coming two and three years old. One gray colt, three years old. Four good milk cows, with calf. Two two-year-old heifers, calves at side. One two-year-old stock heifer. Thirteen head of Droc-ersey brood sows, all bred to registered boar. Two Poland China gilts, bred to registered boar, pedigrees furnished. One Grand Detour wagon. One One truck wagon. One VanErunt carriage. One Keyes Rros. top buggy. One Keyes Bros, spring wagon. One hay rack. One Piano binder. One Sucker State press drill. One lG-foot harrow. Two Jenny Lird cultivators. One Eadger riding cultivator. One Rock Island gang plow. One Emerson hay rake. One John Deere lifter. One Hcosier one-horse drill. One bob sled. One disc. One good pump jack. One one-hole corn sheller. One new buzz-saw frame. One 22-inch buzz-saw blade. One 8-barrel galvanized tank. One Hoosier broadcast seeder with grass seed attachment. One John Deere ccrn planter with 100 rods wire. One good Victor fceel grinder run with belt. Three sets work harness. One set buggy harness. One saddle. One set buggy fly nets. One pair buggy shafts. One buggy tongue. Lunch Will Be Served at Noon. TERMS OF SALE: All sums of $10 and under, cash in hand. On sums over S10 a credit of six months will be given from date, purchaser giving good bankable paper. All property must be setthd for be fore being removed from the premises. A. C. SMITH. W. K. Young, Auctioneer. IJ. F. Patterson, Clerk. Farmers, mechanic;-., railroaders. I, borers, rely on Dr. Thomas' Eekct Oil. Fine for cuts, burns, br ui Should be kept in everv home. and 50c. 0 AUCT ivJo .loneyji!! Cured Fistula and All Ractal D!aas cured wltlc kalfa. PrminntcurMeuGrin(td. Wrlta far Fraa Illustrated bah on Mvctal Dlaes and toatlmoniala of hundred a) curad patlanta In Natiraaka and Iowa. m Boo BIdg., Omaha, Neb.