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PAGE 4. PLATTSMO UTJ1 SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 7, VJy rfrr i 'Cbz plattsmouth journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEICKLY AT PMTTSMOl'TH, NEBRASKA. EaUr4t Pottofllceat Plattsmouth. Neb., as sccond-class mail matter. R. A. BATES, Publisher UStCRIPTION PRICES $1.50 PER VEAR IX ADVANCE ,I..H"M"I"!-!"X-I"I-M H'-I I'M' 4 f- THOUGHT FOR TODAY Let us never forget that an fr act of goodness is of itself an 5 act of "happiness. No reward coming after the event can com- -J J. pare with the sweet reward that J. went with it. Maurice Maetor-4- linak. :o:- "Home Coming" over. :o: Did you enjoy yourself? Pretty strenuous time all around. :o: The world is now waiting to hear from Greece and Maine. :o: Of. course, the man in the other po litical party is always wrong. -:ot- The common people are all for Pres ident Wilson. They know he is their friend. Mexico reports the death of three bandit chiefs. Real deaths, or Villa deaths? -:o: A Plattsmouth old maid says she l)Ves cats because they are just as treacherous as men. :ot- The man who rails at matrimony in public usually deserves the sort of a wife he gets. -:o:- Old-fashioned folks used to believe that lieutenant governors should be seen and not heard. -:o:- "America first and America effi cient" fell flat as the campaign slogan of the party which attempted to pur loin it. " It is advertised, however, that the chestnut blight hasn't struck the humor department of the Congres sional Record. :o:- Tre real reasoi that Mr. I higher not told what hi? -vould have done hid he been in Wilsor's place, is, that he doesn't know. -:o:- President Wilson's letter, like all hir, uterances, has the true rng. lie generally speaks the riglit sentiment at the right tide -:o:- When the "wise'' fellow tells you that Plattsmouth can't "put over" any good thing, just look about and see where the object of his grouch is lo cated. :o:- Maine has always been a repub lican state, and there will have to be a great political change for the demo crats to stand any show of carrying the state. The nicest large crowd that ever assembled in Plattsmouth. No dis turbances to amount to anything, which is due the alertness of Chief Barclay, who was on the job all the time. :o:- Senator Reed of Missouri made the statement in the senate the other day that should a change in the adminis tration be made at this time, it would mean war in this country. This is no time for a change. :o:- Keep it before the voters of Cass county that John Murtey is just the kind of man to represent our people in the legislature. Mr. Murtey is able and will always be found at his post in the discharge of his duties. :o: When you read one of Hughes' speeches you read them all. He pay3 more atention to President Wilson than anyone else or anything else It takes a man of great ability to at- tract so much attention, and that's the reason Hughes makes such a weak attempt to abuse the president. AS A VOTER SEES IT? He is a Sioux Cityan and a repub lican who has never cast any other kind of a ballot. "But I am going to execute a right about face this time," he said; "I am going to vote for Woodrow Wilson. "I rather hate the idea of doing it, too. I have voted the republican ticket for so many years that.it has grown to be second nature, and no doubt I shall feel queer for a few minutes in the polilng booth. "The reason? Wei!, I believe in voting for principles; and, to save my life, I am unable to grasp Mr. Hughes platform I don't understand what it is he is contending for. I have been conscientiously wading through the text of his campaign speeches thus far, and I don't like them. Beyond abusing the demociatic administra tion, they don't tell anything at all. Mr. Hughes is neglecting to specify definitely wherein Mr. Wilson has erred, and to tell what his own actions would have been in each instance if he had been president. I can't biing my self to vote fdr the republican candi date merely because he wants to dis place the incumbent that isn't worth a fig as an issue. I think Wilson has done well. If I am wrong, that's what I want to be shown. "And I am compelled to observe that some of the leading newspapers of my own party, the Springfield Re publican, for instance, which I read regularly, are growing more impatient with the Hughes tactics, and are re minding him that he can't expect to win with a campaign of simple abuse". "That is one reason why Mr. Wilson will get my vote. Another is that my best judgment tells me his has been a constructive administration. "I am not going to do any active work for the democratic ticket. I am not a politician; but I have a right to my individual viewpoint as a private citizen, and to vote in accordance with those views. I find that many of my closest republican friends feel the same way about it, and, for the once at least, are going to shed their party loyalty." This is not an imaginary incident. The gentleman who thus interviewed himself is a flesh and blood resident who knows his own attitude and took occasion to voluntarily express it. Sioux City Tribune. -:o:- Now and then a man's conscience pesters him considerably, but as a rule it is his stomach or the lives that he is concerned enough about to spend money on. -:o: The trial marriage of a girl of 17 years of age was annulled by an east ern court. If ever one of these trial marriages stick, we may take more stock in them. Print paper has been boosted from $40 to $90 per ton in the past few months. Many members of the senate and house propose to investigate into this outrage. The paper mills are the cause of the high price of papers. :o: They evidently have placed a muz zle on the republican candidate for governor. Sutton spoke here at the banquet Monday night and, if you will believe it, he never said one word in reference to the temperance issue. The voters do not believe in deception and hypocracy. Maybe he has just found that out. :d: Since the infantile paralysis plague has threatened to close all the eastern Sunday schools, perhaps a few million parents should brush up on their les sons. It, should be very humiliating to have the children point out to you that it was not David who was swal lowed by the big fish, and that Dan iel's famous affair was with the lions, not with Goliah. Only nine weeks till thcclection. Keep you: for Sheriff. eye on John Wunderlich We ought to feel Rood, hail a pood time. :o: We have The Balkans seem to have a keen appetite for Turkey. :o: The time to do right is when temp tation is the strongest. ureece s neutrality has lon in a bad state of repair ever since the war began. :o: Only a little now and again we will have to save the country. And, goh, how we dread it! :o: Hughes is coming to Nebraska, and will speak at Lincoln and Omaha on September 22 and 22. :o: It may be a twisted view, but all these hariangues against divorce ap pear to be traceable to the marriage evil. They call it Wilson luck. He ha:; worked harder for his luck than al most any man who ecr became prom inent in public life. :o: A Cincinnati man who had $S()0,()00 when -he started out, has been mar ried six times and has $20,000 left.) Form line to the left. Don't crowd. :o: Municipal elections in Northern Mexico resulted in the return of all the Carranza candidates. They still vc xpert counters down in that country. :o: Keith Neville, the democratic can didate for governor, done a remarka- ly wise thing when he got rid of his primary campaign manager. We tin! not learn of his "kick-out" until a few lays ago. He is now folding docu ments for the liquor element. :o: The likeliest story of the girl who flagged the train with a red-flannci petticoat came from away down south, where they may wear them, and they may not. Anyhow, they uon t up north. But they almost stop trains by not wearing them. :o: THE BEST STUMP SPEAKERS. "Spellbinding is to be a feature of the campaign this year, according to the leaders of both parties, "remarked John O. Miller of New York, at the New Willard. "We may therefore ex pect to hear a lot of good speeches by the younger members of the two organizations. This reminds me that I once heard Champ Clark say that the three best stump speakers of hi:; experience were the late Senator Mar cus A. Ilanna, former Governor Leslie M. Shaw, of Iowa, and Third Assist ant Postmaster General A. M. Dock cry of Missouri. Mr. (Mark said he had never heard Mark Ilanna speak, but Vie had been told that after he had entered the senate the Ohioan had be come one of the readiest and most forceful debaters in that body and was a wonder on the stump. "The remarkable thing about these three men was that all learned to make political speeches after they had passed the youthful period of their lives. Senator Ilanna was more than 50 when he entered actively into politics, ami he was clo.se to GO be fore he attempted to make political speeches. Leslie Shaw, who was sec retary of the treasury in Roosevelt's cabinet, was a lawyer in Iowa, who enjoyed a good practice, and I am informed he never attempted t1 make a political address. Former Gover nor Dockery was a doctor before he became a banker in Missouri, and was approaching middle age before he got into the game. All these men developed into the most forceful stump speakers. Speaker Clark told me he regarded Mr. Shaw as one of the most sensible men in the repub lican party and one who could make the best speech of anybody in the organization. Mr. Dockery wa3 a wonder on the stump. This all shows that one does not have to be born an orator, or speaker and that he can learn to talk after he has reached middle life. Washington Post. SPEAKING FOR THE FARMER. The arrogance, blundering methods and favoritism toward the railroads of the Interstate Commerce commis sion is one of the strongest argu ments against abolishing the state commissions and giving complete con trol over railroad rates into the hands of the national body. Above is a paragraph from an edi torial in the most recent issue of the Nebraska Farmer, published in this city. It undoubtedly expresses not only the sentiment of its editor and publisher, but also the prevalent sen timent among the farmers whom it serves. Sam R. McKclvie is publisher of this outspoken opponent of that plank of the republican state and national platform which declares for exclusive federal contiol, ro much desired by Captin Rosewater, Colonels Smoot, Penrose, ct a!., and Commander-in-Chief Hughes. Mr. McKclvie is a rc- v . . wi ...... j . ... .iv v-. I v know:; what the farmers think about the sort of a surrender of their priv ilege; which th? republican party is asking them to make. Nor does the Ncbiaska Farmer agree with the republican party, Mr. Hughes and Mr. Rosewater when they insist that the complications arising from the dual efforts of st.:te com missions and the national commission ire so repugnant that the state com mission.; snouui he (le: troyed. Here is the farmer view of it: "So long as we have a dual system of rate regulation, conflicts are bound to arise in making rates tljat affect towns near state lines. But that con flict would be serious if the proper; degree of co-operation existed between ti e Interstate Commerce commission and the various rtate commissions. It is seiious, however, when the Inter state Commerce commission ignore:; the state commissions, and without careful investigation insists, as it has been doing, that whenever a low state rate conflicts with a high interstate rate the state rate must be increased." Ordinarily it requires some heroism for a paper published by a republican who has an ambition to be governor to so lay bare the perniciousness of a plank in his party platform, and thus invite the attention of his farmer readers to the peril that menaces them, but in the present instance the heroism required is negligible. For there is nobody outside of the party manipulators this year who favor this audacious program of the republican machine. The voters are "against it. Lincoln Star. :o : It pays to keep close to your base of supplies. :o: The Burlington shop boys are all right. And they know how to cele brate successfully. :o: Rumania seems to be quite up to date in military matters it disfTatch ed its army across the border and then c'oclared war. :o: When he proclaimed that he was 'too proud to fight" and afterwords wanted the biggest navy in the world," he must have been competing with Bill Taft at Winona. :o: A scientist has computed that scan dal travels 1,000 yards per second, while truth goes but two and a half. But. if so, truth is the tortoise, and wins the raise at last. :o: No nation ever was beset with bad luck as is Germany. The big Zeppe lin which was struck by a British gun in. the Londo raid did not fall flaming to the Bank of England it fell onto a vacant lot. :o: W. J. Bryan will'speak for the en- lire democratic ticket in Nebraska. He will spend the last week or (en days laboring in the interests of the party. This is made 'authoratively by Chairman Langhorst of the democratic state committee. :o: Mr. Hughes says: "We have known any "known right" that he could or I am not to.fight to maintain known rights." But did Mr. Hughes ever see would fight for, not on your life, un less he was acandidate before the people. As a soldier, he is a nonen-ity. TRIBUTE TO ME COMING The Way One Feels Alter Being Ab sent From the Old Town - 31 any Years Among those who attended the "Home Coming" festivities in this city is one whom, while he has grown out of the recollection of a great many of the younger generation, still has in his heart a warm spot for his oh; home and the place where he first saw the light of day. This is Attor ncy II. H. Claiborne of Omaha, who was here last Friday to take in the special "Home Coming" exercises. Mr, Claiborne is a son of Richard Clai borne, for a number of years inter e:,ted in the newspaper business in G'.cnwood, Plattsmouth and also at Louisville. H. H. Claiborne was born in this city and his visit here was one much enjoyed. He was for a num her of years engaged in newspaper work in Kansas, and later, moved to Omaha, where he engaged in the prac ticc of law. Mr. Claiborne is a neph ew of John D. Tutt of this city, am while here met a great many of his boyhood friends, and under the in sphation' of the thoughts of the oh home ho has penned the following poem of the old town and old times: I have your invitation And have an inclination To join "the boys" at I'iattsmouth for a treat. Tho' vc may wander far, As di iven by "our star," There is always "home" to which we would retreat. When tired of life's ight And bo wing to the i light, Of years which come to all upon thi raith; We feel a hcartstring tighter And carry burdens lighter When our thoughts incline upon our place of birth. Where the sun o'er western hills, Shone bach from many lills Before the "march of progress" filled the land Where the trees sent down their store, And the bending hazels bore A harvest to the active, childish hand Where the Indian wigwam stood Near the roadway through the wood As you pa?s the cemetery's quiet grounds. ('low we children shook with dread When they moved the early dead, While the living pressed upon their hallowed bounds. Oh, the beauty of the scene, When the sprigs of tender green Gave color to the banks along the streams; And youthful fancy's flight Made us sturdy men of might -But shattered now are many early dreams But the ruthless march of time Cannot shake one thought sublime Until the day shall come when we shall rest As we love the state which bore us, And the sky which now bends o'er us, So we hope to gently sleep upon her breast. As that day is coming nearer, Old ties are growing dearer, Thus affection for old comrades fills the heart. Let us gather for a day To renew our youth in play, For we know that still "the best of friends must part." Sincerely yours, H. H. CLAIBORNE. Could Not Do Her Cooking. Mrs. F. E. Uartmeister, Tea, Mo., .writes: "I was affected with kidney trouble for two years. I got so bad this summer I could hardly do my cooking. I got Foley Kidney Pills and I feci like a new person. Too many women neglect symptoms of kidney derangement, weak back, swollen ankles and joints, aches, pains and rheumatism. Sold everywhere. J. R. C. Oregorj. one of t Ii c leading farmers of Mt. Pleasant precinct, was in the city for a short time today. "W G. Meisinger came in this morn ing from his farm home to spend a few hours here attending to some trad ing with the merchants. Everybody's friend Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil, the great household rem edy for toothache, earache, sore throat, cuts, bruises scalds. Sold at all drug stores. 25c and 50c. Lafc Nel:-on and Henry Kaufmann, two of the leading farmers from south of the city, came in this morning and departed on th" early Burlington train for Lincoln to spend the day at the fair. h' m ntfi Mi wi ut- A . I n a E i " - I ftSTOBU a T.r n ! TOL-3 TER CEXE simiiaunuicloudanduciw , tingtkc Stomachs and Bwvckai J T,or"icii'oc;liniiCIicerful' OpiunxMorpiinc liorLW- prrrmi JixSema J'fppcrriun. -JittitiiriKieSetit fit mi Strd - 0 ;tiDVi.SourSacl!iy:j Worms. levcnw-.--- rJTrrxrlrR compass , -oir Exact Copy cf Wrapper. I A WK: !w"rTJT"KfJrr'll WTlfW TO PLATTSMOUTH. () i-i.i i . i -. i nme nome town, uenr liltie nmc 1 town Whi.-h ne.-tle.; among ;he hills. Like a jewel set in the vine-clad crown Of a (jiuen. who tr.tileth her emer ald gown. Where the wild bird chants aid trills. And two might' rivers are mingled in one Where it murmers and splashes and spills. Mi! li'tle home town, deir little home to-.vn What visions come ba-k to w.c What soft falling voices of loved ones drift down, Through vistas of silert'e, like faint perfumes blown O'er the waves of a wind-swept sea From the far away shores of a coun try unknown The dim land of memory. Yea! fond recollections of thee, lit tle town Weave :. wondrously mystic sheen O'er my heart, as I think of the years that are down, The dear happy days of the past tlu.t are gone, When life went by like a dream; And childhood recocted the 5rlorv of dawn. n morning's fast roseate de.Mn. n all the whole world, thou hast not many peers Oh! little home town of mine 'or out of the woof of thy hopes and thy fear-, Thy joys and thy sorrows, thy smiles and thy tea's, 'hou hast woven aspell that's divine A bridge that spans over the cha-ni of years With a faith and devotion sublime. So fain would I be with thee, little home town Where true lovirg friends still dwell TO BE GSVEN AT THE Sokol aturday Night, A 'Grand Good EVERYBODY INVITED Music Furnished by Holly's Orchestra Gents 50c ftlTIBI For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria . Always Bears the Signature Of In Use For Over Thirty Years ISTBi thi ciNTtuK covniir, new vork city. ... ii iriin.iii- i mi t in mmiimimm J Tho no great itchievemcnt, nor tr ie of l enown Thy p-igos of history tell, Hut ah what enchantment my soj' cloth enthrall, When falls on mine ears thy wel coming call ; Like the sound of a vesper bell. I.rtiiia -, Hurt on. Chicago.. III.. Sept. 1, 1U'. Our Jitney Offer This and 5c. Don't miss this. Cut out this slip, enclose with 5 cent:? to Foley & Co., Chicago, Ilk, writing join- name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets. Sold everywhere. Itching, toturing skin eruptions ilis figure, annoy, drive one wild. Doan's Ointment is praised for its good work. o0c at all drug stores. Wash A. Young came in this rnoi n ing from his farm home and departed for Lincoln to attend the state fair and enjoy the sights of the capital city. Many ills come from impure blood. Can't have pure blood with faulty digestion, lazy liver and sluggish bow els. Burdock Blood Biters is recom mended for strengthening stomach, bowels and liver and purifying the blood. Mike Hoffert and wifo and children, who have been here visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. fi. Wurl and family, departed this morning for their home near Osmond, Neb. Au gust Nolting accompanied Mr. ami Hoffert home and will enjoy a visit in that portion of the state for a time. If you have anything for salc'advcr tieo in the Journal. iyi- y L3 Sept. 9 Assured Terne Ladies roe ll ecu