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Winter wants to linger.
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Let Miss Spring get to work. '
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The man with money is expected
to do hrs duty.
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Talk about silent patriots there
ain't no such animals.
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There are but two kinds ?f people
in this Land of Liberty patriots and
traitors. "
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Germany is opposed to annexa
tions, because absorptions seem to be
so much better.
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liefore Mr. Taker winds up his
tour of the allied countries, he must
not forget Sian.
fo:
America's war bill for the firiit
yeaf is nine billion dollars, not
countng last winter's' coal.
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Hotter blister your hands ma!:irs
pardon than blister your tongue
criticising the management of the
war.
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About all the significance the day !
light svsteni bears to seme fellows is
that it brings quitting time an hour
sooner.
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Most of the Seventh Regiment
boys express themselves rs being
glad to turn frcm heme guardin'
hack to their home gardening.
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"America is no serious obstacle,"
a German military writer cays. Also
it is recalled that in 19 14 I lie kaiser
referred 'to the. "contemptible little
Uritish army." '
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If you hadcherished any hDpe of
finding a stray $5 bill in your old
last spring's Fuit, your hope is prctty
ciKupletely dispelled when your vjfc-
tells you she sold tbe suit to the old
clothes man last week for thirty-live
cents.
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The difference between the Far
mers Co-operative Union and the
Noa-Partisan League is that the
Farmers Co-operative Union is help
ing to fwiii the war, w hile the Non
Partisan League is throwing men-key-wrenches
into America's war ma
chinery. :o:
These fellows who refuse to take
advantage of the sunlight saving
plan don't seem to realize that for
once they are getting a great big
something for nothing. For an ex
tra hour of any other kind of ser
vice they would be forced to pay
double for over time.
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There is no room in the labor
movement for disloyalists. The man
who is disloyal to his country in the
present crisis surely cannot be de
pended upon to be loyal to the un
ion or anything eli-e. He la clearly
a traitor; and a traitor is never true
to anybody or anything. To such a
man the word loyalty has no mean
ing. International Steam Engineer.
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Victor Rerger, a pronounced kais
erite whose sympathies ire wholly
with Germany, is allowed to r-m for
public office in the United States.
The -vforst we wish for Berger is that
he might be treated jn America like
an American would be treated in
Germany today in tbe same circum
stances. ' That would be a plenty.
State of Ohto. City of Toledo,
Lucas County, sa.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
senior partner of the firm of V. J.
Cheney & Co. doinjr business In tha City
of Toledo, County and 8tat9 aforesaid,
and thnt said firm will pay the sum of
OXB HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
ml every o&sa of Catarrh that cannot be
curd by the use of H ALL'S CATARRH
MEDICINE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Ss-om to before m and eubscribed in
rr.v pres-nce, this 6th day cf December,
A. D. 1SS6. A. W. GLEASON,
SeaIj ' Notary Public
flairs Catarrh Medicine is taken In
ternally and act3 tliroug-ti the Biood oo
the Mucous Surfaces of tao System, tend
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O.
Gold by all drugrsisU. 73c.
Xiall's Family PiUs for constlpatioa.-
PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Coal men still grinning.
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The Pond Drive is on for a nion'li.
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The government wants all that
can to purchase bonds.
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Speaking of a million dollar rain
Well, it came last Friday night.
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The man who falls to remove his
hat when Old Glory passes is either
a weak sister or a bold rascal. x
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It may fake Old Plattsniouth some
little time to wake up, but when she
does wake up, she comes alone: with
a rush.
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Only two things appear certain in
this life death and taxes. And a
prudent man will -give due consid
eration to both.
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The constitutional guarantee of
free speech does not mean that you
v.-ill be allowed to talk too much of
the wrens kind cf stuff.
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Every bushel of "spuds" produced
this year helps to plant a dandelion
ovcr the grave cf the kaicer's hope
f . . . -
or Deing a worm dictator.
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llave you purchased your fly
swaltcr yet? Retter have it ready,
and swat the' fifst fly that cemes j
along; and keep up the good work.
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Nov.- .is the time for the fel! w
who has been wanting to bet $100
that' war will end in September to
buy 100 worth of 4 per c;nt Lib
erty bonds.
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Letting others, especially others.
who have axes ta grind at your ex
pense, do your Uiinking for you is no
way to get efficient city government
at the minimum expensl.
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Having been notified that they
would not be allowed to make public
speeches in Wahoo, the officers of tha
Non-Part isan League proceeded to
try it. They did not speak.
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A 15-year-old Plattsniouth girl
told her 13-year-old sister the other
day: "I should think you were old
enough to get you a beau of your
own. now, and quit tagging us
around."
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The Wichita Eagle says Russia is
one nation likely to have peace' with
out victory. The absence of victory
is unquestioned, but the quality of
Russian peace doesn't measure up
very high.
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Amelia Galli-Curci is buying
$100,000 worth of new Liberty
bends. Chicago's musical organiza
tions have a happy kryick of keeping
to the front artistically and patriot- !
icaly at the same time.
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"The face should be the center of
attraction," says a Pittsburgh woman
speaking about woman's dress. Per
haps the face would be, if she adorn
ed it in silk as thin as that from
which stockings are made. v
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There aro times when one feels
that humanity is too stupid to be
saved and when one feels like going
away from here and Icavh, the
world flat on its back. Only one
doesn't know where to .go.
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. If is strange tbat no one 1 as
started a story that Von Ilindeuburg
really did arive in Paris April 1.
There are persons capable of start
ing the story, and doubtless they
would find some believers, also.
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It probably will brighteu the
spirits'of several thousand different
women's, war activities to know, in
spite of the fact that only one air
plane has been sent to France that
tmrty-tnrce telephone girls have
reached the war zone and are now
on duty. '
HYPHENIS7.! AG.1IIT III EYIUE "M CE
On the sauis day when the national
: conference of governors, bciiicn
at Washington, was calling nttcn-
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turn to the necessity ot stampurg out
kaiser propaganda in this country by
i
! stopping u foreign language inskruc
,tion in the schools and shutting off
' the German language press, the Ne
braska state senate defeated a re:o-
i
lutiou intended to discourage the
ccntinuar.ee of such language in
struction in the schools of this state.
Under pressure of Governor Ne
ville's patriotic recommendation and
a strong public opinion, the "Senate
had voted a day or two before to
repeal the Mockett law, which made
such instruction compulsory on pub
lic school boards, but it v.'oulcT'not
go so far as to put the stamp of its
disapproval upon kaiserism in gener
al as a part of the school curse.
Voting with those who favored the
kaiser's agent3 to continue their trea
sonable wprk in the public and
parochial schools were such sweet
scented "reformers" as Sandall cf
York, Oberlies and Sawyer of Lan
caster and Real of Custer.
This quartette has been held up
before the public as the embodiment
of all that is good and holy in poli
tics. What will the eleventh-hour
critic? of the German-American al-
lianco have to z?y n'out their con
duct in' this connection?
The people of Nebraska believe
Lafe Young was right when he de
clared at the Washington confer
ence that "the nest egg cf treason in
the L'niied States is the German
press and the German language."
Lincoln Star.
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MINIMIZING ENEMY
" SUCCESS AN ERROR
Tlciic';:t and sober thinking cannot
admit the confident and somewhat
airy claims bring put forth by cheery
jomnieutatera on the military sit
u iti'.,n in Fiance that the great Ger
man cFicnuve can now be disposed of
by calling il a costly local success.
It will be a grave error if mistaken
optimism succeeds in imposing that
view of what has happened.
It may well be that llindcnburg
meant to go to Pari. or the channel
and that not having gene Jo either
he has met a defeat. On that point
it is enough to say that with a few
more defeats like that h could go
anywhere he wanted to in France.'
Where the enemy meant to go is net
eo important to the allies at. present
as the revelation that lie could go
anywhere at all. He was supposed
to be held on the line to which he
had retreated a year ago lie was
not held there. Ilecajne out of his
trenches and went through the allies
for a gain of thirty-five miles. Two
more advances 'like that and he
would be before Pari:;.
Uat look at the terrible cost to
him, avc are told., How, it z asked,
can Ilindeuburg explain to the Ger
man people that the 300,000 casual
ties of the great battle that was to
have crushed the allies and brought
a German peace have brought no
more than the same few square miles
of devastcd territory which he had
dice given up as not being worth the
price it would cost to hold it? The
answer to that is simple. Hinden
burg doesn't have to explain. If the
autocrats of Germany had to explain
anything to the German people there
probably would have been no war "at
all. So far from explaining their
lo:es the war masters cf Prussian
ism are at this moment preparing
another hecatomb to carry them a
few miles further on the road to
ward their goal. What is it to them
that it has cost twenty-five divisions
of troops to' rcoccupy the old battle
field of tho Sonime, since that ground
was necessary to their purpose? Hoes
anybody oubt that if by the sacri
fice of twenty-fivte divisions more
they could wace through the lilaugh
ter for. another thirty-five-inilc gain
they would make it?.
Let us not hug these delusion";.
What is engrossing Hindenbi--rg's
thought now is not the number of
divisions he has lost, but the num
ber of allies have .left. And that is
what sopuld' be engaging our
thought. For the battle has now
j reached the phase where it is a ques- '
in of 'reserves. 'Which side lias
them? During the oponins days cf
the ttruggle it was apparent the
enemy had them. The weight cf
; numbers was hiz. They can led him
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.to the advanced points he now oecu-
pies, where he is now digging him
self in.
It would be the height cf folly to
assume that he has exhausted him
self in this efiort, and that he is iu
capuble of. further offensives.' The
only thing for .tlie United States to
do is to bend every energy to
getting reserves across to back-up
the allied line. A preponderance of
j equipped fighting me:: is the ajllco
only guarantee for the security of!
pr.ris and tlie channel ports.
Kansas City Star.
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THE FIRST YEAR.
No American poet, if one did iivo
today, could say with truth as Word
worth said of hi3 countrymen a cen
tury ago, that "We are left, or shall
be left, alone; the last dare to strug
gle with the foe;" never bfoiv,
praise be to God, were' England's
hearts of oak lens daunted or the
-souls of France more valiant. 'And
yet, indeed, "Tis well," if at last, as
we stand upon the threshold of "an
other j'ear," distressed if not dis
mayed by the spectacle of "Another
mighty empire overthrown," we
know- .
"That in ourselves our safety must
be sought;
That by cur own riglft hand it must
be wrought."
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How blind we were this cue short
yenr "ago! We had elected to keep
cut of the war. "All the while," said
the president in his second inaugural
address, "we have been conscious
that we were not part of it, and
even though we should "be drawn
on, by .circumstances, to a more ac
tive assertion cf our rights and a
more immediate association with the
great straggle itself," the "shautws
that now lie dark upon our path will
toon be dispelled and we shall walk
with the light all about us if we be
hut true to ourselves." As 'lata ?
February 20, he had "thought that
it would puffice to assert our neutral
rights with arms" and on April 2
he felt that assurance had been add
ed "to our hope for the future peace
of the world by the wonderful and
heartening" happenings in Russia.
War there needs must be, but it
shall be an academic war and soon
ended this was the great illusion
pressed, with utmost good faith, no
doubt, for months and months, by
the pre:-:idcnt-and his associates upon
the minds of the people. We ray it
in no captious spirit, but we say it is
a fact which has been attended by
consequence: whose continuance and
repition must be averted in the fu
ture if the world is to be sa.ved.
The year has been filled with, wild
ahd whirling words about driving a
wedge between the German people
and their military rulers, and about
a German revolution against the Ho
henzollerns. They have been as idle
as they have been wild. The wedge
has not been driven. The people
have not revolted. With the scar
city of supplies measurably relieved
and wiUi the stimulus of victory all
along the eastern line, the German
people are today more united, more
devoted to the house of Ilohcnzollcrn
and more determined to prosecute the
war to a successful German peace,
than they have ever been before
since the war begaif.
Happily, there is something else
to be said. The spirit of this nation
and of it3 allies is unbroken. Never
were Great Britain and France and
Italy more resolute than they are to
day. They are disappointed our
inefficiency and delay, x but that
means to them simply that they
have got to hold out so much tbe
longer before our aid becomcj cf
fective. They have no thought of
weakening, and they would not have
even thought they, were left, to fight
the battle out alone. Equally reso
lute Is the spirit of a saving rem
uaut of our own nation. For we are
not all asleep, we are not all profi
teers, wc are not all infected with
the poison of Lafollettism. In spite
of all our blunderings and delay,
there are In this country millions of
quiet, resolute, clearheaded and red-
j blooded men. yhQ believe in victory
! over the Ilim as they believe in God
j Himself. They realize the awful
, cost, the needless cost, not only in
. treasure but also in human lives
! . .. . . -
that our follies have imposed upon
us, and while they condemn the Heed
lessness of it they unhesitatingly and
steadfastly assume the burden and
will j hear it to the end. North
American Review.
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THE BITTER FIRST COURSE.
Some one has suggested that Von
llindcnburg lias swallowed the first
course of that dinner which he
! boasted he would gorge in Paris on
April first. It consisted cf American
shrapnel on the half shell, and it
was served up to him at Toul, over
130 miles from the Cafe dc la Paix.
He is just now getting his second
course which is being cerve'd in much
the came fashion by the English and
is hot a plenty. The dessert will be
carved to him in Berlin and it is con
fidently predicted that Hindy, Bill the
Butcher, and his whole Potsdam fam
ily will" expire with acute indiges
tion. Stromfburg Ifeadlight.
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PATRIOTISM-VS. ADVERTISING.
When Kansas City learned that
Douglas Fairbanks, who was billed
to give a patriotic talk there "n the
interests cf the new Liberty loan,
demanded that the city officials pro
vide him with a parade of fifty auto
mobiles. Actor Fairbanks was in
formed that he need not bother to fill
the date.
It is more than probable that tbe
well known film artist is the victim
cf a feel manager. It. is not conceiv-
able that thc star would himself at
tach to his supposedly patriotic act
a condition which would make it the
most flamboyant of publicity for
himself. If Fairbanks really con
cocted the scheme, he is not the level;
headed young man the country has
been led to believe him. St. Joseph
Gazette.
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'.'BEHIND THE PROGRAM."
The trouble with some people is
that they thought it took Germany
forty years to do and France almost
as many to accomplish. Those na
tions put into the field within a few
weeks after war was declared seme
millions cf men and had them arm
ed and equipped, ready to frght, but
they had been engaged in providing
the men and ammunrtion and equip
ment for years. These people had
such a lwgh opinion of Auiricau gen
ius in organization that they imag
ined that this country could do-all
that in a few months Bryan
thought they could do it over night.
The United States not only had to
create an army of a million or so
men, but it was 3,000 miles away
from tho fields of baltlo with an
ocean between, and had to build
ships to transport that army, its sup
plies of war material and food to the
fields of battle, while France and
England had only to put their ar
mies in the field near at hand. The
worst of it was that some of the
heads of government 'departments
thought that this country could ac
complish the impossible and - carry
out a program in accordance with
their ideas while adhering to anti
quated and inadequate methods. It
was not long before it was announc
ed that almost every department
clothing, rifles, machine guns, ships,
aviation, everything was behind tho
program. The shakeup that " the
government got started things to
moving and now. -that Uncle Sam has
got his second wind as it were, it
seems that the impossible will' come
near being accomplished. World
Herald." "
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THE LOYAL BOHEMIANS
Chancellor Avery, writing from
Washington, says there are instanc
es of great injustice being done to
the Bohemians In the Upited States
through the working of rules. and
.regulations respecting alien enemies.
It is indeed unfortunate if these
people are forced to suffer emharrass,
ment, and some method should be
taken to distinguish the loyal from
the disloyal. Though many1 Eohem-
laus are classed, as alien ; enemies,
Childroii ry
mmm urn
Xb3 JNiad You . Have Alwaya
u uij tor. oyer xmiiy years, nas Dorns tee signature of
and has been inade under his per
CtCfytfj7J sonal supervision since its infancy. k
AU Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but
2rpjtLr.cnrj that trifle with and endanger the health of
loianf.' and ChildrenExperience against Experiment.
What Is CASTOR! A :
Csstorixi a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Irrop's ar.d Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, llcrphine nor other narcotic substance. Its.
f-ge is its guarantee. Fcr more than thirty yerus it has
ee:i in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Cclic anci Diarrhoea; allaying Fercrishcess arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
tsc assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleen.
T.ho Ctiid-ca'c TanaceaThe Ilothcr's Friend. v
.Q&NuiNS QASTORIA always
yplcaxs the
T trl ' JT
in I se ror
The Kin Ypu -Hove Always Bought
eiMTun coMiiANv fo'w von rirv
through their geographical connec
tion with Austria, surely they should
not be "looked upon as unfriendly
citizens.
There' is perhaps no class which
has entered into the . -war against
Germany as wholeheartedly, and vig
orously as the Americana of Bohem
ian descent. They have been lead
ers in responding to the call to col
ors, in the purchase of Liberty bonds
and in aiding the Red Cross. The
University Uohemiau plub, typical of
the spirit of all Bohemians in Ne
braska, sold more Liberty bonds than
any other university organization
and the club was the irst to pledge
money to the lied Triangle. Efveu
before the United States had formal
ly declared war, the Bohemian so
cieties in this country sent out lit
erature to its members urging them
to financially support the American
government in case war was declared.
The sacrcdness of democracy is
uppermost in the heart of the Bo
hemian. The American of Bohemian
stock shares with the love of democ
racy in this country, a kindred love
for democracy in Bohemia. Prussian
ism has n6 more bitter; enemy than
the Bohemian. There is today an
Fire cant burn
and burglars
cant getr
your money
when it is
in Our
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If YOU CARRY YOUR MONEY AROUND IN --YOUR
POCKET, OR KEEP IT IN , THE HOUSE, IT CAN LEAK AWAY
AND WHEN IT 1 DOES, 'YOU'LL- LOSE INTEREST IN THE
BALANCE AND "BLOW" IT V FOR" SOME .' FOOLISH .EXTRA
VAGANCE AND IT IS GONE. . . : V-. f' . ; f
IF YOU PUT IT IN THE i ANK YOU CAN'T. SPEND' IT
OR LEND IT SO EASILY AND YOUR INTEREST ON IT WILL
MAKE IT GROW. V V .y"! -.- : "
YOUR MONEY IS !YOUVf BEST FRIEND. HAVE IT
SAFE IN OUR BANK. : : ' v
WE PAY n PER CENT ON TIME DEPOSITS, AND 13 PER
CENT ON XMAS 8AVINGS CLUB.y : . - v r.- - ..
' "COME TO OUR BANK. -
Farmers
THE HEW (SANK.)
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES 60 CENTS PER XEAR.
foi-Fletcher's
Bought, and 1 which haa been
Signature of
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liver Ml Years
army of IGO.OOO Czechs fighting in
France. When the kaiser's brutal
arm lias been bended and the liberty
of humanity assured the world will
find that Bohemia has done more
. - - '
than its share. Lincoln Star.
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their list of usejd pianos and for their
catalogues-" cf new high grade guar
anteed player pianos ranging in
price from' $395.00 up. They invite
correspondence and comparison.
3-ll-4wkswkly. ' '
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or seven times during the : night.
Foley Kidney Pills have worked
wonders and I can recommend them
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Sold everywhere. t .
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