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MONDAY, JULY 15, 1918.
PEATTSMOUTH S ESI I-WEEKLY 70URNAE.
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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CON-
VENTION AT LOUISVILLE
The Democratic County Conven
tion will be held at Louisville on
Wednesday, July 17, at 10 A. M.. for
the purpose of selecting delegates to
the state convention to be held at
Hastings on Tuesday, July 30, 191S.
and Cass county is entitled to 19
delegates thereto. The democrats of
the various precincts are requested
to meet on Saturday, July 13, to
at their voting places and se
lect such delegates as they are en
titled to the Louisville convention.
Other business of importance will
come before the convention. By
order of G. II. GILMOUll.
County Chairman.
The weather man is queer.
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Ile'd just as well turn on the
water.
:o:
A loafer is a poor specimen in this J
town.
:o:
The slacker has no countenance
these days.
:o:
Nobody can accuse, the early
cantaloupes of having used too
much sugar this season.
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A good woman oft:i marries a
bad man, to she can reform him.
But you never heard of a good man
doing anything like that for a bad
woman.
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As was to be expected, the move
ment to educate our lingers at
liorae instead of abroad suits every
body except the singers and the
reighbors.
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The Hun Kaiser doesn't ask his
subjects for what he wants he just
takes it without thanks or apology.
How different the United States way
of borrowing and pay interest.
:o:
Kerensky, having become accus
tomed to being called the man of
the hour, can hardly complain at
being referred to in Paris as a has
been, now that the hour has pass
ed. -:o:
Nearly every nation except the
Central so-called Powers helped us
celebrate our Fourth of July this
year. And it is hoped by next year
we shall have them by the scruffs of
their various necks and make them
jump around and enjoy it too.
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A contemporary has quoted this
department as saying that no male
quartet can sing. We are sorry this
impression has gone abroad. We
had no desire to draw the line so
closely. What we meant to convey
is that no male quartet ever has.
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Petitions are being circulated for
U. L. Metcalfe for Fnited States
senator on the democratic ticket.
We arc not for Mr. Metcalfe for sen
ator, but are for ex-Governor More
head who made a great record while
Chief Executive of the great state
Nebraska.
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Nebraska's contribution to the
Red Cross fund in the recent drive
is officially announced as standing
at $2,300,ei00. Wisconsin gave $2,
250.000, Iowa. $2.:0D,yi7, Michigan
55,000,000 and Illinois $10,123,000.
Considering its population Nebraska
carried on creditably as compared
with the other states in the central
district.
Catarrh Cannct Be Cured
with LOCAL Ar PLICATION'S, as they
cannot reach the e-at cf the disease.
Catarrh is n. lo-al disease, neatly in
Jucnced by coiittilut.iu.nal conditions, anl
in order to cure it you muxt take an
internal remedy Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine is taken intrrnaily and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces ot the
system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was
prescribe! by one of the best physicians
in this country for yc.-2.r3. It is com
posed cf acme of t'io b:rt tor.ios kr.ov. n,
iom'olnfd .vth somi r.f the. rest blood
purifiers. The perfect combination of
the ir-sreuients in Hall's Catarrh Itera
nce is vt4'.t prod ft'di wonderful
resj'.ts in catarrhal conditions. jSer.-i for
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J. CHKNEV t: fO.. Trr.pa.. ToIjuo, O.
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Peace talk
bunkum.
in Germany is all
Wonder if Kola in Russia is any
1 elation to Coca Cola.
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The doom of the kaiser is plant
ed in the heart of every American
patriot.
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"Dainty refreshments" in most
instances means almost enough for
one bite.
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The way the American soldiers
win the iron cross is to pick them
off of prisoners.
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"Remember the Lusitania!" is the
slogan that should inspire the heart
of every American patriot.
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Don't telephone in the afternoon
during the hot season, because the
other end of the line may be in the
bathtub.
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Don't forget those War Savings
Stamps you are going to buy, but buy
them today don't wait till toinor
ro w.
The post office department is be
ginning to think the new newspaper
postal law is not what Kitchin
cracked it up to be.
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Possibly all the taxes suggested by
the Treasury Department will not be
adopted. Rut don't worry. If they
ire not, others will be.
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Some of the best reading about
the American army these days is be
tween the lines between the Ameri
can line and the Hun line.
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Emperor Charles ami Empress
Z'ta are at outs, and from all ac
counts the war in the palace is being
badly conducted as that at the
front.
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There are twenty-seven royal fam
ilies in Europe, eighteen of which
are of German origin. Quite a job to
exterminate the whole bunch, but it
must be done.
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The German press professes not to
understand what President . Wilson
was talking about in his Fourth of
July speech, but that doesn't mat
ter. All our allies do.
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The original home of John Drown,
back in Connecticut, burned. How
ever, if his spirit is hesitating what
to do, suggests the Ottawa Herald,
there is another original home of
his remaining at Osawatomie, Kans.
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If the road between town and
Platte river bridge Is not repaired
pretty soon travel that way to Oma
ha will have to cease altogether.
That's what those who travel that
way tell us.
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Leon Trotzky lias said that be
tween Japanese and German occupa
tion of Russia be would perfer the
German. It is suspected that this
i3 not the only subject upon which
the Bolshevik! and the kaiser cordial
ly agree.
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It is easy enough, too, to vote for
prohibition, and so do away with the
logally regulated liquor traffic- But
it is not. so easy to prevent liquor
being sold illegally. And the boot
leg whisky is the rottenest poison. A
very little of it drives men mad and
makes them completely irresponsible.
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"ilow that man ever makes mon
ey is more than I can see. He can't
keep his mind on the war, or politics,
or baseball or any other subject
long enough to make intelligent con
versation," remarked a gentleman in
our presence, pointing to a gentle
man who had just passed. "That's it"
we replied "his mind always reveals
back to money."
THE OLD MAN.
Backward, turn backward,
0 Time, in thy flight;
Make me a boy again,
So I can fight.
Make me a boy again.
Just twenty-one,
So I can shoulder
A knapsack and gun.
Give me the muscles
1 had years ago,
Give me a step that's
Not wabbly and slow.
Give me the strength that
I may play my part.
All I have now for
War is the heart.
Give me the vim and
The vigor of youth,
I'll fight till doomsday, and
That is the truth.
Turn back the decades and
Give me a chance
To sail with the legions for
Far away France.
What a chastisement it
It is to be told:
"Back to the fireside;
You're no good too old."
Time, you're a criminal.
That's plain to sec,
You've made a counfounded
Old slacker of me.
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THE GREAT PARTNERSHIP.
A hundred million of us are fac
ing Washington, facing Flanders,
facing life and death; and the result
in national unity already surpasses
all expectation and all precedent
among us. Ten million men ana
women have opened their purses to
lend the nation nione ; not an act
of high virtue at a 4 per cent profit,
though the refusal would have been
vicious, but a tie of no mean force
among those people ana between
them and the government. Ten mil
lion more will share in the partner
ship later.
Millions more 01 men and women
who little dreamed a year aro of
deviating from their daily round at
the country's call have gone to
camps and hospitals and trenches.
There the nephew of Lee has taken
the hand of the grandson of Grant,
the White Mountain boy is keeping
step with the Hoosier, and the young
millionaire is wapping anecdotes
and "makings" with the plumber
unless the plumber has won nis
spurs. We have never had a school
of equality approaching a draft armv
facing common work and common
peril.
Those who are not yet called to
this onerous service are getting at.
home an appreciable lesson !n fra
ternity. It takes a stringent time
like the present to put individual
men and classes on their mettle in
confederate effort. And classes are
approaching each other. A lady
throws open her parlors to a con
gress called by her butler to con
sider food-saving. In general for
the exceptions, though noisy, are
few capitalist and laborer stand
shoulder to shoulder straraing to do
their best. In general labor gains
increasingly for its services, and
capital pays the larger bills of the
war, a fact that few of the right
minded will deplore. And if the
small-salaried man feels the pinch
more than either, the tightening of
his belt will probably not impede a
desirable expansion of his better
sentiments. The few who stand aloof
and "strut their uneasy hour" arc
growing lonelier every day. If any
one thinks that they are many, a
little reading in the history of the
civil war on cither side will soon
alter his opinion. He will easily
convince himself of the prime fact
that never before, not in the war
for independence, not in the war for
the union, or any other time or over
any other question, has America en
joyed such unanimity. Ernest Hunt
er Wright, in Century.
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A Plattsmouth man says reporters
never write anything straight. We
can't see how he knows. He hasn't
furnished us any Item in fifteen
years, aud don't even take the
Journal.
KINGS NO LONGER RULE.
A great many nations united with
this country in celebrating the
Fourth of July and several have
made it a legal national holiday.
among them France, Brazil, Peru,
and Cuba. That means the adoption
of the principles contained in the
Declaration of Independence. The
whole civilized world, outside of the
Central powers, has at least come to
the point of acknowledging that all
governments derive their just pow
ers from the consent of the people
There is, outside of those nations
with which this nation Is now at
war, no longer a claim made that
there is a privileged class having
the hereditary right to rule. In
some of them there are still kings.
but the kings do not rule. In them,
parliament elected' by the people
rule, and the king must obey the
laws enacted by these parliaments.
The principles enunciated in the
Declaration of Independence, were
not first announced on its promulga
tion, but Jefferson put them Miito
words that will live and influence
the world for ages yet to come. Ho
raid that some of them were self
evident, and so they were but it has
taken nearly 150 years for the rest
of the world to accept them. They
were not intended to appy only to
the colonies which proclaimed them-.
They were principles that applied to
all mankind. World-Herald.
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YOUR PLACE AND MINE.
The world is not so narrowed that
there is not room for all. The spirit
may climb as high as it pleases, and
find its place beyond the clouds
where there is illimitable space, and
the spirit is the more important part
ot us, we know. And still there is
plenty of elbow-room for the ground
ling on this goodly frame the earth.
and all the guns and axes and torch
es ere the war is ended will not
spoil the greenery and the pleasant
camps of refuge.
But the place of man or woman is
at present not the place of ease, but
the place of service; not the post of
dreaming, but the post of doing; not
the standpoint or viewpoint far aloof
from all that is hard and perilous,
but the coign that is as close to the
front as duty decides it shall be.
The front is not three thousand
miles of salt water distant. The
front-line trenches may run through
your back yard or down your street.
even though they do not bristle with
bayonets, or reverberate with the
guns. We may be soldiers, vigilant
that no enemy shall cross No Man's
Land and take us prisoner, even
though we hear about us only the
music of birds and insects in the
grass, and the cattle are placid in
the meadow, and peaceful rural love
liness is round about. In miles the
fever and foray, the cries of mortal
anguish, the flaming doors of the
fiery furnace are distant, but if we
have the least imaginative capacity
or sympathetfc realization, "the"
war has long ago been recognized as
"our" war, and has come home to us.
So that those of us who are pat
riots and who are not? are rest
less if we have not found some way
of making ourselves useful in the
-WHY-
Buy Flour and Substi
tutes when you can get
PURITAN,
VICTORY
AND RYE
you will save money and
timetry it!
METZGEffS
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one great task of winning the war.
We are anxious to count for our full
value. We desire to do what we can
do best. We anxiously weigh the
pros and cons and decide on a
course that gives the fullest freest
Bcope to such capacities as we may
possess.
The place is there, if we can find
it. There is something for every
one to do. None need or should be
idle. Struggles for social priority,
salves for wounded vanity, jealous
ies and bickerings and wire-pullings
and fictions that take energy all
these seem worse than wicked super
fluities in this time wien each must
pull his own weight and considerable
more.
If we have not found our places,
it is our business to find them as
soon as we can and devote ourselves
to our work. Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
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TW0 GEORGES OF ENGLAND.
On this Fourth of July somewhere
near London two teams composed of
American soldiers are going to play
a baseball game and King George is
going to pitch the first ball. ,Arlie
Latham, of Yankee diamond fame,
has been coaching the king and this
democratic ruler of Great Ilritain
has not been slow to learn the line
points of the game.
It is not shocking that George
should become interested in Amer
ica's national pastime. He has eat
en our buckwheat cakes ' at metis
time with the American soldiers. He
has initialed with his own war work
ers, taking a personal interest in
their affairs. He has been seen at
all times of the day and night in
camps and hospitals. He has .been
a busy man, not an ornamental king.
And this King George has learned.
it is healthier and happier for the
ruler as well as the people to be the
crowned head of a constitutional
monarchy where democracy may
have free play without royal med
dling than to be the autocratic head
of a down-trodden nation.
It is a long way from George III
to George V. George, the tory, and
George, the democrat! One hund
red and forty-two years ago George
III sat upon the throne and ruled an
enslaved nation with the same auto
cratic will the kaiser today rules the
German people. The Prussianism
which grips Germany is not unlike
the tyranny which then gripped the
English people. Liberty were de
nied. And so it was that the Ameri
can colonies declared their inde
pendence and planted the seed of
democracy in a newer world.
And from that seed has sprung a
great tree, the furthermost branches
of which have extended across the
Atlantic. The spirit of the Fourth
will be manifested in all parts of
Franco and England. The king of
England, the direct blood descend-
ent of the ruler who by his tyranny
caused the seed to be planted less
than two centuries ago, took
part in the celebration of America's
Independence day. The contrast is
enough to make George III turn over
in his grave.
In the steel covered towers of
Potsdam the kaiser may well reflect
in his troubled mind the events of
one hundred and forty-two years of
English history. 'The beginning of
this span was marked by thirteen
small democratic colonics fighting
against tho toryism of one nation,
the' end is marked by all the dem
ocratic nations of the world united
in a death struggle against the auto
cracy of kaiserisni. All men and all
women in the nations at war with
Germany and her allies know which
side will be victorious. Lincoln
Star.
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THE CHARACTER ASSASSINS.
For months past certain Norfolk
citizens have had their names ban
died about by unscrupulous gossips
whose whispers of the disloyaly of
the persons under the lash of their
tongues have done untold damage.
In one case, a Norfolk man, whose
son is in the army and who has al
ways held an honored place in the
community, hunted down the trail
and found it originated from a
source that had the charge been
WHEN YOU
GET
it is ABSOLUTELY
ALL OF THAT PAY BELONGS TO YOU -PUT IT IN THE
BANK ORIT WILL SOON BELONG TO SOMEONE ELSE.
ARE YOU ALWAYS GOING TO BE A "HORSE IN A TREAD
MILL," WORKING FOR MONEY THAT OTHERS GET?
THE MONEY YOU WASTE, IF IT WERE PUT IN OUR BANK,
WOULD SERVE YOU OR KEEP YOU MIGHTY WELL SOME DAY.
START A BANK ACCOUNT NOW.
WE PAY 31-2 PER CENT ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.
COME TO OUR BANK.
Farmers State Bank
THE NEW BANK.
OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS FROM 7:00 TO 9;00
true should have been first to open
ly denounce the man and that, find
ing the charge untrue, should have
tone everything possible to refute it
and clear that man's good name.
Another family whose standing has
always be,en good, is, since the
smoking out of some dirty charac
ter assassins, now declared above
reproach. The erstwhile gossips ex
plaining that there never was any
desire on their part to do wrong to
the wronged. This is no time for
gossip. No time lor staouing in me
beck. We have no room for pro-
Germans. No room for disloyalists
and no room for the sneaking curs
that would rob a man of his good
name, it a man is a traitor 10
merica, shoot him as soon as you
have proved that he is. If he is a
lying, black-hearted villain who
would rob his fellow man of his
good name under the guise of pat
riotism, like a Hun would rob a
woman of her virtue, treat him as
you treat the traitor and the Hun.
Norfolk, Neb., Press.
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STAY WITH IT.
Meatless and whcatless days in
the United States, almost entirely
self-imposed, have had a bigger part
in the fight against the Hun than is
generally realized. Scarcely any
one has found any great inconven
ience in giving up his T-bone steak
or his whole-wheat bread and very
few have contemplated just what a
part this little sacrifice has played in
the maintenance of the allied food
supply.
In the ten months up to April of
this year, the United States exported
80,000,000 bushels of wheat to
Europe. Over 50,000,000 bushels of
that amount, according to Hoover,
was saved by the voluntary sacri
fice of the American people.
Porkless days made possible a
shipment of 30,000,000 pounds of
pork products to the allies in March.
Heeflcss days enabled the United
States, in the same month, to meet
the demand for 70,000,000 pounds of
frozen beef and throw in an addi
tional 16,000,000 pounds for good
measure. Allied commissioners have
the highest praise for the help the
people of the United States are
voluntarily giving to relieve the food
situation. It is another one of the
many, things Kaiser Bill didn't ex
pect from the Americans. Stay with
it. Lincoln Star.
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WHAT CONSTITUTES A PATRIOT.
1 He must not make or repeat
false statements for the purpose of
interfering with our naval or mili
tary success.
2 He must not incite to disloyal
ty, insubordination, mutiny, or re
fusal of duty men In our military
or naval forces by any method what
soever. And in this connection he
should bear in mind that men reg-
f PUT SOME
OF IT IN OUR
ANK WHERE
istered for the draft are a part of the
military forces though not yet call
ed to the colors.
3 lie must not wilfully interfere
with any man who wishes to enlist
in the army and navy.
4 He must not hamper the gov
ernment in its efforts to borrow or
interfere with or discourage, by word
or act, the successful sale of bonds
or thrift stamps.
5 He must not abuse or defame
our form of government, the consti
tution, the army and navy, the uni
form or the flag.
6 He must not threaten to in
jure bodily or to kill the president
of the United States.
7 He must not encourago resist
ance to the United States or opposi
tion to its cause.
S He must not support or advo
cate the cause of our enemies.
9 He must not urge or incite the
curtailment of production of war
materials.
10 He must not be a party to
any plot or conspiracy to overthrow
the government, oppose its author
ity, obstruct the enforcement of its
laws, destroy its property, or vio
late any of its laws.
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DOUBT CANNOT EXIST.
Investigation Will Only Strengthen
the Proof We Give in Plattsmouth.
How can doubt exist in the face of
such evidence? Read here the en
dorsement of a representative citi
zen of Plattsmouth.
Louis Kroehler, prop, hardware
store, 521 Main St., says: "About a
year ago, I had a pain in my back
and I was so lame I couldn't stoop.
My kidneys were weak and I had a
tired, languid feeling nearly all the
time. Headaches were common. I
bought Doan's Kidney Pills from
Edward Itynott & Co.'s Drug Store
and they soon relieved me." (State
ment given April 10, 1912.)
On February. 22, 1916 Mr. Kroeh
ler saidi "I still hold the same opin
ion of Doan's Kidney Pills as when I
first endorsed them. It has been sev
eral years since I have ha dto tako
a kidney medicine."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kiduey Pills the same
that Mr. Kroehler had. Fostcr-Mil-burn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
Lame Shoulder.
This ailment is usualy caused by
rheumatism of the muscles. All that
is needed Is absolute rest and a few
applications of Chamberlain's Lini
ment. Try it.
A. L. Furlong from Hock Bluffs,
made his regular journey to this
city today to look after some busi
ness for the day and to do his week
ly trading.
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