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A Jingo is a crank who stays
Far from war's sounds or emells,
And waves a flag and whoops 'em up.
And yells, and yells, and yell.
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Contentment is better than great
riches because, for one thing, it i3
scarcer and harder to get.
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One hears less of "Salome" than
a few years ago. but fashion is still
edging toward her comfortable cos
tume. A young thing is fairly certain to
think she knows more than her
mother about everything except the
Kitchen wcrk.
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Ships carrying much gold were
convoyed through the war rone.
Those carrying only men, women
and children were not.
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A local merchant advertises "good
woman's hone cheap." Guess he's
right. Good women do not wear the
110 a pair kind as a rule.
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The wife of a Kansas editor is
t-uing another woman for $25,000
for alienation of her husband's af
fections. Never dreamed before that
an editor's affections were worth
half that money.
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A proportion of our legislators
waste energy with the same prodig
ality that a squirrel does when it
whoops it around by the hour in a
revolving' wheel cage, making lots
of work about it and traveling a
long distance, but never getting
anywhere.
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We are going to have a new light
ing plant in Plattsmoutb and the
best of all is the fact that the old
company are going to install it in
the very near future. We liave
been given the assurance by the
Lead officers of the company that a
new plant will be in operation not
later than Nov. 1st. just as soon as
the required machinery can be had
and shipment made to this point.
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Now is the time to forget all
those old time inconveiences when
wc were in the dark for the want of
electricity, and all pull together for
the new equipment that will soon be
installed L the Nebraska Gas and
Klectric Co.. in this city. We arc
going to hive a new plant right here
at home, one that will take care of
all our needs and more too, in fact
the plant will be large enough to
take care of the whole of Cass coun
ty. -:o:-
Now is the time for all us fellows,
who have had a grouch at the Ne
braska Gas and Electric Co., to pa
their office with a smile, and take
Manager Kuykendall by the fnti'l,
and tell him that we have forgotten
the promises of Manlove and Abbott,
and we are going to help him and
the new company Install the new
plant in l'lattsmouth. Now is the
time to boost and boost hard, and
we will have a new plant by Novem
ber first.
0 INVESTMENTS
Public Service Corporation
Paying
Can be had in amounts of
$100
PAUL FITZGERALD,
Investment Securities
First National Bank Bid',
Omaha, Neb.
THE INCOMPETENT HORSE.
Street car traffic was held up for
half an hour recently on one of the
main thoroughfares of a big city be
cause a fool horse had got his legs
caught in bridge ties.
Traffic of all sorts was held up in
another city because a poorly shod
horse bad slipped on the pavement
and broken his leg.
In another case there was a pro
longed tie-up due to a runaway-
horse and the wreckage he caused
on a business street.
It is getting to be an old story-
Says a policeman: "When traffic Is
obstructed nowadays, it is nearly al
ways a horse that is responsible.'
'Most everybody remembers the
time when it was a common thing
to see an automobile being towed
home by a horse. Now It is the
beast that succumbs to engine trou
ble or lack of fuel or a broken axle.
and along ccmes a cynical motor
truck and carts his remains off to
the boueyard.
The horse's troubles are not only
mental. lie has his brainstorms,
but his worst defects are physical.
"Every time I look at a horse
hauling a buggy or wagon, says an
engineer, "I can't help thinking
what a mechanical failure he is.
how imperfectly he functions, what
a sraau percentage or energy ne pro-
mm - m 1
duces from the fuel he consumes." j
Poor Incompetent horse It is
not his fault that the Creator fail
ed to equip him with a six-cylinder
motor, ball-bearings and pneumatic
tires.
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DIRIGIBLES.
vuul"- l"
died a disappointed man. His dis
appointment may or may not have
been caused by the fact that his
famous dirigible balloons killed so
few English babies. At any rate,
at the time of his death his inven
tion was generally pronounced a
failure.
Allied critics condemned it and
Germans found it hard to defend. It
did not succeed in terrorizing the
enemy as the Germ ins expected.
Most of the big fleet built were de
stroyed by anti-aircraft guns or
blown up by accident or wrecked in
storms. Germany finally stopped
manufacturing them, and concen
trated on airplanes, as the allies had
done. Nearly everybody said that
the future of aviation depended on
the lieavier-than-air craft.
Since the fighting ended, however
there has been a swing back to
dirigibles. Everybody is talking
about them. England end France
are building them in large numbers,
and of increasing size. American
attention has been directed to them
by the successful voyage of the
British U-34 to this country and
back. The United States is now
planning to build a "blimp" as big
as the H-34. which is about the size
of the biggest oceanic ship or of
the Wool worth building. New York's
greatest skyscraper. Britain is said
to be starting one much larger, to
be 1,100 feet long with a capacity
of 10.000,000 cubic feet of gas, cap
able of carrying: a load of 200,000
pounds and cruising continuously
16,000 miles.
Was Zeppelin right, after all? Is
the rigid, cigar-sharped balloon,
carrying suspended cars and driven
by powerful gas engines, destined to
be the dominant aircraft of the fu
ture. It hardly seems possible, in spite
of all these developments. The
"blimp" has a big advantage in its
buoyancy it can keep afloat with
its engines stopped, whereas the air
plant instantly starts to drop. But
It is largely at the mercy of the
wind. It cannot buck a bad storm.
It has difficulty in landing except j
in comparatively calm weather. It '
requires special facilities ami a
large crew of men to make it fast
to the ground, and is not safe then
except when enclosed in a shed.
Lightning may strike it. A match
or spark may explode it. The air
plane can fight almost any kind of
a blow, and land almost at will, and
is fairly safe from fire.
Noboay need be in a hurry, then.
to order a "blimp." There will be
the
deDeudable flivver planes on
market soon.
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MORE AND BETTER HOUSES.
That the housing situation can- !
not return to normal in less man
three years is the prediction of
housing experts everywhere. Iiet li- ;
er the American people want to sec i
it return to what was considered
normal before the war is a question.
Certainly l'lattsmouth want? i
enough houses built so that increas
ing population may be accommodat
ed. But they do not want cheap.
shoddy houses which will go to
pieces in half a dozeu years. 'Neith
er do they want to see rows of empty
houses in some districts and crowd
ed slums in others.
GKd housing is vit;" to good citi
zenship. The herding of a
ilnren
people in two or three rooms is not
conducive to good health, good mor
als or ambition in the occupants.
Nor is the sleek inducing of young
couples to part with all their suv-
ings for cheap shacks built for sell-
ing. and not ror living, any
and not for living, anv more
conducive to health, morals or am
bition.
ine lempiaiiou 10 ouuu jihumij
because of the great need for hous-
ing space will be seductive. Hut it t
should be resisted alike by contract
. . 1 . 1 :n .
or anu oy owner. vage m ;
by
go down for a good while, if ever. !
The lahnr rnst of handlinir rood ma- ;
terial in a workmanlike way is very i
r
little more than that of handling
poor material in a slovenly way. And
the final cost is far greater, tor hotn ,
labor and material must be reolaced
in c ohnrtor n limo I
i ne matter oi ounuing sneuer kt
a city is one wnicn may wen oe
en up by a committee that will aid
in planning and in financing homes j
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yiiiuiiMUK. fiKu o t-a i inc. nun uisiin ;
quality must be secured if the fam-!
i
ilios who will live in these dwellings
are to keep well and prosper.
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UNCIE SAM'S SHADOW.
Senator Swanson said a good
thing in answer to critics who want
for j
lets American participation in
eign affairs:
"Iet us not be frightened by our
own prodigious shadow."
It is the big shadow of a big na
tion which has taken a leading place
in the world and is well qualified to
hold it.
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SUMMER AUTO STYLES.
Automobiles come in all sizes, in
cluding the piker size, the family
size, the bank director size and the
fool size. A small car with only
twelve condensed horses in it can be
bought for .'5o0 and can be driven
over a curb and info a tree as suc
cessfully as a big car which costs
$5000 and has tires as fat tus an ele
phant's legs.
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UNDE0RD0RIZED ALIENS.
This good old U. S. A. is so full of
aliens of various and sundry kind.-,
among them being the turbaned,
the yellow, the low-browed and the
undcodorized, that a little whole
some legislation relative to their ac
cumulating large gobs of land here
is well. We like our Hindoo broth
er first rate out on the railroad sec
tion, and are not particularly averse
to seeing a slant-eyed Mongolian
chase a shirt up and down a wash
board, but don't exactly hanker: for
either of them buying the adjoining
home place next to us and smoking
baled hay and opium and ttewiug
chop-suey to the detriment of the
pure and ambient atmosphere now
full of healthful microbes and
ozone.
PtATTSMOtJTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOTOKAE
WATER IS FINE STUFF.
Several orthodox denominations
are niakins a fuss again over the
old question of whether one should
bo sDrinkled or immersed when ac
cented into the fold. All. don't
quarrel over technicalities, brothers.
Give 'em both, dodgast 'em, give 'em
both, and if that is not enough pour
some of it down the inside. Water
is a line remedy for most every
thing. And if water isn't strong
enough, try sheep dip.
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MILK AND HONEY AND COIN.
It is mifditv nice ov.t in
the
country whore the fields are r
the flowers blooming, and (lie bird
making love, and where the bare
foot bov with clireks of tan and one
;t:i!1us worrie- the f loot-footed
worm with a narrow-gauge plow,
1 hikes ovit the new i;e .-pai.ierea
! meadow after the brindle ciw with
the crumpled horn. We'd be i farm
er in a minute if we only knew how
end had cense enough.
TO OSVERELfEF
TO PLATTSMOUTH
fnifnonw Ctort jJr.Tr rm T? emr. ft pi i Tiff
v w.i e
riant in mis cuy to uaaruuee
Service to Consumers.
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i The Nebrika Gas Klectric Co
which is serving the people
... . smoutll aIu) vkinitv have heel
V(i the needs of the city for proper
' service without continuous interrup
tions due to failure of the powe;
station in Omaha to t-upply the-
! current. The conmany have com
. ,m.ncMj the installation ;f a rcservt
unit in this city at the plant mar
the Hurlington shop yards. whiel
will be capable ot looking after the
' !'(( s ot the consumers in tins cny
fll cast. )f an accident or tie up of
th. Omaha service. The generating
re-erve unit will have from 2i0 tc
l nrt tilnu'-itt pitiicilv n?v I lie en Ti
ll. !e of handling the needs of the
I cu 111 l.i. t oi a iniaiv ww ii i in
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i high power lines.
The Nebraska Gas & Klectric Co..
have for some time been contem-
Piling the installing of a large wn-
t ITill 1 11 f
stiitirm nt rnf rf the Tininfc
, , . .
fn its Nebraska territory and this
taiv-,c!tv ,)as ,K.(. anj,iilered one of thr
best points for this plant but owing
to the immediate reeds of the city
I IJ Itsvi r 111 ct ill will iiMtiinru
reserve plant will
, 1 at once and give the company fur-
tther timo to I)0rfect their plans for
'
tiie large plant.
Mr. James 15. Harvey of Omaha.
vice president of the Nebraska Ga?
i Klectric Co.. who was in the city
i.-A week looking over the situation
together with Superintendent Kuyk
endall of the local company, ha?
been using his best efforts for the
relief of the people of Plaitsr.iouth
and has been able to secure the re-
rerve generating plant for this city
i io K'larami'e service ai an unit's tor
the city.
The decision of the company to
give us the immediate relief d
manded will be gratefully received
by the l'lattsmouth people and the
consumers of the power ami current
and Superintendent Kuykendall
entitled to a great deal of credit for
his efforts in the direction of getting.
the company to take immediate ac
tion. The letter of Mr. Harvey m
regard to the plant is as follows:
A u trust IS, 1910.
Mr. It. A. Hat os. Editor,
l'lattsmouth Journal.
Plattsmoiith, Nebr.
Hear Sir:
Our decision regarding the Instal
lation of u reserve unit at l'latts
mouth has finally been made and it
a now our intention to install a re
serve generating unit of from 250 to
200 K. W. canacitv at as early a
date as the equipment can be seiured.
We appreciate the vnlue of our
business in l'lattsmouth and with
the territory we are taking on south
of there, it is most important that
we be able to give uninterrupted
service.
Our decision regarding the loca
tion -of a large generating station to
supply our entire system is still
open because of the question of cost
and delivery under the present,
prices and the selection of a suit
able .vitc. This large station is go
ing to be built but there is too much
at stake to use snap judgment in
rer.ching our decision at this time.
It was our hope that we could de
cide on l'lattsmouth before this time
but the urgency' of the local" situa
tion made it necessary for a decision
of a reserve unit at first and thus
give us a little more time in reach
ing our final conclusion on the
larger station.
We have several units for the re-
Ferve station-in sight and expect to j
mm
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lot
Copjmeht ni njr
R.J. Reynolds Tobaoco Co.
next wvck the unit can be bought
ind be installed ready for operation
!iy November 1st.
The expenditure of J lo. 000. 00 to
?20.0o'.0 at this time is no small
problem and it is unfortunate for
us that the recent service interrup
tions, cauad by transformer trouble
in Omaha, has made nr. act so ouick-
y. This however will give service
to riattsnioutlr and the terrifVy
fhat is brin:r added to it and as we
xpect to make l'lattsmouth one of
our district offices, it is the logical
place to locate the unit at this time.
I trust you will appreciate our
acting in this matter within the
time I told you we would and that
he evidence of this report will ?om
show itself. Yours.
.IAS. B. H.MtVKV.
Vice Pres. Nebr. Cas v Klcc. Co.
A FINE LITTLE DAUGHTER.
From Tuesday's Tal!v.
The home of Mr. jnl Mrs.
Cyril
vv?s
by a
Kalina on Smith 11th street
visited yestertlav afternoon
its 'M t inla II 4 hs
;fjt!f
L .. : "v. IiAW s K t U" r-TT- 1 I
Come in, or ht us stnd you
the Standard Oil Com
pany's affidavit telling
what Fulton Trucks are
doing for them.
Murray
'"p'ALK
X is geared to a joyhandout standard
that just lavishes smokehappiness on
every man game enough to make a bee line for a
tidy red tin and a jimmy pipe old or new !
frsf it C t-o irrVi fViot 1 i , r-
w. ... wuaigit. men. wnui juu ve naiiKerea ior m
pipe or cigarette makin's smokes you'll find aplentv
in P. A. That's because P. A. has the quality!
You can't any more make Prince Albert bite your
tongue or parch your throat than you can make a horse
drink when he's off the water! Bite and parch are cut
out by our exclusive patented process !
You just lay back like a regular fellow and puff to beat
the cards and wonder why in samhill you didn't nail a
section in the P. A. smokepasture longer than you care
to remember back 1
Buy Prince Albert everywhere tobacco is told. Toppy red bags,
tidy red tint, handiome pound and half pound tin humidors and
that clever, practical pound crystal glass humidor with sponge
moistener top that keeps the tobacco in such perfect condition.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, N. C
charming little daughter, wiio has
come to make her future home with
them. The mother and little one
are doing nicely and Cyril is busy
receiving the congratulations of his
friends over the happy event. The
many friends will extend to the
little lady their best wishes for her
future welfare and happiness.
NEW MANAGER HERE
From Tuesday's Daily.
The Cass County Monumei.t
Works of this city has been purchas
ed by .Mr. Harry W. Smith of Blair.
Nebraska, and the new owner is now
located in l'lattsmouth and : alien
over the control of the business Mr.
Smith and wife have located in the
(loorge W. Thomas residence on
Vine street and expect durin,, the
latter part of the week to be joined
by their two sons who are nt pres
ent enjoying their school vacation.
The Smith family will make a spiel)
did addition to this city and are
very much pleased with the appear
ance of the city anil the splendid i
t
vs. Larger
rrVsVO Ful tons cost less th?in
1 one single 311-4 ton truck of
equally high grade.
The two Fultons, carrying as great
a total load, can deliver in two
places at once.
When the load is only half as great,
one Fulton can handle it without
wastage of extra power.
And two Fultons, averaging 14
miles to the gallon more sparing
of oil lighter on tires can be
operated for le-33 money than one
Sf.l-ton truck, making 6 to 8
miles to the gallon.
L. H. PULS
THURSDAY. AUGUST 21. 10 JO
about smokes, Prince Albert
class of people with whom :hr h.;ve
come in touch. .Mr. Hrnith l:u 1-eeu
in l'lattsmouth several time-; it: the
past in the interests of lii., monu
ment business and decided that
would be a fine place to reside.
The new owner of the Cas ( '( c:i
ty Monument Works is a practical
stone cutter and cph give his pat
rons the best possible line of work
as he has had years of cxr rience i'.i
this line and the work which he
done here is a practical demonstra
tion of his work in tliii line.
An CId Fault Finder.
An irritabie and fault finding
disposition is often cau-e.l I y indi
gestion. A man with ?;ood diges
tion and bowels that act r-n!arly
is usually good natnred. When
troubled with indigestion or consti
pation take Chamberlain's Tablets.
They strengthen the stomach and
enable it to perform its functions
naturally. They also cause a Kent Its
movement of the bowels.
Trucks
Nebraska
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inspect and test them within the
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