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PAGE 70TTX Cbc plattsmouth lournal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. Entered at Petofflce, PUttsmouth. Neb., as aecond-clats mall matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 Two can keep warmer than one. . o- Some optimists are just too lazy to kick. -o: There are now 10,000 known va rieties of orchids. :o: Some of these song hits should have been missed. :o: Umbrellas are like the poorest are left. men; usually -:o: First savings bank was established in Hamburg in 177S. :o: People who buy oil stock invest and then investigate. :o: ' Washington is full of peace and the roomers of peace. :o:- In Liberia, smoking, drinking and dancing are forbidden. :o: American Indians originated the the game of la crosse. :o: Money must be tight when a man is shy of loose change. .o: A person who cannot sing should not be made to prove it. :o: In Germany the goose step has made way for the side step. 0:0 Some husbands are happy ; others' wives won't stay home olone. :o: America's chief market for rosin and turpentine is Savannah, Ga. :o: We have many philanthropists when it comes to giving advice. ;0: Only way to keep the hatchet brr ied is to put the hammer with u. -.0: The orange blossom is the maid en's favorite for decorative purposes. . :o: A household hint jsone of m thoe " things that Is all a husband dare 3 to offer. :o: Well, compared with what the ap ple cost Adam the price of fruit is comparatively cheap. :o: Prayers for the man who prays for himself alone probably never got higher than the roof. 0:0 If wives only knew what stenog raphers think of their husbands they would cease to worry. 0:0 William finds the Krupps will make typewriters. That's what all wars should be fought with. :o: Alxrat the only difference between us grown ups and children Is that we weigh more and ain't so happy. :o: Every man on the glob has his faults and his good points. The obi tuary emphasizes his good points.) All the rest of the time we jump on his faults. c "It don't take a man long to bag his pants at the knees, and to make a finely tailored suit look thoroughly disrepu table that's the roan of it," avers Dainty Dorthy. But she goes on to explain that the man who is making use of our cleaning, steaming and pressing services is keep ing his clothes in much more presentable condition - than when he got acquainted with us. And it doesn't cost much, either. Goods Called for and Delivered ! PHONE 16b OPPOSITE. -JOURNAL Offitt PEE YEAR IN ADVANCE Scientists have finally decided that the moon is not habited, but we'd like to know what has become of the man in it. 0:0 There is only one motor law that Is necessary to the pedestrian, and that is to jump as quick and as far as he can. :o: Somebody has gone to the trouble and expense of cabling the news that everything is quiet at Lisbon. Had anybody inquired? :o: The old fashioned women wept for the things she desired, but the new woman gets them by walking in her husband's sle&p. :o: Former kaiser had 10,000 copper cooking utensils in his Berlin palace, although all copper Lad been called in for war purposes. :o: "Why wasn't the treaty clear?" inquires Frank Simonds. Well, Sena tor Lodge seems to be the only man who knows, and he won't tell. 0:0 As a matter of fact, the United States has been strong for disarma ment ever since we decided not to dominate the world with our wooded fleet. 0:0- Who remembers when about half the men in the audience went out be tween acts and came back looking bright and cheerful and chewing gum? ; :o: Another unfortunate thing about this midsummer of ours is the dif ficulty of dividing our uneasiness equally between the coal dealers and the fruit buds. :o: If Postmaster General Hays is go ing into the movie 'business, as re ported, he at least ought to be a good authority on what films are unfit to go through the mails. 0:0 The prize for optimism to an ex- service man who was heard to say on a train recently: ine uermans got my leg and a slacker got my girl, bnt the man doesn't live who can get my goat." :o: A man never knows how worth less his earthy possessions are until he goes to pawn them or is forced to sell them. About that time he re ally discovers how much they are worth to him, too. :o: The superintendent of West Point wants the cadets increased from 1,334 to 2.300. This incr?ase might not be disarmament, but it undoubt edly -would give needed l.elp to the army's football team. :o: A professor -wants to abolish the word "gent" from the language; which everyone would be glad to do, provided all the specimens whom that term peculliarly describes are abolished from the population first :o: A newspaper picture of the queen of Spain shows her dressed tastily in a Hed Cross nurse's outfit, but a picture of her in the act of nursing would be more impressive. Imagine her scrubbing the floor of a sick sol dier' s room : :o:- J Marshal Foch took his wildcat back to France after all. And in the 'cage with the cat are five white mice i which Governor Allen of Kansas ; might have borrowed for use in dis pelling the woman mobbers in the coal mine district. :o: Hiawatha's reputation in southern N'cbraska. according to the Falls City Journal, is that it has more churches and gives more dances than any other town in the neighborhood. And yet it can't come up to Platts mouth in this line of pleasure. j :o: j The Chicago police chief declares ,we will make the town dry if it takes nve tnousana new cops, us not a simple problem in Chicago, on ac count of the danger that when the police force is doubled, the bootleg gers strength of the town may also be doubled. o : o A member of congress has intro duced a bill providing a fine of $5, 000 against any member on convic tion of belonging to a "bloc" organ Ized by any sectional or industrial Interest for the purpose of affecting legislation. Very interesting, like anti-trust laws tempting, but hard to enforce. To prove a man is active in a secret bloc Is like arresting a man for what he thinks of somebody. Love la blind. Help the blind. :o:- Christmas itself vm Quite a gift. ... .-;o; An auto is a necessity unless you get run over by one. t :o: Anybody can swear off smoking after Christmas cigars. 0:0 To forgive and forget is fine; to give and forget is finer. :o: As far as we can see, they have quit rolling their stockings. jo: To keep your wife away from thj office hire an ugly stenographer. :o': There may be merchants who don't advertise, but you never hear of them. :o: Ford says Muscle Shoals is good for 1,000 years. A regular little ten century plant. :o: That pavement of good intentions in hell won't last long after the speeder get there. :o: There is no limit to how funny Charlie Chaplin can be. He is quot ing Tennyson now. :o: Why worry? Only one person in 1200 is murdered and less than that get into the movies. :o: The most important step some peo ple take is the shimmy and even then they feel shaky. :o: Germany says she will pay by Jan uary 15. we nave torn many cre ditors the same thing. -:o: A Frenchman has made gold out of lead. We saw a plumber make $50 out of a lead pipe once. :o: As we understand It, Russia's main needs are natives with brains and foreigners with capital. :o: - Just when everyone hoped there would be no crime wave this winter Christmas neckties appeared. :o: A movie star who hires a "double" for risky stunts can't get one to go home for him late at night. 0:0 Wonder if indigestion makes peo ple grouchy or if being grouchy makes them have indigestion? :o: The war veteran who shot a Chi cago packer must nave discovered who invented canned corned beef. :o: We have laws to keep crazy peo ple from marrying. But they never know they were crazy until too late. 1 :o: . A Kansas court has issued an in junction against a man to restrain him from killing his wife. More and more the courts are taking away our personal liberties. :o: Will Hays has been offered a $'00,000 position with the movie in dustry but hates to leave the post office department, tho it pays only $12,000 a year. Perhaps Mr. Hays should go to Judge Landis for legal advice. :o: One writer says the girls, having enjoyed the freedom of going with out corsets, will never go back to them. Well, their ancestors also en joyed corsetless freedom, and they went back to them. Logic is a fine thing except when put Into things like corsets. :o: A friend hack from New York re ports that longer skirts really are "catching" on back there. You see one woman out of about every nine hundred thousand wearing one, and that indicates considerably more popularity there than the long skirt enjoys out west. :o: Men are merely on a lower stage of an eminence whose summit is God's throne. Infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the simplest men 'being discontented with his position, as respects the real quantity of the knowledge he possesses. John Ruskin. :o: He didn't molest women or child ren, arid in a half apologetic way -went through the men passengers in a very gentle manner, so the man who held up the B. & O. flyer near Chicago the other night is called a cultured bandit." Without doubt If there was a Nobel prize for train rob bers this man would be a formida ble candidate. WOMEN Can Yon Use Some EXTRA MONEY If you want to earn some extra mon ey in your SPARE TIME, show your inenas ana neignoors a new -ana every home. NO MONEY REQUIRED. I must have a representative in each town and community. Write me TO DAY, NOW before you forget It. A post card will do. fUGQ M. K, OLGON, Plattsmouth -:- ' Nebraska KjwTfinotrni tssi-xnsssvi xottbrh POOB Ald SRAXff3 The world's lffet captive snake a python" 25 feet lone is brought from, the Malay jungles to the Na tional Zoolocical park in Washing ton. You can watch it safely in its Class cage, for it has no brain to tell it that it could smash its way to free dom by hurling its 250 pounds against the glass. No trouble on the journey across the Pacific. Snake slept all the way. Its last meal in the Orient was a large pig, 'crushed in the python's powerful coils and swallowed whole. After its meal, the python sleeps three weeks. Are you a python? Do you eat too much at noon, then feel loggy and drowsy for hours? Employers may not know it, but the real reason they want office work ers down early in the morning is be cause breakfast is a light meal. With stomach lightly burdened until noon. efficiency runs high. In the afternoon, with several pecks of corned beef and ca-bbage and pie a la mode in the stomach, there is a tendency to yawn, gaze trans like out the window and manifest general fog in the head. Like shoveling too much coal in the furnace. It puts the fire out. An empty stomach and a keen brain are Siamese Twins. That is why poverty produces so many gen iuses. Dryden's stomach, was habitually so empty that he sold 10,000 verses to Tonsou for $15,000. Tellier, inventor of cold storage, starved to death. His invention prob ably came from wondering how be could preserve a lot of food if he ever managed to get it. Camoens, Portugal greatest poet, died of starvation in a Lisbon hos pital. Tens of thousands of similar cases. From them came the popular notion that fortune frowns on men of gen ius' without the empty stomach of poverty. Writers and business men ofte,n say they can think better late at night. That is because midnight finds their food partly digested, their stomaches lightly burdened. Receipt for stupidity and failure: Stuff the stomach. THE VENOMOUS MAN Every important community has him, few escape his poisonous darts, most people fear him and everybody tries to shun him. He is not an aggressive man. He does not fight in the open. He is known by his whispers and innuen does. His poison is in the heart in fectious words and stealth deeds are the fangs through which it passes into the lives of his victims. Ask him his opinion of a neigh bor and It is Impossible for him to make a frank acknowledgement of that neighbor's good qualities-. "Yes, I have known Henry for a great many years," he will say, while his shifty, serpentine eyes betray the mental search for a vulnerable spot in his record. "He never both ers me," he continues in a voice that suggests charity toward a culprit "but then, I 'tend to my own busi ness, and don't meddle with the af fairs of others." By the time he has completed his "friendly" discussion of Henry, a stranger would reach the conclus ion that Henry is an extremely un desirable citizen, though in fact he is known to be as square and decent a man as tne community possesses Whether the subject be society, business or politics, the venomous man is the same. Anything that he touches with his slanderous fangs is. in the eyes of anyone who believes him. damaged goods. Fortunately for the small com munities In Which be winds his rep tilian way, the people get to know him and, as a rule, in the larger cities, his Influence is fettered by his obscurity. Occasionally he gains financial power. Then he becomes a public menace, extending the blight of his evil genius as -far as money can reach into the lives and affairs of the nation. It is a source of gratification o know that the venomous man rarely gains his point. His select victims are saved by the safeguards which intelligence and intuition throw about . the' general well being. and .individual When you find a man habitually given to sly thrusts at persons un der discussion; when you have ob served his coiling silence, on occas ions calling for friendly comment; when you have seen the sullen dar kening of his eye as he listens to the Just praise of another; when you . bav(J. known hlm io injure and de faDtte nd studiously guard against J exposure oy eovermg nis traexs witn the dust of falsehood you will know that you have met the veno mous man. Thereafter, to associate with hira or give him your confidence, is to brand yourself a fool or an aspjrant for the honors of a snake charmer. i :q - i IGNOBLE ART OF FLATTERY Perhaps the surest test of strength of character is the decree of one's susceptibility to flattery. A man may have a reputation for great ability and, to superficial ac quaintances, may bulk large in the affairs of the world; but if willing-: ly he accepts flattery, he is riding to a fall. As for flattery he is a menace to friendship and his companionship is a blight. It is true that you can catch more flies with molasses than you can with vinegar, but beware of the man who makes this his motto and per sists in smearing you with the sac caharine speech of Insincerit5'. It is one thing to prefer the pleas ing philosophy of the optimist to the 1 acidulated cynicism of the pessimist, j and quite another to give willing ; ear to the hypocritical compliments . of flattery. j Love of flattery is a weakness, fa tal to leadership. It has dethroned more political leaders than all other, influences combined, and yet how few have benefited by the lesson! , Go to a nolitical headquarters in ', a great city and observe the per formances of the hanger-on, the place-hunters, and the so-called ; lieutenants! j Too often the men who obtain recognition are the ones moat per-j sistent in obsequious self-abasement in the presence of the "boss." They never disagree with him. in- dorse every opinion that he expres ses, withhold the benefit of honest disagreement, kow-tow meekly and greet him with good morning. chief." and never hesitate to curry favor by tale-bearing and poisonous ninuations against the really hon est men of the organization who in sincere friendship tor tne leader have expressed disapproval of his erroneous decisions. And while these flattering pan ders are forming an inpenetrable ' circle around the susceptible leader, j the men of real worth, whose to-' operation would be valuable, are el bowed to one side, relegated to the rear, and eventually alienated and driven to open hostility. Occasionally you find a real lead er of men and when you do. you find one of sufficient mental strength to know the difference between a; flatterer and a friend. The rule applies to every walk of life. The business man who resents the , honest opinions of the employe who disagrees with him, is bound to be surrounded by flattery, the drip- pings of whose sugared speech are found along the easy road to bank ruptcy. Those who succeed by flattery. walk over the prostrate remains of; reputation which they have slain. With the flattery is an art but oh. what a 'base and ignoble art! The persons who flatters you has given you not a compliment, but a slap in the face. Shun him as you would the breath of pestilence. :o: Everybody we suppose, is more or less changeable, and there are times maybe the next morning he feels bet- ; ter toward the world and guesses that merely amputation of both' hands and ears would be punishment 1 enough. :o: I Paste this slip in your hat and sec if it doesn't come true: By the first of next March every line of business and industry in this country will be ; booming, and there will be plenty of work fpr everybody who is willing to work. :o: STRAYED Strayed from my pasture, south west of Cedar Creek, one light "red ; muley steer. Weight about 450 ' or 500 lbs. Anyone Feeing same please take up and notify A. O. AULT, Cedar Creek, Neb. Cockrels for Sale I have a number of pure bred sin gle combed Buff Orpington cockrels for sale at $2.00 each if taken before December 1st. MRS. J. II. BROWN, Phone 2412. Murray, Nebr. Brown leghorn Cockrels t have a number of brown leghorn cockrels. mire breds. which are coins Of rllltr.. maaU C . . . 1 t uwuM catu. muudy iciepnone 2712. Mrs. Walter Sans. tf-w LUNGARDIA is "without a rival" in ordinary or deep-seated Coughs and Colds, difficult breathing, and tor the relief of whooping cough. The wonderful results following its use will astonish you and make you its life-long friend. Your money back, if you have ever used its equal. Danger lurks where there is a cough or cold. Safe for all ages. 60c and $1.20 per bottle. Manufactured by Lungardla Co., Dallas, Texas. For al by " Weyrich & Hadraba ' J--! "gggg' . ' III'' Happy New Year! May health, happiness and prosperity be yourg in bountiful measure in the year to com. Ghrisf & Shrio4, FURNITURE Opposite Court House, Plattsmouth, Neb. Our very best wishes for a Happy and New Ghrist & Ghriot, PHOTOGRAPHERS Coats Block, : : At this season 'when we all feel most kindly to' those who have been most kind to us, we wish to extend you our best wishes for a full measure of Good Health, Good Luck and Good Cheer, and to say for your sup port and patronage "Thank YomS Cedar Crock Lumbor Company, Cedar Creek, Nebraska. In Friendshi and in a feeling that makes us desire that you may enjoy a Happy New Year and that you may prosper in the yeari that are to come. That's Our Wish! E. J. RICHEY The Rexall Drug Store greets its many friends with a wish for a Happy New Year and announcing your people's Rexall weather chart is awaiting you at our place of but incti. F.G. Firicke ' Co., TJto QewsJUL Stan Subscribe for The Jouirnal - M ... .rr-T--- .. f-"" Prosperous Year! : : Plattsmouth, Neb. 99 0 41