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The Weekly Journal C W. SHERMAN, Editor. ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY AT PLA.TTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. SUBSCRIPTION. One year, in advance, $1.00 Six months, in advance, 50 Three months, in advance, 25 ADVERTISING Rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce at Plattsmouth, Ne braska, as second-class matter. THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1895. "I am clearly of the opinion that gold and sil ver at rates fixed by congress constitute the le gal standard of value In this country, and that neither congress nor any state (under the con stitution) has authority to establish any other standard or to displace this standard." Daniel Webster. "According to myviews on the subject thecon spiracy which seems to have been formed here and in Europe to destroy by legislation and oth erwise from three sevenths to one-half the me tallic money in the world is the most gigantic crime of this or any other age. The consumma tion of such a scheme would ultimately entail more misery upon the human race than all the wars, pestilences and famines that ever oc curred In the histpry of the world."-John G Carlisle, in 1878. Has the Xews heard from Missis sippi yet ? Repculicak office-seeker are about as plenty as flies around the county these times. John McBkide, the hardware dealer at Nehawka, is much spoken of as a desirable democratic candidate for sheriff. He is a good man, and very popular where known. There is no talk of fusion with the populists this year on the part of the democrats, and the bolters can unite with the republicans and insure the election of Judge Post without fail. The Beatrice street car plant was sold on Saturday to Victor T. Langtry of Omaha for $22,050, the buyer ap parently bidding it in for John Ilor bach, who is expected to run it. By this arrangement the property falls in to the hands of the man who built it. Gov. Stone of Mississippi is not Gov. Stone of Missouri by a long shot He isn't half as smart or half as good a man. He is a goldbug, and the peo ple of his state have rejected him and thrown him overboard with a dull thud while Gov. Stone of Missouri is for bimetallism and Is popular with his people and his party. TnE generous shower of rain which fell here Sunday morning extended all over the county, and was just what was needed to insure a good corn crop. Without it, it was problematic whether the crop would have amounted to much. With it, the average farmer is assured of at least thirty-five to fifty bushels per acre, and the acreage planted was greater in Cass county than ever before. Missouri democratic editors to the number of 70 met Tuesday last at Sedalia and had a great day of it, hav ing addresses by R. I Bland, Go.v. Stone and Senator Cockrell, and then they passed resolutions favoring the immediate return to the free and un limited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. Gov. Stone fa vored the nomination of Mr. Bland for the presidency on a free coinage plat form. The Horr-Harvey debate on the money question at Chicago came to a close Monday, greatly to the advantage of the silver side of the controversy. Mr. Horr is an orator of rare powers, and especially excels in wit and repar tee, but in logic and facts he was at a disadvantage from the start. The gold men have been sadly disappointed at the inability of their champion to hold his own. They expected him to demolish Harvey instanter. The Horr-Harvey debate at Chicago appears to be running into the ground. The discussion has been pretty gener ally sidetracked, foreign matter of a personal sort and question that have no connection with free coinage of sil ver are being constantly lugged in and the "book" that the originators of the scheme proposed to get out and sell in immense numbers will hardly be a household treasure. State Journal. Why don't the State Journal tote fair and admit that the gold champion, Mr. Horr is cne who is endeavoring to diver attention from the real to im aginary issues, and to personal matters. Such is the fact, why not tell the truth. MR. BRYAN'S MOBILE DEBATE. Washington Post. We hasten to acknowledge our error in predicting some days ago that the joint debate at Mobile between Hon. It. II. Clarke of Alabama and the Hon. William J. Bryan of Nebraska would amount to nothing more than an inter change of melodious wind and a com petitive test of more personal pulchri tude. As things happened it amounted to a good deal more, for Hon. R. H. Clarke "Blue-eyed Dick of Destiny," as they fondly call him in the cane brake appears to have lost his tem per, and received a most emphatic re buke from an audience he counted on to sustain him through thick and thin. The New Orleans Times-Democrat's account of the episode is, in part, as follows: "It is a matter of general comment that Mr. Clarke, whose reputation is that of a sagacious politician, should not have perceived tbat his attitude toward Mr. Bryan was a suicidal one. Having turned his own guns upon him self, Mr. Clarke proceeded to shoot himself all to pieces. The result of his wild accusations was soon mani fest. The audience, at the opening of the debate, was composed of equal parts of bimetallists, monometallists ;ind persons of undecided opinions. Iiefore the debate was over it was manifest that Mr. Bryan's logic, per fect self-possession and lucidity had gained all or the non-opinionated and had captured a large percentage of the adherents of his hot-headed and de nunciatory antagonist. At the conclu sion of the debate the entire audience waited on the sidewalk for Mr. Bryan and pave him a rousing ovation, follow ing him down the street to his hotel with the most enthusiastic cheers. Mr. Clarke's reception on coming into the street was one of entire silence. The crowd was all shaking hands with the stately, dignified and courteous gentleman from Nebraska." Certainly this was not the elegant, but somewhat tame affair we had pic tured in our prophetic mind. The "Blue-eyed Boy of Destiny." in fact, became quite violent, and Bryan, the "Infant Prodigy of the Platte," carried off all the honors of the occasion. The audience, almost in a body, followed him into the streets and escorted him to his hotel, cheering in tumultuous enthusiasm, while the blue-eyed one went away unattended, literally un noticed. So far from being a merry war, a mere opisode of grace and mu sic, it was a Waterloo for the cuckoos, an overwhelming triumph for the sil ver men. We beg, therefore, to call in "our original prophecy, with all sorts of apologies to the soothsayers, and to offer respectful compliments to the Hon. William J. Bryan of Nebraska. Mr. Barnett of Weeping Water, who wants to be county judge, has some recommendations printed in the Weeping Water Republican which are very far-fetched. Certain parties in Council Bluffs speak of him as having been a justice there for several years, serving acceptably. That would have been a good place, then, to gain pro motion. They also represent that the justice office is very near akin to the county judgeship here. They speak without knowing. A justice in Iowa has jurisdiction of sums amounting to SlOOorless, a Nebraska justice has jurisdiction to the extent of $200, and a county judge of SI, 000. Besides the county judge has all the probate busi ness to attend to, which is a grave re sponsibility. Mr. Barnett should get some more recommendations but not of that kind. TnE Nebraska City News (which pretends to be democratic) prints with editorial approval a screed from the Lincoln Journal which abuses the reg ular democracy of the state with a venom born of hate because the repub lican cabal was beaten last fall by the action of the regular democracy. The News cannot be very proud of its new found love the organ of all that is corrupt and reprehensible in republi canism. But it is into such straits that the bolters are compelled to go. A committee of the Philadelphia Grocers' association, appointed to in vestigate and report on low and lower ing prices, reported a lew days since that the cause was the demonitization of silver. The matter is to be dis cussed at the next meeting. The American merchants are learning the lesson of depression and are asking its cause, and the reply lies in demone tized silver and unequal taxation and that is all there is to it. It is commonly remarked that "the Lincoln Journal takes more interest in advocating the interests of the gold bug crowd of the democratic party than it does Jn the republican cam paign." The editors of that paper know that the rogular democracy is the active element they have to fight. CARLISLE'S AXIOMS SPOILED. Salt Lake Tribune Rep. Mr. Carlisle, in one of hi. speeches delivered himself of five so-called ax-" ioms, which the gold press of the east is circulating as something profound and unanswerable. They are as fol lows: 1. T,here is not a free coinage coun try in the world that is not on a silver basis. 2. There is not a gold standard country in the world today that does not use silver money along with gold. 3. There is not a silver standard country in the world today that uses any gold along with silver. 4. There is not a silver standard country in the world today that has more than one third of the circulation per capita that the United States has. 5. There is not a silver standard country in the world today where the laboring man receives fair pay for his day's work We will offset those five with six others: 1. There is not one free-coinage country in the world today that is not enjoying unexampled piosperit j , the only draN back being a foieigu debt contracted on the gold basis. 2. There is not a gold standard country in the world today the popula tion of which has not shrunken from 33 to 60 per cent during the last 21 years; uot one in which there is not un exampled depression, distress and sor row. 3. There is not a silver-standard country in the world today that has any need of gold money except to set tle foreign balances, and there is not a gold-standard countiy in the world to day that the bulk of all the gold is not locked up in the treasury or in the banks, and the people are suffering from "sound money" asphyxia. 4. There is not a silver standuid country in the world today where there are any idledeposits lying in the banks, all the money being in active circula tion and drawing large iuteiest, and the circulation per capita in the United States of real money is just about what it is in Mexico, nearly all the money of ultimate redemption being hid away in the vaults of the treasury and National banks. 3. There is not a silver-standard country in the world today where the laboring man is not receiving full pay and more regular work than he ever received before. There is not a gold country in the world today where a vast proportion of the people are not idle, -and where wages are above the rate of 1849, except where they have been maintained by the stubborn per sistence of the labor unions. C. There is not a silver-standard country in the world today where the people are not doing better than ever before. There is not a gold-standard country where the people are not in more distress, and suffering more hiss and more apprehension than ever be fore. THE PIG U.NDKK TUK FENCE. The silver debates are already back numbers. The tide of prosperity that has already set in has relegated the silver question to the rear, and the sil ver orators, who like Dan Voorhees see the landslide and get from under quick will not get hurt. Our Billy Bryan had better put his ears to the ground acd catch the whisper of the multitude before it is too late. Polk's News. Yes, we have heard that sort of talk before. The State Journal, from which the News gets its cue, said about the same thing a week ago, and yet it prints from one to three columns every day trjing to kill a thing which it says is already dead. The wish is father to the thought; that's all. Why, Mr. Field, when he held his joint debate here with Mr. Bryan two years ago, said the silver question was a dead is sue that it would never be heard of after the election, and men of that faith have tried to down it ever since, but they havu'tdone it, and they won't until it is settled as the fathers settled it more than a hundred years ago in favor of bimetallism. After the con federates had established their govern ment and captured all the forts and arms in the south they protested "that they didn't want any war. All they desired was to be left alone. , The usury gang has taken free coitiage from silver,having now gotten a corner on the gold of the world, can pinch the people whenever they please, bring on panics at their option as "objeet les sons," and they squeal like a pig under the fence because men insist on having their rights under the constitntion. And until those rights are restored the agitation will continue. Maik that. TriEKE isn't a more suspicious con cern in the world than an insurance company, but in the case of II. II. Holmes, charged with the murder of a woman's husband and children to se cure the insurance their worst sus picions seem to be fully realized. Havelock Times. A It RAVE MAN AND III HROTH Fit. Written for The Daily Journal. Many, many years ago there lived a brave, m n. He knew not what fear was. for he was very brave. All men praised him for his courage, and worshipped him for his deeds of valor. His armies were successful in eveiy battle and he rode in the front of his troop. He led his men to the field and thous ands fell before his hosts. And victory perched upon his ban ner. 1 His friendssaid,"He is invulnerable no man can conquer mm; even ueatlrs sharp missies turn aside and fear to pierce his breast." Because of him therw were fatherless children innumerable in the land. And women wept for husbands slain And in all the land theie was none so brave as he. He lived in a blaze of glory and the brightness of the 8 tin wjts round abou him . And at last he died upon Ins bed. An-' there was mourning in the 1 at m. because of his departure. They said, "The hero is dead; let us build hi in a very high pillar and write his name thereon, and let us make much roise of grief. "Let us mom n, for he is dead. "For who kuoweth that we shal look upon his like again." And they built a pillar and carved a wreath thereon and wrote his name be neath in shining letters of gold. And they laid his body in the dust but his memory lives and dies not. Now it chanced that the brave man had a brother who was not brave. Neither did he carry a sword. But when the battle was over he came out at night and bound up the wounds of the fallen. He gave them water to drink. He washed the faces of the dead and folded their hands upon tbtir breasts But he was not brave. In all the vears of his life he killed uot nor slew. They said, "Behold the brave man's brother," He wore a cross upon his bosom and a cowl upon his head. But none praised him. He followed in all the fields where the dead l.iy, and closed their staring eyes. He gathered the children about bin. and gave them milk to drink. He comforted the stricken hearts of mothers. But he won no battles. He died at last ami they laid him to rest in the ground. And the wild grass grew above his head. But the ears have come and passed ami the mound has found its level with the earth. k I Aim no mau Knows where tie was laid. ISAHKL RlCHEY. To iK Castor is getting very much interested in the luiciirt Martin rump convention. He has got the rumps so far organized that they call the Bryan regular democratic convention the bolters. Tobe has got his cheap John editors proclaiming to the world tbat Bryan and the free silver democrats bolted and went over to the populists. He is having a haid time, however, and will have trouble to show up his great influence in Nebraska outside of own ing a herd of very cheap mules who run administration democratic papers Grand Island Free Press. Tije News says arguments on the silver question are stale. It evidently hasn't heard from Mississippi. One On Cooli y. ItepresentativeCooley of Cass county has lost his reputation as a weather prophet, b it his friends at the state house am trj ing to cover up the mat ter. An elderly lady told him the other day that she had observed a sure sign of rain, one which had not failed her for twenty years. In the morning she saw the chichens oil their feathers and go out on the feeding grounds in committees of one. all the time keep ing separate, repotting progress and asking leave to sit again, which meant rain immediately. Mr. ooley came to Lincoln and made several bets that rain would fall during the tiny. Then he stood'around and waittd, but that day and several others passed without a drop of moisture and as a result Mr. Coo ley lost a lare part of his last win ter's salar as a nir ruber of the house. Lincoln Journal. Doe Yiiur lireath Couin . in Duchess Tiousers? Many get theirs that way. C. E. Wescott & Son in sales have passed the line of 4,000 pairs of Duchess Trouseis. Everybody happy in Ducuess Trous ers. O. E. Wescott & Son sells tbem, and everyone who tries them is sure to buy none other. GRAN 'J PA HAD ALL THE QUEENS. Little Dinah Ventures a Remark at Sambo Koblnwon's Poker Party. Old Daddy November always took a pride in saying: "I bawn ecn Chalston befo' de wah, en I been lib yah eber sense. I lib close to de battry whay Mohlan wof stan, a berry nice place fur hit, shonulf, speshumly eeii do summer, kos een de night, w'en yo' wnk done, yo' kin go sot on de battry en git nice cool breeza " On a very hot night in August the old man occupied his favorite seat, and thus discoursed with his friend, Primus Green. "Primus, is I ebber tole you 'bout de narrer 'scape I mek on lass Fote ob July." "No," said Primus; "you ain't been tole me nuttin 'bout 'em. Wha kine er narrer 'scape you mek?" Daddy November held his hat be tween Port Sumter and himself, struck a match, held the match behind his hat till he had lighted his pipe, and then put the pipe in his mouth and the hat on his head. Then ho said: "E been befo Sambo Robison been dig rock een do fosfite mine on de Ten fahm, between de fawk ob de road en de Fo Mile house. On de Fote ob July Sambo hab kahd pahty wot persiss ob fo nigger, ole Sambo heself, en him friend Gawgo Washinton, en me, en Hendry Drane, wot sell chicken. We play monstous big games. You can bet fibe cents ebery time. Well, Drane dole de kahd, en Sambo gone bline. I git two king, en ob koso I kum een. Wash inton see de bline, too, an Drane kum een. Sambo mek he bline good, en tek tree kahd. I tek tree, Washinton tek wun, en Drane tek tree. "Wen I pick up my kahd, I moas tun pale. I ketch wun mo king en two jack. Sambo lay low, kause e him bline. I bet fibe cent, en Washinton liff 'em fibo ma Drane trow way ho han en kus.. Ole Sambo smole wun smile, en seen my fibe cent en Washinton fibe cent, an liff 'em anuder fibo. I try fer look like I gwino bluff, en I hab my han on my chip fur rise 'em geit, wen someting happen wot noboddy ain't been kount on. "Sambo got wan pooty leetle grand- chile name Dinah. Do chile only 6 yare old, but e know all do kahd. Dinah sat behin Sambo en look on he kahd, en jisf wen I gwme liff Sambo some mo de leetle gal sing out: 'Oh, how funny! Gainpa got all de queens!' Ob course dat mek oxcitement, I trou way my full house; Washinton fling fibe spade on do table ; Drane larf ; he been kum een on two seben, en Sambo, who hab de queens sho nuif, say dam en tun roun en slap do chile en tek em een de nex room en put em een bed. Den wun soun kum from de room what soun like spank, en Dinah holler. I sorry fur de chile kaws she tawk been sabe me at leese sebenty-fibe cent. I mek narrer scape." "En wot Washinton say?" inquired Primus. "Oh," replied Daddy November, "Gawge Washinton say, Sambo ain't got no right fur spank de chile, kaws 6he been tole de troof. " New York Sun. HOW MANY WIVES ARE THUS! The Many Virtue She Should Have to Best Please Her Husband. The good wife is always good. Noth ing puts her out. She may have neural gia, a tipsy cook and twins who always cry at the same time, but she never looks cross or speaks hastily, and she al ways sees that dinner is ready at the proper moment. The children may have mumps, chicken pox and measles, and the plumbers may have stopped the Cro ton water because they are fixing the main pipe; the baker, butcher and milk man may present their little bills with exasperating frequency and with re proachful remarks appended, and the iceman may have "struck," but when husband comes she always smiles beau tifully and has something nice and cool all ready in the refrigerator. She never mentions disagreeable bills to the partner of her soul and never asks for money, but she is always nicely dressed in cool, fluted muslins, or good, rich cashmere, or something like that No dowdy calico wrappers on her. She makes everything herself out of noth ing elegantly. She is charming. All the men envy him, but she never flirts. She is always so glad to have his ma live with them, and to take her advice in everything: But, most of all, when he comes home at 4 o'clock in the morning, walking very feebly and with exceedingly weak knees, she never casts a doubt upon his statement that "they've been taking stock down at our place, ' whatever may be the season of the year, and she al ways pities him for having to work so hard. Philadelphia Times. Directions For Sterilizing: 3111k. Provide six or eight half pint bottles, according to the number of times the child is fed durinir the 24 hours. Put the proper amount of food for one feed ing in each bottle and use a tuft of cot ton batting as a stopper. Have a sauce pan that the bottles can stand in conven iently. Invert a perforated tin pie plate in the bottom and put in enough water to come above the milk in the bottles. Stand the bottles on it ; when the water boils draw 'the saucepan to a cooler part of the stove, where the water will re main near the boiling point but not ac tually boiling. Cover the saucepan and et the bottles remain in it one hour. Put them in the icebox or a cool place n winter. Ladies' Home Journal. Appearances. "My dear baron, what are you doing? Smoking two cigars at one and the same time?" 'Well, you see, my dear fellow, in this beastly hole you can't get any six penny cigars such as I am in the habit of smoking, and so I have to make shift with a couple of threepenny ones. Deutsche Warte. Wm. Neville & Co., WHOLESALE ond RETAIL DBALEKS IN Pure Wines and Liquors AND THE BEST CIGARS. I ! gQje I Agents for the Celebrated MILWAUKEE Pabst Beer. Deliveries marie to any pnrt of the city or Hlilpe'l to iiny pluce. WM. NEVILLE, . . . MANAGER, ... 412 Main Street, - Plattsmouth; Neb r nlUrVIl . , Will keep constantly on hand n full a nl complete (-tool: of pure Mi Ml liSliCls, PA IN TV. OILS, Etc. Also a full line of l' i iis;itV Suixlrt.o. Pure liquors for medicinal purposes. Special attention nU'en to COMPOUNDING PRESCRIPTIONS. Messrs.. F. ti. FIUCKK & CO.. arc il.e only i urties selling our Alaska Crystal lirim.int COMBINATION Spectacles and lye-Glasses In PhittsD'outh. These Lenses are far Mipcriorto any other sold in this city, possessing a nuiiriil transparency and Mrengthh.g ioaitH-H which will pre serving thi? fail ins eye-sight. ?HO?. STHASSMAN. Zuchweiler & Lutz GROCERS, Cor. Sixth and Pearl Sts., K E K E KVEKYTIlIXt; IN TIIEIIi LINK. SELL CHEAP, GIVE GOOD WEIGHT, DELIVER PROMPTLY. a a u Ylll'IC :UiTmi IS SOI.ICITKZI DR. A. MATTHEWS, ) The Painless Dentist. 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