Tbe Plattsmontb Jonrna
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
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GERMAIN E. TOWL,
PUtts. Phone. 6. ttt. "Phone. 220-
Kntett-1 at the postofflee at Plattsmouth. Ne
braska. as s-ronl class matter.
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1901.
Cass count v farmers should consult
the United States secret service men
for pointers on the weather.
Hareliick lias an auditorium, the
idea for which was conceived in a
night, and the buildingerected almost
before the people knew what the pro
jectors were about. "When it comes
to pusli and hustle the IlaveW-k folks
are right to the fore.
j he rainstorm or l uesoay was a
winner in its class. The rain came
down as though the private secret arj
of the Lord had gone to work after a
long vacation, opening up in a big
bunch the accumulated prayers of the
righteous and answering them all at
once.
"I think I will have to cut my ad
vertisement in your paper down and
use less space," said one of I'latts--mouth's
merchants to the Journal
man one day last week, "(juite right,
sir," responded the newspaper man.
just cut the size of 3-011 r ad dow n to
whatever proportions the amount of
your business w ill stand."
According to the annual financial
report of .Sir Michael Ilicks-iSeaeh,
chancellor of the llritish exchequer,
the expenditures of the ISritish gov
ernment for the fiscal year recently
ended, were greater than the revenue
receipts by $2c,ooo,oow. This is the
rate at which old England, while la
boring under stress of increased war
taxations is still running lehind as
payment in part of her fun in South
Africa.
"Late press dispatches from New-
York say that young II. L. liowlhy of
Crete, Nebraska, one of the cadets
recently expelled from West Point
military academy,has joined an engin
eering party and set sail for Ecuador
Suouldn t wonder but liowlhy might,
get mixed up in some of the revolu
tions down there and come out a gen
erai or commander-in-chief of the
army. There's many a good chance
in Latin America for energetic young
fellows from the United States.
not be a bad scheme for some of our
citizens to go down to the court house
and find out whether or uot they stili
own their property.
Jack lieeson lias been a close and con
scientious student of one of the new
fengled health journals of late and the
result is that he is now one of the most
ardent followers of a philosphv in
which lie says he has been a believer
since early child nood. I have learn
ed never to work tie t ween seven and
nine o'ciock in the inornintr, " says
lack, ' because that is too neir break
fast. J have also learned that it is
bad to work between nine o'clock in
the morning and three in the after
noon because that is too near dinner.
From throe until nine o'clock at night
is likewise a time when one should
never laljor, for that is too near supper,
and after that it is dangerous to work
liecause it is too near bed time."
If the Gazette were to name its first
choice as candidate for supreme judge
on the republican ticket this fall, it
would say J udgc Sain M. Chapman of
riattsmouth. lie lives a long way
from this part of the state, and he lias
no political axes to grind out tin's way,
but Sam Chapman fs an able lawyer
and a cultured gentleman. He belongs
to the class or men which includes
Judge Mason, Judge Cobb, T. M. Mar
quette and others of that kind of abil
ity, who have made the history of Ne
braska. If the republicans expect to
win this fall, they must nominate men
who have brains and character tocor
repsond with the position thev expect
to fill if elected. JetTL. Stone in Min
den Gazette.
When shown the above clipping
Judge Chapman positively declared
that he is not nor will be a candidate
for the place.
Why is it that farmers, when they
meet together to plan ways by which
they can better their condition, plan
to increase the output of their prod
uct, while business men in other lines
of industry plan to limit the output of
their product. Crete democrat.
There's where you've hit the nail on
the head, brother liowlhy. The anti
thesis between the farmer and the
trust could not be more strikingly sug
gested. The farmer plays the bull
and the trust the bear in this game of
industrial juggling on the side of out
put, and vice versa . on the side of
prices.
Look at it from whatever point 3-011
will their ends are at variance and
their efforts at opposites, and must be
so as long as artificial combinations
exist on one side for the purpose of
bleeding everything outside.
A Faibury '.tax buyer" was in town
this week gobbling up the delinquent
tax snaps on city property, so It might
Anent the Burlington Deal.
For some time past the Northern
I'acitic railway has been operated in
harmonv with the Great Northern
Kail way system over which James J.
Hill is the presiding genius, and whose
chief financial power centers in the of
tice of Mr. J. I'iermont Morgan, says
the Keview of Keviews. These inter
ests, for the further lessening of com
petition and the improvement of their
great traffic schemes, had practically
accomplished a purchase of the Chiea
go, uuriington system, wnicn it was
their intention to lease to the Great
Northern and Northern I'acitic lines,
and to bring into ope rating union with
them. Other interests, however, head
ed by Mr.llarriman.the banking firm of
Kuhn. Loeb & Co.. and associated fin
ancial interests, had recently pur
chased the Southern I'acitic Kail way
sj-stcm on lieliaif of the Union I'acitic;
and they apparently desired to check
mate the so-called 'Uuriington deal."
Accordingly, they laid their plans to
buy up enough of the Northern I'acitic
stock to wrest away control of that
line from the Morgan-Hill interest.
When the outlines of the project be
gan to disclose themselves. Northern
Pacific stock, which is not very valu
able on its own Intrinsic merits, and
which a few 3-ears ago was selling for
a song, began to assume a great place
in the market and to rise very rapidly.
The brokers for the interests seeking
control were willing to buy at a large
figure all the stock that anybody chose
to offer. This tempted the speculat
ors, who sold freely for future delivery
at a high price. When the dates for
delivery arrived, however, the spec
ulators could neither buy nor borrow
the necessary shares of stock at ordin
ary figures. Northern I'acitic on May
D reached $1,000 a share; and for a few
hours many men w ere obliged to sacri
fice excellent stocks and bonds in order
to get money with which to purchase
Northern I'acitic at fabulous prices.
The corner was broken by the agree
ment of the leading interests to post
pone stock deliveries, also by a re
straining order issued by a'New York-
judge.
Anti-Kissing Club.
Iown in Kansas, the land of Carrie
Nations and Mary Ellen Leases, thir
teen long suffering men and true have
banded themselves together in a vow
sustained coterie, and have taken
a solemn oath not to kiss their wives
for a year. From what we'have seen
of the product of Kansas femininity
in the paers for some time past one
is naturally inclined to believe tha
the men have some justification in
standing by this stern measure.
'We have found kissing to lie
filthy habit," says the president of
the anti-kissing club ina recent inter
view. Poor, long suffering Kansas
nif-n. perhaps if they insisted on their
wives using Quear's soap before being
kissed, this objection to the habit
might be removed. Still, ir Kansas
women all have kissers similar to those
portrayed as t he most prominent feat
ures of Mesdames Carrie ami Mary
r,iien, me jusimcaiion oi me men
would seem to hold good.
On the other hand, we are surprised
to learn that every one of the thirteen
women expresses herself as being
thoroughly satisfied and delighted
with the innovation hailing the ac
tion of their husbands as a relief from
an odious habit which leads one to
believe that the day of the beery ar
oma of the masculine breath lias not
jet gone out of dry Kansas.
feet from the bank. None but the
passengers upon the train seemed to
have seen it, and to them it appeared
tossed up for the moment, a ghastly
sight, silent, mysterious, blue of face,
soaked of clingin? garment, lolling
clumsily upon the breast of the flood
tide like an unguided stick of drift
wood, and then was lost to view as the
swiftly-ilying train sped on its was.
Some Hail Stones.
County Commissioner Zink hurried
back from Greenwood in great trepid
ation Wednesday morning, for the re
jiort had gained currency that the tre
mendous hail of the night berore had
knocked the polished knob off the big
cannon on the cour t house lawn.
IJut speaking of hailstones brings to
mind the fact that a pellet the size of
a hen's egg fell just within the door
of the Journal office during the storm
of the afternoon. This is published
to give denial to the assertion of a
cynical friend that this hailstone
would have grown to the size of a pav
ing stone by the time the paper went
to press.
This story is not in it, however.with
the one told by II. C. McMaken. He
says that when he went into his back
yard, about o'clock Tuesday night,
he fell over a heap of ice, piled up
across his sidewalk as large as a chick
encoop, and that he thought his men
had backed an ice wagon into the yard
and unloaded it there for some reason
or other All of which goes to show
that truth is often stranirer than fic
tion.
Frank Uager of llavelock was in
town Wednesday. He has lately been
enjoying a visit from his. mother, of
CXiIumbus, Ohio.
Sheriff Wheeler was out in the
county this week making levies, visit
ing Weeping Water, FJ in wood and
Greenwood enroute.
A Husband's Mistake.
Mrs. Mabel Walker, who committed
suicide at the Lindell hotel, Lincoln,
Tuesday morning, spent Sunday in
riattsmouth two weeks ago, with her
husband, who was stopping at the Ki
ley. She impressed all who saw her as
being a charming little woman, al
though inclined to do as she pleased
without regard to convention. While
in this city she demonstrated her abil
ity to get away with as much beer as
could be carried to her.
The husband, who is a genial, com
panionable sort of a fellow, explained
as his reason for leaving his wife at
Lincoln while he traveled about the
state, that the boon companion of his
college days, J. Albert IJrink, lived
there, and having a natty little rig,
which Mrs. Walker was privileged to
use whenever she pleased, made life
in the capital city more pleasant for
her than it would have been had she
traveled about with him. IJut events
have proven that the horse and pneu
matic tires, or something else, made
life not worth the living for the un
happy little woman.
River's Ghastly Trophy.
Passengers on No. 7, going to Oma
ha one day this week, were treated to
a startling sight in the shape of a hu
man floater tumbling and tossing
about in the turgid waters of the Mis
souri river. It was at a point where
the tracks run close to the water's
edge, and the wandering remnant of
humanity was scarcely more than 23
Too Much Infant.
The father of Heaver City's prize
baby attempted suicide one day this
week. The suffering and misery to
which this unfortunate man has been
subjected for the past five years, may
better be imagined than described.
At the aire of five months his baby
weighed more than 65 pounds,and now
at the age of i years papa's ittle ween-
ty tootsie wootsie tips the beam at
more than 200 pounds.
Five years ago the doting parent
was proud and happy of mind, robust
of physique, a happy man and the en
vy of all his neighbors. Today the
same man, emaciate, haggard, down
cast, shattered of nerve, a hapless.
hopeless anaemic w reck, seeks peace
in death.
Not even Sandow himself could lie
expected to survive five years of cod
dling and night walking an operatic-
ally-inclined col icy l'oo pound infant.
It is said that the Castoria people are
anxious to get the baby's picture for
advertising purposes. Then some re
juvenator concern ought to procure
the father's for a terrible ''before tak
ing" illustration.
The embarrassing position in which
police officers of a city of this size are
often placed was well illustrated Sat
urday night, when the local force had
to do with a gang of young midnight
roysterers, well tanked up and looking
iur truuoie. ;ieciauirs indulged in a
good deal of adverse criticism because
the officers did not employ- force, even
to the point of using their clubs and
revolvers and arrest the whole gang,
That, however, is a course which can
not so easily lie followed where police
and citizens are so well acquainted as
here, ansl the police show rare good
judgment in employing their power to
arrest only as a last measure, and their
club and revolver '"authority" onlv
when all other means nave failed. It
is not a pleasant thing to jail the belli
cise sons of respectable parents, and
the officer who can succeed in getting
them off the streets without plunging
well known families into the notoriety-
attaching to t he proceedings of the
police courtis a capable officer, indeed,
and does more to preserve the peace
audmaintian law and order than one
who never loses an opportunity of
obtruding his "authority'"' before the
public notice.
The contention for nomination for
sheriff in the republican county con
vention promises to be a lively one.
Carl Quinton of Avoca, and Editor W.
L. Witherow of the Plattsmouth
Tribune are already being pushed for
the place by their respective friends,
w lnle at least six other parts of the
county have their preferences which
will be brought befere the convention
with showings of more or less strength.
r-ditor s. A. Morrison of Eagle is
being more than talked of for the nom
ination for register of deeds, and with
Kush O. Fellows trying for something
or another, as the report is current,
the republicans bid fair to have their
hands full of candidates from among
the ranks of the local newspaper men.
During Tuesday evening's storm the
lightning struck the K. & M. switch
house, near the depot, tearing the
roof off in places, but not much dam
age was done. The only occupant of
the house at the time, was Posey Mes
sersmith, who was severely shocked.
You may as well expect to run a
steam engine w ithout water as to find
an active, energetic man with a torpid
liver, and you may know that it is tor
pid when lie does not relish his food,
or feels dull and languid after eating,
often lias headache and sometimes diz
ziness. A lew doses of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets will re
store his liver to its normal functions,
renew his vitality, improve his diges
tion and make him feel like a new
man. Price, 2.i cents. Samples free
at any drug store.
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To California in July.
Make up your mind to go to San
Francisco in July and you will go. It's
almost as sure as two and two make
four.
Another thing equally sure is that
you w ill never have a better opportun
ity of visiting California.
Kates have lieen reduced to a point
within the reach of almost all. For
example.thc cost of a round trip tick
et from Omaha to San Francisco is
only M-V-less than one regular fare.
Corresponding rates from all other
Uuriington Route stations.
The triptoCaliforniaand the month
spent there will prove a holiday sur
passing any in your experience. With
good judgment $100 will cover
every expense of the trip railroad
fare, sleepers.side trips and a month's
visit.
Write for a copy of the Burlington's
Epworth League folder gives full in
formation about the meeting, tickets,
stop-overs, etc.
J. Fhascis,
General J"assenger Agent,
Omaha, Neb.
NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS.
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NO HUNTING.
ALLOWED
ON THESE GROUNDS.
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That's a sign yon often see on country 'places, hut
yon will never see it on this store.
We want you to hunt
(her the entire town, then como here and you will
decide that
Our Dru2 Ijre .5 Tore ?ompl?t?
And our prices lower than can le found elsewhere.
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Your Dealer Sells Them.
The Hoard of County Commissioners
will sit at a '-Hoard of Equalization on
the lltll day of Jiuie l!iol and continue
in session not less than eight days or
until the hearing of complaints
against assessments and such other
business as may legally come liefore it
has been finished. Ail persons having
complaints to make against assess
ment are notified to appear before said
ISoard at their office in the Court
House at Plattsmouth.
JAM ES KOUEIiTSON,
County Clerk
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WE ARE SHOWING
New - Styles
In footwear for the spring of 1901.
If you are interested in proper foot
gear you will call and inspect the new
lines men's, women's and children's.
We are the lenders in shoe fashions
J 03. FETZER
Why not sutisci ilH? for the Journal
NOW? You need it for a dollar :
Jonothan llatt's ten year old daugh
ter, Ina, had a narrow escape from an
imminent death Monday afternoon,
when the horse which she was driving
alone, took1 fright and ran away with
her down Pearl street, and up Main
street, colliding with a wagon, and
finally being brought to an abrupt
halt by a telephone pole. Although
the rig which the little girl was driv
ing was almost demolished the child
was not injured in the least, and all
through the exciting episode displayed
wonderful nerve and courage in hold-
ng the lines and guiding the wayward
brute as best she could.
Julius liuck, a former Cass county
lioy, who went to Wyoming some ten
or twelve years ago and became a cow
boy, has I -ecoine the owner of a cattle
ranch, for which he has been ollered
.-i0,Ouo cash, but wants $10,000 more.
He began with nothing, and worked
by the month for several years, till he
got a start. He is a son of John Ihick,
the Mt. Pleasant precinct farmer.
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cJuLY 2 TO 13 INCLUSIVE
C.H.A.O.S.
First and Best Fair of the Season
a ae..
Spring and Summer Patterns ;
And goods just received f
Latest Styles in Cutting
and Fitting.
WORK STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
hudecek & Mcelroy
Rockwood Block Plattsmouth, Neb.
ank of as raaty,
$50,000.
All Attractions of High Order.
Concert Music a Special Feature.
Grand 4th of July Celebration.
Genuine Mexican Bull Fights.
Everyone invited.
Reduced Kates from All Points.
Don't Fail to Come.
JULY 2 to 13.
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Garden Seeds
both in Bulk and Packages.
Blue Grass and Lawn Seed.
SSSD SWEET POTATOES.
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It's time to think about
your lawns, and high
time to get to work at
your gardens. Every
one of our lines of seeds
tested and guaranteed.
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Bennett &Tutt
THE GROCERS.
"Everything in Season."
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.
ZPaici Capital ------
Office hours from 1) a. m. to 4 p. m.
Money to loan at current rates on approved security. Deposits received
on time certiGcates at the rate of 3 per cent per annum for six months, or
4 per cent for one year.' Collections made and promptly remitted. Your
business, whether large or small, solicited.
Charles C. Parmele, President, J. M. Patterson, Vice President.
T. M. Patterson, Cashier.
I ..Cold Drinks on Hot Days..
Atwood's Pharmacy.
Prescriptions caxefULlIsr corapovjaded
Pure Drugs, all leading Patent Medicines,
Stationery, Cigars, Toilet Articles, I Fall
Paper, TFimlow Glass and Paints.
W. AX WOOD,
South Side Main Street, Plattsmouth.
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till mm.
All disease of the rectum treated on a positive Guarantee, and no money accepted tmtfl
patient is cured. Stn4 for fre 104 pagt hoh: a tieaiies on rectal dmeasea, and hundred or
testimonial latter valuable to anyone una-trd. Alt our 49 pant both for womtn- both sanl
free. Address. Drs. THORNTON & MINOR. 10th & Oak St Kansw City, Mo!
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