- IJIIW ! ! ' " lf1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - ' " " . . _ . . - ' . . _ , 01 _ _ . . . -Lt > _ JI ; . _ . .III _ fDlW.A . . . - . , - o' - ' l . . . . , . , . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .w . . , . . . . . , w.wwzr - - . , t l April , S TIlE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE 5 _ _ _ 9.04 . . . _ _ _ _ . _ _ _ . . _ _ _ . . _ . _ . .u _ . _ _ . _ . _ . _ _ n - - - - - - - . - I : TAN _ OXFORDS I . L , I r o : " . , " " \ " " : . 7 < ( , . , . . : ' ! ' { f. , : [ , ' . _ - . ' ' . ' - " . J r \ , ' " I . 'i , - . . . . . , , , ' , , " . , , " f ' , , , . I \ " " " " ' " , " . . IJI\"t. . . " . t. - ' . . . . . ' . . , ' . . : : ; s. I ' : --1' ' : " " ' - . - , t I . : r , . . : , dt d , t .f . , : . . II . . . I , , . - . . . . . A : ARE STYLISH , ' . I THIS SUMMER BUYAPAIR' . , j l I \ -AT- : HALL f&l ! GREEN WALD'S .1 . SHOE PARLOR . \ , LOCAL AND PERSONAL. . l\frs. A. W. Doerner and two sons spent Sunday in Hulo. Spring millinery may he seen lt its best at . Mrs. Breith'aupts. ' : Mrs. E. E. 1\rlett7. and June - Musselman : . visited . in St. Joe this I week. i . In buying spring millinery I ' r your taste and your pocket book both iind satisfaction at ! .Mrs. Breithaupts. . ' : Mrs. 1. C. Shel1e berber of I Ransom , Kan. , arrived in this I' I city Saturday for a visit at the home of Herbert Hedges. The ladies arc talking about } those finemil1inery goods at 1\11's. 1' Breithaupts. And it is nice things hey are saying about N , them. I them.A A man measured a blade of grass thc ether evening and in the morning he measured it again and found that it had grown two inches. _ Thc little son of John 'I'owle and wife has been critically ill at the home of his parents in Oma- ha. The litHe one is suffering from pneumonia. Charles IIelges ' of India nola , I Neb. . was in the city a few hours ! l\Ionday. Hc was enrontc home from St. Joseph where he had been on a business trip. Pa " Don't it always make you rest- less .and dissatisfied every time you look up fr0111 your ' work and see a man pass your window with a fishing pole over his shoulder ? 1\T11. J. Moran and sister Agnes went to Kansas City yesterday having been summoned by the serious illness of their sister Mol- lie , who is suffering from a se- a were attack : of pneumonia. , + . . . , 7 : i . . - - - - - - - - . - - - - - - . . J. R. Harper of Shubert was a business visitor in this . city Sat- urday. For sale-As nice a ] 60 as you ever saw Deep black : soil , not a pebble on it , within twelve miles of - the capital of South Dakota for SlOO see 'Vhitakcr Bros. at Ol1CC. 14-tf Have you begun making garden - den ? This is the season of the year when the merchant , the banker , the doctor , thc lawyer etc go home early i'1 the after- noon ali(1 l get in a couple of hours work in their gardcns. All the physical exercise that some men get in a year , comes it ; the form of spring garden making. BREAD AND LOVE. Continued from page 3. hie idea of penitence , perhaps - haps even of ppunnf'thongh it might not have npppaled to the old cure of Rt. Mnurin. Love iH not worth drowning for , he had told her crueH ' . Fell , she should see. see.The The boat flew before the wind , the white spray Dished like a whip at the bending snil. In the pine wool an old woman wailed drearily to unheeding waIls. In RL raul'in Black Georges fodpHtp swore at his missing son. But in1 he tower 01 the Pbarl' dp Rt. Maurin , far above , the lighthouse keeper stood glued to his telescope , helpless and amazed before the spectacle of n. fishing boat under full sm i1 tearing straight down upon the Camel Rork-Blacl and "TJJitp. . . - - - - - - - - - MUCH LAND IS YET VACANT. Uncle Sam Has Still Broad Acres to GiVd Away. The material development of the country is ( luietly progressing , at a remarkable rate in one direc- tion which is not given much pop ular attention , says the Chicago Chl'oniclp.J ore than 22,824,2nn acres of' public lands were turned over to private individuals last . Year. . This means that an area almost - most equal to that of the state of Indiana has within that time been added to the productive regions of the United Stntes. Most of these newly opened _ lands were homesteaded by ; farmers as will he seen from the foIlowingfigures : There were 54ati5 ( patents of all classes issued within the yeal' : Of this number , 47G54 are classed ns agricultural , 4)04 ! ) ns Indian allotments , 1,10-1 as mineral pat pnts , 200 as coal patents , 27G as private land claims , 187 as railroad - road patents and 40 ns swamp land patents. The total Bum which the government got bJ' way of fees and commissions for issuing these patents was $11,024,744. Under a recent law the most of the receipts - ceipts from the sale of public lands will henceforth be set aside for reclaiming claiming arid lands by irrigation In the public domain there are still unappropriated 380,979,307 acres of surveyed lands and 591 , - 91GlGQ acres of unsuryed ! Lands a , . . I - - - - - - - 01'a i t'oto tf ieiore tlian J70,91it,000 ) acres. A great many ; tracts in thi immense area , of course , will always - ways remain uncultivated Hud unsettled - settled , but it hns been estimated that when the contemplated ] system , tem of irrigation shall be put into working order so mtH'h good land win be opened that n population nR large aR the whole nation's present population could find room there to thrive prosperously ; and contentedly. , Rapid strides are now being made in the developing the puh-- lie domain. The excitement and uproar of former pioneer days are absent in this work , but the process . ess is marked and very eirective. The passenger traffic on western railroads is evidence ( of this fart. Agreeable reflections arise in con 1emplatin that the United States still owns so much arable public land. The dangers of an over. crowded : population by immigra- lion 01' natural increase are still remote. The census for many years ; yet to rome will not show an excess of people above what the west win need in settling up its vacant lands BOOKS THAT KING ) OWNED. Louis XVI. , of France Wrote HI ' " ' - Signature in One. Columbia university has on exhibition - hibition at the present time a large and valuable collection of books illustrating the history of bookbinding from the period of earliest efforts to muke the trade a fine art , says the New York 1imes. ! The books were " colleded b.y Samuel P. Avery , who has pre- sented a number of them to the universitJ' The collection con- tains some of the best works of he t great masters of the art. But , aside from this , it interesting containing a number of volumes from the private libraries of French , English and Spanish kings und from the collections of the noble families of those coun- tries. One of the most interesting is from the library of Louis XVI. of France. It is a work Qn the the- ateI' , printed in Paris in 1775 , and l'ontains the signature of Ute BI- starred monarch , together with manuscript notes in his own hand- wl'iting. The binding is bJ' De- rome , in red mOl'OCCO. In the cent . L t r are the arms of the Countess Artois ensigned with a crown. This book was sold at one time for nee fl'ancs. From the library of Charles IY. of Spain comes 11 book entitled "In Punere CaroJi II. , Hispanicr , Regis - is CathoJi'i Oratio Babita ill Sa- eelloPontei It was printed in Parma in 17S9. ! The binding is of black velvet embroidered with gold and silver threads , colored silks and pieces of metal. On each cover is a panel on which are the turns of Charles IV in gold and silver. The library of Charles II. of England contributes a manuscript entitled "The Statutes and Ordi- nances of the Most Noble Order of St. George , Named the Garter , Reformed , Explained , Declared . , r - - " and ! Renewed br ; Prince henry . VIII " The volume dates from about157i.It HwuslJoundl\'Sumuel Berne for Charley n. , \11d ! bears as n cipher ) ) the interlaced " ( .O. / ' On the first page are the : arms of the duke of Hamilton , in gold told water colors , and t Ow ofllcial J ma n- uSl'ript Ol'cPl' for t Jw issuance of the warrant for John 'Yerdell lo be baronet is laid in. . . A MOUSE POWER MILL. Two Tiny Animals Set to Work Mak- ing Sewing Thread. "The Scotsman" hUB dug up an old pamphlet in which is given an account , by once David Hutton , of his investigation and practical employment } of mouse power. The following is extracted from Hat- ton's Narrative : "In the summer of the year 1812 I hud occasion to be in Perth , and , when inspecting the toys and trinkets that were manufactured hJ' the French prisoners in the depot ] therG , my attention was in , voluntarily attracted by a little toy house with It wheel in the gable of it that was running rap. idly round , impelled by the insignificant - nificant gravity of a common house mouse. For a few shillings 1 purchased house , mouse and wheel. Inclosing it in It handker chief , on mJ' journey homeward I was compelled to contemplate its favorite umusement. But how to apply half ounce power , which is the weight of a mouse , to a useful purpose was a dimculty. At length the manufacturing of sew- ing thread seemed the most prac- tica ble. " Mr. Hatton had one mouse that run the amazing distance of 18 miles a day , but he proved that an ordinary mouse could run 10th miles on an average. A halfpen- ny's worth of oatmeal was sum. dent for its support for 35 days , during which it ran 73G miles. He had actually two mice constantly employed in the making of sewing thread for more than a year. The mouse thread mill was so con struced that the common mouse was enabled to make atonement to society for past offenses by twisting , twining and reeling from 100 to 120 threads a day , Sundays not excepted. A haJfpenny's worth of oatmeal served one of these thread min ullH'it8 for the long period of five weeks. In that time it made 3,350 threads of 25 inches , and aB a pen- nJ waR paid to' omen for every hank made in the ordinary way , the lllOtHW , at that rate , earned seven shillings and sixpence a ' ( lUl' . Take sixpence off for board and allowing one shilling for machinery . chinery , there was a clear yearly profit from each mouse of six shB- lings. MI' Ilattan firmly intended - ed to apply for the loan of the old empty cathedral in Dunfermline , which would have held , he calculated - Jated , 10,000 mouse mills , s1 fl- ' dent room being left for keepers and some hundreds of specta tors. I Death , however , overtook the inventor - : ventor before his marvelous pro' ; ject could be carried out. j -I ! \ I .1 , , , , J : j