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It A . 4 . . THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE April 22 , 1904 - Ii
, Mr. Grinstead a.nd
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. 'J . ' the Drainage Question
1 [ ' , . . ' . The fate of the drainage law
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.I " court is anxiously awaited by thc I
- owners and renters of bottom land.
' This law which was enacted by
f ; the last legislature has been held
: - unconstitutional by Judge Bab-
if
: cock , and on appeal from Nemaha
f. County , is now pending before
the supreme court.
i i - , There are forty thousand acres of
t : ' land in this county liable to over-
If flow. . For several years this
r . . property has been unproductive
because of the annual floods from
t I Q the rivers , until the be.t of the
1 ; overflowed land can be purchased
1. K. at about twenty five dollars per
acre. If Nemaha and Muddy
rivers could be prevented from
such overflows , there is not an
acre of this land but what would
be worth at least seventy five
dollars an acre , and some of it
would probably bring as high as
one hundard twcnty-five dollars
per acre. The law as it stands
provides for what is termed dra-
inage districts which are to be
organized for the purpose of
straightening thc channels of rivers -
ers at the expense of the overflow-
e
cd lands. Not a penny of this cx-
, pensee can be charged to any of
the up lands , nor can any bridg-
cs made ncccssary by a change in
the channel of thc river3 be
charged to the county in any way.
In other words , thoes who are to
bc benefited must bear all thc ex-
pense. . .
Those who have studied thc
question are quite positive that
the plan of straightening thc
channel of the river is fcasiblc. and
will absolutely prevent tlvcrflows.
Thc plan has been succcssful
wherever it has been tried.
Across the Missouri river , the
. Tarldo river and the Nishnabotna
( river have been entirely reformed
from their bad habits , and the
' . . . : - fall in such rivers is not as great
, as in the Ncmaha , which is about
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The Infant Dead.
/Ct.o,1cii / , "Suffcr little children to come
. unto me" said One and saying
he opened his arms of love to receive -
, ccive unto himself again , that
which hc had entrusted to us
awhile
Francis " \Villiam 1\'lartin and
Everts Sargent Towle were members -
bers of the house of David ; Dor-
. rington j they were thc youngest
and the first of thc fourth generation -
ation to dcpart. It is of no avail
to try to lesson grief with words ,
though I fain would rob the
grave , in part of its terrors.
As great a mystery hovers over
.s each cradle as shrouds each cof-
fin ; -it maintains as deep silence
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ten feet to the mile. If the Nem-
, aha river was straightened , it
would reduce the lcngh of the
river about seventy per cent.
That is , it would make : what is . .
now ten miles of river , into a
river three miles in l ° ngth. Thc
water having a shorter distance . .
to travel would , as a matter of .
course , run off much morc rapidly ,
than now. The flow would not
be impeded by curves and drift .
wood and , if the experience in
other cases can bc relied upon , :
our friends on the bottoms would
be benefited beyond computation.
The reclaiming of these forty
thousand acres of land would increase -
crease the taxable property of. .
this county at least $250.000.00 4
and would be of great benefit to
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every citizen in thc county. t
R. E. Grinstead , thc republican :
nominee for the legislature has t
given this question a great deal .
of thought and study. Hc has. .
investigated other rivers where
the plan has been tried and has
personally made a survey prac- :
tically of the whole Ncmaha I
river in i . Richardson County. Mr. '
Grinstcad could not be induced to t
become a candidate for thc legis-
lature until after the drainage 4
law had been declared unconstu- I
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tional , and his sole reason for becoming -
coming acandidate was to push :
through such amendments as may 1
be necessary - to insure a drainage
a law which win pass muster
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when challenged . . 111 court .
VV'e do not know of any single
piece of legislature which is
faught with such great good to
the people of this county as thc
drainage law , and it is not surprising -
prising that thc owners of these
forty thousand acres of bottom
land are with one accord advo-
cating the election of the man
who is more conversant with the
question than any other man in
the state of Nebraska.
to our asking whence , " as does
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the grave when asked , wlnthcr. "
In thc one , our eyes behold thc
mystery , though vc cannot fath-
0111 it , and the other wc acccpt
by faith , that all is well . Thc
of is born-mod-
fear death earth - -
cled from our own clay and the
image , wc ourselves have made ,
fills 1 us with terror ; why should
we fear to meet what all thc dead
have met , what all that is will
have to mect. ' Yea , though I
walk through the valley of the
shadow of death , I will fear no
evil , for thou art with me. "
Tis the severed ties that give
us pain and the empty arms that
fill the realms of our inmost be-
'vr ; ; Attention ! 1 I
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I would respectfully call the attention of the 1i '
house owners of Falls City to thc fact that I " ' \
ha" recently stocked a full line of - - - - - - , -
Heath f8l Milligan's Guaranteed ' .
Paints and Colors
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I am also showing to thc public a new and a
vcry' ' complete line , embracing the . latest in' - - .
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WALL PAPER . P a
Ranging from the Cheapest to the Best'r
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I shall aim to carry 'a first class line including
the best grade of goods in the way of
Paints , Oils / ' , Varnishes iJ
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Please call amd get prices , which will alwiy ; i s - ,
-be . . right. - Thanking my fricmds for many favors ' . . ' ,
ors in past years ' , I hope for a continuancl . ; . . . . - .
W. H. IERR , , ;
Dealer in E"erythin that Can be Found
in a First Class Pharmacy J .
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ipgs with utter loncliness. The
face distorted with life's latest
pang , death smooths in passing ,
'as an angels wing hc takes pain
from the sufferer , sorrow from
the sorrowful and gathers up all
fifes broken threads.
He gives peace to the troubled ,
friends to the friendless and rest
to-thc weary. Hc gathers from
the tree cf life , thc bud and blos-
som with the ripened fruit and
in a common bed of earth the
patriarch and babe sleep side by
side.
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Love is divine and belongs to
Heaven , perhaps 'it would wither
and die if we could always keep
those we clasp to our .hcarts. I
would rather live and love in a
world where Death is king than
have eternal life without lovc.
I would rather hav my children
and lose them , if God wins , than
never to have had them ; no life
but is broader , purer and richer ,
for having and calling our own ,
these innocent beings fresh from
God's hand , even though their
life be but a brcath.
When these two babes wcre
placed in their caskets , where
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loving hands : had wreathed the
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lily and violet about them they . . . . , . . . .
looked as though they had fallen '
asleep in beds Qf choicest flowers.
And a chord in my heart was
stirred to ask , which is the golden -
en blessing life or death ; and I
heard a voice from Heaven say-
ing unto me , write , ' l J j fscd ) are - ) ; . ' ' ' ' :
thc dead which die in the Lord " r
Happy , weof many years , ' rtiCii i -
the summons come , if we have
done our life work as well , as did \
those littleoncs of twelve months.
The song of wondrous swcetness - j
that burst into our lives , one day
is not hushed because thc little t
singer has flown. The harp that . : i
gave forth strains of love under 'i . .
the touch of baby fingers , is not
tunclcsss because it has a broken ' .
string Be comforted , thc song .
will sound forth more glorious , _ .
and the silver c119rd will vibrate -
once morc-not now , but in the , " y
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coming years on the beautiful " -
isle of somcwhcrc.--C : l mu li- J
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acting business . in this city . . . St'i'Il- ,
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