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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1904)
. . . - I "Ttl TtIE 'VOULD9S BEST WRITERS ! I 'I ' : - - i TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Y - Only by trying seriously to under stand conditions of 200 years ago may wo bring ourselves to realize the ad vance the country and the world have made in the two centuries a news paper press has existed In America. In April , 1704 , was founded the first American newspaper which succeeded in establishing itself ] , the Boston News-Letter. Popular education , frock dam of speech , religious toleration and government by the people were then unknown ] In 'the colonies ] ; to worship according to the rites of the Catholic church was a capital offense In Massachusetts - sachusetts ; none but members of established churches could hold of fice ; it was a criminal act for any person to ride , 01' children to play , on Sunday ; men and women were obliged - cd to confess before congregations , and any one who did not attend church could be tined , according to law.-Doston Globe. NEW CONSUMPTION TREATMENT A new remedial agent giving great promise of future success in the treatment . ment of consumption Is being tried by two St. Louis physicians. The rem edy i8 a very powerful proteid , which I is found in healthy blood , and the I theory is that Its use increases the carrying power of the blood so that the dread disease can bo thrown off by the patient. The drug is given internally - ternally , inhaled in the form of sprayer or , In extreme cases , injected hypo- dermically. It Is very rapid In Hs action , the beneficial effect being noticeable ] in a few days. Jt is alleged that one patient , who was unable ] to rise from bcd , after receiving the treatment for seven days walked a distance of four blocks ] ] and climbed a ' . flight of stairs. Jt is earnestly to be hoped that further investigation will provo the new remedy capable of all that is claimed for It-Utica Globe. REAL POWER OF THE PRESS. , But Ig it. not plain ] that the power , of the press as a saving agency depends - pends not so much on the skill of journalists as on their nobility of character and their moral motive ? When we see so many accomplished ! i public men , adepts In all the technical arts of politics , putting their power to unpatriotic and selfish uses , it seems to us that the salvation of the republic depends more on the instruc- tion and quickening of conscience than on greater capacity for work. This is also the peculiar needs of journalists , and especially of prolJlo- tors of journals , who , as a rule , wm be capitalists , not trained In any school of journalism , and having little J of the spirit of heroic self-sacrifice in a missionary undertaklng.-Boston Herald. Herald.ENGLAND' ENGLAND'f1 COAL SUPPLY. To satisfy ! the prevailing anxiety in England over the fuel problem , a careful survey at her coal deposits has been made , with the result of discov- ering that there Is coal enough in the United Kingdom to a depth of 4,000 feet , sufficient at the present rate of output to last 371 years. , This estimate docs not take into consideration the fact that with improved - proved machinery and skill it might be possible to carry on mining at a depth of 7,000 feet. The supply may be still further extended by the economical - nomical use of electricity t If England's fuel supply Is assured I for 371 years she need have no alarm. By that time coal may have become quite obsolete as fuel.-Boston Globe. MOST DANGEROUS MAN OF ALL r When the American people under. take reform they must begin nearest the ground , closest to the great source. Jf they will Insist on an end of violence and murder by labor and on purity in their legislators they must first get after the corrupt scoundrels - drels who stand in the background and poison all sources of public action hy their hribes. The principal villain - lain Is the man who buys councils and corrupt legislators , the "respect- ed" citizen , the "promoter , " the "manager , " who is clothed in sort raiment . I ment , and whose name is writ large. This man , who Is to-day sapping the vitality of American institutions , municipal , state and national , is the one that must first be driven from prominence to obscurity , from respect. abblllty to disgrace , from fame to in- famr.-Indlanapolis News. FRENCH WOMEN AND SPORTS. - The necessity of chaperonage has largely Interfered with the physical development of the French girl. It is not to bo expected that a mother or an aunt or other person qualified to chaperon can take or desire to take part In a game of golf with the same enthusiasm as a young player. Some progress , however , has been effected of late. The keen interest taken in skating ] last winter did much to temporarily - porarily eminate ] the chaperon , and now we find the French champion woman tennis player , 1\111e. Masson , organizing a ground hockey club in Paris exclusively ] for women.-Illus- trated Sporting News. CO.EDUCATION AND MARRIAGE. - education does not discourage matrimony in America. In every high school wherE > boys and girls are brought together there are budding romances mances that not Infrequently flower into matrimony , and as for the col : leges and universities where men and women meet on an equal basis the conditions are extremely favorable to matrimony , and seldom are these marriages - rlages unhappy Indeed so far from college education unfitting a woman for the duties or domesticity , the spectacle - tacle of a colJege-bred woman in the divorce courts is practically unknown. -London Teegraph. ] THE ENGINES OF WAR. At a dinner during the Franco . German - man war Disraeli did not open his mouth till near the end of the enter- tainment , when he observed in his most sententious manner : "The' French embarked in this war because they conceived that they bad the superiority - periority in arms of precision ; they had the chasse pot and they had the mitrallleuse" ( which lIe pronounced "mitralllouse" ) ; but of the third engine - gino , called a man , they did not pos- sess oven a single specimen. " This said , he relapsed into perfect slJence. -From the Diary of Sir 1\Iountstl1art Grant Duff COLLEGE GIRLS' MISSION. It Is an excellent thing to telt ' college - lege girls , as Hon. John D. Long told the graduating class at Vassar , that their "mission Is to save human society - ciety from vulgarity and decar. " If ; say , half the graduates of the wClrn- en's colleges would set themselves resolutely to living the simple me and would train up their husbands and children the same way , civilization would presently have gone a long way forward in this country.-Boston Transcript. . s1 o A ? 'bt ' " t:1 : p j - - - . From tile f01'CtlI01l111t letters by Ear M. Pratt , Oak Park , Illhwls. The accuracy For a rest time library is for review of the Co -07) C1'itiOfl dally sources of . better methods iZ info rlna- lion on the enemies oj easy errors and tha friends of forethought , to reduce - I duce mutually expensive mistakes - . takes of mechanical , com ner vial and professional PC0 le : - - - Simple things worth knowing which may prevent sickness and even save life. - One of the first men I met today told me he had no sleep last nlght- he watched at the bed of a friend's ! sick son and the son died. , The young man had gone to 11 dance , then spent the night at the home of a companion. The sheets on the bed of the guest chamber were damp and the dance had prepared the boy for the greatest injury. In three days pneumonia forced the boy's life from his body , and we are left wondering when we will know enough to Jive as we should Jive. Our afterthought is that it would have been better for the boy had he , exercised aB night In his room with balls of paper in his bands in place of , dumb.heBs. It may be that an exercise of deep breathing in the morning would have reduced the pneumonia to a common cold. cold.When When we are exposed to dampness or disease that Injures the air pas- sages we may have a cold in the front or the nOSE : , the back of the nose , the throat , the bronchial tubes or the finer parts of the lungs , according to the amount of strength wo happen to have to resist. Some people would have rheuma- tism In the place of pneumonia from sleeping in damp sheets , while there are those , no doubt , who would not be I Injured in any way , because they had : hardened themselves by baths and ' exercises and thus become possessed of special power to resist dangers. Physical Exercise Examples What are you doing to keep your body in good shape , or get it better and keep it so ? If you are like the average person you are willing to give n doctor fifty dollars quicker for getting you well than you arc to give him fifty cents to keep you well. A dentist told me that he got some exercise in taking a hath. His work and walking helped him some but he ' had no regular plan. A secretary of a large organization ' told me that formerly he got some exercise cutting kindling wood but to. day he gets mental exercise trying to get his boys to cut the wood. Have I told you about the two sisters . tel's who tried to see how many steps they could take while hOlding their breath and walking to and from their work ? If I have please give this tell- Ing to one of your friends. It is an ' extra good habit only do not strain yourself trYing it. A fitly thousand I dollar gymnasium Is fine but men have been injured for life in them. Exercise daily but do it wisely. - . . How and what to eat has much to do with. . our ability to do what : we want to do. This letter from Hilda Smith to the Chicago Dally News interested me because cause as a boy I tried to cook whol& wheat , but only made out to get the family laugh on me. You may be- able to write me about your food ex pen inents : In order to be vigorous in mind and body one should develop the ablllty tr' Inhale a long breath. This also aids in acquiring an even temperament , a& . . it Is well known that the peevish . easily wrought-up , quickly angered person possesses short breath. To ob taro a longer and more even breathing . Ing ( which will also prolong life ) ; take a few breathing exercises dally ; when out walking always throw the weight of the body on the balls of the . I feet ; for the first four minutes try drawing in and exhaling the breath 'I rhythmically , alternating to every four steps ; after having walked five or ten blocks more , repeat the exer- . This is sufficient for the first week. The week following increase the time of taking the breath to five steps , and from that time on add one step as best one can-do not force it -until the breath can be inhaled dur- Ing seven steps and exhaled during seven steps. Then In one's room open the window wide , sit directly in front of it and take a few long breaths , rhythmically inhaled and exhaled to some melody. Nlnety.nlne out of a hundred will be too prudent to do this . , , for fear of taking cold , but the hundredth - j dredth . one will discover that a short time after having tried this regime there will be no such thing as a cold for him. One must determine upon a regular and strict diet for one's self. Since the system is not prepared for this rigorous mode of living , begin by thor- oughly cleansing it. This is excellent discipline for both mind and body : . Take a ten-day diet of popcorn and apples. 'Rise at 5 o'clock In the morn- ing , bathe in cold water and work seven hours before eating. At noon eat a couple of sound appies-that is to say , apples lacking bruises and 4 . worm holes-also three handfuls of popped popcorn. Wait another six hours and eat two apples more. Folk low this routine for the next ten days , after which time the system will be prepared for a fast lasting from three to ten days. The length of this fast will depend upon one's state of mind. After this amount of preparation the system is ready for the "right way of living. " Eat nothing In the morn ing-thus giving the system an opportunity - portunity to become so regulated by noon that the mind wlll be clear and bright. For one who finds it impos sible to do without food In the morn- Ing a little fruit wlll suffice. Habitu- ally at 12 or 1 o'clock eat a dish of cooked wheat , which contains more food for brain and muscle and which wlll give : more strength than any amount of unhealthful , stimulating flesh foods Buy this wheat at a seed .I store , wash it thoroughly In several J waters , soak over night , cook on n. slow fire from four to six hours and t fry to a crisp brown In olive oil. With the wheat eat either fruit or vege- ; tables. In the evening cat fruit alone , t and this fully three hours before re- tirtng. This Is sufficient food for any mortal being , as has been tried and proved by one who works dally from 6a.m . to11p.in. Concerning tae economy of this mode of living : , Twenty.five cents' j" worth of wheat , will last one person two months ; frpit will average 10 cents a day. This brings the cost of living down to d mere trifie I ,6-
