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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1905)
ONLY PARTLY CONVINCED Man with Money Order Was Com- \ ' pletely Overhauled by Clerk Who Sought Ide'ntification. . . M , 'Q , ( , - The glerk in the money order die . vision of the post office looked Hhurpl.r at the mun who hud pre seated an order to be cashed , says the Chicago 'rribnne. " \Vho sent Jon this ? " he de , IJI : , ) manded. ' 1.t , j ' ( I , "tlohn Philander Avery , " re. : plied the man. , I The clerk hunted up the letter I of advice und compared it with . , , , ) the order. . , \ . 4 "Is your name Abfmlom RIck , I etts ! " I "Yes , sir. " " ! 1ae you anything in Your pockets to identify you ; ! " f , 'Yes Here's the letter the OJ" ti \ tIel' came in. " . The cleric exumhwd the superscription . ' sel'iption cal'pfull AnJ'thing else ! " ' . . _ "YP , Mu. 11PI'"H n lot of other Y . letters with the . m.y name on en , 'elopes. " 1f 1 " ' ' " f "AnJ'thing else ! 4 "Hel'p is nrv accident insul'ancl ' ' I )10 ) Ii e.\ " . " He handed it over and then proceeded . . . 'eeded to dig from his inside pock . ets and submit for examination his cards of ( Membership in tlw . . " 1' . 11. C. ' A. , LOllesomehurst 1m. I ! ' . \ ! 'JlH'nt association , and Civic : l : .lrol'Jll league , together with receipts - ceipts for dues from the secre' . , taxies . of several other societies of , , which . he was a membpl' i "AII.rthing else ! " , ' , . "Nothing but this postal card . . . notification that lay taxes are " due. " " j The clerk pounced upon this , ex- " i.I(1 ! I amined it on both sides , made a i memol'alldnm on H sheet of paper - per ' , questioned him ns to iii I is house address , business addl'ps s and occupation , eyed him snspi- ( 'jousland , then grudgingly handed - . .d over the miioney- : ; : 4.65. "Are you sure even now ! " asked the man. " 'I might hare knocked 1 - OIlH' fellow down and taken all 1 t hpsl away from him , you know' : J The clerk made a grab at him , ' ' , hut it was too late. I The , man had the mone ' . i , . , ONE BOY A YEAR THERE. _ Situation Given as Cause for Fact . . That Most Children Born r Are Girls. - - , The startling fact has just bee n . , brought out that of all the birth s . that hare occurred a I Carson Cit % " , the capital of Nevada ( In rung thp lest "pm' , only one boy has been hOl'n. The total ' 11lJmh..I' 01 hll'tl1J according : to 'sta t h5tirs , was 57 ; 5 ' ; ; , > of thl'fW young ' Nevadans 'are - . girls. Physicians state that it i s not unusual for the ratio ' to be um m . even , amid in favor of the girls , bu t they cannot recall where the pe t' . centage bas been 80 great. They ; . offer no explanation for th s strange condition. "It just happened that way , J ' guess , " said one of the Carson do a. ' tors. 'We noticed the shortage in I the number of births so far as boys were concerned , but , really ] , until a few days ago , gave the mater t . IeI' but little thonght. It was t , l . . - - . , _ . . - - _ brought to m.\ attention by Con. tI'oller Sam Davis I have since tried to solve the ' mystery , but without result. " Environment is given as n solu tion bJ one resident of Carson. The city , naturally isolates is i beantifullJ' l situated in a valley ; trees and shrubbery and pretty homes bound. Except during the session of the legislature , there iR seldom a11J'thing out of the or Binary going on. These quiet con ditions , it is argues , naturally no- suIt in u feminine temperament , the preponderun : of girls in the birth records resulting. . View. . Gaston's Point of View. " % e American , ah mon Dieu , he mss u very funny man. He know nothing but ze del 1\1' . He have no love of beauty OJ' art. He do not comjlrenz" " 'Vha t's on your mind , Gaston ? " "TodaJ' I see a beautiful lady , Ievair , dis- ingne t , magnifeeeent. She is with a man , un American I go to him. J say : Pardon , monsieur , what is ze IndJ"s name' ! ' The gentleman he say : 'Thu t's mJ' business ! ' Bah ! Ueesness , beesness , all de time. He was a rude manCincinnati Commercial Tribune. A Periodical Pupil. "I understand she learned to' skate last win tel' . " "Yes. She learns every winter. " -N. Y. Times. BEAUTY OF BAYEUX WORK. - - - Few Except These Who Visit the Shops Have Studied Wonders in Needlework. Few besides those who have vis fled BaYeux 01' have especially studied the subject have any idea of what this extraordinary work of act is really like 01' have any authentic knowledge of its his. to\ ) . " . If tells the story of Edward , Hu'old : and 'Villiam , and of the conquest of 'Villiam , in a series of pictures , so that its value is great IIH a chronicle as well as a relic of f 'pdlpwol'k 800 ; years old. The vicissitudes of the treasure hove been llIanJ' It is a curious fact that from 147(1 ( until 1724 it 5001115 to have hopped entirely ' out of the world's knowledge. It was preserved with care among the treasures of the BaJ'eux cathe drab and was brought out for eight days every summer and hung about the nave of the cathe dral. No one but the peasants ever saw it and the cathedral authorities - thorities cured for it only as a der oration. In 1724 an old drawing of part of the tapestry came into the hands of a learned antiquarian - nn , who tried without success to find the originn The Pere Mont fHtJ'on ( also tried to find it and at last ) : ' succeeded ( und told the world about t it in his great book , "Moms JJ1 < 'nts dp la Monarchic Fran raise ! . " The church hud no power to pro tact such a treasure in 1724 , and the ancient length of linen with its quaint embroidery waR dragged out of the cathedral and used to cover one of the militarJ' wagons belonging to the local bat talion. M. Ie Forestier rushed to its rescue und substituted a a can vas to cover the wagon and . . . . - . . . . - - . - - " . - - , . . . - . . . . , brought the tapestry to his i study till Iw was relieved from the self- ttppoinled t mission bJ' a commis- s ion who undertook the protec ti..JII of the t work of art. Now the tnpl'Htl'hUf1 been restored and msy ( lit' ) PPI1 framed under glass In Q museum of its own. THE MEANING OF JAPAN. Rise of New Oriental Power Is Likely to Mark an Epoch in World' History. Europe scul'eelJ' even yet recog vices how prodigious an influence this rise of a new power on the edge of Asia , in the ocean which must , decade by decode , increase in importance fill t its freedom will preoccupy all mnritime powers us the freedom of the t Atlantic does now , will exercise on her policy , her ambitions , and her commerce : . Throw aside all apprehensions about the " 'pllow peril , " lefty China out of the calculations ait sunk in irredeemable dotage , as some Japan to Rtand ulonp , und still Europe has to reckon with a i power whi'h ten years hence will have twice 'fogo's fleet , and which has proved that wherever she can land an army , un army of doubh1 its strength must be called out to render defeat of the defenders im pl'obabJe. Of the ideas , aspics tions and ultimate plans of that power nothing , it may be said i iR known ; but of her capacities find her strength we now at least Ialow something. 'Ve know that Sill" can keep a secret for years j hat her people will fight to the Beat h he at the word of command ; that she has the European belief in sr 1 ' . dice , and that she counts among her statesmen and soldiers men of the intellectual capacitY to con trot and guide huge masses of trained men to any end she has de cided on. No king thinks that he can conquer , Japan ; no stalesman imagines that he can set aside her vote in the Pacific 01' the Ind ian ocean us n negligible quantity She may not govern China , but all i the t long.devised European plans 1'01' gaining dominant inflllt'JlI' " i n ( 'lrina i 01' in . the archipelago lIIust , , vithont t her IWI'mission , be abu. IIJ IJl'd , HE HAD DECIDED TO WRITE Telephone Not the Right Thing to Communicate Antagonistic Opinions Through. He was a broad.backed man with an iron jaw , says the Topka : State Journal , and there was a look of business about him as he I entered the stlbtelephone stati'on and said to the druggist : "I would like to telephone to Jim \Vlmlen over at Brighton' ' "Well , there is the telephone over there , " was the repl ' . "But I'm not used to therm Would you mind talking for tae ; ! " Business being slack just then , the druggist called up BrightQn and Jim "Thalen and then asked his caller what he should say : "Tell him be's u liar , a thief , amid scoundrel and u dead beat , and the first time I see him I'll knock his head off. " "But you see the telephone company forbids the ise of any . - , _ . , - - . . ; J ! I , " such lung uge. You will have to , 'i moderate It. " ' ti 1 ; 1 \Vbat' that ? " , : \ : \Vby , you will have to tone it . t' ' down. You might Hay to Mr. i 'Vhalen that he is tL prevarica- , , : ; , prevaricator. . ; , : "That means a liar , J believe , , but , Jim wouldn't understand it . " " He might think I wn praising , ' him. Can't I cull him an unhunlo ; villain and the scum of the earth ? " y 'l'hut would come : tinder the ( w head of violent lunguuge. You might say to him that the first r time you meet him you will give him your opinion of his chnrac ter. " "That won't do. Jim's a plain man and has got to be talked to in plain lungunge. He has lied tome und I've got to call him a liar. He has cheated me and I've got to call him a swindler. " "That won't do. 'Ve must find some other way. You Sf e- " "And I CEln 't call him names over the wire ? " "N o ! " "And he's not to ] snow what I think of him ? " "You might write him " "ThundernUon" , but why didn't I think of that before ! Of course that's the wily to do. I've got nothing on hand tomorrow , and Ill buy a lot of writing paper and a lend pencil and spend half a day calling him a villain and u liar. I was told the telephone was Ii great thing , but when I come to look into it I find that if you want to do business with n man in Ii business way there's no invention like writing ofT 10 or 15 sheets of paper and senaing'emll by mail : ' . TOLD OF ABSINTHE DRUC. Is Described as the "Fairy with the Green Eyes"-Is a Nerve Stimulant. 'The "fair ) ' with the , green eyes" iN the poetical ) way in which ab : sinthe has been d(1H'I'ibed. "It is rather a drug than a drink , " said a llH'dicul titan who has studied ih s effects c on the body. BAs a medic ( Jw it has some valuable - able qualities ; us a beverage , its efl'ects are silllpl deadly. Not a day passes in Paris on which some inveterate absinthe drinker does not drop dead either from apoplexy - plexy or heart failure. Fortunately . ately , it has not obtained . much hold in Englund. The liqueur is supposed to act as u nerve tonic and brain sUum- lust , und so it does when taken medicinally. When thus resorted to it gives tone to persons of a highly nervous temperament , andlilso has the effect of relieving bronchitis by promoting a healthy perspiration. But it should never be taken , except under medical ad- vice. As a beverage , avoid it as you would poison. Much of the cheap absinthe sold is adulterate ed with copper , to give it the characteristic ncteristic green hue. " Infant Mortality in Germany. More than 34 per cent of the deaths in the German empire in 1903 were of infants under one year of age. - - . . - . - - - - - . . . . . . . . . ; . r : . ; '
