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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1905)
THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE. FRIDAY. JULY 28. 1905. REARING CHILDCORRECTLY _ Solution of the Problem by Thought- , ftil Brooklyn Mother Told in 1 Her Own Words. The young mother of a certain very lively three-year-old Brook lyn boy recently said : "I think it sometimes pays to let children yell and stamp and say ugly things to their hearts' con tent. There seems to be about so much wickedness in them , and if you let them blow it off all at once preferably in the morning they sort of get it out of their sys tems and are all the better for it. A few mornings ago my small boy awoke in the ugliest mood I have Been him in for many a day. I could do nothing with him , he was so touchy and so belligerent. "When I undertook to correct him for some flagrant misdemeanor meaner he would set his feet de fiantly and call me a 'dirty old thing' a phrase which he had picked up from some playmate , I presume , and which I had fried hard to make him quit using. On this particuar morning I had so many things to do that 1 could not stop to fight it out with him , so 1 shut him in a closet , telling him J would not let him out until ho promised to be good. "For at least ten minutes he stood in there , stamping viciously on the floor , pounding the door with all his might and yelling 'dirty old thing' at the top of his voice and as fast as he could ninki his tongue go. He must have re peated that phrase 500 times. Then suddenly ho stopped , and in the next instant called out in a cheery tone : " 'There , mother , I fool beltoi now. I fee I just like being good. ' "I let him out and he ran ( o me. all smiles , and , putting his little arms round my neck , said : wanted to bo naughty then and , ' could help it , but now I want to b good. ' "I don't believe that it was the punishment that worked this change in him. I think it wassim ply that he felt overcharged will wickedness and worked it off al' ' at once in yelling and pounding just as men sometimes work oil their ill nature by means of violent lent swearing. At any rate. m.\ boy was as sweet tempered am cheerfully obedient all that da\ at ? any little fellow could possibl ; be. I believe that if I had made him stop yelling and pounding , a * I had always done before undo similar conditions , he would have been incorrigible mos ( of ( ho day as that morning I confidently ex peeled him to bo. " SEAWEED REALLY VALUABLE Thanks to Writer Who Experimented a Use Is Found for Hitherto Useless Article. At last we seem to have foum an excellent use for seaweed , thanks to an experienced and en terprising writer in Outing. She owned a summer cottage by the * sea , which , like the Biblical man sion , was built upon sand. Before long the doors began ( o sag and the whole structure to lose its bal since , on account of the shift ing of its foundation. It was then that necessity , the molher of in vention , came ( o ( he rescue , and the seaweed that was continually drifting in with the tide was im pressed into service. This was scattered around the house , a few loads of soil sprinkled over it , and in a few years what before was nothing but barren sandhills became - came a carpet of vivid green , the envy of the neighboring dwellers. Also vegetables , flowers and even hedges made their appearance in time , and the great transforma tion was complete. No doubt many people who are situated in the same position will welcome this innovation as a godsend. Compliment Worse Than Wasted. Political Candidate ( to editor , . whom he is anxious to please ) 1 say , my friend , I've noticed a won dnrful improvement in your pa per during the past four weeks. Editor Indeed ! I've just got back from a month's holiday , and 1 I'm glad to know it. Stray Btories. Easy to Shut Up. Miss Bleecher Are you goinj to the baseball game to-morrow Mr. Fann ? Fann Well er yes , J thought of going. "Alone , Mr. Fann ? " "Oh , no , I shall take an umbrel la. " N. Y. Times. SALVATION IN ADVERTISING Brightly-Colored Insects Arc a Dan * per Signal to Their Known I Enemies. Every meadow on a summer day swarms with a winged host blatantly heralding its existt > ence by colors that must seem cori , dial invitations to its enemies. Why is it that they are not attacked - ' tacked ? asks Waldomar B. ( ' Kaempirert , in Booklovers Magc ' azine. For a long time that'f ' ' question puzzled Darwin. After ' much futile speculation it was finally ascertained that many of these gayly tinted denizens of the air are horribly distasteful to in sect-eating epicureans and frequently - quently endowed with the most nauseous qualities. They find their salvation by advertising themselves boldly and flamboy antly. Their colors are danger signals not to be disregarded. The light yellow body of the cater pillar that develops into the magpie moth is gaudily spotted with orange and black. A lit t Jo experimental tasting has taught every bird , lizard and frog to avoid the creature that wear ; ! these eolois. The caterpillar thai strips the folifgo of our os : and elms toward ( lie close of a'.nmev IK likewise a squirming ' y'.Sndoi of black , yellow and ora.je. : In sect eaters reject if often wii' signs of intense disput. A : . ' thus rod and black ladybirds , yr' low striped hoinols. wapi1 * and boos , black and red b ( lies , an-j . host of insects pre-\ : li-en- selves by bra/only p.cu ; . , hiring ( heir offensive tastes or odors 01 dangerous stiny to all the animal world. Other insects that would pr/m delicious morsels to greedy foes have not been slow to profit by the immunity thai is granted by a warning garb. They have ac tually mimicked obnoxious species cies protected by garish lines in order to escape death themselves and this with such amazing accu racy that not only is the enemy but even the collector completely tricked. In the jungles of HIP Amazon sjK'oies of butterflies are found that mimic the species Ik-li conidae. Entoinologioally they are all as distinct as horses and cows , and yet the one species is a phot ographieallyi'xaol counterfeit of the other. The Holironid.'u possc-ss an atrocious odor ant taste , and accordingly arc as brilliantly conspicuous as oxoyr daisies in a green field. So free are they from attack that they flaj lazily along , utterly indifferent te danger and perfectly secure ii their sickening attributes. The mimickers so cleverly copy the markings , form of wing am heavy flight of the neliconidae that spiders drop them from their webs and small monkeys rejcc thorn despite their palatability. FALL OF MANNA IN PERSIA Substance Drops from Skies and Believed to Resemble His torical Bread. A substance was recently pre sented to ( he French academy of sciences , which had been forw.urd- eel to the government , as having fallen from ( he sky in Persia at the commencement of thisyoar. This species of celestial manna was found in such great quanti ties that the earth for a consider able distance was entirely covered with it. In some places it was five er six inches in depth. The cattle , and particularly the sheep , eager ly fed upon this singular produc tion , which was also converted into bread for the support of the inhabitants. Such was the information which a Russian general , who had witnessed tn nessed the phenomenon , com municated to the French consul lit Persia. Upon examination this substance was found to be a sort itV of lichen , already described by botanists. These mosses , which appear toe l > o found in very great abundance must have been carried by the wind to the places where their sudden appearance was remarked _ A similar phenomenon was ne > ticed in the same regions of Persia in the year 1824. Athenaeum 1829. Constant Reminder. ' Oldchum Your wife reminds me of a girl I once knew in Boston Prettyman That's nothing she is continually reminding nn % of every girl I ever knew any where ! Ltte. FARM LIFE FOR ITALIANS. Bnron PJanches Advises His Country- inon to Leave Cities nud Take Up Plow. Baron Edmondo Mayer Des Planches , ambassador from Italy to the United States , who is making - ing i a tour of the southern states , stopped in St. Louis a few days ago i , and in the course of an adI 'dress advised the Italians who c to this country to take up farming. "The Italian immigrant , fresh from the shores of Italy , gets into New York first , because nearly all the ship's enter at that port , " said Baron des Planches. "lie is unod united , usually , and has but little money after he has paid his passage. Ho begins work imme diately , and takes up anything his hands find to do. Sometimes ho gets to blacking boots or push ing a banana cart. The pay is small and ho has little opportu nity of improving his mind. His children are brought up in the streets , and they follow in their father's footsteps. Occasionally an Italian will have enough money to get ( o some other city. "What I desire is to induce these Kalians in the cities to go to the country. There laborers are wanted , especially in the south. There is a great oppor tunity for Italians in truck-farm ing , fruit raising and general ag riculture in the south. Land is cheap and may be obtained and paid for in a few years. The im migrant who goes to the country finds a chance ( o send his children to school. He learns the customs of the people of the United Slates quicker , and ( hereby becomes a better citizen. "It has been said that I am seek ing to promote immigration. This is not so. My desire is to have my fellow countrymen who seek the United States make better citi zens for the United States. 1 want them to have respect for the laws and in other ways so conduct themselves that ( hey may reap the great advantages offered in this country. I advise all Italians coming here to become Americans as soon as possible and to do as the Americans do. In this way 1 feel that they will not bo looked down upon. Some day , when I am dead , some of them may think of the time that des Planches sent them to the country , and they may give him thanks , That is all th' credit I expect to got out of it. " DODGING REAL QUESTION. She Did Not Question Lady's Reputa tion , It Was the Jelly That Didn't Suit. A lady who intended to give a dinner to some friends at which the piece de resistance was ( o be duck she ( by her husband on the shores of eastern Maryland , de cided that none but the very best jelly should be served as an ac ceunpaninient to the dainty fare relates Collier's Weekly. So she proceeded to a gorgoout. Broadway establishment , a place * where one pays a quarter apiece for tomatoes and a dollar a stock for asparagus at certain seasons of the year. The jelly the clerk of fered her did not appear to bo jus I what she wanted , so she suggest ed another variety. "But , madam , " said the clerk , haughtily , "this is the very best jelly you can buy. It is made by Mrs. McGuggin , of Brooklyn. " And ho pointed to the label on the jar. "I've never heard of it , " meek ly suggested the lady. "Aro you sure it's all right ? Do you guar antee it ? " Soeingthathiscustomer was extremely - tromoly mild of manner and per haps to be easily rattled , the clerk smiled in a patronizing way. "Guarantee ! " repeated he , more * haughtily than ever , "madam , wo don't have to guarantee Mrs. Me- Guggin's jelly. Her name * is ' , enough. This lady , madam , has a reputation ! " " 0 , I have no doubt of that , I'm . , sure , " broke in the mild-mannered - lady , with a heightened color. , , "I'm not questioning the lady's , reputation ; it was the jelly , I as sure you ! " Strange. A man who worked for a firm en . gaged in the manufacture of bo ; gus antiques testified in his suit ted recover wages that he did "good , honest work. " Philadelphia Pub lie Ledger. MOTHER KNEW WHAT TO DO Old Lndy Tells Remedy for Wco MouI key's Ailment and Parent Ape Follows Directions. { "Mam-ma ! Mamma ! " is the ) most familiar cry at the New York Zoological park those days , says the Xow York World. There are , counting all noses , upward of 100 babies. These number the ducks , chickens , monkeys , woh es , buffalo and snakes. And the baby cry strangely loscmbles the human cry for "Mum-ma ! " in some of those nurseries. An old lady with the air of a martyr walked through the park with her daugh ter , who was evidently a college girl , for she wore "specs" and tr.lkod in a superior way about Darwin and Huxley. They entered the monkey house and ( hero came across the babel of simian talk the clear , squeaky cry of ( ho baby green monkey , born a week ago. "Hello ! * ' said ( ho old lady. ' 'Whoso baby is that crying ? It is a shame fo bring a baby into this place. " And she moved along the cages ( ill she was in front of the cage of ( he green monkey. This simian seldom breeds in captivity and ( his green monkey is a curiosity. The baby awoke fooling ill. H clung close to its mother's ' arms and sobbed , while its little stomach ach was convulsed with spasms , which the kind old lady outside ( ho cage undoistood at once. "The poor little thing ! It has the stomach ache ! " she said. "I should rub its stomach if it was mine , now ! " And just ( hon , ( o her utter as tonishment , ( he wise-looking old mamma green monkey took the baby on her knee and began gently to massage its stomach , now and then patting the little one on the back and ( hen ( rotting it up and down. The old lady looked on in consternation. "Daughter ! " she exclaimed. "That's the humanest baby I ever saw and its mother is the human- est animal that over was. " BEES SAVED THEIR CLOVER Facts Which Go to Prove That Scien tific Farming Is Truly a Success. A clerk in ( he department of agriculture says : "So yon think that soiontiflf farming is a bluff ? You demand some illustrations of the good that is accomplished by the scientific tific method ? Very well. "When clover was first intro duced into Australia it grew there beautifully , but it never seeded. The soil was all right The climate was all right. AVliat then , was the ( rouble ? "A scientist studied the matter tor and this is what he found : "He found thai the native Aus tralian bees had tongues too shot- to reach the clover's pollen-form ing organs. Those organs , in rec clover , are hidden deeply in th heart of the iubelike petals and they can only bo fertilized by Hi long-tongued bumble bee. If ret clover is not visited by bumble bees , who bear the golden pollen grains from one blossom to an other , it never seeds it cannot be grown. The scientist , aware of the fact , soon put his finger on the barren Australia clover's ( rouble. He imported a lot of long-tongued bumble bees , these boos nour ished , and immediately Australi an clover , which had promised to bo a failure , became one of the ' country's richest and finest crops. " Clothed the Portrait. A half-length portrait of ( ho i German empress occupied a prom inent place in a Catholic boys' . school in the Krmoland district of eastern Prussia. Recently the chaplain happened to look closely at the picture and was horrified to find that her majesty was decol lete. A local house painter pro- I vided a chaste covering of lace for her majesty's neck , whereupon the picture was permitted to be reining in the schoolroom. This incident is now forming the sub ject of an investigation by the Ger man minister of education , who considers it a gross insult ( o tht : empress to assume * that any pic ture of her could be improper. - Helping to Locate It. - Benham I wonder where I lefi my umbrella. , Mrs. Benham Here's a direo - lory , dear , with a list of saloon ; in it. Judge. SUBMARINE MINE A DANGER Hidden Machines Have Caused Mora Damage Than Torpedo Boats J and Torpedoes , j A remarkable fact , which also appears with regard to the torpod do , is the infrequent hits made when attacking ships at anchor , says thi ! Navy League .Journal. , ; In the first attack made by tho'l ' Japanese Hoot from Port Arthur ! the Japanese destroyers slowed down and came within a short dis tance of the enemy , but , with everything in their favor , of tin- 2i < torpedoes discharged only three made hits. On Juno 2 and , when the entire Russian fleet way outside the harbor , in a long se ries of attacks by the Japanese torpedo boats not the slightest damage resulted. As to ships in motion the torpedo has boon proved ( o bo absolutely useless , no hits having been made during the war , although attempts were repeatedly had. It would , there fore , appear that the efficiency of this weapon of war had boon greatly exaggerated , for its fail ure cannot lie attributed to any want of skill or courage on the part of the Japanese , who din played at all times the greatest bravery and coolness. But if the torpedo has been a disappointment the fear of it and the ignorance concerning its ef ficiency produced a marked change in naval actions , for i ( forced the fighting between the large ships at extreme long ranges , anil proved that the ( i-inch guns , with which most battleships are large ly armed , wore almost useless , ( ho heavy guns ( he 12 , 10 and 8-inch only being effective. The greatest destructive agent employed by both antagonists , however , has been ( he submarine mine. By ( his moans alone one- seventh of ( ho battleship force on cither side has boon pu ( out of action , and its use constitutes one of the most serious perils of the future unless restrained by inter national agreement to territor ial waters. The mine has done what ( ho torpedoes failed to do , and ( he long list of casualties ( o is ( credit proves it to bo a most formidable engine of war. What has been clearly demon strated and can bo accepted for fillure guidance is ( hat torpedoes are not to be dreaded as formerly : that in an engagement betwoei battleships the large guns only are effective , and lhat submarine mines , while the most deadly of all modern instruments of war fare , are inhuman and barbarous and should bo restrained by ( hi laws of war. PAINT PORTRAITS OF EYE ! Novel Miniatures in Natural Colors Prized as Mementoes by Friends of the Absent Ones. The delicately painted pictur of the eye glowing with life is rap idly becoming a favorite mcmon ( < of the absent friend. The first sight e > f one of these eye portraits gives one an almos uncanny impression. From the monotoned wall then * look * down a liny , vivid human eye without a face. So perfectly executed is this eye that the flicker of laughter in | ( il is weird in its expressiveness. There are several eye portraits now on view at ( he galleries of ( ho Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colors in London , and ( hey are attracting a great deal of at lenlion. A well-known miniature portrait trait painter said the other day lhat many men were treasuring portraits of ( heir sweethearts' eyes , and in addition ladies in their turn were keeping ( ho eye-s of ( heir male * friends. They wore mostly put into lockets. "The eye , " she said , "is by far the most expressive feature of the face , and sometimes makes a per trait in itself. It is , of course- , the expression that tells. The eye gives its own story , laughing or ' serious. The shadows round it , ( he brows above , help , of course , but it's the light in the eye that is the great thing. "How det wo get on with people who have fishy eyes ? Well , they icdon't come to be painted. It's the people with nice eyes , and MI people whose eyes are the st part of their face. The price varies , running from five guineas As you may guess it is de.licat tory work but it is natisfnctor - , very ry when you have nice eyes to with. " CAN TRESPASS BY 'PHONE. Long-Dlstanco Breach of the Pcaco Determined by Kansas City Judge. The invention of new machinery , devices , processes , is continually bringing up new questions of law , puzzling ] i judges , lawyers and laymen - men , soliloquizes the Philadelphia Public Ix'dgor. The trolley brought its problems ; the sub marines , when they are used for commercial purposes , will undoubtedly pose the law makers ; the power of modern guns on men-of-war has made ob solete the old three-mile rule us to the limit of territorial waters ; and when the balloon shall be come a passenger vehicle what wisdom will frame the rules of thread road or the law of trespass ? Just now ( lie law relating to the telephone is of interest. What cons tit u ton a breach of peace by 'phone ? Judge Brady , of Kansas Cily , has just decided such a case which , by reason of its romantic connection , appeals to all. Wal ler Clark had proposed to a maid en and had boon rejected , lie re newed ( ho proposal over the tele phone ; called up the fair one sev eral limes , and was "turned down. " Ho was not dismayed , but "called" in the morning and in the afternoon and in the dewey eve , and sometimes a ( night. The doors may bo barred and a re jected suitor kept out , but how is the telephone lo be guarded ? Judge Brady took these questions under consideration , and ruled that after a girl had rejected a man she had the inalienable right "to have him stay rejected , " and that the use of Ihe telephone could and should be classed as a style of import unity amounting tea a breach of peace. The theory of the law in- these doeisouH is this : It would be a broach of the peace if ( he suitor should annoy iho young woman with his presence , and the fact thai the telephone was used does not modify the ad nor ( ho rospon- sibilhy of ( ho person performing the act. This seems to be good sense , and an indication ( Inn when ( ho people of the United Stales shall all have "universal wireless connection" a man iu Now York who calls an enemy in San Francisco a hard name by "wireless" will hold himself liable , though the cosls of prosecution would bo prohibitivo. HOW TO MAKE A BATTERY Stiff Piece of Paper and a Common Tea Tray Are All That Is Necessary. Cut a HfifV piece of paper into an oval or a circle of nearly the size of a common lea tray. Fasten to it two upright handles , one on each end , bolh made of paper and attach by moans of sealing wax , says the San Francisco Chron icle. .Now , take any common tin tea ( ray that you may ho able to bor row in Ihe house and lay il on Hie top of two glasses. Those will furnish the "insulation. " Warm the paper disk thorough ly on the steve ( ill if is as dry as it ' can possibly bo. Then lav' it on the ( able and brush i ( violently with a common ololhesbrush. If you spread a piece of silk or a rub ber shoo ! under il , so much the better , though il is not necessary. The friction lias made the paper electric. Lift it from the table , lay it on the tea tray and approach a corner of it with the knuckles of your finger or with a sharp metal point. A spark will leap out from it immediately. Now you have an electric bat tery in a most simple form. By rubbing the paper as often as it loses its electricity it is possible fc get enough sparks to load a Ley- den jar or any other form of small electric storage battery. A very simple Loyden jar can be made by filling a tumbler half full with shot and sticking an iron or silver spoon into it. By letting thp sparks from the tea tray leap con- tinally to the spoon the tumbler jar finally will accumulate so much electricity that it will be extremely - ly uncomfortable to get a shock from it. JUady to Side-Step. Miss Fudge I wish you could hear Prof. Pcdalle. His friends . think he is bound to be the pian ist of the future. Mr. Grudge Exactly. I wish I knew in which place. Oterelaod Leader.
