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THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE. FRIDAY. JANUARY 19 , i9)6. ( ) .J The Falls City Roller Mills Docs a general milling business , and manufactures the following brands of flour o SUNFLOWER MAGNOLIA CROWN The above brands are gunrantccd to be of the highest pos sible quality. We also manufacture all mill products and \ conduct a general Grain , Live Stock and Coal Business o and solicit a share of your patronage | P. S. Heacock & Son , Falls City , Neb. THE JUST THE THING You need it. It is the easiect running- machine oil the market and we can save you money. Don't fail to see them. We have just received a car of MOON BROS. BUGSIES We are crowded for room and for the next sixty days , make you a very close price on buggies and surries. We also carry a big stock of Keys Bros , buggies and surries. We have the biggest and best lines to select from. Don't fail to see them and get our prices. We also carry a big line of pumps , tanks , windmills and gas engines in stock and can save you money in this line. Remember we are agents for the W. C. Shinn Pure Soft Copper Cable Lightning Rod , the only rod you can get ; cheaper insurance on. Give us a trial. Yours Truly , WERNER , MOSIMAN & Co. < ' C. H. HARJON I AUCTIONEER , I Sales conducted in scientific and busi nesslike manner C. H. MARION I I Falls City , Nebraska I SHIELDS' CAFE GEO. SHIELDS , Proprietor Open Night and Day. Oysters a Specialty Everything Hot One block cast of Cleveland's Store A. E. Wolfe D. O. Osteopathic Physician Oilice over Lyford's store. Residence ut National Hotel Oflico Phone ? 67 KesUlence I'liuiie 156 FALLS CITY NEBRASKA 0O § New Candy Store jj I Offers Home Made o Candy fresh each day. 3 S The best , purest and 8 freshest for WholeS - S sale and Retail trade , § a One door north of Hargraue & Margrave a The Falls City \ Candy Kitchen | , c i oocn no u r / < i nnnrsi n n n n nn f Missouri Pacific Railway Time TabJe , Falls City , Neb. NORTH No. 105 Omaha and Lincoln Express A 1:57 a in No. 103 Omaha and Lincoln passenger A 1:30 p in No. 1'Jl Local Freight , Au burn A 1:00 : p in SOUTH No. 106 Kansas City and St. Louis and Denver A 3:10 : a in No. 108 Kansas City and St. Louis and Denver A 1:30 : p in No. 192 Local , Atchison. . 10 : loa in No. 164 Stock Freight , Hi awatha A 10:20 p m A. Daily. B. Daily except Sunday. J. JJ. VAKNISK , Agent. DR. O. H. KENT Graduate American School of Osteopathy , Kirksvllle , Mo. Examination ami Consultation Free Hours : 9 to 12 .1 m ; 1 toI p in Ollleeut residence. Stone Mrer't , t- block north of rmirt hniit-c. PALLS CITY - - NUHHAS For Sale. Twenty pigs at Heck's feed : store. ANNOUNCEMENT . . . . < y > M WMM I in. > M MM > ' ; < ? Having M'enri'd tin * e.xclu- < sive agency in Falls City for % f Sycamore Springs Mineral $ 7yVnter , wo an1 prepared 10 % * furnish customer \villi the f' the sumo. PrifO < iO cents per 4 > $ five Ballon cnfik. Cull phone j > 18fl or phone ail. % C. r. REAVISJr. Ree d The Trib\ine A Little Journey To Kansas Towns The circuit rider was in new territory to him last week. lie made : i business trip to some Kansas towns. Some of the towns are good , .some bad and some neither. Kansas City , Kan sas , is bad , wholly , rejoicingly bad. On the trolly trip from Kansas City , Mo. , to Kansas Git } * , Kansas , yon notiiie in Missouri that occasionally there is a saloon when you cross the line into Kan sas ( prohibition Kansas ) you no tice that occasionly there is not a saloon. Kansas City , Kansas has a mayor that the Governor of the state is trying to get rid of. His name is Rose , but under anyoth- er name his administration would smell as loud. He is the fellow that said " Dam the law. God couldn't enforce the liquor law in Kansas and Jesus Christ wouldn't try it. " In his disregard for the law he discloses some of the at tributes of a standard oil magnate , in his personal life he is said to have the instincts of the street. His chief of police is also named Rose. He is a regularly ordain ed preacher but hasn't been work ing at his trade for some time. The city is in debt three quarters of a million , all incurred during the joint system. The mayor says "we can never pay this debt without the joints ; " the people say. "we can't go in debt much faster without them than we have with them. " And there you are. Kansas City's ( Kansas ) ich men are all druggist. We ilso noticed that the beautiful homes in Ilorton are owned by uen in the drug business. Ftin- 13' , isn't it. . * * * Atchison is a quaint old town. To read the Globe one would think Atchison is as peaceful as that harbor where the wicked cease from troubling and theu weary are at rest. But don't be lieve it- I saw more drinking in Atchison in one day than I saw in Kansas City , Mo. , in three. There were more small bottlesl carried up stairs by the By ram hotel bell boys one afternoon , than there was in the Baltimore hotel in Kansas City in two days. The principal amusement in Atchison is bucking the slot machine and playing pitch for the drinks. There is nothing do ing in Atchison except the Blair mills , John Seaton's foundry ; the committee of forty and the Atchi son Globe. In Atchison they tear the Globe into as many pieces as there are members ol the family and then exchange the pieces. ISd Howe is the Atchison Globe. He has built a little house adjoining his home where he does his work. There are no windows in this little house and the doors are double. He wants to be alien to noise anc people while he works. We fail ed to discover * the necessity for such precaution while in Atchi son. One could work in compari- tive silence and seclusion at the busiest corner of Commercial street. Howe is now on a tnj around the world and is writing his experiences for his paper lie is homesick , the articles show that. The readers of the Globe will be glad when he returns for most of Atchison is gone wher Howe is away , * * Speaking of Howe's trip , he writes from Hong Kong some thing that will appeal to most men who have traveled ; it is tha the expectation of wonderfu things is never quite satisfied In the experiences of a journey The writer has seen much of hi own country , a little of Canad : and of Mexico. I have seen bu one thing that was as great as my expectation. I have been ii every state and territory in the United States save three , and have been almost uiiiversall dissapointed. When I first sa\ the mountains , they were not a high , as majestic , as silent as had expected. I know them belt er now and am on better term with them , but my first impres sion was one of distrinct dissap- pointment. T h c great , evil , cruel city was a failure. It was noise ; md hurry , but it had no personality. There was an undefined . fined something which 1 had ex acted and was absent The de- crl of the Muhave was awful in ts glaring , despairing whiteness , ts blowing sand ami-its barreness , but it still was not satisliying , lot quite what I expected. The 'Ceun. ' the greatwaste of water , s the only thing of which I had leard and read that I seemed to ' enow intimately when first I saw t. To take a book in the early lorning and go to the shore and ie all day in the sand with the iook forgotten , with nothing to o but watch the sails far out at ea , to hear the waves hiss , like he night breex.c in the trees , as hey finished lltuir world wide jour- ey and stopped on the sand just hort of where you were lying , to ce the fogs gather and come in , o see the fishermen sail boule vard at twilight and collect their atch from the nets ; to hear the vorld old personal story by list- ning in contemplative mood to vhat the wild waves were saying , oiling each man a different story > y telling each man a story all lis own. The ocean , the sound- ngsea , is the only real and satis- iying part of nature that I have ver seen. Howe in speaking of this sense of something mKscd says : "Wheit I was a boy I hated to jo to bed at night for fear some thing wonderful would go on , ind I would miss it. I have been ooking for wonderful things all ny life , without finding them ; I lave come to believe there are no wonderful things. I say with all seriousness that I would rather be it home at work than on a trip iroutul the world. I sec many unusual things but I have always - ways had my best times in Atchi- son. I never see a strange thing that it does not seem familiar ; I lave seen a piciture of it , or read ibotit it There are a few things lowevcr , that cannot be describ ed , or pictured , one is the Grand Canyon and another is the walled city of Shanghai. " * * John StarUel and family live n Atchison and are doing well , iitit John says he would like to return to Falls City if there was any thing to do. He is employed in the oat meal mill and likes j liis work , but Atchison is not Falls City and he would rather make his home here. Tom Mc- Lain is employd in one of Atchi- son's chief industries and seems well satisfied , while Billy Kenter and Ale arc conducting one of the finest saloons there and to all ap pearances are prosperous. Each of these gentlemen spoke affect ionately of his old home and said he would rather live here than in any other town on earth , but circumstances have compelled them to seek other fields of en(1 ( deavor and Atchison seems the favored localit } ' . ( It is almost worth while to spend a week in Kansas City , Kansas 1 , Atchison , Ilorton and 1I Hiawatha , just to get back to ' Falls 1 City again. The peace of t home 1 after a week of wandering comes as near being the wonderful , ful thiny , the capture of "the little blue flower , " as one can hope for. The voices of children saying their prayers , the hall hour after they have been tucked in bed that belongs to them and mother and in which no mere men may share , when the day is gone over and they are praised for the good done and reminded wherein they have done ill. The good nights said , the light turn ed low , the hour with cigar and book at home , the peace of it all taht passeth understandingwith out which this nation would not t long endure but with which it is destined to go onward tpwards its destiny as God's youngest and best government , the hope of the oppressed of all people , the in spiration of mankind. What WeAreUpARalnst. As heretofore annonned in Wallace's Farmer , .Judge Uethca of the federal court , decided against the claims of the Chica go Stock Yards Company and set aside the decision of the in terstate commerce commission to the effect that' the railroads running between Missouri river poinls and Chicago should not charge more for live stock for dressed beef and packing house products. Senator Foraker , of 'Ohio , though this victor } ' was socomplele thai he soi-ured Ihe insertion of the decision in full in the Congressional Uecord , in order thai il might have wide distribution. From the finding of fact niadw by .Judge lielhea , as published in the Congressionol Record , we quote the following ! "Thai Ihe rales for carrying packer's products and dressed beef were remunerative. They did not pay any portion of the fixed charges and interest of the railroad companies , nor its full share of the operating expenses bui they did pay more than the cost of movement' leave something to apply upon operat ing expenses. " This finding of fact is what Wallaces Farmer has repeatedly charged , namely , that the rail roads do business for Ibis and oilier trusts at practically the cost of moving the stuff and rely for interest and dividends upon the higher rates received for hauling the products ol the farm. On this point of profit Mr. Ripley , of the Sanlu Fe , lesli- lied that the rates between Kan sas City and Chicago had been forced so low thai every car load hauled represented a loss to the railroads , and gave Ihe following figures : "Dressed .Meal : Aclual cost per car $82.19 ; revenue , $12.19 ; deficit per car , $10. Packing House Products : Cost per car , $85.0 ! ) ; revenue , $50 , deficit. $290. ) . " In this he evidently figures in all the items of cost. Another finding of .Judge Bcthea is as follows : "That the ruic-t in question given lo Ihe packers at Missouri Sg souri river points and St. Paul were the result of competition. vT The product ol the packers al lliese poinls was large in quan tity , was certain and continuous in amount was in Ihe hands of a few people , and for years be fore the federal injunction of March , 1902 , had been competed for so strenuously by the rail roads reaching and passing through these points as to can-e the culling ol rales and Ihe ! giving of secrel rebates in large amounts. " As to the nature of thin com petition we quote the lollowing from the testimony of .Mr. A. H. Sticknay. "In fixing the rate on dressed meal we don't have very much to say. The packer generally makes the rate. He comes to you and always m.ilce * you feel that he is } rour friend. Then he asks what you charge for a cer tain shipment of dressed meats. ' The published tarin" may be [ twenty-three ceii'S ' a hundre I but he will not pay that. Yo i say to him : I'll carry your I meat for eighteen cents. lie i says. . 'Oh , no you wont. I wont , pay tuat. " Than yousay , "Well what will you pay for it ? " He then replies , "I can get it haul ed for sixteen cents. " "So you haul it for sixteen cents a hun dred. " Along this line we also quote the following from the testimony of .Mr. E. P. liipley , president ol the Santa Fe railroad : "The packing house business today is concentrated in so few hands thai petition between the' railroads , practically makes it possible for the latter to dictale rales for dressed beef and packing - ing house products. " Our readers will have no dilii- cully in concluding that the , beef trusl and not the railroads dictale what the rates on their products shall be , and they make V just low enough to barely c&ver the cost of movement and a little more , so lhal il can be said on oath lhal the business is in some sens-e remunerative. It follows therefore from Judge Bcthea's decision that whenever a trust can furnish a large amount of material uniform in character ; , and furnish it every week in Ihe year il is entitled to have its business done at the bare cost of movement , and com pel other shippers who are so scattered thai Ihey cannot con- cenlrale their shipments to carry Ihe bulk of Iho expenses of transportation. The same ruling will apply to thesleel trust , the sugar trusl , Ihe whisky trust , or any other trusl or combination. It is vain for Colonel Hepburn or anyone else lo tell the stock breeders thai Ihey must form a trusl and play the same game thai the trusts do in order lo gel relief. Jf this is all the solution they can give us. we may as well ' look elsewhere at once. The only remedy possible at present is Ihe enactment of a rate law that will put it in the power of the commissioners to compel the railroads to charge as much for hauling the prod ucts of the trust as they do for hauling Ihe products of the pri vate individual. If this is nol done , Ihere is no power on earth thai can prevent the pco. pie of Ihe United Stales from de manding Ihe government owner ship of railroads. Other trusls may be attacked by depriving1 them of Ihe proleclion which they may have though tariffs or through patents , or through the exclusive ownership of articles of public necessity such as coal and lumber. In one way or an other these problems must be solved , or else the wealth of the country will pass into the hands of a few and democratic or re publican government ( terms meaning the same when used in abroad sense ) will perish from Ihe earth. Wallace's Farmer. Postoffice Notes. Lobby open from (5 ( a. in. to 9HOp. : m. General delivery window open ( week days ) from 8 a. in , to 7 p. in , winter months. The remainder - mainder of the year from 8 a.m. to 7ilO : p. m. Delivery window open Sun. days fr.mi 9 a. in. lo 10 a. in. Money order and registry dc- parlmenls open from 8. a. m. lo 0. p. m. Call for pamphlet on postal information , it will be given you free of cost. Speak your name plainly when calling for mail , do not say MIS , WK or ouu FAMILY. Two cent postage stamp book for sale , 12 stamps for 25 cents ; 24 stamps for -19 eents ; 18 stamps for 97 cents. Come in through south door , 540 out through north door ; that is , keep to the right. UNCLAIMED I.KTTKKS Unclaimed letters remaining in the postoflice at Falls City , Neb. , for the period ending Dec. 25 , l'J05 j : Parties calling for the above letters should say "advertised. " G. J. CKOOK , P. M. Chamberlain's Coujjh Remedy Abso lutely ll&rinless. The fault of jjlviiis ; ehlldren medl- ciiit ! coiituinlnt , ' Injurious BuhMitnees , Is sometime * more dlcusirou ? thiin the iMneutie from which they tire gulTerln < ; . ICvery mother should know that Chum berluln's Couifh Kcmedy Is perfect ! } bufe for children to take. It contains nothlni. harmful anil for coughs , colds u ml croup Is uuMirpa-soc. for fralu at Kerr's Iru < ? Storo. Stop It. A neglected cough or eold may lend to borlous bronchial or luusr troubles. Don't taku clmnct'S when I'oloy's Honey and Tar ullords perfect security from ptM'lou * olTects of a cold. For sale ut Moore's Pharmacy , Fatal kidney and bladder troubles cun always bo prevented by the use of Foley's Kidney Cure. For sale ut Mooro' I'barniHcv.