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THE FALLS CITk' TRIBUNE , FRIDAY , JUNE 19 , 1908. Thoughts For Old Timers. We have before us a copy of the Nebraska Register , printed at "Rulo City" , August 11 , 1871 , loaned us by Mrs. J. R. "VVilhite , from which we have copied the following items , which we think will be of interest to some of our old residents : ' "Sheriff Faulkner gave us a pleasant and agreeable call on Tuesday last. Judge Duncly , of Palls City , was in the city on Tuesday last. He was the guest of W. D. Scott. Some twenty car loads of wheat have been shipped from this point since harvest time. Thus lar only three cars lull have been shipped from Falls City , which are only straws , etc. United States Marshal J. T. llolle yesterday arrested Benja min May , a storekeeper in this town and escorted him to Omaha to answer to the charge of sell , ing whiskey to the Indians. Geo. P. Uhl , who went to Lin coln a few days since , to see to the injunction matter , returned on his way home today , after a futile trip , as Judge Mason had been bought up before Mr. Uhl arrived in Lincoln. We have a specimen o.f wheat in this office which is the largest that we have ever seen any- where. It was raised by Judge Wm. Vanlue , on his farm , some two and a half miles from this city. The average yield to the acre was forty-two bushels , which is probably more than any other field in the West. The Nemaha Valley "Journal" is trying to soft-soap Hon. P. B. Miller of Arago , by calling him the "next County treasurer" . Mr. Miller , though , knows as well as we do , that in case he should get the nomination for that office on the Republican ticket , Stretch would stick for Holt. Mr. Miller sees the point. There is a report in the city that Jacob Jennewein , the leader of the Arago brass band , who hired himself on the steamer "Fontmelle" , at Arago on Sunday - day last , on her down trip , was accidently drowned. There is some talk of foul play , the truth of which we cannot state. The father , mother , brother and sister-in-law of Mr. Louis Phillips , of this city , were all on the ferryboat which exploded in New York on the 12th ult. The father and mother were killed instantly , and the brother and his wife are now in a critical condition. The latter had two of their children aboard , a boy and girl , who were killed in stantly. Mr. Phillips will shortly - ly start for the east. The people here sympathize deeply with Mr. Phillips in his sad bereave ment. Next week sometime the voters in every precinct in the county will have the opportunity of signing a petition , praying the County Commissioners to call an election for the removal of the county seat from its present lo cation to that of Salem. A two. thirds of the signatures of the legal voters of the county is necessary for the success of the undertaking. Let every one sign it , so that the question will be settled to the satisfaction o ] all. It the people are deter , mined to keep the county seal at Falls City we ought to knov it in order that a respectable court house may be erected. Ii is a shame that the richest ani best county in Nebraska shoulc have the poorest public build ings. Let every body sign th < petition as it will certainly b < to their ad vantage to know wha the feeling is. Stretch thinks that Arago i : the strongest point if the count ] seat should be moved , and con eludes by saying the "German ! know it. " The Germans knov that their tavorite man , Aug J. Falsken , was removed fron office by a set of Falls Oit ; thieves , because he was a"Dutch man" as they said. The Journal nor any of the rest of the small potatoes in Palls City can make the Germans believe that they have any friends in that town. The Germans will vote to move the county seat to Salem , and no ilattery from dead-beat poli ticians will change their minds on that subject. The Defendants in the injunc tion matter , petitioned Judge Mason to dissolve the injunction which had been sustained by .the Probate Judge of our county. Lawyer Uhl , of Palls City , start ed for Lincoln on Monday last , but before he had arrived at Lincoln mother Mason had al ready dissolved'it. Mr. Uhlap. pealed the matter to the Su preme Court of the State , and if the thieves ain't got enough money to buy up the court , the probabilities are that they have to pay lor a building that the taxpayers did not want erected. With Mason in his present po sition we think it doubtful if the thieves will get their reward. Mrs. S , Joyce. Cliircmont , N. H. , writes. "About u year 1130 1 bought two bottles of Foloy's Kidney Remedy. It cured mo of n severe case of kidney trouble of several years -standing. It certainly is a grand , good medicine , and I heartily recommend It. " ICerr's pharmacy. Fall City is an island surround ed by water has been so for nearly three weeks. It is a case ot water everywhere and nothing else to drink for those who usual ly trade in the saloon town Hia watha World. Piles are easily and quickly checked with Dr. Shoop's Magic Ointment. To prove It I will mail a small trial box- as a convincing test. Simply address Dr. Sheep , Racine. Wis. I surely would not send it free unless I was cer tain that Dr. Shoop's Mnglc Ointment would stand the test. Remember It Is made expressly and alone for swallen , painful , bleeding or Itching piles , either external or Internal. Large jar , oOc. Sold by all dealers. Gossip. The trouble with gossip is that nine-tenths of it is not true. It may be that when people do bad things , other people have a-right to talk about them , but the trou ble is that many victims of gossip are not guilty. There is so much clanger of injustice in spreading gossip that most decent people have resolved not to do it. There is a rule in the best newspaper oflices that sensational things should not be published until there is a shooting , or a case in court , and the rule would be a good one for general adoption. The best people don't talk gossip if they know it is true ; it is a waste of time , and can only result in disgusting people with human ity in general. But to talk it indiscriminately is to aid malicious persons in injuring the innocent ones. The favorite weapon of malicious people is gossip ; 3'ou aid them to punish deserving people ple by repeating their talk. A man or woman guilty of an offense is likely to accuse others of the same offense upon slight provoca tion. The people mostly given to gossip are usually guilty them selves. This rule very seldom fails. The cleanest and best people do the least gossiping. We do not believe in reveling in a scandalous story , but it is a crime to repeat gossip or hearsay , for he reason that you are apt to injure innocent people. Nearly t every one has knowledge of scan dalous stories that are untrue , but the stories are talked about with great vigor , in spite of the fact that they injure innocent people. This is worth remembering in every case of gossip : it may be untrue. The chances are nine to one that it is untrue. If people , realized the harm gossip does innocent people they would quit it. Starting stories is the mean est weapon of the meanest people , and good people should not en courage them. Hiawatha World , Private Aloney. Private money to loan on Rea' Estate. Mortgages bought and sold. Call at First Nationa ! Bank. 3-tf A. J. WEAVER An "Extra" MABEL HERBERT URNER ( Copyright. ) All the imsonKors In the rear sleep er liiul been killed , but 113 yet few bodies wore Identified. Only two or three names wore Riven. A rough cut of n shattered , burning car , with "Tor- rlblo Wreck" in lingo billboard letters took ui > half the page. She never forgot how that irngo looked ; nt any tlmo In her after llfo she could hnvo reproduced it , oven to the blurred lines under the heavy black type. The paper was fresh from the press , and the odor of printer's Ink was over afterward associated with that hour. The newsboys wore crying the ex tras on the street below , and now and then came the sound of a distant hand- organ. There were two other trains ho might hnvo taken and this one. From the moment she had llrst glanced nt the paper she felt with a fearful certainty that It had been this one. And now all the unktndncss and coldness and intolerance that she had ever felt 'for him was burning itself Into her brain. Only yesterday , her birthday , ho had brought her a great box of loses. Awkwardly and clumsily as was his way , ho had given thorn to her , and she had lain them asldo with per functory thanks and an Impatient dis dain of his awkwardness. And then she thought of the letter she had written her younger sister a few days before "Mary Jack Crnlg If you want to. He Is clever , brilliant , fascinating and , after all , these are the things that count. Ho may be a scoundrel , a drunkard , a rake oh , Madge , It doesn't much matter what ho Is if only ho Isn't a fool ! You can forgive a man yon love everything but stupidity. That Is the one hopeless , 1 unpardonable thing. There Is no wretchedness so great as that of a woman married to a man that she knows Is a fool. " That she had not sent the letter gave her little comfort , for she had destroyed It through no sense of loy- She Slipped Down on Her Knees Be side the Chair. ally to him , but from the same Instinct which prompts us to conceal our wounds. The telephone boll In the hall rang out sharply. There was a little pause and then it rang again a loud , lin. patient ring. But she did not move ; she sat with clasped hands , her eyes staring vacantly toward the hall. They wanted to tell her of his death. 8ho would not lot them. She knew It already , she would not hear It put Into words. The bell rang again and yet again with angry persistency , and she lis tened with a curious sense of defiance. When at length It ceased she pictured them bringing him homo to her still and lifeless , and so pltoously cold. A sickening wave of remorse swept over her. Oh , that she might kneel beside him and kiss his hands the hands at which In her heart she had so often sneered. What If they were large and thick and awkward they were kindly , honest hands , and now , perhaps , they were burned and crushed beyond recognition. If she might only have a chance to atone , to make some restitution for nil these years of cold ness and Indifference. And It had been worse than Indifference , It hat ) been derision and disdain , so thinly veiled that she could not but know how often and how deeply she had wounded him. How relentless had been her cruel ty ! She who could never bear that any creaturo-thlnfj should suffer , whoso heart went out to every friendless dog to every poor old dray horse yet to this man , this kindly , simple man who loved her , she had been without pity She slipped down on her knees be side the chair. It was hardly a prayer these half-formed , Incoherent sentences that she murmured. It hai been years since she had prayed ; bu now she was following the primitive instinct that IB In us nil the seeking of some supreme power In the mornen of greatest need. A long time she knelt there , enl > vaguely conscious that the chair arm was pressing painfully against her chock and that her nervous , trembling fingers were tearing the braid of the unholstory. There was n loud closing of a door , and the sound of stops In the hall bo- ow. Slow , heavy stops her hus- land's 1 She stood up straight and still. The tops cnmo nearer. Now they were on the stairs. Amid the whirl of emotions that swept over her , aho was clearly confdous of but ono thing doslro to escape , to naln tlmo. The cactlon had been too snddon , she could not fnco It now. With n quick novemcnt she thrust the paper behind ho couch and throw herself down as hough asleep. The door opened. There was a nomont's pause , then the gentle clo ning ot the door and n careful tiptoe- ng across the room the ponderous Iptoolnt ? of a heavy man. Another > auso , then a moving of things on the nantol , a search for cigars and Hatches , moro tiptoeing and the croaking of a chair. And now she Istened with curious expectancy for ho striking of u match. Hut the sl- once was profound. She looked up through half-closed Ids. Ho was patlontly'holding the cigar , fearing to light It lest ho waken icr. The heavy , florid face , the nwk- vard set of the shoulders , the great , mgalnly figure she closed her eyes vlth a sickening sense or falntness. t had all come hack. That ono swift [ Itinca had brought It nil back all the ) ld Impatience , the old Intolerance , ho old disdain. With all her strength she fought It , struggled fiercely against t. She tried to think of the things she Hid thought of as she knelt by the chair his kindness , his patience , his icvor-falllng tenderness. She tried to 'eel again the pity and remorse she lad felt then. She lashed herself with oproachcs and accusations. Hut oven is she did It she knew It to bo hope- ess. ess.She She sat up quickly an Involuntary novemcnt , a physical prdtost nt the ntolerablo pain of her thoughts. And then her eyes fell on her bus- janil. Ho was asleep his bend thrown back against the chair , his nouth half-open , and an expression ilmost of Idiocy niton his face. She md never seen him look Ilka that : iot quite so repulsive nt that. No : io not loathing ! She had never loathed him It had only been dls- lain not loathing. Oh , no no ho mist not look like that ! She put her muds before her eyes. "John ! John ! " t was almost a shriek. Ho started up. "Why , my dear , what : t Is ? " "Oh I 1 had such a frightful Iream , and I awoke and saw you here I was so frightened ! 1 thought r'ou were going to Albany. " "Dear , you had better lie down again , you are trembling so. " Ho came over by her and stroked icr hand awkwardly. She draw It away , as though to arrange the pillow at her back. "Don't you want this other pillow ? " She shook her head. "No , I didn't go to Albany , wo were very busy at the olllco , and fortunately 1 put It off. The 2tO : : train , the ono I would have taken , was wi coked just 10 miles out. " "Wrecked ? " she repeated It dully. "Yos a horrible wreck. I was afraid you would see the extra , and bo Tightened , so I tried to telephone you hat 1 hadn't gone , but could gut no answor. You must have been asleep. " "Yos I must have been asleep. " Ho took a paper from his pocket and : jegan reading her the headlines. Could she over forgot them these head lines ? The corners of her mouth twitched as she thought how glibly she could repeat them and how aston ished he would be If she should. Ho laid the paper aside. "It was a liorrlblc wieck the worst that road lias over had. " "Yes It was horrible. " "I am glad you were asleep and did not see the extra. Yon might have been worried. " She smiled faintly , her eyes on the torn braid of the chair. "Yos , I might have been worried. " Shelley's Edinburgh Home. Ono of the two Edinburgh houses as sociated with the name of Shelley Is In process of demolition. Though there Is a little uncertainty as to Shelley's first house , the house In which or from which ho was married to Har riet Westbrook In September , 1811 , n correspondent thinks the evidence Is almost conclusive In favor of CO George street , the "handsome front parlor" In which Shelley spent his honeymoon being now a shop. Of the second house , however , there Is no uncertainty. He lived In It for nearly three months In the autumn of 1813 , and addressed many letters from It , putting the fact beyond all doubt. They are headed " 30 Frederick street , " and this is the house which Is now be ing pulled down to make room for large buildings. Hero Shelley , with Harriet and "tho bluo-eyed Tanthe , " spent many happy days , and hero also Shelley wrote his "Refutation of Deism , " and be came known as the author of "Queen Mnb" privately printed In the sum mer of 1813. Money In Savings Banks. According to the bureau of sta tlstics in Its Statistical Abstract ol 190C , 91,273,881 thrifty people have $ h01,220.500 on deposit In the posta ! and other savings banks of the world The accounts average J129.29 each and represent 113.58 per capita of tin total population (8GS.897.000) ( ) of th ( various countries. Some Asiatic conn tries are not Included , notably China whose financial affairs generally art not yet statistically available. In pos tal savings banks deposits alone tin totals are 3I.30S.2C9 depositors and | 1 , 700,880,058 deposits. THE THREAD OF LIFE will be longer If yon Veep your teeth hi good condition. 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