THE FIRST DAY
OUR CHAUTAUQUA BEGINSWiTH
FLATTERING PROSPECTS
A Good Crowd Greets Senator
Dolliver--Many Tenters on
The Grounds
Our second annual Chautauqua
threw open its gates on Friday
and a good crowd was in attend*
ancc at the opening exercises.
During the forenoon a light rain
fell, and for a time things looked
rather unfavorable, but at noon
the "un came out and as a result
we had one of the most beautiful
days imaginable. It was just
cool enough to give everyone the
Chautauqua spirit and made them
anxious to attend.
The Hungarian orchestra
proved very enjoyable and retr
dered a number of selections, but
the feature of the day was the
lecture by Senator Dolliyer, who
held the attention of his audience
as only an orator can do.
SKNATOK J. t*. 1)01.1.IVKK.
Senator Dolliver received a
hearty welcome and everybody
greeted him with the Chautau
qua salute, led (by Mr. S, M.
Holiaday. lie has spoken in
every state in the Union and is
yet in the prime of life. He has
dune .1 splendid work and is of
great encouragement to the
younger generation. Everyone
was interested to the extent that
none left the building that could
possibly stay.
He spoke of the Chautauqua
going community and the value
of such to higher education, and
how he had new points of sym
pathy for those giving the Chau
tauqua program, saying that for
three weeks lie and the Royal
Hungarian Orchestra had trav
eled together. Once they had
to travel for several miles in
carriages together and were
caught in a heavy shower of
rain, not only getting their in
struments, but their dispositions
soaked.
He is a criterion of sociology
and thinks that th#e public
should reform along this line.
From one town inJ[Ohio some
20 or 30 men of note received
their early education under the
same school master. Mr. Alli
son, a noted lawyer was gradu
ated from this same town school
and later admitted to the bar
and hung up his sign which still
remains above the door of the
office as it was placed there
many years ago.
Again the father of the Stude
baker Bros., started there and
many more of like note were
named. This showed that to
become great the man did not
have to have wealth, and that
American made men were more
royal than kings.
That George Washington not
only made himself, but his will
shows him to be a millionaire,
also having a share in every en
terprise of the time. If he had
lived at this time he would have
been called a captain of industry
Poverty has no limitation on
manhood and invites no ones
contempt.
Bryan's father was an Irish
man, who came to this country
as a poor man. Through his
ability to rise, Bryan is now
one of the foremost men in the
United States.
Lincoln was a poor lad and
what did he do for our govern
ment.
He said that in -looking over
an article in a magazine he found
that almost all of the presidents
of railroads had begun at the
bottom and worked their way up
proving that in the United States
the government was so that no
poor boy or man had not an
equal chance to make himself
great.
While the address was informal
it was instructive. The opportu
nities of the poor boy were shown
to be unlimited and never better
than now. The Senator drew a
valuable lesson from a farm hand
in Iowa who had worked for five
years at $200 per year, and after
helping support his parents, pay
ing his church dues, and paying
his own personal expenses, had
acquired personal property worth
$150 and had saved enough money
besides, so that lie had several
hundred dollars loaned out and
secured by real estate mortgage.
This young man was taken as
an example of how most success
ful business men start
Any man, after listening to
that address, could hardly say
that the poor boy of today has no
opportunity.
The people have had but few
as rare treats as the address of
Iowa’s eloquent senator.
In the evening the Hungarian
orchestra again entertained the
crowd by a short concert, and the
balance of the time was spent in
getting acquainted.
CAVALRY ON MARCH
Second Regiment on Cross Country
Hike to Fort Riiey, Kas.
St. Joseph, Missouri, (Special)
Some idea of what it will mean
when the government brings
5,000 soldiers together with 3,000
cavalry and artillery horses to
this city in September, was given
early this week when a part of
the 2nd cavalry stationed at Fort
I'es Moines arrived here and un
loaded. This detachment of the
2nd cavalry came here by train
train and after camping for two
nights and one day, started on a
march to Fort Riley, Kansas for
field maneuvers- Seventy-five
cars were required to move this
detachment of less than 700 men.
The army train which came in
over the Chicago (ireat Western
road, was made up of two sleep
ers, sixteen day coaches, three
baggage cars, five box cars,
eleven fiat cars and thirty-eight
stock cars
More than five times as many
men and horses have been order
ed here for the military tourna
ment to be given here during the
week of September 21-2<> when
every department of the service
is to be represented in camp,
drills and parades, while the pick
of men from the service will com
pete for prizes in the tournament
arena.
Many Babies Die in Chicago
In the month of July 009
babies less than one year old
died in Chicago. Most ot these
deaths, the health department
believes, were the result of the
ignorance of parents. Probably
two-thirds of the children could
have been saved, Unsanitary
premises and poor quality of
milk, according to the seventy
live physicians who have been
investigating the congested dis
tricts under the direction of the
health department, have less to
do with tile high infant mortali
ty than generally is supposed.
“By far the greater part of sick
ness among babies, has been
due to lack of proper care. Im
proper food, over feeding, over
dressing, lack ot personal clean
liness and want of tresb air are
factors that produce most of
the illness that kill the babies
in hot weather.”
Attention. Asthma Sufferers!
Foley’s Honey and Tar will give im
mediate relief to asthma sufferers and
ha« cured many eases that had refused
to yield to other treatment. Foley’s
Honey and Tar is the best remedy for
cougcs. colds and all throat and lung
trouble. Contains no harmful drugs.
Kerr's pharmacy,
FARMERS DAY
SATURDAY S PROGRAM PROVED
TO BE A DRAWING CARD
Professor Bowman Entertained Mis
Hearers in a Most Instructive
Talk
The Midland Jubilee Singers
are singers ot high rank and are
well appreciated by the people
of Kails City. On Saturday af
ternoon they opened the pro
gram with t h e s e led i o n,
“Awake’’ which was heartily
applauded. Their second selec
tion was an anthem, which they
rendered exceed i n y I y w e I 1.
They then sany several comic
sonys, which yreatly amused
the audience.
The South African quartet en
tertained the audience with three
or four selections and then yave
way to Prof. M. T. Ilowman,
the speaker of the afternoon,
who was received with applause.
IIis speech and explanations of
experiments were so plain that
even the children could under
stand. He opened his lecture
with a few stories and the re
mark “that instead of yoiny
from the farm tun ,the city, we
were yoiny from the city to the
farm.”
He next displayed some speci
mens of corn and corn products,
among them the famous Pascal
ear for which the owner paid
Slat) at an auction. He said the
average yield ot corn was ii2A
bushel per acre. The reason for
a poor stand of corn is poor seed
corn. lie perfectly explained
tin use of the germination box,
which could be easily made by
anyone. First talcing a box
about s feet long, 1 feet wide
and about 3 or 4 inches deep,
then take a lot of sawdust, put
it in a tub and pour boiling wa
ter over it and let soak all
night. Next morning take saw
dust enough to cover the box to
the depth of 1 inch, then take a
piece of muslin and tack to the
box, so the muslin lays on the
sawdust. Next mark this cloth
with squares about *2 inches
square. In each square place (i
grains of corn from each ear of
corn to be planted. This corn
should be kept in the house and
instead of placing in sacks, hang
on wire stretched across the
room to keep it from mice. Now
cover the box with another mus
lin cloth and then cover with
gutinev sacking tilled with rest
of sawdust. Leave this for sev
eral days, then remove cloths
with care and you can tell the
healthy, wtjjik, or corn that will
not amount to anything- Corn
should be tested just before
planting.
7 Never send
jij a w ay7 to r
seed c o r n.
s You ^et the
J s a me you
" would ^et
| if you went
“ to your crib,
Ball kinds
1 m i x e d t o
i* {of. m. t. bowman gether I f
you use good corn, it should take
but 1- ears to the acre. If you
have poor corn do not plant
thick, tor the poor corn in tas
seling out will degenerate the
corn you are now raising. This
is the cause of “corn run out.’’
Have you ever heard the ex
pression “a certain boy knows
nothing, but makes a rattling
good farmer.’’ This does not
work out. >o do not take it for
granted, though to bt^ a good
farmer i> one of the greatest
blessings possible.
“Men may rise and men may
fall,
I hit the Parmer has to feed
us all.”
THE WHITE PLAGUE
Moving Pictures to be Used in War
of Extermination.
Moving picture machine? and
phonographs will be brought into
play by the State charities and as
sociations of N*-\v York in its cru
sade against the dread “While
l’lague.” Through this method
the association hopes to bring the
people of the state to a full reali
zation of the dangers of tiie dis
ease which destroyed 1 1. I"C< human
beings in New-York state last year.
The association is now preparing
the most striking feature ever con
ceived in its warfare against tuber
culosis. It consists of six educa
tional exhibits, which are soon to
be started on tours through the
state to be exhibited at thirty-six
county fairs. Experts are now as
sembling the pictures, data and
models and each exhibit will tell a
story in an interesting way. In
addition to the pictures, large pho
nographs having special records
will give much information on the
subject. The exhibits will also
contain models of perfectly lighted
and ventilated factories, together
with models of so-called sweat
shops, where tuberculosis flourish
es. Mottoes giving advice how
to prevent and check tuberculosis
will be displayed about each ex
hibit.
THE VERDON PICNIC
Falls City Was Well Represented
There Yesterday
The annual Pioneer picnic
opened Thursday for a two days
program. There was a good
crowd in attendance.
The Auburn band furnished
good music, giving several con
certs which were greatly enjoyed
as the Auburn band is a good
one, A ladies quartet composed
of' Mesdames. Griffith, Knapp,
Robb and Stephens rendered sev
eral good selections and Supt.
George Carrington of Auburn
delivered a line address.
One of the interesting features
on Thursday was the ball game
between Auburn and Verdon
which resulted in a victory for
the former by a score of 13 to (>.
Among those from this city
who attended Thursday wereC,
II. Marion, Walter Stock, Josie
Gilroy, Belle Ault, Gladys Mc
Donald, Margaret Peterson, Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Phillips, Meda
Hill, Mrs. Clias. Buthman, Clin
ton Jones. Emma Hanika and
Hulda Pruesse.
Our Military Band
The Falls City Military band
showed their heart was in the
right place Friday and help swell
the crowd at the ball game by
playing a number of pieces on
the street and leading the ball
team to the park, where they
furnished more music. While the
band numbered but eleven what
they lacked in quantity was more
than made up in quality, and the
music rendered was of the best.
With such talent it is a lament
able fact that it seems impossible
to arrange for a permanent band
in our city, and it is to be hoped
that it will be only a matter of a
very short time until all obstacles
can be overcome and Falls City
can boast of a band worthy of
this or any other town.
Get together and lets have a
band. It is one of the things
that makes life worth the living.
Cured Hay Fever and Summer Cold.
A. S. Xusbaum, Batesvllle, Indiana,
writes: ‘'Last year I suffered for three
months with a summer cold so distress
ing that it interfered with my business.
I had many of the symptons of hay
fever, and a doctor's prescription did
not reach my case, and I took several
medicines which seemed only to aggra
vate it. Fortunately I insisted upoD
having Foley's Honey and Tar. It
quickly cured me My wife has since
used Folev's Honey and Tar with me
same success.” Kerr's pharmacy.
SUNDAY S TALKS
i _
FATHER NUGENT ON THE PHIL
OSOPHY OF CIVILIZATION
And Rev. Batten on "Moral Imperial
ism" Were Both Instructive
and Entertaining
—
< >ne of the most interesting
land instructive lectures which
it has been the privilege of a
Falls Citv audience to hear was
by Father Nugent, a parish I
priest of the Roman Catholic
church of Des Moines, Iowa.
For carefulness of expression
logical reasoning and excellent
diction it was an intellectual
| treat for all who heard and fol
lowed the trend of thought.
Among other things the lec
turer said: “The chief quest of
humanity in all the ages seems
to have been the pursuit of hap
piness." It was shown that
wealth did not secure this de
sired condition because it main
ly created a multitude of other
desires that hungered for satis
faction. Education was pro
nounced a good possession, and
our present educational advan
tages were contrasted with
those ot preceeding ages, and
yet in sp’te of our supremacy
in that particular we have more
insanity and pauperism now
than ever in the history of the
world.
The true gauge of progress is
not to be found in the moneyed
or leisured classes of any age,
but in the great toiling and
wage earning classes. Not only
the poor, but even the positive
ly poor of our age are greatly
in advance of previons ages.
They live in better houses and
cabins, have windows, cook
stoves, doors and better venti
lation and sanitary conditions
than were known or dreamed of
in preceeding ages. Rome, the
mistress of the old world
was materially grand, and in
tellectually great, but Rome in
her palmiest days had no news
papers, telegrams, railroad
trains, postage stamps, mowing'
machines nor sewing machines
beside hundreds of other mod
ern improvements that we en
ioy. Notwithstanding, these
old world people were not in
intellectual darkness. In the
arts and sciences, in sculpture,
in music, poetry and architect
ure, in the promulgating of law
we are still copying and study
ing their work. In the science
of logic, in military genius,
and in colonizing ability we
have not surpassed them. And
yet they failed to find a per
manent and satisfying form of
government. Ancient civiliza
tion failed to propagate itself
because it was in the last an
alysis purely selfish, and if our
modern civilization shall project
itself into the far distant future,
it would be because we have an
added quality in our govern
ment in the idea of God and our
relation to Him. Our modern
civilization is founded on the
idea of man as a unit of rights,
and not as a unit of strength as
with Rome. Through the rev
elation of the Man of Galilee,
we have come into possession
of knowledge that was unknown
to the ancients, but it is one
thing to know a virtue and it is
another thing to have strength
to do it. The religion of the
Galilean will establish the right
relations of one man to another
and of both men to God. And
these relations rightly under
stood and applied will settle all
the ills of the body politic, ■
Not right, but Love is the key
note to the reign of peace and
surcease of theillsof the human
family.
“MORAL IMPERIALISM”
The tejjt for the evening is
found in the book of Deut. 33-20
“Thy shoes shall be iron and
brass, and as thy days so shall
thy strength be.”
Expansion is the law of life.
Nature expands, the tree puts
forth its bud. Man expands.
If he owns $1,000 he will seek
to invest so as to double his
wealth. The city expands in
its conunerce’and manufactures
and even the nation expands.
Imperialism is the end of the
law of life. A successful man
must be an imperialist.
Physical imperialism is the
worst type. A big dog cruelly
shakes a small dog. He is a
physical imperialist. War is
physical imperialism. Intellect
ual imperialism comes next to
physical imperialism. Rome
conquered Greece by her sol
diers and became a physical im
perialist, hut Greece conquered
Rome with her knowledge and
was an intellectual imperialist.
A great thinker cannot be a so
cialist nor can lie help being an ^
individualist. An independent
thinker is called dangerous.
Patrick Henry, George Wash
ington and many of not only
America's, but the world’s great
est thinkers were considered
dangerous at their time.
Hut physical and intellectual
imperialism are nottheonh nor
the greatest types of imperial
ism. The greatest type is the
moral or spiritual imperialism.
Religion rightly understood is
not any one part of life but is
life itself. Every individual is
a kingdom in himself, having
power of life and death. In
speaking of the temperance
question he would not assault
the saloon keeper, but the vo
ters, the men that made him
possible. He would assault the
sin, not the sinner- The secret
of Gospel succes is Defeat
crowned with Triumph. His
last words were “Man is the
masterpiece of divine creative
power. Now march. ’’
Rev. Batten is a plain speaker
possessing a remarkably strong
voice which can be plainly heard
throughout the tabernacle when
it is reasonably quiet.
New Books at Library
The following list of new- nov
els were put in circulation at the
Library last Wednesday:
Iutoxicafed Ghost and other Tales
.Bates
The Barrier.Beach
ForJacinta. Bindloss
Rose MacLeod. Brown
Cheerful Smugglers.Butler
Confessions of a Daddy.Butler
Wooing of Tok ila. .Calkins
Mr Crewe's Career . Churcbilt
F’riniadonna.Crawford
Arkinsaw Cousins.Ellis
Old Room.Ewald
Two Legs.Ewald
Four Pools Mystery.Ewald
Adventures in Contentment.. .Grayson
Fennel and Rue.Howells
Man of Yesterday.Kincaid
Beloved Vagabond . I^ocke
Ben Blair.Lillibridge
Prisoners of Chance. Parrish
Clementina’s Highwayman. .Stephens
Fruit of the Tree.Wharton
Back Home.Woods
Folks Back Home...Woods
For notes on these books see
bulletin board at the Library.
Real Estate Transfers
Anderson Miller and wife to John A.
Mulling wd to all of sub divisions
Nos. 4 and 5 of lot 6 in swjf of sec
13-1-15 containing 17 acres.$434
Levi Zubrick and wife to Elmer Heis
er wd to Its 1(1-17-18 blk 30 Falls
City.$2600
F. K. Allen and wife to Elmer Ileiser
wd to Its 16-17-18 blk 220, Falls
City.$250
Hattie Dorland to Frank M. Dorland,
wd to 50 feet off north end It 1 blk 9
Humboldt.$1
F. E. L. Hester and wife to J. H.
.Greenlee wd to 153.02 acres in sec
tion 34-2-15.$15,300
Claudie L. Reed and O. C. Reed to
Ernest L. Brown wd to one-sixth
interest in nei of sec 7-2-15 . ..$2600
Myrtle McCallum and husband to
Ernest L. Brown wd to one- sixth
int in nei of sc 7-2-15. ..§2500
Neva J. Morris and Francis C. Morris
to A. J. Weaver wd to Its 3 and 4 blk
5 Falls City also 100 acres in nei of
sei of swi sec 2(1-65-41 in Atchison
county Mo.j;1500
A. J. Weaver trustee of estate of
Persa Morris Weaver deceased to
Neva J. Morris and Francis C. Mor
ris wd to Its 3 and 4 blk 5 Falls City
also 10 acres in nei of sei of swi sec
20-65-41 in Atchison Co. Mo_81500
Wm. B. Schmucker and wife to Elmer
Heiser wd to* Its 15, 1(1 blk 94 Falls
C^y..
Martin Gehling and others to Sophia
Gunn aod others wd three-sevenths
part of lts’»9-10-ll-12 blk 167 Falls
City..
