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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1908)
THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Entered as second class matter at Falls City. Nebraska, post office, Janu ary 12. 1904. under the Act of Congress cu March J. 1879. Published every Kridav at Falls City, Nebraska, by 7he Tribune Publishing Company E F SMARTS Manager C ne year SI iO 81 x iront hs .76 Three months . .... .40 TELEPHONE 226. ERRATA This week Manager Mathus ala will try to imitate the News of last week. But old Mathus is forced to pay so much attention to the doings of “the family" that he will fall down in this effort, just as he usually falls down Poor old MathusFalls City. News, Dec. l*th. * Should have Imsmi s|«-lhsl Methuselah. t “ Methane” is pro|ier. } *'Mothuw»" iiM’orrpct. We make the above correc tions because we object to having errors appear in OUR advertisement--Tribune. Five million dollars in money orders went to the old countries as Christmas presents from our foreign citizens this year. Here’s hoping that the turkey will be brown and tender and that the dressing will ooze out rich and savory when, in that sublime moment, father com. mences to carve. Are they all at home this year? Then be thankful. If to eight, when you lock the door and turn out the lights, you have them all safe at home again,you are among the blessed of earth. At any rate Methuselah was the son of Enoch, who walked with God and disappeared. It js worth something to be the son of one who escaped the common Jot of man and did not return to Clay. _ A good many local republicans are talking Dan J. Iiiley of Dawson, for the next county treasurer. Dan is one of the Richardson county boys that God made and would run rings around his opponent if he were to be a candidate. The yellow journals ol New York and Indianapolis have grown discretely silent since President Roosevelt sent his message on the Panama canal to congress. The New York World did go so tar as to call the message undignified, but it said it in a nice ladylike way. The Chautauqua movement is entitled to the moral and tinan cial support of every person in Falls City. These meetings are productive of much entertain ment and instruction for our people as well as giving the op portunity of hearing and study, rng many of the great charac ters of the nation. Norman Mack, chairman of the democratic national com. •nittee, says that Mr. Bryan will never again be nominated by the demacratic party, and that his ntluence in its councils will be largely contined to his home state. Mr. Bryan may never again be nominated, but Mack has another guess coming on the extent of his influence. That such men as Senator Knox and Secretary Root are willing togive up their personal affairs to take on the arduous duties of state, promises well for the country's tuture. Either of these gentlemen lias a law practice that produces upwards of $200,000 a year. It is a safe statement to say that Gov. Hughes of New York. Senator Knox ot Pennsylvania and Sec retary Root sacrifice more than half a million dollars in fees each year in order that their country may have the benefit ot their superior talents. This in dicates patriotism of the high est order. Falls City Business College J CARL LEISTER. Principal Year°Aroundhe Winter Term Begins Jan. 4 A,ter SEED WHEAT An effort will be made to have the next Kansas legislature ap propriate *100,000 to buy seed wheat in the Crimea and import it into Kansas This bill should receive the attention of the Ne braska legislature as well. The following taken from the Kan sas CLy 'l’imes explains the Kansas plan: “The wheat will not be sold.1 We propose to establish seed wheat (farms, one or two in each county, according to the produc tion or acreage of wheat in each county. We propose to make arrangements with farmers to' take this wheat and sow it. i They will pay out no cash, but will make an agreement to give ; to the state a certain percentage 1 of the resulting crop. The de tails of this percentage plan have not been worked out, but. for instance, it might be re quired of the farmer to give the state four bushels of wheat for each bushel the state furnishes him. This seed in turn would be sold to other farmers for seed in the same county. We are; working out a certificate plan I so that it will be impossible to 1 impose on the farmers. “The money irom the sale of j this seed will go into the fundi for the purchase of additional seed to be sown the same fall. This revolving fund ought to be paid back in five years and we are planning to make the per centage enough to do this and leave a tine balance to carry on the work. “What Kansas needs more than anything else is fresh seed. The hard wheat which we now raise is the Russian wheat. Hut 11 deteriorates a little each year. To keep up the high standard it is necessary to import new stock. “The traffic officials of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa He and the Chicago, Rock Island A: Pacific railways have already promised to haul this seed wheat free of charge when it is deliv ered to their lines. We will ask our congressmen to have the duty removed on wheat which is to be used entirely for seed. The duty on wheat is now twen ty five cents a bushel.” THEN AND NOW The writer can remember when the farmer drove a spavin ed team hitched to an old lum ber wagon into town on Satur day, ate his dinner of cheese and crackers, or a hunk of bo logna at the corner grocery, sold his butter for 12c and his eggs for 10 cents, bought a quarters worth of sugar, a dimes worth of chewing and “mosied” towards home. Today the farm er speeds in his touring car, orders a three course dinner at the cafe, holds up the poor town fellow 25 cenis for butter and 30 cents for eggs, buys a few handsome dress patterns, a box of cigars, turns a crank until his car sobs and trembles, takes hold of the wheel and in a mo ment is lost in the distance. Vulgarity is humor to certain mental make-ups, even the law against obscenity compels them to use their nastiness in abbrevatiou. You will never see anything in the Tribune, even i n abbreviatons, that you need fear to read to your little girl. For in this, also, the • Tribune is just different. A certain physician has long since removed from Falls City, but one of Falls City's weekly news papers is still running his profes sional card. No, it's not the Trib une. Businesses do not grow by luck. It is pluck,push and PUBLICITY. j “ We nre advertised by cnr lov ing friends. They admit it too. Speaking of the two Christmas editions- well, just different,that’s all. '_ If the Tribune wanted to “swell up’’ the comments made on our. ChristmaB edition would turn the trick. _ Watch ufi grow. New subscrib ers coming in so fast that a new receipt book was used up in three days. Fact. That business which is so "different” that it cannot be help ed by advertising usually remains abou the same. Prejudice is by far the greatest cause of persons being narrow minded, for it bars the door of the mind, admitting no liberal ideas. Really, “we can’t help it’’ when other papers insist on using the antiquated style of small caps when refering to the name of their paper. The mail who is always kick ing, generally succeeds in being kicked. Fighting the enemy with his own amunition is good tactics. If the public find no other means of entertainment, it may find comfort in watching the bout between the president and congress these wintry days. Carrie Nation is now in the “smashing” business in Scot land. The Scotch hghi landers,no doubt, will be impressed with the vigou of our Kansas sister. Some allow preconceive notions to become so firm that they are unwilling to investigate a subject fairly, fearing the truth might bt at variance with their own pet theories. The geographers were wise in making winter begin on the shortest day of the year. This gives us a chance to become in ured to winter weather as the days grow longer. It is doubtful if the Falls City merchants ever bad a bigger day than last Saturday. Their advertisements published in the local papers brought people from miles around. It is estimated that the Amer ican people consume more than a million dollars worth of sugar every day in the year. No doubt we deserve the premium as lovers of “sweet things.” The senatorial fi&iit in Ohio will attract no little attention! for tlie next few weeks to come, j With Senator Foraker, Mr. I!ur-j ton and Charles 1’. Taft in the 1 race, Ohio will see a pretty; tight for the senatorial plum. Mr. Bryan says he does not think as well of some of Mr. 1 Taft’s appointments as Mr. Taft does. Here it is again.! Mr. Bryan, no doubt, should have been consulted in the mat ter if his approval was desired. HUMANE UNCLE SAM Under the rules of the post office department at Washing ton each employee is entitled to a thirty days vacation. Under a recent ruling the scope of this vacation lias been extended,and now every one of the hard worked horses are taken out of the city and away from the blinding pavements in the sum mer for thirty days, and are allowed to nibble the clover in the shade of the trees of a wide and rolling pasture in Mary land. This is not only humane but is economical in saving horse flesh as well. A GOOD LAW Til* state of Massachusetts lias one of the best laws in the union. One of the many good j provisions of this law is the appointment of three expert road commissioners to oversee. | plan, layout and construct good roads. 'Pile entire original ex pense of a new road is paid by the common wealth, the law | providing that one fourth of the money shall be paid back to the state every six years with in terest. We would suggest to Mr. denies, who is a farmer and knows the utter unfitness of our present road law, with the view of repealing the present unsat isfactory law and substituting some law that will prove of real service. Most of vis think of Pennsyl vania only as a great mining and manufacturing state, and never think of it as a corn pro ducing state. Vet for the year 1908 it led all other states in I corn production per acre. Its average yield being 39..') bushels per acre; as compared with 3s. for Ohio; 31.6 for Illinois; 30.3 for Indiana and 31.7 for Iowa. Nebraska comes lower down in the list, and produced a little better than the general average of 26.2 bushels per acre. There is much yet to be learned of corn culture in Nebraska. If we were to offer any sug gestions to the many ambitious legislative solons who are soon to assemble in our state capitol, they would be these: Do not strive to burden the people of Nebraska with new and need less laws. Strive to perfect the ones we now have. Strengthen them where they need it,amend such as need amending, and re peal every statute which can not be enforced. After this is done, then pass shell laws as public needs require. Every needless law is an extra cur tailment of individual rights. With t li e appointment of Knox, Wilson and Hitchcock, as members of President Taft’s cabinet, the public have assur ance of three good men, to date, for his official family. A suc cessful administration depends largely upon the President, per sonally, but the assistance of a wise cabinet is very important. No doubt in time, other an nouncements of cabinet appoint ments will be made, which, no | # . l doubt, will prove wise ones. The county option leaders claim they have enough votes to pass a county option bill in tin- coming session of the legis lature. Some of our friends who fought the republican tick et. thinking they were killing county option, .may yet open their eyes and see that they were in the dark and that day light has dawned. It would be another case of cutting off the nose to spite the face. No better evidence of the I fruits of judicious advertising is needed, than that the large sales made Saturday of last week and Monday of this week, would indicate. In order to make sales it is neeessarv to | have the goods and then let the e know that you have them. _ There may be no Jesse James these days, but there are men who are successful at Jesse’s old game. It requires more than burglar proof safes to stop the work of bank robbers. Now watch the little fellows knock Knox. President elect Taft lias an nounced Senator Knox, of Penn sylvania, as the next secretary of state. This appointment will assure the maintaining ot this great ollice at the high standard set by the late John Hay and Secretary Elihu Root. Mr. Knox is a man of command ing ability and one ot the great est lawyers of his time. He, like Elihu Root, represented many corporations before enter ing public life, but like Mr. Root, he laid aside all such as sociations and gave to the peo pie the same great service he gave to his clients before elec tion. T lie best and largest paper in the county, it says. We just guess that isn't true, and one guess is about all we need. Postmaster General Meyer says someone is hoarding $500, 000,000. You may search us. __ i CLARK FOR SPEAKER Omaha Bee Tells of Medicine Mixers Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 22. (Spec-1 i ml.)—R. E. Lee Herdman of Omaha, former clerk of the su preme court, is spending a good portion of his time spent here is devoted to members of the legisture, who show up every few days looking for rooms or seats or just who come in. So far as the surface indications go Mr. Herdman i s supporting Ralph Clark o f Richardson county fur speaker of the house. Surface indications are that Mr. Herdman is representing some corporations that will have spe cial favors to ask at the hands the coming legislature. I n other words, the brewers, so it appears, and the railroads, in tend to organize this legislature if they can. At this stage of the game there is every reason to believe these allied interests are favorable to the candidacy of Mr. Clark. Devil-Tempted Young Men. There Is no one so devil-tempted to day as the young custodian of the cash drawer. He is tempted because he assumes he is not paid enough; tempted because he cannot indulge himself as some who are better paid; tempted because he is vain of a good appearance; tempted because he wants to shine socially; tempted be cause he loves devotedly and cannot shower gifts front his thin pocketbook; tempted because he is a neophyte in forbidden mysteries; tempted, most of all, by the desire to emulate some other apparently successful young men who have made great ‘‘killings” on the race track or the stock ex change.—Philadelphia Telegraph. Vagaries of the Plumb Line. One of the curious things that men of science have discovered in their innumerable efforts to measure and j map the earth with the least possible j error, is the fact that there are places | where the direction of a plumb line is not vertical. In sularities of den- I sity in the crust of the globe may pro duce this phenomenon. A remarkable instance has been found in the island of Porto Kico, where the deviation from the vertical is so great that, in mapping the island, the northern and southern coast lines, as shown on the older maps, had each to be moved inward half a mile.—Il lustrated Sunday Magazine. Gymnastic Burglars. A school for burglars has been dis covered by the police at Toulouse, France, and 54 burglars and “profes sors” have been arrested. Classes were held there every day, in which the burglars practiced gym nastics, and were taught the various details of their interesting profession by experts, who drew comfortable j salaries. All the members of the school are well known to the police, for one of the necessities of membership was a proof that the would-be member had committed at least five burglaries suc cessfully, and had lived by his pro fession for at least three years. Way to Judge a Man. There are two good ways to judge ft man—by what he doesn’t pay and by what he doesn’t say. THE LOCAL LORE Crowded off the regular Local Page. Asa Freel of Soldier, Kansas, is id the city to spend Christmas at the home of John Hossack. Mrs. Dr. Callison and baby of Stella are guests at the home of L)r- Houston in this citv. We understand t h e Henry Meyers farm has been sold to John Jones, who now7 lives on the farm, for Sin,400. This is cer tainly a good price for SO acres. Hog Cholera Cure I have a remedy to cure the cholera, the Dr. ,T. H. Snoddy Cholera Cure. I will take twenty-live nice well young shoats and put them in with sick hogs and give them the disease, then cure them all, and not lose a single hogr. 'Vi 11 put up the money in the bank as security. At Lindell hotel. John H. Gilespie. The Musical Event of the Season Manager Gehling wishes to announce to the theatre going public of Falls City that he has secured for one performance, at the Gehling, Saturday, Jan. 2, a high class semi-operatic production, “The Toymaker's Dream” an adoption from the German, that is one of the ver\ few shows on the road today that is a Guaranteed Attraction, not like the ordinary class of shows this is composed of artists of national reputation and among its members numbers such well known people as Miss Louise St. Claire who has been | with many New York successes and has been in the employ of the Charles Froliman forces foi past four seasons. She is one of the few women on the stage today that possess the follow ing list of g-ood qualities so sei dom found in one person, name ly: Handsome stage appearance, excellent singing voice and ability to act second to none She is a close second to the star, Wm. C. Cushman who is too well known to the public to need any introduction. His ability has gained for him the reputation of being one of the best charaster singing comedt ans in the world. All lovers of real good comedy and the tines! kind of high class music should secure their seats at once foi “The Toymaker's Dream. 4 Good Father STARTS HIS CHILDREN ON THE RIGHT ROAD by opening a bank account for j them. It's a little tiling to do. ! DEPOSIT ONE DOLLAR for your child today. Ask for j one of our pocket banks, give j it to your child and WATCH THE RESULTS Do something definite. A lit- | tie start is all they will ever need. Give them a chance— they will do the rest. THE Falls City State Bank Capital and Surplus. ST0.000.00
