THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Entered as Recond-class matter at Falls City, Nebraska, post office, Janu ary 12, 1904, under the Act of Congress on March 3, 1879. Published every Friday at Falls City, Nebraska, by "The Tribuna Publishing Company E T SHARTS Manager One year ft 11 Six IT .nllis Three months W TELEPHONE 226. One of the promises made by the legislature was that the ses sion would last hut forty days. The limit is nearly reached and nothing lias been done. If there was hope tor county option before Mr. Bryan's speech to the legislature, there certain ly remains not a shadow ol it now. Mr. Bryan spoke of many evils that he desired corrected, but spoke ot the liquor traffic not at all. The statement recently made that the new pump was wearing out is a gross'misstatement. A email pinion became worn as is always the case with new ma chinery. This was remedied with a few minutes work. It might be of interest to the tax payers to learn that a careful estimate shows that while at the old plant it cost 27 cents to • ump a thousand gallons the new pump does the same work at a cost of 5 cents. In other words for every dollar spent in pumping at the old plant but 20 cents is spent now, a saving of HO per cent. Really not so bad tor a worn out pump. Mr. Uryan spoke feelingly to the legislature concerning the publication of campaign contri butions. It is hoped that lie will be able to induce Tommy Allen, hi* brother in-law, and chairman of the democratic state rommittee to tell what was done with Wall street's twenty thou sand dollars. If he is success full to this extent he might in quire why the democratic com mittees of nineteen counties in the state failed to obey the law requiring such publication to be made last fall. If lie wants any .□formation as to these counties he might see Gov. Shallenbar ger, ashis county is one of them. THE BUG UNDER.THE CHIP If you will watch you will see it move, for there is u bug un der it. The paper up the alley, which for years has been favorable to a citizens municipal ticket, has now declared in favor of a straight democratic ticket and a straight party tight. If you will carry this to its fast analysis you will probably discover that a contest between republicans and democrats would destroy about all the chances our prohibition friends have to elect a dry administra tion. A tight between a citizens ticket on the one hand and a dry ticket on the other might result in a dry victory, conse quently the old time advocates o! citizens tickets are getting a change of heart. Find the bug. THE DEATH OF THE JOINT The “bluul pig," the joint in other words, has just been dealt a body blow by the supreme court ot the state. For years the courts and lawyers have so construed our statute known as the Slocum law, that a convic tion could not be obtained unless the liquor sold was in fact an intoxicating liquor. Many sub stitutes for beer have been put upon the market by the brewers to evade the law, but the su preme court last week handed down an opinion that puts Palm Root, Hop Ale and ottier old friends in the down and out class. A joint keeper in the western part of the state was arrested for selling one of these substitutes, which co n t a in e d less than one per cent alcohol and was not intoxicating. The court says that the statute, which prohibits the sale of •‘malt, spiritous or vinous li quors’’ means just what it says, and that any one who sells “malt liquor” without a license is guil ty without regard to the intoxi eating character of the liquor. This ruling is rather drastic but it is now the law of the state. ELECTRIC LIGHT SPONGERS Mayor Abbey has called at tention to the unfair and in equitable division of the street light expense among our citizens and the subject is worthy the immediate attention of the coun cil. We have considerably more than 200 street lights that are running each night. These lights are so distributed that they serve all the people, yet but a comparative few of the people pay for them. As the matter stands, the ex pense for these lights, which is necessarily large, is paid by the receipts from the light plant. This merely means that the con sumers ol light pay tor their own light consumption and the street lights as well. Hundreds of our people who receive the benefit of the street lights do not have electric lights in their homes or places of business and therefore pay nothing for the street lights. Among this num ber are many of our wealthiest citizens, and one of this class said, when the matter was brought to his attention recent ly, ••If they don't like the way they are running close 'em down." No man need use electric lights if he does not care to. Hut no man who does patron ize the plant should have added to his bill the costs of the street lamps. If all of our property owners would bear their share of the street light expense, the cost of light should be materially reduced to each consumer. Fresh Fruit Ice Cream Candies Itome-Made | Nuts and Cigars When we say at the Candy Kitchen' we think our patrons understand the QUALITY of what they buy. Candy Kitchen P C. BACAKOS. Prop. Quaker Philosophy! r ' Said the good old Quaker to his boy: • Nathan, it is not what thee reads that makes thee smart; it is not what thee eats that makes thee fat; it is not what thee earns that makes thee rich, BUT WHAT THEE SAVES Try one of our Vest Pocket Banks and watch results. It will help you save many a dollar. THE Falls City State Bank Capital and'Surplus. $70.000 00 Forces for Good and Forces for Evil The meetings being held at the Methodist church in charge of Evangelist Miller have now been in progress for two weeks and their influence for good is being felt throughout the community. The sermons preached by Mr. Miller are excellent especially the one delivered last Sunday morning which was u masterly effort. The Tribune desires to help in anything that tends to advance the moral welfare of our people, and believing that thesi- meetings will advance the cause of Christianity in this city we urge our local read ers to attend the services. The decision between right and wrong is constantly intruding it self. It is presented every hour of the day. The forces for good and the forces for evil are in con stant warfare, and the peace, the happiness, tiie usefulness, tne ui timate success of every life is de pendent upon its individual decree between these two forces. Last Sundays Kansas City Star contained the following lay sermon that we reproduce in connection with our invitation to attend these meetings: ‘How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God. follow him; but if Baal, then fol low him. I Kings. Is. 21. This test is bound to bring mem- i ories crowding into the mind of j any man or woman who has ever had a “religious experience. It may in the course of long years, i and with the tempering influence of age, have become a question wholly etripped of the tremendous power which it once possessed to awaken the heart. But the recol lection of that accusing interroga tion How long halt ye between opinions:-’ as it fell on the ear in the days when your youthful and susceptible nature was keyed up to the very highest pitch of religious responsibility, will never be whol ly effaced. It was an experience that marked the birth of certain convictions and emotions that struck their roots much to deep into the soul to ever be success fully plucked forth. “How long halt ye between two opinions?” Do you not recall the sense of guilt and danger which this question was wont to arouse, ns it fell from the earnest and im passioned lips, in an atmosphere | surcharged with travail for the souls of the unsaved and the unre pentant? Can you not, by a strong exercise of the imagination, live over again, for a few brief mom ents, the sense of impending doom that took possession of your soul as you stood in the very face of j the supreme moment that called} upon you for a decision between j life and death between salvation | and destruction? Lo many of us that an seems so long, long ago. We rather smile at the tremendous solemnity with which we invested those situations. Hut the duty of a choice remains if we have made it—and the sub stilutiou of calm ami experienced judgment for youthful excitement and morbid apprehension should make all the more distinct and j convincing the difference between the two masters who are constant-; ly offering us their service. "How long halt ye between twoj opinions?” We may believe that1 this question, wonderfully magni fied by the effect of the religious j awakening that is nmkiug ts in- j flueuee felt in Kansas City, is pressing for a solution in the! hearts of many people. It is fol-' lowing men and women into the scenes of their various activities and is importuning them for an answer. They are troubled with doubts and harassed by fears. They long for the blessing of peace and security w hich they may realize by accepting the conditions of its be stowal; but they discover that in harmony with a conspicuous idi osyncrasy of human nature the ob stacle of indecision grows with im portance and the magnitude of the matter to be settled. There should be in every mind responsive to the appeals of rea son a fairly correct judgment of | the difference between the service of sin and error and tin* service of righteousness. The teaching of human experience is clearly to the i effect that Baal is the hardest of i m 11 taskmasters. The sacrifices which he demands include all that i men and women should regard as I precious—honor, self respect, con tentment and health of mind and body. No wicked man can be happy. No wicked man can suc ceed. The feet of the wicked man are set in the path of failure and in the way of ultimate overthrow and destruction. These are not merely dogmatic or arbitrary de clarations of opinion. They are verities as indubitable as the clear instruction and the dreadful object lessons of sin and evil can make them. < >ti the other hand, the world is compassed about with a vast cloud of witnesses, ready to give testi mony regarding the yoke that is easy and the burden that is light. Amid all of the vanity of the world and the unlovely manifesta ti ns of its covetous heart, the ser vice of righteousness continues to exercise an overwhelming attrac tion for humanity. For selfish ness, nor greed, nor the cruelty that avarice begets, has succeeded in obliterating or weakening the strong spiritual impulse which abides like a steady flame in the hearts of men and women regen erated by grace and which is stim ulated to special activity and pow er by the force of appeals such as Kansas City is now witnessing. ‘•Row long halt ye between two opinions?” Too long, we may say, where there is any delay at all in the choice of the right master. But this we know—that the sov ereignty of Baal is not showing an access of power in the earth, and is not binding to him in any bond of affection or genuine fealty his misguided subjects. Also that “If the Lord be God’ has been discarded by tbe world as a sub junctive proposition, and that the Lord is God, is joyfully affirmed ,i8a saving reality by countless millions who follow Him with a happy faith and an unfaltering trust that fill their lives with light and gladness. A Denial From High Authority Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief chemist of the Agricultural Department, has demanded of the Calumet Bak ing Powder Co. of Chicago, that it cease the publication of alleged certificates or statements that he had endorsed the Calumet Baking Powder, or reported in favor of its purity, wholesoinness or superior ity’. Such statements, he says, are false. Dr. Wiley never served upon a committee of awards,as alleged,nor did he ever indorse tbe Calumet Baking Powder in any way. On the contrary, Dr. Wiley testified before a congressional committee relative to alum in food,ns follows: “As I have said repeatedly, I do not use it in my own home, and would not use alum in bread if 1 knew’ it. Alum is injurious.” It seems that Dr. Wiley's de mand that the Calumet Company should cease these publications, which are, he says, “against the truth,” was not complied with, al though he says he lias done all ho could “to stop the base and inex cusable use of his name.’’ The public will share in Dr, Wiley’s indignation that his name and official position should be fraudulently used to aid in foist ing upon consumers a food com pound made from ingredients which the doctor has publicly de lated fo be injurious. — From Na tional Food Magazine, Chicago. Card of Thanks We take this means of thank ing the many friends and neigh bors who rendered all possible aid and assistance during the sickness and death of our beloved wife and mother. George Prichard, Guy Prichard, Harry Prichard. _ _— Millinery Announcements! OWING to unforseen circumstances I have been forced to continue in business, and take this oppor tunity to announce to my patrons that I will be pleased to see them again this coming season at the same old stand. I am now in Chicago and St. Louis markets from where I will soon return with a fine, first-class, up-to-datestock of Spring /Vlillinery, including a beauti= ful line of Pattern hats. We promise a better showing than ever before. Helen Brebeck , ... i — ———- ■ — — — 1. . ' ' i ■ Postponed Sale I will sell at Public Sale at my farm, 1 mile due north of Falls City, on Thursday, March 4,1909 commencing at 10 a. m., the following described property to-tvit: 22 Head of Horses and Mules 22 10 Mules, all coming three years old; six are mar s ami four are horse mules. 1 pair Roan horses, coining 1 and 5 years old, weight 2,600. 2 Brood Mares, coining 12 years old; weight 2,500. 1 Brown Horse, coming 5 years old: weight 1,200 pounds. 2 unbroke Mares, 5and7 yrs.old. 1 Bay Mare, coming 2 years old. 1 Child’s pony, 7 years old. •'! Mare Co’ts, coining 1 year old 10 CALVES 10 10 Thoroughbred Poland-China Brood Sows Bred to Thoroughbred Poland-China Boar MISCELLANEOUS 1 top buggy, 1 old wagon, 1 lister, 1 riding cultivator, 1 double-row go devil, 1 two-row stalk cutter, 1 three-section harrow, 1 band corn sheller, j 2 sets work harness, 15 bushels Early Ohio seed potatoes. TERMS OF SALE— Sums of $10 and under, cash; on sums over $10 a ; credit of 0 months will be given without interest if paid when due. If not paid when due, <8 per cent from da’e 4 per cent off for cash. No goods to be removed until settled for. S°bl jcUdh£,mc1.Tn Aucl JOHN R. JONES j Dinnerware See the new patterns at Chas. M. Wilson’s — the Chrysanthemum and Silver Grey two of the finest and best we have ever shown. We now have fourteen patterns in Dinnerware for you to select from, ranging in price from $10 to $40 for a i 00-piece set. We would be pleased to show you through the stock. Chas. M. Wilson * The Falls City Roller Mills j: Does a general milling business, and mar.-, facturc* the ( x following brands of flour { SUNFLOWER MAGNOLIA CROWN The above brands are guaranteed to be of the highest pos- £ 5 sible quality. We also manufacture all mill products and 2 conduct a general C > Grain, Live Stock and Coal Business S and solicit a share of your patronage t | P. S. Heacock & Son Falls City, Nebr. | Think About Your Boy! MR. FARMER By the time your boy grows up and becomes old enough to take up in liis own name one of the new Government Irri gated farms in the Big Horn Bisin it will be too late for him to get one. Will you let his chance go by? Is this fair to the boy? What will he think of your foresight when be seeks for land and finds out that yon neglected to take in 1909, almost as a gift, an Uncle San. Irrigated Farm that in 1919 will eort him $150 per acre? Of course if he Iihs the price, all light, hut what if he has not? Only $21.50 Round Trip After March 1st. Personally conducted excursions first and third Tuesdays of each month. Write D. Clem Denver, General Agent, Laudseekers Infer niation Bureau, 1001 Farnam St., Omaha, about these excursions. rE. G. Whitfobu, Ticket Agent. L. W. Wakeley, G. P. A., Omaha.