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□=— .- —c Miss Lucy and the Simple Life 0 y I, u c y C o p i n g e r D= 1 ==D (Copyright, hy J B Lipplneott Co.) "To open the eyes and tl)o hearts of her young charges (o the glories of Nature, to reveal to them the wonders of the world beautiful this Indeed in the blessed privilege of the toucher" Thus rashly, the enthusiastic Miss Lucy at a Teachers' Meeting The Principal, caught hy (he aesthetic in version of adjectives, beamed approv al upon her and the next da> he eamo into Room 20 with an invitation for Miss Lucy. It was from the Play ground Association, and In it Miss Lucy was offered the use of the Park Playground for an afternoon. At this announcement, "How nice," Miss Lucy gushed with hypocritical fervor, "and how kind of you to get it for me." This was how it came about that the next day,- (he end of Juno and the last day of school. Miss Lucy, feeling like tho Matron of the Home for Friendless Waifs, found herself walk ing at the head of a two by-two line thirty deep. It was Class A In search of the wonders of the world beautiful. In accordance with an Iron rule of the Board each child had been re quired.to bring.six cents for his car fare. Bum O'Reilly, however, had ap peared with only four and a letter from his mother addressed to "Miss Loosy teerher" In which tho snd "slr kumstanzes off Mrs O'Reilly” were set forth. However, her man was de scribed as having his eye on some thing, and "Miss Loosy was tho darlin of her James and would she lend him the other two cents." As for Frederick William, lie had brought the six cents but they had been carefully hidden away In his pocket by n shrewd mother and were only to be used in extremity. In the vernacular of Bum O'Reilly, Class A had on its glad rags. There was one boy who hail even washed his ears. Bum himself it spite of the ..J ' ■ I » I o "If I Ain’t Bust Mo Sunday Pants.” warm weather wore his Sunday pants of red plush and out front "an old chair cover. Frederick William was just as clean and a little shinier than usual, and he had on his best stockings, upon which shone strange zebra like slrlplngs. Sophie Hauer schmidt wore her sister s bends At the end of Lie line straggled Anna Karenina with her mother's pink chit foil veil around her neck. In spite of her dirtiness that day had seen a great moral upheaval in Anna. Site was going to be good. Vainly Miss Lucy had struggled for this regeneration. The only response had been a perverse wickedness That dinnertime, however, in splendid l ivali > of Sophie’s heads site had stolen her mother’s veil. She had tied it around her neck, and as Anna was as truly feminine a creature of clothes as Miss Lucy herself, instantly there had come over her an overwhelming sense of the goodness of beauty and the beauty of goodness When she had tied back her greasy forelock of hair with her blue garter, her conver sion was complete, lor that was the way Marie Schaefer wore her hair and Anna was going to be even as good as Marie. I his new morality oi Anna al though the mere matter of a dirty chif fon veil had brought her safely through the journey to the Park At the cars frantic cries for "Miz Luzy" were heard, hut it was found to he Sophie and not Anna who had stopped to make faces ut an envious neighbor who had been so nearly left behind. At last the Playgrounds w ere reached a pleasant and sheltered stretch of lawn guarded by a fat policeman. There one found many seesaws and a big sand-heap. In one corner there was also a pile of rafla and Miss Lucy seeing, thought with a guilty helpless ness of the Rafla Meeting taut she had hooked to go to a matinee. However, the children amused them selves unassisted until Hum O'Reilly fell off a see saw. When Miss Lucy and the fat policeman ran to his res cue, "Gee,” he remarked with Celtic cheerfulness, "if I ain't bust me Sun day pants.” At which Miss Lucy and the fat policeman bushed. After Bum had been repaired with numerous safety-pins Miss Lucy called the children together and distributed some sandwiches that Bhe had brought. In the silence that fell upon the eat Ing children she heard the reverent tones of Sophie Bauersehmidt. “It’s chicken, ain’t It?” she whis pered to Anna. Anna had never tasted chicken but, “Hod air," she whispered back cyni cally, "thad chiegen. Ids weal.” While the children were eating, Miss Lucy, locking around on the green beauty of grass ant tree, thought a little nature talk *ou!d not he Inappropriate. She selected the grass as her subject. "Children." she began, in her sehool teachery voice, "I am going to talk to you about what we see all about us over Hie ground something that you have all been sitting on. Frederick, what?” “Three ants and some sand," said the exact Frederick William. "Very good," said Miss Lucy with resignation,” and now let's play some games." Miss Lucy suggested Blind Man's Buff. This was popular and was only stopped by Josef running Ills nose Into a tree. Tiie great catastrophe occurred dur ing HI Spy. Marie Schaefer was "It." Miss Lucy, sitting on one of the benches, leaned back and looked dreamily up at the lazy clouds that drifted through the sky like gypsy an gels through a blue world clouds that were neither white nor pink but an elusive primrose echo of both. She ha<l just gotten to the second stanza of a beautiful poem she was com posing about it all when she noticed that Marie Schaefer was standing with her hand raised In quite the proper school-child manner. "I can't find Anna anywhere," said Marie plaintively, "I have looked ev erywhere for her and I can't find tier. She's gone." Miss Lucy jumped to tier feet with a premonition of disaster. "(lone!" she echoed wildly. Then began a search which, as the sun passed behind the trees, became a frantic and vain wandering up anil down endless paths—a search In which was enlisted the fat anil sym pathetic policeman. Anna was Indeed gone. At last when an hour hnd passed and Miss Lucy had Just sunk upon a bench and was beginning a nice com fortable attack of hysterics, she saw the fat policeman coming down one of the paths. In his arms he had a drip ping. squirming bundle from which came thick sobs and a long string that had once been Mrs. Karenina’s chif fon veil. "Oh, Anna,” cried Miss Lucy tear fully, “Oh, Anna, where have you been?” "Id was the chlcgen. walled the un happy backslider, "the whlde chic gen In (he wader. He was so fad und glean und shiny und I liged him und l wanded him und I wand him now." Then all her new morality buried in the ruins of the chiffon veil—the wretched Anna kicked her fat rescuer viciously on the shins. "I wand him now!” she screamed. "She fell in tile duck pond," the po liceman explained. Then, as he saw the puddle of muddy water that had dripped from Anna’s clothes, "You had better take her home, Miss." he said kindly, "she ain’t used to it and she'll take cold. I'll carry her down to tho gate." The return to the gate was a rush. \t the transfer corner Miss Lucy met the Principal, wild eyed and on ills wav to tho Park. He vyas In a state of wordv roproaohftilness. "I can ! help it," Miss Lucy snapped femininely, "it was all your fault, any how. Why did you got me that old invitation! 1 didn’t want it." Thou they wai’cil in mutual sulki ness until the car came. it was crowd ed with the six o'clock rush and Miss Lucy, her hair coming down, her hat over her ear, anil her dress wet from Anna’s clothes, was angrily conscious of many looks of amusement. Anna, her nose dug into Miss Lucy's arm. hail gone smilingly to sleep and Miss Lucy, as she grudgingly suit ported her, felt a sudden new bitter ness in her heart against this ugly little stumbling block to all her plans. At last the school was reached and the other members of Class A having been delivered to anxious relations, Miss Lucy hurried down to the tene ment section with Anna. In u nerv ous tremor at Mrs. Karenina’s antici pated wrath she stumbled up the greasy flights that led to Anna's home. Half way up. a door was opened and a drunken, blasphemous voice inquired hospitably us to who it was that wanted to get hts block knocked off Ill l T7111 „» HI l IS l r* lllljtlll * .-A 11 II cl back cheerfully over the banisters, but Miss l.ucy turned pale and sped fear fully up the steps—only to find that Anna's mother was out She was prob ably down the river or to a ball. So Miss l.ucy gingerly undressed Anna, hung her clothes over an Im provised line, rubbed her dry with the dish towel, and, as her wardrobe was limited to one set. wrapped her in the sheet and left her already asleep on the unspeakable mattress where the six other Kareninas usually reposed. A little later she opened the door and for a moment sho looked remorse fully at the sleeping Anna. Then she felt a sudden smart In her eyes. “Poor tiling," she said angrily, "poor ugly little thing! Sho might never have come home at all, and her dread ful mother would not have cared. She would have been glad." Then she shut the door carefully and started to grope her way down the stairs. Half way down she made a wrong turn and fell down several steps. She made quite a noise over It and the owner of the blasphemous voice opened his door and threw a chair leg at her. it was then that Miss Lucy decided that the wonders of the world beautiful were not worth while. In a panic she flow up the narrow street where dirty little children, ghastly in the electric light, played and fought and cursed. With her eyes still open for chair-legs she at last reached the street of her own protecting home and people. As sho ran thankfully up the steps, “Don't say blessed privilege of the teacher to me” said Miss l.ucy wearily. One morning he casually asked his wife which letter in the niaglc name she had so long unsuccessfully sought. It was the "V'."' He left the house five minutes earlier than usual arnl stopped In at the corner grocery on his way to the train. When he emerged It was with a decidedly guilty air. Under his arm was a small square package wrapped in brown paper. At the office the Man opened his parcel surreptitiously and drew forth a carton of Predigested Oats. He slit tire top with a penknife and groped in file interior until his fingers encoun tered a small square of pasteboard. With far greater agitation than moves the professional stock-gambler who notes on the ticker the gain or loss of thousands, lie examined tiie little card. It bore the imprint of an "M." Somehow the Man could not fix his mind on his business. A little leaven had leavened his whole lump. Queer things transpired at the of fice within tlie next week or so. Each morning the Man appeared with two or three packages under his arm, and yet he never took any bundles away with him. Tiie boy was sent so often to various downtown groceries for Predigested Oats that lie confided to the janitor his fear that tin} boss was turning into a horse. The janitress querulously complained that a pool woman's life wasn't worth living, the way No. 212 littered up Ills carpet day after day with that brownish powdery stuff that was so hard to sweep out. The Man himself began to- get cramped for room, ilia desk was full of oats, ills coat and overcoat had to be laid over tlie hack of a chair dur ing the day—the clothes-lockers were crowded with square boxes. Tlie stationery closet was bulging with predigestion. There comes a point when the addi tion of one little straw to the camel's burden brings that faithful animal to an untimely end. In desperation the Man one day bought a dozen packages of the detested oats at one fell swoop, and found within them a dozen dupli cates of letters lie already had, but no "Y.” ^auir in tin iiuri uai n » i n u i?-, he rried, hurling a shower of oats and cartons through the open window into the light-shaft. "Hy the Great Horn Spoon, 1 don't believe there ever was a 'Y' in any of their boxes! It's robbery, but they tried their game on the wrong matt when they tackled me. I'll see whether there's any law in this land!" Determined to strike while the iron was hot, the Man telephoned to his attorney, who roosted several stories higher in the same skyscraper, ask ing him to stop in on his way to lunch. Within an hour the lawyer appeared, and listened attentively to the Man's recital of how his wife had invested vast sums on the represen tations of the cereal manufacturers, and of how much evidence she had acquired by purchase of the absence of an essential letter from the pack ages. In thus setting forth the case the Man deemed it irrelevant and un necessary to mention his own pur chases. For the sake of convenience lie simply added his expenditure to liers and represented the sum total as her outlay. "Now, tell me, Calloway,” he con cluded, "is there no way of getting hack at these people? Couldn't we get at them through the postal laws, if by no other procedure? Are they to go on robbing the public indefi nitely?'’ “Well,” said the lawyer, pressing his finger-tips together reflectively, I could tell better if I were acquainted with the exact terms of the company's offer 1 suppose they are printed on tlie package. Couldn't you bring down a carton to-morrow?" “Certainly. Come to think of it, I believe 1 have one of their old boxes down here somewhere. Let me see— where did 1 put it? You're taller than 1 am—just look on top of that book case, won’t you?” As Calloway turned bis back to grope for the carton on the book case, his client hastily slid open a drawer of his desk, grabbed the top most package, and pushed tho drawer home. "Oh, here it is; I had it in my desk," he said, passing it to the attorney. The latter read the printed proposi tion carefully and glanced over the top of his spectacles at the would-be litigant. "What did you sat was the missing letter?" he asked. "It is ‘Y.’ " “ *Y?’ Where does Y' come in?" "In Prettyman's, of course. P-r-e t t-Y-m-a n-s.” The lawyer looked at him suspici ously. “You’re not trying to ‘josh’ me, are you?" he asked. Plainly the Man was puzzled. "See here," said the lawyer; “with out prejudice to your general intelli gence, it seems to me that in this par ticular instance you've been making a monkey of yourself. Here is Pretti man's spelt in letters an inch high on the carton—P-r-e-t-t-I-m-a-n-s.” The client took the box incredulous ly and looked for himself. His face was very red. He tossed the package a foot or two in the air, and as it de scended he met it half way with a kick that sent it hurling to the ceil ing, where it smashed three globes on the chandelier and produced a snow storm of oats that would have made the stage manager of an Uncle Tom s Cabin company turn green with envy. And the lawyer's fee was |15. Ho you think that Man went home and made a full confession to his wife? Not be. He "cashed in" what letters he had acquired, gave the clocks to the stenographer and book keeper, made an exaggerated pretence of discovering his wife's error all by himself, and twitted her about it for two months. For lie was a man. > Pain Weakens Headache, rheumatism, neuralgia, or pains of any nature weaken the sys tem—they are a strain up on tin* nerves. Almost instant relief ean be ob tained by taking Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills, and with out any bad after-effects. Take one on tirst indica tion of an attack—it will ward it off. They arc a pleasant little tablet, sold by druggists everywhere, 25 doses 25 cents; never sold in bulk. “I was subject to constant head aches for a period of four years. At times I was almost unfitted for the work in which 1 am eng.ig* <1, that of station agent. Through tin* advice of 5i frboid I tried I)r. Miles' Anti Pain Pills, r.nd tlm result has been that I have entirely eradicated my system of those continuous headaches that follow a continual mental strain. They have done for rue all that is claimed for them.” O. T . RUSSELL. Agt. C. & N. W. Ry.. I kittle Creek, la. “I have used I>r. Miles* Anti-Pain Pills for a year nmv for neuralgia an«l find tlicr** is nothing like them. They surely h iv • been » blessing to mo.” MRS. M. d HAMILTON, Uppe* Alton. Ilia. Your druggist sells D- Miles* Anti Pain Pills, and we .vtY.orize him to return the price of first package (only) if it fails to benefit you. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind Sheriff's Sale Peter Frederick, Sr.. Plaintiff, vs •Jacob tiebhart, The Uncle 1 Sun <hl Co.. Peter II. Cioebel. Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Fucle Sam nil Co., Samuel Lichty, Fred Parclieii, and Martha C. Gray, Defendants, J Notice is hereby given that on Saturday the 31st day of July, 1909, I will offer for sale at the west door of the court house, in Falls City, Richardson County, State of Nebraska, at the hour of one o’clock on said day, the following described real estate: Commencing at the southeast corner of the land deeded bs Towle apd Crook toj. II. Kamel hi the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 15, township 1. range In, re corded in book 7, page Richardson County, Nebraska Deed Records. Thence running south 75 feet, thence west 125 feet, thence north 75 feet, thence east 125 feet to the place of be ginning, except that part heretofore sold to the Uncle Sam Oil Company, also lots 20-21-22-23 and. 24, in block 231, in the City of Falls City. Also a tract of land situated iu Falls City, Ne braska, commencing at a point 75 feet south of the southeast corner of the land deeded by Crook and Towle to J. VV. Kamel, in the south east quarter of the northwest quarter of section 15, tow us nip 1, north of range In east, thence running south from that point 37 feet, thence running due west to Hen Poteet'scorner, thence north 112 feet to J. W. Kamel's corner, thence due east about 145 feet, thence south 75 feet, thence cast 120 feet to place of beginning, be longing to defendant. Jacob <iebhart, and seized b.v me as sheriff of Richardson County on an order of sale issued out of the district court of Richardson County. State of Nebraska, and un der the seal thereof, and which will be sold in pursuance of said order to satisfy a decree of foreclosure entered in said cause in favor of the plaintiff, Peter Frederick. Sr., and other claim ants named as defendants therein. Terms of sale cash. w. T. Fenton, Sheriff, R r \ vis ,v R! \ vis. Attorneys tor Plai tit iff. Legal Notice To Hannah JM. Ill gilt, non-rosideiu defend ant : You are hereby notified that on the 14th da> of June, A. 1 1909, Kdward J. Bright, as plaintiff, filed a petition against you in the dis trict court of Richardson county, Nebraska, the object and prayer of which are to obtain a di vorce from sou on the ground that you have wilfully abandoned the plaintiff, without good cause, for the term of two years last past. You are required to answer said petition on or before Moudas. the 2nd day *• f August, A. I). l’K)‘». Fdsvaki> J. Bkkiht, By John YVTi.tsk, Plaintiff. His Attorney. 25-4t t i *!• t t t v A V * ;j; Horse and Low Hides, * $ W ool and Pelts $ T f i Highest Market Price ❖ I Porter Randolph | * Falls City, Phone 422 % V 5 f C. H. MARION ij AUCTIONEER. v$> < l __ 1 > ■■■■ ■ i !■ ———■ Sales conducted in ]J scientific and busi- J[ £ nesslike manner J[ • — • •* ! C. H. 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