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    THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Entered as second-class matter a
Falls City < Nebraska, po.-i oflice, Jann
ary 12, 1004, under tire Act of Congresi
on March 3,1870.
Published every Friday at Falls City
Nebraska, by
The Tribune Publishing Companj
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TELEPHONE 226.
Hally's comet is achedulod tocrosi
the face of the sun May 18.
Senator Aldrich is one of the or
gauitsers of the now $4(>,<twt,ooo rub
ber trust
It is said that at the present rati
of progress the Panama canal can hi
finished in two years.
Only one man was killed during lie
election in Kentucky. Somebody'*
been diluting that blue grass brand
of moonshine.
Missouri Fniverslty authorities an
trying by experiments io determine
what it 1h causes coal to lose its
heating power when left exposed to
the open air.
The National Geographical society
has officially declared that Peary
reached the north pole. Mr. Peary
will no doubt he tickled to death to
learn for sure that he got there.
The liig railroads are making com
plaint that freight trainmen are
scarce. What we need Is mine babes
born witli tin- ilestiny of common
honest labor before them instead of
the presidency.
The fall meeting of the Carnegie
Hero Fund commission in Pittsburg
has resulted in Hie dealing out of
fifty medals and awards for deeds of
bravery in the country during the
year. The money awarded amounts
to $83,000 and all of it goes to Amer
icans. ,
The progress of flying continues to
keep up its gait Henry Furman, in
France, lias just covered a dlslanee
of 144 miles a full gross in his
aeroplane, and Wright's pupils at
Washington are 'making some nice
amateur records and showing them
selves quite apt in catching the hang
of tilings. Well, the playground is
large, for there’s still more blue sky
than anything else.
On top of tlie announcement that
San Francisco is thinking oi having
a world’s /air in i'HU comes the wind
that tlio newly elei ted mayor of that
city ims ambitions to muki it the
widest open town in Vtnerlca. Kvi
dently the fissures made by tile
'quake do not afford enough open
ing to give breathing room for tile
wild and ivooly denizens vv bom May
or-elect McCarthy hopes to satisfy
to a queen's taste
A SOUL DISCOVERED.
The New York Central Kail road de
nounces that it will not pros •< ut<- one
of its Cincinnati officials alleged to he
short ill his accounts. Kvidcntl.v
they're running Hint shop on the old
Biblical passage. "Let him that is
without sin east the first alone."
Justice and mercy must be expect
ed to play in each other's backyard
occasionally, but they needn't think
they can do so without arousing the
criticism of Tout,Dick and Harry.and
possibly 'Lizabeth Jane. This latest
instance of law and prosecution be
ing given a swift push, and told to
"go to," completely knocks out the
old idea that corporations have no
souls, and indicates that the ,\. w
York Central not only has usoul, hut
ponaibiy two three soul-mates, amt
that they are all wide awake and
standing on their jobs with both
feet. The. Cincinnati man is to he
congratulated; he has either boon a
decidedly good fellow, and la ken the
precaution to attach a boomerang to
his bread before he turned it loose
<m the water—or lie has his fist
tightly wrapped in the hair of some
"brass collar" higher up the line
and is in a position to give ait occa
sional yank if frustrated.
FRANCE'S LATEST SCANDAL.
B takes France to stir the world
when it eoines to scandals, and they
have it "beautiful” one on now. .Ma
dame Steinheil, a woman of loose
moral character who hobnobbed and
infringed with men of France in high
life, is being tried for the murder
of her husband, to whom site admits
site was false, and her stepmother.
Kven the dead President Faure has
been dragged into the scandal, and
it is openly stated that he died in
the arms of the beautiful woman now
on trial. Prominent men are quak
ing in their shoes for fear of expos
ure, and great throngs demand admit
’ance to the trial court. A sensation
al feature came Thursday when r
youth confessed he had committed tip
murders, but it developed that he wa;
| merely trying in bis blind fascination
! to save the woman, or at least t o
• get to see her.
Km in any standpoint, the irial is
, one calculated to hold intense inter
est. But, after all, it is merely an
| other ' xuuiple of the old fact that
when a woman does get the devil In
| her, eli** usually' proves herself a
regular Queen of devils. This woman
| beautiful, fascinating and wicked,
j seems to have headed quite a few
i towards the Satanic realms—willing
1 travelers though they were in that
| direction—and it is the charge that
to prevent interference of any kind
with the carrying out of her ambi
tions of power and false love* she
killed her husband and her step
mother.
What French justice will dig out
of the scandal and the intrigues re
vealed the sensational world in now
anxious to learn.
NOT AN l . . .C.i.'CAL CJS.TOM.
—-——
Why Mr. Zw ton No Longer Seeks
to Recavei Stamps Pasted
But Unused.
"Any was; ■ ui malcrinl or destruc
tion of property is n pugnant to my
feel Ip ■! aid Mr 7.\ iizzlotmi, but 1
find by r*v|.i-1 ipc tlit.t there are
times when w» may make more by
throwing something of value away
than w<- would make by keeping it
and bringing it into use. You take for
Instance postagi stamps stuck on let
ters that von don't mall I used al
ways laboriously to soak off such
stamps, taking mm a time for the
operation, and then use urh stamps
again, tint now I tin i that I ntn make
money throwing t, i < • ■ lamps nway.
"Working i iglil hours I am able to
earn about five dollars a day. or a
shade over a ( < nt a minute h'or pur
poses of figuring we will call it an
even cent No.,
"To soak off i ruin the envelope the
uncuneelled lamp of a lcttei not sent
Used to take trie about five minutes;
ami then such a stamp Itnd to be spe
cially smeared with mucilage before
tt could b tick again. I figured that
to bring u h a stamp into use cost
me altogi tin i about six minutes’ time.
By this expenditure of lime and labor
I did recover a stamp of the value of
two rents, and yet, as in that time 1
could have earned six cents, on the
whole operation I sustained an actual
loss of lour cent
"So now win n I have a stamp on a
letter Unit finally I don't send I just
throw that good, unused stamp in the
wastebasket end seep on with my
work.
"It never pays to spend more on re
pairs Ilian a new liiing would cost.”
FANTASTIC STONE ON GRAVE.
Remarkable Memorial Erected by
Father in Memory of Daughter
He Idolized.
In ill the cemeteries of the world
■ i■ ■ probably exists no more t'antas*
Mirepilon than In the rural grave
\ d of Pleasant Bulge, in England,
lo the memory of a daughter whom
he idolized, Hannibal Clark, a
wealthy but simple minded farmer,
■ lied ibis remarkable shaft of gran
' lie was so nffet ted by her death
ihut he survived but a short, time
after lie had made provision for the
eiion of the monument Not only
id lie stipulate what lie wished en
nved concerning his daughter, but
■ (i concerning Ills wile and himself.
II was the freakish desire of the fa
tlier to place upon the monument a
t' l'ilea of all that the girl loved ou
i tii. lie left Instructions that no
use be spared to in rrlbe i 'ion
the tone a miniature reproduction of
In objects upon which -lie lavished
her affections. In ol>e. P u ' thereto,
te. stonemasons t• 111s.■ 11i in bold re
lic mi fewer than f 11y dads. Near
ly every Inch of u i- taken up
with these queer figure*. They in
chide a house. >me, plow, grain,
cradie, rooster, hen turkey, cow,
horse, side saddle, pair of scissors,
thimble, violin, copies of love letters,
owl. fish, etc. Kverything that aper
tain a! lo the farm, domestic life and
outdoor pleasure, '.vac., where possi
ble. reproduced upon tins monument.
CL^it at a table of i y persons
on l'ridav the i ph of the
month.
C.Fet a blark (■ •• cr your
path.
CLBreak a mirror.
: CL Walk under a ladder.
CL And bad luck won’t touch
your business if you advertise
in this paper.
«L ! rade ads. know no super
stition.
«Lif you have eoods to sell,
I let the ad. do it.
< oyjiitfht. 1W>. b> \\ N l
AS TO BUILDING UP A CITY
IMPROVE AND BEAUTIFY TWO
ESSENTIAL POINTS
Cam and His Followers As Build
ers in the Land of Nod
Paid Taxes Cheerfully.
When Cain had killed off one
fort h of the people on the earth -
leaving only three, then went into tin
land of Nod and builded a city, it
is evident that he did not sit around
like a lump on a log, and growl about
the Nod real estate and people. He
was not himself, perhaps, the most
exemplary of men. and it he had
some reason to eniigrate from the
lurid of his birth, he did not mope
and whine, but got hold of a piece
of ground and went to work to do
something. The man who could
build up a city under sitvii auspices is
tin* kind of material we want in Falls
City; and we will not inquire too
minutely into his antecedents, so that
j In* takes hold like a mail and he good
I at last.
Hut what is more, Cain did not
advise his son to “go west, and get
out of the old dead town." He name
the city after hint, believed in it,
worked for it, bought iiis goods there
and kept his money at home. Does
anybody suppose that when strang
ers came to Knoeh, i name of the
< Ityi with an} notion of going into
business there, Cain told them it was
a "dead old town," that it was es
tablished by a murderer, that, the
water was had; its merchants all
sharks, and its mechanics botches
tliat tin1 town was not healthy and
would "never amount to anything no
how" Does anybody suppose that
when he wanted to invest a few dol
lars in dry goods he hustled off to
the city, or that he only went to the
merchants of "Knoch" when he want
ed a favor -wanted "a little time?”
Do you think lie ever went away
from home to get clothing that could
bo had at better rates In "Knoeh"
than elsewhere, or to Cincinnati foi
cheap buggies when the “home deal
er” could meet every demand with
more stylish and substantial rigs?
Do you suppose he went moping
stround about taxes being too high in
Knoch" anil no one there knowing
anything about business? No, sir.
lie evidently wasn't built that way
If taxes were high, he got up and
hustled to increase the value of
property, so that there would lie great,
it values to lax. lie built houses and
encouraged others to do so. If city
lots got too low he bought up a
dozen or two, scattered here and
there, for the double purpose rtf per
sonal profit and strengthening values.
On these he put up plenty ot' houses
lit reasonable figures, good ones, ton,
so that when any one catue to Knock
he did not. have to move into an obi
tumble-down shanty fir move on. lie
Improved and beautified every lot.
kept the weeds down and set oy
trees on the lots and in front of lit. -
even where he did not build, thus
adding to the value <1 each lot and
adjoining properly a; well. lie found
that it did not lake mi much money
to run a conn ly. well kept town as h
did a dilapidated, Hod-forsaken one.
and there were four times the values
on which to raise the required money.
Thai’s the way he lowered taxation,
not by sitting on a stump and howl
ing about it If a man wanted to run
a factory, or some other enterprise,
he was not afraid the follow wanted
to make some money, but told hint to
"sail in and I’ll help you all I can.
A business that does not make money
is no good. We want every legiti
mate business in Knoch to make mon
ey. and piles of it."
City Water.
Notice to Water Consumers: Wa
ter rents (flat rate) arc due semi,
annually in advance. May Isi ami No
vember 1st.
By meter, within ten days after
notice of amount due.
Ten per cent shall be added to bill
if not paid when due, as provided by
Sec. 2 of Ordinance No !S:>. and \vu
ter slmll be cut off and the sum of
$1 will be charged for turning on
again.
The city council has, by resolution.
Instructed the water commissioner to
hereafter strictly enforce the above
provisions of the law, beginning on
December 1st, 1909.
Water and light rents can be paid
at the city office, four doors soutIt
of the Richardson County bank, dur
ing business days from 9 till 12 a. m
and from l to -t p. m.
By order of the city council.
N. T VAN WINKLE,
Water Commissioner
Dated Nov. 8th, 1909. 4,'i-tf
Most rvetive.
Old .Maid- Hu so heaven has
seven women to y man, and hell
the reverse'.’ I won't patronize you.
St. Peter li oringly)—Yes, but
you couldn't stain it down there, they
: use profanity, incorrect English, and—
Old Maid—Splendid' At Inst I can
1 teach tn a man's copege'—Brooklyn
Ufe.
, SPORT IN HOOKING ’GATORS
Also Is a Pastime That Has a Consid
erable Amount of Danger Mixed
With It.
; "Hunting alligators at night with
I a bullseye lantern ami shotgun is
j fame sport compared with what is
called a gator hunt down in Florida,”
said an old Floridian. "1 mean the
feat of capturing an alligator alive
and then towing the fellow to high
ground through mud and water from
what is called in Florida a'gator hole.
"The ’gator fishermen first llnd the
hole, which is indicated by an open
ing in the surrounding grass in the
midst of a dense growth of vegeta
i tion, where the ground is worn smooth
| by tlie .alligator In his pulls in and
out. Sometimes these ’gator holes
ire in the nature of a cave in the
bank of a stream and may be 15 or
-'0 feet deep, and if so it is not an
easy matter to get the animal out.
"The fisher is supplied with a long
pole with a metal hook in the end. He
takes a strong rope and throws it
about the entrance of tiie hole. At
tliis Juncture Roosevelt's monkey
hunting in Africa is not in it com
pared to 'gator hunting in the Florida
marsh.
"Then the fisher rams with the
hooked pole down the den and waits
and listens. If he finds the 'gator iu
the hole he teases the beast by pick
ing him until the 'gator in a rage
finally grabs the hooked pole and is
pulled from the den. it is with uncer
tainty that he is dragged forth, for it
is not known whether the catch is a
j large or small one; the fisher does
not know whether to get into shape
to run or to tight. Hut out (he 'gator
comes, bellowing and roaring mad.
"After the 'gator is dragged to tlie
surface he iu his rage turns and rolls
and linally twists himself up in tlie
rope or noose that has been previous
ly prepared. With the assistance of
the others in the party the 'gator's
legs and mouth are tied and the 'ga
j tor is a prisoner.
“The 'gator is for the most part
caught in marshes where the ground
is soft and slushy and too wet for
either horse or wagon to enter. The
Ushers are compelled to carry their
catch to higher ground, there to be
loaded into the waiting wagon, and
the hum is elided.
A Crowded Steamer.
A friend was complaining tlie other
day io ('apt. Barber, port captain of
tlie state pilots, about the crowded
condition ol the steamboat on which
he recently made a trip.
"Four in a room?" replied Barber.
“That's nothing."
"You should have traveled in tlie
days of the gold rush to California. 1
remember one trip out of New York
we carried more than 1.000 passen
gers, and if you put BO on that ship
to-day there'd he a holler that would
reach Washington and make trouble
for somebody. To show you how
crowded it was and what 'crowded’
really means, three days out from
New York a chap walked up to the
old man and said:
“ 'Captain, you really must find me
a place to sleep.’
“‘Where in thunder have you been
sleeping until now?' asked the old
man.
"'Well,' says the lo'low, you sc;-,
it's this way. I've l> en sleeping on a
sick man. but lie's getting better no,,
and won't stand for it much longer.'
—San Francisco Call.
A Bit Tactless.
"Here eert'nly is a coolness between
Mandy Jones an’ Clay Jeff'son dust*
days,” remarked Aunt Clorlnda to a
caller. "Is you got any idee what's
do trouble?"
"Yes, I is." was the gratifying an
swer. "Clay Jeff’son he done hurt
her feelings bad at de strawberry so
cial, an’ Mandy is gwine t’ hab dat
lioy l'arn to he mo' earefuller in his
talk liefo' she 'lows any mo' co'ting."
"\\ hat did lie do?" demanded Aunt
Clot inda.
' ’Twan'n’ what lie do, 'twar what
he sav," replied the well-informed vis
itor. "Miss Colby dat was sarving
do sho'teake, she u\’ Mandy will she
hab a second piece oh it, an’ Mandy
say: Jos' a mouthful!' ~"
"Alt' dat triflin' Clay Jeff'son he up
an' say: All you kin get on de plate,
Miss Colby, be say.
"Cose lie tried to explainily away
all do trouble, but I reckon he's got
to sarve his 'prentieeship befo' Mandy
Yepis any ‘pologies." Youth's Com
panion.
Fruit of the Jack Tree.
The jack Unit, a giant among the
different India, which appears al
ready to have been known by the
name of Jsehakka. among the San
serifs, is found all over southeastern
Asia, as far as the islands of the Pa
cific ocean; the Malabar coast (West
Ghauts) appears to be its habitat.
The jack tree, as it is called in
British India i \rtooarpus integrifolia,
I,)t a relation of the bread tree, of all
trees most resembles in growth, bark
and leaves the silver beech in mid
summer. The trunk and thickest
branches of tills tree, attaining to a
height of eighty to one hundred
lent, are laden with fruit weighing
up to thirty kilograms, three feet in
length, shaped like a somewhat long,
rounded and full packed bag, covered
with numberless green or yellowish
green pyramidal prickles about .03
centimeter high.
As Like as Not.
Pill—1 see n man is trying to drift
across the arctic « • Win re do you
suppose he'll bring up'.
Jill—Oh. ou U*g lectura platform
probably.
Get Your Kitchen Right
Before Thanksgiving
.
The Old Way.
■
The New Way.
Next week you won't have time to think of the
steps you take. Turkey and cranberries will rule
the day.
1 his week you ran put Hoosier system in vour
kitchen and reduce your steps next week.
\Y ith your- kitchen rig-ht—all,! your work centered
Mr. Husband:
We art- owls at
the Xmas ^ame.
Whisper "Hoo
sier Special ” to us
now.
I 1
a rou.nu your uoosier
Special Cabinet—you ^ put
an end to most of the
hard work that goes with
l'hanksgiving Day — and
other days.
lake this opportunity to
make your kitchen [)really convenient — actually
up-to-date.
The opportunity is unusual because our determina
tion to win in the $r,ooo.oo prize contest brings
you the Hoosier Special practically on vour terms.
k onsult economy get vour Hoosier Special now.
Reavis & Abbey
Falls City, Neb.
FOR SALE
1GWKU9K
RICHARDSON CO. FARMS
40 acres rolling land, $1,400.
94 acres bottom land, $6,500
100 acres rolling land, $5,000.
80 acres good land, $7,600.
80 acres good land, $7,200.
80 acres good land, $9,200.
80 acres good land, $12,000.
110 acres good land, $12,760.
160 acres good land, $16,000.
160 acres good land, $16,000.
160 acres good land, $20,000.
320 acres good land, $25,000.
OKLAHOMA LAND
240 acres improved, $4,500.
160 acres improved, $3,000.
PALLS CITV PROPERTY
A1 four room house, $1,200.
A1 fine modern cottage, $3,500.
5 room house, 5 lots, $2,500.
8 room modern residence, $4,500
10 room, fine residence, $3,200.
9 room modern residence $7,000
6 room residence, $2,500.
7 room residence, $3,500.
The above are all well improved properties and worth the money.
1 also have several good farms to exchange for good income j
property or business.
I have a couple of fine business propositions for sale.
fy you wish to buy, sell or trade see me, I may have a bar
gain for you.
G. H. rALLSTEAD
PALLS CITY, NEBRASKA
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