The Point in Question THE KINDLY CRITIC There is a big difference between j Ihe autumn leaves of the city and of the woods. Walking along the streets, at this season of the year one sees j men laboriously at work sweeping and raking up the fallen leaves and burn ing them in heaps in the gutter lest they accumulate and prove unsightly, and the smell of burning mingles with perfume of cooking cabbage on the I block, and the soul of man whose province it is to pass by is made sad. But out in the woods it is different. Who cares how many leaves fall? The great trees have lost most of the leaves they once possessed, and seem, like some great vessel, to be taking j in sail for the approaching winter I winds. The smaller trees and bushes | cling still to their leafy covering, tmw j flaming scarlet, or vivid yellow, and between the aisles Nature has made in the woods the brown and golden leaves, the red and russet leaves, the purple and green leaves are massed into a soft carpet that rustles as one walks upon it, sending up a perfume thaJ is unlike anything on earth. The sky of winter is seen through a net work of hare branches that seem like fairy lacework. The clatter of some squirrel, the pat of some dropped nut breaks the stillness. The far-off cry of some bird follows, and all is still again. And about one’s feet the perfumed leaves of autumn curl and rustle, for these are the glorious leaves of the woods, and not the mis erable, dirty, little bon fire leaves of the town. Thanksgiving! Did you enter into! Ihe spirit, of the occasion, or did you ! carelessly remark that you had noth ing to be thankful for? It may he that a visit to an institution for the blind would help you to realize what a gooh old world it is, or that weary weeks under the care of a physician j is necessary to make you see cause' for giving thanks. One has to but j look about him to see reasons for feeling thankful. Your neighbor on the right has a cough, he on the left has a sorrow; down the street is one with a wayward offspring, up the street is one with a family sor-1 row that will never heal—and you. j why, all is sunshine for you, if you j look up, and your only grievance is I the question of money, money, money.' But isn't it a fact that there are rich men in Falls City of whom you could and do say, in all sincerity, '1 do not envy their lot in life?” '— A pretty girl at the cigar counter no doubt increases the sale of cigars. One of our hotels is trying the • ex periment, and it is said that several inveterate pipe smokers have laid their strong pipes aside and now walk up to the cigar counter and invest their nickles and dimes just like real “sports,” at the same time engaging the pretty saleslady in a conversa tion concerning the weather or the peculiarities and shortcomings of'our town.” And if perchance you should prefer “shaking” for the cigars there is a pretty hand at your service that] can roll out. sixes and aces in a man ner that cinches the deal for the house. Oh, we are progressing, in our town. "Fifty-cent butter by Christmas." de-l dares the dairymen of the stale. Kx horbitant butter prices only hastens the day when people will become accustomed to oleomargarine and butterine. In Falls City the hotels, I or at least some of them have or-j gunized oleomargarine squads (reg ular boarders), whose taste has be ome so perverted by hotel fare that they eat oh o with avidity, and like it and Oliver Twist-like,ask for more; i and saddest of ill some of the squad 1 grow chesty at the generous allow-1 ance of oleo, thinking they are be ing regaled with pure creamery. I Jut I after all, grease is hut grease. Tile merchant is happy these days j here in Falls City. A touch of frosty weather and its accompanying snow, sent the buyers scurrying hither and yon for the needs of winter, and the dorks have been busy in consequence. To procrastinate, where the expendi ture of money is involved, is human, and with many it is not until the winds whistle around the corners of the house and chills the marrow and nips the ears, that they hike for flannels, gloves, mittens. mufflers, and heavy footwear. True, the eat ipiller and the squirrel said, by the usual signs, "mild winter,” but even those who "hank” on the catipiller and squirrel as weather forecasters, are influenced to part with a little money when chattering teeth proclaim that real winter is here, or at least close at hand. The moving picture show has be come a fixed institution in every town and city, and in a measure, is a source of instruction and education, as well as entertaining. Where good order is maintained the best people become regular patrons; where the comfort of patrons is sacrificed to -- the rough element, who fail to appre ciate the true worth of the production, and make themselves obnoxious to others, people who would like toa t tend are discouraged from so doing. Good order is most essential wherevtr ladies and children congregate, and a lack of that element simply hastens tlie day when moving picture shows will become unpopular as a place for women and children. MARKET LETTER. Letter From our Regular Correspond ent at Kansas City. Kansas City, Nov. 22, 1909. Cattle supplies last week were of about the j same volume as previous week, al i though receipts on Monday were very light. Range cattle eauie m freely, and railroads deliver these cattle i on the market when it suits their con venience, without regard to special ■ market days. Prices did not make ! much net change during the week, al though the feeling was firm all week I on killing grades and the out let good. Stockers and feeders sold higher first of the week but closed very little dif ferent front close of previous week. The run today is 20,000 head here, in cluding 2,000 calves, almost twice as many cattle as were here a week I ago, and the liberal supply, togethei I with excessive runs at other markets, naturally lias to sell a little lower, j steers around 10 lower, she stuff 10 to 15 lower. The heavy run of range cattle now coming and the desire of parties in nearby territory to dispose of as many cattle' as possible before winter sets in, accounts for the liber al supply today. Buyers complain of | lack of quality in cattle from native i territory, indicating anxiety of owners j to unload hastily. Prime fed steers J ; have been an unknown quantity here the past ten days, good to choice fed steers selling at $6.25 to $7. 75, some steers and heifers mixed today at $6.85, fair to medium fed steers $5.00 to $8.00, heavy fed cows $4.00 to $4.75, cows $3.25 to $4.75, bulls $2.90 to $4.00, calves $4.00 to $7.25, stock ! steers $3.00 to $5.00, feeders $4.25 to $5.25. One or two lots of fancy Cot ! orado Stockers reached $0,25 lately; and high bred heifer calves weighing ! around 300 pounds sell at $4.25 to ■ $5. 25. Hogs are c oming sparingly, run last | week less than previous week, al though packers persist in predicting a heavier run. The market has had' an upward tendency, although not without interruption, and the 13,000 head here today is selling 5 to 10 lower, top $8.10. bulk $7.60 to $8.05, including all weights. those above j 200 pounds at $7.So and upwards. In ; vestment, buying provisions dropped off last week, and lack of this crop partly accounts for whatever weaknes ’ there is in hogs. With the half-heart-j ; ed support provisions are now get - 1 tion.and the probability of fairly good i runs of hogs this week, a moderate i b- line in prices should not occasion I surprise. Sheep and lambs held about steady last week, but the market is 10 lower today, supply 10,00! any one should encroach upon his ,'d:il province, insisted with some vehemence that a club was not the place for such exercises. I like the boy," he said to me one • ‘ling, “and when he talk. I listen, nit tis pity he draw." It was only a few evenings later that ! entered the room and found the voting friend who had L- <-n the sub bd of Pellegrini’s rebuke absorbing 'he entire conversation of the crowded 'able. Pellegrini was present, and I mild see that lie was growing restive nder the artist's unceasing Mow of conversation. In a momentary mm «* he turned to me. and in an a ■ < ■ Uisper deliv ered -his laconic judgment: "Joe, I ave mufl<- ! imistake. Tis Mutter he draw."—Youth's Companion. TAKING HIS TIME Hobby know bo would marry Both eventually. He had known It for 11 year—ever since that night Beth un expectedly passed through the door way where ho was lazily loaning, wait ing for something Interesting to hap pen "Who is she?” asked Hobby, sud denly alert. "My cousin Both." said the hostess. "Introduce me at once," said Hobby, ”1 want to ask her to marry me." The hostess laughed. She was used to Hobby's extravagances. Hobby met Both later in the even ing. Her eyes shone on him mis chievously and her mouth curved ns if she expected to laugh at. any moment. "Are you going-to rsk me to marry you at once?” she inquired of him j sweetly. Hobby smiled. "1 ; m glad you over heard what 1 said to your cousin.” he replied. ‘‘Now you . re prepared for the inevitable." That wuis a y.vr ago and the in evitable, in the shape of a proposal ot marriage from Hobby, had not come. He knew he would 1 come engaged to her eventually, but >r i!.- time being things were very <■ i (able just us they were. He monopolized Beth's evenings when she stayed at home. He was her constant escort when she was out. He felt all the satisfaction of proprietorship. Still he was not bound, lie could eome and go as he pleased. He look time lor bis club. He could pass an occasional leisurely evening at home witli his pipe. One night, however, he met with re- 1 verses. Beth wore a cream lace gown I that night and—was ravishing. They i had been invited to meet an eastern man who was being introduced to a good many persons. That is to say, he was introduced until he met the cream lace gown containing Heth. Then he courteously declined to be in troduced any further. He remained beside the cream lace gown for the rest of (he evening. "You had every appearance of liking it," said Bobby in a rage as he was taking Beth home. "I did like it very much. I have asked him to eome to see me." For some time after that Bobby's club knew him not. Until the eastern ] man departed he passed no leisurely evenings at home with his pipe. In fact, the eastern tr.-an gave Bobby what is sometimes called a run for his money. "I am glad lie's gone,” acknowledged Hobby, one evening about a week after the eastern rnan had departed. “Are you?'’ said Beth softly. “Then I am glad too." But Bobby did not take warning from the eastern man. When Beth said that soft little “Then I am glad, too," he did not ask her to marry him and save him further alarms. He only relaxed, with great tranquility of soul and eontinued to monopolize her even ings when she stayed at home, to be her constant escort when she went out, to give the world to understand that she was his property—to be very I comfortable, in a word, with the idea of eventually asking her to marry him. nohhv took a fishing t:!p. For six weeks he fished. ITe did not write to Beth very often: it was too hard to write when one was roughing it. “I should have to write her every day if wo were engaged,” thought Bobby. He sent her his biggest catch, how ever. and felt considerable surprise and some resentment when she did not write enthusiastically to thank him. At eight o’clock the first night after Bobby’s return lie rushed up Beth’s front steps. He wanted to see her very badly. He had been gone six weeks. Beth’s mother was sitting alone <>n the poreh. “How is Beth?” eagerly asked Bob by. “And where is she?" , “She was married last night,” said Reih’s mother, quietly. "They left on a late irain. They are going abroad tor their honeymoon." “Married!” exclaimed Bobby dully. “Married;” "It was all very sudden. Beth met him the week you left. He was ex ceedingly eager. Think of it! Mar I ried six weeks after they first saw . each other” Tears stood in Beth’s mother's eyes. She was not thinking of Bobby. She 1 was wishing that daughters did not have to grow up and get married. Alone in his room that night Bobby smoked long and hard. He thought of I many things. When he finally shook the last ashes out of his pipe he said one word to himself. “Fool!” said Bobby. He was feeling very wretched.—Chi cago Daily News. Not Qualified. The two men were getting warm over a simple difference of opinion. They turned to .the third man. "Isn’t a home-made strawberry shortcake better than a cherry pie?" demanded one of them. “Isn't a home-made cherry pie bet ter than any shortcake?" inquired the other. The third man shook his head. “In don’t know," he said. "I board ” Shaky. "I have been the ar hitect of my ns i 0 rti'" , sir." i ’f • 1] „ b„ild ' ' Be yon , School Sanitation The following excellent article on the above subject, by Mrs. Kalloon, was read at the last meeting of So ros is : School sanitation. like charity, should commence at home, if a wise and intelligent supervision over the health of tlie child is maintained at home, there will lie lint little com plaint made for lack of hygienic con ditions in our public schools. Many fevers are due to the use of impure water and the germs of diseases are sometimes taken into our system in our food. Many a child lias gone to nn early grave owing to the use of impure water or impure food. The germ theory of disease teaches us that lieabli is a struggle, as has sometimes been described, between “host and parasite“aiid“inen and mi< robe.' Therefore, if the entrance of our children into our public schools j is healthful, we must as mothers sue I that the water and food we use is | pure and free from germs of disease. lCxpo d and decayed fruit should not ! > brought from tin grocery to the home and all fruit obtained in tin1 market should be thoroughly cook ed before used. Tlie surrounding conditions tliiit either produce or prevent diseases in our schools are largelj under the control of our city fathers. Whether the water the pupil uses is health ful or not depends upon the judgment and intelligence of these officials. Too often our officials lack in patri otic sentiment and are not chosen for an efficient administration of govern ment, but for private ends and like many of our school boards are mere auditing officers who have had but little or no experience in the adminis trative affairs of government. At present we are unfortunate in our water that is used by our school children. It lias a muddy taste and is unfit for drinking. Could it not be improved by sedimentation and filtration? By sedimentation, I mean that our water should he piunpcd at the “staii m" into large reservoirs or cisterns and allowed to settle before used. Much of its impurity would he found in the sediment and its ex posure to air would relieve it of its muddy odor. Then if the water was filtrated through sand, there is little doubt but that the water used in our schools would be healthful and palat able This method of purification of water is in general use in Europe anil in come two hundred cities in the I'nited States. During his school days the parent' divides the care of her child with the teacher and whether the room in which he studies is properly venti lated and kept at an healthful tem-| perature depends upon the interest and integrity of the faithful teacher. The room should he kept ihnroughly < clean and should he so sunny as to he absolutely free from must. The health of tic pupil is i onlingent not only on healthful rci: act prop'r hygienic conditions of the school room but freedom from too close con finement. Nothing is more baneful to the health of a child than that tyranny of the heartless teacher which makes it keep perfectly still. To compel children to sit in seats vvh re their feet do not reach the floor, impedes the circulation in the, legs. To tunic them nit absolutely | si ill on the pain of punishment is to distress them mentally, weaken the hack and sometimes produce curva lure ot tin' spine Children should not ho eoinpolled to recite in their study seats, but should bo given that relaxation and exercise which they obtain in going from seat to recita tion. A pupil should never Jie nag ged. Continual fault-finding in a school room destroys the pleasure of school life and drives from the school room that cheer that is so essential to good health “Youth will never live to age un less they keep in health with exer else, and in heart with joyfulness." A teacher should be a model of health and an example in deportment. It is said that a wise physician is a John Baptist who recognizes that ids only mission is to prepare the way for a greater than himself. Ev ery mother must be u real forerun ner of health, if she wishes to pave Means Much To the level-headed young man, a bank account, added to the de termination to make it larger means much. The names of many such are on our books Young man. young woman, if your name is not on the list would It not be wise to open an account at once and keep adding to it? It's the right thing to do. The amount may be small at first - but all things must have a be ginning THE Falls City State Bank And commence the saving habit now the way for the improved sanitate ■ of our schools f'or it it the mother s child with its Kootlnes.-t, intelliReni healtti or peevishness, v. i111 all it* perfections or imperfect ions that, n become the future teacher. —Wanted—A million bushels of apples at the Leo Cider & Vi"». gar Co’s, new plant. IX V>pc?n-cevkes! Nov. 26, 1909. Dear Friend: We have nice cakes for breakfast every morning ever since we found some nice syrup to put on them. We must use a gallon every two weeks. Pure Maple Syrup at Schmitt’s Meat Market & Grocery Special Sale of Cut Glass Samples We have purchased Cut Class Samples of one of the best houses in the business, and ofler them to von next week At Prices Much Below their Real Value • , 'They will be displayed in our south window. A saving to vou. See the line of hand-painted and rail plates, at Chas. M. Wilson's DEMONSTRATION OF THE CELEBRATED New Home Sewing Machine On DECEMBER FIRST, iqoq, for ONE DAY ONLY, Mr. P. J. Bulliss, State Traveler for the New Home Sewing Machine Co., will be with us and help demonstrate the merits of the world’s greatest sewing machine. The New Home Machine is no stranger among us, having been sold in the state of Nebraska as many years as we can remember. We carry an extensive line of these machines and we wish everyone needing a machine would witness these demonstrations. We have them in all styles of woodwork, both Rotary and Vibrating Shuttles. We will be pleased to tell you how to buy these machines on easy terms. , A souvenir will be given to the ladies attending this demonstration. Everyone cordially invited. Davies & Owens RELIABLE JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA