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THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Entered as second-class matter at Falla Citv. Nebraska, post office, Janu ary 12. 1004, under the Act of Congress on March 3. 1870. Published every Friday at Falls City, Nebraska, by The Tribune Publishing Company W. H. WYLER, Editor and Manager. One year ... fl-^O Six rr out Its ... ... Three months .40 TELEPHONE 226. MUCK RAKING. The agitation calling for an inves tigation of some of the deals promoted by the city officials in the past Is meeting with some favor. Tile Trib une has no criticism to offer, neither can we gite the matter any real en couragement. We admit freely that deals have been put through in the past whereof no one is proud, and concerning which the less that is said the better. Hut those tilings are now past Our concern if for the present. If any investigations are to be undertaken, let them be done in a way not to detract from the ac complishing of tlic needed improve men Is that are clamoring for recogni tion right now. The people arc the government, and the Falls City administration of the* past. Is just what it was. because the people were what they were. When llio people arise ami declare for re form there will in- reform, ns bus been so clearly demonstrated in Kan sas City, Lincoln and many other places. Mayor Keeling and his coun cilmc’ii an- trying in thedr way to meet the wishes of tlie> people as they understand them. They may be mis taken. Hut it only remains for citi zens to show clearly and positively what they want and there will bo a response on I he part of Hie city of ficials. The Tribune inn not agree with one of our exchanges twe withhold the name) which argued that Kalis City continued the old order of things be cause tin' people were satisfied with the way the city administration was being run. The people are not satis fieri with the way the city admlnls tration was being run. The people are not satisfied. Nobody claims they are. The question is not as to wheth er or not tlie citizens are satisfied, for the dissatisfaction is general. The question is what can we do to im prove conditions? In the recent election it was the fear of making matters worse that prevented many from voting for a change1 and not any desire to perp -mate the old order of things. There are still a vey consid erable number of otherwise sensible and level-headed people who shy of everything that smacks of temper ance as they would of poison. They mean well, and stand loyally by their guns. 1 tut they are wrong and are a drug on the progress of reform. We want certain improvements and we want them quickly. Not only do the people want them, but the. mayor and couneilmen also. How nmy we succeed in compassing their accom plishment without, waiting for anoth er election? Mayor Keeling believes he is true to the majority. Idke our president, Mr. Taft, he thinks lie is serving the people, its not true, however, and the people are begin ning to protest. The truth of the matter is that these men are serving their advisors. They are being bias ed by their little circle of confiden tial friends. Tito way to get a hear ing is to make yourself one of the mayor’s advisors, it's your business and your duty. Don’t stand off and growl because the other fellow has gotten an audience, but wade in and make yourself heard, if every free holder in Kalis City will il»> the-, con ditions in Kalis City will change quickly. THE WIDOW'S MITE. Last Sunday Dr. Aked of the Fifth Ave. Baptist church (Rockefeller's church) took up pledges for $3:14,000 with which to build a new church; tit the same time Rev. Watson of the Brethren church of Falls City raised $::6."> for mission work. The contrast brought out by the two incidents are strikingly suggestive. Will the breth ren of Rev. Watson's church be eligible to claim the widow’s bless ing by vlrture of their Insignificance when compared with the Rockefeller crowd? Or will the fact that they did not put in all their living bar them also. • * * OUTLOOK CONFLICTING. A straw is said to indicate the dir ection of the wind. But when many straws lean in every direction, it may well puzzle the prognosticator to read the signs interrigently. This is about the situation of the politicians since the last election. Insurgents, stand-patters, wet democrats, dry democrats, and all the other fry are all eagerly trying to fish comfort out of the medley of conflicting election returns coming in from all over the country. It’s puzzling and dis .on corting in the extreme to the old line men. They ran’t read the signs. They are new signs. The old things are passing away. New issues, vital and real are engaging tin* thoughts of j the people It's a time of change, | The task of lining up is a tedious land difficult one. Many strange and j freakish tilings are being done. Hut I nut of all tills seeming chaos one I tiling is dear—a new day is dawn ! iug The people are awakening and ; challenging lie* old order of things land demanding their rights. The i people are supreme. The world moves. * * * ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION The disposing of Itockcfclli i s five hundred million dollars for charity is proving a puzzling proposition, for moralists, philanthropists and states men alike. Rockefeller is built on too big a plan for mother earth. 11 its schemes are too huge to be either right or practicable. No man can oine fairly by five hundred million dollars. Neither will the giving away of millions atone for the wickedness by which they were acquired. Let Rockefeller confess his sills like any other sinner anil make restitu tion according to the gospel of .lesus Christ and the poor of America will lie really helped. WHY I VOTE DRY. My boy wns working in a bank. They were unable to keep him as their business did not justify the ex pense. He went to Wyoming. Here he learned of parties who were start ing a new bank and at once applied for a position. The banker asked him lo call again the next day. lie was given the position and is still working there. When my boy came home I asked him how it happened that a bank would employ a stranger without any reference. "Father, the man asked me Just two questions. 'Do you drink?’ and Do you smoke cigarettes?' I said no, 1 was never inside of a saloon ainl 1 do not use tobacco in any form, lie hired me then and there and I have been with hitn ever since.” I then thought just what kind of position would my boy be holding if he had been iu the habit of taking an occasional drink? And I fell that while my boy might lie safe I could not afford lo place the open saloon before my neighbor's boy to cause Dim to stumble and perhaps fall, and I voted ‘‘DRY” and always will vote dry. • * * THE SLOCUM LAW. The present Slocum law provides that the licensed saloon keeper shall support all paupers, widows, and or phans, and the expense of all civil and criminal persecution growing out of, or justly attributed to his traffic in Intoxicating drinks. "When any person shall become a county or city charge by reason of intemperance, a suit may be instil u ted by the proper authorities on the bond of the person licensed under tills act, who may have been in the habit of selling or giving intoxicating liquor to tlu> person so becoming a pu* 11c charge.” This is pretty hot dope, it will bo of interest to petition signers in Falls City and vicinity. The man who pre sumes to vouch for the good behav ior of so disreputable a business as the American saloon is engaged in a thankless task. * it! Ik TUBERCULOSIS SUNDAY. April "4 lias been suggested as Tu berculosis Sunday by tho National Association for the Study and Preven tion of Tuberculosis. Pastors of the more than two hundred thousand of churches In the United States have been asked to observe the day ill an appropriate manner. The idea is timely and the request reasonable. We would not hesitate to pray for deliverance from a threatening cal amity. ,\ war, a conflagatioti, an earthquake would be considered an appropriate theme to preach from. The "Great White Plague" is worse than all these other calamities com bined. An yet, by the exercise of christ liun considerations for others and self-denial it is largely preventable. United action on the part of the church members of tho land would stamp It out in a generation or two. If the church realizes her opportu nity she will not show less reverent love for God, but she will do more and more to emphasize her brotherly love to man by giving her endorse ment and co-operation to practical measures of up-to-date philanthropy in seeking to change the intolerable conditions under which multitudes aro compelled to struggle through life. Tiie preachers who have so cheer fully aided in the anti-tuberculosis movement in the past will doubtless be found generally willing to com ply with the National Organizations request. It is important that the different congregations have impress ed upon their minds and consciences the practical advantages of preven tion and cure. If every preacher is faithful, it is estimated that one-third of our entire population will be reach ed and Instructed Naturally there will be those who will object, and not without reason, to giving over of their pulpit time to the discussion of what muy seem to be a purely phil anthropic topic. We will not deny that there are other themes equally urgent and of greater impoianee. Nevertheless, we trust our readers will appreciate the practical sense and far reaching significance of the appeal and devote Sunday. April 24 to a thorough setting forth of this great subject. Persons desiring additional infor mation can obtain the same by writing to the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, IH5 Bast 22(1 Street, New York. WITH OUR NEIGHBORS. News Of Interest From Our Neigh boring Towns. Humboldt went wet by the small margin of nine votes. This must of t< i small consolation for some of the church people of Humboldt, who worked with the wets or did not vote at all because they couldn’t win any way. Morrill, Kas., has a Commercial dub of fifty members. If ever they get busy Morrill will see things do ing. Morrill, Kas , has a rurhi route served by automobile. Hiawatha may follow suit. It will be up to some enterprising earlier to hold up the reputation of Kails City and invest in an auto. Principal Eastwood of the Stella/ public schools lias been elected as principal of the Hiller schools at a salary of $02.50 per month. The citizens of Troy, Kas., voted' to put in electric lights by n strong majority. Nemaha county is in favor of good roads, But will the long-suffering farmers ngrs ^ to make regular and systematic use of the "King Drag" in order to have them. Omaha had a million dollar fire last week. The Commercial dub of Pawnee at its last meeting! appointed a "grievance commit tee," to arbitrate in ease of djffi retire or difficulty be tween different parties in Pawnee. A good idea. Who next? Hiawatha's city council has set the limited of cost of paving at $2.00 per square yard. The Grand Island will spend from $25,000 to $50,00n hi improvements in Hiawatha during the summer. Pawnee lias small pox. One death is reported. Hiawatha lias a sensation in the form of a white man marrying a lady of color. W. G. Chaplin, a Hock Island con ductor, is in difficulty because lie charged a passenger more than the legal two cent per mile fare. Humboldt has an election fraud case on band, Good company for some of t l»o elect, who voted wet. If the saloon is a good thing, Have lock certainly had more of the ‘‘good tiling" titan they were able to ap l.roekite. • ;'r due has a "measly" epidemic. Tin* lieabh officer of that'city esti mates tint there ate 2,000 cases of measles in the city. Fourteen firms doing business in Pawnee have joined in a co-operative delivery system. This will mean a considerable reduction in the cost of i he delivering of goods by dealers. The Commercial club of Fairbury gave the farmers in the vicinity a banquet. Over 100 were Invited and three-fourths of them responded. Light refreshments were served and live speeches on the subject of "Hoad building' were made. Pledge's were made that will result in the building of over thirty miles of good roads around Fairbury. Alliance, Neb., voted $73,000 bond issue to extend and improve , their city water works and to install a municipal lighting plant. Dodge county has taken the "good roads fever." The Freemont Com mercial club are at the head of the agitation. The entire county is be ing shaken up and having pressed up on them the importance of improved high ways. —Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liv er Tablets assist nature in driving all impurities out of the system, in suring a free and regular condition and restoring the organs of the body to health and strength. Sold by all druggists. HAS FOUNDATION IN ROCK Remarkable Church in German Town Around Which There Linger Superstitious Tales. In the quaint old German town of Oberstein an ancient church stands, built In tlie great rock rising from the river. The front of the building is of stone, but the church itself is hol lowed out of the rock and penetrates far into its heart. Tradition says that in flic fourteenth century the count of Oberstein, one of the old robber barons, fell deeply in love with a beautiful young lady, the daughter of a neighboring knight. His brother also sought tht> fair maiden's hand and the two suitors had a violent quarrel. The upshot was that the count (lung his hapless brother from the top of his castle wall, higli up the precipitous cliff, Repenting of his awful deed, the count vowed that he would build a church where his broth er's body first touched the ground. He did so, excavating the church in the rock, and tradition goes on to say a miraculous spring of clear water sprang from the crag as a token that Heaven was appeased. This curious church is now the only Protestant place of worship in the town.— Wide World Magazine. SEEMED LIKE THE OLD TIMES Young Man’s Visit to Telephone Ex change Was with a Definite Purpose. A hush fell over die young women in the telephone exchange when they saw him enter. It was not a per ceptible hush; the noise of the instru ments and of the operators who were engaged in saying “Hello!" kept it front being that. The visitor was a young man, but his face was full of ennui and other foreign expressions. These all van ished as lie heard the din of conver sation and machinery about him. "Who is he?” asked one of the young women. "Him?" "Yes." "Why, lie is a man who was once a swell, hut In* lost his money and his friends. Whenever he begins to pine for ids old associations, he comes up here and thinks of old times and feels happy." "I don't see what he wants to come here for." "Why. lie listens to tlie noise, and imagines lie’s at a live-o’clock tpa." Unwarranted Assumption. A youth from the Horton neighbor hood went to Nevada and got a mar riage license. He supposed he was the girl's first choice, although he had never come to tiny "definite under standing" on the subject. The Sun day following the purchase of the li cense the couple went to church, and during the progress of the service the young man unfolded the certificate and, showing it to the girl beside him, said; “Let’s go up after the preacher gets through and get married.” The young woman was so shocked that she could not speak for a few mo ments. Then she told him he had spent his money foolishly and asked that he never speak to iter again. The "sympathy of the community’ ’is di vided.—Kansas City Star. Houses of Corncobs. In certain parts of Kurope corneobs are utilized for building purposes. The cobs are taken to a factory, where heavy compresses crush and mold them into blocks of various sizes, just ns bricks are variously molded. These blocks are then hound with wire so as to make them hold together. They are then soaked in tar in order that they may bo watertight, and. after this dast operation, thfey are ready for the market. This product is, of course, much lighter than brick; and they are al ways dry, which cannot he said of the brick. It is said that the corncob con struction affords a good house for tlie poorer class. Two-Headed Snake. We saw with our own sober eye on Wednesday of last week the double headed young rattlesnake caught a couple of weeks ago on an island in Uuek Creek swamp by Messrs. Hair and Ilartzog. It was a sure-enougff rattlesnake, some six or seven inches long, about the size of the largest part of the body of a pipestem and beau tifully marked. One head was a little larger than the other, but both were fully developed. There was a little button on the tall, showing that its nge was about a year. For a sight o( this great curiosity we thank W. II, Lard.—liranwell People. He Had a Choice of Churches. A. young man who travels in the west for a local manufacturing firm was telling his friends of his trip. "Last Sunday I was In a little town that boasted one small hotel," he said, "and 1 asked the landlord where I . could go to church." "Well,” lie said. “I guess you want to know the different denominations. You can take your choice of what we got.-We got a Reformed Tresbyterian, an’ we got a United Presbyterian an' we got another Presbyterian that ain’t neither reformed or united.”—Phila delphia Telegraph Must Deliver the Goods. "Statesmanship has its cares," said one Eminent citizen. "Yes," replied the other: "when a statesman travels, he has to get up speeches for the people to read, in stead of merely si riding home pc3t cards " College Creations *j[ The illustration shown hereon portrays one of the newest creations for Young Men,designed and tailored by Weil Pilaum & Co., Chicago. This is a most grace!l:1 model— full of style, snap and elegance, wuh that niity touch so much desired by the particular dresser. A wide range of the sea son s newest and tastiest fabrics are now on dis play. Step in at your convenience. You will enjoy looking them Makers Weil Pftaum & Co. OVCT. Chicago Seansonable Lines of Men's and Youth s Furnishings Underwear, Hosiery, Collars and Ties WAHL &r PARC HEN WE KEEP OPEN UNTIL NINE O'CLOCK The Falls City State Bank Will be pleased to loan you what money you may need on approved security, i This bank desires your business and is in a position to extend such accommodations and courtesies as are con sistent with good banking. If you are not already a customer we herewith give you a hearty invitation to become one. Falls City State Bank RETAIL MERCHANTS! We have in stock a complete line of Stoneware and Brooms Also all kinds of Table Salt and Barrel Salt. Lump Rock and Crushed Rock Salt for ice-cream and hides. Just received a car of GOLD COIN FLOUR We manufacture Climax Chick Feed, the best balanced ration for little chicks Guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded. GIVE IT A TRIAL. IT BRINGS RESULTS. HECK & VVAMSLEY FALLS CITY. NEBRASKA\ white Englishware I()7=piece Sets $8.00 68=piece Sets $5.75 100-piece Sets $7.25 45=piece Sets $3.75 In Roses and Gold Designs same price Buy NOW, while these Prices Hold Good Rick s Store Opp. Jenne Opera House Falls City, Neb. Let Us Be Your Waiter We never tire of helping others when they ask for good job printing. We can tickle the most exacting typographic appetite. People who have partaken of our excellent service come back for a second serving. Our prices are the most reasonable, too, and you can always de pend on us giving your orders the most prompt and careful attention. Call at this office and look over our samples.