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THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Consolidations Kails City Tribune, Humboldt Enterprise. Kulo llecord, Crocker's Educational Journal and Dawson Outlook. Entered as second-class matter at Falls City, Nebraska, post other, Janu ary 12, 1*104. under the Act of Congress on March -5. 1 H7*». Published every Friday at Falls City, Nebraska, by The Tribune Publishing Company W. H. WYLER, Editor and Manager. One year Sl.flO Six months • ••* Three mouths -4*1 TELEPHONE 226. e=-■ - ■ -- FROM LIFE. Some years ago two young men, brot hers.came from England to Amer ica. The one was a painter, and the other was a butcher by trade They both married girls in the tqwn In which they were living. They made good money and could live freely Both began *o drink Their wives soon became alarmed and tried to persuade them to Quit Moth promis ed to give tip the drink. Hut they soon broke their promise and drank more than ever In four years the one died with delirium tremens. The wife of the other begged of him to quit, and stay at home with her and the children Hut he could not. The drink demon had him in hit. power, and dragged him down deeper and deeper. One evening his wife had a Severe toothache. She begged him to stay with her and take care of the children. Hut lie refused and went off to the saloon At nine o'clock in the night, after the child ren were asleep, she went to tin* drug store for some medicine for her tooth. The text morning they found the body still and cold by the sa loon, to which her husband had gone, and where he was drunk. — Last week a man and a young boy j came to Falls City to do some Imsi-, ness. Before leaving town the man j bought some beer. On the way home j he began drinking He tried to make the boy drink. The boy re fused at first The man became angry anil threatened to pul the hoy off of the wage n and make him walk all the way home if he would not drink of the In ci Afraid to refuse, the boy began to drink and before they reached home vvusdrunk. Ahoy, only a mere child, taken home to his mother, drunk on Falls City beer last week. THE JUVENILE PROOLCM. \t the trial of the McDaniel boys In the county court house la u Thurs day, the public schools and the local churches wen severely criticised. It is conceded that neither of these Institutions is perfect. Both the pul) lie schools and the churches of Falls City are ready to admit their limi tations. But. they are growing. They may not be successfully meeting every human frailty with n strong and sure prop. They may not at the present stage of their develop ment be saving from ignorance and viclousness every boy and girl in Falls City, but they are earnestly en deavoring to ilo so. If they have thus far measurably failed, it has been from no lack of intention. This Is more than can be said of the over critical brethren, who took advantage of the occasion to vent their ill-will against the only institutions in Falls City that stand for progressive right eousness. At the trial the statement was made tlml no man was known who would be willing to accept the re sponsibility of acting as sponsor or elder brother to the boys Tills state ment. it' true, illustrates a serious weakness ou the pari of the better I class of citizens The Juvenile prob ] lom is u s. rlous one. It can not be indifferently passed by Hole are two I mimanayable boys. They are repre sentative of a very considerable man ner of boys, who because of a lack of bottle restraint, are growing up on tin* street, familiar with ail that is coarse and vile and innocent of everything that a normal boy re quires to grow him a manly man. These boys are the victims of Hr 1 cumstances. They are only babes. The jail is no place for them, nelt.Ii er the reform school. They are not thieves; but, very ordinary kids. Their operations so far are teinark ably original and indicates capacities for doing things that are truly re markable. Are there no doors will ing to open and welcome these i wo boys to a true homo? It is an op portunity for some one to break up the crushing ennui of a purposeless life by fathering and mothering the waifs until they can be returned as useful and respected citizens to fill positions of responsibility and trust in tin* community. The Juvenile court should have on file lilt' names of high standard men and women willing to assume the responsibility of taking charge of any juvenile cases coining before the court GRATITUDE. It is a good thing to give thanks. Gratefulness is an art and hears cultivation There is a vicious ten dency spreading throughout I lie land It is grounded iu the fallacious argu ment that the world owes me every thing. It forgets that tie- world really owes me nothing and that 1 owe the world a life. The child that has lost Ills sense of gratitude has lost Ills hotter self. To la appre ciative of favors and kindness is normal and very human. HSveti beasts show their gratefulness to kind mas ters Should a man do less than the beast ho drives? One of the marks of manliness in the hoy and of wo manliness In the girl, is the ability to he appreciative, I .earn to say, thank you,freely and gracefully. Have you ever thanked mother for giving you life? l*o It now, on Mothers’ Day. Thank your teachers;they have be en kind to you,ami home wi'li your foibles patiently. Hive Thanks! * * * The W. C. T. I . workers of Paw nee and Richardson counties met in convention iu Kails City Tuesday and Wednesday. It is to ho the persistence of these tireless workers Dial wo owe the inception of the gathering storm that is driving the rum curse from our land. There is nothing spasmodic about their propaganda They keep eternally at it In season and out of season these heroic souls fight on. Victory docs not. elate them and defeat cannot crush them. They may only he women, but they are the mothers of our boys. May their mem hers and their zeal increase. * * * Several years ago a thoughtful, in genious soul conceived the idea of celebrating Mothers' day once a year. The idea has met with a very kind reception all over the land, and now in thousands of schools and churches Mothers’ day lias come to be a fixture and once a year a diiy is devoted to the mothers and their problems. Next Sunday, May s will ho Mothers' day again. Carna tions are worn by those who wish to emphasize their appreciation of the day. The carnation hits been chosen as the symbol of the day. Talks will he made and sermons preached em phasizing motherhood. SHammyraaiawM •- -***■ —■ A Beautiful Custom! It is a beauiful custom at the performing of this cere mony. to pive presents— little upfts of remembrance. An Article of Jewelry is always in good taste and is very much appreciated by the deserving ones. If it comes from Jaquet's you can feel sure that it is a memento which will last, and assures a lasting pleasur • to the recipient, i A. E. Jaquet THE OLD RELIABLE JEWELER AND OP 1ICIAN I MADE BRAVE FIGHT — i CONVICT'* REMARKABLE BATTLE FOR FREEDOM. Record Walk Acrota Africa la HI*— How He Reached Europe Only to Fall Into the Hand* of Hla Enemies. News was received lu I^ondon re cently of the death of Joseph Cres wlek, who while fleeing from Justice accomplished one of the most remark able walking feats on record, eays the London Globe. f’reawlck was undergoing n sen tence for forgery In Rhodesia and while being conveyed from one prison to another by train (as reported some months ago) conceived the Idea of escaping from his guards. As his legs were heavily Ironed the task was by no means an easy one, but one night, when the train in which he was being conveyed was between Buluwayo and Salisbury and his guards were asleep Oreswick quietly opened the carriage door and jumped out. When he reached the ground lie fell but was not badly hurt. During the remainder of the night he shuffled along In the dark and at daybreak could see the railroad In the distance. He decided to walk In a straight line from It, which he did for several days, itill with his feet shackled. Day after day and night after night he rubbed his Irons with the sharp est pieces of rock he could find until at last he was able to throw Ills man acles aside After (his Creswick went on with great strides through the un known country in which he found himself, his sole oibjert being to get to some white settlement. Some weeks after his escape the wanderer had a wonderful piece of luck. In a hut apparently lielonging to a settler he found a gun and some ammunition, which under the clrcum-1 stances he did not hesitate to lake possession of. With the gun he managed'to shoot several zebras and other animals, wTleh provided him with a welcome meal; but unfor tunately his gun got out of order be fore his ammunition became exhaust ed and ho had to rely upon fruit for his sustenance. Just when C'reswlek was coming to the conclusion Ihnt he had been walk ing ’round and ’round without making much progress he fell In with some natives, who gave him certain direc tions as to how to find "a very long I watwr,” which Creswick concluded must mean the Ttiver Congo, and for several more weeks he continued his tramp. Eight months after his escape from the train between Salisbury and Bulu wayo Creswlek was found hv a party of Belgians lying in a weak and fever ish condition about two hundred unties from Leopoldville on the Congo. They nursed him back to health and strength. At Bomba, arrayed in, all the glory of a pair of cricket flannels and a football jeri-ey provided by his new friends, the fugitive found ship on which he worked his passage to Antwerp. From there he got a ship to London. That, however, led to his undoing, for while walking in White chapel lie was recognized by Detective Inspector Belcher of Scotland Yard, who arrested him on the chnrge of es caping from lawful custody. He was taken subsequently to Rho desia as a fugitive offender, and for his escapade he was sentenced to a further term of six months imprison ment during which lie died. Fire Means Free Lunch. The fire alarm sounded and a vagrant who had been huddled in a dark hallway crept out and joined the crowd hurrying to the midnight fire. Presently others of his fraternity ap peared. "Why do all you Johnnies always break your necks to get to a tire?" said a man who was something of a tire fiend himself. The vagrant pointed to a woman who was emerging from a nearby apartment house carrying a pail of steaming coffee. "There’s the answer," he said. "At every winter tire that gives the fire men a hard tussle the women of the neighborhood bring out coffee and sandwiches to brace them up. Some times the firemen have time to snatch a bite, sometimes they don’t. Any how ttierc is sure to be something left j over, and the women—well, it’s a hard j hearted woman that won’t give a poor I devil a cup of coffee a night like j this.” The man kept an eye on his candid j derelict. He got two cups of coffee 1 and two sandwiches. _ Favorite Food. "At the age of TO years a man has consumed 96 tons of food, it is said,” remarked the lady at the head of the boarding house table. "And how many of those tons are represented by prunes, do you sup pose?" asked the man' with gray beard and squeaky voice. Anything Familiar to You? "Why do men climb mountains?" i asks the New York Sun. Possibly it’s j so that people who don’t believe they I ever did can organize a party to go to the top of the mountain next sum S mer, ■ Attractive. "That widow is very attractive.” "Attractive nothing! She is as ugly as a mud fence." ••I was thinking of the insurance she collected on the death of her late husband."—Houston Post. SOLDIERS UNDER TWO FLAGS How the Call of Adventure Under For eign Colors Has Brightened History. The, American may he pardoned for yielding to 'he lure of adventure In for eign wars, and (hose two whose recent execution In Nicaragua belonged to a large and noble company of soldiers of fortune who fought, sometimes for pure love of fighting, sometimes for re venge, but more often for love of lib erty and very rarely for pure love of gain. Not all the heroes of history have been those who fought under their own Hag The Dutch government took a deservedly prominent part in the recent celebration of the Hudson Fulton centennial, but Hudson wrh an Englishman who sailed under the flag of Holland, and while he was not a soldier of fortune In the belligerent sense of the word, he was one of the world’s greatest adventurers who won his fame under a foreign standard. Christopher Columbus was an Italian, who discovered—or rediscovered—a continent and planted on the sands of the western world the banner of Spain. Apparently, Indubitable and exhaustive researches by Minnesota historians and scientists have proved that Colum bus came here centuries after the Scandinavians discovered America, whose very name was derived from that of another Italian. Chinese Gor don's sobriquet indicates his career, and the history of the orient Is replete with instances of Europeans who rose to power, while American colonial his tory bears on Its pages the names of Lafayette, Pulaski, Steuben. Kosciusko nnd others who fought for human free dom under an alien flag Garibaldi fought under three flags, those of Italy, Prance and Uruguay; anil in connec tion with tiie South American revolu tions it is not particularly anomalous that one of the national heroes of the Argentine republic is O’Higgins, while one of the great African war heroes of Spain was O’Donnell, the apostrophes In vvhoses names are self-explanatory. When the roster of all the world's armies of conquest and defense, of do minion and discovery, of exploration and expansion, is scanned, It Is found that more than one flag floated over many a hero, and that detection under a foreign banner Is not self-confessed outlawry, worthy of execration anil punishment. Neon and Electric Waves. It has recently been discovered that the rare atmospheric gas neon read ily becomes luminous under the influ ence of electric waves, and It Is sug gested that the property may afford a means of visually reading wireless telegraph messages. Prof. W. L. Dud ley experimented with a tube of neon during an Atlantic voyage in July, and found that the gas glowed beau tifully In response to the waves sent out from tlie wireless apparatus of llio ship, but the received waves were ap parently too weak to affect It sensi bly. Further experiment may result In the discovery of a means of utiliz ing this property of neon as a detector of received signals. At present it is employed to measure the length of electric waves sent out. The length of those tested by Prof. Dudley was about 800 feet. 1___ Victim of a Soft Heart. T|ie prison visitor looked at the oc cupant of cell No. 40 through eyes that were dim with tears, and passed a few more fragrant blossoms between the Iron bars. "You poor unfortunate!" she ex claimed. "So you were brought to this through sympathy for another. Tell me all about It. Perhaps something can be done to set you free.” "Well, mum, ’twas this way,” ex plained the convict. "When me and my mate cracked the crib we found the bank watchman asleep an’ we tied an’ gagged hint. It was him as arterwards Identified me.” "Yes; and the sympathy for an other?” asked the visitor. “It was ter him, mum. My mate wanted to stick a knife in him. If I hadn’t been a fool an’ done it I wouldn't be here talkin'ter you now." - Boston Traveler. A Fatal Superstition. A peculiar case illustrative of the fell power of superstition is reported from Ooduababba, Australia. The death occurred a short time ago of an aborigine, "Navvy Tom,” a black of fine physique, whose portrait appears on the cover of Mr. Foster Fraser’s work, "Quaint Sul jects of the King.'? This native was comparatively intelli gent and civilized, having been in the employment of whites for many years, and physically he was about the finest type in the northwest, yet he died be cause another black, an enemy, pointed a bone at him. No amount of reason ing or ridicule on the part of the whites could save him. Once a black has been "boned,’ he simply wastes^ away; neither eats nor sleeps proper : ly, and the end soon comes. Abori-' gines are fatalists, and "Navvy Tom” was no exception. Bride’s Fire Baptism. An alarming accident under most unusual circumstances occurred at a wedding ceremony which took place at St. Mark’s church. London, Eng, just recently. Miss J. Robinson and Mr. W. Rliss, the newly-niRrried pair, were in the vestry, signing the regis ter. Suddenly the bride's veil burst Into llames. the edge of it having caught light from the hre in the grate. With extraordinary presence of mind, and amid the screams of horror stricken witnesses, the bridegroom seised the bride and rolled her on the mat, and succeeded in saving her from serious Injury. HIS GREAT MISTAKE FATE OF EMBEZZLER WHO DiSRE GARDED WISE ADVICE. Urged to Confess His Fault, the Cul prit Fled, to Be Overtaken by Retribution When All Seemed to Be Going Well. . "All sorts of criminals come to us ami confess their crimes,” said the Sky Pilot, "and ask our advice, but they don't always lake it. They would be better off if they did. There is one case 1 will tell you ot. A man came one day perfectly white, all to pieces, shut the door behind him, looked all around the room, then asked in a whis per if there was any one about who could hear what he had to tell me. i assured him that there was no one in the house besides 'myself but my sis ter, and she was in the dining-room. The door was shut between. "TJie man then told me his story. He said he had robbed the bankers who were his employers of $7,000 and lost the money in speculation. He begged to jtnow what to do. 1 don't think 1 have ever seen a man nearer the verge of nervous prostration. “I advised him to go to his employ ers and own up. I thought they would give him another chance, let him earn the money, and repay them. He went away after promising me he would fol low my advice. "My sister came in and asked to know what he had confessed. I never repeat Ihdse confessions, so I re mained silent until day after day passed, 1 heard nothing from him and she begged me so hard I told her the story. You know how women are. They never let you alone until they have had their way. "All this happened in Cleveland, O, by the way. "After about two years my sister, who never forgets a name or face, brought me a paper with an account of a man who had shot himself in Den ver. He was running a restaurant out there, a very successful one, it seemed He had gone to hod one night when two men came to ills retaurant, above which lie ran a hotel with rooms to rent. The men were from his old home. Cleveland The boy went up stairs to tell the proprietor that the men wanted to see him. ' 1 he boy no sooner left the room thim the proprietor took the pistol h always kept ready, they said, near him and blew out his brains. “He was the man who had confessed to me. He had gone out there and started this business and was suc ceeding beautifully, but when these two men sent word that they were from Cleveland, lie Immediately jumped to the conclusion that they were detectives sent out by his ok! employers to look him up and arrest him "The men were amazed. They had simply henrd that he was from their home and wanted to see him, think ing he might, perhaps, give them more comfortable quarters for that reason. “Now, you see. If that man had done as I told him to do, confessed to his employers and begged their mercy, he might have been alive to-day.” McEwen's Decision. Not long ago Justice McEwen sat on a cow case; that is. a case involving money due one man for boarding the cow of another. The wrangle was as to what the board was worth. One attorney called three or four liverymen and got their testimony on the cost of boarding a horse. Of course, the opposing counsel objected •and declared such testimony to be In competent. on the ground that the cost, of hoarding a horse is not the same as the cost of boarding a cow. This the other attorney conceded, hut he explained that he was going to follow up the testimony of the livery men with expert testimony to show how much less, if any, It costs to keep a cow than a horse. “Oh, if you are going to work on that plan,” put in McEwen in judicial tones, “you might as well start in with elephants and work down to cows by gradual stages.’ Cleveland Ledger. The Yell a Habit. A delegation of peddlers and rep resentatives of peddlers has appeared before the council judiciary commit tee to urge the repeal of the anti noise ordinance. These peddlers hon estly believe that they can't do busi ness without yelling. As a matter of fact, they have never tried. There is good reason to think that" when they try they will find their business Is as good as ever. If some peddlers had to stop yelling and others didn’t the re sult would be unfair competition, but when all stop together none Is any the worse off. It was pointed out at the council hearing that no Greek ped dlers were complaining of the ordi nance. the reason being that the Greeks used more progressive meth ods than yelling and found them prof itable.—Chicago Record-Herald. Fable. “You've got to advertise If you want people to know you're on earth.” the gorilla said. “It's the lion's roar that makes him the king of beasts. The person who makes a big noise gets to the front.” The rabbit pondered these words and was convinced. Some time later he rose on his hind legs In a thicket and screamed. A coyote, learn ing of the rabbit's whereabouts by his noise, hopped onto him and ate him. Moral—It you haven’t the goods don’t make any noise at all —Kansas City Times. CO-OPERATION AT ROCHDALE Humble Start of Business in England That Amounts Now to $500,000,000. About sixty years ago a few poor workmen in Rochdale. Eng., formed a little co-operative society and started a store which was kept open evenings by the members, who took turns la serving as storekeepers. They were earnest, hard headed and practical idealists, says the Twentieth Century Magazine. Yet it is doubtful if the most sanguine of their number in those early days conceived how great would be the movement that should materialize out of what was in augurated in so humble a way. From that little beginning has grown one of the most successful en terprises of its kind. Great wholesale societies, enormous warehouses, stores, factories and shops and a fleet of ocean steamers are but a few visible results and valuable assets of this great fraiernal federation of workers. In ti e presidential inaugural address delivered by W. It. line at the last congress of the Co-operative union the speaker, after referring to the fact that tlie last year had been a very trying one throughout England owing to the extreme business depression that prevailed throughout the realm, continued: "But even in the face of tlie* natural shrinkage in trade the figures for tho year, so far as co-operative trading Is concerned, are very favorable. Dur ing the year 190S the business done by our societies exceeds that of 1907 by nearly £2,000,000, having risen from C 105,717,699 to £107,550,654, and the membership by nearly 100,000, from 2,434,085 to 2,516,194.” Mr. Rae also held that the co-op erators “have an entry into and somo influence on the life of nearly 2,000, 000 homes, or between one-fourth and one-fifth the whole community.” A Strange Custom of Alaska. Perhaps the most interesting arch aeological discovery made on the north coast of Alaska has a relation to the present methods of personal decoration now used by the natives of Alaska, the most, significant feature of which is the wearing of lip buttons, or labrets, by the men. The present cus tom is that when a boy is 14 or 10 years of age holes are pierced in his lower lip. one below each corner of the mouth. A small wooden plug is at first inserted to keep the hole from growing together, and month by month a bigger and bigger plug is used, til! finally the openings are half an inch in diameter. At this point the young man begins to wear stone or ivory plugs. The ornaments are put In from the inside ordinarily as one might insert a button into a shirt front. Usually the two buttons worn are each of a different sort, while sometimes only one of the holes Is filled, and in summer men are occa stonally met with who wear no but tons at all. When a visitor is seen ap proaching, however, the ornaments are always inserted, for one does not feel dressed without them. In pre paring for bleep they are usually re moved.—Harper's Magazine. Compulsory Buying of Bibles. The first Bible printed In Scotland was Issued complete In 1579. In the same year, by act of parliament, every gentleman, householder and others “worth thrie hundreth merkls of yier lie rent or abone,” and every yeoman and burgess with £500, had to pro vide, under a penalty of £10, “a Bible and psalme buke in vulgare language In thair houssls for the better instruc tion of thame selffls and thir famelljs in the knawledge of Hod.’’ To see that the provisions of the above act were carried into effect, the following year a searcher was appoint ed with power to visit the houses of those signified by the act “and to re quire the sicht of thair Psalme BulkiM and Bybillis.’’ In a footnote it is add ed: The privy council had In 1575 commanded and charged ‘the piincl pallls and Heldismen of euery parochln alswelll to Burgh ns Landwart’ to con tribute and collect £5 for the pur chase of a Bible to be placed in every parish kirk.” France’s Big War Fund. At the present time, find for the fu ture, as weP, there Is lying at the Hank of France, In Paris, a reserve gold store of £160,000,000, which is, in fact, writes one correspondent, “looked upon as a war fund, besides which the twenty millions of Germany look very small. Hut the German “Kreigschatz,” or emergency war chest fund, only amounts to six millions sterling, and it is lying not in the Reichsbank, at Ber lin, but in the vaults of the Julius tow er, in the fortress of Spandau, near the capital, against the coming of Ger many’s next evil day. It has been ly ing there as a dead fund ever since Germany received from France her war indemnity of £260,000,000, from which it was taken. Twelve Million Telephones. It Is reported that there are now in this country 12,000,000 telephones, or one for every two houses in the coun try. This does not mean that one half of the residences in the country contain an instrument, since many business houses have a large number but the figures are instructive and il luminating. Practically everybody who is anybody in the cities or towms and villages has a telephone, while those in the country districts are legion. The astonishing fact is that each of these phones is used on an average of six times a day. The total number of calls in a year runs up into the bil lions and is not appreciable bv th« human mind.
