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    Henry C. Smith
LANDS & LOANS
240 acres well improved, H miles from Depot in Kas. Good spring. Best of terms. Will take
40 acres as part payment, balance long time at low interest.
200 acres 1>4 tniies from depot, Richardson county. Nebraska. Good buildings and land Will
take 40 or 80 acres ks part payment ^
100 acres upland, 1 mile from depot. Richardson county, Nebraska. 512,000.
160 acres Johnson county, Nebraska 80 rods to church and school. Best of terms. Might rent.
107 acres near Brownville, Nebraska
HO acres l*-mile from Falls City high school.
•>40 acres, 88,000 improvements Also 640 acres adjoining. Will take lnQacres a- part udi meut.
rinerunning water. A No. 1 opportunity.
Money to loan.
A TIE-HONORED REMEDY
OUR OLD FRIEND. THE CAMPH
IRE BOTTLE
Dr Morsman s Tribute to and Eluci
dation Upon the Time-Hon
ored Family Remedy.
The cumphoi tree is u native of
China, Japan and eastern Asia It
grows in India to some extent and
an tie cultivated in California and
Florida. It is of exceedingly slow
growth and thus far has not tempted
American capitalists to try ith cul
ture. The American is slow to plant
for his grandchildren to reap
The trees grow to enormous size
md the leaves, branches, roots -in
•'act all the parts of the tree contain
> amphor, which is extracted by a
• rude process of sublimation. Subll
nation is distillation applied to solids
instead of liquids. The camphor be
ing volatile w^ien heated, it: vnporiz
*d and congealed in day retorts,
riie product thus obtained is crude
camphor and our supply comes al
most entirely from Chinn and Japan.
The gum camphor sold in (he simps
Is refined camphor, obtained by re
-iibUming the crude camphor with
quicklime and purifying It. It comes
to the dealer in waxy cakes about one
inch in thickness that break with a
bright crystallite fracture. A freshly
broken piece ot camphor gum is ai
riest as transparent as a fragment of
kIhss. it has a penetrating, fragrant
- tor that is familiar to everyone
and that is not disagreeable except
from it- association with the sick
room. Tlie taste is warm and pun
gent. It is quite volatile, as our
find mothers learned when they put
ii in their chests of clothing and furs
'o keep away moths. \Vli<u they
opened the chi sts to g<i out the yviu
tarwrapH they found the camphor had
< isappeared. For this use camphor
■tas been replaced by Napthalene in
' he form of moth balls.
There are to or three varieties of
araphor that are not quite the same
chemically, or to be more exact, the
grouping of tin compound radicals is
rot identical, but the physical and
medical eharacteristise do not per
ceptibly differ It ts a complex, or
itytie compound and its chemistry is
‘no abstruse tc r this article
Two arUficnl camphors have been
made by different proeesses tliat
are very like tiie natural drug in
•■very respect, except that when
freshly broken ihe.v lack the brilliant,
flossy appearand
Artificial camphor has never been
much of a competitor of the true
-am. because the cost of production
about equals the import price. If
thasi conditions should change it
iv aid doubtless come Into use and
w fhl tie a v< ry suth factory substi
tl, C.
<'i! of camphor is turn'll used by
l f Chinese but is ’tot highly valued in
the cot.ttlt> it was forts: rh oh
tallied by then by pat king the crude
camphor in vats with holes in the
lmtt m and allowing it to stand until
the c il drained out Now it is press
ed out by hydraulic pressure.
• anion. Itatavia. Calcutta and Sing
npou are export points for cam
phor, and the island of Formosa pro
duces a Inrg - pevcentag of the
Canton exports. It is not qttltt ns
high grade as the so-called Dutch or
Japan camphor, but the dll f'fence is
only in the crude gum Th \ are the
same after refining. The Dutch had;
i monopoly of refining enmphor for;
manv wars, hut it is now refined in!
* 9
>his country tnd nearly nil our im- j
ports arc crude gum,
A small, clean fragment of camphor
dropped into water will move about
in circular gy .atiotis, but it will not
do this'if the water contains even a
slight trace of oil or grease, for
which it is used as a test. it is
difficult in a little story like this to
roll all about the various uses of
camphor, it has been used for al
most “all tlie ails that flesh is heir
to,” and is beneficial in many. It is
a favorite domestic remedy and ev
ry family uses camphor for some
thing. The older physicians used it
in cholera, d’arrlioea, vomiting, in
lamation and neuralgia of the storn
-ich. heart depression, nervous dts
-L.-es, headache, bronchitis, bladder
nd urinary troubles, catarrh and
i atarrhal colds. Externally they
it for myalgia, rheumatism, lum
bago, sciatica, and for all cases
'ithen a liniment was applicable. I
mention all these in order to show
wiiat a wide range of usefulnegB cam
phor lias had That it lias been
more or less beneficial in all these
diseases, the testimony of these phy
sicians show.
The modern physician still uses
camphor in some of its many prepat
ations and finds it useful and reliable,
but he does not use* it as much as
liis predecessor did, for the reason
that he lias a greater variety of rem
edies at his command from which to
choose, and also because many of
his new remedies of which his pre
decessor wot not, are more prompt
and efficient.
Very many preparations of med
ical and domestic use contain cam
phor, as for instanc e, paregoric, cold
cures, chloroform liniment, Mentho
latum and almost all the proprietary
liniments.
Camphorated oil is very much used
as a nasal spray.
Spirits of camphor is the solution
of gum camphor in alcohol, it is a
very convenient form whenever the
use of camphor is desired. It cun
be taken on a lump of sugar or with
milk. It is such a common domestic
remedy that it would he hard to find
a family without it. Iiiglit here it
may be well to explain that there
is a difference in spirits of camphor.
Tin I’. S I’, spirits of camphor is
made with full strength alcohol, as
defined by the I'harmaropia, but the
constant demand for elieaptess has
induced tlii> sale of a solution of
camphor not made v.ltli high proof
alcohol. The amount of camphor In
this solution is the saint' as In the
standard article, or should ho, but
tin alcohol is only 11!0 proof, this
being sufficient to dissolve the gum.
Alcohol being expensive this solution
is somewhat cheaper than the U. S.
I’ article and for many uses quite as
effective, hut il should not be dis
pensed in prescriptions an I under
tic pure food law It should not be la
belled "spirits of camphor." unless
the alcoholic percentage be shown
on the label. It is possible that
many druggists are violating the law
in this case, ignorantly or thought
lessly, because the solution Pas boon
so lm: sold. I have always found
It the best plan i<> keep both solu
tions. allowing the purchaser to take
the cheaper preparation if he wishes,
but dispensing only the standard.
Itoth solutions are alike in camphor
activity, but are not alike ju alco
holic strength.
The use of camphor increases every
vear, as is shown by our increased
importations, but I think it is largely
due to Increased domestic use, for iis
use by physicians has decreased.
A. MORSMAN, M. L>.
Morsman Drug Co.
Free Land Grants
Yes, a few more elegant Free I.and
Grants can still be had in Mexico,
where many Americans are now lo
cating. You do not even have to go
to Mexico, but are required to have
live acres of fruit trees planted with
in five years. For information print
ed in English regarding Mexican
homestead*, address The Junlha
Plantation Company, Block tiiiO,
Pitt burgh, IV You can have your
trees planted and your land worked
« n shares, so as to bring you a thou
f and dollars a year. The health con
da ions are perfect and the climate
grand. It is never hot, never cold
Native town patriotism
is the mother of home success.
Good things to sell, proper
publicity in this paper and
stick-toitiveness win buyers in
. this vicinity—buyers mean
money, money brings every
thing to your door. :: :: ::
——"Mirr rn i i ■ »■! 11 ■ ■i———
i Copyright . vt toy \V VI.)
Rural Ideals.
No man ran advance beyond his
ideals except perhaps temporarily ru
by accident. The farmer who does
not have before iris mind's eye an
ideal seed bed gives bis crop a fair
chance only by accident or ina very
favorable season. When a man tries
lo prepare a st- d bed for any kind of
grain without the proper ideal he al
ways quits too soon. He hopes to
grow a twenty five bushel crop of
wheat, for example, on a fifteen
bushel seed bed. Our wretchedly
poor average yields of all grains are
largely due to lack of propr r ideal
for the seeti bed.
The breeder cannot hope to suc
ceed unless he has formed a true
iiii-al of his favorite breed. His ideal
must be his own creation. Until he
has a distinct object ahead of him,
something in- has thought out tor
himself, he will be the victim of
fads and fancies, unstable in his
breeding and feeding, and very likely
"unstable in all his ways."
Unless the boy forms a high ideal
of what a man ought to be. he is not
likely to be very much of a man him
self. He will either drift along and
he the product of 11is surroundings, or
he will imitate tliis or that boy or
man with whom he comes in contact
and will be more apt to imitate bis
weak points than his strong ones, bis
vices than his virtues.
One of the great troubles with conn
try life in America is the lack of high
ideals. Uurm folk have been so long
accustomed to looking to the eitv for
their ideals in character, in dress
and in behavior, that they have lost
to a great extent the proper ideals
of rural life, and lost to as great an
extent the proper ideals of i rational
human life, either rural or urban.
They have heard so mud about
muli-milliouairi s and men of great
wealth that they are apt to imagine
that without great wealth life must b
more or less of a failure. Xo great
er mistake could bo made. The pos
session of great wealth can not of
itself bring happiness. The ambition
to secure it by hook or bv crook will
most certainly bring crookedness to
the character of the man himself, and
is likely to ruin his family. The
essentials of success are a clear con
I
science, g,ood health, the love and
esteem of our fellowim-man ’ a reas
onable competence, with the com
fort which It brings. Agur, the son
of Jakob, was dead right when lie
prayed: "Remove far from me false
hood and lies; (live me neither pov
erty nor riches."
The country, if farmers would only
the so. can furnish the thtn.• s worth
hating better than the dt\ Wood
lieadh di pends largely upon good
lied, proper exercise and a comfort
able and saniUry home. All this can
he had easier and cheaper in the
country than in the city. A comfort
able and sanitary home, with all mod
ern improvements can be tiad as
cheap in the country as in the town
or city. The farmer does not need
massage, or Turkish baths, m golf
These are the city man's substitutes,
expensive at that, for the farmer's
exercise. A good conscience can be
bad in either town or country, but
much easier in the country than in
town. If the man himself is right,
he will have ihe confidence of his
fellows in either place.
But. you say we have no society in
the country. What do you mean by
society? If you mean display in
dress, late hours, bridge, and head
aches in the morning.you are not like
I) io get ii in ihe country; and you
are all the hotter for not getting it.
If you mean the fellowship of men
and women with similar tastes, em
plyonient and recreation, the friend
ship of really good people for one
another, with an intelligence abov
the average, then all you need is to
quit looking townward and look aroun
you in the countary.
The material for good society is
wherever there are good farmers..acnj
who put brains into the work. All
that is needed is organization, what
wo have called the socialization of
country lif > We do not find ibis
word socialization in our dictionary.
It ought to be there. Now we do
not mean by this the teachings of the
doctrines of socialism, but simply the
organization of farmers in*o groups,
with kindred alms and tastes, for
Improvements or for social purposes
or for both.
Let us get rid of the notion that
all the people really worth knowing!
are in the city or town, and that the
things worth having are in tile city
or town. Health, comfort.a good con
science - those are the things worth
while, and they can be hud easier in
'he country than In the town. Read
ing matter, music and wholesome
amusements can tie had Qi*it<* as
well out on the prairies as in the
marts of business.
Let us get before us this ideal of
the country life with the rnaxium of
good tilings and the minimum of the
unpleasant things. We will never
get it by imitating or aping town
folks. It must grow out of the coun
try soil. It must express the tastes,
[the feelings, (lie aspirations of coun
try folk.
It is time for the people in each
and every community to get together
and take stock of its resources in
the way of manhood and womanhood.
It is immaterial whether tl'ie center
j of organization is a church or a
grange or a centralized school or a
farmer’c club. The essential tiling is
lo get together and organize along tb
lines of mutual tastes and needs. Do
not under any circumstance try to ape
l lie social life of the city. Let the
farmers and the farmers’ wives and
boys and girls, when they get togeth
er. tie themselves -absolutely them
selves.
The farmers of the west are in a
mm fortunate position just now.
They have the wealth; they have
at least come to a point where they
get a suitable reward for'"their labor.
This is likely to continue foi some
time. They have the means to grat
ify themselves with every material
comfort. Tile world's store of know
ledge is quite as easy of access to
them as it is to men in tile city.
When they quit looking forward and
begin io lie themselves and organize
for mutual improvement, they will
have the respect and admiration of
city people to an extent they have
never had it before. They will not
have a full measure of respect until
they develop their own life. The
fanner’s viewpoint is widely differ
ent from that of the townsman. 11 is
life must necessarily be different, and
therefore his society amusements and
recreations must also be diffoient. No
individual who tries to he anything
but himself ever has t.lnj respect of the
community, and the same is true of
all social organizations. — Walace’s
Farmer.
Plain Talk.
In the senate, in repU to«tlie
speech of Baccy asking tiie insur
gent republicans to come o'’er and
join the democrats. Senator Itolliver
said:
"In our judgment, (lie vie a of our
institutions today is the fact that be
hind both political parties there are
unseen hands grown so strong that
they hardly have the necesrity of
concealing their skill and running,
which have murped the functions of
the government of the United States
and are amusing themselves by
knocking tog-liter the heads of the
political parties, neither of v'hieh ap
pears to be awake to the situation in
which tiie people of the I'nitml States
are now placed.
"1 have never felt any necessity
for leaving tin old republican party
It is a large enough party and a
broad enough party to carry on a
fight for good government without
anybody deserting its ranks, but if 1
ever did feel the temptation to leave
1 would have to look very carefully
at a good man. things before I would
make up my mind to pitch my tent
with the democratic party of today.
"I know, an 1 every democratic sen
ator knows, that it has been found
quite as difficult to use the demo
cratic party to promote progressive
government in the United States as
it has been to use the republican
party.
"Our contest was for a radical re
vision of the tariff. 1 was fighting
for the platform of I be republican
party and for the performance of the
duty of congress instead of allowing
special interests to name the rates. It
has been a great comfort to me that
in some of tiit moves we have felt I
constrained to make honest-minded
men of other political faith;, have
shared at least in part our zeal and
our purpose. But so far as making|
an alliance with the democratic party I
is concerned, why, bless your heart,
that is the omy handicap the in
surgent republicans have ever had.
"We would be winners today in
half the states of the union if it was
not possible fu- cheap politicians to
go out and stati we are voting with
the democratic party. We have be
hind us millions of people who are
hound only by the name and positions
af their party faith,and the only argu-1
merit that is addressed to them is
that there are a few men here who
are masquerading as friends of the
people who are hand in hand with
the democratic party.
"I intend to fasten my eyes upon
what at least appears to be the wel
fare of the hundred millions in the
United States, and whether the legis
lation be tariff lgeislation or railroad
legislation or bank legislation. 1 eman
cipate myself from all traditions left
over from other generations ”
Frank Peck’s Claim Dates.
.1. it. Whipple, Poland China Hog
sale, October, 15, 1510.
,1. 15. Whipple, Poland China hog
sale, October 15, 1510.
THE COMERS AND GOERS
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TO
YOU AND ME.
What Your Friends and Their
Friends Have Been Doing
the Past Week.
John Baker of Salem was in town
Monday.
Mrs. Roy Morrison was down from'
Dawson Tuesday.
Miss Lola Snyder of Salem was in 1
the city Tuesday.
Robert Hurt of Reserve, was on
our street Tuesday.
Mrs. David McCoy of Hiawatha is!
visiting in Kalis City.
Iki Smith,from up Rock Creek, wnsj
in Falls City Tuesday.
Gant Raperof Sabctha is the guesi !
of Mrs. J. S. I!rannuin
The Salem index is planting to I
renew publVat ion again.
Mrs. Willard Seals of Hiawatha was!
visiting in town this week.
The appraisers for Hist. No. k fin
ished their work this week.
Mrs. Conrad Brecht is visiting her
daughter in Missouri this week
Lloyd Dietrich of Verdon was in
town Saturday in spite of the rain and
mud.
Mr. and Mrs. G. \V. Wilson were
down from Dawson on business this
week.
Jim Clancey and wife of Dawson
were about the streets of Falls City
Monday.
A. W. Nixon and wife had im
portant matters to look after in this
city Tuesday.
—We have some fresh Red Seal
flour in now. Come and get a sack.
—C. A. Heck.
It is remarkable what an improve
ment a little dragging make; on the
roads after a rain.
The Falls City base ball league will
play their first game of the season
Thursday afternoon.
The Presbyterian ladies will hold
a handkerchief sale on Saturday. May
-1 at the Electric theater.
.1. II. Miles has been spending a
pari of his time this week on his
big ranch south of Dawson.
M. Freiburg of Stanton, Neb.. is
visiting with Rev. Nanninga and look
ing for a location in the vicinity of
Falls City.
Rev. Nanninga,in the absence of the
elder, will speak at Zion Friday and
Saturday evenings and Sunday morn
ing. Sunday evening lie will conduct
quarterly meeting at Preston.
\V. .1. Bryan's proposed special
session of the legislature for the
purpose of passing the Initiative and
Referendum law is safely side-track
ed awaiting special orders from head
quarters. ,
Roy Daggett of Salem was called
in as an expert on water power and
watt r rights to help appraise and get
an equitable valuation on the Daw
son Milling Co’s, water rights. The
price was fixed at $1,000.
The drainage board have made Mr.
Tubaeh a proposition lookin r toward
the cutting out of the Muddy Creek
mill dam. it will greatly simplify the
drainage operations in ttiat part of
the Muddy Creek system.
Miss Anita Wilson lias returned
from sclioo1 and concert work in
Indiana and is now ready for a class
in violin and voice culture. Miss ear
ner. pianist, returned with her and
will remain ail summer and teach the
piano. She also is a graduate of the
Valparaiso. Indiana College and the
Western Conservatory at Chicago.
| Rev. L. S. Bauman treated the
members of the Brethren church and
all who responded to the general in
vital ion *o several thoroughly good
talks on special phases of church
practice. They were remarkably free
from bias and cant and were deliv
ered with decision and power and in
a happy way. which captivated as
well as convinced. Rev. Bauman
possesses the gift of making himself
understood. The meetings were
well attended.
The assertion is freely made in
favor of a “wet" town, that farmers
will not, go to a "dry” town to do
business if they can avoid doing so.
The implication of course is that
the farmers as a whole are a bum
lot, and will boycott any town that,
votes dry. The Tribune would like
to hear from the farmers? themselves
on tliis rather interesting subject.
Post card replies requested. T'.i y
will tie published in The Tribune.
-Wanted—District manager with
headquarters at Falls City. A grand
opportunity for the right mall. Ad
dress in confidence Life P. C. box
1963, New York City.
To sell or trade, small gasoline en
gine, in perfect order- care Tribune.
Di. Bailey is pushing work on his
church as vapidly as possible to get
| it done for dedication on May 29.
Mr. 10. Callif of Omaha is in town
i this week putting up the new organ
I in the Presbyterian c hurch,
i Mrs. Frank Woodruff of Lincoln is
| visiting with her brother. Ur. Bailey.
Ur. Bailey was a business visitor
in Lincoln Tuesday.
Wanted—A good buggy. . are Trib
une.
RUSTICO
28633
jPERCHERON STALLION Dapple
| Grey, foaled August, IHit'i Bred by
! Keisi r Bros . of Keota, Iowa. Got
by Defi, 21452 (39271). he by Poul
ard (20089), he by S' nnt.eur (2381),
he by Picador, belonging to M. Du
pont. Dam, Dakota Quality, 24781,
by Batnb'n 166S8 (34(154), by Bayard
(21009), he by Picador 5042 (6919),
he by Cheri (5464), he by Mouton, by
Coco of Mtsle-sur-sai'the.
Rustico is 16 hands high and weighs
1700 lbs when In good flesh. Rus
tico has proven a sure foal getter
and has a great many good colts to
his credit. His disposition is fine
and his action good. Don't fail to
examine this horse before breeding.
JUMBO
Jumbo is 8 years old this spring.
He is a mammoth breeding, jet black
with white points, splendid head and
ear, extra heavy boned and is a
splendid individual lie is 14% iiands
high and weighs 950 lbs. when in
good flesh. Is a sure foal getter
and you will make no mistkae in
breeding to him.
ALFONSO
is a straight bred , Mammoth Jack,
with good, heavy bone; stands 1Va
hands high; weight 1 1 r.t), Good per
former and sure foal getter,
ROGERS’ JACK
A Kentucky Mammoth shipped here
from Lexington, Ky. I fe needs no
recommendation, as lie is well known
here as one of the best breeders
that was ever kept in this part of
the country.
TERMS
TERMS -10 to insure < nit to
stand up and suck. Service fee due
it marc is sold or removed from
the county before lime of foaling.
Marc and colt held for service. Care
will be taken to prevent accident,but
will not he responisble should and
occur. I escured this stock from
responsible breeders who have thor
oughly tested them, and you will find
them worthy of your patronage.
The above stock will be kept the
entire season at the Hinton Mill, 1
- miles south of Falls City. plenty
of horses and jacks. Service at nay
time.
J. G. WHITAKER
OWNER
S. A. PRYOR, Keeper
FALLS CITY, NEB
Phone 212 NN, R. F. D. No. 1.