Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Consolidations—Falls City Tribune,
Humboldt Enterprise, Hulo Record,
Crocker's Educational .lournal and
Dawson Outlook.
Entered as second-class matter at
Falls City. Nebraska, post office, Janu
ary 12, 1U04, under the Act of Congress
on March 3, 1879.
Published every Friday at Falls City,
Nebraska, by
The Tribune Publishing Company
W. H. WYLER,
Editor and Manager.
One \eat .. 11-60
Si* months . -."6
Three months it®
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OUR POLICY.
Since The Tribune bits passed Into!
new hands, naturally many of its old ,
friends and supporters are more or,
less concerned about the general pol
icy of the new management. While
it is scarcely possible, and if it were
possible would not be advisable, at
the present stage of our experience
and knowledge of the burin ss to fix
upon a set of hard and fast rules for
directing our course in the future, we
nevertheless hold firmly to the con
victlon that the people can bo trust
ed and we mean to freely and frankly
tnke the public into our confidi lice in
all matters pertaining to the public
weal.
Wo believe in representative gov
ernment that represents. We be
lieve in ihe rule of the majority,
honestly obtained and applied witli
out bias or favor. Furthermore, we
believe in the pre< edoneo of the
best always in sane and progressive
legislation and administration. Wo
Insist upon the practicing of that
kind of economy which returns to
the people one hundred cents worth
of honest service for every dollar
of their money expended.
Wo believe in the greater west,
and insist on maintaining the integ
rity of western ideals and the' west
ern type. In the present political
schism we are with the western lend
ers who are fighting in the interests
of the people. The republicanism of
Lincoln and Garfield and our own
“Cowboy Teddy" is quite enough for
us. We approve the notion of in
surgent congressmen in opposing ev
ery effort on the part of the re
actionaries to pass legislation pre
judicial to <hhe interests of the
masses. Tin' people are superior to
any party and the peoples' interests
should never be sacrificed In behalf
of partyism.
In the present county option fight
we are simply following the previous
policy of The Tribune to its logical
conclusion. The American saloon lias
proven itself to be an un-American in
stitution. It is an oxesccnse on
our body politics, a noisome sore on
our social and industrial fabric. The
knife is the only final remedy. There
fore we have only one argument for
the saloon,—cut It out and east it
away.
One of the functions of every news
pa pet is, what its name implies, to
furnish the news, it is one of the
public's chief entertainers. Hut the
role of a public caterer is always a
difficult one. We shall not attempt
to satisfy everybody, we hope we may
please some. We will endeavor to
avoid what is vicious and extrava
gant and serve our patrons with
wholesome news, such as will im
prove the mind and warm the heart
of the reader.
We would not forget in conclusion
that the chief function of every news
paper is that of leader. The press
is a moulder of public opinion. The
Tribune recognizes the responsibility
implied. We only hope the sequal
may prove us worthy.
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BIG CORPORATIONS ARE KEEP
ING SUNDAY.
Some time ago the Chicago & North
western Railroad adopted the plan of
keeping Sunday over their entire sys
te. Traffic is organized with this
and to spend with their families and
ees now have Sunday off. for rest
and to spend with their faiiies and
children. The change is not only a
great boon to the laboring men but is
reacting favorably upon the business
of the railroad company.
The Carnegie Steel Co. of Bethle
hem, Pa., lias given notice to their
office force to so order the activities
of theiO'huge plant, that no unneces
sary work need be done on Sunday.
The works and the men now enjoy a
real Sunday, as was originally in
tended that man should.
Closely following the orders of
the management of the Carnagie
Steel company comes a similar order
on the part of the Great Pen"sylvania
Railroad Co Bulletins ha'’e been
posted in their yards containing pre
emptory orders to cease traffic of
all trains cn Sunday, excepi tlios.
which It 's absolutely necessary to
move.
COUNTY OPTION IN NEBRASKA.
County option is a direct, challenge
to the liquor business 111 polities.
The liquor business is so tangled up
with polities that to attack the one
Is to attack the other. The two
stand shoulder to shoulder in Ne
braska and especially in Richard
son < onnty. The representatives of
the moneyed interests can always be
counted upon to render all possible
help to tho liquor side. \nd tin
people need not be surprised to find
their "wet" representatives lined Up
solidly for the corporations and
against the people.
The men elected for the time be
ing constitute the party. Therefore
every man se king office at the dis
posal of the people should on every
occasion possible be called upon to
go on record upon this crucial point.
Then if we are beaten at the polls,— C
the majority of the people say by
their votes that they perfer liquor and
corporation control well and good. It
is the will of the people and we ac
cept the situation with as good grace
as possible, and prepare for another j
fight
Hut there must be no hedging, no
beating about the bush. We must not
agree to send a man by our suffrage
to I a ucolu who is free to use his
diseta lion. Invariably he will find
it advisable, when once there to east
his i ausc with tin- corporations and
tlie liquor Interests. Make every can
didate publicly commit himself and
thus place a sure hedge about the
peoples' Interests at the capital.
County option means more than
merely driving out the saloons. It
!s essential democracy in government.
it puls into till1 peoples nanus the
control of their own business. It
breaks down the wall that has long
separated the people from their af
fairs. It strikes a deadly Mow at
boBsism. >t makes it impossible, or
at least more difficult for interested
parties to barter away the health and]
happiness of entire localities for
purely personal ends, li is a'direct
nitons wliereb.i the people may get
back out of the hands of (lie hench
men and party bosses the control of
their own city affairs. County option
is right in principle and effective in
pruetlce, Why should any intelligent
class of freeholders hesitate for one
moment to emancipate themselves
from the trammels <>f n system which
for years has spelled only humilia
tion and defeat?
Every one of the sophistries of
the liquor interests, whereby they
kept the masses in their power for
years are being successfully driven
into the limbo darkness and supersti
tion where they belong. 'the com
mon sense and intelligence of the
\inorlcan people will prcwtil. The
public schools, tin' pulpits and the
press are spreading the light. Tile
people will choose the right
Rural Refinement.
There was a time when life on the
farm was synonomous with hard
ship and limitation. This is no
longer true in Richardson county.
Our fanners today are enjoying com
forts and conveniences foreign to the
experience of many well-to-do city
people.
J. O. Stabler, one of Nemaha town
ships energetic and progressive farm
ers, has installed an electric lighting
plum and now enjoys all the advan
tages of electric lighting about his
place. More than that he is not de
pendent upon the whims of the city
council or the caprice of a poor
equipment. He can have lights when
and where he wants it.
Mr. Stalder’s farm Is traversed by
ltoek Creek, which carries a consider
able volume of water and has a good
fall. A dam was built in the creek;
a water turbine and an electric gen
erator or dynamo, with the necessary
fixtures procured. The equipment
was properly installed and connect
ed up. The premises were then
wired and bulbs placed where occa
sion might require their use. Mr.
Satlder-now enjoys all the a*.vantages
of electric lighting on his farm with
out many of the disadvantages com
mon to many municipal systems.
But lighi is no! the only modern
convenience. Uncle Sam deposit?
his mail at the door daily; the tele
phohne is ever at his service and
possibly more than all else the au
tomobile is ever ready to rush him
off the ten miles or more to town
in less time than it takes his city
brother to come down street.
For Exchange.
ICO acres near Roswell.New Mexico
for residence in Falls City, Nebraska.
210 acres In Thomas county, Kas.,
for property in or near Falls City.
Nebraska.
320 acres near depot, Thomas Co..
Kansas, improved, for property in or
near Falls City, Nebraska.
120 acres improved, northeast of
Falls City. A good place.
HENRY C. SMITH.
—A touch of rheumatism or a
twinge of neuralgia, whatever the
trouble is, Chamberlain’s Liniment
drives away the pain at once and
cures the complaint quickly. First
application gives relief. Sold by all
druggists.
MEDICAL MEN BAR ALCOHOL
Some of Foremost Practitioners of the
World Strongly Oppose Its Use
as a Medicine.
At the international congress held
In Tendon, some of the foremost med
ical practitioners and Instructors of
Europe and America made reports
covering extended research, conclu
ding In every instance with strong tes
timony against the use of alcohol as
a medicine.
Dr. Holitscher of Carlsbad, one of
the medical leaders of pneumonia,
spoke of nearly 500 eases of pneu
monia and enteric fever treated with
and without alcohol. Although the
smaller number had alcohol used as a
remedy and the larger number were
treated without the use of alcohol,
there was a smaller percentage of
deaths among the latter class of pa
ttents. Of eases complicated with de
lirium tremens, 21 were treated with
nleohol and 15 died. Out of 20 treat
ed without alcohol, but nine died
About the same propostions were re
ported on n series of typhoid fever
oases similarly treated.
Dr. Dnltlnen of the University of
Helsingfors lectured on the influence
of alcohol on immunity, reporting ob
servations on some 2.'! cases observed,
to discover w hether or not alcohol in
creased or diminished the resistance
of human blond corpuscles to toxins,
and whether the use of alcohol con
ferred any immunity. He found, he
declared, that the normal resisting
power of the blood was less with
drinkers than among abstainers. He
concluded that alcohol in small doses
was Injurious to the human body.
Prof, licnehen of the University of
Stockholm declared that there was un
mlslakablo evidence of an intimate re
lation between alcoholism and tuber
culosis, and that alcohol could never
be used ns n remedy without increas
ing the fatality.
A member of the French medical
faculty in tlie person of Dr. Legrain,
who is superintendent, of the insane
asylum of Paris, contended that aleo
hoi was more poisonous than lead or
(.phosphorus and was responsible for
much dementia and mental feebleness.
Pr. C. 0. Crot hers, head of I he Wal
nut Lodge hospital, Hartford, Conn.,
and for many years editor of the Jour
nal of Inebriety, urged that habitual
users of alcohol should he considered
as insane and treated accordingly,
Hefore the last session of the Society
for the Study of Alcohol and Narcot
ics, held in Washington, Pr. Crothers
stated ills views on the subject, from
(lie medical standpoint, as follows:
"Fvery advance in scientific study
of disease and degeneration shows
that alcohol is one of the most promi
nent agents and is very vitally con
cerned in the diseases of the human
race. Statistical studies of the
causes of accidents, injuries, diseases
and the great forces of heredity
which enter into our civilization bring
out the same fact In greater prom
inence, that alcohol in some form is
the most Influential factor of these
losses.
“Medical, sociological and economi
cal studies all confirm these facts and
make prominent the conviction that
alcohol In some way is a source of
danger Imperfectly recognized and yet
powerful beyond measure In degenera
tion and Increased mortality. These
facts have created a sense of alarm
in the public mind which is material
izing in various ways and is apparent
In very remarkable forms."
Campaign Against Opium.
The great Chinese campaign against
opium fares variously in different
parts of the empire. In some provinces
the demand for opium continues as
greut as ever, and efforts are made
to meet it without official Interference.
But In Pekin, so far as hospital ex
perlence goes, one might say that opi
um smoking had almost disappeared.
The fact is that the Chinese seem to
be ashamed of the use of the drug
now, and hesitate to seek treatment.
It Is estimated that three-tenths of the
people have stopped smoking and
about eight-tenths of the officials.
Among army officers the habit seems
to be entirely abolished. In Pekin
the number of opium dens is about
half of what it was 18 months ago.
They are all against the law, and the
native newspapers frequently note
raids on them by the police. The pun
ishment inflicted is generally a $6 fine
or a month's imprisonment. The price
of the drug has increased from 35 to
60 per cent.
Llpton on Strong Drink.
Sir Thomas Lipton's business ca
reer has been notably successful, and
In his reminiscences, recently pub
lished in one of the popular magazines
of the day, he gives a secret of such
success. "To the young men who are
tilled with aspiration towards success
in business, he writes: "May I here
says a few words of advice? Always
beware of strong drink. Remember
corkscrews have sunk more people
than cork jackets will ever save.”
Dry Wave in Manitoba.
Manitoba has just experienced a
“dry" wave, which added 18 counties
to the 70 which had previously voted
for the restriction of the liquor traf
fic.
\
AGENT FOR RACE CULTURE?
Alcohol, Instead of Eliminating In
ferior Stock, Makes More Degen
erates Than It Destroys.
It has been asserted by some that al
cohol Is a beneficent agent for race
culture In that It Is constantly elim
inating Inferior stocks. The answer
to this Is that, as Dr. Sullivan says:
"In the ultimate result alcoholism may
tie counted on to make a good many
I more degenerates than It is likely to
i destroy," writes Dr. ('. W. Salesby, an
eminent English authority. We must
endeavor to understand, as so many
students of heredity—some of them by
no means undistinguished—fail to un
derstand, what Is really meant by the
doctrine of the non-transmissibillty of
acquired characters. This means, for
Instance, that the chronic inflamma
tion of the lining membranes of the
brain produced by alcohol cannot bo
transmitted to a child; it decs not
mean that the germ-plasm, th • racial
.elements i of the body, are Incapable
of suffering injury by any poison circu
lating In the blood by which they are
nourished. Still less does it mean that
the expectant mother is not poisoning
her child when she pours alcohol into
tho blood whereby she nourishes it. As
has been already stated, alcohol is
beyond doubt capable of causing true
racial degeneration, whether through
father or mother, and in the case of
the mother, whether by its influence
upon the germ-plasm or by its influ
ence on the unborn child.
It is no longer open to question that
I the amount of drinking by the women
I of Great Britain to-day is greater than
| ever heretofore; and to say by the wo
i men is, unfortunately, to say, by the
mothers, present and prospective. Ra
cial poisoning is being practised in
Great Dritain to-day to an extent
| which is certainly unprecedented in
! our history. This Is really by far the
; most serious aspect of the alcohol
question. It is, also, in some ways the
most capable remedy; and the busi
ness of the eugenlst is to rouse public
opinion on this matter. Drunkenness
on tlic part of the woman of 60, may
’• an y not be a private vice with
hel it Is not the duty of public law
to interfere; but drinking on the part
of the factoryigfrl who will marry ere
long .ind In come a mother, and will al
| most certainly continue the habit ac
quired before marriage—this concerns
not herself alone.
It may be said, and not without truth,
as we have already quoted, that in a
few generations alcohol will extermin
ate the alcoholic stock, leaving the un
poiaonerl in possession of the field. It
may thus he questioned whether the
race is Injured in the long run. But In
any case what moral being can con
template with content the spectacle of
this ruin, even if it be comparatively
confined and limited in time? And, fur
ther, to what extent is this process to
be permitted? What If it extends to
one-tenth or one-fourth or one-half of
the productive stocks of the commu
nity? Will it not then he thought time
to arrest it? We have to remember the
evidence furnished by native races,
which reminds us that, sufficiently
widespread, the abuse of alcohol makes
for racial extinction; and its abuse Is
daily becoming more widespread
amongst the young mothers of what are
at present our fertile classes. Palpable
drunkenness they may never exhibit;
but drunkenness might wholly cease
from henceforth In Great Britain, and
alcohol yet defeat the alms of race-cul
ture. A woman may well be sober
enough, and her unborn child Intoxi
cated. I leave these questions to the
consideration of the reader, and not the
least of him who calls himself a patriot
or an imperialist.
Saloonkeeper Must Pay.
The Michigan supreme court has
ruled that a wife Is entitled to heavy
damages from a saloonkeeper who
makes a drunkard of her husband.
Mrs. Nettle Marniane of Jackson
brought suit for $10,000 damages
against Fred Miller, a saloonkeeper,
and his bondsmen, C. C. Corwin,
George Rank and Barney Teufel, al
leging that Miller sold liquor to her
husband, thereby causing her to lose
her bank account, her homo and the
companionship of her husband.
The Marrinanes lived at Grass
Lake, where he was a telegraph op
erator. They owned a home, had a
snug bank account and were general
ly prosperous until the man started
drinking. Mrs. Marrinane sued and
got a $600 verdict. She appealed to
the supreme court and the latter de
clared the verdict too small and or
dered a new trial. This resulted in
a verdict of $5,925.
Number of Saloons Closed.
It is estimated that during 1909 sa
loons have been closed throughout the
country at the rate of 40 per day; that
41,000,000 of our people are now liv
ing in "dry" territory, and that 70 per
cent, of the area of the whole coun
try has forbidden the license liquor
traffic.
Alcohol Chills the Body.
Or. Yates of St. Bartholomew's hos
pital, London, is authority for the j
statement that when a person takes |
alcohol it brings the blood to the sur-1
face and produces a pleasant feeling :
of warmth, but in reality the body |
becomes one degree colder.
THE COMERS AND GOERS
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TO
YOU AND ME.
What Your Friends and Their
Friends Have Been Doing
the Past Week.
—Eat Sowle's Candy.
—Dr. Wilson. Wall's building.
—Now is the time to plant straw
berries. 13-tf
! —By your seed corn at Heck's
feed store. 15-2t.
Sephen Miles was in Rulo on busi
ness Tuesday.
—Strawberry plants are ready.—Si
manton & Pence. 13-tf
—Young’s Pantorium cleans and
presses ladies skirts. 44-tf
—If it’s shoes you want, call at
the Home Shoe store. 14-lt
Mrs. S. A. Little is visiting with
relatives in Omaha this week.
The weather man is turning out
some fine weather these days.
Ike Smith of Nemaha Township
was in town over Sunday visiting
friends.
R. P. Thomas made a business trip
to St. Joseph Monday, returning on
Tuesday.
Mrs. Adelia Sanford is visiting her
son, Cornelius and wife, near Barada
this week.
Mrs. Tom Ramsey of Sterling, Neb.,
is visiting her brothers, John and
James Powell.
Miss Ida Hilgenfield, who fell sever
al weeks ago and fractured her foot, |
is convalescing very slowly.
Miss Ruth Everts, who has been
visiting with Mrs. Himmelreich, re-‘
turned to her home in Omaha.
Rev. F. E. Day lectured Tuesday J
night at Ilamiin to a good audience'
j on the theme of, “Apples of Gold.”
B. B. Moody returned to his home ^
I at Mound City Monday after a visit i
j with his daughter, Mrs. Jess Nichol
son.
Miss Grace Cronin came up from
Rulo to visit her sisters, Mesdames
Leeds, McKiever and Tangney over
Sunday.
The season is rapidly approaching
when people will be off to the woods
on picnic excursions, holidays and
outings generally.
Misses Dorothy Miller and Alice
Yoder were Presbyterian delegates, to
the convention at. Auburn. They vis
ited friends in Peru before returning
home.
We would suggest that Personal
Liberty Candidate Evans of Stella
be advised in time that Richardson
county will not support Dahlmanism
this fall.
The new council has been busy
these days, some of the court’s pre
vious findings have been wisely re
vi rsed. Day electric current is prac
tically assuied.
Eder Yoder is at present in Uncle
Sam's hospital at Fort Leavenworth.
The aged veteran is afflicted witli
hernia and heart trouble. All who
know him will sincerely wish that he
may speedily recover.
Henry Nedrow of Norton, Kansas
was in town on legal business. He
is the executor of the estate of Levi
Nedrow, deceased. The Nedrow home
lias been sold to W. R. Boose and the
necessary papers were arranged for
making the transfer.
Misses Wherry Lowe, Nellie Hos
sack, Agnes Sinclair, Bessie Stumbo,
Hazel White and Lola Heineman, who
were delegates from the Christian
church to attend the convention at
Auburn the latter part of last week,
returned home Sunday. They report
an unusually interesting session. The
state convention of the Christian^ En
deavorers will meet in Aurora next.
October.
For Sale.
80 acres five miles northeast of
Falls City, Nebraska. All in culti
vation. Good location. Also 80 acres
seven miles northeast of Falls City.
Nebraska. All fenced and in culti
vation. Want to sell to settle an es
tate. Money to loan.
HENRY C. SMITH.
Card of Thanks.
We use this means to thank our
kind friends and neighbors for their
kindness and helpfulness during the
illness and death of our beloved dau
ghter, Harriet.
T. F. PLUMB and FAMILY.
Frank Peck’s Claim Dates,
J. B. Whipple, Poland China Hog
sale, October, 15, 1910.
.1. B. Whipple, Poland China hog
sale, November 19, 1910.
Paul Weaver recently sold seven
acres of land laying along the east
side of the street running north from
the round house. The piece of laud
is just one block wide and represents
approximately seventy-two lots.
Roadmaster McManus of the M. P.
R. It. bought it. It will be laid out
in lots and sold to railroad employees
for homes. Consideration, $5,500.
There are those who are concerned
for the organization of a band in
Falls City. Accomplishments of this
kind are not picked up on the street.
They call for the expenditure of
time, money and effort. If the boys
are willing to do the work, the citi
zens ought to cover the expense of
engaging a good instructor.
The kitchen department of the Na
tional hotel had a slight mix-up
which required the assistance of the
police court justice to untangle. When
men lay rough hands on women and
when women say unwomanly things
to men, even though they be cooks
and waiters, the less said about it
the better.
The Salem Index has made its
post-fire appearance. It is somewhat
diminutive but that is pardonable.
Now, if the good people who were
less fortunate the day of the fire
will generously rally to Mr. Wickam’s
assistance the Index will spread it
self liberally until it covers its usual
territory.
A banquet in honor of Father Ilex
was held at the Union House Wed
nesday at one o'clock. Landlord
Voegle was host and gave the invited
guests a splendid banquet. The din
ing room was nicely decorated and
all had an enjoyable time. Covers
were laid for sixteen guests.
The young man from Auburn who
tried to do the saloons of Falls City
with 1500 in his pockets, needs a
guardian. There are fools and there
is money, but the two are not usual
ly seen long in one another’s com
pany.
Willard Sears and wife of Hiawatha
were visiting in town with friends
in this city over Sunday. They re
turned home Monday morning.
The task of appropriately burying
King Edward is dragging its weary
length through the week.
Miss *09 Hansen of Hiawatha was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. John
Benschoter over Sunday. •
“The Story of a Thriving City’’ has
the endorsement of the Commercial
club, the banks and principal buisness
men of Falls City.
—Don’t forget to visit the Home
Shoe Store for bargains in shoes
when in Falls City. 14-tf
—We have some fresh Red Seal
flour in now. Come and get a sack.
—C. A. Heck.
—Why Not—Use the Vacuum Clean
er and get the dirt out. Phone 208
or 426. 17-tf.
—Busy time—quick work with
Vacuum Cleaner. Phone 208 or 426.
“Skin Deep”
I is said that “beauty is only skin deep. ” That’s suf
ficient. Properly gowned and adorned womankind
is satisfied with this depth of facial beauty. In the
way of adornments—useful and necessary adornments
—we are showing the very choicest designs in
Hat Pins Back Combs
Belt Buckles Barrettes
Gold Lockets Mesh Bags
Fancy Purses Toilet Articles
I
The prices are fair and reasonable—not “cheap,” but
just right. Our show window doesn’t tell half the
story—so many pretty and useful things necessary for
My Lady’s toilet that are not in the window. But they j
are here, subject to your approval.
DAVIES & OWENS
JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA