THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Consolidations—Falls City Tribune,
Humboldt Enterprise, Rulo Record,
Crocker's Educational Journal and
Dawson Outlook.
Entered as second-class matter at
Falls City, Nebraska, post office. Janu
ary 12, 1904, 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 year .
Si* months....
Three months.40
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THE KNOCKER.
The chronic knocker, like a kick
ing mule is a common menace. Nev
tholess, the kiek in a mule Is a
mule's bill rf rights, just as his
long ears are his badge of respecta
blllty and represent his claims on
the mule family. Knockers as well
ns mules have a place to fill in the
economy of God. Knocking may l>"
tm evil, lint under i listing eondi
tlona it is a very necessary one. The
problem of the knocker is one of dir
ection. Ilis work is in.ssarily ties
trm tive and Ids efforts should be
directed against those institutions
that stand in the way of social and
moral progress. To lay broad and
secure foundations necessitates the
clearing away of all debris and false
material. This is knocking. When a
man wishes to build a new house
in the place of Ids old one, he does
not build the new on top of the old.
but wisely, moves the old house out
of the way or destroys it, and be
gins his new one on new foundations.
That is knocking. The development
of any line of social or moral reform
calls for a certain amount of grading.
High places must bo cut down, in
equalities leveled up and crooked
places made straight. Here the
knocker lias Ids legitimate sphere of
activity. It. is Ids business to blaze
the way in advance of every new
movement. He is the pioneer of pro
gross. He is like the voice crying in
the wilderness of life, “make way.
make way!”
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GOVERNOR SHELLENBERGER.
Governor Shellenberger Ih posing
for ronoinination at the democratic
primaries this fall. Logically the deni
ocrats should nominate him. The
probabilities are they will, He cor
talnly represents their most available
end strongest gubernatorial timber
Anticipating as much, and knowing
the divided condition of the demo
cratlc camp because of the extreme
Dahlmnnites and the extreme' llryan
ltes, Shellenberger is making the fa
tal blunder of trying to straddle tin
party split and ride in tills unseemly
fashion to an easy victory. Tin
same experiment has been tried bo
fore. Voters in Nebraska want t<
know where their candidates stand
and unless our time-serving govc-rno
can make up his mind, he Imd bet
ter drop out of the race.
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FALLS CITY’S CHALLENGE.
Falls City can never rise to the
high social and moral level of the ty
pical American town until she shakos
herself free from her servile sub
jection to boss rule. Fals City is
greatly favored geographically and
Industrially. Knvironment is eon
spiring to make our city the railroad
and Industrial center of a large and
prosperous community. But what is
Falls City herself doing to prove her
self worthy of this distinction? What
are tlie advance measures which we
are projecting? What are the issue
in the promulgation of which wo arc
proving our capacity to lead? What
has Falls City done to challenge
either the admiration or respect of
her competitors? These are serious
questions, and demand a hearing.
They challenge every man and wonia
in Falls City. What are we doing
to make good? The advantages that
corny to us from without are not to
our credit unless we prove our ca
pacity to conserve them. Our pres
ent good fortune and material pros
perity must be met and matched by
internal growth. In other words if
we do not becomet a better city be
cause of our added advantages, they
will become a menace to us, and in
stead of being a blessing will prove
our undoing. Water cannot rise
above its source. And Falls City can
never hope as a ciy to advance be
yond the men. to whom she will
ingly or of necessity commits her
self.
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NEXT.
A year ago when Lincoln first went
dry Havelock became the natural
rendezvous of the "booze fighters”
in Lincoln. Havelock saloon keep
ers made a mint of money. But a
condition of affairs developed in
Havelock that was absolutely intol
erable, a3 a consequence Havelock
went, dry this spring. After the sa
loons were closed in Havelock the
thirsty Lincolnltes naturally looked
about for another convenient place
where they might quench their fever
ed thirst. Th* little town of Crete,
being easy of access was voted as
the right plan. And now Crete is
about to go through another Have
lock experience. Already the people
of Crete are protesting against the
making of Crete to he the slop-jar of
Lincoln's booze-fighters, lly another
year Crete will have had her eyes
opened to the enormity of the liquor
business and will vote the dirty busi
ness out. The world does move—
though slowly at times.
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EX-GOVERNOR SHELDON,
lix-Governor Sheldon Is beginning
to take the overtures of his many
friends, who are urging him to get
Into the race again this fall, serious
ly. Mr. Sheldon has a host of royal
good friends, who feel that a great
wrong was done the governor two
years ago. They are eager to see
him make another try, and with good
grounds, for present conditions are
not without hopeful features. Gov.
Sheldon made the same mistake two
years ago, that Shellenberger is mak
ing at the present time. If Mr. Shel
don will definitely declare himself on
the great Issues now agitating the
minds of Nebraska voters, he will
find a goodly following from among
those who two years ago voted agains
him because they did not feel cer
tain as to bis position on several vital
questions. Candidates who are un
willing to commit themselves, need
expect but scant consideration tit the
bauds of Nebraska voters.
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C. H. ALDRICH.
Fp o this lime Senator Aldrich of
iJavi'l City seems to be the only r< -
I publican, who has definitely aununc
ed himself as a candidate for gover
nor of Nebraska. Further more his
candidacy is growing rapidly, if news
! aped endorsement can be accepted
as any expression of puhMc opinion.
Mr. Aldrich is a man of distinctly
western type and ideas. He is a
progressive republican and is square
on the most advanced legislative idea
j of the day. Aldrich is no dodger, no
iriiumer, but an out-and-out. honest
man, worthy the confidence and
support of ever> voter who has the
interests of a bigger and better Ne
braska at heart. Ilis private and
public record in the past are Ids
strongest recommendations. What
he promises he will do. Ilis candi
dacy comes as a challenge to the
hotter class of people all over the
state.
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ROOSEVELT AN INSURGENT.
The insurgents are greatly (dated
over recent advices from the con
tinent. The impression is growing.
Unit our doughty ex-president will, on
ids return to America line up with lie
insurgents. This news is gratifying
to the handful of men who have
been struggling so heroically against
I great odds, to conserve the interests
I of tlic people, and is exceedingly mor
tifying to the reactionaries, who
were counting on a final knock-out
j blow to insurgency from the ‘‘big
stick " There never was any love
wasted between Roosevelt and the
interests and it is loo much to ex
pect. him to cringe before them now.
Recently a saloon keeper had an im
portant matter that required careful
and wise handling. lie put his case
into tlie hands of a lawyer who was
a tee-to-taler. Another lawyer who
had always patronized the saloon
keeper’s bar liberally, was very much
offended when he heard what the
saloon keeper had done, and in a
tempest rushed upon the saloon
keeper and began to abuse him for
his injustice. After the irate law
yer had ended his trade the saloon
keeper turned upon him and said:
"do you think I would trust such an
important matter with a drunken law
yer'." That lawyer lias since quit
drinking. Nobody cares for the man
who drinks.
The House Fly.
The days of this little post are
approaching. As an ounce of pre
vention is worth more than a pound
of cute, so with the house fly. It is
is better to stop breeding, than to
plan largely o destroy them. Here
absolute cleanliness is the out' sure
remedy. The house fly not only lives
on impurities, but he incubates in
offal, waste and manure heaps. For
example notice when you have neg
lected to clean out the horse stable
for three or four days, that on exam
ining it. it is full of small white mag
gots. These are larvae of the house
fly. On the second day they are
full grown, on the third day they are
changed to pupa and instead of white
maggots the drying manure will be
full of reddish brown cocoons, the
pupal cases of the flies, in throe or
four days more the perfect flies will
swarm out. ready to lay their eggs,
and to go about a fly's business. The
flies breed in filth. The cure for
the fly pest is to destroy their breed
ing places. Do this now and keep
doing it and the fly plague for the
summer will suffer a severe set
back to the joy of everyone.
HERE AND THERE.
News Of Interest From Our Neigh
boring Towns.
The manufacture of real silver from
cheap metals is now said to be an
accomplished fact. What next?
* * * i
Peoria, 111., witnessed the unusual
sight of seeing a church erected
from foundation to spire in one day.
* * *
Auburn is cominplainlng of having
been made th<> dumping ground of a
lot ot eoutiterft it quarter and half
dollars. Quarters and half-dollars
around Falls City all look good.
* * *
Champ Clark,minority leader of the
Mouse agrees to retire when he is
■venty-five years old. It is not at all
.npossible that the people may ar
live at the same argument somewhat
‘••ooner. (
* * *
Th • Nebraska Experiment station
aas just finished figuring out the
cost of last, year's wheat, oats and
corn crop. II costs the farmer fifty
two cents for each bushel of wheat
.ney raised, thirty-three cents for
ach bushel of oats and twenty-eight
.« nts for each bushel of corn.
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Lincoln is experimenting with oil
tor her mud streets. Tims far the
roads treated with oil have given
good satisfaction. They shed the
rain well and the roads do not cut j
up and gutter. The city contemplates |
increasing Hie milage of roads treat
ed.
* w *
The Lincoln Journal is responsible
for the statement, that the Lincoln
Traction Co. has ordered the survey
of au electric line from Lincoln to
College View and Auburn, a distance
of about fifty miles. This step on
the part of the Lincoln Traction Co.
is of vital Interest to Falls City and
vicinity.
* * *
There are probabilities that Mr.
■Bishop, superintendent of Public In
structions in Nebraska will resign.
In the event, of his resigning friends
of Prof J. W Crabtree will suggest
his name for the place. Ii is pre
sumed linn he will meei with no op
position.
* * »
A Chicago physician with a turn
for Mathematics lias figured out that
: ix ordinary drinks of whiskey ink
mi at regular intervals during the
day are as fatiguing as a day’s work.
Funny, isn’t it? How men drink whis
key for a bracer, and it really knocks
the props from under them.
Sanctum Confidences.
“Brooks,” said Rivers, "can you give
ne a s>nonym for ’utility?’ I’ve used
bat wold twice already.”
”1 suppose 1 can,” growled Brooks,
‘but what’s the use?”
"Use? Use? J’lianks; that’ll do.”
Thereupon the rattle of the type
writer began again.
Observation. ,
The majority of men go through tho
world without cultivating the faculty
of observation. How many of them,
for instance, have ever taken the trou
ble to find out the number of buttons
there are on tlie backs of the waists
worn by their wives?
«
Before and After.
"Before we were married you used
to stand under my window and sing.”
“Yes,” answered Mr. Meekton, “you
were a great deal more patient with
my singing then than you are now.”
Foolish Question.
"Some one stole every blessed
stockings off our line.” “What are
blessed stockings?” “Those which are
not darned, of course.”—Judge.
To Mark the Day
you call her thine, the handsom
est engagement ring you can af
ford is none too good. Come here
and we'll help you choose wisely i
and according to your means
For the Eastertide
Wedding
it will be just as well to secure
the ring now. That will give us
plenty of time to attend to the en
graving all wedding rings should
bear.
f
R. B. Simpson j
North Window Kerr's Pharmacy
INDIANS IN FEAR OF COMET
Superstitious Aborigines Held It Ac
countable for Shortage of Deer
and Caribou.
"Deer in Canada have been scarce
this year,” said John A. Raymond of
Montreal.
“In fact in some places they have
almost vanished. There was a great
deal of cold weather the last winter
in the Alberta province. In some parts
the ground was frozen several feet
deep. The Indians were the greatest
sufferers, not particularly from the
cold, but from the shortness of food,
because they depend upon deer flesh
to last them until the spring.
“The caribou also were few. A year
ago rabbits were so plentiful one
could almost walk over them. This
year they were gone, and it was the
same with the deer and caribou.
“It was the same story all over that
part of Canada. The Hudson hay
hunters reported that they hail found
no caribou at all, and some of them
traveled more than 300 miles in
search of the game. The Indians
everywhere suffered and reliefs of all
kinds were organized by the Hudson
Ray company as well as by the mount
ed police.
“The Indians were made the more
unhappy by a superstitious belief that
the! comet was in some manner ac
countable for their suffering. In some
cases they were driven almost to a
state of panic, and hid themselves in
any kind of shelter they could find,
hoping to be overlooked%by the power
of whose visitation they assumed the
cornet to be a sign.”
“COACHED” SON TO VICTORY
Mother’s Advice That May Have
Helped Player to Swell His
Batting Average.
"Ernie” Cozens, catcher of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania baseball team
and captain of next year's varsity
lootball team, had an inspiration
real and life-size — in tho Albright
game several days ago that netted
him a two-base hit just when he
wanted it.
It. was in the ninth inning, and the
tousled-haired backstop had only
garnered one, hit during all the fu
sillade of the afternoon. It was one
more he needed to swell his bat
ting average.
Aiming the spectators were his
mother and sister, who are loyal
daughters of Penn and present at
every game to watch the pride of the
family flock perform. Just as the
ninth inning opened up they left their
seats in the grand stand and started
to leave the Held.
it happened at that moment that
"Ernie" came to hat. Doth women
stopped in front of the press box and
watched the game over the iron
fence which incloses the playing field.
Cpzons’ first attempt was a foul
that went back in the bleachers.
"That's the wrong way, Ernie,”
shouted the mother, excitedly. "Hit
it the other way.”
Ernie did hit it far into center field.
,and ran to the second base on the hit.
—Philadelphia Times.
Health in the Schools.
"t his country litis at last begun to
wake up to the fact that lack of proper
sanitary and medical methods i:i our
schools has been causing a vast
amount of absolutely unnecessary bad
health; that, bad health is often the
sole cause of dullness or unruliness on
the part of the pupil .and that all
these things are too destructive to the
future lives and success of pupils to
he longer neglected, if the schools
demand supervision over our children
for so lnrge a part of their young lives
then the schools must live up to this
responsibility for bodies as well as
for minds.
Sanitary surroundings, the spread
of contagious diseases, proper food for
lunches, such physical defects as bad
teeth, adenoids, poor eyes—all these
things we have finally learned are of
vital importance.—Delineator.
This Bird Was Curious,
Prof. Guy A. Bailey, a member of
the faculty of the Geneseo iN. Y.)
State Normal school, relates a little
incident which might he doubted were
it not for the fact that he has the
proof to show for the story. Mr. Bai
ley was on Temple hill with his cam
era attempting to get a picture of a
horned lark. The lark evidently
thought Mr. Bailey was providing it
with a bird house, as It hopped on to
the camera, hack into the trees, and
then back on the camera again.
The bird repeated this performance
several times, refusing to remain in
the trees long enough to be snapped.
Finally Mr. Bailey left the camera
where he had located it, went and got
another camera and when he returned
he secured a splendid picture of the
bird perched on camera No. 1. Curi
osity got the best of the bird and the
result was a novel picture.
Cushion for Traveling.
A useful gift for a traveler Is a
cushion covered with heavy crash and
decorated with raffia In a simple de
sign. This pillow, if made from 18 to
JO inches long and 1G or 18 inches In
width, will be a desirable size. Dia
monds, squares or any geometrical de
signs should be worked on both sides,
using strands of raffia in harmonizing
tones.
The bottoms of the pillows may be
finished with fringe of linen or raffia
and the tops fitted with handles made
from the raffia braided into strands.
This is for convenience when carry
ing the pillows from one place to an
other.
CAMEOS RESTORED TO FAVOR
Ancient Art Has Resumed Popularity
—Onyx and Shell Best Liked in
Present Day.
The earliest safety pin came from
Mycenae, and so did what is probably
the earliest existing cameo. It is a
little recumbent lion carved in ame
thyst. and he reposes today in the
British Museum.
This cameo is to sculpture what the
miniature is to the easel picture. It
is a small-sized low relief carved upon
a hard stone or gem. The onyx or
sardonyx, which is to be found in va
rious shaded layers, was the favorite
I material for a cameo of old.
The Roman ladies of Rome’s impe
rial days wore cameo ornaments in
their hair. The nobles wore them on
i heir armor and as shoulder brooches
I or fastenings to their cloaks. Cameo
! cutting became then a great art, show
ing the rarest delicacy and cunning of
■ hand.
Portrait cameos were first favor
ites in the days of ancient Rome, as
also after the Renaissance were por
traits and classic heads. Medusa was
very often chosen as subject because
of her tragic face and her winged
head where serpents writhed among
tier tangled locks.
When England's warriors returned
from the wars of the crusades they
brought with them, among hosts of
other treasures from the east, the
first cameos ever seen there. “Good
Queen Bess,” who loved to have her
portrait taken, sent for a cameo cut
ter from France, and she was duly
sculptured in turquoise and cut num
berless times in onyx.
But it is the old-fashioned shell
cameo which has become so dear to
Women collectors. When delicately
cut it should have a delicious creamy
softness, a precious richness of effect.
An onyx cameo, on the other hand, is
bright, glistening, brilliant, and it is
far more durable.—London Mail.
SERMON FROM BERNARD SHAW
Eccentric Author Tells Some Plain
Truths in an Exceedingly Plain
Manner, as Usual.
Mr. Shaw said a great deal of what
had been erroneously called religion
for the last 300 years had been noth
ing else than a conspiracy to try and
persuade themselves and others that
virtue was a cheap thing. Virtue was
not a cheap thing—no good things
were cheap. If they wanted a decent
and virtuous population—which they
pad not at present—they would have
to pay for it. But,’ al ter all, the ex
pense would not be so great as the
expense of the present system. They
ought to make up their minds, since
they were going to spend money on
the people, that it should be spent
sensibly, and that they should try to
keep people In efficiency and health.
This was a matter which should be
thought over carefully. For two cen
turies past the main object of the Eng
lish people had been to avoid think
ing. They liked a man who would get
on the platform and tell them that
they w’ould muddle through. This
country was really at the present
time in a deploi^ble and appalling
condition. He publicly apologized to
the universe for living in it.—London
Telegraph.
Love and the Romantics.
In the sphere of love, as in so many
of the emotions of mankind, there are
two schools of feeling and of tempera
mept. There is in love, as in litera
ture, the school of the realists and the
school of the romantics. St. Augus
tine is one of the first great apostles
of the school of the romantic lovers;
it was het who, describing his first
‘passion, attributed it not so much to
the object who inspired it as to the
love of love—the unconquerable aspi
ration of the young and the imagina
tive to find the realization and em
bodiment of all the tumultuous dreams
of their imagination in some lovely ob
ject. The object may be quite unwor
thy of the fantastic kingdom in which
she moves; may be of just as little
Importance as the small match that
sets aflame the gigantic magazine of
imaginative powder. That does not
matter; like St. Augustine, romantics
loved because they wanted to love.—
T. P. O'Connor in London T. P.’s
Weekly.
The Polite Chiffonier.
A certain woman while walking
down the avenue one Thursday after
noon, her negro maid's "day out,’’
chanced to meet that young person
riding in an automobile with two col
ored friends. The next day the mis
tress inquired how the maid had en
joyed her ride.
"Oh, it was eert'nly fine!” was the
reply. "And the way I came to go,
I ma’am, was this. I was callin’ on my
cousin when a friend of hers, a chif
fonier, came in. He said he had the
machine outside and asked her to
have a ride, and. as he concluded me
in the invitation, of co'se I went!”
How He Managed.
Mr. Crumpet went to Italy last fall.
Before he sailed ^ friend said to him:
"Better let me give you a letter to
ray brother in Naples, Crumpet. He’s
influential and may be useful in get
ting your things out of the customs
without delay.”
“Oh! that part of it will be all
right,” said Mr. Crumpet. "Last time
1 went I had no trouble at all. 1 em
ployed a guide when we landed in Na
ples and he took charge for me. When
we came to the custom house he sim
ply said significantly and briefly:
“ 'Dees ees do custom house—give-a
de franc.' ”
TOBACCO AMONG THE 1NSANE
Its Continued Use Incites Many to Be
come Quarrelrome, Tease and Mo
lest Fellow Patients.
Tiiat the majority of the insane
smoke or chew is too well-known to
deserve special mention. Some alien
ists have been of the opinion that this
habit ought not to be discouraged, that
It has a calming and pacifying effect
especially on the chronic insane. I be
lieve this to be t lie ease in some of
the secondary den t nts, but ordinarily,
though calming at first, it has an ex
citing effect later on, writes Doctor L.
Bremer of St. Louis. True, if the
temporary contentment resulting from
the gratification of the craving of (lie
patient is looked upon as the action
of tobacco, I agree that its effects are
calming. But this quieting down, in
my opinion, takes place on the same
principle that a child gets quiet and
stops crying when its wish, even
though most unreasonable, is gratified.
The rule is that smoking causes or pro
longs excitement in the Insane. Many
become absolutely unmanageable as
soon ns they touch tobacco. They
get quarrelsome, tease and molest
their fellow-patients and render them
selves obnoxious generally.
That tobacco really does cause in
sanity Is evidenced by the magic ef
fect seen in some eases after the dis
continuance of the drug, when the pa
tient's condition is still such that lie
is not wholly inaccessible to reason
and has will power enough to aban
don tlie habit., Thus 1 have seen that
beginning melancholia with suicidal
impulses, hallucinations of various
kinds, forced actions, besides, the pre
cursory symptoms of insanity, such
as insomnia, crying spells, praecordial
anxiety, fears of Impending evil, “that
something is going to happen,” irnpo
toncy, vertigo, beginning impairment
of memory and judging power and
even the lowering of the moral tone,
all of which, and a host of other symp
toms were attributable to chronic to
bacco intoxication, disappeared after
freedom from the habit was estab
lished.
But whenever a case has gotten so
far, that commitment to an institution
has become necessary, the prospects
are not so good, because such persons,
as a rule, cannot be convinced that
tobacco is, or has been, the cause of
their mental trouble. Their argu
ment is that almost everybody
smokes, that all their friends and ac
quaintances chew or smoke, without
showing any symptoms of insanity.
The alcoholic insane when leaving the
Institution to enter active life again,
generally knows and admits that al
cohol has been the cause of his men
tal breakdown, the nicotine-victim
does not admit anything.
There has been a movement on foot
in the medical press, and to some ex
tent in the daily papers, which latter
chronicle the few cases that come to
public knowledge under the head:
“Gone insane from cigarette smoking,''
etc., to counteract the spread of this
fatal habit, fatal to the individual him,
self and pernicious to the coming gen
eration: but so far, apparently with
out any appreciable result.
French medical observers are of the
opinion that one of the factors caus
ing the depopulation of France is the
excessive use of tobacco by its in
habitants; for the offspring of invet
erate tobacco consumers is notorious
ly puny and stunted in stature and
lacks the normal power of resistance,
especially on the part of the nervou^
system; again, in our county it is a
significant fact that an astounding
percentage of the candidates for ad
mission to West Point and other mili
tary schools are rejected on account
of tobacco hearts; from all countries
and from all classes of society come
reports in increasing numbers of the
baneful effects of the tobacco heart.
But the consumption goes on and
will do so, until an example is set by
those who, above all others, can esti
mate the disastrous effect of the habit.
LIQUOR IN BRITISH GUIANA
Ordinance Adopted in Colony Stop
ping Sale of Ardent Spirits to
Aboriginal Indians.
The policy of prohibiting the sale
of ardent spirits to the aborigines of
crown colonies, which the Native
Races and the Liquor Traffic United
committee is urging upon the British
and other governments, has been
adopted and is being enforced in Brit
ish Guiana. A colonial office report
just issued states that an ordinance
has been adopted in this colony pro
hibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquor to any Indian and provides that
any such liquor may be seized and
forfeited. Any intoxicated Indian may
be arrested and detained in any
lockup till he is sober and is liable to
a penalty if he refuses to give infor
mation as to the person who supplied
him with liquor.
Liquor in German Army Barred.
At the recent international congress
on alcoholism, held in London, a Ger
man delegate made the statement that
Emperor William had instituted a
very notable temperance reform in the
army. “Schnapps,” or liquors of any
sort, is no longer served to the troops,
as formerly. The only liquor allowed
besides tea, coffee, water or milk is
lemon soda