THF. 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..— -fl.jjO Six months. •"<’> Three months ..-.40 TELEPHONE226. Will they compel lfrynn to run for the U. S Senate? With Ilryan from Nebraska and Roosevelt from Now York. Aldrich and Cannon would have a live proposition on their hands. * * * Governor Shellenbergor lias finally declined to call a special session of the Nebraska legislature to pass the Initiative and Referendum. He does not think It would pay politically, oh? • * * Go' error Shellenbergor is making free use ol ills pardoning privilege. No doubt every rascal who receives his liberty through the governor's clemency will not forget that one good turn deserves another next No vember. * * * The agitation favoring J. it. Cain, Jr., of Stella as senator from Paw nee and Richardson counties is time ly. It is to be hoped that the good sense and judgment of the republi cans of the two counties will be vin dicated by returning Mr. Cain to ids old seat. * » * Lincoln found it expedient to change the captain of the army of the i’oto mac. It lias been seriously suggest ed that the base ball team try with another captain. Hut while we are at it, making chnnges, why not swing ail round the circle' and put a new boss at the head of Falls City it might be worth trying. JUDGE* LINDSEY. Judge Lindsey, the pioneer in the work of child saving, is having troub le in Denver. When lie began Ills work he was the most popular man in town, but since lie is compelled to run counter to the interests of cor porate greed he has lost some of his former prestige. Men In Denver w ould rather see homes ruined and children sent to hell than change the city ad ministration when that change means financial loss'to them. Judge Lindsey may not be re-elect ed nut his work will go on. lie it said to the shame of Denver, that be who has done so much for God and humanity; whose life has been spent in doing good, and whoso name will be remembered and revered long after the vampires who are opposing him i re forgotten, stands practically alone today on the firing line of this great conflict. It is sometimes hard work on the firing line, and cold. • * • NOMINATE GOOD MEN. The temperance people of Nebras lta art urged to nominate temperance candidates. There is no time to lose. The brew ers are already at work selecting sen ators. They will have their candidate in the fireld for both parties. It will be too late to “endorse the best man" for election, if the brew ers nominate them both. sensible men will not wait. They will at once see to it that good can didates are got into tho field in every district. The man who says this is not the way dive, tile brothel and the gambling den, will not regard his oath of office when he comes to take the office. His oath is nothing to such a politician. He glibly swal lows the oath and immediately for gets it, because he has first forgot ten God. He takes his oath, affirm ing in the most solemn manner, that he will execute the law and obey the constitution of his city, state and nation. This is done ns a matter of mere routine. it lias little or no meaning to an irreligious. ungodly man. His oath serves as a mere blind for those citizens wlia are old fashioned enough to believe in an oath of affirmation as an end of all question or controversy. Bad government soon follows. The things begin to go wrong in civic affairs. The police department is inefficient; unsanitary conditions pre vail; wealthy corporations find favor as against public interests; saloons, gambling dens and vice become de fiant; taxes increase, but the funds are misapplied or squandered, and the taxpayer is helpless. All tins ami much more, lias be come possible in municipal govern ment, because ungodly, irreligious, de praved men have been handed the reins of government. Do these con ditions surprise anybody? Does any one exxpect a man to serve his fellowmen who does not obey nor serve God? As long as good men, religious men. continue to show themselves to be bad citizens by refusing to put their religion into local politics, the evils that beset municipal government will prevail. There is nothing obscure about it. The cure is plain. If Christianity means anything it lias the power to regenerate the city. A timid, half hearted faith, a religion of fear and doubt will not save the city. Religi on.—even the religion of love, is a rugged, stalwart, courageous thing. The religion of Christ is the religion of ’ove,—that love that conquers sin and wrong everywhere. It ventures much, hazards much, dares to be true. It hesitates not because it is sure the good is stronger than evil. The religion of love is willing to undertake large tasks. Infinite love in action is the meaning of the cross. We Christians ought to know that if we are to save others—the city, the state, nation or race,—wo must give ourselves to the task. That is Christ's way of saving this world. A PUBLIC MENACE. While short-cutting it across the country recently, I came upon the arcass of :t horse lying in a stream of running water. Th re can be little doubt hut that the horse was east in there by the owner, as the easiest way of getting rid of an unpleasant iask. The creek is one of the branches of the Nemaha and supplies water to a large territory. Necessar ily all the water below must be more or less polluted through that one car cass. The offender may be ignorant,; or only thoughtless. Nevertheless, he i is grossly indifferent to the welfare, of the man belsw him. There may be no law that will apply to this ■ ase hut tile dictates of ordinary de cency should safeguard th community against a danger so real and grave. We can never tell what we may be passing on to the man next to us. j Especially in the matter of pollute ing the public streams. Farmers! have a duty lu re, to one another and to the public generally, which they can not lightly pass by. Every farm er should make it a sacred duty to] pass the waters crossing his land on, | at least as pure as he received them, j * 4t * A PUBLIC CONSCIENCE. What Falls City most lacks is a' clearly defined sense of the common need. We have no common ideal of I the general good. This is a serious, lack and amounts to a want of public spirit in the larger and truer sense.; The idea of sacrificing in the inter est of the public good does not main tain in any other sense. The prac tice is to push only such measures | as pay the pusher liberally. In other; words, the politician is at liis job for; the spoil, lie is a grafter and not a public spirited citizen, such as hej usually poses as being. Real pro gress is blood-bought, and Falls City will only then be able to take an ad-! vanee step when her better class of citizens are ready and willing to deny themselves in the city's inter ests. We need men who have the i public weal sufficiently at heart to be willing to suffer annoyance, dis comfort, abuse and financial loss in order to see the best interests of the city advanced. We need not only men of large calibre, but men of strenuous mold, who possess neces sary fighting qualities. The peoples' cause (alls for championing a com mon consciousness must be develop ed. * * * A GRAND SPEECH. A Native Porto Rican’s Talk At a Meeting of His Fellows. “We. the Porto Ricans, have too much false pride. We will not car ry a bundle on the street, if we are able to hire a boy to carry it for us We never think of going into the field to work. We are after clerk ships or other work of that class. The Americans came to Porto Rico and bought our lands which we could not make a living from and which when the Americans first came here, we would have been pleased to sell for five dollars per acre. “They- have taken these lands that we thought had no value and on which we could grow nothing and today they have beautiful fruit groves, nice home have carpets on the floors; linens on their tables, curtains at their win dows, china for their tables and the lands that we were willing to sell for five dollars per acre are today worth from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars per acre. How have they done this? I will tell you. They have used scientific methods and their cultivation; have attended to their places personally and have work ed them with their own hands. They are not too proud to get out and cul tivat* the’soll. “t happened to be passing a few days ago a grove which belongs to an American doctor and 1 noticed some one in the field plowing and on approaching closer, I discovered the doctor at the plow handles plow ing his orchard with a pair of oxen. A few days later I was in San Juan, and that same night I was at a reception at the governor’s palace and that same doctor whom 1 had seen plowing a few days before was at that reception with bis long tail [coat on. We, if we are able to have a long tail coat and go to receptions are looking for political positions. “I have, on many occasions, been passing the groves of the Americans and 1 have alwaysnoticed the pret ty homes and groves and see the owners working out with the peons in the hot sun, but in the evening if you will follow these same Americans you will find them in their comfortable and beautiful homes or at the recep tions “Now gentlemen, we find one of the most important government posi tions on the island filled by the Amer ican and yet a few days before his appointment I was passing his place and saw him in the same way 1 bad seen the doctor. He was out behind a pair of mules working his grove. “I tell you we have got to learn to cultivate our soil and be not ashamed to do so before we can ex pect to make a success of it.’’ GOOD ROADS. Tecumseh Citizens Organize Good Roads Association. Several days ago the citizens of Tecumseh got together and organi zed a good roads association. It is expected that the county conmiission ors will co-operate with the associa Uon in a concerted effort to improve the public roads leading out from Tecumseh. This is a most laudable enterprise and should not only meet with the heartiest support and en couragement in the community, but should be emulated by Falls City s:ml other county seat towns. The effort will be to drag syste matically and scientifically the main i'nm.8 away from town. The latest methods of road building will also he employed to put the roads in the best possible condition to be ad vantaged by the dragging. Every one present signed the membership roll and agreed to pay $.">.00 to help start the work. When the people get together and determine to have good roads, they can have them. All that is now nec essary is for the citizens of Tecum seh and the farmers to co-operate in Hie work; stick together, and keep pegging away and in a remarkably short time, at a comparatively insig nificant extra expense, they will have a system of roads over which they may justly feel proud. There is no occasion for putting up with road conditions such as we have here a big fraction of tlie year. A little ef fort and planning, done at the prop er time, would in time yield truly magnificent returns. Let us have a good roads association in Falls City. And quickly too. This is a legitimat. field for the Commercial Club to pos sess. Help For The Boys And Girls. We have realized for a long time that if agriculture in the west is to make rapid advances, we must inter est the boys and girls. It is hard to change the methods of the man past middle age; but hard as it is, it has been done many times during the past few years. '.lust as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.” Therefore the proper way is to get at the boys and girls, interest 'hem in up-to-date farm ing,in all the new methods, and make them really interested in farm life. Both boys and girls work better in groups than individually; this is hu man nature. The Department of Agriculture has don ■ a good thing in issuing Bulletin 285, under the title of "Boys’ and Girls' Agricultural Clubs.” We would like if very much if every boy and girl whb reads this article would write to the Department of Agriculture and ask for this bulletin; then read it, and as soon as possible get the boys and girls together and organize the club? outlined in this bulletin. Tli • stale of Nebraska has probab ly been doing more in this line than almost any other State we know of. They have developed what are known as Nebraska Boys’ and Girls’ Associa tions, and have issued a bulletin (Se ries 12, No 12), which every farm boy and girl in Nebraska should get. Address State University, Lincoln, Nebraska. After reading this bulletin preparing the ground for corn, plant ing it and cultivating it will not seem half as much like drudgery as it has in the past; particularly so, as there are a number of questions to test the boy’s knowledge. If he can answer these questions, which any brigh'- boy should be able to, it will give him a genuine taste of up-to-date agriculture. When at the University of Nebraska last winter one of our special pleas ures was to visit the meeting of the womens’ organizations of the state. We are filled with admiration for the noble work they are doing, and it gives us pleasure to notice that the Department of Public Instruction of Lincoln has issued a course in cook ery for Nebraska girls’ domestic sci ence clubs, which can be had on ap plication to E. C. Bishop, Lincoln, Ne braska. It would please us very much if our readers in that state would supply themselves with this bulletin and take measures to organize a cooking club in every township. When we think of the wonderful opportunities that are open to the farmers' sons and daughters in these days we are pained at the barren ness of our own life as a farmer’s boy Then there were no agricultural col leges no experiment station, no farm ers' institutes, no cooking schools, no agricultural papers, only an agri cultural page in Greeley’s Tribune. We remember getting up a club for this paper when a boy, and the ex treme difficulty we had in persuad ing enough wealthy farmers to sub scribe, so that we could make up a club of ten and get a subscription for ourselves free. There is no excuse for ary boy on a western farm not learning more about agriculture in one year than the boy sixty years ago could lf'arn in ten; and with the op portunities now offered on every hand, there is no excuse for any farm girl not knowing how to keep house and cook meals fit for anyone.—Wal lace Farmer. BURLINGTON ROUTE. All Through Trains to Be Electric Lighted, In the history of American rail roading no such extensive and costly improvements of coach lighting has e*er been attempted up to this”time as that which will be made effective by the Burlington Route the first of June. On that date all of its through trains will be electric lighted from locomotive headlight to observation platform. The most efficient electric lighting system yet devised has been adapted, namely, the dynamo system With this system there is installed in the baggage car of each train a high-power dynamo which supplies the current for the entire train. Or dinarily, when, the dynamo car is de tached, there is a distinct dimming of the lights, but under the dynamo system not only is enough current generated to light the train when it is in motion or standing still, but enough surplus current is stored in each individual car to brilliantly light it for several hours without any dir ect current from the dynamo. This in itself is a big improvement over other systems of car lighting. With this great improvement, the Burhngton Route, which already is unexcelled in its equipment, dining car service, regularity with which its trains run “on time,” and complete block signal equipment will have pas senger service as nearly perfect in all details as it is possible to make it. Like Flint and Steel. An alloy of iron and thorium, when lightly struck like a flint, gives off very bright Eparks which set shavings afire. Uncle Ezra Says: "Stick to the farm, but don't neces sarily. when you are away frum home, et the farm stick to you." A Fresh Egg Drink at our fountain is nutritious, whole some and perfectly delicious. Made in All Flavors—Try One Only pure fruit juices and syrups used. Ours the most SANITARY FOUNTAIN in town. The Candy Kitchen P. C. BACAKOS, Prop. Cold Com Flour has the Purity to survive every prac tical and scientific test. I v> BELOIT, KANSAS. 48 lbs. GOLD COIN HIGHEST PATENT FLOUR Use this Flour and get better results in baking. You won't have to try nearly so hard. ASK YOUR DEALER TO SEND YOU A SACK J DAIRY NOTES. Don’t try to dairy with beef cows. Any good milk tows of any breed are good property. A good milk cow sells for more -than a corn-fat steer. If there is no silage you should at least provide a supply of roots. Two or three good Jersey cows are worth a great deal on any farm. It is well to let a cow have all the hay she will consume without waste. The heifer can begin to bring you money when two y. ars old. Let her freshen at that age. Good alfalfa hay for milch cows is worth very nearly as much, pound for pound, as wheat bran. The good dairy cow gives better re turns for the food consumed than any other animal that we have on the farm. Remember the dairy cow must be held up to her highest flow of milk, it is hard to get her back if she once falls off. Some dairymen seem to enjoy an unaccountable prejudice against the detective work which can be done by cow-testing associations. Too many men are fooling with dairying. Let’s get down to business, stop finding fault that our returns are mot better and do something really worth while. The economy of a ration depends upon the cost of producing a pound of butter or a gallon of milk and not upon the actual cost of the foods actually being utilized. CRATE FOR CALF OR SHEEP Gunny Sack Filled With Hay Fur nishes Abundant Food and Shel ter in Extreme Weather. There are two very good reasons for tacking a gunny sack on the end of a crate in which a sheep or calf is Protected Crate. to lie shipped. In the first place, an abundant supply of real nice hay will be relished before the end of the tedious journey and then, in extreme cold weather, the sack and hay will help to protect the animal when ex posed to the elements at transfer points. The added equipment is inex pensive and does not add appreciably to the weight of the crate. The plan of securing the sack to the crate is clearly indicated in the drawing. BUILDING FOR MILK STORAGE Should Be Free From All Objectionable Odors and Constructed to Keep Cool and Clean. (By E. H. WEBSTER, DIRECTOR OF KANSAS EXPERIMENT STATION.) If the milk is placed in a cellar or cave where there are decaying vege tables or fruit, it will quickly ab sorb the odors from them. Such places are entirely unfit for the stor age of milk. The dairyman should have a building, set apart from the barns and other places from which (objectionable odors might come, for the exclusive use of the dairy. This building need not be very large, but must be constructed so that it can easily be kept clean and cool. A cement floor should be laid, as it is the easiest to clean, is cool and does not rot from moisture. If the walls are built of stone, brick or concrete, so much the better, for such walls keep out the heat. The roof construction should be such that it will effectually turn the heat of the sun. If the roof is not of concrete, it should be built double, so that an air current will pass be tween the upper and lower parts. Walls and ceilings should be covered with cement plaster, whether wood or stone is used in their construction. This finish, if properly put on, Is easy to clean and does not readily become affected with mold or decay. Provision must be made for an abundance of water, and the pumping arrangement must be such that the fresh water from the well or spring will flow through the dairy house. It should run into a tank built deep enough to allow the complete sub merging of the milk and cream cans. The tank should have sufficient width and length to hold all that it may be necessary to use. A tank built of concrete and finished with a cement surface is the most econom ical in the long run, and is much more satisfactory. Provision must be made for draining it out for the purpose of cleaning. W’ooden tanks are usually a source of trouble from leaks and decay. Iron tanks do not last long because they become rusty. Feeding Cows. It Is poor policy to sell your clover hay and compel your cows to eat corn stover alone. A goo 1 cow can sell your hay crop for better money than the hay buyer can pay and will do nil thr h"”d work hr sides.