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. •"<’>
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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.
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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.
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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 <o get a county option leglslatue.
is not for county option himself.
Nominate good men, and get busy
at once.
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TOBEY’S CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
George E. Tobey, candidate for
congress, has issued a card contain
ing the vital planks of his platform.
An inspection of the platform will
convince the most fastidious that it
contains no stuttering notes. It is
as follows:
“I stand for the declaration of
the last national republican platform
and the pledge of President Taft, and
the tariff should be revised down
warrd.
"I believe that pledge should be
kept and that there should especially
be a revision downward on trust-con
trolled articles and on those things
which are so rapidly increasing the
cost of living.
“I am for a permanent tariff com
mission with real powes to investi
gate schedules and abate abuses
pending congressional action.
"I am for giving the interstate
commerce commission adequate pow ,
rrs to regulate and control all com
mon carriers.
“I am against Cannon and Can
nonism.
"1 am for county option in Nebras
ka and for some measure in Congress
that will prevent the issuance of fed
eral incense or tax stamps in dry
territory.
“I have had eight years’ experi
ence in Washington, am familiar with
the works of all the departments,
and will be able from the first to
look after the needs of my district,
whether it be for the farmers, the
town men or the old soldier.
"I am a candidate for the republi
can nomination to congrress in the
First District. If you approve of the
above declaration, I would like to
have your support, and would like to
hear from you. G K. TOBEY,
Lincoln, Nebraska.
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AS WE SEE IT!
A man is a man to our mind ir
respective of his occupation, wealth
or social standing. And contrary
wise a rascal is a rascal to our mind
in spite of the cut of his clothes.
The big guns of Falls City have no
more occasion to raise a howl when
some of their dirty pranks are given
publicity than the little fry. Prom
inence is too often permitted to cloak
the rascalites of the upper set. The
under dog is expected to do penance
for bcGi sets just because he is down
and at the other fellow’s mercy. The
Tribune, however, refuses to be part
ner to anything so mean and despic
able. News, that to our mind ought
to be known, will he published no mat
ter whom it may concern. We hold
ourselves responsible for the publica
tion of the facts, not the results. We
confess to being new on the ground,
and keenly feel our limitations. But,
as we get next to (lie actual facts
our readers can rest assured that we
will deliver the goods, without fear
or favor. The wickedness higher up,
will he unearthed and exposed. We
want to be fair and true to fact, We
do not consider it in our province to
go beyond the matter of giving pub
licity to tilings ns they are. It Is
for the officers and the people to
deal with the conditions.
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THE CHURCH’S DUTY.
There is a short cut to good mun
icipal govenment. Good government
is the product of good citizens. If
otherwise good men neglect their
duty as citizens, bad men stand
ready to take the reins and drive
epecdily to had government. In or
tier lo rentier proper service to Cae
sar, (the government), we must first
rentier to (loti that which belongs to
Him.
The imm who climbs into office be
cause be lias first crawled through
tin1 saloon, tlu> 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
