THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Consolidations—Falls City Tribune,
Humboldt Enterprise, Rule Record,
Crocker's Educational Journal and
Dawson Outlook
Entered as second-class matter at
Falls City, Nebraska, post oftice. Janu
ary \Z. 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.
Six months . .'■’>
Three months . .40
TELEPHONE226.
Announcement.
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the republican nomination
for congress in the First District of
Nebraska. WILLIAM HAYWAlU).
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THE ISSUE IS CLEAR.
All of the liquor Interests Including
brewers, distillers, saloon-keepers,
are on one side against The Ne
braska County Option Mill, and op
posed to tlte Anti-Saloon league as
the agency for securing il, while most
of tlie Christian temperance people
are on tin1 other side.
As the proposed measure simply
confers upon the people the rights to
decide the saloon question for them*
ttelvt s the issue Is “Shall The Peo
ple Bo Denied Their Rights?"
County option is an Issue, and so
far as we see it the most conspicu
ous one, to say the least, because
the brewers have tried to throttle the
growth of moral sentiment. The
brewers started out to control the
legislature ami to make or dictate the
laws governing the liquor traffic.
This action of the brewers lias forced
this issue Into tho campaign. It Is
the brewers' opposition which lias
aroused tin fighting blood of the
advocates of county option.
County optlonists are simply ask
ing for a chance to vote by counties
on the question of license. The brew
ers are afraid to give the people that
chance anil the issue is: A CHANCE
TO VOTE. In spite of- the efforts
of tiie party leaders to dodge the
question by saying county option is
not an issue, it is an issue, not only
a moral issue but a red-hot political
Issue, because it is a moral question
which is opposed by selfish in
terests.
The campaign has readied a place
where the question for a mini to
d«s idf is on which side he shall line
up, and it. should not take a nqiri
■of intelligence and patriotism long
to decide to cast in his lot with those
who represent unselfishness and n de
sire for tin1 public good, as opposed
to those who represent sordid so]
fish interests.
THE GUBERNATORIAL SITUATION
There are at this writing four as
pirants for gubernatorial honors in
thefield. Two are Democrats and two
are Republicans. Mayor Dahiman the
pledged representative of the whisk
ey Interests occupies the extreme
win.it of the Democratic party. He
is the incarnation of all that is
“wet." C. H. Aldrich the Republican
candidate from David City is the ex
trem • opposite of Dahiman Aldrich
is a man of high standard, unques
tionable morality and a progressive
republican. Between the two and
squarely "astraddle” of tin* great
issue are the two. Governors Sheldon
and Shellenberger. Shellenberger has
been flirting with the interests all
spring. Sheldon on the other hand
has repented him of his folly two
years ago and is preparing to stand
for the people and the issues es
poused by the people. Mr. Al
drich is a typical western progres
sive. H : is honor bright, rings
true, and' represents the cleanest
and most advanced ideas of republi
canism. Between the four there
can be no question, as to where the
peoples’ interests lay.
A POSSIBLE THIRD CANDIDATE.
The popular ring of the democrat
ic party as represented by the Bry
anites, has no representative in the
field. Neither have the “interests"
a representative for governor among
the republicans. That they will en
deavor to put forth a third man
and rush the nominations need not
be qestioned. The Interests are
alert and scheming. If an opening
with the least promise offers they
will take advantage of it to divide
the republican vote and put their
candidate into nomination. The
hope of the republican party in Ne
braska this fall lies in the charac
ter and strength of the men who
are put forward as the party's rep
resentatives. Here the gubernational
timber will be all but decisive. If
the republicans land a clean, high
standard man in nomination against
a possible opposite by the demo
crat!, his victory at the polls in
November i3 assured. The people are
thinking and watching. Nothing will
at this time arouse popular /resent
ment. and meet with such a quick
and sure rebuke ns treachery in the
coming conventions. Let the party
lead' rs beware. The people of .Ve
in n*ka will be heard from tills fall1
in d'fense of their rights.
BRYAN.
lias returned and declares:
that <ounty option is the political is-:
sue in Nebraska this fall. The
democratie camp is solely puzzled to
such* ssfully muzzle the great Com
monor. All efforts to entangle him
in ihe senatorial tut have thus far
proved futile. Bryan will not per
mit his democratic enemies to
elus ■ his mouth against county op-j
tion and the abuses of the brew
ery and whiskey gang with a sena-!
lortiil sop. What will happen in
convention is difficult to foretell. I
The probabilities are that the Shell
enlierger and Dahlmati interests will!
get together if they are not already
together; Shellenberger will satisfy
the 'wets" and Dahlman will with
draw and throw his strength to
Shel’enberger. Tliat Bryan will put
up ,i strong fight at Grand Island,
there (tin be no doubt. To what ex
tent lie will lie able to rally the bet
ter elements in bis party remains to
be seen.
LOCAL CANDIDATES. *
County candidates are slow In an
nouncing themselves. This is ex
coed.ugly unfortunate at a time like
the present, with the* Idg issues be
fore tis, and the linos of demat'k
atlon so clearly drawn, there Is no
reason for candidates to hesitate, ex
cepting from a want of conviction on
their part. Candidates are waiting
to see the drift of poplar opinion be
fore announcing themselves, hoping
by In,ok or crook to get on the win
ning side. Men who ha eno positive
convictions of their own, upon which
they are prepared to stake the
chances of election are unworthy of
the peoples' confidence and should he
rejected. At a crisis like the pres
ent only im n of strong and clearly
defined convictions on »he "feat Is
sues are worthy to tie entrusted with
the liberties of the fi-ople. If good
men will step forward in the present
crisis in Richardson county, they
can depend upon the support of the
great majority of the more enlight
ened of our people.
"Those whom the gods would des
troy they first make mad." This is
excellent philosophy. \n enraged
man is his own worst enemy. The
fact that our enemies are mad is to
us a most, happy Indication. The
smell of sulphur in the air is a sign
that the probe lias hit the “bad
place" Nothing so quickly arouses
the beast in a man, like having his
weakness exposed. The enemies of
clean government and of the rule of
the people, are fighting mad because
their crooked methods are being ex
posed. Their harking would lie pa
tiu't1.' if it were not so ludlcerous.
Thev work the bluff racket to shreds.
They are good at playing on peoples’
prejudices fears, but absolutely help
less when compelled to face the hard,
ugly facts. Let them rave. In their
Impotent rage they only betray the
weakness of their own ways. The I
truth and the right are our own
liesi defenders. They need no ad
vocates. The side with a weak ease
needs to look well to its defenses.
The cause of the people is sure
and will win out. While the dis
concerted interests fret and storm,
the peoples’ rights are being secured
and advanced.
STRANGELY INCONSISTENT.
Ricently a number of county sup
erintendants met with Supt. Bishop to!
detennlne upon the habits which j
will be required of Institute hi-]
spector. He will be asked to say j
whether he chews, smokes, drinks,
dances, gambles, plays cards, etc. It]
was definitely concluded that drink
ing and gambling were for an instruct
or. unpardonable sins and called for!
disbtrment. On the subject of tobacc !
there was some difference of opin
ion, and a decisive stand could not;
be taken. It. developed that some]
otherwise very good and desirable!
teachers in Nebraska smoke and
chew. Strange fellows, these sup
erintendents. They write in the
text looks that the use of ^alcohol
and narcotics is injurious, and In-j
sist upon the pupils swallowing their,
dope without protest, while they find]
it necessary and advisable to meet
and pow-wow about allowing them
selves to practice contrary to their
preaching.—Poor sinners.
* * *
Mr Roosevelt has refused, abso
lutely, to permit his name to be]
used as a candidate for the governor
ship of New York. Is he setting his
ap for bigger game.
* * *
W. J. Bryan lias again returned to
America and home, only to find i
that his enemies have waxed bold,
and that his troubles are multiplied, j
* * *
A bridge collapsed in Illinois and
percipitated over 200 , people into!
the Piinois canal.
"DON'T BE A FOOL,”
On February 13, lbo7, Judge Artma
nf Indiana Rendered a notable decis
ion on the state's right to grant a
license. Hr said in conclusion: ‘ It
must, lie held that the state' cannot
under the guise of license, delegate to
the saloon business a legal existence,
because to hold that it can is to hold
ihat the state may selland delegate
the tight to make widows and orphan
ihe right to create misery and crime,
the right to make murderers, the
right to produce idiots and lunatics,
tiie light tc fill orphanages, poor
louses, insane asylums, jails and
penitentiaries and the right to fur
nish subjects for the hangman's gal
lows."
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TO THINK ABOUT.
Think of a man who has had col
lege training sending ten pages of
manuscript to an editor without num
bering a single page, and then get
ting into .a cyclone of rage when a
mistake is made in the printing of
such a pageless document!
Think of a man of leisure, with
Lime to kill,sending to an editor who
is doing tlnee men's work a long,
loosely conceived article, lazily writ
ten, with a dull, dim pencil, and clos
ng witii the request: "Please correct
all mistakes!” Hx.
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Electricity Eor Country Homes.
Kleetricity, because of the many du
ties it can perform, is being demand
ed by people in the rural dis
tricts. and this demand was the stim
ulus, that has led to the produc
tion of the highly efficient and com
plete small electric unit for use in
country home. All classes of prime
movers are installed in these little
plants, tail where water power is
available it will undoubtedly be used,
as it is unequalled from a stand
point of economy and because it is
very easily controlled and operated
when properly installed.
Mr .1, K. Stalder, one of Richard
son county's prominent farmers is
the first to have installed on Hock
Creek, on liis farm, a complete hy
droelectric power plant, which is
lighting his house and buildings and
will inter on be made to do the wash
ing, clothes-wringing. ironing and oth
er duties of the home that tend to
mak ■ life burdensome. A seventeen
inch Samson LeflVl wheel of turbine
type and a fifty light, 110 volt direct
current dynamo with switch boards
and other instruments, constitute the
make up of the plant together with
the home made dam and current
lines to the house.
The current pressure is regulate by
controlling the speed of the water
wheel and this is in accomplished by
means of small cable lines running
from the house to the gates of the
water wheel and though the plant
fa over 1,000 feet from the house the
regulation is carried on easily as
the coimtrolling wheel and volt-meter
are both where they can be handled
and read, thus keeping the proper
voltage.
This little plant was installed by
local electricians and mechanics, and
differs only in size from the larger
hydro-electric units in the counntry.
The installation is a representative
of what will be a commonn sight in
the future that of complete lighting
and power plants, for the rural
home, and in electrical ns well as
the many other blessings of city life
the iural resident is to be on a par
with his city brother.
Prizes For Model Aeroplanes.
That the mechanically inclined boy
may be encouraged to become the
aviator or aeroplane builder of the
future, the Nebraska Aero club has
arranged to offer three cash prizes
for the best model of an aeroplane
made by a Nebraska boy tinder IS
years of age.
The prizes will consist of gold
coins—$25 for the best model; $15
for the second and $10 for the third.
That the amounts are not larger is
because the club wants the boys to
build the models with the average
equipment which a boy has and with
out assistance..
Arrangements have also been made
with Glenn H. Curtis, the aviator who
has made successful flights every
where to judge these models and in
judging them he will make sugges
tions to the youthful makers of the
models.
This interesting contest is to be
held in Omaha during the Mid-west
Aviation meet which is to be held
there July 23 to 27 inclusive and
which will be attended by the rec
ord breakers in the aviation world,
including Curtis, Willard and Mars.
The field selected for the contests
is half way between Omaha and Ben
son, high above the city and with
plenty of room for starts.
* * *
Chief .histice Fuller is dead.
♦ * *
Dr. Hyde received a life sentence
* * *
The National Educational Society
met in Boston, this week.
* • •
24 fatalities are repor'ed for the
Fourth of July,this year Last year
there were 44.
NEBRASKA.
Some Facts That All Nebraskans
Should Know.
Japan, with forty million of people,,
enjoys a trade and commerce amount
ing to about $400,000,000 a year.
This includes what Japan buys from
other nations. In 1 f*"fl Nebraska rais
ed from her soil and produced manu
factured articles from Nebraska raw
products, the ennorrnous total of
$650,000,000. With three per cent of
Japan's population, therefore, Nebras
ka produced and added to the wealth
of the world 600 per cent more than
Japan produced and purchased front
other nations. The total volume of
Japan's production and purchase was
little more than half of what the
state of Nebraska raised from the
soil and sold direct, or converted in
to manufactured^ articles in her own
factories.
There are fewer than six states
that produce more food products than
they consume, and Nebraska is one
of the six. Upon these five or six
stat's nations depend for their food
supplies. Yet, with all of this re
markable record less than one-third
of the tillable land of Nebraska is
under cultivation. Millions of acres
of th< richest soil in the world lie
within the confines of Nebraska and
have never been touched by the plow
Other millions of acres with desul
tory cultivation have produced in
an abundance that has been the
marvel of the agricultural world.
Why go into the desolate frigid
regions of the l'ar northwest to un
dergo t lie hardships of pioneers, far
removed from railway facilities, and
then be able to secure only wheat
lands, when Nebraska, with six thous
and miles of railroad and a splendid
live stock and grain market within
her borders, offers without hardship
and at a reasonable price land that
will not only produce wheat far exeell
ing the average, but will produce in
abundance every other crop that
grows in the temperate /one.
N 'braska wheat lands will produce
vastly more wheat to the acre than
the wheat lands of the Canadian
iieftliw si, and in addition will grow
richei every year by the proper re
lation of crops and produce abun
dantly of corn, oats, rye, barley, al
falfa,' speltz, broom corn and sugai
beets. Nebraska's crop averages are
the highest of any state in the union.
Compared with productivity, nearness
to market, railroad facilities and ev
erything else that goes to make life
worth living, Nebraska farm lands ar
selling fit a lower price than tillable
land is selling anywhere else on the
North American continent.
The possibilities of Nebraska soil
are beyond estimate. Already it pro-,
duces mor<* corn to the acre than
any other state, and more wheat to
the acre than <vpy other state. In
tern- he cultivation "ill add immeas
ureably to the yield. Eighty acres of
corn land in Nebraska are not only
more profitable than five times that
many acres of wheat land in Man
itoba or Alberta, but easier cultiva
ted and surrounded by an infinite
greater number of the comforts of
life. And, too, the eighty acres, of
Nebraska corn land are no harder to
secure than the two or three hun
dred acres of wheat land in chilly
Canada.
If you want to locate in a state
upon land that will produce more of
everything than land in any other
state; if you want to locate in a
state blessed by superior educational
facilities; if you want to locate in
a .date where the energy of the
husbandman is rewarded bountifully;
if you want to locate in a state where
ambition may find its full fruition;
if you want 5,0 locate in a state where
the climate is superb and the death
rate the smallest of any state in
the union; if you want to locate in a
state where you can begin withpracti
cnlly nothing and build a comfortable
fortune upon the yield of the soil—
if you want to locate in such a state
as this, come to Nebraska.
There is only one trouble about
prop«rly advertising the glories of
this great young state—the truth is
like fiction that is difficult to make
the world believe. But the facts and
the figures are at hand to prove ev
ery claim advanced for Nebraska. Tli
Bureau of labor and Industrial statis
tics will be glad to submit them to
you. To those who contemplate leav
ing Nebraska in response to the
glittering allurements of the north
west's promotors we offer the advice
given by the elder. Mr. Weller to his
son, Samivel. uDon’t.” To those of
the east and of other lands who con
template seeking a home we would
suggest, "Consider Nebraska, study
her possibilities of the future and
her record of the past.”
“We came unto the land whither
thou sentest us, and surely it floweth
with milk and honey.”
That is Nebraska. The cities are
not walled, and there are no giants
of Anak. On the contrary, the peo
ple of Nebraska await with a hearty
welcome all who come to her con
fines with the intention and desires
to build homes and add to the wealth
production of the world.
The darkey is on top.
CHINA IN STATE OF DECAY
Ruin Se?n Everywhere, and No At
tempt Made to Stay the Ravages
of Time.
"Along the road—and this Is char
acteristic—nothing is being repaired,"
writes the Peking correspondent of
the London Times. "It is the na
tional failing to spend nothing on re
pairs, to build and then leave the
building to fall gradually into decay
and ruin. Nor is anything cleaned,
and the squnlor that is a feature even
of the imperial palace in Peking is
most extraordinary. A few miles
out of Honanfu there is a fine stone
bridge of five arches; but the piers
are falling away, the parapet has dis
appeared, and the flagstones with
which it is paved have great gaps and
hollows, eo that the cart rumbles and
crashes and bumps across it in a way
that would break any but a Chinese
springless cart. To repair is no one's
business.”
At another stage of his journey he
remarks: “Perhaps to some extent the
anticipated coming of a railway, which
will kill the present cart traffic, may
account for the shocking condition of
the native inns. With railway exten
sion in the air, there is no induce
ment for the innkeeper to spend
money oil the upkeep of his hovel.
Nothing is repaired; their filth and
squnlor are amazing. In the inn yard
the well has its mouth below tile level
of the soil, so that water which is
spilt may flow back into the well and
carry with it the surface drainage.
"A doctor must notice the preva
lence of consumption. To the uni
versal habit of expectoration on the
floor, the exclusion of air, and the ab
sence of drainage this prevalence
must be due.”
SEEK TO TERRIFY ENEMIES
Insects, Physically Unable to “Put Up
Fight,” Resort to All Sorts
of Schemes.
It is generally believed that many
i animals, especially insects, assume
, what is called a “terrifying attitude,”
! by means of which they escape their
natural enemies. In the Zoological
“Jahrbuch” Mr. Arnold Japha de
scribes the “terrifying attitude” of the
hawk-eyed moth.
During the day this insect sits with
• folded wings on the willow, or other
| tree. The eye spot and the rose-red
’ part of the wings are hidden, and the
' inoth looks like a group of dried wil
l low leaves. This is its protective at
j titude, by which it wishes to escape
I observation. But if disturbed, it im
i mediately assumes the “terrifying at
titude." The eye spot and red are dis
played, thorax arched, abdomen curved
up. This is accompanied by a protru
ding and retracting of the front of the
body.
The movement lasts some few sec
onds, or half a minute. This is thought
to frighten the moth’s enemies. The
eye spot may suggest the eye of some
larger animal, while the energetic
motion may give the impression that
the enemy itself is about to be seized
and devoured.
But does the moth's "terrifying at
titude” really frighten its enemies, and
allow it to escape; Standfuss tried
some experiments with a view to set
tling this point. He gave specimens
of the moth to nightingale, red breast,
black-cap and other birds. Four out of
five were obviously frightened when
the moth assumed the “terrifying at
titude,” and left it alone after one
trial.
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In the Olden Days.
Gaillard Hunt describes the social
graces of Dolly Madison and her First
Drawing-Room, in the June Harper’s,
and recalls that those were the days
when the society of the nation was up
held on the foundation of two prin
ciples. “One was that a man of high
rank in the public service was en
titled to high rank in private life.
Everybody was proud of the new re
public and thought it an honor to asso
ciate with those who guided its des
tinies. The other wras that members
of families who had always occupied
prominence in private life should con
tinue in their position. It was not un
til the next generation that the politi
cal doctrine of the equality ot men
was construed to require a removal of
the barriers which separated groups
of people in private life.”
Fine for Tabby.
A middle-aged Washington maiden
possesses a eat that is the light of her
eyes. Life is a gray misery when
household duties compel her shopping
far from the adored tabby. But love
has found a way. She has built two
little bags, one of woolen for winter
wear, warm and cosy as a pocket;
the other of netting mesh for warm
weather. In each she has crocheted
or quilted, or however women work
such things, a neat circular window
for light and comfort.
Any day she may be seen in the
shopping district, smiling, for hang
ing at her belt is a bag from which
a comfortable cat looks contemptuous
ly out upon a walking world and plac
idly views the passing show.
Perfectly Easy.
"See here, my man,” said the philan
thropist who was doing an investi
gating stunt on his own account, "you
are an interesting puzzle to me.”
“Is that so?” queried the other.
"Yes, it's so.” answered the party of
the philanthropy part. "You are too
honest to steal, too proud to beg, and
too lazy to work. How do you man
age to live?”
"Oh.” was *he reply. "1 get trusted.”
BUSINESS MAXIMS.
Make your pennies count and the
dollars will come.
Make men have confidence in your
ability and your integrity.
Make your work so good that it will
be valuable to any employer.
Make your courage equal to your
strength. They are both needed.
_
Make your work helpful to others if
you want it to be helpful to you.
*
Make men respect you rather than
fear you. Respect always outlives
' fear.
Make the most of your opportuni
ties. They are too precious to be
wasted.
Make your work accurate. If the
foundation is not solid the structure is
not safe.
Make yourself and others realize
you are in the world because you are
a man.
Make your success through your
own ability instead of through an
other's folly.
Make no one responsible for your
shortcomings but yourself. You are
the master of your work.
Make the smallest task worth while
and the big things will come without
your hunting for them.
Make the end of your work as good,
as the beginning. Don’t forget the
last stroke can spoil the job.
' 9
Make light of your disappointments,
and lighter of your successes. They
are to be used, not to be dwelt upon.
_
WITH THE SAGES
The real advantage of being untram
meled by the past is largely forfeited
when one is content to remain un
taught by it also.—W. D. Howells.
\ —
Wherever 1 find a great deal of
gratitude in a poor man I take it for
granted there would be as much gen
erosity if he were a rich man.—Pope.
if thou would'st have ail about thee
like the colors of some fresh picture
in a clear light, be temperate in all
things, and of a peaceful heart with
thy fellows.—Walter Pater.
Wisdom whispered yesterday in the
car ot my mind, “Go, and, in thy frail
ty retain still thy endurance! Still
make patience their chief purpose; in
sickness and grief and want always
he patient!”—Hafiz.
Money Is not needful; power is not
needful; cleverness is not needful;
fame is not needful; liberty is not
needful; even health is not the one
thing needful; but character alone.—
John Stuart Hlackie.
Sow the seeds of life—humbleness,
pure-heartedness, love; and in the
long eternity which lies before every
minutest grain will come up again
gwlth an Increase of thirty, sixty, or
a hundredfold.—Robertson.
It is probable that nearly all who
think of conduct at all think of It too
much; it is certain we all think too
much of sin. We are not condemned
for doing wrong, but for not doing
right.—R. L. Stevenson.
INVOCATIONS.
Humility, walk at my elbow—and
keep my proud spirit from quailing.
/
Nerve, uphold me. 1 see It in others;
truly, thou are a help in these days.
Goodness, uphold me—though, good
ness knows, my neighbor needs it
more.
Talent, let me rely on thee—for i
have one talent and no napkin to hide
it under.
Politeness, come as near as possible,
even to the bosom of my family, and
dwell there—also enter the trolley car.
Unselfishness, force thyself upon me
—for thou hast not been near me for a
long time, and thy face is almost un
known.
* Indifference, 1 need thee. I need
thee when I see that which I should
not see, the great failings of others,
which I have not. To be indifferent
and love the erring ones requires migh
ty indifference. I need thee. Come! —
C. L. Crittenton, in Smart Set.
HANDED DOWN.
There’s eloquence in honest laugh
ter.
“A woman's crowning glory is her
hair.’’
Beware of powder when you court
a beauty.
“And when she has red hair she
ends in a blaze of glory.’’—Judge.
About as bad as the man w'ho harps
on one string is be who graphophones
on one record.
Almost every girl likes to be en-*
gaged to a young man, even if it is
only in conversation.
