The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191?, August 19, 1910, Image 4
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 Tribuna Publishing Company W. H. WYLER, Editor and Manager. One year_ $1.50 tiix months...75 Three months .40 TELEPHONE 226. THE SALOON OR THE BOYS AND GIRLS WHICH ? There is wrapped up in our young people all the possibilities of the fu ture. The achievements of the next generation lie latent within them. It Is our privilege to make them what they will be, and in so doing to de termine the course of history far beyond our own time. TO FRIENDS OF OUR CAUSE The Tribune is the champion of the rights and the interests of the common people. The people need the Tribune that they may he in telligently informed concerning the great issues that arc now be fore the public for solution. On the other hand, the Tribune needs the help and support of the peo ple . We are engaged in a com mon warfare against a common foe. Our interests are mutual. There is no reason why we should not pull together for the largest and best tilings. In the fight that is now being waged we can not safely advance far ahead of our supporting columns. We are ambitious to make the Trib une the power for everything that is right and good in south eastern Nebraska As our sub scription list increases and the number of our advertising patr ons we are enabled to ad to and improve the Tribune, but not any faster without .jeopardizing the stability of tile paper. We want 1000 new subscribers by January 1st. We are going after them with the expectation of getting them. Quality comes high. We need money to run a high class paper. On the otherhnnd, it matters little how excellent a pap er may be, if it is not read it can accomplish very little. We believe that we are right. For the right a man can afford to fight and suffer and even die. Every paper that goes into a new home is a messenger witnessing to the work we arc trying to do. No person interested in the uplift and advancement of the race need be ashamed to have a part in this grand work. We appeal to all right minded men to give us their good will, and such a measure of support as the may feel justified in giving. The least that youean do is to pay up. Dont ask us to fight your battles and at the same time make our own amunition. It is too risky. When possible do IIS lilt* it 111 I Hit SS IU | V it I It"fill. It is a trivial matter for you but makes all the difference in the world to us, since it provides the working capital. Then, there is the matter of speaking a good word for the cause to the other fellow, and winning his support. It is a little thing but when well done is sure to be effective. The great reforms of History never were accomplished through good intentions, alone. The chal lenge is to men to do something. The enemy is alert and aggress ive. Unless we front him effect ively, we will have nothing but defeat for our pains. The future of the greater Nebraska is in the hallance. The peace and happi ness of our homes are at stake. It is not for us as men to sit sup inely while the spoilers waste our land. You can at the least hold the ropes while some of us go down to the battle. i CENTRALIZATION OF COUN TRY SCHOOLS The public schools of Fairview.l Kansas and outlaying districts are planning to consolidate and have a centrally located and) graded school of sufficient ca pacity to accommodate the child ren from all the districts that be come parties to the consolidation. The children that are too far away to be able to walk to the central school conveniently, will be transported to and from school free of charge. This plan has been in success ful operation in the Fast for a number of years, and it offers the only tangible solution of tin* country school problem in many places. With the improvement of the public roads it will become entirely practicable in most communities. The greatest, drawback to the plan now, is the condition of many of the publie| roads, which makes the item of transporting the children to and : rom school, too expensive to be practicable. \\ itli tlie consolidation <d a iiiiniber of schools into one cen tral school, it will In* possible to have all tile advantages of the city school system, with its grad j ed courses and high school. It is found that the saving in teach ing force and the saving in keep ing up and earing for a number of separate buildings will com pensate for the extra expense of bTore efficient teachers and for transporting the scholars. Fairview lias taken an advanc ed step in the matter of provid ing better educational facilities for their country hoys and girls. The results of their experiment will he watched with interest. If it. proves practicable and suc cessful in Fairview, other places will not he slow in taking advan take of the plan. However, the success of the central school idea, is largely contingent upon better roads. With better roads it is sure to follow. Let us have the proper roads by all means. • • * FOR OR AGAINST. It seems to me it is about time for the 20,000,000 professors of religion in America to take sides. It is going to be an out and out battle with drunkenness and so briety, between heaven and hell, between (bid and the devil. Take sides before your sons are sacri ficed and the new homes of your daughters goes down under the alcoholism of an imhruted hus band. Take sides while your voice, your pen, your prayer, your vote may have an influence in arrest ing the despoilation of this na tion. If the millions of professed ehristians in this country would take sides now, it would not be long until the destiny of this nation would be decided in the right direction. On the question before the American people to day, there is no neutral ground. You are either for or against all that is for the betterment of the race and nation. , * * * THE ELIMINATION OF THE TIEHEN HILL. The petition signed by a large number of farmers living south of Salma requesting that the board of commissioners change the road where it now runs dir ectly over the steep hill near the Tiehen home so as to pass around the hill, has been allowed. The road at this particular place can, without difficulty, be greatly im proved. If properly engineered, the grade can be almost entirely eliminated without increasing the extent of the road. A casual glance at the situation causes one, to wonder what ever possessed the original surveyors to run the road over the hill when they might as easily have avoided the hill entirely. The only person inconvenienced by the change will be Mr. Tiehen. Hut be will no doubt be willing to make a comparatively small sacrifice in the interests of the community at large. PROF, J. L. GILLAN. The closing number at our Chautauqua on Sunday night, was a very practical address for all classes, by Prof. Gillan. on “The Man Who Can.’* lie demonstrated that the per son who can and does things worth while, must he well born, have pluck, knowledge and faith. The youth especially received great encouragement to place their aims above the trivial. The Chautauqua this year gave us many excellent things, and Mr Gillans’ effort easily ranks among the best. Prof. Gillan is president of Ashland, Ohio College, and for several years has occupied a chair as one of the instructors at the Iowa State University. WINTER PAVING. Hiawatha, after more or less elaborate testing of different pav ing brick, lias let the contract for their street paying to a Fort Scott firm. The contract calls for approximately 28,000 square yards of paving. There will lie 7,000 yards of excavating to d<f. It will require 110 carloads of rock, tio carloads of sand, 157 carloads of brick, 0,500 barrels of cement and 120 tons of pitch. Evidently from the scope of the contract let, Hiawatha does not intend to play at the game of street paving, but lias tak en the matter up for good and earnest. When the present plans are fully completed our sister town across tin* line will have something to be proud of. * * * CLINTON N. HOWARD. Reformers and progressive peo ple generally, have been looking forward anxiously to the coming of their famous leader from Rochester, New York. I)r. How ard’s address at the chautauqua last Thursday on, “The Greatest Event in The Word." more than satisfied all their great anticipa tions. They had heard how many great and ever increasing audiences Mr. Howard had ad dressed in his home eit.v, and were tlius in a state of mind t,o make the besl of a great lecture. Every thought presented was timely, and given in a manner to leave an inspiration with the au dience that will last a life time. THIS WILL HOLD 'EM. Not long ago one of the maga zines printed an article in which an argument was made in favor of alcohol as a beverage. Now, as ever, it is the drinking people that lead the progress of humanity. The Jews drank and gave us monotheism. The Greeks drank and gave u s art and lit erature. The Romans drank and gave us law. The Teutons drank and gave us liberty. Britain es tablished commerce. What have the teetotal races done for the betterment of the world ' 'Pile New Voice analyzed the above paragraph and did it in the following simple manner: The Jews drank of course, but where are the Jews now? They are scattered over the earth with out any national home. Total ab stainers are now taking up sub scriptions everywhere to provide! a [dace for the .lew where he won’t lie killed. The Greeks drank, of course, but where are the Greeks now? The Greek civilization is a matter of history, and their descendants are now peddling peanuts to ab stainers on tin* street corners til' American cities. The Romans drank, of course but where is the Roman em pire today ? It is a matter of j ancient history, and the descend ants of these drinking Romans are now brawling around Ameri can cities with monkey and hand organs living off pennies toss ed to them by abstaining Ameri cans. The Teutons drank, of course. ; but what “liberty” did we get I from the Teutons? The Teutons for years have been running away from the tyranny and oppression; of the Teutonic government to I find liberty under the l’rohibi-l tion laws of America. The Britons drank, of course.j But it required 000,000 of these drinking British trained troops to subdue 25,000 abstaining Dutch farmers. Greece and Rome both died drunk. Wise men are writing articles on the decay of France, another j drinking nation. Russia has the delirium trem ens and will die or reform, Ja pan. a temperance nation, with the oldest dynasty on earth, chas ed the vodka-soaked Russians all over Eastern Asia. * * * IN NEBRASKA. Insurgency and the liquor ques tion were so involved in the pri maries in Nebrskaa that the rela tions of the returns to the na tional issue are less clearly de fined than have been the results in some other states. But the nominations, so far as they have been authoriatively reported.show decided gains for the insurgents. The progressive candidate for governor was nominated over the stand-pat aspirant. Two. and possibly three, additional insur gent congressmen have been nam ed, and Norris, the only aggress ive insurgent congressman in the House now, has been renominat ed without opposition. The renomination of Senator! Burkett, while not desirable, is less undesirable than if he had been a more steadfast regular. Burkett acquired the designation of ‘“near insurgent" in Washing ton. He voted with the progress ives sometimes, but against them at other times. lie seemed to have no positive convictions. If his opponent bad been a stronger man the result might have beenj different. All in all, Nebraska records itself inpurging along with every other western state that has thus far held its primaries.—Kansas City Star, Thursday. We Wonder Why. We often wonder why it is so many young men can be seen loafing upon our streets until a late hour of night. Many of them are from the best homes. The] fathers of these young men, many of them at least, are numbered among our best citizens. If their; cow or their horse, or their fav orite dog was away from home after dark they would he out on a search, hut their own children can roam the town all night with apparently no effort being made to find them. The hoy seems to he turned loose at a tender uge to wander at will into the paths of sin and vice and then we won der where all our tramps and! worthless specimens of humanity come from. It is a regrettable! fact that too many of them come from seed germinated in good homes and then sown in a care less manner upon our streets and hack alleys. Header, is your hoy wasting his time upon our streets j If so had you better not, at least, look after liini as carefully at nigmtail as you would your cow and horse. We did not intimate that this evil exists to a greater extent in this community than in our sister towns, but the evil seems universal and increases in magnitude as the years roll by. W. C. T. U. Notes. Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebel lious liquors in my blood—Shakes peare. Lack Development. The world is full of half-devel oped lives; men and women who are competent in spots, as strong in some things as they are weak in others, brilliant as some of their ways and walking in dark ness as to others; the man of af fairs loses vision, the philosopher loses practical sense, the scien tist becomes an animated, soul less scalpel, and all for the want of an aim that would preserve balance and harmony in the life. Men Wanted at Once—Ambi tious men who drive tea and cof fee wagons or have customers they call on. Write today for our proposition which will not inconvenience yon, hut pay you from $f> to $110 weekly for sixty days. A. Lcath & Co., Elgin, III. The Wiseheimer Says. If you are a real hero you win never meddle with trifles, nor trifle with medals.—St. Louis Star Burlington Route West Bound No. 13—Denver Exp.1:10 a. m. No. 15—Denver Exp. (Local).1:40 p. m. No- 43—Portland Exp.10:17 p. ir.. No.41—Portland Exp.2:25 p. m No. 121—Lincoln Loc. via Ne braska City.5:00 a. m East Bound No. 14—St. J., K. C & St. L .7:3? a. m. No. 44—St. J., K. C. <St St. L .3:37 a. in No. 10— St. J.. K C. & St. L. .4:22 p ir.. (Local) No. 42—St.J .K C. &St L. .4:35 p. m No 122—From Lincoln, via Nebraska City. 8:45 p m. E. <i. WH1TFORD. Agent. Tone Brb Spices ^"pepper is of just as much im-"*^ portance as any other ingre dient in cookiiig. Don’t dis appoint yourself by using an inferior brand. For perfect flavor add Tone Bros. Pep per before cooking. Tone Bros. Spices are always fresh. Three times the strength of ordinary spices — and last much longer. i4t Four Grocer’s—10c or send us a dime for retail pack age and ” Tone's Spicy Talks.” TWi BROS . DCS MOINES. I0W* Buxstis of f umous (ho Gan Cam MARKET LETTER. Letter From our Regular Correspond ent at Kansas City. Kansas City, Aug. 15, 1910.— Moderate eattle receipts arrived last week, and there was not much change in the market. The feeders sold higher the first days of the week, account of the many buyers here, hut demand fell off after Tin sday, and the advance was lost. Killing cattle held ful ly steady during the week, me dium and light cattle showing some slight ga'ns, and calves ad vanced 25 cents during the week. Dry weal her cattle are running freely to Chicago, 15.000 rangers there last week, about twice the normal supply for this early in the season. Rains have stopped the movement from most sections except the northwest, owners holding hack because of plenty of good feed, and running water in streams dry a short time ago, and it looks like Kansas City would have rather light supplies of cat tle another week or two. Run to day is 18,000 head including 2,000 calves, and.the market average's steady. Beef steers are a shade lower in some eases, but cows and stockers and feeders and calves are stronger today. Light runs should strengthen the market, but there are two bear features pres ent this week, namely, the extra heavy marketing of rangers at Chicago, and the absence of de mand for kosher meat in the East, due to a series of Jewish holidays extending over nine days, com mencing next Saturday. Best heavy Kansas wintered natives and westerns $6.25 to $7.15 and straight grass steers $4.50 to $5.75, grass cows around $3.75 veals $6.00 to $7.50. Some of the Baer beef steers from Colorado will he here tomorrow. I lit* surprise m the hog market last week was a sudden jumping into favor of heavy hogs, which class advanced 30 to 40 cents last week. Medium and light weights also made gains, but not so much and the week closed with only a moderate spread in prices be tween the various grades. Total receipts at all the markets de creasing last week, and traders look for light runs for awhile. Heavy hogs worth $8.15 to $8.45, medium weights up to $8.70, top lights $8.75. The weakness to day is not taken as indicating lower prices this week, but on the contrary strength is expect ed, as lard and heavy meats arc considered good property by pack ers. The corn prospect and the hog market will he closely asso ciated for some time ahead. J. A. RICKART, Live Stock Cor. Food Values In Vegetables. The maligned onion belongs to the lily family and contains priceless ele ments of health and nourishment, es pecially to nerves and blood. The turnip, also, has medicinal and food virtue, though it is not so nourishing, containing, like cabbage, over 90 per cent, of water. The yellow turnip is considered a mild nervine. The unpopular carrot is almost miraculous as a blood purifier, and French wom en consider it as important as any cosmetic. It has, also, undreamed-of possibilities of preparation. Calling things by other names sometimes helps matters, or making fashionable by favor of the famous. In Ceylon they term okra “ladies’ fingers;” the vegetable marrow of Europe Is virtu ally the same as our summer squash, but is used in, to us, unheard-of ways. Luther Burbank has improved the “pie plant,” and his new crimson win ter rhubarb is a wonderful thing. But in the ordinary type of these stalks there are riches of oxalic and malic acids, the value of which the physi cians of the world have always recog nized—The Delineator. Bathroom Hints. A can of borax should be In every bathroom and the pipes should have a dally flushing with hot water in which borax has been dissolved. Do not use sand soap for cleaning a porcelain tub or washstand. It will mar the surface and make it look like ground glass. Then if the porcelain becomes stained you cannot make it white again. Use ammonia in the water, but if dirt or grease requires an extra cleanser dampen the scrub cloth with kerosene and later wash the tub with warm W’a ter. If the tub is enameled scour with a cloth made of a salt bag which has been thoroughly moistened with tur pentine and polish with a clean cloth. For this purpose save bags in which the kitchen salt comes. Rice Omelet. Add to one cup of cold boiled rice four teaspoonfuls of milk, two eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, and a half saltspoonful of salt. Heat a tablespoonful of butter very hot in a frying pan. then pour in the mix ture. cover and bake about ten min utes in a moderate oven until stiff. Double and turn out carefully on a hot platter. LIGHTS ON THE SUEZ CANAL Every Vessel Passing Through the Big Ditch Must Carry a Number of the Search Variety. Every war vessel carries from one to twenty searchlights, and every ves sel of any description whatever pass lng through the Suez canal has to carry one of special pattern. A searchlight consists essentially of an arc lamp of special form, a parabolic mirror and a base to hold the lot, the case being mounted so as to be ca pable of movement In two directions, viz., vertically and horizontally. The hood, as this case Is called, is made of sheet steel about 3-32 Inch thick. The turntable trunnions, etc., are cast in gunmetal, the arms which support the hood are of cast steel. The lamp box is formed as part of the hood. The mirror is carried on springs in the back cover, and at the front of the hood is a “front glass" mounted in a gunmetal ring, and the disper sion lens, when carried, is hinged on in front of this. Training is carried out by means of a worm and worm wheel, or by a rack and pinion. Slew ing is effected by means of a pinion which gears into a crown wheel on the underside of the turntable, or else it Is done directly by hand. The Suez canal regulations require that the pro jector shall be capable of giving the light required under two different con ditions—in the first case a broad, flat beam of light illuminating both banks and the canal uninterruptedly, this being used when no other ship is ap proaching; in the other case they re quire a beam having the same angle of divergence and consequently the same width as the first, but divided into two portions, with a dark interval between, thus giving light at both sides but not directly in front and so not interfering with navigation of the approaching vessel. AN EDUCATED COOK NEEDED Kitchen Experiments Are Often at the Expense of the Physical Well-Be ing of the Household. Social standing depends partly upon the nature of the Individual's calling with regard to the preparation neces sary to the exercise of his function. The civil engineer is presumed to be a more agreeable compafiion for cul tured persons than the stable boy, be cause of his education. The lawyer Is required to know more than the sca venger. The surgeon Is likely to be more widely read than the pugilist. The diplomat Is, presumably, better informed than the chimney sweep. The cook, as at present constituted, belongs at the bottom rung of the so cial ladder, because her calling has no educational requirements. The In dividual may read Browning, Hogarth, Schopenhauer and Shakespeare, or in terpret Wagner and Strauss. But the Class is not required to know' the dif ference between the meanings of “physiology” and “phlebotomy." The cook Is not expected to know anything more about the ingredients that should enter into the composition of a corn dodger than she can learn in the course of often-repeated experi ments and at the expense of the physical well being of the household. She neither knows nor cares what the effect of certain foods may be, and the employer shares her ignorance. It is said to be a fact that more persons die before their time from the results of eating than from drinking.—Louis ville Courier-Journal. A Nice Distinction. He was hurrying for the train, soin« what Impeded by a clumsy crate con taining a large, live turkey. As he ap proached the gate the guard stopped him with' a gesture. “You can’t take that through here,” he said. "That’ll have to be checked or go by express." “But I can’t stop," declared the pas senger. “I’ve got to get this train,” and he tried to push through again. The guard held him back. "That is baggage," he said, firmly, "and it must go in the baggage car.” “Oh, no," replied the other, with a charming and confident smile, “It’s luggage. Don't you see I'm lugging it?” and he had slipped by before the astonished guard had caught his breath.—Youth’s Companion. Millionths of a Second. In experiments with high-power ex plosives used in guns, British scient ists have employed chronoscopes which registered the velocity of the projectile at ten successive points be fore it left the bore. It is possible with this apparatus to register time to the millionth of a sec ond. In the older experiments, where the velocity did not exceed 1,500 or 1,600 feet a second, the projectile recorded its time by knocking down a series of steel triggers projecting into the bore, but with velocities of 2,500 feet and more a second the trigger, instead of dropping frequently plowed a groove in the projectile and another device was necessary. Dreadful. An old Scotch peasant woman had learned that her minister had just been made a doctor of divinity, and so she went to him and asked him to cure her of rheumatism. "I’m not that kind of a doctor, Nanny,” said he, and gave her a shilling. Further down the street the old woman was heard to complaint that “it’s an awfu' thing this makin' doctors o’ bodies that ken nething at a' aboot bottuls or blestera, pooders or pells.”’