The County in General The “Doings” of Our Country Friends and Neighbors. STELLA. J. M. Goodloe and family were Verdon visitors Sunday. Mrs. A. McCullough visited her daughter in Verdon Sunday. Quite a number of our people enjoyed the Dawson picnic last Friday. llazcl Paper of Omaha is vis iting her aunt, Mrs. George Ran dal. Wess Kessler and son, Harvey of California visited Stella rela tives last week. Mrs. Shauer of l’owhatan, Kas., has been visiting her parents, J. Ilinkle and wife. Mrs. Bessie Haskett and child ren of Auburn spent last week visiting Stella friends. W. Paper of Omaha has charge of the east side barber shop dur ing Mr. Wixon’s absence. Misses Florence and Alice Nombalias of Lincoln are visit ing their brother, Emile. Mrs. Jess Brown and daughters of Falls City spent a part of last week with Stella relatives. Mrs. LeRoy Griffiths visited several days last week in the country with Mrs. Harry Curtis. S. R. Freed and wife, who have spent the past month in Iowa, returned home Sunday morning. S. 11. Bailey and wife visited last Sunday and Monday in Falls City with George Jennings and wife. Miss Lela Michel lisa been in poor health for several weeks and at this writing is still grow ing weaker. Miss May Larmire left last week lor a \ isit of a few weeks with her grandmother at Colora do Springs. Joseph Wagner, wife and two sons are in Colorado Springs for a visit with Mrs. Wagner’s mother, Mrs. Fisher. Mrs. Angeline Raper is stay ing in the country with Misses Bertha and Elva Wagner dur ing the absence of their parents. The new operator and his wife, who are to take the place of Mr. Cook arrived last week and will live in Mrs. Lizzie Shiley’s house. Fred Wixon, wife and son. Dale, left Sunday for an extend ed trip through the west. They will be gone about three weeks. Charles Weaver and wife and Miss Griffiths of Verdon and Mrs. Cliff Burk of California spent Sunday evening with J. M. Goodloe and family. Ed Luikhart of Omaha visited over Sunday with Stella relatives. His wife and babies who had been here for several weeks accom panied him home Monday. Miss Allie Davis left Wednes for Seattle, Wash., where she lias been employed to teach the com ing year. She resigned her pos ition at Red Cloud. The people of Prairie Union church are rejoicing over their new minister after being without one for several months. 1 Lis first sermon was preached Sunday. The Shubert Roosters with eighteen autos were in town on Tuesday. They gave us some lively music, which made us all feel as though we would go to the carnival even though we had to walk. At a meeting Monday evening it was decided by the Commer cial club that Stella would have a picnic September 15, on the banks of the Muddy south of town. Everybody remember the date and come. HUMBOLDT. Frank French of St. Joe spent Sunday in this city. Leonard Mann was transacting business in St. Joe Monday. Robert Carpenter was on the sick list a day or two this week. Mrs. C. M. Linn was hostess to the Linger Longer club Wednes day. . O. L, Bantz looked after busi ness in Lincoln a few days this week. Mrs. Carl Mann of Lincoln is visiting relatives in this city this week. George Hill returned home on Saturday from a trip to Billings Mont. George Thompson of Chicago is a guest of Humboldt relatives this week. Frank Raven and James Neeld came over from Dawson the last of the week. R. K. Grinstead of Salem was transacting business jii tins city Wednesday. Ed Wishart of Walla Walla. Wash., arrived in this city the last of the week. Miss Etta Davis returned on Thursday from a visit with rela tives at Clatonia, Neb. Mrs. Norris Aylor and children visited relatives in Pawnee City Monday. Mrs. Claud Fergus and baby spent a portion of the week with relatives in Falls City. Mrs. Henry Keits returned to her home in this city Sunday af ter a visit with relatives in Colo. Mr. Karl Goddard returned to his home in Kansas Monday, af ter a visit with his father, Charles Goddard and family. Miss Daisy Morris is a guest at the home of her sister, Mrs. Alexander in Dawson. L. F. Marburger returned Sun day from Wessington, S. I). lie was looking after land interests. Miss Ruby Mash returned to her home in this city Friday af ter a visit with friends at Adams. Misses Nellie Snoke and Fran ces Klossner, attended the teach ers' institute in Pawnee City the last of the week'. Mildred Slwrley returned to her home in this city Sunday af ter a pleasant visit with Maeie Varner in Sterling. Miss Bertie Rice of Teeumseh is spending the week with her sister, Mrs. Walter Hnland and family who reside north of this city. George Segrist came down from Dallas, S. 1)., the last of the week to join his wife, who has been spending some time with relatives in this city. William Carpenter and Mrs. Anna Petrashek surprised their friends Wednesday when they were quietly married by Judge Gagnon in Falls City. Mr. Car penter and wife will reside on a farm near this eity. Hugh Leatherman, who has been holding down an Idaho elaiTn for some time surprised bis friends by returriiing to this eity the first of the J^eek, and will remain for sever.Pl weeks in this vicinity. Miss Viola Draper, who is now taking her vacation from the “Famous” d.rv goods department, left Monday for Colorado. She was joined in Lincoln by Mrs. Mollie Audgins, who will ac company her on the trip. The Kansas City Star. The Kansas < 'ity Star is de cidedly the greatest and most in fluential paper in the west. By special arrangements we are en abled to offer our readers one year’s subscription to the Kan sas City Weekly Star (52 issues) absolutely free of any cost. Get your neighbor or friend to suit scribe for The Tribune under either of our offers, and we will have the Star sent to your ad dress one year. It will only cost him 50c, and he will get in ad dition the Nebraska Farm Jour nal one whole year, and you will get the Kansas City Star for fifty-two weeks. You will never come nearer getting something for nothing than you will if you take advantage of this offer. Don't put off the matter, but do it now. The offer is too good to stand long. CAMPAIGN THUNDER 1000 new readers for the campaign. Send us your neighbors’ subscription, now. We will send you the Kansas City Weekly Star one year for your pains, if you remit cash. You can spoil your best culinary efforts by using stale, flat, spices. You want your dishes always to have char acter—the fr’csh snappy flavor that pleases taste! tone Bros % * CANNON BRAND The family will note the difference. Besides, it’s economy to buy fresh, fall-strength nutmeg, pepper, ginger, mustard, cinnamon-they last lunger —go further. At Your Grocer’s 10c. , or send us a dime for full-size pack age and "Tone's Spicy Talks." TO\E BROS.. DES MOINES, IA. f. COUNTRY BOYS, THINK TWICE Should Ask rhemselvet What Is Real ly to Be Gained by Plunging Into City Life. Before making a plunge Into oily life, country boys should ask them selves what Is really to be gained bv it. Perhaps in their quiet, rural home some stray advertisement has reached them, promising to young men high salaries for light work. Hundreds of advertisements are framed for the special purpose of de reiving the unwary. They accomplish their purpose, however, and a large number of young men rush up to the city, dazzled by the confusion of prom ises. A hoy from the farm answers one of these ads. Life may have been slow at home, but there was always good food and In plenty, and there was some one to care for him In the old farm house. When he gets to the big city he finds that the "light work” consists In working all day in a badly lighted and ill smelling workshop, where scores of other men and hoys are employed at wages hardly high enough to keep body and soul together. We all know what conics next. The boy has left home and is ashamed and unwilling to return and he must take the consequences and may find him self in some cold garret, lonely, over worked, despondent and miserable. Better remain at home than risk the failures which attend so many young men who go to the city in pursuit of high pay for light work.—Jno. Barrett. HIS WIFE’S MITT SCHEME Had Reason to Thank the God of Si lence and Glory in His Self Repression. The man who sometimes deludes himself for about five minutes at a time Into the UHlef that he knows as much as his wife does felt some what ashamed when he saw the other women In the car who wore nice white gloves look quizzically at his wife’s white gloves, which were cov ered with an extra glove that looked like a cheesecloth baseball mitt. Sev eral times he was on the point of al luding to those mitts and asking her If it wouldn’t be just as well to take them off, but he didn’t, and after they got to the reception he thanked the little god of silence, because while all the other women who had clung to straps and door jambs had soiled gloves by that time his wife simply peeled off her cheesecloth mitts and displayed Immaculate gloves which evoked enough glances of envy to make up for the ridicule of the trip* downtown. “What geese those other women aie not to protect their gloves the way 1 do when riding in a car,” said his wife sweetly, and the man, glorying in his former self-repression, said: "Ain’t they?” The Bower-Bird. One of the most remarkable ciea tures known to natural history is the bower-bird, which builds a miniature cabin made of small sticks and sur rounds It with a perfectly-kept ring or circus, composed of twigs and moss, studded with brilliantly-colored flow ers, fruits and insects. As the curious ornaments become faded they are con stantly replaced by fresh ones, so that scientists are inclined to credit the bird with the possession of the artis tic sense. In these decorated play grounds the males meet and pay their court to the female, the bower being used purely for purposes of recreation and not as a nestling-place. These birds are chiefly found in the Owen Stanley Range of lirilish New Guinea Dust in the Eye. If dust or other foreign substanre blows into the eye do not rub the eye nor endeavor to remove the irritating intruder for a moment or so. Close the eye, holding the lids together with the fingers until the tear duct begins to work, then open the eye and, un less the dust has caught fast to the ball, it will be washed out by the tears. Those who ride often in open cars or through dusty streets should wash their eyes before retiring with a solution of salt and water or boracic acid and water, a teaspoon of either the salt or the acid being added to a glassful of water and a bit of ab sorbent cotton or the fingers used for the applying. Guns Cheap in Brazil, Firearms sell at comparatively low prices in Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities, owing to the compara tively low duty and to the fact that many European and American manu facturers are reputed to sell their sur plus products in this market at a low margin of profit. Retail prices for all kinds of firearms range from about 35 per cent, to 50 per cent, higher than in the United States, while prices of ordinary household necessities are 200 per cent, to 300 per cent, higher. Curt Criticism. “I shall never forget my debut,” Sir Charles Wvndham remarked to the writer on one occasion. “We opened at Washington, and I appeared as a character who had to declare, "1 am drunk with love and enthusiasm’ Having uttered ttie first three words 1 was seized with stage fright and said no more. This is what 1 read in a New York paper next morning: ‘A Mr. Wyndham represented a young man from South America He had bet ter go there himself.’ "—Tit-Bits. Early Buyers Get the Pick / First choice is the best. We are receiving daily shipments of Suits, Skirts, Coats, etc. Do not delay your buying until others have taken the choicest styles and colorings. Tailored Suits 65 New Suits are now on our racks ready for your selection. Prices range from $12.50 to $35. The styles are natty and at tractive. Among them are 20 Wooltex Suits, well known to you as the acme of tailoring, and every one warranted to be strictly ALL WOOL. Whether you buy of us or not, you cannot afford to buy at all until you have seen our showing. We are the only firm in this vicinity who go to the centre of style of America and who can give you positive assurance that offerings in Ready Made are the proper vogues for the season. A Real Skirt Bargain NEW AND SERVICEABLE. 22 Skirts in all sizes up to 36-inch Waists, made of a high grade Gray Fancy Stripe Worsted, worth $10 to $12, are offered at t $8.50. Extra sizes $q.oo. Do not confuse this offering with the cheap fancies, which may be sold at any old price. Some very new effects in Wooltex Skirts. Ladies’ Winter Coats 50 New Coats now in, most of them of Wooltex make. Prices range from $12 to $30. Young ladies going away to school or oth ers wanting to buy early, can be fully assured that the styles we are showing are the right ones for later wear. • Silk Waists at $2.25 Two dozen Black Waists in excellent models and good wearing taffeta silk are offered at the very low price of $2.25. i Silk Waistings A full assortment of Persian and Plaid Silk Waistings in waist length. Priced at $3.00 to $6.50. These are new and desirable. V. G. LYFORD FALLS CITY. NEB.