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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1910)
HARK! SANTA CLAUS KNOCKS -"fUM—--- !!!■■ 11 ■ i II ii —r ii-ni - ~r *1 nni m ■ ■■ ■ mm i »jnmrarjr /t, *?** * * IV1 o R s! fV? I * N S Once more we offer you our beautiful selections from the Holiday markets with which to fill old Santa’s Pack that spills jov and gladness so generously. We have arranged our store for your shopping convenience. We hav e one table of miscellaneous prices. All the other sections are priced each by itself so that all articles in one section are one price. As usual our prices are lower than others and we have demonstrated in the past that this is Holiday Headquarters. Let your visit to our store be an early one. LEST WE FORGET Twas Christmas morn; and the coming day. (»Jin ted across where the white samv lay. The icicles, touched by lights magic beams, Cave prismatic colors and sparkling gleams. The trees were ail laden with glittering snow. 1 liai dazzelcd and llusliixion limbs bent low. T he intt-r birds t w tiered ; tli-- fa itit glow from the sun Announced that tho day bad only begun. In a hou>.. risji brown from the white of the snow. Stood a boy and a yrl in the firelight glow. The girl.'dainty maiden, a little mite Whose pink t<x.*s peeped uadi r nightgown white. Was crying bitterly, dear little iamb. An ! the reason was plain. On the chimney jamb Hung t wo V.M I»T V stocki ngs. A d the lad. Bravely hiding Ins wee said. “I>on’t cry so bad, "Cause we know Santa Claus just love- ns a lot "But he's gqi so many kids I giie-s he forgot,** CANDY « Miscellaneous Section Iluok and Ladder Trucks Magazine Air Rifles Men's Toilet (’use Babies’ Toilet Sets Cigar Cases Manicure Sets Nut Sets Military Brushes Sewing Boxes Simplex Typewriter Post Card Albums The Beat Dictionary Music Rolls Kraft wood Toilet Sets Carving S i Desk Sets Scissors in Set Crumb Tray Color Boxes Beautiful Dolls Shaving Sets Shopping Bags Foot Balls Dishes, Hand painted Tool Chests Post Card Projectors Hobby Horses Knives in Holly Boxes Doll Cabs Rocket Automobile oO Cent Section Beautiful Pictures Books for Boys and (litis Dishes of Excellent Valu Cash Register Automobiles Wagons, ('ait and llorsesr Air Ships Boxed Stationary Speakers for School i'se Purses IJr itnf and Horns Dolls of all K-iuds Hattd Paint d China (lames and Balls King Air Guns Guns with Targets Tumble in Game Shaving Brush in Box Cups and Saucers Perfumes in Fancy Boxes Pipes i:i Holly Boxes Shoo Flier. Pocket Books in Holly Boxes Doll Go-carts Building Blocks Mechanical Toys Gold Pens with Pearl Holder Sewing Boxes Post Card Albums 25 Cent Section Algers Boys Books Rugby Boys Series Pictures Dressed Dolls Carpel Sweepers Guns and Targets Climbing Monkeys l^di s Memorandums Clips ami Saucers Vases and Cream Pitchers Decorated Dishes Horns Rubber Dolls Kid Body Dolls Dskinio Dolls Automobiles Air Ships Books and Blocks Toy Furniture Games of Various Kinds Checker Boards •a Dominoes Ten Pins Delivery Wagons Mechanical Toys Push Toys Work Boxes A B C Blocks Stuffed Animals King Pop Guns 10 Cent St2Ctio 1 Shaving Mugs Childrens rial Irons Hisqu*' Doits Whips and Heins MI 'Lai Dishes Pocket Minors 1 lomlnoes Checkerboards * A Ii C Blocks Wash Boards Bo me rung Guns Banks Vas s Polic l'op Guns Baby Hatties Btufft d Animals Doll Ilea la Pictur* and (i nines I dirge Shears Toy Watches Balls and Tops Wooden Carts Tin \\ n.;ons Girls Purses ('bid's Table Sets Tin Toys and Horns Doll Dishes Decorated Plates Cream Pictures Cups and Saucers 5 Cent Section Big Dulls Drawing Blau's I Junks a I; o B looks Rat Bos for Baby Bantu: us Horns anil Fifes Child* n's Mug* Fati: y Tin Oupa Vases Cream Pit In rs ■ Balt and P * .»■ n» * ; i:-a Bhuii Tum!d'*i C lluJnld Horn a Whips and Reinn Toy Dishus and Tiays Doll's Knife and Forks ('aHope Horns Cradles There are BARGAINS in every Section MANY OTHER THINGS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION MORSMAN DRUG CO. YULETiDE BRINGS IT’S DUTIES THE QUIET HOUR “Mud Mortar.” Not long since a large new building, in New York, collapsed. The disaster tarried with it death and heavy pro perty losses. The verdict of the in vestigators was, ‘ .Mud mortar.' L* - cause sand was cheaper than lime, the contractor, willing to risk inno cent lives, used more sand and less lime than the specifications and pub lic safety called for. InsUad of a rock-like concrete, he used a mud-like substitute. When New York's philanthropist of several generations ago, Peter Coop er. died, an eulogist, speaking of his rigid business integrity, said, “When he goes up before the great white throne, to give an account of the deeds done in the body, he will not. have a single dirty dollar to account for.” Some other folks will. Their dol lars are smeared with inud—mortar mud; and blood. The most radiant optimist who talks with many men in the various walks of life, cannot a void the conviction, thgt the worka day world is honey-combed with rot ten business methods. There are up right business men, of course, a host of them, hut the average man. active ly in touch, with the larger business movements of the times, if *he tells you his honest conviction, tells you he is not very sure of anybody who is identified with the wider commer cial world, when profits and probity are rival bidders for him. And it is only too true that there are always multitudes of men to be found who are eagerly ready to make "mud mortar” for “dirty dollars” es pecially if there is a fair chance of immunity from prosecution if the building collapses. It is not muckraking (the “dirty dol lar” people would be only to glad to spread that impression), but sober, solemn fact to say that there is not a disreputable trick of trade;not glar ing breach of trust; not ruthless sac rifice of innocent lives; not a corrupt political bargain; not a vile pander mg to lust; not a single sin in the whole calendar, that crowds of men not in professional criminal classes —cannot be found r ady to jump at the chat.' i of committing it. for mon ey, Back of almost all sin which you Back hack to its lair in this land lo ck;> ofl a t; ;■ > - ilj.ulc is . ■ 0(1; greed that stands ready to sell God Himself—Judr.s did—for a jingling handful of silver. And if it will sell God, of course it will sell man. But let us stop dealing in glittering generalities, and come down to cold illustrative of this mud-mortar-dirty dollar trend of things—which has drifted unsought, into the writer’s casual conversations within recent weeks. A friend is erecting a large manu-. facturing building. Bart of the work is concrete. The specifications fixed the ratio to be used in the mixture as 1-3-5—one part cement, three sand an five of broken stone. He made an nuexpected visit to the place one day and found that the proportion of sand and stone was being trebled and suceceded in stopping it only after a vigorous protest. This was only one of a number of similiar steals by which the contractor was endeavor ing to swell his profits on the job. Yesterday, in a conversation with another man who is building an at-' tractive suburban home, he said: "E very time I go out and compare the j work with the blue prints I find some! new evasion of the specifications I am convinced that many contractors habitually aim to underbid competit ors and make it up by inferior or o mitted work, utterly regardless of the i specifications.” Here is case number three. Last week on the car. a city inspector of livestock, on his way to inspect some newly arrived cattle, said: "Again and again men will come here with tubercular cattle and sick hogs, and will be ready to curse us. after we | give them incontestable proof that their stock is diseased, for not "pass ing’’ the stoc k and permitting them j to bo butchered bor general consump tion.” Money. K cently, in talking with an ex state inspector of foods. In cited tho familiar fact that numbers of nomin ally respectable men are to bo found, ready to use the most dangerous a dulterants in medicines and foods, and that every trick ofbribery and po litical pull is resorted - to in order to prevent interference with their efforts to poison the public; and he gav - n>Ht; mus ific i ' in ces with name and date ana hod. .Money. A week or two ago a little fellow, of .six or eight, whose mother is dead and whose father has been brutaliz ed by drink, went with his grandmoth er to one of our city cemeteries, to visit his mother's grave. As they turned to leave he hurst into tears and exclaimed, "I wish 1 was lying there with my mamma.” Drink had made the home a hell, robbed the little fellow of childhood's heritage of lightheartedness; broken his poor lit tle heart. And this is only one in the e ndless list of indictments which may be brought against it. The whole saloon system is a curse to any c om munity. and we all know it. And yet, because there is money in it. there are hundreds of thousands of men in the business, and other hundreds of thousands ready to defend and pro tect it. It is the same old story of “mud mortar" and “dirty dollars." Ii meets you at every turn. Make it financially worth while and you can get “respectable” people to enlist in any undertaking regardless of what it may entail upon others in the way of suffering and sorrow. One of the things sorely needed to day is a revival of ethical righteous ness—social, commercial, civic. The religion that does not promote these brands of everyday morality is a farce —John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, Paul all said so; as well as a long line of prophets. A religion that will not keep a man from mud-mortar, is not Christ's religion, whatever name it tears.—Selected. , Advertisers will give you a Christ mas treat if you tell them you asw their ad in the Tribune. FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS * “Moving piicture Theaters Enlisted in The Army of Crusaders — I Moving picture theaters have be-n enlisted in the array of crusaders fighting tuberculosis by selling lied Cross Christmas Seals, and on Dec. ICtii in all parts of the United Star a film entitled ‘ The lied Cios-.- Seal" wiil be exhibited for the first time according to an announcement of tin National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. '. . • pii ■; ■ di a’w -■ b‘ *>n p:odu<. ed by the Edison Manufacturing Com pany in co-operation with the Nation al Association for the Study and Pre vention of Tuberculosis and the A merican Red Cross . it portrays an j interesting story of New York life, > and is beside filled with educational scenes that show how tuberculosis is contracted and how it may be pre- I vented and cured. Tire film is 1,000 feet long. The tuberculosis workers in every state in the United States are urging their local theaters to ex hibit the picture. The plot of the story centers about the winning of the priize of $100 for the best d'-sign for the Red Cross Seal for 1910, by Ellen Williams, a i poor girl of the tenements who mak- j es her living by decorating lamp-shad- j es for very meagre wages. She has ! applied to the art school where she longs to take a course of study, but j finds that the cost. $100. is too much ! for her purse. As she turns to leave ] the school, a voting man of wealth j sees her in the office and is struck ' by the pathos of her beauty and dis- j appointment. Tired of his purposeleg life, Jordan resolves to so-e for him self “how the other half lives." In clothes of an ordinary day laborer, therefore, he rents a room in the same tenement with Ellen and soon becomes greatly attached to her. He sees her struggle to win the $100 prize for the Red Cross Seal design, and finally sees her win it. Then he sees -er give up all the ambitions of her life, when she turns over the $100 to a neighbor, so that her con sumptive boy might have a chance to be cured at a sanatorium. Struck by tin- noble sacrifice, Jor dan unknowv lo Ellen, buys- tb«- t t; - ment, r. novut tbe neighboring a partme-ni, < ulh ; the m- operation of a district nurse, arid helps thus to re store the coasumptiv to health arid remove from hi. family the danger of further Infection. Thun, in th ad, when .Jordon re veals to Ellen bin identity, she finds in his propc:- al that uin -bur with him bis palatial Fifth Avenue mansion she bur gain.-.- a -r-.i love, a home, and th ; nti- in t <.:■ of ln*r ambition, all because of the H<-d Cross Seal. The Women's Clubs have united in the noble work of disposing of as many "Hed Cross Seals" in Falls City as possible this year. The pretty seal stickers are for sab* at all the drug stores in the < ity. The money r< al iz<-d from their sab- goes to the Red Cross Society and will be used to 4 help finance the world-wide effort to stamp out the “white plague.;' No more laudable line of philanthropy is now being agitated than this effort to break the strong clutch of tuber culosis on the human race. Use all the stamps you can. They only cost a cent a piece and make a very pr< t tv seal to attach to letters and Xmas packages generally. A few dollars spent in this way will leave you none the poorer and help a good cause. NEBRASKA'S POPULATION. Nebraska has 1,192,214 people—a bout half as many as live in the city of Chicago. But this is 12.1.914 more than tbe state had ten years ago. Douglas county gained 28,118, Lan caster 8.918. Tiiat makes 37.11G add ed to the cities of Lincoln and Oma ha. That leaves a gain of 87.T98 in the rural districts—about 1.01 per sons to the square mile of ar- a. This is about what the birth rate should show in ten years above the death rate The following counties have lost in population: Burt. Butler, Cass, Clay, Cuming. Dixon, Dodge, Fillmore, Fron tier, Furnas, Gasper, Johnson. Kear ney, Nemaha. Otoe, Pawnee, Phelps, Polk, Richardson. Saline, Saunders and Washington. Some of the eoun ties have lost more than 1.000 inhabi at.ts. A county which losses 1.000 people is stri.« k a bard blow ami every busin* -ss in the county is in jured tb ft by. Thl: 1.- rite r ..foil that ti e iaia'e .Wo- u> ion of Commercial t !ubs is waging at a -the campaign for intelli gent immigration work and state ad v rtish.e. To bring jx-opl-. out west of the Missouri ih r is the aim of tie* Western Iaunl Products Exhibit ?p be bald In Omaha .la*.nary 18 to 28. it is ■ • .nati d that 2**0.nno people go across Nvbrs.-ka each year to homes beyond. A very Ja r g t per cent of them stop in Omaha and the show is well planned to catch tli people who simply '‘must move" in the spring. Tite Nebraska exhibit at this show should stop a large number of people in Nebraska, it hat. been the work of Omaha men and the exhbsiit in Oma ha which has caused Scotts liiuff coin ty to show an Increase from 2.fm5 in 1900 to s.sr.r. in 1910. The Western Land Products exhibit is going to bring some settlers to Nebraska if the Nebraska * xliihit is w hat ii should be. The census returner for Nebraska as far as they are known at this time Indicate that Richardson County is a uiong those that have lost in popula tion during the ten years. This is only a more emphatic verification of the facts to which w* have been re peatedly calling attention. Too many people art- leaving Richardson County for the good of the county. This ten dency is state wide, and the associa tion of Commercial Clubs of Nebraska are carrying on an active campaign of state advertising to keep Nebraskans at home and to induce immigration The county can illy afford to h<> indif ferent to this movement. We need an organized effort in our own com munity working untiringly for home ii dustries and the development of na tive utilities. We are surrounded by inexhaustible natural resources. Wha we need is to rightly appreciate our possessions and to utilize them to best advantage. Our people need to be aw akened and made sensible "of the untouched w-ealt.h hidden in Richard . son County climate and soil.