The County in General
The “Doings” of Our Country Friends
and Neighbors.
HUMBOLDT
Mrs. Clyde Lynch and children are
visiting relatives in Lincoln this
week.
Mesdames F. A. Fisher and N. C.
Campbell entertained at trail Fri
day afternoon at the home of the
former.
Mrs. Eva Wann returned Wednes
day from a visit with relatives at
Sabetha, Kansas.
George Powers and wife returned
from a visit with Dawson relatives
Wednesday.
Miss Maude Hiskeey of Table Rock
is visiting at the home of her
brother, Vince lliskey and wife.
Rev. C. E. Ruch returned to his
home in this city the last of the
week after spending several days
in Lincoln.
Mrs. E. .1. Byers and son, Earl, ar
rived Thursday from Bird City, Kas.,
and are guests at the home of Mrs.
Laura Campbell.
George F. Krause will this week
become proprietor of the Humboldt
Leader, having last week purchased
the same from 11. P. Marble.
Mrs. Della Crowder .Miller, wno
gave the last number of the lecture
course Saturday evening, conducted
the services at the Presbyterian
church Sunday evening. The pro
gram consisted of sacred reading
and music.
Lillith Waggoner was the guest of
friends in Omaha the latter part of
the week.
Mrs. George Segrist left Sunday
for her home in Carter, S. D.. after
spending several weeks with rela
tives in this city.
Mrs. R. R. Philpot returned the
first of the week from a visit with
relatives in Lincoln.
Mrs. Dave Cowman spent part of
the week with relatives in Lincoln.
Ralph Hummel was a business visit
or to Falls City Friday.
A basket, social was given by the
young people of the Methodist church
Friday evening.
Roy Leech of Table Rock was in
this city the first of the week.
The lower rooms of the school
were dismissed Thursday to prevent
the spread of diphtheria. Several
cases have developed.
Alvin Porr spent Sunday in Falls
City.
Miss Marie. Varner spent the latter
part of the week with her par
ents in Sterling.
Charles Goddard, proprietor of the
music store, while in Verdon on Iasi
Friday met with a painful accident.
He was attempting to start his auto
mobile, and as a result he is confined
to his home with a broken leg.
Mrs. A. A. Tanner and little daugh
ter, Naomi, have returned to their
home in Lincoln after a visit in this
city,
Roy Reid was a business visitor to
Falls City, Friday.
Wm. McDougal left Monday for a
short visit with friends in Stella,
after which he will go to Colorado in
hopes of benefitting his health.
A baby boy was born to Will Car
penter and wife Thursday.
OHIO
Hernia Ht achy and wife spent a
portion of last week in Kansas.
Mrs. L. Lutz was called to Bea
trice, Neb., Sunday by the death of
her niece.
Amelia Schtilenberg was the guest
of Anna Kraus recently.
F. S. Lichty and family were guests
of H. .T. Prichard Sunday.
Mrs. N. Peck and children spent
Sunday in Falls City with relatives.
H. J. Prichard and F. W. Whitrock
went to Omaha Monday morning,
where the latter purchased a new
touring car.
Wes Nedrow and family were the
guests of Porter Randolph and family
Sunday.
Herman Fritz and family and Miss
Amelia Schulenberg spent Sunday at
the home of John Zentner and fam
ily. ✓
Allie Prichard spent Sunday at her
home.
Wes Nedrow lias purchased a fine
new Maxwell car.
Vera Shaffer was the guest of her
sister in Falls City Sunday.
Will Kuhlman and wife of Barada
were guests of their daughter, Mrs.
Ed Ruegge, Sunday.
Pearl Fields spent Monday night
with Flossie James.
Frank Houtz was a guest at 'lie
home of John Fields. Sunday.
Harvey Peek of Morrill, Kansas is
visiting relatives in this vicinity at
tin's writing.
Lola Sturms arid her friend Mr.
Johnson spent Sunday evening at E.
Higgins.
R. H. Higgins entertained ari uncle
from Oklahoma last week at his horm
Bruce Elshire is quite sick at this
writing.
Milt Strauss and family were the
guests of Mr. Beatty and wife Sunday.
Messrs McAfee of Bluffton, lull.,
left Monday for their home after a
visit with John Fields and family.
Rev. Brewer did not get to fulfill
his appointment at the Maple drove
church Monday evening as he was
called home by the illness of his
daughter. The audience was given a
surprise by Rev. Garries of Verdon
as he took charge of the services.
The meetings are growing very inter
esting and everybody is cordially in
vited to attend.
SHUBERT
F. M. Oahout, who has been away
i visiting relatives in the west for
several days, returned home Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Landolt are
the proud parents of a fine baby
girl, who arrived Sunday.
.1. C. Shulenberg and wife were
business visitors tit Kails City on
Monday.
Mrs. Walter Vanlandingham and
little daughter spent a few days at
Kalis City, returning home Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Wiles are now
guests of relatives at and near Sa
lem.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Surman are
now visiting with home folks near
Barada.
Miss Ella Berg of Auburn is visit
ing relatives here.
Henry Leslie spent a few days at
Barada the first of the week buying
hogs.
Mrs. Let LaMiller and children of
Kalis City is here visiting the formers
parents.
Mrs. Thomas Lilly and children of
this place went to Nemaha on Friday
where they will visit the former’s sis
ter.
Pubblic Sale.
I will sell at my farm 1-2 mile east
of Falls City, Thursday, February
2nd 1911, beginning at 1 o’clock P.
20 Poland China bred sows. My en
tire herd of tried brood sows and
some gilts, pedigrees furnished. 7
head of horses, from 1 to 4 years old
2 are by Col Weaver, the rest are by
Imported Perchen horse.
H. C. Wittrock.
LEO KEITH SHULENBERG
Died Monday Evening After a Three
Weeks' Illness.
Leo Keith, the three month old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shulen
berg living southwest of this city,
passed away at 6:30 o’clock Monday
evening after an illness of three
weeks from pneumonia. Through all
his suffering the little one showed
remarkable strength but not suf
ficient to combat the strain made
by the fever. He was the only child
and the heart broken parents have
the true sympathy of their many
friends.
The funeral was held this, Wednes
day, morning from St. Francis Ro
man Catholic church.
Medicines that aid nature are al
ways most effectual. Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy acts on this plan. !t
allays the cough, relieves the lungs,
opens the secretions and aids nature
in resoring the system to a healthy
condition. Thousands have testified
to its superior excellence. Sold by
all dealers.
W. H. H. MEYERS IS DEAD
A Former Business Man of Falls
City Passes Away.
W. H. H. Meyers, for many years
a resident of this city, died at his
home in Paris, Mo., last Friday Jan.
uary 27. He will be well remember
ed by tile older residents of this
city, having been in active business
here for many years, first in the
jewelry store and later conducting a
dry goods store.
Probably no man connected with
the early business life of our city
was better known than Mr. Meyers.
Since leaving here the family have
lived in Eldorado Springs and Spring
field, Mo., but for about twelve
years their home lias been in Paris,
Mo. Mr. Meyers is survived by
her wife and daughter, Mrs. Perry
Westpheling and to them their old
friends extend sympathy.
The burial took place Sunday at
Lee's Summit, Mo., tiieir old home.
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to cold or damp, or chronic rheuma
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I A RACE FOR >
! A WIFE !
1 f
X The Girl Gave Answer In Lapland
♦ Kashina In a Proposal *
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| By ELEANOR L. BRITTON |
4 *»4
4 Copyright, 1911, by American Press 4
Association. *J*
Spltzburger was n great traveler.
He bad visited every country on the
globe, and I verily believe that if
aviation had come up in his day he
would have sailed up beyond the
clouds to find others. When l made
ids acquaintance he had settled down
in a place he called by a jawbreaking
name signifying “dwelling” that he
had picked up among the Eskimos
or some oilier benighted people. It
was in tlie country situated on the top
of a hill and looked more like a Chi
nese pagoda than any other structure.
Spitzburger was a widower, with
one child, a daughter. She was twen
ty years old and for half her life had
traveled during half of each year—the
summer season—with her father. He
redity and travel had made her as
odd as he. ltatlier she was unique.
She was of medium height, lithe, wiry
—Indeed, a feminine athlete of the
featherweight type. Her hair was black
and straight as an Indian’s; her eyes
large black ones, with lashes of the
Spanish type. I wondered if her moth
er had not been some dusky semlcivi
lized creature her father had picked up
on the underside of the world. But
he toid me his wife had been an Amer
ican creole.
The inside of the house in which
these two lived was as curious as the
outside. The furniture and ornamen
tal articles bad apparently been gath
ered from all points of the globe, rang
ing from the south sea islands to
Greenland. There was a mill for
grinding from the Holy Land similar
to those used in Bible times, a wheel
from India to spin flax on, and the
bathtub had been the sarcophagus of
an Egyptian mummy.
The reason for my making the Spitz
burgers’ acquaintance was this; I was
taking a postgraduate course at the
time, studying the customs of differ
ent races of men, the causes and ef
fects which shape them and their re
lationship. Desiring some informa
tion ns to the people of Tibet, a land
forbidden to foreigners and therefore
little known, I was recommended to
Spitzburger as one who had penetrat
ed to the interior of thnt country. I
went to see him, and my visit led to
my studying with him.
How long I remained there doesn’t
matter, but it was sufficient for my
enthrallment by that “little savage,”
as I cnlled his dnugbter, Irene. Not
that there was any outward Intima
tion on m.v part that I was coming un
der a spell, and, as for the girl, 1 had
no idea that 1 was any more to her
than anotl or man. Indeed. I some
times fancied that she might have left
her heart in New Zealand, Kamchatka
or some other barbarous land. Wheth
er Spitzburger suspected the drift of
my inclinations I don't know, but one
day lie took occasion to mention with
approbation the marriage customs in
Lapland, where one who marries a
girl without her parents’ consent is
adjudged guilty of a crime next below
murder and is punished accordingly
I thought that lie looked at me very
hard, but "a guilty conscience needs
no accuser,” and 1 may have attached
more meaning to his words than they
covered.
The only thing to indicate that Irene
and 1 were drifting together as lovers
was that we took long walks together
I made an excuse for this that in her
company I could both exercise and
study. This was true. I could .get
from her certain information of the i
domestic habits of the people she had
visited that i could not get from her
father. One day while we were on
one of these walks 1 said to her:
“Your father tells me tiiat in Lap
land to marry a girl without her par
ents' consent is punished as n crime.
Please tell me how a man In that conn- I
try does his courting."
“He doesn’t do any courting."
“Then how does he proceed V"
“He goes to her parents and asks ;
for her. If he is refused there is no I
hope for him. if they approve of his .
suit they tell the girl of it. She may 1
or may not have seen the lover, but
tlie process is the same in either case.
Her parents give a feast nt which
they, the girl, her suitor and mutual
friends are present. The two princi
pals are placed opposite each other at ,
table, where they can observe and
talk with each other all they like."
“Well, then what? I suppose the j
girl has something to say in tin* mat
ter, else this looking over her suitor
would lie useless.”
“Yes, she lias a good deal to say
about it. but she doesn't yet make It
known. She indicates her decision
later. After the feast all go to an open
space suitable for running a race. A
course is marked off—a ipiarter of a
mile usually—and the girl is given a
handicap of a third of the distance.
The handicap is intended to enable her
to win the race easily if she wishes,
and if she wins that indicates her re
fusal of tin1 offer Mut if, on the con
trary. she purposely lags and her suitor
catches her. that indicates site accepts
him for her husband."
When Irene finished giving me this
bit of a lecture on Lapland customs i
walked for some distance without
speaking.
, I
"What are you thinking of?" she
naked.
"I tun thinking how popular this
mot hod v. hiui bo at our universities,
where athletics are so much In vogue.
Every undergraduate would be mar
ried before the end of Ills course."
It was a month after Hits that, hav
ing got all out of Spit/.burger In the
line of my studies that 1 desired, I be
gan to think of leaving. A singular
something there was in Irene had con
tinued to grow upon me. ami well I
wanted tier. Remembering what her
father had said on the subject, I went
to him and asked him for his daughter.
"I will inform her of the honor you
do tier,” he said.
I waited a day for a reply, and as 1
received none the suspense threw mo
Into an awful fret. At the end of the
second day, the situation being the
satne, I was almost demented. On the
morning of the third, determined to
have the matter out with Irene, l
naked her to go for a walk with me,
the last we would take together before
my departure. She assented and went
up to her room for her wraps. She
was some time getting them, and when
she came down wlmt was my surprise
to see that she had put on a skirt
reaching but little below the knees, and
Instead of a bat she bad wrapped a
veil about her head.
I didn't dream for awhile what this
meant, but when she led me along a
path and across a sille to a space used
in season for pasture 1 suspected nt
once that she proposed to satisfy a
whim by giving me nu answer to my
proposal after the Lapland custom. 1
was too hungry for it to object to (lie
terms and was quite ready to run for
my answer. Indeed, so impatient was
I that I opened the subject myself.
“A good place for a race,” I re
marked.
"Splendid."
“And a tine morning for it too. The
air is-erisp and full of ozone."
“I love to snuff it in and get the
odor."
“Do you see that tree yonder?"
"The oak split into two trunks near
the ground?”
“Yes. 1 hnve a mind to race you for
it.”
“How much advantage will you give
me ?"
“What you like."
She pulled off a far jacket and threw
it on the ground, and I saw nt once
that she had divested herself of her
corsets—indeed, there was nothing to
Interfere with any movement Her
short skirt, a tight fitting jersey and
the veil about her head made an ex
cellent racing costume.
Hut these preparations appalled me.
What could they mean hut that she
desired every advantage that she might
surely bent me In the race?
"1 wish no handicap,” she said. “I
think 1 can beat you on equal terms.
1 will go over to that stump, which is
about the same distance from the tree
as we are here. One race would he
little fun. Let us make It the best two
In three. You give the signal.”
“Agreed,” I said, and she went off to
the stump.
“One, two, three—go!” 1 cried.
She ran like a deer; but, spurred by
love, I kept an equal pace with her.
1 won that race.
The second race was very different.
Irene permitted me at first to gain a
few yards on her, but before we had
traversed two-thirds of the distance
she forged ahead and reached the tree
full ten feet ahead of me.
I knew now that she could heat me
If she wished. Nevertheless I deemed
It my proper part to do the best I
could in the third and deciding race.
Burning to know my fate, 1 wished to
start at once. But she declined to go
until she got her breath. While we
waited 1 endeavored to see something
encouraging In her eyes—something to
indicate that these races were the an
swer I was expecting. But there was
nothing in her expression to indicate
that we were running for any purpose
except pastime. She studiously Ig
nored every other consideration.
Finally, when my patience was near
ly exhausted, she signiiled a willing
ness to start. 1 gave the signal, and
for the first liaif the distance siie
seemed determined to win. Surely she
could not have put forth greater ef
fort. I saw her glance aside to see
where 1 was. and she dashed on. seem
lngly bound to reach the goal before
me. But when within ten yards of it,
my distance being twenty, she tripped
and fell. I ran on to the tree, touched
It and then back to her. Raising her,
I said Impatiently:
"I suppose we must try tills one
over.”
“No." she said; “I couldn’t run
again.”
I still held tier in my arms, and,
taking this for the answer 1 craved, I
wound them about her, covering tier
face with kisses.
Supposing that my love had been
injured by her fall, I proposed to car
ry her home, but she stepped out cpiite
readily.
“How about that tripping?" I asked.
She looked at the ground, but made
no reply, and 1 knew siie had tripped
on purpose.
When we returned to Hie house Spitz
burger looked at us both curiously. I
knew at once flint lie was aware that
Ids daughter had given me my answer
and that siie had given it in accordance
with the Lapland custom. He first
scanned her face, but receiving no sat
lsfaction there bent his gaze upon
mine.
He did not require a long examina
tion of my feature's to know that I had
been made very happy, and the cause
was evident. I took Irene by the hand j
and. leading her to her father, told him ;
the story.
When I came to the part where Irene j
stumbled and fell he burst into a laugh, j
saying that she could run for hours !
without a stumble or a mlssstep.
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o u t the
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