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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1911)
The County in General The “Doings” of Our Country Friends and Neighbors. OHIO Mrs. HuchOlz is visiting with Mrs Etshire. Horn-—To Mr. and Mrs. Hev. Sebul tee, a boy one day last week. The little twins of H. Moinheit and wife were christened Sunday. Vera Sliaff( r visited in Kails City with her sister, Edna. Sunday. II. Heeeliy and wife were guests of Guy Idehty and wife Sunday night and Monday. Guy Idclity and wife were guests of Earl Shaffer and wife Sunday af ternoon. Mrs. H. Pritchard and Mrs. E. M Kinimel were guests of Mrs. H, Heiinbert last Thursday. Mrs. Itoss Wills and children were guests of Mrs. F. M. Shaffer last Friday. John Mears and family were the guests or Mrs. N. Peek and family Wednesday evening Mrs. Joe Nedrow of Stella is visit ing with Wes Nedrow and family at this writing. John Murphy of near Preston was the guest of Will Guinn and family Sunday. Mrs. Zubriek and daughter were guests of Mrs. H. Mcinhelt one day last week. Mrs Eph Peek spent, a portion of last week with her daughter, Mrs. W K Knight. Daisy Peck has returned home af ter visiting in Morrill, Kans., with relatives.. Wes Nedrow and family and Mrs. Joe Nedrow were guests of H. Hee chy and wife Monday afternoon. SHUBERT Prof. Weber wits a visitor at Peru ou Saturday. Miss Ahern is now visiting with friends at Falls City. Ora Hoss of Salem visited this place last Sunday. I). T. Smiley visited his relatives at Nemaha Monday. llenry Woodring of Falls City is visiting relatives near town. (irand M. Lewis who has been ill for the past week is now much hot ter. Wm. Shelling was a business visi tor at Falls City one day quite re cently. Mrs. .1. M. Evans is now the guest of relatives and friends at Council Muffs, Iowa. Miss Crete and Ilo Wiles were the guests of relatives at Salem over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. August Egner ae (ompanied by Lena Weik visited rela tives near Falls City the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Wilard Shuhert are now enjoying a visit with Lincoln friends. They expet I to bo gone for a couple of months. Herman Voltnier and family are now making preparations to move to Fllley, where Mr. Voltnier willl < n gage in the hardware business. Mr. and Mra. Arthur Surinun took possession of their new restaurant on Monday, which they purchased recently from Mr. Hranin. We wish tliein good success in their new line of business. The pupils of our school will give a basket supper and program at the opera house Saturday evening, Feb. 11. Everybody come and bring a has ket and let’s encourage the school. Mrs. 1 >avid Jones passed away last Saturday, from the effect of her broken limb which we mentioned last week, which superinduced pneumonia. She was laid lo n -t in the Prairie Hnion cemetery on Monday. She leaves to mourn her loss, two step daughters and five step-grand daugh ters. besides many friends and neigh VERDON Lit tie 1 In n'T e'tuo is quit sick. Miss Mable Nussbaum returned to Lincoln, Wednesday. Earl Fuller is still vrey ill with pneumonia. Frank Veach returned home from Houston, Texas Wednesday,. Ed Kuker was a passenger to Falls City Thursday. G. D. Knapp is still seriously ill with pneumonia. Sheriff Fenton was up from Falls City Saturday on business. Joe Mark of Creighton, Neb., visito relatives here a few days last week. Mrs, Simmons of Denver, Col., was the guest of B. F. Veach one day last week. A1 Martin was down from Council Bluffs for a short stay with relatives Graham Jones atul wife. Mrs. Evan Owens and Maggie Steese were eoun ty seat visitors Tuesday'. Clarence Nussbaum has returned w Omaha after a short stay here witli his parents. Miss Amelia Nussbaum returnee: last week to her school duties al Gretna, Neb. Elmer Rumbaugh left this week foi Omaha, where he visited friends a few days. A. T. Parsons returned the latter part of the week from an extended trip to various parts of Wyoming. Mrs. Pryor departed Friday morn ing for her home at Nemaha City after a brief visit here with her father, Joe Smith. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Jlulterman is suffering from an al> sess on his neck, which is causing him great pain. John Conover returned the latter part of the week from York, where in* had been attending school. WHEAT IS FAVORABLE, PEACHES SAID TO BE FROZEN The Wheat Prospect. There lias hhen a great deal of comment recently in the papers a bout tin* prospects of ttie wheat crop. Various farmers and men experien ced in these matters have made for us a thorough investigation of the conditions In this vicinity and claim that the crop has stood the open win ter and sudden changes remarkably well, being only slightly damaged. Wheat sown prior to Sept. 20 seems to have suffered more than that sown later. In some places the wheat sown early is quite brown but taking the crop through and through there Is little damage done and wheat looks fine. In driving through the country it seems strange to see farmers driv ing posts in February. There is not a bit of frost in the* ground and many are busy making fences, feed racks, hay sheds and even new corn cribs and are several months ahend on this kind of work owing to the mild wea ther. Ladies’Suede and Velvet Shoes H. M. Jenne Shoe Store Pubblic Sale. I will soil al my farm 1-2 mile east of Falls City, Thursday, February 2nd 1011, beginning at 1 o’clock P. 20 Poland China bred sows. My en tire herd of tried brood sows and some gills, pedigrees furnished. 7 , head of horses, from I to l years old ! 2 are by Col Weaver, the rest are by j Imported Perclien horse. 11. Wittrock. Medicines that aid nature are at ways most effectual. Chamberlain's j Cough Remedy acts on this plan. !t allays the cough,” relieves the lungs, j opens the secretions and aids nature in resoring the system to a healthy condition. Thousands have testified to its superior excellence. Sold by i all dealers. Do you know that fully nine out of every ten cases ef rheumatism are simply rheumatism of the muscles du ! to cold or damp, or ehfonlc rheunia j tism, and require no .internal treat : mont whatever? Apply Chamberlain’ Liniment freely and see how quickly ; it gives relief. For sale by all deal j ers. LAND SALE. Notice is hereby given that I, Alex ander Hilgenfeld, by virtue of the power to me given, by the last will and testament of Ludwig Hilgenfeld, deceased, I will on the 2Sth clay of January 1911, at 2 o'clock P. M. at the west front door of the court | house in Falls City, Nebr., off.er for sale and sell to the highest bidder the following described real estate, | to-wit; The north half of the south ; west quarter of Sectton 32, Twp. 2, ! Range 17, and Lot 21, 22, 23, and 2-1 in Block 22, and the eight room, two story dwelling, these all in Steele's i addition to the city of Fall? City, Nebr., all of said real estate being in Richardson county, State of Neb raska. Terms cf sale, cash on de livery of deed. Alexander Hilgenfeld, Executor. |+++++++++++++++++++++++•!•♦ I The Japanese j Umbrella .£ A Chinese Episode and Its % Horrible Effect *9 I By CLARISSA MACK IE % I *9 *9 + Copyright, lull, by Amerteun Press -9 + Association. "9 A >9 .9.9 * -9 >:• *9 *9 * * ❖ •:* * <■ * A whole year passed after Nelson's return from Asia before lie found him self again treading an oriental street anil rubbing elbows with slant eyed, blue bloused Chinese. II is present po sition in (lie custom house made it necessary that he sh >uld visit a well known silk Importer, whose place of business lay In the heart of San Fran cisco's reconstructed Chinatown. Jay Nelson had been glad enough to eliminate all memory of his last year in China. There had been one horri ble incident from which lie had tied, hut whose shadow had lurked in the background of his daily life since his return to America. I11 broad daylight lie had laughed nt tho fours that pur sued hls first sleepless, fear haunted nights. After awhile the fear gave place t<> a sense of security fostered (j.v the practical workaday happenings of his busy life. Today, however, ns he passed along Dupont street and turned Into a nar rower thoroughfare there burst upon him the significant fact that this part of a great city was but a fragment of the old eastern world after all. He had to pause once or twice and Inquire his way, for the house of the Importer was set in the heart of the web of streets and alleys. Then when hls gonl lay but a few yards ahead there sprang Into sudden view, bob bing along in the crowd before him, a certain green and gold paper parasol, the meaning of which was all too clear to Jay Nelson. He had a vague realization that this emblem of an old horror might have been evolved from hls own morbid fancy. He pressed forward, eager to stretch forth Ids hand and prove that the i Japanese umbrella was a thing of air, was nn optical Illusion. But always it danced before him like n will-o'-the wisp, now showing a glint of gold and green and then melting into a dozen illusive tints. Where it went there he too must follow until he could prove by actual contact with Its surface that it was a creation of his fancy and not the dreaded emblem of the White Brother hood. It drew him on down Into the very bowels of the earth. The paper umbrella collapsed and was east aside, while the bearer turn ed to confront Nelson. Then the lat ter awoke from his trance-like state and stared first at the strange face that confronted him. then about the small dungeon-like room, empty of fur nit.uro and reeking with foul odors and lighted by a single swinging oil lamp Nelson’s gaze came back to the face of the Chinese, and lie shivered slightly, for t lie* face was that of a member of the dreaded order the sign was written on tin1 man's brow. Instantly Nelson whipped oil' Ids coat, holding it before him as a shield and backed to the stairway leading upward. “Hold a moment." said the Chinese in tlie Cantonese dialect; "I am not alone.” ‘“Who else?" demanded Nelson sharply in the same tongue. "The brotherhood— at each stair head they await your coming if you contemplate Might," returned the Chi nese imperturbably. "What do you want with me?" "Command of the big brother that you lie brought before him for trial." "Hi' came on from Hongkong to seek me?" The Chinese cackled shrilly. Then he spat contemptuously. "The broth erhood is everywhere. Captain I.eeson —wherever there are offenders there also will ho found a tribunal of the i brotherhood.” "Why do you call me by Captain i Leeson’s name?" questioned Nelson I warily. "Because you are he. “Suppose I ntn not?” “You are!” asserted the man rough Jy. “The brotherhood does not make i mistakes." "You blunder this time. 1 am Net son." The other laughed derisively "I was* told you would claim that name Nelson died that night.” "Ah." cried Nelson suddenly, "you ire the big brother! This is the tri ounal. You are alone; you thought to fool me; see you later. Tai I.aao!" lie started to leap up the stairs and then stopped short. Tai I.aao made no move to arrest his flight, lie merely folded his long claw tipped lingers into either capacious sleeve and smiled widely. It was this smile that halted Nelson's departure, the smile and a eertain hiss ing whisper that sang down the stair way and bore warning on its breath. Again he turned to the Chinese. “Have it over with—this court of yours' Be quick, for I have business to attend to -matters of importance." “Very good. Captain I.eeson," com mented the man called Tai I.aao. "Fol low me.” lie led the way to a shadowy corner and pushed open a door into another dimly lighted room. At a long table sat seven men. three on either side and one at the end. At the farther end of the table there stood a wide armed empty chair Kxcept for a lew swung lamp above the table the room was devoid of other furnishing. ‘•Captain Beeson.” he announced in a low voice, "on trial for betraying se crets uf the White Brothers." "Captain Beeson died, as you all know." said Nelson sternly. "I saw him die. killed by your orders. He died in the street of"— "Silence!" menaced the loader, "lie claims to be Nelson, the one who died that night." The seven nodded in unison, but did not remove their gaze from Nelson's angi'y face. lie kept silence now, briefly review ing the strange events that had snatch ed him from the busy streets of the city into as dismal u den of murderers as one might hope to find along the water front of any Chinese city. Before ills eyes there flashed n pic ture of ids last year in China. Then he had been in- the diplomatic service of ids country. Beeson, his friend, an Englishman In the British employ at Hongkong—Inspector of henlth or some thing of that sort—had interested Nel son in ills establishment of a leper col ony down in Anaru. it was Beeson's ambition to clean out the lepers hidden in the city, to root them out from their places of con cealment and transport them to the colony where preparations had been made for their segregation, where their cases should be studied and modern methods’ be employed. It happened that the afflicted ones looked on ttie idea of banishment with distaste. JThey cared little to be herd ed together in a foreign province far from friends and familiar scenes. They cared nothing whatever for the benefits that might accrue to posterity through their segregation. Beeson’s efforts met with little suc cess, and lie brought the law to his aid. Thus lie gained permission to capture the afflicted ones, and so his colony prospered for awhile. Then there was formed against him the so ciety of tlie White Brothers, created to protect the lepers scattered throughout the city from Beeson’s agents. Bach one bore some mark of the disease, and they had some other emblem by which they might lie known to each other if the mark of the disease was not plain enough. And this emblem was the green and gold paper umbrel la, with its snaky twisting golden dragon coiling In and out of the green painted bamboo shoots. Nelson remembered tlie first time lie had seen them—that night of l.eeson’s carefully planned expedition into a suspected quarter. It was at night, and red lanterns had lighted the street down its crooked length. Suddenly there had liurst upon them and the three agents who accompanied Beeson a hideous babel of cracked voices; a horrible spectacle of ghastly faces; a leprous mob that leered and jeered at them; that drove them point by point toward the end of the street of lepers; a yelling crowd that received the bul lets from their revolvers and died noisily; a filthy crew that tried to touch them, that longed to render them as loathsome as itself. Beeson had been killed, and Nelson tried to forget the sight as tlie rest of them got away. The next day he led a party back to the street, but it was deserted. Kven poor Beeson's body hud ilisappeared. After this outbreak the matter went under the supervi sion of a large medical corps, and the colony at Annin was augmented by several hundred cases. Nelson resign ed from the service and weul home, sickened of the whole dubious web of oriental life, thankful that be had es caped contact that he was clean. Now they had found him out they would take their revenge for Ids' be trayal of their outbreak. It pleased them to call him by Beeson’s name. As Beeson he would probably die in tliis hole in the ground under San Francisco. Nelson determined to force some im mediate action from the tnen who had sprung up In this faraway city to call him to account for Ids setting the hounds of law upon their trail. AH his hideous drenuts of the past year seemed to have been realized in the strange events of tliis day that would un doubtedly bo liis last on earth. It had been a strange day, and even now, face to face with death—for the presence of these White Brothers meant nothing less—he seemed to be moving in a dream more frightful than anything his sleeping mind had con ! ceived. "lire nliend. lie said recklessly; ‘•I'm not afraid of you. Come on, every devil’s itup of you!" lie flashed out the revolver he always carried just ; as they arose in a body and came at him, a ghastly company with stretch ing, clawing fingers and fiendish eyes. Then Jay Nelson awoke, lie sat up in bed. bis brow dripping^ sweat and Ills heart pounding with excitement, tor once more lie had dreamed of the Japanese umbrella and the horrible band wlro.se emblem It was This was the worst dream of all. and he mur mured devout thanks that it had been a dream. Sitting there with the morning sun shine streaming Into the room and a i fresli breeze from tlie bay ruffling Ids hair. Nelson saw the early newspaper slid under his door. Eager to be in tomb with the commonplaces of every day life, he fetched it and rend the headlines. After awhile, in a corner of the sheet, he rend that the Hong kong authorities were satisfied that they Imd rid that city of its lepers Tlie White Brotherhood had been broken up. and most of its members were in Annin colony. The leader, Tni I jiao, was dead. Captain Beeson's death had been avenged. Jay Nelson went forth that morning a care free man to interview the silk importer in Chinatown. At hist he was emancipated from fear. He would 1‘reum no more. I When given as soon as the croupy cough appears Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will ward off an attack of croup and prevent all danger and cause of anxiety. Thousands of moth ers use it successfully. Sold by all dealers. We have meats that are good to eat. When you are in the meat buy ing market we will be glad to meet I Your cooking will have the final touch of art if you use quality condiments. tone Bros Spick I" CANNON BRAND —pepper, ginger, cloves, etc.— MS: are full of strength and fresh. ^B In sealed cartons. C#rocer§, ioc. |j|j| TONE BR03., Dta Moines, Ia ||» How Old People ! May Prolong Their Lives At advanced age the organs act more slowly than in youth. Circu lation becomes poor, blood thin and watery, appetite fitful, and diges tion weak. 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