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THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE Consolidations- Falls City Tribune, Humboldt Enterprise, Kulo Record, Crocker's Educational Journal and Dawson Outlook. Entered as second-class matter at Falls City, Nebraska, post office, Janu ary 12. l'i*4, under the Act of Congress on March 3, 187''. Publi shed every Friday at Falls City Nebraska, by The Tribune Publishing Company R. N. OLIVER. - - - Manager W. H, WYLER, - • • Editor One year_»__ Sis in m:ha Three months ... .40 TELEPHONE 226. The weekly Tribune will continue ti be published every Friday us hereto fore. Subscribers to the weekly,who prefer to take the Daily Tribune can have their subscription transferred. • * • If you fail to get your weekly Trib uue it Is not because It is not being published, but because you are In arrears on subscription. We arc not tllowod by law to give more ban a limited time to subscribers to pay up, after which we are compelled to stop the paper. Kindly remit very p.tmptly amt save yourself and us any unpleasant lies: Vlee President Sherman decided three tie votes in the senate within a half hour. The history of the sen ate does not disclose the fact that any vice president, during the last half century at least, ever was call ed upon three times to cast the deriding vote In that body. That ho should enjoy this privilege with in the short space of half an hour in one eventful day is without par ralld. Through one of the vice president's votes the senate passed the ship subsidy bill. This was the first, time the vice president has east a vote since January lS'.Mt. when a tie vote was east on tin* reso lution of Senator Paeon declaring it to be the policy of the United States not. to retain the Philippines per manently and announcing It to be the purpose of the United States ill tlmately to turn the governtmut of those Islands over to the peoph thereof. The treaty of Paris then was under consideration and the sen timent of Congress was divided as to the duty of the government with re gard to those islands. * * * We are just in receipt of a let - teer from our good friend, .1. o. Shroyer, farmer amt journalist of Humboldt. lie has lookeed over the issues of the Daily Tribune and feel, assured of fhe sue its of an effort along this line. "If Fulls City has a dally, it ought to be the best be tween Lincoln and St. Joe. In fact there is nothing to hinder It from being better than either city af fords." We appreciate Hro. Shroy er’s encouraging words. Now. if our friends will all lend us their support, the thing will soon be a reality. There is no reason why Falls City should not ha\ e a first class daily, an honor to the town and a source of strength to the com munity. The Daily Tribune offers the opportunity. It remains for everyone interested In the present progress of things local, to do iiis part. The publishere can only do a fraction of work that goes with successful paper building. Much re mains for the public to do. • * • A copy of Webster’s New Interna tional dictionary recently came to our office. It is the latest edition, just off the press. It is a mammoth book of 2,700 quarto pages. it is a wonder of the bookmakers art, be ing from the standpoint of the print er without spot or blemish. Accord ing to the publishers printed state ment this remarkable volume con tains 400,000 words and phrases, and over 6,000 illustrations. The mind is not capable of grasping the signi ficance of anything so huge and com prehensive, Webster’s Dictionary is still the old reliable standard in most offices, shops and places where the best and most reliable informa tion is appreciated. It still is the dictionary of authority with the scholarly and most of the literature of the day that is worth while uses Webster's spelling and system of def initions. No homo library should be without this volume. It is a lib rary in itself, arfd quickly available for nil purposes. C. & G. Merriam of Spi’ngfield, Massachusetts, are the well known publishers and will bo pleased to furnish any desired information to prospective pur chasers. * » * WILL PAY FOR GOOD ROADS Hiawatha motor owners and motoi owners living near Hiawatha and Hor ton will gladly pay fanners to keey the roads dragged about their farms Communicate with Hiawatha autr dealers.—Hiawatha World. Most farmers would not be unwill ing to care for the roads adjoining their own property if they felt that they were getting value in return for their work. They see other people use the roads more than they do and feel and not unjustly either— that they are asked to do more than | their share In the maintenance of the "Good Roads" idea. Now If mo tor owners would generally come to ! the .farmers relief, the road problem would soon solve itself. No doubt : iiutolsts in Richardson county would freely do their part In a proposition of this kind. If the matter was tak en in hand and organized. Real pro ! gross was made on road improvement I Iasi year, and it is to he hoped that much greater progress will bo made ibis year. However this can only I be done by concerted action on the part of < ity people who use the roads and the farmers who are ex pected to care for them. The prop lent of "Good Ronds” Is largely one of mutual fairness on all sides. When all road users are willing to do their share toward road improve ment, there will be no more really bad road bods. WINTER BLESSINGS When winds are cold und ice is on, and sleet is piled o’er walk and lawn, and we must bundle up or freeze, must have the grip, and cought and sneeze, we're apt to sigh for good old days, get sentimental over hazee, and wish that summer were on new; we’d like to hoe and rake and plow. But stop a moment, friend und think, before you let your heart thus sink. For instance think of flies and gnats; the howl ing dogs and fighting cats, and phonographs—for windows wide just to draw night sound Inside. And then those busy little ants that o’er your food so swiftly prance; and don't forget those "jiggers” fierce, which your anatomy will pierce. A million score of insects sing, that land on you and try to sting. With these, mosciuhoes, your old friends, that love to use their probing ends; and heat and drouth, hot dust ga lore; lawn-mowing, too, until you're sore. Though you like weather aw ful warm, may move down south to miss the storm; Nebraska suits ns to u “T”, no climate better, seems to me. Harold Nelbling. o o o o o o o o o o o o o THE DAILY TRIBUNE o o Delivered anywhere o IN FALLS CITY o o Per week.6 cents o o Per month .. ..25 cents o ooooooooooon AUCTION SALE. On the Matt Schulenberg Farm. Monday, Feb 27th, a complete clos ing out sale will bo held on the Matt Schulenberg farm, located three miles south of Barada, 8 miles north and one mile east of Falls City. Horses, stock, hogs, machinery and house hold effects will he sold at publU auction. Col. Marion and N. E. Horstman; Allots. To The Public You are hereby notified that we have discontinued our agency with the Morsman Pharmacy, Falls City, Neb., and that the stock is being shipped back to Omaha. We hope to have a new connection in your city soon, but in the meantime any parties wanting high grade paints, varnishes, arenate lead—Lime sul phur solution etc, are urged to cor respond with us direct.—The Slier wln Williams Co., Cor 10th & Doug las Sts., Omaha, Neb. 13-3t ELECTRIC THEATRE IN LIFE’S CIRCLE A beautiful biograpb drama in which are shown how a brother's prayers are answered. THE CANADIAN MOONSHINERS The French Canadian story. This is by the Kalem Co., and is superbly acted and full of stirring interest— the setting and photography are perfect. See the ride for life. A DOG ON BUSINESS A snappy farce comedy with a • scream in every foot—“weary” gets a hunch that would be worth a couple of thousands to an “ad” man and make use of it. You will seldom find a picture so genuinely funny, j It is by the Essanay Co. See it. l A RACE FOR f I A WIFE ! 9 •% ,»♦ The (iirl (i.ive Answer in Lapland 4* fashion to a Proposal »?♦ 4» * I By ELEANOR L. BRITTON % ♦ _ & 4* Copyright, 1011. Iiv American Press 4* T Association V v v -I* -i- <• »;• *;• v v v •;* v •{■ *> v *;• v Spltzhurgcr was a great traveler. He bad visited every country on the globe, ami I verily believe that if aviation had come up in his day he would have sailed up be.voml the clouds to llntl others. When I made his 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 other benighted people. It was in the country situated on the top of a hill and looked more like a Chi nese pagoda than any other structure. Spltzburger 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—tlie summer season—witli her father. He redity and travel had made her as odd ns he. I tat her she was unique. She was of medium height, lithe, wiry —indeed, n feminine athlete of the featherweight type. Her hnir 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 semicivi IIzed creature her father had picked up on tlie underside of the world. But he told me his wife had been an Amer ican creole. The Inside of tlie house in which these two lived was as curious us the outside. The furniture and ornamen tal articles had apparently been gath ered from all points of tlie globe, rung 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 tlnx on. and the bathtub laid been the sarcophagus of an Egyptian mummy. The reason for my making the Spitz burgers' acquaintance was this: 1 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 lntlonsliip. Desiring some informa tion us to tlie 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 that country. I went to see him, and my visit led to my studying with him. How tong 1 remained there doesn’t matter, hut It was sufficient'for my enthrallment by that “little Savage," as I called bis daughter, Irene. Not that there was any outwatyl intiiun tion on m.v part that I was coining tin dor a spell, and. as for the girl, 1 had no idea that 1 was any more to her than nnotI er 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 tlie drift of my inclinations I don’t know,- hut one day he took occasion to mention with approbation tlie marriage customs in Lapland, where one who marries a girl without her parents’ consent is adjudged guilty of n crime next below murder and is punished accordingly. I thought that tie looked at me very hard, hut "a guilty conscience needs no accuser,” niul 1 may have attached more meaning to Ids words than they covered. The only thing to indicate that Irene niul I were drifting together ns lovers was that we took long walks together. I made an excuse for this that tn her J company 1 could both exercise and I study. This was true. 1 could get ! from her certain information of the domestic tin bits or tne fieopie sue nan visited that 1 could uot get from her i father. Oue day while we wore on ! one of these walks I said to her: “Your father tells me that in Lnp land to marry a girl without her par , cnts' consent is punished as a 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?” “He goes to her parents and asks for her. If lie is refused there ts no hope for him. If they approve of his suit they tell the girl of it. She may : or may not have seen the lover, but the process is the same in either case. Her parents give a feast at 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. 1 lien what? 1 suppose the girl lias something to say in the mat ter, else this looking over her suitor would In? useless.” “Yes, slie lias a good ileal to say about it. but she doesn't yet make it known. She indicates her decision inter After the feast all go to ail open space suitable for running a race. A course is marked off—a quarter of a mile usually—and the girl is given a handicap of a third of the distance. The handicap Is lutended to enable her to win i lie race easily if she wishe-i. and if she w ins that indicates he. re fusal of the offer. Hut if. on the rou trnrv. she purposely lags and her suitor catches her. that indicates she accepts him for her husband.” When Irene finished giving me this bit of a lecture on Laplaud customs 1 walked for some distance without ! speaking. ! "What are you thinking of?” she *sko<l "I am thinking how popular this ; met nod w'giid be at our universities, w here athletics are so much in vogue, j Every undergraduate would be mar ried before the end of his course.” | it was a month after this that, hav j ittg got oil out of 81ill/.burger in the | line of m.v studies that I desired. I lie ! gan to think of leaving. A singular ! something there was in Irene had con tinued to grow upon me. and well' I : wanted her. Ilemembering what her father had said on the subject. 1 went I io him and asked him for liis daughter "I will inform her of the honor you do her,” he said. T waited a day for a reply, and as 1 received none the suspense threw me Into an awful fret. At the end of the ; second day, the situation being the same, I was almost demented. On the morning of the third, determined to have tlie matter out with Irene, i ! asked Iter to go for a walk with me, the last we would take together before my departure. Site assented and went up to Iter room for iter wraps. She was some time getting them. at)d when site came down what was my surprise to see that she had put on a skirt reaching but little below the knees, and instead of a hat she had wrapped a veil about iter head. I didn’t dream for awhile what this meant, but when she led me aloug a path and across a stile to a space used in season for pasture I suspected at once that she proposed to satisfy a whim by giving me an answer to my proposal after the Iaiplnml custom. I was too hungry for it to object fo the 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 crisp and full of ozone." “I love to snuff it in and get the odor." "L>o you see that tree yonder?” “The oak split into two trunks near the ground?" “Yes. I have a mind to race you for it.” “How much advantage will you give me?" “What you like.” She pulled off a fur jacket and threw it on the ground, and I saw at 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. But these preparations appalled me What could they mean but that she desired every advantage that she might surely beat me in the race? "1 wish no handicap," she said. “I think 1 can bent 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 be 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, 1 kept an equal pace with her. i 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. 1 knew now that she could beat 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, I 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 signified a willing ness to start I gave the signal, and for the first half the distance she seemed determined to win. Surely she could not have put forth greuter ef fort. I saw her glnnce aside to see where I wns, and she dashed on, seem ingly 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 tlds one over.” “No,” she said; “I couldn’t run again." I still held her In my arms, and. taking this for the answer i craved, I wound them about her, covering her face with kisses. Supposing that my love had been injured by her fall. 1 proposed to car i ry her home, but she stepped out quite i readily. “IIow about that tripping?" I asked She looked at the ground, but made no reply, and 1 knew she had tripped on purpose. When we returned to the house Spitz burger looked at us both curiously. 1 knew at once that he was aware that his daughter had given me my answer and that she had given it in accordance with the Lapland custom. He first scanned her face, but receiving uo sat i lsfaction there bent his gaze upon mine. He did not require a long examina tion of my features to know that I had been made very happy, and the cause was evident. I took Irene by the hand and. leading her to her father, told him the story. When I came to the part where Irene stumbled and fell he burst into a laugh, saying that she could run for hours without a stumble or a missstep. I PROF. H. A. REYNOLDS Suggestive Therapeutist Treatment given by Suggestion, also Magnatism or by laying on of hands All diseases successfully treated wfthout the use of drugs or surgery. Office at Powell Building Opposite of the Court heuse. Day Phone 504 Night Phone 531 4 + HfKHI t « * 1 :: D. S. flcCarthy j :: DRAY AP I :: TP? A] YJB.F? ; ' | Prompt attention given \ | J to the removal of house- J | ' hold goods. J PHONE NO. 211 • numiiimiiiini i When In Falls City put your team In THE FARMERS’ FEED AND SALE STABLE. 2 blocks west of State Bank J. P. Musselman & Son. •noioi • • ' THE NEW NATIONAL HOTEL Sidney P. Spence, Prop. Only Modern Hotel in the City. Hate $2.00 Per Day. L)K. C. N. ALLISON DENTIST Phone 248 Over Richardson C'ountv Bank. FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA P. D. GUSHARD & CO. Successor to S. G. Mower New, Second-hand Furniture, all Kind Repair Work a Specialty Contractors and Builders, Falls City; I DR. HS. AN DREWS General Practioncer Calls Answered Day Or Night In Town or Country. TELEPHONE No. 3 BARADA. - NEBRASKA JOHN L. CLEAVER INSURANCE REAL ESTATE AND LOANS NOTARY IN OFFICE A. J. SMITH M: D. Physician and Surgeon, Calls answered promptly night ov day. •*«1 * A * > • Salem, : : : Nebr. Phones, Mutual 53; S, E. Neb. 33. WHITAKER The Auctioneer Before arranging date write, tele phone or telegraph, my expense J. G. WHITAKER Phone* I68l,1l-?t6l Falls City, Neb R F\ ROBERTS IDEINT'f SB'T' Over Harlan’s Pharmacy. Office phone 260, Res, phone 271 EDGAR R. MATHERS ifmN'Tf ©'f Phones: No*. 177, 217 STATE BANK BUILDING.' 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Our help is permanent, and you face your own pain by delay. We put up satisfactory and LASTING TOOTH CURE AT THESE DENTAL PARLOR^ Dr. Yutzy, Dr. C. E. Heffner, Falls City, Nebraska