OUR WEEKLY COMMENTS
Not only the small boy, but great
men too, have their woes. It
«o\v appears thut there is concerted
Movement on foot to oust the Car
acgie interests completely from the
•cntrol of big steel. This means
that Scotch Andy must see himsen
overawed by the young men whom
he traim il up to be masters In the
hnsiness. Will he like It? t’an
eur Napolion of steel retire to his
St. Helena and enjoy the experience'.
• as •
Old ago with its failing strength
and facilities was meant to wean
men from the activities of life, and
prepare them for a quied and serene
departure from the scenes of this
life. Just as it is necessary for tin
youth to break himself into the har
ness of toil, so necessary is it for the
man grown old in toil to break away
from the grirnl of hard work. And
strange though it may appear, it is
usually more difficult for the mail
who has led an active, vigorous lift
to give it up, than it. was difficult to
work himself into it. Many a man
who is loth to quit finds himself com
pelled to by circumstances, which he
cannot control. It is a kind that
intended to cause him to look up
snd beyond the things temporal for
his satisfaction.
A trip through the south side of
Kails City will prove an eye opener
to any one who will tako the neces
sary pains to cover (lie ground. How
ever, to the person ini'rested jlt tin
Greater Falla City, what, ho will see,
will bo far from reassuring. There
are scores of buildings being remod
eled, enlarged, overhauled, and a
number of new structures going up.
What is most discouraging is to see
tho number of low grade buildings
being rushed tip. Stables are being
worked over and made into the sem
blance of houses, shacks of every
conceivable sort have been carted
in from "any old place," planted on
wobbly foundations, decorated with a
few new shingles and boards and un
expected to pffer prime dwelling
places for the eager house seeking
rail road men. Fortunately the em
ployees of the round house are not
compelled to submit to anything of
the kind, and those cheap houses will
offer a standing invitation to a
loose and vagrant element, that will
add nothing to the prosperity of Falls
City nor to its greatness.
As for tlie ticket its< If. it is
stronger than usual, ami indurates
some effort on the part of those
who manipulated the caucus, to con
ciliate both factions. If this spirit
l ad carried with reference to each !
candidate nominated absolutely no
fault could lie found with tlie action
of the m- ?i:tg. Hut It did not pre
vail, and as a consequence candidates
were nominated, for whom a very
considerable number of our best
citizens will find il absolutely impos
sible to vote. This is unfortunate
in tlie extreme, and should have
been avoided.
• I •
l'iie city ticket nomiiiatd Wednes
day evening i anot fairly be called
representative. It is representative
t iy in tlie sense that it largely
represents one faction. Had the can- ‘
cis been a representative meeting of I
Fails City, Henry C. Smith would i
ha e tie. n ou*r wh.liiu.iglj mini nut d
. • choke of til ■ p o;de for
. i t was the s at previutlg
... i .. a i t: It t il. o :gh, liy
t : i. , t e ..i t i a. .
The i(\ i t, the . :augir who
comes to 1 alls l it) at this time to
do I) isines: . t in.ms your respect and
att i.tion I ou t cold water him, at
the time when he mo t ne ils your eu
ton: ageme:.t and support. Deal with
him and make him welcome. If Falls
City is to grow substantially, she
must enlarge her business area a.ul
strengthen her corps of men actively
engaged in basin. ; . Th rciote i\
cry new tradesman who pitches his
tent among us, is an addition to be
cherished and made permanent.
Its one thing to v> 11 for a "Great
er Falls City" and Quite anothi-i to
so work and live as to make our
city truly greater. A town is neith
er more nor less than are the peo
pie who compose it. If the people
will mind their ways, enlarge their
outlook and extend their aetivit e
then and there, only will the eit
increase and grow. Every man to
his duty and the rest will follow o
necessity.
* * *
Do scientific methods in auxi ul
ture pay? For the few remaining
doubters the record kept by l\ i
Mumford of the college of agriculture
of the university of Missouri au i
tisting. Reports received by D. Mum
ford from the outlying exxperine n
station show increased yields oi
coni, oats and wheat, due to the
scientific agricultural methods. At
Monroe City, Mo., the increase in
wheat has been ten bushels an acre.
At Lamar, Mo., the corn yield was
Increased from twenty to forty-five
.ishels an acre. i'he clover yk-I
, Victoria wa» incraesed from one
alf a ton an acre* to two tons an
.to, an increased net profit of six
dlars an acre. In Christian conn
v, Missouri the corn yield was in
■reased sixteen and one-half hush
la and the clover yield one ton an
tore.
• * •
The life of a farmer isn’t, as indo
■ndent ns it. is cracked up to be,
said farmer happens (o be the own
r of a "breachy" cow.
Until there is more definite expla
atlon as to how some people make
i living, there will remain doubts
hat the age of miracles has past.
When a man tries to break all
ipeed records in an automobile, he
:s the one who lives up to that old
’ashinned siatiR wager of betting his
neck
Say what you please about loving
vour enemies, hut the facts are you
ose confidence In a man who goes
nit of his way to compliment his
■ttctnles.
\ii employee, who has held his job
Iowa a long time, and keeps bis
no itth shut, always shares honors
with IiIh boss in the public estima
tion.
Kvery man dreads ridicule.
Kv ry man is a hero after an oper
ation.
A la t year's straw’ hat never gets
aver It.
Don't talk about trying to do
right, hut do right.
A boy’s idea of a good time is to
eat too much.
A man who shaves himself is al
ways boasting of the fact.
When it comes to dividing the
blame, we are all SodaMsts.
There isn't much hope for the
druid aid who is proud of it.
Did you ever loaf around home all
day without eating too much.
Women seem to fuss with other
women just for (he excitement.
President Diaz of Mexico is making
overtures, looking towards an ad
justment of the difficulties between
the warring factions. Negotiations
are now well under way that prom
ise lo bring about u speedy finish to
the unhappy situation in that un
happy i ountry.
It will be well for the citizens of I
our city to consider carefully the
proposition before us for enlarging!
uui i’lbb school loom. Some now
buildings art- absolutely mves
ary. .lust what, Is not so clear.
I'h ' nuttier tails for careful incog-1
ligation aiidw ise and unbiased uet-j
it.a on tSie part of those cviio - will
iiavi the planning in charge. It will
lit- necessary (o built! in a consider-1
aid ' measure for the future. And1
ibis is always peculiarly difficult.
* * »
1'V'W things would go farther to
uani the advancing of the interests!
of Kails City, than the getting closer
ilui of the merchants and busi-|
ness nun The cities In the west
at ar« succeeding largely are!
tile ones, whoso business men work
shoulder to shoulder for the)
u i.uion good. What we need is
loi r ami more mutual co-operation
uumg the firms most vitally con
1 ut ti in the city’s welfare. It is
P i ) men in competing business to
i t together. it will pay. Nothing
siioit of a harmonious working tn
■ether will make it possible for us
u> rea.-h our aim at this time.
» • »
The other day President Taft made
the statement that ho saw no reason
why a question of national honor
could not he settled by arbitration.
Ho added that it would have a good
fleet for the United States to ne
.otiate with some other nation an
argre. nu nt to submit all differences
of whatever nature by arbitration.
Under any arbitration treaty now in
xi.Uitiie or proposed, questions of
"national honor" are exempted. This]
means that nations will arbitrate as1
far as they want to, and then fall
a k on war for their "national hon
or- ’ "r. Taft would abolish this
i xi option, and agree with some oth
>' nation that force should In no
ease he rt sorted to. No war could
'hen occur except as one of the
agreeing powers violate its solemn
agreement.
• • •
There is a limit to everything.
And l ulls City real estate men and
openj owners will find that the
•‘od will and forbearance of the
allroad people ha its limitations. In
first place the railroad people
ere promptly ignored, and not un
il they began to crowd our city
■ yond its capacity to accomodate
nm that nay active steps were
aken to provide for them. Now.
- it they are here, rents, .the prices
of homos and building lots have been
uereased to an almost prohibitive e\
AmcI wo; e ' fill, a lot of i
: ’i ior buildings are being hastily
rushed up, on the presumption that
.... miut. j ■ i i>o that it looks like
a home w U do. It is a serious mis
.aki- and will lie sure to react to fu
ture damage of our city, if it is pre
sisted in.
Farmers are taking to the fields
(his fine weather. The open winter
lias enabled them to do aJarge part
of their spring plowing. The cool,
crisp weather makes it pleasant to
push out dcor work witli vigor.
If the weather continues favorable
the fields will be ready for seeding
at an early date. The wheat is in
fine condition and promises a big!
yield. It is too cold for the fruit j
to develop, which is most desirable, j
All In all the farmers’ prospects I
this spring are unusually bright.
• • •
The High School Athletic Asso
ciatlon, has been heroically strug
gling endeavoring to meet its own
expenses, and thus become no burden
upon the school fund. This they
have succeed! d in doing. Howev
er, they have been compelled to re
sort to various methods, from time
to time, to replenish their treasury.
On another page will lie found A pro
gram in be given Friday night. All
friends of the High School and es
pecially those with an inclination to
wards (he strenuous should not fail
to enjoy the treat now being pro
pared for all who attend the recital,
and incidentally help reimburse the
association exchequer.
* * *
Falls City lias unusual grounds
for insisting upon better station
facilities than she now enjoys. Few
towns doing the business, that Falls
City docs, enjoy such poor accomoda
tions. The condition of the Hurl
ington depot is passable, but that of
the M. I\ is not tolerable. Of
course, there are exterminating cir
cumstances in the case of the M. P.
which lend to relieve what would be
otherwise without excuse. There is
no doubt in the minds of t he people,
but that the M. P. intends to build
a new modern station in keeping
with the other improvements in
Falls City. Hut this new depot Is
still a good way off. And in the
meantime shall the traveling public
be compelled to put. up with the
utter lack of every facility for their
accomodation. The citizens of Falls
City have a claim upon the R. R.
people in this case and should in
sist upon some measure of relief, at
oiue. If nothing more can be had,
then let us at least have the waiting
room clean and inviting, and proper-j
ly lighted in the night.
¥ ♦ *
DEMANDS OF INSURRECTORS
If the rebel forces stand out for a
■ oncession to their original demand
f i lint President Diaz declare his seat
vacant and submit to a re-election,
an early termination of hostilities,
may not be looked for, but some of,
their demands do not appear unreas-1
enable, and at least one, that affect
ing land distribution, seems already
to have been favorably considered by
the chief executive.
These are (lie terms laid down by
the insurreeto leaders:
Abolition of the re-election of pres
ident.
Election of the governors in a!
state instead of by a federal appoint
ment.
Curtailment of (lie powers of the
jefo politicos, or mayors of cities,
and provision for their selection by
popular vote instead of by appoint
tnent by the governor of a state.
Reforms of the land laws so that1
plantations now as extensive as from
1,000,000 to 10,000,000 acres may be
divided and distributed, or sold in \
small lots to the people.
Free ballots in all elections and;
preservation of individual rights un
der the constitution.
Extension of the school system.
¥ * t
When thi* ar Fust was formed j
the n.urs-in l ei wen raw and refitu l!
sugar promptly widened from a half
i out to a whole cent. The cost of
refining, under competitive condition
was about a half cent. Under com
petition only a narrow margin of prof
it was made. Competition eliminate
td, though the tost of refining and I
Ladies’Suede and
Velvet Shoes
H. M.Jeone Shoe Store
■ aiing was presumably reduced, the
margin between raw material and
finished piouuct uu .oi u
In truth it would be a most diffi
u.t matu i io I’.ncJ a monopoly o
near monopoly that has generously
;iven the public the benefit of its
monopoly advantages. Some have
wisely refrained from increasin'
prices, taking only the gains made
through the economies possible where
competition is wnatlng, but most, as
the trend of prices during the last
titteen years suggests, have increased
profits from both directions. With
one hand they have pocketed the
savings of combination, with the
o'lier higher prices made possible
by the telief from competition.
TRUSTS AND PRICES
As a result of the government pros
! ecution of the "electric lamp trust”
a cut of 33 1-3 per cent in prices of
electric light bulbs is to be made,
it is reported. Once again we are
reminded of the promises, now more
i than ten years old, that combina
tions would reduce the wastes of
competition is wanting, but most, as
benefit in the form of lower prices.
The electric light combination has
not seemed to operate in that way.
In tomorrow’s issue The Tribune
will begin tlie publication of a[
series of articles by Supt. 11. S. Wocd
dealing with the public school prob- j
l< m now before Falls City. Supt.
Wood has investigated conditions
thoroughly and has his matter well
in hand. Patrons of the school and
citizens g< nerally will find these
articles of interest and concern to
them.
NEW MARVELS OF DISEASE
PREVENTION
The arrival of the Greek steamer
I’atris infected with spinal meningitis
which killed six persons on the voy
age over, finds New York ready to
check new cases with a specific cur
ative serum. Five years ago this
would not have been the case. The
cure has been developed in New
York within time by Dr. Flexner and
his staff.
The death of John Rockefeller Mc
Cormick by meningitis in 1901, at the
age of 4 years, led to this discovery
by the action of the child's grand- j
father in endowing the Rockefeller In
stitute for the work which has now J
been crowned with success. Mr. Rock
' feller's wish that other little boys I
might not die as his grandson had (
died added another to the marvels'
of preventive medicine.
In surprisingly short time we have
■mi yellow fever wipe out in Havan-1
na ami Panama, and the canal zone!
has become a health resort. Vac
cination in Manila has banished small*
pox iii five years, so that the bos
; : which sheltered In Spanish j
times its hundreds of victims yearly;
had not one last summer. The dip
theria antitoxin has been developed
within twenty years. In 1890 27,815
persons died of that disease. A pro
portional number in 1909 would have1
been more than 40,000. The actual
deaths were but 10,358—a saving of
30,000 lives in a single year. An equal
number of deaths by consumption are
being prevented, compared with 1890
by precautions against rontagion and
and by the open-air cure
If the ship’s surgeon of the Patris
has been provided with the Flexner
serum, probably not one of her six
passengers need have died. The
census reports of disease in 1909
are still incomplete, but deaths from
meningitis were fewer than in any
other year since 1900. The decrease
in deaths from the cause in a single
year is the registration area alone
was 1,051, So quick is the change
from “a mysterious disease for which
no remedy is known” to one which
can easily he cured.
• « »
UNCLE SAM IN BUSINESS
To introduce the postal saving-haul
system in this country required im
mense effort altho the institution had
long been approved by tlie experi
ence of every other first-class na-i
tion. To get the necessary legisla- ]
(ion required a ten year campaign; 1
and after the act was passed it took
the postoffice departmenst many
months to prepare to carry it into
effect. Finally one post-office in
each state was authorized to receive
deposits; and at that point the gov
ernment seems to have stopped. The
whole object of postal hanks was to
reach persons who were not already
hank depositors, not only promoting
thrift but calling into commercial
channels money that otherwise would
be hoarded or remitted abroad. Such
persons are not likely (o keep a j
keen watch upon Washington dispat-!
dies; but so far as we have learned
no effort was made to inform them
that Uncle Sam was ready to receive
their money.. The government’s plan
seems to have been to provide the
machinery, then sit down and await ■
results. This is generally the gov
ernmnt’s policy. We submit that it
is a poor one. When Uncle Sam
has provided the machinery for doing
a certain business that is expected
u»! a puuiic beueiii why shouldn’t
u go out for the business that the
.achinery is supposed to do, there
/ achieving or increasing the public
-enefit? if tiie old generation only
new from experience how much
uore efficient in several directions
little business-getting advertising
ouid make him he wouldn’t be try
ug to manipulate postal rates so
s to prevent otlier people from ad
ertising.
MEXICO
Mexico is a country of extreme
contrasts. Its populaton is composed
of the very rich and very poor. The
rich own immense estates, their
haciendas or plantations and ranches
comprising from 1,000 to 10,000,000
acres. On the other hand, the great
bulk of the population is composed
of penos, or laborers, who have no
prospect under prevailing conditions
of rising above their present state of
industrial serfdom. Their wages,
especially on the ranches and planta
tions, seldom exceed (! cents a day,
while their cost of living—imposed
on them by heartless and in most
cases absentee landlords—is fixed at
about 10 cents a day. Thus they
fall deeper In debt with the Setting
of each day’s sun and under their
laws they are prohibited from leaving
a hacienda until their debt is paid.
Consequently every laborer who
reaches his or lu-r majority soon be
comes a life-time prisoner for debt.
A systematic effort has been made in
the past to keep them in ignorance
of their true condition, of the cruel
wrongs practiced upon them, but the
reforms demanded by the insurrecto
leaders furnish indisputable evidence
of the fact that in some inexplicable j
way a great light has burst upon
them. Mexico , like China, is awake
to the barbarous conditions that has
prevailed under the rule of tyran
nical oligarchy, but, unlike China,
the Mexican, as befits his fierce In
dian ancestry, is fighting for his
freedom, and, once aroused to revolu
tion there will be no peace until
his wrongs are righted. And out of
the travail of the present insurrec
tion a new republic may be born
which in time will become a mighty
empire, the renaissance of the
Aztec Montezuma, revivified and
strengthened by modern civilization.
A health crank is as much of a
nuisance as any other kind of a
crank.
When a bad man turns good sud
denly it is a sure sign he is frighten
ed.
Of course you work hard occasion
ally, but do you keep everlastingly
at it?
It is hard for a base hall fan to un
derstand why anyone wants to go
fishing.
A good deal of bile is gotten rid
of by abusing hotels They never
fight back.
Every pretty girl frequently re
marks that she would like to change
her looks.
The average woman’s idea of
economy is to have her husband
spend less mony.
When a man says he is willing to
meet you half way he is figuring
upon the best of the bargain.
Too many men turn down the real
opportunities, and hang on to what
are merely slim chances.
About the only time a man has a
desire to he a woman is when he
wants to scream and cry.
There is a good deal of talk about
henpecked husbands, but did jo.i
ever really know of one.
You may have observed that the
man with a fool idea gets a lot of en
(ouragcment from his friends.
You may have observed that the
ties of friendship slip a good deal
when you begin pulling on them.
When a man says he is trying to
avoid trouble, it generally means
that he is trying to get out of
trouble.
So many people know how to keep
hotel and run newspapers that the
wonder is there are so many poor
ones.
TAKE YOUR HOME PAPER FIRST
THEN SUBSCRIBE FOR
The Kansas ity Star and Times
Tiie Star and Times, reporting the full twenty-four hours’
news each day in thirteen issues of the paper each week, are
furnished to regular subscribers at the rate of 10 cents
per week.
As newspapers. The Star and The Times have no rivals
No other publisher furn’shes his readers with the full day and
night Associated Press repoits, as does the Star and Times.
I his should recommend l he papers especiali s to the progressive
merchant and farmer
I delivt r both the Star and Times to the subscriber's door
promptly on arrival of trains
Give me a trial.
RICHARD WYLER, Distributor*
Should you want Tho Star by mail send 10c per week. $5.20 a year.
Address The Kansas City Stur.
-W-WiMM. %»**.+**-'in »wmm%r mr
I HOUSE MOVING
1 have purchased The House Moving Outfit form- ;
erlv owned and operated by Martin Jones, of Hiawa
tha. I intend to make Falls City my permanent home.
I am prepared to do all kinds of HOUSE - MOVING
promptly and carefully. Also the moving of Heavy
Machinery. Parties expecting to have work of this
kind done, will kindly get my prices before placing
work elsewhere.
W. T. BRANSCUM
V' I I
^PYRlGHf;
SPECIAL
PR!NG
ALE!
.of.
Dinnerware
I
4
\\ e will show on our display tables TWENTY - ON’E
patterns of Dinnerware, in Decorated and White and
Gold; the largest and best line ever shown in the coun
ty. Samples will be shown in our south window
Plenty of Whiteware of the best and a full stock of Groc
eries at
CHAS. M. WILSON’S