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OUR WEEKLY COMMENTS The real benefactor in Falls City jast now is the man who builds a house uot wholly for the money he •an make in the transaction, but partly, at least because houses are aeeded at this time and he is in position to help relieve the situation. The man who builds a good houBe by putting into it first class mater mi and first class workmanship,and when finished offers it at a living price is doing Falls City a real ser r tre. For example, the writer knows o* two houses going up just now The market value of the two will be practically the same when finished hut there will be a vast difference ta the actual service, which the res pective buyers or renters will get out in the different houses. The one house is being built for service, ev erything that goes into it from foundation to the roof is first class. The contractor is paid to do high grade work. The plan itself is made with a viecv to comfort, con venience, taste and durability. Who ever gets possession of that house, will get his money’s worth, and a square deal. It is true the party building it will not make a specula i i«n through the transaction. But in it not worth while <o have the consciousness of having done a r.*ble act? The other house will be expect ed to look quite as well, have practically tire same room, and ap parently ttie same conveniences and value. But looks are often deceiv ing. From cellar to the shingling el the roof it is contracted for •keapness, and not quality. Every »lep in the process of building re reals this fact. When done it will be a cheap house in spite of ppeaar aaces. The man who is building it will make more profit on his invest ment than the first party, and Fall3 City will be the loser. This is a time when loyalty to Falls City can b« shown in more ways than one. I^ft men stand up for the best first and the bigger things afterwards. They tell us that rats desert a •inking ship, hut they are only rats and more eannot be expected. Of •nee we would expect braver things. • • • If a boy lias a Strong Will, he will begin going barefooted in Mch., even if lie has to go out in the pas tar* to take off his shoes, and run (he risk of getting his stockings wrong side out before returning. * * % With opportunity comes responsi bility. With the good men and women who are flocking to Falls City to make their future homes here, are also coming vagrant char acters, whose prresence will not simplify the big social problems already shaping themselves. Falls City will be compelled to face the responsibilities as well as the advan tages of the present boom. * * * In digging the Panama canal, the United States are obliged to pay tribute to monopolists of machinery *nd patentees of various mechanical devices. Yet had it not been for the physicians who have made the canal zone habitable through sani tation, the efforts of all the in ventors and world conquerors, of engineers and machinists would *»ouut to exactly nothing. The doctors of the United States, set its engineers or mechanics, are dwing the most important work in the greater isthmian ditch. Yet it is the soldier, the engineer, the me in an ic to whom the honors arc ac curing. Why is it that temporal honors and financial reward seem to bent upon being divertetd from the ways in which they should proper ly travel. * * * The latest fa hums in spring mil linery constructions are everywhere in evidence these fine sunny days. Why can't a man doff his fur cap or heavy felt hat and sport some lighter, and if necessary, more pic turesque headgear. The increase in the subscription list of the Daily Tribune is now averaging twenty new subscribers per day. The contest is growing interesting. The contestants are running neck to neck. The last two weeks will see some lively work done by those in the race. It Is evident now that it is ,oing to be a test of endurance. The contestant, who keeps up the present pace to , the end will be the winner. When the committee approached Abraham Lincoln upon the somewhat delicate question, as to whether lie would accept, a renomination, he re plied "That, it was not good to swap horses while crossing a stream." Mr. Lincoln was wise, and so was the committee and the people of the north. They did not. swap president, at the critical period in the history of our country. They re-elected "Honest Abo" and squelched the re bellloti. With ail respect for the opinion and decision of the committee to fill vacancies, and without the least re flection upon the candidate named, we raise the question as to the wisdom of “swapping” men on the school board at this juncture. There is no evidence that Mr. Uchty is seeking re-election. It is not a question of person, party or sec tion, but one of merit. Can the changing of the personel of the school1 board under the most favorable con ditions at this time possibly result to the advantage of the city. Wre have a really big problem up for solution. The old board has been working on it for some time. Is if not good sense to allow that they are in a better way to reach the right solution, than new men not so familiar with the situation. We fail to appreciate the wisdom of the action. We believe that it would have been for the best interests of our schools at this time to have placed Mr. John Uchty in nomina tion. We believe he would have ac cepted. In any event he deserved the compliment, because of bis ex cellent service in the past. The board will suffer a serious loss when he leaves it. • • • Some conception of the extent and thoroughness of the work being done on the division buildings, can be inferred from announcements that have gone out, that it will take the present gangs three months longer to finish the setting of the machin ery in the shops and complete the steam pipe fittings. The men have been at work on those jobs from 4 to 8 weeks already. When done the equipment in the division yards will be standard in every respect and to that extent will be to the lasting credit of Falls City. • • • Property owners along Stone St. can assist in advancing and advantag ing the work of paving by seeing to :t that every thing they may need to have done in connection with the work, is done well in advance. Ev erybody is interested in seeing this work go forward with the least nec essary delay. It will help the con tractor materially if all concern ed will do their part without de lay or the need of urging. • « • New firms are rapidly taking pos session of the few remaining va cant business rooms. The busi ness section of town will soon be ns crowded for room as the resi dent e section has been. It will be up to some enterprising concern to tut up a thoroughly modern busi ness block. That it. is coming no one need doubt, but who will be in on the deal. * * * There is little doubt, but that the young Greek found over in the hot tom, was foully murdered. But a h ■ was a stranger with no friends or relatives sufficiently interested m him or his fate, little if anything is being done to bring his assassin to justice. It is a question as to what might bo done under such cir cumstances. And yet there is another and more serious side to tlie incident. Society and the lives of others demands protection. If so ciety makes no effort to defend and protect itself against the villan, ev en though it has no immediate in terest in his victim, it must expect sooner or later to suffer itself. It appeals to us that we owe the young Greek more than a decent burial. He had for the time being cast his lot among us. Was, in that sense, one of us, and had a right to protection The very fact that assassins get off so easily in America, goes a long way to account for tin- fact that we-have more homicides per thous and population in the United States than in any' country o tile globe. * m • The threatening storm last night has only served to bring out a brighter smt and more cheerful day way to contrast. * • • The great Russian bear is growl ing savagely and threatens to sit down hard on China. She may sit on a tack, however, that will make her seat as uncomfortable as in recent tip with Japan. * * * A serious accident was narrow ly averted at the yards Saturday. A piece of scaffolding gave way precipitating a section of fi-ineh stear pipe upon the workmen below. Ry the narrowest margin all escaped with a few bruises. Some oue had forgotten to make the scaffolding strong and firm. Only a single nail to support the pipe and the weight of the workmen. Only an other case of negligence which might have had a tragic, sequel. Why won’t men lie careful when so trivial a thing as the driving of an extra nail may cost a number of lives? * • * Progress Is blood bought. The rationalists may argue against the efficiency of a vicarious atonement, but the fact remains, that the path of human progress and uplift is dyed with human blood. Every great advance in civilization and in the in dustries has been dearly bought with the blood of precious lives sacrificed in order to win that particular ex cellence. It was necessary, there fore, that the awful tragedy of Sat urday night occur to awaken New York and other cities to the danger of firetraps. The whole city is stirred to its center, arid everybody ' is demanding, that tire authorities pro clde adequately against the possi bility of another similar catastrophe. Drastic regulations will be passed and for a time at least, enforced with severity. And that is as it should be. Human life is too precious to be slaughtered indiscriminately, that men may live carelessly and make money. But why could not New York have awakened to the abuses, sooner ami saved these 150 lives, and the frightful affair of Saturday night? Why. There is an old time honored answer, “Without the shed ding of blood there is no change.” • • • THE RAZORBACK HOG The razorback hog lias come in to his own. At the local stock yards this uncouth type of the tribe of swine is now selling on a par with his aristocratic brethren, the fine-haired, corn-fed hogs of Nebras ka and other states. Its particular I virtues consist in the light hams and lean sides, the latter of which when Wahoo lias a walking club. It ap pears that Wahoo men walked so little in the daily round of duty that some began to have fears lest they lose the use of their legs. To avoid any such calamity, the more strenuous Wahooligans have taken to systematic leg practice by walking the ties. Stunts, like from Wahoo to Fremont and back and away off to Lin* oln have already been pulled off. The idea ought to be epidemic. For it has merits all its own. The man who has legs and knows that he ran depend upon them is never at the mercy of meranical transportation. • a • The terrible catastrophe in the New York Shirt Waist factory, re sulting in the death of 150 persons in the most grusome manner, last Saturday evening, only adds one more to our already overcrowded list of similar tragedies. Such things could not happen, if ordinances pro viding for the safety of inmates in factories were reasonably enforced. One-hundred and fifty persons hur ried " thout a moments warning to ri trigle.ul death because some one has been negligent in doing his duty. There are so luuiy victims sacrific' d fo our mad passion for gain. These 'oath traps only exist because they ave money. And because it is ex ■ensive to prepare adequate protec :on, men will continue to take the iwful risks, and jfimilar eatas rophes will occur. • • • CONSERVATION AT HOME This story of a Lincoln sewer clogged with buttermilk may help us in Wail street. To throw money or buttermilk at the birds may increase our credit, being a sign of prosper ity, notice that the husks the prodiga son did eat are still future for us. it will interest a late vice-president to know we flush our sewers with buttermilk. If this lure him from In dianapolis to Lincoln it will be fine. And yet there can be no net goods in this news of buttermilk scented sewers. It denotes too much. Waste not, want not. It has boon said that enough good food goes into tiie Amercan garbage can to fatten a natio of Asntics A nation that killed buffaloes for their ton gues is seiing tlio errors of its ways that is, the other fellow's ways. Hut buttermilk, good for man and j best, goes down the sewer. The land I is short of pork, but the buttermilk to make pork flourish like a green bay-tree goes to feed the dolphins and the sharks of the sea. The butter factories would of cured make a fancy brand of break fast bacon. Until recently the razorback’s commercial value was I an unknown quantity, except among the backwoodsmen who came in their! prairie schooners as the pioneers of Western civilization to break the vir gin sod and established their log cabin homes in the shady recesses of the Ozarks. The backwoodsman all knew and appreciated the merits of tlio razorback because they were kin, in a sense. noth were pioneers in the wilderness, preferring the free dom of.the wilds to the dull monot ony of domesticity in town or vil lage, and both, confident in their prow'oss, relied on their own ability to provide for themselves and their progeny.—Kansas City Star, * • • The effort on the part of our school board and officers to pro vide in tin! best possible manner for the comfort and convenience of our school children should meet with th* approval and support of every intel tigent and progressive citizen. That there will bo differences of opinion is to be expected. However, sever al tilings should be kept in view when discussing this question. In the first place tho school board is in position to understand the situa t'on as no other body of Interested men or women. They have been next to the work for years. It has been their business to know needs and their study to find out advantages. It must be allowed, that, if they have done their duty they must know more. To question their ability along this line is in a sense to question their integrity ami intelligence. And no fair mind ed citizen will be prepared t o do either. For it must be admitted,that during tlie last number of years, the business of no other public in stitution in Falls City lias been con ducted, with equal satisfaction to the public. Wo have every reason to congratulate ourselves upon the carefulness and efficiency of the administration of our schools in practically every department. The personel of tho board is largly to bo credited for this. in tho faeo of (ids we have every reason to give weight to their suggestions rela tive to tho present issue. Tho board’s recommendations are reason able and should not lightly be turn ed down. THE UNHAPPY FARMER Retired farmers tell us that moving to town is not what it Is cracked up to be. The spring weather makes them feel like going out into the fields. Nothing to do and lots of it.—York Teller. Here and there in the world is a person who can be happy doing noth ing. There is seldom one who has spent half a lifetime in the active life of the farm of whom this can be said. It is said that retired farm ers seldom live long after their re tirement. Divested of the stimulus of work to be performed they droop and die. But what is the farmer to do? It is true there is no half way house for him. A business man desirous of reducing the strain of labor, em ploys more help, leaves more to trusted assistants and retains a leisurely oversight over the busi ness. The farmer is not often able to do this. Hired labor on the farm does not pay well, as a rule, and certainly not when left to itself. It seems to be the general view of farmers that they must either car ry a full man's burden on the farm or leave the farm. If he leaves only to suffer from lack of occupation, where is the gain? Possibly tire suberban Here and a cow is the best solution; just enough work to keep up Interest to permit a response these spring days to tiie (all of the meadow lark, yet not enough to drive him like a “galley slave.”—State Journal. A WORD OF WARNING Don’t Send Nasty Letters Or Post Cards—Uncle Sam Is Watch You—Be Careful Our people have often been warned not to send nasty letters or post cards by mail. Several persons have been caught right here In Hiawatha and several have barely escaped a heavy fine and possible imprisonment I<ately there have been several com plaints filed at the postoffice against the persons suspected of sending objectionable cards and letters and the persons are being watched. A dealer is liable who sells indecent post cards. It is believed that two or three women have been sending some of the cards and letters. A postoffice inspector lately called on h young man for sending a bad <:ird. lie let him off because he Is a fine young fellow and didn’t realize the wrong he was doing. The Inspector’ visit served as a warning to all the boys who hcanl it, but there are a few old hens in town scratching nasty cards and letters who may hav to see the Inspector before they will h arn enough not to send anyone what they wouldn’t like to get. -Hia watha World. Nebraska City Will Clean Up Nebraska City, March 28—Frank Carson has been appointed special health officer by Mayor L, F. .lack son, who has started a crusade to force the citizens in general to clean up and more especially this week so as to have the city looking tidy when the Southeastern Teach ers’ Association comes here the lat ter ti 't of tile week. The citizens and Commercial club have joined with the teachers who come here dur ing the meeting. All of the houses of the city will be thrown open to them and they will be given the freedom of the city during their stay. Scarlet Fever At Dawson Miss Vesta Lively who teaches in the Dawson school is spending a f<-w ,ays ut home. She informs us that ier school was closed on account of i lio scarlet fever. Change In Business I). A. Miller sold out to J. C. Hays of I’aolu, Kansas yesterday. Mr. Miller found the business here loo confining for ills wife and baby as they had to live behind the store, being unable to get a house. Kails City is sorry to lose one good bust ness man but is glad to welcome an other. We extend a hearty welcome to Mr. llyes and wish him success in Ids business venture here. Notice To the Citizens and Voters of School District No. r.ti, Kails City, Nebraska. In view of the fact that the board of education of Kails City is asking you to vote bonds at the coming election for tile purpose of supply ing adequate school room, we deem ii. necessary to submit the following facts for your consideration: in eonnedion with the superintendent We have been discussing and study ing tlie needs of (tic school for the last year, and we heartily endorse, tiic statements made by Supt. Wood through tlie various papers. Please read bis article and acquaint yoursclvc with the facts, and then vote your convictions. In regard to the financial conditions of the school district, wo wish to say that by Juno 1st, 1911, there will be no school warrants, outstanding and before April 1812 every dollar of the present outstanding school bonds will ho paid. Consequently when you consider the assessed valuation of (he school district, it is easy to see Hint the school levy need not be ex cesslve if the bonds are voted, tip to 1921 only the interest must he paid, and by that (line no doubt, the city’s population will be at bust five thousand and the valuation of the district will be increased several hun dred thousand dollars. In regard to the location of the proposed building, or buildings, hut little has been said, but the board is unanimously in favor of the senti ment which favors "the greatest good for the greatest number." JOHN LICHTY, F. BRECHT, it. R. MINER, J. C. TANNER, A W HOUCKS, B. S1MANTON, School Board, Hist. No. M! A Small Blaze Yesterday evening about five o'clock the citizens w< re startled by tln> blowing of the whistle, the ring ing of tho bell and seeing a thick column of smoke over in the east part of town. It proved to be a couple of sheds on tho George Jen kin property whleli had caught fire end was making a royal blaze when the hoso cart arrived. The firemen worked hard and by so doing saved tlie* barn nearby. A large c rowd gathered in a few aiia utes and were driven off when the hose were turned on. CONCERNING MRS, BRIDGMAN WE ARE MORE THAN GLAD TO CORRECT THE ERROR The Article As Published Was Re ported By a Distant Relative A few days ago in a certain num ber of our daily, a mistaken and er roneous report was given nH to tli# death of Mrs, John Ilrldgman, liv ing north of Salem. Although th# n port was given to us by one of tin' relatives, it seems to lmvo been prejudiced by her private belief and not those of the more immediate family, Mrs. John Ilrldgman was horn near Krankfort, Indiana, August 4. ISfi2 and died at her home west of Salem March 22, 1911, aged fiS years, T months and 19 days. By her firsl marriage with John ('lark wen* horn tw* lve children, Instead td sixteen us formerly reported, nine of whom are still living, eight sons and on# daughter. Those living are C. A. Clark of Crest on, Iowa; S. It. Clark, Summerffeld, Has.; J. K. Clark, Sa hel ha, Has.; Mrs. Charles Noffsis ger, Morrill, Has.; YV. C. Clark, Mor rill, Kuh.; It. M. Clark, Morrill, Kas.; G. YV. Clark. Kalis City; J. C. Clark, Kansas City; Karl Clark, Altona Afler the death of Mr. Clark sin# was married to Mr. Noffstnger fro* whom site was later divorced. Sh# afterwards married John Bridgman, with whom she lived uutil the titn# of her death. The funeral service# were conducted by Rev. Day of t.k# Christian church, of whkh Mrs. i)ridg> man had been an honored member for many years. Her eight sons per formed the duty of pall hearers. The near relatives of the family wish to state that they are perfect ly satisfied that their mother’s sud den death was caused by heart troub le and that all rumors to the con trary although issuing from apparent ly reliable sources are absolutely without foundation. v't are very glad to make tk# "amende hono’Ti it ’ and only wink io say In extenuation of our former rept’t Unit we thought the inform*. lion reliable when printed. Vi hen you feel dull, out of sorts, discouraged, half sick and everything seems to bo going wrong, you can blumo It on your liver. It Is torpid You need HERBINE A Medtein® of Pov/sr in All Liver Disorders. Then the liver Is torpid, it throws Impurities Into tho system, Which hamper every organ In tho body. Tbe result Is that func tional processes arc re t I roperly carried on. Impurities get Into the blood, tbe stoma, h li bilious, tho kidneys weak and tho bowels Irregular—gin.’" constipated. Mcrblnc clears out all these impurities, opt i i up tho obstructed channels, strengthens the torpid liver, cl tnscs tho blood, purifies and rtgulates tho bowels. After the ay-.iem has been thus overhauled, there is an Immediate Improvement. Appetite returns, digestion Is good, the spirits rise, tho mind clears of gloomy forebodings and everything looks bright and cheerful, which means, sound, healthy conditions everywheio In the body. Pries 50c per Bottle. jamm r. mlurd frc^rietcr st. louis, mo. T.. cur- Sn»*ir<i«»K- Eyeball*, Sore |:vck op Weak uif 8tfpbcu* Eye Salve. A. G WANNER, DRUGGIST. II J I cmt; SPECIAL PRING ALE! .of. Dinnerware 4 » \\ .• will show on our display tables TWENT Y’ - ONE 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 $11.00 to $40.00 per set Plenty of Whileware of the best and a full stock of (Iroc CHAS. M. WILSON’S