THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Consolidations—Kails City Tribune,
Humboldt Enterprise, Itulo Record,
Crocker’s Educational Journal and
Dawson Outlook.
Entered as second-class matter at
Falls City, Nebraska, post office, Janu
ary 12, 1U04, under the Act of Congress
an March 3 1879.
Published every Friday at Falls City
Nebraska, by
The Tribune Publishing Company
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The Buyers’
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sented in our advertising columns
are worthy or the confidence of eveiy
persoa in the community who has
money to spend. The fact that they
advertise stamps them as enterpris
ing, progressive men of business, a
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GRANDSTAND OF THE FUTURE
Poetic Prophet Tells What It Will Be
Like When All the Contests
Are in the Air.
Ah, the grandstand of l! <■ fu':tre—
I can see It In ray < ; where,
crowded thick like pie,..., . aiui.ies,
we’ll wnteh tin wile v. i miii
The wings of 1:1. .,vu . .. .—
oh, reader, do not n.u. i, ,t hold
your breath aa stlil a- d, .th and
harken to my talk ’flu gi ,i..;s::wid
of the future—It’s not bt.iil ol gilders
strong, nor fashioned out of lumber,
to hold the yelling throng; hut as the
ships go sailing past-—oil, no, lis not
the sea, tor yachting bouts will he
too tame, I think, lor you and me.
Those ships, forsooth, are in the air,
and it Is of their wings of which 1
fain would talk to you along with
other things. And, Instead of future
races forming necks like giruffes from
rubbering through the atmosphere to
watch the sailing throng, some genius
with an Idea, a novel way he’ll found
for watching aeronautics lying flat
upon the ground. The grandstand of
the future—you go hustling to the
gate, mako a purchase of your ticket
and leave the rest to fate; for onco
within that sacred pale, shut ofT from
spongers view, you’ll have to llnd a
place to squeeze your anxious body
through. The spectators aro stretched
In rows, nro lying still and flat; no
worry over race course clothes, mdeh
less a stunning hat; but Instead of
these adornments that pall on the ap
petite, goggles form "piece do resis
tance" all agitato with Jewels bright;
tnd in comfortable por.i un with your
s turned ward sun, we’ll
. tch the aviatt until the
**<■' is WOl, ' ; 1,1 Of the
• iiliiio il Is ■ ■■ j . ii v .• nr; just
’ook aril :, \ • Ired in
one h:,of, b / , , though
you scot tl Vi derl Ion
shout i • dt to buy
your llckel to; il . i ,u,d uti the
ground.—Kansas City aUr.
Still Waiting for Him.
As a rule, the ministers, priests,
rabbis and other ecclesiastics, occupy
ing the pulpits of Cleveland churches,
greatly enjoy the few minutes of rest
and recreation that follow their exact
ing periods of servlco every Sunday.
On a certain Sunday morning not
long ago, Secretary Shinn, of the Cuy
ahoga County Sundny School Union,
was announced to speak at the rally
day services of the First United Pres
byterian church, Carnegie avenue und
Fast Seventy-first street.
Kov. Dr. J. It. J. Milligan, the pastor,
sort of hurried the services along In
order not to keep Secretary Shinn
waiting. Dr. Milligan's theme, "Things
That Remain"—taken from a verse in
Revelations—was invested with an ex
traordinary solemnity, and when he
came down from his pulpit everybody
almost was under the spell of the min
ister's uplifting discourse.
Hurrying forward after the sermon,
tho superintendent of the Sunday
school asked Importunately:
“Seen Mr, Shinn?"
"No,' replied l)r. Milligan, "no man
of that name has shinned in here yet"
Chestnut Blight In Pennsylvania.
Hundreds of giant trees have been
obliged to bow to the woodman's axe
and heroic treatment has been applied
to thousands of others In the effort
to stay the sway of the death-dealing
disease familiarly known as the chest
nut blight In the campaign inaugurated
three weeks ago by a corps of tho
state forestry department says the
Philadelphia Record.
In this brief period, and in the at
tempt to check the ravages of the
disease that in epidemic form threat
ened to wipe out the vast chestnut
groves of eastern Pennsylvania, and
particularly in the suburban section of
Philadelphia, 10,000 trees have been
examined in the neighborhood of Ard
more, Haverford and Bryn Mawr. The
alarming extent to which this blight
had invaded this section is shown in
the reports of these forestry experts,
for examinations in minute detail re
veal the fact that no less than 50 per
cent of the trees in these great groves
are infected. In some forests ns high
as 90 per cent has been noted.
Motion Pictures of Children a Fad.
Society women, who are accustomed
to spend from $3,000 to $10,000 a year
for photographs of themselves and
their children have seized on a new
phase of this Idea. They are taking
to motion pictures ami the phono
graph. They want motion pictures of
their children at play or at parties,
so they may have them in after years
just as they have their children photo
graphed several times a year to keep
until the children are grown up. Like
wise they nre keeping records of the
voices of the children by phonograph.
When the time arrives that both the
motion pictures and the phonograph
can be made to work synchronously
the value of the picture and auditory
records will be increased. The idea
of society women at present is to take
moving pictures of their children and
to show them at Christmas time or on
occasions when the members of the
family are gathered together. The
fad, of course, is somewhat expensive,
but society women have taken to it.
A Pardonable Mistake.
“These new hats bother me consider
ably with my w’eak eyes.’’
“The hats are trg enough to see,
aren't they?”
“Oh, yes: but at an afternoon recep
tion I mistook h >f.ung lady for s
olano lamp."
PYTHON IS FINICAL
Will Not Look at Anything but
White Rabbits.
Black Bunnies Placed In Big Reptile’s
Cage Are Unharmed—Zoo Store
room Full of Many Choice
Things to Eat.
Chicago.—The lion house at the
Lincoln park zoo has been In a tur
moil the past few days because of the
refusal of the python to break Its fast.
■The python’s refusal was not due to
the fact that It wns not hungry. It
'was, but, being an epicure of the first
order. It had to have Its food as It
wanted It or not at all.
Cy de Vry, head animal keeper,
tempted the snake with rabbits, anil
when It refused to employ these as a
means to stay Its hunger he tried
guinea pigs. They also were refused,
and It was thought tho python would
starve Itself. The problem was solved
In an unexpected manner whon one
of De Vry's assistants told the head
keeper he was going to try again to
tempt the snake and was given per
mission to do so.
All of the rabbits used In the for
mer meals served to the particular
reptile were black and, although the
man who had the snake had no In
tention of discriminating, as far as
color was concerned, he chanced to
put a white rabbit In the cage. The
.moment the python saw the newcom
er It darted toward It and gulped It
down. A black rabbit was next, but It
was spurned as all of Its color had
been beforo. Tho problem was solved.
It was white or none for the snake
and Its wishes were gratiLi .!
Before the first meal for the com
ing season wns flni bed tho snake had
done away with four pretty white
bunnies, and for the time b ing every
thing Is quiet about her cnno. De Vry
says It Is the first time In all his ex
perience thiit he has known a snake
to discriminate In regard to the color
•of Its food.
A story going tho rounds of 1he zoo
makes De Vry the butt of sarcastic
comment by the park employes. It
'tells of a complaint made against him
;by a woman who recently visited the
izoo and wrote a letter to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals, saying there were live animals
In the snake’s body and that she want
ed them to Investigate It.
It Is one of the peculiarities of mem
bers of the reptile family that they
contract the muscles of their bodies
when they are digesting food mid as
tho snake mentioned had boen fed
only a short, time previously the move
ment of Its body was caused by a
brave effort ori its part to digest a
large meal of guinea pigs. The so
ciety sent Agent Nolan to investigate
tlie case, and when he asked De Vry
If there was any truth In the state
ment made by the woman, De Vry
told him he was privileged to enter
the cage occupied by the snake and
see. The agent did not enter the cage.
The other residents of the zoo are
fed with the hi st of food, and if the
citizen who finds it difficult to supply
his table with enough meat and vege
tables should see the storeroom of tho
zoo he would open his eyes in amaze
ment.
In tlie Icebox thero Is always a sup
ply of tho finest beef and fish. The
beef Is used lit feeding the lions, tigers
and other largo beasts. The fish is
fed to the sea lions and water fowl.
All of the meat is bought front a large
Chicago market house and a fresh sup
ply Is brought In every morning.
In tho storeroom a full line of the
choicest vegetables Is kept, including
celery, lettuce, cabbage and potatoes.
All of the smaller animals are fed
from the supplies in this room, and
the monkeys and lions are given a dog
biscuit occasionally.
JAPS HAVE GROANING TREE
Crowds Assemble Nightly to Listen to
Sounds Resembling Human Voices
—Extraordinary Story.
Tokyo.—Another of the many ex
traordinary stories with which tho
vernacular newspapers fill their col
umns dally has just fouud Its way Into
print. It Is about the discovery of a
tree Ahich nightly emits sounds re
sembling human groans.
The account Is quite circumstantial.
It Is to the effect that the tree Is nn
enokl, something akin to the oak,
this particular specimen standing In
the garden of ono Mr. Ozawa, at
Nlshlyashlro.
uio tree is several hundred years
old and so largo that It requires the
outstretched arms of five adults com
pletely to embrace Its trunk.
In the last few years this tree has
acquired the habit of groaning at
night for a certain stated season, i. e.,
from the beginning of winter till the
cuckoo begins to make herself heard.
The same phenomenon has been
noted this year, the ancient tree hav
ing groaned regularly every evening
since early in December. Crowds are
said to assemble nightly in the gar
den to listen to these weird and
ghostly sounds.
Speaking generally, the current so
cial craze in Japan is for the occult,
the newspapers almost without ex
ception devoting a special section to
matter of this description, and more
particularly to the doings of the so
called “clairvoyants," who are spring
ing up in every direction all over the
country. The craze may be expected
to die a natural death like its nu
merous predecessors in the course of
a few more months.
HEDGEHOG FIT FOR EPICURE
Maine Advocates Say Bounties Caused
Great Waste of Good Food—Pre
ferred to Skunk or Muskrat.
Machias, Me.--"It la a shame,” says
a lover of hedgehog meat, “that the
people of Maine have remained In ig
norance regarding the delights of eat
ing roasted hedgehog for so long. If
they had been utilized as food those
150,000 dead hedgehogs for which
Maine has paid out $38,000 In boun
ties would have kept two regiment*
of soldiers in meat for six weeks. It
was a cruel and wanton waste of pre
cious food.”
The advocates of hedgehog meat as
part of the regular bill of fare assert
that in England the average poacher
prefers a hedgehog to a hare for breaks
fast. In Miclii m the legislature has
placed a perpetual close time on hedge
hogs, so that ms lost in the woods
and without food may find meat to sat
isfy their hung r and kill it without
the aid of shotgun or rifle. It is as
serted ou good authority that mor«
than 20 men are saved from starving!
In Michigan every year because hedge*
hogs are abundant and easy to cap
ture.
When a Maine Indian has his choicq
of a hedgehog, a skunk, a woodchuck
and a muskrat for dinner, he will se
lect the first named invariably, and
take the skunk as second choice, leav
ing the woodchuck, which is the only
one of the lot a Maine white man will
taste, to the last. Unlike the skunk
nnd the woodchick, which are lean and
unsavory except for a few months in
the fall, or the muskrat, which is never
fat, and which has a strong lavor in
spite of parboiling, the hedgehog is aU
ways In an edible condition, and has
meat that is as tender nnd white as
that of a spring chicken.
The method of cooking a hedgehog
is so simple that a novice can learn
in one short lesson. When the epi
cure is permitted to make choice he
should shun the large, old males,
which at times weigh 30 or 40 pounds.
The preparation consists in removing
the viscera, washing out the interior
and filling the cavity with slices of
fat pork, peeled raw potatoes, sprigs
of spearmint and wild celery from the
brook.
Then, without removing the quills
of skinning, the body Is plastered thick
ly with wet clay, from the aeareet
bank. The muddy, bulky mass Is
thrust Into live coals and covered
with blazing fagots, to be roasted for
two hours.
On removal from the coals, the clay
is found to have been baked Into a
hard and solid mass, which must bo
broken open with an ax or a heavy
stone, whereupon the skin and quills
of the animal cling to the clay wrap
ping and fall away, leaving the clean,
white meat ready to be eaten.
Ten years ago the Maine legislature
passed a law providing for a bounty
of 25 cents a head on all dead hedge
hogs brought to the town clerks. An
appropriation of $500 for each of the
years 1901 and 1902 was made, but
when the total for the two bounty
years reached $28,000, the legislature
quickly repealed the law.
RULES FOR REDUCING TIPS
President of Servitors’ Organization
in New York Advises Cutting
.Down Gratuities.
Now York.—Arthur Matson, former
head waiter in the palmroom of the
Waldorf and now president of the New
York-Geneva association, an exclusive
and powerful waiters’association, says
there are times when one should not
tip, and lays down these ruies for tip
pers :
“If the waiter doesn't greet you
cheerfully when you approach his
table and take your hat and coat
quickly, jot It down In your mind and
deduct live per cent, from the tip.
"If he shows annoyance because you
are a party of only one or two and
take his table when he might have
eauglit a party of four or five, deduct
five per cent from the tip.
“If he lays your pet walking stick
against a chair so every passing wait
er and ’bus’ knocks it down, deduct
ten per cent.
“If he slaps the dishes about and
jingles the knives and forks in an Ir
ritating manner, deduct ten per cent.
“If he makes himself scarce through
out the course of the meal and is gen
erally at the other end of the room
discussing politics or the shortage oC
the French wine crop, deduct ten per
cent.
“If he Is supercilious and makes re
marks about you in a foreign tongue
to his partner, deduct ten per cent.
"If he is careless and spills the
soup on your woman friend’s frock or
a few raw oysters down the back of
your neck, deduct 20 per cent and col
lect from the management.
“If he has done all these things, de-.
duct 100 per cent, and tell the headj
waiter about it. He will thank you.”.
WOULD PUT HOBOS ON FARMS
Governor Dix of New York Suggests
New Use for Abandoned Lands In
State—'Place for Tramps.
Albany, NT. Y.—The use of abandon-,
ed farms owned by New York state as
farm colonies for tramps and vagrants
will be urged by Governor Dix. Many
unused farms have come into the pos
session of the state through nonpar
tnent of mortgages given to secure
state loans at the time of the CivU
war, and a bill providing for their use
as farm colonies for tramps will be
introduced in the legislature. At pres
ent the state is paying thousands of
dollars a year for the maintenance of
tramps in penitentiaries.
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Summer models on the male figures in the foreground (reading
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Neither apology nor
prevarication is neces
sary when a merchant
sells good clothes, honest cloth
es.
When you see our assortment
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clothes we can honestly state
that they are all wool—every
thread. You will see for your
self the superb style, fit and
tailoring.
The variety of models, fabrics and colors is
so great and pleasing that you cannot fail to
find just the suit or coat to satisfy you. Prices
are extremely low—$15.00 to $25.00.
If you require a blue serge suit it will
surely pay you to see that it bears the Kirsch
baum guaranteed “True Blue’’ special label.
It’s the mark of the best serge made—all
wool, soft, fine fabric of a rich, deep blue
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