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Let the graduation'gift be a Conklin Fountain Pen It is Self filling. Easily cleaned. Simple in con struction. Perfect in writing And Costs no more than the other kind. A. E. JAQUET The Old Reliable Jeweler & Optician Opposite Post=Office I: D. S. ricCarthy : > ’ DRAY AND :: transfer: 1 ■ :: : [ Pr*»pt *it*ctiu- given , ) to Mi* r**i*v*l uf house- ] ' bold £••<*». ii <i PHONE NO. 2! I ;; t * 1 ♦■*<1 >4 * »»!-»♦»*■*» »»Bh4 JOHN L. CLEAVER INSURANCE RIAL ESTATE AND LOANS NOTARY IN OFFICI R F>. ROBERT© OEi^i'rfS'r Over Harlan’* Pharmacy. Ollii* phon* 260. Re*, phone 271 KDGAR R. MATHERS DENTIST Pbouea: Nos. 177, 217 •TATE BANK BUILDING. DR. C. N. ALLISON DENTIST Phon* 246 Over Kich*rd*0D Count) R&ak. FALLS CITY, ' NEBRASKA THE NEW NATIONAL HOTEL Sidney P. Spence, Prop. Only Modern Hotel In the City. Hate ?2.#0 Per Day. DR. H. S. ANDREWS General Practleneer OeUe Answered Day Or Nigh In Twwn or Country. TELEPHONE Ne. 3 BARADA. - NEBRASKA e 0 e THE DAILY TRIBUNE o o Delivered anywhere o IN FALLS CITY o e Per week.6 cents o e Per month .. ..25 cento o ra n 'M ‘9 am •m»!-naon> LARGE FIGURES IN ALASKA Labor Receives High Wages Up There, but Correspondingly Big Prices Are Demanded for Produce. Alaskan soil la spread with a thick .mat of moss. This must be burned off before the northern agriculturists. ;who sell their oats and potatoes to fthe miners at stunning prices, can plant their seeil and hustle through their crop ere the short summer is over. It Is absolutely essential to burn this moss. If it is plowed under elements of the moss inimical to agri cultural plans spoil the crops. The Alaskan farmers have invented a shal low plow with which they loosen up the moss and prepare it for the match. Farming is expensive in Alaska, With hired hands getting $G to $7.50 a day. Hut, on the other hand, hay sells for $G0 to $100 per ton and strawberries at $1.25 to $2 a quart. J. P. Itlckert, who has a greenhouse in Fairbanks, Alaska, sells tomatoes at 50 cents to $1 a pound and cucum bers at $2 to $0 a dozen. It is hard to generalize about what will grow in Alaska, because the cli mate is so diversified—with almost continuous rain, mild winters and fair ly cool summers along stretches of the south coart, and short, hot sum mers with moderate rainfall and se vere winters In the Interior valleys. The frozen tundras of the north ate out of the question for agriculture. At Kadiak, off the south coast, the minimum temperature wnn two de grees last winter. To find and develop things which will thrive in Alaska the department ,of agriculture has three agricultural stations, at Sitka, Rampart and Fair banks, and a dairy farm at Kadiak on the south coast. One Impediment to agriculture in Alaska is the big black ravens. C. C. Georgeson, the government special agent in charge, complains in his an nual report that the birds have "an Insatiable desire to destroy anything they believe useful to man.” They tore up his strawberry plants, and he calls them a "veritable curse.” Among the plants which thrive in Alaska are currants, gooseberries, raspberries, salmonberries, radishes, tottuca and a strawberry hybridized with a native variety at Sitka; cer tain early maturing varieties of win tar and spring wheat and rye, spring barley, spring oats and spring emmer *t Rampart; potatoes, oats and other hardy grains at Fairbanks. Rarleys imported from Pamir in Central Asia and from Yakoutsk, Siberia, matured at Rampart in 87 and 88 days, respec tively. Cultivate Tact. If a woman Is blessed with tact she has the supreme gift. It will bring her all the things she needs. To her it is a much more valuable asset than beauty or even genius. Tact is cer tainly the greatest of all gifts to a woman. The girl’s school In some far-distant Utopia is going to include a course in tact to correlate with its curriculum from the primary grades on through the post-graduate work. For when the day of enlightenment does come the sensible mother and the astute father will realize that a working knowledge of how to get along with people Is more to be desired than much wisdom In so-called higher branches. Tact Is more important than trigonometry. It stands a girl In place of beauty; it takes her fur ther than talent; It brings the world to her feet to do her homage. Tact! Speed the day when we shall appreciate the importance of this unconsiderorl trifle' Help us to real ize that with it woman can wheedle the world out of anything it has to give; but with her feeble strength she can't wrestle with it and get any thing! _ Can Opening. One of the smallest of the little girls in a Philadelphia family had often assisted her mother in prepar ing the meals. She observed that her mother, who was rather hasty, always talked to herself w hen she had any difficulty in opening cans of vege tables. The little girl thought that the hastiness was a part of the operation. One day she was visiting a neigh bor and went into the kitchen t.o help prepare a meal. She watched tiro neighbor take a can of corn, apply the opener and re move the top. “That's not the way to open a can of corn,” said the little girl . “Why, what other way is there?*’ asked the neighbor. "Well, you take the can of corn and start to open it, and then you bear down and the opener slips. Then you say, ‘Darn this can,’ and finish it. That's the way my mother opens a can of corn.” How Grant Swore. A Capitol Hill girl tells this story as having really happened at her home. Her father is a great believer ■ in good manners. If the children don’t act just so at the table he sends them away. Recently the family had a man up for dinner who was not quite as “high toned” as the man of the house desires his associates to be. The sub ject of war came up, and with it that of General Grant. “Oh, he was a terribly profane man," said the guest to his host. “Is that so?” replied the particular host. “Yes, Indeed,” came from the guest. “He'd swear just as naturally as you open your mouth when the knife comes up.” The host had very little to say after that.—Denver Times. I ■ .■_ _ 1 Overboard at Sea To be lost overboard on a dark [night, hundreds of miles south of the Capo of Good Hope, with a strong wind blowing, and to live to tell the '.tale, does not happen to many sailors. William Galloway of the crew o£ tho •British ship KilUrannnn had such an •experience several years ago, and told his story to a reporter of a San Fran cisco newspaper of tho time, from which the following account is ta ken: Galloway is a brown faced Scotch laddie who says "mtther" for mother, .and everything about him, from tho frayed bottoms of his Jean trousers to the wiry-looking tufts of hair which peep from beneath the front peak of his little fore-and-aft cap, betoken the rollicking, happy-go-lucky deep sea; sailor boy. Of his adventure, First Mate William Coalfleet said: "It was eight o'clock in tho even ing. We were flfty-flve days out from •Philadelphia, bound for Hlogo, Japan, and near latitude forty-four one south, llongitude fourteen forty-four cast. A strong easterly wind was blowing. Iti was dark and bitter cold, and the sea, was running very high. "Galloway was half-way up tho rat lines, unhooking a block from the ;main-sheet, when the ship gave a lurch and lie fell into the sea. "The captain threw him a life buoy.. The ship wras brought up in tho wind! as quickly as possible, and a boat) lowered and manned. I took command of her. “We heard the boy shout ns wo were lowering the boat, but he had yelled himself hoarse, and w • had nothing to! guide us as wo pulled aimlessly about, in the heavy sea. “We pulled round for over an hour, and as we lost sight of the ship sev eral times, and the night was getting rougher and thicker, I was about tq give up the search in despair, when wo heard a feeble moan, and straining our eyes, saw Galloway clinging to the lifebuoy, almost under our how. “We soon had him on hoard, hut it took some slapping and rubbing to put warmth Into his rigid limbs.” Galloway said to the reporter: “I am a good swimmer, and managed to ride tho big seas that came along, but it was terribly cold, and my legs be gan to feel like lead. It was a good job for me that the water was so black, or I never could have seen the white lifebuoy as it came to me oil the crest of a wave. “I got it under my arms and stopped paddling. I was tired out. I shouted' as long as I could, hut my volco grew, husky. “The albatrosses and mollyhawks, swooped down on me, and I kept wa ving my arms, thinking every momentj that one of them would drive its beak through my skull. “I lost all hope and thought of moth er and my sisters iu Glasgow. Then i saw the white hull of the mate’s boat. I tried hard to shout. They heard me and I was soon hauled on board. “Tho captain gave me medicine, and with plenty of warm blankets and; hot coffee, 1 soon began to feel my self again.”—American Home Month ly. CHEERS FOR THE ANIMALS Lecturer Annoyed by Being Interrupt ed by Cheers and Jeers While Delivering a Lecture. The naturalist was delivering a lec- j ture at West Point to the entire body of cadets, and he was telling them a j big bear story, “At that moment,” he said, “the mother bear—” His remarks were interrupted and broken off short by a huge yell from the cadets, with clapping and stamp- j ing and cheers and jeers that gave j him no opportunity to continue. Ho simply had to wait, nonplussed, until the noise had subsided. Then he took up his discourse again. “1.don't know what I said,” he remarked, “to bring forth such an outburst. I suppose it | must have been something queer. If j nobody tells me I’ll simply have to go , on and do the best I can without that I salutary information. As I was say ing, the mother bear—” Again the yells broke forth, but this time they were brief and the lecturer was al lowed to finish explaining about the antics of I.ady Bruin. Then another slide was slipped into the stereopticon and a picture of a small animal was thrown on the screen. “This little fellow',” the lecturer stated, “is often extremely annoying about camp. He is a porcupine—” Howls and yells again broke out, and the lecturer shook his head in despair of being able to have his lecture received seri ously by these militant youths of tho country, who evidently knew some thing about animals that ho did not know. Having been very much of a boy himself, however, some years pre vious, he knew the game well enough j to join in with a cheerful grin, and after a time he completed his talk, though it was punctuated with yells and laughter as the wolf, the badger, the owl, the crane and even the malo-i dorous skunk appeared on the screen and made their respective bows to the audience. At the close of the talk the lecturer sought Information from the officers. They 6miled as one of them told him, "Nicknames. We have a fellow here that the boys call ‘the mother bear,’ another that goes by the name of ‘porcupine,’ and so on down your list. It is a wondrr that you got through at all.” LOOK AT SHILLINGS Why England's Big Race Track Proved a Failure. Those In Control of Brooklands, Auto mobile Course, Have Experimented for Years in Attempt to Make Sports Pay. London.—The problem of how to make Itrooklnnds, England’s big au tomobile track, pay, or at least prove self-supporting, at last seeniB near so lution. For four years, ever since tills, the largest racing track in the world, was opened to the public, those In control of it have been experimenting and out of bitter experience and the lots of much money they have slowly but surely learned thai Its appeal is not to the man in the street, however good a sportsman he may be, but to the rich and well-to-do. When the track was first opened only automobile races were held on the grcnl oval. Later on motorcycling was introduced and finally aviation. Now all three are combined nt every meet. But attempts to get a popular class crowd to witness the events have been abandoned nnd the 2,000 or more men and women who gather to see the races are recruited almost en tirely from the upper crust of Eng lish 8ocioly—owners of motor cartf and flying machines of their own. a matter of fact many of the rnce^ put on are arranged for amateur dri* vers nnd airmen piloting their owq machines. Motorcycling lias become a popular pastime in England and interest ip racing is intense. If Brooklands were more accessible to London it is safe to say that the motorcycle races there would attract large crowds. But it is a 60-cent traiu ride from Water loo station, there is another charge of GO cents to enter the grounds nttd by the time a man has paid for hia tea, a programme and a few other ln< cidenlal expenses he has put the equivalent of a $2 bill out of commls< siun. The London sport can get so much for $2, or eight shillings, it its not strange that he docs not rush to Brooklands on meet dnys no matter how keen he may be on motorcycling. These facts have their influence, of course, on the incentives tliat are of fered to the riders Who compete in the motorcycle races. In the United States the men race for substantial purses and hold out for them If they are not forthcoming. In England they are willing to race for a silver mug of little or no value or almost for a sheet of paper stating that they won such and such a race on such and such a day at Brooklands. That, of course, has been the trouble In trying to match De Rozier against Collier, the English champion rider. Quito naturally I)e Rozier wants to race for a fair sized purse, not being in busi ness to collect mugs or diplomas of merit, and efforts are being made to get one of the club3 in England to put up a bag of sovereigns for a match between the Englishman and the American. Of the three sports now in full swing at Brooklands aviation undoubt edly draws the largest crowd. It still possesses the elements of novelty and danger which have to a large extent, disappeared from automobile racing and motorcycling. The flying contests held at the big track are not what one would call exciting. The flights made at each meeting are added to the dis tance covered by the same aviators at previous meets and tlie one who com piles (lie greatest total before the close of the season is to get the prize. Thus, unless one is keen enough to follow the progress of the several air men from meet to meet the flying re solves itself into nothing more than an exhibition of aeroplanlng. Never theless, it attracts a goodly crowd of spectators. Interest has been added to the fly ing by the fact that a growing num ber of spectators have been up in the air themselves. When races are not being held at Brooklands there is a corps of professional aviators con stantly on the grounds for the pur pose of taking passengers on more or less lpngthy flights. Booking offices have been opened in London ns well as on the grounds and a flourishing business is done. STUDENTS EARN $85 A MONTH New York University Men Also De vote Eighteen Hours Each Week to Different Classes. New York.—Students of the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, according to.a statement issued by Dr. George C. Sprague, the university registrar, earn ed during tho year 1910 an average salary of $85.58 a month. There are 1,150 students in attendance at the school and the total earnings of the student body amounted to $1,181,000. While earning this amount the stu dents devoted an average of nine hours a week to classroom attendance and a like amount of time to prepara tion for recitations. Those who re ported included bookkeepers, bank clerks, accountants, stenographers, teachers, salesmen and interpreters. Possibility of the Future. The nation Is glad congress is go ing to Investigate the steel trust and the woolen monopoly. If con gress keeps trying and trying it may ultimately get a committee that will really investigate the subject as signed to it. » „ - «JiIbu u. jt— ■ ■ ■■ 111 11 i » ii ■ i ■ ■ 1 " ■■ Open for Business I have purchased the T. I. La Forge general store on 9th and Morton sts., and same is now ready for business. A share of your patronage is solicited. Be ginning Saturday we will handle fresh meat regularly. Butter and Eggs bought. Prompt delivery of goods. Phone 296. Full line of cured meats. C. T. LIPPOLD Buy FURNITURE of us. If you don’t, we both lose money. We don’t claim to have the largest stock in this part of the state, but we do claim to have the best assorted stock, and it’s all new. l'rices as low as you will find any where. Give us a chance, we will show you. SMITH BROS. Funeral Directors Falls City. Neb. ANOTHER Bid SPECIAL Our Policy The Best Goods for the Least Money. Another Special Chop Plates, Cake Plates, Bread Plates and Salad Bowls Your Choice For Nicely decorated and finished and good values at 50c. See them at Chas. M. Wilson’s 1Quality Place J W. F. Butler 4 4 Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Queensware J and Notions. The famous Klrkendall shoe ^ our specialty. Highest market prices 4 for produce. 4 ---- $ Millinery. 4 An exceptionally fine stock, all new goods. J Swell spring hats just arriving. Miss Lei 4 ta Butler in charge of this department. Al | so special attention given to dress-making 4 and ladies’ tailoring. '4 W. B. Butler 4 \ Barada :: :: :: Nebraska 4 i