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The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06

Not in many years has there
been held in this county a more
harmonious convention, and one
in which there was more good
will than in the republican coun-
ty convention held this week.
There was good attendance of
delegates and nature seemed to
smile upon the republicans. A
more intelligent set of men have
not been seen in convention in
this county than the men who
comprised the delegations from
the various precincts. The sen.
timent was almost universal for
Taft and Richardson county is
to be congratulated upon the
splendid showing made IN his
favor. The future of the party
never was brighter than now
and the good feeling shown in
the convention leads US to be,
The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06

The vote taken on the presi.
Dental preference at the eau.
cuses in the different precincts
in the county, show a decided
preference for Taft for presi-
dent, with Hughes as second
choice. In Jefferson and Hum
boldt precincts no vote was
taken. Porter and Speiser haye
failed to report their vote, il
any was taken IN their caucuses.
Of the 2l9 votes reported TAFT
received 176, Hughes lS, La Fol
lette 6, Foraker 2, Fairbanks 6.
Roosevelt 8 and Cannon 1.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06

1t is about time to give some
study as to the best means of
beautifying the city park.
What have you to suggest ?
Now is the time to lay the foun-
dation plans for one of the most
beautiful parks in this part of
the state.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06
How was that tor a glorious
republican convention.

With corn selling at 80 cents
per bushel, the Nebraska farm
ers have mint of wealth in
their cribs. After all, good
farm is the next best thing to a
gold mine.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06

1t took only about four weeks
for the Kentucky legislature to
elect a republican United States
senator after Mr.. Bryan advised
them to elect Mr.. Beckham, a
democrat. If he had only made
another speech it probably
would not have taken more than
two weeks. He could not die
tate to the Kentuckians, you
see.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06
Public Sale

Christ Bleiholder will sell at
public sale at his farm g miles
southeast of Barada, e miles
northwest of Fargo and Ia miles
northeast of Falls City.on Thurs
day, March Ia, all his stock, farm
implements, grain, etc. This
will be good chance to get what
you need in this line and get it
at you own price.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06

It looks as if the city cam
paign will be short, but it may
make up in intensity what it
lacks in length. 1t is to be
hoped that good men will be
nominated for the different of
fees so that we will have a
clean city administration, nc
matter how the election results.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06
Lent-What Is Ii.

joyments-pause, but for what
purpose and to what eud.
Is it for the rest we need physi-
cally? Or as Lent reminds us of
the nearness Of spring, is it that
we may have more time to devote
to the needs of the family ward
robe? Or is 1t with the true
purpose taught by the Master
and the Church, the practice of
true self-examination, noble and
true self-sacrifce. to search our
hearts and draw nearer to our
Creator and Savior? How many
of us have given serious thought
and study this year or for many
years to the real meaning and
lesson of the Lenten season.
The first object is, perhaps,
self sacrifice. Is it sacrifice to
give up pleasures Of which we are
already weary, knowing full well
we need rest? Is it sacrifice to
give up meat for which we care
little prehaps or, if caring, deny
ourselves six days to gorge on
Sunday, a feast of day? When
we withdraw from the social
whirl, is it with the determin-
alton to give more and more OF
our time to Gods suffering hu-
manity, to get nearer the poor
and needy, to look out and strive
to lift up the fallen, to visit the
sick and suffering with something
to cheer, a bright flower, per-
chance, or a new book, even a
CHEEKY bit of story or our own
cheerful, exhilerating presence?
When we decide to deny our
appetite something very pleasing
to us, do we set aside a certain
amount, no matter how small, tc
add to our charity money that we
by denying ourselves just little
, may help those who are in neet
and to whom it may mean, oh Sc
muchp
There is no Self-sacrlhce if ou,
time is devoted to self, to com
S pleting that which we had ne
1 elected in order TO keep up tn,
: social pace; it is not self-sacritic,
i if the time is spent in preparing
= for after Lent bazaars and new
S social functions.
e Unless we do in the love anC
1 fear of the Master the thing
!. that draw us nearer to him ant
t help to build up His cause, tha
: make us stronger in His grace
J, we fail in what Lent and tn,
Church teach.
> When we speak of denying our
, selves meat during Lent tina
does not mean beet, pork ant
mutton. By meat is meant al
food which snstains us and in tn,
:, denial we should be moderate il
all eating, giving more though
y to our spiritual require ment
than to what will please ant
satisfy our greatest tyrants, tn
: appetite and stomach.
= While all Sundays are recog
nized by the Church as feas
. days, there is little of denial il
abstaining six days to eat on
:, fill on the seventh.
Nor is the denial any obi
cations we have taken upon our
e selves limited to forty days. Th
e Church teaches that Lent is onl
e special season set apart for NOR
q vigorous determination an
l. closer communion with our Go
< and that each year we are to ad
't to the talents layed up for tn
% Master, increase our Charit abl
A work and contributions, eve
e though it is only the widow
n mite, be it five cents a week c
10 five dollars. Unless we do some
N thing through denial tha
Il amounts to permanent good W
or have failed in the spirit of Lent.
is Have we examined our heart
lie and let loose the conscience Go
is gave us 10 ouida uS2 Have "a
The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06

or trying to justify them to our
selves. Has our self-examination
drawn us nearer to God, helped !
us to grow in grace, made us
better churchmen, nobler men and
women, more estimable citizens
not for forty days, but added that
TO character which will remain
through this life and prepares us
for the life to come? If not we
have failed to derive a benefit
from the example our Savior set
by His forty days of fasting.
Do we attend church service
more regularly, more promptly
than during the balance of the
year? If so is it with the sense
of obligation. because the Church
requires 1t during Lent? Or is it
to worship, to confess our sins
and wickedness to Almighty God
and grow nearer to Him in love
and faith? Do we resolve to con.
tinue in this punctuality in order
to encourage and help the rector
and to cooperate with him in the
grandest work committed to man.
kind, the labor in Gods vine
yard?
Lent is a season set aside each
year for special devotion and
concentration of efforts just as
the Sabbath is set apart each
week or the hour of family
prayer each day. There should
be no end to the forty days, in SO
much as the good we do and the
special obligations we take upon
ourselves are to be continued not
dropped Easter Sunday, for it is
by this means, the charging OF
His field of labor by more con-
scientious application, that the
churchman becomes a better
christian, prepares and perfeCts
himself for the life to come.
To the jealous christian fol.
, lowing through the forty days
. the example set by our blessed
Savior there is little time to plar
for after Easter festivities, ar
elaborate Easter gown or pay
r social calls, the time is or SHOULD
, be spent in fasting and prayer
/ in preparing for the Easter com
} 1nunion, the fulfilling of thu
e christians most sacred obligation
e when we may say, Dear Lord
d | come to Thee humbly trusting
0 l may be worthy in Thy sight
for l have cleansed my heart o
r all envy, malace, hatred and un
i charita bleness. Accept the nev
: obligations | have taken upol
e myself during the days of fast
e ing, prayer and conservation a
. tokens of my love and devotion
" to Thee and Thy great cause
Give me the strength and courag
d to live in this way, adding to N,
s gifts to Thee day by day, year b.
d year, till Thou shalt see fit t
t call me home.
:, Lent does not belong alone t,
e the Episcopal, Lutheran and Ro
man Catholic churches. 1t i
: becoming more generally observe,
t by all other Protestant demon
d nations each year, for its i'm
II portauce in the christians life
e its example of discipline, and self
II examination are being more an
4 more recognized; the old pred
s JUDGES of by gone years create,
d by factional antagonism in tn
e church are rapidly dying out an
all Christian denominations ar
= coming to realize the solemnit
It and Importance of this season a
n commemorating one of the mos
lr beautiful periods of the Savior
life.
j. But let us prepare for Lent a
r we do for the Easter communion
4e by prayer, concerted thought an
Y rigid self-eXamlnation; not b,
,e rushing pell-mell through tn
4 social whirl, afraid of miSsin
- co,,atl,;,,nr than pt, . !, WaJ - 9
The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06
Private Money.

Private money to loan on Real
Estate. Mortgages bought and
sold. Cali at First National
Bank. 3-tf A. J. WEAVER.
The season OF sale bills is at
hand and the Tribune wishes to
state that we are prepared to
print sale bills while you wait,
and do as good work and at as
low figures as you can get any
place. 7-tf
DR.. Candy was down from
Humboldt Monday.
The Falls City tribune., 1908-03-06

Joseph Glasser was among the
many Humboldt people in our
city the first of the week.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
MRS pH|ppS KNOWN
AT ROCKFORD
WOMAN WHO HAD THRILLING EX-
PERIENCE AT DENVER ONCE
LIVED AT PEcAToNIcA.
SHE HAS RELATIVES RESIDING
IN THAT NEiGHBORHOOD
EVEN NOW.

Rockford. Nov. 21-Mrs. Genevieve
Chandler Phipps, whose name has
been SO prominently mentioned in the
public prints on account of her thrill
ing ride in an automobile at Denver
to a bank to save being dynamited by
crazy woman, is Winnebago county
woman. Mrs Phipps, whose maiden
name was Genevieve Chandler, is a
native of Pecatonica and has relatives
residing there yet. She has been a
visitor to Rockford many times in the
past when she lived at Pecatonica, and
is remembered by many who met her in
the times gone by. Mrs. Phipps is the
divorced wife of Lawrence Phipps, the
steel magnate.
At Denver she was beguiled into
taking a strange woman into her car
for an automobile ride. When they
were we'll on their way the woman
opened her purse and showed Mrs.
Mrs Phipps two sticks of dynamite,
threatening to blow her up unless she
gave up 100000. The amount OF
money demanded was reduced, and
Mrs. Phipps went to her home, pre-
tending to get bank books and then
go to the bank. While at her home,
she notified the police and on the ar
rival at the bank the officers arrested
the woman, who later proved to be
the wife of a Denver druggist shown
to be mentally unbalanced.
Before the woman could be subdued
she threw one of the sticks of dyna-
mite at the detective who was there
to arrest her, but luckily this struck
one of the cushions of the auto and did
not explode.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
Los ANGELES 400 REDUCED.

The "4O0' of Los Angeles society
is doomed. Henceforth it is to be the
"150.' Society's leaders have decreed
it. and they have way OF drawing
the lines as they want them.
To accomplish their plans, the
weeders of the social elect have gone
about it very carefully. First OF all,
there has been selected list OF
twenty-five of the acknowledged lead
ers of society, who are to constitute
the censors. In their hands will rest
the arbitrament of the claims OF all
to social preferment; their word Will
be final on the matter of entree to so
ciety's functions, and from their de-
crees there will be no appeal
Among these twenty-five who Will
be able to give the open sesame are
women whose names have been 1den-
tilted with the social life of Los An
geles for many years For some
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
OVER $43,OOO,OOO
FOR FRISCO WATER
SPECIAL ELECTION RESULTS IN
FAVOR OF INITIAL BOND
ISSUE.

San Francisco, Nov. 21.-The mu-
nicipal water supply project commonly
known as the Hetch-Hetchy supply
was carried at the special election
held in this city by a majority approx
mating six to one, and the issuance
of bonds to the amount of 100000,
with the proceeds of the sale of which
the Tuolumne county water supply
will be purchased, was authorized
In addition, the voters expressed
themselves in favor of the purchase
by the city of the County Line Water
company's property, now supplying a
portion of the city, at cost not to
exceed $4,000. Now the city is on
the way to spend $43,0O0,OOO for a
water supply.
supply will be Lake Eleanor and the
Hetch-Hetchy valley in Tuolumne
county, lying within the watershed of
the Tuolumne river The project has
been under consideration for many
months, and was made possible by
the granting of certain federal rights
to the water in question, which grants
have been favored by the department
of the interior and will in all proba-
bility be sanctioned by congress at
it's next session.
The system as it will be constructed
has been worked out in every detail
by the city engineers, and it is said
that when it is completed San Fran
cisco will have water supply second
to none in the country.
The bond issue authorized is but a
small portion of the total expense in
volved 1t is estimated that it will
take at least 100000 to acquire all
necessary rights and purchase the
distribution system in the city, as
well as build the transmission line.
The total vote polled was 41,007, di-
vided as follows: For Hetchy-Hetchy,
34,850; against, 5,708.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
WHERE w. WRIGHT FLIES.
LIE Mans a Fine Old French City With
Long History.

LIE Mans, where Wilbur Wright is
performing aerial marvels, is about
25 miles southwest of Paris and
thirty miles north of Tours. 1t is a
fine old French city of about 10000
inhabitants, says the New York Sun.
The history of LIE Mans goes back
to even before the time when the
Romans took possession of it. The
present theater was built on the site
of an old Roman ampitheater. Under
Charlemagne the city was one of the
most important in the whole kingdom.
There are two fine old churches in
LIE Mans, the cathedral being one OF
the most noted in France. 1t con-
tains the tomb of Queen Berengaria,
the wife of Richard Coer de Lion.
Henry II. of England was born in LIE
Mans in 1888, the first of the Plantag-
-enet kings.
The town is the chief place in the
department of the Sarthe and is the
headquarters of the 4th army corps.
The flights made by Mr.. Wright take
place on a plain which is used in the
military maneuvers to which the
French army is especially addicted.
To accommodate the crowds at
tracted by the airship flights, the
town has half a dozen hotels, none OF
them particularly good. In ordinary
times the prices at the best OF them
were moderate from go cents to 81
a room, 25 cents for breakfast roils
and coffee or chocolate), go cents for
luncheon and 70 cents for dinner
Since Wright s aeroplane has been
soaring the hotel prices have doubt
less followed it's example.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
It Didn't Lather.

An English farmer recently went
into a restaurant in Liverpool and
called for some bread and cheese
What kind would you like, sir?" in
quired the waiter. Cheshire, York
shire or Gorgonzola?" Fancy name,
that last" said the farmer. "Ill try
a bit of that" He thought it SO tasty
that he bought pound, took it home
for his wife late at night, and left it
for her on the sideboard in the kitch
en-. Next morning he came in from
his before-breakfast round and asked
her if she had found the parcel. ooh,
yes she replied; Il saw it there all
right, and very good notified soap it
is, no doubt, when you know how to
use it. But | couldn't make it lather
very well when / washed the children,
and after I'd done, they smelled so
strong that I've turned 'em out for a
breath of fresh air, just to sweeten
'em bit before they go to school"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25

time it was said that with sufficient
money anyone could enter Los Ange-
les society. Those whose home II
has been for years wearied of this
slam at their fair city's society. and
they have planned for some time to
make it as hard to enter the social
set here as it is for the Biblical rich
man to enter heaven.
The determination of the social
leaders to draw the lines even more
closely than did Ward McAllister
when he decided who's who in New
York society, comes at a time when
preparations are under way to make
the coming winter one of the gayest
in Los Angeles society. The events
planned for the coming seaon will
eclipse anything that has gone before,
and it is partly because of this fact
that the determination was reached
to cut the 400 to- $50.
One of the first events on the list
will be dinner dance at the Alexan-
dria on the night of Dec. 16. The
twenty-five social censors will, OF
course, invite their husbands, so that
will make fifty, and there will be only
100 additional invitations issued.
To determine who shall and who
shall not be included in this list is the
task which the social censors have un-
dertaken to perform, and it is safe to-
say there will be many heartache
among buds and beaux when this is
done.
There are some who have scoffed
at the idea of hundred and fifty"
in Los Angeles, declaring that it would
require one leader to guide it instead
of twenty-five. Mrs Randolph H.
Miner is pointed to as that leader.
She is referred to since the admiral S
garden party as the Mrs. Astor of
Los Angeles"
There are few better fitted for the
position. She is the granddaughter of
Mrs. Arcadia Baker, and her family
is Of the Spanish nobility. She is one
of the wealthiest women in Los Ange-
les and the other twenty-four are also
women with fortunes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
the expenditure was $8,76S. The
ports covered 97,000,00O acres.

ports covered 100000 acres.
1907-Fire swept 212,S50 acres of
government lands, including grass
covered areas of 103,440 acres; the
actual timber land burned over was
109,410 acres. Fire reports for last
year covered 15O,O0O,OOO of the 16S,-
100000 acres under government SUI
pervision, the increased acreage being
due to new lands acquired under the
forest conservation policy. The es-
timated fire loss in timber for last
year was 1880 as against the $76,183
of 1906 This drop in timber valuation
was due to the fact that some of the
burned-over land in 1907 was in the
Chiricahua national forest, Arizona,
where only 100 board feet to the acre
were destroyed. The cost of fighting
the fires was only $3.50.
Although there have been several
grave situations in the national for
ests this season, the officers of the for
est service do not think that the total
cost of the work, exclusive of the
salaries of the officers of the service,
will exceed 100000 for the entire 1885,
100000 acres.
! With a fire patrol such as. main
tanned in the national forests, the
losses through fires could be greatly
reduced This is one of the things be-
ing urged by the American civic asso-
citation in connection with it's cam
paign for increased forest reserva-
lions.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
SERVICE is ECON
OMY.
Vast Losses From Forest Fires On
Timber.

No more practical argument could
be advanced in favor of a national
fire department to protect all forests
than the comparative figures, showing
the losses by forest fires upon the gov
eminent reserves and those under pri-
vate ownership. Forest fires have
burned this year in every state in
which there is timberland, and some
of the CONGREGATIONS in the states
along the Great Lakes and in British
Columbia were exceptionally disas
trous, with scores of lives lost.
The government has had an abund-
ance of protective and fire-flghtlng
work to do in the national forests this
year, but, serious as these fires have
been, the careful patrol maintained
and the organization of forces to fight
the flames held the losses down to
point insignificant compared with the
clearing by fire of the vast areas not
so protected.
Results accomplished in the last
three years by the federal forest serv-
ice in connection with the protection
of the timber lands from fire are thus
shown:
19O5-Fire burned over 279,592 acres
in the national forests, the reports
covering S0.OO0,o0o acres. The value
of timber destroyed was estimated at
s101 .2S2 and the cost of fighting the
fires was $12,573-
19O6-The area burned was only
115.416 acres and the value of the TIM
Der destroyed was s16,1S3. For fight
ing the fires in the national forests
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
Hardware Men Elect.

Memphis. Tenn, Nov. 21-The
American Hardware Manufacturers
association yesterday elected Robert
Garland of Pittsburg, Pa, president,
and the National Hardware associa-
ton. chose r. NJ. Dudley, Nashville,
as its head.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
Revised Version.

your clothes seem trife large for
you,'' remarker the ardent person.
Yes replied the young man with
college hair. Sometimes think OAR
win didn't know what he was talking
about The tendency today seems to
be toward the survival of the misfit-
ted,'-Washingto Star.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
FORM oE DUTY.

We require from buildings, as from
men, two kinds of goodness; first, the
doing their practical duty we'll; then
that they do be graceful and pleasing
in doing it; which is itself another
form of duty.-Ruskin.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25

She-How long do you think, dear,
we shall have to be engaged?
He-I have enough money left to
last for six months.-Life.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25
COUNT REHNAR KILLED.
Jumped From Window While Victim
of Rauinu Fever.

Berne. Switzerland, Nov. 21.-Count
Rhenar. second secretary OF the Ger
man legation, yesterday jumped from
a window while suffering from an at
tack of fever and was killed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-25

Tommy-Say, papa, wish you
would tell me something
Papa-Well. what is it?''
Tommy-"When you were little
boy who was my papa?"
Evening star., 1908-01-11

vance of the convention as the man to
lead the fight; and in 1900 not shadow
of opposition developed against his re-
nomination. Similarly Roosevelt out
ranked in popularity every name Sug-
gested for the republican nomination.
But this year the quadrennal up
heaval will be made still more chaotic
by the sharpness Of the republican battle
The democratic fight is a little different.
There is no mixed fed with the hopes
even. 1t is everybody against Bryan.
In opposition to the Nebraskan will be
welded all the forces that contend that
his two defeats for the place eliminate
him, but though Judge Gray, Gov. john
son of Minnesota. Chanler of New York
and Hoke Smith have been tentatively
mentioned, there is no evidence of any
boom powerful enough to prevail against
the magnetic Nebraskans Gndoubted
strength In his party.
Six months of contention must take
place before the two parties place their
standard bearers in the field. the re-
publIcans at Chicago, the democrats at
Denver.
Meantime the nations bu4iness Will be
swayed and moved by eveJy new boom.
by every straw. by every indication.
Capital. sensitive above all things of
which man has knowledge. twill rejoice or
tremble as this man or that seems to gain
the ascendancy. gigantic projects Will
hang fire pending the nominations.
The campaign will last four months.
and in that time both parties will call
on the biggest sums they have; the star
speakers will be drafted TO present the
opposing arguments.
As forensic struggle the night Is
bound to be more than ordinarily inter-
estiRg.