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Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
A Georgia Burning.

There is something more urgently needed in Georgia than the elimina- ton of the hookworm from the sys- tenn of the Cracker" Georgia needs civili:ing. The other day a negro to death at the stake near Cochran. Ca, because he had shot and mortal ly wounded a white man in a quar- rel. not of his seeking and in which he stood an equal chance of being shot. His crime was without any of those revolting features which some times are offered in Justification of the summary meting out of justice 10 the negroes of the south The crime was without reconciliation.
 A team of mules the negro was driving was frightened by the white mans automobile. There was a quar- Tel. Pistols were drawn by both par tieipants, but the negro's gun work was earlier and accurate. The negro was captured in an hour or two-in fact. it was not stated that he at tempted to escape. He was given time to pray, and then was burned. to the greater disgrace of Georgia.
 The quarrel between the mule driver and the automobilist was not unlike hundreds that used to take place in the northern states, notably in New York and New England. between auto mobilists and other citizens, before the speed laws were put into opera tiOn and before the right of the auto mobilist to live was clearly defined in a special interpretation of the law against homicide. Previous to that time the New England farmer be- lieved the automobilist to be nui- sance always subject to abatement. The puncturing of a tire with a bull let was frequently considered by the farmer to be full satisfaction, but now and then a shot was taken at the motorist himself The automo- bilist was largely to blame for the bucolic hostility that was excited against him. His carelessness and sometimes his cussedness in the mat ter of soaring farm reared horses by unnecessary "honk-honking almost justified the homicidal wrath of the farmers.
 Who knows but the Rev John liar yard was provoked out of clerical attitude by a careless automobile driver?
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04

The news comes that President Zelaya has for a long time kept a gunboat laden with supplies awaiting his need in the harbor of Corinto. In view of things that have happened within the past two or three days, he has probably ordered fires in the boilers started by this time.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
.k SLIGHT CESSATION
 OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY
The Pace Was too Swift to Be Kept
 Up Forever

New York. Dec 3.-Duns Weekly Review will say: It was hardly to be expected that the industrial and trade revival was to continue for a long time at the recent high rate of speed. Some slowing up, if only for a breath ing spell. issnatural and this apparent ly is why it is'occurring. although it makes no material impression upon the great volume of transactions.
 A large number of reserve orders are reported by boot and shoe manufactur- CTS and, while. new business is quiet. many moderate sized purchases make fair aggregate. The trade in leather has fallen off materially, but this is customary at this season.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
THAT PosToFFIcE DEFICIT
Some Habits of Users of the Mails
 Which Helped to Make It

Apropos of the s20,000,0 900 deficit in the postoffice department last year which was S4.OO0,000 worse than the one of two years ago-the Silent Part '- ner remarks that. after all, 1t is the peoples own department and it seems to be their delight to abuse its privi- leges.
 They may persist" says the article referred to. in using stationery of grey, yellow. green. red, blue and every other color that makes address es almost impossible to read at night. when most mail Is handled.
 Tt is the peoples department, so they have a right to deposit every year dead letter office after carriers, clerks and experts have spent hours trying to decipher each address or hunting an address that did not exist.
 Since the postoffice belongs to the people they have a right as business men to save up all their hundreds of letters to mail at the close Of the day. so that an extra night force is needed in every big postoffice. and so that nine-tenths of the mail may be sorted and handled at the very time when it is twice as hard 10 handle it.
 As business men the people have a right to tie packages so they will come unwrapped. to send all sorts of mail with insufficient postage, to send huge cards that will not fit the carriers bag or the pigeonholes in the mail cars, or squeeze into the sacks.
 The people have right to demand that mail be carried on fast trains from which the sacks must be kicked at high speed but 1t is not incumbent upon the people to use heavy covers for catalogues or booklets so that they will stand aiar.
 But if the people have all these rights and take advantage of them the people must not kick if the department fs costly or if some who believe in in dividualism think that the peoples government makes about the poorest showing as the administrator of a big business that can be made"
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
LOST ESKIMO TRIBES.
Danish Scholars Account of People
 Seen by White Men But Once

An account of the lost Eskimo tribes of the east coast of Greenland was printed recently in the Maddelelser on Greenland. the organ of the Danish Pathological society. The author is pr. W. Thalbitzer.
 In 1923 Captain Clavering was con ducting a sledge expedition along the southwest side of the island now bear ing his name, which is situated on the northeastern coast of Greenland off what is now known as Koenig Wilhelm land. There his expedition encounter ed a party of twelve Eskimos
 The natives who were with Claver ing tried to talk to the strangers and to gain their confidence, but failed in any degree to make themselves under stood. After the twelve had camped near Clavering's party for three days they disappeared and no further trace of them was found. That was the first time and the last that every white man has seen tribesmen of the now extinct ancient race of East Green land Eskimos. Perhaps those twelve were the only surviving members of a race that has been obliterated in the swing of the centuries up in the frozen land.
 Ten years ago Lieutenant G. Am drup of the Danish navy. heading the Carlsberg expedition to East Green land. made an exhaustive ethnological survey of the little known Greenland coast from Ammassalik, at north lati- tude @ degrees 30 minutes, to Sabine island, "A degrees 30 minutes The fruits of this expedition comprised facts about the present day Eskimos.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
The New Anesthetic.

Professor Thomas Jonnesco. a fa- nous Roumanian surgeon, dean of the University of Bucharest. is now in this country introducing new an- esthetic called stovaine. which it is said will revolutionize the profession of surgery. Professor JOnnesco will give demonstration at the Rocke- feller institute at New York next Tuesday
 The anesthetic is administered by injection into the spinal canal, along with a quantity of strychnine, the lat ter drug being used to prevent that depression of the heart which might stovaine alone. It is said of stovaine that it is not followed. by the col lapse which sometimes results from chloroform or ether. Stovaine pro- duces a complete paralysis of the nerves of either the upper or the lower section of the body, without reducing the subject to unconscious ness, the dread of which is frequently the most terrifying thing to the pa- tient about surgical operation-the entering into a state akin to death and which 5ften turns out to be really an outlying territory of death.
 Though the dread of unconscious ness is removed by pr. Jonnesco's discovery, we must still regard as hyperbolical a statement in a press dispatch describing the new anes- thetic, that patients chat merrily while he is operating on them. We do not believe that the most optimis- tic could be merry while conscious of his separation from his appendix, de- sirous as he may be of getting away from that worse than useless cul-de- sac. We are sure that no man could engage his surgeon in light and airy conversation while his arm or leg is being removed.
 But if stoyaine does not inflict mer- riment upon us. it is enough if 1t relieves us of dread and pain and reduces danger
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
BETWEEN GIRLS.

Deep breathing seems to have lost vogue. don't you know"
 Well. it isn't safe in these new gowns"
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
VERY POETIC.

When looking around for a theme for rhyme. why. what is the mat ter with hog-killing time2
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
MAKE HASTE

to get a bottle of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters when you first notice any symptoms of stomach, liver or bowel troubles and you will save yourself a lot of unnecessary suffering.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
CAUSES OF QUIETNEss

New York. Dec. 3.-Bradstreets to- morrow will say: Grade reports show rather more irregularity, carving with the sections reporting. In seasonable retail lines there is renewal of the complaint of warm weather affecting sales of wearing apparel while bad roads in parts of the central west and the switchmens strike in the north west are responsible for quiet trade.
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
DEMOLISHED A STATION.
One Car of the St. Louis Flyer Wen,
 Through It.

Lewisville, Pa. Dec. 3.-SiX persons were injured. one fatally. and the station at this point demolished to- night when the St. Louis flyer on the Pennsylvania, running fifty miles an hours. ran into an alleged defective switch.
 All tse injured were mail clerks. A few passengers were hurt. The first mail car plunged down a fifteen-foot embankment. The second dashed into the depot
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04
HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS

is compounded from ingredients best adapted for suring such ailments and for over 56 years has been very suc- cessful. Try a bottle for Heartburn, Belchine. Bloating, Poor Appetite, In- digestion, Dyspepsia, Colds, Grippe and Malaria,
Arizona republican., 1909-12-04

The kind of weather which set in last night does not cOntrovert our tropical or subj tropical claims. It merely proves an unpleasant proxim- ity to Colorado.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-03-26

1859, purchased the Joe Baker
claim adjoining tie town site
on the west, and have made it
their home ever since.
The land wa owned by Il Mr.,
Mcmillan, when Miller pur-
chased II. They had the best
house in town and the only one
that had a plastered room in it.,
in the whole place. | remember
this fact for a particular reason.
Judge Miller of the territorial
district court was in poor health
in the spring Of 1s60, and it was
not thought prudent for him to
be quartered while holding
court in the poorly constructed
and furnished hotel up town,
and at the solicitation of +. 5
Dundy afterwards Jud%e,) Mrs.
Miller kindly placed at the dis
posal Of the invalid Judge her
best room for his comfort and &C
commodation, for which he and
the members of the bar Dandy
and the writer were thankful
indeed. Judge Miller died Short
ly afterwards at his home in
Ohio. Judge Dundy Is dead
with most Of his family, with
never Il survivor leftin the state.
And SO with numerous others
who have been with us and gone
away leaving no track or trace
behind them. No family on
earth has all its members on the
same side of the river, Mr..
Miller and his good wife are
with us still, in the quiet enjoy
ment of hale old age, with their
children Except those gone be
fore,) and their grandchildren.
about them, waiting like the
balance of Us. for the ferryman
ON the StySian pool.
Wineate King and family
came here early. but I don't
know lust when. He was elect
The Falls City tribune., 1909-03-26

and healthy children, served his
people with honor and useful.
ness in the Legislature and has
grown old as gracefully as i
seer. Time has been good to
him because he has been good
10 it, and as the shadows teng.
then to the east and the days OF
his active eXertiOns recede in
the past, he has given up The
farm and come to town for a
quiet rest. He has earned it,
and besides, he deserves It.
On the Nemaha was the Boyd
family, consisting of several
branches, Joseph the elder and
his two nephews, David and Ab.
ner. Some of their descendants
are among our people, as well
"a those of Jacob Stumbo: but
the Simpkins people are all
gone. On the Muddy was Jo-
seph t'orney, yet in life, but far
up in the eighties, one of the
real pioneers, and among the
strong men Of the early days.
Further up the Muddy were
tie Lambs, the Minchalls and
the Nances, all of the heads of
their families gone, but with
many of their descendants still
among our people. Still fur.
Their up stream were John Har-
kendorf, Louis Misplais, Viii
Liam @. Goolsby, L. B.. Prouty,
Zeddock Stephenson, Ed Swim,
sam Allerton, Steve McElory
and others whose names | can
not recall. Some OF these fami-
lies have disappeared entirely,
while others have many repre-
sentatives in the county.
The year following many 9th
erS settled in the same neigh
borhood and further up the Mud
dy, and to the Nemaha County
line Of whom | viii write la
ter on.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-03-26

ed to the Legislature in 1851.
and was in the row that took
place the following winter at
Omaha, when a part of the mem
bers of both legislative bodies
rebelled and went to Florence. a
small hamlet four or five miles
north OF Omaha, and organized
an independent legislature. OF
course it was an illegal body,
but as there was no quorum
left in the regular houses at
Omaha, no valid egi atom
could be had by either, and the
session for that year came to
nothing. 1t was the result of
an old fight against Omaha, and
between the north and south
Platte sections of the territory.
Mr.. King buried his wife here at
a later period, and sometime
afterwards removed back to
Missouri. \. ]. Deshazo, his
son-in-law, surveyed and plated
Falls City, but he, at a subse
quent time went to Missouri al
SO and the family ceased from
among our people.
Hon. John Il. Dowty came to
Falls City early in 1859. He
had lived for some time in Ne
maha County, but liking things
in Richardson better, came down
and became one of us, and has
been so ever since. After tax
ing care of Uncle Sans building
interest on the Indian Reserva-
tons in the near vicinity under
the regime of Major. Burbank,
for a few years, he did the sen
sible thing, got married, built
him a splendid farm out on the
Muddy in the Goolsby neighbor-
hood, reared a family of bright
The Falls City tribune., 1909-03-26
vIh0L CURES CHRONIC COUGHS,
COLDS AND BRONCHITIS
After Other Remedies Fail

II have been troubled with a chronic
cold and bronchitis for a long time
and have tried many remedies without
finding relief. Through the kind sug-
gestion of a friend | tried Vinol, and
after taking four bottles, am entirely
cured" A. H. Wilde. 733-Sth Avenue.
Minneapolis, MINI.
S. Mcdonald, lat w. Congress
st. Paul, Mimi, writes: Il con
tracted a severe cold last winter and
thought l would never get rid of it. {
tried Vinol as a last resort, and it has
completely cured me-"
Vinol combines two world-famed
tones, the healing, medicinal proper.
ties of cod liver oil and tonic iron, de-
liciously palatable and agreeable to the
weakest stomach. For this reason.
Vinol is ~unexcelled as a strength
builder for old people, delicate chill
dren, weak and rundown persons, al.
ter sickness and for Chronic Coughs,
Colds and Bronchitis.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-03-26

In Salem there remains but
three families represented IN
our midst, who lived in that
town Mss. They are the Lin
coin, the Holt and the Oliver
families. J. {. Lincoln, now
dead, and John w. Holt, now Il
citizen of this city, were CO.
partners in business, practically
ali the time from the spring of
1857, till Mr.. Lincoln's death in
1898. His wife died about the
same time, leaving surviving
them two daughters, one IF
whom, Mrs. Spurlock, still lives
in Salem, the other, Mrs. Law
Ter, is located somewhere |
think, in Colorado.
The only representative of
the Oliver family that | know
of, is Mrs. John w. Holt, and
of course, resides with her hus-
band in Falls City. If A. S.
Russell was living in Salem in
1858, | am mistaken to that eX-
tent, but don't think | am
Mr.. Lincoln was a blood rela-
ton of the great president, and
resembled him very much both
in his physical makeup, and in
mental and temperamental pc
culiarities. If there was a fun
ny or ridiculous side to any
thing, and there usually is, that
came under their observation.
they were sure TO see it. Billy
Mann-there are not many left
who remember him-was county
clerk, and came to Falls CITY
with the public records after
the county seat was located here
by act of the legislature in Feb
ruary, 1860, and when the first
election was held afterwards,
The Falls City tribune., 1909-03-26
A. G. MANNER, Falls City, Net.
Nervous
Breakdown

Nerve energy is the
force that controls the Or
gans of respiration, cir
c%ulation, digestion and
elimination. When you
feel weak, nervous, irri-
table, sick, it is often be-
cause you lack nerve
energy, and the process
Of rebuilding and sustain
ing life is interfered with.
DR.. Miles Nervine has
cured thousands of such
cases, and will we believe
benefit if not entirely
cure you. Try it.
MY nervous SASltIl save away
completely, and lett me on the verge
of the grave. ] tried skilled physi-
clans but got no permanent relief.
l got so bad ! had to give up my
business. | began taking DR.. Miles
Restorative Nervlne. In a few days
l was much better, and l continued
to improve until entirely cured. l
am in business again, and never miss
an opportunity TO recommend this
remedy" MRS. W. L. BURKE,
Myrtle Creek, Oregon
Your druggist sells DR.. Miles Nerv-
Inc, and we authorize him to return
price of first bottle lonly) If It falls
TO benefit you.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
The Falls City tribune., 1909-03-26

"Say not thou, what Is the
cause that the former days were
better than theseY for thou dOst
not inquire wisely concerning
this
The preacher, as the author
of the above is styled in the sac.
red volume, was right in his
conclusion that it was unwise
10 say that former days were
better than these, the present,
rs all days and times, whether
cid or new, are Just the same,
and were intended to be. Yet,
all the world likes the old days,
live very much in them, and
take an especial pleasure in
their recall to be lived over
again in memory as they passed
in actual presence in another
and 4 lost time. Nevertheless,
all times are said to be good
when they are old. Whether
this is true or not as matter of
fact, il is certain that most PEG
pie act upon the hypothesis that
II is; and in all the departments,
oallings, and ramifications of
this v~ariegated life OF ours, we
are constantly seeking in the
past acts of men and nations
Tor precedents for doing some
thing that otherwise might not
be done, Notwithstanding these
days are assumed to be better
than the former, The living,
acting generation in any age
and in all times, is forever con
trolled whether knowing the
fact or not, by two nonentities
the dead of the past and the
unborn of the future the one
historic, the other prophetic,
but whose invisible hands lie
heavy on all that is done by
those active toilers at the cease
less, never ending loom Of life,
|ignorantly but surely weaving
the garment of God we know
him by ~ history. The poet
speaks of Il day that is dead.
There is no such day, any more
than there can be a void time.
All days, past or to come, in the
councils OF the eternal, make up
the everlasting NOW, the only
division OF time or duration pos.
sible in the economy of the in
finite.
In these desultory papers |
use the word "history' in its
comprehensive and generic
sense. As applied to a person,
a community, 4 state or to any
thing else OF an organic nature,
II includes all the processes of
Indignation or growth from their
emergence from Il state of non
existence till they disappear
again in the imperceptable or
non-being. In the synthesis of
organic life the aggregates par
take of the nature and charac.
t~eristics of their units. A good
house cannot be built of bad
material, nor can a good com
munity OF people be produced
from a bad or immoral popula-
ton. The family is the living
prototype and model of that
larger family, the state, and
from the output of the aggre.
gate of all such miniature com
munities, the political edifce is
constructed. The moral fiber
IN the one, determines it in the
other, and hence, i thas been the
effort of the controlling civiliz-
ing forces in organized society
to reach down To the fountain,
the masses, and purify that, or
do what may be done to that
end, and the stream will take
care of itself.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-03-26
"reminiscences of q Wayfarer

Some OF the Important Events OF the Pioneer Days
OF Richardson County and Southeast Nebraska, as
remembered by the writer, who has spent fifty
one years here.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-03-26

10 permanently locate the seat
of government, showed me Il
letter from Lincoln giving 4 re-
port of the vote at Salem. 1t
read; zone hundred and six for
Salem and six fights" Ofcourse
the six fights didn't figure in the
tally sheet of the poll, but they
figured in the fun Cass got out
of the election, and he could no
more refrain from as~sociating
the fights with the votes, than
he could refrain from making
the report itself.
The firm of Lincoln Il Holt
was the main standby in com
mercial business in the central
and western parts of the county
for Il quarter of a century,
though the town of Salem was
badly situated in the matter of
easy access, except from the
west. 1t was surrounded on the
north, east and south by the
marshy valleys of the two Ne
mahas, and by that Of the great
er river formed by the cOnlu
ence of the two smaller streams,
and for a considerable part of
the year these valleys were al
most impossible. These natnr-
al disadvantages We're noteasily
overcome. and the business of
the town suffered in conse-
quence. But Lincoln Il Holt
Ueie Salem while they lived in
it, and their families are the
last of its old inhabitants.
The Hares, the Roberts, the
Walkers, and others | could
name, have drifted away, or
died out. and strangers have
taken their places. This is the
way of the world for it is al
ways moving, whether We take
note of it or not.
John ". Holt has been d fix
ture in Richardson County for
more than half a century, and
during all that time has been
intimately and prominently CON
nected with its business, social
and political affairs. Thirty-one
of those years We're passed in
this city, where official duty as
county treasurer brought him in
1873, after he had served a term
as Senator from this county in
the state legislature. After the
close of his second term as
treasurer, he, with Mr.. S. B..
Miles, a man well known to all
the people Of the country and
of great wealth, together with
his lifelong associate J. c. Lin
coin, and perhaps one o r two
others, established the First
National Bank in Falls City,
and for twenty-five years, he
was practically the head and
controller Of the institution.
Whatever it is, he made it.
Mr.. Holt is peculiarly a pro
duct of the frontier. His father,
DR.. Holt, was the first repre-
sentative in the Missouri legis-
lature from that district of Coun-
try in the northwestern part of
the state, known as the Platte
Purchase, away back IN 1911;
and Holt County, over the river,
was so named in his honor. He
has seen the country, on both
sides of the Missouri, grow up
from a wilderness and a waste
to be as fine agricultural dis
tricts as can be found anywhere
in all the great Northwest, and
no one contributed to that result
more than he. He is now in re
tirement, but is just as much the
good citizen he has always been,