The Falls City tribune., 1909-09-24

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become a realty, although the rumor
is a year ld.'-Atchison Globe.
The "rumor" referred to, was
in the nature of a special to the Kan
sas City Star, emanating from Ateh-
ison, and %purporting to be an inter
view with M. P. officials. Fails City
people are very modest-they claim
nothing. But they are in a receptive
mood and would consider 4 proposi-
ton along this line.
Where do you live? Is your place
of residence four doors south or
north of the Widow Blanks or are
you so many doors east or west of
the lumber yard? or perchance over
yonder" by the depots. There is q
new order of things on the tapis,
and it should be welcomed by all
humanity. Houses and streets are
to be numbered in Falls City. This,
in a will be compulsory, in
asmuch as we are to nave free de-
livery of mails at an early date.
Where do you live? Look up your
number, and when you write to your
friends at Hiawatha, Auburn, or At
Gibson, be sure to give the street
and number of your address.
The late Edward II. Hartman did
not live long enough to see his
beautiful palace-like home finished.
Possibly he had had this plan in his
mind for years, and like many a
man in the humber walks of life,
had said, next year | will ease up;
I will gradually retire from all this
worry, and hurry and hustle, and en-
sconce myself in the restful shade
and quiet of mine own vine and fig
tree and enjoy life, and with those
that / love about me / shall reach the
coveted summit of eXistence-con-
it was willed otherwise, and as his
wonderful career is brought to pub
lie view, and one gets an insight into
the great system for piling up mil
lions of unearned dollars, of which
his was the master mind, a fear
creeps in that the mansion in the
skies is not for him either.
If you know just a few German
words, or an expression or sentence
in the German tongue, don't perpe-
trate the same upon a German-save
it for an American. 1t is not pleas
n for your German friend to hear
his language butchered, and if you
have an idea in your head that you
are pleasing him by attempting a
little mongrel German, get it out, for
it is all a mistake. There is no nat
~ionality upon the face of the earth
that lays such stress upon accent-and
pronunciation as our German friends.
ST speak the pure German" is a COM
mon, prideful expression of the sons
of the Fatherland, and then to have
to listen to the abortive attempts of
some jocund village cut-up to rell
off a few German words, why, it
nauseates your German friend; but
he dislikes to tell you this, and in
his good-natured way lets you wan
der far into the maizes of fooldom
without recall. If o can't speak
real German, speak English. 1t
will not affect your trade.
A successful clerk must needs be
a good judge of human nature. The
line of t~ime-honored. mesmeric
'con' CAB that passes muster six
days in the week may fail, ignomin-
iously, the seventh day. You must
know your customer-you must be
able to size up humanity. Recently
a stranger entered one of our cloth
ing stores and began purchasing gen.
erously of habadashery. All went
well, until the clerk, in his eagerness
to sell some underwear resorted to
that old, WORKOUT scheme of inform
ing customer that he (the clerk wore
the particular brand being displayed,
and exhibited the same. THAT is
no argument" answered the custom.
er, with considerable ire. you pos
sibly get $40 or S12 per week;
receive $4,000 per week. The un-
derwear that suits your tender hide
possibly might not suit me at all" 1t