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The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
WOULD NOT DENY IDENTITY
Admission of Charges, However, Might
Have Been Made in More Dieni-
fled Manner.

A characteristic figure in the poll
tics of the middle west once ran for
congress from the state of Ohio. His
free and easy manners made him pop
ular with the boys. but his life had
not been i~rreproachable, and from
many quarters came evidence of oppo-
sition. This opposition c~rystallized
finally at a meeting OF the Ministers
league of the district, and a delegation
was sent to ascertain beyond question
the truth or falsity of the charges
against him.
Though the object of their visit was
known to the candidate, he received
the ministers with a hearty greeting.
and stood before them smiling, while
their chairman, a man of serious mien.
unburdened himself of the questions
previously agreed On.
"Mr. L <" said the chairman, IN
%tiously, a you the man who has
been seer ~lrequenting race tracks?
Are you the man famous in this COM
munity for your devotion to games of
chance played for money? Mr.. Blank.
are you the man whose notorious i'm
morality has for years been a blot
upon this town and a shame, to all its
honest citizens? Are you the man we
have described, Mr.. Blank?"
The statesman's eye twinkled as the
catechism was concluded.
Gentlemen" he said, returning to
courteous gravity. Il am hat identi-
cal son of a sea cook"
Needless to say, in spite of con-
tinued opposition, the popular fayorite
was overwhelmingly returned.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
Mans Responsibility.

Some people take no more interest
in public affairs than if they were It'll
zens of Mars. They go to and from
their places of business, eat, sleep,
sell goods, and die. without leaving
a single impress on the community
they live in. either for good or bad.
That is a poor way for a real man
to act. He takes the benefits his com
munity bestows, but refuses to rem
der the slightest service in return. OF
course, that is mean. But it is mean
er yet to praise oneself for his indif-
ference, as many do.
There are some people who put
great stress on religious duty, but
take no part in civic duty, as IL there
was a sort of chasm between them.
But there is not any such chasm. Re-
ligious duty is civic duty, and vice
versa. and n man who secs no duty
in his relation to civil government
takes a mighty laggard view of his
duty toward God.
The man who insists that he won't
dirty his hand in politics is the man
who is responsible for politics being
dirty. The man who does nothing to
keep politics clean is really engaged
in keeping them corrupt.-Ohio State
Journal.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
Kat Plant Stimulus.

Some years ago, after a long and IA
tI9uing climb by Americans in the
ADyssinian mountains, they were
served with libations of tod" an ex-
tremely refreshing beverage in which
Catna edulis, or the kat plant, was
uSed
Certain tribes chew the leaves of
the plant commonly when compelled
to exert special or long continued eff
tort. the immediate effect being sleep
l~essness and stimulation.
The freshly cut leaves have a rather
pleasant taste and produce a kind of
ntoXication of long duration, with
lone of the d~isagreeable features of
inebriety.
Messengers and soldiers, by chew.
ing the leaves, are enabled to go with
out food for several days.
The better class of merchants chew
these leaves three or four times a day,
The habit being fairly comparable to
the use of tea in the United States.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
One Way of DOING Business.

Billy Emerson, the minstrel, took a
company OF black-face artists to Aus
tralia in the old days, and had hard
luck. On the way back he landed at
Shanghai and gave a show.
Emerson saw there was a good
house, Doing pretty we'll, he said
to the box-office man.
Fine that official replied: we've
got in $500 in money and $1,400 in
chits."
"In WHAT" gasped Emerson.
I'm chits.'
what are chits?'
why, promises to pay. Everybody
uses chits here. Give a chit and set
tie at the end of the month"
DO you mean to tell me that you
have let $1,400 worth of seats go for
them chits, as you call them?'
Sure; why not?'
And those people just signed their
names and didn't pay eash?'
Certainly
What a business | could do in the
states!" groaned Emerson.-Saturday
Evening Post.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
Sure Death to Flies.

Fly papers are to be superseded by
a fluid exterminator. "In our expert
ence," says the London Lancet, the
best exterminating agent is a weak
solution of weak formaldehyde in wa
ter (say two'teaspoonfuls to the pint
and this experience has been con-
firmed by others. 1t would appear
that flies are attracted by a weak So
luton of formaldehyde, which they
drink. Some die in the water, others
get as far only as the immediate vi.
entity of the plate of water, but all
ultimately succumb. and where they
occur in large numbers hundreds may
be swept up from the floor
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
Ink at 800 a Pound.

1.-The best India mkt should
really be called China ink-neyer
leaves China" said a missionary. 1T
costs 500 a pound, and the scribes
use it in writing the correspondence
of the royal family and the mandarins.
India ink is made of the oil of the
poisonous seeds of the sosamum or
COLA tree. Varnish and pork fat are
added to this oil, and then, by means
of combustion, all is changed to
lampblack.
1.-The lampblack paste mixed with
glue is beaten for days on an anvil,
fine musk is gradually mixed in to
give perfume, and the purest gold leaf
to give a rich luster. Finally the ink
is dried in molds for about a month.
"What makes the best India ink so
costly is its purity, and, above all, the
long time given to its combustion and
subsequent beating. If you saw its
beauty you wouldn't think it dear at
500 a pound"
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
IMITATION OF REAL THING
Battery Now in Position on "old IRON
sides Not the Same That
Brought Victory.

Every fair day in summer and au-
tUmp tourists crowd the deck of the
irigate Constitution ut the Charles
town navy yard.
The most striking thing that en-
cages their attention. once they are
aboard the historic ship. Is the bat
terry. The lines of grim. black guns.
making up the ships broadsides. have
a fascination for every patriotic Amer
.ean who makes a pilgrimage to odd
ltonsides."
The tourist fondly pats the iron,
saying: They could shoot with these
cid guns. alter ALL or. This is what
gave the British fits
If the tourist is in a party. with a
conductor cong. he hears, in the
course OF n leief lecture on the ship,
that the gua re not the original bat
terry of Tie shio. but modern replicas.
This he mig / have sufmised had he
reasoned ovel the absence OF any FIR
ing device ON the guns. The rim of
the old pan, in which powder was
placed, is there; but there is no hole
connecting with the interior of the
sun.
The reason for this Is easily ex-
planned. The guns were cast at the
navy yard two years ago, when the
snip was restored. 1t was not neces-
sary to pierce them. For show pur-
poses they do as we'll as they are. Ex-
Cept for this omission they are like
the original guns carried by the ship
in the war of 1872.
Allowing, therefore, these dummy"
guns to o the imagination, the Wis
itor, looking at the broadsides of the
Constitution, IA fancy them hurting
death and destruction off Tripoli in
1905, or in the fine sea fights of the
WGr of 1872.
The battery of the ship in those
days consisted of IA guns. the heavi-
est of which were ~36-pounders; that
is, they threw a shot of that weight.
Looking at the primitive wooden
mounted, and the cumbersome tackles
by which they had to be drawn back
every time they were loaded, one may
pause in wonder at the execution
they did.
The wooden wedge or quoin, at the
base of the gun, by which its muzzle
could be elevated or depressed, was
the chief means of training it.
1t was a rule to fire as the ship
rolled downward on a sea, in order to
have the shot take effect in the ene-
my's hull. In the British navy the
rule was the opposite. They fired on
the rise of the ship.
This practice ruled in the engage
ment between the Constitution and the
Guerrero, August 10, 1872. The re-
suit was the speedy reduction of the
British frigate to a wreck and her sur
render, while the Constitution was in
1dred only in her sails and spars.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
Christmas Carols

Once there was a preacher who
was asked to give his views of what
Christmas meant TO him and how
that day should be observed. Ac-
cording to his diagnosis-his advance
MISUNDERSTANDING was a day
of solemnity, a religious day, and
embodied in his analysis was much
about the Three Wise Men, the Star
of Bethlehem, and the Babe in the
mauger, which vas beautiful and APP
propriate. Christmas morning his
wife had buckwheat cakes and sau-
sage for breakfast. and il was only
when she scraped the bottom of the
crock. and he drained the second cup
of coffee that he left the table and
sought his favorite chair. At Christ
mas dinner he carved a lovely bird,
anu so imbued was he with the true
Christmas spirit that he partook gen
e%rously of both dark and light meat,
ana his fayorite tid-bits, various veg
etables, maearoni. jelly, celery, and
Il plum pudding, after a faYorite re-
ceipt of his wife's mother. And there
was candy and nuts, and fruit; and
really to tell the truth, the preach
er overloaded his stomach, and be-
fore the day vas done,-the sweet,
solemn, Christmas day-he felt
"indisposed," and was in a groggy
state, and the sweet Christmas spirit,
that solemnity, that chaste demeanor,
was chased away and made to yield
to a plain that really ought not to have
any place in the Christmas program.
The moral of this simple but
truthful carol is, that it is
the stomach that is the real of
fender, and breaks in upon and null
flies our Christmas conduct and de-
pertinent. We mean to do well up
on this great anniversary, but we are
led astray by the skill of the Christ
mas cook.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
\ Graceful Endorsement
oGering, Scots Bluff County, courier)

There is a paper printed at Lincoln called THE NEBRASKA sTAF
CAPITAL. This writer never fails to read it through and through, al
though 1t simply contains the personal opinions of Frank q. Harrisoa
We don't love Harrison, never did, and do not know Why but we dc
ensy this paper and we pronounce it a little nesrer the public purse Ct
Nebraska than any other single publication in the state. He IS devotn8
much OF his ammunition just now 10 antfsaloon doctrines, and to his eff
5ots nay be attributed much CT the progress toward county option. Some
papers which carry m editorial column have a citing Of Sloppy sua7
which is well nigh meaningless, and the Courier is oonsututonaty afraie
to ty it. but the man who can get up a weekly bunch of editorials
ouch S Harrison prints is no hao than a genius Ten years ago this
paper carried ar editorial columnbat the mad rush of business has
been responsible for its absence since then. a course Of reading THE.
CAPITAL has produced the desire % say our " say again, hence
this column, which W e are inclined to make permanent"
Are you a subscriber to THE CAPITAL? Try IT, If you pay slice
before January l., you can include the name OF son friend, and 9v
credit for one year on each name.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
Wealth in Chemicals.

Ultramarine is cited as an example
Of the Industrial value of chemical in
yestigatiOn. When this was made by
P%owdering lapis lazuli, a very rare
mineral, the cost exceeded its weight
in gold, but since the chemists dis
Coyery that the same material can be
made from such cheap substances as
sodium sulphate and carbonate, sui.
phur, charcoal and rosin, the price
has fallen to a few cents a pound.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24

Lear old Santa Claus Don't give
hna up! Seek out some little friend,
81 little acquaintance, OF better
sill. ONE little child of misfortune,
and N e him glad. His touching be-
hef VI bring back your own BE to
lin a lnta Claus, your gain will be
greater han his. New life will throb
tlrou f your being. The bells will
ring III sWeeter chime; the holly
berries will CLEAN with a brighter
hue; all the earth will be good and
at peace, if you look through Santa
Claus eyes. There will be heart in
your Merry Christmas."-G. W.
Green.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
SAFETY FOR MINERS
SIMPLE DEVICES THAT MIGHT BE
OF MUCH VALUE.
Recent Disaster at Cherry Hill Has
Led Writer in Eastern journal to
Make Suggestions for Avoid
ing Catastrophes.

In reading the accounts of various
recent coal mine disasters, it occurs
10 me that certain devices for protect
ing life should be employed under
such conditions which. from all ae-
counts. appear not TO have been atil-
lied in such cases.
The action of the miners at Cherry
Hill in shutting themselves up in one
of the mine compartments, by filing
up the opening with earth and o,her
material, suggests the ACCESSIBILITY OF
installing heavy asbestos curtains
like the fire curtains used in the
aters), or other similar can OF cut
ting off connection of II part of Il
mine from another. These curtains
could be installed in such a way as to
be removed from workings that be-
come exhausted or are not used.
Another suggestion is that each sec
ton of the mine workings be provided
with emergency telephone stations.
Telephone systems. | believe. have
been installed for business purposes
in some mines, Such facilities would
enable entombed miners to commune
cate with the outside and afford in
valuable assistance in case of acct
dent.
The temporary lighting of workings
by electricity also afford greater
safety, and would doubtless be very
valuable in case of accident.
In mines without water supplies, it
would seem feasible to keep all sec
tons of the workings supplied with
readily available water, SO that, in
case of an accident, if the miners yer
cut off from any section of the mine,
at least sufficient water would be at
hand to meet their needs.
1t would seem desirable, also, to
nave certain escape shafts located in
the safest parts of the mine. in Sec
lions which could quickly be cut off
in case of fire or explosion. They
should be special shafts, to be used
for the escape of the men in case of
accident. They could be provided with
iron ladders or hand-hoisting appa,
idtuo, II htttooui y, diu Nouiu toilC-
spond somewhat to the fire escapes of
large modern buildings.
1t would seem that devices like
these. which may be used in some of
the more progressive mines, should be
installed in all coal mines where any
considerable number of men are re-
CURED to work. 1t would be as rea-
sonable to require the installation of
such appliances, along with those now
more generally in use, such as ven
tilating fans, etc, as it is to require
devices for the protection of life in
large buildings and on the railroads.
The installation of such appliances
should be supervised by good en-
gineers, and the devices should be in
spected and tested frequently enough
to insure their efficiency. They should
be so installed that an explosion or a
fall of earth will not put them outn of
commission. How extensively are
such appliances used? Can any one
answer the question w
Star.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
The Point in Question
II KINDLY CRITIC

ty old letters he received from his
loving nieces and nephews, he ans
weied but one, that of a little niece
who lived far from the main travel
cd roads. To her he sent a million
dollars. and this message;
I send you greeting and a million
dollars. I do this act simply be.
cause Of all my nephews aud nieees
vino wrote me you were the only one
Who wrote Christmas as it should
be written. All the others used
thar senseless term Xmas BE good
ana youn be happy. Yours,
UNCLE MIDAS"
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
Economy in correspondence.

About the most economical CORE
spondents I've heard Of" remarked
Assistant Postmaster Ray FLOYD,
were two women who stopped at a
window downstairs the other day n
wanted to know If it would be all
right if they both were to write a
friend on the same postal card n
thus save a cent."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24

Once there was a woman who
loved her husband dearly, and at
Christmas time she sought to set
before him the good things of life.
She was a competent judge of table
fare, but of tobacco, alas, she knew
nothing. Said she: Last Christmas
/ bought my husband the cutest little
box of cigars-just twenty-five in a
box; he smoked just two and put
the balance of them aWay-and has
them yet. lie says he's keeping them
to remember me by. Such a cute
box of cigars they were, with a nice
gold band on each cigar. The name?
Oh, my husband calls them Little
Stinkos.' He says they are rare;
are in a class by themselves, and
have an aroma unlike anything he
ever smoked; a ropy, pungent-lke
perfume that makes you see things,
that are not and never will be-that's
what he says. Sometimes | think
he's joking about those cigars. But
the box was just lovely. This Christ
mas I'm going to buy him a lovely
smoking jacket, and ] shall insist up
on his smoking those cigars. It's
simply extravaganza to keep them
any longer
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
Ready for Them.

Friend-Now, if | We're building a
house I'd
Owner-Step around the corner,
please. and you'll find a house I'm put,
ting up to carry out the ideas of my
friends. This is one I'm building to
suit myself-Judge.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24

Once there was a man who was
oh oke" about Christmas time, and
while no one asked him so to do,
he discoursed loud and long about
the foolish extravaganza that pre-
vailed at Christmastide-the buying
of costly presents, and he shifted
at the displays in the jewelers. win
dows. All would have gone well if
he had simply followed his own idea,
and not tried to influence others. But
Scrooge-like, he said unkinw things
about Christmas and the Christmas
spirit, and he tarried long at the
pos card counter and where the cheap
books lay in such profusion. He
bought three nice cards, a calendar,
a small copy of pilgrims Progress, -
and started for her home. Ere he
reached there a long. lean, cadaver-
Gus hand reached down from the
frosty gloom and snatched him up
Pilgrims Progress, cards and all,and
he's never been seen since.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24

Once there was a young man in
love with a girl-or he thought he
was-and when Christmas rolled
around he said to himself, there
is nothing too good for Jacqueline-
here goes. And he straightway pur-
chased for her a costly graphophOne,
that played ~"Shubert's Serenade,'
"The Holy City and my Rosary"
It was a high priced affair, but be-
ing purchased upon the installment
plan, he vas happy. Jacqueline, in
the end, married another man, and
now lulls her infant prodigy to sleep
every night with MY Rosary" and
Jacqueline's husband laughs in his
sleeve and handles the records in a
rough manner. All of which goes
to show that the silly season does
not necessarily come in warn wealth
pr.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
a Common Weakness.

Landlady-Yes. | must confess |
have a weakness for coffee.
Boarder-It must be sympathetic,
The coffee has the same quality.-Meg
gendorfer Blaetter.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
Catholics in Germanu

There are now $4,000, 900 Catholics
in the German Empire. In the same
territory in 1900 there were only
about 5000, 000.-Rosary Magazine.
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24

Once there was a crusty old bill
~lionaire, who had nephews and nieces
galore. Just before Christmas these
nephews and nieces all wrote him a
nee, long, loving letter, asking about
his health, and incidentally mention
ing that another Christmas had roll
ed around, etc, etc. Of some TWEEN
The Falls City tribune., 1909-12-24
Here is a moncy-Sav-
ing proposition.

Go with me into the Big IIorl
Basin.
Buy a small irrigated farm on cas-!
payments; payments as easy as
paying rent in your present locality,
and in ten years you'll have A FARM
OF YOUR OWN in & growing coun-
try where crop-failures are unknown.
and good prices prevail.
Write me for details TODAY. I
am employed by the Burlington ana
my services will cost you nothing.
The Washington times., 1909-05-13
ORTIZ is CALLED
BOLD iRPOSTOR
Diplomats Declare
Johann Salvador Is Mere
ly a Pretender.

Latest developments today convince
Baron Louis Ambrozy. charge d'affaires
of the Austro Hungarian embassy, thet
Johann Saliva .or. the Painesville (Ohio)
machinist who has disappeared. after
declaring that he was the long missing
Grand Duke OF Tuscany, cousin of the
Emperor OF Austria. is an impostor
The baron pointed out that by a CO.
incidence John Orth. or Johann Salvador,
made his alleged Identity known just
few days after the embassy had re-
ceived official advices from the Austrian
foreign Office that a man, answering the
description Of the Painesville machinist
had presented himself TO the consul
general OF the Austrian eovernment at
Montreal, Canada, as the missing duke
and demanded that he be given money
and furnished with transportation home
gave his name as Baron BOtI This was
early in April. When the foreign office
was notified it sent a letter by mail to
the embassy here telling OF the incident
describing the impOStor and notifying
the Washington embassy TO be on the
lockout for the fellow.
Baron AmbrOZy denied emphaticaIly
that the embassy here. or anyone within
his knowledge, had communicated with
the PainesVille machinist.
The Austrian government does not re-
gard seriously the various claimants
who have appeared in the last few
years. lmpostors have shown themselves
recently in several European cities.
The Washington times., 1909-05-13
GOVERNMENT NEEDS
WIRELESS WORKERS"

Workers in wireless telegraphy and
telephony were today raised from the
class of amateurs to the dignity OF
professional men. Uncle Sam needs
them.
To secure eligibles for a nosition as an
electrical expert in the Bureau Of Equip
ment OF the Navy Department the
United States Civil Service Commission
today announced a special examination
to be held on June 9. The position now
vacant will pay a salary of 5000 and
these who take this examination will be
eligible for appointment as openings oc-
cur.
The examination covers a wide tech
nical ground. Candidates will be exam
ined In general technical subjects. ip
special experience with wireless teleg-
raphy and telephony and original re-
search. The duties Of the position will
be 10 have charge of the laboratory
which tests instruments pertaining to
wireless Jelegraphy, and develops spe-
cidl methods OF wireless signaling.
The Washington times., 1909-05-13

OF the washington milk supply. Mr..
Straus says:
Investigation IN Washington showed
one out of every eighteen samples OF
milk taken 20 be tuberculous, and that
one out Of every ten dairies supplied
tuberculous milk. Dr. Schroeder has
shown that milk is not only infected
when the cows udder is diseased. but
2hat one tuberculous cow may infect the
milk OF the entire herd
Mr.. Straus attributes the Increase of
tuberculosis in New York to the fact
that the dangers Of infected milk have
been ignored and almost the entire at
tention of medical men has been turned
to tuberculous patients as the chief
source of infection.
Prevention that deals only with in
fection that may come from the ta-
berculous patient. and ignores the mis-
chief wrought by the tuberculous dairy
COW. is the sort that we have had, and
It has failed to prevent a SO per cent
increase in the number Of victims of
the disease he adds This assocfa-
ton would b5 untrue to the interna-
uonal congress. for which ii is respon-
sible, IL IL were to rest content with
this sort OF prevention. for that con-
gress unanimously decreed that meas
ures are to be continued against bovine
tuberculosis and its transmission TO
man.
THE situation is far TO serious for
any further P0thering over bubbles
about microscopic difference in the
appearance OF the tUOercle baciIIi
found In man and those found in COWS
DR. Mohlar, 90 the Department of Ag-
riculture, among others. has shown
shat the two forms Of the bacillus are
due 20 the media in which they live,
CConInaed on Ninth Page.)