nI I F , M , KIMMELL , I McCOOK , NEB. I ; Printer I _ AND I stationer. H HJ PtJBLISHKR OF AND DEAXKIt IN I Legal Blanks I Note Books , I Books Receipt ) , I Scale Books. J DEAI.EU in I Office Supplies AND 1 STATIONERY Hj ] OF ALL KINDS. HI Ifi i • I TRIBUNE OFFICE , J FIRST DOOR NORTH Or , THE FOSTOFFICE I McCOOK , - NEBRASKA , H PROSPECT PARK. I J. Pickrell is quite sick with the grip. I Nearly everyone is busy now H getting out wood. I Rev. J. M. Bell preached to an I audience o 8 , Sunday. J. H. "Wade and wife visited at Jj. 0. Caldwell's , Sunday. J. M. Hammond and wife and little one visited at R. M. Wade's Monday. Charles Boatman and wife vis I ited relatives north of McCook , Son day. W. A. Holbrook and wife visit ed their daughter , Mrs. Win. Dar lington , Sunday. Miss Hattie Bunnell spent Sat- urdav and Saturday night with j ! Mrs. J. H. Wade. I J Andrew Anderson and wife J drove over into Kansas , Saturday , m } on a visit to friends. I R. M. Wade carries a black eye Mix J j . as a result of a slight misuuder- i • standing with a stick of wood. Mr. aud Mrs. James Boatman and Mr. aud Mrs. C. E. Boatman ate Christmas dinner at L. A. Stephens' . Clifford Dunham and Miss Mattie - I tie Shears attended the Christmas entertainment at the Dodge school house , Christmas eve. The Christmas tree and enter tainment at the Prospect Park school house on Christmas night was a decided success. The pro- I" gram which was quite lengthy , m ' " was well rendered , the tree was , \ very nicely decorated , the house I' , , was filled to overflowing with an I k * appreciating audience. Taken alI - I • * together it was n very enjoyable I affair. t ' I Apple BKttcr I < lke Grmmliuother'fc I The first thing to do is to secure some good , sweet eider ( apple cider ) and boil it half away. ' This should bo done the day before you expect to begiu with the apples. I iibo a porcelain liucd kettle that holds five gallouH. Boil it half ; awny aud let it remain in tbo kettle overnight on the back of the stove. The advantage of this is it is warm and will begin cooking earlier. As eoon as possi ble the next morning I begiu and pre pare the apples as for sauce and put in to the eider ail it will hold. Fill the pot fall to the top , and as it cooks soft keep putting in more apples to keep the ket tle full nntil it is quite thick and let cook slowly and stir very often , us it will burn very readily if it is over too hot a fire. It needs to bo cooked a long time. I uovcr finish mine in one day ; simply move it back on the stove where it will not cook , but keep warm over night. When it is done , it will be cooked away considerably and thick and dark like a jam or marmalade. Do not sweet en until nearly done , as it bums more quickly , and by cooking away as it does it might he too sweet. Use white sugar and : j woe tea to taste. I use no spices , as I consider they spoil the flavor of the cider and applf s. If they are used , they should be of the very best and carefully added. This recipe keeps perfectly without be ing put up airtight. I put it in stone jars and tie a * cloth over it merely to keep out dust. Practical Farmer. An Old Dog. It ia interesting to study the eccen tricities of animals. Their freaks and fancies seem to make them almost hu man. A dear old collie who has been indulged in all sorts of ridiculous whims has recently taken upon himself to re sent the habit of his master and mis tress in sitting up late. When the dog considers that it is bedtime , he becomes restless and wanders about the room , looking ruefully at the offenders as much as to say , "Aren't you ever going to take your departure up stairs ? " When ho becomes convinced that his mute ap peals are unheeded , ho walks slowiy to his accustomed corner and with a deep grunt of dissatisfaction settles himself ostensibly for the night. The funniest part of this performance is that he never spends the night in that corner , but the moment the lights are out aud he feels sure of not being driven down stairs whera he belongs he takes up his quar ters at the top of the stairs leading to his master's bedroom. This same dog has as keen an appreciation of good cake as any human epicure. The wag of his tail when pound cake is given to him and the refusal of that tail to wag when sponge cage is offered tell the story as plainly as words. Brooklyn Eagle. Salute Your Wife. Men do not lake off their hats to each other. They nod. Many married women complaiu of their husbands' incivility in neglecting to treat them with the same politeness they show to their friends. Let all married men remember that marriage does not exempt them from raising their hats both at meeting and saying goodby to their wives. This oversight has often been the cause of a spirit of rebellion iu the young wife , who sees iu it a reason for fancying that her husband has ceased to care for her or only regards her as a belonging to whom any of the civilities of life are unnecessary because she is his. In the same way a wife should foster all those pretty little ways of making him feel that he is still her Prince Charming. Love is 60 often kept alive by these out ward observances that are the harbin gers of refinement that it behooves .all to practice them. Philadelphia Ledger. Grant's Crude Breakfast. It was just before the battle of the Wilderness. The members of the head quarters mess assembled to partake of a hasty breakfast. The general made rath er a singular meal preparatory to so ex hausting a day as that which was to follow. He took a cucumber , sliced it , poured some vinegar over it and partook of nothing else except a cup of strong coffee. The first thing ho did after ris ing from the table was to call for a fresh supply of cigars. His colored servant Bill brought .him two tlozen. After lighting one of them he filled his pock ets with the rest. He then went over to the knoll and began to walk back aud forth slowly upon the cleared portion of the ridge. General Horace Porter in Century. ForthcomingInformation. . Parishioner Doctor , what is the ex act nature of the union between the soul and the body ? The Rev. Dr. Fourthly My dear brother , there are some mysteries I have never attempted to penetrate. But I have a young frieud , the Rev. O. Howe Wise , a recent graduate of our theological seminary , who is writing a sermon on that very subject and will deliver it one week from next Sunday. Don't fail to go and hear him. Chicago Tribune. The Osprey. In the highlands of Scotland at the present time the osprey usually makes its nest iu the flat top of a pine tree , but formerly it just as frequently selected a battlement or a chimney of some ruin , generally on an island. The nest is a pile of sticks as much as four feet high and as many broad the accumulation of many years intermixed with turf and other vegetable matter , lined with finer twigs and finally with grass , much of it often green. Suspicious. Fuddy So Kommuter wants to sell his place out in Switchville ? Duddy That cannot be. He is forever cracking it up aud telling everybody what a beautiful place it is. Inddy Yes ; that is the reason why I.know he wants to dispose of it. Bos ton Transcript The witch hazel in all parts cf Great Britain is considered as a magio plant. In many local traditions it is alluded teas as playing a part in charms and incan tations. * * - . 1 p > J. ' 3 yal FhrasemsklBg. Phrasemaking two or three generations igo played an 'important part iu Freuoh politics. Louis XIV had a literary prompter who used to prime him with phrases and plan for Iini ; scones such as would excite the peoplo's admiration. " Your majesty will soon be going to tha races , " Haiti this prompter one day. "You will find a notary entering the beta of two princes of the blood. When you see him , sire , make tbo remark : 'Whut is the use cf this man ? Ought there to be written contracts between gentlemen ? Their word should be enough. ' " I The scene came off the prompter saw to that aud the courtiers exclaimed : "What a happy thoughtl How kingly ! That is his style. " j Another scene , more likely to impress the populace , was plauned by this t prompter. A sledging pleasure party was arranged for the king. Just as it I was about to start several carts passed by , carrying wood to the poor of Paris. | "Theso are my sledges , " said Louis , pointing to the loaded carts , and he de clined to join Iho party. Talleyrand coined for Louis XVIII the remark which he was reported to # have used ou the day he entered Paris : ! "There is nothing chauged ; only a Frenchman the more in Paris. " As a matter of fact , the king did not trouble himself to utter the phrase , but Talleyraud inserted it in the journals of the day that the people might flatter themselves that their king had forgotten the past , and consequently there would be no change. Perhaps the most striking phrase ut tered by a modern king was spoken by King Humbert a few years ago , when the cholera was raging in Naples. Ho had been invited by the municipality of Genoa to a bauquet , which he declined in these words : "Men are feasting at Genoa ; men are dying at .Naples. I go to Naples. " Youth's Companion. ! Worth More Dead. Sir Wemyss Reid tells a story redo lent of a grim shrpwdness characteristic of canny Novocastriaus. "There was a worthy , long since forgotten , in my j time who was a prototype of Rogue Ri- derhood in'Our Mutual Friend. ' He was known as Cuckoo Jack , and he lived upon the Tyne in a well patched old boat , picking up auy trifle that came his way from a derelict to a corpse. One day 'an elderly aud most estimable Quaker of Newcastle , in stepping from a river steamboat to the quay , slipped and fell into the stream. Cuckoo Jack was at hand with his boat and uickly rescued the luckless Friend and winded | him dripping on the quay. The good I mau drew half a crown from his pocket ] and solemnly handed it to his preserver. : Jack eyed the coin for a moment with a i lack luster gaze , spat upon it solemnly 'for luck' and , having placed jr safely in his pocket , f-aid in : : matteL fact tone to the soaked Quaker , "Mau , ah'd hev gotten 5 shiJliu for takin ye to the deadhoose. ' " Londou Telegraph. The Iiion Sermon. > The annual "lion sermon , " preached in the Church of St. Katharine Crce , | Leadeubull r-treet , Loudon , has been preached annually in the same church for 251 years. Its origiu is due to one Sir John Gayer , a former lord mayor of London , who , traveling in a wild part of Asia far in advance of his at tendants , suddenly found himself alone and face to face with a lion. Being a pious mau , Sir John fell on his knees and prayed God to protect him iu his hour of need. The prayer was answered , for on rising Sir Johu saw the animal walking away. Considering his escape miraculous , on his return to Londou Sir Johu set aside a fund from the iuterest of which gifts were to be purchased for distribution to the poor on each succeed ing anniversary and a sermou be preach ed to tell future generations how God heard his prayer and delivered him from the mouth of the lion. Ilenson and Tom Mann. A writer in Goodwill says that Tom Mann once accused the clergy of not sympathizing with the poor. Archbish op Benson , 1 ring of this , invited him to Lambeth . I taxed him with it. Go ing up to the bookshelf he took down a book aud began reading. "This , "said the archbishop , "is written by a clergy man. What do you think of it ? " "Oh , that's all right , " said Tom Mann. "Who wrote it ? " "I did , " said the archbishop , somewhat triumphantly , presenting him with the book. The book was "Christ and His Times , " aud the passage which the archbishop read was from the chapter ou "Suffering Populations. " Tom Mann often made use of the book at socialist meetings. Birds' Calls. There are many birds of which the male and female have the same call , such as the raven , the rook , the New Zealand parson bird aud the gull , and to the highly cultivated musical ear a difference in pitch may be perceived which would escape the ordinary ob server. With the true songsters there is little difference in the vocal organs of the two sexes , although the males of most species sing better and more con tinuously thau the females. Not a Success. "Theu Miss Newleigh didn't make success as a platform speaker ? " "Success ? I should say not. Got knocked out on her very first speech. " "What was the matter ? " "Lack of common sense. Had a big crowd of women out to hear her , but in two minutes she emptied the hall. " "How did she do it ? " "Said she was glad to see so large a gathering of the plain people. " Scot tish Nights. Appropriate Attitude. He stood as if carved from stone. Those who know the circumstances manifested no surprise. He had just been chiseled out of hi3 rooks. Indianapolis Journal. A Klpllag Portrait. Ho ( McPhee ) was never a racing en gineer and took speoinl pride in saying as much before the Liverpool men , but he had a kuowledgo of machinery and the humors of ships that ho had worked 82 years to gain. Ouc side of his face had been wrecked through the bursting of a pressure gauge in the days when men knew less about pressures than they do now , and his nose rose grandly out of the wreck like a olubin a public riot. There were cuts and lumps on his head , and he would guide your forefinger through his short iron gray hair'and tell you how he had come by his trademarks. He owned all sorts of certificates of ex tra competency , and at the bottom of his cabin chest of drawers , where he kept the photograph of his wife , were two or three Royal Humane society medals for saving lives at sea. Professionally it was different when crazy steerage passengers jumped over board professionally McPhee does not approve of saving life at sea , and he has often told me that a new hell is prepar ed for stokers and trimmers who sign for a strong man's pay aud fall sick the second day out. He believes in throwing boots at fourth aud fifth engineers when they wake him up at night with word that a bearing is redhot all because a lamp's glare is reflected red from the twirling motal. He believes that there are only two poets in the world , ono be ing Robert Burns , of course , and the other Gerald Massey. When he has time for novels , he reads Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade , chiefly the latter , and he knows whole pages of "Very-Hard Cash" by heart. In the saloon his table was next to the captain's , aud he drank only water all the while his engines worked. Rudyard Kipling in McCluro's. Sparrows Play Ball. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Times , writing from New Orleans , says : A party of English sparrows seemed to be having a gay time on the roof just outside my window. I usually throw crumbs for them there , and so have fre- .quent visits from the little fellows. There were six in the crowd yesterday , and from their peculiar antics I gath ered that they were having a game of sonio kind. Watching them minutely , I found this'to be really the case. I had that morning dropped on the roof a small bit of rubber from the end of my pencil , and this the birds had found and were using as a ball for a curious game of pitch and toss. Of couse I could not discover the run of the game very clearly , but they were evidently playing according to rulo. Five of the birds occupied bases , and the little ball was tossed about the min iature diamond at a lively rate. Now and then the little fellows would chat ter aud chirp and change places , and the sixth bird , who sat perched on a chimney top overlooking the sport , was evideutly the umpire , for ouco or twice , if there were more chattering and chirp ing than usual , he would hop down and peck at the heads of the players till peace was restored and the game re sumed. The Russian Crown. The wrowu used by the Russian czar • resembles the dome formed patriarchal miter , which was a favorite shape among the Byzantines. Upon the sum mit appears a cross formed of five beau tiful diamonds , which is also supported by a large spinel ruby , polished , but not faceted. This ruby and cross are supported by a foliated arch composed of 11 great diamonds and rising from the back and front of the base of the crown. On either side of this central arch is attached a hoop formed of 38 large and perfect pearls. The spaces on either side of these arches are filled with leaf work and ornaments in silver , incrusted with diamonds , underlaid I with the richest purple velvet The band which forms the base of the crown is of gold and is ornamented with 28 magnificent diamonds. Why He Felt Bad. "Good morning , Jasper ! I am very sorry to hear of your domestic trouble. " "Wha' sorter trebble dat , sah ? " "Why , I mean the trouble in your home affairs. I am told that your wife has run away from you. Is it a fact ? ' ' " 'Deed , it arsah ! " "Of course you feel very bad about it ? " ' ' ' Yaas , sir. De way de marter stan at de presen' time , sah , I feels mighty bad. " "At the present time ? What do you mean by that ? " "I meau , sah , dat she hain' had time yifc ter go fur 'nough ter make de ole man feel sho' dat she hain' comiu back. ' ' Richmond Dispatch. Foolish Trouble. "I see that a young wife has been ar rested for putting pari3 green into a pie which she had made for her husband. " "Yes , I noticed it. It was very fool ish of a young wife to use paris green if she wanted to get rid Of her husband. " "Why ? " "The pie itself ought to have been sufficient. " London Quiver. Not a Great Bisk. Clara We've had a terrible fight , aud it's all broken off. Maude Do you think there is any hope of a reconciliation ? "Oh , yes ! I am so confident that I have sent back all hi3 presents. " Lou don Fun. Sharp. The girl with a positive geuiu3 for getting things wrong was trying to describe - . scribe a beautiful mouth. "Oh , such a pretty mouth ! " she cried. "Shaped ex actly like Cupid's arrow , you know ! " Philadelphia Press. Keeping : Patent leathers Pretty. Patent leather shoes should be rubbed • to the shape of the foot with the hand , and they will not then be so liable to wrinkle and crack when wearing. White of egg rubbed on them will restore - i store their lorW. < a al $250,000 j I Jm " 2 111 I o an - fiiufin Away m % il B SwJKS I fMjji artick * to smokers of | fl IB 9 ilgl ] P % BlackwelPs § 'IHHBIIIra' ' ' Cenulne * m 9 f lBwrilfufc fcT " 'J V ' ' . "i I k % * & &J ill it III " a ai IllMBillTO Tobacco ' I iifeili'li ' . ' ' ' . . . My You will find one coupon inS H o ' ! ! mi ' . . . . . . & ' 4 i aiid-j- ! i : , , itir ti ! • „ • rach a-ouuee bag , and two 5 H x crtr'or.si in .do cich 4-ouncc 9 j H O The BeSt J j 1jsi. Jjnyrilag. readthccotipou n H § Smoking TobaCCO VVl-2- : . 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