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MOVING IN SCOTLAND OW MAY 23 OCCURS THE ANNUAL CARNIVAL OF FLITTING Me Tiny In Knell Vcnr When tnrc Vans anil Chaos Kclgn Su preme An Odd System Built Op on - 4lie Caution of the Landlnru In Scotland May 28 is annually given Hirer to n perfect carnival of Hitting In England houses of the higher trcnts are taken by the year at any inarter day and the lower rented ones l3j the month or even by the week The fllttinr is thus spread over the jcar and u confusion arises The Scottish system is to let houses by the year from May 28 Even the smallest -consisting of only one room are so let On the great day In any large town the eights afforded range from the to the pathetic As soon ir it is daylight the vans previously trysted begin their work the goods are loaded up witli more -haste than care and to the accompani nent of the good housewifes lamenta i6nsas some cherished household god Is roughly flung Into the van Arrived at the destination further troubles -are in store Perhaps the new bouse is not yet vacated and as the wan is required for other removals the goods are dumped down in the street and there the poor family is left -stranded for the time Occasionally some streets in Glasgow for instance present an appearance of wholesale evictions So numerous are the demands that cans cannot always be obtained and every kind of vehicle including horse less carriages popularly known as ffaurleysr are pressed into the service supplemented by father mother and the children each carrying pictures isnlrrors or other cherished articles too 3recious to trust to the tender mercies of some ramshackle conveyance These processions are moving along all day The representative of law snul order upon this day at least is rvery lenient his gruff Move on is less in -evidence and his ready uote Qook gets a rest There are no cases of obstruction reported although often loaded vans have to remain in a street -all night It may be that the polisman grasps chaos Ut is to be found in the ofthe Scottish landlord It is dif T5culttobtain a house at any other iiSme than the lawful removal day and ihe canny house owner has prudently rent a fortnight previously 3Iay 15 Moonlight Sittings are thus prac tically Junknown and there is little fossofJrent from that cause The rents sm institution to be admired and copied Leading Up to It Bobbie You know them preserves -out in th pantry wot you told me not tSoeat 3Iother Yes Bobbie You know you said theyd anake me sick if I et em didnt you Mother Yes Bobbie Well they didnt Ohio State -Journal The Blessing of Poverty - -What a blessin Is poverty ex vciaimed the old man -A blessing Why yes When youre real down Spoor you have sich a good time hopin zpr the bestrAtlanta Constitution r SSTW JW 10 A H I rjmwmatJamwm at MISTOOK HIS MAN A Cautions American Tourist and Ills Traveling Companion A jautlms American traveling from Paris to Nfce some years ago found a stranger in the compartment in which he had secured a berth Are you Mrf said the stran ger The American Jn surprise answered affirmatively my traveling companion The American realized that this was no ordinary man and soon found him self almost hypnotized by the stran gers commanding eye teach me The American now had little doubt that the man was a card expert look ing for a victim but as no suggestion of high stakes was made he concluded to venture and after some hours play ing had seen nothing on the part of his fellow passenger that looked like cheating But when next norning his compan ion suggested that they play again to while away the time the American grew suspicious again and pleaded a headache When they entered the station at Nice the man handed the American his card It bore the name of Lord Itussel of Killowen lord chief justice of England Youths Companion THE OLD TIME DERBY And How It Differs From the Meet of These Hushing- Says It is strange indeed to look back up on the manners and customs of the rac John Gilpin an outing once in two years as much as they could afford In those days too a visit to Epsom meant making a week of it Lodgings had to be taken in the town by those who were not fortunate enough to be Invited to share the hospitality of some local magnate Racing began about 11 DONT READ IN BED It Is r Dangerous Practice While LylUM Doivn SnyM an Authority Reading in bed is seriously advised so the newspapers say by a physician as conducive to repair and resting j relieving congestion veins overfilled by pro etc It is plain that placing the herd back not even a well person could hold a book five minutes above the eyes Reading in bed has ruined thousands of good eyes Unless one sits up in bed as if in a chair it is impossible to hold the book in such a position that the arms are not quickly tired and so that the light falls on it properly When reading lying down there is a traction upon the inferior recti muscles which is highly injurious Every patient should be warned never to read Li bed except when sitting up as vertically as in a chair American Medicine STRONG PULSE BEATS Cases In Which They Are Perceptible to the Eye It is not such an uncommon thing said a physician to find a person whose pulse beats can be plainly seen and yet I suppose there are but few outside of the profession who realize the fact In most persons the beat ing world in the year of the first Derby of the pulse cannot be perceived but Ehe humors of the situation or perhaps and contrast them with the new the mere fact that the beating is per- ai ifellow feeling influences him No ods In 1780 there was the journey ceptible does not mean that the pulse laubt his own flitting is in progress i down to the little Surrey town and a is other than normal I have come and heTOtires off duty to some strange coachman thought himself lucky if he across a number of cases where the -abode there to assist in carrying in could force his way from Westminster throbbing of the wrist could be plainly jliis goods to sup off a crust of bread to Epsom in twelve or fourteen hours v ind -cheese and sleep on the floor as without dislodging a wheel en route -others have to do I None but the richest class could afford A -stranger naturally inquires the to drive there at all for those were Tause df tthis one day given over to days when tradesmen thought like seen and yet the persons rarely gave evidence of abnormality in tempera ture They were rarely feverish and were in good physical condition When offering food and drink to the early part of the Revolutionary The only advantage to the tenant is InTali3 one should avoid things very gle was an embroidered rattlesnake of tenure for twelve months sweet and very sour- as thc are often hurtful to weak stomachs Most 4and ver the certainty of being sick take milk but in people can many dated at the expiry in the general scramble Of course it happens some times througli new houses being erect ed that some one is able to start the ball rolling a day or two before term to the comfort of all involved in tho -particular circuit but generally speak ing May term day in Scotland is not casus il is iiol wen to give it raw Baked milk is good and may be taken fearlessly into the most delicate stom ach To prepare this properly put two quarts of fresh sweet milk in a jar covered with white writing paper tightly tied down and bake it in an oven moderately hot until thick as apparent necessity One would scarce- crossing on an ocean liner recently 3y expect the worry and discomfort of was a woman who sang whenever she the day and succeeding temporary to be voluntarily undertaken but 3the fact is so The continuance of the system itself 3s a standing monument to the British suffering and law abiding nature - Pearsons Weekly A Great Bargain Mrs Winks A peddler was here to day and I got the greatest bargain sa -whole pound of Insect powder for m1y 10 cents It looks just like dirt 2jut its awfully effective I tried it Mr Winks Wrorked eh Mrs Winks Yes indeed The said I should put a little in water cand apply it boiling hot and I did and 3Z tilled every insect it touched New Xork Weekly was asked but she imposed conditions You were not to mind her attitude A Question of Degree Suave Young Shopwalker May I in quire madam for whom you wish to adopt mourning Lady It is my brother-in-law who is dead Shopwalker Certainly madam This way to the mitigated grief department if you please Thank you London King Expensive Fve quit joking my wife about wo men carrying their pocket handker chiefs ha their pocketbooks said Tenspot It didnt pay How was that asked Hunker She said shed carry money in hers if she had it Handed her out 10 on the spot Detroit Free Press Cultivate patience As you get older you will find that it is the only talent 3pu are- expected to have Atchison Globe t 1 t T wm y c above or below the legend Dont tread on me The origin of this design has been traced to a remark made by Ben Franklin At the time the flag was adopted or immediately before Eng- America and turning them loose on the defenseless colonists After sev eral murders had been committed by these unwelcome immigrants Ben Strange to sav Sandv not oniv takes cream which will take about eight or Franklin some say in a joking spirit tins dav nhilosonhicallv but is much ten A Iess quantity will not re- suggested that the colonists retaliate ancre addicted to flitting than people qmre so Louis Republic south of the Tweed some families mov 3lDs regularly every year without any Her singing Pose by sending a cargo of rattlesnakes to the mother country and turning them out in the gardens of the nobles circumstances New York Times The Laugh Chumpley That hypnotist is a fraud He couldnt control my mind at all last night laugh Tit Bits A Secondary Consideration Shes alius so fraid of somebody swipin dat dog Am it wuff anyting Waal In dis hyah neighborhood a ting doan have to be wuff nuffin to git swiped Puck A Snd Case Pat Poor Mike is did Terry Yis He niver aven lived to injoy his life insurance Baltimore World A PET ECONOMY A Snre Thing A tattered forlorn miss of fifteen summers entered the office of a young real estate man the other day Ordi narily he is the politest of individuals but this day he was so busy that he didnt know where he was at So with a swift glance out of the corner of his eye he said rather sharply Well what do you want mister wont you buy a ticket on our cuckoo clock replied the girl hesitatingly Buy a ticket on your cuckoo clock What the deuce would I do with a cuckoo clock even if I should get it Oh you wont get it mister Please buy a ticket j He bought Kansas City Independ ent i Dogwood Winter A man from North Carolina who was land was shipping her criminals to visiting in Philadelphia in the course of conversation used dogwood winter What do you mean the expression by dogwood winter asked his host Dont you really know what dog wood winter is demanded the man from nickory N C There is always a spell of it in May when the dogwood tree is in bloom For several davs there is cold disagreeable cloudy Speaking of Royalty weather and often a touch of frost Damocles had been invited to dine Down our way it never fails and we with the king of Syracuse Upon call it dogwood winter I thought the She sang with her hands clasped be- ing his seat he instantly saw the sword Phrase was general hind her neck her elbows akimbo on a line with her pompadour the eyes fixed on the smokestack if she could have seen up through the promenade deck j She said it was her method Other men suggested that the only method about it was her idea that she looked pretty that way She sang in this atti tude at the ships concert New York Press hanging by a hair above his head I suppose he said to the king you call that the hair apparent The Colors In Battle Some people may not know that the onysius pretending to see no humor in colors are not now taken into action the remark replied I dont know Before a corps proceeds on service they about that my boy but if it falls upon are placed in safe custody as suits vour head it will make some crown suci honorable insignia and when prints Johnny comes marching home again This shows that the ancients were they will be all the fresher for not be- not averse to joking even under trvins in carried through dusty lands and trying rivers The men whose duty it would have been to carry them and stand by them to the last are nowa days employed in less sentimental if more useful duties Pokely Of COUrse he had some ex- One Attraction Missing cuse Say said the young writer who Chumpley Yes He said there was had been engaged by the circus man to no material to wor on You ought to write up a prospectus of the show have heard the audience give him the Ive about exhausted my vocabulary on this thing Have you a thesaurus No by thunder said the circus man Weve only got a rhinoceros but Iil cable over and buy one New York Times Yes The Big Fire said the conductor I year of the big fire What big fire asked the other man Dont you recollect Twenty nine fellows on our line were bounced for knocking down Chicago Tribune THE GAME OF GAMES When the man proposed cards the solute care as to light and the position about using a certain kind of soap but resolvable into three kinds of stroke American suspected that he was a pro fessional gambler He made many ex cuses finally saying that he cared for none of the games which his compan ion suggested All right was the discomforting reply well play anything you like When the American mentioned an obscure French game which he hoped the other would not know anil found his suggestion taken up eagerly he was more than ever suspicious But asked the American do you know how to play it of the book would in the case of a was not willing to buy it They used thousand busy people add largely to the soap at the club and he the number of hours which reading ated the cakes as fast as he needed could be indulged in without detriment them He needed so many that the to the eyes or general health j steward changed the brand Certainly the one who gives this The same spirit of economy in small strange and pernicious advice could things makes other people stuff them never have tried the plan Some years selves with bread in order that no but ago there was described a patented de- ter may be left on their plate and wast vlce for suspending the book over the ed Hundreds of men would net dream horizontally placed head of a sick per- of buying a lead pencil To save buy son whereby reading would be possible ing stationery others write their let without holding the book in the hands ters at hotels which are generous in iiven men one wonders now tue ngnt providing writing materials Scores of driving approaching and putting But Mr Everard In a lecture unsurpassed for truth and brilliancy by any in all the extremely clever literature of golf has declared that to make those three strokes aright one must have art sci ence and inspiration The Declaration It is a rather curious fact that while facsimiles of the Declaration of Inde pendence were common enough sev eral years ago and were largely used for advertising purposes they are now very scarce so scarce that a Phila delphia collector recently paid 10 for one bearing the advertisement of a western railroad The original docu ment preserved in glass is still to be seen in the possession of the depart ment of state in Washington but it lias become so faded as to be nearly ible by reason of which a photograph- ie reproduction would be valueless James D McBride had plates made and secured a copyright on them in 1S74 but these plates were later de stroyed by fire and none are now in existence Consequently the copies that have been preserved are constantly in creasing in value Philadelphia Rec ord Drury Lnne Drury lane was named after the great family of tho Drurys who once lived there and Clare market after Lord Clare The fame of Drury lane is worldwide Who has not heard of the famous pantomimes at Drury Lane j theater and of the many famous actors j and actresses who have played there Who has not read of the wild exploits of Nell Gwynu the flower girl who ob tained such an ascendency over the Merrie Monarch Pepys calls her ty Nell and records how he saw her in Drury lane standing at her lodg ings door in her smock sleeves and bodice a mighty pretty creature Chambers Journal A Good Prophet Cassidy Kearney seems to be doin well in his prisint job Casey Ah but hell not lasht long in it Cassidy He seems dacint an sober now Casey Aye but hell not lasht a month Oive said so iver since he got the job two years ago an Oill bet Oim right Philadelphia Press j When Seen Afar Is matrimony an ideal condition asked the little one In perspective it is answered her I mother with a quick glance in the j rection of the man who was reading a newspaper at the breakfast table Chicago Post For a Mans Only a Man Mr Bixby There Ive let my cigar go out Do you know it spoils a ci gar no matter how good it is if ycu allow it to go out Mrs Bixby Yes A cigar is a good deal like a man in that respect Pitts burg Press To be tricky and shrewd that is not ber it very well That was in 1S97 the culture nor is it joy but to be square and frank that is culture and It is happiness Schoolmaster The Griffon the first sailing vessel on the great lakes passed through De troit river in 1G79 SHE GOT A SEAT t A - A 1 TT - IT rt rSnlf C u TIIu f - t T3 Knt TIirOUlTll lilt v v j twill lllUilllUIUa UUCf - Jt n - vt9 m v - - a w -- Small ThonRli It 3Iny De Science and Inspiration tallty She Had Invoucu Got a match nbout you asked the J It Is true that there is a point of Humor does not abound in the vigor bookkeeper of the chief buyer view from which golf may be regarded 0us atmosphere of tlie London two- Wnnloi unnllnf 1i nnln nc n n nvtrnmnlv chimin truiriu Mm rcrv nnnnr tiihf IlOtWeOIl 1 llMl v p UJ emptying the once in awhile growled the buyer simplest of all the games with a ball therefore the passengers Jummeu up ilonged eyework j Ive been supplying you with matches and a club says William G Brown in near the fat irate woman one evening for years the June Atlantic The players object last week greatly enjoyeu me wuu I never buy matches never have is simple and single to the point of ing In n hnriznntnl nnsitinn an nlisnlntnlv jinrl noror will sniil tlm simnlc iniudcdness and sinirularitv one Thomas this very I0UUIJ WiiiiL juf Ha said the stranger I inquired meets the whole problem of a relief of j It is my pet economy Most every might say to put a small ball in a ging a mild little husband as they both the booking office who was to be congestion by gravity and it is such a man has one small hole with the fewest possible swayed clutching the leather loops very Important problem that it seems And the bookkeeper was right Near- strokes But so are the objects or tue overhead get a scat tor mc i mi strange that people with weak eyes ly every man has a pet economy and highest ambitions the guiding stars of Conciliatory whispers came from the do not habitually practice reading in a will go to a great length to indulge it careers the most perplexed and mild man who glanced timidly at the recumbent position perfectly At the Union club they still tell of a ous It is true likewise that all the passengers his wife was pushing ble Such advice earned out with worthv old member who was particular countless strokes a golfer makes are against Then Nonsense ler couiunuu me a seat easy enough if ycr wanted to More agonized whispers from the husband and more loud demands from the wife There was great local re lief when an irreproachably dressed young man poiueiy ui ma From the moment the ball leaves the As the woman dropped heavily into it tee whether it be topped pulled or she beamed on him with Any one sliced or whether struck in proper can see youre not my usband sir fashion a trifle below the medial line Manchester England Guardian and urged forward with an exquisite free lashing out of the wrists it takes flight as with wings and seeks its true The Boethlck Indians The Boethick Indians of Newfound- No was the reply but you can could be made to fall properly on the men and women save pennies by pick- course as with a mind and purpose of land at one time the aboriginal page ithout a method or the kind ing up discarded newspapers in the lts mvn until it drops into the cup with itants of the island can now oniy uo vnted trains and ferryboats And so a tintinnabulation that no louder clang counted by one or two skeletons anu a few skulls so completely have tney been swept away The French employ ed the Mic Mac Indians of Nova Scotia to fight against and exterminate them The Boethicks were a peaceable and buyer and the matches The bookkeep j ot twicu off tljc ee ground and the quiet race given to hunting and fish er continued putting green will the possibilities and ing They used canoes made of birch You are stingy with vour old match- probabilities of the stroke be quite the rjnd and of skins of deer like the es Ill just take a lot and then Ill be independent of you Then he emptied out half the box New York Tribune SHOES Never wear a shoo that pinches the heel Never wear a shoe or boot tight any where Never cone from high heels to low heels at one jump Never wear a shoe that will not al low the great toe to lie in a straight line Never wear leather sole linings 10 stand upon White cotton drilling oi lmen is healthier Never wear a shoe with a sole nar rower than the outline of the foot traced with a pencil close under the rounding edge Never wear a shoe with a sole turn ing up very much at the toes as this rbeing lpayable half yearly only the town to dine returning later to witness would rise to a point almost as large makes them compact and attractive cost 6T collection is reduced as is the rlskTiT floss to a minimum The sys jbenv entails great hardship to working i xnencompelled to change the scene of their Uauors They frequently cannot obtain a house until term day and have 1 consequently to take lodgings and sup I port their family in another town If fortunate enough to obtain a house 1 the landlord steps in and requires his frill years rent to be paid or deposited in bank before he allows the goods to be removed The unfortunate head of -a household is also responsible for the Snll years rates of his new house although he may have paid in full at this vacated house the conclusion of the sport Nowadays the man of fashion for the most part elects to travel to and fro by rail He gets his Derby as it were while he waits It is quite possible for him to partake of an early luncheon in Pall Mall witness the great race with out acquiring a wrinkle in his collar or disturbing the nap of his box hat and land back at his club in time for 5 oclock tea and the special editions of as the ball of the little finger of a child and would change from the white of the skin to a blood purple with each beat of the pulse I found it easy to count the pulse beats without touching the patients wrist I could see plainly enough to keep the record and in order not to err in my calculation I tested it in several ways and found it was cor rect and that there was no mistake in my counting with the naked eye i the evening papers The Classic Eng- New Orleans Times Democrat lish Derby by Edward Spencer in Outing Origin of the Rattlesnake Flns Baked Milk One of the most common devices used on the American flags during the it goes It is not so much the actual 01 la- ever surpassed In its sugges money saved that moves people in -ion of victory and consummation these little schemes rather an inborn there is no foreseeing what perplexity desire to economize in something or temptation to carelessness or over- But to return to the bookkeeper the confidence it will present same In the lie the wind the timo cayak They had no pottery and tance to be traversed the obstacles to llsCi utensils of birch rind sewed to be carried there are variations not to gether but they employed soapstone be reckoned by any known dishes as lamps their form being sim 1CS Then as the match approaches its dreadfully quiet climax of defeat or victory the responsibility may grow positively appalling The very delib eration which impossible in most games is so characteristic of this so far from lessening the strain on ones nerves undoubtedly heightens it One has time to estimate the emergency to realize the crisis Not the fiercest rally at tennis not the longest and timeliest home run at baseball not the most heroic rush at football requires a more rigid concen 1 tration of thought and energy or a more dauntless courage than the flick of a putter that sends the ball crawl ing on its last little journey across the putting green when the put is for the hole and the hole means the match There is not a quality of mind or body erally Pulses of this kind from this causes tho cords on the upper part of I will not except or qualifj at all- view which is based upon actual ob servations of cases do not indicate anything more than an abnormal phys- the foot to contract Never have the top of the boots tight as it interferes with the action of the ical condition in the formation of the calf muscles makes one walk badly wrist veins I have met with one case which was possibly a little extraordinary in that it was plainer and mucli a m and after witnessing one or two tinct than any I had ever seen before heats the company would retire to the It could almost be heard The artery and spoils the shape of the ankle Never think that the feet will grow large from wearing proper shoes Pinching and distorting make them grow not only large but unsightly A proper natural use of all the muscles no not one that life itself proves ex cellent which a circuit of the links will not test ilar to those among the Eskimos at the present day They carved deer and walrus horns and the bones of the seal into orna ments which they wore on their dress es and ornamented their heads with combs The carvings are in triangu lar patterns and out of the large col lections in the museum at St John there are no two ornaments having the same pattern Their stone implements were more rudely constructed than those of the western Indians Pat and the Jockey Pat went to a race course the other day and fell in with a number of sport ing friends who were betting on the races He was urged to bet but stead fastly refused until lie saw two of his friends win a large sum on one of the races Finally after much urging he put half a crown on a horse from which moment he became deeply inter ested As the horses came past the judges box Pats fingers clutched the back of the seat and his eyes were wide with excitement The horse on which he had bet finished sixth Without a word but with a look of deep disgust he got up and hurried down to the paddock where the jockeys were Call ing the youngster who had ridden that particular horse aside Pat inquired in deeply injured tones In hivins name young man phwat detained you London Chronicle Snake Bite and Whisky There is not on record an authenti cated case of snake bite cured by whisky Plenty of individuals bitten while under the influence of liquor have died and large amounts of alco hol have failed to save life in many cases Only about one in six of those bitten by venomous snakes dies The remaining five are cured by anything they happen to have taken Stlmua tion is excellent but the giving or whisky to drunkenness by lowering the resistive vitality has undoubtedly been a causative factor in many deaths sup posedly from snake bite that would otherwise not have occurred Ameri can Medicine Fatherly Finesse Father I forbid you to allow that sapheaded Squilldiggs to enter the house again Daughter But I love him Father I shall disinherit you I shall shoot him I shall Daughter Later Father Say wife be sure you double Gwendolins allowance todav and give it to her early I think she is going to elope with young Squilldiggs tonight San Francisco Bulletin All the Ullterence Ticket Collector to passenger In first class carriage with second class ticket Your ticket is second class sir You must pay the difference Passenger The second class car riages were full Collector Yes but there was plenty of room third class Passenger Quite so Pay me the difference and Ill change Wanted a ew One Sandy I want tae buy a necktie Shopman showing some fashionable specimens Here is a tie that Is very much worn Sandy I dinna want ane thats very muekle worn Ive plenty o them at hame London Tit Bits Slakes It Good That fellow makes mighty good money Indeed Sure he works in the mint Bal timore News Here Is a pointer Dont get angry because it Is the common error in wrath to abuse the wrong person Atchison Globe Every base occupation makes one sharp in Its practice and dull In everv other SIr Philip Sidney f y r i 7 A A mi 4 ii i