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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1905)
W r - v t t ti Fl li1 V j j j LJ k k lH - a K 4 Fv - K V A WOMANS MISERY Mrs John La Rue of 115 Paterson Avenue Paterson N J says I was troubled for about nine years and what I suf fered no one will ever know I used about every known reme dy that Is said to be good for kid ney com plaint but without de riving per manent re lief Often when alone in the house the back ache has been so bad that it brought tears to my eyes The pain at times was so intense that I was compelled to give up my household duties and lie down There were headaches dizzi ness and blood rushing to my head to cause bleeding at the nose The first box of Doans Kidney Pills benefited me so much that I continued the treat ment The stinging pain in the small of my back the rushes of blood to the head and other symptoms disappear ed Doans Kidney Pills for sale dealers 50 cents per box t Milburn Co Buffalo N Y all Mens Heroines Generally Cats The heroine of the average male novelist is intensely irritating to the ordinary female reader she is gener ally a cat often underbred and even when her manners and methods and morals are nominally satisfactory you are left with the firm conviction that if she happened to be on your visiting list you would find her either dull oi disagreeable or both Dora DEs paigne Chapman in London Globe Swordsmanship in England Swordsmanship in one or the othei of Its forms is making marked pro gress In England JNew saiies darmea are being opened and Iresh clubs lormed year by year In London and the provinces and international matches have been arranged In which the English teams at least borne them selves well Hereros Cattle The native cattle of the Hereros In Southwest Africa are tall lean long horned and of little value for beef or milk but they are excellent for rid ing and drawing loads and like cam els can travel for days without watei and with little food They are guided by reins attached to a stick through the nose Grease the Nails Not long ago i saw a person trying to drive a nail through a piece or sea soned oak an Inch and a halt thick This was impossible until 1 suggested tie grease the nail it was tnen driven easily and without bending National Magazine The Best He Had Is this the best claret Murphy asked the Irishman of his butler Ii Is not sorr was the answer but its the best yeve got Greenland now has nearly 12000 in habitants FROM SAME BOX Where the Foods Come From Look here waiter honest now dont you dip every one of these flaked breakfast foods out of the same box Well yes boss we duz all cept Grape Nuts cause that dont look like the others and people know zackly what Grape Nuts looks like But theres bout a dozen different ones named on the bill of fare and they are all thin rolled flakes so it dont make any difference which one a man calls for we Just take out the order from one box This talk led to an Investigation Dozens of factories sprung up about three years ago making various kinds of breakfast foods seeking to take the business of the original prepared breakfast food Grape Nuts These concerns after a precarious existence nearly all failed leaving thousands of boxes of their foods in mills and ware houses These were in several in stances bought up for a song by spec ulators and sold out to grocers and hotels for little or nothing The proc ess of working off this old stock has been slow One will see the names on menus of flaked foods that went out of business a year and a half or two years ago In a few cases where the abandoned factories have been bought up there Is an effort to resus citate the defunct and by copying the style df advertising of Grape Nuts seek to influence people to purchase But the public has been educated to the fact that all these thin flaked foods are simply soaked wheat or oats rolled thin and dried out and packed They are not prepared like Grape Nuts in which the thorough baking and other operations which turn the starch part of the wheat and barley into sugar occupy many hours and re sult In a food so digestible that small Infants thrive on it while it also con tains the selected elements of Phos phate of Potash and Albumen that unite in the body to produce the soft gray substance in brain and nerve centers Theres a reason for Grape Nuts and thero have been many imi tations a few of the article itself but many more of the kind and character of the advertising Imitators are al ways counterfeiters and their printed and written statements cannot be ex pected to be different than their goods This article is published by the Postum Co at Battle Creek Addition al evidence of the truth can be sup plied in quantities - CHAPTER XII The Journey to the Convict Country We left our friends Lang and Den ver in company with Regan and Gold en traveling toward the West Upon arriving at St Paul which was reach ed as Golden supposed without being detected the group was reinforced by another gang of female domestics of about the shade of intelligence of those already being taken to the coun try and embarked on board one of the large Mississippi steamers on its jour ney down the river At St Louis the already large crowd was further add ed to by a curious quartet one was a celebrated pickpocket called Limpy Jim and his stone Pocketbook Pete who were In company with two women of questionable character Dizzy Lill a tumbled down variety actress and French Fannie a roper in for a concert saloon It was not Goldens wish to travel in company with such a large gang of crooks and thus court capture but in this he was not a free agent How ever the vessel had been chartered for the gangs exclusive use and the more people carried the better for the colony Jim Denver in the character of a stowaway managed to secrete himself on board the boat but at the junction of the Arkansas and the Mississippi fearing that Regan and Golden would djscover his identity and being aware by this time of the probable situation of the country parted company with Lang and left the boat The party threw off all restraint when once the vessel began to ply the Ark ansas There was no one on board now but the emigrants to the Convict Country Our German girls had by this time If they had not before learned their fate which was to be married off even against their wills to the several farmers who supplied Swayed back and forward were to find homes This was to them J compensation enough and they made themselves quite happy Louis Lang seems to be out of place in this group He Is unlike any other individual in the gang A pas senger paying his way into the city There had been just as foolish men as he appears brought into the city be fore who for fancied security had paid over their all and awoke to find that their past was but a dream and a future of toil and slavery still ahead of them As we know Lang we know he expects to reap some benefit from the expenditures of his fortune sup posed to have been stolen from Jim Denver Before his eyes were the terrible chances he was taking Time and time again had his life passed in review before him like the brief sur vey of a drowning man and he realiz ed that he was rushing on to almost certain doom He had constantly in mind these thoughts riches or death Life to him was not worth the liv ing unless he obtained wealth and fame even if he had to enter the very jaws of death to accomplish his pur pose To look at him no one would suppose him an extraordinary youth he is as much an ordinary mortal as can well be conceived yet he is a little different He sings and dances plays upon the mouth organ and tells funny stories even the watchful and ssber Golden has to laugh at his wit and each of his German cousins is in love with him The journey is uneventful up to the navigable source of the river where the vessel was abandoned The party forms a pack train and proceeds over land Here the party was met by a guard of ten rough border men and as many prairie schooners with six big strapping mules attached to each wagon Lang Regan and Golden and the other male personages were fur nished with bronchos to ride while the women folks were placed in the wagons The whole outfit were now furnished with defensive weapons as they were traveling oyer a dangerous portion of the continent where might made right and where it was worse than folly to be caught napping with anything on their persons worth steal ing either by desperadoes or Indians It was just four weeks after the time of leaving Chicago that the party set out boldly across the plains None but convicts wagons have ever passed o fc CiUOT CBMM as FWmm A IHMLMDR Br CHARLES MORRIS BUTLER- Tifffar of 7Ze JPerenftv ofXenrerW Teieneif ThapedtZPfcffefJSfc Copyright 1905 by Charles Morris Butler over the rotlte taken for they are now In the Bad Lands and unless fully protected their lives will pay the pen alty of their rashness It Is an eight een days journey from tTmbrina to the Convict City by wagon 25 miles a day but in three days 108 miles are made uninterruptedly On the third day the train was over taken by a severe storm a north easter accompanied by sleet and hall lasting for over a day It took fully three days to rest up and dur ing that time they were sighted by a roving band of Indians who were out after a herd of stampeded cattle Louis Lang conducted himself nobly In the fight which ensued The attack by the Indians was made by night The train had been oh the move up till ten oclock at night Just after forming a solid circle for protection at night and while all was in con fusion over preparing supper while the guards were busy with the tether ing of mules and rubbing down of stock the charge of the Indians came The chief scout of the train Cowboy Charlie accompanied by Lang was viewing the surrounding country from the ridge preparatory to mapping out the next days march when he caught a glimpse of moving forms in the woods on one side of the train It was this fact alone that saved the train from total annihilation It took the scout but a moment to warn his colleagues of their impending danger The wagons were huddled more close ly together the women sheltered be hind an impromptu barricade of boxes in the center and the mules securely picketed as far from danger as pos sible The charge was not made im mediately but the Indians waited for the moon to pass behind a cloud so the boys were somewhat prepared for them Where a confusion reigned a moment since ominous silence now held sway Desperate men used the city with edibles This to to frontier life upon one knee in a them was no great misfortune They half sitting posture with rifles resting upon the spokes of the wagons and their revolvers handy listened for the signal of attack Cool and collected every one was waiting for the inevit able All was darkness for a moment then the charge came Now all seem ed confusion the women screamed the mules brayed the Indians yelled the actual defenders alone were silent With grim determination painted on every face the emigrants awaited the attack and were not caught asleep At last there came the discharge of arms and yells of more unearthly sounds and when the moon again burst out from behind the clouds the first skirmish was over and all but the dead were out of sight Two or three braves more daring than the rest in the first mad rush had leaped to the front and toma hawks in hand had managed to break into the circle One was met by Bowie Bill one by Cowboy Charlie and the third a young chief by Lang Long Rope the chief was out for scalps and had singled out Lang as the easiest man to dispose of and thus break Into the enclosure But Long Rope was mistaken Louis Lang was not taken un awares though unused to border war fare After firing one volley from his repeater he laid It down before film and was upon his feet just as he saw a form leap out from the darkness upon him Louis was armed with that ter rible Instrument called a detectives dirk an Instrument made in the shape of a policemans billy and used much as a sandbag and by pressing a spring through the head of the billy protrudes a shining steel blade which can be used as a knife This is a very dangerous weapon being both a bowie knife and a club at the same time Long Rope expected to run his hand against the barrel of a gun and tomahawk in hand expected to cleave the owners skull in twain But in this he was mistaken In the dark ness the Indian ran quite unexpected ly into the arms of our friend If Long Rope had succeeded in ac complishing his purpose of besting Lang the game would have been won Knife in hand the chief would have stampeded the mules confusion would have reigned supreme the women perhaps have been trampled to death beneath the hoofs of the infuriated and half tamed animals the men to save the train would have had to de vote some attention to capturing the horses and that would have been enough to have made them lose the day in an encounter such aa they were In However Lang was no tenderfoot even if he had been brought up in the city As he felt the earth jar as the chief sprang toward him he reached out his arm and grasped his foe at the same time dealing him a blow with his billy If Lang could have seen his foe in the first place the chief would never have moved again As it was the blow did not stop the rush of the chief simply sur prised him as the blow landed only upon the shoulders For a moment Lang and the Indian fought hand To hand Lang held the Indians right hand with his left the Indian held Langs in the same manner and they swayed back and forward each striv ing his utmost to get the best of his antagonist During the time of this struggle a second charge was made upon the train and the moon uncovering itself a second and third volley was fired by the emigrants with considerable accuracy which completely routed the Indians Bowie Bill had dispatched his antagonist and had propped the body up before him as a shield while calmly meeting the second charge Cowboy Charley had gone to his last account nevertheless he had suc ceeded in finishing his slayer His knife plunged with the strength of a dying man was found embedded in the heart of his enemy When the repulse had been success fully accomplished the border men turned in time to see the end of the struggle between Lang and Long Rope Lang had succeeded in freeing himself from the grasp of his antago nist and by a herculean sweep of his arm had planted his trusty blade in the breast of the chief ending the fray becoming conqueror in a most desperate encounter The Indians now without a leader made a few feints then abandoned the fight fur nishing victory for the whites with but slight loss considering Circumstances made Louis the Hon of the hour His was the play before the grand stand Others may have done more to merit approbation but his was the act seen After every thing had been made snug and com fortable for the night Louis was feted to his hearts content He had longed for just such a chance as this to prove his skill in an emergency and the test was to his credit It made his reputation Youre a handy man with a killing tool said Bowie Bill as he patted our hero upon the shoulder I kinder thought you was a tenderfoot but I see you know how to handle your self You can bet your bottom dollar on that old sport said Louis in braggadocio I done him up brown Yes done it neatly said the bor der man He robbed his bank as easily said Golden proudly Golden was a little fearful of the responsibility he had taken upon himself in bringing Lang along but now he was satisfied with the result Louis had gained the hearty good will of these desperate men by his bravery and it is bravery If any thing that all men admire in men French Fannie came over and em braced Louis You are a duck of a fighter she said And as Limpy Jim approached she continued And if I was not Petes flame Id stick tight ern glue to you See Thanks replied Louis you do me proud Then Dizzy Lill said that she would sing and dance for him on the mor row This was quite a concession on her part as Louis had been trying to get her to do this very thing for him but had thus far failed Im your huckleberry he said To himself he allowed himself to admit that at last he had the bull by the horns and was on the highway to the accomplishing of his intentions To be continued THE LINE HE DREW Professor Had Answer Ready for In quiring Sophomore Prof Bill Baileys recent visit to New York recalls a story that is told at his expense by a prominent sopho more at Yale About a month ago when everybody was getting his spring clothes the professor noted with great annoyance that the attendance at once of his classes was falling off rapidly due to illness On looking up the college records he found that there were more absentees from that one class than there were names on the sick list of the entire sophomore class A general rounding up followed and as a result the attendance once more became nor mal The next week however fate ironi cally decreed that the professor him self should be indisposed and thereby prevented from attending his classes The student In question called on his instructor one afternoon and after a little general conversation for the pro fessor is a prince of good fellows and very popular with the entire uni versity the young man looked at him as he lay there and said with a twinkle in his eye I say professor just where do you draw the line on this sick business Bill looked keenly at him for a moment then appreciating the humor of the situation snapped back with his ever ready wit Oh I draw I draw the clothes line New York Times Well Named Bill I see theyve named a whisky after Admiral Togo Jill Well its a good name for whisky How so It gets the best of so many people S33SSSSSKSS3KSHS3EffieES5SSKS WRONGS OF THE CHILDREN One Child in Five at Work in Early Years Field and Stream notes that one child in five In this country spenda the years between the ages of ten to fifteen at work in coal mines fac tories or similar places Education is at a standstill there is no recreation in field or forest nothing to develop mind or character everything on the contrary to hinder or distort their growth At fifteen the unhappy little creatures dwarfed in every direction pass into circulation In a few years our citizens roll will be one fifth made up of such In his installation address Presi dent Roosevelt said many fine things about our duty and our dawning des tiny to lead the world Make any al lowance you judge fit for possible over statement in the figures we quote the picture will not be greatly re lieved For there is the other and worse side of It that child labor Is one and only one product of the greed and indifference of those who are knowingly operative in causing this stupendous piece of cruelty They are a worse blot on the roll than the children become adults will be In what are we to lead the world Humanity of conduct Uselfish disre gard for gain How long does a na tions public policy remain in advance of its average private standard These children are slaves who de rive no shadow of benefit nothing but harm from their slavery Morally and mentally dwarfed men and wom en they are prematurely fathers and mothers whose children register and reflect the moral and mental status of their parents We once held these truths to be self evidence that all men are en dowed by their Crertor with certain inalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness But perhaps the signers of the Dec laration of Independence were not thinking of children In those moment- ous days New Century Path Cabman Felt He Owed Debt The Rev S Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn tells a story of how a cab man of this city once refused to ac cept pay for his services Dr Cad man had been calling on Bishop Pot ter After arriving at the ferry on his way home he tendered the usual fee to the man who had driven him down The man declined to take it and a beautiful smile lit up his tanned feat ures Id like to know why you wont take this money said the clergyman Ill tell you came the answer I once heard you preach in the Metro politan Temple and at the close of the service you laid your hand on my shoulder and said to me For Gods sake be a man I had been a drunken sot for years but that set me right about face I now own this horse and carriage live with my wife and children in a snug little flat and have 1500 in the bank Its no strange thing that you should forget me but I havent forgotten you New York Times Wise Sister Mary Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow it strayed away one summer day where Iambs should never go Then Mary sat her down and tears streamed slowly from her eyes she never found the lamb be cause she did not advertise And Mary had a brother John who kept a village store he sat down and smoked his pipe and watched the open door And as the people passed along and did not stop to buy John still sat down and smoked his pipe and blinked his sleepy eye And so the brokers seized his stock but still he lingered near and Mary came to drop with him a sympathetic tear How is it sister can you tell why otner snoppers nere sen an then goods so quickly and thrive from year to year Remembering now her own bad lack the little maid replies These other fellows fatten John because they ad vertise London Tit Bits Sensitiveness of Humorists A poet at a banquet of humorists told a story of R K Munkittrick Americans veteran joke writer Blank and I spent the night with Mr Munkittrick at his fine New Jer sey home in May he said and the next morning we came In to New York on the train together Mr Munkittrick had brought along a bundle of funny papers to beguile the ride with and picking up one of these journals Blank began to read it After a while he turned to Mr Mun kittrick and said So this is one of your jokes is It Ha ha ha The veteran joke writer said in a hurt indignant tone Well what are you laughing at Isnt it a good one 1100 Francs for Kings Umbrella The king of the 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