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By F M KIMMELL
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If you see a grafters head hit it
The groat railroad magnates still do
clino to take the people of the United
States seriously But they can be
shown and they will be
THB59th session of congress convened
at noon Monday It is destined to be
one of the most important sessions of
the national legislative body in years
None of our readers need to make any
immediate preparations to keep warm
One good and wise friend Sir Oliver
Lodge has just gravely announced that
the sun will be able to do the stunt of
keeping this merry old world warm for
at least 20000000 years more This
will make it unnecessary for most of us
to seek summer quarters on a more con
genial planet
They claim to be able to show at
least one model county down in Missouri
It is Shelby county It has had no
saloons or billiard halls during the past
eighteen years It has had no citizen
in the peniteninry no boys in the reform
school no girls in the industrial school
the county jail is without an occupant
and the circuit court sessions only hold
five days in the year
One paragraph of President Roose
velts message contains the following
railroad rates suggestion It looks good
to The Tribune
In my judgment the most important
provision which such law should contain
is that conferring upon some competent
administrative body the power to decide
whether a given rate prescribed by a
railroad is reasonable and just and if it
js found to be unreasonable and unjust
to prescribe the limit of rate beyond
which it shall not be lawful to go the
maximum reasonable rate this decision
to go into effect within a reasonable
time and to obtain from thence onward
subject to review by the courts
Small Amount in Old Line
Attaches of the Union Pacific are still
perplexed if not annoyed at the strange
order from E H Harriman in New
York calling for a statement of the
amount of old line insurance each em
ploye in the company carries Polls to
satisfy the demand are still being taken
in Omaha and elsewhere along the road
At Cheyenne it is asserted that recently
many employes of the Union Pacific for
warded their proxies to Thomas WLaw
son and it is feared knowledge of this
fact has reached and aroused Mr Harri
man who is desirous of getting at the
exact facts so he may be guided in a
wholesome decapitation
The poll of the employes in the car de
partment of the Union Pacific shops in
Omaha shows a pitiful minority of insur
ance in old line companies The inquiry
developed these facts and figures S584
000 in Ancient Order of United Work
men 10000 Modern Woodmen of
America S30000 Woodmen of the
World 80000 in miscellaneous small
companies and S000 in old liners
Asked for an explanation of the insur
ance inquiry General Manager Mohler
disclaimed any knowledge of it saying
it was a matter entirely with Mr Harri
man The inquiry extends not only all
along the Union Pacific but Southern
Pacific Oregon Short Line and Oregon
Railway and Navigation company as
well
After considerable effort and some
little expense Manager Menard has se
cured the famous play Dr Jekyll and
Mr Hyde for Tuesday evening Dec
12 1905 The company is unquestiona
bly one of the best on the road and is
headed by Mr Theodore Lorch and Miss
Victory Bateman two of the leading
dramatic people of this country
Read the Tribune clubbing list else
where in this issue It will save you
money
oyal
akin
Powder
is made of Grape
Cream of Tartar
Absolutely Pure
Makes the food
more Wholesome
and Delicious
A Plea For Commercial Honesty
Charles E Hughes chief counsel to
the Now York state legislative committo
now investigating the great New York
life insurance companies in a speech a
few days since at a dinner of the alumni
of the University of Rochester dropped
the following suggestive fact
If there is any one great thing which
has been brought out by the present in
vestigation of insurance matters it is
that no one is so credulous as to believe
that the revelations of the investigation
have been peculiar to the insurance busi
ness alone The same exists in nearly
all walks of finance The moral condi
tion of finance and of business men in
this country has been subverted from
old recognized standards of probity and
honesty to attain private aims and great
wealth at the sacrifice of a lasting good
character and the respect of the public
It is time that we stopped and marked
time If we continue we shall face fate
over the precepice of public dishonor
COURT HOUSE NEWS
COUNTV COURT
Licenses to marry have been issued as
follows since our last report
Edwin M Stimmell41and Phillippine
Morhart 24 both of McCook
William Stimmell 38 and Louise
Elbertine 27 both of McCook
Louise B Elmer 27 and Alice Cramer
20 both of Indianola Married by the
county judge December 6th 1905
Charles Creager 24 of Cedar Bluffs
Kansas- and Marie Brosseau 18 of
Concordia Kansas Married by the
county judge December 6th 1905
Edward J Sullivan 23 and Lizzie
Adele Probasco 19 both of Bartley
In the case of EdwardCurlee charged
with embezzlement Defendant Curlee
was bound over to the next term of dist
ict court in bond to the sum of 2000
which was given Case was heard last
Saturday
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
Our visitors are gradually increasing
One day lately we had eighty one visit
ors and loaned forty one books thirty
nine of the visitors coming in to look
over the library read the papers and
magazines of which we are well supplied
and would be pleased to have still more
attention given to them
The library work is growing to such
an extent that Miss Elsie Campbell has
been employed temporarily to assist the
librarian
Ida McCarl Librarian
During 1905 the subscription price of
the Nebraaka Farmer has been cut by
the new management of that paper to
50 cents per year It was the idea of
the new management that twelve months
ought to be devoted to pushing the cir
culation of their paper at a half price
rate The first of next January the old
price of 1 per year will be restored
The Nebraska Parmer has been greatly
changed and improved in all depart
ments during this year and it is the
kind of a farm paper that Nebraska
ought to have and that our readers ought
to subscribe for Subscriptions at 50
per year will be taken at The McCook
Tribune
W H ACKERMAN
Real Estate
Loans and Insurance
Room 6 Walsh Block McCook Nebraska
Large list of FARMS and RANCHES
for sale in Southwestern Nebraska
Farms rented and taxes paid for non
residents
Consult or write me if you have lands to sell or want to buy
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NELSONS FIGHTING MEN
Had ITcw Ilennarea and Faced Death
With a Jcnt
Of tho wooden walls of England
the great sailing ships in wlllch Admi
ral Nelson won his victories and of the
men who worked them a critic writes
Though beautiful to behold and terri
ble to fight with those old men-of-war
were more often than not abodes of
tyranny and wretchedness The vio
lence of the press gangs which seized
men of all ages and occupations was
but a preludo to the oppression that
followed Decent men were herded In
discriminately with ruffians the rights
of free born Englishmen were rudely
snatched from them for them thence
forward there was no law save the
will of the captain and the dread arti
cles of war Shore going leave was
nonexistent the food was atrocious
and scanty punishments were barbar
ous and the only thing served out with
any liberality was rum on which the
men got drunk and then were flogged
for that offense at the gratings next
morning
In Nelsons time the seaman had
few pleasures save the prospect of a
hot light and his daily pint of rum
But to these must be added the vain
glorious satisfaction he took in his
clothes When rigged out in his best
he frequently wore rings in his ears and
silver buckles on Ms low shoes his
short blue jacket would be decorated
with gold buttons and colored ribbons
sewed down the seams to give an addi
tional gayety his waistcoat might be
red or canary and a black silk hand
kerchief would be knotted loosely
round his throat As the finishing
touch his hair would be hanging in u
cue down his back The broad collars
were first worn as a protection against
the grease and pomatum used in dress
ing the pigtail
But all these fripperies were dis
carded when the guns were cast loose
from their lashings and the linstocks
were lighted It was the custom of the
men when going into action to strip to
the waist They took their black silk
handkerchiefs and bound them very
tightly round their heads over their
ears so that the roar of the guns might
not deafen them for life It was re
marked that men going Into action al
ways wore a sullen frown however
merry they were in their talk
Methods followed in that day were
curiously primitive and toilsome but
the results were undoubtedly satisfac
tory save to the nameless and number
less sailors who met grim death on the
black and blood stained decks or in the
dark horror of the cockpit That those
hardy and careless men often faced
death or disablement with a jest or a
cheer only renders their unconscious
heroism the more impressive Chica
go News
T
Ponr Good Itcaaoni b
An amusing incident happened the
other day at a club which had hospi
tably thrown open its doors to two
other clubs A certain well known offi
cer in the brigade of guards was guilty
of the offense of smoking in the morn
ing room As a matter of fact he was
under the impression that it was the
smoking room A brother officer told
him of his mistake He went up to the
only other occupant of the room an
old gentleman dozing in a corner and
apologized for having inadvertently
broken one of the rules of the club
The old gentleman replied without
haste as follows My dear sir pray
do not apologize In the first place I
am sure you would not have smoked
had you known that it was prohibited
in the second I should be the last per
son to blame you if you had done so
in the third I am not a member of the
club and in the fourth I have just
been smoking myself London Globe
The Empire of Dollars
Wall street is the capital of the em
pire of dollars Like all other capitals
it has its intrigues its favorites its
duels its cabals and its camarillas
and like all other capitals it gives its
color to those who spend their lives
there It has even a sort of patriotism
wolf honor which brings its citi
zens together at times in defense of
the dollar and of property rights The
empire of dollars is not altogether a
noble spectacle We are not thrilled at
the mere thought of those Venice bank
ers who financed the crusaders We
do not like to think of those Wall
street manipulators who tried to corner
the gold supply during our civil war
when the nation needed gold Samuel
Merwin in Success Magazine
Time For a Change
What shall we do with our parents
There is my father ruining himself and
me by his willful ignorance and my
mother ruining jjs by her extrava
gances It is a great development of
the times that the ordinary child who
is past twenty is altogether better edu
cated more experienced and wiser
than are his parents It has occurred
to me to suggest that after the eldest
child reaches twenty the parents
should therefore come under the con
trol of the children Letter In London
Graphic
Belgium Shrimp Fishcra
Horses play an important part In
shrimp fishing along the Belgian coast
A procession of weather beaten fisher
men starts from the shore each man
mounted upon the back of a trained
horse dragging the triangular purse
shaped net which scoops In the shrimp
as it passes over the sands These
fishermen on horseback frequently
make hauls of several hundredweight
In a single trip
David Harum the novel written
by the late Edward Noyes Westcott
netted the authors estate about 125
000 according to a statement made In
the surrogates court Syracuse N Y
Through Thlclc and Thin
If monarchs have often permitted
themselves tb Indulgence of making
puns the fact has not been rocorded in
the pages of history One pun how
ever la assigned to King Frederick
William IV of Prussia
It is said that on the occasion of a
court ball he was standing near the
middle of the dance hall In conversa
tion with an exceedingly thin ambas
sador In the haste and excitement
of a fiery galop a lieutenant of the
hussars danced with his partner be
tween the monarch and the person
whom he was addressing and then
seeing what he had done he began to
stammer abject apologies and explana
tions
Oh that was nothing replied the
king with a hearty laugh A hussar
must go without fear through thick
and thin
A whimsical glance from his own
portly figure to that of the slender am
bassador accompanied this answer and
the hussar felt himself not only par
doned but Invited to share in the
kings laugh
Serving Fish
Fish is dainty food Practice is need
ed in serving it Lightness of touch
and dexterity of management are nec
essary to keep the delicate flakes in
tact It requires some skill to rip
the skin and lay it back and sever the
head and tail with neatness and dis
patch These three articles must nev
er leave the platter They belong to
the cat The choicest morsel of any
whito fish is the cheek It is not good
form to cut through a fish Begin at
the tail and throw aside the skin Be
gin at the head to serve cutting to the
backbone When the meat on that side
Is helped turn the fish and help the
other side in the same way If there is
roe a part should be served each per
son Boiling is the nicest way to cook
and the easiest way to serve fish
Dress the edge of the platter with hard
egg and sliced lemon tomato and beets
An Ivory Mat
Many people have never even heard
of such a thing and It Is not to be
wondered at for these mats are ex
ceedingly rare and it is said by those
who know that only three of these
beautiful curiosities exist in the whole
world The one we now write about is
the largest one made It measures 8
by 4 feet and though made In a small
hill state In the north of India has an
almost Greek design for Its border It
was only used on state occasions when
the rajah sat on it to sign important
documents The original cost of the mat
Is fabulous for 0400 pounds of ivory
were used in its manufacture The fin
est strlps of ivory must have been tak
en off the tusks as the mat is as flex
ible as a woven stuff and beautifully
fine London Graphic
Sea Water and Colds
The delusion that sea water does not
give cold is accountable for much harm
A chill may be caught by wetting from
sea water as quickly as by wetting
from any other water There Is a
certain stimulation to the skin from
salt no doubt but that does not pre
vent chills from indiscriminate ex
posure to wetting by salt water and
chills are fertile causes of illness Chill
to the lower part of the body is always
dangerous to any one It Is much more
so to a child than to a grown person
though many people seem to think the
reverse is the case
Sandys Wnrninsr
A volunteer sham fight took place in
England During the retreat a Scotch
volunteer in scrambling through some
bushes stuck fast in a hedge One of
the advancing foe seeing the situation
for a joke came toward the unfortu
nate volunteer at full charge with his
bayonet fixed and a ferocious look on
his face The poor fellow in the hedge
seeing the threatening aspect of af
fairs bawled out at the top of his
voice Haud on you idiot DInna you
ken its only in fun
Mother Liveaeys Well
In the grounds of Livesey Hall near
Blackburn there is a spring called
Mother Liveseys well The curious
thing about this well is that the water
only flows during nine months of the
year and is quite dry during the other
three months June July and Au
gusthowever wet the weather may
be The water a ys commences to
flow on the same unto each year and
never freezes even during the hardest
frost Leeds England News
Like a Miracle
The age of miracles has gone de
clared the cynic
No it hasnt said the woman
My husband told me this morning
that he noticed I was wearing last
seasons hat and gave me money to
buy a new one Baltimore American
Heredity
Oh hubby dear what do you think
are the first words our baby will say
gurgled Mrs Matron
Well if she takes after you they
will probably be This Is a nice time to
come home said the brute Portland
Telegraph
Very Much Happier
A boy reading the verse And those
who live in cottages are happier than
those who sit on thrones startled the
crowd by reading thus And those
who live in cottages are happier than
those who sit on thorns
Human Nature
That fellow Spinks has excellent
judgment
What makes you think so
Why er hes always asking my
opinion about things Louisville Courier-Journal
Alaskas canned salmon output Is es
tlmated this year at 10000000
W Wll
A Heavy Load Off
Your Back
Youll certainly have Mr Santa
Claus when youve distributed
our flour to all who want it
A Load at Xrnas Time
of Flour
of our popular brands is so big
that none but Santa Claus courd
handle it Our flour is like our
feed its popular because its good
wholesome and cheap Buy it
McCook Milling Company
A Very Sensitive Lady
A young lady endowed with the
most sensitive nerves mentioned ono
evening to a few friends assembled in
hav drawing room that she had a hor
ror of the rose The perfume of this
flower said she gives me a severe
headache and faintness The conver
sation was interrupted by the visit of
a fair friend who wore a rosebud in
her headdress Our fair heroine turned
pale directly tossed her arms and fell
gracefully in a swoon upon the otto
man
What a strange nervous suscepti
bility What a delicate and Impres
sionable organization cried the spec
tators For mercys sake madam go
away Dont you see that you have
caused this attack
I replied the astonished lady
Ye3 of course it Is the perfume of
the rosebud in your hair
Really if it is so I will sacrifice the
guilty flower but judge before you
sentence
The flower detached from the head
dress was passed from hand to hand
among the spectators but their solici
tude soon gave way to a different emo
tion The fatal rosebud was an arti
ficial one London Leader
Fato of the Twelve Disciples
Andrew was probably crucified at
Patrae in Achaia Bartholomew said
to have been flayed alive and crucified
with head down in Armenia James
brother of John Herod killed him with
his sword James son of Alpheus
thrown from the temple and stoned to
death John time of death a conjec
ture Judas said to have hanged him
self in a very bungling manner Jude
said to have died naturally and also
claimed to have been martyred Mat
thew claimed as a martyr but proba
bly died a natural death Peter cruci
fied at Rome Philip said to have been
tortured to death in Greece Simon
Canaanite crucified in Judaea in the
reign of Domitian Thomas probably
put to death with a lance in Persia or
India
Typhoid Unto and Pure Water
In Vienna the typhoid rate of 12t
deaths to 10000 inhabitants fell to il
after a pure water supply was ob
tained In Dantzig the mortality fell
from 10 per 10000 to 15 In Munich
after the introduction of a good water
supply and proper sewerage the rate
fell from 21 per 10000 to 63 and ia
Boston from 174 to 56
Information Complete
Chicago Tribune You remember
hat worthless little cousin of mine
you knew ten years ago Well hes
CJapt Harkness novr
United States service Salvation
army or baseball club
M tol1 Il 8 II
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One dose of Ayers Cherry
a v nuiai ttl uiuimic picvciub
night coughs of children
No croup No bronchitis A
Cherry
Pectoral
doctors medicine for all
affections of the throat bron
chial tubes and lungs Sold
for over 60 years
I have used Ayers Cherry Iectoral in tnr
family for eipht years There is nothing eijuiil
to it for coukIir and colds especially for chil
dren Miss W II BrTMKB Shelby Ala
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All drticcists
for
J C AVER CO
Loire Ma
Night Coughs
Keep the bowels opon with one of
Ayers Pills at bedtime just one
INDIANOLA
Indianola is agitating the electric
light question 5
Henry Bollairs of Whito PigeonMichJ
has moved to Indianola
Protracted meetings aro being held
this week at the M E church
Miss Garosby is again al lo to resume
her duties in tho first primary room
Floyd Welborn and wifo returned to
their home in Denver Saturday on 13
L B Simmons has moved into tho
Taylor property in tho oast part of town
Miss Carrie Burton of Cambridgo is
tho now teacher in Miss Reynolds room
Mrs Emma Noe and two daughters of
Danbury were visiting in Indianola a
few days this week
Miss Reasoner who resigned her6chool
on tho Wilowieft Monday morning for
hor home in Omaha
Mrs I M Beardslee came down from
McCook Thanksgiving morning and
spent tho day with friends
C A Teel living north of Indianola
has taken unto himsolf a wife We did
not learn tho fair ladys name
Peter Voge nnd wifo aro the happy
parents of a bnby that camo to them a
few days ago It was a fomnlo girl
In our next issue of items we hop to
be tho bearer of tho nows of another
wedding unless wo aro very much mis
taken
Martin Akers our jewoler enjoyed a
visit from his wifes parents Mr and
Mrs Bloom Inst week Their home is
in Ludell Kansas
L L Simmons and wife havo returned
from their visit to Beaver City and re
port a pleasant timo spent in visiting
friends and relatives
The woods around Indianola resound
ed with the report of firearms on Thanks
giving day The sporting fraternity
were out in all their glory
Mr Streff has commenced his new
houso It will be built of brick and
will be large and commodious Frank
Howe is doing the mason work
Edward Sullivan and Miss Probasco
a young couple living north of Indianola
were married Wednesday of this week
The young folks will lho on tho farm
Another young couple have embarked
the matrimonial sea Mr Louis Elmer
and Miss Alice Cramer drove to McCook
Wednesday and were married by the
judge
Mr Waddells house on tho Willow
burned down about six oclock Wednes
day evening of last week Very little of
tho contents were saved Cause of fire
unknown
Miss Katie Keohlin received a telegram
Sunday evening announcing the fatal
illness of her aunt near Blocmington
Sho left on the early morning train for
that place
Mr and Mrs Ilayden of McCook
came down on Thanksgiving to visit
the day with Lukes folks and mako the
acquaintance of a new grandson that
came to them during the day
In our items last week we erroneously
stated that the Thanksgiving sermon
was preached by the pastor of the M E
church We should havo said Rev
Hawkins of the Congregational church
A crowd of youngsters including the
band called on Mr and Mrs Ward
Quigley at their home last Saturday
night and treated them to some music
They were invited in and had a merry
time
Clarence Dolan went down to Cam
bridge Monday morning and it was
supposed by the paraphernalia he dis
played that ho meant to skate when he
got there He returned on No 5 in the
evening
It must be gratifying to the publisher
to note the steadily growing number of
readers of The Tribute at Indianola
The Tribune is preeminently the county
newspaper of Red Willow county cover
ing all sections of the county and is de
serving of a much larger reading even
than is now given it
COLEMAN
Wm Heun is hauling hay to market
these days
Frank Coleman finished picking corn
last Wednesday
Jacob Smith has bought a new corn
sheller and is ready for business
Wm Sharp has moved into his new
possessions the old M H Cole farm 3
George II Simmerman has treated
his house to a new coat of paint and it
just shines new
On Thanksgiving day neighbors met
at the Coleman school house and offered
thanks to God for so many many bles
sings enjoyed There was no preacher
but all had something to say about
their blessings
RURAL FREEiDELIVERY NO 2
Say friend do you really and fully
appreciate rural free delivery number 2
Mrs M V Sheldon is expected home
from Denver about January 1st being
somewhat improved in health
Elder M V Sheldon commenced a
serious of meetings at Prospect Park
Tuesday evening of this week pZ
That special arrangement weve made
with The Weekly Inter Ocean 105 for
it and this paper for one year has made
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