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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1906)
Jfamt mli jVftttyt By F M KIMMELL Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co Subscription 1 a Year in Advance IIoldkeob is in line for froo do livery aud collection of mail in the near future How Covrnnl Were Punished Many of the devices by which mill tary Indifference to life has been ma tured and sustained are curious In ancient Athons the public temples were closed to those who refused mili tary service who deserted their ranks or lost their bucklers while a law con strained such offenders to sit for threo days in the public forum dressed in the garments of women Many a Spar tan mother would stab her son who came back alive from a defeat and such a man if he escaped his mother was debarred not only from public of fices but from marriage exposed to the blows of all who chose to strike him compelled to dress in mean clothing and to wear his beard negligently trimmed In the same way a horse soldier who fled or lost his shield or re ceived a wound in any save the front part of the body was by law prevented from ever afterward appearing in pub lic The First Electric Train The earliest public trial of a passen ger boat driven by an electric motor was that conducted by Professor Ja cobi of St Petersburg in the year 1838 though for four years previously he h ad successfully experimented with electric traction in the privacy of his own grounds The trial of Jacobis vessel took place on the Neva and was witnessed by a vast crowd of people The boat was twenty eight feet long and ten feet wide and carried fourteen persons It was not until four years later that j we find any record of a passenger car riage driven by electricity on land and In this case the inventor was Alexan der Davidson of Edinburgh The car riage was sixteen feet long by seven feet wide and was impelled for a mile and a half at the rate of four miles an hour on the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway The Game of the Sheep Among the gypsies of Bosnia there Is a curious game called the game of the sheep You know they skin a sheep or goat In the east by dragging the skin off whole over its head This skin the Bosnians drip and grease most care fully Then they tie up the four legs and the neck and blow it full of air so that it looks like a very greasy badly shaped sheep This is thrown in the middle of a ring and each man in turn jumps on it with bare feet until one succeeds in bursting it The lucky one then gets a purse Such a funny sight as it is to see them jump and sprawl for of course if they do not strike it at just the right angle they slip on the greasy surface as if it were a toboggan 6lide and go sprawling Proof of Democracy Ma teacher was tellin us that we should all be on a e quality in our schoolroom Nobody should feel any bettern anybody else Thats right George Say ma can I go to school today without washin my face None of the rest of em washes theirs Cleveland Plain Dealer A Cut Artery A quick wltted woman stopped the flow from a cut artery in the leg by putting the foot in three inches of flour in a large jar and packing flour to the top of the jar beating the flour down with a piece of stove ood BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach ft nSrf j 1 i r4 - g si Ay Kmt k CM- Start Early for liiose Easter services Dont go though until your beast has Jiis fill of that extra quality Feed for Easter that we have provided for his ben efit Have us send you a supply Any and all kinds of feed you require from feed for chickens up to an ox we have it THE- McCOOK MILLING COMPANY STORY OF THE- GLOVE IT REACHES BACK INTO THE MOST REMOTE AGES CaHtomn of Zidflcrent Times In Which Glovcn Figured The Ancient Legal Aliaxc From Which Wan Coined tho PhraMe Glove Money Gloves are now worn indiscriminate ly by rich and poor and have no spe cial significance excepting as a com pleting article of the toilet The an tiquity of gloves reaches into remote ages As early as In the reign of Rob ert III glove manufacturers were in corporated by charter in Perth a guild being then established that still exists in name although the town Is not de voted now to the manufacture of gloves as a leading article of commerce A glovers company was established in London In 34C4 but was not char tered until 1G83 In 1GC1 a company for the manufacture and sale of gloves was incorporated In Worcester Eng land where the trade flourishes at tho present time the famous English dog skin made really from Cape sheep skin and of a warm tan color being unapproached in excellence by any oth er makers Paris is a glove market for the whole world In the Swiss mountains kids are raised especially for this industry and great pains are taken to have the animals killed while the skin is fine and soft Tanneries at Millau An nonay Paris and Grenoble prepare them for the stitchers But there are not enough kids raised in France to supply the great demand for gloves and the gamins of Paris find steady and profitable employment catching rats at the mouths of the great drains ot the city to eke out the trade Dogs and even cats contribute also though supplying an inferior article of kid In ancient days a glove represented a contract or pledge a substitute for the hand being cast down by one contract ing party to be taken up by the other It also represented a challenge to throw down the glove often being an in vitation to mortal combat At tho same time to give an enemy a glove in a pacific manner was a pledge of faith to break which was regarded as a crime The borderers of Scotland were so particular about this use of the glove that when one of their knights broke faith with his glove keeper they proclaimed his perfidy by riding to ap pointment balding aloft a spear from the point of which the dishonored glove dangled And if the knight was slain by his own clan it was conceded to be a righteous punishment A fur lined glove worn by Henry VI is preserved in an old mansion that gave him shelter after the battle of Hexham 14G4 It is of tan leather lined with deerskin with the hair on and turned over to form a cuff It is recorded of unfortunate Anne Boleyn that she possessed many pairs of extravagant gloves and would al ways wear them to hide certain blem ishes on her nails which offended the eye of the king Her royal predecessor used to delight in making her play cards without them as it was sure to result in her discomfiture Queen Elizabeth took much pride in her gloves and made an entry in her book of expenses of one payr of gloves embrawret with gold which she sent as a gift to her sister Mary She also recorded the fact of receiving ten payr of Spanyshe gloves from a duches in Spayne It has been customary for gentlemen to remove the right hand glove when shaking hands with a lady This cus tom descended from an ancient one which forbade any one to enter the presence of royalty in gloves because visitors were to stand unarmed with the helmet off the head the gauntlets off the hands to show that there were no hostile intentions Biting the glove is looked upon with disfavor as an unpleasant habit but it had once a deeper meaning a pledge of deadly vengeance Stern Rutherford but little said But bit his glove and shook his head Thus wrote Sir Walter Scott in his Lay of the Last Minstrel It was considered no crime for law yers and special pleaders to take the bribe of a pair of gloves and the cus tom did not fall into disfavor until the gloves were lined with coin which gained the name of glove money To this ancient custom can be traced the present habit of presenting gloves to the guests at weddings or funerals Gloves were first worn by the clergy to symbolize that their hands were clean and not open to bribes Both the old and the modern poets have written tender verses to this ca pricious article of feminine attire Send me a glove you have lately worn and I will tell your characteris tics was the way in which an adver tisement was worded a number of years ago Incidentally a fee of 1 was mentioned in consideration but the people who were enticed into send ing their dollars were more than sat isfied with the result The glove reader told them the most wonderful things about themselves the color of the eyes and hair peculiarities of dis position and many other things Gloves tell tales and carry Individuality as does a favorite perfume used by the wearer New York News Proud of His Complaint I understand Jenks is suffering with rheumatism He has it but isnt suffering What do you mean Hes proud and happy The doctor says its gout Good and Bad She Why do so many men go to the bad He In their eagerness to be known as good fellows Philadelphia Record ALBERT DOUGLAS The Man Who Won a Nomination Avray From Old Flprserii When Albert Douglas of Chillicothe won the Republican nomination for congress in the Eleventh district of Ohio away from the veteran legislator Charles Henry Grosvenor popularly known as Old Figgers the event at tracted wide attention Mr Grosvenor has been in public office thirty five years and was first elected to congress twenty years ago Douglas had been waiting for some years to inherit the mantle of General AIiBERT DOUGLAS Grosvenor and becoming convinced that the doughty warrior and states man was in no haste to cast it from him decided on taking it by force He carried the day at the nominating convention by a vote of 7S to 20 The charge was afterward made that Gen eral Grosvenors lieutenants tried to bribe those of Mr Douglas and that the sum of 2000 was passed over to a certain delegate upon the expectation that he would bring to the Grosvenor standard a stated number of votes According to the story this man took the money swung the delegation to Douglas and then handed back the bribe On the other hand General Grosvenor has declared that it was a snap convention packed by his ene mies Mr Douglas in his address to the nominating convention declared for tariff revision control of railway rates and reform In party organiza tion He is a native of Chillicothe is fifty four years old a graduate of Kenyon college and the Harvard law school and has been prosecuting attor ney of his county RICH IN STATUARY New Yorks Xew Custom Honsc and Its Sculptural DecorationN The New York custom house which has been erected on a historic site be tween Bowling Green and the Battery is one of the most notable of the struc tures built in recent years by the fed eral government It shows the influ ence of the new movements in art and architecture and its profuse decora tions of a sculptural character give proof of the advance made in this coun try in appreciation of the sculptors art An elaborate sculptural scheme has been carried out under the supervision of the architect of the structure Cass Gilbert The decorations are all in- vs4ffij4tvwr Lyras VS3ly vy4y3 mlfmmmm mm wMm fl -mm GEIiERTS STATUE DENMAKK tended to represent an idea suggest something in the history or character of the nation or remind of the great ness of other races and civilizations Over the arch of the main entrance is a head of Columbia by VIncenzoAlfano To the right and left of it are heads of panthers to represent the most im portant of the wild beasts found by the colonists Above the attic over the main entrance is a sculptural shield representing the arms of the United States by Karl Bitter Another dis tinguished American sculptor Daniel C French has modeled for the adorn ment of the building four groups typi fying Europe Asia Africa and Ameri ca The sculptures above the cornice of the main front portray In artistic form countries and cities of Europe One of these statues is that of Den mark the work of Johannes Gelert SUPERFICIAL SENTIMENT Secret of Po rrer Lieu In Intennlty of Emotion Superficial sentiment is without vital Influence Tho secret of power lies In the Intensity of emotion but especially so in poetry art and literature By no hocus pocus can artists and writers adequately depict what they do not feel There should be a thermometer of temperament as well as for temper ature Feeling and emotion have their degrees We are serene when our feel ings are In the temperate zone indig nant when we pass eighty three furi ous when we reach blood heat mad at boiling point When feeling falls be low 50 we become Indifferent and when it reaches freezing point we are heartless An emotion that does not attain the seventy sixth degree Is hard ly worth recording At summer heat the rarest flowers begin to bloom and nature becomes poetic While the tem perate is the proper sphere for pure reason and scientific observation it is rarely if ever proper for the highest achievement In any art In the world of art imagination and feeling are not content with a serenity that touches the borders of indifference The crea tive instinct Is never effective unless at a certain pitch of enthusiasm It is the sharp clear brilliant current of thought that electrifies the brain But an Idea Is worthless unless we can find a form to hold it In the best work idea form and feeling appear to the beholder as one An electric bolt seems a cold thing yet a stroke of lightning will consume more at one flash than an ordinary fire would consume in an hour Francis Grierson in Critic GETTING THE NEWS Method Adopted at the Outbreak of the Revolutionary War In contrast to the workings of the newspaper of the day and of the rap id transmission of tidings without the aid of even a wire to guide the mes sage is a document printed in the Berk shire Courier at the beginning of the Revolutionary war But evidently peo ple were as eager then as now to hear the news For the Purpose of getting Speedy and Certain Intelligence from the at Boston We the Subscribers hereby promise and agree to Ride from this town to Tyringham or Sheffield by Turns so as to bring Inteligence from thence each Day the Sabbath ex cepted and to Report the same at the House of Mr Josiah Smith And in Case no regular method is come Into for bringing the News to Said Tyring ham we promise to bear our propor tionable part of the Expense in pro curing Inteligence from Springfield twice in each Week Witness our hands this 3rd Day of May 1775 Following this agreement is a list of days with the names of the citizens who were to be rlaers Jacob Van Deusen who agreed to be the first man to ride to Tyringham or Sheffield was to go for it oa Monday May 8 and Mark Hopkins was to follow on Wednesday the service from that time on alternating except as to the Sab bath whicli compelled a no news in terval of two days In the week SPEED OF INSECTS A Common House Fly Travels tt Mile In Thirty three Seconds It is the popular belief that the flight of the birds is much swifter than that of the insects but a number of natural ists who have been making a study of the matter think that such is not the case A common house fly for example is not very rapid in its flight but its wings make SOO beats a second and send it through the air twenty five feet under ordinary circumstances in that space of time When the insect is alarmed however it has been found that it can increase its rate of speed by over 1G0 feet per second If it could continue such rapid flight for a mile in a straight line it would cover that dis tance in exactly thirty three seconds It is not an uncommon thing when traveling by rail in the summer time to see a bee or wasp keeping tip with the train and trying to get in atne of the windows A swallow is considered one of the swiftest of flying birds and it was formerly thought that no insect could escape it A naturalist however told of an ex citing chase he saw between a swallow and a dragon fly which is among the swiftest of insects The insect flew with incredible speed and wheeled and dodged with such ease that the swal low despite its utmost efforts com pletely failed to overtake it The Water Pitcher The following simple method of keep ing ice water In a common pitcher Is worth knowing Put a layer of cotton batting between two sheets of wrap ping paper three inches higher than the pitcher Fasten the ends of the paper and batting together forming a circle Paste a cover over one end of the batting and papor This cover when over a pitcher must come close to the staud and so exclude the air and Ice will keep a long time This paper cover will be found of great service In a sickroom for both milk and water pitchers Devotion That was a remarkable Instance of devotion to which an Italian journal referred some time ago wherein a hus band on hearing that his wife looked her best in mourning committed sui cide that she might have an oppor tunity to wear it London Queen Sarcastic Young Doctor He seems to have ev ery confidence in my ability to save him Dlfl Trptnr Ts ho rtpliHrms nn 1 other subjects also Judge r Ladies I Xn7 wgggqgSSeBja jsrTgEgsfraygga HBflnBaaaBMBMwnnBiB Black Cat A Hosiery Try Them Wear 50 percent Longer than the Ordinary Kind Style No 15 The heaviest and strong est Boys Stockings in the world 25c Style No 10 A trifle lighter than No 15 but has Triple Knee Heel and Toe For girls who give stockings hard wear 25c Try a pair of the American Beauty Hosiery and see if you dont find them the handsomest full fashioned made in the finest embroidery and lace effects We can also supply you with anything you desire in infant hosiery Wool with silk heel and toes pretty little lace stripes in all the dainty colors and black Also those serviceable fine ribbed lisle AND FOR MEN we have a full line of hosiery from the plain 12AC up to the elaborately embroidered and fine lace patterns C3ET Every pair guaranteed ojhn r McCOOKSJNEW Is now open plete line of uptOj date annis Wall Paper and Paint Store if a PAPERGLASS10ILSlLEAD VARNISH Fl I BRUSHES STATIONERY PAINTING SUNDRIES BOX ELDER J C Dedman who has been quite sick is reportedjis being better There will be no preaching at the church next Sunday eveningon account of the meetings at Garden Prairie Mrs EttaBrown who has been visit ing her sisterMrs DB Doyle returned to her home at Hardy Wednesday Her niece Miss Edith Ilowiet who had been visiting here for some time returned with her Mrs James Doyle is visiting this week with her sister Mrs J H Stevens of McCook Call at The Tribune otlice and see what can be done for you in the way of reading matter for the coming year It will save you money A delicious wholesome dessert CALIFORNIA EATO Flaked Wheat FoodN C00ks in two minutes Served as Blanc Mange according to our recipe book Mailed free on request In two pound packages Sealed to protect Its purity and flavor All good grocers t i NOTIONS PATTONSfSUN PROOF PAINTS i Orders filled for special mixed paints Painting paper hanging contracting C L Walker Up tc Date Painter andLDecorator tulm im 1111 iiiiwiii mammw i REAL ESTATE 51030 Acre Tracts Alfalfa Sugar Beets Garden Tracts On First Bottom within one mile of the round house will be on the market on easy terms APRIL 1st 1906 Call at the office for particulars JEKelley A G Bump oNext door to postothce ggjU McCOOK - NEBRASKA McCook Market Quotations Corrected Friday afternoon Corn g Wheat T oats Rye 40 Barley Hops eb GoodButtev BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach r at Y i v 1 fr k - r - if 4