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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1908)
m Ml llV ivJfe J r uafafV irrgrffrttgg Bhe Footpad said e Colonel A JVcto gears SKptch 2 y C 3 Lctvis Copyright 1007 by C 13 LowJs Colonel Rnusomc was WHEN up by a footpad In the suburbs New Years night he quietly handed over S0 In cash and said My friend I make no kick I have the reputation of being a good fellow and of having ready money On this blessed New Years day I counted up ten notes I had Indorsed for friends within a twelvemonth past I had each and every one to pay In addi tion I had a list of twenty two men who borrowed from 5 to 20 and for got to pay It back I had fully made up my mind it was cheaper and bet ter for me to be held up on the high way Theres something in that mused the footpad as he lingered More than you see at first glance Not only would It be cheaper but it would save my circle of friends By lending and indorsing I lost a score of them last year It is also more sat isfactory in another way What a rob ber robs me of is gone and I dont worry over it What I lend I must wonder if I will ever get back You have no feeling against me because you have robbed me eh None sir unless it be a feeling of respect and gratitude Thats it Now then had you bor rowed 10 of me and neglected to re turn it you would not only drop out of my list of friends but you would go around with a feeling that I had actu ally wronged you I see You either return a loan and are grateful or you beat the man out of it and dislike him because you have Ho Approved That Plan It was said In the Norton family that Uncle niram had no ear for music a he failed to appreciate the vocal ef forts of his niece Margaret But If his ears were defective his pockctbook left nothing to be desired Weve been talking over Margarets voice said a dauntless and tactful relative who had been delegated to ap proach Uncle Hiram on the subject It really seems as if she ought to take lessons and practice regularly Her mother talks of selling a little of her mining stock for Margarets sake Uncle Hirams keen old face wore a mutinous expression Have to practice two three hours a day I suppose he said dully Oh yes said the venturesome rel ative Then she had a sudden inspira tion It would be best of all if she could go abroad for two or three years she murmured thoughtfully but of course that is out of the question the ex pense Never you mind about the ex pense broke in Uncle Hiram joy fully If she can go abroad a good long ways abroad to take her lessons and do her practicing Ill foot the ex pense Youths Companion French Schools The quality of the secular instruc tion in the French schools seemed to me extraordinarily high It happened for example that I was taken into a classroom where a lesson In English was being given to some French boys of sixteen mostly the sons of opera tives The exercise was conducted in excellent English which the pupils seemed to speak almost as readily as the teacher and the point under dis cussion when I visited the clasB was one which would have puzzled Har vard freshmen It was the distinction in meaning between the words priest a Catholic ecclesiastic clergyman an Anglican and minister a dissenter In American schools or rather in the results of the Instruction there afford ed I have never come across the teachlnc of any foreign language -wronged him Ive been right there in a dozen instances And now about the highway rob ber cr jtinued the colonel as he of fered ne man a cigar and a light You may wonder that I dont warn you against such a career and advise you to reform There are several rea sons for my action In the first place you are giving the public a squarer deal than the so called friend who bor rows your cash or wants to use your name He is a hypocrite piwarictr and general beat you are only a rob ber In the second place you can only get what little money i man happen to have in his pocket aid you ask for no outside favors In the third place the man who reforms is more danger ous than he was before I had a clerk who stole r and reformed and the first thing I knew he got away with 50 Thats about all my friend So long as you rob people in fairly good English and without unnecessary vio lence you are something of a novelty and a good deal of a boon A Sncpov Conversation Mr Snappy My dear Im going to swear Mrs Snappy Now Mr Snappy Ive warned you many times against that bad habit and you a member of the church You ought to be ashamed of yourself ami Mr S Im going to swear Mrs S Dont you dare to do it and In my presence Why have you no respect for a lady Youre posi tively Mr S Im golug to swear Mrs S Mercy Ill cover up my ears I simply wont listen to your profane Mr S Im going to swear sure pop If you dont shut up and let me finish what I was trying to say Ill cuss Its enough to make any man cuss the way you talk Tomorrow as I started to say Mrs S What were you trying to say sir Mr S I was trying to say that to morrow Is New Years day and Im going to swear off swearing wrrrcircomparca in ernciency wun -me teaching of English in secondary schools throughout France And to all appearances this was only one exam ple of the thoroughness and the vitali ty of French teaching in all its branch es Barrett Wendell in France of To day Chinese Sarcasm Once In awhile you meet a common Chinaman who has some of the native wit of his country One such has a laundry In Lexington avenue not far from Twenty third street The other day I heard him yell at a recalcitrant customer You no pay Then you pa per tiger I asked what he meant by a paper tiger and he replied Oh In China a paper tiger is a blackguard who blows much but is harmless He added When a man is very proud of himself what Americans call stuck up we compare to a rat falling into scale and weighing Itself When a Chinaman overdoes a thing we say he is a hunchback making a bow The rich son who quickly spends his fa thers money we call a rocket which goes off at once We say of you rich Americans who send money to the heathens by missionaries and neglect their family at home They hang their lantern on a pole which Is seen from afar but gives no light below New York Press An Arab Honeymoon For seven days after the wedding the Arab bride and bridegroom are supposed not to leave their room The bride may see none of her own family and only the women folk of her hus bands who wait on her She remains in all her wedding finery and paint and does absolutely nothing The bride groom generally slips out at night aft er three days and sees a few friends privately but he persistently hides from his wifes family and shouli he by accident meet his father-in-law be fore the seven days are over he turns his back and draws his burnous or haik over his face This is their view of a honeymoon and they grow as wearv of it as anv European counle do of their enforced continental tour Wide World Magazine JAPANS NEW YEARS GIFT Shimeta Noesima and What He Did For His Country Half a century ago In the ancient city of Yeddo was born a child whose birthday marked the beginning of the greatest epoch in the history of Japan This child was Shimeta Noesima the son of a man of the samurai class one of the aristocrats of old Japan a retainer of a great prince He was born to high privileges and the joy of his parents at the coming of an heir was unoounded Japan at this time was entirely pa gan Her gates were closed to for eigners and signboards throughout the empire bore decrees against Christian ity Reading th Bible was one of the three crimes punishable with crucifix ion The Neesimas were idolaters and they taught thek little son to worship the array of ugly images which adorn ed their home But Shimeta was a lad of keen intellect and sturdy common sense He soon began to lose faith in gods of wood and stone and after he was sixteen would no longer join In the family worship One day in the li brary of a friend he had found an abridged copy of the Bible printed in Chinese characters From that time his great desire was to learn more of the God who was worshiped in the west He had begun also to realize the benighted state of his country in other things than in religion The vis it of Commodore Perry had opened his eyes to the wonders of western civilization and his young heart was stirred with longing to serve his coun try in some better way than his sword bearing ancestors had done He had a history of the United States printed like his little Bible in Chinese and this he studied assiduously With great difficulty he obtained from his parents permission to go to Hakodate an open port where he hoped to find an English or American teacher who would unfold to him the world of learning of which he had had but a glimpse Arriving at Hakodate he was doomed to disappointment No teacher was there Then he deter mined to make his way to America The rigid laws agait emigration were still in force and the undertaking was fraught with danger But finally he succeeded in making his escape and boarded at night an American schoon er bound for Shanghai The Japanese officials searched the vessel the next morning but the captain hid Shimeta in his cabin At Shanghai he was forced to wait for many days until the captain of the Wild Rover a Boston ship offered to let him work his passage to America While in Shanghai he had obtained his first great desire an English Bible for which he had traded one of his swords The kind hearted captain of the Wild Rover became interested in the boy dressed him in American clothes and taught him English The Wild Rover spent several months In trading at oriental ports and it was not until a year had passed that Shi meta landed in Boston Much of the time during the long voyage Shimeta had spent in reading his English Bible It so happened that the Wild Rover belonged to Alpheus Hardy one of the merchant princes of Boston and a famous philanthropist When he was a young man studying at Andover Mr Hardys ambition had been to en ter the ministry His health had failed and he was forced to leave school That he could not become a minister was a cross which almost broke his spirit until it was shown to him that he could serve Christ in other ways than by preaching and he had dedicated his life to making money for God When he learned from the captain of the Wild Rover of the Japanose youth who had come so far to find the truth he saw that here was a great opportunity and he sent for Shimeta So deeply moved was he by Shimetas story that he took him into his family and sent him to Andover to be prepared for mission work in Japan At Andover the young Japa nese noble was fully converted to the Christian faith made public profession and was baptized with the name Jo seph Hardy Neesima In 1874 he returned to Japan under the auspices of the American board of foreign missions During his ten years absence many changes had taken place in Japan The country was now open to foreigners and western civilization was being rapidly introduced Nee slmas scholarship and familiarity with American institutions gave him great influence and he was soon one of the foremost men of the nation He was repeatedly urged to take high office under the government but he had devoted himself to the cause of Christian education and he knew that he could better serve his country in that field than in the field of politics His success which Included the found ing of the great Doshisha university was wonderful and after fifteen years of distinguished service for God and his native land he passed to his re ward on Jan 23 1SIH mourned by the people of Japan as no other private citizen had ever been Hopeless Hes no good at an argument is he Not at all convincing Well I should say not Why that man couldnt convince a woman that she was pretty Cleveland Leader Value of Humor The man who becomes a humorist is the man who contrives to retain a cer tain childlike zest and freshness of mind side by side with a large and tender tolerance Cornhill Magazine The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel Bacon CITY LODGE DIRECTORY A F A M McCook Lo1ro No 135 A F A M meets every first and third Tuowiuy of the month at 800 p in in Masonic ball Ciiablks L Fahnestock W M Lon Cone Sec BOILERMAKERS McCook Lodge No 07 H of B M I S B or A meutM llrst and third Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows hall DEGREE OP HONOR McCook Lodge No 3 D of H meets every second and fortli Fridays of each mouth at 800 p in in Qauecliows hall Mrs Laura Osburn C of H Mrs MatieG Welles Rec EAQLES McCook Aerio No 1514 F OE meets the second and fourth Wednusdnja of each month at 800 pm in Ganschown hall Sociul meet ings on tlio first and third Wednosdujs V H Cummins W Pros H P Peterson W Sec EASTERN STAR Eureka Chnptor Nn 80 O E S meets the second and fourth Fridajs of each month at 800 p mt in Masonic halt Mrs Sarah E Kay W M Sylvester Cordeal Sec G A R J K Barnes Post No 207 G A R moots on the llrst Saturday of each mouth at 230 p m Ganscliows hall J M Henderson Cmndr J H Yarger Adjt KNIOnTS OF COLUMBUS McCook Coancil No 112G K of C meets the first and third TuosdBj8 of each month at 800 p in in Ganscliows hall Frank Real G K G R Gale F Sec KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS McCook Lodge No 42 K of P moots every Wednesday at 800 p in iu Masonic hall M Lawritson C C J N Gaarde K R S KNIGHTS TEMPLAR St John Commandery No 16 K T moots on tho second Thursday of each month at 800 p in iu Masonic hall Emerson Hanson E C Sylvester Cordeal Rec LADY MACCABEES Valley Queen Hive No 2 L O T M meota every first aud third Thursday evenings of each month in hall Mrs W B Mills Commander Harriet E Willetts R K LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS McCook Division No 623 B of L E meots ovory first and third Saturday of oach month at 8 00 in Berrys hall W C SCHENCK C E W D Burnett F A E locomotive firemen McCook LodRe No 599 B of L F E moots ovory Saturday at 800 p m In Gnus chows hall V R Pennington M M S Bixler Sec MACHINISTS Rod Willow Lodge No 587 I A of M meotn every second and fourth Tuesday of the mouth at 800 p m in Guusoliow Iiall D O Hewitt Pros W H Anderson Roc Sec MODERN WOODMEN Noble Camp No CJ M W A meets ovory second and fourth Thursday of each mouth ut 830 p m in Ganscliows hall John Hunt V C Barney IIofer Clerk odd fellows McCook Lodge No 137 1 0 0 F meots ovory Monday nt 800 p m iu Ganscliow s hall E H Doan N G Scott Doan Soc p e o Chapter X P E O meots the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 230 p in at the homes of the various members Mrs C W Britt Pro3 Mrs J G Schobel Cor Sec railway conductors Hnrvey Division No 95 O R C moots the second and fourth Sundays of each mouth at 300 p m in Diamonds hall Joe Heoenberoer C Con M O McClure Sec railwat trainmen C W Bronson Lodge No ibl B of R T moots ovory Friday at 800 p in in Borrya hall H W Conovee M F J Huston Sec WORKMEN McCook Lodge Nn 61 AOUW meots ovory Monday at 800 p m in Diamonds hall Web Stephens M W C B Gray Rec R A M IininFiiiniinnliirHi T A M mania every llrst and third Thursday of each mouth at 8DO p m in Alasomc hall Clarence B Gray II P Clinton B Sawyer St c ROYAL NEIGHBORS Noblo Camp No 862 R N A meets every second and fourth Thursday of each month at 230 p m in Ganscliows hall Mrs Mary Walker Oracle Mrs Augusta Anton Roc b s H Council Nol6RXS M meots on the last Saturday of each month at 800 p m in Masonic hall Ralph A Hagberg T I M Sylvester Cordeal Sec w o w Meots second and fourth Thursdays at 8 oclock in Diamonds hall Chas F Markwad C C W C Moyer Clerk HUMAN RAGE AFFLICTEI WITH QUEER DISEASE Cooper Says Internal Parasites Cause Much Suffering Everywhere The following remarkable statement was recently made by L T Cooper It concerns the preparation which has been so widely discussed throughout the country during the past year and has sold in such enormous quantities in leading cities It is now a well known fact that wherever I have introduced my New Discovery medicine hundreds of peo ple have brought internal parasites or tapeworms to me In many cases these people did not know the nature of the parasite and were consequently extremely nervous until I explained the matter to them In some cities so many have had this experience that the public generally became darmed I take this opportunity of explain ing what these creatures are and what I have learned about them in the past Tapeworms re much more com mon than would be supposed I ven ture to say that ten per cent of all chronic stomach trouble or what is known as a rundown condition is caused by them An individual may suffer for years with one of these great parasites and not he aware of it Contrary to general belief the ap petite is not greatly increased it only becomes irregular There is a general feeling of faintness however and a gnawing sensation in the pit of the stomach People afflicted with one of these parasites are nervous and depressed Their chief sensation is one of lan guor and they tire very easily Lack of energy and ambition affect the body and the mind becomes dull and slug gish The memory becomes not so good and the eyesight is 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