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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1908)
40 FIRST NATIONAL BANK Interest Paid on Certificates of Deposit Established 23 Years Start a savings ac count next payday and save regular ly for some defin ite purpose You will be surprised to see how fast your account will grow when you McCook Nebraska Get the Saving Habit t HftiBiDlC pll By F JVI KIAIA1ELL Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co Subscription 1 a Year in Advance POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Advertisements FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY At tho very urgent request of many Republicans I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the nomination of county attorney before the Republican primary to be held September 1 1908 S R Smith Chairman Republican Co Central Com 1 hereby announce myself as a candi date for re nomination for the office of County Attorney at the Republican primary on September 1 1908 P E Reeder FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself as a candi date for Commissioner of the First dis trict subject to the decision of the Re publican primary election September 1st 190S T P Gocklev I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of county commissioner for the First district subject to the Republican primary election September 1st George B Morgan Danbury I hereby announce my candidacy for renomination for county commissioner of the First district subject to the de cision of the Republican primary elec tion September 1st Frank S Lofton FOR STATE SENATOR I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of state senator from the 29th senatorial district of Nebraska on the Republican ticket subject to the decision of the primary election to be held September 1st 1908 John C Gammill Stockville Nebr FOR REPRESENTATIVE At the request of numerous voters I hereby offer myself as a candidate for the nomination to the office of represen tative for Red Willow county on the Republican ticket subject to the decis ion of the primary election to be held September 1st Indianola Neb July 24 1903 Frank Moore Merwin is neither mooney ready And that do settle it nor The government has special agents at work trying to collect evidence to sub stantiate proceedings for the disruption of the Harriman system upon the ground that the combination is in vio lation of the Sherman anti trust act The death of United States Senator Allison this week at once removes a large figure from our national life and political activity and opens the door of opportunity to another great Iowan Governor Cummins The Merchants and Manufacturers association of Omaha be it said to the honor of the weekly press of Nebraska is not meeting with much success in its efforts to have the weekly newspapers of Nebraska print its plate matter extoll ing the merits of the whiskey business This piker move of the association does not have even the saving grace of an offer to buy space or pay for space in the press Most Nebraska weeklies will not even print whiskey advertisements be it said to their added glory The cold fact of the matter is that most of the weeklies of this state are favorable lo county option The Evening Trice-a-Week Commer cial Advertiser of Red Cloud will hero after be a straight Republican news paper John F Coiideal of this city Red Willow countys candidate for the Re publican nomination for state senator 29th district is a young lawyer of rec ognized morit and ability one of the rising men in this district in his profes sion Personally ho is above reproach in character Intellectually he has a splended endowment As to his sym pathies The Tribune believes they are with the people and that ho stands four square with the policies of the pro gressive Republicans of the district and state and nation Ho will be strongly endorsed at home The government is wisely and proper ly boosting tho good roads idea Your Uncle Sam is doing it in his own pe culiar way too For instance he is in sisting upon good roads being maintain ed where he locates and continues rural free delivery service and when proper roads are not kept up by the state county or precinct he announces that rural free delivery services of the post office department will be dncontinued This is wise and just People who aro not interested enough in the expensive free delivery service maintained by the government to see that the roads in their own neighborhood are kept in good condition are not entitled to such ser vice And what is more the govern ment declares they shall not have it Look well to your roads MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE T C Beardsley moved to Holbrook Wednesday Mrs C D Noble returned Wednes day from visiting in Beatrice 11 W Conover is visiting his mother and friends in Red Cloud Mrs C will join him Sunday Mr and Mrs Abner Clark and the children have gone to Boulder Colora do on a visit of a week or two to rela tives Mrs V H Solliday returned Wed nesday evening from a Denver hospital and is regaining her health and strength gradually J A Wilcox and F S Wilcox went down to Lincoln Monday night on a flying viBit returning home on 3 Tues day night Mips Linna Mehaffey went up to Fort Morgan Colorado Tuesday to visit a couple weeks with some Pennsyl vania friends J W Dun a way of Overton Neb spent some time in the city this week looking over the prospect for a Demo cratic newspaper in our city C E Eldred enjoyed a brief visit from his brother of Green River Utah last Saturday as the brother was pass ing through the city on his way home Mrs Nellie Cronkhite of Wyoming New York is here on a visit Mrs Cronkhite is Mrs 3 H Burns mother and has considerable property interest in our city S Seaman and son-in-law Charles F Jones of Beatrice spent part of the week here where Mr Seaman has some inter ests Mr Seaman from here goes to Colorado for several weeks J Pickrell of Wymore is spending a few days here visiting his daughter Mrs C K Shears and meeting friends of the olden timB Mrs Pickrell is with her aged and failing mother in Iowa and he is arranging to go to Iowa to live for the present MINOR ITEMS OF NEWS Crackers that are crisp in spite of the weather Ask Scott about it Barney Hofer has received 20000 new colored post cards of McCook Crackers that are crisp in spite of the weather Ask Scott about it Dr Hare examines eyes free and guar ntees satisfaction in fitting glasses No office is complete without a Red Dwarf Ink Pencil Hofer sells them Only three weeks more to get goods at less than cost at The Phelps Clothing Cos If the elbow sleeve fad ever goes south there will be something doing for the corn doctor Our Colorado peas corn etc are as near perfection as it is possible to ap proach in canned goods Huber Use Fly No on your horses and cows It keeps the flies off For sale at Woodworth Cos Druggists Word from San Bernardino Calif states that both Mr F D Burgess and son Carl are improving expecting to re turn in September Correspondence Wanted The Tribune wants correspondence from Perry and Coleman precincts in fact from any part of the country where the paper is not now represented Write the publisher to day Not Quito the Thing Matrimonial Agent I have found for you my friend a veritable pearl a wealthy widow of seventy five The Count I like the pearl but Im afraid 1 shant care for the Inquirer g BUYING A RING A Story The Tell In Japan to Illus trate Occidental Love The Japanese marry out of esteem and trust to the coming of love after ward said a Japanese lady With 08 when love comes It lasts We have a song that we like to sing I want to live to ninety nine years and you must live to be a hundred so that we may be happy while our hair grows gray That Is better she continued than the love that comes swiftly and as swiftly flies away again They tell in Japan a story illustrative of this transi tory love the love of your west A tourist they say was touring Brittany He came to Qulmper and he found In the Place Publique beside the river an old woman selling trin kets What Is the price of this he asked taking up an antique ring of silver and sapphires Is it for your wife or for your sweetheart said the old woman For my sweetheart Fifty francs Fifty francs Nonsense And the tourist turned angrily away Come back said the old woman Take it for ten Youve been lying to me though You have no sweetheart Had the ring been for her youd have bought it at once without regard to its price I will take if said the tourist smiling Here are the 10 francs So the old woman wrapped the ring up But you havent a wife either she grumbled If it had been for her youd have beaten me down to 5 francs Oh you men NATURES LITTLE SHIP A Curious Jellyfish Endowed With a Movable Sail While man makes the largest ocean vessels nature makes the smallest This is a species of jellyfish found only in tropical seas which hasja sail The part of the fish- under the water looks like a mass of tangled threads while the sail is a tough membrane shaped like a shell and measuring quite five inches and sometimes more across The fish can raise or lower this sail at will Wise sailors let this curiosity of na ture alone for each of the threads composing Its body has the power of stiuglng tho results of which are very painful and often dangerous This power defends it from porpoises alba trosses and other natural enemies It has no other means of locomotion than its sail and when seen skim ming bravely along the surface of the water it looks more like a childs toy boat than a living creature out in search of food London Saturday Re view Treating Them All Alike There was only one thing in the world of which Eben Ransom thor oughly approved that was hard steady work I hope said the philanthropic spinster who was spending a fortnight at the Itansom farm I do hope Mr Ransom that you treat all your men alike give them all equal advantages and wages I find a varying standard if I may use the expression makes so much trouble and discontent among laborers in any field of work Mr Ransom surveyed her gravely and nodded assent Youre right there maam he said dryly after a moment There is just one rule for the folks that work for me Begin as early and keep it up as late as theres light to go by and youll get your one fifty a day unless the times are unusual hard when I make it one-twenty-five But I tell you maam you cant get as many fellers to work on an equal basis nowadays as you might think Her Modest Request When Andrew D White was minis ter to Germany he received some queer letters from Americans Perhaps the funniest of all was a mandatory epistle from an old lady living in the west who inclosed in her letter four pieces of white linen each some six inches square We are going to have a fair in our church she wrote and I am making an autograph quilt I want you to get me the autographs of the emperor the empress and the crown prince and tell them to be very careful not to write too near the edge of the squares as a seam has to be allowed for putting them together A Maori Name X seaside resort in the Ilawkes bay district of New Zealand is called by the charming Maori name Tamatauka tangihangakoauau But this is only an abbreviation The full name is Tam a ta u wkakatangikangakoaauaotanenui rarangikltanatahu The translation is The hill on which Tanenuiarangi the husband of heaven played his flute to his beloved Auckland Letter Marital Persiflage I must confess remarked Mrs Crabhe I dont believe there ever was a really perfect man Well replied Mr Crabbe I sup pose thats because Eve wasnt made first How do you mean Well if Eve had been made first she would Lave bossed the job of mak ing Adam Philadelphia Press Wealth a Burden Do you find great wealth a bur den Sometimes answered Mr Cum rox Theres never any telling when mother and the girls are going to in vest in a touring car or a steam yacht or a foreign nobleman or some such form of worriment and responsibility Washington Star - - - - 8P n THEY WENT TO CHURCH A Bit of Strategy That Won For tho Minister When Bishop Wltmer was rector of the little Protestant Episcopal church at UpperviUe Va said a Virginia minister he was much worried by the nonattendance at service on Sundays of the majority of the young men of the community On Inquiry he found that instead of going to church they were in tho habit of playing marbles for stakes Marbles In those days It must be remembered was a much more serious game than It Ls now oc cupying much the same position in the realm of sports as do billiards and pool in these days Bishop Wllmer then a parson not well known determined to break up this practice He himself hud been an expert marble player In his boyhood Accordingly one Saturday he came across a number of the young men en gaged In a game The good bishop asked several questions and finally challenged the lot to play him for keeps They readily consented Much to their astonishment tho young minister won steadily and soon they had to go to the stores to replen ish their stock Toward the close of the afternoon Mr Wilmer had won every marble In the town of Dpper ville Putting his winnings in a bag he remarked as he walked away Now gentlemen since you cant play mar bles tomorrow I hope to see you all at church And he did New York Tribuno THE IVORY HUNTER Troubles Begin When Ho Has to Get Ivory Out of the Jungle First catch your ivory then get it home if you can A mans troubles have barely begun when the tusks of the fallen monsters are chopped out wrapped in sacking and taken back to camp Each weighs 00 or even 100 pounds I have seen specimens that are on record as tipping the scatesat 230 pounds Suppose I have got to gether 100000 worth of One ivory 1 am perhaps a thousand miles from anjwhero with this load of 50000 or G000O pounds There are no railroads no wheeled vehicles even no draft ani mals The stuff must be carried across the wilds of Africa on the backs of na tive porters who think nothing of drop ping their loads and deserting if the fancy happens to seize them The worst of the hunting Is nothing to what such a homeward march may mean I have had my men shot down by hostile tribes from ambush with poisoned arrows I have seen them die in agony from the bites of noxious In sects I have been attacked by bands of Dinkas who knew the value of Ivory as well as I did and who tried to help themselves to mine Everybodys Magazine The Too Fat Fat hens being wretched layers are always sold off by farmers The early Romans banished all use less persons including the fat in this category Ovid in his Art of Love says Keep ever slender and supple for the fat have no success with women The Gentoo tribe enter their houses by a hole in the roof of a certain pre scribed size and they who grow too bulky to enter by this hole are slain as useless and lazy In England it was once the law to put the fat to death All droukittis fatt gluttouis and consumers of vitallis more nor was necessary to the susten tation of men were tane and first com mandit to swelly their fouth of guhat drink they pleatit and incontinent tairafter was drouult in ane frcsche rever New Orleans Times Democrat Spinach Omelet Make a puree of spinach in the usual way that is to say after having boiled it till tender chop it very fine and rub it through a coarse wire sieve season with salt and pepper stir over the fire and add two ounces of butter and a little cream Take two tablespoonfuls of the spinach and stir it into four eggs which have been previously beat en yokes and whites separately Add a little piece of shallot which has been rubbed through the sieve and salt and pepper to taste When thoroughly mixed put the whole into an omelet pan with two ounces of butter and fry a pale brown Serve very hot By stander History of Smallpox Smallpox appears to have been first described by Rhazes an Arabian phy sician living about 00 A L It wa introduced into southern Europe in the time of the crusades and slowly spread into the more northern ivioiK Ii lolT it was carried from Spain to S n to Domingo and thence to Ah i where it is said to have swept of 3ri00000 of the natives It spreu rap idly all over the new world and whole villages ami even tribes of Indians were carried ofT by it Ecicr That hoie i line lalcen from you said t lie- dissatisllel iinint is horri bly draft- Vlei I an sittir in the mdlk of 1ie mi my hair Mow all over my head Cant you do some thing to the win v Dont you think sir tvplud tla house agent suavely it would be easier and cheaper fi r you to get you hair cut London Telegraph Useless Worry It frequently happens that a woman worries a great deal over the question of callinir on another woman who does not care in the least whether she calls er not Chicago Record Herald Folly Is never long pleased with it self German Proverb VERY MUCH IN THE AIR Chairman Frank H Hitchcock and Re publican Headquarters In New York Tho Republicans have chosen tho tallest oillce building in the world the Metropolitan Life building on Madison square New York for the location of the headquarters where Frank II Hitchcock as chairman of the Repub lican national committee wlli prose cute the canvass for the election of Judge William H Taft to the presi dency Chairman Hitchcock and his staff will hold forth on the tenth floor of the building which is the Ilrst floor of the tower The latter has forty eight stories on a liberal count and soars to about 700 feet above the street level The framework of the tower - -- a- m m in in i him THE METKOPOIiITAK IIFK BUIIjDIKO AND FJtANK II HITCHCOCK is now complete but the stonework which will cover the steel skeleton is not in place yet on the upper part of the structure nowever the lower floors of the new portion of the build ing have been rented without waiting for the completion of the tower TJnMl the Equitable Life Assurance coniM iny completes its proposed new sixt two story skyscraper on lower Broadway the Metropolitan Life build ing on Madison square will enjoy the honor of being the highest office build ing not only in New York but any where in the world Mr Hitchcock and his assistants will be able to get a pretty good view of the situation by taking the elevator to the upper sto ries of the tower They can see how the land lies around New York at any time and if their political vision is proportionate in scope to the view they can obtain from such a lofty height they will be at quite an advan tage in laying their campaign plans Time She Began It was on a Sixth avenue surface car A woman sat with her little daughter who to all appearances was seven or eight years old The conduct or came for the fares and the woman gave him a five cent piece Is the little girl with you madam asked the conductor Yes assented the woman Her fare please said the man But I never have paid for her be gan the woman And does that prove that youre never going to asked the conductor taking the fare reluctantly tendered New York Press W B MILLS JI 1 IHLIJ UHI 1 IIJUI1L 1 in LITERARY HERESY Milton Byron Arc Chaucer Spenser and Shakespeare Bores7 Wo had the notion of doing some thing of the kind the Easy Chair confessed when requ est ed furuI a list of the hundred best authors but we could not think of more than first rate author really ten or a dozen to com had begun thor and if we pile a list of the best authors we most of should have had to leave out their works Nearly all the class cs would have gone by the board What made with tho havoc we should have dram British poets The Elizabethan atists would mostly have fallen under the ban of our negation to a play if but for a few not to a man Chaucer poems is impossible Spensers poetry is generally duller than presidential messages Milton Is a trial of the spirit in three fourths of his verse ads worth Is only not so bad as Byron who thought him so much worse Shakespeare himself when he is rever ently supposed not to be Shakespeare Is reading the martyrs Dantes science and politics outweigh his poetry a thousandfold and so on through the whole catalogue William Dean How ells in Harpers Magazine A Picturo of Your Voice To take a picture of your voice it is only necessary to tie a sheet of thin end of a strong paper over the wide tin trumpet Hold it with the sheet o paper upward take a thin pinch of fine sand and place it in the center of the paper hold the trumpet vertically above your face and sing a note into tin lower omL Do not blow but sing the note Lower the trumpet carefully and look at the sand You will find that the vibrations of your voice have scattered the pinch of sand into a beautiful sound picture Every note in the musical scale will produce a different picture so you may produce a great variety of them Some of these pictures look like pansies roses and other flowers some look like snakes and others like flying birds In fact there is no limit to the variation The Gila Monster The Gila monster is a large clumsy lizard from one to two feet long Ho is generally too fazy to be pugnacious but if his anger is once aroused he will grip you with a clutch of a bull dog turning over as he bites so that the venom which is secreted in a gland in the lower jaw instead of the upper like the rattlesnake is pretty sure to mix well with his saliva and so make his attack fatally effective His five toed hands and feet render him adept at bush climbing In his wild estate he lives on young rabbits and birds eggs When captured he eats only eggs or a little chopped meat mixed with them Los Angeles Times The Armenian Alphabet An Armenian girl goes to school at four or five -years old but before that she has probably learned her letters which is almost an education in Itself as the Armenian alphabet contains thirty nine She learns these letters from a small slab of wood on which they are printed This slab is fastened to a handle making it something like a hairbrush in shape The Armenians boast that their formidable alphabet is so perfect as to give every sound known to any other nation Criminals at Large Gibbs visiting What sort of neigh bors have you here Dibbs A bad lot Theres a blacksmith whos engaged in forging a carpenter whos done some counter fitting and a couple of fellows next door who sell iron and steel for a living Boston Transcript Flattering Very Stout Farmers Wife to little rustic her protege Well Sam your master and I are going to the cattle show Cowboy Oh Im sure I hope yeoull take the fust prize m that I do London Tit Bits Farmers You Can Own A Good Drill Cheaper Than Ever We are going to help you by giving you an additional 500f0ff On All McSherry Drills These are one of the BEST DRILLS MADE We bought a carload direct from the factory at Middletown Ohio and this saved the Jobbers profit and are going to give you the benefit We have these Drills in Low Down with 26 inch press wheels and end wheels with chain covers and foot board so you can do a good job of drilling COME IN AND GET ONE Of these SPLENDID DRILLS at the surprisingly low price Our stock will surely not last long at these prices McCook ardware Co Phone31 R- summons r i V m I 4 V -- V - 1 1 tfl r w 1 A- A