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A sTIiUUTUKAL ANALYSIS
Topic Cause of Stong Drink
Studied in whatever way the udo of
intoxicants is eoen to be a curbu
I A Curee in Modern Social Life
Tho young man who has found street
and city attachments tho young man
who baa taken his first losson in the
game of cards tho young man who oc
casionally goos with his friends to tho
3aloon partaking of a friendly glass
tbo young man who comes and goes as
he pleases tho jouug man who in bis
itnpulsiveuess and false confidence is
brought in contrast with those who
ainko a business of tempting and cor
jupting youth how easy and natural
for ail such to be caught in the meshes
of the drink habit
HI A Curse Financially Our an
aual drink bill is over 1000000000 an
average of more than 100 for every
drinkers family Drink costs more
than bread and shoes and public schools
combined Tho United States has
asore saloon9 than public schools pays
aoarly twenty times as much to saloons
as to schools pays more for liquor than
lor food and clothing combined
III A Curse to the Individual and
ifce Home How the poor drunkard is
pursued by the minions of king alcohol
Murray says You talk like silly idiots
when you say there is no harm in the
cup Intemperance is a scourge to the
home and strips it of its beauty and
purity How it degrados and destroys
It brings poverty misery starvation to
countless thousands
IV A Curse Morally We have re
ferred to the cost of liquor the mere
money loss But the heaviest items of
Joss cannot be
lITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chkistian Bible school at 10 a m
Preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m O E
at 7 p m All are welcome
R M Ainsworth PaBtor
Episcopal Preaching services at St
Albans church at 11 a m and 730 p
m Sunday school at 10 a m All
are welcome to these services
E R Earle Rector
Catholic Order of services Mass
8 a m Mass and sermon 1000 a m
Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday
school 230 p m Every Sunday
Wm J Kirwin O M I
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Baptist Sunday school at 10 a m
Preaching service at 1100 a m Even
ing service at 800 B Y P U at 7 p m
A most cordial invitation is extended to
all to worship with us
E Burton Pastor
Christian Science Services Sun
day at 11 a m and Wednesday at 8 p
m Meetings held in the Morris block
Room open all the time Science litera
ture on sale Subject for noxt Sunday
Unreality
Methodist Sunday school at 10 am
Preaching by the pastor at 11 subject
The Hot and Cold Disciple Class at
12 Union rally of young peoples soci
eties at tho Christian church at 7
Union temperance rally at 8
M B Carman Pastor
Evangelical Lutheran Regular
German preaching services in the court
room of the McCook court house every
Sunday morning at 1030 All Germans
and Russians cordially invited
Rev Wm Brueggeman
607 5th st East
Congregational Sunday school at
10 a m Preaching at 11 a m and 8 p
m by pastor Juuior C E at 3 p m
Senior Endeavor at 7 p m Prayer meet-
estimated the loss of J ing Wednesday evening al eight oclock
character of social respect and standing
in the community the loss of manhood
of personal value and of true self-respect
the loss of the future Little to
look forward to in this life but the
pleasure of swallowing a few more gal
lons of alcohol aud nothing to anticipate
with pleasure in the life to come
V A Curse to the Nation Rum has
become rampant in the land It is de
Saut of law hardened against every con
sideration of decency morality and sen
timent It controls legislatures bribes
judges browbeats juries hurls sneers
and threats at law abiding citizens
Armed with brute force entrenched in
social and political alliances it stalks
through the land with swagger and
boast
VI A Curse to the Church It is
Ihe constant and great enemy cf the
church It is pre eminently the work
of the devil as opposed to tbe Spirit
3nd work of Christ The saloon is the
great social intellectual and moral de
stroyer It is making terrible havoc
and devastation It works unmixed
svil to all classes in all directions J
MC in Practical Commentary
CONCLUSIONS REACHED BY DR ALEX
ANDER MACNICHOLL FROM A STUDY OP
THE CONDITIONS OF THE SCHOOL CHIL
DREN OF NEW YORK CITY
First when money goes for drink pov
erty with its attendant eviis prevails
and the burdens of childhood are in
creased
Second alcoholic environment is un
favorable to the production of the best
3chool work
Third alcohol by producing a train
of psychic and organic degenerations in
the offspring debases the morals and
lowers the sum total of human
3253
Fourth alcohol by laying the founda
tions of a diseased and criminal citizen
ship threatens the stability of our gov
srnment
Fifth to reduce the dangers and bur-
Sens of childhood and to improve the
manufacture of future citizens we must
continue in the largest measure scien
tific instruction in the effects of alcohol
and in the essentials of health increase
he number of our public gardens play
grounds and improved tenements But
these should be supplemented by meas
ures which not only lessen tho effects
of alcohol and the other deteriorating
agencies but also puriry or remove the
sources from which degeneracy springs
EVIDENCE FROM A STRANGE SOURCE
Modern civilization is groping but
it is reaching upward and ha decreed
altera fashion that slums and hopeless
poverty and crime due to waste and
drunkenness shall give way before the
doctrine of the brotherhood of man and I
that those things and those resorts
which degrade must have no place in
the civilization toward which the leaders
of thought are now aiming Bonforts
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Four New City Views
3udan attractive assortment of greet
xcg and other tasteful post cards re
ceived this week at The Tribune office
Something new every week
The public is
services
cordially invited to theBe
G B Hawkes Pastor
Evangelical Lutheran Congrega
tional Sunday School at 930 a m
Preaching at 1030 a m and 730 p m
by pastor Junior C E at 130 p m
Senior C E at 400 p m Prayer
meetings every Wednesday and Satur
day evenings at 730 All Germans
cordially invited to these services
Rev GustavHenkelmann
505 3rd street West
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
Everyone knows what books are
But what is literature It is the ark
on the flood It is the light on the can
dle stick It is the flower among the
leaves the consummation of the plants
vitality the crown of its beauty and
the treasure house of its seeds The
qualities which make a book salable
may easily be those which prevent it
from belonging to literature
From Books Literature and the
People by Henry VanDyke
We have ben making some observa
tion among the library patrons and
these observations have led us to some
queries
It is frequently said that the Ameri
can people are getting the newspaper
and magazine habit We live in such a
busy age that the reading of books is
crowded out The magazines with
their short stories and sketches are
more easily managed
This is undoubtedly true for busy
people yet it is noticeable that a book
of short stories by any writer very
seldom finds especial favor or becomes
popular among the library patrons
When a collection of short stories is
suggested or recommended as delight
fully interesting the borrower will turn
from it saying ho prefers the novel to
the short stories The same state of
mind holds with the juvenile readers
They are not satisfied with the collec
tion of short stories and their prime
favorites are the stories which are pub
lished in a series of from five to seven
books
We do not know how to reconcile this
preference with the fact that magazines
most in demand are the ones containing
the largest number of short stories
Is there a psychological reason for
this variant fancy which calls for the
short stories in the magazines and the
long one in the book
It is recognition of the supposed etern
al fitness of thing which accepts and
approves of one form of literature for
magazines and another for books
Librarian
Real Estate Filings
The following real estate filings have
been made in the county clerks office
since last report
William M Hiller et ux to Geo
A Whittaker wd to 11 in 14
McCook 2500 00
McCook Electric Co the
Public Articles of Incorpora
tion
Josef Cisar et ux to Josef Cisar
Jr wd to e hf sw qr 9-2-27
Josef Cisar Jr to Mary Cisar
wd to e hf sw qr 9-2-27
Myrtle Huntwick et cons to O
V Ault wd to nw qr sw qr
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H I Peterson sheriff to August
Moolnogel sd to nw qr 12-2-29
Lincoln Land Co to City of Mc
Cook qcd to pt ne qr so qr
30-3-29
Mrs E Ritchie et al to George
Ridgley qcd to lots 7-8-9
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TURBULENT GIST
Noisy Nocturnal Rounds of an
Invisible Visitor
QUEER DEATH OF OLD JABEZ
Tho Uncanny Incident That Disturbed
the Quiet of an Old Virginia Home
A Nightly Tramp That Never Ceased
Until the House Was Demolished
I am not exactly prepared to say
that I believe in ghosts said the old
gentleman from Virginia but at the
same time in view of certain things
that have been told me by persons
whose reputations for veracity do not
admit of a doubt I cannot allow my
self to ridicule the ideas of others who
do believe in an occasional return to
earth of the dead
There Ls one case in particular that
I know of personally and that can be
vouched for by a number of citizens
in the upper counties of my state and
that is the case of old Uncle Jabez
Martin who knew n number of well
to do farmers in Fauquier as well as
in Spottsylvanla Rappahannock and
other counties in the northern part of
the state Uncle Jabe as most every
one who knew the old fellow
him had considerable of the not C In
his disposition and led a
pastoral life lie was always v ling
to work when any one needed his serv
ices and did a good deal of rough car
pentering in return for a meal o
wittles and a shakedown as he Ex
pressed It and as lie was pretty well
known in the land of his pilgrimages
it was a rare occurrence when he was
not given a welcome
If old Uncle Jabe thought more of
one family in the state than he did of
another it was the Greens Virginia
as all know is full of Greens An es
timable CFOwd they are and nearly all
of them consider themselves as relat
ed in some degree of consanguinity to
the others of that name The Greens
of Virginia is the finest tribe of that
name in seven states was the con
stant boast of Uncle Jabe and above
and beyond any other Green anywhere
he placed Marse Dickie Green of Fau
quier and that is where my ghost
story if you will please to consider it
as such begins
One wild night in the month of Oc
tober not very long before the war the
old wanderer made his appearance at
Squire Greens Mr Green was called
squire by virtue of being a justice of
the peace Jabe wanted his usual
meal o wittles and shakedown and
it was at his service as usual and
after a good supper he sat on the back
steps of the house smoked his old
pipe for awhile and then went to bed
Squire Green was engaged in some
work that kept him up until midnight
and as the clock struck 12 he heard a
heavy sound on the stairway It soem
ed as if some one was coming down the
steps with heavy irons on the legs
The sound was carried to the door
which was opened noisily and then
closed with a terrilic crash
Thinking it strange that old Jabe
Martin would be guilty of making
such unnecessary noise the squire
rushed to the door and openod it The
moon was shining in all its beauty
and everything was perfectly calm and
nobody in sight Back again went the
surprised squire and up into the attic
chamber where Martin always slept
when he made his calls He found
everything calm and quiet there It
was the quiet of death for old Uncle
Jabe was lying supine on his back
with his glassy eyes staring right up
to the ceiling where the squire left
him until the morning
When he related the circumstances
in the morning it seemed that every
other one of the house bad been dis
turbed by the uncanny noises The
strange part of it is that next night
the same sounds were heard again
even to the slamming of the door and
an investigation proved that there was
no person to make them There were
no cowards in Squire Greens family
but the noises disturbed them and
when they were heard as they were
frequently at midnight they became so
used to them they would simply re
mark that Uncle Jabe was tramping
again and go to sleep again
Friends and neighbors who knew of
the ghostly cereises were averse to
staying all niit in the house and the
darkies coui lift hriied t come near
the pkice after nightfall The sounds
never ceased until after the house was
torn down and even its demolition
whi h it vvs hoioI rigut roveal the
source of its rt irl gvwsoiue
roum1 t vv j t explana
tion Tlr f v foilc vg today in
Fauquier cn s I roister of
the pcosi rr - r cj ciu nl I hivr
no doubt nuJIIy vrlil testify to Hie
truth of w Ht I snado mentioi
of VTashrttcn To-
Thc73 tilcnl
I went into the oiiice looking like i
fright fa id ih woman I didnt
have a chance to strM xhteu my hat o
pat my hair or anything I hid interd
ed to primp going up in the elevator
but there was a man standing before
each mirror twirling his mustache and
I couldnt even get a peep at myself
New York Times
A Sound Reason
Robert aged five was irritated by
the crying of Clara aged two
Sister he said with great serious
ness why dont you stop crying You
must be sick You dont look well
and you dont sound well
Circumstances are beyond the con
trol of man but his conduct Is In his
own power Beaumont
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OLD VILLAGE LOCKUP
Quaint Structures For Confinement of
I D I M I
IIUJUC9 IIIU v uyiiaonu
Several Tillages In the midlands pos
sess hi more or less ruined state their
old parish lockups commonly known
as roundhouses
Rreedon a Leicestershire village
close to the South Derbyshire border
possesses its lockup a quaint stone
building eighteen feet high and eight
feet six Inches diameter inside The
walls are fifteen Inches thick The
door ls of stout oak studded with
many large Iron nails
The lock Is very strong aud the key
hole Is covered with an Iron plate
which itself has to be unlocked by a
spanner before the door key can be
Inserted Ventilation is afforded by
small holes punched in an iron plate
six inches by seven fixed in the cen
ter of the door There Is no window
At Worthington the next village tc
Rreedon the old lockup is a seven
sided brick building badly In need of
restoration an opportunity for archae
ologists which it is hoped will not he
missed Both at Breedou and Worth
ington these diminutive disused pris
ons are on the roadside adjacent to the
pound or pinfold so that the constable
had conveniently side by side the
strayed cattle and any human rogues
or vagabonds he had charge of There
are similar old lockups at Smisby and
Ticknall two villages close to Leices
tershire Sheffield England Tele
graph
BLUSH IF YOU CAN
It Is a Sign of an Active Brain De
clares a Scientist
Sir Arthur Mitchell K C D of Ed
inburgh who knows much that is
strange about dreams laughter and
other commonplace human character
istics has advanced the consoling the
ory that blushing is an achievement of
which eery one wlio can blush should
be proud
lie says it requires brains to blush
Idiots cannot blush neither can ani
mals Sir Arthur calls attention to
the fact that tiny infants do not blush
although they learn to at an early ago
just as soon in fact as the brain be
gins to exercise its functions In
blushing he says the mind always
must be affected It Is always and
only a bodily expression of a mental
state
It is a natural thing for a blusher
to say that he had tried not to blush
No individual blushes of his own free
will The blush arises without call in
stantaneously aud vanishes almost as
quickly Neither for Its coming nor
its going is there any exercise of voli
tion It is controlled Sir Arthur says
solely by the brain and is a positive
sign that there is an active brain there
New York World
Boissiers High Priced Autograph
A nood Boissier Rcnan anecdote is
told by a French paper One day Bois
sier arrived at Rcnans home with a
beaming face saying Now Ill tell
you a piece of news that will humiliate
you My autograph has fetched a high
er price than yours That does not
surprise me Renan said serenely
And where did you hear this It then
turned out that at an auction a day or
two before a Renan autograph had been
sold for V francs and a Boissier for B
Well Renan went on now let hip
tell you the reason There were three
faults in the spelling of your letter
which is now lying here on my writing
table A friend of mine was at the
auction aud made a higher bid for the
letter after noticing the artificial
gems that adorned your prose lie
brought it- to me in order that I might
return it to you instead of reaching the
public which might get a bad impres
sion of the accomplishments of mem
bers of the French academy
Got Near It
A primary teacher was presenting to
her class selections from the story of
Hiawatha preparatory to taking up the
Hiawatha Primer The story was
prefaced by a few remarks in regard
to the poet and his love for children
In reviewing the lesson she asked
How many remember the name of
the poet who wrote this story
Up went many hands
You may tell us Sarah added the
teacher noticing the little one wildly
waving her hand in her intense eager
ness to respond
Mr Longlegs said the child with
evident pride Lippincotts
A Quaint Critic
A noted woman teacher once spoke
before a class of school children on
literature She had spent a week writ
ing the speech She read it to the lit
tle ones as she hoped with great suc
cess but the next day she heard that
a boy on being asked by his mother
what had happened at the school re
plied carelessly
Oh nothing much except that a
lady talked to herself on a piece of
paper
Just the Contrary
Bessie was just finishing her break
fast a- papa stooped to kiss her before
going dowutown The little one grave
ly too up her napkin and wiped her
cheek
What Besie said her father
wiping away papas kiss
Oh no said she looking up witt
a sweet smile Is wubbing it in
A Bad Spell
Poor Jack He never could spell
and it mined him
How
He wrote a verse to an heiress he
was in love with and he wrote bonef
for bonny
A wise man should not refuse a
kindness Herodotus
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There is an infallible test by which
every housewife may detect the vihcaltk
ful alum baking powders
The tefeel wll teH
Study the label If it does not cay cream
of tartar the baking powder is made from
alum and must be avoided
Plenty of McCook Readers Have This
Experience
You tax the kidneys overwork
them
Tiioy cant keep up tho continual
strain
Tho back gives out it aches and
pains
Urinary troubles set in
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Doans Kidney Pills to all sufferers of
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every sense of the word My work
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become disordered and backache was
the result Though I did not take
Doans Kidney Pills as regularly as I
should have done they nevertheless
benefited me greatly and I willingly give
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Cook people Call at McConnells drug
store and ask what customers report
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Maggie said the inexperienced
young thing to the cook the biscuits
were a sight If you cant do bettei
next time I will have to discharge
you
Ye will will ye Maggie retorted
Ill have ye know mum that Ive bin
workin out two years an Ive work
ed fer eighty nine of the best families
In town an I aint never bin dis
charged yet Im leavin this afternoon
fer a better place Judge
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after election is the best newspaper
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the Sunday also No matter what other
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The BurnecT Church
Jim regarding damage to church by
fire Good job it wasnt a factory
Bill Bill Youre right mate Onlj
one man put out of work and he
draws his money Punch
The Rule of Three
Stella What is the rule of three
Bella That one ought to go home
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