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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1910)
1 s - s A 4f nsJ f 1 l lEODOE Gastronomic Prize Medalist The man who Invents a noiseless method of eating corn on the cob and points out how one can partake of watermelon without betting his ears wet will be a true benefactor I IA AiCTu a Tlir mmi Leonard Wood rn li Iteprlntod from nn article by Theodore Roosevelt In The Outlook by speclnl arrangement with The Outlook of which Theodore Roosevelt Is Contributing Editor Copyright lOO by The Outlook Company All Rights Reserved Gen Leonard Wood 1ms just re turned from South America to take up his duties as chief of the general staff of the United States army the highest military position which the service af fords Nearly 12 years ago when Leonard Wood was acting as governor of Santi ago I wrote in the Outlook about what he had already achieved and what he could he trusted to achieve During the intervening 12 years he has played a very conspicuous part among the men who have rendered signal service to the country by the way in which they have enabled It to grapple with the duties and responsibilities in curred by the Spanish war What has been accomplished in the Philippines in Cuba in Porto Rico in Panama and In San Domingo during these 12 years represents a sum of achieve ment of which this nation has a right to be extremely proud In each locali ty the problem has been different in each locality it has been solved with signal success Of course there have been mistakes and shortcomings but on the whole it would be difficult to find anywhere a finer record of suc cessful accomplishment This record is primarily due to the admirable qual ity of the men put at the head of af fairs in the different places Messrs Taft Luke Wright Smith and Forbes Messrs Hunt Winthrop Post and Col ton Governor Magoon Colonel Goeth als to these and their colleagues and subordinates the country owes a heavy debt of obligation Most of those T have mentioned are civilians Colonel Goethals under whom the gigantic work of the Pana ma canal is being accomplished with literally astounding rapidity and suc cess is a representative of the army The share of the army in the honor roll is very large The importance of work like that of General Bell in the Philippines of General Barry in Cuba can hardly be overestimated but as a whole of all the work of the army officers the greatest in amount and the greatest in variety of achieve ment must be credited to General Wood And moreover he has at times combined with singular success the functions of civil administrator and military commandant The part played by the United States in Cuba has been one of the most honorable ever played by any nation in dealing with a weaker power one of the most satisfactory in all respects and to General Wood more than to any other one man is due the credit of starting this work and conducting it to a suc cessful conclusion during the earliest and most difficult years Like almost all of the men mentioned as well as their colleagues General Wood of course incurred the violent hatred of many dishonest schemers and un scrupulous adventurers and of a few IS TOO MUCH HANDSHAKING Other Ways of Greeting Friends That Are Much Preferable Accord ing to Writer Although a few have suffered the unpleasant experience of the man in the case recently reported the bones of whose hands were forced out of place by the vise like grasp of a too vigorous and unduly demonstrative friend most people will be inspired by their personal recollections to sympa thize with this victim of a misdirect ed ardor Everyone knows people who seek to express the sincerity and ear nestness of their good will by squeez ing the hand they take as though they were trying to break every one of the score or so of bones which the human hand comprises and every one on such occasions must have wished that some other form of salutation than the one most in vogue had been de vised and were generally practiced Shaking hands is a relic of barbar ism anyhow It became the custom in the days when every one carried a dagger in his belt and when one friend meeting another thought it necessary to attest the peacefulness of his in tentions by extending an open palm Then the other man could do no less than make a similarly reassuring dem onstration and the grasp of these two extended hands naturally followed Subsequently by a logical process of evolution the handshake grew to be the conventional form of greeting and the refusal of a proffered hand was regarded as one of those insults whose dishonor can only be wiped out with blood Now the custom is too firmly and widely established for its abandonment to be conceivable and Birds Powerful Voice There is a bird known as the naked throated bell bird that has such a powerful voice that it can be heard three miles away It is loud and pieicing and has been likened to the sound produced by a blacksmith striking an anvil more or less well meaning pertocs who were misled by these schemers and adventurers but it is astounding to any one acquainted with the facts to realize not merely what he accom plished but how he succeeded in gain ing the good will of the enormous ma jority of the men whose good will could be won only in honorable fash ion Spaniards and Cubans Christian Filipinos and Moros Catholic eccle siastics and Protestant missionaries in each case the great majority of those whose opinion was best worth having grew to regard General Wood as their special champion and ablest friend as the man who more than any others understood and sympathized with their peculiar needs and was anxious and able to render them the help they most needed His administration was as signaly successful in the Moro country as in Cuba In each case alike it brought in its train peace an increase in material prosperity and a rigid adherence to honesty as the only policy tolerated among officials His opportunity for military service has not been great either in the Philippines or while he was the governor of Cuba Still on several occasions he was obliged to yet there are various things about It which render it unsatisfactory Rather surprisingly It has thus far escaped the denunciations of the doc tors who have spared no little else as a possible occasion for the communi cation of injurious microbes but one does not have to be a President of the United States nor even a popular poli tician engaged in a canvass for votes not sometimes to have wished that the handshaking habit had never been contracted -There are so many ways of shaking hands that are objection able and there are so many different kinds of hands whose touch communi cates a sensation not exactly pleasant Hands that are too hot or too cold too moist or too dry or whose inert ness communicates an uncomplimen tary sense of indifference on the part of their possessors Every one Is familiar with the hand shake in which all the shaking has to be done by the party of the first part in which the hand one grasps lies limp and lifeless in ones own to be taken or left to be squeezed or let drop as one pleases while the atti tude of the owner suggests an abso lute lack of interest in the proceed ings Behold that also is vanity and vexation of spirit So is the question which recurrently arises and which it may be suspected is the source of much secret embarrassment the ques tion of to shake or not to shake Etiquette has its rules for this but no rules etiquette can formulate will cover every case that may arise and to determine the right thing may not always be easy It will be seen that the Chinese plan has its advantages The China man 3ou meet does not shake your hand He bows and shakes his own Philadelphia Inquirer Peculiar Trick of Lightning Lightning played a curious trick with a funeral procession near Limo ges recently It struck the church and burned the altar cloth Outside the church a girl was killed and four bear ers of the coffin were knocked down Wonderful Flight of Dragon Fly The dragon fly can speed through the air at the rate of 60 miles an hour and more wonderful still can stop instantaneously in its flight or move backward or sideways without I changing the position of its body i frlht cars v Hourly Reports the Wholn Length of T ir Run lu cur is sttMit hilly common I i It has k go from one Jne u i r in the course of Its business I io carry loads from lat ksou v Kin to Spokane Wash from I ii Ariz to Augusta Me IT all tin r ight cars In the United Smte uii owned by one big company mid If ttiit company charged the railroad for exact amount of use which the made of each car the situation won il theoretically be more reasonable than It is today Im in any case the wanderings ot freiii ears will always entail an enor moils amount of labor with pen and pencil and telegraph key and typewrit er and long distance telephone writes William Hard in the Technical World Magazine The modern hunter of freight cars is not satislied with knowing where all the cars on his own lines are at the end of each days run Modern busl ties life has become so rapid that in the case of certain kinds of freight it is necessary to know just where each car is every few hours This kind ol freight is called time freight Ordinary freight Is dead freight Time freight consists only of certain materials These materials run alpha betically all the way from asbestus through cranberries egg case tillers ink peanuts and varnish down to inc All cars in time freight trains are reported by telegraph from all di vision points You can stand in front of a big board on the wall It is like the board in a stockbrokers ollice except that it has little in it and watch the prog ress ol the ears in a time freight train from point to point As the telegram come in the pegs are moved from hole to hole If you started a carload of I varnish from Chicago to Omaha last night you can come in today and see carry on operations against hostile uIjm tlm cnr is Vou can tribes of Moros and in each case he u a1 the way fQ 0maha 0Q tue board did his work with skill energy and j t s a crue hulumtj0I1 for the efficiency and once it was done he hf car u use tQ be a wM stray showed as much humanity in dealing tampd and do anima m mW t g with the vanquished as he had shown mesticupd Just JIS we now nave un capacity to vanquish them In our Q dginK houses for tramps so country there are some kinds of sue- boards for w mve lelprapll record cess which receive an altogether nobodv will fpoht cars VreUy soon proportionate financial reward but in be im o KBipe from tue autU0rities no other country is the financial re- under modern t s on occuslonlIlv ward so small for the kind of service has to metll0s fniiht ealtracer go done by Leonard Wood and by the - ir forc v - -- - otner men wnose names i nave given above General Wood is an army offi cer with nothing but an army officers pay and we accept it as a matter of course that he should have received practically no pecuniary reward for those services which he rendered in positions not such as an army officer usually occupies There is not an other big country in the world where he would not have received a sub stantial reward such as here no one THE STOMACH Its Power to Resist its Own Gastric Juices Is a Puzzle One of the greatest questions dis turbing the minds of physiologists both past and present is that of the stomachs digesting powers It is asked why the stomach does not digest itself It is well known that gastric even thinks of his receiving Yet aft- j juices have the power to digest the Us er all the reward for which he most sm ut which the stomach is made cares is the opportunity to render j one of the things actually mauutae service and this opportunity has been tured by the body secreted iu the given him once and again He now i glands near the stomach and poured stands as chief-of-staff of the j juto js hydrochloric acid a power can army the army in which he was fUj ageut that will eat up almost any serving in a subordinate position as thing Why it does uot eat the stomach surgeon 13 years ago His rise has Up is problematical been astonishing and it has been due t is kuowu that a stomach from a purely to his own striking dead animal or man can be digested Mon and striking achievements Again uv living man It has been found and again he has rendered great out aS that when a man is killed ice to the American people and he accidentally and his stomach is iu the will continue to render such service pm ess of digesting if the body be in the position he now holds J kept warm his whole stomach will be THEODORE ROOSEVELT j digested and possibly too adjacent organs as liver pancreas etc From i - this it was argued that the principle of life kept the process from going on iu a living being Subsequently however this was proved to be untrue A living frog was put in an uncon scious condition and his leg inserted through a small hole in a dogs stomach the dog being alive and well It was found that the frogs leg was wholly digested in the process al though living So the last reason con ceivable was proved incapable of ex plaining the pheuotneuon About the only conclusion left is that the stomach does gradually actually eat itself up but that it is being con stantly rebuilt However as this ex periment is hard to perform and as no results have so far been announced in this direction we are left in a state of absolute ignorance and all we caD do is to be devoutly thankful to Provi dence that our stomachs do not digest themselves except in the ordinary course of human events Lawrence Hodges in New York Tribune In Doubt Editor Look here what sort of writ ing is this in your story Reporter Whats wrong with it sir Editor You say iu jnur account of this party where they had fun with a bashful guest As his intended part ner swept past gracefully the others brushed by to scour the place for the timid victim of the game who had lost courage and dusted Say are you writing about a social party or a housecleaning exhibition New York Journal A Lesson In Anatomy A professor at one of our universities is very witty upon occasion A medical student once asked If there were not some works on anatomy more recent than those in the college library Young man said the professor there have uot been many new bones added to the human body during the last ten vears Loudon Standard Blows His Own Horn What kind of a fellow is Griggs Hes one of those chaps who can do anything How delightful Yes but he likes to tell of It OhI Boston Herald wssfc5J C3mxWi v Chnc 3irt is es iKm sni ueanser I ItxTKe FajmKrtchen is the greatest help and convenience St Oieans Scmhs9 Scours Polishes Pots l eitlex pam boilers 0 sink and flat irons milk pails and separators wood floors etc easier quicker and better Some cleaners are harmful Ay Gad caustic and acid Use this Que handy all round cleanser for sli your cleaning a time and labor saver throughout the house ui mtisitam Wood Linoleum or Stone Wet sprinkle with Old Dutch Cleanser and rub with mop or scrubbing brush then mop with clean water This will give you quick unusual and most satis factory results U4 ci Mrs SiFJEKfV fmgmmsBm rl INDIANOLA P J Taylor celebrated her seventieth birthday August 21st by driving in from her Brookside home to attend divine service at the M E church Mr Heaton left last week with his family and all of his belongings for the third time to take up his Abode in Hooshierdom Last week Mr Arch Hatcher move into his new home two miles north west of town Clyde Coleman and family left for their new home in Idaho Thursday evening Verne Short is working in Min nicks drug store during Freds ab sence Mrs Shumaker and Hope were Hartley visitors Thursday Mrs George Shepard was a Cam bridge visitor Thursday Lela Lyman and Ruth Smith were visitors at the E E Thompson home a few days last week Rhoda Elder of Beaver City is visit ing her sister Mrs Hopper this week Miss Sullivan the grammar room teacher was in town Tuesday Mrs McCallum spent Friday after noon in McCook Mr Cox is on the sick list Ida Donnelly is clerking for Pete Collings Mr and Mrs Gordon are the proud parents of a baby girl BOX ELDER I H Harrison is very sick again Oscar Ross of Superior is visiting G H Harrison Daisy Younger visited Pearl Camp bell Sunday Dossie Younger visited Edith Mor ey Sunday Mildred Modrell is visiting her aunt Mrs Maxwell Wolfe this week Mrs Martha Johnson returned Sat urday from her visit at Alma Mrs Paul Stone and children Cecil and Marie are visiting her daughter Mrs George Harrison Mrs Austin Dixson and Mrs Maria Olmstead of Iowa are visiting their sister Mrs F G Lytle Fern Doyle is visiting her grand pa and grandma Little at St Ann Mr and Mrs D C Shaw Mr and Mrs J A Modrell F G Lytle A W Campbell and Earl Wilson were among the number from this place who attended the tent meeting at Spring Creek Acute or Chronic Which No matter if your kidney trouble is acute or chronic Foleys Kidney Remedy will reach your case Mr Claude Brown Reynoldsville 111 writes us that he suffered many months with kidney complaint which baffled all treatment At last he tried Foleys Kidney Remedy and a few large bottles effected a complete cure He says It has been of inestimable value to me A McMillen Huber handles the Carhartt gloves and caps also and a full line of other makes I3rri I utY - DANBURY Frank Clark came In from Miss Lucy LctHt left U Ltucolt aha Tues Jay morning for a short Friday to work as a ateiin rpher visit A L Cochran is out of town for - short time on business Jacob Nelson and wife spent Sun- The Danbury boys dfated th Marion boys In a jame ol laltl bull Saturday Murry Johnson return l ui his jrj day in McCcok with Mr Notions home at Hitchcock Okla Moidiijr folks via uanona isau Mrs Ira J ItitcLie and children Danbury and OberHu i4ajod ball cahie down from Waureta Saturday Tuesday The acoo rertU h will cv nitis to ipcnd a few days with I In favor of Oberlln homefolks and attend the reunion Mr and Mr MKcheil Voteg yrho I Mrs Ia Dewey and baby came have been down In Kni rl down from Yuma l riday night tojouri the past four week rUHJi visit old friends home Monday I A Lyman and D L Wolf left I Leonard llethcote of ladiM oia was t Tuesday morning for a weeks visit i city visitor Tuesday ci in northern Indiana also to look at the country D C Hoyer and family atttdfed the chautuaqua at OberltM Stur Fred Bede and Ben Wright made ml Sunday a trip east last week taking in Om J Homer Bastian was operated itHii aha and several other points stopping for appendictis Wednesday at Fairmont on their way home ex Miles departed for Oregon 1 Mrs U J Etherton went down to day via McCook Franklin county latter part of the week for a visit and from there she goes to Omaha on business Several from Lebanon tUtiilod the ball game at this place FrMay George Thomas and Roy Sihir were Mrs H C Kornhaus and two McCook business visitor Monday t r went to Roseland Neb forepart 3 i of tle week for a two weeks visit with relatives and old friends Auout twenty five of the young tV gathered at the home of Miss I Meciiam FrIJay night and gave Ukh a plcccit party in hon or of her birLda A very pleas ant time was rcjortcd by all The Woh rIirtworc Roberts and Teters sale the 13tli vaj attended by an unusually large crowd and from I the prices that things brought one wouldnt think hard times There were about one hundred and Wanda returned to their home so of Benkelman the first of last week after a short visit with relatives here Grandma Eifert of Beaver City visit ed her son Yv II and famiiy last week The senior basket ball team were defeated in a game with the Sunny Kansas girls last Sunday evening The Junior basket ball went to to Danbury Friday evening and were badly defeated the score being 40 to 1 in favor of Danbury B C Miller of the Enterprise force left first of last week for Fort Riley Kansas to attend the encampment of National guards Oman Smiley received a fine Brush auto last week Miss Bessie Osborn from southeast of Danbury visited with Mrs Fredi Furman last week Olaf Oltoson went to Denver last Saturday to play with the McCook band for the railroad picnic i u juii ictii Haigler Neb was in town Monday His wife and daughter who have been visiting the Gockley home ac companied him home RED WILLOW Ben Kings children have eczema very bad Paul Smith left on Saturday for his home in the Arickarce country Colorado Mrs Rinck Mrs Longnecker and Mrs Charles Rinck spent Friday with Mrs Longnecker Mrs Loomis returned to her home in Michigan on Thursday The friends of Russell Loomis one of the first settlers of this county will regret to hear that he is suf fering intensely with cancer on his face His home is near Bloomingdale Michigan i Mrs Kreider is staying at the Hat- cher home while Mrs Hatcher is in Denver To keep your health sound to avoid the ills of advancing years to conserve your physical forces for a J L Sims and son Ewry returned home from Omaha Monday Lowell was getting along fine Clarence Green way acciic ntally shot himself iu the knee with a rifle while going to Marion Sat nay eve ning Lumb Wise left for Ms home at Hastings Saturday night The Marion basket ball rl ware defeated by a score cf 40 to I by ar girls Friday evening C A Gentry trek a I sl to Mc Cook in his auto Friday nisht Mrs M M Young ad s tii f ty of the relatives and friends of nce left for North Neb Mou the 1 W Wolf and Fred Huntwork hiy for a weeks visit wth families gathered at the M E churclt Saturday evening to bid them fare- Keceiveii on Account iaiu well The committee had about Out Cash Credit slips etc teen gallors of ice cream on hand and it is useless to say that all en joyed themselves These two famil ies are anion our oldest settlers and it is with regret that we see them go from our midst We bespeak for them a warm welcome in their new home and congratulate any commun ity on getting such families as these for citizens MARION County Commissioner F S Lofton was in town last Friday L D Newberry was to McCook last Friday to cet a printing press for the Enterprise man A 1n HAl nUnndnil tK school picnic here last Thursday W II Eifert assisted by F F Gockley of Fairview put a new steel ceiling in the school house last week S C Ljois resigned his position in W H Eiferts hardware store Friday and painted the interior of the school house F M McFadden entertained his brother from Clay Center Neb a few days last week Mrs Mamie Eddy and daughter for sale at The Tribune otfiue looo roc Per Lily Patent Flour when once usee tiouq ether wH satisfy vou FARMS FOR SALE SE QUARTER SEC 12- -26 NE QUARTER SEC 13- -26 RED WILLOW COUNTY NB LAND IS NEAR CAMBRIDGE BOTH QUARTERS ARE IN CULTIVATION AND FENCED RENTED FOR CASH WILL SELL AT A BARGAIN ADDRESS OWNER E S CAVANAlGSI 5408 PRAIRIE AVE CHICAGO ILL F E Whitney Waller Hosier WHITNEY HOSIER Draymen Prompt Services Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices GIVE USA TRIAL Office First Boor SouthofDeGrofPs Phones 13 and Wad 244 Mike Walsh j DEALER IS I POULTRY FwGvSj Old Rubber Copper anc 3rass Highest Market Price inCash New location jnst aero- nrfink street in P Walh buiidtn EBll kkMi ov ER 65 YEARS- EXPERIENCE Trade Marks Designs Copyrights c Anrore erdlff a sketch an J dsicr nrny nnlffily n c ir c - a tree woe tier an invention U l robnVy rienta c C mraunlia tlonstrlctlycorSJclaJ FANOtJiK on Patents sent free OUest aceney for patents Iatenis tasen inrounn jiuuu u ikj i spteiai notice wi hont chamc In the ripe and healthful old age guard AUufi 7CFa4lrt your kidneys by taking Foleys Kid ney Remedy A McMillen Subscribe for The Tribune Scientific American A handsomely Mntratei wkly I irset cir culation of any srlermtlc iurr Terms 13 n year four months L Sold by n MUNN Co3GBro3d New York Brancn OKce G23 F SU Tashinsn I- C