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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1911)
f 0 M Dollar H Decoys Did you know that there was a relationship between dollars Well it must be true anyway Did you ever notice that once a man gets a few dollars others seem to fly into his pocket as if by magic Most of the dol lars of the United States are gathered together in large amounts The more dollars a man gets the faster others join them You may be unable to account for this but it is true nevertheless Dollars like to congregate Why not start a congregation of your own Lets explain You make quite a bit of money dont you You spend it dont you Well now just for once try putting a few dollars just a few in this bank See if others dont fol low The first few act as a decoy You are cordially in vited to place your decoys In this bank We are sure that by using one of our bank books for a blind you will be able to bag considerable The First National Bank of McCook Neb By F M KIA1MELL Largest Circulation in Red Willow G Entered at postoffice McCook Nebraska a second class matter Published weekly Bishop Bonacum of the Catholic See of Lincoln died on Saturday last He has been bishop of this diocese for the past 20 years being the first in the line and withal a notable churchman The recent destruction of the state capital building of Missouri reminds the Omaha Bee that Nebraska is not better situated than Missouri was in the matter of fire proof buildings for its state records etc Luke Lee Tennessees new Unit ed States senator is only 32 years old Is a Prohibitionist wealthy and of an old and aristocratic Tennessee family and is a newspaper publisher t A Holdrege news item states that Nebraska Telephone Co officials wer in that city last week figuring on placing the companys wires in that city under ground on the principal business streets of that city State Treasurer George will not is sue a monthly statement hereafter showing the whereabouts and amount of state money in state depositories The next statement will be forth coming April 1st and thereafter state ments will be made public on each recurring quarter J The news report that the Harriman lines have completed arrangements for the expenditure of 75000000 in extensions and betterments promises the revival of demand for railroad sup plies and equipments ird is a har Jiiuxer o1 renewed activity Ccminfc as it des before the rate decisions it also carries its own comment on the recent railroad doctrine that if they could not get advanced rates they would have to sit down and let their properties go to wreck to spite the public Pittsburg Dispatch The American people are not as trustworthy as they might be as they ought to be as their opportun ities could make them but they are the most reliable article we -have and they will have to be as long as we remain a government by the Jpeo ple When the time comes that they cannot be relied upon as well as som trust magnate or other plutocratic grafter then we are in line for a king or an emperor whom we can hold responsible to the extent of his head The financial stability of the govern ment naturally means more to those who have come to America from the European countries where the gov ernment stands for about everything stable In finance religion etc The first month of the postal savings banks in operation shows that the argument advanced favoring the pos tal banks on the score that the for eign element in our country would use them in which to deposit their money rather than send it across the ocean has been eminently sustained in fact A large majority of the January deporistors were foreign born residents BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER CURES disease with Pure Blood A The t Liberator A Story of How a Small Boy Tries to Imitate Lincoln By CLARISSA MACKIE 7 Copyright by American Press atlon 1911 0--O Little Azariah Ichabod Peters sat on the topmost rail of the fence and look ed thoughtfully down at the shiny new rubber boots that incased his fat legs A warm overcoat was buttoned tight ly about his form and on his black woolly head was drawn a bright red toboggan cap that matched his red mittens I reckon Is mighty lucky he mused Jes tink dat ole Sandy Claws a bringin me all dese yere spandy new does wen my ole ones wasnt all wore out yit Now dat no count Caesar Woodson he say its jes be cause my pappy has a butler job at de hall an gits a sight ob munny fer standin behin Marse Clements cbar OMS HANDED IT THItOTJGH THE BABBED WIN DOW dat I kin hev all dese tings but I likes to tink dat yere ole Sandy Claws brung some ob em O Lawdy me I done fergot Marse Abe Linkum an how granny ses if he hadnt set grand pap free my pappy couldnt hev a but tler job an git a sight of munny I dunno Whah yo ben 111 Azariah said his old granny I guess yo toeses is mos froze off come close to de flah an warm up Azariah Ichabod sat down on a stool near the stove and slowly removed his outer garments Granny he hes itated did ole Marse Sandy Claws bring dese does to me or did Marse be Linkum Marse Linkum Granny stared over her spectacles Dat good man been dead an berried dis fifty year How come It yo got dem mixed up less now I IT Azariah I guess yore recollectin whut granny said to yo bout how if Marse Linkum hadnBset de slaves free mebbe yore pappy wouldnt be wurkin up to de hall an earnin sights ob munny fer us I wish yod tell me all bout dat yere Marse Abe Linkum agin gran ny said Azariah Both Granny Peters and Azariah Ichabod were in tears at the conclu sion of her recital and when1 granny had brought forth the brown covered Life of Abraham Lincoln the old woman and the little boy pored over its crude woodcuts and large type with complete forgetfulness of the burning potatoes in the oven Yore pappy larned his letters In dat yere book said granny proudly and yo recomember dat he larned yo yores too Now doan you never for git lir Azariah dat yo larned yo fust readln in Marse Abe Linkums book Sposln yo read a lil about him now coaxed granny thrusting the book into his hands She lighted a kerosene lamp and fished the charred potatoes out of the oven with philo sophic cheerfulness and thrust In an other batch Begin now honey Azariah Ichabod opened the book at the first chapter and ran a small black finger along the lines reciting glibly what he had already learned by heart under the tuition of his father Marse Abe Linkum wuz bon on Febry twelve in de yeah whats de matter granny Azariah paused as Mrs Peters grasped the book from his hand LIT Azariah cried his grandmoth er excitedly I done forgot whut yore pappy said dis mornin He come down from de hall wld er newspaper from de noth whut hed found an ses he Termorrer will be Marse Abe Linkums birthday an deys gwine ter celybrate it up noth Its all in dis yere paper Now do yo tell Azariah ter git some er dat creepin stuff from de woods an hang ober Marse Linkums plctur I declar I done fergot all about It an yore pap pyll be mighty struck if yo doan do it Ill git it in de mornin Dat Marse Linkum mus have been drefile good ter make folks member his birthday I wish I was like dat man granny I reckon Id do les as he did assert in dere way said granny wisely I couldnt set nobuddy free Yaas yo could set somebody free said granny suddenly Whahs dat lil rabbit yo found in yo trap yistid dy Azariah rolled a startled eye at his grandmother Its locked up in de woodshed I reckon dat yere lil rabbit likes me mon he does to run aroun de col woodses granny I want ter keep him I do Go long Azariah Peters Is sham ed ob yo 1 declare I am wid dat sam ple ob Marse Abe Linkum right befo yo all de time Doan yo talk to me Tomorrer Ill let him go free Den Ill be some like Marse Linkum 1 reckon Ill give bim some cabbidge now and Azariah left the table and went to his little captive while granny hobbled around the room singing in a high cracked voice The next day Azariahs first duty was to go to the adjacent woods and search under the covering of dead leaves for trailing vines of sassafras and old mans hand with which to adorn the large picture of Abraham Lincoln which hung on the kitchen wall After that he took the little gray rab bit from the woodshed and stumped doggedly across the winding path to the upland pasture He could feel the beating of the little frightened heart against his band and he snuggled the little furry body closer into his neck Doan yo be fraid lil rabbit Is gwine ter take yo straight ter yore mammy he comforted it Then at the pasture fence he kissed the trem bling animal and set it on the ground For an instant It crouched frightened and tense and then with a bound it left him and disappeared in the hedge Lawdy sakes ejaculated the round eyed Azariah I didnt reckon it made folkses so glad to git away I wished I could be moah like Marse Linkum an set moah folkses free He walked meditatively back to the cabin and peered through the palling Into the chicken yard I reckon yo chickens would be mighty glad to git away But I doan know whut gran nyd tnk erbout dat All the afternoon little Azariah pon dered over the story of Abraham Lin coln and the lesson taught by his no ble life Toward night he went the lonely two miles into Collinsville to replenish the molasses jug As he was leaving the town on his way home he came across that scapegrace Caesar Woodson and wonder of wonders that marvel of hardness and abandon ed wickedness was bawling lustily in the back yard of his fathers isolated cabin Mah pappy hes gone ter jail he wept noisily in response to Azariahs solicitous Inquiry Kunnel Fenn he tole de constable dat dere wuz only five chickens lef in his roos an he said pappy hed sold em ober ter de town folkses An all becuz de kunnel could only find five chickens in his roos dey locked my pappy up Henry Woodsons reputation as a connoisseur of fine poultry was too well known in the county for Azariah Ichabod Peters to express much sur prise or Indignation over that colored gentlemans incarceration in the lock up Nevertheless as he left his play mate and went his homeward way his little heart was filled with pity for the genial Mr Woodson who was confined within four walls away from the sun shine and the crisp February air and corn pone and sweet potatoes Aza riah wondered what Mr Abraham Lincoln would have done in like cir cumstances and he finally concluded that Mr Lincoln would have made every effort to obtain the freedom of Henry Woodson and restore him to the bosom of his family Azariah hid his molasses jug in the hedge and turning his shiny rubber boots toward the town he had just left he trotted swiftly back turning and twisting until he reached the small isolated brick building that served as a temporary place of con finement for the evildoers of the vicin ity The little boy crept up under the small barred window and in the fall ing darkness his form became part of the shadows HI Mr Woodson he hissed anx iously There was a shuffling step across the floor and Henrys rich voice came in a hushing whisper Whos dere Is dat yo Caesar yo lim ob Satan It aint Caesar It are somebuddy like Marse Abe Linkum come to set yo free whispered Azariah Jes yo tell me how an I kin do it Lawsy me ejaculated Mr Wood son Lemme see I reckon I oughter know dis yere ole lockup like a like a coop He he Whoever yo be do yo know whan my house is Yaas Well yo run erlong an bring me er crowbar outer my shed Put yo han inside de do an its in de corner Fetch it heah Azariah went and without adventure he returned with the desired imple ment and at Henrys direction he handed it through the barred window That gentleman grabbed it hastily Im mighty obleeged to you an I better not guess who yo are but yore shore a mighty little feller Now yo better run erlong befo de guard comes back from hes supper Nobuddy 11 know twas yo dat helped me out erway an I shall git to Richmond as fas as I kin till de smell ob chicken hes gone from de Runnels nostrils he he he chuckled gleefully Goodby whispered Azariah Icha bod Peters I spect yore mighty hap py to be free Glory chile dat I am said the grateful Mr Woodson Now yo run erlong home lil Azariah Ichabod ed Azariah warmly as he drew up to ters Abraham Lincoln Im gwine ter the table prepared by his grandmotb 1 be free er I Azariah scampered away and re- LiT boys kin do jes as much good claimed his molasses jug and as he J trudged the weary lonely two miles homeward every step of his soft rub ber boors seemed to emphasize Henry3 words in his happy heart Lil Azariah Ichabod Peters Abrn lam Lincoln COLOR BLINDNESS The Incident 1 hat Opened John Dal tons Eyes to His Affliction John Dalton the famous English chemist and natural philosopher with out whose discovery of the laws of chemical combination chemistry as an exact science could hardly exist was wholly color blind His knowledge of the fact came about by a happening of the sort which we call chance On his mothers birthday when he was a man of twenty six he took her a pair of stockings which he had seen in a shop window labeled Silk the newest fashion Thee has bought me a pair of grand hose John said the mother but what made thee fancy such a bright color Why I can never show myself at meeting in them John was much disconcerted but he told her that he considered the stock ings to be of a very proper go to meeting color as they were a dark bluish drab Why theyre as red as a cherry John was her astonished reply Neither he nor his brother Jonathan could see anything but drab In the stockings and they rested In the belief that the good wifes eyes were out of order until she having consulted vari ous neighbors returned with the ver dict Varra fine stuff but uncommon scarlety The consequence was that John Dal ton became the first to direct the at tention of the scientific world to the subject of color blindness THE DRINK CALLED COFFEE Here Is the Way They Made It In the Seventeenth Century There are in existence in Great Britain a few copies of an ancient cookbook published in 1G62 that gives what Is perhaps the first English rec ipe for coffee The recipe reads To make the drink that Is now much used called coffee The coffee berries are to be bought at any Druggist about seven shillings the pound Take what quantity you please and over a charcoal fire in an old frying pan keep them always stir ring until they be quite black and when you crack one with your teeth that it is black within as It is without yet if you exceed then do you waste the Oyl and if less then will it not de liver its Oyl and if you should con tinue fire till It be white it will then make no coffee but only give you its salt Beat and force through a lawn sieve Take clear water and boll one third of it away and it is fit for use Take one quart of this prepared water put In it one ounce of your prepared cof fee and boil it gently one hour and it is fit for your use drink one quarter of a pint as hot as you can sip it It doth abate the fury and sharpness of the Acrimony which is the gender of the Diseases called Cronical Beat the Banks System The boy entered the Cleveland bank and laid a half dollar with his bank book on the receiving tellers window We dont receive deposits of less than a dollar said the teller The boy yielded reluctantly to the system and drew bade But he did not leave the bank He crossed the corridor and seated himself on a settee The teller noticed him sitting there and also no ticed the reflective look on his face The boy waited for some time think ing it over Finally he arose and went to the paying tellers window A mo ment later he confronted the receiving teller I want to deposit this dollar and a half he said The teller grinned The boy had just drawn a dollar from his little balance and was using it as an entering wedge for the rejected half dollar And so the sys tem was beaten by the boy and a con siderable accession of bookkeeping la bor was the price of defeat Cleveland Plain Dealer History Made Palatable Joseph Salvador the French histo rian and Jules Sandeau a novelist made their meeting at a public recep tion the occasion for a dispute as to the respective places which they occu pied in the world of letters The reading of history is like a pill it needs the sugar coating to make it palatable argued the novelist Ah but it is the ingredient which cures not the coating remarked the historian Then let us divide honors said Sandeau for if it were not for my sugar coating your historical facts would dry on the shelves Tolstoys Intensity Everything in Tolstoys character says a Russian writer attains titanic proportions As a drinker he absorbed fantastic quantities of liquor As a gambler he terrified his partners by the boldness of his play As a soldier he advanced gayly to bastion four the bastion of death at Sevastopol and there he made dying men laugh at his witty sayings Ho surpassed every one by his prodigious activity in sport as well as in literature Agriculture No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought as agriculture Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of land Abraham Lincoln A Strike Why dont you go to the dance to night Harold Havent you any flame Yes dad said the Harvard stu dent o flame but no fuel Life A grateful dog te better than an uu grateful mais Saudi -- J SSS v- - - - Ih 1 I t y - Lji TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM 3 - A Galusha and son Adair of this 3 city have purchased the clothing 3 business of the Drebert Clothing company of McCook and are now t 3 in possession of the store They are both experienced clothing men the senior Galusha having been in 3 the clothing business at Red Cloud 3 for twenty years For the past six years Adair has ably filled a responsible position in the office of 3 the secretary of state and he has a host of friends and acquaintances a in Lincoln who regret that he will 3 leave this city but the knowledge that he will engage in business for himself gives considerable tion to his friends here A 3 sha was formerly secretary of state but for the past few years 3 has been traveling out of this city t Lincoln Trade Review 4 YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYK LACE School Board Meeting McCook Nebr February 6 1911 Board met in regular session in the superintendents office Presen Doan Barnett Barnes Lawritson Suess Absent Culbertson The minutes of January 2 1911 were read and approved The following bills were read Jennings Hughes Co plumbing 14 35 Middleton Ruby plumbing 8 20 Jennings Hughes Co plumbing and hydrant G 50 L W McConnell drugs etc 38 85 H P Sutton repairing clocks 7 75 Osborn Kummer Co dray 11 35 F M Kimmell paper 2 00 J E Ludwick furniture 31 19 McCook Machinery Iron Works work 2 00 Mrs Howe Smith laundry 3 40 Howe Smith setting glass 5 50 Chivers Book Binding Co books 21 35 D B Berry books 5 26 Ginn Co books 24 41 N A Bengston set of Nebr rocks 5 00 Silver Burdett Co books 10 80 Hammond Stephens Co di plomas 40 65 Nebr School Supply House books 3147 Mrs W H Rankin laundry 4 55 Isa a few days we wiD aiMOimce par tkilars f aaa xfeiMSioe and sal f masifacfoairesl by in LACE IMBWTMES Zlon City Illinois Every2i is rdnally nevitei to afiteiai C L DeGroff f Co On motion the above bills were al lowed The superintendent reports attendance at first semester Total enrollment 965 Average attendance 891 Supt Taylor endorsed Miss Eth el Bone of Denver Colo at 6000 per month as a teacher in the schools here On motion Miss Bone was elect ed at the salary of 6000 per monht A hearing was had of the lack of harmony between Miss Jones and the principal in the East building Evi dence was submitted and a steno graphic report taken by the clerk in the superintendents office which is to be transcribed and filed tpon the evidence a motion was made by Mr Barnett that we discharge Miss Agnes Jones as a teacher in the Mc Cook public schools and the vote be taken by calling the roll Seconded by Suess Roll call Doan yes Law ritson no Barnett yes Suess yes Barnes no Negative votes given on account of fear in lack of legal grounds Yes 3 no 2 On motion board adjourned C W BARNES Secretary Miss Agnes Jones has been trans ferred to the third grade west M iss Ella Caffrey to the third grade east and Miss Ethel Bone to the fifth grade east The second issue of the High School Megaphone is out Ml M i 1 M 2i 4 8 T - j f n 4 f v I x J Tjk