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About McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1884)
BEYOND. Qf tl g fcgalnat Hf o 'B prison bars , WJf6 some caged birdmy weary heart fcf $ i lopglng , upward to the stars , Amd yearneth ever to dopar . Ktrth's cares weigh heavier dav by day , : Ad one by onolthe loved lie down , lf r rlB again , and so the way each one's loss hath darker grown. Tbe fltars shine not as once .they did , ire youth's bright hopes were quenchet la gloom ; * "TbJj.moqn 'neath iazy veil Is hid , Lite's falreqt flowers have ceased to bloom. And , lingering at therlver's brink , . Longing , I gaze , across the tide TJutt rushes bf , nor do I shrink , JTor loved ones wait the other side. TUB circle hero each day grows less , But .there it widens more and more , HTor Heaves , and home , and happiness , Are only on the other shore. ' . [ Chicago Sun. THE AM3CAL WORLD. Urutances ol Intelligence and Fidelity Among fhe Brute' Creation. . A.POOTBIEND. A short time ago a child , accom panied by a dog , strayed away from its borne in Sacramento , and becoming j weary lay down to rest on the corner -of the street. The dog would allow no one to touch the child. A blanket was finally thrown over the animal , and , a policeman took the little sleeper in his arm to the station house. When the dog was freed he was frantic until he -caught sight of his baby companion. ' t' San Francisco Post. A KNOWING MULE. There are often incidents connected with , coal mining which border closely upon the romantic. In th ? .mines at jRiverton there are now employed thir teen mules , no one of which will ever see daylight again , unless by some unfortunate - . fortunate accident it gets , a. leg broken -or becomes crippled in other ways that will disable it Irom service. No person who has ever been down m the Bivertpn mines has failed to be introduced to "Old Pete , " who , if he " has not grown , gray in service , is as white as any veteran mule that ever drew a car down in a coal mine. It has been over twenty years since Old Pete basked in the sunshine or cropped the , jf.succulent blue grass from the hills and valleys about Riverton. .Pete has grown shrewd in his"underground service , and oftentimes exhibits a "presence of rmind" in times of threatening danger surpassing that of some of his colabor- era of. the genus homo. If there is sounded a "crack of the , slate" from the Vaulted arch of those subterranean aisles , Pete promptly heeds the warning - * ing signal and scampers off with his -car at a rate of speed that soon puts him beyond the danger line. Late one evening , one of the miners kadremained , in his "room" after all others had left the mines , and had Old Tete for a companion , -who shortly afterwards-started with the car of coal ' * -for the shaft. Another miner supposing - -ing that all had left but him , ' 'cleaned L. up his room , " loaded the debris in'a low "tram" and ran it out. into the entry. Along came Old Pete down the .grade , with his oats and hay as an ob jective point , and making time accord ingly. There was a train obstructing 'the passage. To turn out of the track was 'certain disaster to the mule , and he seemed to be fully aware of it. TChere was .no time for hesitation , , and with a _ surge.forward Pete jumped into the train and rode in it to the foot of the grade , where he' deliberately got ouf , and. seemed , to. act is though he had enjoyed the ride. [ Rochester Item. ' -A RATTLESNAKE A DISADVANTAGE. Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. James Hal- ford , accompanied by their 2-year-pld child , visited John Carhart , of Spring -Creek preempt. During the afternoon then ? attention was attracted to the child , who was tugging and pulling at some object with all his strength , j 'Going toward him , his mother was horrified rified to fiad that the little one had -both hands tightly grasped about the tail of a venomous rattlesnake just ibove the rattles , whose furious rattling .gave notice of the reptile's anger. While the child was pulling the snake was unable to get in position for strik ing with his fangs. In an instant the frightened mother .comprehended the deadly danger of her child , and with a .frantic .scream that caused the little one to drop his deadly plaything , she picked him up and sprang away. "When released the snake instantly -coiled.himself to strike. It was indeed a narrow escape. [ Hebron ( Neb. ) Journal. Live Babies as Playthings. i .3fewrork letter Let us get into more polite society. The fashionable girl has a new toy. -She has taken to live dolls. She plays with borrowed babies. She expresses the motherly instinct quite abnormally , . if we-concede that what she. does is . , -spontaneous. Her. present delight is to ft-- get possession of a pretty infant and subject it to such extravagances of fondling and adornment at will serve the purpose of frivolity. When she drives in a village cart through Cen tral Park a purse maid sits beside her to hold the little pet. When she goes .shopping the servant .carries the baby from carriage to store and back again. When called upon in her own residence - -dence , she is found with the child in her coddling arms. Nothing in the freakish line of girlish diversion has ver taken a" more sudden hold on pass- .ing , fancy. Of course , pretty babies are 'in. urgent demand. Wherever one f : -exists the -family is disturbed by competition - | , petition between sisters , cousins and -aunts to get possession. And if no baby in blood relationship can be procured - -cured , the eager -young mother-by- brevet does not hesitate to procure one from among the offspring of some poor -and obliging woman. The wardrobes which accompany this indulgence of alive playthings are wonders oi beauty , taste and cost. In a dry goods store , r -where I had gone to see some ol the v -commercial developments of the rage for infants , I found an 'extensive de partment devoted wholly to tiny cos tumes and the material * for miking them. It would be useless for me t * undertake a description of the delicate and considerably mysterious things be ing inspected by a girl of 18 ; but ; I can be explicit in. asserting that she was one of those combinations of brisk ness and gentleness , timidity and an dacity , ingenious'ness and ingenuity which are the product of city fashion able life. The dear creature . .was so prettily deft in handling the outfit suit ; able for a very-new infant , and so coyly independent in her talk concern ing the purchases , that the clerk , ac customed though he. was to that kirn of traffic , became somewhat dazed. "This color would be suitable i your baby has blue eyes , " he remark ed , in showing her a fabric. She gazed on him with silencing su periority , but the effect was transient and he was soon asking her , , indirectly if she was the mother of the child by remarking : "Is its hair the color o your own P" 4 This time she looked him squarely in the facie , and spoke with the ' * bluntnesa oi exasperation ; * "The little , darling hasn't my eyes nor my hair , nor anybody's else. I ism'ta little darling at all notvyet ; and I think I'll defer my purchases uri til I am able to provide you with more facts than can now be obtained. Good moi nihg t" AN AFEICAK - BAILBOAD. The Fropoied Xdae from the Bed Sea Xuto the Houdan. Iiondon Telegraph. The inevitable expedition will have to go by the route which , nature indi cates , and a man has followed since the days of C&mbyeees that is to say , by the Suakim-Bsrber line , which is the nearest passage between the Bed Sea and the Fifth Cataract. Just as certain it is that a railway connecting these points will prove the indispensable ad junct and instrument of. the undertak ing. The narrow-gauge Hne which we can and must lay would go up with the troops , water , feed and support , them , connect them at every hour with the sea and supplies , and continue to exist and to be profitable when the last Brit ish soldier had quitted Suakim. Long ago such a line ought to have been con structed. It has been contemplated ever since the early days of.Ishmail , and Tewfik would have established it , had Hicks defeated the Mahdi.'We ourselves observed , when the discussion first arose about dispatching Gordon , that "the , best possible , Governor-Gen eral for the Soudan would be the Ber- ber-Suakim . " Even if - railway. ; Egypt expended the morning for its construction tionit would prove the wisest outlay she ever made ; but as a part of the cost of the campaign , of relielf alone , it would save vast sums , and may be con sidered , indeed , .as a sine qua.non of Lhe enterprise , and the first and most important business to take in hani , when once the word is uttered that all these people who look to England for succour are not to perish. Of course the railway thus contem plated must be cheap and simple. Ex perienced contractors affirm that a nar row-gauge line can be laidrver the easy country in'question * at the .rate of five or six'miles a day. The distance is about 280 miles , and , allowing for pre parations and organization , .it could be inished , whatever the weather , in four months. It is estimated ; to cost 750- )00 ; , but then it would by a property , and a very ? oed one , sure to develop commerce and intercourse and "smash ; he Mahdi" by the means most fatal to tiim. Fifty miles of the metals are .ly ing ready at Woolwich ; the ironmas- ; ers of the midlands could supplyone lundred more on short notice , and the rest could soon be provided. Pay ment , slender enough in .the eyes of the British navy , but dazzling to an Arab , would set the tribes to work night and day upon the job , and every league completed could be protected by armed .rucks and engines , which could be held like mobile fortresses. Water may 3e got in quantities by means of tube wells wherever the Arabs find it in dribbles , or might be run up and stored n tanks ; and all the way to within fif ty miles of Berber there are springs , while at Kobreb , on high ground , there 3 quite a beautiful oasis , fit for a sani tary station. Moving up by this swift 3uUt line which would have no great elevations to climb , and no serious hol lows to bridge -the column of rescue would arrive at Berber , probable with ittle or no fighting , for even the fiercest ; ribes would Know the Mahdi's reign to je over when the railway echoed from Mount Eskoweet. Origin and Contagion of Phthisis. Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. Dr. Louis D. Brose , of the Evansville Medical College , Ind. , has contributed a rather lengthy article to The Medical Record concerning some experiments to determine if it is possible for tuber culosis or consumption to be conveyed Tom one person to another by particles of sputa in the air. He concludes , first' ; hat tuberculosis may follow the breath- ng of air carrying particles of sputa rom phthisical patients ; second , that bhe breath and saliva of consumptive persons are liable to convey either ihrough kissing or by direct inhalation ihrough close contact ; the "same disease to a healthy person. The greater the concentration of the breath inhaled the greater the danger ; and'he closed his irticle with the following concise stater ment of his own opinion : "My own opinion regarding the , origin of tuberculosis , formed from re search and a no inconsiderable clinical experience with the disease , is that , like liphtheria , itis , ordinarily determined 3y certain peculiarities and susceptibil- tiesin individuals , together with the presence of a specific principal. Now vhen a person who has this peculiarity > f weak lungs , or , in other words , one n whom bronchial and. catarrhal trou- iles are easily excited , has superadded he infection of tuberculosis , let it be in i minimum amount , we have arising rue consumption running through its rarious stages. Even healthy persons : anthosbe infected when the specific natter is inhaled in large quantities ust as the poison in other infectious iiseases will certainly produce these ame diseases when inoculated in con centrated quantities in persons who vbuld otherwise escape. ALL SORTS. Kate Field says : "There can be found no great men without grand mothers. " True , very true , Kate , and great grandmothers. [ Boston Post. The effective preacher always aims to hit the man who sits in the next pew. His church is always crowded and he is very popular with his congre gation. [ Chicago Sun. The late Sam Ward said any green thing could be made into a salad. The .young medical graduate may therefore be said to be in his salad season. [ Cin cinnati Commercial-Gazette. "Has Vulcan Left the Skies ? " is the title of a scientific article in an ex change. We understand that Vulcan is guilty of forging , and it may be that he has left the skies for Canada. [ Norriatown Herald. Hints About Picnics. Bcean Anna Brown , In St. Nlccolas for July. The most important part of a picnic , however , is not the weather or the place or the dinner. Yon'may choose the most beautiful spot in the world , and spread the most delicious lunch ever prepared , and vet have the , whole thing a complete failure , simply be cause ' the company was ' not well selected. > Out of doors , where people are free from formality , unless they are con genial friends , and what Mrs. Whitney calls "Real Folks , " they will be likely to feel ill at ease , and miss the'support given by company , clothes and man ners. Small picnics , ior this reason among others , are usually much pleasanter - anter than large picnics. In making up the party , be sure to leave behind the girl who is certain to be too warm or too cold , or to think some other place better than the one where she is , and who has "a horrid time , " if she has to submit to any per sonal inconvenience for the sake of others ; and with her , the boy who love's to tease , and who is quite sure that his way is the only good way. Put into their places some others , young or old , who love simple pleasures , and are ready to help others to enjoy them. Next in importance to the company is the place. It must not be at a great distance , or you will all be tired , not to tfay cross , when you arrive there. It muse be reasonably shady , and not.top far from a supply of good drinking wa ter. If the company are to walk , you must be especially careful not to be overburdened with baskets and wraps , for the bundles which seemed so light when you started are sure to weigh down much more- heavily before you reach'your destination. Be careful to have this.work fairly distributed. Never start until you are sure that you know just where you are going , and the best way of getting there. Wandering about to choose a place , and thinking constantly to find one more desirable , is very fatiguing. That matter should be settled before hand by two or three of the party , and the others should 'go straight to the spot , and make the best of it. If any do not like it , they can choose a differ ent place when their turn comes to make the selection. "Ennning" for the Presidency. Bob Burdette. "Young America" wants to know why we speak of a candidate " "run ning" for the presidency. The term has its origin , my son , in a famous In dian amusement called "running the gauntlet. " In this exciting national game the citizens ranged themselves in two lines , facing each other , each free and independent voter and his wife being armed with clubs , stones , hickory "gads , " black-snake mule whips ana one thing and another. Down between these lines the candi date started on the liveliest run his eager legs could do , and the citizens with great enthusiasm kept him up to his work by letting him have it when ever they.could reach him as he sailed. Every time he received an unusually vicious thump , that raised a welt like a stuffed snake or laid the hide open to the bone , or erected a Prussian blue Lump as big as a hen's egg , the entire convention howled with delight and the delegates ear nestly besought each other to give him another one just like it in the same place. If the candidate got to the end of the course alive , everybody treated him with the greatest consideiation , shook hands with him and asked him to have something with them , at the same time expressing not only their forgiving willingness , but their most magnanimous anxiety to have anything with him , and the man who had hie him the awf ullest lick , right across the misery , with a mahogany club , trimmed with spikes , came right up and assured him that in all their differ ences of opinion during the cause he lad ever maintained the profoundest respect and unselfish affection for the candidate penoaally , and was now willing to accept the collectorship of Jnu Jahrk or the mission at Senzhames to prove it. "But you don't see any similarity or connection in that sort of thing and running for president ? " "Young man , get thee to a kinder garten. You have deceived me. You said in your letter that you were eleven pears old. I see that you are only ; hree and a half. Go ; to a kindergar ten , go. " Faster Freight Trains Needed. Chicago Tribune. J. A. Munroe , assistant general reight agent of the Union Pacific , re cently addressed a communication to A. C. Bird , general freight agent of the Milwaukee & St. Paul , to the effect that a careful examination of the business Lone at Denver showed plainly that the Chicago , Burlington & Quincy and Turlington & Missouri River roads are making strenuous efforts to secure the high-class freight , and that they have ucceeded to a remarkable extent. Cliey control now nearly the whole of he retail trade of that city. The pnn- sipal obstacle in the way of the Union 'acific competing successfully with the Chicago , Burlington & Quincy and Jurlington & Missouri river was due to he slow time made by the . Western [ Yunk Line association roads. The Jurlington 'card time from Chicago was about sixty hours , and it makes it every time. The freight officials of th < Union Pacific had called the attentior of their general manager to this mat , ter , and he can' see no reason why tht Western Trunk Line association roadi should not make the same time as the Chicago , , Burlington & Qninoy. Mr/Bird referred the ftbove commu nication to General Superintendent J , T. Clark , who replied that the mattei had been discussed with all the general managers of the Western Trunk .Line association roads , and he urged thai faster time be made on such freight , but neither the Rock Island , Northwestern nor Union Pacific was prepared to meet the Chicago , Burlington & Quincy oc Denver business. Mr. Clark thought the general freight agents should take the matter before .their general mana gers and get them to act. Commis sioner Vining , of the Western Truni Line association , in submitting the above correspbndence to the various roads in the association/wants to know if the companies are willing to take ac tion in the matter , And assist in making the best possible time with their freight trains between Chicago and Denver. Webster on Polltjcal Reputation. A correspondent of the Chicago Intel Ocean sends that paper an extract from the address of Daniel Webster on the death of Chief Justice Mason , oi Massachusetts : "But , sir , political eminence and professional fame fade , away and die with things e'arthly. Nothing of char acter is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. These ramain. Whatever of excellence is wrought into the soul itself belongs to both worlds. Real goodness does , not attach itself merely to this .life ; it points to another world. Political or professional repu tation cannot last forever ; but a con science void of offense before God and man is an inheritance for eternity. Religion , therefore , is'an ' innispunsable element in any great human character. There is no living without. Religion is the tie , that connects man with his Creator and holds him to His throne. If that tie be all sundered , all broken , he floats away to worthless atom in the universe ; its proper attractions all gone ; its destiny thwarted , and its whole future nothing but darkness , desolation and death. A man with no sense of religious duty is he .whom the Scriptures describe in such terse but terrific language as living 'without God in the world.1 Such a man is out of his proper being , out of the circle , of all happines , . , . and away , far away , from the happiness of his'creation. " A Sioux Revolt. The old Beadle'dime novels are cast into the shade compared with some of the real life sketches of the Indian girls in the Lincoln institutional school , at Wayne , Mr. Childs' summer town on the Pennsylvania railroad.1 There-is a very bright and interesting Indian girl named Lizzie Spider , the last being her father's name , which she assumed , a custom the girls nearly all follow. A few years ago she was at the Indian school at Carlisle , a pupil , where she learned considerable. When she went back , duririg'the summer vacation , her father sold her to a young Indian brave for a 'nnmber.o'f ponies , which is the accustomed form of marriage among the Sioux. She had just received enough education to revolt against the savage life that was to be thrust upon her , so she ran away and hid for many months in the woods , going by stealth occasionally to the huts of friends to get supplies of food. During his last visit to Yankton Capt. Pratt heard of her , and after a search found her and brought her back with him and put her in the Lincoln school , where she now is She says , she don't want to be sold for ponies and cook and work for a sav age lazyboots. Minister's Sons as Journalists. Washington CaplUU. The late Samuel J. Medill is suc ceeded as managing editor of the Chicago cage Tribune by Robert W. Patterson , Jr. , who has successfully discharged the duties of the position for some time past. . Mr. Patterson is a young man of great promise , who graduated at Wil liams college in 1871 , and is a son of Rev. Dr. Patterson , of Chicago , which reminds me to remark upon the number of minister's sons who go into the newspaper business , and their prom inence in it. To mention only a few names that occur to me as I write , bhere are Melville E. Stone , the editor of the Chicago Newsj M. P. Handy , managing editor of the Philadelphia Press ; Chester S. Lord , managing edi tor of the New York Sun ; and Solo mon B. Griffin , managing editor of the Springfield ( Mass. ) Republican , none of whom are far along in the thirties. Then the Gilders , of the New York Eerald , Critic and Century fame , are children v of a minister , and the list might easily be lengthened. The First Watch. Plttsbnrg Dispatch. At first the watch Was about the size af a dessert plate. It had weights and was used as a "pocket clock. " The earliest known use of the modern name occurs in the record of 1552 , which mentions that Edward VI. had "one [ arum or watch of iron , the case being Likewise of iron gilt , with two plum mets of lead. " The first watch may really be supposed to be of rude execu tion. The first great improvement was in 1560. The earliest springs were not 3oiled , but only straight pieces of steel. Early watches had only one hand , and jeing wound up twice a day they could lot be expected , to keep the time of day jxactly. The dials were of silver and ) f brass , the cases had no crystals but > pened at the back and front , and were 'our or five inches in diameter. A jlain watch cost more than $1,500 , and ifter one was ordered it took a year to uake it. . Some rise with the lark ; . others get ip when the steam whistle blows. Real iomfort is found in lying in bed until me feels like getting up. New Orleans Picayune. On one of the Platte ranges a cow uns branded , "The last , thank God ! " he words having evidently been put on > y the cowboys at the close ofa long eries of branding. Jtj I ffl. A. AGENT FOR THEO COz O ttu ttO ( O ui Sold Low for cash , or on easy payments ' , rented until the rent pays for the organ * ; ; , M. A. 8PALDING , Agent , McCOOK , t . . . - NEBRASKA. STOCK DIEEGTOKT DENNIS M'KILLIP. Banoh on Bed Willow , Thornburg , Hayes County , Neb. Cattle branded ' J. M. " on loft side. Youn $ cattle branded sams as above , also "J. ' ' on left Jaw. Under-slope right ear. Horses branded "E" on left shoulder. _ FOR SALE. My range of 1,000 acres of deeded land in one body , Including the Black and Byfield bar lands ; timber and water with two good farm houses and other improvem3flto. Convenient to No. 1 school prmleffofl. Situated hi the Republican val ley wert Bed "Willow creek. Call on or address J. F. BLACK. Indianola , Net ) . J. WILSON. Stock brand circle on left shoulder ; also dewlap and a crop and under half crop on left eer , and a crop and under bit in the right. Banoh on the Republican. Fost- offloe , Max , Dundy county , Nebraska. HENRY T. CHURCH. Osborn , STeb. Range : Bed "Willow creek , In south west corner of , Frontier county , cat tle branded ' 'O L O" on right side. Also , ia over crop on right ear and under crop on left. Horses branded " 8" on right shoulder. SPRING CREEK CATTLE CO. Indianola , Neb. Bange : Bepublican Val- ey , east of Dry Greek , and near head of Spring Creek , In Chase county , J. D. WBLBORK , Yioe President and Superintendent. PROCTOR. MoOook , Neb. , range ; Red "Willow creek , n southwest corner of Frontier county. Also S. P. brand on right hip and side and swal- ow-fork inright ear. Horaes branded B. P. on right hip. A few branded ( 'A' ' on right hip. * J. B.MESERVB. Ranch , Spring Canyon on * he Trwichmam River , in Chase onnty , Neb. Stookbnad L as above ; also " 717" on leU sjde ; * T" on rferht hip and "L. " 'on right honI4 rj l7L. " on left Bhool4er and I. " o& Mt jaw. Half under- crop reft ear. and B < ZTUV - rep right ear. _ C. D. PHELPS. Bange : Bepublican Taller , tour weet of Culbertson , south Bids of can. Stock branded " 101" and L. " P. O. Adjtatts , CulbertBon , Net ) . THE TURNIP BRAND. Banch 2 miles north of McCook. 8io4k branded on left hip , and a fewdoiiblt eroor * es on left side. < J. D. BBCANBBACK. STOKES & TROTH. P. O. Address , Oarrico. Hafea comity , Nebraska. Bange. J ed Willow , abort Car- rleo. Stock branded as above. Aho ran t& lazy c < brand. GEORGE J. FREDERICK. Banch4 miles southwest of McCook , on the Driftwood. Stock branded "AJ" on the left hip. P. O. address , McCook , JTeb. JOHN HATFIELD & SON. McCook. Neb. , Raneh 4 miles southeast on Republican river. Stock branded a bar and lazy M on left hip JOSEPH ALLEN. Banch on Bed Willow Creek , half mile above O born pbstoffice. Cattle branded on , right side ana hip above. 3-4 ,
