McOooK WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
VOLUME III. MeCOOK , RED WILLOW COUNTY , NEBRASKA , THURSDAY , AUG. 7 , 1884. NUMBER 1O.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
MeCook , Nebraska.
0. L. LAWO , Scetttcr. C. P. BIBCOCK ; Beeclver.
OFFICK Houns : From ! l A. M. to 12 M.f and
1 to 4 P. M. , inoiintuin time.
J. E. COCHRAN ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
HcCOOE , BED WILLOW COUNTY , H B.
Practice In any Courts of the state and Kan-
BIIH , and tlic government Land Ollice of tliis
District , and before the Land Department , at
WushlnKton. Satisfaction guaranteed , and
terms reasonable. Ollice ] st door swuth of the
U. S. Land Ollico. ---8.
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JENNINGS & STA11BUCK ,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
MCCOOK , - - NEBRASKA.
Wilt give special attention to the practlco of law
and tanking collections.
{ 5 ? omceSccondl > lt > cknortliof diTot.Sdoorsiiortl
Grecn'H drug store. 2-5J2.
PAGE T. FllANCIS ,
COUNTY SURVEYOR
Red Willow County.
Keeps certified plats of all lands in the
Hitchcock land district. Special attention
jjiven to all such business. Correspondence
solicited. 2-22
L. LEE JOHNSON , M. D. ,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON ,
drsdaito Helical Doputnsat University coster.
OFFICK : Two doors east of the Tribune
Onice , where he can be found when not pro
fessionally ciifpafrcd. Residence , corner of
Jcll'crson and Madison streets
DR. Z. L. KAY ,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ,
McCOOK , - - NEBRASKA.
I. I will be found at S. L. Green's Drujr Store
/ for the present. All orders left there will re
ceive prompt attention.
T. B. STUTZMAN , M. D.5
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON ,
McCOOK , - NEBRASKA.
Office one door cast of THE TRIBUNE office ,
where all calls will receive prompt attention ,
day or night.
Du. A. J. WILLEY ,
SURGEON B. & M. Railroad.
[ OFFICE AT B. & M. PHAltMACV , ]
McCOOK , - - NEBRASKA.
A. T. GATEWOOD ,
SURGEON DENTIST.
[ OFFICE AT McCOOK HOTEL. ]
"Preservation of the teeth a , specialty.
JOHN F. COLLINS ,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER ,
McCOOK. - - NEBRASKA.
Jobbing ivIH receive prompt attention "at my sliop
oil Dcnnlson St. , opposite MeCook House. Plans and
FpeciUcatlons furnished If desired.
CONGDON & CLIFF ,
BRICKLAYERS & PLASTERERS
McCOOK , - NEBRASKA.
CSPAH jobs promptly tttcnded to.
C. L. NETTLETON ,
Superintendent Public Instruction
Teachers' Examinations at Indianola on the
third Saturday of every month , commencing1
at 9 o'clock. A. M. 25-tf.
W. M. SANDERSON ,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER ,
McCooic , - NEBRASKA.
J5 ? A11 work guaranteed. Give me a call.
WILLIAM McINTYKE ,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
OF LONG EXPERIENCE.
AH vrork warranted. All material furnished
if desired. Work done on short notice.
IIINMAN & CO. ,
Painters , Grainers , Paper Hangers
McCOOK , 2-36. NEBRASKA ,
5 Dcslgns furnished for Celling Decorations ,
cither In paper w Frecco Painting.
NEW BARBER SHOP.
JACKSON TUBES
lias opened up a Barber Shop on AVest Dennlson
Street. MeCook , Xeb. , where hols able to do Sharing ,
Hair Dressing , etc. , at all times. Ladles and child
ren's hair dressing a specialty. Call and become
-f . acquainted. .TACKSOX TUBES.
A. C. TOWNE ,
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
McCOOK , - XEBKASKA.
Has for sale Deeded Lands , Timber Claims and
Homesteads. Also , will locate parties on Govern-
< inent Land.
DYSPEPSIA
Can be cured by tlie use of Beggs' Dandelion Bit
"
ters. It will at once restore action" to tlie liver and
kidneys , and tone up and regulate the stomach , so
that food-will be digested. For tale by S. L. Green.
The call for Beggs' Blood Purifier lf dally Increas
ing. S. L. Green Is furnishing sample bottles free.
It Is an excellent medicine for the Liver , Kidneys
end Blood. "Warranted.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington , D. C. , August 2 , ' 84.
This is the best Government the
world ever saw for purposes of plunder ,
and the plunderers know it. They seem
to have taken it for granted that Gov
ernments and this Government in par
ticular arc instituted among men to
enable the few upon the inside to whack
up between themselves , and for this
are the offices disseminated. 1 don't
know the exact period in the life of this
Government if there ever was such a
time when public ofiicials began to
steal and get caught at it , but it was as
long ago as 1839 that Swartwout with
a million of dollars of Government
money in his pocket- put his thumb to
his nose and gyrated his fingers at Mar
tin Van Burcn and the Government
just as Tweed did at the New York
public thirty years afterward. As time
has passed awar , the plundering has
gone on with more and more barefaced
audacity until stealing is actually look
ed upon as one of the privileges of offi
cial existence. And the Government
in all this time has never learned how
to keep its books , nor never looked after
the state of its cash account so as to
know when , where , who , or how long its
trusted employes had been stealing , or
whether they had been stealing at all.
There was postmaster Fowler's larcenies
that covered an aggregate of $515,000 ,
and a period of peculation extending
through nearly four years , yet the Gov
ernment's accounts with its chief post
office were kept so loosely ( or rather
were not kept at all ) that Fowler's dis
appearance was the first inkling that
the accounting ofiicials received of any
sort of crookedness ! The approaching
trials of Swaim and Morrow and Burn-
side will develop with startling com
pleteness the wonderful facilities afford
ed and the terrible temptations to steal
that comes of our system of Govern
mental book-keeping.
Two days ago I paid a visit to the
Document room of the House of Rep
resentatives in search of an item. It is
not the busy place just now that it is
when Congress is in session , but it is
in its . Stowed
quite a curiosity-shop way.
ed away in pigeon-holed and tied up in
bundles are the copies of all Documents
printed by order of the House , and all
bills introduced. The familiar inscrip
tion which Dante put over the entrance
to the infernal regions , "abandon hope
all ye who enter here , " might well be
written over the doors of this room. It
is indeed a burying-ground for this kind
of literature. Of the 11,000 bills which
entered there during the late session ,
less than 200 emerged in the shape of
acts. Of course the great majority of
bills and resolutions introduced never
liad any chance to become acts , and sad
would have been the fate of the country
if they had. ' Many of those kept in the
background , owe their death to the vig
ilance of certain members among whom
Ilolman , of Indiana , is the chief.
Much has been written about "the
great objector , " as he is called , and
many have doubtless conceived the idea
that he is a stern , cross-grained and
morose man. But such is not the case.
Those who are familiar with his private
ife , know that he has as kind a heart
as ever throbbed against a waist-coat.
[ t was he who had the provision for the
salary of Jennie M. Hunt , a cripple in
the Dead Letter Office , placed in the
Legislative Appropriation bill so as to
secure her against discharge. And
through him the little wan-faced hunch-
jack who sits at the door of the Appro-
matious Committee room , got his place :
This boy , whose name is Willie Howard ,
s the support of his widowed mother.
J.c used to stand on the Capitol steps
ind beg , where he was allowed to re-
nain by the policemen whose hearts
were softened by his appeals , and final-
y in stormy weather he got a place by
the elevator where he often performed
ittle services for members. Holman
jccarnc interested in him , and got a
resolution through the 'House author-
zing his appointment as an additional
) age. So the boy is a fixture , and
nakes himself useful in keeping the
committee room in order , straightening
up the papers and books , and doing
errands for the members.
One of the last nights of the session
there was a scene which would make a
striking picture oil canvas. The Con
ference Committee on the naval bill
were in session. There was Logan , the
Republican candidate for Vice-Presi
dent ; Hale , of Maine , and the'stalwart
Beck , representing the Senate , with
Randall , Holman and Calkins , repre
senting the House. For several hours
the committee debated and wrangled ; a
good deal of hard talk being heard from
all sides. But through it all , regardless
of the fate of the new cruisers , curled
up in a great arm-chair , sleeping a
peacefully as a kitten on a hearth-stone
lay the little hunchback , tired out wit
the cares of state. After the committe
adjourned in a passionate disagreement
Holman noticed the boy , woke him u ;
as tenderly as a mother would , and tel <
him to go home. DOM PEDRO.
THE latest sensation in the amuse
inent field is a troup of colored trage
dians. They opened the season ii
New York last Tuesday evening to
crowded house. The play producet
was "Othello , " and the fun was fas
and furious from beginning' to end.
One report says , "The audience was
a very noisy , but a very witty one
and had abundant opportunity to dis
play its humor. Othello was an es
pecial butt , the gallery recommend
ing cholera medicine for his cram pi
when the historic mole was writhing
in the agonies of jealousy , and enjoin
ing him against squirming too mud
lest he lose his liver pad. But lago
was their meat. He was a very black
lago who played the part "for all il
was worth. " He wouldn't lose a sin
gle squirm nor abate a single wriggle
or scowl that he could get into his
part , and the audience were convuls
ed over his antics. "Look out , Cassio ,
he's got a ra/.or , " yelled a voice from
the parquette. "Slug him , Roderigo ,
he's playing you for a , sucker , " scream
ed a gallery god , when lago was get
ting in some of his- fine work. Then
when Othello went for lago there was
a general O cry t. of "time , * " and puinlis-
tic injunctions came from all sides.
The scenes between Desdemona and
her lord aroused side splitting jokes
from the front. She was advised to
"get a divorce' ' and "go for alimony"
and one wit posted her to the effect
that her coon had made another mash.
The whole entertainment was uproar
ious in front of the house , but the
colored actors continued their busi
ness gravely and paid no attention to
the hullabaloo among the audience.
The enjoyment of the latter was in
tense , even old and dignified men
unbending and taking part in the
riotous merriment. The only draw
back was that as the tragedy -.vorkecl
up to a climax the earnest tragedians
worked themselves up into a perfect
foam of perspiration. This is the only
way they got "square" Avith their tor
mentors. The performance Avas better
than a circus in many respects. "
Topics. .
Two little creatures were sitting in
the oloaminoin one of those old-
O O
fashioned , dizzy , delightful gloamings
that female novelists tell us about.
They were sitting there , and the
gloaming gleamed away , and the
creatures sat and sat. The two creat
ures were a dude and a duclelet , and
they were too-too. "Adolpheus , " ut
tered she , with a sigh like unto a
sleepy cat0 , , Adolpheus ! " "What is
it , my beloved Alicia ? What wouhlst
thou of thine Adolpheus ? " "I would "
I would " " Speak , dearest ;
thine Adolpheus is ready to do any
thing to please his ownest own. "
"Then , Adolpheus , 0 , Adolpheus , kiss
me ! " There was a slight convulsion
of the atmosphere , a trembling of the
young boughs over-head , and the
gloaming had it all bis own way
thereafter. The verdict of the core
ner's jury was , "Swallowed each oth
er. " San Francisco News-Letter.
A WJIITEI : asks , "Can Democracy
soar ? ' ' It can , but it doesn't spell it
tuat"way. In the matter of sore the
Democracy takes no back seat nor
any other seat. It's too sore.
Her Monument.
She built it herself , and yet she did
not know that she had a monument.
She lived in it , but she did not know
that it existed.
Her monument was her home. It
grew up quietly , as quietly as a flow
er grows , and no one knew she did
not know herself how much she had
done to tend and water and train it.
Her husband had absolute trust in
her. He earned the money ; she ex
pended it. And as she put as much
thought in her expenditure as he put
in his earning , each dollar was doub
led in the expending. She bad inher
ited that mysterious faculty which we
call taste , and she cultivated it with
fidelity. Every home she visited she
studied , though always unconsciously ,
as it were a museum or an art gal
lery ; and from every visit she brought
away some thought which came out
of the alembic of her loving imagina
tion fitted to its appropriate place in
her own home. She was too genuine
to be an imitator for imitation is al
ways akin to falsehood and she ab
horred falsehood. She was patient
with everything but a lie. So she
never copied in her own home or in
her own person what she had seei :
elsewhere ; yet everything she saw
elsewhere entered into and helped to
complete the perfect picture of life
which was always painting with deft
fingers in everything , from the honey
suckle which she trained over the
door to the bureau in the guest's room
which her designing made anew work
of art for a new friend , if it were only
by a new nosegay and a change of
vases. Putting her own personality
into her home , making every room
and almost every article of furniture
speak of her , she has the giftto draw
out from every guest his personality
and make him at home , and so make
him his truest and best self. Neither
man nor woman of the world could
loner resist the subtle influence of that
O
home ; the warmth of its truth" and
love thawed out the frozen proprieties
from impersonated etiquette , and
whatever circle of friends sat on the
broad piazza in summer or gathered
around the open fire in winter knew
for a time the rare joy of liberty
home was hospitable because her
heart was large ; and any one was
her friend to whom she could minis
ter. But her heart was like the old
Jewish temple strangers only came
into the court of the Gentiles , ii lends
into an inner coxirt ; her husband and
ler children found a court yet nearer
icr heart of hearts ; yet even they
cnew th.it there was a holy of holies
which she kept for her God , and they
oved and revered her more for it. So
strangely was commingled in her the
nclusiveness and the exclusiveness of
eve , its hospitality , and its resefve.
Ah ! blessed home builder ! You
lave no cause to envy women with a
co-ift. " For there is nothing so sa-
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creel on earth as a home , and no priest
on earth so divine as the wife and
nether who makeit , and no gift so
jreat as the gift which grafts this bud
of heaven on the common stock of
earth. "His children shall rise up
and call her blessed ; her husband
ilsh , and he praiseth her. " F
MUCH has been said about the reck- FI
essness of the cowboys of the bouud-
ess. But they are careful. It is a I
natter of record that one party in
"Montana has huiif * thirteen horse-
CJ
liieves within a week recently and
nade only one error. What supreme
court can show a better retnrn V
THE opposition of the Harpers to
31aine is attributed to the fact that
he "Plumed Knight'1 did not have
O
hem publish his book. This is prov
en pretty conclusively by a letter
rom one of the Harpers , written on
he 18th of March , 1883 , and now
nade public for the first time.
THE cholera seems to be on the de-
line in Europe , and it is quite likely
hat it will not reach America this
rear if ihe precautions that have been
aken so far are kept up.
W. 0. LaTOURETTE ,
II DEALER IN | |
HARDWARE , STOVES , QUEENSWARE ,
AGRIGUTURAL IMPLEMENTS ,
BARBED WIRE.
The Largest Stock and Lowest Prices
in Red "Willow County.
CALL AND BE CONVINCED ,
Sign of BIG AX. Three Doors South P. 0.
McCOOK - - NEBRASKA.
LYTLE BROS. ,
.
-GKXEUAL DKAI.KUS IX-
Agricultural Implements and Barb Wire ,
HEADQUARTERS FOR
XTKTigon
The Best Wagon in tlie Market '
MANUFACTURING AND REPAIRING OF
Tin , Sheet-iron & Copperware
By Practical and Experienced Workmen , Promptly
and Neatly Executed.
Werner Store , Opposite Citizen's Bank , McCOOK , NEBUASKA.
HAVE IN STOCK A LINE OF
FINE TOILET ARTICLES ,
Combs , Brushes , Perfumery , Extracts , Etc.
WINES AND LIQUORS
Will Ibe sold only in cases of sickness , and then , only
011 Physician's Prescription.
Descriptions Carefully Compounded , Day or Night.
Doctor's Choice , America's Finest Five Cent Cigar.
McCOOK , - - NEBRASKA ,
THE CITIZEN'S BANK OF McCOOK
DOES A GENERAL
ANKINC BUSINESS
Collections made on all accessible points. Drafts drawn directly
on the principal cities of Europe. Taxes paid for Non-Residents.
Money to loan on Farming Lands , Village and personal
property. Fire Insurance a specialty.
Pickets for Sale to and from Europe-
COHESCP01T3EHSS : J.V. . DOLAX , President.
First National Bank , Lincoln , Neb. V. FHANKLTN. Vice President.
Chase National Bank , Xcw York. AV. F. WALLACE. Cashier.