CASH ! CASH ! CASH !
WE "WISH TO SAY TO
That as we have no high-salaried book keepers to pay ,
no bad debts to loose , and no large debts to. carry at
a heavy expense of interest , etc. , and that by
cutting down our expenses we are ena
bled to sell our goods at prices
AVERAGING LOWER
Than any other Firm ever offered Goods at in
Red Willow County !
A PARTIAL PRICE LIST.
"Prairie Rose" [ New Process ] Flour. Warranted.
Per hundred weight $2.25
Arbuckles Coffee , 6lbs. for 1.00
Light "C" Sugar , 131bs. for 1.00
LAWNS ! LAWNS ! Lawns ! Per yard 7c.
TEA ! TEA ! Tea ! From 25c.to75c.
REMEMBER !
We will pay the HIGHEST market price for PRODUCE in
exchange for goods AT CASH PEIOES.
All Everybody Gome and See Us , All
WILCOX BROS.
I have for sale some of
the FINEST UPLAND in
BED WILLOW COUNTY.
For terms and particu
lars apply to
CEO. HOCKNELL.
D. KENDALL'S
BILLIARD HALL & FAVORITE RESORT ,
THE PLACE
Ice Cold Lemonade , Ginger Beer , Pop , Nuts ,
CHOICE CIGARS , CANDY , ETC
BILLIARD and POOL TABLE. CALL and ENJOY YOUKSELYES
SUBS CRIB
The McCook Tribune !
SUBSCRIPTION $2 PER YEAR.
THE MUSIC OF TILE It'AIN.
r-'Mri" . foiling oil the house-tops ,
\ \ ! ti ) tnuto tiiihlut. ami rare ,
Lllf 'ho found of human hcart-tnroD ,
'On tiitfrllent midnight air ,
Orlha tears of angels fulling .
Wlion they weep with those wno weep ,
Or thojulluby of mothers
When they roclc their babes to sleep.
Llko the drowsy wine of popples
With Its weird , enchanting power * ,
Coining to the wt-iiry listener
Like thu dew to drooping flowers ;
LiJce calm sleep to those who suffer ,
Or HJ : tenir to tlioto who mourn ;
Like remembered words from loved one
1'roiii cnr aching bosoms torn.
Strnngclv sweet , bewitching musio ,
All enthralled my senses He ,
As I watch the mystic Future
With the shadowy Past go by ,
While a culm and holy quiet
Steals upon my heart and brain ,
Then I full asleep , still listening
To the murmur of the rain.
So , mayhap , sometime hereafter
I shall lay mo down to rest ,
Over weary , and shall listen
For the music I loved best ;
When , its gentle cadence falling
Through the midnight silence deep ,
Softly soothes my troubled spirit
While It lulls mo Into sleep.
When at last my soul has fallen
Into sweetest , glad repose ,
That on earth sunshine nor shadow
No awaking ever knows
Like the voice of waiting angels ,
Or the vesper bells In toll.
May the softly falling rain-drops
Chant a requiem for my soul.
Beeclier and the Stenographers.
A great deal is said about newspape *
inaccuracy , aud most of the complaints
are unfounded or are only based on tri
fling errors. It is an affectation in many
public men , and a silly one , to discredit
wholesale the reports of their utterances.
On the other hand , the pretensions to
infallibility ly shorthand -writers are
not borne out by the facts. No stenog
rapher alive can take down verbatim the
utterance of a rapid speaker. . Take
Beecher for a conspicuous test. It is an
object to him to have the fullest possi
ble reports made of his sermons , for the
purpose of issuing the best ot them in
pamphlets and books. He has during his
long pulpit career tried numerous ex
perts , and there is a notion that Elling-
wood , who has for years been his accred
ited reporter , is master of the job. So
far is it from being so that two other
rapid.men are employed each to make a
separate report , and from the work of
the three a copy is written put. But
the fallibility of this system is that all
.iro likely to fail simultaneously in the
extremely rapid passage ? . Like impul
sive speakers generally , Beecher speaks
s' > slowly at times that his words can all
be taken down in long hand. But for
the next ten minutes he will'rattle away
t a rate that defies stenography. Last
S'lcdav he was forty- two minutes deliv
ering his morning sermon. One of the
nu-rl competent shorthand reporters in
tueci'y took t very word of it that he
ct.nlii get , nud the total was about 6,000
\ \ onior two nod a half times the
mou.r. of this letter. And this was
> . < il soinuiy i-ccurntc , many sentences
h vig i'- " ! > > comj h'ted by guess work.
lvoa'ly ' the t-ermcn entire would have
n ; ' e nearly two thousand words more.
! } i- r i-T BO sensible a man that he
rr o ji ixes ihc difficulties of reporting ,
tiitd nov > i grumbles at anything which
y reproduces his sermons and
"Aft rule , " he says , "the 'reporters
miiko j-o' a a hiatus in then : notes so well
tijat no violence is done to the senti-
nu-at. Occasionally some blunder has
made me ridiculous , but much of tener ,
I imagine , iny language is improved by
the mibrepreseutatiou. I do not assert
poi jtive'y ' on this point , for the reason I
am ntiiiblp when I see a sermon of mine
in print , to lell Jfow nearly accurate it is.
Of caurte , I can detect any departure
from im ] o'tinfe meanings , but can't re
call my ovds to any great extent. N.
Y.Letle- .
Jesse Pomeroy , the Boy Murderer.
A correspondent , while in Concord ,
. , recently , visited the prison in
winch Jesse Pomeroy is confined. The
boy has reached man's stature HOT ? .
Under the condition of his sentence he
is kept in solitary confinement. He has
no intercourse whatever -with the
other prisoners , and the visitor was not
permitted to speak to him. Solitary
confinement in his case does not mean
the utterly cheerless condition that one
could imagine. Pomeroy , it is said.has ,
developed into a young man of more
than ordinary intellect , thoughtfulness ,
and reasoning powers. He is allowed to
have all the books he wants , and with
these companions his mental life is not
wholly devoid of comfort. Since he haa
been in prison he has acquired enough
knowledge of several languages to read
them well. His cell is spacious and
well lighted and ventilated. Young
Pomeroy remains to-day what his crimes
showed him to be an abnormal char
acter. While more intelligent and
intellectual than the average , he
is destitute of a moral nature ,
and hasn't the slightest conception of
the enormity of the acts by wfuch he
took the lives of several little children.
Pure Sympathy.
"What have you got for dinner ? " in
quired a disgusted drummer of the wait
er. The drummer had been in the town
twenty-four hours withput taking an
order.
"Eoast duck , sir. "
"Ah I was the duck shot on the wing ? "
"I guess so. "
"Trying to get away from this cusse/I
place , wasn't he ? "
' 1 presume likely enough , sir. "
"Good bird ; sagacious fowlj'rara avis.
I admire his pluck and pity his misfort
une. You may bring me that duck.
I'll take the whole of him. I'll help him
along on the road. "
The Bailroad Commissioners of Cali
fornia were in lazy session , pretending
to investigate abuses in the freight
traffic affecting the farmers of the State ,
when a venerable rustic asked permis
sion to address them. They told him
to go on , and he did so until his direct
charges of corruption displeased them ,
and they ordered an officer to eject him.
"I was prepared for an interruption. " he
said , "and I didn't mean to be turned
out without making an impression on
you. " Then he drew n Immlful of eggs
from his pocket and pelted the Commis
sioners with them.
CONSTANCY.
Part , oh part.
But not from Love , ah 1 no ,
- { For. though It blooms In sorrovrr
'Tis Heaven's flower below.
: > Part , oh part ,
lint not from Hope , nhl no ,
It is the star of sorrow ,
, God's sweetest gift below.
Part , oh I part ,
But not from Faith , ah ! no ,
It is the crown of Sorrow
Our lives must wear below.
Part , oh ! part , 1
' Yet not from Pain , ah I no ,
Who knowKiiot Love in sorrow
Knows naught of Love below.
Ecstatic Deathbed Visions.
' Have you ever observed the visions
and ecstatic delights that are often spo
ken of by religioufl writers ? " was asked
Dr. L. L. Seaman , one of Now York's
leu-ling physicians.
"Certainly. They are quite common ,
aud not at all confined to religious per
sons. Experienced physicians testify
tbat most persons die in astato of trance.
Although they are apparently conscious ,
t'poy pass away in a state of dreaming.
0 fct'ii they seem to be listening to musi-
Cii1 sounds. Sometimes they seem to be
beckoned to by angels. "
"And do you regard such exhibitions
ns purely physical ? "
"Just as much so as a dream. They
are controlled by the ordinary thoughts
and feelings , the every-day life and edu
cation and imagination of the subject in
precisely the same way as a dream is so
controlled. Generally a dream is a re
production of a waking thought. The
curious jumble of subjects in a dream is
the result of the absence of volition.
There is a suspension of the functions of
1 ho median tract of the brain. The same
tiling occurs in the mesmeric trance.
Tiie suspension may be temporary , and
then the person may not only return to
consciousness , but remember some of the
curious things seen in the vision. Some
thing of the same nature occurs in taking
opium. In tlie earlier stages of opium
eating the subject appears to have two
mental operations going on at once. One
is fantasticf and odd , the other normal
and regular. In such a case one is able
to keep up a running comment on the
visions passing before his eyes , "
Shingling Women's Hair.
"Oh , no , it ain't the dudes that have
their bang's shingled , " said a Philadel
phia barber. "Some dudes wear bangs ,
I know , but they don't have 'em shin
gled , and all the shingle'd customers I
have are ladieswho , ain't able to shingle
their own heads. "
"Wot's shingling ? Well , it's just
taking the hair from the middle of the
head and letting it fall over in front and
then cutting it so that it looks like a
shingled roof ; that is , in layers , each
one a little shorter than the one in front
of it , so that when the job's finished the
lady's .bang is nice and fluffy , and looks
as if it was bubbling up from the top of
her head and running down to her fore
head in little ripples. Oh , its most be
coming , I tell you , and I do a big busi
ness in shingling. "
"Do the ladies come here or do you
go to them ? " asked the scribe. "Well ,
most of them get me to come to their
houses , but I have some customers who
don't seem to mind coming to the shop
and going through the operation seated
on a chair with a towel around their
shoulders , though there may be three
or four gentlemen getting shaved at the
same i\me. Philadelp1iia Record. "
The Danger of Being a Natural Orator.
I met an old friend the other day and
says he ; "I just wish you could see my
boy. I'm fixing him up for college and
he is just the smartest boy in all this
country. He is a natural orator. He
has got gifts , he has. He speaks now
like Henry Clay. He took the medal in
declamation. I wish you * could see him
on the stage. He is just splendid , he is. "
I looked at him mournfully , and says
I : "It's sad , very sad. I never knew a
natural orator to be any account. I was
a natural orator and it ruined me. I've
never been any account. I took a pew
ter medal when I was young and have
never gotten over it. It was speaking
for a speech. I thought then that I had
whipped the battle of life and there
were no more worlds to conquer , but
I've had to fight on ever since , and my
medal didn't do me any good. I wish
you would guard your boy against med
als and being a natural orator. There
is but one remedy for a natural orator ,
and that is to marry rich and settle down
and wait for invitations to make speeches
at college commencements. They are
right useful that way. " Atlanta Comti-
Girls.
A stroll on Washington Heights re
vealed to a correspondent a fashionable
girl fashionably playing lawn tennK
She had more than the average height of
her sex , and was symmetrically perfect.
Her figure was encased in what lie sup
poses was a jersey bodice. At all events ,
the fabric was elastic , woven and seam
less. In his opinion there was no corset
under it , else she could not possibly
have been so supple , nor would every
movement of tlie muscles below her
shoulder blades have been visible. He
does not like to think that she was con
sciously on exhibition , and that her
poses and action were studiously careless ,
for she made too fine a picture to lack
honesty. Women may like to know
that her skirt was short , striped and
scant ; that her stockings were black ;
that her shoes were alligator skin , cut
low and that , as to Her hat , their fancy
must construct it out of the bare asser
tion that it was big , and so eccentric in
shape that no architect could give an
idea of it on paper without at least a
hundred cross-section views.
A Pretty Plaintiff Deprives a Jury of
Common Sense ,
A young woman in England was
slightly hurt in a railroad accident , and
hi lief suit against the company was
awarded a. ridiculously heavy verdict.
The Judge granted n. new trial on the
ground that the plaintiff and her s-isfor ,
who appeared as a witness in hc- behalf -
half , were so beautiful that tlio ji'vr "i
contemplating Iheui were deprived of
common sense.
NOW IS THE TIME
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Rings , Vest and Guard Chains , Pins ,
Cuff Buttons , Neck Chains , Sets , Etc.
AT LOWEST PRICES !
ENGRAVING artistically done. Special attention " , * "A fr
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given to repairing. All work warranted. A
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fcapi-rlor to any on the market , Ijclnj ; IIca\Icr , Stronger Built ,
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and thiTfforc a. more Durable Mill , it Is the only
absolutely afe Mill built ; and out of
Thousands Erected During 12
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Year ? pavt. not one 1ms ever blown away and left the Tower
standing. A record no other Mill can show. We offer
to put up any of our IM'MPIXG MILLS
ON THIRTY "DAYS TRIAL ,
An I If tlit-y don't frfve satisfaction , will
. resume Mill at our
own e\p nse. Also Manufacturers of the Celebrated
Challenge Feed Mills ComShellcrs. Iron '
1'umps
with brass cylinders. Iron Pipe. Tanks.
Tor c-tliinte.s catalosuc * anil prfcoa , nppjy to
G. tt. NETTLETOX , McCook , Neb. ,
J Ascnt for Southwestern Nebraska and Northwestern Kansas