CASH ! CASH ! CASH !
. . ; WISH TO SAY TO - . ' :
That as we have no high-salaried book keepers to pay ,
n © 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
t
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 , 61bs. for 1.00
Light " 0" Sugar , 13lbs. for ' 1.00
LAWNS ! LAWNS ! Lawns ! Per yard 7c.
TEA ! TEA ! Tea ! From ' . . . . . 25c. to 75c.
REMEMBER !
We will pay the HIGHEST market price for PRODUCE in
exchange for goods AT CASH PRICES.
o
All Everybody Gome and See Us , All
WILCOX BROS.
I have for sale some of
the FINEST UPLAND in
RED WILLOW COUNTY.
For terms and particu
lars apply to
CEO. HOCKNELL.
D. KENDALL'S
BILLIARD HALL & FAVORITE RESORT ,
THE PLACE ' -O
Ice Cold Lemonade , Ginger Beer , Pop , Nuts ,
CHOICE CIGARS , CANDY , ETC ,
BILLIARD and POOL TABLE. CALL and ENJOY Y01HSSELYES
. SUBSCRTB
Tfie McCook Tribune
SUBSCRIPTION- PER YEAR.
I - . TIM POND. "V1 1
! ' < . ' [ M. J. Messor. ]
! I love a n'an whose deeds are earnest ,
1 Whose heart is faithful , whose words nn
I Inio ,
! And Httlo it matters where God has placed
! him ,
On what is the work that is his to do.
Whet h r ho sits in the halls of marble , .
To make the laws for a mighty land ,
Or hears , in the forest , the wild birds warble ,
Aud grasps an axe in his brawny hand.
Jnst such a man was Tim , the hunter ,
A guide , with record without a. htain ,
Who knew like a book each brook and river
And loved every tree in the woods of Maine.
For forty years , through the pathless forests ,
Ho followed the moose and the caribou ;
But never again shall wo hear his rifle ,
Or , pier , ing the darkness , his loud halloo.
For Tim is at rest , his life chase ended ,
Ho sleeiw 'mid the scenes he loved so well ,
By the side of a tranquil mountain lakelet ,
Whose beauty with rapture the tourists tell.
Aud his memorv lives in that sheet of water ,
Though his spirit re ts in the great beyond.
And will live as long as the wavelets ripple ,
For 'tis known to the world by the name
"Tim Pond. "
PLACING THE "BEAUTY SPOTS. "
Reviving tlio CiiHtom of Faci--
Adornlnjr wltl CoiirtJPlter. .
[ Chicago News. ]
"The court-plaster market has n de
cided upward tcndcney , " said a State
street druggist. "Tho reason ? Oh ,
that's plain enough. The ladies have
taken to 'beauty spotting' themselves
again. Look at that one.'ho exelaimed ,
as a well-dressed and aristoeratic female
swept past the store. Two .small patehes
of court-plaster adorned her face , one
near the lower lip on the right side and
the Bother higher up on the cheek.
The latter evidently covered a
mole , or some other imperfection
of the cuticle , for it did not lie Hat
upon the face , but had a convex ap
pearance.
"She is one of very many , " continued
the druggist , "who arc beginning this
rather questionable method of enhancing
feminine loveliness. Chicago ladies
always keep up with the fashions , and
now that black court-plaster has become
an adjunct to the toilet they may be ex
pected to do their part. I was at a
theatre the other night aud in looking
over the audience I counted forty-seven
ladies who were adorned with the spots.
They wore a satisfied air as though proud
of the new fashion. It is more generally
used by blondes. Brunettes sometimes
wear the spots to hide little imperfec
tions of the face. They seldom use it ,
imagine , to heighten their complexion ,
for that is dark and the contrast is not
so great as in the case of the flaxen hair
and pink cheek of a blonde. Light-
skinned women have always used more
skill in the art of making up than
brunettes , and as their beauty , brilliant
while it lasts , is more fleeting than their
dark-haired sisters , they should be ex
cused for creating as great a sensation
as possible during their brief career.
"The custom , so far as I can learn , is
a French one , and was introduced into
England at the time of William the
Conqueror in the eleventh century. Acl-
dison speaks of the habit in one of his
essays , and calls it patching. It was
aniversal then among polite ladies. Par
tisan spirit in those times was very bit
ter , and the ladies , taking up the fight ,
'patched' in the cause they adopted.
The Whig ladies patched altogether on
the right side of the face , while the
Tories patched the other side. When a
woman changed her politics her patches
also. The custom soon became trans
formed from a political warfare to a sys
tem of facial adornment , and the name
changed from 'patches' to 'beauty spots. '
What has caused the present revival of
the fashion ? It would be impossible to
give a satisfactory explanation , except
that as new modes become exhausted old
ones are hunted up and made to pass for
fresh invention. "
One Tribe Well Provided for.
[ Cor. Philadelphia Times. ]
The Crows are better off in every way
than any other tribe in Montana. They
are the richest and laziest Indians in the
territory. They have an enormous re
servation , nearly o,000,000 acres of
beautiful soil , which they are too lazy to
cultivate ; neither will they let anybody
else do it. If this land was equally
divided up among the 9GO men , 770
boys , 1,100 women and 670 girls com
posing the Crow nation it would give
exactly 1,473 acres to every man. woman
and child of the tribe. Besides this they
have over 1.1,000 head of horses , or
rather ponies , $50,000 worth of peltries
and skins , 12,000 buffalo robes and at
least $350,000 worth of other property.
They have many rich miucs'nn their
reservation , particularly in the Bi Horn
country. Some of the bucks occasionally
bring specimens of gold and nuggets into
the po.st trader's store at tin * military
fort , which the } * barter in exchange for
beads , calico , shells and other trinkets.
When asked where they get the gold
they smile an Indian .smile , mke their
heads knowingly and say : "Up in the
Big Horn mountains. "
Factors of Progress.
[ Kansas City Journal. ]
Every highway , every railway , every
steamboat , every sail of a merchant
marine , is a factor of progress of ideas ,
religious and moral as well as industrial.
The only countries whore bigotry ,
ignorance , mLsgovernment have full
swing , arc countries where you will
find sheep paths instead of roads and
railroads , and where there arc no har
bors or ships or commerce. An industrial
ige is not an age antagonistic of religion ,
rrailio is an evangelist. I fad "not
Columbus discovered America , and
Magellan circumnavigated the globe , we
night all to-day be turning the thumb
screw or sitting in the stocks persccut-
ng or persecuted.
New York Newsboy * .
[ John Swinton's Paper. ]
There are about 300 little ragamufiins
jctween 6 and 12 years of age in this
: ity who live by selling the daily papers
n the streets. Twenty per cent , of
ihem die. every year by exposure and
range ? ; but the supply is always far
) eyond the demand. Besides these
here are a hundred little girls who
i-om time to time try their hands in
ivaling tlio boys. The income of thcso
atterdcmalions runs from 20 to 70 cents
k day.
Merchant Traveler : The coming ? ra i
-chol-era , <
UNDER A NOM DE PLUME.
The nriNljiUc Journalist * Pinko IroNot
Malting Their Own Name * .
[ New York Journalist. ]
Xcwtipapcr writers who furnish cor
respondence or other matter to which
they are allowed to sign their names ,
make a very serious mi.stako in taking
to themselves fanciful titles. The nom
de plume is very decidedly played out ,
and it does the writer no more good , in
any sense , than would bo done him if he
did not sign his contributions at all.
The only object in putting a signature to
an article at all , is to identify the matter
with a given personality. The man
whoso nom do plume wins celebrity is
just as badly off as ho was before ho be
gan to use it.
Let us take a case in point. Mr.
Blakcly Hall , of The Sun , does a good
deal of work for out-of-town ncw.spapers.
Of all his writings , however , the weekly
letter which ho sends to The .San Fran-
cisca Argonaut is perhaps the moat
widely copied , and therefore , in a jour
nalistic sen.Mi , the most successful. It
has been Mr. Hall's custom to sign these
letters "Flaneur , " and by reason of that
non do plume his identity has been lost.
It so happens that Mr. Hall's style of
writing closely resembles that of an
other journalist , whoso name has been
rather more extensively known than the
name of Mr. Hall. The readers of the
Flaneur letters detected , or thought
they detected , the other journalist's per
sonality in these communications. The
natural con.sequenco of this fact wa ?
that until recently the other journalist
has quite unconsciously been receiving
! the credit of having written Mr. Blakoly
I Hall's letters to The Argonaut , and the
" sditpr of that paper now feels moved , in
justice to Mr. Hall , to announce that ho
is their author.
Clearly it would have been a good
leal better for Mr. Hall if he had from
the first signed his full name to his let
ters. He would have received general
sredit for them , and in addition to that ,
lhe knowledge of who he was might
aavo assisted in making a more wide-
pread demand for his work. An ed
itor requiring New York correspond
ence generally applies for it to some
writer with whose work he is familiar.
It would not bo easy for him to find a
man who was known only under a nom
3o plume.
The practice of signing the names of
the writers of the newspaper letters has
been growing rapidly within the past
"ew years. The fashion used to bo to
out one's initials at the bottom of his
nail contributions. Then the fancy
name stepped an , and that in turn is bc-
, ng superseded. Joseph Howard , J. H.
[ laynie , W. A. Croft'ut , and other writers
svho make a business of newspaper cor
respondence , have for some time fol-
'owcd this system. It enables them to
oecome widely known with much more
rapidity than would be" practicable under
: he old system. It took George Alfred
Townsend a good many years to make
himself known as the author of "Gath's"
letters. If he had signed his name at
the beginning , the matter would have
oecn fully understood long ago , and
Mr. T < wnsencrs period of prosperity ,
tvhich is now very large , would have
nave begun long ago. The nom deplume
plume is obviously a mistake.
The OTnu IVlio Shoots Well * .
[ New York Sun. ]
He was a medium-sized , slender man
about 40 years old , aud he had listened
to the conversation tor some time in
silence. "Business is very good with
me , " he said , at last. "My expenses are
about $ . " > 0 a week , and my receipts at
least 200. I am a well-shooter. "
" \Vliafs that ? " asked a bystander.
"You see , all over the country there
are certain wells that supply so many
gallons per day. When the demand ex
ceeds the supply they send * for me. I
examine the rock to see whether it's
limestone , sandstone or gneiss , and
then lower what we call a shattering
cartridge of dynamite or nitro-glycerine
to the bottom of the well and there ex
plode it with the electric spark. The explosion -
plosion shatters the rock for yards , and
opens crevices in every direction , so that
the flow of water is doubled , and some
times quadrupled. I have just shot a
well for a brewery on Kinth avenue ,
near Manhattanville. They formerly
had to pump the water , jtfow the water
overflows , and for the $300 they gave
me for the job , they are saving over
§ 2,000 a year. "
"Why haven't you competition ? "
"The trade isn't healthy. When I
started four years ago I had two part
ners. At Piftsburg we shot an artesian ,
but one of my partners happened to
drop a cartridge. It was nitro-glycerine ,
aud the building and my partner were
blown to pieces. My tccond partner was
a very careful man , hut la > t August he
left me in Philadelphia to shoot a well
in Gennantown. lie had two cartridges
in his coat pockets , and they mu.-t have
been manufactured improperly , because
just outhide the latter place there was an
explo.-iou which broke every pane of
glass for .100 yards. I identified my
partner by the pieces of his watch , but
there wasn't enough of him left for a
funeral. T want a partner very jntich ,
aud have advorti > ed for one ; but the
moment they learn about the trade , they
get out. Yet it's a perfectly safe trade.
Here is a nitro-glycerino cartridge made
after my own ideas. If "
But at this point the crowd found tlio
air too oppressive , and left.
Tender-Hearted Nero.
[ Burlington Hawkeye. ]
Xero was not the tyrant , at all times ,
that history has painted him. Xatur-
illy , he was a man of tender heart and
compassionate impulses. He played the
fiddle while Komo was burning. This
reconciled the Romans to the conflagra
tion , and calmly locking themselves in
: hcir blazing houses , they gladly per-
shccl ,
Yarn From tlie Nettle.
According to Dr. A. Berghau ? , the
lettle was former extensively employed
n Germany for woven fabrics and its
iso is being revived. The common
stinging nettle may be made into good
, -arn , but the Chinese nettle gives the
jest results.
Washington Gladden : By fur the
nest dangerous of the unsocial forces
low threatening ( dcstriu-tc cf s > o
liuty is the gambling mania.
NOW IS THE , TIME
BUY
Watches Clocks jewelry
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OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. '
Rings , Vest and Guard Chains , Pins , I >
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Cuff Buttons , Neck Chains , Sets , Etc.
AT LOWEST PRICES !
ENGRAVING artistically done. Special attention
given to repairing. All work warranted.
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F. -McCRACKEN. .
ARAPAHOE
STAR MILLS FLOUR. I r * ! '
WARRANTED TO BE
TH FINEST
FLOO . 112 THE MARKET.
FOR SALE
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McCOOK , - NEBRASKA.
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FREES & HOCKNELL ,
PROPRIETORS OF THE
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Lumber , Lime , Cement , Sash , Doors , Blinds ,
Hard and Soft Coal ,
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J. E. BERGER , Proprietor , McCOOK , NEB.
Ghallengejfind Mill ,
Superior to any ou the market , being Ht-aUcr , Stronger 2aOr *
and therefore a more Durable Mill. It 13 the only
absolutely safe Mill ImJlt ; and out of
Thousands Erected During 12
. .
Years pa.t. not one has
excr blown
. away ami left the Tower
Mamllngr. A record no other .Mill can show. "We offer
to put up any of our PUMPING MILLS
ON THIRTY DAYS TRIAL
Ami , If they , iont * * * . - . . . _ , tNfaetI . _ *
m. will
. n - . . ANo remove Mill at our
Manufacturer of the
Chancre KCCU . Mills Com Seller , . Iron Celebrated
nlth l.ra > cjllnilets , Iron Pipe. Tank * .
Kor est Iniates i-atalopues and prices , apply to
. . NETTLETON , McCook , iVef , . .
Agent furSomhwc.lem Xebra.ka
ana Xorthweslcrn Kw a ,
