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About McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1884)
CASH ! CASH ! CASH ! WE 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 Than any other Firm ever offered- Goods at in Red Willow County ! A PARTIAL PRICE LIST. / ' "Prairie Kose" [ New Process ] Flour. Warranted. - . Per hundred weight § 2.25 , -Arbuckles Coffee , Gibs , 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 PEODUCE in exchange for goods AT CASH PEICES. All Everybody Gome and See Us , WILCOX BROS. B. & M. PHARMACY HAVE IN STOCK A LINE OF FINE TOILET AETICLE Combs , Brushes , Perfumery , Extracts , Etc. WINES AND LIQUORS Will be sold only in cases of sickness , and then only on Physician's Prescription. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded , Day or Nighi. Doctor's Choice , America's Finest Five Cent Cigar. McCOOK , - - NEBRASKA , Stipoiior to nny ou tlic innilcct , Jjclng Heavier , StiongcrBuIK , autt tlicrcforc a more Durable Mill. It Is the only absolutely safe Mill built ; and out of Thousands Erected During 12 Tears past , not one has ever blown away and left the ToTrcr standing. A record no other Mill can show. "We oiler to put up any of our PUMPING MILLS t ON THIRTY DAYS TRIAL , And If they don't give satisfaction , will rcpiCTC Mill at our . own expense. Also Manufacturers of the Celebrated Challenge Feed Mills , Corn Shelters , Iron Pumps with brass cylinders , Iron Pipe , Tanks. For estimates , catalogues and prices , apply to g , 0. B. NETTLETON , MeCook , tfeb. , Agent for Southwestern Nebraska and Northwestern Kansas D. KENDALL'S BILLIARD HALL & FAVORITE RE ! THE PLACE Ice Cold Lemonade Beer Nuts , Ginger , Pop , , . CHOICE CIGARS , CANDY , ETC , 4 BILLIARD and POOL TABLE. CALL and ENJOY TOURSELTES EFFECTS OF THE IMAGINATION. Some of the Principles Involved In "Faltli Cures. " . [ St. Louis Globe-Democrat ] Any one can test for himself the effect of concentrating the attention upon i limb or organ. If one will think stead fastly for from three to five minutes of his great toe , or ono of the fingers , ho will find that sensations not before per ceived will make themselves felt in tlio part to which attention has been di ' rected. If an attempt is 'made to couni the acts of breathing , the number 01 respirations in the minute will be fount to be either increased or diminished from the number natural to the person. In every class of medical students there are to bo found individuals who suiter from disease of the heart when when the lecturer is portraying the symptoms of affections of that organ , but whose cardiac affections pass oil : u soon as another range of disease is taken up for description. The inlluenco of the emotions upon iiho circulation of the blood and the se cretions of the diS'crcnt organs are wel known. The blush of shame , the pal lor of fear , the cold sweat of horror , fainting from fright or on hearing good or bad news , the dryness of the mouth from anxiety or trepidation , the palpita tions of the lover , the tears of grief , the "watering of the mouth" at the thought of food in the sufferer from hunger ; all those demonstrate the enor mous inihionco the feelings exert over the function' ) of different parts oven during health. That the same emotion.6 would have as great an effect when the body is weakened by disease is as cer tain as any fact in human nature. That they have a great effect is proven by the experience of mankind. ] o one can , with absolute accuracy , foretell "tho curative power of nature' in every case of disease. Instances arc numberless of the doctor having "given up" his patient , who straightway began to improve. More than ono cemetery certificate has boon written by the at tending physician , in this city , for pa tients who recovered. Those events add still more to the proof of the fallibility of human judgment. The ability to pre dict the outcome of any given case rests , of course , on the experience- acumen of the practitioner. Such errors as those just alluded to are no basis for reflection on the uncertainty of science , but arc evidences of unexpected strength of the patient's constitution or of want of knowledge or experience on the part of the attendant. If a tcaspoonful of sugared water or a dose of some secret nobtrum has been administered at the critical moment , of course this gets the credit of curing the patient. If de spairing friends offer up their passionate prayers , instead of trusting further to the powerless agencies of the apothe cary , then faith has succeeded when everything else has failed. ' In case'a rheumatic patient falls into the hands of a "magnetic healer , " or ono who cures by ' 'the laying on of hands" ( which generally involves a vig orous nibbing ) , he is very sure to bo benefited if not entirely relieved. To be sure , the same amount of force ap plied by a person having no sort of rep utation as a "healer" would do as well , but the fears of the patient are fre quently sufficient to prevent the proper amount of passive exercise if they are not counterbalanced by a good amount of faith in the supposed powers of the manipulator. The efficacy of most lini ments , embrocations , "wizard oils" and the like , depend upon the amount of force expended in the application to the skin , not by anything taken up by the surface the latter Icing practically im penetrable so long as it remains un broken. The Unknown Constituency. [ Argonaut -Bubbles. ' ' ] There are two or three weekly papers in Now York devoted to the diffusion of literary dishwater , whose circulation reaches a half million. Two or three weeklies of the same sort , published iu London , circulate their one million copies. Who the deuce are the readers who guzzle down these brimming flood ; ; of wash and scum from the culinary de partment of letters ? In the absence of any accurate knowledge of the facts , it used to be thought a sufficient answer to say : The Sewing-girls and other young women of about their mental equip ment ; the unknown constituency will be found less in the lower middle than in the upper lower classes. This answer served till it occurred to one of those nosing Englishmen who Avant to know , you know , that he would run the subject to earth. He did so , and found that the papers in question were nearly unknown to the whole lower class , and" that their euormoas con stituency lay in the middle class most of it , of'course , in the lower half of that class , but an astonishingly large pro portion above the median Hue. Ulaclsincry for China , [ Chicago Herald. ] The secretary of the Chinese embassy says there are many articles made by machinery in America that would find a good market in China. He mentions petroleum , cotton goods , carpenters' and other tools , sewing and tin machines and silver-plated ware. Chopsticks ( Chinese knife and fork ) arc consumed by mill ions , yet each is made by hand. Some machine similar to that which makes matches could bo easily invented , and would reap a fortune for its inventor. In such industries as those of the potter , the carver , metal-worker , glass-maker , forge and foundry man , and cobbler , the methods of to-day are those of twenty centuries ago. The introduction of machinery would revolutionize all this and increase the productiveness of Chinese labor five-fold. ITIistakcs. [ Chicago Journal. ] It is some slight comfort to know that other nations besides ourselves some- imes blunder iu the contraction of war vessels. The Ajax and Agamem- lon of the British navy , which took learly eight years to construct , and cost about $5,500,000 , are pronounced to be 'allures. Per contra , a private firm on : ho Thames built an ironclad of G,00 ! ) ons for a foreign government in two j-cars , which not alone embodied all the alcst improvements , but cost only a juarler of the amount which has been squandered on the Ajax and Agora- j ! | P RISES LOWER-THAN EVER BEFOEE , McCRAGKEN'S JEWELRY STORE. ' ' " ARAPAHOE T C WARRANTED TO BE H FINEST FLOUI 1C THE MARKET. -M * FOR SALS 'BY h \ TO HAYDEN ! \ * 5 * * > 3 i O McCOOK , NEBRASKA. F * I I ous OF THE in Y JL < , jLa a Lumber , Lime , Cement , Sash , Doorsf Blinds , ard and Soft Goal , YAEES AT I cCook , Indian ola , Cambridge , Arapahoe , and Oxford. 3 . > ty mill toH -H Hm P . . - o SP m 5 rt o r O S s 2 g ' ! . KQ K 5 o o -co cs r : i. 5 § CDo 02.1-n o . 3 y * en J. E. BERGER , Proprietor , McCOOK , NEB. SUB JL ) j ; F O n 'Jr JL riDime i SUBSCRIPTION $2 PER YEAR. f ' Queer Countenance * . [ J. M. Oxloy In The Current ] Wo have it on the authority of Dr. Karl Muller that in his boyhood ha 7- Jm : vTa man who , Janus-like , had two totally different faces , ono aide laughing ind the other crying. " .Naturally , " ho says , "I dreaded" this strange , double- face , with its ono side smooth , plump and comely , like a girl's cheek ; while the ! other was all scarred by the small-pox. , This side of the face denoted churlishness - ness , and , while the other bore a smile , 1 this hoded mischief. " The M m' ' ' authority is also responsible > for the following story : "I was once sitting in a cool underground saloon at i Lcipsic , while without people were ready ' to die from the heat , when a now ftucst enfeivd and took a seat opposite to me. The su cat rolled in great drops down his race , and ho was kept busy with his haihlkeivhici , until at last ho found re- i lief in the exclamation : 'Fearfully hot ! ' ! I w.uchcd him attentively as ho called ; for r. cool drink , for 1 expected every 1 moment he would fall from his chair in a lit o I apoplexy. The man must have noticed that I was observing him , for ho turned toward mo suddenly , saying : 'I am a curious sort of pel-son , am I not ? ' 'Why ? ' I ased. ! 'i'ocause I perspire only on my right side , ' he responded. And so it was. Jlis right cheek and the right half of his forehead were as hot as tire , while- the left side of his face bore not a trace of perspiration. 1 had never seen the like and in my astonishment was about > . to enter into conversation with him re- J5 garding physiological phenomenon , when lii.s neighbor on the left broke in with the remark : 'Then wo arc opposite * and counterparts of each other , for 1 perspire only on the left side. ' This , too , was the fact. So the pair V took seats opposite each other , and shook hands like two men who had just found each his other half. " XZoiv a i'civslou I * Paid. [ Chicago Korald. ] The pension must first be found to bo all right by the appropriate evidence , \\hich is compared \\itii the muster rolls and the records in the war department. It goes through a number of hands , and , if found all right a requisition is made upon the treasury for it. This rcquisi- ' tion for its payment must go through thirteen bureaus before it can bo paid. In the first place there must bo a fund . ; appropriated by congress for the pay- meat of the class to which it belongs , | ! and the appropriation must bo available before the requisition will bo made. Then it must bo drawn up and signed by the commissioner of pensions. From him it goes to the secretary of the in terior , who signs it and sends it to the { comptroller of the treasury. The second - end comptroller si ns it and sends to the third auditor , who looks it over and passes it on to the warrant division. From here it goes to the register of the treasury , who in turn examines it and hands it over to the divison of accounts. If it passes hero all right it is then fj presented to the United States treasurer lor his signature. Having been signed t \ it goes back to the division of accounts * to be registered , then to the register of ' { ] the treasury for his signature , and tlien to the divibon of accounts for mailing to \ the depository of the pension agent who is to pay the claim , and another note innnL be sent informing the agent - ) ! that money is j > lac d to his credit here A for its payment. This L the modus operand ! for every pension claim that i.s granted , whether it be for $100 a week , r in the case of the wives of dead president. , , or § 1 a month for the end of a finqcr. [ Aluiicurc D. G'omvay's Lcttur. ] In the course of a conversation- i theology with Arabi , when in Ceylon , I i Ji-ked him why he and his frie'nds : o constantly spoke of Christ as to appear jiisiC'id ot" .Mohammed , and why the prophet was assigned no function in the approaching consummation. " .Moham med cannot appear , " he Said , "because he is dead. " in answer to my further inquiry he said : "Christ is not dead. It was a mere effigy of him that the Jews crucified. There- are two men .who never died Eiias and Jesus. " He did not say that Ehas.is. . to be "he that should come" in form of a Mahdi , being rather reticent on that point , but he was clear in his belief that Christ still lives and that he will "appear" to judge the world and reign over it. So much , indeed , was warranted by the Koran and other mus- selman books , but I did not before real ize that it had been formed into so con sistent an eschatology. Afterwards I took some pains to converse - verso on pueh subjects with other Mo hammedans , andfoundlhatthc.se ideas of Christ were held by most of them with a fervor of faith rarely known among those .generally called" Christ ians. The Mohammedan also believes , with uncompromising fidelity , that Y Jesus was miraculously conceived by the Virgin Mary : that He alone of all the human vncc performed miracles , and when Ho shall again be heralded and _ , [ gain appear , will convert European I'hri-tians from their one terror their ' belief in the Trinity and gather them i R'iili Jews and Moslems into one divine kingdom , of which He shall be king. Amateur Cyclones. [ Ciucago Times. ] Professor Doglas , of the Michigan ? tate university , it is said , produces imateur cyclones at will. He does it loxvn like a bng .ir.doneath , and is ren- k-red vi > ibl < - by the useof arsenioas icid cos , which gives it a green color. ' : fiie formation i a miniature cvclone as ) ei foct as zun started in the clouds. It s ftmi'.okshaped an l whirls around rap- dly. Pacing tLe plate over a table the yclQne snatches up copper cents , pens ' nth balls , and other objects and scatters hem on ull .sides. The IZezisonVJjy. . [ Burlington Hawkeve. ] Tin s..oona in Philad'elphia wera Io = cd la > t Minday. We always said th * * 'hiladelpn-a saloons would have to Io = " ' -me Sunday ; don't carry half l's Weekly : By the use of a new istrument , jnst invented , one can hear iie fall of the year. ' } . ; tf. . , n TimiH : Riches will fly away ulcsa frugality clips its wing.