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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1890)
* * a. - ' ' - * . . , jjp-Ki , . , , first JVatiottdJ f AUTHORIZED CAPITAL , CAPITAL AND SURPLUS , $10Q.XQO. $60,000. GEORGE HOCKNELL , President. B. M. FREES , Vice President. W. F. LAWSON , Cashier. A. CAMPBELL , Director. S. L. GREEN , Director. BANK OF McCOOK Paid Up Capital , $5OOOO. General r Banking Business Interest paid on deposits by special agreement. Money loaned on personal property , peed signatures or satisfactory collateral. Drafts drawn on the principal cities of the United States and Europe. OFFICERS : C. E. SHAW , President. JAY OLNEY , Vice 1'iesldriit. CKA.S. A. VA.XPELT. Cash. P. A. WELLS , ASS. Cashier. GOQD : BYEl ! How otten this term of parting greets our cars , and pains our hrnrts ; but you can buy at THE TIUBUNJ : STATIONERY DEPARTMENT the ingredients to Keep memory green until .you meet npnin. STATIONERY. GOOD PLACB T0 BUY THE TRIBUNE. rii * iin " HAnMea V vv i i t/3 LATEST IMPROVEMENT SOLD BY FURNITURE , CARPET AND HARDWARE DEALERS EVERYWHERE , OR WILL BE SENT BY BlS- SELL CARPET SWEEPER Co. GRAND RAPIDS , MICH. PRICE S3.00 The Citizens Bank of McGook , i ' Incorporated under State Laws. Paid Up Capital , $50,000. " 1 . DOES A 'General Banking Business , Collections made on all nrci-ssihlu points. Diafts drawn directly on piincijml cities in Euiope. Taxes paid for non-re.-idci.ts. Money to loan on fanning Jands , ciiv and personal property. r Tickets For Sale to and from Europe OFFICERS : V. FRANKLIN , IVsidnil. JOHN 11. CLAJIK , Vice'Pres. A. C. ELJERT , Casliier. THOS. 1. GLASSl'OTT , Ass. Cash. . CORRESPONDENTS : ! | The Fiist National Hank , Lincoln , Nebiska. ; The Chemical National Bank , New York City. i-j57 * = ? i ' . . * " ' * , Pi r "F SS Looking out over the many homes of this country , we see thousands of women wearing away their lives in household drudgery that might be materially lessened by the use of a few cakes of SAPOLIO. If an hour is saved each time a cake is used , if one less wrinkle gathers upon the face because the toil is lightened , she must be a foolish woman who would hesitate to make the experiment , and he a churlish husband who would grudge the few cents which it costs. If. your grocer sends you anything in place cf SAPOLIO , send it back and insist upon having just what you ordered. SAPOLIO always gives satisfaction. On fbors , tables , and painted work it acts like a charm. For scouring pots , pans , and metals it has no equal. Everything shines after it , and even the children delight in using it in their attempts to help around the house. i Grocers often substitute ch . .per goods for SAPOLIO to make a better profit. Send back such articles and insist on having just what you ordered. JACK DWYER'S cou A FIVE CENT CIGAR. fc Try this popular brand. It is one of the finest nickel cigars ever placed on sale in McCook. Specimen Copies and Beautiful Calendar sent Free. 1000 TRAVEL AND ilUUSTRATlfl AND INATURAL IADVENTUREI HISTORY "No other Weekly Paper gives so great a Variety of Entertaining and Instructive Heading at so low a price. FREE TO JAN. fi , I89fi. To any NEW SUBSCRIBER , who will cut ont nrid send us this slip with nnmo and WITH nddrcns nnd S1.75 ( In Postal or Express Money Order or Kegistered Letter at our rtai ) , wo will send THE YOUTH'S COMPANION FREE to Jnimnry , 1S91 , nnd for a Full Year from that Date. TliIs offer includes the FIVE DOUBLE HOLIDAY NUMBERS for Thankszlvintr , Cfaxirtmas , New Year' Easter and Fonrtli-of-July , nnd all the Illustrated Weekly Supplements. S1.75 Addrest , THE YOUTH'S COMPANION , 41 Temple Place , Boston , Mass. A SONG OF FLEETING TIME. When loVe was rich and young ; my * dear , And all the world was fait ; , 'What musia beautWul and clear Made summer It. the air. The roses blushed around your .door , The sun htno trembled o'er your floor And blessed you unaware From dawn till eve , from fall till spring Life offered you each royal thing. Yes , you , who did not care When love was rich and young , my dear , And all the world was fair. When love was rich and young , my dear. And all the world was fair , , It was a heavenly thing to hear Your laughter bless the air. To note your dainty ways , and mark Your eyes make starlight of the dark , To know that everywhere Men's hearts went with you , every one , Like , Aztecs following the sun Whoso llecting left hcaien bare- When love was rich and young , my dear. And all the world was fair. Now love is poor and old , my dear , And all the world grows gray. There is no mublc left to cheer The curfew time of day. About your lonely door I see Tiio b'.iaclo-.vs falling silently , Lilo brown leaves from the spray ; Flown arc the roses anil the light. Gay hearts have bidden you good night And gene upon their way. Now love is poor and old , my dear. And nil the world grows gray. Now love is poor and old , my dear , And all the world grow s gray. Heart breaking is it but to hear The laughter once bo gay ; To mark your faded charms and know The rose has had its time to blow , And joy to pass away. One thing , one only , of the past Abideth with you to the last , Your poet's song still holds you fast And keeps you fair alway. Now lo\e is poor and old , my dear. And all the world grows gray. -Elvira S. Miller in Louisviile CourierJournal. . THE MAD LOCOMOTIVE , "A story of railroad adventure , eh ? " "If you please , " I answered the vet eran engineer , as we sat in the cool shade to the east of a big Providence roundhouse. I may say that Peter Hank , the narrator of this exciting inci dent , is well known by me and esteemed as a man of truth by everybody who knows him. "I never had but one son. All my boys were girls. But when little Bum- side was born I tell you we vero happy. Yet I never supposed that chap would save my own life and lots of other pee ple's. That's just what ho did , how ever. You know I always run the ex press. We got a big engine some years ago on the road. She weighs more than any machine wo ever used before. I never liked her when I saw her in the shop , that giantess , No. G13. She never had any name. And that machine never liked me. All because of this. " The engineer took his pipe from his mouth to look mo squarely in the eye. "I was in the shop one afternoon just to look her over. That's when they were paint ing her up. The painters and varnish- ers were crawling all over her. "Of course she wasn't fired up. An other engineer and I just were walking round her huge bed } ' . I said : 'Jake , that critter will heat the first trip , and a hot box on her will mean lots of woik. I hope I may never be asked to run her. ' Well , sir , believe it or not , I know she heard it and was mad. When I climbed into her cab , just to look at her there , I naturally enougli took hold of her re verse lever. She threw that lever over , sir , quicker'n lightning , and caught my leg just under the knee , taking out a bite as big as a walnut. My ! How she pained me ! It was weeks before my stiff leg was all right. " Then he resumed his pipe while that soaked into me. "Now , you newspaper men do not take any stock in such things , I know. But no railroad man would say I was a fool if I thought hard of the machine. And all railroad men have seen engines act just as if they had spirits in them. There ain't an engine on our road or any other which will work as well for one man as she will for another. Every en gine has her favorites , for whom she will do anything , and her enemies , to whom she acts like a she demon. " A fact , by the way , which the writer has since verified on considerable inquiry among locomotive engineers. "Well , sir , if you believe me , that No. 643 hadn't been out o' shop a week be fore the master mechanic sent forme one night to take her. I remember I was eating supper. It was my two days' lay off. Little Burnside was sitting in his chair beside me. He was just 8 years old the Thursday before. It was a very hot August night. \ was asked to put the big engine through for a special. There was a party of big fellows from Washington who were returning from the White Mountains. I was to drive I 'em down to Wickford Junction for Newport. " 'God help me , Susie ! ' I said to my wife , pushing back my chair. 'I don't know why , but I'd rather be killed by a pistol shot here at home than to go. ' " 'You foolish fellow ! ' she replied. 'What ails you ? ' ' 'I don't know , ' I said. 'But that machine hain't been run a dozen times. Besides she hates me. This is to be a show off run , like lightning , and I know i she'll kill us all. ' i "My wife she just rose up then. Being - ing a good Christian church member an I ain't , she exploded on me. ' 'Pete , I'm ashamed of you ! You're- the best runner on the road , and this i.i an honor. Do you want to get dis charged and lose our daily bread ? God will take care o' my husband. Herel It's a hot night , and you'll be back by II o'clock. Take the boy. He's always wanted a night ride. ' "That got me. I just rose up. She put on the boy's little cap and gave mo his coat , and I went off , taking the boy. I remember how he laughed. I carried him over the rails in the dark yard on my shoulder , and he kept patting my cheek and kissing me till I boosted him into the cab of No. 643. How proud he sat up there on my box between my legs ! "Well , again , " continued Pete , rub bing a fresh match on his overalls , "nothing occurred as we coupled on and ran quite a while. We drew four Pull mans besides the baggage car. Itwaa Lot and dark.We . had.'tho right of way , bit were to approach'Wickford cautious , for there we should find the reffulw New Xork express , which wo should overtake. * No. 648 worked stiff , as I know she would , but she was so big that when she got started nothing could trouble hr much , an3 she just tossed the load along as light as afeather. . "I ngticed that the throttle valve worked hard when Iliad to shut off steam once of twice slowing through a station. Btill I could jerk her in and out well enough with one hand. An ugly throttle is a terrible thing , sir , though. For , you see , a man can't be sure. Suppose you couldn't shut off. Suppose your throttle got stuck , full head on , going at fifty milt's an hour , and you a-coming into a station , for instance , even if there was nothing standing there , I tell you , you'd feel about as the Almighty would if the earth got loose and he couldn't stop her. " Then Hank puffed smokeless whiffs. "Well , again , " he resumed presently. The excitement of his o\vn memory had brought the sweat drops to hir forehead ; his pipe had gene out the third time. ' That throttle valve did stick on me ! That's just what did happen. We were. I calculated , about eight miles from" Wickford. Somehow , though , ther * , asn't any station to slow me up , ycfj \ h ad a feeling , an awful feeling , toofjjj | I could not if I would shut lie - * yek 'Pshaw ! ' I said to myself , and I ibr cj with the boy's curly head with hand. But my left hand kept and trying that throttle harder * harder. I couldn't stir her ! over and put my right lever. I could not move my box. " I seemed frenzI sprang : : t hands and all , uiy weight. move a hair ! And the way ing ! Probably we were flyir miles an hour. I yelle/L-it " 'Give us a han "He knew it all in a bled in from the tender hands beside mine. , > ' 'Now ! ' I shouted. - "We threw our weight that old beast just shooU jumped and jumped , as muc ' 'You can't shut off my wind ! ' " 'Pete ! ' cried the fireman , Wickford on tKe switch ! two miles more to live ! ' "Then we struggled like tw' bulls. We pulled. Then we shoved. We planted our feet and pulled and shoved. We had no air brakes in them days. But if we had , I vow I b'lievo to have put 'em on would have knocked out the cylinder heads or broke a , driving rod , and sent us all to eternity. "All this while there sat my pretty boy , as calm , as laughing , because he thought this was all play. But I knew we'd all got to die , and I caught up the boy. I held him , kissing him. It all took but a moment. There , less'n a mile ahead , stood the rear of the 'New York' on our track at the station. I could see her red light. You better b'lieve I forgot all about the big men behind. I was thinking , should I tlirow out my boy into the darkness ? " 'Papa , ' said Burnside. 'what makes you look so ? " 'Because , boy , we cn'fc stop the engine. We're all going to be killed in a minute , unless I toss you out there. ' " 'No , papa , ' said he , reaching out his pretty hand. 'Let me try it. ' "Well , I did. I don't know why. I was holding him , you understand. And sir , the moment that child's hand struck that throttle valve , she shut off as easy as drawing your breath ! " The engineer said he actually tumbled over on his seat as if he had seen a mir acle. The train slowed up in answer to the brake whistle , and stopped just in front of the station. The matter may or may not have had any miraculous element. The good mother urged the boy's going. The behavior of the metal , one moment binding by heat or other expansion , the next moment releasing itself helped by the tremendous steam pressure in the dome , is one of the many well known curiosities of metal action. "Would you really have thrown that boy from the cab if she had not stopped ? " I asked. "Certainly. It would have been the only chance of saving his life. I should have chosen a bunch of green , growing brush and landed him wifely up against the bending branches. Then I should have jumped myself. We always jump when we can do uo more good here. My fireman has three times saved his life so. I have once , of which I'll tell you some day. Good-by. Here's my machine , just out of the yard. " Rev. Emory J. Haynes in New York Ledger. Sardou's Lucky Step. Victorien Sardou , popularly called the "journalist playwright , " was born in Paris on the 7th of September , 1831. His father was a teacher and the author of elementar3r text books. Little success met his efforts , and their early days were days of privation and hardship. Just over tlu'rty yearb ago , on a cheer less wet night , he sought shelter from the storm in a doorway in the neighbor hood of the Medical School of Paris , Feeling utterly wretched and with thoughts of suicide floating through his mind , he moved away from the door way which had afforded shelter to him. A water carrier immediatel } ' took his place , audibly remarking : "Ah , iny friend , you do not know when you are well off. " He had scarcely uttered the words when a block of granite fell from the building and killed him. Sardou took his deliverance from death as a good i omen and set to work with renewed energy , and is today the foremost and richest of living playwrights , and a r ember - ber of the academy. London Tit-Bits. Over the Dessert. ' i Freddy ( carefully rubbing the pretty i bloom from hia bunch of grapes ) Say , Mr. Youngbee , do these grapes powdei ? Mr. Youngbee ( fiance of Freddy's mmtie } Why , no , my boy. What made yea think of that ? Freddy 'Caiise this rubs off j st fba pink does from atmtia'a cneeka , j Si&tdge. _ _ _ _ "PLJ r * - - T M c. , , ROCKY i'M 0 U N'TA'I ilf Sv& Established 18SO. The Dally NCWH. of nuvrnty-ivrn column * . IUH u capacity for ruudlny nmtior cguul to the largo Kuntern'papera. Itulma to 'furnish all the nuwBoflhv dny. comploti ; lirAletall , yet cone HO In fnrin. li In devoted to UYfitorn.uiul ertpgclally in ( 'olnrado SntuietilH. Our M'iX'IAl. TKI.r.GlLvPH SERVICE I hiipenor to Ihatof any other Journal west'of At. l.oilld. TlIU N'WS Ompld. . itf IIIIIIU IIKUttlH and PIIJH inoio for Hpt'clitl dlt pat.hed than all olhur U'c'stuni ncwupapi-rd L-iiiibliioL The NKWH Is Istiuud ovcry day In the j ear. 'Ihu u'cukly New8 furnlbhuK a compendium nl every imiiiblr event , ut home nnd abroad , llh a liberal supply of choice.DriKlnat and ult ctld artiuli-8. Hpeulnlly lu'apti-d to family entertainment and Iniiriictlon. Itistlio b * tt ) weekly family neuspui er pKltlluhtd in the Wc-Ht. A leature of both the Dally and Weekly od- ItloiiBiif the NOMH , of the tlrst Iniporluncv to the public , is our perfect HjHtem of market reportH. The absolute lellablllt.t of pur com nieri-iiil deunrtmeiii htm loiir tieon reen nUed by the biiHinens men in Hut hlatf. nnd every ifi > uu will coiiliiuie to liirnluh a ti iicn-lleX of tjjL'ltiu-Bt. KaiiBiiB ( Ity , 1'hienKo ami ri ( . l.ouls. /ailSh' " aa 'OCH ' | flutnitl s. ' " ' " 'ml ni w manl Oouy it low ' . , tachis let IK ph. . That ion of I WlltfPa Q K. . undefentin theSt ! U.j4ts7 uUie | i Clj Notice named set- to make fl"ni claim , and Register ait ] Saturdaj * . J , . H. E.No.f.l town.5 , north ! He names thcl bis continuous ! ol , said a id. v.I Godard. squire and Uobcrt Dune LAND Oe ! Novl Notice is hereby tril named settler has HleJ to inakcilnal flvejcai" " claim , and that said prd Hegister or Heceiver at 1 urday. December liUth. r FUANK P. NI ? one of the heirs of Enod ceased , forthe N. W. j .N | H and N. W. Ji S. W. ' north of range 150 , wet ! the following witnessij ous residence upon , land , viz : Archie fcpl Charles S. Ferris. KichaJ Cook , Meb. " "i'l S.j Octi Notice is hereby jrlvcn" naned settler has filed nci to make final five-year pnf claim , ami that said proof Register or Receiver at Met urday. December Cth. 1890. vij SAUAH A DCNt , tormcrly Sarah A. Hurrtick , II E. the S. " - N . W. H and \ \ . V2 S. W. \ _ 10 , in town. 5. north ot ranire ' " > , VeJ P. M. She name the foilowm wit prove her continuous nsldonre HL cultivation of. said land.lz : Trankl and Philetus 1 $ . Alexander of Box K3 < 1 ] John Harrison of Quick. Neb. . .Jatnesl of McCook. Neb. Zl * S. V , HART. Kcj LAND OFKICGT McC "hJ Notice is bet named settlerj to make ting claim , amj Hegister. Satuni Lav Call Not ? namedl to makl claim , ai KesristerL urdav. Dl H.E.NO. ; l.northof i the followit ous reside land , viz : bouer. Geoj all of Dant Childrer
