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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1893)
A BIRD f*4 THE'HAND. Ijppk at Mils Isa!I of Intractable fluff, Pantie.g am! staring with piteous eyeol Wliut a rebellion of licart! wbata ruff Tirkle'i my band us tile missel thrush tries. Bill king my hand with her termagant bill. How tocMeapu (ami I lovo her, tjte sweet!) . '.%k where the clustering oaks on the hill Climb to tho blue with their branches and meet! Nay, polished beak, you are peeking a friend! Bird of tbo grassland, you bleed at the wingl Stay with me, Ipye: in captivity mend Wrong that was wrought by the boy and his sling. Oh, for a priest pf the birds to arise, Wonderful.words on Ids lips that persuade Reasoning creatures to leave to the skies Song at its purest a-throh In the glade) How. wood land heart, to the yoke for awhile! Boon shall theljjicsof wind in tbo trees dflr you to pipe in the green forest aisle. God send me there with tho grass to my knees! deb, I am stroking my cheek with your breast. Ah. how tlie bountiful velvet is fair! ' dtay with me here for your healing and rest; Htay, for I love you, delight of the air! —Norman Hale. TRUE TO HIS VOW. The wind came sighing in from the breast of ocean, stretching away nnder the northern sky. The steady wash of the surge as it qmo slowly in could not rouse the man who lay upon his face tinder the shelter ing rocks. He was not asleep, for at times Ijis ffame trembled, and now and again he half started up aud looked across the sea. and then dropped his head again. He was a young man and a sailor—he showed that in every line of his face and motion of his form—young and strong. With sunburned features and blue eyes, a man framed by. nature to make the v orld better because he had done his art in it. But there was a great agony now in that brave young face as from* time to time lie lifted it. There came a light step along the gravel, and ho started up quickly as :■ girt walked down the beach—a fait young girl, with the sunny hair and glorious eyes which since. the days of Eye had made slaves and thralls of the children of men. And truly there was something in the manner of Millicent Durand which had given her rare jtower over the stronger nature of man. and this young sailor lying there qpon the sand, loved her with afi unutterable affection—a depth of love it was hard fur her to understand. ‘Richard Dean." she cried, “why are you lying here alone?" “Richard." she said again, “what is it? Why do you look at me so?" “1 don't know what to say to yon Milly.” he answered slowly, “because I don't like to give you pain, hut some times it seems to me that it would have been better, far better, if I had gone down with the schooner last autumn, in stead of living to endure this great an guish.” “1 don't know what you mean, dear Richard. You and 1 were always friends, and you know that 1 would hear almost anything sooner than give pain to those i love. What dotes it all mean?" “I’ll tell you, Milly, and try to tell it in such a way that you will understand that, if 1 suffer. I have no hatred fox those who love me. although they have broken my heart. An hour ago I was on the point, sitting under the trees, and 1 hejird—1 couldn't help it. Milly—I heard what Hairy Watson said to you." A flush stole up into the white cheek of the girl as she turned away her head. “1 heard Harry tell you that he loved you. and I beard ypu say that you loved him. and then I stole away, not to hear, jxihre. “1 love you as man uever loved woman in all time. I love you so well that for a moment it seemed to mo that I hated itftrxy Watson, because he roblied me of my jewel. “But 1 knew him to be good and true, a kind son, a tender brother, and he will make you happier perhaps than poor Dick Dean over could.’" “Oh, Dick,” she said softly. “I never dreamed that you” She stopped suddenly. T have been to blame, and while yon loved me as a sister loves a brother I, fool that I was, thought the feeling deeper. “There, there; i am a man, Milly: I'll Sght it down in time: give me awhile to draw breath and understand my loss. W^en are you to he married?” '^fter this trip,” she said softly. “When the Hesperns comes back." “And I am first mate of the Hesperus and Harry second. And we’ve been fnends so long that—but it isn't possible that 1 could ever hate Harry Watson or do him any wrong, but I wish he were in another schooner." ■Dick,' cried Milly suddenly, 'you are going out with the man 1 love in the same ship. “There will come tin hour «f dark temptation to you, a dreadful hour, when you will have to choose between good and evil. “When that time comes and the tempter whispers in your ears, promise me, in the name of the love yon bear me you will think of me.’' He drew his breath hard. “I’ll try Molly," he said quickly “There’s my hand on the bargain." •And take this." she said, forcing a ring into his hand. ‘Take it, wear it on your finger night and day, and when yon see it, remember tluit yon are pledged to do right by Harry Watson." He took the ring and looked at it in a strange, dazed way. and then thrust it forcibly upon his finger “I’ll do it.” he cried. “Heaven help, me to keep this vow." So the Hesperus sailed in an hour, and as" they swept ont between the piers Dick Dean saw Millicent Durand stand ing there, with her finger on her lips in token of remembrance. §he was so engrossed with him that for a moment it seemed to the second mnt® looking on jealously that she had no eyes for him. Rnrry Wafanii wtc ti nahjet yOlVlU ] man, but he had one vice, jealousy, ami the last glance lie gave Milly as the He* perns swept on was one of anger. . -I d like to ask von eomethimr. Dick Deuu,” be •aid. coming up to Vue u. mate. “Stand by to set the for’s’l,” repliec Dick, who was a seaman from top to too “Cast off that tackle, lively. Heavt hearty, men.” “But I want td speak” “I havn’t got time to palaver .row’tm til we get the schooner under way. and e\ en then it would be better to let tlw matter drop. Ready there in top! Lei fall, sheet homo nnd hoist away.” A few moments more and the gooc schooner was bowling along before t 10-knot breeze,, with the wind over tin quarter, her best point of sailing. Then Dick walked slowly forward and Harry came up lo him again. Dick turned upon him like a tiger. “Now, look here. Harry," he said “You and i have been good friends, bul I know what you want to say, and yon’c better not say it. i give you fair warn ing that it isn't safe.” “What are you going to do about hr’ demanded Harry defiant y. “I'd havt you know that 1 understand how yoc have sneaked and crawied to undermint me” A cry like that of a wild beast bursl from the lips of the young sailor. He gasped for breath, and for a mo ment it looked as if he would strike Har ry, but he seemed to recollect himself, and turning on his heel he sprang to the companion and rushed into the cabin. All through that trip these two, whe had been dear friends, did their duty by the ship: but. working side by side, they never spoke. So they worked in sullen silence, and after a month of absence the schooner was standing in for her own port, per haps 20 miles away, in one of the dark est nights that ever fell upon the ocean, and with a gale blowing which threat ened at any moment to take the sticks out of her. The captain lay in the cabin, stunned by the fall c>f a block, and Dick worked the schooner. And there was a loud, exultant ring in his voice as he gave the word of command. Two miles out of port a rocky point ran out into the sea—a point on which the bones of many a good craft had been laid. But Harry was thinking of Milly—of Milly, who waited and watched for his coming, and lie thought, with a pang at the heart, that perhaps after all he had wronged her and Dick. Then came a great crash, an awful yell from the men, and the schooner was on the rocks and the great breakers beat ing against her with cruel force. “Send up a rocket." cried Dick in a hoarse, strained voice. “Ha! They set us! There goes a light!" And there flashed up on the beach a bonfire. In its light men were seen dart ing here and there, and then, pushed by eight strong rowers, the lifeboat darted out. They brought up the injured captain and laid him on the deck, and he was the first they lowered into the boat as it came up. The men went down one by one until only Harry and Dick remained upon the deck. “Go!" commanded Dick. “She’ll only bear one more, and it won’t he Dick Dean. You suspected me of loving Milly. I did. longer than you think, more than yon know Get into the boat!” “I will not!” cried Harry. “She said, ‘In that dreadful hour, when you have to choose between good and evil, think of me and do right.' Take him, men.” He caught Harry suddenly by the shoulders and dropped him into the heat. It shot away instantly, for it could not have borne another without filling. Next day they found him lying upon the shining sand with his head pillowed on one brawny arm and a smile upon his face, which only good men wear—men who die at peace with all the world. And Harry Watson, coming with his children to the grave of his dead friend, speaks softly the story of that night when the Hesperus was wrecked on that point.—St. Paul Globe. ••Chinese” Gordon’s Ideas of Duty. The hero of Khartoum, like the hero of Schiller’s “Wallenstein,” thought that all soldiers should be noble minded, and that in their own hearts and not in other men’s opinions they should find their true honor. He could not understand the bestowal or acceptance of a reward for not deserting a comrade in danger. Bnt then he would not have what he considered “duty” rewarded in any way beyond the usual methods of pay and promotion, and he illustrates his opinion by a characteristic anecdote: “I like that old Iron Duke, with his fearful temper. He told a friend of my father, who was bewailing his long and meritorious serv ice, that ‘he ought to be glad the coun try had kept him so long.’ ” This, how ever, seems inconsistent with Gordon's institution of a special decoration to re ward exceptional service and merit at Khartoum.—Broad Arrow. Who Was the Guilty Man? A Cass avenue woman has a husband who has done sncli a thing as to forget to do what his wife had requested. The other evening about 5 o’clock he came home and she went at him. “John,” she said, “did you tell that expressman to come here this afternoon?” “Yes, Mary.” he answered meekly. “Well, he Imsn’t come.” “Is that so?” “Yes. it is Now. how do you account for it?" John gave the matter a few moments' consideration. “Well, my dear,” he said finally, “either he’s lying or 1 am, and to relieve us both from your suspicions I’ll just step down to his place and see what’s the matter,” and the charitable John went tc see the expressman.—Detroit Free Press Harmony In the Family. He—Now, my dear Fannie, what shall I get you for a birthday present? cbo yothiHg nfc Jill. He—Isn’t it singular that for once we. agree? At last there is harmony in the family. We have hit upon the same idea. —Texas Siftings. biitlik WliUlJ&b iSbAiNlr A CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO COLLEGE GRADUATES. Slnng In this''Sloutlis of Men Is Bad Enough, but When W*«pjl 1 Bred Young Women Are Addicted to the Habit It Becomes Abso lutely Intolerable. Dear girls, avoid slang. There are so many reasons why you should not use it, and only one excuse in its favor that I have ever heard from any reliable au thority! Here'it is: Oliver Wendell Holmes, in one of his racy breakfast table talks, says: “Don’t think I undervalue the proper use and application of a cant word or phrase. It adds' piquancy to conversation as a mushroom does to a sauce." That this is the idea most young people have when they first begin to use it all will admit, hut unfortunately it is like mod erate drinking in its tendency, so insin uating in its growth as a habit, and they become so “addicted to it” (to follow out -the simile), that it seems impossible to make themselves intelligible without it. I have heard young ladies (?) talk ing who seemed to have an entire vo cabulary composed of slang which would be as utterly unintelligible to a well bred English or Scotch girl as Chinese or Greek. To quote the veteran philosopher again: “These expressions come to be algebraic symbols of minds which have grown too weak or indolent to discriminate. They are the .blank checks of intellectual bankruptcy. Yon may fill them up with whatever idea you like. It makes no dif ference, for there are no funds in the treasury upon which they are drawn.” That of course is very severe, but 1 have often heard quite clever and well educated young ladies using those odious “blank checks” to such an extent that any one not knowing them intimately might readily have supposed their “in tellectual hank” empty. I wonder what Dr. Holmes would have thought of an actual conversation be tween two young ladies in good society, so called, who sat behind me in the grand stand at a baseball match last summer. I can give it almost verbatim: “Say, Jen (abbreviated form of Jennie: ‘life is too short’ to use the whole of a person’s name), who is the ‘fly’ looking ‘Slide’ in the yellow striped ‘get up?’ ” “Oh, ‘come off the roof!’ To pretend you don't know Cob. (C. O. B. are the young gentleman’s initials wittily con verted into ‘Cob.’) After the way you ‘went for’ him at the ball last week! You can’t ‘stufF me with that kind of gag, Miss Innocent.” “Oh, is that Cob? He must be ‘off his nut’ to ‘rig’ himself in such a ‘swagger’ way.” “Oh, Jen, look at Cob now! He is hor ribly ‘rattled.’ Mabe (short for Mabel) ‘slung a glance’ at him. and lie lost his head as well as his base.” “Is she ‘mashed’ on Cob?” “Ha, ha! ‘Pull down your vest!’ Do you think Mabe is ‘off her base?’ She likes him ‘to trot her round’ and ‘stump up the needful’ for ice cream, etc., hut she likes Alf Jones better ‘all the same-ee.’ You can ‘bet your sweet life’ she won’t marry Cob.” “Look at him now. ‘You bet’ he’s ‘hus tling!’ ” “Get there, Eli!" “Ruddigore!” “That was a ‘boss’ run!” and so on ad finitum, ad nauseam. All this in a perfectly audi ble voice, and they were seemingly un aware that there was anything vulgar or out of the usual in their conversation. Probably there was not, and yet those two young ladies were college graduates and were possessed of more than average abil ity. If you think this description exagger ated, listen critically to the next un restrained conversation between two young ladies whom you know to be guilty of using slang freely. I fancy I hear you say, “But I never could talk like that.” Take caret Just as confi dent ones as you have begun by using a few slang words—“they are so cute and expressive, you know!”—and ended by forming a vulgar and enslaving habit which took great strength of mind and firm perseverance to break. The worst stage of a slang devotee is when she grows utterly unconscious of or indif ferent to the habit. There is very little hope of improvement for her. The only safb way is never to form the habit at all. . Dear young 'girls, on you the “lan guage of the future” in great measure depends. Yon are the coming mothers and teachers and will have an all pow erful influence in molding the language of the next generation to come and num berless generations after that. See to it that it is# a language of intelligence, grace and purity-.—Miss Frank Davis in Wives and Daughters. The Value of a Good Address. Young men should study to talk well —to state their propositions with a clear ness and force that will make their hear ers feel that the speaker has reached the gist of the matter, and that liis opinion is of some weight. You will notice a man i coming into the office. There is some- j thing in his very appearance and the j way he carries himself that commands ! respect and attention. A canvasser for j a book came into my office only yester- 1 day who was a splendid illustration of i it. I had no intention of buying his cy clopedia. But he was well dressed and intelligent. He seemed to understand my wants, and in five minutes we were talking busily together. Ho sold me $120 worth of books. I think that a good personal address is something too little cultivated. I would rather have it than a profession.—Inter view in Nevr York Press. Tile Hoot black’s Polish. A gentleman, having had his boots i cleaned by a boy in a Dublin street, paid i the shoeblack with a considerable degree ! of haughtiness, on which the little fel low, when the other had got a short way off. said: “Arrah, now! all the polish you have is on your boots, and I gave it to ye.”— Exchange. Pronounced Hopeless. Yet Saved. From a letteAvritten by Mrs. Ada K. Hurd,! of Groton, S. D., we quote: “Was taken with j a bad cold, which settled on my Lungs, cough ; set in and finally terminated into.Consump tion. hour doctors gave me up, saying I could live but a short time. 1 gave myself up to my Saviour, determined if I could not stay with my friends on earth, 1 would meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, i Coughs and Colds. I gave it a trial, took in | all eight bottles; it has cured me, and thank God I am now a well and hearty woman.” Trial bottles free at A. McMilleti's drugstore, ! regular size 50 cents and Si. There is no claim made for Ayer's Sarsa parilla which cannot be endorsed by scores of ! testimonials. This fact plainly proves that \ the blood is the source of most disorders and ' that Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is the best of blood- ' purifiers. .Try it this month. Good Looks.' Good looks are more than skin deep, de pending upon a healthy condition of the vital organs. 1/ the liver lie in active, vou have a Bilious Look, if your stomach be disordered you have a Dyspeptic Look and if the Kid neys be affected you have a Pinched Look. Secure good health and you will have good looks. Llectric Bitters is the gieat alterative and Tonic and acts directly on these vital or gans. Cures Pimples, Blotches, Boils and gives a good complexion. Sold at A. Mc Millen’s drugstore. 50 cents per bottle. Don’t waste time, money and health, trying every new medicine you may see advertised in the papers. If the cause of yodr trouble is in tile blood, liver, stomach or kidneys, take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla at once, and Le su e of a cure. Take no other. Captain W. A. Abbett, who has long been with Messrs. Rercival & Hatton, R»?l .Cstate and Insurance Brokers, 1 e:- Molars, Iowa, and one of the best known and most respected business men in that city, says: "1 can testily to the good qualities of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Having used it in my family tor the past eight years, I can safely say it has no equal for either colds or croup. Is seems to expel the mucous from the lungs, and leaves the system in as good condition as before taking the cold. We have also used several other kinds but unhesitatingly say that Cham berlain's Cough Remedy is the best of all.” 50 cent bottles for sale by George M. Chen ery, druggist. If the hair has been made to grow a natural color on bald heads in thousands of cases, by using Hall’s Hair Renewer, why will it not in your case? Your rheumatism may be bad; we will ad mit it to be very bad, and that you have ex pended a great deal of money for medicines and treatments without receiving much bene fit; but remember that others have suffered even more, and yet been permanently cured. No case ot rheumatism can be so bad that Chamberlain’s Rain Balm will not ease the pain and help it, and hundreds of cases that have long been regarded as incurable have yielded to the soothing effects of this great Remedy. The prompt relief from pain is alone .vorth many times its cost. 50 cent bottles for sale by George M. Chenery. A long thick chin is commonly found only in persons of low mental organization. A Good Record. “I have sold Chamber lain’s Cough Remedy for ten years,” says diuggist K. B. l.egg, ot Vail, Iowa, “and have always warranted it and never had a bottle returned. During the past ninety days I have sold twelve dozen, and it has given perfect satisfaction 111 every instance. It does not dry up a cough; but loosens and relieves it. It will cure a severe cold in less lime than any other treatment. 50 cent and Si bottles tor sale by George M. Chenery. hirst impressions, 111 the study of counten ances, are always the most reliable. Are you Trouoled With gravel^diabetes, or any derangement of the kidneys or urinary organs? Oregon Kidney Tea is a safe, sure and speedy remedy for all such troubles. Noses which wrinkle easily are rarely found in men of good matured disposition. Wisdom’s Robertine Is the only preparation used by fashionable ladies to perpetuate a beautiful' complexion. Ask you druggist for it and do not be induced to take anything else. Very small, thin ears are usually associated with great delicacy ami refinement. Captain Sweeney, U. S. A., San Diego, Cal., says: "Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy is the first medicine 1 have ever found that would do me any good.” I’rice 50 cents. Sold by A. iie Miilen. _ The Roman nose shows the greater charac ter; the Greek nose the greater taste. “Take it before breakfast,” because it will give you an appetite, regulate the bowels and cleanse the system ot all impurities—Dr. Hen ley’s English Dandelion 'l'onic. Sold every where. The man whose temples are full in the low er part is apt to be a great lover of eating. Shiloh’s Vitalizer is what you need for Dys pepsia, Torpid l-iver, Yellow Skin or Kidney Trouble. It is guaranteed to give satisfaction. Price 75c. Sold by A. McMillen. Jan 6 iyr. Halt shut eyes show great natural shrewd ness, together with a lack of sincerity. Karl's Clover Root, the new Blood Purifier gives freshness and clearness to the complex ion and cures constipation. 2Sc., 50c. and $1. Sold by A. McMillen. Shiloh’s Cure, the greatest cough and croup cure, is for sale by us. Pocket si/.e contains twenty-five doses, only 25c. Children love it. “God’s blessing to mankind,” say thousands who have been cured by the celebrated Ore gon Kidney 'Tea. Sold everywhere. You have no appetite for breakfast. A few doses of Dr. Henley’s English Dandelion Tonic is what you need. I HIGHEST GRADE GROW.!! j CHASE &SANBCR'i ' i ... JAPAN. C. M. NOBLE, LEADING GROCER, McCOOK, - NEB. * I SOLE AGENT. ! What is I ■fA 19 J if IAI 1 Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants ' / and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieve* teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas* toria is tbe Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend. Castoria. H Castoria is an excellent medicine for chil dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children." Da. G. C. Osoood, Lowell, Mass. " Castoria is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day ia not far distant when mothers will consider the real Interest of their children, and use Castoria in stead cf the Tarioulquack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves." Da. J. F. Kinchiloe, Conway, Ark. Castoria. “ Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me.** H. A. AncHss, M. D„ 111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T. “Our physicians in the children's depart ment have spoken highly of their experi ence in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have among our medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merit* of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it.” XJnitxd Hospital and Dispxnsart, Boston, Mam Alls* O. Smith, Prea., The Centaur Company, TT Murray Street, New York City. GEO. J. BURGESS, Dealer in All Kinds of First-Class Implements and Machinery Wagons, Road Carts, Buggies. A Square Deal The Best are the Cheapest. COME AND SEE ME. Yard West of First National Hank, McCook, nkh. f— ... • —■' ——.———— -—-—... Now is the time,.... g5. This is the place.... TO GET BARGAINS. We Have Added Clothing.... And Sell Boys’ and Mens’.... SUITS AT FROM $1.50 TO $18. Large Line of. * HATS AND CAPS Buy a Hat of Us and. We Will Give You a. Rockford No. 101 Hose 85c per Dozen. In 10 doz lots and upwards 72c pqr do*. .Coates Thread 50c per dozen. 22 LB.S N.O. SUGAR $1.00. ....All Other.... GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, ETC. As Low as any House in the City. J. WILCOX & SON. ;_ / -- - -' F. D. BURGESS, PLUMBER®STEAM FITTER NORTH MAIN AVE.. McCOOK, NEB. Stock of Iron, Lead and Sewer Pipe, Brass Goods, Pumps, and Boiler Trimmings. Agent for Halliday, Eclipse and Waupun Wind Mills. NEBRASKA LOAN AND BANKING CO. OF MCCOOK, NEBRASKA CAPITAL - $52,000.00. FARM LOANS. —— CITY LOANS. loans made on all kinds of approved security. P. A. WELLS, Trias, and Mac a Mmmfondixt:—Chase National Bank, Now York. . * 4