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for the last time. For the last time r/u stand together her# And look ocrnna to where the lines of light Along thu harbor to the cily’a height Flash out whh radiance dear. 1 cannot help hut think how many a night Your eycH have watched those red lights drawing near. When they were all by which you had to * ateer. Vet ever sped the littlo craft aright. Swift as a bird it flew from pier to pier. And still J know’twill wing its watery flight. And Btill will happy hearts and faces bright Crowd all its length, as in the bygone year. Only one face will vanish from our sight. Only the presence (hat made all so dear. Forever from our lives will disappear; 1 only know that here you stand tonight Tor the last time! And all the world grows drear. A sudden, blinding inist shuts from my sight The distant splendor, blazing red and white. I will not lift my eyes to yours for fear That you, too late, should read my soul aright. 1 rnay not touch your hand in parting here, Y< t can no darker cloud o’er life appear Than when I answ er to your calm “Good night” F or the last time! —Ida I. Gould in New York Sun. REVENGED. It was about half an hour after sunset, but an orange light still burned above the lonely southern valley. The trem bling evening star was hanging over the green silences of the fragrant Tennessee woods. Vapor wreathed phantoms from the river course and from the dense thickets that skirted the camp ground came ever, and anon the mournful sound of whippoorwills, sounding faint and low, like the remembered echoes of a dream. Yet Wallace Keene would have given well nigh all he was worth to ex change its luxuriant verdure, one mo ment only, for the pine clad heights and salt winds of Maine, with russet winged robins chirping their familiar madrigals in the apple orchards below. “Two years ago I left home,” mur mured Wallace Keene as he gazed thoughtfully out where the purple sky seemed to touch the waving woods. "Two years since young Harney told me he never would give Marion to ‘a common mechanic,’ yet the wound rankles sharply still.” “Captain” “Is that you, Spicer? What now?” Captain Keene turned his face toward the opening of the tent, where Private Spicer’s head was just visible. “Why, sir, our fellows have just brought in that lot o’ men that was hurt in that scrimmage across the river tills morning, and some on ’em is wounded bad.” “I will be there directly, Spicer." There was a little crowd of men gath ered on the river shore in the warm glow of the spring, but they silently parted right and left for Captain Keene’s tall figure ro pass through their midst. Six or seven dusty, bleeding men were sitting and lying around in various pos tures, their ghastly brows made still paler by the faint, uncertain glimmer of the young moon. Keene glanced quick ly around, taking in the whole scene in that one brief survey. He stopped short as his eye fell on a new face, half shadowed by the green sweep of drooping alders—a pale, blood streaked face with a gaping cut on the forehead. ‘•This is not one of our men! he ex claimed sharply. “How came he here?” “No, sir,” explained Spicer, stepping forward. “I think he belonged to the Eighth. I’m sure I don’t know how he ever got mixed up with our fellows, but there he was, and 1 thought we’d better not wait for their ambulance, but bring him straight here.” “Right,” briefly pronounced Keene, stooping over the insensible figure. “Let them carry him to my tent, Spicer.” “I beg your pardon, captain—to your tent?” “Didn’t yon hear what I said?” sharply interrogated the superior officer. “Bruce, make the others comfortable in Lieuten ant Ordway’s quarters. There will be plenty of room for them there.” “Well, I’m beat!” ejaculated Spicer five or ten minutes afterward as he came out of the captain’s tent scratching his shock of coarse red curls. Meanwhile the dim light of a lamp swinging from the center of the little tent shone full on the singular group within its circling folds—the wounded private lying like a corpse, still and pale, on the narrow iron bedstead, the young officer leaning over him and supporting his head—and the brisk, gray eyed little surgeon keenly surveying both as he un folded his case of phials and powders. “He is not dead, doctor?” “No; but he would have been in an other half hour. Your prompt reme dies have saved his life, Captain Keene.” “Thank God! oh, thank God!” The surgeon looked at Keene in amaze ment. “He doesn’t belong to your regiment. Why are you so interested in the case?" “Because, doctor,” said Ke^ne, with a strange, bright smile, “when I saw him lying under the alders, dead, as I thought, I rejoiced in my secret heart. At first— only at first. The next moment I re membered that I was a man and a Chris tian. For years I have carried the spirit of Cain in my breast toward that man; now it is washed out in his blood.” It was high noon of the next day before the wounded man started from a fevered doze into the faint dawn of consciousness. “Where am I?” he faltered, looking wildly around him, with an ineffectual effort to raise his dizzy head from the pillow. “Now, be easy,” said Private Spicer, who was cleaning his gun by the bedside. “You’re all right, my boy. Where are you? Why in the captain’s tent, to be sure, and that’s pretty good quarters for the rank and file, I should think.” “The captain’s tent? How came I here?" “That’s just what I can’t tell you— you’ll have to ask himself, I guess. Yon ain’t any relation to Captain Keene, be - /VOt “Keene—Keene!” repeated the man. “Because,” pursued Spicer, “If you’d been his own brother born, he couldn’t have taken bet'-.r ;aie of you. His cous in, maybe?" “No! God forgive me, no!" faltered the wounded man with a low. bitter groan. “Here he is now,” said Spicer, the fa miliar accents of his voice falling to a more respectfully modulated tone as he rose and saluted his officer. “He’s all right, captain—as clear iieaded as a bell!” “Very well, Spicer; you can go.” The private obeyed with alacrity. When they were alone together in the tent, Wallace Keene came to the low bed side. I “So you're alJ right. Mr. Harney?” he 1 asked kindly. “Captain Keene,” murmured Harney, ! shrinking from the soothing tone as if it had been a dagger’s point, “I have no right to expect this treatment at your hands." “Oh, never miml,” said the young man j lightly. "What can I do to make yoj ' more comfortable?” Harney was silent, but his eyes were full of the tears he fain would drive back t —tears of remorseful shame—and he turned his flushed face away lest the man he had once so grossly insulted should see them fall. The next day he again alluded to the j home subject. “Captain Keeno, you asked me yester day what you could do for me?" “Yes.” “I want you to obtain leave for May to come and nurse me when 1 am trans ferred to hospital.” Captain Keene turned toward the sick man a face white and hard as marble and said in a strangely altered voice: “Do you mean your sister?” “My sister—yes.” “Of course, if you wish it, I can ob tain permission. Harney. But” “Well?” Keene’s cheek colored, and he bit his lip. “I should not suppose she would be willing to leave her husband for the very uncertain comforts of hospital life.” Harney smiled, looking into his com panion's face with keen, searching eyes. “May is not married, Captam Keene. She has no such appendage as a hus band!” “Not married!” “I know what you thought. She was engaged and almost married. We had nearly induced her to become Lisle Spen cer’s wife, but she refused on the very eve of the wedding day.” Keene had risen and wa s pacing up and down the narrow limits of the tent with feverish haste. “Because,” went on Harney, “she loved a certain young volunteer who left S about two years ago too well ever to be come any other man’s wife.” “Harney- vou do not mean to say” “I do, though, old fellow, and, what is more, I mean to say that since I’ve been lying in this tent my eyes have been pret ty thoroughly opened to my own absurd folly and impertinence.” Captain Keene wrung liis companion’s hand and hurried away, to mistake the bootjack for the inkstand and to commit several other no less inexcusable absurdi ties. “1 see you’ll get nothing written to day,” sighed Harney as he lay watching Wallace Keene tear up sheet after sheet of condemned note paper. “I shall, though,” smiled Wallace. “Only I can’t tell exactly which end of my letter to begin at.” Captain Keene did write—and if he in serted a little foreign matter into the epistle it didn't matter, for Harney, con siderate fellow, never asked to see it. Marion camq, and when her brother was promoted into the convalescent ward, and she went home again, it was only to lose herself in bowers of orange blossoms, forests of white satin ribbon and acres of pearly, shimmering silk, shot with frosty gleams of silvery bro cade, for the course of true love, after all its turn and intricacies, had at length found its way into the sunshine and was running smoothly over sands of gold.— A. R. in New York News. Simultaneous Games of Chess. The perfection to which chess may be carried almost implies its imperfection as an amusement. Chess giants like Mr. Blackburn and the late Henry Zukertort act as warnings rather than ideals to or dinary people in search of amusement. The latter gentleman once undertook to carry on 18 games simultaneously with out looking at the boards. The perform ance did not end very satisfactorily, for after more than two days’ play the men tal acrobat surrendered the contest. But the fact of having carried it so far im plied a bewildering feat of cerebration, for if the first four moves on either side in a single game admit of 72,000 varia tions the first four in 18 games make the appalling total of 1.296,000 possible com binations. Mr. Blackburn is unrivaled as a blind fold player, and he has actually succeed ed in winning the majority of 12 simul taneous games without the assistance of sight. The possible variations in the first four moves of these number 864,000. Performances such as these leave on the mind the oppressive and somewhat hu miliating impression of infinity. It is too much of a good thing. One can scarcely imagine how a brain called on to steer through such vast and barren complexi ties can have any faculties in reserve for useful ratiocination.—Blackwood’s Mag azine. Wall Street Full of Schemes. A feature of market reporting should be the daily statement of the number of men in the street with schemes. They are numerous now and are steadily on the increase, as the railroad brokers and money getters will testify. One of the former was heard to remark the other day, “If you were to stand at the comer of Wall and Broad streets and break with a club the head of every man that came along, the air would be so full of schemes that the sun would be dark ened.”—New York Tribune. The Wrong Flower. Little Miss Goldenhair (proudly)—We is descended from zee Mayflower. Little Miss Freckles (regarding her in tently)—Is you sure it wasn’t a chrysan themum?—Good News. , Now York Society In Wartime. Out of tho great excitement of the war grew a fantastic gayety, a wild sort of Carmagnole frenzy. Society did strange things. W omen would dance the german at a fashionable New York party with their hair hanging in long streamers down their backs, while the young men would seize those beautiful tresses for reins and drive the fair women with imitation whips. Everybody was half mad. And after the war was over these women, to whom philanthropy had become a busi ness, found it hard to return to the com mon everyday work of life. So Mrs. S. M. K. Barlow, one of the best and no blest of human beings, suggested that we should help the south. We went to work again at tho dramatic committee and invoked Mr. Wallack. Mr. Jerome lent us the theater, and we really <lid some very good works, producing plays which were not stumbled through, but had some resemblance to the real thing. The money wo made we sent to the cler gymen of the south, who wrote of indi vidual cases of distress. It was our pleasure to save the lives of sick chil dren who needed more delicate food than their poor mothers could otherwise have procured. We used to receive most touch ing letters. Thus was the first effort at reconstruction attempted and carried through successfully. We tried to fol low Grant at Appomattox and to be worthy of the last words of Lincoln.— Mrs. M. E. Sherwood in Lippincott’s. The Original Four Hundred. It is generally thought that the saying that the only people in New York worth knowing can be numbered by 400 was originated by Ward McAllister, but it can be found in the Bible. Acts v, 36, which speaks of Theudas boasting him self to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about 400, joined themselves, who were scattered and brought to naught. The verse referred to reads as follows, “For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be some body, to whom a number of men, about 400, joined themselves, who were slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered and brought to nought.” Another verse worth mentioning in this connection is from I Samuel xxii, 2, “And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him. and he became a a captain over them, and there were with him about 400 men.”—Keystone. The Abbreviation of Zoological. The tendency among English people to clip long words into short ones, or even into monosyllables, is notorious. Thus “cabriolet” has become cab, “omnibus” bus and so on. But the change of ‘ ‘zoo logical” into zoo is, to any one who knows the origin of the word, the most exas perating of all, and yet we now meet with “zoo” in well written journals, and I see the word is being advertised as the title of a book. There is another variation, which comes simply from bad pronuciation, as when a cockney holiday maker tells you he has been to the “slogical.” If “zoolog ical” is to undergo a shortening, like that which has befallen “omnibus” and “cab riolet,” let it at least become zo. This would be correct as far as it went and would not be so excruciating as the de testable zoo.—Cor. Notes and Queries. Buying a Rare Book. A good story was told on Sam Mc Conaha at a certain book store the other day. During the holiday rush he went out to buy a book for his little girl. He went from one book store to another and said, “I want a nice holiday edition of ‘The Prodigal Son.’ ” No one seemed to have the book. When Sam went home, he did not say anything to his wife, as the book was intended as a surprise Christmas present. The next day he de termined to go in further quest of the book. But it was not to be found. The fun of it is Sam wanted “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” and somehow he got names mixed. He said the thing flashed across his mind in a dream two nights before Christmas, and he then got the book that he wanted.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Efficacy of “Chlorobrom.” A combination to which the name of chlorobrom has been given—a solution containing 30 grains of chloralamide and a similar amount of potassium bromide, in an ounce of menstruum—has come into considerable favor, according to some of the foreign journals, as an effi cacious preventive of seasickness on short voyages. The passenger is recom mended to take a podophyllin pill for one or two nights before the date of sail ing, and when on board to remain for a time, before rough water is reached, in a horizontal position with eyes shut, and to take no food on short trips. Powdered Foods. Many artificial baby foods are manu factured and sold in concentrated form. For example, products advertised as “substitutes for mother's milk” are made from cow's milk, to which is added a sufficient quantity of sugar to corre spond with the constituents of mother's milk. The water is removed from tlje mixture in vacuo, leaving a fine white powder, which is put up in packages. Finely powdered wheat flour and other nutritious vegetable elements are added in more elaborate preparations.—San Francisco Examiner. Poor Business In a Theater. When Charles Yale was experiencing wretched business during one week in the south, a brother manager asked if the people were treating him right. “It’s frightful,” replied Mr. Yale. “Last night was the worst I ever heard of. I never imagined it could be so bad. All records for small receipts were smashed.” “How is it tonight?” “Fifteen dollars less than last night.” —New York Evening Sun. An Affecting Scene. Mr. Younghusband—Darling, you have been weeping. What is it, my sweetest love? Mrs. Younghusband—Horse radish!— Exchange. The Citizens Bank of McCook. Incorporated under State Laws. Paid Up Capital, 350,000 -DOES A General Banking Business. Collections made on all accessible points. Drafts draws directly on principal cities in Europe. Saxes paid for non-residents. Tickets For Sale to and from Europe OFFICERS: V. FRANKLIN. President. JOHN R. CLARK, Vice Prea. A. O. EBERT, Cashier. CORRESPONDENTSt The First National Bank, Lincoln Nebrska. The Chemical National Bank, New York City. Xfie First JVatioual Batift. , imi Itmim AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, $100,000. ; W ' W j CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $60,000. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. GEORGE HOCKNELL, President. B. M. FREES, Vice President. W F. LAWSON, Cashier A. CAMPBELL. FRANK HARRIS. THE McCOOK ROLLER MILLS, E. H. DOAN, PROPRIETOR, Is Now Open and Ready for Business. t3gF*I am prepared to handle all business in my line promptly and with the most approved machinery. DOANlk HART are also prepared to handle wheat for which they are paying the highest market price. S^“Hills and Elevator on East Eailroad street. Majestic Ranges" Cook quickest and best. They are a kitchen necessity, lighten labor and improvo the flavor of the food Don’t let your dealer sell you another \ i I kind. .'vfi Send 2u. ' /I stamp * * for a 100 page | COOK BOOK FREE. 44^^ W. C. LaTOURETTF Agent, MeCook, or MalesticMfg. Co.. St. Louis. A GREAT COMBINATION. The Omaha Weekly Bee with The Ameri can Farmer or Womankind for ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. The Omaha Weekly Bee is acknowledged to be the best and largest newspaper in the west, publishing more western and general news than any other paper in the country. The usual price is one dollar per year. The American Farmer is published at Springfield, Ohio, is a 16 page monthly paper devoted to agriculture, horticulture, the dairy, poultry and general interesting Btories and other matter for the home. The usual price is one dollar per year. Womankind is also published at Springfield, Ohio. It is 16 page monthly publication, de voted to everything that interests the wife, mother and maiden. It is full of useful in formation and interesting talks and stories that are instructive as well as entertaining both to young and old. One dollar pays fora year’s subscription to the Bee and either one of these journals. Address all orders to The Bee Publishing Co.. Omaha, Neb. Karl's Clover Root, the new Blood Purifier, gives freshness and clearness to the Complexion and cures Constipa tion. 25 cents, 50 cents and $1. Sold by A. McMilien. J 26-lyr. Charging immigrants so much per head is the very reverse of an income tax. Shiloh's Vitalizer is what you need for Dyspepsia, Torpid Liver, Yellow Skin or Kidney Trouble. It is guar anteed to give you satisfaction. Price 75 cents. Sold by A. McMilien. Just because a man happens to be beetlebrowed is no sign that he has a bug in his head. Captain Sweeney, U. S. A., San Di ego, Cal., say8: “Shiloh’s Catarrh Rem edy is the first medicine I have ever found that would do me any good.” Price 50 cents. Sold by A. McMilien. L W. McConnell & Co. DRUGGISTS. It is an agreeable Laxative for the Bowels; can be made into a Tea for use in one miuute. Price 25c., 50c. and Jl.irO per package. 11LS ^ An Elegant toilet Powdeh K9.\3 14 for the Teeth and Breath—25c. THE KANSAS CITY Surgical Diseases and Diseases of the Eye and Ear. 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