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L.W. M’CONNELL & CO.
Take your old rags
to the McCook Pro
duce Company.
Quality Up-Prices Down!
Knipple excels in the quality of the
flour he keeps in stock, and in the re
markably low prices at which he-is sell
ing. Think of it!
Fancy patent flour at.$1.25
Snowflake flour at.85
And remember that he warrants every
sack. At the old stand in the Cole
brick. _
The Whittaker Wire Tightener fills a
long felt want for something that is
small and light enough for a man to
take on his horse' and go around his
fences. I have nine miles of three-wire
fence, and often this little “foker’
pays for itself many times over in one
hour. J. B. Meserve,
Spiing Creek Ranch.
April 15th, 1893.
Of Interest to Farmers.
If you want to renew a loan falling
due and make a new one on your farm
patronize the Nebraska Loan and Bank
ing Co. of McCook, a home institution.
Office in rear rooms of 1st National
bank. Interest payable in McCook.
Wanted.—A dining
room girl at the Com
mercial Hotel.
Money to Loan at 9 per Cent.
On first class McCook or Red Willow
county real estate. Send me your ap
plications. H. G. Dixon,
Kennett Square, Penna.
For Trade.
A good house and lot in University
Place, the finest suburb of Lincoln, to
trade for western land.
• J. R. Gettys,
University Place, Neb.
Horses for Sa/e.
Wayson & Odell keep horses for sale
at their livery barn opposite the Cen
tral hotel.
Hay! Hay!
Best blue stem bulk or baled. This
hay was cut early. Leave orders at B.
& M. meat market. F. S. Wilcox.
Dr. A. J. Thomas, Dentist, office in
Union block, over Knipple.
If you want fire or
tornado insurance in
Reliable Companies,
call on C. J. Ryan.
Sewing Machines
on $5 a month pay
ments. Pacle & Son.
Fut your $ $ $ where they will do
the most good, where they will secure
the best and the most groceries for in
stance. You will make no mistake if
Noble’s is the place of deposit. He
gives the limit in quantity, quality and
value, and his stock cannot be duplicat
ed in Western Nebraska.
The burning question with house
wives of all lands, all creeds, and all
ages is: “Which is the best Cooking
Stove?” S. M. Cochran & Co. answer
this question today by proclaiming the
“Charter Oak Stoves” to be the
best in every conceivable shape.
We are printing the date to which
each subscriber has paid his subscrip
tion to The Tribune along with the
address. Watch the date and you will
know if you are in arrears. If you are
please come and see us.
Don’t build a fence around your
property until you have seen and priced
that woven wire fencing at S. M.
Cochran & Co.’s. Nothing cheaper,
neater or better.
Residence property
for sale in all parts of
the city hy C. J. Ryan.
You will never know how far your
dollar will go until you buy your gro
ceries at Knipple’s. It will surprise
you!
You get a Seaside Library free with
a year’s subscription to The Semi
Weekly Journal. The offer will not
last long.
Noble, the leading grocer, makes a
specialty of fresh, clean family grocer
ies. He will treat you right.
Way son & Odell can fix you up com
fortably and stylishly in any thing you
may desire in the livery line.
Noble carries a large and complete
stock of the best brands of canned
goods of all kinds.
If you are thinking of buying a set
of new dishes call to see Knipple’s stock
and get his prices.
No better farm wagon on wheels
than the Charter Oak sold by S. M.
Cochran & Co.
t Cash paid for rags
by the McCook Pro
duce Company.
Wall Paper. _
Artists’ A. MCMILLEN
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M“teril‘1- Druggist. ^
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Paints, Oils and Glass.
VAILTON NOTES.
Mrs. Fauss is slowly recovering.
James Speer lost a fine young cow
last Tuesday.
ltev. Noe held services in the Pleas
ant Ridge school house last Sabbath
evening.
Rather poor farming weather, but
nevertheless we hope for a bountiful
harvest.
Len Hilton will try wheat raising in
eastern Kansas. He has been pretty
successful in his Red Willow county
ventures.
C. S. Ferris and Dennis Dutcher took
in Hayes Center last week; they were
looking after some tree claim work just
west of that place.
Mr. Simpson has located on Grandpa
Becker’s farm, having purchased the
same and built a substantial and com
modious house thereon.
Mr. Teeter of Bartley has been visit
ing his daughter, Mrs. Isaiah Pate, for
several days past. He assisted in
trimming the box elder grove on the
Charley Pate claim.
Several frame houses have been built
in this locality this spring. A commo
dious sod structure, neatly plastered
throughout, is certainly the most desir
able habitation for a season similar to
that which we have been compelled to
endure for the past two months.
Ralph.
Remember the place
for latest style Fur
niture and bottom
prices. Pade & Son.
Beware of peddlers. Call and in
spect the Household sewing machine
sold by S. M. Cochran & Co. before
buying a machine. There is no better
on earth.
Give your orders for 84 Patent, Lion
and Legal Tender, also Wauneta High
Patent,White Fawn and Pride of Wau
neta flour to Hugh Thompson, the oil
man.
Patronize H. Thompson & Co., deal
ers in flour and feed of all kinds, west
Dennison street, on the corner north of
McEntee Hotel.
IN QUEENSWARE Noble carries
the largest assortment and the richest
designs of the season. His prices are
reasonable.
J. C. Russell is prepared to do cast
rating promptly. Satisfaction guaran
teed. Send orders through McCook
postoffice.
S. M. Cochran & Co. have an im
mense stock of farm implements on
hand. See them before buying else
where.
Knipple leads them all when it comes
to selling a fine patent flour cheap. Try
him once and you will be convinced.
Noble is the only exclusive grocer in
the city. His stock is the largest and
his prices correspond with the times.
Why buy foreign flour when home
made flour is cheapest. B. & M. Flour
Store.
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Baby Carriages—
the latest styles—
cheap. Pade & Son.
When you need flour, feed, garden
and field seeds go to the Old Reliable
B. & M. Store. McCook Commission
Company.
Remember that S. M. Cochran & Co.
now carry in stock a full and complete
stock of builders’ hardware supplies.
We guarantee our flour to give satis
faction and at prices that defy competi
tion. McCook Commission Co'.
S. M. Cochran & Co. carry a large
line of buggies in stock. See them if
you want a good vehicle cheap.
Do you knotv that Knipple pays the
highest market price for butter and
eggs. _
Seventeen pounds of Granulated
Sugar for One (1$) Dollar at Knipple’s.
You can buy a sack of flour for 75
cents at the B. & M. Flour Store.
S. M. Cochran & Co. can sell you a
bicycle very cheap. See them.
Predmore Bros, keep the best cylin
der oil in McCook.
Machine oil of all kinds at Predmore
Bros.
^“Groceries at Nobles’.
Wanted.—Girl t'or
housework. Must he
competent.-Wages $5
per week. Inquire at
First National Bank.
Dr. W.A. Minniear was a city visitor
this week.
P. J. McCready, machinist, was
slightly njured, yesterday, while re
pairing a break rigging.
Brakeman C. J. Snell lacerated his
left hand, Sunday, at Holbrook, catch
ing it on a nail while opening a car
door.
A young eon of Mr. Beard of Hayes
Centre died in this city at an early hour
this morning from an abscess of the
brain.
T. A. Tinker, bridge carpenter, re
ceived a scalp wound, yesterday, while
working on No. 213 east of the city.
A beam fell on him.
McBrayer & Osborn’s express team
ran away, Tuesday, destroying some
small trees in their course and damag
ing the wagon a little.
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To Our Advertisers.
You are entitled to have your display
advertisements changed once a month
at the regular price. Changes more
frequent will be charged extra accord
ing to the amount of composition.
Local advertisements may be changed
every week at usual price.
Copy for new advertisements and for
changes of regular advertisements must
be in this office by Wednesday of each
week to insure prompt insertion.
Notice of discontinuance of any dis
play advertisement must be given not
later than Wednesday. Local adver
tisements may be discontinued at any
time before Thursday evening.
A strict observance of these necessary
rules is respectfully requested.
The Publisher.
January 1, 1893.
The Call Leads the Procession.
We call the attention of our readers
to the advertisement of The Call in
another column. Since its reduction
in price The Call is the cheapest
daily in Nebraska, and its spicy ana
independent policy is too well known
to need comment from us. In reduc
ing the price of The Call so as to put
it within the reach of everybody, the
management have placed themselves a
decided step in advance of all other
publishers in the state. This is an era
of popular prices for the newspaper,
and The Call is, as usual, at the head
of the procession.
A good live paper every Tuesday
and Friday, is what you get in The
Semi-Weekly Journal for one dol
lar. The Tribune and Journal both
one year for $2.50.
Call and see Marcellus, the new pho
tographer. All pictures made with the
beautiful celluloid water proof finish—
no extra charge—at the Smart photo
graph gallery.
Make Noble your family grocer and
many other blessings will fall to your
lot, besides having the best groceries on
your table that the market affords.
The meeting of the state association
of city superintendents and principals
will be held in Columbus this evening
and tomorrow.
We sell the Empire letter copying
books. Also best grades of type writ
ing paper.
Remember that the Barnett Lumber
Co. sell screen doors with trimmings
complete.
Screen doors with trimmings com
plete at the Barnett Lumber Co.
Scale books, 500 weighs, at The
T UBUNE stationery department.
Dolan has just received another car
of that celebrated Denver flour.
91 High patent flour $1.10 per sack.
B. & M. Flour and Feed Store.
Wayson & Odell are putting out some
andsome rigs these days.
Go to the B. & 31. Flour and Feed
Store for your flour.
See Dolan, the flour and feed man’s
ad. in this issue.
Knipple makes a specialty of fruits
of all kinds.
Knipple sells canned goods cheaper
than ever.
TALES FROM HAWAII.
A NAVY OFFICER FROM THE SAND
WICH ISLANDS TALKS.
King Kameliawelia III and His Dislikn oi
an American Lieutenant — Cultivating
the Good Nature* of the Hawaiian Peo
ple—Yarns About Other Kings.
An officer of the navy who recently
returned from a cruise of the Pacific
squadron, and who spent many months
cruising among the Sandwich Islands, re
lates an interesting story in connection
with the convivial habits of some of the
monarchs of that kingdom. He says that
the navy department, at the request of
the state department, has been specific
in its instructions since tho civil war
that commanding officers and other of
ficers of the navy should as far as pos
sible cultivate the most friendly acquaint
ance with the Hawaiian people. He
went on to say:
“There wa3 a time when it was ap
parent that the people of those islands
had not any desire to have friendly in
tercourse until American navy officers.
That was when Lieutenant (later Rear
Admiral) William Reynolds was naval
storekeeper at Honolulu in 1857 and staid
there two or three years. He had a man
ner that made him many friends and
also many enemies, and King Kame
hameha III was especially offensive to
ward the lieutenant. The king sought
every opportunity to show his dislike of
Lieutenant Reynolds.
“At that time the latter was on the
‘reserved list’ of tho navy, and tho king
concluded that he was not obliged to
show him the same amount of courtesy
that would bo duo to him if he were on
the active list. But in 1861 Lieutenant
Reynolds was, upon his own application,
put back on the active list, and after the
close of the war, in 1866, he was sent to
Honolulu in command of the sloop-of
war Lackawanna.
“The Lackawanna remained in Hono
lulu harbor for more than a year, and
her long stay there excited the distrust
of King Kamehameha, and he employed
a person detailed on the Lackawanna to
do a shrewd piece of detective work—to
secure copies of the dispatches of Cap
tain Reynolds to the navy department at
Washington. The person employed for
this clandestine work was enamored of
one of the Hawaiian women of noble
birth and considerable wealth, and Bill
Ragsdale, a Kanaka and one of the smart
est politicians in the kingdom and a man
of great power and influence in the royal
family, encouraged the lover in his de
sire to marry the young woman and
promised him ultimate success if he
should secure copies of the confidential
correspondence between Captain Reyn
olds and the navy department.
“The correspondence was secured and
given to Ragsdale, who then informed
upon the young man who had played
false to his commander, and instead of
marrying the girl he was court martialed
and sentenced to imprisonment on the no
torious Dry Tortugas. Ragsdale after
ward had to be sent to the island of Mo
lokai, where all lepers are exiled and
where he died a few years ago. .
“Tho Lackawanna was succeeded by
the sloop-of-war Mohongo, of which tho
late Rear Admiral Edward Simpson was
commander, and the latter, by his diplo
matic tact and keen judgment, soon won
King Kamehameha over, and the officers
of the Mohongo became very popular at
court and received every attention and
courtesy during the dozen months that
the vessel was in Honolulu harbor. King
Kamehameha was succeeded on tho Ha
waiian throne by his brother Lunalilo,
popularly known as Whiskers Billy, be
cause of his fondness for his beard, which
was of luxurious growth. Lunalilo also
had a fondness for that which would in
ebriate, but as there was a no license
law—that is, so far as selling liquor to a
native Hawaiian was concerned — he
made it a practice to visit friendly war
ships to satisfy his appetite.
“Lunalilo lived only a short time. Ka
lakaua took Lunalilo’s place on the
throne, and he was a fair successor and
succeeded pretty well in sustaining the
reputation of his predecessor as an anti
prohibitionist. He also was fond of a
good game of poker, and when simply
Prince David he engaged in many an in
teresting game. Billy Emerson, the ne
gro minstrel, had as one of his ‘gags’
on the stage in San Francisco that he
once sat in a poker game with five kings.
‘How’s that?’ said the middle man. ‘Why,
I held four and Dave was the other,’ said
Billy. This was a game in which it is
said the minstrel held Kalakaua for a
‘pot’ amounting to $2,500.
“In 1874 Kalakaua visited this country,
coming to San Francisco on the war ves
sel Benicia. Upon the arrival of the
vessel at San Francisco, Lieutenant Com
mander W. H. Whiting, recently on duty
at the navy yard, and who has been or
dered to command the Alliance, now at
Honolulu, was detailed to take charge of
the royal party and escort it to San Fran
cisco. A good round sum was provided
for its entertainment by the state depart
ment, and the king and his party had a
right royal time.
“You will no doubt recall the joke
which the officers have had on Lieuten
ant William S. Cowles, who is now na
val attache at the London legation, ever
since the visit of the Queen Dowager
Kapiolani to this country a few years
ago. He had command of the junketing
boat Dispatch when the queen was taken
on a trip down the Potomac, and in his
address of welcome on board he paid tliis
extravagant eulogy to her, ‘Most noble
and beautiful queen, I ask your majesty's
gracious permission to address you.’ In
asmuch as Queen Kapiolani was the color
of chocolate, the other officers who heard
it thought it a little strong, but then the
speech was entirely impromptu.”—New
York Tribune.
Portuguese Olives.
Why are not Portuguese olives more
extensively imported into our country?
Unlike the queen olives of France, Spain
and Italy the Portuguese olives are
pickled when they are wholly ripe and
are therefore much more palatable and
nutritious.—New York Press.
A Definition of Sotnnumhullain.
In the earlier days it was the common
ly accepted idea that the somnambulist
was possessed. Anything and every
thing that could not bo understood or
explained was of the supernatural. .To
see an individual apparently asleep and
utterly oblivious to the greater number *
of surrounding objects and yet so keen
ly awake to others as to bo able to per
form the most intricate actions without
the aid of the senses was so greatly at ,J|
variance witli the common experience
of mankind as to call up feelings of as
tonishment and awe, not alone to the
minds of the vulgar or laymen, but to
those accustomed to scientific investiga
tion. Modern science has at least dis
pelled this idea of the supernatural,
though it has not yet been able to fur
nish a rational theory which will ac
count for all of the manifestations of the
affection. It has done much, however,
toward elucidating the functions of dif
ferent parts of the nervous system and
in that way prepared the mind for a
fuller understanding.
Thus, in 1845, came a definition of
somnambulism as “a condition in which
certain senses and faculties aro sup
pressed or rendered thoroughly impas
sive, while others jirevail in most un
wonted exaltation, in which an individ
ual, though asleep, feels and acts most
energetically, holding an anomalous
species of communication with the ex
ternal world, awake to objects of atten
tion and most profoundly torpid to
things at the time indifferent, a condi
tion respecting which most commonly
the patient on awakening retains no rec
ollection, but on any relapse into which
a train of thought and feeling related to
and associated with the antecedent par
oxysm will very often develop.”—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
An ArtiHt’K Views.
“My own training has been a very
thorough one,” said Sir George Reid, P.
R. S. A., in reply to a question I put
him, as ho refilled his churchwarden and
stretched himself at full length on his
sofa. “At 12A years of age I was ap
prenticed to a lithographer in Aberdeen.
I came to Edinburgh in 1861 and entered
the board of trustees’ school of painting
at the Royal institution on my twentieth
birthday. I started my artistic career
as a landscape painter and would have
scouted the idea of painting portraits.
“However, I gradually came to the
realization that as a rule the drawing in
landscape was very faulty and weak. I
felt that a landscape painter should go
in for a good figure education, and so be
able to draw anything. I therefore went
in carefully for that branch of art, re
turned to Aberdeen and began landscajie
painting and occasional portraits. Grad
ually my portraits elbowed my land
scapes out of the field, which shows
how little command a man has over des
tiny,” thoughtfully remarked my host.
“I don’t regret it. Portrait painting has
been most interesting to me and ha?
brought mo many friends.”—Cassell’s.
The Civic Value of the Teacher.
Since the days of Aristotle and his
predecessor, Plato, there has, I think,
been no great ethical or political writer
who has ignored what I may perhaps
call the civic value of education. Soc
rates himself (if indeed the “Theages”
is good authority), in a passage which
is possibly familiar to yon as it is quot
ed by Roger Aschamin “The Scholemas
ter,” enunciates the opinion that “no one
goetli about a more godlie purpose than
he that is mindfull of the good bringing
up both of liys owne and other men's chil
dren.” “What greater or better serv
ice,” says Cicero, “can we render to the
state than by teaching and educating the
young?”
St. Chrysostom, setting the seal of
Christian authority to the judgment of
the refined pagan world, exclaims,
“There is no greater art than this of
education, for what is equal to the pow
er of disciplining the character and
molding the understand of a youth?”—
Contemporary Review.
Women Should Try ltaitiing Violets.
Such has been the rage for violets this
season that the wholesale dealers have
hardly been able to supply the retailers,
who have paid as high as $1.75 a hundred
for them through Lent and have paid
since at times a penny apiece. Just be
fore Easter one florist sold 3,000 bunches
in a single day. It seems to me there is
a suggestion in these facts for some re
fined, capable woman, who would like to
add to her income. Ask any gardener,
and he will tell you violets are easily
raised; that the forcing of them in frames
through the winter is not at all difficult,
and if one can carry the same direct to
the retailer during the busy season a big
profit is assured. What one can do an
other may attempt, and it is certain that
this season a certain clerk living in the
suburbs brought into the city every
morning freshly picked bunches of vio
lets which greatly increased his income.
—Brooklyn Eagle.
The Hidden life of a Man.
The young man who made an unhappy
marriage and was divorced was for years
a mystery to his creditors, because he
did not pay his debts, though he worked
hard day and night. His reputation in
that time suffered terribly, and he lo6t
caste with many people who had former
ly admired him. When the woman from
whom he had been divorced died some
time later from an excruciatingly pain
ful disease, he began to pay his debts.
There are exceedingly few people who
know that all the money which he could
earn he gave to make her life less mis- ■ »
erable.—New York Tribune.
Fitted For the Post.
Hotel Proprietor—Yes, I want a clerk j
at once. What do you know about ho
tel keeping? r‘
Applicant—Know? See here! Unless
you've got four or five years to spare for
a little chat, ask me what I don't know.
It’ll take less time. What do I know
about hotel keeping? Well, I should
smile. I know it all—more than all. I
could run 40 hotels and play 10 games of
chess blindfolded. Why, man, I used to
be a commercial traveler.—New York
Weekly.