The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, May 19, 1893, Image 6
TO BE worthy of being called the very ‘DyiQ -i vi O best store in town requires plenty of -DI cULJLlo* SELEC1 a large stock suit* able for your needs requires TO BUY the goods right—which means vt'i'fo 1 strictly for cash—requires unlimited v^Cx^iXLcXl# rpo SELL them to the universal satisfaction rn« — j. * of our large and increasing trade requires -A. <XjKj t. We have these Requisites. / They are at your Disposal. We Request your Trade.... I S. M. COCHRAN & CO., -Dealers in Farm Implements, Hardware, Wagons, Buggies, Etc. WEST DENNISON ST., M’COOK. W. c. BULLARD & CO. --tot-- - • • LIME, HARD CEMENT, _ | m ■■ MB m mb AND ,7A LUMBER, soft BLINDS. _ COAL. • • ..XoH*—* ~~ RED CEDAR. AND OAK POSTS. erU. J. WARREN, Manager. B. & M. Meat Market. F. S. WILCOX, Prop. F. D. BURGESS, PLUMBER $ STEAM FITTER NORTH MAIN AYE.. McCOOK, NEB. C Stock of Iron, Lead and Sewer Pipe, Brass Goods, Pumps, and Boiler Trimmings. Agent for Halliday, Eclipse and VVaupun Wind Mills. GREAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST. SAVE THE TAGS. One Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Doiiars, $173,250.00 In valuable Presents to be Given Away in Return for SPEAR HEAD TAGS. 1 ,1 55 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.831,650 00 5.775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY, BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 28,875 00 23.100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED ’ POCKET KNIVES. 23,100 00 1 1 5,500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH PI CKS... 57,750.00 1 1 5,SCO LARGE PICTURES (14x23 inclics) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing, no advertising on them. 28,875 00 261,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO.$173,250 00 The above articles will be distributed, by counties, among parties who chew SPEAR HEAD Plug Tobacco, and return to us the TIN TAGS taken therefrom. We will distribute 226 of these prizes in this county as follows: To THE PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS from this county we will give.1 GOLD WATCH. To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, t OPERA GLASS... .5 OPERA GLASSE& To the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 POCKET KNIFE.20 POCKET KNIVES. »o the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each I ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM TOOTH PICK.100 TOOTH PICKS. 40 the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 LARUE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.100 PICTURES. Total Number of Prizes for this County, 226. CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 1894, nor after February 1st, 1894 Each package containing tags must be marked plainly with Name of Sender, Town, (Jounty. State, and Number of Tags in each package. All charges on packages must be prepare ^ d.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than any other tibia tobacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD is !, hsolutelv, positively and distinctively different in flavor from any other plug tobacco, a trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. It Is the largest seller of any similar : ,,n. ar)d style on earth, which proves that it has caught the popular taste and pleases tho viinnle Try it, and participate In the contest for prizes. See that a TIN TAG in on every m cent niece of SPEAR HEAD you buy. Send in the tags, no matter how small the ■' * Very sincerely quantity. j THE P.’j. SORG COMPANY, Middletown, Ohio. 4 list of the people obtaining these prizes in this county will be published in this paper-immediately after February 1st, 1891._ DON’T SEND ANT TAGS BEFORE JANUARY I. 1894. THE PRINCE IS DEAD. A room in the palace is shut. The king And the queen are sitting in black. All day weeping servants will run and bring, But the heart of the queen will lark All things, and the eyes of tho king will swim With tears which must not be sited. But w ill make all the air float dark and dim. As lie looks at each gold and silver toy. And thinks how it gladdened the royal boy. And dumbly writhes while the courtiers read How all the nations his sorrow hi ed. The prince is dead. The hut has a door, but the liingo is weak. And today tho wind blows it back; There are two silting there who do not speak; They have begged a-few rags of black; They are hard at work, though their eyes are wet With tears that must not be shed; They dare not look where the cradle is set; They hate the sunbeam which plays on tilt floor. But will make the baby laugh out no more; They feel as if they were turning to stone; They wish the neighbors would leave them alone. The prince is dead. —Helen Hunt Jackson. JUDGE CEPHAS. • - Happening soon after tlie close of the war to rule along the road past “Old Pop Castle,” I observed a large and excited concourse of colored people standing un der the famous oak at that place. Upon approaching and making inquiry I learned that Uncle Cephas—now Squire Bolden—who, aloftg with some others of his race, had recently been appointed magistrate, was about to hold his first court. Elbowing my way through the dense crowd till I reached and mounted one of the gnarled roots of the oak, I was en abled to overlook tho sea of heads and survey the court. On the safest corner of a very unsteady shuck frame was perched the presiding magistrate, his ebony fore head, which bowed hack without limit over his ball pate, covered with an ap propriate frown. The rest of the frame held the six jurymen, who leaned against or sat upon it according to each one's confidence in its stability. The prisoner, a vagabondisli but harmless looking man, on whose crow black face fright was im printed in an ashy cast, was wrapped up in ropes and placed in the middle of the shirck frame for safe keeping. I had scarcely gained my position and taken in the surroundings when the court opened. “De court am now adjumed en will perceed to bizness,” cried Uncle Cephas in a loud voice as he removed his hat and dropped it on the ground. “Let whomsomedever gwi’ pussveute dis pus sun hyere in de shuck frame now speak up er frever hole his peace!” lie contin ued with solemnity. A young mulatto, the smartness of whose dress cirlminated in a highly glazed paper collar, slowly arose from one of tho oak roots, cleared bis tliroat in the most approved legal fashion and announced that he had been engaged to conduct the prosecution. “Well den, shoot, Luke, er give up de gun,” exclaimed the court after the coun sel had wasted a good while fumbling through his pockets in a perfunctory manner. “Mister Magistrate en genermen ob de jury,” began the prosecutor after this warning, “you am dissembled tergedder hyere dis prirty day under dis blue sky en dese green leabes to deform one er de highes’ juties er freemuns en feller citi zens.” “De gentermuns better not take quite sich er big chip,‘en chop er IT closeter to de line,” put in the court. “You am dissembled tergedder,” con tinued the counsel, in no wise abashed, “hyere to see dat er pussun dat needs jestice wess’n anybody in de succle er my whole intelligence gits hit, en gits er plenny oh it, heaped up, slieken down, squashed in en runnin ober. En ef—ef de law didn’ inquire dat some confusions must perceed out’n de mouf er de pussy cuter, ev’v word dat would be necessory would be, ‘Hyere’s Nicky deinns en dat's de lim’ er grapevine,’ ” pointing to a stout grapevine which lay on the frame near the magistrate. “Ev’body knows he’s done broke ev’y lav,’ dat been made sence dey fust started to makin laws, sides all sights en stacks un um dat nebber ai' been made. He’s broke um straight way, en broke um sideways, en broke em cross ways, en broke um sloperdicler, en broke um puppendicler, uppendicler, downen dicler, en roun'endicler twel he’s nately wo’ um out to er frazzle. Rut es de law do inquire some collu sions to perceeil fum de mouf er de pus sycuttin lyyer, I will perceed. Fustly, who is dat in de shukk frame? Nicky deiuus Wagstafi! What is ho excused ob? Ev’ything in God Ermighty’s worl ’cep'n one theng, en dat is doin right. Eben de biggis't lier ’twixt Roanoke en Tar river never excused him er doin dat. ‘•Who'll come to yer house en holler tull he'll make yer walk two miles from yer work en mebbe wade de crick, en den des want to borry 5 cents? Who c'n gin er tliousin reasons why yer liras' leu him er dollar, en den turn roun en gin ten thousan w’y he ca’ pay it? Who c’n make de biggis’ promus en de littles’ ker formence in de Nunited States? Who c'n outargyfy Daniel Webster hisself when he wants to git holt er yer thengs, en den outargyfy him ergin when yer tries to bre’k dat holt? “Who is de lazis’, lyinist, eatinis', out landisliis", worryinis’ nigger awn dis side ob de river? Who aggyvates en ’sturbs de neighborhood till dev don’ know dar heels from dar head? Ergin I axes yer who owes ev’body in twelb miles er dis place er furder ef he ranges furder? Who c’n looks into yer min en tell ter minute how lawng it takes yer furgit dat las 25 cents he horrid, en den step right up en borry er nudder one? Nickydemus! En now who ken be spar’d de bes en missed deless? Nickydemus'-’ The magistrate, who for some time had been extremely busy trimming the knots from the grapevine with his pock etknife and twisting it into suppleness, now paused and delivered the following’ charge: “Gentlemuns ob de jury, vou’shyeard eraough to hang er whole cuppen (cow* I pen) full er niggers. En all I'm got to' say is dat pull’n Fodder Time putnigh hyere en dis is er mighty good chance to git ridder Nickydomns.” “Gentlemuns ob de jury, is yer egreed?” demanded Squire Bolden. “We am, sail,” caino in dignified tones from the frame. “What is do wordiek?” solemnly de manded Uncle Cephas. “De wordiek, sah, am it nebber won’ do to let slip dis chance er gittin ridder Nickydomns,” was the reply. “Stan up, pris’ner,” was the superflu ous order of the magistrate to the con demned, who lmd been standing up from the first. “You's done plonny harm in dis worl’ for one nigger; en ’sides you'? had er fa’r trial ’fo’ yer feller citizens. Now, it’s do jedgment er dis court dat yer be liung to de biggis’ liin’ awn Pop Castle oak widder grapevine, caze f’ud be bad luck to use er rope after it been ’bout dead folks, en dat de jury is deb bytized to do de hangin.” “Hold on!” I shouted, thoroughly aroused by the groans of the prisonei and tlie screams of liis wife and children. “Do you know that you are about to de prive a human being of life against law and justice? Why, not even a witness has appeared against him. Mind wliat you do!” “De gentennan in sto’ cloze,” replied the magistrate sternly, ‘ ‘will please don’t bodder de exscusionments er dis hyere court. De chac’ter er Nickydemus Wag staff is knowed fer as de train goes, ef not er li’l’ furder. De whole \ earth en ev’ytheng in it b'rs witness ergin him. Gentermuns, do yer juty.” W line 1 was struggling desperately to force my way through the throng and reach the spot, the ropes were stripped from the prisoner, a slip noose in the grapevine thrown around his neck, and he was dragged away to the designated spot. One end of tho vine weighted with a small stone was thrown over a lingo limb. The jury seized it as it fell and pulled with might and main. The doomed man rose, wildly kicking and struggling against the background of blue sky. He was already several feet in the air when a hitch occurred. The jury gave a jerk. With a snap the grape vine broke, piling them in a heap on tho ground. In an instant Nicodemus was making for the woods, <h 'ending tho hill 20 feet at a bound, with half the grapevine standing out straight behind him, and the whole crowd, Uncle Cephas in the van, in headlong pursuit. Before 100 yards were covered it was clear that Pop Castle would witness no hanging that day, and in half an hour the breathless, baffled crowd was back again seeking what consolation tlie cool spring water could afford. Whether it was an accidental break in the grapevine or whether the shrewd old man while trimming and “sooplin” gave it a nick it was impossible to say, although there was plainly a twinkle in Uncle Ceph’s eye when his gaze met mine on his return from the chase.— David Dodge in Kate Field's Washing ton. Shakespeare’s Anachronisms. Virgil made iEneas land at a port which had no existence until a couple of hundred years before the poet's own time, and in three separate places re vives characters killed earlier in the poem. The anachronisms of Shakespeare are legion. In the “Winter's Tale” he speaks of the coast of Bohemia, an inland country, and in “Coriolanus” calls Delphi an island, whereas it is a city of Greece. The “beetling cliff s of Elsinore” are mentioned, but Elsinore has no cliffs, while although the Danes were, in Ham let's time, pagans, the Ghost in “Ham let” speaks of absolution and purgatory. In “Twelfth Night” the Clown in Illyria speaks of St. Benuet's church in London. In “Julius Caesar” Brutus tells Cassius, “Peace, count the clock,” and Cassius answers, “The clock has stricken 3,” when striking clocks were not invented for 1,400 years after that time. Hamlet is said to be educated at a school which, in his time, had no exists ence, and Menenius, in “Coriolanus,” mentions Galen over 000 years before the hitter was born. In the play of Henry IV turkeys are spoken of 100 years before the discovery of America, whence they came; Hector is made to quote Aristotle; Cleopatra's palace is fitted out with a billiard table, and Tunis and Naples are spoken of as though at an immeasurable distance from each other.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Importance of Light. An all important fact in connection with photography lies in the illumina tion. There are good days and bad days —days when the sun shines so brightly that the 'shadows are distinct and out lines are sharp and perfect. To obtain a negative under the best conditions the exposure should he made when the sun's rays have attained an angle of about So degrees on an object situated about £0 feet from the operator, who should havo the sun behind his back. The general tone of the light should be blue; a yel low, liazy atmosphere will never give a satisfactory negative. No matter how perfect a machine may be, good results cannot be obtained if the operator is not carefnl to observe the needs of the moment. The camera may be pointed too high or too low, directly in the sun’s path, or the hand may press the button at the wrong moment, or with a tremor that will cause the shutter to slide unevenly.—Outing. A Fault on Virtue’s Side. 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