ft Semi-My Stale Jonrnal .... AND.... THE McCOOK TRIBUNE Both One Year For $1.50. For u short time only, we can offer the Great Twice-a-Week State Journal, and the McCook Tribune for only $1.50. The State Journal gives two complete papers each week, one on Tuesday and •one on Friday—104 papers a year—giving the most complete na tional and state news and maiket reports while fresh. It is almost as good as a daily. This offer applies only to persons who are not now subscribers to The State Journal. Our old subscribers can take ad vantage of this great offer by paying up arrearages and renewing. Come in and get a sample copy of the State Journal and give us your order, as this is a special offer and will not last long. THE McCOOK TKIBUNE. W. C. BULLARD & CO. -to: RED CEDAR AMD OAK POSTS. HLT. J. WARREN, Manager. ▼ B. So M. Meat Market. mi t FRESI^INDSA^^ MEATS, BACON, BOLOGNA, CHICKENS, TURKEYS, AC., AC. F. S. WILCOX, Prop. 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. GREAT SPEAR HEAD C©WTWT, SAVE THE TAGS. One Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Ooiiars, $173,250.00 In valuable Presents to be Civen Away in Return for SPEAR HEAD TAGS, 1 , ' 55 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.231,050 OO 5,775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY, BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 23,375 00 •23.100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED BUCKET KNIVES.’. 23,100 00 J 1 5,500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH PICKS... 57,750 00 T 7 5,500 LARGE PICTURES (14x23 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing, no advertising on them. 2S.S75 00 251,030 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 TIC PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS from this county we will give.I GOLD WATCH. To the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS....5 OPERA GLASSES. 3"o the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 POCKET KNIFE.20 POCKET KNIVES. 1Co the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM TOOTH PICK.100 TOOTH PICKS. To the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number qf SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 HARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.100 PICTURES. Total Number of Frizes for this County, 336. CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 18M, nor after February 1st, iSVL Each package containing tags must be marked plainly with Name of Sender, Town, iSounty, State, ana Number of Tag„ in each package. All charges on packages must be 1>repaKE \D.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than any other plug tobacco produced. It Is the sweetest, tho toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD Is absolutely, 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 sha'oe and style on earth, which proves that it has canght the popular taste and pleases the Try It, and participate in the contest for prizes. Sec that a TIN TAB is on every 10 cent piece of SPEAR HEAD you buy. Send in the tags, no matter how small the quantity. V ery STII E"pf’j. SORG COMPANY, Middletown, Ohio. A list of tho people obtaining theso prizes in this county will be published In this paper immediately after February 1st, ISM. DON’T SEN3 ANY TAS3 3Z?32E JANUAi.. !. 1334. AGNOSTICISM. De quarest 'ligion I ebber did hear Is de 'ligion ob de abnostick. A-lookln ter somethin ho nebber can fin’. An a leabln out God an ole Nick. He nebber ha* knocked at de Bibil do’ Ner wep’ wld de sinners in need; He don’ b’lieye nuttin in do heaben or de yarth, Exceptln w’at his eyes had seedl De quarest ’ligion I ebber did hear Is de ’ligion ob de abnostick. He hain’t like de lamps dat de virgins hab, ’Caiso he cam’t show de littlost wickl He nebber has sot on de mo’ners’ bench Ner listened ter der Spirit's call. An de onliest preachin he ebber has dun Is, “I don’t know nuttin at all’’’ De quarest ’ligion 1 ebber did hear Is de ’ligion of de abnostick, Fer he gets no yarbs In searchin aroun Ter holp out de souls dat is sick! He’B a study in now; but, yo’ min’ my word. He’ll ilrap ’gin de gospil wall; Ef his bearl don’ thump at tlio judgment trump, ’Den I don’ know nuttin at all! William 11. llayne in Harper’s Weekly. AN ARTIST’S STORY. It’s 20 years since that time. I was a light hearted boy then—a boy of 20. I lived in Paris, and 1 studied Art. Being an artist, I always spelled Art with a oapital A. I have other things to think of besides Art now. I have to think of painting what the public will buy. I have to make it pay—( have made it pay. But it is not about myself 1 want to talk, it is of Orson—of Orson the Hir sute, Orson the Unrelenting, Orson the Hater of Art. Of course his name wasn’t Orson. His real name was Jobinard, and he lived at the corner of the Rue de l’Ancienne Comedie, did this uncompromising grocer, this well to do Esau of the Quartier Latin, this man who hated Art, artists, and, above all, Art students with a peculiar ferocity. Alcibiade Jobinard had reason to dis like Art students. They had a nasty way of getting into his debt, but Jobi nard took the bull by the horus—he gave no more credit. “Ma foil” ho would say, with a super cilious sneer, “Credit is dead, my good young sir. He doesn’t live here any long er. He is dead and buried.” And then one had to go empty away. It had been so handy in the good old days just to run into Jobinard’s for whatever one wanted, and—well, “stick it up.” You see, you could get an entire meal at Jobinard’s, one of those little sham boneless hams; they’ve quite enough on them for four. Tinned pro visions in inexhaustible v;.. :ety, wines from 75 centimes upward, liquors, des sert, even in the shape of cheeses of all sort3, almonds and raisins, grapes and peaches. It was excessively convenient. When one was hard up, one dealt with Jobinard, and it was put down to the ac count. When one was in funds, one dined and breakfasted at a restaurant and left Jobinard’s severely alone. But now all was changed. Mile. Am enaide was an uncommonly pretty girl, and we were all desperately head over heels in love with her. By “we” I mean the Art students, but of all the Art stu dents that were desperately in love with Mile. Amenaide, Daburon, the sculptor, was the most demonstrative. Jobinard hated Daburon with a deadly hatred be cause Daburon never expended more than 10 centimes at a time. It was the society of Mile. Amenaide that Daburon hungered for, and he got it because he was entitled to it, being a purchaser. Mile. Amenaide was Jobinard’s cash ier. It was a large shop, and there were several assistants, but all moneys were paid to Mile. Amenaide, the cashier, who sat in a glass box underneath the great chiming clock. Daburon, the sculptor, would enter the shop, nod in a cavalier manner to Jobinard, as though he were the very dust beneath his feet; then he would look at Mile. Amenaide, raise his hat with his right hand, place his left upon his heart and make her a low bow; then he would pretend to blow her a kiss from the tips of his fingers, as though he were a circus rider; then he would take up a box of matches or some other pe culiarly inexpensive article. “Have the kindness to wrap that up carefully for me in paper,” he would re mark in p patronizing manner. Then he would march up to Mile. Amenaide with the air of an Alexander—you could al most hear the tune of “See the Conquer ing Hero Comes” playing as you saw him do it. He would pay his 10 centimes and whisper some compliment into the ear of Mile. Amenaide. Then he would receive his purchase from the hand of M. Jobinard in a magnificent and con descending manner. Then he would strike a ridiculous attitude of exagger ated admiration and stare at the un happy grocer as though he were one of the seven wonders of the world. “What a bust!” or “What arms!” or “What muscularity!” he would say, and then he would heave a sigh and swagger out of the shop. Jobinard, who was a particularly ugly, thickset, hairy little man, used at first rather to resent these references to his personal advantages. His four ' assist ants and his cashier would titter, and Jobinard used to blush, but at length the poor fellow fell into the snare laid for him by the villain Daburon. He got to believe inmseit the perfect type of manly beauty. When a French man has once come to this conclusion, there is no folly of which he is not ready to be guilty. The fact is, Daburon bad passed the word round. The Art students, male and female, invariably stared apprecia tively at the little, hairy, thickset Jo binard as though he were the glass of fashion and the mold of form. Jobinard now began to give himself airs. He swaggered about the shop, he exhibited himself in the doorway, he posed and at titudinized all day long, and then we be gan to make it rather warm for Jobi nard. “Ah, M. Jobinard, if you were only a poor man, what a thing it would be for Art! Ah, if we only had you to sit to us in the nude. We are going to do Ajax defying the lightning next week. What bn Ajax you would make, Jobinard!" “You really ought to sacrifice yourself 11 the interests of Art,” another would remark. “You’d ruin the professional model. You would indeed.” “Gentlemen, gentlemen,” Jobinard would reply, his hairy, baboonlike face grinning with delight, “a too benevolent heaven has made mo the man I am,” and then he struck an attitude. “What legs!” we all cried in a sort of chorus. “Ah, M. Jobinard,” I said pleadingly, “if you would only permit us to photo graph your lower extremities." “Never,gentlemen, never!” repliel the infatuated Jobinard; “I caro nothing for Art. Besides, it would be almost inde cent; I could never look into a print shop without coming face to face with the evidences of my too fatal beauty.” From that day Jobinard ceased to wear his professional apron. It was about a week after this that Daburon, I and another man presented ourselves at Jobinard’s establishment. We raised cur hats to Jobinard as one man, we smiled, and then we bowed. The hairy little grocer seemed consid erably astonished at our performance. “M. Jobinard,” said Daburon, who was our spokesman, “you see before you a deputation of three, representing the Art students of Paris, some 500 in number. We have come to beg a favor. We know, alasl too well, that it would be absolute ly impossible to induce a man of your position in society to sit to us; but, M. Jobinard, a man possessing the lower extremities of a Hercules, a Farnese Hercules, M. Jobinard—and 1 need hard ly remind you that Hercules was a demi god—has his duties as well as his priv ileges. Those magnificent lower extrem ities of his are not his own—they belong to the public. “Such lower extremities as yours, monsieur, are not for an age, but for all time. They must be handed down in marble to posterity. The legs of Jobi nard must become a household word in Art. To refuse our request, monsieur, would be a crime. You would retain the copyright of your own legs of course. They would be multiplied in plaster of paris and become a marketable commod ity over the whole civilized world. Such muscles as these,” said L aburon, respect fully prodding and patting the unfor tunate Jobinard, “must not be lost to the artistic world. What a biceps, what a deltoid, my friends!” he continued. “What a magnificent development of the stemoclidomastoideus!” The wretched Jobinard, blown out with pride, seemed like the frog in the fable, ready to burst. And then he proudly drew up the leg of his nether garment to the knee and exhibited a muscular brown limb as hairy as that of an ape. “You will not refuse us?” we cried in chorus. “You will not dare to refuse us,” added Daburon. “Gentlemen, I yield! I see that Art cannot get on without me. When would you like to begin?” said poor Jobinard. “Tomorrow at noon,” answered Dabu ron as he shook hands with the little grocer reverentially, and then we took our leave. • Next day a long procession filed into the shop. “This way, gentlemen, this way, if you please,” said M. Jobinard as he indicated the way to his back yard. We must have been at least 30. Every body brought something; there were four sacks of plaster, some paving stones, bits of broken iron, bricks, and enough ma terial to have walled up Jobinard alive. A great mass of moist plaster was pre pared, the limbs that had become nec essary to the world of Art were denuded of their covering and placed in the moist mass, then large quantities of the liquid plaster was poured on them, then the scraps of old iron, the bars, the paving stones and the bricks were carefully in serted and built up into the still soft mass which was at least a yard high and a yard thick. “Don t move, dear M. Jobinard, cned Daburon, “the plaster is about to set. We shall return in half an hour, by which time the molds will be com plete.” M. Jobinard, seated in the center of his back yard, bolt upright, bowed to each of us as we passed out. In about a quarter of an hour Jobi nard began to feel distinctly uncomfort able. “The molds seem getting terri bly heavy," he said to one of his assist ants, who kept him company. “They seem on fire, and I can’t move.” At that moment the procession, headed by Daburon, filed once more into the courtyard. “It’s getting painful, gentlemen,” said Jobinard. “I feel as though I were be ing turned to stone.” “Try and bear it bravely. Nothing is attained in this world, dear monsieur, without a certain amount of physical suffering. It will be set as hard as mar ble in a few minutes. We will obtain the necessary appliances for your re lease at once, Jobinard. Remain per fectly quiet till our return,” said Dabu ron rather suavely. And then we each of us kissed our fin ger tips solemnly to poor Jobinard, and we filed out once more. It was the last day of the term at the Art school, and we were all off for our holidays. For two hours Jobinard waited for us in an agony of fear; then he sent for a stonemason, who dug him out. They had to get the plaster off with a ham mer. We had, by the direction of the Demon Daburon, omitted to oil the shapely limbs of our victim. Poor Jobinard!—Tit-Bits. The English Maid’s Prerogative. “My English maid,” says a housekeep er, “is amusingly tenacious of her rights and her limitations alike. If a friend of hers rings at the front door, Bayle is furious at the presumption. If he goes to the kitchen door, she is equally vexed. She regards the side door as her preroga tive and demands a summons from thence.”—Philadelphia Press. Man’s Hard Lot. Allie—I often wish I were a man. Don’t you? . Winnie—Indeed I don’t. Do you sup pose I want to be at the beck and call of every woman t know?—Truth. TO EXPEL SCROFULA from the system, take AyeR’s Sarsaparilla the standard blood-purifier and tonic. 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