■fl THE McCOOK TRIBUNE Both One Year For $1.50. Fora short time only, we can offer the Great Twice-a-Week iitate Journal, a-, d the McCook Tribune for only $1.50. The State Journal gives two complete papers each week, one on Tuesday and «me on Friday—KM ’papers a year—giving the most complete na tional and state news and market reports while fresh. It is almost ns wood as a daily. This offer applies only to persons who are not now subscribers to The State Journal. Our old subscribers can take ad YAutage of tin's great offer by paying up arrearages and renewing. €ome 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 TRIBUNE. W. C. BULLARD & CO. • • '"" LIME, HARr) “ = LUMBER. 8OTIiND BLINDS. _ COAL. • • RED CEDAR AND OAK POSTS. BTU. J. WARREN, Manager. B. & M. Meat Market. mmmA S. WILCOX, Prop. F. D. BURGESS, PLUMBER#STEAM FITTER NORTH MAIN AYE.. McCOOK, NEB. Stoclc of Iron, Lead and Sewer Pipe, Brass Goods, Pumps, and Boiler Trimmings. Agent for Halliday, Eclipse and Waupun Wind Mills. CHEAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST. Ctttt'VST _ ^►eAR h£| SAVE THE TAGS. M 2nd Seven-y-Thres Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, $173,250.00 %in valuable Presents to be Civen Away in Return for SPEAR HEAD TAGS, •J , 1 5S STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.S34.650 00 S.77C E IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY, BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 2S.S75 CO 23,100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED POCKET KNIVES. 23,100 00 t S Pi,SCO ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH VICKS. 57,750 00 ¥ Sii,500 LARGE PICTURES (14x28 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing, no advertising on them. 28,87.) 00 2v the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS....5 OPERA GLASSES, tho TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each I POCKET KNIFE.20 POCKET KNIVES. T 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. Xo the ONE HUNDRED PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 _ XiARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS.100 PICTURES. Total Number of Prizes for this County, 226. CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 1891, nor after February 1st, t«ij. Each package containing tags must be marked plainly witb Name of Sender, Town, si jjty. state, and Number of Tags in each package. All charges on packages must be gmt'paid. HEAD.—SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than any other •vtug tobacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD is .-zt nolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from any other plug tobacco. A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. It ts the largest seller of any slmtlnr afcspe and style on earth, which proves that It has caftght the popular taste and pleases the vrcjtjlc. Trv it, and participate In the contest for prizes. See that a TIN TAG is on every /> cent piece of SPEAR HEAD you buy. Sena in the tags, no matter how small the .sw^ntity. Very sincerely, v* J the P. J. SORG COMPANY, Middletown, Ohio. A list of the people obtaining these prizes in this county will be published In this .paper immediately after February 1st, 18M. DON'T SEND MY TADS BEFORE JANUARY I. 1894. GEMS IN VERSE. Bobby Jones and I. "When I was little," said Bobby Jones. "When you were what?” said I. “When I was little," the boy replied. With a flash in his bright blue eye. “Why, didn’t you know X was little ones?" Said Bobby Jones to me. "The littlest, teentiest little tot That ever a man did see.” And I never confided to Bobby Jones, And I hope he never was told That he at that time was tiny still; He was only five years old. And I would say to all parents who Are blest with boys like him. If they, though small, think they’re great and tall. Just humor them iu that whim. —Gaston V. Drake. When Jim Died. When Jim died, all th* nabors came from fur an near. Tears like to mo they held him just as dear As mother did an ino, fer they all came in to gaze Once more on his calm, pale face, an a sort o* haze Seemed to settle o’er their eyes, fer I seen th* tears * A-tricklin down their cheeks—maybe th* fust fer years— When Jim died. When Jim died, th* birds stopped singin in th* trees, Fer they missed him, you know, an th’ golden belted bees Flittin o’er the meadows whispered to the clover It would kiss his bare, brown feet no more, an th’ plbver An the killdee in th’ twilight near th* fen Seemed ever to be callin that he’d never come agen— When Jim died. Jim was a curious chap—not like other boys; He had his own way o’ takin life, with its joys An sorrows; he loved birds an flowers, an I’ll bet He never much as trod on a timid violet That peeped shyly thro’ th’ grass. Like music of a flute. The birds sang to him, but their voices noware mute— Since Jim died. Since Jim died ’pears like to me mother ain’t so spry As she used to be; there’s a sadness in her eye An voice that sort o’ cuts me to th’ heart, fer Jim Had alius been her pet sence he was born; she loved him Better than the rest—he was her boy; she don’t complain. Mother don’t, but then she’s never been th* same Since Jim died. —John N. Hilliard. Trust the Children. Trust the childrenl Never doubt theml Build a wall of love about them. After sowing seeds of duty. Trust them for the flowers of beauty. Trust the childrenl Don’t suspect theml Let your confidence direct them. At the hearth or in the wildwood Meet them on the plane of childhood. Trust the little ones! Remember, May is not like chill December. Let not words of rage or madness Check their happy notes of gladness. Trust the little ones! Vet guide them! And, above all, ne’er deride them Should they trip or should they blunder. Lest you snap love’s cords asunder. Trust the childrenl Let them treasure Mother’s faith in boundless measure. Father’s love in them confiding, Then no secrets they’ll be hiding. Trust the children just as He did. Who for “such” once sweetly pleaded. Trust and guide, but never doubt them. Build a wall of love about them. —New York Ledger. Love’s Service. Love called to a young man winningly, “Come, join the ranks of my company. And take the field in my service.” But the young man said: “There are other things Than blushes and kisses and flowers and rings. Of far more worth than your service. “There’s business and sport and pleasure and art; Your war is mere folly, your weapon a dart; I’ve no time to spare for your service.” Love turned lightly away when he heard the rebuff; Of young volunteers there were more than enougli To fill up the ranks of his service. But time, passing by, made clear to the man That they are the wisest who join when they can The worshipful ranks of Love’s service. So he offered to Love his jewels and coin; Forgetting his age, he thought he would join The throng who pressed to Love’s service. But Love answered lightly: “The day has gone by; A sere autumn leaf Is too old and too dry For a garland worn in my service. “You can buy, if you like, a friendly regard. And perhaps it may seem, if you try very hard, As if you were in my service. “But the raw recruits for my household guard I take from the young; the older are debarred From taking the oaths of my service. “The countersign’s ‘Youth.’ Can you give it?” “Ah, no.” “Then right about face. You’re too old and too slow To learn the details of my service.*’ —Charles F. Johnson. Morning. In this new dawn is found the last night’s sun That told of starry glory just begun; Not lost, but hidden in God’s mighty hand, As hides some thought we cannot understand. As hides some joy in sorrow’s deepest stress To blossom as the rose in wilderness! The lily’s heart of gold, its perfume shed. Lies brown and sere, and yet it is not dead; Its life is set in roots as firm and fine As faith o’er death blooms with a bloom divine! Last night its lidded eye was dark and dim; This morn the radiance of the sun shines in! —S. L. Thompson. Sometimes. Sometimes we feel that thoughts are not worth thinking; Sometimes that laurels are not worth tho wreathing; Sometimes it seems that wine is not worth drinking; Sometimes that air is scarcely worth tho breathing; Sometimes no friend seems worthy to be trust ed; Sometimes on pessimism deep we border: Sometimes with life we’re very much disgusted; Sometimes our liver’s badly out of order. —Kansas City Journal. Good Night. “Good night!”—the little lips touch ours. The little arms infold us. And, oh, that thus through coming yean They might forever hold us. “Good night!” we answer back and smile And kiss the drooping eyes. But in our trembling hearts the while \ ho wistful queries rise. Who, in the weary years to come. When we arc* hid from sight. Will clasp these-little hands and kiss These little Ups “Good night?” FEMALE, WOMAN, LADY. - 1 .. The Distinction Between Several Word! and liow They May Be Used. An interesting discussion is going on in the columns of some newspapers over the use of the words “lady” and “wom an.” There is no real difference as to the occasions upon which each word is to be used, but there is a frank acknowl edgment upon the part of some that they do not use the word “woman” where their good sense tells them that they should, for fear that it might give of fense to the person to whom it was di rected “as not sufficiently polite.” There are certainly no words so abused as “woman,” “lady” and “female.” Among certain people the use of the sec ond of these terms is like the wearing of fine clothes or jewelry. Originally be longing to a superior class they insist on appropriating it to themselves as proof that they are the equals of any other so cial body. Now, while all that may be true enough and while class distinctions have no place in this country this use of the word has led to some strange and amusing confusions. The humorist who depicted the servant as addressing her mistress, “Mam, the laundry lady is a-wanting to speak to the woman of the house,” did not have to depend upon his imagination for his facts. As absurd things as that may be heard in any one of the large dry goods stores in town any day, and almost any news paper will yield a rich specimen or two. Bislioj) Warren, referring to this same point, says that he glanced at the wall opposite him at the moment and saw a diploma from the “-Female acade my,” and then turned to a bookcase and read as the title of one of the volumes there, “Female Holiness.” In the report of a southern woman’s Christian tem perance union convention appears the fact that “Mrs. Blank was chairlady.” Now the proper word in all this is “woman.” That is always and ever right. Than it there is no nobler or stronger word in the English language. “Man” is a general word as well as a particular one, and as such includes both sexes, so that the term “chairman” sig nifies no subservience of one sex to the domination of the other. If called upon to address a stranger, a woman, then the proper word is “madam” and not “lady, this way” and “lady, that way,” as so many ushers appear to think to be the only solution to the problem of address. “Female” is never to be used as a syno nym of “woman.” It is a term common to one-half of the animal creation, and to apply it to woman as the substantive of designation is an insult. “Lady” is ap plicable to every well bred and educated woman, but it is something that is re served rather for social usage and has not the sturdy strength and nobility of “woman.”—Boston Journal. Color Protection From Intense Heat. With reference to the protective effect of certain colors against the sun’s rays, years ago on my way to India the second time, having already been invalided home once from the effects of the sun, it occurred to me to try the photogra pher’s plan. I reasoned to myself that since no one ever got sunstroke or sun fever from exposure to a dark source of heat or even to one which, though lumi nous, possessed no great degree of chem ical energy—the furnaces in the arsenal, for example—it could not be the heat rays, therefore, which injured one, but must be the chemical ones only. If therefore one treats one’s own body as the photographer treats his plates and envelops one’s self in yellow or dark red, one ought to be practically se cure, and since the photographer lined the inside of his tents and belongings with yellow it was obviously immaterial whether one wore yellow inside or out. I had my hats and coats lined with yel low, and with most satisfactory results, for during five years and even extreme exposure never once did the yellow lin ing fail me, but every time that either through carelessness or overconfidence I forgot the precaution a very short ex posure sufficed to send me down with the usual sun fever. Many friends tried the plan and all with the same satisfac tory results.—Cor. Lahore (India) Civil and Military Gazette. Sleeping Under Feathers. Years ago we used to smile with con scious superiority at the idea of the Dutch sleeping under a feather bed in stead of over it. The idea of sleeping upon a hard mattress and climbing un der a soft one seemed rather an ana chronism and a singular perversion of common sense, but the introduction of down or feather comfortables is simply the utilization of that knowledge of things which some of the older countries had long ago known. Feathers are ex ceedingly warm, and a covering made of them superinduces and retains the heat in the human body. A curious claim is now made for a new comfortable of down. The makers as sert that their product retains all the natural warmth, but allows the impure air to escape from the bed, how or wherefore we are not informed.—Up holsterer. Velocity of the Earth. The highest velocity attained by a can non ball has been estimated at 1,022 feet per second, which is equal to a mile in 3.2 seconds. The velocity of the earth at the equator, due to its rotation on its axis, is 1,000 miles per second, or a mile every 3.6 seconds. Therefore it has been calculated that if a cannon ball were fired due west, and that it could main tain its initial velocity for 24 hours, it would barely beat the sun iu its ap parent journey around the earth.—Phila delphia Press What a Bad Digestion Does. All life looks black to a miserable man with a stomach in which his food lies like lead. Woe to his companions if they expect good fellowship from him! Woe to his wife unless she has the wom anly intuition that will make her humor him as' though he were a cross baby! Man delights him not, nor woman either; nor is he best pleased with himself, though, he jealously demands homage from others.—New York Ledger. AYER’S HAIR VIGOR Keeps the scalp clean, cool, healthy. The Best Dressing Restores hair which has become thin, faded, or gray. Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co. Lowell, Mass. GUARANTEE? PREVENTIVE ANDGURATIVE, FOR LADIES ORLY. BATE HARMLESS •AHD ■/RFAluBLE HO-STOMACH ■ DAVGG/HG.- HO • 'HSWMEHI •ORLY- ARTICLE■ IH■ THE■ WORLD ORE-IT •PRICE - #2 -SffT-rRtf - ■-ADDRE55 •CHHSft-CHfHIC-flL-CO- 3.5.W. ScEAWAN 5T.;W-y Cures Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Soro j Throat. Sold by all Druggists on a Guarantee. For a Lame Side, Back or Chest Shiloh’s Porous Plaster will give great satisfaction.—35 cents. SHILOH'S TOTALIZER. Mrs. T. S. 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