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Tic Semi-Weekly Stats Jml .... AND.... THE McCOOK TRIBUNE Both One Year For $1.50. For short time only, we can offer tlie Great Twice-a-Week State Journal, a n! 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 mwvs and nnnket repoics while fresh. It is almost as good as a daily This offer applies only to persons who are not now subscribers t«> I’he State Journal. Our old subscribers can take ad vantage nl: I his 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 TRIBUNE. ~ W7 C. BULLARD & <35! *-tot • • "" LIME, HARD = LUMBER. -T BLINDS. _COAL. . • • RED CEDAR AND OAK POSTS. HF*U. J. WARREN, Manager. B. &, M. Meat Market. F. S. WILCOX, Prop. ~ F\ D. BURGESS, PLUMBER®STEAM FITTER NOETH 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. 1~J_~"T2 _ CHEAT SPEAR HEAD CONTEST. SAVE THE TAGS. Orta Hundred and Seventy-Three Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, $173,250.00 In valuable Presents to be Civen Away in Return for SPEAR HEAD TAGS, 1,155 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.SM.G50 00 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 POCKET KNIVES. 23,100 00 115,500 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY TELESCOPE TOOTH * PICKS. 57,750 09 t 15,500 LARGE PICTURES (14x23 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing, no advertising on them. 28.S75 09 261,030 PRIZES, AMOUNTING TO.$173,250 00 The above articles will be distributed, by comities, 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, 1 OPERA GLASS... .5 OPERA GLASSES. 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. I'o 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 of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each 1 . LARGE 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, County, State, and Number of Tags in each package. All charges on packages must be prepai^^^ —SPEAR HEAD possesses more qualities of intrinsic value than any other .„„„ tobacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest. SPEAR HEAD is absolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from auy other plug tobacco. A trial will convince the most skeptical of this fact. It is the largest seller of any similar inane and style on earth, which proves that it has caught the popular taste and pleases the people Try it, and participate in the contest for prizes. See that a TIN TAG Is on every io cent piece of SPEAK HEAD you buy. Send in the tags, no matter how small the ouantitvT Very sincerely, manmy. THE P. J. SORG COMPANY, Middlztown, Ohio. A list of the people obtaining these prizes in this county will be published In this paper immediately after February 1st, 1894. DON’T SEND ANY TA6S BEFORE JANUARY I. IBM. IN THE METROPOLIS, CITIZENS OF NEW YORK MAKING ! PLANS FOR THE FUTURE. _ Improvements on a Gigantic Scale Project- | ed—Hundreds of Millions of Hollars to Be Spent In Beautifying the Chief City ! of the Continent. Much has been said from time to time of the absence of public spirit, of local ' pride and of neighborhood feeling in New York. Even the men who have made great fortunes here do not seem to have any regard for the city that has given them their opportunities for achieving wealth. “Men do not under stand the causes of their success,” said a i speaker of the board of trade recently in commenting upon the difficulty in arous ing public interest herein the movement for the improvement of the Erie canal, on which so much of the prosperity of thq city depends. The lack of public spirit was signally illustrated in the half hearted way in which the business men entered into the movement to secure the World’s fair for New York. Chicago was a blaze of enthusiasm on the sub ject, but New York entered into the competition in a listless, don’t care sort of way, which naturally resulted in Chi cago carrying off the prize. The fact is that New York is a city of markets, of ships, of shops, of hotels and of tenement houses, but not of homes. The rich men may have mansions here, but their homes are in their country houses. The people who live in flats and tenement houses are engaged in a strug gle for a bare existence, and have not the time or disposition to give much thought or care lor me cny. rue diversity or races and languages represented in the population serves only to separate the people more and make them regard the city with utter indifference. But there is reason for believing that this state of things is gradually growing better. There are evidences of increased public spirit, of a greater pride in the city and of a larger interest in her de velopment and improvement. Great schemes of public improvement have been projected or begun. Millions have recently been expended in the acquisi tion of new parks, and twice lately when it was proposed to do something that would injure Central park there was an exhibition of aroused public opinion that prevented the outrages and would have done credit to a much smaller but more enthusiastic city. Eich men are now contributing a lib eral portion of their wealth to enter prises that will increase the glory of the metropolis. Columbia college is being rapidly developed into a great universi ty. A magnificent cathedral has been started. A spacious botanical garden is to be established. A fine aquarium is to take the place of Castle Garden on the Battery. A splendid speedway for horses is to be built. The city is to erect an immense municipal building, which it is proposed shall be a notable architectural addition to the metropolis. The present city hall is to be given to the trustees of the Tilden trust and made the home of a $3,000,000 library. The art and natural history museums are being rapidly developed and will soon take rank among the best in the world. Monuments and statues are being multiplied, and eight years after his death the $500,000 tomb of General Grant is approaching completion. But in other and perhaps more inter esting ways is the revival of public spirit in New York being manifested. Busi ness men are showing an increased inter est in the good government of the city and in its improvement in little things as well as great. Other cities might in deed copy with advantage some of the methods of the organizations that have been formed here for the public weal. The City Improvement society has been formed and has started out to in vestigate the various complaints of citi zens and to secure, if possible, better pavements, better street cleaning and similar improvements in parks, bridges and streets of the city. Lately a munic ipal art society has been organized by leading artists, architects and others, with a view of making the city more beautiful. They seek to improve the ar chitecture of the public buildings, to se cure artistic decoration within them and to prevent the erection of inferior stat ues and other inartistic structures. An other society is engaged in marking with bronze tablets the places of historical interest. Others of a more philanthrop ical nature are endeavoring to better the lives and condition of the tenement house population. The women have organized a health protective association, and are endeavor ing to institute reforms that shall de crease the death rate and make New York a better city to live in. The latest reform which they have taken up is that of securing a health regulation requiring the removal of the refuse of the 60,000 horses in the city of New York. The physicians comprising the Academy of Medicine have lately been acting with vigor and courage to secure improved quarantine protection and a purified wa ter supply. The chamber of commerce and the board of trade—the mouthpieces of the merchants and bankers—have late ly exhibited increased activity and exer cised a wider influence. All these things certainly indicate that New Yorkers are beginning to wake up and to show a livelier interest in the welfare of the city. Perhaps the fact that other cities are getting closer to her in the competition for business has something to do with this. It is beginning to dawn upon her citizens that unless she can unite with Brooklyn, bridge and tunnel the North river, throw more bridges over the East river, get rapid transit from city hall to Westchester county and institute other measures of public improvement, she is liable to lose her commercial supremacy. —New York Cor. Baltimore Sun. Many of the South Sea islanders be lieve that paradise can be inherited only by persons of perfect physical forms. Where this belief prevails a man will die rather than submit to amputation. THE SAND OF AN OLD TIMER. Fatal Bravery That Won a Bare Tribute From a Band of Apaches. A company of ranchmen sat about the railroad station in Pomona the other aft ernoon waiting for the belated overland train for Los Angeles. Every man in the party knew the others, and there be ing an lion* or two to wait story telling pf the early day3 on the border and in Arizona and California came natural. Stories of old times, when Indians were bad and tho white pioneers knew what bravery meant, were related. John Wil son of El Monte told the most absorbing story of the hour: “Talk about sand in a man, gentle men! I am telling you that it takes sand of the genuine article in any man to try and stand off singlo handed 40 or 00 Apaches when he knows just how the scrap will end, and that tho end will bo his own death. But that was just the kind of sand that was in Felix Knox when he was killed by the Apaches. You seoKnox was an all round gambler, such as the tenderfoot from the east scorns so much and knows so little about, but he had a heart in him bigger than any tenderfoot’s head. Well, it was in the spring of 1879 Knox, with his wife and baby and a Mexican driver, was coming from Silver City to Clifton, down in Arizona. They got to York's ranch, which is on the Gila river, about 30 miles from Clifton, all right, but were told there that signs of Apaches had been seen, and that they had better go in camp there for a few days, but Knox—who had fought the Apaches dozens of times and didn’t know what fear was—said he wanted to make Clif ton that day, Indians or no Indians. “Well, the Knoxes drove oij. When they were about two miles from York’s ranch, sure enough a big buck Indian came from behind a low, round top mesa. Knox knew tliero were plenty more or me rea uevns mu mere anu that it meant a fight to death for him. He was as cool as a cucumber. He jumped out of the wagon, filled his pock ets with two boxes of cartridges, and then kissed his wife and baby for the last time, but saying that he would have the redskins quieted in a few minutes. He ordered the Mexican driver to lash the team for all he was worth and to drive back to York's ranch as fast as the horses could jump. Then Knox waved his hand to his wife and said he was go ing to stand off a few Apaches, although he was sure there was a big band of them. As the team and wagon flew back to the ranch Knox, rifle in hand, started toward the hill for his last fight. Ho turned once and waved his sombrero to his wife and child and then strode on to his certain death. “The Apaches a second later rushed out from behind the hill where they were secreted. Knox faced his foes, and standing stock still pumped lead at them until he fell down dead. The next day a party of us was made up, and we went out where the fight took place. Knox’s body lay there amid the cactus in the sun. The Apaches, con trary to their usual custom, had not mu tilated the fellow’s body in the least. They had taken a clean pocket handker chief out of Knox’s pocket and carefully spread it over his face and had fastened it there by putting a small stone on each corner of it to hold it in its place and keep the hot sun from the dead man’s face. That was their tribute to the sand in Knox. Seventy empty shells were found that had been emptied from Knox’s winchester, and one of the raid ing Indians afterward said that their party numbered 42 and that Knox had killed seven of them.”—Pomona Prog ress. The Servant Was Horrified. Dr. S. had a newly arrived Hiber nian for a servant. He had also recent ly purchased a pair of porpoise leather boots. His wife, attracted by the nov elty of the new footwear, asked the doc tor in the presence of the servant what they were made of, to which he respond ed, “Porpoise hide.” Shortly after the lady from the Emer ald Isle interviewed Mrs. S. and an nounced her intention of “laving whin me week is up.” Mrs. S., somewhat surprised, asked the disturbed domestic the reason for her announced departure, to which Bridget responded with a hor rified air: “Your husband is a docther, mum, an I’ve heard them docthers do be cuttin up people, an didn’t I hear um wid me own ears say that the boots of him were made of pauper’s hide. It’s me own ould father that died in the poorhouse, an I wouldn’t be servin a haytlien that uses the skin of the poor to cover his dirthy feet wid.”—Boston Commercial Bulletin. Better Left Unsaid. A certain young poet is equally fa mous in the world of letters as an au thor and among his friends for his blunt candor that is forever betraying him into one of the things one would have preferred to say differently, as Du Mau rier puts it. On his last birthday he was given a charming dinner by his doting parents, at which he was bitterly disap pointed by the regret of several nota bles. Thus, when a society girl said to him at the close of the evening, “What a delightful time we have had!” he ex claimed from the fullness of his heart: “I’m glad it hasn’t seemed dull to you. We invited some awfully clever people, but not one of them came!”—Philadel phia Press. Pensions For Workingmen In Austria. Under the provisions of the Austrian poor law, at 60 years of age a man may claim from his native town or commune a pension equal to one-third of the daily wages which he had received during his working years. The amount varies from 2 to 6 florins a month. In Vienna alone there are 16,000 persons who receive these pensions from the city. She Had Been There. Perdita—You haven’t the faintest idea how much I love him. Penelope—Oh, yes I have—I used to love him that way myself.—Brooklyn Life. PROMPT RELIEF For biliousness, diarrhoea, nausea, and dizziness, take Ayer’s Pills I the best family medicine, purely vegetable, Every Dose Effective cij|pg$aT9!"OEKTURir GUARANTEE? PREVENTIVE -AND CURATIVE ■FOR LADIES ONLY. JATC HARMLES5 -AND -INFALLIBLE NO-STOMACH -DRUGGING; NO - iRSTHUMCNI •ORLY- ARTICLE ■ IN ■ THE ■ WORLD -LIKE-IT •PRICE »2-5ENEFHEf- •-AD0RE3J •OOiECHfHIML'CO- 3.UK KEIMW 3T.;«-E _ ' i Cures Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Sore 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 V8TALIZER. Mrs. T. S. Hawkins, Chattanooga, Tenn., says: “Shiloh's Viializer 'SAVED MY LIFE.' 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