ft Hetty Stale Jemal ....AND.... THE McCOOK TRIBUNE Both One Year For $1.50. For a short time only, we can offer the Great Twice-a-Week State Journal, uvd 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 maike.t repoics while fresh. It is almost as good as a daily. This offer applies only to persons who are not now subscribers to I'he State Journal. Our old subscribers can take ad vantage of this great offer by [raying 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. W. C. BULLARD & CO. «—to: RED CEDAR AND OAK POSTS. HF“U. J. WARRRN, Manager. B. & M. Meat Market. FRESH AND SALT ^ MEATS, BACON, BOLOGNA, CHICKEN9, TURKEYS, AC., Ac. \ ■■■■IIIHMM F. S. WILCOX, Prop. K. D. BURGESS, PLUMBERCf 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 COMTE^T, SAVE THE TAGS. One 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 ,1 55 STEM WINDING ELGIN GOLD WATCHES.831,630 00 5,775 FINE IMPORTED FRENCH OPERA GLASSES, MOROCCO BODY, BLACK ENAMEL TRIMMINGS, GUARANTEED ACHROMATIC... 28,£73 CO 23.100 IMPORTED GERMAN BUCKHORN HANDLE, FOUR BLADED POCKET KNIVES..7.. 23,100 00 11 5,300 ROLLED GOLD WATCH CHARM ROTARY' TELESCOPE TOOTH PICKS. 37,730 09 1 1 5,500 LARGE PICTURES (14x28 inches) IN ELEVEN COLORS, for framing, no advertising on them. 2S.875 ‘O 261,030 prizes, amounting to..$173,250 06 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 connty as follows: To Til 3 PARTY sending us the greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS from this county we will give.1 GOLD WATCH. Tc the FIVE PARTIES sending us the next greatest number of SPEAR HEAD TAGS, we will give to each, 1 OPERA GLASS....5 OPERA GLASSES. Ib the TWENTY PARTIES sending us the next greatest number f SPEAR IIEAD TAGS, we will give to each I POCKET KNIFE.20 POCKET KNIVES. Xo 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 l LARGE PICTURE IN ELEVEN COLORS ....7.100 PICTURES. Total Number of Prizes for this County, 226. CAUTION.—No Tags will be received before January 1st, 1801, nor after February 1st i(.ji4. 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 tc prepaid. AI)_gpEAH head possesses more qualities of intrinsic valne than anv other 1 ,bacco produced. It is the sweetest, the toughest, the richest SPEAR HEAD is absolutely, positively and distinctively different in flavor from any other plug tobacco. \ trial will convince the most skeptical of thie fact It is the largest seller or any similar simia and sivle on earth, which proves that It has caught the popular taste and pleases t he tkopi. Try it and participate in the contest for prizes. 8ee that a TIN TAG is on eve-v to cent piece of SPEAR HEAD you buy. Sena in the tags, no matter how small the quantity. Very sincerely, ___ ___ THE P. J. SORG COMPANY, MIDDLETOWN, Ohio. A list of the people obtaining these prizes in this county will be published in this varv-r immediately after February 1st, 1884. DON’T SEND UH1 TAGS BEFORE JANUARY I. 1194. Jasper drolly. “Rather three-cornered and lopsided. Still, I don’t suppose that cashier fellow can overtake even a ven erable ruin like this.” “If he does,” flashed Lily, “I’ll change sleighs.” “Well, that’s fair,” gently asserted Jasper, “In you go. There isn’t much fuss and feathers about the old sleigh, but it means business all the same.” Lily was furious at being treated like a child. Besides, she had determined to teach Jasper a lesson. “Rather like Deacon Platt's sermons. They always hang fire at the start,” said Jasper. “Now, we’ll go to Hawkesbury by the river track. That fellow can see ns com ing. Ah, I thought so. He’ll be down here in a minute.” Lily looked rather frightened as the chestnut came along at a furious pace. It was evident that his driver resented being made a fool of and that there would be a scene as soon as he could get his horse alongside Jasper's funereal quadruped. But no sooner did that de jected animal touch the ice than he be came a different looking horse altogether. His head went up and his tail out at the ring of the chestnut's hoofs on the smooth ice which connected the river with the shore. Then Jasper, leaning back, wait ed until the chestnut was within 20 yards and suddenly loosed the reins. “What, w-what”—said Lily. “He’s running away, Jasper!” “Yes, he’s doing his level best,” said Jasper as the bank seemed to spin by. “If the chestnut catches us, youcan have his master.” Jasper kept the black’s head straight. That was all he could do with the un manageable beast. “You see, Lil,” he explained, “you’ve been fooling one of us to the top of your bent. Now, you’ll just take the chances of war. If he col lars us, I shall have to give in.” “I won’t,” said Lily stoutly, beginning to realize the situation and how Jasper had awakened to life under the influence of jealousy. “Nothing shall make me m-m-marry him. I only drove with him because it was so dull down here. That was all.” "(jnestnut s coming up a bit, saiu Jasper cheerily, after another mile. “Hope Baalbec will hold out.” Lily gazed anxiously at the animated “ruin” in the shafts. The chestnut was gaining. Then she looked at the black horse. “C-c-c-couldn’t you whip him?” she asked. “I could,” said Jasper, “but it’s hard ly fair. He isn’t the one that should be whipped for this.” Lily turned pale. “You’re very cruel, Jasper, but I deserve it all. Nothing shall make me marry him. I’d rather go to the bottom of the river with you.” As they neared Hawkesbury the chest nut steadily gained. Jasper had succeed ed in pulling the old black back into his gait and began to whistle. Suddenly he turned pale. “How far’s that fellow behind, Lil?” he asked. “Forty yards,” said Lil in an agony. Jasper spoke quite lightly. “Lil,” he said, “did you mean you’d rather go to the bottom of the river with me than let that fellow catch up?” “Yes,” said Lil, without hesitation. “What do you mean, Jasper?” “This,” said Jasper. “I forgot the spring thaw. Three hundred yards ahead of us the river’s split right across. Shall I pull up?” Lily stood up in the sleigh and looked round. She gave a little shudder and laid her hand on Jasper's arm. “Go on, Jasper,” she said. “I’ll risk it.” Jasper looked down for a moment into her white face. “I’ll pull up if you wish, Lil. ’Twill be too late directly.” “No, Jasper, I deserve it. Go on, and —and if—if it’s to be goodby”— She kissed him. “Hold tight,” said Jasper, beginning to pull steadily on the old black. Lil held tight to the side of the sleigh in an agony of grief. Then he lifted the black to the leap, gave one cruel slash with the whip, there was a crash of breaking ice as the sleigh struck on the other side, a stagger from the black. A convulsive pull and they were over and 20 yards beyond the widening chasm, with the frightened cashier pulling up on its brink. When Lily recovered con sciousness, she found herself in the manse parlors at Hawkesbury. “Are you all right, Lil?” asked Jaspe: cheerily. She clung to him and hid her face in his breast. “Was it all a dream?” Jasper took a plain gold ring from his pocket. “I don’t think so,” he said. “I wired down to Mr. Watson yesterday to expect ns this afternoon. Now, Mrs. Watson, she’s all ready.” An hour later the funereal black crawled lazily back. Half way they met the cashier, his chestnut nearly foun dered and scarce able to stand. “Thank God!” he cried as they came in sight. “I thought you were mad.” j “N-no,” said Jasper, touching up the | old black. “N-no. I was just giving my j wife a sleigh drive down to” “Y-your wife?” “Yes,” said Jasper, again stimulating Baalbec. “Sorry we couldn’t wait for you.” And the cashier fell behind—a long wav behind—again.—Chicago News. j Buried In a Blue Coffin. Some 12 years ago a Wigan lady of ad- j vanced age expressed a wish that when j she died her remains should be buried in a blue coffin. She ordered the article at that time, and in spite of the efforts of j her friends to induce her to give up this strange idea she persisted in it, and ' when she died a short time ago the ' order was actually carried out by a local undertaker.—London Tit-Bits. Dick’s Pen. “How does Dick Swiveller manage to live?” “He supports himself with his pen.” “I didn’t know that he was a literary laan.” “He isn’t. Ho writes begging letters t) his father. ’’—Texas Siftings. GARDEN AND CRADLE. When our babe ho goeth walking in his garden. Around his tinkling feet the sunbeams play, The posies they are good to him And bow them as they should to him. As faretli he upon his kingly way. And birdlings of the wood to him Slake music, gentle music, all the day. When our babe lie goeth walking in his garden. When our babe he goeth swinging in his cradle. Then the night it luoketh ever sweetly down; The little stars are kind to him. The moon she hath a mind to him And layeth on his head a golden crown; And singeth then the wind to him A Eong, the gentle song of Bethlem town. When our balie he goeth swinging in his cradle. —Eugene Field in Chicago News-Record. JASPER’S WOOING. Jasper Greene dismissed the driver when he reached the wharf after cross ing the Ottawa at the Four Comers and looked round for Daoust to carry his baggage up to Labelle’s as in days of yore. But old Daoust was dead and therefore ciwtld not come. Millette put the heavy trank on a track sleigh and began to trot along the wooden wharf. Then, when Millette paused for breath, Greene pushed the old man aside and took hold of the track. “Say, Millette, I’ll wheel this up for 50 cents for you,” he said. Millette ran panting alongside. “Ah-h, ze droll monsieur. It will provide for ze christening.” Greene stopped short. ‘•'What, an other!” he said in pretended amazement. “How many?” he asked briefly. “Twenty-seven,” rejoined Millette, with ill dissembled pride. Greene stopped again and carefully counted out 27 cents. Here’s a cent each for your children, Millette. Don’t stand still any longer or you’ll get frost bitten. I dare not run the risk of having to pro vide for 27 orphans.” Millette took the money with profuse thanks and hurried off, leaving Greene to go on to Labelled hotel with the huge truck sleigh. By the time Jasper reached the postoffice a procession gradually formed on the sidewalk to welcome him back from Montreal. When Lily Labelle saw him, she came out and promptly gave the children a holiday for the rest of the day. Then she joined him at the head of the procession. When they reached the veranda, the children gave three cheers for Jasper and called for a speech. He waited for the crowd to disperse before he approached Lily, who stood leaning against the veranda, an amused look in her dark eyes. “Are you glad to see me?” ho asked. “Come in to dinner,” she said. “I’ll answer your questions—some of them— afterward.” Mrs. Labelle greeted him with a kiss on both cheeks, while her husband bow ed with grave politeness. Lily seated herself at the upper table. Jasper at once took possession of Lily and held his prize against all comers, especially the cashier of the Four Corners bank. The latter was not easily discon certed, but prepared to demolish Jasper. Miller, the cashier, asked her to go for a sleigh ride that afternoon. “So sorry,” drawled Jasper. “Miss Labelle has been engaged to me for a sleigh ride for a year.” The cashier, without waiting for a re ply, went angrily out. Lily raised her eyes from her plate. “Why are you a week before your time, Jasper?” she asked. “That’s the reason,” said Jasper, indi cating with a fragment of mince pie on his fork the retreating form of the cash ier. “If I’m only allowed one sleigh ride a year, I don’t see why that fellow should get ahead of me and have three a week.” “But your work, Jasper?” “Oh, McQuire's looking after that for me. I explained to him that it was rath er important to clear up matters here, and so I came.” Lily had not expected her coquetry to become known. “It is so dull,” she said in extenuation. Jasper commenced another mince pie. “Don’t be afraid of its being dull while I’m here,” he said, with sublime self confidence. “You promised me one sleigh ride a year for seven years if I wanted it, and I guess I’ll take this year’s today.” Lily pouted. Jasper smiled and rum pled his yellow hair. “You’d better own up,” he said, with unabated cheerfulness. “How soon can you be ready?” Lily was cowed. “Oh, in half an hour,’’ and ran away to get her things on. When Lily came down arrayed in her most becoming furs, Jasper smiled ap provingly. “You only want some flow ers to be perfect,” he said. * Lily gave a little cry. “Ah, flowers! But they are impossible.” “Not at all,” said Jasper, taking a box from his pocket. “Nothing impossible if you want it badly enough.” Lily opened the box and gave another cry. “Orange blossoms!” she said. “Yes,” answered Jasper. “From Flor ida. People there stick the ends in a po tato to keep them fresh. Capital dodge, isn’t it?” He took out the orange blossoms, threw away the potato and pinned them to her jacket. “Now we're ready to start. Stop a moment!” and he drew her back behind the curtain as the cashier drove past on his way to the schoolhouse. Lily began to laugh. “It’s very wicked of you, Jasper.” “That will teach him to go sleighing with my sweetheart,” said Jasper calm ly Lily protested: “You’ve no right to say that, Jasper. I only promised you a sleighride once a year for seven years, and then if I liked you well enough— then perhaps I might marry you.” Jasper was drawing on his sealskin gloves. “That’s all very well,” he said, “but we haven’t the time to waste which those old Biblical people had. In seven years’ time I expect to be in the cabi net.” Lily followed him to the door only to recoil in dismay. “That?” was all she said. “He’s not handsome to look at,” said AYER’S HAIR VIGOR Keeps the scalp clean, cool, healthy. 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