|fy JBtfwk IVifatyfc By F. M. KIMMELL. *1.50 A YEAR I N ADVANCE. ALL HOME PRINT. The Slid congress resumed ils session, Wednesday, and the pie counter is more crowded than ever. The democratic ways and means committee have decided in favor of submitting an income tax bill to congress. The Omaha Bee has taken one of its streaks of economy as applied to the management of the state's institutions. It is stated that the Burlington contemplates improving its train service between Kansas City and Leavenworth. If Cleveland wants to do the elever thing he will hand the nom ination of genial Calhoun into the senate for the Lincoln [>ost office at once. Cal is the ouly appli cant who deserves serious consid eration. He ought tc have it without further delav. * Omaha is making a loud bid for the establishment of a beet sugar factory there. The Republican val ley is capable of producing the very richest beets, and would seem to be the uatural, logical location for an establishment of that kind. And of course McCook is the natural location of the valley. The Grand Island sugar factory has made contracts up to date for 1,770 acres of beets. The farmers ~ in the vicinity of Sutton have agreed to raise 100 acres, and those near Red Cloud will plant the same acreage. It will pay the business men of Cay and Web ster counties to give their farmers every possible encouragement in their new work. If vou can make •> beet grow ing a success under pres ent conditions—and there is no reason why yon should not—in a year or twro the county seats of both counties will be able to secure sugar factories.—State Journal. The report just issued by Duu A Co. shows that the commercial failures in the state of Nebraska in 1892 numbered 207, represent ing estimated liabilities of $1,829, 691 and assets of $1,438,878. The record for 1893 shows 350 failures, with estimated liabilities of $2,888,920 aud assets at $2, 125,475. This is not an alarming increase, when all the circum stances are taken into considera tion. A comparison of the fail ures by quarters brings out the encouraging fact that the increase in the last three months of 1893 was only ten. This indicates that the panic stepped on business much more lightly at the close of the year than before. Almost every paper we pick up iu these wintry days has a sermon on the widespread poverty that afflicts the laud, and the necessity of charity towards “God’s poor.” There are no God’s poor. They are man’s poor, for he made them such, aud he ought to take care of them for that reason. The pre tense that God made these poor and gave them to us that sve might elevate our souls by the exercise of charity towards them is a miser able fraud and subterfuge. If God needed or wanted any poor he would have made the earthjbarren -- and unfertile. As he made it capa ble of supporting all the people he made, and made them all capa ble of earniug*a living'tfrom i t s generous bosom, there evidently were no poor in his scheme. The poor have come as a result of men’s mismanagement, aud the at tempt to saddle them off on God is a cowardly and weak evasion. —Lincoln Herald. LIBBY FHISON HIS FATE. A Fa ran Prisoner Visits It at the Fall and Meet* Ills Death. There was an incident in connection with tho Uorld’n fair which occurred about a week prior to the fair’s official closing tliat has not been so fully com mented npon as it might have been. Among the visitors to the fair during the closing weeks was Marcus Conant from Mayport, Duval county, Fla. The ob ject that had the greatest interest to him was the re-erected Libby prison. It is no wonder that he was interested in that exhibit, for ns a wounded prisoner he had lain and suffered in the old prison when it stoed in Richmond. As a boy of 18 Conant had enlisted in the Elev enth Massachusei i i regiment. He was wounded in the baUi.j t,f Dull Run, was taken prisoner and was among the first Union soldiers placed in the Confederate prison house. He eventually made his escape and was not recaptured. Immediately upon his arrival at the Chicago fair, Mr. Conant turned his steps to the spot on which Libby prison stood. What was his amazement on entering the place to meet among the visitors a companion who had been among the number of those who escaped with him from Libby 80 years ago. They held a long conversation, and after his compan ion had left the building Mr. Conant threw himself upon the ground in the identical spot npon which he had slept as a prisoner. While lying there he was seized with a violent pain in the ear and returned to his hotel in great agony. The pain conld not be alleviated, and a few days later he died without having recovered from the singular attack. Mr. Conant had for several years been a government contractor, and was at one time regarded as a man of large means. —New York Advertiser. Tito Ways of Seelug a Picture. An artist had sold a picture for an ex orbitant price, and the purchaser sued to recover. ^ The barrister for the purchaser was making the artist uncomfortable by his questions. “Now, sir," he said in that pleasant, ingratiating manner of lawyers with a witness, “do you think anybody could see beauty in that picture?” “Some persons certainly could," re plied the artist. “You think the initiated in technical matters might have no difficulty in un derstanding your work?” “I am sure they would not.” “Do you think you could make me see any beauty in that picture?” this most superciliously. “Probably not now, sir,” and the ar tist was most humble, “but once I could have done so easily.” “Now, sir, how is that? I don’t un derstand you. Explain, if you please." “That’s quite easy, sir. I could have done it simply by employing you as my counsel in this case.”—London Tit-Bits. A Street Cleaning Scheme. A street cleaning contractor says that the value of electric street railways as helps in keeping streets clean and wa tered is not yet appreciated. I£ his ideas were carried out early every morning, in a city like Boston large cars built after the fashion of the gravel cars run on steam roads would be sent over all the lines of track, and garbage and re fuse, gathered along the way, shoveled into them. Following these cars would come large watering cars able to wet down the streets from curb to curb. The advantages of this system over the pres ent one of carting off refuse and drag ging watering carts by horses are that it is cleaner and faster. There would have to be no waiting for carts to go off and unload, and an item of saving would be in the reduction of the number * five days, to hear interest after ma turity. VAILTOK MOTES. Weather continues warm at this writing. Farmers are all busy getting up wood for winter and summer use. Considerable corn is being haul ed from the Beaver creek section. J. I*. Squire arranged some real estate matters while here, recently, leasing etc. Mrs.Dutcher was a sufferer from an aggravating cold, last week, be ing confined to bed for considerable time. Mrs. Samuel Reed of Wanneta visited friends near Yailton, about Christmas. They have a good farm just north of us. Joseph Williams purchased the Cooley farm on Spring creek south of the postoffice, a pretty fair tract with timber and water. We are sorry to lose neighbor Rodger's family for a season, also Bennett of the same place, who re turned to the eastern part of the state earlier. j James Harris has his commodi ous barn nearly completed. The structure is built in the north bank and will defy cold, cyclones and j blizzards; also has great space for i corn and hay on upper deck. Ralph. You can get a sack of Straight patent flour at Knipple’s for §1.00. No better value for the money can be secured in the city. __ Remember that Knipple fully warrants every sack of flour that he sells. You are sure of receiv ing a good article every time. A nice coffee at Knipple's for 25 cents a pound. Try a pound. __ 18 pounds of granulated sugar far One Dollar at Knipple’s. Extra fine, firm cabbage for 4 cents a pound at Knipple’s. I . : A. t Established 1886. Strictly One Price. We Continue this Our Fifteenth .of. WINTER GOODS. Liberal Discounts in Prices to Make Them Move Rapidly. ““ JONAS ENGEL, *=> __Manager. According to the census of 1890 Nebraska stood third in rank with the other states in the union with respect to its per capita state debt. The census took only the bonded indebtedness into consider ation. We wonder where Nebraska would stand in a table showing both the bonded and floating debt i„ 1894 ?—Bee. The auditor insists that his books are right, and the treasurer, who has two of the most compe tent bookkeepers in the state in his oflice, is very confident that there is nothing wrong with his books. But there is nothing very serious in the situation. The error will he found after a little search, and the office at fault will invite the other office out to have some thing, and everything will go on at the state house as smoothly as usual. There is n<> occasion to call out tlie militia just yet -State Journal. Feakless devotion to duty,such such as as was displayed by Con ductor Atwood in his attempt to warn passengers of an inevitable collision on the Union Pacific Tues dav and which resulted in his m! death, deserves more recognition than can be given in a mere news paper account of the wreck. So frequent complaints are made against the reckless negligence of railway trainmen that instances such as this, where faithfulness to employers and a sense of resjxjn sibility for the passengers has been guarded more jealously than life, should not be overlooked. Hap pily the negligent and selfish rail way employe is still in the small minority among his fellows.—Bee. J. A. GUNN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON MCCOOK.NKHKASKA. I^OmCK-Finnf rooms nv»*r Lowman A Sou's store. Kksiiiknch 40~. McFarland st.. two blocks north of McEniee hotel. Prompt atlciitiou to all calls. Stockholders’ Meeting. Notice is hereby given that the annual meet ing ot the stockholders of The McCook Irri gation and Water Power Co. will be held at the secretary’s office in McCook on Wednes- : day. Feb. 7th, 1894, f°r the purpose of electing directors and transacting such other business j as may come before said meeting. McCook. Neb., Jan. 3d. 1894. Charles A. Hanna. I’resident. Charles II. Meeker. Secretary. 33-5ts. 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