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ALL HOME PRINT.
This Is How It Stands.
In Red Willow county, Nebraska, ac
cording to the American Newspaper
Directory for 1894, now in press, the
McCook Tribune has a larger regular
issue than any other paper.
Geo. P. Rowell & Co.
The Republican central com
mittee will meet at the Millard
hotel, Omaha, Tuesday, May 22d,
8 o’clock p. m., to decide upon a
place and time of holding the
next state convention.
Secretary of State J. C. Allen
held a proxy in the Holdrege com
mittee meeting and now there are
those who suspect that Johnny
wants to go to congress. Well,
what of it ?—Hastings Democrat.
•‘Society having nothing else to
do this spring has gone into the
discussion of the advisability of
our adopting woman suffrage in
this state,” is the way Ward Mc
Allister explains the unusual ac
tivity of the fashionable leaders of
New York society in the agitation
for an amendment to the constitu
tion that will give women the suf
frage. Female suffrage has been
made a fad.
The talk of W. E. Andrews
for congress still continues. In
fact there seems to be but little
opposition to him in the Republi
can ranks. N.o other man seems
to have any following outside of
his own county. W. E. Andrews
polled more votes in every county
two years ago than Governor
Crounse or any other man on the
ticket, thus showing that he was a
vote winner.—Holdrege Citizen.
The law requiring the invest
ment of the permanent school fund
in state warrants was passed early
in the year 1891. From August,
1891, until November 30th, 1893,
the state paid to warrant holders
the enormous sum of $136,072.22
in interest. During all this time
the law above referred to was ig
nored. dereliction of the state
treasurer in respect to this law has
cost the tax payers of the state
nearly $200,000. It is time that
the law should be observed, in
spirit, if not in letter.—Bee.
The western part of the state is
just filled with men who feel from
the crown of their head to the sole
of their foot that Jack MacColl
should be the next governor. The
governorship has gone to the east
ern part of the state for years and
years and they think it is about
time that the west had a chance,
especially when they present such a
good man as Jack MacColl. The
sentiment seems to be growing in
this direction and as the conven
tion time is quite a ways off it is
probable that the cry will be much
louder when that time arrives.—
Holdrege Citizen.
It is now claimed on authority
that while not a candidate in the
sense of being a scheming politi
. cian, Governor Crounse will will
ingly make the race again if re
nominated. Lorenzo Crounse has
proven himself every inch the peo
ple's man during his incumbency.
He has the character and the prin
ciples that should endear him to
the Republican masses, if not to
the politicians—who are largely
responsible for the grievous con
dition of the party at this time.
The ThiBCNE is first for Crounse.
Hi« administration has been all
right. We need more such gov
ernors of backbone, honesty and
strong disposition to enforce laws
that are especially for the common
weal.
Nebraska has again taken an
other step in advance of her sister
states. Her State Board of Health
has officially declared that a phy
sician who advertises himself is
not guilty of “unprofessional con
duct.” The medical world may
not accept as final this opinion,
but it would honar itself if it
would submit gracefully to the
inevitable. The code of medical
ethics has contained nothing more
flimsy than the altogether sense
less provision that a physician who
advertised his business was a
charlatan and not worthy of the
respect of his professional breth
ren. The time has gone by when
a physician’s ability is measured
entirely by his devotion to medical
ethics. A good physician is a good
physician whether he advertises
himself or not, and all the medical
codes in the catalogue cannot
change this fact.—Bee.
Keen interest has been aroused
by the announcement that Mon
signor Satolli has ordered a more
general use of the English lan
guage in the cathedral services of
the Roman Catholic church in this
country. It is believed that this
i^ but the beginning cf a change
that will end in the use of English
in- all the churches attended by
English speaking people. The
result cannot fail to be beneficial
to the church. It will attract
Americans more readily than the
present service, and ease to some
extent the opposition that has of
late become so thoroughly organ
ized and so annoying to the author
ities and members of this church.
—Lincoln Journal.
A Massachusetts man has in
vented a new affair to take the
place of the old-fashioned Rugby
football. The new “Roller ball”
is three feet in diameter and is
filled with air. Teams are now
experimenting with it with a view
to developing a new game that
shall be free from the roughness
of football. The chances are
thought to be very good for bring
ing out a vigorous and safe game
after a little more tossing of the
balloonlike sphere.
Reports come in from all over
the state that the interest taken in
the coming meeting of the Repub
lican league is unprecedented. A
convention of between two and
three thousand earnest, vigorous
young Republicans will do wonders
in starting off the campaign in the
right way, and such a convention
is now assured.—Journal.
Two weeks ago the Democrat
in speaking of the political situa
tion said “Keep an eye on Judge
Benson,” referring to congression
al matters. We now learn that
he has moved to McCook and
opened a law office. We now add
to aspiring candidates, “Look out
for Judge Benson of McCook.”—
Hastings Democrat.
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OLD SCOTCH SUPER8TITION8.
The Many Absurdities That Clang Round
the Ceremony of Baptism.
Thus on the birth of a child—to be
gin at the beginning—it was impera
tive that both the mother and babe
should be “sained”—that is, a fir can
dle was carried thrice round the bed,
and a Bible, with a bannock or some
bread and cheese, was placed under the
pillow and a kind of blessing muttered
—to propitiate the “good people.”
Sometimes a fir candle was set on the
bed to keep them off. If the newborn
showed any symptom of fractiousness,
it was supposed to be a changeling, and
to test the truth of this supposition the
child was placed suddenly before a peat
fire, when, if really a changeling, it
made its escape by the “lenn,” or chim
ney, throwing back words of scorn as it
disappeared. There was much eagerness
to get the babe baptized lest it should
be stolen by the fairies. If it died un
christened, it wandered in woods and
solitary places, lamenting its melan
choly fate, and was often to be seen.
8uch children were called “tarans. ”
Allan Ramsay, in his “Gentle Shep
herd, ” describing Mause, the witch,
says of her:
At midnight hours o'er the kirky&rd she raves
And houks nnchristened weans out of their
graves.
It was considered a sure sign of ill
fortune to mention the name of an “un
christened wean, ” and even at baptism
the name was usually written on a slip
of paper, which was handed to the offi
ciating minister, that he might be the
first to pronounce it Great care was
taken that the baptismal water should
not enter the infant’s eyes, not because
such a mishap might result in wailings
loud and long, but because the sufferer’s
future life, wherever ho went and what
ever he did, would constantly be vexed
by the presence of wraiths and specters.
If the babe kept quiet during the cere
mony, the gossips mourned over it as
destined to a short life and perhaps not
a merry one; hence, to extort a cry, the
woman who received it from the father
would handle it roughly or even pinch
it.
If a male child and a female child
were baptized together, it was held to
be most important that the former
should have precedence. And why? In
the “Statistical Account of Scotland,”
the minister of an Orcandian parish ex
plains: “Within the last seven years he
had been twice interrupted in adminis
tering baptism to a female child before
a male child, who was baptized imme
diately after. When the service was
over, he was gravely told he had done
very wrong, for', if the female child was
first baptized, she would, on coming to
the years of discretion, most certainly
have a strong beard, and the boy would
have none. ”—All the Year Round.
A Motto at a Funeral.
There are women who, if offered the
choice between a matinee and a funeral,
will poll a tremendous vote in favor of
the funeral. The dramatic opportunity
is only a negative pleasure—the trap
pings of woe are a positive sensation.
There is a story told that a good though
eccentric dame long since gathered to
her accounting, in whom this passion
was abnormally developed, arrived in
town from her country place one day on
a shopping expedition. This lady heard
of the death of a mere acquaintance and
learned that if she hurried to the house
she would be just in time for the funeral
services. Shopping, as compared with
mourning, had no charms, and the lady
hastened to the house of sorrow. Now
the constant traveling companion of this
good woman was a brown linen atrocity
in the nature of a handbag or roll. Upon
this bag, embroidered in large letters by
the misguided person from whom it was
a gift, was a motto. Arrived at the
house, our friend insisted upon having a
seat as near the casket as was possible,
and that achieved she placed the brown
linen structure across her lap, then set
tled herself with a sigh of satisfaction.
The letters upon the bag, held within a
few feet of the deceased lady and visible
to all the mourners, spelled the words,
“Bon voyage. ”—New York Recorder.
Rosa Marine.
The rose of Jericho, a plant with
which many superstitions are connected,
is called Rosa Mari®, or Mary’s flower.
It is a small, bushy, herbaceous plant
about six inches high, of the nat
ural order cruciferm®, which grows in
the sandy deserts of Arabia and Pales
tine and bears small white flower on
many branches. When its leaves fall,
the branches contract toward the center
and coil themselves inward and inter
lace like a ball of wickerwork, which is
blown about from place to placa When
it happens to fall into water, it uncoils,
and its pods open and let out the seed.
If a specimen is taken before it is quite
withered, .it will retain the property of
contracting in drought and expanding
in moisture for years. Its generic name
—nastatica—signifies this seeming res
urrection to new life.—Brooklyn Eagle.
The Dimple Making: Machine.
The woman who must have dimples
or die has only to invest in the dimple
producing machine, whioh an English
paper says has been invented and pat
ented by a woman with an eye for
beauty and with a speculative turn of
mind. She, of all others, ought to be re
warded with one or more of these fetch
ing marks of beauty, providing she can
endure the torture of her own device,
which is a kind of mask arranged with
screws and wooden points that press
upon the cheeks or chin where the dim
ples ought to be. This is worn at night,
but just how long it must be applied to
produce the desired impression is not
said.—New York Sun.
She Wu Particular.
Carrie Constant—So you’ve thrown
your ndw admirer overboard?
Gertie Gaygirl—You bet. Just as soon
as I learned he was a dairyman.
“What had that to do with it?"
“Considerable. I want a man who is
s man. None of your milk and water
chaps for me. ”—Buffalo Courier.
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The Newer Northwest.
The northwestern extension of the Bur
lington railroad now completed through north
ern Wyoming almost to the Montana line, has
opened for development an immense terri
tory, whose resources have hitherto been
hardly suspected by the general public and
not half understood by those who were most
familiar with them. The line traverses, for
more than 300 miles, a section previously
wholly without rail connection, and although
such an incident as the opening up of such a
new and magnificent region would a score of
years ago have attracted national attention,
it occurred last year without exciting much
more than a passing paragraph in the press.
So much railroad building has been done and
so much zeal has been displayed in advertis
ing the extreme Northwest and the Pacific
coast that this near-by territory has been com
paratively neglected. So far as the public has
had any impression of this region, it has been
that it was, if not wholly desert, at least suf
ficiently arid and uninviting to be the founda
tion for the now-acknowledged myths con
cerning the existence of the “Great American
Desert.”
It has, however, been of late years pretty
thoroughly demonstrated and rather gener
ally conceded that this region is admirably
adapted to the breeding of cattle on a large
scale, and this degree of knowledge of its
resources is being succeeded by the inevit
able discovery that much of it is well fitted
by quality of soil and other conditions for
successful agriculture.
There is real romance in the way the Great
West has gradually and with much difficulty
struggled out from beneath the cloud cast
upon it nearly a centuiy ago, when early ex
plorers misnamed the Great American Desert.
State by state, county by county, single file,
it has emerged in small detachments, with
much fear and trembling of those first settlers
whom it had taken into its confidence and
invited to make their homes upon its bosom.
It was almost as if a work of redemption was
going on rather than a work of development
of what already existed. The Burlington
railroad has done more, perhaps, than all
other agencies combined. It was the first to
push out, without the encouragement and
assistance of subsidies, into the vast region
over which hung the blighting reputation of
aridity and barrenness. It has pioneered the
way for the sturdy homesteader, made his
path easy and invited him to follow in con
venience and comfort. It has opened up for
him vast areas of inviting territory, almost
against his protest, and he has gone into them
doubtingly, but has remained in prosperity
and peace. At every new invasion by this
enterprising railroad of a new portion of the
western plains, this same thing has happened
as if it were a part of the regularly laid out
programme. First, the road; then a fringe of
the boldest and hardiest settlers, located near
its line as the same kind of people fringed
the navigable streams of the older states in
the older times when there were no railroads;
then a flow beyond these, and then the taking
possession of the entire territory and the up
building of a rich and strong community.
These scenes are being repeated in the
newly-reached region penetrated by this road,
located in northwestern Nebraska, south
western Dakota and southeastern Wyoming.
Contrary to the generally accepted impression,
this immense territory—three hundred miles
long by one hundred miles wide, and in area
equal to several of the smaller states of the
Union—is possessed of resources that qualify
it to be the home of a million people, and its
future inhabitants are already moving in and
taking possession in droves of thousands.
New towns are springing up. Those already
organized—Alliance, Hemingford, Crawford,
Edgemont, Newcastle, Sheridan, etc.,—are
enjoying a period of unprecedented prosper
ity, Gigantic enterprises—mining, irrigating,
yes, even manufacturing—have chosen this as
their field of operations and on all sides the
results of wisely-directed energy are apparent.
The capitalist, however, is by no means
the only person whose presence in this Newer
Northwest is noticeable. This is, if not a
veritable “poor man’s country,” at least as
good a territory as the man of moderate means
can find anywhere. Most of the land still
belongs to the public domain and can be had
only by homesteading—except that in certain
fiortions it may be taken under the desert
and act and title to it secured by putting it
under ditches and supplying it with water for
irrigating purposes. What remains is the last
of the once vast area that has given free
homes to millions of enterprising American
citizens. It is rapidly being absorbed in the
same way the great mass of it has gone, and
the man who delays is deliberately throwing
away the last opportunity to secure for him
self and his children the heritage of a liberal
government.
A large shipment of
German Millet Seed
just received by the
McCook Commission
Co. They are selling
it at 80c per bushel.
For pure lard go to
the B. & M. meat mar
ket. F. S. WILCOX.
Carson & West
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Where They
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One Hundred Yard Spool Silk, only.07 {Vj
Twist, per spool.02 ^
Steel River Fancy and Cambric Prints, per yard.05 [2
Dress Cambric, all colors, per yard.05 J?
Indigo Blue Prints.06 0^
t German Blue Prints.10
Outing Shirts, worth 50 cents each, reduced to.25 [Vi
White Carpet Warp, per pound.20 H
Colored Carpet Warp, per pound.22%
Large Boxes Anchor Matches.19 ^
Export Matches.08
Twenty-five boxes Mule Matches.25 _
Tooth Picks, per bunch.03 M
Twenty-five pounds New Currants. 1.00
Twenty pounds of Rice. 1.00
California Evaporated Peaches.15% [2
Two 3-pound cans of heavy Syrup Peaches.30 A
Pie peaches, per can.12% IW
Com, 10c. Pumpkin, 10c. Oyster and Soda Crackers, .07 ^
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well to call and examine my stock.
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Shadeland Stock Farm.